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I was wondering why every star showed a pair of perpendicular lines radiating out. Apparently they are artifacts of the telescope's construction, and are called "diffraction spikes" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
Found on reddit.com/r/programming, comments are worth checking out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4rfz30/rant_ja...
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> Fun fact: the display values we use all the time are actually short-hand. For example, `block` is actually short-hand for `block flow`. Refer to the specification for full list.

----

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-display/#propdef-display:

> The `display` property defines box’s display type, which consists of the two basic qualities of how an element generates boxes:

> * the inner display type, which defines [...] the kind of formatting context it generates, dictating how its descendant boxes are laid out.

> * the outer display type, which dictates how the box participates in its parent formatting context.

...

> <display-outside> = block | inline | ...

> <display-inside> = flow | flow-root | table | flex ...

...

Short `display` | Full `display` | Generated box
----------------|--------------------|---------------
'block' | 'block flow' | block-level block container
'flow-root' | 'block flow-root' | block-level block container that establishes a new block formatting context
'inline' | 'inline flow' | inline box
'inline-block' | 'inline flow-root' | inline-level block container
----------------|--------------------|---------------
'flex' | 'block flex' | block-level flex container
'inline-flex' | 'inline flex' | inline-level flex container

--------

The advent of this kind of explicit systematic consistency in web standards is pretty much my favourite thing about living in the future. Every day I fall to my knees and cry with joy and gratefulness that I will only have spent this a small fraction of my professional engagement with web things in the abominable hellscape that was this world before CSS3 started being widely implemented.
this is a info for test.. sorry
The book that was free yesterday is not free today. If you haven't claimed it yesterday, you have to pay now. So it's a temporary offer.

If I need a book, I'm willing to pay for it. But sometimes these books are nice offers. That's all. It's one option you have, nothing more. If O'Reilly offers a better book, then I'll buy that.
I feel like this is one of those bugs that would have taken less time to fix than it took to document.

After many years, I still have to slap myself when I catch myself thinking this way. Unless you know the architecture of the software, I've learned that it's often significantly harder than you imagine to fix seemingly simple and obvious bugs without breaking something else.
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Not literally drunk, but there are many other ways to modify brain chemistry and but you absolutely can have significant measurable changes that result from non-chemical stimuli. You can't tell me "you won the lotto" or "I'm breaking up with you" wouldn't result in massive spikes in various hormones and neurotransmitters.
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It actually does have CSV and UTF-8, but finding the correct settings is very hidden. I'm always amazed at how unable Microsoft is to improve the base of Excel and instead just keeps piling UI layers on top to hide the ugly places.
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How can a mind have the intelligence of a human and not be aware of itself? I never liked the philosophical zombie argument. I haven't yet been able to realistically imagine such an entity.
"Almost all A-H dual-listed companies are relatively overvalued in A-share market and undervalued in H-share market, and it has been the case for the last 10 years."

This may reflect the lower value of non-exportable yuan.
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Besides its original meaning (repeated uninvited bombardment with information packages) I can think of only one alternative use of the pattern: games.

For example, rocket / grenade / arrow spam in TF2, or Lucio / Hanzo / Symmetra projectile spam in Overwatch. In this context, spamming is just firing in the general direction of the enemy, hoping that some of the rounds will hit.

Maybe this generalizes to repeated application of some cheap technique that has a low probability of success, where the low chances of success are compensated by the low amount of effort per 'shot' required -- but I can't think of any more examples.
I defy you to get through the difficult teenage years without resorting to shouting.
> You would have real fun when one of your running instances shuts down on it's own

Or you could author software and systems that aren't so brittle that the loss of a single machine is problematic for you. Seriously, your engineering practices need some love if this is a problem.
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Thanks for the chilies on the web tip. They have a bit pricey postage, to Berlin almost 10 euros... But let's try them, because they have all the chiles needed for the chile paste. These Berlin shops mostly have the basic chiles. Once there was a chili hamburger place in Neukölln selling home grown chiles with different variety and they went bankrupt in a year. It seems germans don't like spicy food that much.
Very interesting point.

I think a lot of people have had an experience where they felt as if they understood something but then after grappling with it they gained a deeper understanding. I certainly think that the things I understand the most are things that I've spent time struggling with. But you're right that most things aren't like that. You can get a fantastic working understanding of most things simply by reading about them or being told about them.

I suspect that both learning to struggle persistently and learning to integrate new knowledge that has been explained to you are important.
Some people care, some don't. I personally prefer to use @mypersonaldomain.com, that way it looks professional and at the same time, it belongs to me as long as I own the domain name (not tied to a company).
For europeans (or at least german speaking countries) I can recommend the tolino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolino).

Does most of your points the right way. Still does not have a bookshelf view, but other than that a very good product.

Also has read / unread since the latest update.
I find it interesting that now Ockham's razor moved from philosophy to applied statistics. That is, Bayesian statistics can quantify (a more complicated model which fits just as well has, or only slightly better, has lower likelihood) and in machine learning we use it in practice (to avoid overfitting, as too complex models may fit well to the training data, but be suboptimal for generalization).

See also BIC (Bayesian Information Criterium) for selecting models.
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Surprisingly, Excel can import CSV from UTF8 with BOM (at least new versions of Excel). However, be careful, as Ctrl+S will save it in some arbitrary codepage and you'll probably end up with a document like:

ID,Name
1,??? ????
2,Kevin Dub?is

so take care to always save such documents as .xmlx.

(If you convert them to your local codepage and import that - when at all relevant - it will be saved in the local codepage, so less risk of data loss.)
Do use it yourself? :) I tried it and it worked but I didn't know what I should use it for.
Happens all the time. They ignored multiple and repeated warnings that they should stop and think things through.

On a lower scale it's like (repeatedly) rebooting the PC when it's misbehaving.
Fine, a slight correction then. It should be easy to fix except for terrible software architecture. Terrible software architecture is not a valid excuse when you have plenty of time and billions of dollars. So there should be little forgiveness for this bug still existing.
More specifically,

> two hypotheses for which the evidence supports both

If they are supported by the same evidence, then the truth that is being supported must be the same. The simplest hypothesis is therefore the smaller nutshell that captures that truth. The other one is bloated, and bloated information (what this is all about) punishes us with complexity and irrelevance.

Fundamentally, any theory is an abstraction of evidence. Ockham's razor is about the quality of said abstraction.
At 100% zoom you will see that they have different sizes. Noise has usually the same size (the size of one pixel on the sensor, if not using bayer filtering).

Then you take a look at the XDF[1], showing ~5500 galaxies like this one in a tiny angular diameter, and you realize how big the Universe is.

[1] http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2012/37/im...
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How to calculate compensation for employees and not linking them to performance reviews.
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How can you calculate the risk if the modus operandi for the nuclear waste management for the next few thousand years is not known yet?
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Yes, or close! Zoom in right near the top right edge, should help clear that up for you :)
(By the way, I am extremely curious why this got a downvote, and would greatly thank anyone giving a good reason.)
Germans don't like spicy food in general. There are a handful of restaurants serving something that actually burns in your mouth, but you have to beg them to actually cook it for you. For chiles in supermarket, you get the basic jalapenos and if you're really lucky, habaneros with a premium price.
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Excel is quite often useless with CSV, even if its contents are pure ASCII. Whether or not Excel will open a standard CSV file delimited with comma's (as per RFC 4180) properly also depends on the locale of the computer running Excel. So if you run Excel on Windows with a Dutch locale, it will by default fail to open the CSV normally and jam all its contents in one cell, because it expects a semi-colon as delimiter instead of a comma. To open standard CSV you have to import the file instead.

Someone at some point decided that the Dutch use semi-colons instead of commas to delimit tabulated data, and decided to apply this logic to CSV files as well. I would like to know the history behind such a decision! Switch your locale to English US, and it opens normally.

LibreOffice just opens the CSV and asks the user to confirm the delimiter and what not regardless of locale.
BMI isn't really reliable on a individual level as it doesn't take body composition into account. Athletes are generally "overweight" according to the BMI cutoff.
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It's sad that for most of the world cheap enough electric self driving cars will come faster than good public transport
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I like the basic idea and it's nicely presented however conceptually I'd favor a model where the employee gains come primarily from the losses of later stage investors and not early stage investors (and founders).

"""Within the investor class the earlier investors lose more. Year one investors go from 3.2% to 2.3% about a 25% loss, pretty much the same as founders. Year ten investors go from 9.0% to 8.7% about a 3.5% hit."""

So basically I'd like to work from sort of the reverse of this but I assume it's not very likely due to the investment horizons etc.
Basically I suppose late stage investments should be a good chunk more expensive.
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An nginx upstream resolve module using DNS SRV record based on ngx_upstream_jdomain. Works nicely with Mesos-DNS.

https://github.com/HatsuneMiku3939/ngx_upstream_resolveMK
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I'm a huge proponent of science. However we have to be careful with data as well. Sometimes it can be very difficult to properly account for all of the limitations of a data set, and we can unknowingly reach misguided conclusions.
I was completely on board until the second paragraph. Isn't this almost exactly the argument the DAO used?

No. The DAO attack wasn't a 50% attack - it was a bug in the contract.

It seems like in cases where extremely large amounts of money are at risk, we still haven't developed computers that should be completely trusted with it.

That's the point of the blockchain.
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I'm having a hard time understanding this picture along with what I understand of the scale of space. The Andromeda Galaxy is big, and it has a lot of stars. Which is to say, it's REALLY big, and it merely has a bunch of stars, so the size of the stars should be very small compared to the empty space between the stars, even if you are looking through the galaxy. I would assume that if you get a better and better image, you'll be seeing the holes better just like you'll see the stars better. Kind of a fractal effect: when you look closer, you see the same kind of density but at different scales.

But if I zoom into this image it just feels like I'm seeing a mush of speckled light. What's up with that? How much of the image is an artifact of the telescope?
Yes, that's probably very true but it's amazing how long it took me to realise and finally bite the bullet to move on. Basically I really enjoyed running my own business but I didn't like the business was running. It's also really hard to walk away from something you built and was actually bringing in a decent profit (and still is for the new owners). As a disclaimer I still don't like what I do as its in a similar area, but the reduced stress and stable pay check make it more fulfilling, especially whilst I save up the collateral and figure out the actual business I want to run.
100 billion stars, not million. So on the order of 100 stars per pixel, although obviously not evenly distributed.

(Edited to add) The individual stars you can see when you zoom all the way in are the very brightest stars, mostly blue (O/B class) or red (K/M class) giants. For each star you can see, there are hundreds of smaller stars that you can't make out individually but contribute to the general background glow.
I'm not sure why you think cheap enough electric self driving cars can't be public transport.
What does 5 on a 25 pre mean?
This is a useful reference for hanyu pinyin/tones: http://lost-theory.org/chinese/phonetics/
Wow, 20-million for a simulator... Seems to me like a market ripe for a little competition.
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An alternative is to use ARM-based devices: they typically lack microcode updates, and while TrustZone hypervisors are often present and the situation varies by device, at least some devices should allow the user to gain full control of the CPU without having to exploit anything. (I don't know how common that is, because every device manufacturer has their own boot process, and from some quick Google searching it seems like most of the time nobody bothers to figure out how the TrustZone stuff or the boot chain works, being satisfied with custom Android images...)

ARM Chromebooks in particular I think are theoretically supposed to have fully open source firmware, though the documentation is a little sparse... probably mostly for the same reason, lack of interest.
I don't believe they've ever named it; it is indeed "supermassive" (around 2.3 billion of our suns).

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is called Sagittarius A* ("Sagittarius A-Star"), the only named supermassive black hole I could find in any reports.
If we already know the answer, then we don't need a hypothesis. The only reason to choose is because there are different predictions of the unknown.
Isnt that written there pretty much since Skype is Microsoft?
I think display:none is a regularly annoying design mistake. It would be better to separate the concepts of how the content should be displayed, and whether it should be displayed in the first place.

It causes issues such as:

- The built-in rule for *[hidden] { display: none; } is often of no help as another css class may set display to something else, so from the developer's perspective the "hidden" attribute seems to be broken.

- Often a CSS class sets display:none and another CSS class which merely wants to undo that sets display:block. This gets in the way of the developer if they really wanted to use another display type like flex. (one example: Bootstrap's tabs, .tab-content.active{display:block})

- In both cases the fix gets ugly in cases where the problematic css which you want to override comes from parent classes elements, as in that case it is not sufficient to use a simple class like .display-flex{display:flex;} but you need complex rules to override specific cases of parent css.
Are you all muscle? If you were fat I'd suggest high fat low carb diet.
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If you are getting a mortgage, you usually buy it.

Also, if you want to get a mortgage for a lease, you can, if the mortgage repayment deadline is before the lease expiry. When it comes to property banks only care about getting a notarized mortgage contract and getting on the property's land registry sheet in a first position. (And this latter part is interesting, because most land registries - as far as I know - don't really have the concept of expiring records - so you can't record the fact of your lease.)
Cf. G.K. Chesterton: "The reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right."
The idea of taking higher salary over options is basically summed up in the "why your dentist is rich" chapter in Fooled by Randomness. It's "safer" and you'll be relatively rich over all outcomes.

Additionally you can theoretically invest the extra money over your vesting period of the options at whatever $insert ETF produces as an annual return.

Setting all the monetary issues asside I'm not sure if I'd prefer more money or more options on a philosophical basis. I feel like I'd go for options because if you work at a startup you should share the vision and work there because you believe it's awesome stuff that will change the world. OTOH taking the salary might make you less prone to certain biases and more "objective" in everyday work (+not overinvested in one outcome).
tl;dr: I think I'd take the options package if I'd work at a startup because if I wouldn't I'd have to question why I work there in the first place
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Ah ok, I thought you might have but wasn't sure :)
Particularly since it's not like if Microsoft was adding new features to Excel since office 2007.
I'd recommend it. I was grandfathered into the free plan but $11/year seems fair.

Regardless of what you settle on I'd look for the equivalent of http://www.packal.org/workflow/alfred-pinboard for whatever service and platform you use. Being able to instantly search through all fields of all items in your archive is pretty great and has changed the way I work.
"the full image [...] has 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image."

True, but not accurate ?

1'500'000'000 / (1980 * 1024) ≈ 739.8 :)
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I guess he refers to clicking the + button ten times. I'm using Chrome for Android myself.
A question ...

What is decision your decision process whether to answer or not? Do you answer honestly when opportunity is just too small?
Another bug with CSV files is that opening a CSV file triggers a full recalculation, even if the calculations are set to manual. This is clearly a wrong behaviour.
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We're talking hundreds of thousands of malwares here.
Just use a table and get on with your life
So this would be another problem that could be avoided if "CSV" would actually friggin mean "comma separated values" and not "whatever Windows might consider comma-equivalent depending on locale and/or phase of the moon"?
Why not something platform independent? Launching iOS only is like having huge technical dept for a not yet existing Android version.
I would think it only fair to put the burden of the health damage on the company who sells addictive products.

If you sell cigarettes and a customer looses part of the lung, you pay or behave to prevent.
If you sell alcohol and a customer drives a car in a crowd, you pay or behave to prevent.
If you are a narco and sell crack, you pay for the results.
The problem is not the unknown problems with those substances, its the fact that the producers are detached from the consequences of their actions.
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Skipping to the end:

> Moreover, the differences aren't statistically significant IMHO, but you could always debate.

> With those results, I won't say that PostgreSQL on one OS is faster than on the other.

And, to answer my own request, I won't advise my client to migrate to Linux because of PostgreSQL performance. (You could argue that there are more tools for PostgreSQL on Linux than on Windows but that was not the point here)

> For me, PostgreSQL performance on Windows is not better nor worst, it's at par with Linux !

> All the results are available on my github.
We once fed a friend alcohol-free beer while convincing him it was in fact really strong. He got drunk.
I can see the value of using your mail from your company but I'm really afraid it would get treated as spam by the filters, and for that reason I tend to use gmail for contacting someone for startup related reasons.
I don't know, I have a feeling that there is a definite push towards banning cash. In Germany for example they plan to ban paying in cash for things over 5000€.
Java and SSH... should not mix.
what do you mean by Transform, Op, Transform?
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The worst I see is that the requirements come from management who are "sponsoring" the project. The have no clue how their employees do their jobs or even what their jobs are, yet they make crucial decisions on how the software to do them works.
I'd say that's debatable. My admittedly limited understanding of mathematics is that the underlying truths that emerge depend on the axioms in play. My understanding of axioms is that of 'rules' to the mathematical games we play, and you can change which rules you follow and get different results.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_axioms

If we accept that in mathematics we're finding out about the outcomes of the rules we choose to follow, then I have no problem in thinking of mathematical discoveries as truths, but I'd say they are conditional truths rather than absolute truths. What are your thoughts on this?
Initially I felt like I ought to reply to every cold email, but quickly realized that that wouldn't scale (replying to cold emails took 2 hours a week, then 3, then 4..)

The litmus test I currently use is that if it seems like someone put more than 5 minutes of effort into an email, then I will reply. Sometimes emails fall through the cracks because I get swamped with work, but I'd say I reply to ~0% of "template" emails and ~75% of emails where the sender spent at least a few minutes thinking about the content and personalizing it.

Replies vary from "let's meet up" to "this doesn't fit my fund's focus areas" to "I'm not sure if the current version of the company is big enough for a VC business." I try to be honest if I have something constructive to say.