skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not saying you’re wrong, but as a counterpoint: I’ve been on many many EasyJet flights, and I think about ten or so Ryanair flights.

I’ve actually never had a problem with Ryanair at all – you don’t get as nice a service as easyJet, but fares usually are considerably lower. Essentially you get what you pay for – if you want rock bottom priced air-fares, you have to expect poorer service.

(Admittedly, I’ve not got caught up in any of the recent problems)
From the comments:

"Mcdonalds around the world with those touchscreen ordering kiosks as well as live staff – the live staff are just essentially operating the touchscreen for you behind the counter."

They are not. I always use live staff because I cannot order no ice in the drink from the touchscreen.
Wow, I'm glad I deleted my dropbox account a while ago and now use gasp hard drives and usb sticks and github to put up all my opensource code and bitbucket for closed source stuff.
That’s a real problem. I can help you with it, … and this is how much it will cost.

I must be missing something. How is this a better answer than the other "flunking" responses?

All the consultant has done is slap a price tag on what must be an ill-informed opinion given the lack of follow-up questions.
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> If someone is sufficiently drunk walking about instead of getting a safer ride home, they may receive a temporary driving ban (I haven't heard of anything longer than a week in that case)

Why a driving ban rather than a walking ban? Doesn't the same logic suggest giving cyclists a driving ban rather than a cycling ban?
Why it’s almost impossible to steal a Tesla (and get away with it)
> so they did build up some trust for me (and others)

let's not pretend they don't try to rip customers off with hidden or gotcha fees, because they do. Their whole business model is based on bait+switch. You said they did "build trust" but at the same time you are saying " I know their procedures", of course, because if you are not careful you'll pay some bullshit fees. It's just one of the worst plane company in western Europe.

And they are not that cheap since their planes often only land not in main airports but ones in the middle of nowhere so you often have to add the cost of transport to your actual destination which is often not that cheap.
I had a camper stolen from in front of my house in about 30 minutes. The police never even bothered to show up and only put an alert out a good 5 hours after the theft, by which time I suspect it was either out of the country or parts in some chop shop's bins. Highly annoying. For all the cameras and tracking going on it is surprisingly ineffective to actually do something about a crime.
I really didn't enjoy the book when I read it in ~2014 I think. It's a pain to get set up with emacs and then it walks you through functional programs without introducing anything first. And it is indeed difficult to grok, especially because they are toy programs with zero real world value. In that sense, I'd compare it to Learn You A Haskell For Great Good, but with less context.

This[0] is a better way to learn, in my opinion.

Then after that, maybe check out Brian Will's videos[1].

Then definitely check out this helpful video on web dev[2]. There's a better video somewhere but I can't find it anymore. It's just a guy walking his friend through how to make an isomorphic clojure web app. Very nice pair programming walkthrough guide. But I guess it's forever gone.

[0]: https://kimh.github.io/clojure-by-example/

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAC43CFB134E85266

[2]: https://youtu.be/LcpbBth7FaQ
Added to this you don't have to pay to get your tickets in seats next to each other. Ryan Air clealy makes an active effort so your seats are far away from each other. I was on a flight where my partner was next to an empty seat (one among many) but for some reason I was placed on the other side of the plane. Oh, and they make sure to mention you can't move seats before taking off. Don't listen to that dross
There is a big difference between ideas like LGBT/PoC/Women rights, abolitionism, ... and White Supremacy, Racism, Religious Fundamentalism, ... : One advocates for inclusion, social peace and acceptance, the other for exclusion, hate and race/religion war.

This is not something we can ignore and treat every ideas like they are the same.

In Europe, it's very common to have an exception to Free Speech when it comes to hate speech, and I never saw it being used in the "wrong" way and keep good idea away.
Seeing how an encrypted home directory is as good as the default option in Ubuntu, and seeing as it already works now, this seems like a dumb move.

This is a shame because I just started using Dropbox significantly more to back up shared photos. Time to search for something else, I guess.
Portability benchmark of Dota2 on MacOS
Also, the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, or Brandolini’s Law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
I guess research deals with solutions under ideal conditions while engineering deals with real life constraint solutions?
"It's just access to the internal core"

For which the instruction set is not documented.
For which the x86 access instruction ("bound eax") is not documented.
For which the capabilities are not documented.
From which you can circumvent all of the processor's security checks.

This is a _textbook_ definition of a backdoor.
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Even better than an activation period: use a condenser to power the led, then make the photo.

Hardware hackers here will gladly make a small circuit that prevents that brief flicker and cannot be circumvented because it is hardware.
Travis county, Texas, is purchasing new voting machines which create an audit trail on paper. https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local-govt--politics/travis...
That said, I'm sure there will be hacks...
Now that I think about it using my endless imagination, the concrete pillars may serve as platforms for contemporary art installations. When that becomes reality, the politicians in California will be patting themselves on the back about how they turned lemons into lemonade, creating the world's largest sculpture garden. Roads will have to be built to reach the sculptures so the citizens can view them. Holes will probably be drilled into the concrete columns to provide a habitat for native birds and falcons will build nests on top. It may be a win for the environment, who knows?
I have always picked Ryan air when I was in Europe as it was cheap despite being not available in many airports. The experience was not the nicest but to fly for 1 or 2 hours it seemed more than enough with just a single carry on. Hope the airline stays afloat and honors the labor laws while providing cheap air travel.
> we’re ending support for Dropbox syncing to drives with certain uncommon file systems. The supported file systems... and Ext4 for Linux.

Yeah this is not how it works. This is not how any of this works
> If you flatten a pedestrian I doubt they care whether it was with a car or a bike.

The pedestrian absolutely notices whether they were hit by a tonne of metal going 40mph or 20kg going at 20mph. Regulation should be proportionate to how much risk you impose on others. Given how many more people get killed by car drivers than by cyclists, we should be looking to make driving tests much stricter before we even begin to worry about regulating cycling.
Open a julia editor or the julia repl, type `\^1<tab>` and copy and paste the unicode superscript ¹ into your post. Or whatever else your preferred method of getting unicode characters is ;).
Rooting a voting machine does not imply the votes can be faked, if the voting is based on cryptography.

The fact that US believes IDs are optional for the citizens but also thinks that all-encompassing surveillance is OK looks delusional to me.
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Their reasoning of "you need a filesystem which supports extended attributes" sounds legit.

Time for some of us to start work on adding extended attributes to more filesystems?
> The idea isn't awful, the execution is.

Not really sure about that.

The way I understand, most of the inefficiencies in paper-based voting are actually features, that make the process a) verifiable and trustworthy to anyone with most basic education, and b) prohibitively expensive to attack at scale. All voting machines seem to do is to reduce either of those. I obviously cannot prove it, but I strongly suspect that the paper implementation is overall cheaper than any alternative electronic implementation comparable in trustworthiness and security guarantees.

Maybe when we'll have a colony in the Alpha Centauri system, then we can revisit electronic voting. Right now, there's no need for it.
His stated purpose was image compression (although I didn’t see evidence that it worked). If the distribution encoded by the is smaller than your image, then you can send the small set of model parameters (instead of the image) and then use the model to reconstruct the target image.
Not so sure. I live in Munich which is pretty expensive compared to the region, and you can absolutely get decent lunch at a normal restaurant for 6-8 EUR. (excl. drink). This is everywhere where many people go out for lunch breaks, or where many students are around, even in the city center.

TLDR: I'm not used to spending even 10 EUR for my lunch on a week day, so this part hasn't changed since then ;)
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Solar energy is very problematic and for now, isn't going to solve the world's energy problems.

For one thing, it generates energy for just when the sun is shining and no clouds overhead, which aren't usually peak hours. There are other problems as well. https://sciencing.com/future-solar-power-obstacles-problems-...

I'm waiting for Fusion power...
Is this a new business opportunity?
It's not encrypted ext4, it's ecryptfs (which acts as a separate layer entirely, creating a virtual encrypted filesystem on top of ext4) - probably doesn't support some inotify feature or some extended attributes that aren't set correctly when used through ecryptfs.

If instead you used dmcrypt and encrypted the whole device or partition you'd probably have no issue as it looks just like any other EXT4 FS to the system.

Would be a lot better if they specified what features they need the underlying FS to support.
No problem, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
With this anniversary, prospective recruits born after the terrorist attacks of 2001 will be old enough to enlist.

All else aside, that just ain’t right.
Slack raises, Dropbox and Snap report earnings, and Magic Leap is real
The kicker is in the couching - dropping support for "uncommon filesystems" - of which their definition includes the default filesystem used by the most popular distro. Just dumb or wilfully ignorant?
Look out for a resurgence of paratroopers then
> Personally, I've learned a ton by asking questions like these and paying attention to the answers.

Yes good code reviews can be a learning experience for both reviewer and reviewee.

At work I lurk on a number of PRs that I’m directly involved with just so I can learn from the comments.

Maybe I’m lucky to be part of a team with a healthy code review culture.
Yet their net income is over a billion dollars. Surely some spending can be allowed
Even if there won't be hacks, there will most certainly be accusations. Electronic voting enables accusations of hacking.
Here is a direct link to the response from Dropbox: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dr...
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I'd focus less on the name of the test. It's a story that's being passed down from someone else to someone else.

None of these people are booking banquet halls and asking about orange juice.

The setup is kind of ridiculous and I suspect just a little bit made up just to give it a pithy name that makes people say "What's the orange juice test?" so you can go into this whole spiel about banquet halls.

The core idea is sound: Don't work with people who either don't know what they're doing or try to make your decisions for you. But I wouldn't work with anybody calling it the orange juice test either, because it seems like something someone made up to feel smart by knowing arbitrary jargon.
It's a shame that btrfs seems to be dead in the water. I guess nobody with the resources to build such a filesystem actually needs its snapshotting and integrity features at the filesystem level?
The (supposed) Dropbox engineer refers to Extended Attributes.

Maybe they’re doing uncommon stuff with ’em that uncommon filesystems cannot cope with... ;)
Well, I guess with knowing their procedures, I also meant, that I know the points, where they try to rip me off. But since I know, and also exactly where I will land and start, it works for me very cheap.
It’s also natural to feel bad when you get sick. That does not mean you should avoid going to the doctor to get he best possible healing process.

As for the “convincing yourself it didn’t really matter” that is not at all what the article suggests. It’s about adjusting the idealistic view you have of the person when looking back at it. No one is perfect, so a heartbroken person telling themselves “I’ll never find anyone like him/her again” or “we where perfect for each other” are dilutions, and unhealthy delusions.
Keeping a list reminding you that he/she had a habit of chewing with their mouth open and was a sore loser in sports, is not a way of “convincing yourself it didn’t matter”. It’s a way of keeping you perspective of the relationship grounded and combative unhealthy counter productive dillusions.
In Germany computer science is called 'Informatik'. I think this is a better name for what we are doing. It is the science of information and how to efficiently store, process and transform it. The computer is just a tool for it but the methods and algorithms can also be applied in smaller scale and even analog in different areas.
This is how the death spiral starts for cable.
Although most comments here are kind of negative, I just want to say initiatives like this are amazing.

Not sure what kind of ideas you’ll fund but there are lots of really smart people who love to tinker and solve problems. Being able to give them some runaway fuel so they can focus on problem solving rather than staying alive by taking a job they don’t love can go a long way.

When YC started, no one knew what it would become. It had good intentions, some money and a pool of wiling young folks to bust their asses.

And I think that concoction is amazing. Mentoring + network + funding + talent.

I really wish you the best.
Plane engineers use the software, not make it. It's totally possible they believe software is reliable.
Depends on how much your time is worth either refuting, or investigating, any claim which may or may not be bad.
So, what's the reason? I can't see it on the linked page. I would have thought that dropbox functionality is totally filesystem independent. I can't think of a reason why they'd do this.

EDIT: Found it.
Just in case anyone doesn't recognize this quote, it is from the 2007 hacker news post about Dropbox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Or just use Google Drive
"ANSWER A SURVEY QUESTION TO CONTINUE READING THIS CONTENT"
Really?
What is the norm in the industry? Is it different in Europe and the US? And between pilots and flight attendants? I hear in the US flight attendants are only paid when they're in the air (edit: or when the door is closed? or something along these lines), which seems unreasonable on its own, but given that it's the norm in the industry it would also seem extreme to go on a strike for that.
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Reference for the uninitiated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Americans don't like public transport overall

That, and probably the unwillingness to fund public infrastructure projects with tax money. Which, unfortunately, is inevitable with projects of such magnitude.

Well, in America almost everyone has a car and there's a road system that will take you anywhere you want to go

That's not different than any European country, which offers high speed rail (or a dense, interconnected rail system where HSR is not really viable, like Switzerland).

If anything and in my experience roads are usually better maintained in Europe. But that's probably the same problem. Maintenance costs (tax) money and that seems to be a dirty word to a lot of Americans.
This has also a great intuitive explanation of why sqrt(-1) is a rotation.

HTTP://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/6/
TL;DR:

Dropbox tells with a very unhelpful popup: "Move Dropbox location - Dropbox will stop syncing in November".

And on the forums, dropboxer Jay precises that starting Nov. 7, 2018, they're limiting support to Windows / NTFS, macOS / HFS+ & APFS, linux/Ext4. They say missing X-attrs support is what guides dropping other fs.

They didn't answer yet if displaying this message to users of common-through-Ubuntu Ext4+ecryptfs is intentional.
Sure, but I don't want to feel a fear reaction from an ad as there's nothing else satisfying about it to make that fear worth it. If I watch a good movie and feel fear but, at the same time, I'm fully absorbed in the movie for 2 hours then I've gotten my money's worth. The fear helped me understand the characters better, perhaps. In good movies the manipulation's part of making the experience better, not an end in itself (unless it's a crappy movie or show).
I'm my country we can vote online, everything is under control :D
I remember a scene on the simpsons where marge stopped mid conversation and got a broom and swept up all the ads on the bottom of the screen.
I've never seen a no-motor-traffic intersection that used or needed lights. Somehow cyclists and pedestrians manage to negotiate priority at junctions on paths, cycleways, and in pedestrianized town centers just fine, human-to-human, even blind corners.
> Is he unaware that planes have millions of lines of code?

He's an ex-NASA engineer, so he's perfectly aware of that.

> Writing robust software is possible, but nobody wants to pay for it when it isn't safety-critical.

That's the core reason why the field of software engineering is bad at what it does, while aviation isn't. Somehow, aviation can get people to pay for doing the job right, while software cannot.
Well, the obviously better analogy is drinking. Just as people in the U.S. once thought smoking was essential to the enjoyment of all kinds of human activity, so now do people think this way about alcohol, to enormous social detriment.

Interestingly, the anti-smoking crowd won by convincing the public that absolutely any amount of smoking is so harmful to yourself and (crucially!) everyone around you that consuming even the smallest amounts is unconscionable. That's obviously untrue, but it's a very successful narrative (so successful that I suspect most of you will bristle at the suggestion that it's not true).

This was crucial because it convinced people that: 1) no, moderation isn't acceptable; and 2) every bit of intake is harming somebody else.

A truthful campaign couldn't have made these two arguments and so wouldn't have been as successful.
Probably not as such users are just a vocal minority, and probably not enough to use as a consumer group.
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Agreed. Seems like a cheap tactic to bait and switch what we think is the classic hobbyist HN post with a commercial service.

If it seems like a petty complaint, imagine when more and more people do it. This title should be considered clickbait.

Nothing wrong with the honest title of “Show HN: Analytics for Ghost Blogs.”
I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that none of those countries will have solvent healthcare systems. There are steps they can take to improve the currently dire future. And I would imagine that pretty much any projection will show a more favorable situation than the US over the next 30-40 years.

Given the choice between a system that looks unsustainable in the future versus one that is currently unsustainable, I'll bet on the future one.
Works for me with JavaScript disabled in Firefox. I'm not seeing anything in the source that would cause problems either.
I agree that this is a trope. It a factoid defined/estimated/invented by athink tank or somesuch, published somewhere and then republished lots of times citing earlier publications.

It's inevitaly made up, because no one (sane) publicly acknowledges that contracts won as a result of lobbying.

But, I disagree with this:

"An investment opportunity like that just sitting around without investors jumping on board and bidding up the price"

Economists theorize using "perfect" markets like a stock or bond markets. Real life includes clunkier scenarios. An investment might be worth X to you and Y to me. It may be available to me and not to you, or worthless to you. I might be able to evaluate the value, while you can't.

That doesn't mean that the roi of "investments" that aren't traded investment products will usually be in that 3%-30% range. If Apple decide to develop a new product, that is an "investment." The cost of that investment is not subject to those kinds of market forces, which ensure that high ROI investments don't exist. The ROI could be negative or it could be orders of magnitude above average.

With something like "buying influence," there is no economic theory reason to expect any ROI in particular. It would be unexpected if the value of lobying was less than the cost, but otherwise it's a pretty open field.
Well, you always have to verify keys. No security is guaranteed without it. That is the case everywhere. Those pre-keys are just there to start a session, which in my communication with my brother case has lasted for as long as I had my phone (about 3 years). That session creates new key material with every message, providing forward secrecy.

I think it is a pretty elegant solution to key distribution, even though I wouldn't plan any bomb attempts without first validating the fingerprints.
I’m pretty sure this has been the case in many places. I can’t help but feel that this is a positive externality.

I sure hope someone doing research with homeless populations has begun to look into questions of whether or not the flood of bikes into markets has improved conditions for homeless folks. Social services can be hard to get to, and I could imagine these bikes serving a valuable purpose.

I also wonder if the flood of trivially thefted bikeshare bikes has reduced theft of other privately owned bikes. Presumably at least some bike theft is to satisfy a transportation need. If there are limitless Ofo bikes that nobody gets too fussed about when they go missing, perhaps someone is less likely to go prowling a garage?
Not relevant to the conversation
> I have some coworkers who successfully quit, but started smoking again cause they simply enjoyed it.

How is that different from failing to quit?
>has a nice comparison at the end to different unsupervised methods

I don't see the comparisons at the end of the inFERENCe link?
I believe all 3 filesystems have support for extended attributes, so it doesn't seem legit.
oh hey, I can download this app in the US app store now. that's a pretty recent change
> "It's not encrypted ext4, it's ecryptfs (which acts as a separate layer entirely, creating a virtual encrypted filesystem on top of ext4) - probably doesn't support some inotify feature or some extended attributes that aren't set correctly when used through ecryptfs."

Thanks, I updated the title.
This sounds fine to me. Ya'll are making sound like they're refuseing to sync because the FS is encryped. The file systems mentioned are really old. You can use newer FS's that are encrypted. They need to support extended attributes for obvious reasons.