Mamata demanded that the Aadhaar must not be made compulsory to receive LPG subsidy and called for immediate review of the move.

Only a five to ten percent are intrested in getting their Aadhar number linked to their bank accounts.

Sudipta Sen, chairman of the bust Saradha Group that left thousands defrauded, Tuesday said that the persons named by arrested Trinamool Congress MP Kunal Ghosh in a Facebook post, had no link with his company.

Even as the debate over health effects of pesticides continues to rage, a study conducted by the Punjabi University...

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Bob Evans Farms, Inc., a Xenia, Ohio, establishment, is recalling approximately 42,246 pounds of pork sausage link products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically pieces of clear hard plastic.

Internetainers Rhett & Link gather up their courage and show us the last things they did with their phones. "Rhett and Link's Buddy System" Good Mythical Morning @rhettandlink

Liza Koshy, Markiplier, Rhett & Link, and Hannah Hart use the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about YouTube content creation. Hannah Hart is the host of hit podcast "Hannahlyze This,” the self-help podcast that just can’t help itself. The podcast tackles candid conversations about mental health, as well as lighthearted takes on new self-help “fads” like rage rooms and suspension chambers.

Rhett & Link take the WIRED Autocomplete Interview and answer the internet's most searched questions about themselves. Do Rhett & Link live together? Are they a couple? Are they actually friends?? The hilarious pair answer all these questions, and more! ”Internetainers” Rhett & Link are the hosts of the most-watched daily talk show on the internet, Good Mythical Morning, which airs weekdays on YouTube.com/GoodMythicalMorning.

WIRED editor-in-chief Nicholas Thompson spoke with Jeff Weiner, CEO of LinkedIn about the future of work at WIRED's 25th anniversary celebration in San Francisco.

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Google has used links to determine the authority of websites since its early days: the idea of webpages casting votes” for other pages by linking to them is at the core of the PageRank algorithm. This led to the rise of numerous manipulative link tactics.

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As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps the world, more and more governments are imposing lockdowns on their citizens. As a result, reliance on digital tools has increased significantly to maintain social and professional relationships. Notably, usage of video conferencing app Zoom has spiked, and not just for professional purposes.

But what about the social media tools we were already using to connect with people on a daily basis? How has their popularity changed so far in these trying times?

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Latest added Global Social Network Marketing Market research study by HTF MI offers detailed product outlook and elaborates market review till 2025. The market Study is segmented by key regions that is accelerating the marketization. At present, the market is sharping its presence and some of the key players in the study are Facebook, Instagram, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest & Tumblr etc. The study is a perfect mix of qualitative and quantitative Market data collected and validated majorly through primary data and secondary sources.

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When most people talk about social media, they are usually referring to platforms like Facebook or Instagram, but rarely think of LinkedIn as part of the vast array of social media platforms available.

We tend to assume that LinkedIn is not such a valuable place to be and often, even businesses make this mistake, assuming that it would be far more beneficial to focus on their presence on Twitter, for example. There is a logic behind this – LinkedIn is a place for businesses, but I’m looking to advertise to real people, and they are going to be on other, more laid-back platforms, so I might as well go there, too.

This logic is flawed. Why? We are just about to show you.

On LinkedIn, you can build your brand.
This is true both for individuals looking to expand their job potential, and for businesses wanting to grow their brand. As an individual, where can a possible employer find you? On Facebook or Instagram. But do you really want them to see that snapshot of you in your undies at the beach, or the dirty joke you posted last night?

Probably not. These are personal details about you that chip away at your professional brand.

The NIA said that the agency along with Punjab and Haryana police arrested Ranjit Singh, allegedly a notorious narco-terrorist, on Saturday as he was acting as a conduit for Pakistan-based groups to push drugs into India and the money generated was used for terror activities. Singh, who has been on the run for nearly a year, was arrested from Sirsa, the NIA said.

Since over 5 years, WooCommerce is recognized as the most powerful and easy to use e-commerce plugin for WordPress. In this article, I have compiled my all time favorite hacks and code snippets to extend WooCommerce possibilities.

Back from hiatus. I’m starting up serious planning and writing of “CSS for JavaScripters” so this is a CSS-heavy linkbait, mostly filled with reminders to myself.

• Every-layout.dev is easily the most important CSS resource to be unveiled in recent months. (In fact, it was unveiled at CSS Day, which was a nice touch.) Serious, in-depth, algorithmic discussion of several popular CSS layouts and how to construct them with care.
• The 2019 State of CSS survey results. Contains several interesting gems. The figure that really surprised me is that 85% of the respondents is male. I thought CSS had a slightly higher ratio of women. Then again, maybe it’s the marketing of the survey that caused the disparity. (I never heard of it until I saw the results.) Or my gender guesstimate is just wrong.
• The CSS mindset:

  [...] the declarative nature of CSS makes it particularly difficult to grasp, especially if you think about it in terms of a “traditional” programming language.

  Other programming languages often work in controlled environments, like servers. They expect certain conditions to be true at all times [...]

  CSS on the other hand works in a place that can never be fully controlled, so it has to be flexible by default. It’s less about “programming the appearance” and more about translating a design into a set of rules that communicate the intent behind it. Leave enough room, and the browser will do the heavy lifting for you.

  Interesting turn of phrase that echoes my own thoughts on the subject. Expect to find this in The Book.
• Excellent overview of render blocking in CSS and how to avoid it. It’s simple, really, but there will be countless CSS programmers who need this sort of tutorials. Will also go in The Book.
• An older article, but Harry Roberts’s Cyclomatic Complexity: Logic in CSS remains one cornerstone of CSS understanding, and teaching. This one is mostly meant to remind myself of its existence; you probably already read it.
• Facebook lost 20% of its usage (likes, shares, and such) since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.
  This sounds great in theory, but what if the people who are harder to dupe are the ones who stop using Facebook, while the more gullible people remain? The average Facebook user would become more stupid, and Facebook would become even better at influencing its users.
• Also, Facebook should be regulated. Not as a media company, but as a drug.
• We all know third-party scripts are among the worst offenders when it comes to website performance. But how bad is it actually, and who are the worst culprits? Third-party Web provides useful answers and treeviews.
• Excellent overview of WebViews, their purpose, their tricky bits, and their diversity. Required reading for all five people who care about the browser market.
• [In Dutch] List of websites closed on Sundays. In an ultimate meta-move this list is only available on Sundays.
  (And why are these websites closed? Because their proprietors subscribe to the strict Dutch Reformed view that Sundays are not for media enjoyment. See this article about the SGP political party for more background information.)
• You shouldn’t do thing with tool, you should do other thing
• Have a tip for the next Linkbait? Or a comment on this one? Let me know (or here or here).

Links in times of chaos.

• Laura Schenck, whose thoughts on programming CSS are very interesting anyway, discusses a project where she had to battle specificity. Key thought:

  Specificity breeds, much like conditionals breed in imperative languages [...]. Adding specificity is adding conditional logic. Once you start adding that logic, the code-base snowballs and it becomes difficult to understand, and thus difficult to maintain.

  She also asks if anyone who writes CSS should understand specificity to this degree. My answer is a firm Yes, just like you're expected to understand if- and for-loops when programming in any other language.
• Rachel Andrew ponders the pros and cons of CSS4. She is afraid that people will get confused by “CSS4” because several articles said there will never be a CSS4, and the version number 4 does not align with the version numbers of existing modules. Although both are true, I seriously doubt whether the people that “CSS4” is aimed at (those I call the torso and long tail of the CSS world) are aware or care. To me, this argument is overly legalistic, in the sense that it doesn’t matter in the real world.
  A much more important argument is that the announcement of “CSS4” will make people expect a list of new features that work in all browsers. In itself that’s great, and I think it would be really helpful, but the problem is that someone will have to decide what goes on the list and what does not — and the CSS WG is already stretched thin and cannot spare the time to do this. Maybe we need a community effort to help them? Worth thinking about.
• Interesting Twitter thread on why CSS is perceived as simultaneously very simple and very complicated.

  Because we think it's a simple language, we don't dive deep into it like we do with "real" programming languages. background: blue; makes the background turn blue, why should we bother diving in?

  But then it's time to build a layout and suddenly the combination of user agent styles and a lack of understanding in the fundamentals of CSS makes things break, or not behave how we expect them to.

  Yup.
• Mostly for myself: the difference between defer and async on script tags. Or, as Nicholas Zakas puts it:
  • Do it now: <script src>
  • Do it later: <script defer src>
  • I don’t care when you do it, just not now: <script async src>
• Coil, the web monetization company, offers some interesting but too-much-under-the-radar thoughts on probabilistc revenue sharing. The idea is simple: if A, B, and C cooperate on a to-be-monetized article, and A is allotted 60% of the revenue, B 25% and C 15%, you simply add those probabilities to your payment pointers. Eventually a tool will draw a random and assign a specific payment to a specific author, but for now you can use a script to emulate that behaviour.
• Google proposes to sunset the User Agent string by freezing its version number and removing device information. The purpose here is to make fingerprinting (combining UA string, IP address, TCP/IP settings, device information and a host of other bits and pieces to accuratenly identify a web user) more difficult.
  The UA string will be replaced by client hints that give web developers some information about the browser, device, and platform. These hints will likely be more generic than the UA string, and thus hamper fingerprinting.
  The second problem with UA strings is the eternal arms race between clueless web developers and browser vendors, where web devs start using a certain badly-written browser detect, which forces browsers who want to end up on the good side of it to adjust their UA string, so that it gathers more and more cruft. (This is the reason every single browser string out there still starts with Mozilla.) I do not see this arms race go away. For instance, if the new Flow browser wants to defeat new browser detects written with client hints by clueless web developers, it will most likely be forced to announce itself as Chrome. Worse: we lose the ability to accurately identify it as Flow. As a result, new browser stats will make it appear as if Chrome is even more dominant than it actually is.
  Maybe we need another field Sec-CH-RealUA or something, where the browser can use its true name. On the other hand, that will be more fodder for clueless web developers and will perpetuate the arms race.
  In any case, to me it seems that more-or-less-accurate browser statistics will be the most important casualty of this switch.
  
  Related links (mostly for myself): client hints as currently implemented; discussion on a previous Safari attempt to do something similar; Blink intent to ship
• Mozilla and KaiOS Technologies are going to cooperate on future versions of KaiOS, the operating system for “smart feature phones” (read: cheap phones) that’s based on Firefox OS. Included in the article is a whole list of features Mozilla will work on, but they essentially boil down to keeping KaiOS updated for the ever-evolving web.

  Broadly speaking, these updates will mean many first-time internet users gain access to more of the web’s advanced digital services on devices that are affordable, reliable, and secure.

  Remember: KaiOS is aimed at not-so-rich people from emerging markets. As of May 2019 there were about 100 million devices out there. That’s piss poor compared to iOS and especially Android, but let’s see if their use explodes or not.
• Have a tip for the next Linkbait? Or a comment on this one? Let me know (or here or here).

'Disney is presenting Black Panther as Manoj Muntashir's film.''Such a big studio, a billion dollar film is being released as Manoj Muntashir's film.''It is in the same space of Baahubali, which I wrote.''The film has got a kingdom, kings, treachery... things which are very much up my alley.'

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The O*NET Content Model includes worker- and job-oriented hierarchical taxonomies that can effectively serve as frameworks for organizing workforce competencies, credentials, and other work-relevant information. Visit the new Competency Frameworks section to discover a variety of easy-to-use competency frameworks, including Technology Skills, Abilities, Cross-Functional Skills, Basic Skills, and Knowledge.

The frameworks are available in Excel format and also as JSON-LD: machine-readable Linked Data  described using the CTDL-ASN  schema (Credential Transparency Description Language Profile of Achievement Standards Network Description Language) developed by the Credential Engine  project.

For a summary of O*NET machine-discoverable information see: Link to Us--Machine-Readable Data.

Synonym content is added to the Abilities, Cross-Functional Skills, Basic Skills, and Knowledge competency frameworks. The simplified language is drawn from easy-to-read content included within My Next Move and My Next Move for Veterans. The frameworks, built from worker- and job-oriented hierarchical taxonomies, can help in organizing workforce competencies, credentials, and other work-relevant information, and also serve as a starting point for creating skills thesauruses. Visit the Competency Frameworks section to discover these easy-to-use tools.

The frameworks are available in Excel format and also as JSON-LD: machine-readable Linked Data described using the CTDL-ASN schema (Credential Transparency Description Language Profile of Achievement Standards Network Description Language) developed by the Credential Engine project.

For a summary of O*NET machine-discoverable information see: Link to Us--Machine-Readable Data.

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