skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plugging in a USB cable still works fine.

That uses MTP which the OP already discounted as being "a mess". Frankly my experience matches his and thus I actively avoid MTP whenever I can.

> I think the problem is if its too easy then people will be copying files off of each others phones without permission.

You usually need to unlock the phone to use MTP. If an attacker has access to unlock your phone then it makes no difference if they copying the files via USB, Dropbox, email or whatever - your attacker already has the permission they need to do so.
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With any startup with half billion active monthly users.
Have you actually used Clojure? Or you deduced that purely from reading articles about it?

Clojure tames Java and Javascript to the point that you don't even realize that you're working with them.
I'm currently finishing up a contract at a large chemical company doing the same thing. They have a fancy new office in downtown Chicago that clearly a lot of money went into. They emphasize scrum, being fast moving, and a geeky, innovative culture that supports cutting edge tech.

I say finishing up because for the amount of money they're pouring into the center they aren't seeing what they want, so they downsized the contract I'm on and are severely limiting the funding going to this center. To the point where 2 weeks ago a breakfast and learn had to be cancelled because they couldn't get approval to buy 2 dozen bagels or something similar.

So I would take this with a grain of salt. I imagine most of the bigger companies taking this route will either roll back their spend on this or have the workers pay the piper within a year or three.

Granted, they aren't really scrum or (that) fast moving and there's tons of red tape for obvious security reasons, but it does lend well to work life balance. I might look into a similar role when I start looking again.
CDNPerf and DNSPerf services most likely do testing from some pool of VPSes or hosting services, although I can't see such details in their description. If you are interested how your service performs when serving to other servers, you can use it. If you are interested how it performs when serving to real people (home, mobile, offices), I wouldn't trust it.

Your comparison is missing Akamai which is probably the most feature-rich and largest CDN.
My doctor prescribes me sublingual ketamine for use at home. He has been doing this for 2+ years and his insurance hasn't changed at all (a common refrain of IV clinics that scam depressed patients).

The issue is that psychiatrists aren't willing to help people by prescribing off label. They want to blame someone else -- just like this blog entry.

A few other things that make this post suspiciously inaccurate is:

1) Listing IV clinics as a legitimate route of treatment with ketamine. This isn't the case. Many of the doctors at these clinics suggest patients try to extend their treatment time in between doses and augment with an oral anti-depressant to maintain the effect -- often the oral anti-depressant is prescribed by another doctor.

The author admits that these aren't mental health professionals:

> That meant going to a ketamine clinic that had nurses and anesthesiologists for IV access

A doctor doesn't need to be present. There is a clinic in Albuquerque where nurses moonlight on their lunch breaks, take your credit card, and start the IV.

2) The author talks a bit about the ROA being important. If it was important (i.e. only one ROA actually works) it would be the first anti-depressant of its kind. The author should be more skeptical about this. The author claims that there are studies where the ROA of intranasal doesn't work, but there are also plenty of small studies with alternative ROA's that appear to have an effect.

> Almost all previous studies on ketamine have examined it given IV.

That's because it's easy and one study copies the protocol of other successful studies. These studies referred to by the author are short in duration and have a small number of patients. So for all purposes they are equal to studies that look at other ROAs.
This is perfect! I'm currently taking a networking class where we generate trace reports, and I've just realised how tricky it is to send files without logging in (I'm just averse into doing that in a machine that's not mine). I can email my trace files, but I need to login, I can store in dropbox/drive, but again I'll have to login.

I wish they added a QR code option as well. It would be perfect for quickly copying the link by snapping it with my phone so I can download later.
Every prison mailroom is different, I usually just ignore what the bop or state website claims and phone the prison mailroom directly to ask. In general, all books must come from a store/publisher, and have an invoice. I use Books A Million for prison deliveries because they always include an invoice and Amazon often doesn't.

Anybody wondering some good books for prison are the Little Schemer series of books, since they can be done with pencil & paper. The Schemer's Guide is another pencil & paper boook if you can find it. Kernighan also has a good book for this but it contains a chapter on cryptography which some prisons may not allow but I haven't had any problems yet
"Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security" or get the older paperback version "D is for Digital". They give an intro to programming. Code by Charles Petzold, a really good intro book, may not get in either just because of the title.
> Define "acting unethical"

Criticism of his royal majesty, disrespect of the judiciary, or denial of the inherent evil of the Armenians.
Hyperbole, anyone?
I've done both. Same issue. :(
I think Ben is arguing (or at least _has_ argued in past posts) that the way monopolies operate in the Internet age is completely different from how Standard Oil operated in the last century. Trying to bend the narrative around these companies to fit existing anti-trust legislation is not going to be sustainable, or will be easy for firms to slip, or will result in too few cases for prosecutors to be able to pursue.

Maybe, just as one idea, new anti-network effect legislation is the right way to attack monopolies of the present and the future.
If both computers are on the same LAN, Resilio Sync shouldn't hit the internet at all.
Do you propose to grow airplanes, too?
Disclaimer: I haven't played with this since 2016, so may be out of date.

Having played with the Alexa and Google home. My take on why there are no hits is that it's very clunky to invoke apps, especially for one-off queries.

"Hey, Alexa/Google, Ask <keyword> to do <blah>" or some variation on that. Starting an app and then interacting with it works fine for some use cases but not all.

It really needs to be a flow of install app for given type of task, say searching for a hotel, and then like Android, there are defaults. So I say "hey alexa, find me a hotel room in blah" and it just knows to hand off to whatever my favourite is.

So long as all the core easy commands are only accessible to Google/Amazon, this is going to continue to be a problem.
This is what I meant, apologies for being cryptic. Web/JS development was absolute chaos, it just so happened that Facebook & Google won the day and we've converged on some "standards" in React/Vue/Angular, and I use that term very loosely.

The things I've seen. shudders
Sort of off-topic here, but if you're a fan of Kawakubo and haven't yet read John Waters' hilarious essay about her, you'll enjoy it: https://032c.com/role-model-john-waters-rei-kawakubo
Slightly OT, does anyone of you know some idea resources outside our IT bubble, e.g. renewable energy, recycling... ?
I found this channel a while back and spent almost an entire day watching their videos. It's fascinating stuff, and pretty easily digestible even if math isn't necessarily your thing.
Similarly, tried it a few weeks back. Didn't last five minutes.
We use it to "set a timer for 10 minutes" when cooking something and "what's the weather for tomorrow" to know whether to bring a coat or not.
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Yeah, the majority are probably not, but i'd prefer to download at the highest quality available.
FAA has no plans to ground Boeing 737 Max airliners
Windows Update switched to using NTFS transactions in Windows Vista.
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I would say the opposite. Things have been consolidating in companies and in technologies. It used to be that you had 10 options for everything. Now things are getting more and more standardized. I like to think we are much better today in Linux than when we were 10 years ago. You use to pick out what applications were important and see what version was supported by what distro. That isn't a thing anymore.
Considering smartphones don't even sync anything by default, why should they be counted as devices. The app is just a glorified website wrapper.
That part is really difficult for me to believe. I've worked minimum wage jobs where I've been assigned a laptop, a telco required their employees to buy a computer and bring said nasty personal device on their network? What about minimum specs? Network requirements? Motoring and compliance??

I think there must have a misunderstanding or that was a situation I've never seen in corporate america.
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Is it? I mean, some folks do great talking. Lots of them. Most are in narrative communication. If you get much beyond that, you jump to physical interesting quickly. Even telling is benefited with gestures. Consider how vague most spoken directions are. When you can augment with pointing, things are easier.
That's correct, it was recently changed a little. That said, I'm not sure how that would help you anyway, given that you probably wouldn't know anyone to look up?

There are better ways to look these things up, like trade unions. There are plenty of them, and they all publish income data on a regular basis.
It feels like Vine 2.0 but for kids. I don't see this lasting long.
For search needs you can try www.startpage.com ..just found it recently and the search is fantastic.
It wasn't Microsoft's meddling with the browser that was it's major anticompetitive sin; it was it's control over the bootloader.

https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

Yet here we are, and windows is not at all the dominant consumer os, and is not the dominant general purpose os any longer.
I don't find it appealing to use voice as an interface. I'd much rather have a button to press.

I think the new feature in iOS where it guesses what I want to do (send a message to ABC, for example) based on previous patterns is promising. A whole screen of these actions would be great.
I don't believe your comparison really works. A mouse is useless on its own. An Alexa device can operate on its own.

I do agree with your latter sentiment. It does feel like a command line at times. More so like trying to figure out a text adventure game. Zork would be very difficult if you didn't know the basic functions/words. That's what Alexa feels like most of the time for me. I'd love a help menu.
Syncthing is in dire need of an iOS client. There's an unofficial one, but it was unmaintained and didn't sync with recent versions of Syncthing last I checked.
> allowing a computer to mount a filesystem directly requires that the phone unmount it

I don't think that's true. My S8 storage is mounted and accessible from my computer right now while at the same time playing music from the same storage. I can still take pictures/write to the storage.
"Shave and a haircut..."
I don't think it's unusual. The EU, for example, maintains a list of airlines banned from entering EU airspace because of safety deficiencies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_air_carriers_banned_in...
its missing an http to https redirect. this is important! How can i trust this group with identity if they cant even get secure websites right.
China’s ban on the Boeing 737 Max inspires others, ramps up pressure on U.S.
Yeah; ID length was definitely another challenge. Time-expiration helped, but. I was going with 6 digits as a middle ground but it wasn't super secure, even if an upload expired after a few minutes. And of course there was no way for the user to know for sure that I couldn't keep around a copy without the E2E.
It does. I think you know this given how you phrased the last part, but I do want a mount a tiny defense of Doxygen, here: it's just as easy to write the same low-effort documentation in a simple comment, docstring, RST, markdown, docbook, latex, etc.

I think it's often a symptom of things like: just trying to tick the box (i.e. doc-building rules that only include "documented" members, satisfy a doc linter/coverage tool), and being too close to the code to imagine what will and won't make sense to unfamiliar users.
I tried openshot just now, it can't even change aspect ratio wtf.
Does it really fucking matter?

How about they pick a S C I E N T I S T regardless of what bits are between their legs?

FFS.
I disagree...the killer app is a smart speaker (i.e. Amazon Music + voice control). That in an of itself is pretty useful, especially when you can get a reasonably good one for under a hundred bucks now.

Outside of that, Alexa isn't the platform the industry thinks it is but rather the equivalent of the touch screen on a smart phone. It's another form of input.

There needs to be much better and more seamless integration with 3rd party apps for it to really be useful.
Losing, not violent content, triggers video game rage
Either of which could be done just as quickly by setting a timer on your oven/microwave or pulling out your phone.
That study is entirely based off simulation with the ultimate data being derived from survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki bonbings. We do not categorically know if there is a linear, no threshhold relationship between diagnostic radiation dose and cancer induction or if there is a threshhold dose below which radiation dose is “safe”. We also don’t know if low-level radiation is potentially beneficial (radiation Hormesis hypothesis).

That’s a lot of words to say, take that paper with a huge grain of salt.
> Android phones don't do this anymore

They don't? Since when? I still have a Pixel 1 but it's running Android P, so the latest major version of Android, and this still works fine.
Tried, can't even change aspect ratio.
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Tried, no option to change aspect ratio of the video.
Android phones show up as MTP devices, which are basically file-level storage instead of block-level storage. Most OS's (besides MacOS) will display this with the same interface as a USB mass storage device.
Interested to know how it works if Google don't have your phone no.? Certainly every time they've nagged me for a phone no. I decline the gracious opportunity to give them another identifier. My gmail account long predates the mandatory phone no. step, and so far I think I've managed to dodge it.

Thinking of ditching the ~tracking device~ phone anyway... what then? Have we sleep-walked into a world where people without a mobile phone are the underclass who barely even exist?
Worth noting that like Australia, which also did it, this affects very very few UK flights, so the cost / disruption is pretty low.
I am not able to change video aspect ratio in kden live, does it even work?
Ask HN: Anyone else hit with scraping and spammed by scraping protection SaaS?
We recently started suffering from a fairly sophisticated scraper. The attack was sustained, always getting around the simple protections we deployed.

Around a week later several of our employees got sales emails from two companies specializing in scraping prevention, the company names starting with Da… and Pe… (masking their names to not affect the companies' reputation unless someone else recognizes them based on the above behavior.)

We ultimately rejected their solicitations and a short while later, in the past few days, the scraping stopped.

We're now suspicious that something shady is going on. They could've been the ones launching the attack, to make us more likely to purchase their services. They could even just stop the attack once we subscribe and act like their software blocked it perfectly, making us satisfied with the purchase.

So I want to know: did anyone else have some similar experience?
Ethiopia, Singapore, China, South Korea, Malaysia and Australia have also done the same [0].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47536502
That's the thing about USPs...most are idealized possibilities not yet realized.

I mean, look at VR and AR and, hell, even AI.

But AI is not useless even though it hasn't reached it generalized intelligence promise. It is adding tremendous value even though it has landed in the limited middle.

I don't mind learning Alexa's syntax and what it expects of me. I get value from what it can do well. As long as that's true, I think it can miss its more grandiose promises and still be a huge success.
Nice! Finds AoA through vector addition. Now I'm curious why Boeing uses a moving sensor. Seems like having two different kinds would be ideal.
yes that would have been better. didn't finish article, but headline would have kept me reading to the end because I would have expected critique to be followed with constructive suggestions
Funny that more countries are joining Chian while USA or Canada haven't announced anything yet. Do American politicians care a person's life or their relationships with companies like Boeing
I love Raspbian on my Raspberries, but I've also had success with Arch. It would be a pain to have to switch away from Debian but at least there's a "Plan B". As for more inexperienced Raspberry users, there are other OSes but undoubtedly without the wealth of libraries etc that Raspbian has.
Yes it is sarcasm
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Norwegian appears to be one of the two airlines that fly to the UK with the aircraft, and they have taken the consequence and grounding their 737 MAX-8 fleet as well.
Are they even close to becoming the dominant player? Most startups I know use fastly or CloudFront. The big players all use Akamai. I read somewhere that Akamai serves 350 of the top 500 ecommerce sites in the US.
No good news for Norwegian, quite impacted by the 787 Trent issue as well. Probably only a matter of time until EASA acts as well and the TATL flights are impacted.
There are reports that this aircraft was trailing smoke and making unusual noises before it crashed.

From my understanding of the earlier crash it was a combination of the pilot fighting an auto-trimming system and I'm not aware that was smoking on its way down.

This would seem to be a different type of incident which just happens to be in the same model of plane.
What I'd like to see is an app that runs a webserver on my phone to share a slideshow of pictures or videos to a browser on the lan. I haven't found this and I'm thinking about writing one.
Before, when Debian Wheezy was the current stable version, I would have read this and assumed no sarcasm and agreed wholeheartedly. But these days, I'm with you, I just can't tell.

Given the recent article by Michael Stapleburg[1] that made it to the front page of HN the other day and now this it seems like things are a bit rocky at Debian these days.

A shame too because even though I don't use it that much any more I still consider it one of, if not the, most important Linux distributions available. Hopefully this is just a glitch that will get sorted sooner than later!

[1] https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...
Yeah, it seems almost like a naive/purposeful misunderstanding of what Warren means. Of course that's what Warren meant - the whole point of even talking about antitrust is that you believe a company used its dominant position to destroy the competition in a way that's less than fair/legal.
>But you realize that the vast majority of businesses in North America need someone to solve all of those problems. They aren't going to hire and cna't afford an experienced data team of specialists.

The vast majority of business don't need Data Scientists. They need a BI person with SQL skills and some of the skills of a Database Admin. What most companies really need is a good set of Dashboards and clean data to feed it. This enables the business people to get the information/visibility they need an make decisions.

Also, most businesses should not be building analytic services and deploying them - they should be paying for a good product with a cloud or easy on-prem install and getting support from the company that sells the product. A few licenses of a good BI product are a lot cheaper than a Data Scientist.
The UK is surrounded by foreign airports. If the aircraft's flight plan would have taken it over the UK (e.g. Paris to Dublin, Dublin to Copenhagen) even a crash a few minutes after take-off could impact the UK. Banning it in the airspace makes it so flight plans cannot even place the aircraft there.

If you're going to ban something at all, you might have well do it correctly. There's no value in half measures, or allowing loopholes.
While you seem to know what you're talking about, you're not very good at expressing it at all (lack of proper grammar doesn't help).
For desktops, yes, but my default assumption for a phone is that it's on a mobile network
https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13456208/why-vine-died-t... kinda suggests a mix of reasons:

* vine’s founders resisted aggressive monetization
* instagram added short videos and did monetize them a lot
* marketers quit spending money on sponsored vines and started spending it on sponsored instagrams
* twitter just kinda sat on their thumbs with regards to putting any resources into vine, the founders drifted away
>An Alexa device can operate on its own.

Can it?

I don't know how much I'd use Alexa if it weren't for Spotify. There are some native apps but its real value is in the 3rd party apps it connects to.
One of the articles this one links to [1] makes what might be a significant point, at least with regard to the Lion Air crash:

"[The MCAS-commanded trim change] can be stopped by the pilot counter-trimming on the yoke or by him hitting the CUTOUT switches on the center pedestal. It’s not stopped by the pilot pulling the yoke, which for normal trim from the autopilot or runaway manual trim triggers trim hold sensors. This would negate why MCAS was implemented, the pilot pulling so hard on the yoke that the aircraft is flying close to stall.

"It’s probably this counterintuitive characteristic, which goes against what has been trained many times in the simulator for unwanted autopilot trim or manual trim runaway, which has confused the pilots of JT610. They learned that holding against the trim stopped the nose down, and then they could take action, like counter-trimming or outright CUTOUT the trim servo. But it didn’t. After a 10 second trim to a 2.5° nose down stabilizer position, the trimming started again despite the pilots pulling against it. The faulty high AOA signal was still present.

"How should they know that pulling on the yoke didn’t stop the trim? It was described nowhere; neither in the aircraft’s manual, the AFM, nor in the pilot’s manual, the FCOM."

From other sources, it seems that Boeing's decision not to reveal this feature was justified, in part, on the grounds that the documented procedure for dealing with a trim runaway was the same as for preceding versions of the aircraft. This does not seem to have taken into account that the pilots' experience would differ from what they had been led, through their training, to expect, and likely to cause confusion over what was going on.

Of course, now that this has come to light, one would hope that every 737-MAX pilot would have by now been well-prepared to handle the situation - unless there is some additional issue which has not been identified yet.

[1] https://leehamnews.com/2018/11/14/boeings-automatic-trim-for...