skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certain parts of the list of subnets avoided by Hajime strikes me as rather interesting...

Some countries:

- Ukraine; Region Vinnyts’ka Oblast’ /16

- Iran, Islamic Republic of; Region Tehran /16

- Germany Virtela Communications Inc Amsterdam, NL POP /16

- South Africa; Region Gauteng /16

Then:

- General Electric's /8

- both Hewlett-Packard's /8

- US Postal Service's /8

and finally all of the US Department of Defence (obviously)

I would have thought HP would be a goldmine seeing as they put anything and everything on public, proxied IP's. And why not avoid Xerox, Apple, and CIA subnets too while you're at it?

Krebs has a more detailed writeup on this for anyone interested in reading more: https://security.rapiditynetworks.com/publications/2016-10-1...
Please, check this video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt7zs6Z4SB0
As someone looking to work with both programmable video messaging and SIP trunking in the very near future, can you name competitors that do it better?
I live in south Texas, where the water is quite hard, and therefore somewhat bitter. There's no mistaking the difference. I've always described bottled water as being more pure; to me it has no taste (as it should), and filters seem to do a decent job of masking that taste out.
Ethics is a human construct. So data could very well show that unethical (by some definition) behaviour is profitable.

I think this is the point being made: the data shows, beyond statistical doubt, that payday loan ads aimed at a certain demographic have better conversion, ergo profit. The data also shows, beyond statistical doubt, that [current fashionable brand] yoga pant ads aimed at a certain demographic have better conversion, ergo profit. The data doesn't care. If you are an ad-funded company (as both facebook and google are), you can't afford to ignore the data, it's your differentiator.

I'm not saying I agree with it, I am saying that ethics is an opinion, data is fact. I long for a time when we as a species evolve beyond being so predictably influenced by propaganda.
Only got it to work once and now the tab just crashes every time. Neat idea, though.
Lastly one wonders why we don't go calling all these C-like languages ALGOLs.

We sometimes do though, don't we? Not that terminology, but I often see the people talking about "curly brace languages" or
"C/C++/Java/C#".
The San Francisco Sierra Club Fights to Save... A Parking Garage?
I think they should be, once they get to the point where they are ubiquitous enough to be considered an official identity and information provider (in the way that newspapers and TV have been), something which they've brought upon themselves in advocating a "real name" policy.

The idea that UI/UX can change the outcome of an election, though, isn't terribly new. Consider 2000's butterfly ballots: http://www.asktog.com/columns/042ButterflyBallot.html

Though of course it's a different thing when a county inadvertently affects vote results by unintentional bad design, versus when a centralized entity intends to have an effect.
I've never seen suggestions that Facebook has a lower hiring bar for females, and i'd be really surprised if this was the case.

The playbook is to aggressively attract female (and other diversity) candidates into the top of the hiring funnel, but keep the hiring bar equal.

Source - I used to be a hiring manager at a similar large-cap tech company.
I can vouch for rackets FFI, for what it's worth.
I only started looking at etsy last year when I was looking for a unique gift for an anniversary present, having spent a lot of time on ali express and the like I noticed lots of items being sold as handmade and as a result avoided the site entirely. I wouldn't trust any of the sellers because I don't have the time to check them all and if I have to do that I may as well look elsewhere, I also caution people against etsy for this reason.
This exists on Android. If you enable the "developer settings"

https://www.howtogeek.com/129728/how-to-access-the-developer...

you then have the option to enable "Aggressive Wi-Fi to Cellular handover"

> It just artificially reduces the WiFi RSSI (received signal strength indication) to encourage the WiFi state machine to decide to switch the connection from WiFi to cellular network.

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/90250/what-does-...

Anecdotally, I have had fewer headaches with the phone holding on to poor wifi-signals since I enabled this. Ideally the phone would handle this in a smarter way, e.g., by monitoring the strength of both the wifi and data signals and switching to whichever is likely to have the least packet loss.
I'm not impressive, I'm just older than you are, and I got a really early start.
It's not an unsolved problem, it's exactly what the iPhone's Wi-Fi Assist is for.

The problem is that Apple botched the roll out and everybody freaked out and complained about their iPhone eating their data plan and driving their phone bill to $2000.
There's an app that's basically IFTTT for phones. Let's you set your phone to do things like silence itself or disengage wifi based on location. For the life of me I can't remember the name but it's out there and hopefully someone replies with it.
So how does this belong to HN?
The 7th gen Core i3/i5/i7 have exactly the same performance of the 6th gen.

Also the MBP Touch Bar has a TDP that is much higher than the Surface Laptop, only the low end MBP has the same TDP of all the SL.

So, no, the Microsoft product is MUCH SLOWER.
Very nice setup, but he didn't show he couldn’t tell the difference between tap and the Soma water.

A biased subject who can pick out both untreated water and Soma-filtered water from the other variants could lie about that, and claim that untreated water and Soma water taste the same.

As a thought experiment, assume the variants are plain water, orange juice, and beer. A biased subject could easily claim orange juice and water taste the same and look the same, and are easily distinguished from beer.

Also, but minor: this is about taste. Such experiments typically are done in the dark, to rule out an effect of how the water looks on taste judgments.
Simple: Microsoft lies every single time, the Apple haters "fall" for it, and the people that don't know anything about computers, do too.
Corporations will sell you just enough rope to hang yourself unless the government steps in and tells them not to through regulation. But that's the antithesis of business, neo-liberal economics will argue. Canada still sells asbestos to third world countries for instance.
It probably makes more sense for the Air Force to stay away from subsidizing particular systems and just buy whatever is cheapest for a particular level of demonstrated reliability. If reusable rockets pan out economically (which looks like a pretty safe bet, at this point), that's what launch providers will build.

The problem, over the last 50 years or so, is Congress wants to dictate which companies get contracts (and subcontracts) so the right districts get jobs. If that doesn't stop the subsidization of this or that technology isn't going to make much difference.
Machine with an Esthetic Purpose (2014)
IDC seems to think so. I think they have a pretty good track record. From a user perspective it feels right to me because it's easier than ever to scale on demand and otherwise manage cloud resources efficiently.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/02/server_market_shrin...
This is just semantics. You get to use Facebook in exchange for having the info you share there used for advertising, and having those ads show up on the side of the page. Who cares what you call it.
But when has this actually been a problem to solve? I've been a regular on tens, maybe a hundred forums over the last 20 years. The vast majority of them don't have performance issues.
How much C++ do I need to know in order to wrap some else's C++ library?
Sure, but broadcast media is regulated by the FEC and FCC:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11...

https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/item/if-tv-stations-w...

https://sunlightfoundation.com/2015/11/10/everything-you-nee...
This has been my experience as well. Etsy in just a few years has gone from a artisan marketplace to a bunch of mass produced junk.

From the articles I've read they've done this to increase the number of sales (cheaper items = more conversions) but I think it's been slowly costing them their customer base.

Hopefully they realize this and start banning mass produced items and listening to their artisan stores feedback again.
Good question. This is very puzzling.
FWIW I live on the coast in a place where people eat a decent amount of seafood (anecdotally), and fish is also one of the most expensive protein options. Significantly more expensive than chicken/pork and often even beef. Up until I got my first post-college dev job, my family could not afford fresh fish and thus didn't eat it. Now I live comfortably and can afford it, but it costs as much as a nice piece of beef (like a ribeye), and since I didn't eat fish growing up, I'm going for that ribeye 9 times out of 10.
If i where a industry pr expert and had a product-palett to defend that contains a dangerous product- how hard would it be to find a researcher, willing to sell his/her credibility to torpedo upcoming regulations?

For the public - one retracted paper equals - retracting the whole fields status. Maybee, it shouldnt be called retracting. Rather suspended for re-evaluation.

I know just words, but words transport the state of the field as a whole.
What's Etsy's policy in this sort of situation?
> "We are fully prepared to take any actions we believe are necessary to protect the best interests of all Etsy shareholders."

What exactly are they insinuating?
Alternative if you feel like spending a little more: https://rama.works/m10-a/
Yeah that's true too it's difficult to stop technology once it's been discovered, someone will make use of it. Genie out of the bottle so to say.
Did they nerf it? I deal with this problem every day and I have Wifi assist enabled.
Programmers don't necessarily have to know how to handle hardware physically (it's a nice to have skill, but not strictly necessary).

You can do really well just using laptops and the cloud. Many people will never have the need to build their own computer in this generation.

Then, for some users, specs are not everything since sometimes you can just deploy stuff to a high spec instance on the cloud (for a cost, yes. but you can dispose it after you are done). Sometimes mobility, battery life, durability, a nice keyboard, and something that doesn't overheat on your lap are more important. You cannot bring your desktop computer to a coffee shop.

Then, if it's the IDE speed... you can always tune your IDE. IntelliJ, the IDE used in the article: make sure you have the right JVM, tune the JVM settings, disable features you don't need, break down your project into smaller projects if it's too large, and temporarily exclude files that don't need to be indexed...

While it is more cost-efficient and powerful, the sound of whirling fans is not for everyone. I used to build computers with up to 10 different fans in them, it sounded like an airplane when you turned it on. I am sure my wife would be very irritated by it. The solution to that is to use water cooling or something like that, but chances are you are just using fans.
I still cannot fathom why the wifi handshake process takes more than a millisecond. I have no problem with the idea that wifi signals should be unreliable since the frequencies interact with typical everyday objects like walls, but the connection strength should be known on sub-second timescales.

This Quora thread is a good example of the typical non-answers provided to this question.

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-it-take-so-long-to-establish-...
I think you're talking g about Tasker
Are you using Pentadactyl, or something? Those are not stock Firefox shortcuts. In any case, I'd investigate whatever addon provides them, to see how they're implemented and why they're conflicting with whatever Tux.io is doing to capture keystrokes.
Security Headers Check (shcheck)
I browsed and bought a lot of stuff off Etsy about 5 years ago. Anymore it's hard to find anything decent unless I discover someone's Etsy store by some other means. Which is becoming less and less frequent. I don't think I've purchased anything there for maybe a year.
Yes, there are local businesses everywhere. But there aren't startups (with the aim of fast growth through innovation, usually helped along by venture capital) everywhere.

The local scene matters. Most importantly, it affects the rate of people starting companies. If there are other startups around you, you can learn from them. You may not think things like accelerators, meetups, and startup-related college talks matter, but that stuff is really key for creating first-time founders.

As far as investors, it matters in angel + seed rounds, but matters far less past that (because you can fly to your investors). But having a way to access those early investors (when founders are still learning how to talk to investors, and trying to raise the money to run a company full-time) is very important.

I think it's probably a lot easier for a second-time founder to start a company outside of a "scene". But even in that case, having a larger talent pool is nice, and the convenience of being closer to investors.

All of the cities you mentioned (besides Des Moines, Iowa) have at least some sort of startup scene that I've heard of. It's a power-law distribution, but for most founders the value of moving from Des Moines to NYC, or from Boston to SV, is pretty compelling.
Maybe you already saw this:

https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/docker-containers-on-the-desk...

It's pretty dated, but the state of containers has only improved since 2015, and this was usable for Google Hangouts (video) and YouTube all the way back then.

https://hub.docker.com/r/jess/chrome/

^ This got a push less than 24 hours ago

https://github.com/jessfraz/dockerfiles/blob/master/chrome/s...

^ This is the Dockerfile, in a repo full of Dockerfiles for other things you might have had trouble putting into a container.

I tried this myself and had problems because (I think) I was on a very old LTS/stable distro with a necessity to use pretty old Docker release. This person is a maintainer on the Docker core team, so is most definitely tracking newest releases.

I use Chrome in a headless setup with Kubernetes and Docker (Jenkins with kubernetes-plugin) but it's not Headless Chrome, it's Xvfb that makes my setup headless. Chrome itself works great in a container. It's one excellent way to keep it from eating up gobs of RAM like it does: just give it less RAM (cgroups).

If you said "chroot jail" on purpose because you don't want Docker, I don't know why exactly, maybe because you don't think you can run graphical apps in a Docker container, but it's not true. You can!

You could also cobble something together and do it without Docker, but I'm not recommending that, I just saw this and thought it would be exactly what you're looking for. Hope this helps!
A new recycling company with links to Tesla raises funding
there were a few and i probably won't be able to list all of them, but here are some:

- build for multiple platforms. most of our competitors did iOS and Android only and called it a day.

- keep the app simple. most of our competitors complicated not only the sign up flow but also the in-app experience

- look native. our thinking was that hundreds of millions of people use native apps thousands times a day and if we use native look and feel in our app, it will feel comfortable and intuitive for our users.

- focus on speed, performance and reliability. it is easy to build an app that sends images quickly on 4G but you also have to work efficiently in the EDGE environments.

- localization. we translated into as many languages as we could as quickly as we could.

- support. for the longest time Brian and myself were the only two guys answering customer support emails.

- focus on organic growth as it makes your network stronger

there are probably a bunch of other things we focused early on that escape me at the moment...
Given the presence of studies noting similar issues e.g. STEM faculty rating male applicants as more competent and employable than identical female ones[1], women’s performance reviews found more likely to include critical feedback than those of their male peers[2], it is a plausible scenario that female FB engineers receive 35% more rejections of their code than male ones.

[1] http://www.pnas.org/content/112/43/13201

[2] http://fortune.com/2014/08/26/performance-review-gender-bias...
Meanwhile, etsy is the only place I can shop for mens jewelry with any sense of success. Anecodtal evidence can point both ways.

Even if it's just a really effective store front, it works better for me than the huge retailers do. I'm gonna guess it depends heavily on what you're looking for.
I took a different view.

I think this suggests that it's the kind of public stands that need to change (it's hard to imagine even having a civil rights movement without public stands).

Rather than hurling accusations at others (as seems to be the strategy on most forms of social media), we should focus on the common flaws we hold that could lead ourselves and others to discriminate against others on factors unrelated to their character.
A general drink typically has—
a) a certain taste
b) a certain mouthfeel (due to the CO2 in case of sodas)
c) caffeine and / or other substances

People might want some or all of the above.

For eg. I sometimes drink decaf Starbucks blended drinks at night because I don't want to mess with my sleep cycle but I like their taste.
Having to depend on an editor to make your code legible seems like a bad thing.
So... nothing?
Crate named NUL broke Rust's package manager on Windows
This was so dumb !
> Doesn't seem so huge to me.

At 176K per second of uncompressed (CD-quality, anyhow) music, 1.4TB comes to just over 100 days. Several times that figure, with compression. That's a lot of music. More unique audio data than total amount that I've listened to on repeat for...probably about the last 5 years added together.
For what it's worth, Snapchat is out of LA.
this book seems to complement the earlier HackerNews book about the "Calculus Made Easy" -- that is certainly the book I first learn from... it really tries just to get the basic ideas across without being too careful.

I look at it now, this book is wonderful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876
Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7 General Availability
These Are the Best-Paying Internships in America
These two things are not necessarily uncorrelated.
I'm still unable to use LuaJIT because the build system makes an incorrect and silly assumption that code compiled during the build by the build compiler had the same executable properties as the code compiled during the build by the host compiler, leading to the situation where: repeatable builds don't work, and you can't compile for Linux/x86_64 from Linux/x86 or Linux/arm.

It is one of very few packages broken this way, along with basically only XFree86 4.8.0

:-(
I have a Soma pitcher and PUR pitcher at home (I drink enough water to need both). They taste about the same to me.
Complaints do not help. Contributions and donations do.

Tor is spelled Tor, not TOR.
It sounds like this problem of fake self-made art could be prevented if etsy introduced a clause that prohibits sellers to sell items they haven't made themselves and fine any seller in violation. The fine could be a multiple of the last n months of revenue on etsy.
I'm shocked that the US Government can track firearms in the first place as it undermines the purpose of the second amendment.
Are you suggesting that pay day loans should be illegal or advertisements for them should? If not why not advertise them to the audience that is apparently interested in it?
Apple Can’t Ignore Microsoft’s Slick New Laptop
You don't like languages that the average human being can make sense out of but you do like Clojure? Did I read that right?

Then, "make them declarative and have software generate the diff". So you want the benefits of relational data without the pain, is that it? Why not use Hibernate like the oh so wise ones have told us to use only to now realize trying to bend relational tools into what a language designer's ideas are is maybe, probably, not the best idea after all and perhaps the reason that SQL and relational databases have withstood the test of time and Hibernate is on the road to death is that SQL and relational design were extremely, unabashedly well thought out and designed in the first place.
This is surprisingly complicated. None of the following is advice, but rather pointers to discuss the surprisingly complicated issues with your professional advisors.

You may have nexuses ("sufficient connection to trigger sales tax obligation") in other US states even in absence of an office, for example if you have an employee working there remotely. Some states also consider actively selling within the state to establish a nexus, and consider a website accessible to be actively selling; this is a talk-to-an-accountant sort of question.

You unambiguously have a nexus in California and are subject to California's laws regarding sales tax.

You likely do not have to charge California sales tax on the downloadable software; c.f. https://www.boe.ca.gov/formspubs/pub109/ Your accountant will likely point you to Cal. Code Regs. tit. 18, §1502(c) with regards to the SaaS part, deeming it to also be untaxable.
Do you really think any company could or should publicly commit to refuse to comply with valid court orders?

I'm all for strengthening the language and adding teeth to these demands, but we've got to be realistic here. A US corporation declaring blanket refusal to cooperate with the US government is not realistic.
1. yes, i believe so - of course it was eight years ago.. i think if you submitted new version of the app and changed the name, it would show up under "new" category

2. yes, word of mouth only... but we helped people spread the word by putting "Tell A Friend" functionality into the app :)

3. it helped us pay for office space, salaries and server bills without eating much into VC or angel money we had in our bank account.
Yes, I meant Creative Cloud.
I agree, one of the reasons I drink coke is for the sugar and caffeine hit that it provides. Take that away and I may as well be drinking fizzy water. Coke was an energy drink for me before red bull ever existed. For the record however I don't drink energy drinks, I used to mix my vodka with redbull when I was clubbing but the stomach cramps it gave me got old quick.
So selling them the pay day loan is bad or advertising it or advertising it to them?