skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had hoped "software engineer" would have meant more of a focus on making systems reliable, vs "software developer," but in my experience it's only a trendy job title preference.
Make sure you claim the full compensation due.

People failing to claim compensation makes issues like this cheaper for airlines, and therefore more frequent.
The contract is for two years. So it's actually a 10% discount.
It really sums up nerds' lack of comprehension of the importance of user experience. It's like the UX version of the apocryphal "640k is all anyone will ever need."
I had one mechanically fail this summer and my options were turn it in or pay $3,600 and as much as I want to RE it I don't want to spend $3,600 on it. So far medtronic is doing a very good job of limiting the secondhand market on these. I do make regular ebay crawls looking for them through. so far nothing has really turned up :(
yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17717676
I recently had a coding interview and it was a disaster. The annoying thing is it was actually a super simple question and I had done a lot of preparation, and had solved a similar issue in my actual job just by chance a couple weeks before. So it started out great.

But instead of acing it an issue cropped up in the coding pad which I had to try and debug, which threw me off guard. The interviewers had muted their mic and were chatting away and my nerves just crumbled and I ended up profusely sweating into my eyes, I literally had sweat going into my eyeballs. I just turned into a bit of a mess, which is strange for me as I'm normally quite confident.

I think if the interviewers were a bit more involved it may have gone better. But I ended up just not finishing in time feeling like I had wasted everyone's time.
It’s a really great example of worse is better.[1] We went from sophisticated network file system to a daemon that destroys your battery life (at least on Mac) watching for file changes in a directory.

[1] https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
Which cloud backend do you have it sync to?
> 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.

And Ryan Air takes it to a whole new level. At least easy jet planes don't feel like they are going to break in the middle of the flight.
I've been writing CSS since the late 90's. I look up CSS syntax almost daily.

This comment is seriously unhelpful gatekeeping
The option to encrypt your home folder is still there in Ubuntu 18.04 (which I set up only yesterday), and appears after you set up volumes upon initial user creation.

It is (funnily enough) even possible to enable _both_ kinds of encryption simultaneously.

I'd say that they don't use full-disk encryption _instead_ of home folder. They just prompt for it sooner (and it is not the same thing if you have a modestly old machine, or a machine you share with other users).
How do voting machines help with the latter part?
Signal is better because people who knows their shit has vetted the design and quite a bit of research on the protocol has been done. We a quite certain of the security properties of the signal protocol.

Tox has not had this amount of attention and it is written by people who seemed to sincerely believe that using nacl/libsodium made tox safe. If that is not a huge red flag, then I don't know what is.

Telegram is not encrypted by default and when it is it uses a weird protocol, which people warned about from the beginning. The devs were cocky even after a probably unintentional backdoor was found that would have let the server mitm every encrypted communication.

The difference between these three for secure communication is huge.
Reading the NSA’s codebase: LemonGraph review
My point is more about how do you equate the level of difficulty of 700 glasses of freshly squeezed orange juice to software or anything else? At what point are you just a lying?

I've been consulting for 20 years and most clients I come across that subscribe to this idea that they are the only one with anything at stake here are the WORST clients. They are the ones that make you pass all these tests and jump through all of these hoops only to realize that they're so unorganized and dysfunctional that they can't even manage their own projects.

I see the point, I just think it's horrible advice, especially in this new world where everyone thinks they're some startup CEO that's so brave for laying it all on the line they can act like this with complete disregard of the experience the other person brings to the table. If you are constantly running into issues with consultants/contractors/vendors not producing, there's a good chance that you're the problem.
The ventilation started once we were in flight. It's not clear to me if it needs the plane to move, or if it was fixed during the 2 hours we were stuck on the ground.

By the way, the flight itself is less than 2 hours. The wait in the plane, grounded, was more than the flight time.
The other famous one of those is "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
You're not providing a lot of details. What registrar did you use? Did you opt in with the anonymity/privacy most of them offer? Because if you don't anyone can get your info from a simple whois lookup.
Do you happen to have any links/examples of this?
According to shittyadmin, it's not even encryption it's encryption with ecryptfs.
This is a very timely service, given the current climate in which de-platforming is poised to accelerate.
Dropbox isn't even the cheapest or best file syncing service, they're basically all a commodity at this point and if they don't want you as customers... just go elsewhere.
Same question applies I think. My post was US-centric but the same issues exist to varying degrees across the developed Western world. Check out the unemployment rates in parts of Europe.

My overall point is that we should be looking inward if vast numbers of people are being radicalized. It means our culture is simply not compelling enough to overcome the allure of these cults.
Serious question. Why should I pay for this, rather than use Google Analytics?
No technology (aerospace engineering, building engineering, voting machines) is 100% resilient as long as there is an entity with tools, money, and knowledge to bring it down. I guess the comparison holds here because voting machines can be approached by said entity in a remote fashion, unlike an aircraft or an elevator.
Where I live, the paper ballots are collected, moved and counted by volunteers (in big open halls and other public spaces where anyone can go along and watch). So I guess cost doesn't have to be an issue.

Voter turnout: People prefer screens to paper or something? Sounds odd that voter turnout would be affected by the exact method of voting.
> 6 - 15 watts / kg

How do you measure this on a bicycle? I know you can do that on a stationary rower (I was exceedingly happy when I could hold > 1 hp for 30 seconds) - do you measure on gym stationary bikes?
http://www.donsmaps.com/images30/britainshorelineiceageimg26...
If this catches on, I could see it becoming a bastion for conservative voices who have found themselves at odds with Twitter and other social media platforms.
I always liked Reddit's intended approach: downvote comments that don't add to the conversation.

Sadly, votes are too easily mapped to agree/disagree or truth/falsehood - see the "1,800 karma" comment below as a key example, where it furthers the conversation but is downvoted "because they are incorrect".
To save money, battery and potentially protect weird apps trying to abuse the use of internet on background. Have heard and seen so many justifications for it. Barely know people that have internet 100% of time on. Somewhere in Europe ;)
In case anyone is wondering if there truly is something like Dropbox (delta sync, desktop app, mobile app, web interface, ...): There is. It’s Seafile. The Docker image is reasonably easy to set up and run.
Honest question, what do you believe is "the most popular distro"? Professionally, I have never seen a BTRFS deployment, nor any of the distros commonly at the top of Distrowatch (Manjaro, Mint, Elementary...).

With the fragmentation of Linux, even the "most popular" distro may hold a tiny market share. The guys at dropbox probably know far more about their users than what is reflected in some arbitrary popularity contest, so I doubt it's either ignorance or stupidity that led them to this decision.
My understanding is that they do not replace it with anything.

I'd assume the only thing they look at is not to go above the pressure differential that the dome/sphere can sustain.
They don't, but the point is that elections are already manipulated in that way, so that people aren't going to bother with a roundabout way of manipulating an election, when there's a much easier, less illegal (or at least, more opportunities for plausible deniability) way to do it.
Moreover, designing to not crash is a task requiring understanding of the laws of physics, which is something that STEM education is good at providing. Meanwhile, protecting against hacking requires large doses of empathy, which is something that the profession seems to weed out. I would trust engineers to design against physics long before I'd trust them to even design an interface for a non-technical user. The laws of physics don't try to adapt to your security measures.
In India, its actually very hard and time consuming to accurately count around a billion paper votes. Paper votes kind of do not scale. Also India used to face a lot of incidences of booth capturing[1] which came to a stop after EVMs.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_capturing
These aren't conservative voices, they're hate voices and should be banned. There's lots of legitimate conservative voices out there who are not being listened to. And, they're not banned either.
> Somehow, aviation can get people to pay for doing the job right, while software cannot.

I believe it's because "software crash" and "plane crash" carry slightly different weights.
30 years ago the only choices to fly Dublin to London were BA and Aer Lingus. Both charged identical fares and the cheapest fare was £150, ie well over £400 today. That rip-off was ended by Ryanair.

I'm not crazy about them but i like having them around.
Two or three high-speed industrial juicers would be more than enough to handle the task. I mean, really, this isn't that bad of a job for a competent banquet service. You're looking at a lot of oranges (4000 or so, about two tons) and a lot of work, but banquet catering is always a lot of work, especially for 700 people. The instance on large glasses and fresh squeezed OJ is gonna make it expensive, but if they've said it's an established tradition then it's fair to assume that they've done this before and are aware of the cost. We'd be clear about the fact it's gonna be expensive just to be sure, but would definitely say that we can get it done.
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You can install a device on an ordinary bicycle to measure the power input to the pedals.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/group-tests/power-meters-every...
I cord cut 10+ years ago as well, but they've been doing the "overimpose" since the 90's. Almost all of the broadcast stations do this, typically they advertise the next program, or other television programs playing on other days.
ext4: October 2008
btrfs: March 2009
ecryptfs: May 2016
xfs: 2002

Which one of these are old?
Even if a hypothetical voting machine was open source, and developed by an independent 3rd party, it's still not enough IMO.

How many people in the country can correctly audit complicated cryptographic protocols? How many can fully audit a codebase like this? And how many of those do you think would instantly shut up if threatened with a lifetime of jail or death?

Have you ever seen the underhanded C contest? It's nearly impossible for seasoned developers to find the problems with some of those, in a contest where they KNOW for a fact that there is an exploit, and even sometimes what that exploit is trying to achieve.

I can make a complete guess at the number of people capable of auditing this in the US being less than 1000, and the number of people in that position willing to sacrifice everything to tell the world about their discoveries being basically zero.

But let's even ignore that, let's say that there are tens of thousands of capable engineers chomping at the bit to review this. How do you prove that code is what is running on your voting machine? How do you know the hardware is secure? If you come up with steps to fullproof verify, how many people will check it? How many people will be capable of checking their cryptographic proof (if the scheme has one).

This is voting, 1-2% can make all the difference, and if a bad actor can modify 1-2% in some key areas, they can swing the whole election.

Stick with paper checkmarks thrown into a ballot box, written on with pencils. Then every single person that is able to count can help "verify", they can guard that box all election day if they want, 1 or 100's of people can all do it, old, young, english speaking or otherwise.

We have a nearly perfect system right now, but nobody wants to use it, and I can't for the life of me see why.
Citation? Or at least the locale you have in mind? Voter turnout in the US is usually far less than 50%. The 2018 California primary had an uptick to 38%. [1]

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...
The controversy reminds me a bit of the "Python uses whitespace semantically, oh my" back in the days. Close to bikeshedding: Lots of discussion about a very minor point that everyone has an opinion on though.

(not referring specifically to you here!)
> Your camera's cell phone barely manages to hold approximately eight stops of latitude

That's precisely what makes it a decent tool for detecting lighting imbalance. Just because our eyes mask the issue with high perceptual dynamic doesn't mean it's not straining them.
You need to be extremely lucky to be in a position where you can just "not use" a carrier - for myself and a lot of people I know Ryanair is the only available connection between places where we need to be. It's not a even a matter of paying more - there simply isn't a connection available otherwise.
This is like the premise for almost every massive corporation. At some point and time they bend and twisted the laws far enough, but not too far to get shut down to gain a competitive advantage. Banks are the best example -- always a game of cat and mouse with regulators. Every corporation tries to figure out how to pay the least amount of taxes possible, and pay their workers the least amount possible to get the job done.
There's a few things going on that I see (in the US), and probably many I don't.

* Most US roads are not bicycle ready. They weren't designed to have mixed vehicles, they weren't built for it, and they don't do it well.

* Cyclists have been given a right to be on these roads, which can't safely handle them, by legislation.

* Having them there does impede traffic that the road WAS designed for.

* The US culture has devolved lately into a "my rights" based one.

* Both the car drivers who have historical precedent with "rights to be there" and the cyclists with the newfound legislative "right to be there" willfully fail to recognize the rights of the other.

* Both sets of drivers blame the other for the lack of adherence to safety and traffic laws. Both are correct.
Compelling reading indeed; Even less work was done at this terminal than a normal friday afternoon...

Is there not an equivalent "compulsory single file for motor vehicles" petition?

I can envisage that first triptych that shows the bicycles spilling into the car lanes, in reverse ... ie the roughly equally-capable fast-moving cars should be in the single lane, with bikes, pedestrians and other road users free to maneuver and accommodate one-another across multiple lanes.
Sorry, Google Drive doesn't support Linux.
I'm disappointed that they (in my opinion) managed to make a worse color scale. If you look at the CVD-Jet color bar you can see blocks that appears quite similar separated by too sharp transitions. This is a common problem in e.g. rainbow scales. They highlight them selves that yellow appears as highligt, yet the highest values get translated to black. How is black supposed to be interpreted as more luminescent/intense than yellow? It happens to be a color scale that makes the cells look good, but to me that is happenstance.
If true it means that social media is spiraling further down in terms of depth and information quality. People are flocking from dopamine hits interspersed with meaningful text to straight dopamine hits with no text.

Social media has peaked. This is a good thing.
You are not your brain. Your consciousness extends to a highly interconnected subset of your brain. You are not conscious of the parts of your brain that are loosely coupled. Since the network is dynamic, we are conscious of different parts of it at different times; we experience this as thought.
How about Keybase? It has a pretty seamless files experience, I find. Open source, end-to-end encryption, Windows client, painless sync, free for 250GB...
it saddens me a lot to see this race to lower prices, it made me realize that older companies weren't not that expensive; most of the cost is the cost of providing regular options-included (comfort, food, toilets, magazines etc) flights.

uber feels like this partially, it's often juvenile hubris seducing markets and then dropping down when reality kicks in.

quite a loss
Don't know what you're talking about. Dropbox doesn't ruin my battery on my Mac.
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Ubuntu uses ext4 and the default is to ecryptfs the user's homedir.

Edit: Actually I can't find that it was ever the default, but it was a pretty prominent option so I assume this decision is going to mess with a ton of customers.
Excluding XFS is an odd choice as it's very common in the server world.

I'm assuming encryptfs-ext4 has some attribute issue that prevents them for doing efficient deltas. That aside, what's the use case for encryptfs at all? Isn't it strictly worse than LUKS on the underlying volume or a volume file mounted via loopback?
Ask HN: Looking for help decompiling and analyzing a binary from an IP camera
As the title says, I require help disassembling and reverse engineering a binary from a security cloud connected IP camera I own, in order to produce the ability to watch the stream via RTSP instead of having the camera be connected to the actual Internet.

This is not an assignment, or anything commercial, I plan on open sourcing the code and writing on my blog about it, but I can't do it alone, as I practically have 0 knowledge of ARM ELF reverse engineering.

Anyone who cares to help me can contact me on milankragujevic at gmail dot com.

Here's a link to the main binary (camera_app) that I extracted from the camera using Telnet (login root/12345678). https://milankragujevic.com/uploads/camera_app_jfg1wv5.zip
>a fable but with human characters

There's a word for that: parable.
I have to point out Weird Al's "Bob": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUQDzj6R3p4

It's not a palindrome, but is a semi-sensical song masterfully composed entirely out of palindromes (which also does a great job poking fun at Bob Dylan).
Absolutely right! I did it in my third and fourth year of engineering and got very clear academic research isn't the way for me to go even though I turned out to be pretty good at it. Ended up in business research and analytics
Would you kindly provide recommendations? I'm looking for a sync service which can run on windows AND linux (which is why onedrive and google drive are out)...and i'm willing to pay a fair monthly fee.
WeWork raises $1B from SoftBank as revenue – and losses – surge
Belgium: Jewish couple afraid to leave house after harassment and death threats
I have no interest in defending your straw man. I didn’t propose legislation, and the idea that net neutrality wasn’t intended to keep ISPs from arbitrarily blocking content is ridiculous.

If it helps, though, my comments are still there unedited. Maybe you’re mixing up my comments with someone else’s.
What culture hasn’t allowed for that?
Sponsorship in the Digital Age: The Rise of Esports
It's not merely UX. At the heart of utility, you'll find simplicity and efficiency of use.
>>> just the flight and maybe a bag.

You don't need to pay for the bag. The bag is included in the ticket. However, they write the opposite on the ticket and they push very hard to get you to pay an extra charge for the bag.
Part of it is that it's a necessary mindset. When cycling, you have to assume that every driver is trying to kill you and every parked car is waiting to throw a door open and knock you off (and possibly kill you). Even where malicious intent is lacking, distracted driving is such a pervasive problem that you have to adopt a mindset of "everyone else is awful"....because statistically speaking, enough of them really are.
I am learning Bash via exercism.io and I am enjoying. I didn't know about Bash unit test(bats) until recently. Bash Infinity would help me to learn more... My shout out to the creator .
Isn't optical Kerr effect (separate from Kerr electro-optic and Magneto-optic Kerr effect) pure optic-optic nonlinearity without electrons?
But if the Ryanair employees are on strike who will try to sell me lottery tickets three times during my 2 hour flight?
It's because Linux users know what they're getting and store more data then "regular" users. It's the same reason "unlimited" storage plans from Backblaze don't have a Linux client.
Yep, you can use Verge3D for 3ds Max plug-in. Maya is not supported yet.
One example is that a voting machine (depending on how it is built) can either provide or fail to provide secrecy for the voter. If the fact that a voter cast a vote is public knowledge but HOW they voted is well concealed, then certain kinds of induced votes ("vote for the right guy or I'll beat you up afterward") are not possible.
I like it. iTunes, for those that haven't used a Mac, is REALLY slick.

This has aged gloriously, thank you!