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The way this article talks of Tibetan Buddhism without comparing it or contrasting the teachings in it to the Theravada school of Buddhism practiced in Thailand and Myanmar is very disappointing. It is painting another wrong image of Buddhism as a whole.

It is almost like if someone never knew what Christianity was about and after learning about a sect (church) with strange practices proceeds to write an article talking about it using the name of the church interchangeably with Christianity as a whole- to a group that knows nothing about Christianity.

This is especially disappointing because the Theravada school is the school that emphasizes philosophy more than rituals (other than meditating) and is thus actually closer to the Western idea - even though it is not exactly the same, because again Westerners including the author of this article mostly know nothing about Buddhism.

The result is this articlle paints a picture that Buddhism as a whole isn't really worth learning about.

Yes the author says he is talking about 'Tibetan Buddhism' but he doesn't inform the reader of other schools of Buddhism that may be more interesting to learn about and that don't have an emphasis on tantric rituals and mysticism that he is complaining about.
What third-party software? This is about Microsoft software on Microsoft Windows.

A handful of Windows calls can be used to detect the version, if necessary.

What new Microsoft software will install on ancient windows anyway?

E.g. Office 2016 system requirements: https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4026853/office-offi...: Windows 7 or newer, or Server 2008 or newer.

Do we need deep analysis to sort out whether we're on 7, 8, or 10?
If you think about what it takes to get into med school then it seems pretty natural that you're going to get hyper competitive surgeons in the end. It starts before med school. You get assigned 10 unobtainable books that only the library has. Finals week comes around, all the books are missing even though they have to stay in the library. Turns out your classmates hid them inside the library so they could have a competitive advantage and get a higher grade on the curve.

You already devoted probably half your life to becoming a surgeon, why would you screw it up and lose so much ground so easily?
I'm an evangelizing convert to Prettier. I was hesitant about it until I tried it, but... I am sold on it now. Prettier has costs- there are cases where I'd like to format things based on semantics not syntax, to show intent, and Prettier can't read my mind (feature request: make Prettier read my mind.)

But the costs are more than offset by the benefits. I didn't realize how much of a cognitive burden thinking about formatting was until I stopped thinking about it, and it turns out that using formatting to signal intent is perilous when people don't agree on how formatting signals intent.

I'm pushing to have Prettier used across all our JS code- there is some resistance to the idea of running it across a several hundred k line non-prettified codebase and some resistance to the idea of using it at all. And this causes problems. Prettier is best when you use it for everything.

But I'm pretty sure we'll eventually just move to prettification. It seems like the right thing to me, and I'm generally right ;). Anyway, thanks for Prettier- I am not actually a huge JS fan despite mostly writing it professionally, but Prettier does away with some of my complaints about JS, and just generally makes my life easier.
A couple years ago I had two phones with a national carrier. My wife and I decided to purchase the warranties for loss or damage. The first month, my phone got wet and stopped working. That was replaced under the warranty. The second month, my wife lost her phone. For this phone - under a paid warranty mind you - the warranty company refused to replace the phone. Their "out" was some clause that, if they believed we were attempting to cheat them (which we were not), they weren't required to honor the warranty.

Now, if the more expensive warranties sponsored by the national phone companies don't honor this situation, why should I trust a company to protect us, if that company makes less than half the amount of money of the other companies?

I'm not being combative, just realistic. Why is this company different? Is the difference only the stated cost?
No probs :)

DI is something I battled to understand for a while!
Like holy shit, how can a webpage displaying text and videos slow my supercomputer to a halt. Truly a feat of technology.
It is certainly an interesting choice to use a fully fledged SPA framework to render a static page. And since it runs on Azure App Services, I'd say server side rendering should be possible.
On a related vein, do surgical procedures involve any type of quality control, where the work is independently audited? If so I wasn't aware. Quality control is such an important cogwheel of processes in many other industries, yet I don't hear much talk of it in relation to medical profession.
The "facebook motivational quote" approach to spirituality is naive and romanticized as many other topics.

You are vastly generalizing "how westerners view Religion" while, at the same time, cherry-picking and oversimplifying facts about Buddhism.
An interesting point to add is that Datomic can also write to Riak. But since riak lacks an atomic CAS, zookeeper is used alongside Riak.

What do you refer to when you say that Datomic inherits the speed of indexing a huge table? The query engine works by fetching blocks of data from storage and placing the blocks in a lazy immutable tree structure that are the indices of Datomic. They are also covering (the indices is where the actual data is stored). So it's not like the query engine runs queries on the huge table stored in mysql or postgres, it's used more like a key/value store. Case in point: you can put memcached between the datomic client (peer) and any of the supported storage engines. So Datomic piggybacks on very little other than the actual capabiliy to safely store data.
> TH is a medical treatment in which an injured patient’s body temperature is lowered to 32-34°C (89-93°F) in order to slow the body’s metabolism and minimize ischemic injury.

It looks like they aren't even trying to get close to freezing.
Does the NHS provide enough free market choice that anybody could take advantage of a score even if they wanted to?
I think you're putting far too much faith in regulation of companies outside of the EU. It hasn't yet been tested whether or not a given entity (in the US for example) will be able to be fined by the EU and actually have it enforced. While it's theoretically possible, even then, there are ways to avoid the enforcement of any such judgment.

The GDPR experts I have spoken to have said that if we don't block EU traffic, as a US entity, we should simply have an LLC setup that actually owns each site we run, and have those LLCs pay 100% of their profits as a license fee to a different LLC for its content and domain. The LLC that technically operates the website can then be fined to death and the website will still exist with no actual lost revenue. There are even more effective shell games that can be played in other countries, and there many countries where no such games have to be played because they will simply not enforce EU judgments for fines under the GDPR.

At this point, we've just decided to block EU traffic entirely, but others will likely just proceed as normal and not worry about these heavy-handed regulations, knowing that it is unlikely that penalties can ever actually be enforced against them.
What decade are you describing? In my medical school, all of the required material aside from our anatomy textbook was given to us as a PDF or a printout.
WikiLeaks calls for Coinbase boycott after ban from cryptocurrency exchange
You're dishonest. The goal is to measure productivity.
Tesla did experience a recession in the early years of the company when trying to raise money and sell prototype visions. It nearly crushed the company but they came out on the other side. Today they're much better capitalized and Elon structured debt specifically to guard against dips in the economy.

Not saying he can't be wiped out with one or two bad decisions + a recession, but this isn't new territory for Tesla.
> What if 5% of users don't accept? ... that 5% is probably the most ... influential cohort on the platform.

What's your argument for that claim?
I've been on both sides of this, having completed and reviewed interview tasks, and I have to say it's absolutely crucial.

As an interviewee, it gives you a glimpse of what work will be like once you come on board. Are the requirements solid or loose? Is testing required or even mentioned. These and other things can give you insight into how the business interacts with engineering.

As an interviewer it's hard to take resumes and unfortunately even GitHub profiles at face value. I've personally had code taken from work put up on a colleagues personal GitHub. The coding task is also not a sure-fire way, as I've seen those taken from online tutorials. The real magic is in the tasks code review.

I'm not saying this is how it works everywhere, but given the task matches the deliverables asked and we make it to the code review stage, it becomes less of a tech interview and more of a glimpse into the social skills of the developer. PR criticism is a daily occurrence and getting an opportunity to test these waters prior to fully committing to onboarding a developer.
Absolutely. And it is weaponized to that end in numerous jurisdictions. Turns out that all the work done on sales, growth hacking, virality and so on deployed in the service of commerce is even more effective in the political domain which is completely emotion-driven.

A fascinating example of an ongoing campaign is the "Qanon" conspiracy theory which has been running since late last year. The mysterious 'Q', who supposedly holds a top-level security clearance within the executive branch of the US government, issues (via the 8chan imageboard) frequent brief and cryptic clues, exhortations, and warnings about the 'gathering storm;, postulating that most political news is misleading and that the administration is secretly investigating a vast conspiracy of pedophilia that reaches to The Highest Levels of society. If you remember the 'Comet ping-pong' CT where a guy went to a DC Pizzeria and fired shots into a ceiling attempting to free abused children imprisoned in the basement (the building didn't have a basement), think that but on a national scale and with all sorts of other, darker implications. There's a large and extremely active community devoted to interpretation of these clues and crowdsourced information gathering on a grand scale.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1akw3o/could_an...
I can't speak for gp, but the reason I whitelist Javascript is because the dozens of third party scripts pages load provide no benefits to me as a user and only waste my bandwidth and cpu while risking my security and privacy. Sometimes the first-party scripts do something useful and I enable them.

That a simple document with embedded videos "needs" js to load at all is sheer lunacy. The modern web is a massive house of cards. I don't want to be uncivil but I find it very hard to understand how anyone thinks they're doing good work after they create a simple (and useful!) web document that requires javascript to load.

If you're using Javascript to make a web application, fine, clearly there's no reasonable alternative. But if you need Javascript to produce a web document, what are you doing? I wonder how much more electricity is being consumed annually processing utterly pointless Javascript.
A large portion of the people undergoing heart surgeries still face a high risk of death if they don't have the surgery (with the surgery bringing the chance of a longer, more comfortable life).

Here's why your hot take isn't the best take:

“About 30 percent of them said they had turned patients down for surgery even when they knew full well that surgery was in their best interest.”
Goodhart's Law again!
> Statements like this suggest a fundamental misunderstanding of what a vulnerability is.

That's simply absurd. Stop trying to turn a discussion into an argument.

> Your speculation about the reasoning for the extension could not be more off.

What was my speculation about Google's reasoning? I made no speculation whatsoever about Google's reasoning. Their stated reasonings in a blog post don't matter. Their actions matter.
You're still talking about browsers. Moxie isn't: he's talking about mobile applications. There is little reason to rely on CAs, even with pinning, in a mobile application. You can simply make your own arrangements with your servers, since you control both ends of the connection. In that scenario, CAs add literally no value at all.
I was really interested in what you had to say, since it was relatively different from what I've heard, then I saw a link to ZeroHedge and... well, do you have another source that isn't ridiculous?
It was not heart surgery, but after being diagnosed with lung cancer, my mother had one of her lungs removed by a surgeon who assured us he'd be able to get all the cancer. She had a miserable, painful recovery that I would not wish on anybody. Within a week or two of her recovering to the point where she could walk short distances, the cancer was found in her other lung and went on to kill her within a few more months. She may have gained several months of life from this operation, but it was a painful few months without dignity.

It was 20 years ago, so my memory is fuzzy, but I don't remember ever being presented with anything but certainty from the surgeon that he could cure her. I think that patients and surgeons need to have a better idea of the realistic chance of success from a major surgery in order to make an informed decision. Perhaps if surgeons at least have to worry about their own numbers, they might hesitate before attempting cases like my mother's.
One thing I really miss in VSCode is Sublime-like search result display in a new tab that shows the result and surrounding lines.
The "panel" search results view VSCode has now is far from perfect.
If they're misleading stats then I'd rather not know them as then I'm going to try to do something stupid as a result.
The lion’s share of homeless are there because of untreated mental illness (25%) or addiction (another 33%, although I personally lump this in with mental illness). The kindest thing we as a society can do is de-stigmatize mental illness and addiction and treat it as any other medical issue. It’s easy for us, especially in the valley, to think it’s just a matter of writing a check — with enough cash airdrops or free apartments homeless would solve itself. Rather, the problem is complex and multifaceted and requires us to confront uncomfortable truths about ourselves and how we perceive mental illness and addiction.
Sublime's multicursor works the same way, I believe.
Meh... All of these items are more or less misinformed so I'm just going to bring up one.

> Because all product decision authority rests with the “Product Owner”, Scrum disallows engineers from making any product decisions and reduces them to grovelling to product management for any level of inclusion in product direction.

The product owner is part of the scrum team. She or he is responsible for the backlog but if she has trust in the engineers she can let the engineers add their own things to it.

I think OP just works in a bad place.
It's difficult to implement this by hand, though. What you'll have in storage are encoded blobs of chunks of some kind of sorted set tree structure. So if you are to poke the data directly like that, I would assume it is much easier to just do an offline backup and a restore, and filter the data in the restore process somehow, which I believe is possible.
For those who prefer the console with "tig" ui you can stage lines:

tig status=> 1 to stage line, u to stage a hunk, \ to split hunks, ! to revert
This was within the last 7 years. I don't doubt each school is different. This was at UW in Seattle.
Yeah, I'm also using VPN as all my family do, but there are plenty of users that don't. It's just not superfluous to have this bot I think) Little later I'm gonna to add some monitoring and a surprise for Roskomnadzor probably ;)
Ask HN: What should I look for when recruited to join a startup?
I’m sure many of you here get offers to join startups. How do you evaluate the opportunity? What questions do you ask regarding the financials of the startup?
He's not a licensed one, but he's a better engineer than 99.9% of HN and all the engineers I employ. So, call it what you want.
That, again, is a browser problem. Mobile applications do not share it, since literally every user of the application is on an update channel controlled by the vendor.
Languages/compilers that don't do loop-unrolling automatically. If they do, then yes, it's probably best to let the compiler do it.
Yes, which is why I said "keep" the stock. If you're buying and selling based on insider info, you could be in trouble (thought unlikely as an employee that isn't an executive).

But no one could be prosecuted for just not selling stock they receive as compensation.
I just learned of the gun,https://github.com/amark/gun project from a downthread post. I was kind of surprised that it didn’t exist and had some really janky sql+git stuff.
There is a Burmese Buddhist community near Austin, Texas, where I live, and most of the monks there are Burmese. There is definitely a tendency for the monks to be slightly more progressive on the idea of women roles in religion, but then these are monks whose Burmese lay supporters live in America.

I think one could say generally that, whatever the shortcomings of Western understanding of Buddhism, there has been a non-zero positive influence in the area of a role for women in leading religious communities.

By the way, the way I have heard it explained by Burmese monks and Zen priests (in both cases, western) is that there was a tradition of Buddhist nuns from the time of the Buddha (his mother-in-law actually), but this tradition died out about 500 years after his death (in the Therevada tradition anyway). There is a lot of discussion and disagreement within Buddhist communities about the specifics of if/how it should be reinitiated.

I am a Buddhist, but not born Buddhist, and I am not a monk, etc. etc.
Don't tell me why Scrum sucks. That's really not useful to me.

Show me a better system instead.
Respectfully, I'm not sure the author understands what he's talking about. He's arguing for the no-op process where engineers determine all their own tasks and priorities - and I mean, I'd like that too. But there's a fundamental difficulty in aligning each engineer's personal goals with those of the company, and some amount of management or organizational design has to go towards addressing it. Engineers won't just naturally align with the organization if nobody rewards us for doing so.

> Do managers or Product Owners track and estimate every task they engage in with little or no say in what they work on?

> Are they required to present burn down charts that show that they are on target to finish?

> Are they required to do bi-weekly sell-off meeting to justify their activities?

These things are in fact the primary responsibilities of managers and product owners.
I guess we all have our personal experiences to go by. My 24 years have thought me that perhaps 25% of the real need is know up front. And usually there is some pattern that one's problem seems to fit into. Then run with it until more details appear. Then adapt or add...

On the other hand, I have worked with people who like to try to plan for all possibilities. That usually results in enormous data models and extra layers of abstraction that never prove their value.
I think at a certain point they became a failed social experiment and that we may not have something like it long term. Humans need outgroups, hierarchies and privacy. If you try to change or remove that you really just end up with a different form of it.
Air going over the top of a wing more quickly than the air below is NOT what causes lift.

What causes lift is "entrainment" plus the wing shape redirecting entrained air downwards at the trailing edge. By Newton's third law of motion, the acceleration of air downwards by the wing implies the acceleration of the wing upwards (and with the wing, the airplane).
Prettier is the greatest thing since sliced bread for the frontend world. Seriously - not having to think about formatting (esp. breaking lines!!) is a huge boon to development

Thank you
I'm also partial to WebStorm. Local history feature of Eclipse derivates has saved me enough times to make it a core pre-requisite when considering another IDE. Fwiw, VS Code has better typescript support.
AMPRNet
Knowledge of where Microsoft forgot to enable a security check is not “bearing arms”.

Imagine that world. I point out a mistake to you, and by reading or hearing it, you are suddenly holding a gun! We would have to criminalize coredumps :)
xkcd 1425 illustrates this paradox very well

https://xkcd.com/1425/
> Maybe an example of perceived benefits in an area where we haven't been 'techno-fundamentalists'

End-of-life care is one area where the thinking is changing from techno-fundamentalism to something more...human(e)
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In general, one should serve HTML on the web unless you're doing something that requires JavaScript. JS is a big security/privacy risk. At the moment, I keep JS and CSS off by default on my main browsing profile, overriding it with umatrix when a site requires it and it looks useful enough to bother.
I haven't tried this feature on VS Code, but isn't the record and replay macros feature in Emacs(normally bound to F3 and F4) a simpler(and more general, since seemingly it can record arbitrary text transformations) approach to achieve a similar effect?
> and Elon structured debt specifically to guard against dips in the economy

Please elaborate. Everything I've heard suggests the opposite.
I am getting real tired of methologies and agile movements all together
Yeah, this could be a static HTML/CSS site but that's the state of the modern web for better or worse. Markup rendered by a framework like React/Vue and bundled up with Webpack. It's just easier to build that way.
Announcing it to the world != start of design effort.
Not sure. When it comes to C++, I haven't used VS Code a ton. I think last I tried, it didn't really have much integration with my build configuration, and mostly I had to hand-configure the flags via VS Code configuration. Jetbrains CLion is probably advisable if you want good Intellisense on a large CMake project.
you can't expect any one to invest money for the 0.000001 %
This seems like a coded endorsement of Agile processes.
It is not clear to me how you could enforce invariants that relate multiple database states. Allow me to give a silly toy example. Suppose you have to design a system where

(0) Every bank account must admit a linear transaction history.

(1) Given a causally related collection of transactions, all involved parties must agree on the relative order of these transactions.

How exactly do you get to enforce invariants like these without transaction coordination?