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Ask HN: How to you encrypt your external hard drives?
Which programs do you use to you encrypt your external SSD/HDD?

Would TrueCrypt [0] be still fine for that task? (Its security audit did not reveal anything serious [1].) Is there a reason to use VeraCrypt (and trust some additional people)?

Is there anything more reliable than those two? I am especially interested in GNU/Linux.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt

[1] Except privilege escalations, not relevant for QubesOS users.
Friend, you get what you pay for in this life.
Usually does - if I can get in front of them.

Edit: Followup - here is a primer method. The exact method differs if you are talking with leaders, or middle management, or space occupiers. (Leaders as in intelligent, aggressive forward thinkers). You have to make it personal, and show them how the thing that they care most about (eg: career, personal security, promotion, or liability exposure) is at risk; which now-a-days is a true statement.
ES modules in production: my experience so far (2020)
The 1% have a "great reset" planned where they try to take all your belongings by crashing economy. Reseach it yourself. It"s a demonstrable fact.
>And people often tell me I am cynical, turns out I am still too naive.

The final stage of cynicism is understanding that to fit in socially you have to indulge other people's desires for cute narratives over simpler and more roust explanations of behavior.
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Windows 10 search function is completely broken, it won't even find a program that's in start menu, not sure if it's because I disabled all the online functionality of search.
If I want to find something online instead of my computer I use a browser.
Thankfully there are great alternatives for the atrocity, such as Everything, it's mind-blowing how a third party program is orders of magnitude faster than native system search.
Are there any other patterns that people have been using which have helped them design better APIs?
It sounds like your homeschool environment prepared you very well for that style of learning in college.

> I'm no genius, and I really think anyone with a normal brain can do what I did

I'm a big believer that almost anyone is smart enough to learn almost anything if they are motivated and have the time and energy.

There are two problems. One is that people don't necessarily know how to learn (and we may not be good at teaching them this). The other is that schools have to meet students where they are -- not just in terms of smarts about the subject, but in terms of motivation and commitment level.
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To be fair, a good PHP programmer should earn more than one dollar per each dollar sign typed.
We absolutely should not be measuring WFH productivity right now. There are way too many variables to consider at this point. Because it's new for a lot of people, and because of the lockdowns, there seem to be a lot of issues with overwork. I absolutely love WFH, and I've been doing for quite a long time, but I feel pretty confident that we are going to see a bunch of companies claim to go fully WFH, and they backpedal in a year or two. Hopefully not, but if the expectations are wrong, these companies are settings themselves up for failure from the start.
Or just defensively. The US invaded Iraq because they might have had WMDs. Other planets might have WMDs too. And they might think we have WMDs. Doesn’t matter if any of the sides actually do.
I wonder what your thoughts are on Sundar Pichai. Has Google created anything interesting under his leadership? I would put Cook above Pichai if I ranked top tech CEOs.
TLDR: Opportunity is the most important factor in determining success.
To me nothing better exemplifies W10 "we know better than you" attitude than the desktop shortcut regressions. On W7 if you want a desktop shortcut to Notepad you open Start, begin typing Notepad, and when it shows up in the menu you either click and drag it onto the desktop or your right-click it and hit "send to desktop create shortcut". Neither of those work on Windows 10 without third party software.
They're paying money to (or have a formal business relationship with) those cloud providers, so it makes more sense.
There is a registry key you can add that will disable Bing from the search bar which should fix that issue and make it a lot more usable.
Perhaps I find myself in the minority, but I really enjoy living in a city with somewhat sane zoning. As a US-citizen who doesn't want to live abroad, my choices are limited if I want to live outside of a de-facto suburb. I want to walk most places, utilize public transit, have access to stores and coffee shops without a drive, and naturally live close to friends. My partner and I don't need too much space, and I'd rather go to a dog park and chat with people than play with my dog in a backyard alone.

The Le Corbusier spirit of zoning has wrought so much damage in the US. I dread the idea of having to jump in a car for 15 minutes to shop for groceries in a strip mall. Most suburbs really destroy natural community (and I suppose that was the point of Le Corbusier's ideas around planning: like the gigantic squares in Brasilia) too.

(I realize my comment here is all over the place, sorry!)
Fair enough. I just have a general aversion to subscriptions, they add up over time! And how many times do we need to repay for Office? I have probably bought it at least 5 times in the last 20 years, but that’s partly on me too for not being organized and transferring licenses over.

Storage imo is a non point since it’s very easy to get free or super cheap storage with a bit of searching.

My girlfriend used Dropbox for her business, I was horrified when I saw how much she was paying each month!

Moved over to google and her needs are covered in the free plan, so that’s a quality 50$ per month saved.

I’m not as rich as I used to be, so have really started to feel the pinch with all these subs, incl office which I don’t have anymore. Before I had the same view as you as it doesn’t feel like a lot. But given we’ve been paying for Office from 1990s onwards, you can see that Microsoft is milking it a fair bit given updates (whilst important, and very important in “enterprise” companies) are not that significant to justify paying for it every year.
Get a beer with a particle physicist some time, you will find most of them didn't actually work on "finding dark matter" but worked on a myriad of specific technical challenges.

- Superconducting magnets and power distribution

- Radiation hard ASICs and detectors

- CAD software like KICAD

- ROOT

- Grid computing infrastructure

- Analog circuit design (1024 channel low power ADCs, pixel sensors)

- FPGA design for data aggregation and communication
Who says habitable to us == habitable to hypothetical aliens?
>give you an x amount of money and force you to spend it. This will erode all incentive to save. If forces consumption instead of preservation.

Arguably money should not be used for savings in the first place. Some problems of the modern monetary system arise from the fact that money conflate two functions: medium for trade and tool for savings. After doing something useful for economy and acquiring money for it, you have two options: either you buy someone else's work or you invest somewhere (effectively you lend your useful contribution to someone). The first option is a relatively short-lived, think of money as a reputation system, you are more likely to care about a favor done days ago, not decades ago. Another way of looking on it is that it is easier to compare merit of deeds which were done close in time. But the second option has all the risks and difficulties associated with investments.

If you are interested in this topic, I recommend works of Silvio Gesell, it's somewhat outdated, but still quite interesting even in modern times.
That ad block hostility though.
All of that makes sense from a user perspective, but why take 30% of a wide base of consumers and businesses when you can take 100% from the most profitable ones?

They want to sell you an Office365 subscription for each user, whose computing needs are provided by a remote desktop served on Azure compute, which you access from a Surface device, where your business information is stored and accessed through databases on their servers and software they provide. They want your enterprise identity to be managed through their offering, and your warehouse automation microservices to run on their k8s platform.

Their consumer play is looking more and more like it's Xbox focused, and some personal software interoperability with their enterprise offering. The consumer OS layer is less important now they missed mobile - they get end consumers by selling the cloud [0] to the business who sell to them, not providing the shopfront to the end user.

The model they're moving towards is that the "desktop" is largely going to go. You want some software? Here's a dumb terminal and a burst of virtual CPU from the cloud to run it for the 45 minutes you need. "Installing" things (from an end user perspective) is going to seem old hat within many of our working lives.

That being said, am sure a shopfront will emerge at some point, but for cloud based software, not for installable onto an OS software. That only really comes after this whole transition is complete though.

[0] and "cloud" in this context not being commodity access, but the vertical software integration to go with it.
Wow, so today I learned this is a thing. IDDQD. There can be only one.
> any well-understood or easy path to becoming high status will be shut down

Not shut down so much as exhausted by everyone rushing in.

High status isn’t an arbitrary designation that everyone can achieve. By definition, it requires some degree of exceptionalism and significant separation from the average.

If everyone could achieve a certain high status attribute, it’s no longer high status. It’s just average.

It’s easy to forget that high status is something given by others. You can’t become high status arbitrarily, you can only be high status if the average person voluntarily decides to see you as high status. Luxury good brands understand this perhaps better than anyone as their entire business revolves around making things appear artificially rare, unique, and hard to get while discreetly selling them to as many people as possible.
And it being dynamic. If just want to dump some JSON or a CSV into an array to do something with it it is probably going to be much quicker than in Java.
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PHP apps following modern best practices usually include stateful middleware of some kind though, so this applies in theory more than in practice.
Anecdotally, I suspect a few people hosed themselves this year in the stock market. I met a few people early on in the pandemic who thought themselves very smart for paying attention to the news and getting their money out of the market before the first big drop.

Admittedly, I haven't talked to them since, but they didn't seem to expect it to bounce right back up again. I wonder how many people out there did something similar.

I remember back in 2008 one of the older voice engineers I knew, who was in his 60s and getting ready to retire, panicked and moved his money out of the market (it's a separate question why he still had so much in stocks) near the low point. He quietly canceled his retirement and worked another 5 years. Whoops.
Truly an underrated predictor.
If we've got the technology to travel between stars, we've probably also got the tech to leave planets behind entirely, or to terraform, or to adapt ourselves to conditions.
I think you are being down voted because you appear to have an ax to grind rather than a useful perspective on the issue.
I also deeply miss access to the occasional second set of hands to hold the probes while I drive the scope.

I'm lucky in that I have an office that's open so I can still have access to the fancy microscopes etc (as well as to more able sets of soldering hands/equipment), but being largely remote has definitely made distributing prototypes across the team for development and QA much more difficult (not to mention if mods to those prototypes are necessary).
trolling comment, I refuse to respond.
>Anyone who has tried to purchase anything from GM that wasn't a truck or an econobox knows that they never make enough cars that people actually want to buy

GM produces millions of cars a year and has been around for over a hundred years but doesn't sell cars people actually want?
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They really messed that whole thing up. They were complacent before and after the iPhone was released, they should have ported it to their tablet instead of ruining Windows desktop and they wasted billions buying Nokia.

The funny thing is everyone I spoke to who used it loved Windows phone.
That's it.

I didn't even really use Photoshop in a professional capacity, but it's probably worse in that situation. In the past, if you wanted to do something "cool looking" on the web, you'd describe to Google something you saw and invariably land on some Photoshop tutorial. It doesn't translate to other things easily. So to switch to something like GIMP, you have to not only learn the interface, but learn how to translate all of the useful help "in the wild" from Photoshop to GIMP.

I remember when I sat down to try to learn paths and such in Photoshop, thinking, "Is this really the best they could come up with?" But, yeah, it was ... when they came up with it and everyone learned how to use it. A switch would eliminate the moat that the product has.

And that's what's been chipped away at, in general. I haven't had any need of Photoshop for web dev work in a long time. My image processing needs rarely go beyond the command-line, these days, because many other things we relied on PS for are described in css or are vectors rather than image files.
I am confused when people try to generate api specs from languages (e.g. typescript to openAPI). The big draw to API specs for me is language independence. By generating from an implementation it's the wrong way round and you lose a degree of freedom IMHO.
I love hate Microsoft. I love the dev tooling for enterprise, but hate the OS. I really want to like Windows 10, but I feel like I am working against it more than it is helping me. I think OSX is also trending toward making my life harder, but the curve is much slower. I think the next step is to try to really use Linux and see if I can finally find a 'home' os...
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Yeah, I don't feel that Windows is meaningfully better than it's been in years, it just feels like the awful waterfall development is going to break it and introduce weird UI inconsistencies all the time and that's just the way it is.

Gaming on Windows is almost more confusing than it's been due to all the things and settings you have to make sure are set up right.
> The US invaded Iraq because they might have had WMDs.

Be careful not to conflate public justifications with actual motivations.
> The classification of employee vs. contractor is still salient.

This entirely depends on how the tax is written. Independent contractors already pay "more" for social security to cover the taxes that the employer would normally pay. I suspect that the law would be written such that the total healthcare tax placed on an individual is the same regardless of if they are W4 or 1099.
Show HN: Decided to share my Notion Workout Tracker
>Thank you for visiting this site. Unfortunately we have detected that you might be running custom adblocking scripts or installations that might interfere with the running of the site

Yeah leave the "might" be my problem

https://web.archive.org/web/20201023131014/https://www.lives...
The specific issue I was pointing out is that rich individuals are far more able to quickly move the needle in acting politically, and this problem only gets worse as inequality grows. For example, in this situation drivers are also a special interest group, however, drivers are unable to spend millions in facebook ads, tv ads and lobbyists to fight for their issue.

If your political opponent can drown your message out, then it becomes an imperative for you to also raise money and/or find a wealthy benefactor to argue your own ideas. You end up with a system that the only ideas that are seriously considered are ones that can raise enough money to not be drowned out. I don't think we are there today in our current politics but I think it's worth thinking about as it's not clear to me that government will remain impervious to this type of influence.
I think that overall the GDPR law was good for privacy but a disaster for usability.

It was good for privacy, not because it's enforced or not and not because sites are showing cookie consents, but because it made the public more aware of centralization/privacy issues on the internet and companies a bit more careful with data processing. This law also resulted in many "privacy-friendly" alternatives for various services, which in the end led to a healthier market and improved data decentralization.
Exactly :) Classic Mode made Win7!
I always wondered if they could see us, would they recognize us as something to care about? I see ants on my porch, but they don't really matter much to me.
Sid, I'm amazed about how much detail do you know about your business.I've watched a lof of your unfiltered videos. Answers like this, sometimes, are not easy for CEO of +1000 employees. How do you do it?
Why open ecosystems are the future of app development
This NPM cache been a huge time-saver for me, you can run it locally or across your whole network for a shared cache -

https://guides.sonatype.com/repo3/quick-start-guides/proxyin...

https://hub.docker.com/r/sonatype/nexus/
> Performance is so high now that I wouldn’t bother doing this for an extra 5-10%

I’m an economist and I’m fascinated by this statement.

Surely if something (‘performance’, in this case) is ‘high’ then getting a 5-10% proportion of it is better than getting the same proportion increase in performance on a lesser level (the bigger the baseline, the bigger that 5-10% extra performance is). So it’s apparently irrational: being willing to incur effort (cost) to get something that is worth a smaller amount and being unwilling to do it when the same effort/cost gets you more isn’t what one would expect.

But maybe it’s satisficing: maybe formerly the experience was endurable only when running at 110% of maximum, but now there’s no need to redline to get a decent experience?

Or maybe it’s the law of diminishing returns, utility approaching some kind of asymptote.
Is this pen testing or a puzzle?

I can kind of get behind the malformed header. But I have very hard time thinking up any suite of actions that would lead to a code resulting in leaked obfuscated query with a hard coded password. All while password somehow using a LIKE statement matching a sql injection.

Is there any precedent for this?

Edit: rewrote my sentence because it was barely readable.
Yes, go to the monitor's settings menu and swap the source. Takes only a couple of seconds with practice at least for the Dell models that I use. Their UI has switching source as a top level option, probably because of the large number of inputs they have. You can check the user manual for the monitor to verify the complexity before purchasing.
JavaProp is a very powerful tool for generating propellers and numerically calculating performance characteristics. You can get some great results if you’re willing to push through the arcane UI.

http://mh-aerotools.de/airfoils/javaprop.htm

The tool works for any fluid, you have to configure the fluid density and viscosity for air. It can auto generate props based on some initial state, or if you have an existing prop you can measure the various parameters and feed that in.
If you disable “Background Apps” in Settings, Windows 10 will “helpfully” disable indexing (backed by Cortana service?) as well, rendering your index completely stale, which manifests as items in start menu don’t show, apps deleted a year ago still show, etc. All the garbage “solutions” when you search for this problem online don’t help at all. This problem once wasted me hours.
If that's true, then the longer they wait, the worse it gets. That's not good.
True, I love the way Duolingo does it (I guess we could somewhat fit this under 'gamification' when it comes to digital products).

But it's such a missed opportunity in so many other domains, like encouraging people to eat healthier (although the UK Government does a good job with the "Five a day" slogan)
I work for a huge multinational corporation and I'm going to count myself lucky that I have absolutely no idea what "an email signature marketing platform used to standardize brand consistency" is. Whatever it is I can't imagine spending money on it.
> once worked with a poor guy who was dynamically generating individual IDs for each element on a page and their corresponding CSS for each page

That looks like what modern bigcorp webapps do, with random looking css class names that change every release.
https://web.archive.org/web/20201023131014/https://www.lives...

:)
As far as Cook. There is no next iPhone. The iPhone was a once in a lifetime product. There were already 1 billion phones being sold a year when the iPhone was introduced - Jobs said he wanted to sell 10 million phones and capture 1% of the market. The smart phone (not the iPhone) has 70-80% penetration. What we call an electronic communication device that’s always connected may change, but there is no larger conceivable electronic market.

As much as HN poo poos the Apple Watch and the AirPods, from a technical standpoint it is much more innovative than the iPad - the last product that was introduced under Jobs. Once you have the iPhone, using the same technology in something with less constraints was easy. The Watch is just the oppposite.

From a financial standpoint. The Watch already produced more in revenue and profit than the iPod at peak. As does the AirPods.

Not to mention that Apple could have never shipped in volume without Cooks supply chain management expertise.

Then there are the upcoming ARM Macs that will probably be the fastest personal computers in the industry in a year or two. The $399 iPhone SE is already faster than any Android phone at any price.
Probably the package/ framework ecosystem. There is also a self reinforcing quality, there are a lot of devs which in turn encourage people to do projects in PHP to access those devs.
Yes. I didn't add that caveat because it was about a US election. But I'll add an edit for clarity.
> letting Sinofsky run amok with the horseshit that was Windows 8 ? Or Office refusing to ship WinRT apps, ever ?

Strikes me that these two things are the same failure. WinRT wasn't up to the task due to Windows 8 being poorly thought out, so Office couldn't use it.