skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, according to this, they can't read your data.

"These folders are encrypted using only your device-specific keys and mine.

The Keybase servers do not have private keys that can read this data. Nor can they inject any public keys into this process, to trick you into encrypting for extra parties. Your and my key additions and removals are signed by us into a public merkle tree, which in turn is hashed into the Bitcoin block chain to prevent a forking attack. Here's a screenshot of my 7 device keys and 9 public identities, and how they're all related."

https://keybase.io/docs/kbfs
Several things.

The most important one (in my opinion) is the problem that the companies that sell voting machines aren't making enough money and their profits would be improved if enough county election boards were convinced (or required, though state or national legislation) to buy new systems.

Another very significant problem that electronic voting is attempting to address is that election officials are evaluated (to some extent) by the public based on what appears in the newspaper on just one or two days per year -- and THAT depends largely on how quickly results are reported. So a tool that takes 2 hours to report results will look much better for election officials than a tool that takes 48 hours, even if the second produces elections that are more trustworthy and there are 2-3 months before the new candidates actually need to take office.

Another problem is that existing methods using paper look "old-fashioned". A fancy system that takes video images of the voter's face to identify them and then allows them to vote from overseas using a cell phone may not be as reliable or secure as mailing in a paper ballot, but it sure FEELS modern.

I guess my point is that there are definitely reasons these machines are being used, but "improved security" or "transparence and thus confidence in the reported results" are not the motivating forces.
Ask HN: How's the Paris startup scene?
We're moving there next year for my wife's job. What's the startup scene in Paris like? How good does my French need to be? Are there any languages/platforms/etc. that are popular there more than in Silicon Valley/Fairfax County (the places I'm used to working)?
or substitute the parans to a and b

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())( --> abba

)(() --> baab

We coders could get fooled by this question if we dont pay much attention
I last used Dropbox in 2011 or so (I stopped using it because it killed my battery life). It may have gotten better since then. (But my point is addressed to what it takes to get popular, i.e. that its easier to make a “dumb” tool popular, and Dropbox was popular back then.)

EDIT: Clearly not just me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12464901 (thread from 2016)
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This is a red flag.
Back in the day, it was pretty slick!
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It has deeply concerned the people who contribute to the RISKS Digest. Since Volume 2 in 1986. It's still a topic in Volume 30.

* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risks/

* http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/2/12#subj6.1
But then they ask "Can you put 45 cases of cans onto a grocery store shelf per hour, for 6 hours straight, every weeknight between the hours of 10pm and 4am?"
And the best part of a process like that is how inclusive it is.

Anyone can help verify. Your 90 year old grandmother that doesn't speak much english can count along just the same as that 19 year old comp-sci student.

With an electronic voting system you cut the people capable of verifying votes down to the thousands, and in many cases significantly less than even that due to the code being closed source.
My niece told me last year that it was THE app of her school.
I won't argue against you here, I like microkernel desing à la QNX, especially with synchronous message passing (MsgSend), and I used to run Minix3 as my main OS some years ago. It relies on a completely different scheduler model though, with different trade-offs. And you can't always avoid copies.

Also, QNX has never seen usage as a general purpose OS on a PC, even though I remember trying a QNX Photon Live CD years ago. I wonder what would work well, and what wouldn't. In particular, are there security issues related to the use of message passing for drivers...
There are just 10 lines on each peer!

But I do admit that the kernel stuff can be painful.

However, if it goes mainline, that will be moot.
Depends if there's damage to the road and/or disruption of traffic I would imagine.
thank you! One of my goals it's to keep really simple to setup and to use :)
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For a second I thought you have the most fitting username ever for this discussion, but then I saw that your account has just been created :D
I can't tell you the # of agencies and consultants I've had to work with that said all the right things and turned out to be steaming piles of hot garbage when it came to delivering the work.
Does it really gain steam? Last time I checked the CDDL license incompatibility with GPL made it impossible to ship ZFS with Linux, and as such, distros have separate packages not maintained by the core team (I'm thinking of Arch right now).

For the record I would be very glad if I could seamlessy use ZFS, but from my perspective it looks like a lot of work that can break in unexpected places.
The Bologna system, adopted almost uniformly in rhe EU and other European countries, has three levels of university degrees: Bachelor, 3 full time years; Masters, Bachelor + 2 years or rarely high school + 5 years without an intermediate Bachelor; PhD, Master + 2-4 years, but mostly 3 years. Integrated Master + PhD degrees are extremely rare.
To me it brings to mind how media like the Daily Show conduct serious discussion and news distribution about politics while ostensibly being a comedy show.
not sure what do you mean but I'm using bootstrap and custom html+css, thanks!
They've got to the point where everyone loves to hate them, but not enough to stop using them.

If I compare with the bus I take to the airport: RYR have a higher chance of showing up on time. A higher chance of a functional toilet, and I'm guaranteed a seat.

The bus is give-or-take 30 minutes, frequently stuck in rush hour traffic, and booking a seat doesn't guarantee I'll get on the bus, it just guarantees I'll have priority over anyone at the same busstop who didn't book.

The kicker? My last three flights (each) cost me less than that bus.

This is RYR in a nutshell. They'll lower their price if you'll lower your expectations. And in doing so, they've essentially brought air travel to the working class. Comparing them to a 'real' airline is like asking why hostels still exist when proper hotels offer a much better experience.
In the system System V init days most of the init scripts included (via the dot command) the same standard files.
Just use syncthing. It works better, is open source, and runs on everything.
That's almost as useless as the FB statement.

"The freedom of the press is currently not being limited, directly, by laws, made by the government"

Just makes it sound like powerful corporations are beyond reproach, no matter how influential.
I love the Keybase project (I'm user @mattasher)! You guys are on my list of people to contact as we get closer to public rollout. Anyone at Keybase I should contact specifically?
Dropbox for Business is unlimited, isn't it?
Is there any good alternative that has Linux support and isn't Google Drive? And supports shared folders?
Could you get it in a handgun form factor? Asking for a friend.
If you use a definition of socialism that excludes the notion of a mixed system, yes. I would say that precisely that is the form of authoritarian socialism that doesn’t work.
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Here's a link to the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ4Vtsd9XNw . We are using stochastic models at two levels: at the population level using nonlinear mixed effects models, and at the individual level using discrete stochastic (Gillespie) models and stochastic differential equations via DifferentialEquations.jl. The input data has a standard structure which we read in with tools like JuliaDB, and for output the DiffEq solutions are table structures which can directly output to JuliaDB, DataFrames, or csvs.
Who said anything about no-motor-traffic intersections? I'm talking about cyclists in London. Regardless, it's pretty eccentric to suggest that traffic lights are responsible for collisions caused by people who ignore them. However safe a particular intersection currently is, removing traffic lights from it will make it less safe than that. That might be tolerable in a scenario where there's no motor traffic. But there is, obviously, motor traffic in London.
I don't know if this is a stupid question, but if I set my LED lightbulb to warm-light, or set my OLED phone to blue light filter / warm light, am I still exposing myself to this dangerous blue light?
>As a manager, I've shut down far, far more innocuous things than described in the article. And now that I'm old and cranky, I'll call out those above me just as easily.

Same here. Anything approaching the level of stuff in that article would be a "you're a hair's breadth away from looking for a new job" conversation. Hell, I had a crufty QA manager that reported to me that was a sweet human being, but I had to break him of the habit of referring to a dead server as being "tits up".

Going up the chain, I got into a very heated conversation with the EVP I reported to about his advice to a female Director that she needed to be "more agreeable". She was one of the most agreeable and accommodating people I'd ever worked with. Never mind that her peers (all male, myself included) were all very outspoken and opinionated, and never received similar advice.

TBH, if anyone described a company as having a "frat party atomosphere" that'd be an instant disqualification in my mind.
The application uses google play, which almost every other android application in the world uses by default. And somehow that makes them untrustworthy?
It's not even opt-in on Bionic anymore (at least, that checkbox is gone from the installer where you enter your user info)
No. I don't believe in "salting" (taking jobs with an eye to certifying a union). I think I want what most devs want: a job where I spend most of my time writing code to solve interesting problems, to have opportunities to deepen my understanding of mathematics and computer science, etc.

People have problems at work all the time; they usually try to solve them as individuals. Sometimes that works, more often it doesn't -- they just come to expect less out of life.

At Lanetix, collective action was well underway by the time I became involved. The real catalyst of organization was the firing of an excellent engineer who had become the de facto spokesperson for grievances in one office (see: https://gist.github.com/bwestergard/a5ddc5583d37554cc40a0e2b...). It was only after management's effort to suppress a collective response that I became involved. I was one of several who advocated for the NLRA route; I would not have done so in any "hot shop" situation.
Why do you say it isn’t the best?
I noticed Dropbox started setting their own xattrs on my files a year or two ago if I recall correctly.

My guess at the time was that they were using it for cheaper rename detection, using an xattr UUID, instead of using heuristics to compare {inode, btime, mtime, size, name, folder}.

In other words, they would match up the xattr UUID across CREATE and DELETE events to merge them into RENAME events.

Missing RENAME events is pretty bad for the user experience as it can lead to a loss of version history when the file ID changes through the DELETE, CREATE events.

Anyone have any other ideas as to why they would be reliant on xattrs?
Yep that’s a lesson learned for me as well. I got blasted with Indian dev shops asking if I wanted their “expert” services.

I did follow up to see what “expert” meant and I was not surprised to find a site that looked like early 2000s.
> It is very possible that the result might be a world where people tend to think for themselves.

Would be nice, but I don't think that's realistic. Look at the past few millenia of religion in human civilization and it becomes increasingly clear that humans are not just vulnerable to, but seem to be actively courting, brainwashing. It's the default state. And religion and brainwashing have plenty of expressions in the tech world, and science, too. Most people just aren't critical thinkers.
Are you under the impression that it's the government running Twitter or any other online forum?
I really don't understand why people are having issues understanding that a private enterprise is free to censor as they see fit.
The culture between the UK an Europe is quite different for cycling.

In the UK, 90% of the cyclists are older men in the latest lycra racing gear on //edit//road bikes. In Brugges, people just get on a regular bike with a basket on the front wearing their normal clothes.
It is not easy to achieve that . I joined an open source project but was overwhelmed because I was not well prepped . I have to read a lot of RFCs , source codes , and countless technical papers and articles. It is indeed demanding , and crazy . Maybe I would learn something great at the end.
Are you and XorNot guessing, or are you basing this off a statement they made?

Because the alternate explantation I assumed is that they don't want to continue maintaining a bunch of different filesystems. That complicates development quite a bit (because you need to have developers who know the quirks of the file systems) and testing a lot (because all changes have to be tested on all variants, and it becomes multiplicative when a platform has multiple file systems).
There are a few query builders on github that let you build objects with more typical js logic. We hacked on one for our needs, to avoid concating strings.

We started with this older fork, and have customized/extended it.

https://github.com/wix-playground/graphql-query-builder
Thanks - is there an equivalent for Python and R?
Well, in case of WireGuard if used as user space app, you would need to copy every invalid (by WG definition) packet from kernel space to user space to discard it instead of dropping it in kernel space. You would need to copy a lot of packets, that do not need to be copied to user space, instead of just processing them in kernel space.
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Yes. I used the latest version of Debian stable available from the VPS host. In most cases, I just upgraded to buster and installed headers. On one VPS that I didn't want to upgrade, I built a custom kernel. The WireGuard build didn't take long, and was no hassle.
but is your site a Ghost blog? If yes, similar analytics but miss special analytics like SEO and content performence I think.

If this tool can identify any visitor, should track them so I doubt about 100% GDPR compliant without opt-in & opt-out.

Thanks for your message!
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> Two things shook me while watching TV on my USA trip.

I turned on the TV in the US hotel once for the experience. I found out that what I'd see as "making fun of the US ads" in the EU, was not even close to reality. It took me a moment to realise that the ad actually had monster trucks with the flag/eagle paint, guns, and explosions and it wasn't a cringe satire show.
To be fair, the way malloc is used is actually the preferred way. If you change the type of the pointer variable, the malloc is still valid.
:)
Thanks your advice.
What do you mean by "warm dim"?
GP assumes with no reason the "starting from an undergraduate degree", where the article is quoting 5 years for the PhD only, not for masters + PhD.
Would this impact FUSE-based filesystems like EncFS?
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This is especially relevant considering YouTube killed Terry’s videos. (Losetheos, templeos)

He had literally hundreds. For reference, pewdiepie has around 2800, I think.

I believe you can still access them through archive.org. I’ve thought it might be worthwhile creating a new YouTube account for terry, reupping all his videos, then give him the keys. But I bet that’d run afoul of YouTube’s tos.
"Does any of this really have to do with the square root of -1? Or do mathematicians just think they're too cool for regular vectors?" https://xkcd.com/2028/
Often you wrap a library api with your own to minimize impact of updating library versions to the rest of the codebase or to provide cross version support, not just to say swap it for Oracle. At a game studio I was at we shimmed all of the PS3 API. No system Apu was allowed to leak past one layer in our codebase. It helped us move to PS4 quicker. Or to windows (with everything nerfed) between the consoles.
This chap ran over and killed a woman: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/18/cyclist...
Another alternative is nextcloud... It also has a sync desktop client and works great in my company for sharing folders with colleagues or keep business documents in sync on desktop and laptop.

There are even third parties that install it and manage it for you.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/
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Hi!

1 - Just pasting a line in your Ghost admin > Code Injection
2 - Yes, basically: don't use cookies, don't get personal data or identify personally each visitor and all IPs are anonym (last octet removed).

Thanks!
I’m not talking about FTP, which isn’t a network file system. I’m talking about NFS, AFS, and sucessors in that line of development. E.g. https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/snehcp/coda-file-system.

I’m literally talking about the theory of the paper by Richard Gabriel (https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html) which is that worse solutions often win because it takes too much time to bring a good solution to market.

If you were trying to make a “good” solution to the problem addressed by Drop Box, it probably would not look like Drop Box. For example, you’d do a real network file system that wouldn’t need to do a binary diff of the file each time to see what changed, because it would have access to the block level changes at the file system layer.[1] You'd have file locking in the protocol (like CFS), and could sync data from a locked file instead of waiting for the lock to be released.[1]

It also probably wouldn’t have made Houston a billionaire because who is going to install a kernel driver off the internet? But on the flip side, Dropbox almost certainly killed much of the interest in real network file systems, because it is good enough.

Which is why we’re all using an internet powered by Javascript, Electron apps on the desktop, etc. Worse is better.

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/syncing-uploads/upload-entire-f...

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/help/syncing-uploads/stuck-syncing
Back in the day, iTunes is the best music manager. Now it still is a great one.
Google Boots Open-Source Anti-Censorship Tool "Ahoy" from Chrome Store
3G was when they added Windows support. Probably coincidence :)
I’m crossing my fingers the hate machine will fizzle itself out. People have to get bored with outrage eventually, right?
This is close to perfect from what I had originally envisioned with a Docker container. Thank you! If you don't mind, may I ask some questions if I do get stuck? It's my first time working with Docker.
>There's lots of legitimate conservative voices out there who are not being listened to.

Like who?
At some UK junctions a cyclist riding through red will make virtually no difference to anyone; in the same way as motorist on some sections of motorway (ie freeway), in good conditions, driving over the speed limit will make virtually no difference.

A car jumping the light leaves no room for another car; a cyclist doing it leaves more than enough room.

Yes, if they're busting through a pedestrian crossing with pedestrians on, or going on to a narrow junction, etc.. then you're in to dangers similar to "not indicating" (something that puts me in danger as a pedestrian every day).

A cyclist hitting a car, it's extraordinarily unlikely to kill anyone including themselves. The contrary is not so. That's why cyclists don't worry as much about the possibility of hurting others on the roads. Of course interactions with pedestrians are bad all round, but much worse physically for cyclists than for vehicle drivers.

There are imbalances, ignoring them doesn't make anyone safer.
I found the test to be unpractical in that you need accurate prior knowledge of how difficult the task will be to the subject, which makes the whole situation weird.

If the hotel you are talking to is ready to make crazy things at crazy prices, they will answer “yes” to anything that can be solved by throwing money at the problem.

On the other hand, for hotels that don’t deal with lunatics, they will refuse to deal with you the moment they smell your problem is bullshit or unreasonable.

In the end, I’d think false positives would be extremely frequent with that approach.
You are right but in this way, comparing to Ghostboard, you will get only analytics about visits (page, device, time, etc.) and missing some specific-blog data like posts per month, SEO, content performance, etc.
This should probably link directly to the message from the community moderator: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dr...

Right now it just links to the second page of the discussion; the community moderator's message is on the first page.
It definitely happens in some scenarios. Especially if you do fancy things like using links, etc, and especially when Apple incremented MacOS.

IIRC, there was a variable, hard limit for objects in a folder or locks in a folder where it would go wacky.
Dark Energy is a misleading name I think. But the intent is literally what you described. Unexplained Phenomena which is acting like energy.
Unison is beautiful, as it has a formal specification with proofs of correctness for its bidirectional syncing. Bi-directional syncing is hard to get right and many devs have been subsequently shown to not understand the problem fully, for example DropBox: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/mysteriesofdropbo...

My instinctive reaction is not to trust any brand new effort without more evidence of its correctness.
The dhouston on that YC post is this guy now: Andrew W. Houston is an American Internet billionaire entrepreneur who is best known for being the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. According to Forbes magazine, his net worth is ~$3 billion.
I think the issue arises with how powerful these social media platforms are. If your Twitter/FB/etc accounts get shadow banned, you now essentially have no voice on the internet.
Do you have any support for that claim? It seems incredibly unlikely that, say, Windows/Mac users don't store pictures, video, or music in their Dropbox folders and those are by far the most common way people use space in the modern era.
You wouldn't have thought that these things would be enforced, but an employee of mine got caught stopped in one in his car by a camera and had to take a 1-day course to avoid getting points on his license. He had absolutely no idea about them as apparently they don't have them in his home country of Portugal.
EasyJet tells you that you can bring one bag, hence why EasyJet is better.

RyanAir doesn't say that you can bring a bag, they actually write the opposite on the ticket, even if you can bring a bag for free.

If you read the little text in the conditions, it doesn't say that you can bring a bag either, instead it adds further confusion to push you to pay an extra bag charge. IMO, the level of deception involved is abusive to the point where it could be brought to the EU court and justify a fine.
Censoring people only makes them yell louder. You drive people deeper into radicalization when you treat them like this.