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binarnosp··on Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library
The fact that the master branch CI has a high rate of failure doesn't inspire confidence in the development process.
binarnosp··on A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)
What about UDT [1]? Several open source libraries exist already.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP-based_Data_Transfer_Protoc...

binarnosp··on Ask HN: Do you write tests before the implementation?
Maybe you hardly see bugs because you don't test for them.
binarnosp··on Assange in Court
Not even the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1...
binarnosp··on Broken
> Allow or Deny

Have we forgotten this [0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

binarnosp··on Schneier on Australia's encryption laws and CyberCon speaker bans
> Remains the risk that some bad guys could get their hands on the golden keys. Yes, design to handle that?

after all, it worked so well for the TSA security key: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/27/security-experts-have-clon...

binarnosp··on Google wins privacy case: ‘Right to be forgotten’ applies only in EU
I should have the right to remove embarrassing things I've done 20 years ago when I was a teenager from a public indexer, the same way I can request the phone book to delist my phone number: this does not mean that the phone company has to delete my number, it just cannot be indexed.

A stupid example? just put a "like" on Medium next to an article regarding something that embarrasses you and few days later that article will appear on Google when looking for your name, and then you would love to have the GDPR at your disposal to permanently delete your Medium account.

binarnosp··on Paris breaks all-time high temperature as deadly heat wave grips Europe
"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway explains how the misinformation about climate change (and other topics) unfolded.
binarnosp··on Medical records on the blockchain – the history of a bad idea
Maybe it could be used to track the certification process for pharmaceuticals or medical software?
binarnosp··on Cockpit voice recorder of Lion Air jet depicts pilots' frantic search for fix
The book "Aviation Psychology: Practice and Research" by Klaus-Martin Goeters is an eye opener on the problems that the architects of complex control systems that interface with humans must take into account.

And the kind of problem that MCAS exhibited is clearly explained in the book.

The book doesn't talk only about control system design, but also about training, hiring, etc.

binarnosp··on Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in the Kazakh steppe (2017)
Adventure ever to the abandoned Soviet Space Shuttles in Baikonur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7ZVXOU3kM

binarnosp··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
All available for Kindle on Amazon:

== Case studies (US government) ==

T-6A TEXAN II Systems Engineering Case Study - Derivative of PC-9 Pilatus Aircraft - JPATS Program, Training System, Hawker Beechcraft History (World Spaceflight News, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force (USAF) )

Theater Battle Management Core System Systems Engineering Case Study - History and Details of TBMCS Integrated Air Command and Control System (U.S. Military, Air Force (USAF), U.S. , of Technology, Air Force Institute , Spaceflight News, World , Defense (DoD), Department of , Systems Engineering, Air Force)

Global Positioning System (GPS) Systems Engineering Case Study - Technical Information and Program History of America's NAVSTAR Navigation Satellites (World Spaceflight News, Air Force Institute of Technology, Air Force Center for Systems Engineering, Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force (USAF))

== Aeronautics ==

The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight - XV-3 Program, Stability Issues, Army and Navy Participation, VTOL, Flight Research Incidents and Crash, V-22 Osprey (U.S. Government, Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautics and, Spaceflight News (WSN), World Spaceflight)

Bell X-1 (Peter E. Davies)

North American XB-70 Valkyrie (X-Planes Book 7) (Peter E. Davies)

Aviation Psychology: Practice and Research (Goeters, Klaus-Martin)

== Space ==

The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job (Emily Lakdawalla)

The Right Kind of Crazy: A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation (Adam Steltzner, William Patrick)

Mars Rover Curiosity: An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer (Rob Manning, William L. Simon)

Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto (Alan Stern, David Grinspoon)

Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight (David A. Mindell)

The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission (Jim Bell)

== Astronomy ==

The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope (Ronald Florence)

== Process ==

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right (Atul Gawande)

NASA Lessons Learned in Engineering: Marshall Engineers Recount Problems and Solutions on Saturn V Rocket, Apollo, Space Shuttle, SSME, Hubble Space Telescope, X-33, Other Vehicles and Systems (U.S. Government, Space Administration (NASA), National Aeronautics and, Spaceflight News (WSN))

== For myself ==

Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)

Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway)

== If you have children ==

The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control Over Their Lives (William Stixrud, Ned Johnson)

binarnosp··on Boeing Withheld Information on 737 Model, According to Safety Experts and Others
The book "Aviation Psychology: Practice and Research" by Klaus-Martin Goeters explains exactly this kind of situation, when the flight control system and the pilot are not in sync and don't know each other intentions.
binarnosp··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
OpenSolaris from Sun. It was a joy to use it.
binarnosp··on Delete Your Account Now: A Conversation with Jaron Lanier
We don't need software to socialize.

Some tasks of our life can be taken over by software, but others should stay with us.

Especially with the advent of AI, engineers are racing to automate everything: from suggesting us new friends, new music, with which dresses we look smart, and so on. Automating everything will cause the atrophying of our skills and we will become a bunch of lonely depressed, smartly dressed users with thousands of virtual friends and perfect music playlists that never deviate from our preferred music.

Automation is fine and dandy, but not for everything.

binarnosp··on How to be a Manager – A step-by-step guide to leading a team
I always found the "company culture" as a limiting factor: at the end, it tends to build a sect of developers close to any suggestion that doesn't self-enforce the culture that produces them.

"Culture" kind of wants to produce a "family", but a family is not what I'm looking for when I look for a job.

binarnosp··on GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU
Google analytics has an option to anonymize the IP and remove unique user id from the data collection.
binarnosp··on All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)
Yes, I agree.

Anyway, the device looks nice and is a step in the right direction to overcome the fear of the parents.

Good luck with your business.

binarnosp··on All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)
I thought about the walkie-talkie, but I think that all those devices are more of a pacifier for parents than something that keeps the child safe.

If I'd give her the walkie-talkie then my wife would call her every 10 minutes and ask her where is she. Tracking her with a GPS would keep me calm but I don't think it will help my daughter.

The only time I freaked out was when she removed the watch and she didn't come home on time: I went out to look for her and in the meantime, she went home. Realizing that she may go home on another path I went back home and found her watching TV. Honestly I think that those devices are meant to keep the parents calm, not for the sake of the children.

binarnosp··on All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011)
One month ago I started removing the constraints on my 8 years old daughter's outside activity. I just gave a wristwatch with the alarm set before dinner time and told her "when the alarm goes off then come home". I'm against her having a phone.

When she comes home and she tells us what she and her friends did (I don't ask, she just wants to share) it is hilarious and I usually think "It was better if I didn't know this and that". But then I think about the 8 years old version of me "bombing" the toy soldiers together with a friend of mine by spraying alcohol on them and by setting everything on fire, and I relax...

binarnosp··on Twitter’s heavy handed handling of data breach highlights industry fears
A log file with plain text passwords can be seen by some employees: maybe they are all honest, maybe not. I guess that a generous amount of money could motivate the right employee to disclose famous (and not) people's passwords.
binarnosp··on Carbon emissions from tourism are rising at an alarming rate
Pfff, it's so annoying that the peasants started flying and visiting places like the Royals do./s

We peasant, unlike the Royals, cycle to work, recycle, don't spend million on candles on our yacht (yachts pollute much more per passenger), but must feel guilty for our once-a-year plane trip.

I feel the pain of climate change, but this must be a shared and planned action, not just a one-off "tells the peasant to don't fly" action:

- industries must change (and the aviation industry is creating cleaner engines [1][2])

- industries MUST be regulated (don't expect a corporation to act in the public interest)

- better public transport should allow us to leave our cars at home

- cities must be planned so we can walk to the store, park, etc

[1] http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/airbus-rolls-ult... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_turbofan

binarnosp··on Hard to Believe: Film Explores Chinese Regime’s Killing of Prisoners for Organs
> Keeping safe is a matter of following the law even if you don't believe in it

You should thank your ancestors for fighting the laws they didn't believe in.

binarnosp··on Dumber phone
Two months ago, after a smartphone induced rage (my ear touching the screen caused deezer to start playing a song during a phone call) I bought a nokia 3310 and ditched the smart phone. Best decision ever.

Now I noticed how everybody else is constantly watching their smartphone: sometimes they pull it out of the bag but they don't know why, they just browse up and down through the apps until they tap on a random one, just to close it few seconds later.

binarnosp··on Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities
The same WHOIS is used by spammers to send annoying emails do domain owners
binarnosp··on Tesla Was Kicked Off Fatal Crash Probe by NTSB
+1, Instead of developing super smarts autopilots we could just instrument the highways so they can tell the car where to go. The instrumented roads could send out warnings and give control back to the driver when there are roadworks ahead.
binarnosp··on New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins
Nasa also has an interesting free ebook about the previous sonic boom research: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/nasa-ebook-quieting-the-...
binarnosp··on The most honest Ponzi scheme of all time
> If you're working for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission you can contact me by dedicated email address: no-reply@ponzischeme.io
binarnosp··on Ask HN: What impact would the repeal of net neutrality have?
New European regulations explicitly forbid this: I had a Deezer bundle in my mobile contract which allowed unlimited data when streaming deezer music. Then 2 years ago I received a letter from my mobile provider stating that because of the new law my Deezer bundle was no longer valid (same monthly fee, of course).
binarnosp··on Brexit vote site may have been hacked, MPs say in report
Why should somebody go through the hassle of register himself for voting? Where I leave all the persons eligible for voting receive the voting certificate one month in advance. An ID card and the certificate are all you need to enter the polling station.
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