skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... but given that it's the norm in the industry it would also seem extreme to go on a strike for that.

I'm not sure I understand this sentence - changing the norms of industries is what mass strikes are good for. Strikes are most effective when bad practices are so widespread that job market itself can't fix them anymore.
> Their whole business model is based on bait+switch

That's the business model of most of EU's cheap air companies. E.g. EasyJet "allows" you one piece of luggage on board, but unless you're EasyJet Plus (i.e. pay extra), good luck actually taking it with you on board with any sort of predictability or regularity.
I've never encountered the "hidden or gotcha fees" with Ryanair, but perhaps that's just luck of the draw? I've never opted for car hire, travel insurance etc with them - just the flight and maybe a bag. Never been surprised by any charges. Anecdotes, obviously, are not data.

The airport thing might be changing a little bit - they've got no choice with Dublin in Ireland, and they're now operating out of Frankfurt Am Main (as well as or instead of Frankfurt Hahn). Frankfurt AM absolutely isn't middle of nowhere.

They're also one of two options if you want to get to Leeds Bradford airport from Ireland; the other being Aer Lingus Regional, which costs more and has worse baggage allowances, and uses turboprop planes which are noisier. I can tune out the Ryanair "lottery" tickets (which are more a scam than a lottery I think) easily enough.

Oh yeah, one other thing - Ryanair will give you approval to carry a CPAP for a year at a time, in addition to regular hand luggage. Painless process via a CS agent online. Aer Lingus? Every flight requires an email to SpecialAssistance who might deign to get back to you within a week.
There was an article floating around earlier this week that goes into the numbers of this: https://priceonomics.com/the-places-in-america-where-all-you...
The experience of 1930s Germany and Italy, 1980s Rwanda, Serbia and Srebenincia, and just recently Myanmar apparently don’t register on your scale of “problem”. Why is that? It is a very misguided position to say that can’t happen here. US society has been building toward a populist-led Fascist break, with dehumanizing rhetoric by right-wingers, whipping up fear and hatred, forming armed militias and concentrating supporters in police and military, and now a true fascist as president. Why is it that it won’t happen here?
I'd bet that by Dropbox's user metrics "the most popular distro" still qualifies as "uncommon" for a Dropbox client. Despite being the year of desktop Linux, non-server Linux boxes are comparatively rare.

That said, Ext4 is still supported, just not with encryption.
A personal anecdote from this side of the table.

Back in early 201x I was asked to take a look at a certain car manufacturer's project proposal. They wanted to introduce keyless unlock and ignition to their line.

I got the spec and the proposal. There was no security - the number of possible signalling combinations was in low thousands and the system was completely open to trivial replay attacks. So I got back and laid out my concerns and requirements: unique keys per car, strong nonce and proper cryptographic setup to make replay attacks impossible. The manufacturer balked, claimed it was too expensive and we lost the project.

Less than a year later certain mr. Miller demonstrated the very same type of key-fob replay attack against a different manufacturer.
Sorry but I don't fully agree on this one - you can cook your own stuff from cheap ingredients, you can eat cheap pre-made salads etc. I had my share of burgers and other crappy food in my life, but it was always my conscious decision over healthier options. blaming some evil forces out there is beyond pathetic

Let's stop treating people who eat what they want as children who don't have the willpower to decide for themselves (or like heroin addicts).

You want a simple solution? Tax food based on sugar content, and tunnel those extra billions into some meaningful part of healthcare system. Make obvious junk food more expensive. Of course this won't happen so easily, but even marginal steps can save hundreds/thousands of lives.
> The last one had air conditioning broken

Wow. I'm surprised that a plane that has any part of the ventilation system broken is even allowed to take off!
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I am always pleased to see annoucements and discussions on colour blindness.

Forgive me for sharing again my writeup on this syndrome from my own experience, if you don't yourself have any such deficiencies you might find it interesting!

https://mcconnellsoftware.github.io/colourblind-in-software-...
Maybe they mean uncommon amongst their userbase.
Low Paid IT Professionals Twice as Likely to Moonlight as Cyber Criminals
What problem is electronic voting trying to solve?
Amazon Aurora Serverless – Features, Limitations, Glitches
I think part of the implicit understanding in this thread is that part of an idea being "bad" is that it is not true.
For people looking to move to a service that supports Linux as a first class citizen: Mega works well enough as far as syncing files goes.
Does ZFS gaining steam on Linux in recent years have anything to do with the state of btrfs?
By the way I think that this downvote button is really a bad feature that brings negativity.

Don't like a post? Just ignore and don't upvote it!
I don't work in the industry, so I can't say for certain, but I at least know that SAS flight attendants in Norway get an on-call rate for being on standby. I'd be rather surprised if pilots didn't get the same.

I believe Ryanair technically employees people out of countries with very low wages and worker protection laws (Ireland, for example), which allows them to skirt some laws that would otherwise apply to them.
I always thought it would be a good idea for the interviewee to also come up with a question and then have the interviewer try and solve it with their guidance. I imagine it may be more helpful than the other way around.

If the interviewer leaves frustrated because they couldn't solve anything and it was a mess, or the question was formulated terribly, or the interviewee was under prepared, etc etc, then it provides a lot of insight into the capabilities of the interviewee. It almost provides more insight into the qualities required of a developer than just putting them on the spot.
> To be honest, I find graphql syntax really weird. What you get back is json, why not make the query language json itself? So all the existing json processing tools on the frontend just work.

Netflix's JSONGraph is that. In my opinion it's… kinda shitty to write requests for, it's noisier than graphql queries and offers little in the way of benefits.

> GraphQl has some nice things, I.e you only fetch what you need, and the fact that that it exposes a service as a graph. However I’m not sold that it’s a big improvement over simple REST.

Simple as in trivial? No if you're only exposing an API to fetch an integer over the network it's not an improvement. If you're fetching complex data structures however, most RPC-over-HTTP (as I assume you don't actually mean REST-as-in-what-Fielding-defined) don't do the distance. They're add-hoc, less convenient to mess with (few have explorer) and commonly ill-defined.
Spring Interview Questions
btrfs is "really old" compared to ext4? Default setups of major distros are not worth supporting?
> I think it's telling that America's potential for radicalization might be comparable to that of a former war zone like Iraq.

I was actually referring to the many British & Australian citizens that were radicalized and traveled to Syria to fight for ISIS.

Removing the ability to broadcast these vile ideologies in to mainstream channels will certainly reduce the incidence of those susceptible to radicalization discovering them and being converted.
This appears to include ReFS on Windows (although with the creation of ReFS volumes being limited to enterprise-targeting editions of Windows 10, perhaps this won't affect too many people).
> Then why is it okay to have admisisons standards at all?

Because we want the best and brightest attending these universities? People most capable of actually performing and graduating? Is this a serious question?

> Don't they inherently discriminate amongst people in such a way as to favor rich people who can afford to give their child the necessary nutrition, time and stability to perform all the rituals that college campuses look for?

No. No more than the NBA discriminates.

> We also have to undo the generation's of economic and social harm principle perpetrated by white people against other ethnic minorities in the US.

We have. It's called evening the playing field by ending discrimination. Punishing asians ( who haven't done anything ) or young white students ( who haven't done anything ) is the definition of evil.

> You can't simply wave away the US's obligations.

Once again, we have. It's called ending discrimination.

> I do agree that Asian Americans face a lot of issues in the US and it's unfair how they're treated as a managed ethnic minority that schools like Harvard can keep in a separate managed bucket.

Yes. Discrimination is evil. I'm glad we are agreed. Using your logic, in 20 years, are we going to have to discriminate against blacks to make up for the discrimination against asians/whites today? The neverending cycle of discrimination?

The condescending affirmative action ideology is a new form of "supremacy". The idea that minorities are incapable of overcoming and need "help" is another form of white supremacy. Only this time, it's leftist faction looking down on minorities for social cred.

Discrimination is wrong. Simple as that. You don't achieve equality by removing hurdles from one group of people and putting them in front of another group of people. That's illogical and it's wrong. No amount of rationalization is going to make it right.
Not in the latest Ubuntu installs. They do FDE instead of home folder encryption.
They left off the part that gets brought up anytime someone asks what musical.ly is/was. Which is an app filled with young teens being advertised to old men. I haven't used the app yet, I was interested in checking it out and maybe I'll play around with it but every discuss about tiktok and musical.ly comes back to it just being a weird platform that seems to exploit young teens and showcase the videos to old men.

Here's a video someone made recently explaining it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmphkNDosg
Are you telling me that I could build a startup with 3 lines of bash? (EDIT: and a fancy easy windows version)
Verifiable proofs of voting is not hard. It is anonymous verifiable proofs that are hard.

In the past various forms of "vote for X or I will shoot" have happened. By having anonymous votes we ensure that everybody can say "I voted for X", and nobody will know they voted for Y.
Can you speed-read these news stories?
Animal spirits.
>> creating a new attack vector against critical infrastructure

Just because you've never thought of it before, doesn't mean it's new. It's long been assumed that foreign agents have access to critical infrastructure systems in the US. Who cares about a hacker emptying a water tower when some have the ability to cripple power grids and overload power plants? Although I do get a chuckle out of thinking about a hacker being malicious by watering peoples yards.
I recommend http://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2030:_Voting_Software to anyone about to ask "What does X mean?" or "Why Y?" questions.
I think I first learned imaginary numbers in algebra 2 which was like 6th or 7th grade. I know they use x^2=1 as an example, but I don't know how useful that is. I think they really need to teach trig before they teach imaginary number. They also need to teach polar coordinates with imaginary numbers. Most all of its uses are for solving trig problems. You use it in EE and ME to solve sinusoidal problems, but I don't know how i=sqrt(-1) helps you understand what its used for. I think euler formula is most elegant formula in math. How did the guy even come up with it.
There is a lot of squeezing that can be done without getting into illegal territory. That would be for the regulator to decide and force them to pay the arrears, if any.

That touches the only thing that America has and that Europe really lacks: class action lawsuit. I suppose it's good when all employees of a company can go together against the company.
He's only opposed to unions and worker rights because they would affect the profits of his company, and by extension, how much money he makes personally. If Ryanair's business model is only sustainable by exploiting workers, then it is good that the company collapses because it's nothing more than a hack to transfer wealth from the workers and passengers to the CEO and shareholders.

Funny how these people only scream about redistribution when it's from the rich to the poor, and not the other way around.
It happened to Lenin too, in the end, who became alienated from Stalin and most definitely did not want him to be his successor.
A computer model could help save sharks and whales from extinction
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It's funny, when I saw the title I immediately thought "Hell yeah, whiteboard interviews are absolutely necessary". As I read the article, I realized it meant actually making people code on whiteboards, which is absurd. I've always used whiteboards for high level design and architecture questions, and there mostly to aid the candidate in organizing their thoughts. If I want to see someone's code, I'll ask them to provide a code sample.
I basically only use Dropbox because it is supported on Linux. Also its syncing technology is sooo much better than Google Drive you would think Drive was built by interns. However, they are taking their sweet time with newer features like Smart Sync. It's disappointing because I'm paying for these features and yet they're not supported on one of the platforms my whole company uses. All in all I really hope Dropbox doesn't keep chipping away at Linux - I fought hard internally to use it and I don't want to be proven wrong.
You're wrong about car ownership in Europe vs U.S.

In America there's basically 1 car per person, in Europe there's one car per two persons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_...

The statistics come from different sources and times, but that's what I have to work with and I don't think the true numbers are much different from this.

It's also important to note that the culture in America is quite different in Europe regarding personal space, freedom to drive endlessly and on your own time, and having the place to do these things. Europeans are used to adjusting themselves to the train's schedule, leaving the party because the last train is coming, standing on the platform and waiting for it to arrive, and cancelling plans when the train drivers union decides to go on strike. These things frustrate an American, and that is because cars have been around for about 100 years in America and people have come to expect the freedoms that cars bring them.
China offers far more freedom of movement. US is at the bottom. By far.
Potentially reducing cost while increasing voter turnout
The Flow-based programming google group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/flow-based-programmi...

It has been a bit less active over the last couple of months, and sadly been plagued by a bit of spam, but historically there have been enormously interesting discussions there, by very insightful IT-veterans.
That statement is bit dubious. The next line also says:

> A supported file system is required as Dropbox relies on extended attributes (X-attrs) to identify files in the Dropbox folder and keep them in sync. We will keep supporting only the most common file systems that support X-attrs, so we can ensure stability and a consistent experience.

Certainly XFS supports xattr and hence ideally should be supported. I don't know why they singled out ext4. I am running Dropbox on ext4 LUKS encrypted partition and I haven't seen the warning yet.
More seriously: Syncthing exists, and it is beautiful.

I set my grandmother up with Synctrayzor and she doesn't know the difference between that and Dropbox.

It is missing the ability to share things with a direct link, or share a repository or folder "easily" (read: in the same way it's done with Dropbox), but the trade off has been worth it for me.
I had to take i earlier this year.
I'm fine with this cuz I'm using ext4, but why? As people in the thread say Dropbox have been supporting those filesystems without any problems for ten years.
Why do you make us ask? Tell us which country.
From some of what seem to be the matlab docs

> The jet colormap is associated with an astrophysical fluid jet simulation from the National Center for Supercomputer Applications. See the "Examples" section

http://matlab.izmiran.ru/help/techdoc/ref/colormap.html
btrfs supports xattr, it's also activly developed - there are always improvements in each new kernel release. Personally I'm avoiding it because I've got burned enough times with btrfs and the current >0.7.x ZFS on Linux versions with ABD work very well for me.
That quote is kind of eye opening. Once you think about it and start making connections to the ridiculous hate communities it has given rise to, it's fascinating.
I think you meant The* Ohio State University
That headline appeared in a local newspaper in Corvallis, the town where Oregon State University is located. In that context it's pretty clear, but agreed that on HN it's very ambiguous.

As an Oregon State University graduate I assumed it was one of the other OSUs until I saw the domain.
Agreed. I really have a problem w/ the censuring of someone for asking a question or for answering one w/factual information.

For a group of people on pride themselves on being logic-driven and smarter-than-the rest, the behaviors I see here show the crowd to be pretty well positioned w/i the 'bell' of the curve, if not to the left. Actually speaks volumes about why some of the products coming out of the field are what they are and/or end up w/the 'unintended' problems that are revealed.

For all of the probable smarts in this community, there is (in addition to a general sense of entitlement) a clear lack of breath and depth of knowledge of the rest of the world. And I find it unfortunate that rather than acknowledging that and moving to address those faults, people revert to the see no evil model, which, again, makes much of the HN crew very average, not exceptional.

Oh well...
Tech Tip: The Security of Cellular Connections
Not enough taxpayer money spent on things that aren't broken enough.
> verifiable and trustworthy to anyone with most basic education

"Scan this paper with the Foo app or enter your secret number on the website to reveal your voting receipt." its harder, but not that much harder.

> prohibitively expensive to attack at scale

Not sure about that. The existing system often gets voter turn out above 100%.
I've been seeing this weird multicolored icon all around in imgur and reddit for some time now, but I never knew it was Bytedance (or even knew this company existed.) Never cared enough to do a reverse image search but it always amazed me that it was all over the place.
I really enjoyed this video series on imaginary numbers. Went through the history as well as the math:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T647CGsuOVU
Facebook is shedding massive traffic – and it’s apparently flocking to YouTube
The question mark and "a terrifying idea" are editorializations not in the actual comic title.
Home directory encryption via ecryptfs is now the default in most Ubuntu variants, and it would be insane not to attempt to support it.

That said, given that my Dropbox subscription just renewed (and that Linux is pretty much the only reason I'm still using it, since there is no OneDrive client I can rely on), I am really sad this seems to be a future direction for Dropbox.
Thanks for the info.
https://www.sherekhudahazratali.com/2016/01/ya-nabi-salam-al...
If airplanes or elevators would become unreliable or would be tempered with, everyone would know.

With elections, where the votes are secret (and the monitors are not engineers), hacks and bugs could happen without anyone ever finding out.
No, it doesn’t. Only NTFS is supported: https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/system-requirements...
Exactly, what can you expect when in many cases, the flight costs less than the ride to the airport.
Show HN: Kustomize, customization of kubernetes YAML configurations
Many thanks for the clarification!
The longest palindrome has infinite length. Start with any palindrome, e.g. "radar". You can make a new palindrome: "radar, sides reversed, is radar". That can then be used to create the palindrome "radar, sides reversed, is radar, sides reversed, is radar, sides reversed, is radar".

You can repeat this indefinitely.
Under the GDPR you could force BMW to hand over what data they have on your car. That way you would at least have some idea of what gets stored and for how long.
The modern alternative is probably Syncthing.

I intermittently maintain a list of these things at https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/secure-... ; none of them have ever been precisely what I wanted. The cheap alternative to Dropbox with Linux support you want was "Hubic" from OVH (edit: now discontinued)
sctb / dang / mods?

(Do you people search for regexs or just read HN a lot?)
Here's the thing about voting. There are basically three kinds of fraud: fraud in counting votes (what independent monitors are meant to solve), fraud in casting votes (what voter ID is meant to solve), and fraud in inducing votes (such as voter intimidation). Unsurprisingly, in practice, almost all of the problems that actually occur with legitimate democracies, and even most of them in sham democracies, is with the last category of fraud. People who freak out about the insecurity of voting machines worry about the first two kinds of issues, and generally ignore the latter part.
Doesn’t mean the niche user base isn’t big enough to support a small scale operation

Think nerd friendly and minimal, like NearlyFreeSpeech is to domain registrars
I've worked for a company where the CEO's previous gig was introducing Ryanair in my country.

This man was exceptionally talented in cost-cutting, and raked in many awards for "company of the year" etc. because of this.

I had flown Ryanair for the first time only after I left that company and I could recognise his, um, touch in the way everything was organised.
For those interested, PixLab let you analyze 50K images or video frames via its /nsfw endpoint for $25. They charge $0.9 per 1000 requests after you reach this quota.

https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=nsfw

https://pixlab.io/pricing