In this post we’re going to look at what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the community publish to the Microsoft Store and, in collaboration with Windows, adding a default “python.exe” command to help find it. The growth of Python has been incredible, as it finds homes among data scientists, web developers, system administrators, and students, and roughly half of this work is already happening on Windows. And yet, Python developers on Windows find themselves facing more friction than on other platforms.

It’s currently scheduled for a June 18th release of a white paper explaining its cryptocurrency’s basics, according to a source who says multiple investors briefed on the project by Facebook were told that date. How Facebook’s cryptocurrency works

Here’s what we know about Facebook’s blockchain project:

Name: Facebook will likely use the Libra codename as the public facing name for its cryptocurrency, which The Information reports won’t be called GlobalCoin as the BBC had claimed. The head of Facebook’s Blockchain team David Marcus (left) speaks at TechCrunch Disrupt 2016

Usage: Facebook’s cryptocurrency will be transferrable with zero fees via Facebook products including Messenger and WhatsApp.

But over the last decade, evidence has been mounting that the brain as a system functions much like water approaching the critical point of a phase transition. Much like the pile of sand in an hourglass, he proposed that the brain teeters at that same critical point, a balance achieved by avalanches of electrical activity between neurons at all size scales. In other words, “The transition is between unsynchronized and synchronized firing, this transition point is indeed critical, and the brain hovers around it,” said Beggs, who was not involved with the experiments.

Philip Rosedale has a great post on the essential building blocks for building “the metaverse”, and the features he proposes are all solid as far as they go:

The most obvious thing that’s missing from the list — and this is a topic that Philip and I debate about a lot — game mechanics and gameplay! Because the thing is, anything that looks like the beginning of the metaverse, in the sense that it has at least some of the other features Philip mentions above, are games: Minecraft of course, Roblox, and increasingly, Fortnite. In my opinion, the a priori case is just as strong: Neal Stephenson’s Snowcrash, the first vision of the Metaverse that is actually first named The Metaverse, very much has gameplay and game mechanics.

BALTIMORE—Local governments across the country are facing a growing threat of cyberattacks and escalating ransom demands, as an attack in this city has crippled thousands of computers for a month. “Ransomware is a pandemic in the United States,” said Joel DeCapua, supervisory special agent in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s cyber division, referring to a particularly devastating form of malicious software. Hackers are increasingly going after larger targets, compared with five years ago, when most ransomware attacks…

In this post we’re going to look at what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the community publish to the Microsoft Store and, in collaboration with Windows, adding a default “python.exe” command to help find it. The growth of Python has been incredible, as it finds homes among data scientists, web developers, system administrators, and students, and roughly half of this work is already happening on Windows. And yet, Python developers on Windows find themselves facing more friction than on other platforms.

I’m not going to criticize Rust in this article, however, I am going to criticize a part of the community surrounding the language. They are the people who show up unannounced on your software project’s doorstep (probably your issue tracker) and ask the following question:

Ok, here we go. If you’ve spent any time at all in a community where programmers hang out, you’ve probably seen a flame war over which language is best.

In reflecting on this first decade of getting regularly paid money to type weird symbols into my Terminal, I wanted to take some time to share some of the ways my thinking shifted over the years as a developer. I hope you enjoy the post and can relate a little bit 😄

I was 19 years old when I applied for my first technical job. Because I had eyes like an eagle and this eagle wants those high-quality semicolons 🦅

When I entered my first company, it was honestly the first time I was working a lot with code other people had written.

Media attribution is a measurement of whether or not a particular campaign had an effect, even if there wasn’t a deterministic link between the ad and the customer conversion. If the customer – having never scrolled down to the ad, or not seen it, or had their kid on the iPad when the ad appeared – then makes a purchase even coincidentally the media attribution model will claim at least part of that sale. The systemic issue occurs because marketers and AdTech companies unreflectively increase surveillance and data collection in the hopes of increasing media attribution.

That’s one of the key findings from Carbon Brief’s latest “state of the climate” report, a quarterly series on global climate data that now includes temperatures, ocean heat, sea levels, greenhouse gas concentrations, climate model performance and polar ice. The majority of forecast models expect weak El Niño conditions to persist for the remainder of 2019, with sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific around between 0.5C and 1C above the recent average. Sea level rise is sensitive to global surface temperatures; El Niño years where temperatures are a bit warmer tend to have more rapid sea level rise than La Niña years.