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SippinLeanon Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

>While it may seem strange for us, a publisher, to post on Medium rather than our own platform, we are here for a simple reason: the community. Medium is where so many of our people are, so much of the product, design and development community, so we wanted to be here too.

https://open.nytimes.com/introducing-the-new-open-blog-23eba...

SippinLeanon Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

>Huffman only lists the rightwing subreddits he personally disagrees with

8/10 of the top 10 subreddits he mentioned were left-wing or neutral:

* funny

* uncen

* Bad_Cop_No_Donut

* gifs

* PoliticalHumor

* The_Donald

* news

* aww

* POLITIC

* racism

SippinLeanon Russian trolls hit Reddit, too

Considering it was so easy for you to find two articles about it, it appears many people are talking about it, counter to your claim of "nobody."

Maybe no one's discussing it in this thread because this article is about something specific.

SippinLeanon Bootstrap 4.1 released

Bootstrap uses flexbox under the hood. Ideally you should understand both (in the same way you should understand JS before using jQuery).

Bootstrap just gives you a lot of battle-tested components out of the box (like modals for example), it's not a replacement for CSS.

SippinLeanon Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines

>> High Sierra bug where empty password gives you root

>> High Sierra patch released, breaks file sharing

>> High Sierra patch re-enables passwordless root access on certain machines

> stable

SippinLeanon Trump Attacks Amazon, Saying It Does Not Pay Enough Taxes

So he's combatting the wealthy paying too little in taxes by giving major tax breaks to the wealthy?

SippinLeanon Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter

Google prohibited gun-related sales since 2012. The "burgundy" incident followed the Parkland shooting where 17 were murdered, it was a mistake quickly rectified.

Many sites changed their policies regarding guns in anticipation of the changes to Section 230.

SippinLeanon Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

It would require a change to the protocol

SippinLeanon Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

That is incorrect, Ripple committed to place 55 billion XRP (88% of its XRP holdings) into a cryptographically-secured escrow. You can read about it on Wikipedia.

SippinLeanon Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

It is impossible to mine ripple and it's cheaper to use Xrapid when making settlements, making XRP not neccesary but incentivized.

SippinLeanon Eating out increases levels of phthalates in the body, study finds

Yeah, they aren't restaurants, just places where people pay to sit and eat meals that are cooked and served on the premises.

SippinLeanon We Open Source Everything

It's a great display face that should not be used for body copy.

SippinLeanon Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

A "face book" is a generic term for a student directory.

SippinLeanon Reddit holds the secret to fixing Facebook

The numbers are fuzzed by generally a good indicator.

There's no way to disable downvoting on reddit. Some subs try to hide the button using custom CSS, but this doesn't affect those with custom CSS disabled sitewide, per-subreddit (with RES) or mobile users (presumably the majority of traffic).

Tangent rant: giving your sub some character with a custom banner is ok, but the ability to hide or change basic UI like the logout button or voting buttons is a huge flaw in the design of reddit.

SippinLeanon Ask HN: Which books have helped you the most professionally?

some of my favorite parts of The Recognitions are the ones that make fun of that book

>There was, finally, very little need to know anything at all, except how to “deal with people.” College, the author implied, meant simply years wasted on Latin verbs and calculus. Vergil, and Harvard, were cited regularly with an uncomfortable, if off-hand, reverence for their unnecessary existences...In these pages, he was assured that whatever his work, knowledge of it was infinitely less important that knowing how to “deal with people.” This was what brought a price in the market place; and what else could anyone possibly want?

SippinLeanon New York Will Never Be Silicon Valley. And It's Good with That

By "NYC" do you mean "Manhattan between 14th St and the park"? Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world. SF is seeing its diversity dwindle.

If you think specific types of industry are an indicator of an area's superficiality, I'd like to remind you of a media company in SF called Lucasfilm, an ad company in nearby Mountain View called Google (a client of SF's Epsilon) and a fashion company called Gap Inc.

SippinLeanon Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones–now it’s dead

You never realize how much you rely on it until someone hands you their iPhone. It's so intuitive now I always try to do it out of habit on a friend's iPhone before realizing they don't have it.

SippinLeanon Leveraging Bitcoin to Solve Venezuela’s Hyperinflation

All your post submissions are for that domain. Your post history has several off-topic replies with links to that domain. I assume you're just shamelessly spamming us with that site?

SippinLeanon OpenStreetMap Is in Trouble

I thought GM used all the Waze data in their routing ever since they acquired Waze?

SippinLeanon Bringing AMP to Gmail

>To get developer preview access to AMP for email in Gmail, sign up on our site.

It's a subset of existing AMP components.

SippinLeanon IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT, loss of funds may occur

Where does this claim in the title come from?

>IOTA: Cannot be used for IoT

The author has this caption under the screenshot of the official documentation:

>They also write that you can’t use IOTA for IoT

...but they clearly don't write that, I can read it in the screenshot. They say it doesn't work on smaller IoT devices, and that this will change when you can compile from source. So that's out as a source of this claim.

The other source:

>I upgraded to this machine after reading on the Discord chat that people were unable to stay in sync with less powerful hardware [citation needed]

That's the requirements for running the Wallet GUI on Linux, not IOTA core (which as the author mentions, has been implemented in python and JS).

Nuance matters, concluding "IOTA cannot be used on Internet-of-Things devices" at the end seems like an oversimplification; especially for an article that seems overly-specific when it's trying to make IOTA seem complicated (Is setting up an AWS instance of Ubuntu for your Windows host a concern for EVERY user of IOTA? Is it really important that you set up your firewall incorrectly?).

Another strange omission is not mentioning IOTA as being in beta, which is the reason it can't run on smaller devices:

>This means that the current Java implementation is a reference implementation

SippinLeanon Reddit bans /r/deepfakes

T_d and similar regularly sees posts that break the rules, at rates higher than other subs, that are highly upvoted, it's not just a few low-scoring bad apples. Reddit won't ban them because they want the traffic. "Well they took some down after they got caught" is a sorry excuse.

SippinLeanon Reddit bans /r/deepfakes

The question was "Which rules have they broken?" and they have clearly broken many.

Spez's response "yeah but they took some of them down after they got caught" doesn't change that.

SippinLeanon Reddit bans /r/deepfakes

https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/7a4bjo/time_f...

>Many of these links are probably in violation of our policy

--spez

SippinLeanon One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline

Seems accidental, any reason this could be intentional?

SippinLeanon One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline

"literally" as in "not literally" as most parts of WP are not vulnerable to this attack.

SippinLeanon One Computer Can Knock Almost Any WordPress Site Offline

Except that usually DoS attacks are effective because they use a distributed system of many computers (DDoS).

This attack is notable in that it requires only one, this detail is worth mentioning.

SippinLeanon Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

Right, and you can disable it in 10 as well.

>it's just as much work as installing Spybot Anti-beacon on 10

Most apps automate the process. In 7 you have to memorize the 8-digit code associated with the updates you don't want.

SippinLeanon Get Ready for Most Cryptocurrencies to Hit Zero, Goldman Says

Right now Coinmarketcap lists 1500+ cryptocurrencies. This article says many of them will fail in the future, as many have in the past. This is not revelatory.

I would have been interested in Strongin's opinion on which coins will survive, and why; or a timeline of when "most" will have failed.

SippinLeanon Microsoft Office 2019 will only work on Windows 10

That was backported to 7 though.

You can disable it in 7 by memorizing the KB #'s of the updates that install them and refusing them, but it's just as much work as installing Spybot Anti-beacon on 10.