skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a question of density and tidal forces. The red giant has that mass spread out across a much larger space, so the object that is "straying" has a much more uniform gradient of gravitational attraction across its mass than the white dwarf. An object can only be close to a very small part of the red giant at a time, while an object getting close to a white dwarf is subjected to much more of the gravity well all at once. That makes the gravitational gradient much more pronounced across the object, which means tidal forces are much stronger and more likely to rip the object apart.

A good way to think about it is by looking at where the Roche limit exists for a mass of that size. Since the red giant is much larger but has roughly the same mass as the white dwarf, the Roche limit probably exists somewhere behind the surface, while the same orbit would extend far past the surface of the white dwarf.

Let's say we have an orbital body around a giant star whose mass dictates that its Roche limit is 0.1AU, and then lets say that the star's diameter is 0.3AU. The object could never get close enough to the star to break apart. Now, that same star collapses while losing a negligible amount of mass, and now is a white dwarf with a diameter of 0.01AU. The object could now approach close enough that it gets pulled apart by tidal forces since its unimpeded by the stars surface all the way down to 0.1AU.

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

EDIT: After reading, I realized that I unnecessarily introduced a non-astronomical term in gravitational gradient when I could have just said tidal force. It's the same thing. My apologies to any sticklers out there :)
The space of all human DNAs
But you can get a great croissant for 1 euro.
I guess one of my first questions would be would you be open to folks who are less senior but just want to contribute to your team using Python and Django and who are willing to be a sponge to learn as much as possible to become better developers?
Google ads has the engineering to work around this, competitors might not and would therefore loose market share to Google ads. Of course he is supportive, his stock options just improved.
I can confirm this. I was 20-something once. I have the blog posts to prove how arrogant I was.
Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks
Tab grouping support?
Multi-DC and HA
I will email you in more detail.. thanks.

--K
In Park Slope in Brooklyn you are in constant danger of being run over by a baby buggy.
I think no one has a problem with "elimination of medical bankruptcy for them". The problem seems to be that it also eliminates it for others. With "my money", which "the corrupt and inept government is going to misspend anyway".

I know I am exaggerating and misrepresenting a lot of people with this characterization.

To me the solution seems obvious: you don't need private companies to do the job of the government. You need a less corrupt government, capable of doing its job. With the middlemen you just move the corruption around.
Seems Brave-inspired, notably without generating revenue for websites and users. Which is the better choice?
Yeah, I should mention that this is only for browsers that support flexbox (https://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox) with little regard for browsers that are behind on their updates. Thanks for pointing this out!
Honest question: what does this have to do with software development?
i'm definitely not saying it's better to use chrome...where did i say that? What I'm saying is you can't label something ethical, if it gets all its money from what this site would label as 'unethical'. I don't know what the alternative browsers would be, dillo perhaps? I don't know they're the ones searching for 'ethical' alternatives. So what I'm saying is, I expected to see something different, not firefox.
Not all languages need to be functional, or grow in their functional support. Functional programming isn't the future, and Python is very opinionated about how you use it, so adding functional features would further muddy the water in terms of how a new user gets started in the language.

Adding functional features would make Python materially worse.
Technically, the social security administration gives out social security numbers. But that aside, more than 40% of children don't live with both biological birth parents: https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-than-60-of-u-s-kids-live-wit.... So your automated calculation will get it wrong almost half the time.

> All of those tax credits you mention are given by our respective tax agencies when we become employed and/or we change status with the tax agency and/or we obtain a new job (depending on how you avail of tax credits).

There are many tax credits in the U.S. that aren't tied to changes in job status. Every year, I have to dig up receipts for what we spent on daycare, what we spent out of our HSA accounts, etc. The government doesn't track any of that.

> Odd, I thought you faced the penalty of perjury[0]?

Perjury requires willful (i.e. knowing and purposeful) false statements in your tax return. I guarantee you that if you make false statements using Ireland's online system for claiming tax credits, you're under penalty of perjury as well.
At a big company a while back I sent an email asking about parental leave. I got an email back from very young HR girl who seemed perfectly nice... but clearly didn't understand the policy as she mixed up a lot of terms and concepts in her response.

But that wasn't really a big deal, I was used to HR reps at that company not understanding anything about benefits.

The kicker was that her profile picture in the email was her in the company bathroom, taking one of those "hold the camera up in the air to accentuate cleavage" type photos.

I didn't even want to keep her her email open too long...
This looks interesting, but am I the only one turned off by having to ‘npm install’ to try it out?
Yes but the use of a particular technique in a particular location/time would divulge the specific collection goals of an operation, something that often remains classified long after the operation itself has been acknowledged. So while the existence of UV film is no secret, knowledge that it was being employed over a specific site at a specific time can be.
The real lock-in comes from using proprietary, cloud-specific services like Kinesis, Dynamo, or Spanner.
I agree that it appears unfair that only rich people would end up getting to fly, and that's because it is unfair: we're not used to income/wealth inequality having this particular effect of drastically restricting mobility anymore (though it's only been 50 years[1]).

On the other hand we are very accustomed[2] to inequality having drastic effects in virtually all other respects, including such fundamental ones as how long you live and if you get to have your own room. For both of these, some countries have specialized solutions to absorb some of the shock (e.g. Medicaid, socialized health care, public housing, rent control). I guess it's not inconceivable to have something similar for transportation, no doubt with the same limited effect on inequality as with health care and housing.

But inevitably, global warming is going to affect the lower income groups first and foremost. If we wait, the effects of global warming will just be worse, particularly for them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_set
[2] bizarrely so, in my opinion
No, the point is that a subset of the populace benefiting monetarily isn't equivalent to a country benefiting. People can rationally say that acquisition of wealth is not the sole goal of existence.
Sudden changes don't happen when enterprise contracts go years into the future. Google has a much better track record with keeping things stable in the enterprise-cloud world.
>We something similar starting to happen in the US, as more and more people get bachelors degrees, those people get compensated less and less.

Maybe 10 years ago you could say this. But today the statement needs to solidly be:

>This is what the state of affairs has been in the US for years now. More people got bachelor's and were compensated less and less. More positions that previously required a high school degree now arbitrarily require a bachelor's. Students are flocking to trade schools in record numbers, and colleges/universities are almost all in a downward spiral right now.
How does it conclusively mean that?
Lol. I was wondering why there was no download link.
We where thinking of offering a similar service at https://staticIP.io , i just know how you can make money offering free sites ...
This case is a bit different because it's explicitly an enterprise product (w/ contracts) than a consumer product like Inbox and Reader.
Reading that quote by Rumsfeld only reminded me of Joey Fromm friends: https://youtu.be/LUN2YN0bOi8
Google may already be familiar with Oracle's litigiousness.
> (when you have to put a CD or vinyl on every time you want to listen to a band, ofc you learn the names much faster).

"Back in the day", I was getting new music every Tues/Thursday. It always amazed me how quickly I could catalog artist/trackname/what it sounded like in my brain. Later, if I heard another DJ play that track, I could recall the artist/track/cover art/record label info very quickly. It's kind of like any other skill really, when you do it all day every day, it's easy for you. Stop doing it for awhile, and the skill diminishes. I think it's also another example of that physical/tactile interaction with learning. Reading the info on the record, associating the visual of the cover, associating the sound of the track all while physically touching the vinyl/CD really embeds the data in the brain.
Can anyone explain the elevator pitch of Netlify to me? I know it's become quite popular in the last couple of years and I can't figure out why. I don't doubt that it's good at what it does, but it seems to do the same thing as any number of services.

For example, I see a lot of people talk about it for static sites. But you get free static sites through GitHub, nearly free static sites on Amazon S3. What does Netlify do special that these others don't? I'm not attempting to bash the service, I just want to understand what its killer features are.
“is there a good reason that the zero isn't dotted in this font?”

Because it isn’t a coding/monospaced font?

Most text/display typefaces don’t have dotted or slashed zeros.

The expectation is that if you have ID numbers etc where you’d need them, you would use a different typeface.

The US Web Design System 2.0 (of which Public Sans is a part) specifies Roboto Mono (which does have a slashed zero) for such purposes. See https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/components/typography/
Discussed in the article in terms that the dfferences are independent of culture.
Depending on Python is actually much better than dependencies on other runtimes, just as Java. Firstly, Python is everywhere now. And secondly, you can just 'pip install --user' and use it even without root privileges (which is a great thing if you're in a restricted corporate environment).
OpenJDK can be an upstream. You can build it as is or create your own derivative version. If someone creates a modified version they put their own name in front to clarify.
Lately, I've been thinking to Port my Medium posts to Netlify. Could you please suggest any reason why you specifically mentioned this case ?
I wholeheartedly agree that we need to progress beyond the ad-driven business model but is in-browser mining really a plausible replacement?

For one thing it's probably not a good idea on battery-powered devices, so it's only useful for monetizing desktop browsing. It also means that the money you make out of it depends on the average power your "customer" has available to mine.

Beyond that since mining is a zero-sum game it means that the more people opt for this model, the less money they individually make. Maybe today you make on average 0.001cent per minute and per user and a year from now you make a tenth of that. You have absolutely zero control on it since it's merely a factor of the total hashrate and the cryptocurrency's value.

I have a hard time imagining how this could become mainstream. Tipping using cryptocurrency microtransaction seems more promising but even that is far from a solved problem. I'd rather directly send $.002 to the website rather than waste $.01 of electricity for the website to make $.001 out of it.
Scratch[1] seems to be language taught to kids (at least my nieces). There seem to a fair number of books on it[2].

long way from logo

[1] https://scratch.mit.edu
[2] https://en.scratch-wiki.info/wiki/Scratch_Books
Actually, it does. That's why Walmart etc. aren't on AWS.
OpenJDK seems to effectively be a standard, or set of interfaces/classes that must be provided.

Oracle's OpenJDK build is very similar to Oracle Java but comes without the support contract or the license fee. Amazon are apparently working on one tailored more to AWS, etc.

(edit: didn't realise it was the literal upstream source - probably best to ignore my comment!)
A good example is GitHub's Web Hooks which is common for notifying GitHub PR's of completed CI results:

- https://developer.github.com/webhooks/

There's also a Community WebHook plugin for ServiceStack:

- https://github.com/jezzsantos/ServiceStack.Webhooks
I tried going back to retail for awhile when I was between places and I forgot how much time it took to drive to a store, search the store, find out that they don't even stock the item half the time, drove me crazy. I ended up going back to online shopping, ordering packages to a mail forwarder, which turned out to be still more convenient.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19616244.
I'm mid-40s and probably sound like it on the phone.

I've been subtly persuaded by a recruiter from applying to a company via persistent "culture fit" questions. The recruiter _kept_ reiterating how awesome the office's on-tap beers, foosball tables, and casual culture made it a fun place to work.

I'd steer the question back to benefits, remote work, policies, etc. Only to have the recruiter hammer again on the "fun" stuff, talk about how the co-workers enjoy getting a beer together after work. Eventually I got the hint.

Later I found out that the company has a reputation locally for constantly hiring new college grads and burning them out via overwork, shifting project requirements, and random changes of software infrastructure. Guess I dodged a bullet. But it's interesting that probably many of their problems could be solved just from hiring a few experienced devs, data engineers, and project managers.
I just started working through a textbook to learn Rust, coming from a heavy Typescript/Node background. It's too soon to say whether or not I'm in love but I already really like the approach to lower level programming with modern development perks like linting (RLS), package management (Cargo), simple build scripts (Cargo again). Comparing it to NPM+Node, there's a lot to like.

I'm really looking forward to learning more.
Free consumer products != GCP
I hear ya there.

At least one place never shipped a product and closed down... but god damn they had a lot of toys in their office and everyone was having a great time playing with them. ;)

Meanwhile I got a job at a place along side a younger guy who straight up was a way better programmer than me, but he really struggled with stuff like working independently without being told exactly what to do, and just understanding customer business logic / what questions to ask and so forth. Good kid but just needed more experience working. He moved on to a better place for him where he could get more structure.
General relativity will probably add some effects like that, but then quantum electrodynamics adds light scattering off of light, so the analogy is still ok as far as analogies go.
If the US government was instead a group of private corporations then the balance for SS would be positive due to the assets they have in the form of debts, just because there isn't cold hard cash there doesn't mean the money doesn't exist - the only way to get to that point is to consider the other parts of the government as bad borrowers and assume the debt will need to be written off.
I agree with the general sentiment in the comments that this is good -- fingerprinting in particular is something browser vendors should be trying to combat.

I am concerned about the approach however; a simple blacklist of fingerprinting scripts may be insufficient, in that non-blocked scripts can still access the data that is used to accomplish fingerprinting.

Personally, I would like to see more security around the data that is used for fingerprinting, such as user agent, screen size, window size, loaded plugins, and so on. If this type of information was either protected with permissions, or if bogus values were provided to non-user-whitelisted sites, then it would be far harder to fingerprint users, as there would be less identifiable information to go off of.

A less aggressive approach might be to have some kind of notification to the user if a website is accessing many API calls that are commonly associated with fingerprinting. Maybe a site that just wants to know window size is fine, since it might want to render something or select a certain layout, but if a site wants to know a wide variety of different information all at once, that would be a red flag that could be signaled to the user in some way.
I imagine they'll lose that eventually, so that the radio band can be privatized
GitHub for content management? How do you approach training?

Asking because I think this approach rocks but have a hard time selling it internally.
This thread is plagued by a rather insidious idea that has bubbled up in recent history: the idea of "human capital" in terms of the "greater good".

Sentiments like "people shouldn't be doing jobs that can be automated" or "machines should do the work instead, we need more useful jobs for those people" stink of the ideas that 1) people must serve some societal purpose, 2) that they are not fit to decide their own purpose, and 3) they are not fit to determine what has value to them.

These values are actually now embedded in U.S.A. policies and major non-profits, like "No Child Left Behind", and the Gates Foundation, or "School to Work". (A tangent: we aren't enabling people to learn and to think, we are teaching them to follow directions. Curiosity seems to be a waning capability of many kids and we seem to be slipping towards a Soviet style of teaching in public schools - which discourages self-generated thought and questions.)

I'm not bringing this up because I'm a Luddite. I rather like the idea of automating things, actually. I don't think our current, popular, justifications are healthy.

Rather, on an interpersonal level, I think some of the justifications in this thread are codependent, controlling, and uncaring.
Where did you hear that YC S2019 applications are due on April 12, 2019 (IST)?

This information might confuse people. YC apps were already due.
Europe was pretty torn and I got the impression that votes were ”for” by default and ”against” where there was an ongoing public debate. If true, I hope that was more due to politicians misunderstanding the consequences due to technical obstacles rather than lobbyism...

The arguments in favor have also been strange, even from institutions like the Swedish EU Commision! They argued that this directive was no big deal because social networks already employ AI assisted filters to respect copyrights. Yeah, but those are also known to be heavy handed, and depend on huge training sets. It completely disregards small businesses and startups with no resources to deal with this.
Serverless with gRPC would be awesome. There's grpc-gateway, but native support would be even better.

Surely it won't take long - the product itself has a gRPC API: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/reference/rpc/
My personal wiki deployment journey (2018)
I think other public-interest agencies, besides antitrust-enforcement, might not want airline competition to be based on "who's willing to burn the most jet fuel to shave a few minutes off business travel".
We are using Nodejs and mysql and are happy with it here at http://staticIP.io
Hey folks, one of the Cloud Run PMs (along with @steren, @ryangregg, @lindydonna, @stewart27, and others).

We're super excited to announce Cloud Run and Cloud Run on GKE, both implementing the Knative Serving API. Please let us know if you've got any questions!
Repeatedly threatening someone with death falls under torture.
Which paid product has Google cancelled?
Marissa Mayer on career growth and how a revenue guarantee almost killed Google
Unfortunately, I cannot give you any tips, because my practical design skills are non-existent.

For my own web site I gave up for the time being and am living with DokuWiki's default theme. But I'm planning to give it another try over Easter.
After reading this article, can you really blame people for not going with AppEngine?

https://hackernoon.com/why-and-how-we-left-app-engine-after-...
This had me thinking. Since Cloudflare wants to provide free VPN. May be they should collaborate with Firefox and Offer a Browser with Cloudflare VPN / DNS by default?
It's extremely easy if you're not a developer. You can drag a folder from your desktop and have it live with a CDN and SSL cert in seconds.
I chose to rewrite my portfolio site in Gatsby and deploy it to Netlify with my custom domain pointed to it. It's a big improvement in ease of use versus how I used to do it with a Node server hosted on DigitalOcean, as good as I found their service to be. Do those other services allow you to hook up a custom domain?
What? Explain that.
Sheryl Ann Sorby; Anne Frances Wysocki; Beverly Gimmestad Baartmans, Introduction to 3-D spatial visualization : an active approach.
Clifton Park, N.Y. : Thomson ; Delmar Leanring, ©2003.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-3-d-spatial-v...

The Development and Assessment of a Course for Enhancing the 3‐D Spatial Visualization Skills of First Year Engineering Students
Sheryl A. Sorby Beverly J. Baartmans
First published: 02 January 2013
https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2168-9830.2000.tb00529.x

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/j.2168-9830....

JITE v42n2 - Novice Drafters' Spatial Visualization Development: Influence of Instructional Methods and Individual Learning Styles

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/v42n2/scribner.htm...
I was blown away by how polished it was once I finally tried it a few months ago. I set up auto-deploy on push to Github + build command in like two clicks for all of my projects and never looked back.

Their free tier is probably too generous though. I know someone running the biggest website in a massive niche and they are serving their SPA for free from Netlify.
You're attempting to weaponise the notion that people are better at things they use vs things they don't use.
U.N. With 40M in poverty, U.S. most unequal developed nation