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Better headline:

"Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely​."

HN has too many submissions with single-word headlines that tell you absolutely nothing about what you're clicking on.
For some reason, Rails seems to always have some weird commentary attached to it.

Years back, I've had people tell me they stopped using Rails because it was too hard to find good problem solvers. That didn't diminish the continued success of the framework.

As an antidote to the comment, I was recently at a Ruby meetup. Everyone was on Rails and everyone was younger.
...What common beliefs? Europeans have massacred each other for believing the wrong kind of Christianity.
I see lots of people doing this in Puerto Rico, but mainly they are installing them in outbuildings, such that even a complete runaway fire will probably not really damage anything else. In that case, worth the risk I think.
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In Germany (and probably the whole EU) it's illegal for an employer to read an employee's mails without approval of the workers' council for each individual case.
It is absolutely not worth it. There’s nothing futuristic about this DIY project.
18650 cells are great!

But be sure to protect them, and be aware that most commercial li-ion chargers and off-the-shelf protection circuits are designed to maximize short-term battery life. They'll charge to 4.2V, and many won't cut off until 2.5V.

Also know what to do if they short and catch fire; have an appropriate extinguisher and a plan for quickly getting failed cells outside and onto an inert surface like concrete.

If you want to make a 'powerwall' whose batteries could last you for a significant amount of time (e.g. decades), you'll also probably want to design your own charging and undervoltage protection circuits.

There's some good information here: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li...
How are encryption keys established between the clients?
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> While there are some risks to building a powerwall if you don’t have the proper tools and resources

understatement of the century there. DIY electricity is risky. DIY li-ion at scale with used batteries is suicidal.
Mastodon can't be considered a real alternative unless you have a solution for all the child porn on some of the most popular instances.
Spotted the guy who's never used an immutable language with pattern-matching
Why do you think that is?

How would you describe the tenor of the comment?
You had better work for yourself then. EDiscovery is a thing, and employee preference will never trump a judge’s order.
Unknown toxins in clothing is one thing. Building a device attached to your electrical wiring that likely violates the electrical code and puts firefighters as risk is something else entirely.
What kinds of religious rules do you feel keep which types of behaviors in check? (the ones you see as most important for society)

I'm just curious what you consider, not looking for an argument or debate necessarily.
What would it take to resolve the unlocked bootloader vector?

I've been interested in LineageOS, but not enough to carry around a phone with an unlocked bootloader.
You'll mechanically get rewards in terms of bugs reported, paid bug fixes, paid enhancements etc. Useful software brings value to it by the virtue of being useful.

There is also a mechanical incentive to contribute back, which is "not having to maintain a fork".
Battle.net passwords are also not case sensitive and have a strange complexity requirement for similar reasons. Too many code bases implemented it this way and it's hard to fix it without breaking compatibility with older software.
in middle school for a science project I converted non-rechargable batteries into rechargables. They all worked, they all held 80-90% of their original capacity.

They all leaked/exploded 6 months later while they were idle in flashlights and rc cars. The chemistry is different but that experience taught me to be more careful with 'outside spec' electronics.
There is a risk/reward trade-off.

A lot of people build kit airplanes in their garage, but usually get the fuel system done by professionals.

It's not a everything or nothing game. You can still have fun and stay relatively safe.
Yeah, Pwned is fine. I mean what's a Google? That isn't a word!
I like how they don't flaunt crypto terms all over the place. Calling encrypted content "gibberish" is fun.

And I think it's a genius use-case for Service Workers. From their security page[0]: "we're using a relatively new web technology (Service Workers) to install some code which can't be changed without setting off a warning to you. That code then keeps taps[sic] on all other code, and checks that it matches the publicly available version on GitHub."

Combine this with HSTS, and you can be certain the code running hasn't been modified by a third-party.

[0] https://www.airborn.io/docs/security
Ass-covering. It should've been obvious as soon as HR was mentioned that this isn't about helping employees, harassed or not.
Nobody involved in Palantir or Facebook gives a shit about anyone's privacy but their own.
Here is a post he wrote about leaving Poland and starting his journey to emigrate to the US. He ended working as Director of security @ google even without a college degree.
https://lcamtuf.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/on-journeys.html
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Consider for a moment that Michal Zalewski might simply be held in esteem by the HN community, and therefore his leaving Google after 11 years is personally significant to many HN users.

Is that too far out for you to believe?
Exactly right. It will catch on fire, it will burn down the house. I expect the insurance would not cover it (just like it doesn't cover fires caused by storing gas or propane in your garage)

I got a crash course on battery charging subtleties when building battle bots and there are many ways this can so south quickly, not the least of which is a battery in the middle of the pack developing dendrites and deciding its time to burn. The only way to prevent that is to have temperature sensors on every battery and a good enough model of the heat convection between the internal battery and the surface to recognize the temperature rise of a battery on its way to failing. Even with modern "battery monitor" chips like the ones Maxim and others sell there are corners in charge rate/temperature/battery that can get away from the algorithm before it recognizes a battery failure.

The reasons this is "easy" with flooded lead/acid batteries is that, when they fail, the lead doesn't then turn into a torch at 500 - 600 degrees F. So you have a chance to fix failures and move on.
I feel that Jared Diamond's book Collapse belongs on your list of references https://archive.org/stream/CollapseHowSocietiesChooseToFailO...
Could you be more specific? I am curious. Did not realize contracts could be implicitly signed.
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Would have been a bit more interesting had he passed through a BEAM VM language on the way...
It's not encrypted afaik at all, besides https but that would be up to the host of the instance. Where do you want the encryption to happen and how? Anyone can federate with you.
Copyright laws typically prohibit both identical copies, which appear to be done here by users during image processing / OCR even if only transitory, as well as derivatives of the copy. So the question then becomes, is this "fair use"?

If the use case for the app is personal use by the possessors of the textbook, very likely no problem. For all other uses you should consult a lawyer to make sure you're in the clear.
The best resource for improving your public speaking is to find events that are looking for speakers and to volunteer. The only way to improve your public speaking is to do more of it.
Here it is on archive.is: https://archive.is/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.prem...
... with cameras everywhere, so they can train their AI.
Your boss is absolutely allowed to open an envelope on your desk if it's clearly a business-related piece of mail, and your employee handbook almost certainly says that your corporate Slack account is only to be used for business purposes.

In fact, your boss is allowed to open any mail sent to your work address.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/abg/2015/07/1...

http://www.askamanager.org/2010/08/is-it-legal-for-my-boss-t...

http://employment.findlaw.com/workplace-privacy/privacy-at-w...
If you watch the video it isn't quite what the headline suggests. The guy is collecting 18650 cells from old laptop batteries and using them with his own BMS to build a new battery. Not exactly mixing and matching rando used batteries.
Nope. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

> Two global polls on the subject have been conducted by WIN/Gallup International: their 2015 poll featured over 64,000 respondents and indicated that 11% were "convinced atheists" whereas an earlier 2012 poll found that 13% of respondents were "convinced atheist

Religious decline seems to be Western and East Asian phenomenon
Guess that's what's wrong with such entities...
He refused new voice synths because the voice in the newer implementations were different enough that he would not consider his voice.

They eventually found the master from his voice and developed a new synth in software that run in a raspberry pi that he was using since jan 2018.

the only thing they kept was the voice synth, everything else was replaced. What was developed by intel and made open source was the software he use to interact with the computer named acat [1]

[1] https://01.org/acat
> Europe consists of plenty of countries, all of them different. It seems like statements on HN about how it is "in Europe" is usually Americans writing fan fiction about some never-never land.

Yes, this is a common trope on HN (and the Internet in general). People have selective memories, and it's easy for people - unintentionally - to remember the most favorable laws from individual countries, stitch the together in their minds, and then form perceptions on the composite image. It's generally not conscious, but it happens pretty frequently.

And in some cases - such as this one - people are just flat-out misinformed about the situation in Europe. (As pointed out in other comments, this is legal in the EU, subject to comparable restrictions as it is subject to in the US). It's not surprising that a feature Slack is marketing specifically to business users is, in fact, legal for businesses to use in one of their largest markets.
Depending on chemistry, 18650 cells are quite dangerous. Tesla at least puts them in a metal box and will warn you when they’re about to catch fire.
>I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.

Are you replying to the right comment? From the example given, it seems no action was taken until the parties involved proved such supervision was necessary.
Like most moral arguments then, religious or otherwise? Pretty much everyone starts with the conclusion they want and then engages the rationalization engine in their mind to work backwards. Religion doesn't offer any better a basis than anything else, otherwise we probably wouldn't have so many religious groups, often claiming to believe in the same God, fighting each other would we?
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maybe - what if you're hanging out with your kids smoking blunts? What if you find an article on hn that completely changes how you do software dev and your productivity increases 20% from that point out? Definitely is a strong word.
This is a disastrous state of affairs, even if you don't believe in God. We are witnessing the rapid destruction of a cultural heritage that has co-evolved together with the European peoples and even their secular institutions for at least 16 centuries.

It's like deciding to cut some organ out of your body just because you don't understand its clinical function (so it must have no function) and because it was involved in some disease a few years ago (so it must be something fundamentally bad).

I marvel at the arrogance, the sheer recklessness of this negligence. Unlike the neglect of beautiful piece of nature, or the neglect of healthy eating habits, I can't see right now how this disaster will be reverted.
> We are in agreement that you can of course also negotiate another license right? (Assuming the copyright holder(s) go along.) I don't want to beat a dead horse here, but I just want to make sure we're clear about that one thing. Your sentence here seems to present a binary choice when of course it isn't binary.

Of course. If you negotiate a different license, then of course you are no longer bound by the terms of the GPL. That doesn't say anything about the intent or effects of the GPL itself, though.

> edit: I only bring this up because another misconception many (not necessarily you) have is that software cannot be simultaneously GPL as well as another license. This should be basically obvious to most when they think about it (basically all business to business software is negotiated under different licenses for example), but most somehow still don't realize it when it comes to the GPL for some reason.

That is an option in theory, and lots of software is dual- or multiple-licensed. It depends on how the software was written, though. If a single entity (or small number of entities) owns the copyright to the software, this is definitely viable. Lots of authors who retain their own copyright on their contributions gets a lot harder. You technically need all contributors to agree to the relicensing if they haven't signed over their copyrights to someone else (as the FSF requires for software they maintain).

I'm actually not sure about the legality of some of the open-source relicensing that happens. I've seen projects announce that they are relicensing without getting signoff from all contributors. This is shady and unlikely to be legal. Using software that's been relicensed this way is probably a terrible idea (from a dev standpoint; doesn't matter much for end users).
Take cornell method notes as you watch lectures and do the assigned reading. Go back over notes and teach an invisible class out loud each topic/theorem. Practice on your own everything presented, so in addition to homework assignments you think of your own homework/small projects. Constantly review old notes after new lectures. Work in a quiet area, go to a library if one doesn't exist, not a cafe or in front of a tv or with emails/chat ect open.

Those lectures are self paced so plenty of time for review and practice as compared to pressure of a regular university course load with weekly deadlines.

http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html
few questions:

- here [0] "All documents are encrypted before they leave your computer" how then one can collaborate as in gdocs (from the pic it seems like that)

- what key do you use for encrypting the docs? is it the user password? if so it can't be recoverd (as dashlane for example [1]) is this the approach?

PS: the login seems broken https://www.airborn.io/app

[0]https://www.airborn.io/docs/security
[1]https://support.dashlane.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003111325
Thank you for LineageOS!
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Maybe to you it is. To me it would depend on the content I'm reading on HN or the activities (or lack thereof) while hanging out with my kids.
> Even if we get hacked​, they can​'​t read your documents.

Unless e.g. they make the system serve up malicious javascript.
> abusing your privileged access to conversations intended to be private (however justified you may consider it to be) will just breed mistrust among employees

Abusing your privileged access?!? You do realize some of us are required to access those communications for a variety of reasons especially because a threat is happening? Also, I don't get a choice when the lawyer shows up and says we need to look at X's account.

> I would quit a job that treated me as a child which must be supervised in such a manner.

Well, that might save me a bit of trouble, but at the point I am asked to look at your account, I get the feeling you are on your way out anyway or will shortly have a lawyer or the police contacting you.

The communication systems you use as an employee are not yours.
Sure. It's not a BeyondCorp product but a way to implement the BeyondCorp security model.

These are all separate pieces of architecture:

1) Corporate user database with access rights and permissions. This can be Google's G-Suite if you're already using it or this new Cloud Identity product.

2) Access to external corporate apps (like Salesforce) using OpenID or SAML connections with the above mentioned user system.

3) Access to internal or custom-built corporate apps (like a sales dashboard). You can use the APIs and build it into your app or use the IAP product to act as a smart firewall that will handle the authentication for you and just give your app a simple HTTP header with the user's name/email so you don't need to build any user auth in the app itself.
So long as they can go through your chat history it seems very reasonable and is not simply a further entrenchment of the structure of power.

Information is power:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tvanantwerp
Are there plans to do a yearly or fixed release schedule?
> socio-political paradigm

Sigh.

And workplaces are socio-political contexts... I didn't find it very difficult to get past his hyperbole, and I frankly find it hard to believe that you did. It isn't hard to argue that monitoring channels that even just imply privacy, regardless of whether they take place in the workplace (or in academia, or at home) is a violation of personal rights - regardless of the fact that you arbitrarily draw the line at "recording your activity in the privacy of your home or on the street."
Jdk8u131+ and 9 support detecting cpu and memory limits to set heap and core usage.

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/java-se-support...
That site feels like they took everything wrong about legacy powerpoints and made that a design-standard.
I think the bigger problem that the OP pointed at is that whatever adjectives you attach to this, surveillance is almost always the wrong way to change behavior, unless your desired outcome is to make everyone suspicious of everyone else.

What's stopping these folks from creating an out-of-company channel to do the bullying and attacking in coordination via that means, or tricking the victim into joining them in the new side channel?

The answer to bullying or shitty office behavior is not monitoring. That cover-your-ass because the real answer is hard. Improve your company culture. Fire people who are detrimental to the team. KNOW YOUR TEAM! So often I hear about these things and what you find is a shitty manager who has no idea how to be a manager and says "well they get their work done."
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What do you mean "hard delete"? If your place of work is using any of the big cloud email services, they should be able to get at those emails regardless of whether you've deleted them.
User payments. Mostly via Patreon.

Some are also small servers run purely for the hell of it; if you keep the user count low it really doesn’t cost much to keep one running. These instances are of course more vulnerable to their owner being hit by a bus or whatever and not having shared their keys with anyone. Less so once account migration lands, and everyone’s gotten off their butts and upgraded their instances to that version.

(My instance, by example, currently has about 150 accounts, closed registration, and costs about twenty bucks a month to run. It’s also a few versions behind because I’ve been busy with other things.)
Hawkins wanted to keep the familiar voice he has been using. He did not want it replaced with 'better' voices because he came to identify strongly with the voice.

They (Intel?) replaced the hardware and software with a better system, called Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT). It allowed him to use computer easily (compared to the old system) [0]:

The new Intel user interface operates like an engine. A sensor mounted on Hawking's cheek is detected by an infrared switch attached to his glasses, helping Hawking select a character on his computer. A customized version of the popular SwiftKey app has greatly improved the system's ability to predict his next characters, words and actions so he only has to type the first few characters of a word. That information is relayed to his speech synthesizer.

To search the Web, for example, Hawking previously had to take lengthy routes: Exit from a communication window, navigate a mouse to run the browser, navigate the mouse again to the search bar, and finally type the search text. The new system automates all of these steps seamlessly and quickly.

[0] : https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/intel-hawking...
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The days of voting literacy tests are not exactly a bright point in American history.
"or item of intellectual property made or conceived by me"

By this agreement if you wrote a hit pop song 11 months after your employment they'd own it. That's utterly ridiculous.
That was the spirit of the document as I understood it. Fortunately the deal fell apart before I got to this part, but I certainly would have crossed out the clause, or at least wrote in "inventions related to the business of the employer" to satisfy their paranoia.
Not surprised. Note the Linux results, while looking good compared to what's even worse, are still terrible.

Missing are the results for the BSDs. I'm particularly interested on Dragonfly BSD. Maybe I'll try them myself when 5.2 is out, which will be soon.
I read the message retention policy as a true delete for anyone not wanting to get their previously private messages grandfathered into a newly non-private policy.

Slack warns you for a channel that setting the retention policy is "truly, permanently deleted. These messages can't be restored or recovered, even by Slack"

https://i.imgur.com/63x2oee.png

https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/203457187-Customize...
Where did you learn? There seems to be a large divide between the training, time, and money required to become certified, and the one-off Saturday event. I'd like to use it but I'd also like to understand how it works. Grof's book doesn't contain a how-to and the knowledge seems a bit cloistered...too much so given that it's hard to hurt yourself in this method.

I'm already "sold" on the healing potential of these modalities: psychedelics, float tanks, Lucid Lights, etc...HB would be good to add to the list, mostly because it's probably a great gateway for others to direct spiritual practice and more healing. Thank you!
It turns out administrators could change the email address anyway. :)
I would be interested in hearing more about how he qualified that statement. Are shadows a known limitation with some or only Ubers systems?
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Use slack-cleaner[1] to nuke messages you've sent. You need to generate a legacy token[2].

[1] https://github.com/kfei/slack-cleaner

[2] https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens
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"collecting 18650 cells from old laptop batteries" is literally "mixing and matching rando used batteries". well, cells anyway.
> Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated rese

You can fit the entire planet through that loophole. Most employers can easily show that your side project “relates” to something they do or might one day do.