skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely large blocks will require the big miners to all host their servers in a ULLDMA-like facility, because low latency block propagation gives them the advantage. Anyone not in the club will suffer high-latency block propagation which will put them at a disadvantage to the other players who are all hosted in the same physical location. The result is that a single-point of failure in the system will come not from the concentration of mining power, but the concentration of block-propagating servers accounting for the majority of mining power.

There are obvious questions like who will run such facility, who will be able to join, at what price, and under what jurisdiction will it be. If the club is run collectively by the largest miners, they would not be incentivized to let any new competition join the club as it would collectively harm the existing members who have the advantage.

Also, in existing trading markets, we've seen that there's an "outside club" that can pay to host servers in these facilities, but there's still an "inside club", who get the data earlier than the outside club. (https://www.cnbc.com/id/100809395)
Why is Australia grouped with the Americas and Greenland instead of in Australasia?
Same guy wrote about Z[0] and the F[1] pattern. I think they're different sides of the same coin (what information you're trying to convey).

In the Z pattern, most websites have log in requirements or call to action[0].

In the F pattern, most websites convey information: menus, newspapers, blogs, etc.[1]

[0]: https://uxplanet.org/z-shaped-pattern-for-reading-web-conten...

[1]: https://uxplanet.org/f-shaped-pattern-for-reading-content-80...
The obscure tax rule that’s stopping US states from paying teachers more
I saw an apparently authentic local post on Facebook from a woman who received a call from someone in law enforcement. She had apparently missed a jury summons, and the official was trying to help her sort out the mess. He asked her about her address (turned out to be an older address) and knew her occupation, told her to meet him somewhere.

Something seemed odd to her, called the police and established that no one by that name worked for them, may have dodged a kidnapping attempt.

To make an incoherent and possibly bogus story short: this felt to me like a possible outcome from the Equifax data breach. Random stranger knows your (previous) address, knows what you do for a living, knows your phone number. There could be even worse outcomes than identity theft from this.
Core Dumping, in Docker and beyond
What if you do it on demand, and in an automated manner? I submit 1000 emails to Clearbit and they do 1000 automated lookups in FB.

Is that abuse?
Z and F get referenced a lot but they're related shapes.

The "F" emphasizes continuing past the finish of the Z.
Yeah, I don't think "that's not phillips, that's pozidrive" is a good excuse. If they're that close, then pozidrive is just a non-standardard-complying phillips bit. It's the IE6 of screw heads, and the confusion is all their own fault.
And still there are doctors who are prescribing homeopathy and other effect-less "medicine".

It's just reasonable to ask for rational arguments. That's the whole point of the rants here.
I think it is generally true to say that individual genes don't work in a vacuum, and neither do the biological mechanisms they encode for, so the transferred DNA would have to contain a suite of co-dependent genes. Admittedly, there is a counter-example in the transfer of genes conferring resistance to a particular pathogen.

I think it is also true to say that convergent evolution often produces results that differ genetically, even though the resulting phenotypes serve the same purpose.
> there seems to be an assumption that species development (dare I say evolution) was linear, with humans being the ultimate achievement in that process

Only amongst people who haven't done any reading or learning about evolution.

> the process was not at all linear

Indeed.

> If this gene was the result of a mutation, isn't it possible, at least in theory, that mutation happened more than once?

Yes. But if the gene is nearly identical in sharks as in humans, the chance of that happening from convergent evolution would be small enough that "they have a common ancestor" is a much more likely cause.
Unfortunately, if you're trying to remove a screw after years of service, chances are you weren't the one who originally decided what type of screw head to use.
For what it's worth my wife's uncle quite his job as a civil engineer at 50 and went to grad school to study social anthropology. Despite starting so late he still managed to end up as an Associate Professor, the author of several well regarded books and papers and was generally considered authority in his niche.
I’ve had several similar interactions with the homeless as well. They would prefer to eek by on the outskirts of society than have to follow society’s restrictions. I’m sure part of this is mental illness, but the gutter punk street kids who turn it into a lifestyle are the kind who make you lose sympathy for them. You can’t help people who don’t want help.
They should. Glibc breaks its interface every few years. I’d love to see all the GNU tools migrate over to the Linux foundation, where they would be stable, safe, and free from autocracy.
Because the whole point of the map is equal population?
One can only hope. We're in a safety arms race, where to win, the car companies have to emphasize how much more safe they are than everyone else.

It's a nice change from the horsepower arms race of the past.
Not rare at all in the US, in my experience. I've been doing some construction and tear-down work recently, and it's about 60% Torx, 40% Robertson.
Evolution is not linear. All species are at a different leaf of the tree of evolution from some sort of “proto-being” as the root node. Humans are no different than dogs or cacti. Humans may be the common ancestor of two different species that exist 1 million years in the future.

It is definitely possible that the two same mutations for hemoglobin happened at different points in time, but as I understand it, there is an assumption of parsimony. In other words, it is much more likely that the creation of genes for hemoglobin for sharks and humans happened at the same time than at different times.
I noticed the Carrefour receipts in France say "BPA free" on the back.
Real or not, if you give me a quinoa salad next to some truffle oil mac & cheese, the truffle oil is going to ruin whatever you tried to get me to taste in the quinoa salad. It would be like drinking wine with a chili dog.

Food isn't boolean.
Ah, I think what you're saying is this caveat in the Wikipedia article:

> In a non-fallacious sense, including use as a legal principle, a middle-ground possibility is acknowledged, and reasoning is provided for the likelihood of the predicted outcome.
Maybe you’re right and he was indeed assuming negative domestic migration meant an actual population drop.
One that always stuck out to me is "burgle", coming from "burglar", likely by mistake.
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From self reported surveys based on basically nothing. I don’t believe it. It also doesn’t say in what way they were living here and for how long. When you talk to homeless people in San Francisco, a lot of them traveled here from out of town.
However, still no explanation of "Origin".

There is, though; "Origin is the upstream community that powers OpenShift". Meaning Origin is the open source project upon which commercial products are built. Much like Moby is the open source project upon which Docker is built, for example.
They never promised Python support.
I love the design of your site. Did you do it yourself? Did you get the illustrations from an artist you followed or something like UpWork?
If you can make it work without driving up the inventory cost, then fair enough. But it's still annoying to have to go through 4 pages just to see the entire menu. I want 4-5 different plates or so to choose between for the main course. If the restaurant is any good, I'll be fine with a Fish, Cow, Chicken, Vegetarian dish, and the chef can make what is fitting for the season and current availability of produce. Some of the best meals I've had there wasn't even a choice.

I really don't go to restaurants to research the difference between 4 similar but not identical dishes. I want to pay someone to know how to make a really good meal, and make it perfectly for me.
Well all that went out the window when we invented birth control so the whole discussion is somewhat irrelevant. People aren't even breeding at replacement rates in the 1st world and the 1st world is where the environmental problems stem from.
8 Reasons why the best tech biz to start in 2018 is B2B SaaS
> "How is this read: \lambda x.\, x - 3"

I'd read it as "Lambda x maps to x - 3."

In Python, you can rewrite lambdas as regular functions if you want.

lambda x : x - 3

is the same as

def f(x):
return x - 3

This runs in the IDLE as such:

>>> f = lambda x : x - 3
>>> def g(x):
... return x - 3
...
>>> f(0)
-3
>>> g(0)
-3
>>> (lambda x : x - 3)(0)
-3
Cost of living overtakes traffic as worst part of Seattle
Collaborative Task Management Means Fewer Meetings
If that's true, this stuff just changed the world more than half of the political issues that people march on streets about. The brightest people in office jobs around the world that aren't well integrated with developer teams (almost all of them) just got pushed to learn javascript, puke.
A few comments on these examples:

Buffer:

> The company grew its user base from 0 to 100,000, largely through the impact of guest blogs on third party sites, written by founder Leo Widrich.

Was a good idea in the olden days, works a lot less now that Google has started cracking down on spammy guest blogging practices.

Facebook:

> To counter such resistance, Facebook has progressively turned off the message facility on its own app and telling mobile users they must migrate to Messenger. The result is a rapid growth curve to underpin the Facebook messaging masterplan.

This is certainly 'effective', but it really, really annoys users, and will probably not work as well for a company with decent competitors. Network effects and being a near monopoly helps Facebook get away with this stuff, but if your small service tries it... well good luck there.

TripAdvisor:

> For instance, Tripadvisor encourages hotels to publicise good reviews by displaying badges. This is good for the hotels in question, but the badges also link traffic back to Tripadvisor and make Google rank that hotels reviews higher in their own search results.

Ah, the old 'have people display a widget that links back to your site' trick.

It's an okay strategy if your reputation is somewhat good or you got in early, but Google has worked to discourage such things in recent years too.

https://searchengineland.com/google-reminds-webmasters-widge...

Pokemon GO:

> There was no advertising for Pokemon Go and no explanation of how the game actually worked. All the maker Niantic did was tweet that it was available.

This was also why the game died out so quickly too. Niantic was terrible at communication, and spent weeks seemingly doing nothing to address issues people had with the game. No comments online, no social media posts, nothing about updates with features people were looking forward to...

The result was a huge die off, with things only recovering a bit when they actually opened up and spoke to their customers again.

Either way, the advice is simple:

Remember that what works for a large company or certain brand may not work for you (or others), that a lot of tactics used in the past have been disincentivised after SEO abuse and that your marketing trickery may be your downfall if you don't realise when a change in tact is needed afterwards.
Programming in the Large
I'm sure the "junk" DNA does something, we just don't know what yet.
I think they were considering it, they even sent out a survey.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15927132
Flippin' Pizza (https://flippinpizza.com/menu/).

I used to live less then a mile from one. Pretty solid pizza.

FWIW, it always had the feel of a local place. I was surprised that they had 20 locations and used consultants.
It is odd to see cost-of-living listed as the worst part of Seattle when voters continually elect politicians who enact or support policies that raise the COL: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/amid-seatt...
Alexa and Smart Lamps Hackathon
Power Query M
Ways to manage inventory at Etsy marketplace?
How can I manage the products and inventory of my Magento store at Etsy.com? Is there any Magento extension for managing the same?
Ray Dalio's Principles for Success now 30 minute “ultra-mini series”
What about "code"? In the scientific community it's used to refer to a piece of software. As in, "vector computers are good at running CFD [computational fluid-dynamics] codes" or even "I am trying to write a code to calculate foo".
Free Vector Words. Twice a Week
VBA wasn’t bad enough, now millions of analysts will have to contend with spreadsheet spaghetti and JavaScript.
You probably have a cheap flathead screwdriver which has tapered edges. They are significantly more expensive, but a good flathead with edges that are square to the screw slot works much better. (I'm not sure if I described that well)

To make them work even better you can burnish a slight edge one the blade which will dig in and stop slippage.
Separating this out:

1. Monitoring logs for security -- people don't, but machines do. Initial security comes more from segmentation architectures (bastions, whitelisting, ..) and network/host intrusion detection systems. Logs do come into play later for app-specific rules (unpatched apps, fraud tipoffs, ...) and eventually automated UEBAs (exabeam, ..) and analyst threat hunting (plug: http://www.graphistry.com !).

2. Forensics for post-breach attribution & containment/mitigation. Let's say something does happen (... it will.) Logs are important here.

-- Threat intel: Known indicators of compromise (IOCs) -- IPs, URLs, downloaded file hashes, ... -- get published. Team setup always-on correlation rules against their internal logs via say splunk or hadoop, and if hit, they know the threat intel of it. Or they'll get alerts from OpenDNS that an internal device is talking to a known bad actor. That's generally pretty shallow threat intel on the attack (ex: VirusTotal.com entries), but a start. There are multi-step ways to iteratively correlate across these sources, but takes effort. Attacker attribution happens here, but typically more important is identifying further incident IOCs in case of a bigger breach.

-- IR / DFIR: Teams care more about defense and explaining what happened internally (incident killchain, scope, ...). Say there was a malware alert from AV, if the dwell time was hours or the device important, teams should investigate what else happened for the device/user/etc, or if anyone else got hit. THAT'S where logs really shine. Small/immature teams will check individual tools (firewall device, ...), while more mature teams check centralized logs.

We find manual log analysis shallow in practice for a decently sized org... so another plug for http://www.graphistry.com for setting up more comprehensive multi-step analysis flows for the human side of looking through stuff like malware, phishing, and account hijacking. Tools like ours work on top of log stores like Splunk/ELK/Hadoop/etc. (more scalable) or bring their own DB (less scalable.) This can get pretty intense: some companies log all the way through process activity.

At the extreme end (FBI, Mandiant, ...), companies will quarantine a device for activities like analyzing RAM & disk images.
RTDServer
Handmade and in a broad variety of styles :)
Convergent evolution is a thing, it occurs, but it's generally considered super-rare due to the parsimonious assumption.

It's unlikely that the sequences of the two independently evolved proteins would be so similar; you also wouldn't see a chain of progressively similar hemoglobins as you moved down the gene tree to older ancestral organisms.
This is why being able to write great email sales copy has an outsized effect on your success as an independent author. Think about how long it takes (and how many blog posts!) to add 500,000 email subscribers, even if you already have that many. That's the difference between 2% and 4%. Imagine you already have those million email subscribers and you can increase your conversions from 4% to 5% with a price increase from $20 to $25.

That's going to be much more effective to the bottom line of your business[0] than the best Facebook ad or marginally better SEO.

[0] Let's be honest if you're making half a million dollars with book releases, it's a business.
Replying to your other comment here as well - the inclusion of conceptually simple safety mechanisms is important (eg I agree), as is the broader scheme of including both hardware and algorithmic redundancy to improve safety. I also agree that "live" initial testing of such safeguards is inappropriate, and as above Uber clearly failed to do appropriate testing.

However you describe the (potential) black box nature of the existing system as a red herring -> to be honest, this is what I'm most interested in. My opinion is that including a black box component into a saftey-critical system would be inappropriate. Do you disagree with that? If your answer is "probe it until it's no longer a black box and then include it", would you not consider that to be overall semantically equivalent to "don't include a black box"?
Another issue with torx is that the driver has to go in mostly square. Flathead or phillips screws can be turned if there's an obstacle directly behind the screw and you need to put the screwdriver in at a slight angle.
Report: Software bug led to death in Uber’s self-driving crash
Yes, as other have said "convergent evolution" is a concept in biology.

However, in the case of hemoglobin this is unlikely because this gene is particularly large, and sensitive to change. As a result it is highly "conserved". That is, mutations in this gene are selected against at a high rate because they tend to be deleterious.

To create a gene like hemoglobin, you'd need hundreds of mutations to develop a hemaglobin gene from raw material. It is possible, but unlikely that humans and sharks would have independently accrued the same exact mutations in the same places since their divergence to create the same gene. It is far more likely that since this gene is essential, it has remained mostly unchanged since the divergence of sharks/humans from their common ancestor.
You shouldn't try to interpret my words too much. I am not a native speaker.
I'm a soda-holic. I never order soda at any restaurant.

Counterpoint. I'm a very occasional and 'casual' soda consumer, but if I'm at a restaurant and feel like a soda I'll order a soda no matter if it's $1 or $5.
(My guess)

She spent her teens trying to get away from dad, why spend her working life there? :)
ossec + syslog , how you display the data (zabbix, elk, etc) is up to you.
I think your obervation is due to palindromes in the differences between primes themselves.

I worked through your example for the integers 8 to 16, the sequence being 3 2 3 0 1 0 3 2 3.

The sequence of numbers we observe is due entirely to the locations of the primes 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and 19.

The differences between these primes is 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, which is again a palindrome. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason your original sequence is palindromic. If it is, the question is then whether palindromes in distances between primes are unusually common.
The article mentions Applebee's and that made me think of Chili's. I remember in the late '90s going Chili's somewhat regularly and always being happy with the food and service.

On a whim, we went to a new Chili's about a year ago and nothing was very good. Anything that wasn't deep fried was microwaved. It made me wonder if my tastes had changed over the past 20 years or if Chili's changed their processes. Is this the result of relying on consultants?
I can't wait to see how this is exploited in a few hours...
I'm going to... stick my neck out... and venture that republics have usually got rid of their monarchs.
Robertson are generally cheaper than Torx, for one thing.
“The reason we're killing ourselves isn't because we love what we're doing”
I just bought my first (non work provided) MBP - a 2015 for about $1750. I can't even use Linux or Windows anymore these things are so nice!

You're saying I should go to an authorized Apple shop and have them crack it open to dust it out and change thermal paste?

I've always had Thinkpads and Dells which are servicable, and I do spray compressed air on the inside every few years, but have never re-applied thermal paste.

You do this on your MBPs? How much will it cost every few years, and also should I bother with Apple care? Right now I've only the one year warranty.
I learned the concept of counter-signalling from that video

"Contrary to this standard implication, high types sometimes avoid the signals that should separate them from lower types, while intermediate types often appear the most anxious to send the “right” signals. The nouveau riche flaunt their wealth, but the old rich scorn such gauche displays. Minor officials prove their status with petty displays of authority, while the truly powerful show
their strength through gestures of magnanimity. People of average education show off the studied regularity of their script, but the well educated often scribble illegibly. Mediocre students answer a teacher’s easy questions, but the best students are embarrassed to prove their knowledge of trivial points. Acquaintances show their good intentions by politely ignoring one’s flaws, while close friends show intimacy by teasingly highlighting them. People of moderate ability seek formal credentials to impress employers and society, but the talented often downplay their credentials
even if they have bothered to obtain them. A person of average reputation defensively refutes accusations against his character, while a highly respected person finds it demeaning to dignify accusations with a response."

https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf
> A web frontend is very resilient, whereas backends are the complete opposite. If you apply the same mindset on both

Even if I accept your premise (which I don't), nobody is suggesting you apply the same mindset to two different things. I consider myself a full stack developer, but if I had to pick one it would be back end as that's where I started, where my strengths lie, and if I never wrote another line of JavaScript in my life I'd be pretty happy overall. But your characterization of full stack devs does not match up to my reality.
Driving in California, the best roads literally make it illegal to turn left during rush hour when the intersection doesn’t have a left turn lane. People still get where they’re going.