skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the fraud of the independence of the “Channel Partners”

You still don't get it. The fraud was submitting false documentation to ARIN. Operating multiple shell companies is perfectly legal, as long as you don't submit false sworn affidavits and otherwise lie in the course of your activities.

Responding to a subpoena as the entity it was sent to isn't lying. It says there was one occasion where the subpoena had both Micfo and a channel partners' info on it, and he says he wasn't permitted to reach out to LEO to clarify.

Regardless, it's not an act "in furtherance of a crime" - the crime was committed at the point they obtained the IP addresses.
> "Facebook Ireland and Facebook’s other foreign affiliates - not Facebook US - led the high-risk, and ultimately successful, international effort to sell Facebook ads,” the company said in a pre-trial memorandum.

This is hilarious! Does anyone really believe the pretense that these are multiple different companies?
It sure does but only because the consultant is now an employee.

I made an attempt at sharing how a consultant is an orthogonal role to an employee in response to our parent.
Caffeine be messing with your head boy
There are absolutely others that bother, for example Brother: https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/linux/en/faq_prn.html?c=u...
Probably because the tax avoidance scheme involves shifting intellectual property and technology to overseas subsidiaries and then charging the parent company a large royalty.

Schroepfer would be asked to testify about the actual source and work product that led to the intellectual property transferred to the Irish subsidiary.
Sorry, but you don't quite understand what sexism is. A quick review is in order.

For hundreds of years, women were in effect property of men. They would go from being controlled by their fathers to their husbands. Their legal rights were narrowly circumscribed, and their practical rights were even smaller.

This is on the decline, but the changes are quite recent. Women couldn't vote until 1920. It wasn't until 1974 that women in the US could generally get credit without a male cosigner. It wasn't until 1993 that the US fully outlawed a husband raping his wife. It wasn't until 2005 that half the law and medicine degrees went to women. And, as Fowler demonstrated, there is still significant anti-woman bias backed up by institutional power, even at newly formed companies in that most forward-thinking industry, tech.

That's what sexism is: gender bias plus systemic power leading to broad harm in a way that maintains that systemic power.

So no, there's no such thing as "sexism against men" because even if non-men had sufficient bias, they don't have the power. Most of the things you're complaining about are not "sexism against men", they're anti-sexist action, working to dismantle centuries of oppression.

Now I get that we dudes losing our systemic power is uncomfortable. Loss of privilege is still a loss, and loss is never fun. But you have a choice. You can retreat into MRA/incel lingo, become bitter over that loss, and eventually die cranky about how things were better in your day, when men ran things. Or you can decide that sexism is bad, work to dismantle it, and be pleased to see a little progress toward freedom. I know which I'm picking.
9B out of 70B revenues is a pretty big deal imho, what about profits ?
I'm taking this course right now and liking it quite a bit: https://www.udemy.com/course/the-complete-javascript-course
rofl. no its not.
There are a few products on the market for it (I work for one, and no, it's not WalkMe).

There are free solutions too (e.g. http://bootstraptour.com/ )
Well I am going to guess Chinese, and a company I think are doing amazing consumer electronic products with great quality is Xiaomi.

They do not sell their products in US yet, but once they start I think they will be a massive hit!
I bought a cheap (<100euro) wifi-enabled black and white Brother laser printer a year ago and it works great.
I have a lot of sympathy for this article.

(And all the comments about how much faster computers are today: I interpreted the article to be talking about the ease of UI, in other words how fast the interface lets you do things, not how fast the computer does things.)

I have a private Rails app I've used as a freelancer for 7-8 years for time tracking, invoicing, expenses, and financial reports, and I've tried to make it very keyboard-focused, so that I can enter info without clicking around. I've always wanted to polish it enough to share and charge money for, and I've thought a nice niche would be to double down on the "keyboard productivity" theme. But making that work well in a browser is tricky.

Do you mostly rely on browser-native functionality for keyboard nav/input? That's how it is today. It's fine for me, but it's not really "enough" I think. There are lots of other navigation moves I wish had keyboard shortcuts. But a lot of taste is required here. Usually when people override browser behavior it makes things worse (e.g. scrolling). But there are still things that would be actual improvements.

So a couple years ago I rewrote the Invoices section in React+Redux, hoping that would make it easier to do some custom UI behavior. It made a couple small things better, but it's a lot more code, and it breaks some things the browser used to give me for free. For example if you add a new invoice and see it at the bottom of the list, then you click to a non-React part of the site, then click Back, the new invoice disappears from the list! I'm not even sure how to fix that, unless I want to add a spinner and Ajax call on page load. (Right now I pass the initial state as JSON in the rendered HTML.) Maybe I could use local storage, but then somehow when you click Back I have to decide whether to trust local storage or make an Ajax call. . . .

Anyway, rather than complaining about the article, I'd be more interested in a conversation about how to build webapps with a keyboard focus, so that you can complete entire tasks without touching the mouse. What native browser features would you leverage? What frontend tech would help you? Can you imagine "standard" patterns you could encode in a JS lib, both for DRY code and for a more predictable UI? A "Bootstrap for keyboard-first webapps" would be really cool. In fact Bootstrap already does a lot for accessibility.
I wouldn't call 12% of the annual revenue "not a big deal". I'm pretty sure if I told my boss that my tax plan just cost us 12% of the annual revenue I'd be out on the street in a jiffy!
Music affects my productivity: A developer's story
Guernsey Victorian shop manager quits over adding barcodes
Longer discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22364796
Some 50 years old developer is angry because he must use "the web".. I'm 40, I was using PC XT/AT in 1988, and no, clipper, reading from floppy disk A and rendering it, Wordstar and Lotus weren't faster. You are just older.
yes but it's my experience that revenue can be played with to determine the net income you find preferable, generally for tax purposes.
18-Year-Old KASA Founder Raised USD 22.1M on CrunchBase
NAD+ Repletion Rescues Female Fertility During Reproductive Aging: Cell Reports
Whoa no need to attack the poor mouse. It has its place. Especially in a generation of PC gamers that came up with optical mice. Me personally the muscle memory I have from PC gaming for some reasons or other seem to have made navigating ui with a mouse that much more intuitive to me over the last 2 decades and some odd years. To the point it actually feels really good and extremely proficient to me. I feel like I'm faster using a mouse than just pure kb shortcuts. Although I do use a combination of keyboard short cuts and my mouse. Guess it just depends on the task/work flow.
The problem isn’t just .org but instead you’ll have to look one step up - ICANN and the US government [1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/registrars-raise...
Let's Encrypt has turned on stricter validation requirements
First twitter, then reddit, now github?
What's the real story here?

Edit: for the record:

https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/archive/

https://downdetector.com/status/reddit/archive/

https://downdetector.com/status/github/archive/
Removing Google as a Single Point of Failure
To print in the 80s were slower than today. In the 80s there was no Linux Mint, no laptop.
Stamper: A p5.js editor in shape of Sketch
[I worked on the landing page] pier25, that's really great feedback, much appreciated. Will see what we can do to answer the questions you've mentioned.

If you have any examples of pages you particularly like to hand, I'd love to take a look.
I've never had an outage on my own system that didn't take two seconds to fix because some service just needed restarting.

When you don't have to cater to more than 1 user, there are VASTLY fewer things that can go wrong in a way that takes a long time to fix.
That's what the point of punishing companies for hiding money in tax heavens is. If they got fined $10M it wouldn't be much newsworthy
I love the smell of fresh deploys in the morning
Net income for 2019 was ~18 milliards (or billions for you Americans) so it's half of that!
TSMC cuts chip capacity support for Huawei, say sources
> As it turns out, that is probably the most popular use case for maps in the world.

There's a very subtle point the Twitter thread was making here. This use case may be most popular not because it's what the people want, but because it's all that they can easily do. The tools you use shape how you work, and what you can work on.

FWIW, I learned to pay attention when the machine doesn't help me do what I want (it's a good source of ideas for side projects), so I've noticed that I do want a map that works like a map - something I can explore and annotate. I do sometimes resort to screenshotting GMaps, or photographing paper maps in the past, just to have a map on my phone. I've seen non-tech people do that as well. So I can be confident that it's not just me and the Twitter thread's author that want this.

> For expert-users the tools that existed decades ago are still there and still usable. Or you can craft your own!

The Twitter thread's point (and mine as well) is that expert users can and do work around this degradation. It's a frustrating chore, but it's not all that difficult if you can code a bit and have some spare time. It's the experience for the non-expert users that has degraded in a way they can't fix for themselves.

> For non-expert users the information in the world is orders of magnitude more accessible than it used to be.

The way it's accessible, it's almost as if it wasn't. Sure, you can easily Google random trivia. But good luck trying to compare things. That's always a pain, and usually involves hoping that someone else made a dedicated tool for similar comparisons on the topic you're interested in, and that the information hardcoded in that tool are current and accurate. Notably, the tools you use for searching have no support for comparing.
Is swig no longer a thing in the 2020s?

I've always done this using the bundled Python/C integration path, or when there was too much stuff, use swig.

http://swig.org/
> Rather than artificial set costs, the market will dictate this.

But you're coming into this conversation claiming that Handshake is going to democratize TLDs, that anyone will be able to buy one. We don't really know that the average cost of a TLD won't spike up to a thousand dollars, right? We don't know that every fortune 500 company in the world and every government in the world won't step in and snatch up every auction that gets posted. By design, there's no way for us to stop them from doing that.

There are very plausible scenarios here where ordinary people will not be able to buy TLDs under Handshake. Meanwhile, the worst case pricing scenario for the .com domain market, even with all of the centralization problems, is that it ends up costing $10-20 more per year over the 5-10 years.

I'm not saying that there aren't advantages to letting the market decide, and I'm not saying that the worst-case scenario will necessarily happen. It might be great. But I am saying that people learning about Handshake for the first time are looking at it as a drop-in replacement for .com, and it's decidedly not. I'm skeptical anyone has any idea what price or availability is going to be.

> or choose one owned by someone who doesn’t want to gouge people.

Without protocol-level migration tools between TLDs this is still centralization. I'm still stuck relying on a rented product owned by a private individual that I can move away from.

Remember, when .com and .org came out, they were also owned by an organization that didn't want to gouge people.

The decentralization benefits of Handshake are entirely encapsulated in ordinary people owning their own TLDs. We really shouldn't be talking about rented subdomains at all, rented subdomains are the problem that Handshake was advertised as solving.

> Unfortunately, all the details (like Bitcoin was at the beginning) are buried in technical papers and developer docs.

For what it's worth, Handshake isn't the only project of its type that struggles with this. It was similarly difficult to find out how projects like IPFS really worked.
> especially in the context of continually declining ridership and the ever rising traffic on the roads

One point of "unease" (to quote the Wikipedia entry) is that Marples was pro-road; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeching_cuts#cite_note-50

> A more critical interpretation is that after Macmillan named Marples as Minister of Transport, Britain’s transport policy swerved to the right, and became motivated by the kind of conflict of interest that Thompson notes can be loosely regarded as a form of corruption (9). Actually, in this case it may well have been a rather tight form of corruption. At the time that he was named minister, Marples owned 64,000 of the 80,000 shares of Marples Ridgeway, a civil engineering firm that specialised in building roads"

I as an ill-informed outsider cannot disambiguate how much of the shift to roads was from "expressed preferences" and how much was from "a form of corruption".

You wrote "nationalised railway represents a very tangible instance of massive state planning and control".

But .. so is a national road system. Your country spends billions on roads, which is pretty massive.
That's absolutely not equivalent. labor != money

If the union benefited from your LABOR then there would be no incentive for unions to strike.
Couldn't agree more. That's why simple policies which do not dabble into the how, just the end effect, typically works better (sorry for no references, but AFAIK from my Master's on the subject it's pretty well established).

That's why carbon tax (especially a global one) is such an attractive policy. Of course, there are issues with that as well, but generally it'll probably (and seems to) have the largest and best effect long term.
The US should have a tariff on intellectual property royalty payments from wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries of American companies.
Physics and Biology Unite to Make Electricity 'Out of Thin-Air'
I'd say the very assumption that those who 'own' the output of your labor, especially in larger companies, is hopelessly but understandably naive.
Why doesn't it work for part of the year? Freezing temperatures? In that case, you can just move it into your basement or other climate controlled space.

Even if you're near a river, having clean, treated water is still useful. It's one less activity you need to concern yourself with in the case of disaster. No need to go out and get water and treat it.

That said, I'm in a seismically active area, in a tsunami zone and pretty much surrounded by salt water so there is value in my situation
What are the problems that haven't been solved? Stateless application servers have been reasonably commonplace for years, now, which is the main hurdle that I've needed to surmount. The majority of other issues can be handled at the platform level.

It's a lot of work to refactor an application, and sometimes that doesn't make sense, but a blanket dismissal of the usefulness of proper architecture because an application isn't running at Google or Facebook's scale does little to help push technology and practices forward.
Redexer – Lambda Calculus Stepper
Python Course by NSA (100mb+ PDF)
I see. Thanks, that does change my understanding of your situation. My revised question with your clarifications in mind is, is there a reason you're not calling CEF's C api directly from Python? Are your extension modules doing some heavy lifting themselves, or are you using Cython just to handle the glue between the language interface?
Propositioning to her is not really sexism, but it's inappropriate and unprofessional.
Not exactly, it's not a good measure simply to take the profit of 1 year as a guide. They will not be expected to pay this fine each year.

Turning over a profit of 9Bn, its still after this fine..

Thats still huge. Given their assets, cash on hand etc. I don't think they will lose much sleep.

Anyway they will get away with it. They can afford to.
They are there to protect the business. One way they do that is by ensuring that the business follows the law. So, they are aligned the the interests of the employees up to a point.
I have HP LaserJet 1018 and it is pain to setup. Currently, when I will need to print, I will just turn on printer and then upload firmware manually using cat to make it work.
And I should point out that in the short term it's often personally advantageous to suppress one's empathy and self awareness. Narcissists are fucking exhausting, but they often get what they want. And what quite a lot of people want is a sense of power.
Exactly, the focus should be on reducing consumption which, like you mentioned, comes down to consumer choice and policy. less biodiesel cars means less demand means less deforestation.

Thing is, everything has palm oil in it, so reducing global palm oil demand is akin to reducing global consumption of goods.
What if a bookmark title contains multiple words? How do you choose where to put it?
A good product walkthrough is just part of user onboarding. By the time I’m done creating an account I should already know what to do and how to get Main Benefit
Honestly, the two use cases have an obvious intersection: a planning/wayfinding session in which I want Google to compute me a route that I want to then inspect, perhaps modify, and then save into my planning session.
Interesting update here:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/amp/Former-Lafayette-cit...

>The Oakland City Council voted Tuesday to approve Mayor Libby Schaaf’s appointment for interim city administrator — a man who previously served as the Lafayette city manager for 22 years before resigning because of residents’ refusal to build more housing.

>Steven Falk was confirmed by a unanimous vote.
This happens more frequently than outright evasion.
Alcohol is bad for you.
Pot is probably bad for you (I don't really know)
Feel free to not use any of it.

I noticed when social media started to have an impact on how I feel, so I almost stopped using facebook - It's difficult to ditch it altogether because sometimes I need access to dev panel.
I unfollowed everyone on Instagram who is not my immediate friend, anyone whose posts are obviously fake nonsense and not genuine moments. I need these to stay in touch with my old friends, see what's happening in their life. I don't need this to see where some C@#$@ drinks their cosmo today.
You may think you can do without a union if business is good and management OK. When shit hits the fan, that is when you'll learn that you need them.

I work in a German unionized company and I think unions can be quite well-aligned with workers and business interest.

IIRC certain aspects of US law make unions be the way they are in the US on purpose to lower their acceptance among employees. For example work councils which are commonly established in unionized companies aren't allowed in the US iirc, they can be a nice alternative from going all in into unionizing, a democratic representation of all employees.
The problem is human memory! People forget all the features, and dependencies software has.

Since the natural direction of the Universe is entropy. As time goes on, software is developed, dependencies are broken, and features quietly stop working.

When you look into fixing it, you notice that its this giant hairball of dependencies which nobody can unwind. So then the next best thing is to put another layer of abstraction on the hairball, and you build on. The price of this is things will get slower.

My Commodore 64 had a more responsive terminal than my macbook, since it was thin layer over hardware, only one or two abstractions deep.

HTML/CSS and Javascript are garbage technologies for making responsive UI, they are so so many levels deep, with so many dependencies and constraints.

The way forward is start fresh with something new, but no idea what it is.
> And link rot is also real

True. I have a script that sends my bookmarks to Internet Archive's Save Page Now service: https://pastebin.com/uUVE22RD . Since I still have URLs in my bookmark manager (Pinboard[0]), finding the pages in IA is simple.

I'm also sometimes scraping documentations with HTTrack (webhttrack), when they aren't available as docsets (Zeal[1], Dash[2]), for times when I work offline or with spotty connection.

[0] https://pinboard.in/

[1] https://zealdocs.org/

[2] https://kapeli.com/dash
In high school we had access to the Univac 90/70 at the local college. It supported interactive use via dial up terminals and batch jobs. There were exactly two slots in the batch queue. I wrote an assembler program which created a last-chance exit handler and then went to sleep. In the exit handler, it spawned two new copies of itself in the batch queue. Eventually the operator (who wore a NORML pin on his blue jean jacket) noticed a job was stuck in one of the active slots. So he killed it.

Later, he came out of the machine room and asked me to look at something. There were a whole bunch of stalled batch jobs and two jobs sleeping in the active slots. I calmed him down and showed him the equivalent of "kill -9" and promised never to do it again.
Unless they think you cannot prove it.
Ask HN: I was hit with a SIM swapping attack; ideas on improving protection?
Yesterday I suddenly lost cell service while running errands. Within a half hour I was home. Upon checking my email I found notifications of financial transactions pending (thankfully on a delay). I was able to resolve everything and all is well now but I'm left feeling like I need to rethink all of my online actions. I'm quite careful with my security but once someone took my sim all of my passwords and two-factor authentication went out the window. I was aware of this kind of attack but thought it was relatively hard to pull off. I'm really small potatoes financially and didn't think someone would target me. Apparently it's not all that hard to do this kind of attack. In researching ways to lower my risk I found this article had some good ideas:
https://medium.com/mycrypto/what-to-do-when-sim-swapping-happens-to-you-1367f296ef4d

I've asked my carrier to put an "in store only" id check to change the account. Does anyone here have any more ideas on ways to prevent this kind of attack?

Thanks
That is something different. I wouldn't blame him harshly for reacting this way, but I would also firmly state that his statement is ridiculous.

Use your judgement in the situation, but if you just accept it, he might continue to treat others unfairly. So a firm rebuff is certainly valid.

Deescalation doesn't mean to fall on your knees. You won't ever end up on the same level and might just become a bully victim otherwise. That is no road to more justice in my opinion.
It's about halfway down the page. The heading is "Choose a Workflow" then there's a "Live Demo - Click to Play" button.