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“If it squirms, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it doesn't work, it's physics. And if you can't understand it, it's mathamatics.”

― Magnus Pyke

Anyway, thinking about your example it occured to me that someone using Cas9 should be able to look at the sequenced genome and identify all sequences sufficiently similar to the target sequence that could be unintentionally affected by Cas9. There's one idea for an experiment. As for mitigation, they could try to find another specimen (fat chance) or species which does not have such similar sequences. Of course, mutations will still happen for a myriad of reasons other than Cas9, as they always do.
In the US, centralized AC is the norm in the numerous suburban houses. Newer apartment buildings in cities have centralized AC and window units are usually only used in older buildings.
Then let's make their slavery part of the official statute rather than claim we're not also committing crimes.
The real problem isn't whether filename normalization is a good/bad thing, the problem is Apple used to do it one way and is now switching without warning to doing it the other way.

It's the logical end product of the odyssey from Apple's original philosophy of a resource and data fork model for files to the UNIX stream-of-bytes model for files. The UNIX model traditionally kept metadata about files separate (anyone else remember naughtily hand-editing directory files with sed(1), back in the day?) but gradually picked up a bunch of new stuff that has to be stored somewhere. Meanwhile, the Mac platform adopted UNIX binaries with the move to NeXTStep underpinnings (we're going back to the late 90s here, and the adoption of OSX over traditional MacOS), obviating the need for the original resource bundle, which got rid of those annoying errors about missing bundle bits but left us with a legacy of .DS_Store turdlets in every directory to hold file metadata that was formerly stored in the resource fork.

As a destination it's laudable — design consistency is almost always laudable — but it's the end goal of a very messy process and it looks like APFS isn't quite there yet; NSFileManager and NSURL need some way of distinguishing files with different unicode representations, and the Finder in particular needs to be robust. I'm guessing this is going to be fixed when High Sierra finally ships, but isn't supported in Sierra at present, hence the OP's alarm at the situation.
Got it. Thanks man. What can I do with these?
re PoW: https://github.com/nimiq-network/core/issues/38
It's not that hard.

Go through the list of congnitive biases, but first look at usual problems of how people try to reason ( http://lesswrong.com/lw/ip/fake_explanations/ ), then expand on that.

https://intelligence.org/rationality-ai-zombies/ - reading
http://www.rationality.org/ - workshops

But the question is, does it _actually_ help that much? I mean, yeah, you'll have a neigh perfect model of the world, you can break down subjects, approach topics you've never dreamed of, but you'll find out that life is pretty much meaningless and you're surrounded with a lot of "dumb people", and pretty persistent emergent social structures that are hard to disrupt. And why would you spend a lot of your energy/life to try to make it better, if it'll still stay the same purposeless, senseless, pointless crude biological replication-driven frustrating chaos?

Anyway, 90 minutes is pretty long, but of course experiment design is always a hard problem.
Thaaanks! You made my day :D
No need for an island, just set them up with an apartment, an GPS tracker, and a Netflix account... Most of them will happily sit at home and watch Netflix :)
Yep, in the southeastern US it's routinely so cold inside that were it to get that cold in the winter, they would turn up the heat. Except that instead of wearing three layers of clothing you're in shorts and a T-shirt because it's 95F/35C+ and 100% humidity outside.

I don't think I'll ever get used to this. I don't see how it's possible even in principle to acclimate to such large swings in temperature over such a short time frame.
There's a potentially useful discussion to be had on normalization but the title is pure clickbait hyperbole. HFS+ is the only filesystem in common use which performs Unicode normalization and a statement that bold would require at least some evidence that Windows, Linux, etc. are only usable by English speakers.

My position on this is mixed. I've had to write code to deal with normalization changes in archives and it's quite tedious. The HFS+ approach of normalization is in many ways the best choice considered in isolation but in practice it's really expensive to support since most filesystems, tools, APIs, etc. predate Unicode and everyone else chose the bag of bytes approach.
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That's what I meant. From what I can recall on HN articles in the past, they hate them because it's closed source. Even this article says they're bad.
The biggest issue is when guys use new incoming female employees as dating prospects because they don't meet females elsewhere. They may be nice and friendly but I don't want to have to shake off and turn down 6 guys who are fighting to get at me first everywhere I work, its really not ok. It happens at every place I've ever worked and watch the same guys do it to new girls.

They are here for a job, not to supply you with intimacy. It's even more sad to think about how much these women are not viewed as great additions to the team, but how likely you are to get a date with them. It's very frustrating.
Ask HN: Detecting fraud in the US elections
Some rumors now that VR Systems has been hacked. They delivered election services to 8 states.

Can anyone group the vendors for the election systems with the outcome / state with public information? This way, perhaps a pattern of hacking ( if any) can be detected
Some merchants I've noticed no matter how much you spend still require a signature, which I don't really understand. Others such as Kroger require a signature if it's over $50 but they don't take Apple Pay.
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That's what I use my Yubikey for! And it comes with U2F. I couldn't be happier!
Heptio Comes Out of Stealth Mode with a Kubernetes Configuration Tool, Ksonnet
I recommend anyone wanting to experiment with WASM to check out https://github.com/dcodeIO/webassembly which takes a lot of pain out of setting up the toolchain and lets you produce much leaner binaries as well.

Also keep an eye on https://github.com/dcodeIO/AssemblyScript :)
You can't choose to sit on a jury in the US. People are randomly selected (I think from voting registrations). Small towns have less crime and less need for jurors. Even so, because the choice is not up to you, the "professional juror" would just be a very unlucky person.
My first point was that this isn't gender specific. My example was - I don't touch alcohol, I don't like ping pong, or consoles, or any of the things that people hold up as "bro" culture. But nor am I going to hold it against a workplace if they want to offer those things.

It's not a negative - it's just a thing.

For example - nursing rooms for mothers, or Muslim prayer rooms. I may not use them personally, but I don't see why it's a negative if they're there.

My second point - I have worked in a whole range of companies, from formal to very casual - and for me this is much of a muchness.

To your points.

You claim that we should be suspicious of companies that push "we're so fun". I don't see why it's a warning sign, any more than a workplace that pushes the "we're so formal" is a warning sign. You need to make your own judgement, based on actually interviewing there and interacting with people - and more importantly, one that fits your own ethos and preference.

Some people like formal cultures, some people like more jovial cultures - we shouldn't box them as gender specific, but just something that is unique to each person.

Alcohol likewise - that seems a personal issue, as opposed to something gender specific, or a company directive.

Like I said - I've worked in banking, and trust me, there's a drinking culture (among other vices...). But really, it's a matter of self-control. I never once felt forced to engage in that behaviour if I didn't want to. Perhaps I picked a good firm, or just had good mates.

My point is - whether there's alcohol available or not is a red herring.

And I don't think alcohol is somehow specifically a male thing - once again, I believe it's a personal self-control thing.

I don't drink alcohol - but if somebody is drunk, whether they're a guy or a girl - or whether the gender ratio at my workplace is 60:40 or 80:20 is irrelevant. They are drunk. I'm certainly not going to say - "Oh you're a women but you're drunk...well, that's OK then". Although to be honest, if you're drunk and not causing me any harm, meh.

Gender or alcohol isn't a shield to cover your behaviour - and that flows both ways.
HTML may have been an open standard, but if Netflix did decide to use a DRM format, what format would they use more than likely? h.264. A video format that can't be used in an open source browser because of patent issues.
I don't really understand this, but it sounds very interesting. Could you expand upon it, or recommend any books or articles that explain the idea?
Critical thinking is an important skill but I'd like to caution against this fixation on critical thinking thought in collage as some sort of beacon for society.

Critical thinking is something people develop over the years and it starts early IMO. It's not just a 4 year course. It's a whole approach to the world around you. There are many critical thinkers in my experience outside of collage. And I don't see it a problem as such.

Also it doesn't matter how good a critical thinker you are we all have blind spots and biases that makes it impossible to be critical thinkers in all contexts. Will need to look at the study to see how it's actually measuring the critical thinking skills.

Many of those who do learn critical thinking first when they get to college end up getting such a aha moment that they think critical thinking is the same as constructive thinking and should be applied to everything.

You often meet them in the big companies or management. Many of them like to play the devils advocate poking holes in everything around them but aren't able to come up with solutions themselves.

In my view critical thinking is best learned by reading philosophy and seeing how philosophers historically either improved or created new theories. Because here critical thinking and constructive thinking goes hand in hand. If you read the right progression of philosophers through time you end up understanding how they didn't just critique but put forward their theories which could then be critiqued.

In my view critical thinking without constructive thinking is as big a problem as no critical thinking.
You should read the iOS security guide portion that explains Apple Pay, the security benefits and amount of thought that has gone into the system are pretty amazing.

https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
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Blame the encodings that came before it: Latin-1 and Windows-1252, and all the other ones. Hindsight is always 20/20, y'know.
Are we only permitted to consider 2 choices here or is it permissible to consider the other obvious possibilities?
More like a typical outcome of design-by-committee.
Huh! Probably blind to this somewhat because I'm a guy, but I haven't seen this at the tech jobs I'm at in NJ.

Realistically, you speak to different genders differently without realizing it, but I have always worked in highly-diverse environments (I wouldn't want to ever work somewhere where I saw all XYZ gender or race working there) and it has been fine.
Thoughtless copy-pasta at best and plagiarism at worst.
"The best response to social divisions may sometimes involve doing something counterintuitive: lowering empathy for our ingroup and distancing from our own kind."

Funny, they don't mention that in campaigns for open borders.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "0a51cb60301828feeaf66cbc908297ae.py", line 9, in <module>
for j in search(query, tld="co.in", num=10, stop=1, pause=2):
NameError: name 'search' is not defined

Edit: Maybe imports don't work.
More Stanford students come from households earning $630K+ than $65K or less
Formality of environment need not extend to dress code. Remember, dress codes are used against women (by men telling the woman how she should be dressing) far more often than they are men.

You can have a formal office without a formal dress code. Yesterday I wore jeans, a t-shirt, chucks and a blazer to work at a formal company. I only wear the blazer because I am physically small and look young, so I feel it enhances my professional image. But it's my choice what to wear; not my employer's.
It was, but they knew even then that the vendors were working towards pulling their compute platforms into better graphics APIs. Mantle (which became the foundation for Vulkan) was being tested a good year before Metal was out the gate and was very much designed for bridging console and PC and devices.

Since then, Vulkan has been leading the way, both in API development and broad hardware support. The later is important if you're a developer considering your market.

I think at some point being stubborn here is going to hurt Apple. But drawing it out is hurting all of us. A bit of rare unification behind an open API would help its quick adoption and make cross-platform 3D development a little easier in the future.
A problem I have quite often is finding the bounding box of an SVG file so that I can set a sensible viewBox.

It'd be really nice if your tool could output this, but I don't know whether it'd be in scope. It would mean following through all the paths and transformations for each element.

(This usually comes up if someone has given me their line-art and text logo as a JPG and I use some tool to convert it, then tidy it by hand.)
> The idea is that the less it attempts to be personal/cool/cultural the less personal things (e.g. gender or peoples attitudes/biases or who-likes-who) matters and the more actual work matters.

Really? I've always worked in casual environments (not free beer casual lol) and have never experienced this.
ok, get it.
In other words, sabbatical == getting sh*t done.
Yup, it's literally and constitutionally slavery.
> I don't drink alcohol - but if somebody is drunk, whether they're a guy or a girl - or whether the gender ratio at my workplace is 60:40 or 80:20 is irrelevant. They are drunk. I'm certainly not going to say - "Oh you're a women but you're drunk...well, that's OK then". Although to be honest, if you're drunk and not causing me any harm, meh.

You might want to talk to women about their experiences of drunk men.
That would be workable if humans would be perfectly rational, but they are not. If I set up a pizza shop with totally fair prices across the board, my pizza will cost 8 EUR and the drinks maybe 1 EUR. The pizza shop across the street will however put up a ginormous billboard advertising their 5 EUR pizza with a peace of free pizza bread (and have the 3 EUR drink prices in the small print menu). I get very few customers with my "normalized prices pizza and drinks" billboard. Most people would be just like: WTF? and go to the other shop.
This is almost timely, following the recent 'Why Does Visual Programming Suck' post [1]. Funciton did not get mentioned in the ensuing discussion.

My first impression, from the factorial function example, is disappointment - it does not seem to promise any improvement in clarity, though that may be due to its unfamiliarity.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482988
I was expecting the easy path to display certificate view (removed in 56) to be returned in 59 [1], but apparently it will be in 60 behind a flag [2].

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=663971

[2] https://textslashplain.com/2017/05/02/inspecting-certificate...
Being convicted to slavery is justice now?
Apple just opened up the App Store rules for developer tools "intended for use in learning how to program", so it's getting closer https://twitter.com/palmin/status/871980560943636480
Details, details. /s
I understand that the bookmark feature of NSURL is (more or less, but most more) the same. cit: "Whereas path- and file reference URLs are potentially fragile between launches of your app, a bookmark can usually be used to re-create a URL to a file even in cases where the file was moved or renamed."
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What citation do you need? At the very least, a visual environment could always trivially display each syntax/AST node, which will be the same as seeing a plain text version of the code (but better -- closer to something like Apple's Dylan IDE or Smalltalk environments).
i guess we'll see a new option on the finder "show non-normalized files" next to "show hidden files" pretty soon.
i don't see how they could automatically solve all the potential mismatch issues otherwise.
You have access to far more parameters through Netlink than through ioctl. For bridges, this includes VLAN tagging, flood behavior, filtering behavior, per-port MAC learning, etc. Any recent development on bridges for Linux is only accessible through sysfs and netlink.
I work with Flask and Django mostly, and help with a bunch of PHP frameworks. I like Flask for most projects.

Django has cool libraries like django-rest-framework but, after reading the source, I just get a better feeling from Flask.

I haven't hit many bugs in either, so from an in-practice perspective both should be fine.
Cannot be cracked directly, that is quite correct. But the key generation, distribution and non-reuse remain crucial; thus, you need iron discipline in cipher use, which is somewhat workable for COSMIC TOP SECRET material, but impractical for anything else.
Ask HN: How much data can be stored on a grain of rice?
While walking through Amsterdam (where I live), there was a lady who was able to write a name on a grain of rice. Surely, most of you have seen people like these in touristy places.

I was wondering: if you were to take #{something}, the size of a grain of rice, how much data could it reliably store (long-term, i.e. more than 1 month)?
You feeling secure now, that must be Security as a Service, i guess?
Let's not forget about health and the breeding ground for pathogens and bacteria that AC's are.

I used to get really bad colds and coughs during summer, when the AC's went on.

I now carry a spray that puts bacteria in the air that displace other bacteria and no colds and coughs anymore. But that's not mainstream. There's probably a lot of sick people out there, thanks to AC.
Prisons are not expensive due to high salaries for prison guards, so I'm not sure why you think it's the union's fault.
The biggest British Airways IT meltdown WTF: 200 systems in the critical path?
Nietzsche somewhere wrote as much, that the value of a philosophical theory was not the theory itself, but its ability to be used as architecture for others to build the theories that come after it.
HomePod could be the only speaker you’ll ever need?
> Maybe sending that new data home

I'd assume Apple does not allow this.
> In my view critical thinking without constructive thinking is as big a problem as no critical thinking.

I disagree. I see critical thinking as a prerequisite for constructive thinking. Without the ability to identify problems, you can't offer solutions.

I and many fellow students in grad school went through exactly this evolution. First, you are taught to be critical and skeptical of everything. But at some point, you realize you can't get anything done in your own research if you are constantly skeptical of everything, so you learn how to find "good enough" solutions to tough problems.

So WRT society, I think it could use a healthy dose of critical thinking, because it suffers from the same problem. People can't identify good arguments, so they don't know they even need better ones.
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True, but isn't this pretty much the case for post-apocalyptic literature in general? The protagonists are usually threatened by zombies, radioactive mutants, or roving gangs of punk rockers but not so much by starving to death, which would be a more realistic (if less interesting from a dramatic perspective) fate after the collapse of civilization.
Is this an actual separate case? How are top level shells invoked? Isn't this just a specific call to execve?
This guy should not be down voted.

For better or worse, College is the new high-school.

Of course a degree in of itself won't get you far but it's an easy filter that many companies use to quickly weed out candidates.

There are also other opportunities inside college (internships, friends, learning difficult concepts) that you realistically aren't going to find outside.

The value of a College degree depend heavily on how the individual leverages it but it's an important thing to have. Without what are you left with?

Retail/Sales, Warehouse work, Construction, Odd-jobs, Uber

That's the reality.
Thanks to AMP (pretty much the only good thing about it!) this works:

curl -s https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/exclusive-test-data-many-colleges-fail-to-improve-critical-thinking-skills-1496686662 | sed -n '/./{/<title/,/<\/title/p;/<p>/,/<\/p>/p;}' > wsj.html; open wsj.html
Credit unions on the other hand, you'd have a much better time with.
Ultimate Time Tracker is pretty good: https://github.com/larose/utt

I like the way you add a task after you've finished working on it. It then works out how long you spent on it based on the time you finished the previous task / start of your day.
Technically, .DS_Store is just Finder data - where is the windows displaying the directory, it's dimensions, listing mode, etc.

The former resource fork is in ._$filename. You won't see it, unless you copy the file to smb share or zip it.
if Google is going to accommodate pay-walled results like that, you can expect this indicator won't just show/hide 3 high quality pay-walled results, but also 30 shitty ones that will want to get in on the potential pay-wall business.
Apparently on iOS 11, even the case-sensitive variant of APFS will be normalization-insensitive. Previously it looked like this would only be the case on macOS's case-insensitive APFS variant.

Anyway, it looks like the issues raised in this (April) blog post will not actually apply to iOS 11 or macOS High Sierra.
I also think that the retirement-age might also be part of that.

At 65 your income is expected to drop significantly. By allowing deferred costs on property tax at the age of retirement, you reduce a pressure on tight resources.

Seniors in that case can spend on food / medical and the government doesn't get the bad press of evicting a grandmother who has to choose between feeding herself and paying property tax.
I'm not sure that you could load JS on the BBC Micro!

The point as that for something running safely virtualised (and standardised) in a random browser and on a much larger canvas, the WASM implementation is very impressive.
If you outlaw encryption, only outlaws will have encryption
Yep.

And I'd bet that a lot of programmers wouldn't be working on and with Linux right now if they hadn't have read that book long ago.

Both of them changed my career path from Dos/Windows to Linux
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Integrations can be a lot of work. So $20 for 1000 tasks sounds pretty inexpensive.

If you want a lower monthly cost you'll need to roll your own basic integrations.
Strip out the text and see how clear it is.
great, thx a lot!
this is why some sites (foreignpolicy.com) use client side paywalls. most users don't know how to disable them, but google will rank you highly.
I also found this which I'd like to try out later today: https://github.com/anowell/quasar