skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a lot of star clusters in M33/Triangulum (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3029), so some of the bright dots may not be individual stars. There are stars which are bright enough to dominate the light within a PSF (point spread function, or resolved region size). They will, of course, be physically much smaller than that size.
http://github.com/neokeld/deliverat
How online foot fetishists debunked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s fake nude
That Kerry Packer clip is terrible. In summary he says (and I'm trying to neutrally paraphrase his words):

"Since I was a boy, 10,000 new laws have been passed, and the country isn't any better. The new laws that have been passed are just for the sake of it, and you take away someone's freedom every time you pass a new law"

This sounds a lot like the Trumpian:

"If there’s a new regulation, they have to knock out two. But it goes far beyond that, we’re cutting regulations massively for small business and for large business"

Yes, there exists duplicitous and over-zealous legislation, but most of it is written to protect the rights of people. Since Mr Packer was a boy, Australia has new rights for gay people, aboriginal people, a great deal more environmental protection, and so on and so on.

The "rich person appeals to common sense by saying they shouldn't be regulated" meme needs to die a death.
> Now displayed right-side up, the mace head is topped by a painted representation of a net that was used to immobilise enemies for execution.

It sounds like they had a thing of capturing enemies, tying them down in a net, and then bashing them to death to really show them who was boss. If this mace wasn't entirely ceremonial, it was probably at least used in fairly controlled circumstances.
To add, there's not much inclusivity in a company of single female-only product, in a market of overwhelmingly female-oriented products. Doesn't that fit into "majority" category?

Has there been any inovation for men toys?
Don't you have to pay high startup costs to be a driver in stockholm?

As far as I know it's a completely different setup with Taxi companies and their hired drivers that work on comission, compared to Uber that works with private contractors.

Do you need a company to start earning money as a cab driver?
I did not expect this thread to teach me anything, and yet here we are.

Why is this the case? Do most birds of prey not have particularly virile screeches or what?
How would you nourish a new child on a vegan diet?
Refactoring 2nd edition is in JavaScript, so relatively closer than Java.
Apologies but I'm not sure I understand your point. Are you able to elaborate?
I am not aware of any direct Markdown -> PDF converters. What do you have in mind?

pandoc makes use of Latex, which is extremely bulky and brings with it a lot of complexity and idiosyncrasies.
I was not able to get anything as nice as a GitHub rendering out of that.

The only alternative I know is using web technologies (chrome headless) to produce a PDF, which is what the author does.
Do you find there's much overlap between the areas? e.g. if you have two PCs, do you keep two sets of screwdrivers?

I'm drawing a parallel to DRY when programming - First time copy it, second time move it out somewhere.

However keeping cables/cable tidies/diagnostic USB inside the machine, and labelled is a fantastic idea, and I will be using that. Thanks!
On the other hand they used MySQL as DynamoDB base, so maybe they will switch DynamoDB to Aurora too?
Yeah. True that. But I guess that just means the job has additional requirements. You can teach a QA guy to write code but its kind of hard for devs to think like a QA.
Expiring LRU Cache in Python
The best piece of financial advice I can give people just starting out (e.g. early 20s), especially if they are working in startups, is this: make sure you have enough cash savings so that you can afford to be unemployed for at least 2-3 months. Besides the obvious safety net to ensure you aren't out on the streets in the event you leave/lose your job, the more important reason for this is so that you can afford to be picky about where you work next.

The opportunity cost of making a sub-optimal choice when it comes to employment is huge, both financially and in terms of your career. Taking a hit on a few months pay is a complete no-brainer if it means you can take a job that you find intellectually stimulating, gets you out of bed in the morning, and offers better long term compensation.
Related: "You won’t believe how far into this ‘millennial homeowner’ piece it takes for us to mention their inheritance!"
Interestingly the original Death Star trench was also made out of standardised interlocking tiles, (rather than bricks).

I've tried finding a link, but surprisingly Star Wars is a popular subject on the internet.

Edit:
https://nerdist.com/take-a-look-at-the-practical-effects-for...

Leads to:
https://m.imgur.com/a/jRHNa
In big cities, walking is transportation. So the faster the better.

In small towns, walking is, for the most part, a recreational or social activity.
Influencer? Thought leader? Something along those lines.
Maybe they should have submitted their product to the appropriate catagoey -- the one with all the other sex toys.
MVVM Support in Blazor
Not dead at all. At my current company, 15% of the total tech team is comprised of QA/SDETs. Though, Manual QA is now being replaced with automation. For every new feature we work on, we have to make sure that we have automation ready before we go live into production. We work on Selenium, Appium, Karate for automation. We use ADF for testing our apps on real devices. Our CI/CD pipeline takes care of running the tests and when the tests fail, deployment doesn't happen.

Like every other job, you've to keep yourself updated with the latest.
Competitive Intelligence
that sounds exciting
Time. You can be a hot shot lawyer making $500k a year and working 12 hours a day, or a software developer making $200k a year with a SaaS product working a few hours a day.

Who is really richer here?
While I enjoyed (and somewhat agreed with) the rant, I'm not sure what his gender, race or sexuality have to do with anything?
I'm getting a blank page, works on archive.org though: https://web.archive.org/web/20190110110159/https://blog.ardu...

Links to the instagram of the project: https://www.instagram.com/wani_brick/

Another very similar blog post with some images: https://mikeshouts.com/custom-lego-death-star-trench-run/

The flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/72984233@N02/

The creator's blog post: http://www.hobbyinside.com/NeoView.php?Db=IndustryReport&Mod... (in Korean)

Also his video channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjMW9mMyPnHD2ALOdGnkPyA/fea...

But couldn't find the video
I agree that smart people will find the loopholes. But I think governments should be held to account for not closing these loopholes. It’s near corruption to leave them open.

You can’t blame a smart business owner for minimising their tax bill. They’re in competition, they have to do what is possible to stay competitive. But you can blame the regulators for creating an unfair system.
Housing debt is a little special because you have an obligation to provide yourself and your family shelter, so your best alternative is rent instead of going without or delaying the purchase until you can save enough money to buy it free and clear.

In general, debt is good if having it is cheaper than the alternative. The way that often happens is if the asset you buy with the debt is worth more, in income or appreciation, than the cost of the debt service. If the alternative also requires you to spend time or money, though, that alone can make debt worthwhile.
> They are not advertising their replacement as MongoDB, either.

I don't really agree there. The service is called documentDB and this is how they describe it [1]:

> Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

> Fast, scalable, highly available MongoDB-compatible database

And the first 2 sentences:

> Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads.

> Customers use MongoDB as a document database to store, retrieve ...

You have to read all of that pretty carefully to understand that it's NOT MongoDB (a term they mention 5 times in the first 4 sentences). And if you read it carefully it seems to say it's compatible with MongoDB, whereas the Techcrunch article states it's only compatible with the MongoDB API from 2 years ago.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/documentdb/
Show HN: ExpressJS style Universal Router with parallel execution
That’s no different from what browsers do at present.

Yes, modifications may cause a reflow. So? That just means that it’s slow. That’s not a problem.

That’s how you implement such things. The initial implementation throws away all layout information as soon as you modify any CSSOM property, and recalculates it. You release that to people saying “it can now do this, but it’ll be extremely slow; let us know what sorts of things you do with it and when you find particularly awful performance cases, and then we’ll look into speeding it up”. Then, as people try using it, you determine where it’s worth putting effort into speeding it up. This is exactly what Michael Day of Prince said they’d do if/when they implemented CSSOM, when I asked him about whether it might come, several years ago. This is an entirely reasonable approach.
It looks like it is no longer maintained: https://github.com/gdotdesign/elm-ui/issues/100
Mexico – Populist measures. Will it help?
7 Cyber Risks to Watch Out for in 2019
To me the first response sounds very much like a canned PR response written by someone with little knowledge of what goes on inside CES. CES has allowed vibrators before so I don't see why they wouldn't stroke with policy now. As another comment in this thread states, OhMiBod has been showcased for years.

I think at first someone at the top (or middle management) just said "that's not relevant, someone get that project out of here", which got passed down the chain of the company to some intern writing a standard email with a useless explanation. Then, when that blew up, an actual response was formed by the PR department, then by the top of the company, complicated further by the authors of this piece contacting people unrelated to either statement and getting another explanation from them. Just a corporate communications cluster fuck.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that.
The article and this video don't describe the same algorithm. As stated at the end of article, "this is not true perlin noise! Hugo's algorithm is not based on gradients like Perlin Noise is. Instead it is what's known as value noise, which is essentially blurred white noise."
> "As we began planning [a child], we literally went to a quiet spot in a local restaurant with a laptop and drew up a spreadsheet of what having a baby would mean. We did this together and planned everything from loss of income due to maternity leave, government parental benefits, the taxation implications of both and even medical expenses and the maintenance cost of a child."

Money is important. But I hope I never get to the point where my mind is as anxious and clinical as this.
In "taught" did you mean "write 80% of the code"? This follows coding conventions far too much for me to believe it's written by an complete beginner.

To me it smells like karmafarming. How is everyone buying this? Where's your reasonable doubt?
My Dad will get in his car and drive across a parking lot rather than walk it, even though it takes longer. He'll sometimes wait for several minutes for someone to leave in their car rather than face a 45 second walk across a parking lot. He acknowledges the irrationality of this behaviour when I tease him about it, but he won't change.

On the other hand, he keeps fit, enjoys walking recreationally and happily walks for miles when hiking, golfing, or fishing. But he'll drive his car as close as possible to the start of the trail first.
@n4r9. Where in the world are you working? I would be interested in getting in touch. You can reach me at stephen dot gooberman hyphen hill at amey dot co dot uk
Jaguar Land Rover to cut up to 5,000 jobs
> a market of overwhelmingly female-oriented products

What market are you talking about? This claim seems pretty dubious.

> Has there been any inovation for men toys?

See: CES.
Did you try using https://priceur.com ?

It simplifies stripe account migration (and also multi currency pricing).

It's free for now. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I built it.
Poker player bets $100k he can last 30 days in pitch black solitary confinement
I don't understand the ire against share buybacks. They're just a more tax efficient and flexible form of dividends to shareholders than traditional cash dividends.

Dividends (broadly construed) are the original reason an investor placed money into a firm. If you outlaw all forms of dividends, you end arms-length investing, which surely harms people more, IMO.
This is completely irrelevant and misses the point.

A counterexample would be someone from a poor background dropping from college to found a startup.
My brain keeps trying to parse this into either DB2 or some Star Wars reference (R2DB, RD2B, etc.)
Go support is currently in development, so very likely :)

As for the other languages there, there are no plans currently on the roadmap for 2019 to add any of them. However if this is something that particularly interests you, we'd encourage you to apply for a job and note that you'd like to add support for a particular language :)
Why did the United States invade Iraq in 2003? [pdf]
Check out "Body Ritual Among the Nacerima":
https://msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html
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A well aimed, correctly placed shot of the right type can be exceedingly fatal but it doesn't follow that waving any gun in the general direction of something and carelessly pulling the trigger will achieve that.

Firstly one has to get in the right position to get a good shot. Of course bad hunters could take carefree pot shots, but they would be widely condemned by their peers. The right position means you have to be:

- close enough. Many forms of hunting will take all day to carefully track an animal and if you're lucky at the end of the day take one careful shot

- from the right direction. You wouldn't take a shot from behind the animal

- able to fire safely. You wouldn't fire at an deer on top of a hill as you have to think about where the bullet will go afterwards

Some forms of hunting, like a driven bird shoot can involve just standing and waiting for birds to come in your direction then take careful shots at them. With this type of shooting I can see more resonance with your objection but hitting a moving target is easier said than done and etiquette on these considers a well execute hard shot much better than going for easy ones.

For many other forms of hunting the actual shot is a very small part of the whole activity and whatever weapon is being used makes much less difference.

Then one also has to remember that there are many different types of gun. Take for example using a large caliber rifle and distances over 1km vs hunting with a handgun. Both require huge amounts of skill in handling the weapon on top of the other general hunting skills.

Some countries require a permit to go hunting, which follows a lot of study and then an exam. This material goes into a lot of depth, and actually discharging the weapon is a surprisingly small amount of this material.

Technology-wise a gun is an improvement on exhaustion hunting, or using more primitive projectile weapons, but is far from making the whole process overwhelmingly easy.
But charity does not preclude freedom. Unless you're suggesting that if charity was absent we'd be seeing more participation?
You absolutely are seeing individual stars in the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) in the zoomable image. The brighter "blobs" are a combination of foreground stars (i.e., stars in our own galaxy) and star clusters in M33, but the fainter points are almost all stars in M33 (a few may faint foreground stars or background galaxies and quasars).

This is no more mysterious than the fact that you can see individual (nearby, bright) stars with your naked eye when you go outside at night. The angular resolving power of your eyes (or of small telescopes) compared to the angular diameters of even nearby stars is terrible; nonetheless, you can still see them.

The key thing to understand is that objects which are too small to resolve will be blurred by the telescope/lens/eye (plus atmospheric turbulence if you're not in space) into a point spread function [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_spread_function]. The light from each star is thus spread out over multiple pixels in a pattern which is basically the same for all the stars, varying only in total brightness and thus detectability; for really bright stars, the light in this pattern can be traced out over a significant fraction of the entire image. This includes features like the diffraction spikes; we don't see these for stars in M33 only because they're too faint to register.
That is an oxymoron. You can not have respect for the animal and fully support killing it and all this without a hint of remorse or empathy. I can not comprehend how that would work.

For the sake of argument lets imagine there is such thing as "humanely" slaughtered cow. For example this one here, enjoying the sun: https://i.redd.it/9v0shahwsh921.jpg

First of all, cows live around 20-25 years and are slaughtered between 18 months and 3-4 years when it comes to dairy cows (which live a live full of misery and are disposed of, once they stopped producing enough milk to be economically viable). Best case scenario, you steak was a child/teenager in cow years.

Second, even the the most "humanely" slaughtered cow has to bleed to death for you steak - we don't want our precious meat to be soaking in blood don't we.

Third, your steak almost certainly didn't have a good live. If you want to see what humanity looks like at its worst, look no further then any industry involving humans and animals that can be economically exploited. Dairy, meat, eggs, fur, wool - it is all horrors beyond your wildest dreams.

Forth, last time I checked - if you eat a lot of meat, cholesterol still blocks your arteries. Heme iron still causes a lot of oxidative stress, aka you age faster. And animals are filled to the brim with antibiotics and hormones and all that good stuff accumulates in the meat, so you get a good juicy concentrated dose.

Fifth, that steak also hurts humans. Nobody in their right mind wants to work in a slaughterhouse, only the most desperate an financially vulnerable choose this field of work and are scared for life afterwords.

All this misery for 15 minute of sensory pleasure. In a time where we have the impossible burger, beyond meat and a plethora of other options, if we want meat without all the suffering and misery.
Understanding the Memcached Source Code – LRU III
Regarding the first case, the rich don't just own nice things, the rich own assets, which means they get richer. Once you get past a certain level of wealth, you have to try pretty hard to become poor again.

As for the second, the rich have the resources to dodge or mitigate that kind of state action in all but the swiftest and most brutal of cases.
The dataset is here https://physionet.org/physiobank/database/mitdb/. Only a handful of files...
Footways on all the major bridges in London are now protected by barriers that prevent vehicles entering the pedestrian area.
It made the Guardian where I read it. HN asks people to submit the original article, which is why I submitted this.
Is the point that the cost functions have incompatible gradients around local minima/different local minima?

I think that is part of it: the different cost functions can have different local minima and also different saddle points; ideally even different ridge/valley configurations.

In machine learning there is a well-known technique called Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) [1]. There the cost function is the sum of a very large number of terms reflecting how well each element of the training set has been reproduced.

With SGD the optimisation steps use randomly chosen cost functions which are obtained by choosing a random subset of the training set.

I had thought the advantage of SGD was purely in saved computation: by computing the approximate cost function on only a small batch you have only a tiny fraction of the computational expense. That if you could use larger batches it would always help the convergence.

This demo writeup makes me realize there may be a benefit from the randomness. Different cost functions may have different local minima, different saddles, different ridges. That helps you not get stuck or even slowed at these points.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_gradient_descent
A brief introduction to XDP and eBPF
The majority of your posts here got heavily downvoted if I go by their color. One got flagged (not by me or anything). There's probably some meaning in that.
Another thought along these same lines is how do you host non-production (Dev, QA, Demo, etc.) environments without spending a fortune? Sure my production workload is 15TB but my development system is only running 15GB and I want to develop against what I deploy to.
I'm sure it not much different from the Clinton Foundation.
A kicking and screaming kid should be rare though.
Who cares. They should write an article about their confusing rules then (it would not be the first, this comes up every year).

But don’t cry sexism when there are female “sexual health” devices by female founders on display and winning awards.

Maybe they are trying to change their image, and this device couldn’t satisfy another category. Maybe they decided it wasn’t novel enough in the areas that matter, and it’s just a better vibrator.

VR Porn is in the VR category, not an adult category, for example. And VR porn for women (whatever that means) is allowed too. Even if the studio has a mostly woman engineering team!

There is already a conference for adult toys at the same time. CES doesn’t want to be that.
Your anecdote reminds me of the Roman Dodecahedron. I saw a video on here some years ago about it being a suprisingly good tool for knitting fingergloves. But the wikipedia page still says it is all but that.
You make it seem like Elm strives to make big, complex programs and that people would take pride in that. That is not the case.

It's nothing more than being happy that this somewhat academic and niche language is being adopted in the real-world.
Inequality is way deeper than money; finding blame in capitalism is alright, if you want to fight inequality and corruption you have a wildly different enemy than mere money
> Is there a license category that says something like: "Anyone can use our tech to build stuff with for free however you may not re-sell our tech wrapped in maintenance or hosting services"?

Yes, there is. It's what MongoDB did. It's not Open Source.

> If you're a small open source company with a services business model, how do you stop someone like AWS forking your code, making a few changes they don't share with you and basically becoming the de-facto supplier of maintenance and services for your tech?

You have a business model that does not work. You've been lying to your investors claiming that you have one. That's exactly the MongoDB story.
> I don't understand what you mean. Is there a more moral alternative to Netflix and Spotify?

I meant more that Netflix and Spotify took a big chunk out of the pirate market. Piracy is cheaper so that can't be it, buying was more moral but people still pirated so morality can't be it.

I (and many others) believe that convenience is the important factor here. Piracy was much more convenient than the legal options 10-20 years ago. Netflix, iTunes, Spotify etc are much more convenient than piracy so users migrated to it.