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Surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but some of the best network engineers I know will use a combination of `tcptrace` and `xplot`. It's on the command line of course, but graphs can still be generated and I think it's more performant over a GUI (for large pcaps).

This is awesome and I love every bit of it. I just wished there was a login that I could associate my progress with it. Nice work!

This would have been excellent. It's really shocking that the offenders had the knowledge/power to get into the twitter account but didn't do something like this.

I actually had the same thought but with movie theatres. I think movie theatres would be highly effective as they could tightly pack many people into a room that they could not have otherwise. I feel as if they could generate profit and easily prevent boredom in the airport.

I sure wouldn't say "no" to a library either though.

I know absolutely nothing about music, but I find this to be really interesting! It makes we wonder what whackier ways exist yet.

I've always wondered if its possible to use a standard computer keyboard for this sort of thing. What are the main reasons that this wouldn't be possible or likely?

I have a question about mushrooms that I don't often see get addressed. Psychedelic mushrooms nearly always are touted as medicinal tools and powerful substances for curing PTSD or depression. However, in my own life, I don't suffer from any of these things. I am healthy, don't suffer from depression in any way, and am pretty satisfied with life. I am mainly interested in psychedlic mushrooms out of curiosity. I have never had any experience similar to that, and it all sounds fascinating to me. Is it a good idea for a healthy person to try these "mind altering" substances strictly out of curiosity?

I've been using Anki for a number of years now, and I think it's a fantastic tool for retention. However, I have never had any success with learning concepts that were new or foreign to me. I use it for testing powers of 2, port numbers, and cli flags, niche python syntax. For learning "new" skills, I would say reading books and watching lectures is the best way for me.

I have a raspberry pi in my home network with an SSH server. I then just use Putty or Git Bash and ssh into the pi to do my Linux related work from Windows. I need to work a little more with systemd and block devices, so I didn't think WSL would cut it for me.

I struggle with this too. Perspective is really what helps me. Any amount of money that you make can be high or low relative to who you are surrounding yourself with. Try volunteering at a homeless shelter or getting involved with Habitat for Humanity or something. It's hard to feel bad about your salary when you work with people that just want a bowl of soup. On the contrary, if you hang around with a more affluent group than yourself, you may be more likely to feel like you are not making enough. Take a look at mean/median salaries in your area [1]. You are doing fine!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

What do you mean by "increased autonomy"? Could you give some examples of what that looks like? Thanks

I loved this! I don't think there is an English word that succinctly describes this. Thanks for sharing

There is already a ton of good advice on this thread, so I will try to avoid sounding like a broken record. But something that really stood out to me is you not leaving your flat. I think by just staying in your apartment during all your free time is really hurting you. I found that even if I take a 15 to 20 minute walk outside, I will usually feel happier and refreshed. Give it a try! Good luck!

You have certainly described a grim future. But if you want to be pessimistic, I feel like drone warfare is far more effective, stealthy, and cheaper.

I'm writing a service that downloads content from Reddit. Usually I just want to see the top video of the week, or maybe the top 5 pics from /r/pics every day or something like that. The service has handlers for various kinds of URLs. For example, if it detects a youtube URL, it utilizes "youtube-dl", or if it's an image link it will use curl, if it is a text post, I might download it as a json object from the reddit API.

This serves two purposes for me: 1. I can be more specific about how I want to consume reddit. ie, I can fine tune parameters for each subreddit. 2. The download destination is directly to my NAS, so I can hoard it. (Bit of a datahoarder here)

It's been a fun learning experience identifying the diversity of URLs/Domains that are posted to reddit. Definitely a different perspective.

reddit.com/r/contagiouslaughter will get me every time

I was hoping that it would mention _which_ 9 states they are looking to hire in. It gave a few hints, but do we know for certain which 9 they are talking about?

> if you buy 10 ETH with 1 BTC, then sell the 10 ETH later for 1.2 BTC, you need to pay capital gains tax on whatever the dollar value of 0.2 BTC was at the time of the trade. This is super hard for the government to track.

Could you provide a source on this? It was my understanding that this was not the case. See https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7nzqky/2017...

> so who's to say that the user isn't getting screwed on price and allowing Robinhood to take their cut?

Are you referring to market orders? I don't understand this. If I place a limit order for 1 share at $20. And the order gets filled at this price; where do you think Robinhood is taking a cut? I think the strategy you mention could be possible with market orders however.

I am also in the process of switching to B2. I had previously used Dropbox but really don't like the direction they are taking with the Google Docs clone, and showing me a bunch of thumbnails from my photos. I just want a simple, affordable storage service.

FreeNas has recently added a "cloud sync" feature. So I have my NAS just automatically syncing to B2. It has been easy and transparent thus far.

I'm not choosing a side here, but saying "we have Wireshark" doesn't mean as much as you think it does. If packets are encrypted and sent at arbitrary times, we really have no idea what is being communicated. Surely we could see large amount of data if they were transferring entire audio sessions, but I feel like they are far more likely to send transcripts or key word mentions. Given the size of keyword mention, it would be very hard to distinguish this from a normal query to Google.

Honest question here. Can somebody explain why a device is needed for this? How does this differ from this project? https://github.com/k4m4/kickthemout

Correct, I misunderstood the question. I thought OP was asking for examples where you could purchase a SAAS service or choose to have it self hosted.

Not sure if it matches your criteria. But the only thing I could think of would be OpenStack

Students' Expected Salaries was the most surprising section for me. As a US soon to be grad, those numbers seemed surprisingly low. Perhaps the numbers are a lot less outside the US? I don't even think I could find a dev position that pays $30,000.

I too am not a user of Facebook, but I think for a different reason. It's interesting that you cited an "insane amount of tools available" as being an alternative to Facebook. Isn't Facebook one of those tools?

I am really interested in some of the smaller communities such as /r/datahoarder, /r/homelab and some of the Linux based ones. Other than that, I will just read some of top posts once a week. Contrary to most of HNers I think, I do like some of the comedy and foolishness of reddit. Perhaps I just haven't grown out of it yet.

I too don't drink soda (havent had one in 5 years or so), but why do you feel that coffee is a better medium for caffeine than soda?

Living well is the best revenge.

The ratio of stars of commits is interesting here. I realize that its not a really fair way to look at the project, but I wonder why are there are so many commits?