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Actually got -4 points for this comment.

Apparently you shouldn't take any side in an HN flame war.

I see emacs I upvote :)

Easy there.

Don't you think your prejudice against cryptocurrency is clouding your judgement here?

Keybase is an identity tool and it makes every sense for it to make a wallet. Also, you provided no reasons that being involved in cryptocurrency will undermine keybase's security. Do you think?

> Apple is to be admired as the world’s most valuable listed company for the simple reason that it makes things people want to buy, even while facing fierce competition.

Not sure if I completely agree that Apple's an angel in this case.

First thing comes to mind is Yondu, from 'Guardians of the Galaxies'.

Movies borrowed inspirations from this, maybe?

Lucky for the author though, this is probably the only time he'll have to walk through the China bureaucracy labyrinth. Many of my friends including myself need to deal with it from time to time.

Is it going to spy on its citizens with all the 'smart' devices? Given Microsoft's record of protecting user privacy I guess I probably won't be wanting to move there very soon.

Feels like really decent hardware to run Linux on.

The fact that protecting users' privacy becomes a marketing strategy other than the basic principals of tech companies makes me feel weird to live in 2017. Not sad. Just weird.

Wonder what model he's actually using. Pixel most likely?

Really really love to see this going somewhere, but what advantage does PureOS have after UbuntuTouch, FirefoxOS, SailfishOS, TizenOS or even Windows Phone OS backed by a tech juggernaut failed to make an impact?

For deaf people? How about using light?

While NSA and Prism still happened. It's the 'Technologist' that developed it. Who's to say if Snowden didn't whistleblow things might get closer to what's described in the article?

Yes, US is more democratic and power is more decentralized, but without guardians or more awareness from the citizens, it's easily a slippery slope. Think UK and Theresa May. All Powers want more power.

It started with the search engine and followed by all Google's services, including but certainly not limited to Blogger, Adwords, Play store, Gmail and so on. So Chinese students who were applying to foreign universities with a Gmail account would wake up one day and find they had difficulty accessing their own mailboxes. (Don't ask me how I knew it.)

Last time I checked the only Google service available now seems to be the Google Translate.

One project monitors how many popluar sites are blocked in China:

https://en.greatfire.org/analyzer

Tor is also blocked so it takes a considerable amount of effort to make it work. VPNs and other measures (socket proxy, etc.) work but they're also sinfully slow, and it breaks all the time.

The most common search engine there is Baidu: https://baidu.com. Bing has some market share as well.

Google's been blocked since ~2010, due to Google's refusal to block and censor search results that Chinese government considers 'inharmonic'.

I just know every time there's an HN post about Emacs/Vi there's gonna be a fight ;)

Damn, it's 2017 and we're still arguing on why leaving a gaping hole in your house is dangerous.

Is it going to be like the Internet Explorer anti-trust lawsuit all over again? Just when I think MS is on its way to becoming a much cooler company than the old one that locks down users and deprives them of freedom.

It's good ole M$.

Always enjoyed services from sharelatex, they made a lot of stuff easier.

A looks like a nice tutorial.

Does it the Frontend ecosystem has yet another new framework? Do we have to retire the old one and learn the new one all over again?

Moral of the story is not how cheap YOU can build YOUR phone by $300, but how cheap Chinese electronic parts could mean to the competition and innovation in the whole electronic industry.

My personal opinion (not necessarily correct): it means that electronic industry could no longer only compete on low prices but newer designs and newer technologies, for better or worse, because Shenzhen, China can always catch up with your price fast with its astonishingly cheap parts.

Besides political debates, anyone else thinks this 'ClaimReview' schema put to use by Google is one step towards the application of Semantic Web? There might be something more than just a 'new app by Google' here.

Not really a Unity fan or a 'Convergence' fan, but just saddened by the fact so many developers and community enthusiasts get to know that their efforts were in vain.

It's April 1st already.

Good for him. I believe he's gonna make tremendous contributions whether or not he's at Apple.

Now that without all the restrictions from Apple, he might be free to achieve even more.

Really nice summary of undefined behavior. Just realized this is posted by Chris Lattner himself.

Marvelous. Kudos to all who contributed to this project!

I'm now very expecting the KDE tablet.

Wouldn't it be nicer to just load it with Linux?

https://telegram.org/blog/15million-reuters Stay calm and turn on 2-step verification.

Good. Hat off to the Duckduckgo team. It's my major search engine now.