skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pen and paper and .plan files weekly have gone a long way in motivating me to use my time and not procrastinate. Furthermore, I recall an article title called 'procrastination is about emotional management ' or something similar, and it really drove home the WHY behind the time sinks i have in my daily routines.

I increasingly see these claims of simple means to enhanced productivity to me more true.
Ceptr.org - protocol cooperativism
And how do you know that your experience is the common one? The exmormon subreddit is an extremely large and active subreddit, with lots of unity in experiences. Its by far the largest known community of ex members of any religion on reddit.

If your experience were more common, the exmormon subreddit would probably be as dead as the /r/excatholic subreddit. Now that is a community that really doesn't give a shit if you decide to not show up to church anymore.
A valid but very unlikely interpretation, which is the point. Every query is ambiguous, but if certain interpretations are much more likely than others, the search engine should respond accordingly.

Someone interested in a list of elm species is much more likely to search for "elm species."
> A university doesn't want to spend $200 million to run the drug trials for a new drug. And I suspect university researchers don't want to spend their time managing such trials either.

Yes, so outsource the trials to academic hospitals or specialized companies. Pay them properly and don't grant them a patent based on just doing the trials (they are a lot of work but they are not an inventive step).
>The even more interesting part is how the Catholic church managed to amass this huge wealth over the course of two millenia.

Really? I thought it was pretty obvious. They literally pass around a plate and millions of people around the world are expected to put in 10% of their salary. In addition they have been around forever so have a vast collection of property and priceless art etc.
I don’t know about McDonald’s but I knew a manager at a Taco Bell and a lot of this fast food takes very very little work to make. Many Taco Bells can run on just a couple people when they’re not having to clean or maintain anything.
It's always interesting to me that so many people seem to completely lose all compunction about stealing once technology is involved.

If they were ordering from a cashier at McDonald's and the cashier got distracted for a minute and somehow forgot to charge them before finishing the order, most of the people that abuse a bug like this would tell them about the mistake. I've been in similar situations plenty of times, where I easily could have gotten something without paying because of a staff oversight, but I always tell them I haven't paid yet. Most people won't suddenly decide to steal something just because they're handed an easy opportunity.

But when the transaction is through an app or a website or something, people are completely willing to abuse errors, and will even go through an obscure process deliberately to cause errors so they can abuse them. When Amazon accidentally sells expensive camera equipment for 99% off on Prime Day, people clamor to steal as much as they can, even though it's a blatant mistake. None of those people legitimately believe the price is intentional, they know they're taking advantage of an error. The ones that get away with it brag about it, and others that missed the chance are jealous that they didn't manage to steal anything.

It's really a fascinating piece of psychology to me, that once there's a "system" in place, abusing holes in it feels like a reasonable thing to do, even if the end result is effectively shoplifting.

Edit: the replies to me are a perfect demonstration.
Angular is the framework of choice for most Java/.NET shops, because it is basically JEE/Spring/WebForms/MVC, but in JavaScript, besides being written in TypeScript which is quite appealing.

Before Angular, those developers would probably have chosen Knockout.js instead.
As the old adage goes: the S in IOT stands for security. ;)
In his talk Michael Levin points out that all the cellular "machinery" that neurons use to think is present throughout all cells, it's just concentrated and accelerated in neurons. In other words, all life thinks.

"What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System" (youtube.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736698

Gregory Bateson (cybernetic anthropologist) postulated that "mind" was ambient in Nature, and that evolution and thought are two different aspects of the same phenomenon.

Here we have science filling in the details and yes, "brains" (in the sense of smarts, not actual ganglia or organs) are indeed ambient in Nature.

And, since self-regulating systems must have models of themselves to work efficiently, and since life is a self-regulating system across multiple fractally-intertwined subsystems that are themselves self-regulating, we should expect to find a "virtual world" of "beings" and other phenomenon. (Which, of course, we do. E.g. Nature spirits and plant Devas and others.)
Sorry - you’re right. I misread.

But I still think failing over from corp to corp.com is a bug, not a feature.
I know who works at DarkMatter, it’s this part I was picking up on:

>Nobody critics these people who voluntarily go there to work and instead we all pretend "Technology is Neutral".

This really doesn’t match my experiences. Maybe we hang out in rather different circles though?

OTOH, unsurprisingly the people making their living in the state-sponsored offsec space aren’t going to complain about DarkMatter & co.
I suggest we change the post link to this instead of a simple photo.
The money thing makes me think is it for businesses? but I'm also kind of stumped.
value locked inside is not a metric of success. By that metric Bank of America is thousands of times more successful, with 1.081 trillion dollars locked in.
I love how GoDaddy lets you add the corp.com domain, has a checkout page showing the $1690000.00 and a buy now button. It even has a promo code field, so I wonder if I can get a discount?
iot security. some kind of framework to allow iot devices to be secure by default. android things tried to address this but too much ecosystem and java requirement. needs to be simpler and lower level.
I think you’re referring to the commoditization of musical works with their treatment.

I listen to both, and still have a CD collection that gets less use.

I decided a long time ago I didn’t mind not keeping up with every new arts trend and just slowly wade through works I like, finding others along the way. I could talk at length about some of my favourites but I also don’t encounter those situations anymore with people. I do with my partner, though. I’m lucky she’s interested—though she’s also more current usually.
Is there a review system (code, design, writing, whatever) that allows you to color code chunks of what you're reviewing and has a well defined color scheme? E. G. Shades of green for mildly to very good, shades of red for mildly to very bad, and some other colors to denote confusion, etc.

It would be useful to see feedback of where you did stuff right, but allow you to focus on where you did stuff wrong. Making sure you're aware of what you did well is important both for being able to repeat it and psychologically, and as a reviewer it can help you make sure you are providing that positive feedback (a bunch of red with no green should be obvious).

Thats bit to say it shouldn't include specific comments, but sometimes there's not a lot to say about a large chunk of what you're reviewing that you're generally pleased with, but the person that produced it could definitely benefit from knowing that.
Related: in 2008 the German University of Duisburg-Essen did a study on cattle based off of Google Earth images, with similar results.

The researchers also did field studies of deer in the Czech Republic. They found that the vast majority (well over 2/3) aligned themselves along a north/south or south/north meridian [1].

edit: it seems tomas_aspre found the actual publication [2].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7575459.stm

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23700176
Rewriting all popular proprietary software with GPL license, such that no more vendor lock-ins prevent people from using old hardware.
Or maybe I'm being overly cynical here, and Colony (which looks like it was founded in June 2017) assumes that everyone who sees their announcement already knows that they're in the crypto space.
The todo.txt CLI and related tools [1] that grew out of Gina Trapani’s Lifehacker article [2] served me well for years.

[1]: http://todotxt.org/

[2]: https://lifehacker.com/geek-to-live-reader-written-todo-txt-...
A more cynical interpretation is that he almost certainly tried to sell this to MS privately, and they didn't bite at the price he was asking. The public offering at $1.7M is likely an attempt to force their hand.

Frankly that doesn't sound to expensive given the context, it's probably less than Microsoft's existing bug bounty budget anyway. I don't know why they couldn't work this out, or why they never bothered to try to address the issue over the multiple decades this guy has been keeping this domain out of dangerous hands.

Just write the check, Satya.
I second this.

It’s a visceral thing.
[Distribution information - LBJ Wildflower Site](https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=MIMI22)

I find it growing around my place in the rockiest parts of the yard.

I also found seeds for sale on Amazon for less than $9. Crazy. Maybe I should cultivate a new income stream.
Sorry, I realized I didn't answer your question. It wasn't that they didn't have the parts-- they REFUSED to service the phone because the "computer says the battery is ok" even though it only lasted 3 hours.
How do you know the bank wasn't church owned or controlled? The church isn't exactly upfront with their holdings. They have been found to use shell companies to obscure their holdings. The fact that he was on the board is actually a huge clue that suggests that the bank was actually owned by the church. He did that with lots of church owned businesses.

https://mormonleaks.io/newsroom/2018/05/30/mormonleaks-compi...
Pretty sure it just runs in a normal VM when not on linux
> If you look at the quarantined cruise ship only 63 out of 3700 people have been confirmed as cases.

I believe they only tested ~300 people.
Here's how I've always understood it. People used to make sacrifices to compensate for their sins. The merchants at the temple were selling offerings to be sacrificed, which was problematic for a couple of reasons. They were profiting off of the guilt and shame of others, they created a system that implied you could straightforwardly pay for the right to sin, and they made a mockery of the system of sacrifice for sin in the first place.
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This is definitely not near the top of my list when I think of things that get in my way on a day-to-day basis, but I'm genuinely curious about how/why it is for you. I can't remember the last time I waited for my computer to start from a cold boot (updates apply in the middle of the night and the reboot happens then). It wakes up from sleep quick enough for me, and pretty much anything I click on or type responds fast enough to appear instant.
"Mark Zuckerberg: Then I guess that would be the first time somebody's lied under oath." - The Social Network
If predators attack with the sun behind them then shouldn’t dogs look into the sun to protect themselves?
That's still an enormous potential pool of capital that's currently making very little.
It actually doesn't remove it from Missionary records. Missionary records are intentionally kept separate from church records. I was a missionary and we visited people who have left the church (and had their name removed) many, many times. We have left their records behind after we were told to fuck off for future missionaries to continue to contact. If the threats get violent enough a missionary might choose to remove it from missionary records (we did this only once during my two year mission, after someone threatening to kill us and posting pictures of us at our apartment). Other threats were just shrugged off and I guarantee missionaries that came behind me re-visted that member again and probably still are to this day.
Four graphs that suggest we can’t blame climate change on solar activity
Industrial equipment has this idea of a “fieldbus” that you put the manufacturer’s devices on and then have some kind of hub or controller that you completely own between it and the internet (if you decide to connect it.) I spent 4 years working for a company that makes these and it’s (IMO) the correct way to do this.

X10 had this sort of architecture, maybe if everyone started using Bluetooth or USB you could do something similar.

I’ve shopped a few times for consumer computer controlled lighting and it’s all crap (just like any consumer electronics niche) that needs to be put on a WiFi network and use the manufacture’s app (and often network services.)

If you want IOT either do it yourself or get industrial stuff.
We need a faster web framework that generates HTML on mobile phones with no JS on the main thread.

The web is the "single top-priority" software platform, but it's in big, big trouble.

On mobile, users spend less than 7% of their time on the web. https://vimeo.com/364402896 All of the rest of their time is in native apps, where big corporations decide what you are and aren't allowed to do.

As a result, the money is going to native apps. The ad money is going there, the dev time is going there, and the mobile-web developer ecosystem is in peril.

The biggest reason people use native apps instead of mobile web apps is performance. Developers design web apps for fast desktop CPUs on fast WiFi data connections, and test their sites on top-of-the-line smartphones costing 5x-10x as much as the cheap smartphones people actually carry around.

Web developers have to solve this performance problem the way we've always solved our problems: with a new framework. ;-)

But specifically we need a framework designed to generate HTML with no JS at all, and designed to run in a Service Worker, which is a little web server that runs directly on the user's phone.

This style of app is often called a "Progressive Web App," and there are plenty of frameworks that support PWAs, but they generate PWAs on top of a single-page app framework that downloads megabytes of JavaScript running on the main thread. PWA is an afterthought for most frameworks, but we need it to be the centerpiece of the design.
> any plausible reason for a non-migrating animal to align with the magnetic field, when defecating or at any other time.

I got my dog a few years back when she was just a pup. Over the years, she's done things that she was never taught how to do (swim, hunt, bury her food), she just new how to do them instinctually. I believe something like this falls under that category.

And for the record, she took a crap this morning and was pointing directly north/south.
Your actions, dictated by your subconscious, are at odds with what your conscious mind thinks is best.

To bring the two into alignment, something needs to be reframed. You can either convince your subconscious that the current behavior is detrimental, or preferably, just how beneficial the alternate, desired behavior will be.

Hypnotherapy, self-hypnosis and NLP are probably the best ways to accomplish that.

When I quit a 2-pack-a-day habit 24 years ago, it wasn't through "self-control and discipline" but by reframing self-image from "smoker" to "non-smoker." The difference between "I will not smoke this cigarette right now" and "I am a non-smoker" maybe doesn't seem like a lot, but the difference between an action and a self-identification is significant.
People are vastly less contagious in the early stages of an infection. I would seriously call a doctor as the odds are it’s something else, but if it’s not other people’s lives are at risk from inaction.
> There was another one I saw where you could order a dollar burger, then order another ten burgers without the burger, and because of how the kiosk software calculated the "no burger" modifier, the total came out to $0.

This looks like the software was missing some internal sanity checks. For example, it was hammered into us at Caltech that any answers we derive need to be sane. If an energy value turned out to be negative, we would have to note on the solution something like "the negative value is clearly wrong but I don't know where my mistake is" or we'd get not just zero credit on the solution, but a negative credit.

Software should have the same sort of checks. It's called "contract programming", the simplest manifestation of which are asserts.
I keep reading all these horror stories about Aurora (especially PostgreSQL). Is there anyone out there with an alternative story?
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Both ComputerLand and Radio Shack sponsored computer and robotics groups in Gillette Wyoming from 1979-or-so, but I lived far from town so wasn't able to attend much of it. I did hijack the local 4-H club with Popular Electronics projects and ideas from Byte magazine. Until the IBM PC and Mac, everything was 8-bit. Again, everything was remote, so I ended up getting into Apple-Cat modem tricks (phreaking), running a BBS, and later (1983??) getting a used PDP-11 and running UUCP (email and Usernet), for quite a few accounts for that quadrant of WY for a while (using a Trailblazer 9600 baud modem - I had to mow lawns for 6 months to buy that thing).

I'm sorry that I don't have many UG stories, because everybody was so far flung, it was hard to be intensely (or interactively, at least) social about it!

By the time I got to college (RHIT - Rose-Hulman), it was all men, all engineering, all the time, so there wasn't much need for an independed UG.

I feel as if I was "in the culture", but not "part of the gang" for much of that period. The WELL started about the time I was finishing up high-school, but it was a lot of fun, and made me sad about what I had been missing out on...
In the paper they wrote "Only six genes had distant homologs in public databases". So the title is even more misleading than that.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.28.923185v1....
You're welcome to your own opinions, but I actually work with church records at a local level, and this is the truth. I have siblings and neighbors who have left, and there's absolutely no remaining evidence (that I or my local leaders can see) of their info or that they were ever members of the church.

It comes down to what you're specifically asking. If you ask a local leader to remove you from a list, they may remove you from (for example) a local list of members who are open to being visited. That list would not represent your membership record in the church. In most cases, the removal from a local list like that is both appropriate and what the person actually expects (after all, it's not like your contact info was obtained from a spam list or something; you would have to have been baptized in the church, professed to believe in the church's doctrines, voluntarily consented to being a member, provided personal data, etc, so a retraction of all that is a relatively serious decision).

On the other hand, if you want to remove your record from the church as a whole (the entire organization), you'd need to be clear about that with your bishop (local leader), and they are instructed to give you details about how to go about removing your record from church headquarters.

If you asked specifically about removing your record completely, and a bishop didn't tell you how to do that, that would be a (frustrating) mistake, and I believe that leader should be corrected (it's in their handbook of instructions). It's rare enough that some leaders may just not be as familiar with the process.

In either case, it sounds like you had a bad experience with that, and your frustration is understandable. People in similar situations have been very vocal about that kind of thing, but I know that in the majority of cases (many that I've seen firsthand), those kinds of mistakes are rare and local leaders will help however they can.

EDIT: The line about you volunteering information (or your parents doing so on your behalf) isn't meant to place blame, but rather to simply point out that significant, deliberate effort was put into creating your record in the church. In that light, it would be crazy for a local leader or member to knock on your door, hear you say "remove me from your list", and interpret that as full authorization to remove your record completely. You certainly have the freedom to do that, but an offhanded remark at the door isn't really appropriate for that level of action.
Scraping is generally not illegal in Switzerland. He considers it a Persönlichkeitsverletzung. A violation of a person‘s privacy which are very strong in Switzerland. According to the tv report, the photos were uploaded without the consent of the people on the photo. Photos were taken while some were walking by in the background. You cannot just photo/video people here without their approval and publish the photos.
No, nobody knows why things changed.

There was a U.S. Supreme Court case called Diamond v Diehr such that if its precedent were followed, software patents like the one in the comment above would never be granted. Somehow lower courts confused things enough that software patents started being granted again.

Once you open up patents to a super broad and prolific field like software, it's impossible to maintain enough expertise to assess novelty and non-obviousness. And at that point the system completely breaks down. A presumption of validity when the USPTO cannot reasonably be expected to judge validity basically means that people are being denied due process when sued for patent infringement.
IBM is scorching the earth.
I recently heard about a startup trying to do something about this. Probably not totally mature, but might be worth a look: https://www.kaholo.io/
(I am not related to company in any way)
The difference is that the USSR covered a much wider geographical net than it's successor states. Giving Russia credit as if it were the USSR is like giving sole credit for a team's work to the loudest programmer in the group.
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Instead of packing a heavy compass when you go hiking, just bring a dog!
Is this stealing or just taking advantage of a loophole?

When tech companies funnel revenue to Ireland or other places to avoid taxes, is that stealing?