skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the gene that encodes for the toxin protein is
actually carried by a virus or phage that infects the bacteria" [0]

It seems the advantage for the virus in making the bacteria produce enough toxin to kill a duck fifty times over is that the maggots which eat the dead duck (and carry the bacteria and virus) each pick up enough toxin to kill another duck.

See diagram on carcass-maggot botulism in the reference. (Or not if you haven't eaten breakfast yet).

[0] https://www.nwhc.usgs.gov/publications/field_manual/chapter_...
I use Evernote rather than bookmark, which you get organized with nothing but folder structuring. It's totally hard to manage, validate, and find when you want to.

Evernote, on the other hand, provides a creative means: taking a note on your own way. By creating a Notebook and a Note, you can give a brief statement of the linked articles, which could come in useful for later full-text search.
> Debian is already one of the few distributions that goes out of its way to provide support for non-systemd init systems.

How does this manifest itself in practice? I don't want to use systemd in Debian 9, what has been done so I can easily change to another init like runit?

In practice it's not possible because of so many (unecessary) dependencies on systemd.
right, it sounded bad for some reason!
What makes you think YC takes fewer risks today than they did before? Going through the list of companies on yclist.com for the most recent batch, there seem like quite a few companies I'd consider risky, even compared to a nascent airbnb, dropbox, stripe, or twitch.
He isn't sueing for something he did, he is sueing for what they said about him. He is claiming that they are running his reputation.
So how to search for a IT job in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia and get one in less than one week, specially when living outside the capital?

Because I want to share those tips with a few friends still looking for one after several months unemployment.
Zeigarnik effect – remember uncompleted tasks better
In fact the time required to vet anything he says against more objective sources is such that listening to him entirely wasted effort. I know no more after hearing him speak than I did before. If he says its raining outside I necessarily must spend just as much time opening a window and looking outside as if he hadn't spoken. To be clear I'm agreeing with you.
Twitter isn't really suitable for intelligent conversations; 140 characters is too short.

But it's enough to share links, hence it replaced / is replacing RSS, trolling, and pingbacks. http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-killed-rss-and-thats-...
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As much as I hate McDonald's and know that their food is unhealthy garbage, your statement is completely false.
One thing I don't get... He keeps claiming that X isn't real email, because it doesn't mimic the inner office system... OK, so what did his software do that software at the time didn't?
Which requires:

- broandband internet access

- having to work on a completly different timezone

- having to care care of social security and other regulations on their own

- bypassing the local work laws regarding vacation days and work hours
HEADLINE: Switch to persistent journald by default

DESCRIPTION: Right now, Debian's default install includes rsyslog, and every message gets logged twice. Once in rsyslog on disk, and once in journald in memory. Let's turn on the persistent journal by default, and demote rsyslog to optional. (People who want syslog-based logging can still trivially install it, such as people in an environment that wants network-based syslogging. But that's not the common case.) This will make it easier to get urgent messages displayed in desktop environments as well.
I think you'll have a hard time convincing Chinese, Russians and Indians to de-emphasize nation-states, let alone telling them not to put their nation first.

If you travel a bit, outside of western Europe which experienced WWII, most places --even dirt poor ones, have very nationalistic tendencies.

I don't see the idea catching on in most of the world, unfortunately. And then remember the conspiracy theories behind "the new world order" and "thousand points of light" and how people derided that.

That said, long term, we will have to arrive at some solution which ensures that not one nation (or any other organization of people) have the capacity to inflict destruction on others --the way Guangdong cannot decimate Guangxi or Colorado cannot invade Utah.
Arguably, we're already sailing past dominant nation states into uncharted waters in many respects. Just look at "free trade" treaties of the last couple decades. They're less about removing barriers such as tariff's, etc. and more about ensconcing the rights of corporations over states.

e.g. Your constituents don't like pollution in their river and, playing to your constituents, you pass a law to ban dumping of chemical X, which was previously thought to be harmless but now appears to be not so harmless. Oops! Your government is being sued by foreign corporations impacted by this law, because a treaty you signed gives them that right.

Bottom line, if we're going to continue eroding the power of nation states (and nation states really are doing it to themselves), we'd better be damned sure something representing and protecting the interests of people is there to replace it. Lots of science fiction dystopias feature corporate cleptocracy's as dominant forces, and that's for a very good reason!
I came across this while reading The Science of Trust by John Gottman.

The Zeigarnik effect states something fairly obvious: that we tend to remember tasks that are uncompleted or interrupted and that when we complete a task we are less well able to recall the details.
I wonder when would they start supporting OpenCL :( I want to use my Radeon GPU
I've also heard that Sid is acronym for "Still in development".
Who knows, maybe they bought a existing building and didn't build it in the first place. If it's a new building, I'd hope the architect they hired was aware of this stuff.

But these lawyers create 1000s of lawsuits. They are the offline equivalent of patent and copyright trolls. Send out a bunch of letters, scare a business owner and make a quick buck. Most of the time they never even go to court. The lawyers just care about making quick bucks, they could care less about accessibility.

A judge threw out 1,000+ lawsuits of a lawyer doing this before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0dJ06AHwOI

I rather see correction than punishment. Things like this is just a turn off to starting businesses, and letting megacorps who can hire a army of lawyers take over the planet. I think if business owners are doing their best with their resources, if they mess up, give them time to correct it. Instead of paying lawyers thousands and thousands, they can spend that money instead on fixing the issue - and sometimes the fixes are basically free like moving a soap dispenser.

Florida lawmakers are trying to stop drive by lawsuits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYn36DSDJng

But I really hope H.R.620 passes so it's applied to all 50 states federally. I think it's fair to both the disabled and the business owners. In the end, the only thing should matter is that things are fixed and made accessibly - not lining lawyers pockets.

Wow https://youtu.be/hEQPUJjIdAc this one lawyer just wanted money and didn't even want proof it got fixed. Thankfully the restaurant owner found another lawyer willing to fight the other lawyer pro bono and won! Also this video at the end explains H.R.620
Wow, this is great! As someone who is coming back to web dev after a few years off, this will be awesome for my use!
Parent is not working 60 hours a week. He is working 40, but he does not slack around, so he is tired after that.
HEADLINE: Out of the box support for being run in VirtualBox.

DESCRIPTION: I tested the stretch release candidates in VirtualBox, and while I did eventually get them working, I had to follow the instructions in several bug reports from across both the Debian and VirtualBox probably project websites.

I don't mind following instructions, so if there is a reason why this can't be achieved seamlessly with zero configuration, then I would at least like to see some official instructions prominent on the Debian website.

COMMENT: Debian is awesome, thanks for everyone's hard work!
Yes Peapod :-) I think I got autocorrected.
The key doesn't have to be shared with the server.
I hate that he tries to play the victim card. He claims people don't want to agree with him because he is a lower class "brown" person and did the work as a 14 year old.
People don't believe him, because he is just plain wrong. It has nothing to do with his age not heritage. And there is plenty of evidence to suggest he is wrong.
Ask HN: Standardized format for longer email (async messages) for humans
A (scrum) story is often written in the form
"As a <usertype>, I would like <feature request>, so that <benefit>". Spec by example is written in the format Given <condition>, When <condition>, then <condition>. These are effective formats for capturing complex concepts.

I was wondering if anyone has tried some standardized format that maximizes comprehension of emails or longer async communication in an organization. In a previous (big) organization that I used to work, massive email threads would continue for weeks. More and more distribution groups would start getting added as dependencies were discovered trying to address knowledge gap. Often to make any sense you would have to read bottom up to even understand if it needed your immediate attention/action.

I'm not trying to understand how slack or its clones are solving this problem. Rather looking for any reference of message exchange format for humans that maximizes comprehension.
It is roughly equivalent to zero. I as I am now couldn't be born with another chromosome.

Anyway, it could be interpreted as "If my parents had a girl instead of me, what it would be like to be she".
I have got two sites averaging about 50K a month and used to earn close to $50 a month. But I got bored and earnings and visits crashed. I have now got a renewed interest to look at it and try to establish a basic business model not based on ads which is just not sustainable.
Affiliate networks is something that I am excited about or a job board site.
Tl;dr ad revenue is nothing as compared to what you can make due to affiliate networks or a paid service.
For people who were asking: https://jquer.in and http://angular-js.in
Here's something that has worked for me - before bookmarking, decide if the article is something you need in the immediate future (within the next couple of days) or is it something that you might need to refer to at some later date.

If it is something you need now, email yourself that article [1], send it to your kindle [2] or save it to a separate board on Trello. Delete it once you are done with it.

For the second case, use an app like Pocket or Instapaper [3].

[1] https://www.emailthis.me

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle

[3] https://www.instapaper.com
A better way to represent loading state in ReactJS/Redux apps
What's the advantage of 2048 over 2000?
"My first ‘freelance’ job I got by accident. I was walking home one night in Amsterdam and two guys were lugging an Apple II from a car in to a house. Being of a curious nature I asked what they were doing (it looked rather suspicious!) and they said ‘building an eye tracker’. “What’s that?” I asked. “Come along and see”. Stuff like that happens in Amsterdam in the middle of the night."

"“Ok, I’m going to send you on this course, it’s a 20,000 guilder expense on my side. If you let me down, you’re out and I never ever want to see you again, if you pass the examination at the end you’ve got a job as a junior programmer”."

Stuff like this can make a world of difference to the trajectory a young person's life takes. Much respect to people who are open and inclusive like this
You didn't give any data, so why even post?
It means that you can install sysvinit or any sysvinit-compatible init, and all daemon packages still provide init scripts, as painful as that is. And Debian still supports installing systemd-shim instead of systemd, so you can have a desktop system with a non-systemd init and it'll still function.

> In practice it's not possible because of so many (unecessary) dependencies on systemd.

Such as? As far as I can tell, almost nothing depends on systemd. A handful of things depend on libpam-systemd (for session management), which functions with systemd-shim.
Sure, but those other franchises do not tend to make people millionaires.
Hey Wichert, nice to see you pop up here!
Tensorflow implements the (really abstract, at least for me) concept of a computational graph. Think of it as nodes being values and edges operations.

Among other things, what this allows you to do is partition your computational graph into different subgraphs and run each subgraph on parallel.

Sklearn doesn't allow you to run things on parallel; however, I do agree that TF doesn't have a favorable learning curve, so you might want to start with SKlearn (or TFLearn) to get to know the basics of ML first.
I don't know where you hang out but it seems like a recently development to me. It sounds like you either hung out in a very different corner of the internet than I did or haven't seen the worst of Twitter.
I would actually recommend running unstable these days.
I use https://getpocket.com as a "bookmarks manager", which offers some additional features over your standard browser bookmarks menu. Basically, you store articles in a personal queue and can archive them when you're done, and everything is searchable.

One way to think of this is that being a "digital hoarder" is way less destructive than being a physical one. Digital storage is cheap these days. You don't need to remove any bookmarks (or "saved articles" as Pocket calls them), since they'll just be "old articles at the back of the queue, which may be interesting to browse sometime in the future, but if I'm not interested I'll just ignore them and look at the front of the queue instead, since the stuff I've saved recently more likely lines up with my current interests."

Pocket also suggests recommended articles for you to read (which I suppose could just add more stress to your system) but I've often found their recommendation algorithm to be pretty good.
I've done my own thing since high school with the exception of two years in offices (one as W2 and one as part time 1099). I'm now 35 and experiencing health issues and discovering that unless you earn "f$&! you money" group health insurance in the US is worth at least $75k a year in income. At least.

If you aren't in a country with proper healthcare and are not earning AT LEAST $300k USD a year (consistently), understand that all your years of work can be destroyed by one diagnosis. And plan accordingly.

I love my life. I've had a charmed existence moving to wonderful locales and doing what I wanted when I wanted; but the genetic lottery cannot be outwitted. You can be healthy one day and in debt the next.

Plan accordingly. Don't let youth and good health lull you into complacency.

It's completely possible and attainable for software developers to be independent anywhere on the globe, but understand the potential financial implications and limitations of the social safety nets of your country of citizenship/residence. Plan accordingly.
Indeed an open source browser that anyone can bot doesn't mix well with the idea of paying people to just watch something... crypto currencies work because they don't rely on trust. This is precisely the opposite of that. The whole idea is fucked on premise right off the bat.

Of course, Ethereum users snap it up at ICO within a single block for something like $33 million. There's way too much stupidity in that market at the moment.
The thing is 4chan's raison d'etre is to be kinda shitty (or rather, a bit of a rough wasteland).

Twitter could clean itself if they weren't so afraid of the wannabe Nazi crews + follower bots, and the effects cleaning up would have on their already bad-looking user metrics.
Our Makerspace shares space with a revolving group of people doing electric car conversions. They take cars that are already roadworthy (NZ requires a full road-worthiness test every 6-12 months) but maybe a sad engine. Rip out that engine, leave the transmission, gas tank, radiator etc. Bodge up a bracket to hold the electric motor and one to mate the engine with the transmission, some people wedge the transmission into 2nd and remove the gear stick. Find a spot for the power controller and hook it up, add a vacuum pump for the power steering/brakes. Now fill the empty spaces (in the engine compartment and where the gas tank was) with batteries .... drive it away ....

They start out roadworthy, and nothing that made them roadworthy is taken away. They go down and get retested after they're done. None of the passenger space has gone. AC isn't required here, we wind down our windows, I'll agree heat is an issue.
How in the world is individual taxation a "global problem"? The only interpretation I can make of that is that we should have to pay for a world government, with which I emphatically disagree.
The article is very light on details.

That said, It'll be interesting to see if this lasts and if it does whether it results in increased wages in the affected sectors or not. This presents an opportunity to understand how this affects the economy one way or the other.
Even the Minitel 1 had a rs232 port, on a non standard connector. Super slow though, 75/1200 bauds :)
Im not convinced there isn't a universal tendency for communities to get worse over time.
> The way it works out, if you're close enough to the breach to be killed by the pressure wave, you're close enough that you can't stop in time before derailing.

Huh? Who's derailing here? The problem is, again, that if just a seal breaks close enough to a carriage, you are dead. This is not comparable to a derailing which requires quite a bit of things go wrong on a normal train or the propulsion dying in this elderly chap's magnetic train.
The Last Messiah
> 2. There's a universal tendency for people to reminisce fondly about the good old days and contrast them with the ostensibly bad present. It has nothing to do with the truth. It is simply a syndrome of getting old.

Nothing to do with the truth? Maybe in your cases, but in others it very much does. In the good ol' days Democrats and Republicans weren't as hostile and unwilling to work together as they are now. In the good ol' days it used to snow way more in some places than it does now. In the good ol' days many places were less polluted than they are now. In the good ol' days people had to learn to actually ask each other out instead of swiping right on their phones. In the good ol' days businesses had longer-lasting relationships with their employees and didn't view them as disposable goods. Yeah, totally nothing to do with the truth, just people imagining things.
Take more more breaks. The big picture is that you are hard working person and the amount of work assigned to you will go up until they find your limit. So, slow down to speed that is long term sustainable (e.g. dont slack, just slow enough so you are able to function normally in the evening). If you don't, you will burn out and risk ending up all resentful.

The other part of big picture is that what you need is to learn some negotiation and organizational skills. Them clamouring is negotiation and
"making it seem like you are at fault again" is particularly ugly negotiation tactic. Treat them as such. By organization, I mean don't do all "just one minute taks" immediately, put them into tracker, group them more effectively so you dont switch attention constantly. So it is more visible that you are really working all the time and that it piles up. Basically, create system in which it is easier for you to tell "later".
The 1/3 pounder was an A&W and thing not McDonald's. I know because A&W is huge in Okinawa.
Apart from the ones dying of liver disease in their forties.
First study wildlife drawing, then practice sketching birds in your spare time a few years. Get a job in the pacific northwest for a famous worldwide bird-sketching platform. They only want you to sketch goldfinches all day, but that's okay, it's a job. Every now and then you draw two larger circles and wonder what might become of them. In the fullness of time you'll level up, get really good, be a level eight Director of Finch Sketching and the pay and options are really flowing. Save those up, you'll need them.

Then, someday, an owl will come along that, you realise, you have to draw, and that if you don't at least try drawing this owl, you will regret that omission the rest of your life.

Then, and only then, do you quit your high-paying job sketching finches and spend the next two years on the damn owl.
I am suggesting that, if the environment you work in leaves you with no energy at the end of the day, you need to either change it or leave.

(Not that you should use that free energy for programming. Use it to build your life, not software.)
Don't worry about the bookmark collection you already have. There's no pressure to read through it and no pressure to throw it away. That's the great thing about a digital hoarding habit -- it doesn't fill up your house and disrupt your life like physical junk would.

If you're concerned about the time you spend scanning through HN and creating the bookmarks in the first place, what you should do is replace that activity with something else. Concrete example: I decided to eat less junk food, and the way I did it was by filling the fridge with healthy foods which I could eat whenever I got the urge for a snack. It's much easier to replace than abstain.
The amount of work that goes into Devuan for pulling out systemd of Debian Jessie is clear evidence that what you are saying is not easily possible.
We already have a number of examples in the US to choose. Economic impact is begative and it does not result in increased wages. The Trump crackdown is going to devastate US farming.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2...
I set up Firefox so that the url bar autocompletes only from my bookmarks. And since years I've been constantly and linearly bookmarking. When something has an outstanding feature, I add a/some tag/s. I maintain areading list in Org mode but I plan to move it to Firefox as bookmarks tagging them as "unread". Maybe I can make a little extension that will add a button to tag them so automatically, and list them in a popup. For retrieval I haven't ever needed anything else than just searching from the url bar.

It's okay that you won't ever return to them. Because one day you'll want to retrieve a specific one and then you're better off with an excess of bookmarks among which what you were looking for, than having an organised list but without what you're searching.

If you are spending toi much time chasing new links on reddit, what works for me is to limit my sources (hn and reddit only for me) and sometimes to have an offline week, proving myself that I can live without being on the top of everything.
I've been on the Internet since the late 1980s (and the WWW since the mid 1990s). It started _long_ before 2001.
Is going political in a log message okay?
Eternal september is a thing tho
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