skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a way of saying:

" Outside the scope of this textbook".

The similar phrase, frequent in textbooks:

" Proof left as an exercise to the reader"

was no less annoying. But you can't cover everything and given that sets aren't important to this post, indeed covering them would be more confusing since the Javascript Set.prototype has things such as being finite, and strict equality.

This article is not an introduction to the mandelbrot set, it's "how to draw the mandelbrot set in javascript". I read this as a programming blog post not a mathematics blog post and enjoyed it.
That's why they go the extra length not to be caught. Even if they wanted to alert a user that he's monitored, wouldn't national security letter come with a gag order forbidding this ?
Am I being a hopeless romantic to imagine that barons of days yore used to actually think owning the capital and employing the labor with which they went about their business made them powerful?

Who is holding who hostage? Not everyone is an SV technoweenie too young to remember when the dot-com crash was a thing.
They estimate based on data. The biggest constraint at the moment is probably not anything that most people would think of like fuselage strain, it's the engines. The engines burn kerosene and they often run fuel rich, which leads to build up of residues (coking) in the plumbing. This is very difficult to remove and reduces the effective lifetime of the engines.

Once they get this generation of rockets settled into a pattern of high reliability reuse they'll look toward future improvements which will involve switching fuels (from kerosene to methane). LOX/Methane doesn't have the same coking problem so it could enable rockets with much longer lifetimes (a hundred or more flights per stage) and corresponding cost reductions.

Also, at that point the development cycle fundamentally changes because then you can match the airplane cycle where you build a few prototypes or test vehicles and then put them through their paces. Since you expect the vehicles to survive all the time (versus being lost routinely) you can achieve much lower development costs along with much higher reliability.
Recover Deleted Text Messages on Samsung Galaxy S7
Was it the same case where an Oracle lawyer disclosed, supposedly on accident, the figures Google earned? Or the other way around. Sorry, my memory is hazy. But I remember the judge being pretty harsh and snarky towards the lawyer.
> Kid: Daddy, you mean people used to be in charge of driving
> themselves in cars?

A few generations will pass till this question will be asked. There might be self-driving cars sooner than that, but it will be a looooong time till manual driving is a very rare thing.

Also, why wait for fully self-driving cars to prevent fatalities? Why not to implement collision-avoidance subsystem into the cars which are controlled by humans.
In any case, most deaths on the road are because of stupid and deliberate actions by drivers (or pedestrians): insane speeding, overtaking where is limited visibility, crossing on red, etc.
Mutations are much simpler. Cache updating is flexible and easily customised. They have subscriptions and polling. Fetch More for pagination. Generally clear and flexible to work with
No need to read the paper. Just ask Batman.

Always be yourself, unless you can be Batman. Then always be Batman!

... just kidding. Interesting read anyways.
>communism as an ideal seems impossible to implement in any way besides the authoritarian state-capitalism way that it has been implemented.

>the Mondragon Corporation[1] is one of the few interesting experiments with a Communism-inspired system that does not immediately degenerate into authoritarian state-capitalism.

So there is no logical inconsistency in what you believe?

Mondragon Corporation is a worker syndicate , which is not a "communism inspired system", but a system aspiring for communism. If worker ownership can work in Mondragon, then saying that "communism is impossible without authoritarianism" is flawed.
FBI Arrests and Destroys Life of Programmer Whose ONLY Crime Was Writing Software
There is plenty of confidential information that is sensitive for more than a day.
The term 'fake news' took off at exactly the same time as 'pizzagate'.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=fake%20news,pizza...

The rumors and allegations against the Podesta brothers, the various associated instagram accounts and all the other information you can find in various youtube exposés (example: https://youtu.be/beqdw19Uj6E) were quickly trashed and ridiculed. Ben Swann's career got destroyed.

The concept of 'news', as torturously discussed in the Danah Boyd piece, is entirely dependent on what information is allowed to be discussed and in what context.

Most news outlets are extremely biased for political and advertising demographic reasons. The internet has been a wonderful medium for allowing people to discover and explore, and the only 'fake news' I see is created by Outbrain, Taboola and other click bait insurgents into the news media.
The Apollo extension for Chrome is also awesome. It needs to display errors better but it is already very essential.
The UK's Home Secretary Amber Rudd, fives days ago said "WhatsApp must be accessible to authorities", following the Westminster attack.

She summoned some big tech firms yesterday to tell them how unacceptable it is that the police can't read encrypted messages.
I don't know. I've been on slow systems (SJ VTA, for example) and they are irksome. Also bus lines in SF which take circuitous routes to get you somewhere --they are very frustrating and are reasons I've driven instead of ridden public transit many an occasion. The most frustrating part is you feel like you have no control over the situation. You know you are at the whim of the system and there is no wishing for skipping a stop or overtaking a slow motorist or cyclist.
I think people on HN over-estimate the consumer demand for privacy. One need only look at how many people use Facebook or other social networks to know this really just isn't important to them. So the market for people who care enough about usage data collection in order to actually speak with their wallets is incredibly small. If the market does demand it, then WIFI routers will start to advertise easy VPN setup with various vendors as a feature. Or maybe some other solution will arise. The market will provide one way or another.
Moreover, Australia is able, and does, select who migrates to the country and who does not.

The Wikipedia table about net migration to each country isn't the whole truth, however. For instance, it shows a significant negative net migration for Greece (-12.34 per 1000 pop) although in reality there are lots of migrants all over in Greece.
Who decides which news are fake and which aren't? This entire discussion is dumb and any serious effort to curb 'fake news' is equal to censorship. Go live in North Korea if you want there to be no dissenting opinions. Don't bring your fascism to us.
"poised" and "a decade or so" aren't very congruent.
Agreed, even if I don't find the argument particularly compelling ;-)
It is very weird. But in the old days you got German translated books.

I've read most of my programming books in English as most of the online resources were in English. Reading a German book about C++ with "Vorlagen". Didn't know what they were talking about unti I've used a dictionary and found out that "Vorlagen" are "templates". Was pretty funny that it was easier for me to read programming books in English than in my mother tongue.
Ethics and paying rent
Well, it is an easy way to "sell" these things...

Anyway, I've got two: paedophiles and terrorist.

Apparently, traders have now joined that elite. I'm just surprised bankers didn't make it there first... given the public sentiment. (I'm not sure I have any position (heh) on the matter myself.)
Winning a case like that is incredibly difficult, even for celebrities. Unless there was a gross violation of privacy, people rarely win the battle. It qualifies as free speech or what could be parody? There's a fine line. A lot of the outlets that put out the "fake news" are owned by the same companies that put out "fake news" with the total opposite view point. Outrage gets clicks and viewership, we're trolling ourselves to death.
Right, it's not like Amazon doesn't have big spend on all of these things for itself.
I think that's why they are external "monitoring" tools to check how the status of your services and rather than just restarting a daemon, the ones if required could add more instances, restart them or rebuild everything, maybe something like https://epazote.io/
Hah, they said "property bubble."

Would like to know if that was from their own reading of the numbers or just repeating one of the story's local sources.
6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away
Don't discount the externality cost of NOT having noise dampening.
That's adding a lot of extra cost just to keep a live feed for going for the missing ~15 seconds around the landing.
For sale. One rocket. Only used once, on a Sunday. $2M OBO. Ask for Elon.
The question is the level of simulation. It's common to use a large number of computers to run a VLSI simulation before fabbing a chip. NVidia has been known to use 50 racks of 1U servers to run a gate-level simulation of a CPU. The machines are running C code generated from VHDL. You could do the job of the GPU with far less CPU power; a gate level simulation is executing multiple instructions for each bit transition in a gate.
BBR: Congestion-based congestion control
"Australia’s banking regulator further tightened lending curbs Friday to try to cool investor demand for residential property that’s helped drive up prices. Data released hours later showed investor lending increased 6.7 percent in February from a year earlier, the fastest growth in 12 months."

No mention of the ^Elephant in the room^ with respect to real-state and housing: transparency in financing property. [0]

Reference

[0] "Corruption and Property Laundering" https://www.prosper.org.au/2017/03/30/corruption-and-propert...
Who did whatsapp piss off? there seems to be real campaign against them
Simply allowing store fronts at the ground level with 1 to 5 apartments above would help.
Australia is a commodity driven economy with two neighbors that have had explosive growth and an insatiable lust for commodities over the past 25 years (India and China.)
This might be very cultural thing(I'm from Europe). But unless you want to live in a society dominated by warlords and gangs, laws and society is the better way imo. Again my opinion, but for me the gun defense is a myth perpetuated in the US for ideological reasons. Keep your guns,but they won't keep you safe against a gang which will just shiv you at night, or simply outgun you. The reason all civilisations of a certain density have centralised law enforcement is it's simply inefficient for everyone to defend themselves (think narco states: sure, you can hire a guard, but your neighbour also has to hire one. If you try to start a neighbourhood guard cooperation then you are one step towards government and police)

And coming from Europe, we create new rights all the time
> "Threatened US default over debt ceiling" as I recall both parties play chicken with the economy to get their stuff passed

Can you name something similar the Democrats have done? As I remember it, nothing like it had ever been done before; they threatened to bankrupt the United States government, and caused the government's debt rating to be lowered, increasing the costs to taxpayers of of interest payments.

Saying 'they all are the same' is the bane of serious analysis and a well-established tactic of propagandists to shut down criticism (not that you are one, but my point is that there's a reason they use that tactic).
Spaceshuttle economics were $50k/lb, so not like SpaceX.
> Hey, I’m a Web Developer™! I should use JavaScript for this because JavaScript is the best lol!

I understand this is meant as a joke, but I also think that's part of the reason why Node became so big.
I'm a committer to a major piece of open-source software, and author of many more pieces of open-source software. I think it's pretty difficult to call me someone who wants "to be able to take everything...and never give back".

And I've talked to lawyers! And I still stay far away from the popular copyleft licenses. There's far too much gray area in what constitutes a derivative work and what obligations I might unwittingly take on even when well-advised.
Post-FCC Privacy Rules, Should You VPN?
And techies! /s
No cell phones on trading floors at Goldman, if I recall.

Nothing stopping people from chatting on Whatsapp after hours though; plenty of stuff stays sensitive after the close of business.
You cannot prosecute someone based on hearsay. In someways Whats App makes it easier because you could take the phone as evidence and see a record of all non-deleted correspondence complete with time stamp rather than trying to build a case based on two buddies grabbing a beer together.

Which is why a lot of these technologies are targeted. Not because encryption makes it harder for enforcement agencies since there's always been a plethora of ways to communicate in secret. But because gaining back doors to these applications makes it easier for them than it's ever been.

Sadly the point enforcement agencies always overlook is they're basically just fighting a game of "wack a mole". Encryption isn't something that's going to go away. Not even if you legislate against it. People know it exists and there are a thousand different ways to run software on your handset - even just via web sites directly thus bypassing all the controls for side-loading native apps. So all this posturing about the "evils" of WhatsApp is just a monumental waste of everyone's time.
This would seem to contradict the finding that lower commute times are associated with overall happiness [0, not the best link but there are many].

Slowing down a metro area by, say, forcing a modal shift towards bicycles will not make conveniently located housing any cheaper. If anything, it'll be more desirable and therefore more expensive. Absent a change in housing spend, commute times will rise and free time will sink.

EDIT: I'll add that while I don't live far from work for a bigger yard, I do live far from work so I can have my own apartment, instead of roommates. Having lived both with roommates and without, I'm confident I really am happier this way.

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kirsten-dirksen/happiness-rese...
> I have always suspected that it is like a rite of passage, building at least one simple-minded Mandelbrot renderer.

At the university where I study and work as a TA, all CS students have to write a Mandelbrot generator (we provide a simple GUI for them) in the second programming course.

Everyone is always very happy with the results and many consider it one of the coolest things they've done with programming up until then. I think assignments like those make them more enthusiastic about programming, which we (imo) need more of.
In other news: they also meet and talk!!!
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using graph.cool (https://www.graph.cool/) it save me the need to write backend, this is not just code writing but also API design which is hard and changing, so I can iterate on the client code and redesign and I don't need to iterate on the server the server is just there and I know it is ready to whatever I need on the client, graph.cool integration with Algolia and Auth0 also work fine for me and allow me to complete my MVP along a development happy path, all high-quality component I grab into my stack with minimal integration effort
Interestingly https://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey shows no posts for almost a year.
Speak for yourself. When I'm out on the road, top down, if I'm going over 70 I can drive for days. Ideally light traffic, roads with curves, and clear bright visibility. Figuring out how to pass the car in front of me is a puzzle that gives satisfaction when accomplished. Cut my speed down to under 35 in heavy traffic where I just have to trudge along with everyone else, where I have to shift between low gears a lot, or where I'm staring at headlights... man it just isn't fun.

(Side note, what's with all the super bright headlights in the last 2-3 years? I see about 20% of new cars with these ridiculously bright lights that just shred my eyes at night -- is it a change in the law or a change in the tech that's allowing these to become so prevalent? Feels like these people are driving cars with their high-beams on... and I can't help but think that the drivers are assholes for doing it.)
Texting while driving does actually kill, but there is a less definable/unpopular "them" to target.
Do you honestly think that's a feasible solution? Who in their right mind would work for a company that doesn't allow them to bring their personal phone to work? Unless it were required by law, no company would do that to their white collar employees -- they'd all leave for a company that doesn't treat them like eight year olds. (I feel like this would never be suggested on HN if we were discussing software companies rather than finance.)
Ask HN: Apps to keep personal things securely in the cloud?
Hi HN! I figured people here probably have the best recommendations on this.

I am looking for a way to securely use Dropbox & friends without having to fear for my data, while still have it usable on phones if needed.

I am currently using DEVONthink as my document dump which looks horrible but has the amazing feature of encrypting things before pushing it into Dropbox, Google Drive, WebDAV and friends. The app that goes with it, DEVONthink 2 Go, can decrypt things and makes them usable on the phone again.

The multi-destination feature with different encryption keys per cloud storage is absolutely fantastic for backup and safety and something that I couldn't find in any other app out there.

The problem, the app is only available on iOS and DEVONthink itself still looks and feels absolutely horrible and crazy outdated (even though it isn't).

Evernote, Bear and friends are nice as document dump but don't store things at rest.

Boxcryptor looks like it could be a great alternative. Is there anything else that I could look at? What are you using for managing your documents/pictures/files and securing them?
Hum. I mean I don't condone conducting illegal activities over encrypted chats of course (particularly given than some activities quoted in this article are pretty shocking and would cost these banks the loss of customers), but we should also keep in mind what regulators and compliance departments do with this monitoring of conversations.

The best example is the Fabrice Tourre affair at Goldman Sachs. Two examples I noted:

First the SEC quotes Tourre "More and more leverage in the system, The whole building is about to collapse anytime now…Only potential survivor, the fabulous Fab[rice Tourre]…standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all of the implications of those monstruosities!!!" [1]

Where the actual sentence was (translating the bits in French): You should take a look at this article... Very insightful... More and more leverage in the system, the whole building is about to collapse anytime. Only potential survivor, the fabulous fab (as Mitch would kindly call me, even though there is nothing fabulous about me, just kindness, altruism and deep love for some gorgeous and super-smart French girl in London), standing in the middle of all these complex, highly leveraged, exotic trades he created without necessarily understanding all the implications of these monstruosities!!! Anyway, not feeling too guilty about this, the real purpose of my job is to make capital markets more efficient and ultimately provide the US consumer with more efficient ways to leverage and finance himself, etc [2]

I wouldn't write that in an email, but still, the sentence has a very different meaning with the bits edited out by the SEC back in.

Second example, one of Tourre's managers was quoted writing "boy that timeberwof was one shitty deal". This was repeated over and over by congress as if it was a reference to the quality of the collateral of the transaction, i.e. Goldman Sachs sells some product to a client that they call internally a shitty product. But if you look at the actual email trail [3], they are not discussing about the quality of the collateral in that CDO, but of the fact that they are left with a $300m unsold position, which understandably is undesirable as a market maker.

So here we have examples of compliance departments sending unrelated personal emails to the regulators (in a shameless attempt to scapegoat an employee) and regulators editing sentences to alter or ignore the context. No wonder why bankers aren't keen to have their conversations on record.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2010/comp-pr2010-5... page 7

[2] http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01623/Fabrice_To...

[3] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Financial_Crisis/... page 224
As far as I can tell, Blue Origin is taking their time to ensure the reliability and re-usability of their rockets before they take a shot at reaching orbit. Different strategy that's way less flashy, but I think they end up with a better track record and and a more clearly proven reliability (compared to SpaceX).
Also Shuttle engines were practically rebuilt every launch.
Journalists get bombarded with smarmy bullshit all day. Snark is a coping mechanism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...

In particular, read the Notes section next to the US. Our immigration rate, if you counted it the same way, is about the same as Australia. But comparing US immigration to Australia immigration is apples to oranges. Australia has quite strict regulations on who it accepts as immigrants, and doesn't even accept a single refugee. Meanwhile the US has an illegal immigration population that dwarfs the legal one, we basically don't have a Southern border.
I completely support and forgive Palmer Luckey. I hope for the world's sake that he goes on to do more great things.

There are truly bad people in the world. People who deserve to be hated. Palmer Luckey is very far from being one of them. If you're still piling on Palmer Luckey, you're a real piece of shit human being.
Ask HN: What services did you deploy on your private cloud
Those folks that run their own private clouds, what services did you add on top of the basic IAAS to make your private cloud a success? High level abstractions or low level services and features?
We've had recessions, we've had a few in the last decade. It's been masked by immigration though, the economy has grown in absolute terms but that growth has been spread thinner.
Many companies with highly confidential information do this. A friend of mine is a programmer at such a company.
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I really want to make a giant LED sign to put in my rear view window that says "adjust your headlights: they are blinding me :/" with a switch I can use to turn it on :(.
Not willing though. We have "Customer Service Managers" on skilled visas waiting on tables.
Comparing for equality is not tricky because it works:

3.1415927410125732421875 equals 3.1415927410125732421875

The problem is that programmers expect the float to be a decimal (smaller than the float) or integer.

For example if you want to calculate that two vectors are parallel then comparing for lesser or greater won't give you the expected result if you need them to be zero in difference. You might think that the vectors (0, 10) and (10, 10) are parallel but using !(x > 0 || x < 0) won't help you. You still end up using a threshold of the smallest float, something like (abs(x - 0) < 0.0000000000000000000001)
3500 * 1.41 = 4935

It is close enough.

1/(1-0.29)=1.4

Depends on if you are going back or forward in time.