skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So 650 ly is a distance in between, but I still can't understand in which direction is this.

The SIMBAD link you gave gives you the RA and Dec (Right Ascention and Declination) which gives you a precise co-ordinate for where in the sky the object is. It's a bit difficult to wrap your head around the co-ordinate system but if you think about it hard enough you could translate to a map of the galaxy.

To be frank, most researchers don't look at maps of the galaxy for analysis, in general you're looking at things from the perspective of Earth.
Ok that's what I was thinking. The OP's blogpost was a little confusing in how it was worded. I think I'll be sticking with Phantom until chromedriver stable is updated.
Aluminum cans are lined with BPA (polymer) .. not likely that this is a major vector. See Table 1.3 here[1] for a discussion of some sources, although it does not cover cans, pots and pans, or foil.

[1]https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/phs/phs.asp?id=1076&tid=34
Not true. The matrix [[1 1] [0 1]] has the eigenvalue 1 repeated twice but the eigenvectors are on a line.

The generalized eigenvectors are on a plane.

The case where the eigenvectors do not span the space corresponds to matrices whose Jordan normal form has upper triangular bits.
That "niche" appears to have consisted of 21.1M watches in 2016, so roughly 80% the size of the Swiss watch industry (25.4M watches): http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2067481/smartwatch-market-h...
I had an Organic Chemistry professor back in like 2001 who swore by the Al link, or at least was very cautious about it and made the lifestyle changes to eliminate all the aluminum cookware she said could leach with the cooking of acidic foods and all. Seemed a pretty easy enough thing to avoid when we went all cast iron and stainless steel. I'm curious what the history to this Al hypothesis is.
Hmm, okay, so we reduce to black and white, add some warp and noise and then reduce the size so that the text is only just readable.

...and they focus on adding fonts of multiple sizes so it can't be shrunk without losing information.
Relevent sentences from the abstract:

At this rate, about 4 μg of aluminium is absorbed from a single use of ACH on both underarms. This is about 2.5% of the aluminium typically absorbed by the gut from food over the same time period. Therefore, a one-time use of ACH applied to the skin is not a significant contribution to the body burden of aluminium.
Interesting idea! How do you protect yourself against people always requesting for a refund? It seems this could be abused, no?
Yep. There's a tool in djb's daemontools that uses this behavior - https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/readproctitle.html . It's kinda a pathological case, but it's a kinda cool way to assure that you can get some data from your processes, even on a totally horked system, as well as being fairly convenient from an old-school administration perspective (giving the ability to see what errors a program has encountered with just ps or top; Already likely to be the first commands run when something's wrong.)
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It is self hosted if you like, it's open source. Feel free to host it yourself. https://github.com/monicahq/monica
Quite interestingly, about two hours before this was posted, Apple actually announced that they'll identify events emails and suggest you add it to your calendar.

It's going slowly, but there's definitely a tend into this direction. I do agree with the op though, this could move faster.
I thought the problem with client side crypto wasn't so much performance but the fact that it can't really be trusted?
[Ask HN] Google identifying me as robot, happening for you?
This will identify you as a bot request. Not sure if its bug. Open in incognito.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ioutil.ReadAll+error&oq=ioutil.ReadAll+error&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active%27
Ask HN: Attending a programming bootcamp exam in Freemont, need a place to crash
Hi everyone, from the 25th of June until the 21 of July I'll be attending the piscine (french for pool) at 42 located in 6600 Dumbarton Circle, Fremont, CA.

I live in NYC and have nowhere to stay in Freemont. If anyone is willing to lend their couch or let me sleep in the garage that will be fantastic. If you happen to visit NYC I'll definitely return the favor.

I'll spend 12-15 hours at 42 so I won't be at your house almost at all. I'll shower and eat at 42 as well. When I have some free time I can help around the house washing the dishes or cleaning the house.

We can skype before handed to make sure we get along. If you're able and are willing to spare anything even for half the time please email me at horatiu.mitrea(at)gmail.com

PS If anyone lives a little bit further down and is willing to let me stay, it's fine I don't mind walking
Most news sources already load between 2 and 10 megabytes of Javascript, which is a significant fraction of, say, Python's runtime and many, many people browse those pages on mobile devices and connections without a problem. In Python's case, a large amount of the runtime size is taken up by all of the platform specific implementations of the standard library and they wouldn't work in the sandbox anyway.

Is there anything preventing Python.org from hosting the runtime environment on their CDN that everyone caches locally? Are there security issues from cross domain modules? Worst case, I don't think it would be hard to extend the LocalStorage API to cache modules between domains (perhaps with signed runtimes and a fallback).
But still, this is part of why I go out of my way to use deodorant without anti-perspirant. The idea of aluminum bits causing the pores to swell shut doesn't sound like a good idea.
That makes me really happy to hear. Is there any good way to keep up on potential up-coming features you are working on? I feel like that would be good knowledge to have when making decisions.
For those who are paying attention, Vydia does not do social media marketing. We help our customers protect their video content online. It's a digital rights management platform.
... Did you add him to your Monica?

BTW is there a better way to say that?
Personal experience: My general language-to-go is Python, and I'm very fond of Rust. But Fortran has no competition in numerical computing at native speeds in terms of convenience. I was just recently rewriting a small Fortran library (that I usually but not always call from Python) to C, and it was a pain. So, as a result of that, Fortran is still used heavily in scientific computing. (On the other hand, Fortran is a pain for anything else than numbers and arrays.)

It is also the only language I'm aware of that has a special syntax for distributed memory [1], making parallel distributed computing potentially extremely convenient.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Coarray
I mean good luck I guess Theresa.
It seems to me that in an attempt to avoid one type of toxic environment, you've gone to another extreme. What you're really screening for is an environment where everyone is similar to yourself.
Not to repeat myself too much, but... ZFS also supports normalization. Only instead of normalizing on create, it has normalization-preserving/insensitive behavior.
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Blush.
Thanks for the feedback. Glad that all the hours sitting on my couch coding this tool helps you today :-D
I'm fond of "eig" which in Matlab is the function to return eigenvectors and eigenvalues. My experience is that it's easier to recognize and remember abbreviations​ rather than acronyms.
This is why I love Hackernews.
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In the 60s or 70s, IBM made all their plastics, worldwide, for their machines near Boulder, where SparkFun is based.

As a result of that, when IBM moved production elsewhere, much of the talent stayed in the area - now there are a lot of high quality smaller companies with injection molding and other plastics experience etc. in the area.

Another area in business where the high rents and "you need a VC" mentality would have worked against real world success.

CO attracts high quality people - although the housing prices skyrocketing is going to affect whether the younger people who are less financially established, will come in the same numbers as before.
> I wonder if the efficiency of the new design is lower than the traditional centrifugal fan design?

It depends. They each have their pros and cons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_fan

http://www.pelonistechnologies.com/blog/axial-vs.-centrifuga... (might be somewhat biased)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_(machine)

Unfortunately I couldn't find anything on axial fan efficiency or whatnot, compared to centrifugal fans. In general, though, if I had to pick one I'd go with the centrifugal fan for cooling purposes; they seem to move air much better than axial fans.

They do make direct-drive centrifugal fans, but I am not sure if they exist in large versions for home cooling systems. They are made for use in computers, as well as for smaller (but still large) units like blowers for drying and for things like "air curtains" and smaller blowers for small air-conditioning systems.
Thanks for clarifying. That should probably be reflected in the title.
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> Should filesystems be making up for our Unicode shortcomings?

In this case: yes. Specifically the FS should implement normalization-preserving/insensitive behavior. http://cryptonector.com/2010/04/on-unicode-normalization-or-...
Sparkfun has not had to compete talent just yet. Wait until the competition for talent in Colorado reaches SV level. Sparkfun will have to stop relying on "I want to work at a cool/fun/relaxed place badly" and start paying market rates for talent.

Take a look at their crazy application process. It's built around how badly labor wants to work there. This strategy doesn't work in SV anymore.. Good candidates want to get paid, not have "fun times" at work. Sparkfun's talent strategy is built on concepts that are well over 15 years old.
Cool, just the sort of history I was curious about regarding the origins of this hypothesis.
For subscriptions, it drops to 15% after one year: https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/
Not yet :-D

"You've been Monica-ed"
I don't think the comment meant "child [abusers or rapists]" but rather "[child abusers] or rapists". i.e. those who either are [abusers of children], or are [any kind of rapist].
I used to be married and that was my mindset. I knew if we started a family my resentment would be toxic, working a stressful job that you can't grow or learn from is horrible. Having people who don't do their jobs well depending on you all the time, then going home and having more people that depend on you all the time. That's just too much for me, I would break down quickly.

It makes sense to me that people ignore all that and just focus on providing for family, but I just don't know how to do that. If my job doesn't work for me, it colors my whole life.
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An editorial in a journal that no one ever heard of by an author from an also-ran university. In medical research you can really only trust meta-studies, because attempts to find a simple cause for any complex disease are legion, and usually wrong.
My wife keeps showing me studies of how a certain amount of hours per day of television correlates with retardation in children. This retardation was measured by being intellectually behind in development by 6 months to 1 year.

My kids don't watch TV. This opinion piece is lacking in facts. It all comes down to an empirical argument about the author's many generations of family always being worried about too much screen time.
The dimension of the space spanned by the eigenvectors associated with a degenerate eigenvalue is bounded above by the algebraic multiplicity of the eigenvalue and bounded below by one.
dude... there are a half dozen nearly identical comments on this thread that give you the answer to your question.
ZFS has a per-dataset option to allow/reject non-UTF-8. For valid UTF-8 names ZFS implements normalization-preserving/insensitive behavior. That was the best compromise we could find, and it works really well.
Apple could of course change their keyboard layouts to produce something close to NFD. (OS X has always allowed keys to produce multi-character results.)
...or aluminum cans for drinks and tinned meat? although those seem to have other metal covering them on the inside.
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> and on many other different things like LC_ variables on linux.*

The point is that it doesn't need to be. I would entertain that not everyone might not want to use Unicode: in that case, the FS should still have a well-defined encoding, such that I can still arrive at a string to display to the user. The point is not that "Unicode is best" but that storing file names as "bags of bytes" is incredibly user unfriendly, and there needs to be a straightforward, no bullshit method to display and transmit the names of files.

But I would also argue that Unicode is the best we've got presently, and it would be pragmatic for a filesystem to simply adopt it outright. It's overwhelmingly the dominant character set in use today, especially if you ignore deprecated junk that Unicode is a strict superset of.
It has to do with being a woman because she said it did, in answer to a question about that. You've changed the subject, in a belittling way ("just").

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14490803 and marked it off-topic.
This is a CRON Job and the notation indicates the time and frequency that an action should take place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron
Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Overview.

In short: At 00:00 hours on 19/07 (i.e. July 19) execute that command. The * means 'regardless of what day of the week it is'.
Not having to pay does not make it 'open' either, but I see your point.
Some baking powders (used in quick breads) contain aluminum.
Thank you so much for this! It's something that's been kicking around in the back of my head for ages, but it was never a big enough priority for me to tackle. I'll definitely be checking it out!
Right, the idea is kinda obvious.
Hard to be sure without measurements, but emscripten uses LLVM's optimizer and the binaryen optimizer, and AssemblyScript can benefit from the latter. So the question is how much the LLVM optimizer could help this type of code.

For example, the LLVM optimizer can do smart things with aliasing and assumptions about undefined behavior in C code, but for a language like AssemblyScript those might not be relevant anyhow.

But currently the binaryen optimizer is still missing some passes like GVN, so until we add those, that might be noticeable when doing comparisons here.
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My understanding:

Aluminum exists naturally in soil and is absorbed into plants and the animals that eat them. We have always been exposed aluminum in trace amounts via food. Ones total exposure increases over their lifetime.

Over a century ago aluminum extraction became much cheaper and it started to be used in various food additives, thereby increasing the amount of aluminum we consume and the average total exposure over our lifetimes. If aluminum is a primary factor in Alzheimer's, we would see an increase in incidence over that time period as well.
Pretty sure she sent the document which means she made the mistake of sending high resolution scans.
I don't know how I missed that! Thank you for the direct link. I will take a closer look at it and give you feedback in the future.
First they say that it's been happening for over a decade, but then they blame Brexit at the end, this makes no sense.
It is crontab.
Supporting more than one encoding requires knowing what that is, and apps and APIs are very bad at keeping track of that. Which is why only Unicode in some UTF makes sense.

ZFS allows you to store non-UTF-8 if you like, but for all valid UTF-8 it implements normalization-preserving/insensitive behavior, which is the best possible compromise (IMO).
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> Did anyone mention normalization-preserving/normalization-insensitive behavior?

You did, 11 times so far this thread. I counted.
If you do, please tell me if you liked it or not, and more importantly, what could I add to make it better!
If it's 100% employee owned, does that mean SparkFun is a co-op?
>So I've got this direct report, and in public she hates the CEO

In today's society, it's socially more acceptable to hate the President than to merely like the President.

> And she identifies her own race as being terrorists

If she was making these statements on any race other than 'white', I guarantee you she would have been dealt with immediately.

What do we call these people? Radical, self-loathing white TrumpIsHitlers? Are they the final form of the SJW?
https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf
Red-flags:

- A journal name I don't recognize

- A single author from an institution that I don't recognize

- Use of absolute terminology 'unquestionably'

- Implied vague relationships between large biological systems 'sweating' reduces chances of Alzheimer.
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it's a crontab file.

'0 0 19 7 ' means 'midnight of July 19th, regardless () the weekday.

It is example 2 from 'man crontab'.
Okay, but what about Aluminium?
Nothing is harder to predict than the future. ;)

I can also run objdump against Microsoft Office. Does it make it open?
But what it really is an advertising platform. I mean if Facebook charged for usage then I'd pay for it.
In the vast majority of cases, the watermark data wouldn't point anywhere interesting. Maybe the serial number would point to a public library or a warehouse where the printer was stored prior to sale. Certainly The Intercept had no way of knowing that the serial number would correspond to an office printer at the NSA or one of their contractors.

I don't think we should expect news outlets to scour every printed document for these watermarks and remove them. Most aren't that technically savvy and this solidly seems like the responsibility of the person doing the leaking.

Leaking is dangerous and risky. I don't know the leaker personally but I could understand someone feeling that documents need to be released to the public and, at the same time, feeling like they can't evade the NSA's investigation. At that point any counter-measures probably seem pointless, especially for those who are not technical and can't imagine any bounds to the NSA investigative powers.
maketh is 3rd person singular, but should be an infinitive. cutesy middle english "fail"
Normalization on CREATE was the mistake.

ZFS does normalization on LOOKUP. This is much better, as it preserves whatever form you used, but is normalization-form insensitive, which is precisely what users need (and would want, if only they could be expected to understand what the heck is going on!).
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Whenever someone rich gets in the news for being nice, people seem to love digging for some way that their motives are not "entirely altruistic". I understand that sometimes these deals are BS and don't actually benefit anyone but the rich person. But, I don't understand why people get so upset over the rich person benefiting in any way shape or form.

I've seen such outrage as "He only gave away a $1,000,000 so that he could cut $350,000 off of his taxes!" :/ "The deal eventually, indirectly feeds some money back into the project in the long term making it self-sustaining!" :/ "It not anonymous, so he's only helping thousands of people to be famous for helping thousands of people!" :/ "He's rich, so giving away huge amounts of money is easy for him. Helping thousands of people should not be recognized unless it was hard!" :/ Then there's the classic "So, he's helping this part of the problem. But, why doesn't he help the rest of the overwhelmingly huge collection of tangentially-related problems?" :/

Sometimes it seems that the standard we hold people to is "Helping people must be anonymously self-immolating to avoid disparagement." Then we disparage the same people because, as far as we can tell, they are not helping enough.
Remember that if you use stripe subscriptions you absolutely must setup a webhook, or otherwise examine your logs every month.

Why? If a customer is subscribed to a "plan", and their payment fails it is retried three days later, then five days later, then eight days later, and if all three payments fail they're quietly unsubscribed without any notification being sent to you!

I have a toy project which has paying customers and last month realized I'd had people using my SaaS for over a year without having paid me. A few failures in a row meant they were unsubscribed, and since I didn't read the reports every month I didn't notice.

I reworked my payment system now, to subscribe to webhooks and ensure I find out promptly in the future.

Not a huge deal at my volume, but a surprise I could have lived without.
To me it's "an external brain for your social life".
I don't trust measures of "small business friendliness", because more often than not, how "business friendly" a state is really is a measure of how willing they are to gut consumer protection and employee protection laws. Having grown up in South Dakota, I can assure you this is the case there.
I'm not doubting that the NSA would have figured out the source eventually, yellow dots or not, but I think it's a fair criticism to say the Intercept did not have to publish a picture of the document in full, instead of transcribing the contents.
What are common sources of Aluminium?
Most of my clients are in NJ, very tech-heavy still.
That could explain it, it would be a nice addition
Employment in manufacturing has been falling since the sixties, this isn't a recent occurrence.
Food/beverage cans are usually coated with BPA to prevent aluminum contamination.

Mmmmmm, yummy.
It's a unix/linux crontab, for repetitive task. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

It's minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week

In this case, repeat every 19th of july at midnight.
Whoa - sure enough, there they are.

The microdots seem to be the usual xerox-style microdots, and decode properly:

Printer serial number: 535218 [or 29535218]
Date: May 9, 2017
Time: 06:20
> Maybe some other users here are right and I am naive in thinking people will create fair and just rules that others wont try to cheat.

There's just not a lot to gain and a lot that can go wrong. It's high risk, minimal rewards. Making prisons more rehabilitative isn't difficult or some unsolved problem.

People in this country just have an appetite for righteous vengeance and ensuring that criminals receive their due suffering.
As in trying to get the FBI knocking on you door? Parallel construction dictates they'll never confess how or what they truly broke.
The issue isn't a "bag-of-bytes" filename model. The issue is a "bag-of-bytes" filename model combined with an inconsistent normalization scheme.

It's not a problem on Windows or Linux filesystems because Windows and Linux don't provide a half-assed normalization scheme that lets me fairly easily create files that can't be accessed. If the Cocoa libraries did no normalization, then the resulting behavior might be obnoxious from a human-interface perspective, but I don't think the article would describe it as "little short of catastrophic".

I'm sitting here on my US English keyboard typing scancodes that look just like they did in 1990, so I'm not the best authority on how big of a problem it really is, but I'd guess it's going to result in a lot of bugs. Anyone who's ever tried to use a Mac with a case-sensitive HFS+ partition should be able to tell you that programmers can't even "normalize" their filenames consistently strictly within their native language.
It's not Unicode's fault. Unicode took a terrible situation (lots of complex scripts) and did the best it could to give us a unified way of representing text in all scripts.