maxmouchet

As much as I love free software, LibreOffice interface feels old and ugly (to me, at least). It would be nice if there was more focus on the UX/UI design in open source projects. Of course, most programmers are not UX/UI designers, and designers don't tend to work for free on open source projects.

It is the v1 of their vacuum which was not sold officially in Europe/America. The newer versions can work with servers located in Europe.

If you don't want to use the Xiaomi app there is an API to control the vacuum on the LAN. See also "34C3 - Unleash your smart-home devices: Vacuum Cleaning Robot Hacking" [1]

Privacy and security concerns aside, I find that pretty magical that you can control a device from the other side of the planet, with only a few hundred milliseconds of latency :-)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhyM-bhzFsI.

I had a similar experience with my Xiaomi (robotic) vacuum cleaner. A few days after setting-up a tor relay (not an exit node!) on my home connection, my vacuum stopped working. The "Mi Home" app, which communicates with the vacuum via a server in China, was unable to find the vacuum.

A traceroute to the Xiaomi servers revealed that my packets were dropped somewhere in the ChinaNet AS. I stopped my relay and everything went back to the normal a few days later.

For France: https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19

Location: France

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Internet Measurements, Computer Networks, Machine Learning, Programming (mainly Julia and Python)

Résumé/CV: https://www.maxmouchet.com/MaximeMouchet_CV.pdf

Email: max@maxmouchet.com

GitHub: https://github.com/maxmouchet/

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I'm finishing my PhD in september. I worked with nonparametric Bayesian models and Markov decision processes to optimize the monitoring of the quality of service on the Internet.

I'm looking for a job involving programming, statistics, and if possible computer networks.

There is a similar, and fascinating, story of killer whales co-operating with humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_Sou...

I'm hesitating between an XPS and an X1. What do you find better on the X1?

This is it: My Time at Snap https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122123

You may want to check https://github.com/opencovid19-fr/comment-contribuer :-)

To be fair, the vulnerability was fixed quickly. And in the end it improved the security of Matrix and the governement application. I prefer this to a closed-source application developed internally, without communication on security vulnerabilities.

Which distro./desktop environment are you using? I'm running a dual screen setup (laptop + 4k screen over DP) with fractional scaling on the laptop screen (150%). This works pretty well in Fedora 31, no blurred text. AFAIK different scaling parameters on different screens are not supported by Xorg, so I'm pretty happy with Wayland.

Firefox on iOS doesn't supports (Firefox) extensions. However Safari does supports content blockers (such as 1Blocker).

For an introduction to discrete and continuous-time Markov chains, as well as an application to queuing theory, you can check the MOOC "Queuing Theory: from Markov Chains to Multi-Server Systems" on edX [1].

[1] https://www.classcentral.com/course/edx-queuing-theory-from-...

Indeed, according to [1] a bit more than half of the Linux source is the drivers. But I don't know if those proportions still holds after compilation.

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/223753

What do you mean by closed ranges composition ?

I was curious about this and it turns out you're (partially) right: https://github.com/jupyter/design/wiki/Jupyter-Logo#where-do...

If you're oriented towards academic writing, "How to Take Smart Notes" from Sönke Ahrens describes the Zettelkasten method which is akin to the GTD method but focused towards writing. Besides, the book contains interesting insights on how we learn and get motivated to work. Recommended reading.

Also 2.5G is interesting for 802.11ac Wi-Fi APs that provides bandwidth >1G. No need for port aggregation.

They at least did doubtful experiments [1].

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinker...

Mail-in-a-Box [1] is very well-done, with a clean and modern mail server configuration. However it is not very customisable and requires a dedicated vm.

[1] https://mailinabox.email

It works pretty well on iOS. And since iOS 8 it even supports form filling in Safari using extensions.

Nice extension. I did a similar project to plot conversations on Google Earth when I realized how much location information was available: https://github.com/maxmouchet/messenger-to-earth

Isn't there chances that different LLVM versions or flags ends up building a slightly different binary ?

I guess there's no way but if it's open source, like this one, you can recompile it. The iOS version seems to use CocoaPods for the dependencies so it should be easy to compile the project.

In France there's subscriptions for as low as 2€ a month for 2h of voice and 50MB data (5cents/MB above), this would be perfect for those phones.

Edit: Internet is useful for chat apps like messenger, they mostly replaced text messaging for me.

Wow, rare to see people from the Rhône-Alpes area on HN :) I'm a student in engineering and I live in Lyon too, can you tell more about these events/meetups ? I'd be really interested !

I don't know for other browsers but Safari is suggesting randomly generated password when it detects a registration forms. And it can sync everything through iCloud Keychain.

I've used "Hacker News (YC)" in the past but I switched to MiniHack and I found it to be faster. It supports a lot of sharing and bookmarking services and has some nice gestures for browsing through the comments.

Hello,

I wrote these Ruby library and scripts while doing my internship five months ago. Now I’m back to school for my third year of studies and I don’t have the hardware and the time to continue to work on.

My main motivation to write this was to help people saving time when doing repetitive tasks. I worked in the telco. department of a big company and I realized that although people were really good at designing and maintaining networks they were wasting time on some basics tasks. So I wrote this little “framework” to make mass configuration changes on Cisco devices. For example, I used it to remove useless crypto PKI on hundreds of switches, and to rename thousands of devices to lowercase (and regenerating the SSH key).

I am not a good programmer but looking back at my code five month later I thought it was worth sharing it, if never some people are interested in it :)