I tried to make guacamole the other day and it completely failed because some of the avocados that I bought were not ripe. How can I know which avocados to pick in order to make good guacamole?
I've been trying to ignore my burning desire to make some guacamole because every time I go to the supermarket to buy avocados I can't manage to pick out good ones.  They always either become too soft before I have a chance to do anything with them or are hard and not very tasty.  How can I tell when an avocado is perfectly ripe?
I want to do a survey of textbooks in set theory. Amazon returns 3582 books for the keywords "set theory". A small somewhat random selection with number of references in Google scholar is the following.   Two questions:    What textbooks in set-theory are considered standard?  What is a good place to aggregate standard references (of textbooks)?    (I'm only interested in text-books, which as a format already provide a kind of standardization)  Textbooks on set theory (author: title (year) #Google Scholar citations )   Thomas J. Jech: Set Theory 3rd Edition (1978) #2441  Kenneth Kunen: Set Theory (1980) #1881  P. R. Halmos: Naive Set Theory (1974) #1079 AA Fraenkel, Y Bar-Hillel, A Levy: Foundations of set theory (1973) #696 K Kuratowski, A Mostowski, M Mączyński: Set theory (1976) #609 Suppes: Axiomatic set theory  (1972) #589 Quine: Set theory and its logic (1969) #442 A Levy: Basic set theory (1979) #442 Herbert B. Enderton: Elements of Set Theory (1977) #349 Karel Hrbacek, Thomas J. Jech: Introduction to set theory (1999) #284 RR Stoll: Set theory and logic (1979) #281  N. Bourbaki: theory of sets (1970) #211 K Devlin: The joy of sets: fundamentals of contemporary set theory (1994) #182 Ciesielski: Set theory for the working mathematician (1997) #156 YN Moschovakis: Notes on set theory (1994) #138 FW Lawvere: Sets for mathematics (2003) #118 G Takeuti, WM Zaring: Introduction to axiomatic set theory (1982) #106 Kaplansky: Set Theory and Metric Spaces (2001) #103 Potter: Set Theory and Its Philosophy: A Critical Introduction (2004) #91 PT Johnstone: Notes on logic and set theory (1987) #87 Judith Roitman: Introduction to Modern Set Theory (1990) #47 Derek Goldrei: Set Theory: For Guided Independent Study (1996) #31 Basic set theory: A Shen, NK Vereshchagin (2002) #14 Ralf Schindler: Set Theory (2014) #13 Foreman, Kanamori: Handbook of Set Theory (2009) #38   Note:  Please feel free to add textbooks to the list, as long as they are not just on a smaller subset of set theory. (Some of the dates might not be the first published edition.) Prove that the following inequality holds   $$a^a b^b c^c\ge (abc)^{\frac{a+b+c}{3}}$$   if $a,b,c$ are positive.   I'm not sure how to handle these kinds of powers. Are there any "famous" but not so advanced inequalities that involve this kinds of expressions?  I was trying to do something like ordering them without lost of generality because it's symmetric, but I get nowhere and I just make the thing even more complicated.  I'm asking for solution rather than hints since this is my first time encountering these kinds of problems. When is the present perfect tense used instead of the past tense? Simplifying and evaluating $\cot 70^\circ+4\cos 70^\circ$ Prove: If a linear map, $φ: U→V$ is bijective, then $φ(x)=0$ has only the solution $x=0$. In X-Men Origins: Wolverine,      Wolverine is shot through the head with what appears to be a vibranium bullet by William Stryker. He remarks that the brain will grow back but the memories won't.   So the projectile penetrated the adamantium skull and damaged the brain. Adamantium is an inorganic substance. It will survive anything that would otherwise destroy the rest of Wolverine's body. But if anything (such as vibranium) manages to damage the adamantium, it is not covered by Wolverine's healing abilities.  Does this mean that Wolverine has an Achilles' heel on his forehead? If so, how did he take a bullet to the exact same spot in X-Men: United (at Ice Man's home)? Random forest regression not predicting higher than training data I've noticed that when building random forest regression models, at least in R, the predicted value never exceeds the maximum value of the target variable seen in the training data. As an example, see the code below. I'm building a regression model to predict mpg based on the mtcars data. I build OLS and random forest models, and use them to predict mpg for a hypothetical car that should have very good fuel economy. The OLS predicts a high mpg, as expected, but random forest does not. I've noticed this in more complex models too. Why is this?   &gt; library(datasets) &gt; library(randomForest) &gt;  &gt; data(mtcars) &gt; max(mtcars$mpg) [1] 33.9 &gt;  &gt; set.seed(2) &gt; fit1 &lt;- lm(mpg~., data=mtcars) #OLS fit &gt; fit2 &lt;- randomForest(mpg~., data=mtcars) #random forest fit &gt;  &gt; #Hypothetical car that should have very high mpg &gt; hypCar &lt;- data.frame(cyl=4, disp=50, hp=40, drat=5.5, wt=1, qsec=24, vs=1, am=1, gear=4, carb=1) &gt;  &gt; predict(fit1, hypCar) #OLS predicts higher mpg than max(mtcars$mpg)       1  37.2441  &gt; predict(fit2, hypCar) #RF does not predict higher mpg than max(mtcars$mpg)        1  30.78899 Are there any differences between Skyrim & Skyrim: Special Edition? Suppose I attach an blur function to an HTML input box like this:  &lt;input id="myInput" onblur="function() { ... }"&gt;&lt;/input&gt;   Is there a way to get the ID of the element which caused the blur event to fire (the element which was clicked) inside the function? How?  For example, suppose I have a span like this:  &lt;span id="mySpan"&gt;Hello World&lt;/span&gt;   If I click the span right after the input element has focus, the input element will lose its focus. How does the function know that it was mySpan that was clicked?  PS: If the onclick event of the span would occur before the onblur event of the input element my problem would be solved, because I could set some status value indicating a specific element had been clicked.  PPS: The background of this problem is that I want to trigger an AJAX autocompleter control externally (from a clickable element) to show its suggestions, without the suggestions disappearing immediately because of the blur event on the input element. So I want to check in the blur function if one specific element has been clicked, and if so, ignore the blur event. How can timelapse sequences be shot without having in-camera support for it?  Which third-party tools are recommended? Can't login using ssh as root I am trying to virtualize an old linux server, and the PtoV software requires a password login as root via ssh. However, the root login is being prevented with a "Permission Denied" error on the client end, and a "Failed Password for root" on the server end (when sshd is running in debug mode).  I HAVE set PermitRootLogin yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.  This is an old RedHat 7.3 server that has had hardening scripts like Bastille run on it years and years ago, and has many remnants of old OS's (like ipchains - no longer supported by the kernel) lying around. All to say I have little idea what has been altered from the original system, but there is a lot.   I can log in fine as root from the console I can su to root fine from within the console or ssh session I can ssh fine as a regular user.   My question is: What else could be preventing my root login on this server?  More information: /etc/pam.d/sshd   auth       required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth  auth       required     pam_nologin.so  account    required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth  password   required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth  session    required     pam_stack.so service=system-auth  session    required     pam_limits.so  session    optional     pam_console.so   /etc/pam.d/system-auth  auth        required      /lib/security/pam_env.so auth        sufficient    /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok auth        required      /lib/security/pam_deny.so account     required      /lib/security/pam_unix.so password    required      /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type= password    sufficient    /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow password    required      /lib/security/pam_deny.so session     required      /lib/security/pam_limits.so session     required      /lib/security/pam_unix.so     Can anybody tell me if the hashing algorithm could be the culprit?  Keeping in mind that I can log in as an unprivileged user. Visual Flow: How to set Date field to Null / Blank? Let $(x_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ be a sequence of real numbers. A well known result is:     The sequence $(x_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to $a\in \mathbb{R}$ if and only if every subsequence $(x_{n_k})_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to $a\in \mathbb{R}$.   Now, I'm working on an exercise which essentialy asks to prove the following:     The sequence $(x_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to $a\in \mathbb{R}$ if and only if for every subsequence $(x_{n_k})_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ there is a (sub)subsequence $(x_{n_{k_j}})_{j\in \mathbb{N}}$ which converges to $a$.   Now, one direction is trivial. If in fact $(x_n)_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to $a$, then by the result I've mentioned, every subsequence of $(x_{n})_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ converges to $a$. Let then $(x_{n_k})_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ be an arbitrary subsequence. In that case, we know that it is a subsequence of itself, and hence we've found a (sub)subsequence which converges to $a$.  The other way around seems quite complicated for me. The reason is as follows: I must assume that every subsequence $(x_{n_k})_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ has a (sub)subsequence which converges to $a$ and the proof that the original one converges to $a$.  My problem is exactly that "a". If it had all (sub)subsequences converging to $a$, then by the result i've mentionted, the subsequence $(x_{n_k})_{k\in \mathbb{N}}$ would converge to $a$. In that case, we would have every subsequence converging to $a$ and the result would follow.  My idea to prove the claim was then:  First remember that a subsequence is the restriction of the original one $x: \mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{R}$ to an infinite subset $\mathbb{N}'\subset \mathbb{N}$. In that case a (sub)subsequence is the restriction of $\tilde{x} = x|\mathbb{N}'$ to an infinite subset $\mathbb{N}''\subset \mathbb{N}$. But since $\tilde{x}$ is the restriction of $x$ to $\mathbb{N}'$ and since $\mathbb{N}''\subset \mathbb{N}'$, the restriction of $\tilde{x}$ to $\mathbb{N}''$ is itself the restriction of $x$ to $\mathbb{N}''$.  In other words, every (sub)subsequence can be viewed as a subsequence of the original one. Considering this, by hypothesis every subsequence has a (sub)subsequence which converges to $a$. But by this argument, this means that we can replace every subsequence with a convergent one. And then we can use the result I stated.  Is my idea correct? Is this really the way to prove the claim? My only doubt is that I need every subsequence converging to $a$ to use the result. In this case I can't see how I can argue that this implies every subsequence converges to $a$.  How can I finish this proof? This isn't a particularly major issue, but I've had this thing nagging me for a while. When looking at QGIS 3.4's global variables, user_full_name is assigned my given and surname, which includes a diaeresis (¨) somewhere in there. I can't seem to find any way to get QGIS to switch/adapt encoding and display the name correctly. The accented character gets switched to that ubiquitous black rhombus.  I looked for info on this behavior and found moderately similar issues like  and  but it's not exactly the same problem as it's not a geodata encoding issue but rather how QGIS deals with values pulled from the OS.  I have tried unchecking the Override system locale tickbox in Options|General as I prefer to use American English even though my OS is set to Canadian French. No effect to observe.  There's somewhat of a workaround right now which is to fix the name in the Project variable project_author as it is editable (it's filled with the offending global variable by default).  I'm curious to know, though, if someone has encountered this before and if there's a solution in QGIS. Do I have to do any configuration to start brace expansion? When I run mkdir {1..10}, it just creates a dir naming {1..10}. I posted a question and a couple of respondents asked for the source code. I could only post portions of the code.  If attachments were allowed I could have uploaded a .zip file with the whole application.  Will this be a feature in SO? What is Reflection in Java Can anyone explain? Virtual box ubuntu: Internet not detected on guest(Ubuntu) in host(winXp) I have written code like below and all works fine, but while submitting the form I get the error below. I am trying to filter the second dropdown based on the first drop down selection.     An illegal choice has been detected. Please contact the site administrator.   How do I overcome that error?       function dynamic_location_dropdown_form_alter(&amp;$form, $form_state, $form_id) {   if($form_id == 'product_node_form') {    $location_options = array();    if(isset($form['field_destination']['und']['#default_value'][0])) {     $destination = $form['field_destination']['und']['#default_value'][0];   }   else {     $destination = 0;   }    $location_options = dynamic_location_dropdown_locations($destination);    $form['field_destination']['und']['#ajax'] = array(     'event' =&gt; 'change',     'wrapper' =&gt; 'squadron-wrapper',     'callback' =&gt; 'dynamic_location_dropdown_ajax_callback',     'method' =&gt; 'replace',   );   $form['field_product_location']['#validated'] = true;   $form['field_product_location']['und']['#prefix'] = '&lt;div id="squadron-wrapper"&gt;';   $form['field_product_location']['und']['#suffix'] = '&lt;/div&gt;';   $form['field_product_location']['und']['#options'] = $location_options;   } }  function dynamic_location_dropdown_ajax_callback($form, $form_state) {   $country_id = $form['field_destination']['und']['#value'];   $form['field_product_location']['#validated'] = true;   $form['field_product_location']['und']['#options'] =  dynamic_location_dropdown_locations($country_id);    return $form['field_product_location']; }  function dynamic_location_dropdown_locations($destination_id) {   $nodes = array();   $nodes[''] = '- None -';   if($destination_id != '') {     $select = db_query("       SELECT node.title AS node_title, node.nid AS nid, node.created AS node_created       FROM {node} node       LEFT JOIN {field_data_field_location_country} field_data_field_location_country        ON node.nid = field_data_field_location_country.entity_id        AND (field_data_field_location_country.entity_type = 'node'        AND field_data_field_location_country.deleted = '0')       WHERE (( (node.status = '1')        AND (node.type IN  ('location'))        AND (field_data_field_location_country.field_location_country_nid = $destination_id)))       ORDER BY node_title ASC     ");     $nodes[''] = '- None -';     foreach ($select as $node) {       $nodes[$node-&gt;nid] = $node-&gt;node_title;     }   }    return $nodes; } getting exception while putting list data into the map