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What influiences a person winning jackpot/lottery?
I am back with a new year ridiculous question again...;-)

There was a big buzz about a mega million lottery here yesterday...

And this though struck me,..
I never want to gamble and that is my nature. rarely bought a lottery ticket.

So what influences gambling and who will have the luck to win it.

So this is a two part question

What influence the gambling ?
Who Will have luck of succeed in winning ?

Somebody mentioned here in philosophy section about bhagya sthana (9th house)..but what has it got to do with lottery/jackpots

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Who's to say you can't talk about functional programming while playing frisbee? Who's to say that 9/10 times the kid gets some rough housing when he asks?

And much more likely: who's to say that the overstimulated little monster that asked 15 questions in 5 minutes doesn't need a little dose of adult life to encourage some self-play?
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Instead of the term "malicious events" he should have used the term "anomalies".
Choosing the Best Back End Provider for Your iOS App
I use some custom fail2ban rules on my web servers, for example too many hits on url X in a 10 minute window = firewalled for a day. Helps stop brute forcing on web apps e.g. Wordpress and can cut down massively on the traffic the server is having to deal with.

I Also have some mod_rewrite rules in to 403 some URL’s that bots currently hit, mostly because I don’t want to spend 200ms of PHP time for the bot to discover that it’s exploit didn’t work.

I accept that when you’re hosting websites for a load of other people you’re gonna need backups too, that’s the bottom line.
Maybe you need to focus on what you are building rather than how? Programming is a means to an end and not a means itself. I think this is a trap many of us fall into and you see it play out when people end up trying to learn as many different frameworks or languages in order to be a "better" programmer.

At a senior level the difference in programming ability becomes negligible, its what you do with that ability that matters. Here are somethings that a programmer could specialise in:

- building web apps to handle extremely high loads of traffic

- web apps with a heavy focus on security

- embedded systems / low level programming

- computer graphics

- machine learning (warning: the hype around this may skew things)

- blockchain based technologies (warning: the hype around this may skew things)

All of those fields require specialist knowledge beyond the programming language being used. You should focus on gaining specialist knowledge like that at this point in your career. Otherwise there is really not that much difference between a generalist programmer with 15 years experience and a generalist programmer wit 5 years experience.
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Stainless fasteners are the worst. My company builds food equipment so they're a necessity, but... ugh. They gall terribly and they're squishy. If there happens to be a burr or crud in the threads, you might as well grab your angle grinder and drill, because that screw is not going to come out any other way.
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And https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet...

While the lawsuit seems very one-sided, there are plently of lessons to be learned here... and I’m not sure how any of it applies to a single article.
Flipkart made a huge mistake by trying to go mobile-only a while ago and is now mostly a smartphone shop. Hardly anyone I know buys anything other than smartphones (often Flipkart-exclusive) from them. Amazon now has a bigger catalog and better prices too.

Walmart could come along and directly compete in the market by themselves. Wonder why this acquisition is needed at all. There's hardly anything defensible in Flipkart's assets, and this acquisition isn't at a deep discount.
Parallel programming in JavaScript
Thanks for the tips!

Yeah, I should have been more explicit. When I say build secure applications, I imply the full stack including infrastructure. I updated my comment accordingly.
I don’t know where you are but typically you’re better of contracting.

The typical situation is that employers need techies LOCALLY and can’t find them in the sort of numbers they’d ideally want which drives rates up: +1 techie.

Issue with freelancing sites is that it flips the demand/supply around. The supply is global and outstrips demand (ie people actually compete for contracts): rates are driven down, +1 employer

IMO:

1. Try and contract locally if the pay is best there. Further you’ll be creating contacts to get you into new gigs.

2. If that’s not available look for remote positions direct with employers. If you’re v good you might get one.

3. If you can’t do that consider a freelancing site but really all it’ll be good for is portfolio . You’ll probably find the “next step” remains just as far away if you already have s portfolio.
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“Hi, I lost my license key!”

“Thanks for contacting us! Our standard license includes support for 12 months after purchase. I’ve attached an offer for our extended support contract. I’m looking forward to your response!”
Ah! I had read this years ago and was recently trying to find it again, but had no luck. I find teaching children mathematics to be quite interesting, and I'm very delighted that this has crossed paths with me again.
And yet, cars still last for two decades or more if maintained properly, and are IMO some of the most reliable pieces of gear out there - I'm finding newer models to be better in that regard than older ones (but maybe that's bias on my side, I haven't driven older cars in a while now)
Yes but what I'm saying is you don't need 9 9s of good driving in order to get 9 9s of accident-free driving. You only have an accident when you're driving badly and are exceptionally unlucky (I suppose the amount of bad luck required decreases as the badness of the driving increases).

In the scenario I mentioned you'd have at best a 50% duty cycle of good driving, but the accident rate would be substantially lower than 50% every 10 seconds.
I'd argue it's not ambiguous: current age would have to be a function of invocation time, while "age at time of writing the function" would be a constant.

Expressing "age" in whole years is acceptable in English, but using a decimal would be highly defensible. That's an issue of grading though.
Out of interest what is better about Torx?

With "normal" screws you can usually improvise something when you are without tools.
As far as I'm concerned, torx is the only reasonable screw anymore. It seems like most construction screws (at least in the US) have moved to this.

Just to make the point: I've stripped out more torx drivers than I have torx heads.

I can say I truly don't understand how phillips ever even took hold over flatheads. Cheap phillips head screws seem designed to strip out.

Somebody elsewhere in this thread made the point that they are self-centering, and make industrial manufacturing easier. I guess that makes sense.
That's only roughly true. Many missing classes exist Eg hair color (gingers are often mistreated), beauty (ugly people are discriminated against in hiring), height, intelligence.
They don't strip, or at least it would take a tremendous amount of torque to strip them. My experience has been that the driver strips before the head does.
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> "Daren Bakst, a fellow with the conservative Heritage Foundation, said the law equates to government overreach.

'It’s not up to the government to influence what people eat — that should be left up to each individual,' he said."

I wonder if he has the same 'feels' about legalizing all illegal drugs? Seems most conservatives only support laws that fit their 'narrative'.. I'm obese, I sit and code all day, and I don't think people 'should' do lsd/weed/heroine/etc... but I don't think they should go to jail if they end up in the rat-trap of addiction. It's a mental health issue, and the distribution lines should be only ones policed imho..

But why is the DEA not government overreach for enforcing 'possession' but listing calorie counts so people can purposefully limit intake is?
Their privacy policy implies it does https://www.typography.com/home/privacy.php but their marketing claims otherwise https://www.typography.com/cloud/the-network/

I haven’t personally investigated... and I’m not sure how one would go about it, given how, at least without GDPR, I suspect more and more confirmation of analytics data between parties will happen server-side for performance reasons. Of all third-party content, SaaS and font networks would already have to track everyone with unique IDs if invoicing based on usage, but it’s damning if your paid service provider says it collects and shares data (presumably about your users) with advertising companies in the privacy policy. As if they aren’t making enough money from you? Or maybe it’s to support tiers of service?
But it remains true that

1. Sugars are extremely important to your basic biological functioning.

2. Their extreme importance is the reason they taste good.
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> We all know that the climate is changing and that it is man made.

Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the case. We don't even have a clear majority in America.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/10/04/the-politics-of-climat...
That one Oly to Seattle Amtrak that went too fast around the corner makes me sure you're right about our RRs.

Looking back (I'm not much of a rail historian, but) from what I do know, the US rail system was built-out to serve resource exploitation (including populating the mid-continent), not passengers. So personal autos got a leg up on them, in the mid-20s, before they could afford better passenger routes (outside of major inter-city corridors).

I'd guess that if it wasn't for WW2, US passenger rail would have croaked much sooner than it did. The Interstate system didn't help either. AND THEN they were allowed to rip up the old tracks. Ay yay. So clearly some interests were aligned against the RR's. And our atmosphere has and is paying the price.
Total carbon dioxide emissions in Europe grow by 1.8%
Local Packet Filtering with IPv6 (2017)
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Wow, this document is extremely short. The disaster is very palpable in this format.

> names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver’s license numbers of 143 million U.S. consumers (since updated)

OK, so who is going to be the grown-up in this situation?

It's obvious now that these numbers can no longer be treated as secret or, in most cases, as identifying instruments.

Who will lead the effort to deprecate them and migrate all of the documents and accounts which rely on them?

Why is it so difficult to imagine a coherent, sober response from government and mega-corporate entities which have until now, been using SSNs as identifying data?
I drive a maximum of 62 in a 55 on Baltimore's inner loop and I as commonly have to leave the right lane to pass as being passed myself. It's a safe speed.
> Bitcoin's transaction throughput is dismally low compared

How are you measuring "transaction throughput"?
You might be right about the self-fulfilling prophecy. But this effect might already be in effect, as people might already have a gut feeling, while nobody cares (or knows) about it.
Ok, let's use normal right-sided driving method. Imagine you're vulnerable (on a bike, or worse: on an electric scooter), and you want to turn left. You were going northbound and want to go westbound.

In "normal" fashion, you'd have to stay on the left of your lane, and wait for the traffic coming in front of you to die down before you can cross. That puts you straight in the middle of the intersection for some time, which is dangerous.

With a hook turn, you go and wait along with the traffic coming from the east to the west. They are stopped, so they are not a danger to you. When the east-west traffic light finally turns green, you won't be crossing anyone's traffic, and you'll be already standing on the rightmost part of your new road.
I know dozens of growth hackers and their skills are simply different to traditional digital marketers. It is far more experimental, technical and cross functional. And it will continue to evolve into its own space in the future.

People who think growth hacking = marketing are just as clueless as those who think influencer marketing = Instagram. It's far more involved than that.
The OP probably implies that everyone carries an Android phone, so they are referring Google.
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As someone who has just remodelled an old house with loads of flatheads: you've got to be kidding me. I hate those things with a passion.

Flathead screws only restrict the movement of the screwdriver in one dimension and allow it to move in the other one. This leads to the screwdriver to keep sliding out when you put force on under even the slightest angle.

Phillips screws improve on this design by restricting movement in two dimensions and force the screwdriver to always be in the center, but they slip easily and wear quickly.

Torx are superior because they fit much more "snugly", though at the (minor) cost of being less forgiving of using the wrong size of screwdriver.
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>But then you have to ask: why is your admin interface available on routable IPs to begin with?

You have railed against network isolation as defense in other threads. Locally-scoped IPs, VPNs, and ACLs are all about network isolation. Care to shed some light on the inconsistency?
Need a totally new way of verifying identity now. The old way was already broken, but now it's totally destroyed.
Being hyped up as a good candidate and relayed from person to person only to have no leads or offers for you makes you feel like you encountered the biggest farce in your recent time.
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Yeah that's fair. I guess I was thinking of flatheads as small machine screws and things like that, where only a few rotations are actually necessary.
> 5) Doesn't corrode and doesn't depend upon hardware or storage media to be working.

Bitcoin corrodes?

You can encode your private keys in Gold if you want to.
If RMS wasn't the project lead, but any other maintainer, then his behavior of making such a big fuss about this particular thing (which, very importantly, _is not a very important thing!_), against the consensus of many other maintainers, is something.

If he were on the same level as other people, this behavior wouldn't be accepted. So the question then becomes:

Does the fact that he's "the boss" excuse his behavior of fighting against the consensus on an issue of this level of importance?
Many people get by on diets with very little sugar. In the past when calories were harder to come by, the sweetness made sense as it indicated calorie-dense food. The sweetness is a proxy for calories. It would be more accurate to say that calories are extremely important. You can get calories from a variety of sources (starches, fats, and protein), however, not just sugar.of calories
Hackers are hacking #Drupal installs to install backdoors and inject miner
They're already trying to change "bank fraud" into "identity theft" and defer liability to the person whose info is being used, vice the old way of the bank being fully liable.

Ironically, for a lot of industries they're better off just giving it the see-no-evil-hear-no-evil-speak-no-evil treatment and ignoring that those numbers can/will be stolen.

It's a little bit like the opposite of the way everyone is doing facial recognition and biometrics these days - plausible identifiability, when it's to their interest not to notice that the person doesn't match the id.
AFAIK, Flipkart operates under the marketplace model too.
tptacek is using an appeal to authority given his standing as a security expert on this forum. That's the only reason his comment containing no justification is being taken seriously.
> I would expect traffic patterns to normalize as pedestrians learn to anticipate what a driverless car does

In this case normalizing means running people over less and less?
And yet we still use it with no end in sight. The only reason your identity isn't yet stolen and financial history ruined is likely literally that they haven't gotten to you yet.

What incentives are there for Equifax, Experian, TransUnion, Innovis, etc who profit from this system existing to make it better?

Who in the government will go after them, or even better, come up with something which will render them obsolete?
Don't forget, if you want to change your social security number, here's the process[1]:

1. Prove you meet the conditions for changing it (you must show proof of identify _theft_ and how it disadvantages you)

2. Show up at an office, in person, with original documentation.

Sounds like a great startup idea: make fixing 143M citizens' identities as easy as ordering a pizza. Or create the Uber for people who will stand in line for you at the Social Security office.

[1]: https://faq.ssa.gov/link/portal/34011/34019/Article/3789/Can...
The parent posted what is pretty much the right answer, but to add:

* Your logs should be there to help you find out what happened in the event of a compromise, not to detect it in progress.

What OP should be monitoring is the activity that occurs on the system - logins, processes spawned (e.g. php or mysql suddenly spawning shells for no reason), changes to content, resource volume spikes and as the parent said, configuration changes.

Much of this can be done with a variety of tools but there isn't really a one-size fits all approach. I'd start with resource spikes as it's easiest and work up to an OSSEC configuration reflecting the actual environment.

Also by way of middle ground on the log front, Graylog2 is a happy medium between Splunk and ELK, but it's better to log fewer (but more useful) things than a load of noise.
- keeping calm in stressful situations

- +1 if the TPM actually has technical knowledge
Can confirm, the subject matter is really important. I accidentally wrote the most-read blog post on our company blog, and this might be my humility / impostor syndrome speaking but, it wasn't due to the content as much, but because it was using the right keywords in the title at the right time.
I'm wondering how much more attentive the emergency driver would have been if they were one of the developers. Sometimes I worry about how much trust non-developers assign to software (in all sorts of areas)
Usually the screw snaps in two at over-torquing before either the head or tool strips.
It's called SIEM, Security Information Event Management, there is a lot of companies doing this and providing cheap and expensive solutions.
This is one thing that worries me about a potential "nobody-is-going-to-work" or just a future where a large group of the worlds population moves into the middle class.

What are people going do with all their free time. Big cities and tourist destinations are already cramped to the point where there are demonstrations and you have to shut them down because of the toll it takes on the environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/aug/10/anti-tourism-...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2018/04/0...

I cannot imagine how bad this will be in 10-20 years.
And you had to go through MetroRent or RentTech
I have tried, but failed, to understand what "wasn't professional" means. As far as I can tell, it is a synonym for "doesn't upset the status quo."

Clearly there are work meetings where this sort of joke/commentary would be voiced. For example, the writers' room at the various satirical news shows. There are, after all, professional comedians, including those which work blue.

I've heard people say that children in the workplace isn't professional. Then I think about professional teachers and pediatricians who have children at a workplace. As a child I sometimes went with my father to his job. I don't think he was considered unprofessional for that.

I've heard people say that drinking alcohol on the job isn't professional, and that one should follow a dress code. Then I see people on the job at a conference, drinking, and at one Python conference dressed up in unicorn costume.

It's therefore very context dependent, which is why I don't think "professional" is a useful way to think about the topic.

FWIW, I had a co-worker who was topless in shorts at the office. We were coming back from lunch in a downpour one summer. He wasn't prepared for it, his shirt was sopping wet, and keeping it on was a problem in the A/C'ed room. Having his shirt off wasn't a problem, and he wasn't considered unprofessional for doing so.

That's because it didn't upset the status quo.
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Yeah, it should probably be more

"your technical documentation should have a consistent tone"

I appreciate light-hearted asides in documentation. But more if I expect it than when it's unexpected. Like you wouldn't want to end up confusing some ESL programmer who goes ask a lawyer whether they should be worried about this?

Or if you're really ambitious, make all your docs super funny! But if you mix the tone it's disorienting and maybe bad writing.
Are high rents really the root cause of homelessness in places like Tenderloin or the Skid Row? Mental health, drug abuse, etc. seem more likely culprits.

Just because I can't afford a mansion in Beverly Hills, I don't choose to be homeless on someone's doorstep. I live more modestly somewhere else more affordable.
islamic culture cultivated and gathered lots of knowledge, includign that of roman, indian, some african and other cultures. in my opinion their translation efforts have saved a lot of, and furthered a lot of science and research. As europe was plunged into the dark ages, the islamic culture saw an age of light where knowledge was power and there was a big effort for about 1000 years to cultivate and improve understanding of the world around us. alchemy, algebra, algorithm, a lot of words which came from there. though some of the underlying knowledge was gained from translating texts of other cultures, credit goes to these islamic scientists for recognising the importance of these works and improving upon them.
I mean, is there any other solution? There are certainly no integral solutions to the problem, but there is a unique (rational) solution.

I feel like I’m missing something entirely, though...
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Firefox users cannot inspect their data due to non-standard jsonlz4/mozlz4
How much beneficial is this online community platform for users?
Here, I can say that online community platforms are working for peoples’ collaboration. Randomly, It helps to connect the people from varies places in the country.
>GNU & FSF are left wing projects

What?. You'll have to explain to me how you've come to such a conclussion.
There are something like 100,000 flights per day. Billions of passenger trips per year. 50,000 people attending a single conference or not is not going to have a significant effect on global climate, except as a symbolic gesture.

What is needed are large-scale systemic changes, not canceling one or another particular meeting.
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I can see how The courses would be tough to digest without some theory from other sources, but I have found them to be invaluable for tips and tricks. They are loaded with practical information.

Much of Deep Learning is still experimental in nature and requires quite a bit of educated guessing. A number of times I have been stuck on a particular deep learning problem and a passing comment from one of the fast.ai videos has given me the perfect insight.