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ahjoneson Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988

Here's another article; this one contains a video by the paper author

https://theconversation.com/a-mysterious-interstellar-radio-...

ahjoneson Google’s Cloud TPU Pods are now publicly available in beta

From the link:

12.1 The following terms apply only to current and future Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Services specifically listed in the "Google Cloud Platform Machine Learning Services Group" category on the Google Cloud Platform Services Summary page

Those services are (from https://cloud.google.com/terms/services):

  - Cloud AutoML
  - Cloud Text-to-Speech
  - Dialogflow Enterprise Edition
  - Google Cloud Data Labeling
  - Google Cloud Natural Language
  - Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
  - Google Cloud Video Intelligence
  - Google Cloud Vision

ahjoneson E.U.’s Biggest Economies Ban Boeing Max 8 Jets

An engine compressor stall (which is more common at low altitude and high thrust) can cause fire to come from the engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQWYhsYfMxE (jump to 1 minute for an example, found in an earlier HN thread).

ahjoneson Why Does My Remote Control Need to Know My Location?

For me the hidden video starts (hidden) when I open the page, so when I click 'Watch the video' it's already part way through.

Firefox 65.0 on MacOS 10.14.

ahjoneson Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]

This is spec: https://clojure.org/about/spec

All spec errors turn up at run time. See the guide for more details: https://clojure.org/guides/spec.

You can combine spec with test.check (Clojure's quick check library) https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_generators

ahjoneson Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

Click the date/time on a tweet to get the permalink.

Here's the tweet you referenced: https://twitter.com/_delta_zero/status/1054820799473836032

ahjoneson Ions: Develop cloud applications by deploying to a running Datomic cluster

From the license https://www.datomic.com/datomic-pro-edition-eula.html

> The Licensee hereby agrees ... it will not: ... (j) publicly display or communicate the results of internal performance testing or other benchmarking or performance evaluation of the Software;

ahjoneson Exercises in Programming Style

The code associated with the book is all on Github: http://github.com/crista/exercises-in-programming-style

ahjoneson Data Structures for Coding Interviews

I think you're being a little bit unfair. The same block then continues:

  This is called an integer overflow. At best, we might just get an error. At worst, our computer might compute the correct answer but then just throw out the 9th bit, giving us zero (0000 0000) instead of 257 (1 0000 0000)! (Python actually notices that the result won't fit and automatically allocates more bits to store the larger number.)

The article is introducing the concept of integer overflow.

ahjoneson Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client

I like Zoom (http://zoom.us/). I used to use Hangouts, but it consumed a lot of CPU. The free Zoom account allows you to have up to fifty people in a room for forty minutes, or an unlimited length call with just two participants.

ahjoneson Lazy Expert Syndrome

I learnt these techniques from the IAM [0] in the UK. Their manual is Roadcraft - the Police Driver's Handbook [1] which introduces techniques which I've found incredibly valuable.

[0]: http://www.iam.org.uk/ [1]: http://www.amazon.com/Roadcraft-Police-Drivers-Handbook-Foun...

ahjoneson Poll: What database does your company/you use?

RDS can be Postgres, but isn't always. You can choose from MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle and Postgres, but Postgres support is currently in beta [1].

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/postgresql/

ahjoneson Light Table - a new IDE concept

On Twitter he said it took six days: https://twitter.com/#!/ibdknox/status/190857331238645760