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> Well, it means your daughter won’t be able check if the cramps she has in her tummy might be her first period and your kids won’t be able to search for a clear definition of what it means to be gay or transsexual, so they might have to rely on what they hear in the playground.

No, they'll rely on my parenting. Linking them to the Wikipedia article on sex doesn't count as as parent-to-child talk.

It's a big enough deal that I want to do this. I'm not going to just leave it up to sex ed, the playground, or the internet. I do what I can.
My point is that high-order directives -- to obey the terms of the Geneva Convention, or to uphold the rights enumerated and limits of government stated in the US Constitution -- can and do in fact devolve upon all whom they govern.

Not merely courts.

Yes, I expect that courts would be tasked with drawing boundaries where extraordinary discretion is required. But throwing up your arms and saying "hey, we're the executive branch, not my problem" doesn't cut it. In fact that can very well land your ass in gaol or at the receiving end of a civil rights lawsuit (modulo limitations on liability for government officials, but that's another worm of cans).

Incidentally, I strongly recommend developing at least one or two abstract thinking skills if you're going to play around here. Helps smooth things along.
Ask HN: What causes large-scale ISP outages like Comcast's current One
This is a part of the world that is so far removed from what I believe reality to be, and I'm wondering if you can help me to understand: what can possibly be responsible for the kinds of outages that Comcast/Xfinity is currently experiencing in the US? [0]

From a network operations standpoint, it feels like it could be something like some kind of faulty metadata/signaling data being propagated all around, but I'm not sure if that's a thing or if my brain invented it.

Can the folks with deeper experience with large-scale ISP operations help shine a light on what can cause these sorts of massive outages/performance issues?

Currently, for example, my cable modem is unable to acquire sync timing synchronization, with QAM and FEC failing to acquire (I don't know what FEC is, and loosely understand QAM). It seems to be scanning large swathes of frequencies to acquire a downstream channel (usually I'm bonded to 8 downstream channels and 4 upstream)

Folks all over the country are reporting the same kinds of failures. Is there something that can cause what appear to be physical failures to acquire an electromagnetic signal propagation on wires from head ends all over the country? Solar activity? Trump protesters? Gamma ray bursts?

I'm lost and want to understand more of this black box.

[0]: http://downdetector.com/status/comcast-xfinity/map/
Substantively correct, yes (as said commenter).
I laughed out loud at this one after reading all the serious, in-depth posts above.
> "It's a pretty good bet that China, Russia, the NSA, and other state security agencies have access to Apple's source code (not by Apple providing it to them, but by having pwned an employee's laptop). If Apple creates the source code to do this, these state agencies will be a digital signature away from being able to crack any iPhone"

In the scenario you lay out, these security agencies are incapable of writing their own modifications to iOS, even though they possess the source to iOS.

Absolutely ridiculous. If they can steal the source and signing key, they certainly have access to the technical expertise to do it themselves.

I mean christ, exactly how complicated do you think this pin timeout logic is? If they can hire sufficiently skilled hackers, they can certainly hire sufficiently skilled developers.

The security of the system lies in the secrecy of the signing key. If they can meet that bar, they can surmount any other obstacle.
Not sure how this would be bad for the defense and good for the prosecution?

Defense attorneys would appreciate jury members refusing to convict their clients for ridiculous laws. I imagine every defense out there would absolutely love to have the possibility of jury nullification laid out on the table.
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If I were already sold on using Haskell or OCaml for a new project, what would be the big seller for OCaml being the choice? I haven't dug into SML or OCaml and I'm not expert with Haskell yet but from looking at them they don't look substantially distant from Haskell.
Yeah, it sucks, but no surprise. Stalking is an old, old problem. And the police won't do anything until it turns violent. You can stalk normal people, movie stars, business people - pretty much anyone other than a psychiatrist. (It turns out that psychiatrists have a really easy time getting their stalkers committed to insane asylums.)

I know a woman who owns nothing in her own name, changes her phone number frequently, and whose own family often does not know how to reach her. All to make it harder for her stalker to keep tracking her down. When she acquired the stalker she was high profile so the FBI actually did send someone to give her advice. The advice was basically that she was screwed, how to best hide, and to get trained guard dogs.

I wish I was joking.
The sync package's RWMutex is perfect for this problem. It will perform faster than channels and is much easier to reason about. Since it can support multiple simultaneous reads and one write the performance impact of a lock is minimal.
I thought the first one was Alan Perlis?
Exactly, I keep seeing people missing the point here. The author should have done a better job of emphasizing the non blocking concurrency of Go.
I'm not sure an investigator is the most productive course. If it was me, I'd start with a Cease and Desist letter from a lawyer. Cost: about 2 billable hours. If that fails, since there is, in fact, a law being broken, and now the creeper has ignored a C&D, get a court order. No need to involve police, they can continue writing speeding tickets and tending to other urgent matters. If the creeper ignores the court order, then see if you can get a bench warrant issued. Although, in this case, it sounds like the person is mentally ill -- what you can do about that varies greatly from state to state.
Do you also believe that welfare recipients would not miss welfare payments if they were suspended today, or does "supply and demand" not function presently to neutralize the effect of transfer payments in society?

The second bit about people squandering resources has been nicely answered by Friedman in his discussion of negative income tax: it is better to have individual market participants make occasional mistakes than to suffer the greater inefficiencies of central planning [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM].
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I've been hesitant of Fetch() because of the lack of timeout; has anyone been able to successfully get around this issue?
Hahah I wasn't sure if parent was trolling but it seemed like he wasn't...
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That ability to rationalize bad excuses you just described is an interstate highway with four lanes in each direction.
> The issue is that the prices are too high for perceived value.

How much do you value your favorite authors eating or having health insurance?

This is a serious question: just a few days ago I was suggesting that a friend, twenty published books over the last thirty years, books you may have read or heard of, start a Patreon so that he might, for the first time in his life, afford health insurance.

People working full-time in publishing might have health insurance but are working for well below market (by outside of tech standards, which are pretty embarrassing) in some of the most expensive cities on earth. And they can't just move, because then they'd get converted to contract and lose their health insurance.

This is not to shame you for buying used books---that's fine, there's no way I'd have the library I do without them, and I grew up groveling the library and used bookstores because that was all we could afford. Readers are readers. But---and I encounter this again and again---readers' perception of value in books is fundamentally misaligned with the actual economics of the book trade, to the detriment of both.
"Yes, I mean the latter."

I think you can see my confusion as you originally wrote:

"the people renouncing might be the people who do owe additional tax"

This is in the present tense, meaning people who currently owe taxes, which is different from those "who will in the future need to pay taxes".
My undergrad was at a Big Ten university. The analog signal processing course in EE teaches how to use differential equations to solve circuits. Right after they taught it, we learned laplace transform and never looked at a differential equation again.
Yeah.

"Your platform does not support float textures. This demo won't run in your browser."

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I disagree, that's a totally unreasonable example. Not only is that a bizarre combination of requirements, but that's not a good way to approach meeting those requirements. I'd write the code to run on the server and then profile and optimize on the server. JavaScript if never going to outperform hot spots rewritten in C.

You're forgetting the first rule of optimization: profile.
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Saw your comment in another post about how the Start Menu is really just an XAML app. I was wondering, how did you guys make it transparent and blur? I have been trying to figure that out for the past 2 days and have had no success yet.
We used to be on Hipchat... moving to Slack the only thing I've missed is giphy on Slack seems much, much worse.
And a "repair garage"!? What could that possibly be used for besides a secret new Apple car?
For ODEs you can simply think of solving the autonomous system numerically. Since I have many numerical algorithms to solve such a system, solutions exist. Since (most of) those algorithms are totally deterministic and offer no choices anywhere along the way (except maybe for some initial conditions) the solutions are unique.

For PDE's it's much more interesting, as the author points out.
Could someone give some examples of applications of numerical methods for solving differential equations that are relevant to a HN crowd? Also, where might I find some introductory material that teaches it well, according to the the suggestions in the OP?
Although simple from a product roadmap pov it's incredibly difficult from a technical pov - no doubt the reason that they acquired a great team a year and we've still seen nothing released. It also requires a completely different set of knowledge and expertise to websockets/rest.
All well and good. No one will read "look at the plethora of anecdotal stories" and think, "Oh, now I see."

It's a bit like saying, "There are convincing things out there. I don't have time to get into it, but the point is, you're wrong. Please accept this."
Excuses go well with dodging blame, but the greater issue there is that there is someone blaming you. You assumed I blame people. I don't.

From the article, the coach made an excuse because he was expecting to be blamed. Instead, he was only expected to do the best he could given the circumstances. No one cared about his excuses because no one was wasting time blaming him.
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> He has shown that he does not care to follow the rules of civilized society.

I think it's much more likely he's mentally ill and doesn't understand them.
Your answer is ambigious. Refering to privacy shield is of no help.

Your sales team did not answer to several inquiries last autumn so some of my clients switched from Mailgun to Mandrill last autumn.
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So this woman is unlucky enough to both be the target of a persistent stalker and persistent stalker who manages to stay withing the letter of the law while being incredibly annoying. Big deal, people get struck with lightening and bitten by sharks from time to time too. She just happens to be able to write about her bad luck in a particular corner of the internet that gets more than nil for traffic.

Sure it probably freaks her out a lot (and rightfully so) but did she really expect any authority to be able to take action on that basis. Think of the kinds of shit that would hit the fan if "distasteful behavior that freaks others out" was enough to get someone arrested (and all the life ruining things that go with it).
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Can't speak for OCaml yet; I've wanted to learn for a while but decided to go with Haskell first.

On the Haskell side of things--it's biggest seller (functional purity) is also the biggest downside. To give you an idea, papers have been written about the best way to implement common data structures purely functionally.

From what I've seen, OCaml has less "abstraction overhead" because it can dip into imperative code. While Haskell is really fun, it definitely has moments where you want to beat your head against your desk.
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Yes, I believe it is possible that they don't have the data. No, I don't think they collect private messages for targeted advertising or for any purposes at all.
It's commonly known in business. I've heard of it repeatedly, usually in terms of "here's what our retention policy has to look like for European customers."
Do you realize that this is basically just apologetics for the reign of W? The reason that there are armed conflicts in Iraq is because USA broke that nation, and the decades it will take to heal have not yet elapsed. The reason there are armed conflicts in Syria is because it's next to Iraq, and also various parties have schemed to weaken the (admittedly awful) incumbent regime. The desert isn't new. It's not as though fifty years ago these places were covered in rain forests. It's not as though ISIS have less need for water than whomever they've replaced.
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What kevinr says. At some point, you start reading what you expect to read rather than what is actually on the page--including typos with red lines under them. You basically cannot publish something significant without having another set of eyes on it at a minimum. A decent copy editor will also help fix up some things (in my case excessive wordiness). Tools like spellcheck help but only to a degree. Also as kevinr says, basic copyediting is pretty cheap. I paid about $400 for my last book.
In a few years we'll just have autonomous micro-drones flying directly into Apple's secret buildings streaming video back.
My point wasn't that the people on HN would be $5k richer; it was rather that if they would notice $5k, how much more would someone notice who is right around the poverty line.
> And the police won't do anything until it turns violent.

Try violating a restraining order taken out against you and see if you maintain that opinion.

The behavior you describe as well as that of the article qualifies for seeking a restraining order, which this entire discussion seems to have forgotten is in existence. Once you have a EPO/TRO/PRO, then the police care when it is violated. A lot. It's easy for them to enforce and requires no investigation, which is the thorn that hits a lot of people when they try to get cases like this going with the police. As an example, my father went to jail more than once for violating my mother's PRO. It's also on the person's record, which is why it is good to involve a lawyer if someone files one against you.

I'm one more contact from my own stalker away from filing for one, but he seems to have forgotten about me for now. I'm mystified that the FBI advised your friend and the topic of a restraining order did not come up at all. I spoke with the FBI about my stalker after he threatened to kill me across state lines and it was the first thing they told me to do. Undoubtedly, there is more to your anecdote.

In California, as long as you choose the right kind (i.e., not domestic for civil), restraining orders are fairly trivial to get. In some cases you can get a legally-binding TRO from a judge, in a day, for free. They also show up on computers in a police officer's cruiser in California (thanks to the digitization of all of it in CLETS), so if you are literally standing in front of a person on whom you have a EPO/TRO/PRO and get a cop's attention, the crime is open and shut and they will arrest, speaking from experience. Bonus in California and maybe elsewhere: if you successfully take out a restraining order on someone, they have to surrender all their firearms or sell them (yes, really).

Seriously. Restraining orders, people. The courts are at your disposal, and they're not just for domestic violence.

Edit: Except in New York, apparently, where the author of the article lives. Go New York. New York readers: vote to fix that incredibly moronic situation at once, then travel to a sane state on this like California and go back home with one of ours, which should be enforceable there. Seriously, in the Internet age, the complete absence of a non-dating civil protective order mechanism is an absolute and disgusting shame, and means your only recourse from the courts exists if you make out with your stalker. What a grandly perverse incentive you have there from your judicial system. I'm actually worked up about this from learning it in this thread, and sympathize far more with the article author now than I did before I knew that.

California resources:

- http://www.courts.ca.gov/1260.htm

- http://www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp-domesticviolence.htm (dating/relationship/etc)

- http://www.courts.ca.gov/1044.htm (not dating, impossible in New York, apparently)
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Strongly agree. The way ODEs are taught at the sophomore level violates the beauty of math by teaching a plug-and-pray method of solution. For this form of equation, try this form of solution, if it doesn't work, try this one, then this. If none work, oops. At least once the Laplace method is taught things get a little better.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance sums up the DOJ's position quite succinctly. Emphasis added

> "Apple has created a technology which is default disk encryption. It didn't exist before. It exists now. Apple is now claiming a right of privacy about a technology that it just created. That right of privacy didn't exist before Apple created the technology." [1]

Wrong. The first and fourth amendments grant rights to privacy. The exact transcripts of what we say in the privacy of our homes, prior to a warranted wiretap or without witness testimony, are not the subject of law enforcement's investigation. Our entire history of digital communications should not be open for government surveillance. It would be overreach to try to implement, and anyway it is impossible to guarantee without destroying the US tech industry and turning us into a big brother state.

[1] https://youtu.be/g1GgnbN9oNw?t=4h46m22s
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Going to link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11153022 again
On my team of about 10 devs, we create / destroy about 5-8 feature flags a month.

The only thing you have to remember is: Its either going to production, or its getting dropped.

There is an expiry date built into the feature flags framework (90 days), and either they need to be explicitly cleaned up and deprecated, or extended with a valid reason attached.

Also, we code review every commit. If any diff is coding around/through a feature flag, the first question is always: "Can you clean up that experiment first?"
No, I am very much in favor of rehabilitation over punishment. However, there are people who don't respond to that. I believe this guy is one of them. 12 years, and he didn't stop? That's not someone who's interested in rehabilitation.
I'm sure it would've, but they would've needed to commit resources to investigate and confirm the claims were likely true before doing that.
I don't buy enough video games to really answer that - usually I buy a couple of games a year during Steam sales and that's about it. I usually buy a couple of books a month (print and ebooks).
I think that's a convenient excuse. I mean, these are not deep, intricate, complex social rules we're talking about.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that this tactic only works on some people. Some stalkers don't care when they get a visit from the police (the police very clearly can't do anything and will state that explicitly).

Some may take a short break and then feel the urge come back; others may just go right ahead. (Some people don't realize they're stalking, and will stop. It's worth a try to ask them to stop.)

After having asked nicely, suing is unfortunately your only recourse. And it really sucks that suing takes so much time, effort, and money, especially in a situation like this.
gitup (http://gitup.co for those interested) looks amazing!

My team's been using https://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ which has been a godsend - many of the same features, including interactive diff staging and tree view, in a native-feeling Mac interface. But that gitup screencast, how it makes rebasing painless - that's like nothing I've seen before. I'll definitely give gitup a try.

In general, these types of interfaces are VERY useful for junior programmers who aren't used to thinking of Git as a digraph of commits. I'm surprised that they're not used more often in online courses and bootcamps... maybe not enough people know about them yet!
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> I didn't like this at first until I configured Sublime Text to highlight embedded HTML correctly

Can you share your sublime settings or syntax configuration you are using?
While many people are like this, it seems a bit unfair to stereotype all women as gullible.