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I really recommend unplugging for a few days. It helps you notice how you are interacting with technology.

I spent 4 days on a tiny island (population 11) a few years ago. I was there with one friend and we decided that there would be no screens and no watches/clocks for the whole time.

You very quickly adjust to not having it. Easily within a day. We ate when we got up, and then again later on. We went to sleep soon after it got dark. We barely even thought about things that weren't directly around us.

The most surprising thing about the trip was the return. We caught a small covered ferry that had a little TV hooked up. The TV was showing the preparation for some sports event, basially nothing was happening. I was utterly transfixed by it. The movement, the colors, the cuts every few seconds was way more stimulation than I had had over the past 4 days. Smartphones add interactivity and take this even further.
Just ordered one! "Smartphone" going in the bin.
Which portion of his dissent did you find to be "overtly political?"

Given that he thought the property rights concerns should govern and the...forcefulness...of his questions at oral arguments, I thought it was a pretty measured opinion. I wouldn't have expected lines like:
> "Today’s decision may not represent a rout but it at least signals a retreat from Article III’s guarantees."
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They don't have to give it back, of course.

If anything, the first organization to have netblocks yanked out from under them should be the US DoD. As I mentioned a few days ago [0]:

> There are also large portions of the 13 /8s (218 million IPs!) assigned to the US Department of Defense [5] that you wouldn't need to scan since there are no routes to them at all: the 11.0.0.0/8, 22.0.0.0/8, 26.0.0.0/8, 28.0.0.0/8, 29.0.0.0/8, 30.0.0.0/8, and 33.0.0.0/8 networks are, for all intents and purposes, "missing" from the public Internet.

> Additionally, there are only four /24s in 21.0.0.0/8 that are reachable from the public Internet. Out of the 16,777,216 IP addresses that make up 7.0.0.0/8, only 255 are reachable (7.7.7.0/24) [6].

Just because we can't "see" them or get to them doesn't mean they aren't using them, though.

Yes, it sucks that we're out of IPv4 addresses but we've known this was coming for, what, 20+ years? The quicker we all get moved over to IPv6, the quicker we can forget about it.

(Disclosure: I've had a static IP from 44/8 for ~25 years and I don't wanna give it back.)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16893669
Back when they first introduced Pages, around 2008 I think, you had to upload a scan or photo of your driver's license to prove your real identity (I was 19 and naive).

Well, a few months later, I go and look at my page which I never really used, and found my driver's license picture sitting in a public album on the page. I deleted it immediately.

Back then, you could directly email the company. I received a response a short time later that they had patched the bug and thanked me for bringing it to their attention.

I should have that email somewhere. It seemed like a pretty substantial glitch but I didn't do anything about it at the time.
I understand your suspicion, however, I find it odd that the author couldn't code AND recorded a video discussing his code. It seems like he'd hide it away if he couldn't code.
If the address is used you must refuse.
Me? Oh, no my only payments were about $3,000 in the closing costs. I did NOT have to put down a sizable down payment because I got an FHA backed loan.
I've been working on and off on a system to build this data for free - https://www.open-geo-ip.com/

It uses your browser location to build the data, bootstrapped with Mechanical Turk workers around the world. It has one feedback loop, where if you use the JS library it will give you the users location if they deny browser location (if we have the data...) and if they do share location, then we update the database (but throw away the last part of their IP address).

There are two or three other loops where we could build more data (which you can get here https://www.open-geo-ip.com/data/download ).

I'm probably going to do a small kickstarter to pay for some cleanup and expansion work or just kill it if that fails to get funded. Any ideas appreciated on things to do with it.
The issue isn't that Ireland set taxes too low, but that it was allegedly secretly offering custom deals to certain companies.

Ireland allegedly used to do this quite a bit back in the day.
Some people are just having dns issues getting there. It's like saying my house is still intact even if you lost your map to it. You loosing the map does not impact the question of if my house is still standing or not.
What you're saying is true -- sarcasm, English as a second language, etc. can heavily influence meaning and interpretation of a message.

On the other hand, there are plenty of negative opinionated commentary that is given under the guise of being expert advice that doesn't even attempt to be nuanced.

I'll avoid using an HN example, but on photography forums, it's not unusual for people to say stuff like "If it's not full-frame, it's not a real camera", or "Everyone needs a #mm fast prime" as though they are facts, not opinions.
Everything is great. Only why from the introduction Ignition in Chrome 59 (2017-06-05) and resignation from V8 with Full-codegen, I have been recording terrible regression on bellard.org/jslinux. Since then (Chrome 58), each newer version is 3-4x slower.
If posts don't fit on the site, it seems fair for moderators to close them. (It's called putting "on hold" now) Most of the questions that are put on hold are not put on hold by moderators, but just ordinary users.

Your 4 links go to a total of 3 distinct questions. By my estimation, 2 of those are just general open-ended discussion questions without specific correct technical answers. If users form a negative opinion of the site or moderation team for closing those, they probably never had a chance to like SO in the first place.
A non-insignificant number of people have a car but commute some other way, using it only on afternoons and weekends. Others only use it for part of the commute (e.g. until the parking lot of some trans/metro station).
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It's also the reason why so many systems, at so many companies, are complete, utter shit.
You have to hand it to the Irish. As a plan to collect more tax in the long term, offering (effectively) tax free status by not enforcing "Double Irish w/ Dutch Sandwich", to attract big players, letting them dig themselves into tax-debt holes for a few years while letting them feel they will get off scott-free, then enforcing it and securing a deal to get back-taxes paid, is pretty genius. Very stable genius to help rebuild their economy that was pretty crushed after 2008.
AWS cloudfront feature is incomplete - it returns only country code.

Googles and maxmind features include city/lat/lng.
Your scenario isn't exactly what's happening here. But still, regarding your idea: why not?

The Amazon HQ2 campaign is a pretty good example how companies are using tax competition to instigate a race-to-the-bottom. There's no doubt that Amazon would house these employees somewhere. So the payoff is essentially zero-sum. All that's changing is that Amazon is playing different populations against each other to save on tax.

Rules against such behaviour are just an effective method to avoid a prisoners' dilemma by the most obvious method known to anyone playing the game: communication, and binding agreement.

Now there is an argument that some locales may need to use tax policy if they are behind in every other feature, i. e. education, infrastructure etc.

But in fact the EU is a rather successful model of flexibility in that regard: Just look at the incredible economic success of eastern Europe and the Balkans after the end of the cold war, or Portugal, or even Ireland itself. Just compare Belarus to its EU neighbours to get a sense of what's possible.

How did this work? The EU does allow for tax incentives or subsidies where regions need to catch up. They also created an enormous system of direct transfers to allow investments into the factors that make regions competitive, such as infrastructure or rule-of-law.

As a matter of fact, Ireland simply agreed to the rules, and their scope isn't a matter of any "natural law". If countries agree to conduct themselves by certain rules than that's that. Of course every single rule may occasionally diverge from what any single country would otherwise do, or the rule wouldn't be necessary. But, just as with any intentional law, these rules taken as a whole have empirically been extremely beneficial to its signatories.
And please make them insulated. And I would prefer a rustic, vintage design. Here is a gallery to take inspiration from:

https://www.etsy.com/market/galvanized_milk_box

I'm only half kidding.. the amount of insulated packaging waste from when I had my Gobble (one of those cook-it-yourself food deliveries) subscription was one reason why I cancelled it.
Actually, I screwed up there. I am charging below market rate. I was most concerned with finding a good tenant that would cover my fixed costs each month, plus $100 profit for repair, etc. My place got 4 applications within 12 hours of listing. If I'd known then what I know now, I would've priced it $3-400 more!
I use startpage.com on night mode, it's minimal on css and does not track.
What do they do on their 'real work'?
Limiting FOMO was a large part of the appeal for a smartwatch to me. I could easily triage notification and dismiss from my wrist without the ability to get lost in an infinite scrolling list of whatever. The few times when it was an actionable notification, the phone came out to respond, but for most notifications, they are read and ignored.

Now that I don't wear my android watch daily, I find myself with my phone on my desk or table more. The fear of missing important notifications makes me more obsessed with all notifications.
sure, why not? I mean, assuming there isn't some nuclear attack that destroys all networking infrastructure. I'm not suggesting it's easy, but if you distribute it enough and make it able to work when other portions of the system disappear i see no reason you couldn't claim 100% uptime
Not really sure. I think in many ways it's a pipe dream. Without a shared purpose I think it's impossible to foster a real "community".
"There's many small private roads, but all the major ones you drive on every day to get to and from your work once you're away from your suburb? Those are public"

No, in fact many publicly-used roads are outright owned by foreign agents, both toll and non-toll, as well as hundreds of specific truck trails that run throughout our wilderness.

LR2000 is your friend.
Yes that is bad. You can vote to reopen if you have enough rep.
If car manufacturers were smart, they'd be all over this. Separate key for trunk vs. cabin.

This solves the drop-package in an unsafe location problem. Why drop shit on your porch when you can drop it into the safer trunk of your car, wherever it is?

Brilliant idea, they're really hammering at the problem.

Once cars are even smarter, they'd go to a Amazon hub while you're sleeping/at work and pick up packages for you of course. Without the effin' carton around it, no need for all that garbage.

Mock all you want, Amazon is at least trying.
Rayiner asserts it is "the agency" that is forcing opening, but it is not (or had not been). The opinion at page 50 of the PDF is in the case "SURFRIDER FOUNDATION v. MARTINS BEACH 1, LLC et al." - It's a concerned citizen group filing suit against one of the two LLCs that purchased parts of the property, and the courts agreeing that Khosla must re-open the gate he locked.

"[Surfrider has] kept it real simple,...It’s always been ‘Mr. Khosla, do you have a permit for that gate or don’t you?’”

In September, after this decision, the commission began an enforcement action, which could cost Khosla over $4 million per year, and Khosla opened the gate, in addition to filing his appeals. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/article/NE/20171004/NEWS/17...
Mortgage insurance. It's requires for my FHA loan, but I've also paid 3 months ahead on my mortgage to give me additional breathing room.
> You very quickly adjust to not having it. Easily within a day. We ate when we got up, and then again later on. We went to sleep soon after it got dark.

Not sure why do you need adjusting to eat when you wake up and sleep after dark, and how technology prevents you from doing that in your usual life?
How is that a solution for, say, telecom? Or space travel?

(Not touching the other GOP hot topics here...)
To me, uninstalling all Social Media did wonders on my productivity. I replaced them with instapaper (for articles I saved before hand) and Kindle. Now, I can't mindlessly loose track of time on twitter or something, and if I am truly using my phone to fill some in-between time waiting for a doctors appointment or something, I am doing something I already previously decided to do, not something I come up with (an article/book I already picked out), so I am no susceptible to temptation.

One thing I would add to this, is either disable, or put in the same folder as the other distracting apps, the web browser. You really need it for a surprisingly little things on your phone, and I found it as an alternate route to my time wasting websites.
Well, obviously you need one... I'm asking about multiple.

IPv6 doesn't have broadcasting, and you've got 18 quintillion IPs in a /64, hence my question.
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It doesn't even have to be that extreme. Go camping, or even for a hike for a few hours.

Just take some time on the reg to disconnect.
Could just be age discrimination. I've worked with more than a few people who are very suspicious of people over 40 who are "still just coders," saying that it shows the candidate lacks ambition or they must not be that good since they never advanced to a more senior role like very-senior-principle engineer or management.
Not all technical roles require coding skill.

Unless you meant “lead software engineering role” in which case yes, you are right.
> Number 1: It Takes Longer than Ever to Get Hired

Last twice I've looked for a developer job, I got offered a position and was hired within 2 weeks.

> No one believes that anyone can actually code.

Quite rightly, most devs can't code.

> Extensive homework is now normal.
Not been my experience, I've done some homework assignments but none were ever more than 1 hours work (and then even the standard of the tests were so low they were really 15 mins work..)

> You’ll never really know why you weren’t hired.

This bothers me too.

> Outsourced hiring “services” are very much in vogue

I hate this. Almost all recruiting I see is done via recruiters who are at best case flakey and worst case self serving liars who will try to pressure you into going to interviews you don't want to go and to take job offers you don't want to take. Sometimes flat out lying to you about the role only for you to find out at the interview. I had one interview that I went to expecting it to be C#, the interview was all Javascript (which I don't do at all). Or the recruiter will tell you that you have to decide right now this minute, when you don't.

I had one job offer where the recruiter said you've been offered the job but you have to tell them now if you are accepting it. It was funny how after telling the recruiter that I want to think about it over the weekend and if that's not an option than I would like to decline the offer, well now all of a sudden the company were completely willing to let me think over it for a couple of days...

I hate recruiters.
You can always set your fingerprints for the other hand instead. This will force you to switch hands which requires more complexity.
Worked for me. Not sure what outside page you are referring to. Although there was a weird problem when I tried to logout. It didn't really seem to work right but eventually I got redirected to the login page again after clicking around a bit.
He mentions many other issues which he believes led to a stall in the process.
A lot of vehicles allow access to the trunk by folding down a section of the back seat (so you can haul longer items like skis), so I'm not sure this would be quite as easy as suggested.
"Apple CEO Tim Cook previously called the decision "total political crap" "

Fuck off asshole. Playing to the limits of tax law is fine, but acting outraged when it backfires on you is lame. You played, you lost, suck it up.
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> I lived in the time when slot machines were standing on the street in the open in Russia, and yes, mentally infirm people were wasting themselves on them. Normal people not.

Plenty of "normal people," even intelligent ones, are addicted to smartphones (though the degree of addiction varies). Smartphone slot machines are subtle enough to snare people would wouldn't be taken in by a traditional slot machine, even though they use the same primal re-enforcement mechanisms.

> It takes a particular lack of basic logical reasoning to not to understand that the the purpose of 20 bling bling popups a second smartphone apps is to waste time and money and suck out clicks out of mentally infirm.

I think this comment reflects a bizarre disconnect from everyday reality. By your logic, you're labeling a ridiculously large fraction of the population as "mentally infirm." "Basic logical reasoning" is not something people typically apply to everyday activities like smartphone use; those are typically done on autopilot and bypass it, because "basic logical reasoning" is expensive and slow.
I agree that an unfavorable board decision can hurt a non-practicing entity. On the other hand, an improperly granted patent can hurt a business that is bringing actual products to market. I would argue that if these scenarios have to be balanced, one should err on the side of allowing products to be shipped.
So ... make this an app - take all these good ideas and create a config changing app that dumbs down your phone for you.

Most people, myself included, look at the very long list of
changes and think "I dont know how to do all that"

And the coder in me wont do it manually ...
Every time I see another iteration of this kind of article, it screams out to me that we need some kind of worker's cartel that can enforce an embargo on companies that don't meet some minimal standard.

Part of the problem is that companies keep getting more applicants than they can handle, no matter how hostile their interview process becomes.
White plastic on a controller microchip? Few month ago I saw an orange chips on Mediatek devkit.

A new trend it seems?
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More on Python profiling: https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe-python#profiler-plugin

Node.js profiling: https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe-js-profiler

Java profiling: https://github.com/iopipe/iopipe-java/blob/master/PROFILER.m...
Conduent's competing app is wholly insecure. Right now I'm checking the balances of anyone in my apartment complex whose basic info I know. No real authentication required, nada. I don't even need to be 'signed in' (their faux tokenless verification system is laughable.)

Typical government slack and grift.
>write something

"does it work? no."

>googling...

>copy code block

"does it work? kinda..."

>googling...
> Number 10: You’ll Never Really Know Why You Weren’t Hired

Add to the hurdles:

* Salary negotiation

* Contract review/negotiation

* Reference check

* Background check

* Getting a work visa

There's still lots of work to do once you complete the onsite interview!
It's the selection effect: only a small fraction of coders can't fizzbuzz, but those few make up a majority of people looking for work...
A few years ago I was approached about a new opportunity, and through the course of the interviews I was given a generic fizzbuzz-like coding challenge and I completely bombed it. I got flustered, I got stuck on something trivial, and I ended up running out of time with not much to show for it.

It was in a language that I had been using for 5+ years at that point, using a framework that I had just finished architecting a whole application for, had multiple open-source projects in, and the challenge itself was something that I genuinely felt should have been extremely easy, but I miserably bombed it.

I'm almost positive to them I looked like a giant fraud, and to be honest I felt like one too, but after some thinking I really feel that it was just a bad day combined with being uncomfortable without my editor/tools that I use in my day-to-day job that ended with me getting stuck and failing horribly.

I don't know a perfect solution, but when I was later in a position to hire new devs, I avoided coding challenges because of that experience. I feel that you can get MUCH more insight into a developer by just having them talk about what they have done, go into details about problems that they solved, or how they would approach problem X without any writing of code anywhere except maybe some drawings on a whiteboard if necessary.

Coding Challenges to me test 50% "knowing the syntax and not making mistakes" and 50% "knowing how to solve the problem". We have tools and compilers and linters and syntax highlighting and good editors to solve the former in most cases, it's the latter that I'm looking for in a good developer, so why would I use a test that evaluates both of them equally?
What about possible protocol-enforced scarcity/supply-side limits even in the potential future "mass adoption" scenario?
Sort of. My pebble lets me reply to many types of messages, but not all. It also does support music controls which is also useful.

So there are more times I can just leave it either on a charger or somewhere in the house and not worry about where it is exactly. Until I get an MMS or a phone call.
All my best jobs were found via recruiters. Different strokes, I guess.
It is, but you can run the bare minimum number of core nodes (3 I think?) and use spot instances for any others.

At a previous job, we just built our own ec2 image that ran spark in standalone mode for ephemeral spark clusters, and it was wonderful and cheap. And the clusters launched very fast compared to EMR.
This was the one that really stood out to me. MOOCs, bootcamps etc are wildly popular now and vary massively in quality. It's very easy for candidates to look good on paper but not actually know the technical side as well as they should. More importantly, software engineering is one of the few jobs where you can get a (somewhat) quantitative measure on prospective performance so it's natural to take advantage of that.

I'm not saying that All Coding Tests Are Good, but they do provide a modicum of certainty in a very uncertain environment.
Fun fact, this is very close to the original goal of Adult Friend Finder before its pivot to a more specific type of connection.
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They're probably angling to cut delivery costs by delivering to people's cars while they're at work.

This analysis aligns to what I know about how Amazon rolls out new products and features. There was an A|B test of this, and the option they're rolling out saved a ton of money.