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> How do you interpret this sentence: "Single-detector gravitational-wave triggers had never been disseminated before in low latency. Given the temporal coincidence with the Fermi-GBM GRB, however, a GCN Circular was issued"

If you back up a sentence, it says:

> A GCN Notice was issued at 13:08:16 UTC.

If you extend your quote a few words:

> a GCN Circular was issued at 13:21:42 UTC

Note the 13 minute gap between the Notice and the Circular. The Notice was based on LIGO's own detection (which, again, was not rejected as noise by their algorithms as you have claimed). The Circular was issued based on the temporal coincidence with Fermi's detection.

The difference between a Notice and a Circular is explained on GCN's website:

> The GCN system distributes:

> * Locations of GRBs and other Transients (the Notices) detected by spacecraft (most in real-time while the burst is still bursting and others are that delayed due to telemetry down-link delays).

> * Reports of follow-up observations (the Circulars) made by ground-based and space-based optical, radio, X-ray, TeV, and other particle observers.

https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/

> In which case their signal to noise ratio is going to be messed up.

The LIGO detection was triggered by an algorithm (gstlal) that constantly evaluates the SNR of the data coming off the detector. The Fermi detection had nothing to do with that. You're trying very hard to make a boogieman out of nothing.

> Ok, but I'm saying it is my understanding that no one expects to detect any supporting evidence in the case of the black holes. Ie, not that it was missed. There is "nothing to see".

This wasn't a black hole merger. It was a neutron star merger, which is expected to produce counterparts.
Here are some examples from the Python standard library:

multiprocessing/pool.py:
self._number_left = length//chunksize + bool(length % chunksize)
test/test_math.py:
tmant = tmant // (2*h) + bool(tmant & h and tmant & 3*h-1)

From NumPy and SciPy:

numpy-1.11.0/tools/swig/test/testArray.py:385:
sys.exit(bool(result.errors + result.failures))
scipy/scipy/signal/signaltools.py:2003:
n_out = n_out // down + bool(n_out % down)
scipy/scipy/signal/signaltools.py:3001:
n_out = x.shape[axis] // q + bool(x.shape[axis] % q)

Here's one from my own code, where I allow a query to be specified through --query , or as a hex-encoded query through --hex-query or as an input file through --queries, but I only allow one of them:

if bool(args.query) + bool(args.hex_query) + bool(args.queries) > 1:
You mention being "a few months behind", what is the reason for this lag?
Eh? Maybe this is different in Britain, but here in the US, "curry" is simply a general word for the category of foods that are both spicy and liquidy, and tend to be eaten with rice or bread (in contrast to soups). It's obviously a given that there are an infinite number of sauces and flavors in curries, both in and outside India...
The term 'post-mortem' doesn't appear anywhere on that page. It was added by the OP in the title. In reality it should be called an incident report.

If we want to be technical, a post-mortem in the tech world is commonly used to outline failures that occurred during a normal event (i.e. a software release) not a random production issue.
I quite like the idea and find myself doing something similar, especially when writing for clarity is key. I think any easy way of automating this would be to line break at every subordinate clause and break at commas whenever the syllable count dictates a breath.

This could also be a trick for speed reading, as the structure of the text would be more obvious and visible on the page.
Check out the contract for a lottery or gambling system provider. They usually provide that the service provider is responsible for all losses for downtime or other errors on the provider's part, including fraud and theft. GTech pays about 0.5% of their revenue in penalties.
How big of a problem is the fact that shards constructed this way don't like crossing the "big" boundaries in the S2 curve? Especially if a high-usage location happens to straddle one of those boundaries (like, IIRC, Toronto)?
One can always fork.
What is a 3% change in body temperature? From absolute zero?

(My point is that temperature is probably an odd man out in graph terms, our usual reference points are not actually at zero.)
I was surprised when I first got involved with drug development, how rushed the process is. Phase I and Phase II trials are initiated by pharma with strikingly little understanding of how the drug works. A classic example is iniparib, which made it to a phase 3 trial but turned out not actually hit the target it was supposed to hit (PARP).

The reason for this is I think economics. There is a large advantage to being first to market, especially if the disease has no other treatments. This means that you can set your price, there is zero competition, and you disincentivize all other companies from developing similar drugs. Under these conditions, you can recoup development and trial costs in 1 - 2 years. So it is no wonder that drugs with any sort of signal are pushed quickly through early phase trials.
> “Newton's theory of gravitation identified the relevant variables and their relationships.”

No, it introduced a useful low-dimensional fiction that approximately works, with high accuracy at coarse scales, and doesn’t account for relativistic or quantum effects (and so, in an absolute sense, is only an approximation, not an interpretation of what is real).

Besides, what you glibly type out as a few characters of a formula unpackages into a deeply hard-to-explain theory in natural language. It’s vastly less interpretable than simpler (and less correct) models because it introduces much more complexity of the meaning and physical concepts behind the formula terms. Just as quantum or relativistic extensions add even more complexity and counter-intuitive concepts and become even harder to interpret.

> “All of this would have been lost of the formula was a state vector of a large neural network.”

Why? I see no reason why that would be true. If there is a very low-dimensional manifold in parameter space that accounts for all the predictive power, that would be a very easy thing to diagnose from a neural network model. Lots of things have been discovered that way, like graph centrality metrics coming from eigen decompositions, style transfer, glove vectors, eigenfaces.

Getting the high-dimensional representation that yields accurate predictions is often step 1, great scientific progress and often a huge leap forward. Then step 2 is often asking if there is some natural low-dimensional compression of the parameters that is approximately as good, and if so, does it correspond to any known quantities.

Though sometimes this isn’t possible or even desirable, such as with non-parametric models, and yet such models can still represent “interpretable” scientific progress in the sense of allowing us to predict how states of affairs will develop when we previously couldn’t and solving inference goals.
> I believe SQL is "the most deployed programming environment family in human history". SQLite is seemingly everywhere.

How many computers have a browser on them vs an interactive and instructable version of an SQL server?
The thesis isn't that they're bad, but an incomplete part of the picture. We in the West like simple solutions to complex problems. Throwing medication at your depression and calling it a day is no more effective for mental health than dropping money out of a helicopter is for improving the economy.

The key role that medication plays is to shake you out of a vicious cycle; it gives you a window, a break from the deepening groove your mind has gotten itself into so that you have the capacity to do other things that will have a more lasting effect. It doesn't solve the problem all by itself, yet many people expect it to.

(Speaking as someone who's dealt with depression and who has many friends with varying combinations of depression and anxiety, who have taken varying strategies for dealing with them.)
Thanks for your report! Looks like I might be overvaluing the fun factor of an Audi S4 compared to a Model 3.

I'm also wondering if the feel of an electrical engine is a personal thing? I have heard from one of my friend owning a Motel 3 that they are not a huge fan of the Electrical feel compared to a Manual gas car.
Obama was also never under investigation for storing and destroying information related to an investigation.

Let's not forget that Hillary wasn't some innocent in this, she was under investigation and to discredit that as a catalyst or a point of contention that would be leveraged is naive. In many ways, her actions and the storm around them brought heightened exposure to the sensitivities of the topic and made for a great way to push and divide the country even more. She's not a victim and in fact I would argue she too was part of the problem.
So you’re not hiring people of equivalent skillset, that’s fair enough.

I just found it a surprising comment in isolation because most people I’ve met who’ve developed both frontend and backend skills to a senior or greater level, would argue that frontend is the more challenging of the two.

The bit about idle time is a bit confusing though, can’t you just have fewer devs if there’s not enough work to go around? Or do you always need a lot of spare resources due to unpredictable workloads?
This makes more sense, but I'm still confused by that self-signed bit. By master cert, if you mean that's your internal CA's cert that's distributed across every client and server as a part of your trust root, than this makes sense. If you are saying the master self-signed cert is served directly by the orchestration cluster, than this doesn't make sense, as the clients have no way of distinguishing one self-signed cert from another.
Oh, you meant variations in the CMB. I thought you just meant making the CMB visible.
Funny how you only took into account the post that confirms your preset bias.
Google doesn't care about you or whatever you're building, unless you are building something that might threaten them.

You would be well-advised to reciprocate. To the extent that third-party services are essential to your survival, making efforts to bring it in-house, get long-term contracts, have backup providers, etc. is simply prudent.

Dependency is control. If you build your business in someone else's sandbox, it shouldn't be a surprise that they can hurt you at their whim, and absolutely will do so if they can make a buck.
It's not the use of the term "curry" per se, but the misknowledge of it ...

See what I did there? :)
I'm inclined to side with the researcher on this one, just from this quote from the vendor: "Christiano responded, 'The issue described in the [SpiderLabs] article is certainly not a vulnerability, it is misuse of the product.'"

Attackers don't care what is, or isn't "in scope" for your pen test. They will use what's available. Unauthenticated network services capable of writing files to get code exec is bad.

This doesn't need to be visible on the open internet, what about lateral movement within the organization?
Yes, I know someone who likes unhealthy food and would not eat healthy food even if I paid for it. Sometimes I would give in and eat unhealthy with her, for which she would thank me. Somewhere deep down crap food provides her comfort, I guess.
No I did not miss it. Also I'm based in a neighboring country to Poland. The salary you mentioned won't get you a software developer anywhere in the EU.

I am only pointing out that entrepreneurs need to rethink their business models if they are hit by this price increase, as this is a very strong indication they are not working on a healthy, high-margin business.
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That's an eternal ideological debate where there is always a rebuttal on the form "a-ha - but you could just...", but the rationale is this: Your class will probably be doing things with the private variables that aren't obvious, and will break things if you access them from outside. (Either by them having a different value than you expect, or expecting a different value than you set).

Of course, if you have a perfect understanding of the code, this will never be a problem, as the program is always executed as it is written. But most likely, not everyone in your organization will be as patient, smart and attentive to the details as you are.
To the contrary, I cannot reconcile your statement about their insularity with the observed behavior.

It's almost as if you are wrong in your interpretation.

It's easy to prove me wrong - where has van Rossum panned list comprehensions or the new async/await features?
RCS isn't an app (and neither it's something that Google built).
Thanks for the recommendation! I'll definitely have to give one of those "Fresh in a box" services a chance. Right now, I've found a few upscale, exotic kits (just finished making chicken tika masala) at my local store. Still pre-made sauces, dehydrated veggies, etc. but it's getting me comfortable in the kitchen so "full fresh" seems like a great next step before venturing out on my own.
> But we are still waiting for them to detect something first and prove it is real by pointing where to look.

That's exactly what happened with last year's neutron star merger. It was detected as GRB and GW, localized based off of the GW data, and then an observing campaign found a transient at the predicted location in visible light, IR, UV, radio, and X-ray.
Its a lesson everyone needs to learn at some point: Save code should always be explicit. Yes its annoying, and yes you have to manually update it. But unlike all of your other data structures - durable data doesn't just get blown away on a reboot. Serializing classes is the modern equivalent of just memcpying your data structures to a file.

Saving to a database is no different than saving to a file. Its just a different storage engine.
The article said nothing about making it free, it said that the costs, which were previously in line with competitors, increased by very, very large amounts without any perceived increase in value. Then they looked at options which were commercial offerings which cost dramatically less. They are paying for the service, it's not subsidized or free. It's like you didn't read any of the article.
> I used to live in American suburbia; it was full of vagrants. I had to call the police on several occasions.

I've never seen a vagrant within several miles of my neighborhood. It would be such a terrible place to be vagrant, with a relatively low population density and mediocre public transit. There's a reason they don't hang out in my neighborhood, they do much better in the city.

> I used to loath cutting the grass.

Yeah, I'm not a fan either. However, I pay someone about 1/8th of the HOA fee for the place in the city to have my yard kept tidy for me.

> Is it really vs the costs of maintaining a single-family home and having to own and maintain a vehicle(s) for commuting?

I don't drive a particularly expensive car, and my house is still pretty new so just the HOA fee alone for the place in the city is quite a lot more expensive.

> The city I live in now is cleaner than the suburb that I lived in (trash cleanup is more frequent) and generally quieter.

I'm guessing you lived in a very different sort of suburb than I do, based on how you describe it. I live in a residential area of a very small city ("oldest west of the Rockies" is our only real claim to fame) on the edge of a mid-size metro in a liberal state. It's very clean, low traffic, there are several parks in easy walking distance (not just my yard ;-)), the school my kids go to is about a hundred yards away, etc. I'd have to pay twice as much for half as much if I wanted to live in the city, and I'd be irritated all the time by noisy people. Maybe I am a little antisocial ;-).
If you liked Lefalet I stringly encourage you to try MapboxGl with the Maptiler tiles and your custom styles.

Gets rid of the Mapbox logo and is a really smooth experience.
Will do! Thank you!
I don't think Java's take on OOP is good to learn before you really understand OOP already. Its heavy handed style of OOP really hasn't aged that well and is rightfully being avoided in all newer languages.
It would be nice to have a way to separate full-time remote employees from consultants/freelancers and part-time remote contractors.

I feel as though the constraints and consequences are very different between the two.
“We don’t have enough X” can also mean “teach more X in schools/tertiary education so we don’t have to pay for training”.
This. This is why, as an atheist, I would never recommend atheism to anyone else, much less actively try to change their minds. Spirituality is a key psychological organ, and while some people can fulfill that without organized religion, it's much more difficult that way.
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> And when change finally does happen, it happens in the way most likely to cause everyone heartache, as if to fulfill the prophecy the community made.

I assume you're referring to the 2 to 3 split? Which happened once and every other change has left code in an completely runnable state. Unless you're talking about the C-API then, yeah, it's a PITA to keep it current across versions.

Just today I learned about f-strings and previously not knowing about them being added to the language caused me zero heartache -- I could accomplish the exact same things using the other string formatting forms since they still work as designed.

Aside from the 2 to 3 thing I'd be interested in a concrete example of a change which caused everyone heartache because, honestly, I've never seen it and I (halfass) follow python development.
They could and it would make them a few million dollars, not billions of dollars.
That's really a very high price compared to the competition. $7 for 1000 views!?
Yet that's all rather irrelevant im context considering that apple controls every aspect of their machines.
What programming environment more deployed?

It's surely the case that other binary interpreters are more deployed. But shipped interpreter with free input, a runtime, debugger and (for nearly every implementation, an interactive visual editor).
Manjula: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb75CvYbm5BXpbEkGqFKABw

She's been around for at least a decade and is reliable.
"It’s a senior-engineer retention project."

First time I've ever heard this phrase. It's funny because it's true.
> It's easy to prove me wrong - where has van Rossum panned list comprehensions or the new async/await features?

Since I never claimed he did, I struggle to provide offhand examples.

See: every discussion about lambdas discredited every day by the existence of a robust self-taught javascript community.
Yes, it's not a long-term study -- it's a summary of 522 studies involving a total of 116,477 people treated for 8 weeks on average.

The authors do note that 8 weeks is not long enough to see some antidepressant side effects, which is a problem, but if they see evidence of improvement after 8 weeks, that's quite different from having no evidence of improvement at all.

Unless you mean to suggest that over the very long term, say several years, people on antidepressants end up no better off? I would be interested to know if that has been studied.
Changing the class file doesn't necessarily break backwards compatibility. Are you saying a 1.4 JVM couldn't run 1.3 bytecode?
>I don’t think it’s possible to design an ultrathin laptop around that CPU.

Maybe not, but I don't care about "ultra thin" for a professional machine. I want performance. Apple keeps making sacrifices in the name of dimensions and weight.

They seem to be fine selling "pro" machines to people who use it as little more than a web browser. They make a ton of money and I'm sure they know what they're doing, but they lost me as a customer.
Note the quote from a while ago:

> They are mounted to motorized arms that will retract almost all of their surface behind the Thermal Protection System – the heat shield – when the spacecraft is close to the Sun.

Yes, there's a moving part. It only has to move twice (deploy, mostly retract) but it's still a moving part.
I think their navigation offering is another strong moat in terms of just plain old maps.

I'm sure Google is mining all of that sweet, sweet GPS data from people using their navigation. I can imagine some machine learning of aeriel imagery and some sort of GPS path clustering helps them get a lot of the last mile.

Navigation also helps them get real time traffic data and allows them to learn how costly certain road segments are.
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'const prevents reassignment' is a much simpler way of saying that.

Mutability doesn't need to come into it.
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The key difficulty for me is finding a remote job (from scratch) in a name brand company i.e listed on the NASDAQ.
It's not comparable to OSM tiles as it's paid for licencing for commercial use.
Ha, that was me! Thanks for the bump!
RATS. The research they cited was done on the sleeping posture of RATS, a quadrupedal, straight necked organism. I doubt it's very applicable overall to the difference between lateral and supine posture in humans so I wouldn't take this article to heart in order to adopt a sleeping position that's bad on your shoulders and sinus development.

link: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/35/31/11034.short
I know for the non-American reader it might come off a bit... wrong, but yes. To be clear, I'd rather we didn't go around droning folks or sending JSOC on an FFF mission unless they're, say, directly engaging troops.

It is incredibly unnerving to see one's own government explicitly authorize the death of a fellow citizen without due process of law.
The thing I most resent is that dynamic languages are so widespread. It is so pleasurable to write haskell or ocaml!
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You can compute which shard to use and if you’re in a border region you just use all shards that overlap with your 100km radius.
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>While it doesn't drive me nuts, I see where you're coming from. It's actually taken from the Indian word 'kadhi'

AFAIK, kadhi is the Marathi and Hindi word for a specific dish, made mainly of heated buttermilk with spices in it, eaten with rice and other things, or had as a drink. So what you say seems unlikely to be the origin of the bigger umbrella term curry as used in English in the West (and also some in India, where we informally say we had aloo curry or cabbage curry or whatever curry for lunch or dinner).

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry#Etymology
Indeed. Does that mean that I cannot compare specification numbers?
Because you asked about Medicare specifically, that information IS somewhat available. It'll take some digging into it but the raw data is available at https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Paymen...

I will tell you it's HEAVILY dependent on the zip code and procedures.

Private insurance is a whole different mess, likely going to hit deductible and be done. Last time my partner had to have surgery and billed insurance she paid $1000 and the insurance picked up the other $10k+ (precancerous mass removal, 45 minute surgery).
Offtopic but the thumbnail was really misleading to me, because there is such a thing as a prison burrito and the process you make it is actually similar to the thumbnail (pouring something into junk food bag, and using it as a mixing container).

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSKpDwDhq24

I wonder if the inspiration for these menu items came from similar recipes in low income areas? E.g. the prison burrito might have derived from "hot cheetos". Mostly, recipes born out of a desire for fancier food with limited ingredient choices / availability in food banks / nonperishables