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Here is another one I noticed—'unphased' is used instead of 'unfazed'.

>Unphased, Nick kept publishing.

Firefox had a way to display RSS/Atom feeds earlier which they removed, but it did not allow subscribing to them in any meaningful way other than live bookmarks.

I just wish Mozilla introduce subscribing to RSS as a first class feature in Firefox. If they can introduce and integrate Pocket, I think an open technology like RSS deserves a fair chance. But they'd need to invest a little bit to make it easy to subscribe—similar to following on Twitter/Instagram or Liking pages on Facebook—to receive site updates. Having to find and enter byzantine URLs is not the way to go although personally, I do not have any trouble doing that as I have been using RSS and feed readers for more than a decade, but that is not the case for everyone.

I just wish some consortium of like minded companies like NYT/WaPo/Guardian/BBCs/Other national dailies, Reddit, Mozilla, and even Microsoft can huddle together and come up with a new name/identity and spread it and popularise it. One can always wish.

As one commentator said in the linked article: protocols are better than platforms.

Edit: The issue here is not about obtaining the feature with add-ons and extensions, which there are many. When the focus of the organisation is on something idealistic (open web), is it too much to expect them to add it to the core of the product?

See https://www.japanfs.org/en/news/archives/news_id034293.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-japanese-shri...

In many western countries many important traditional skills has been lost by the advent of technology. Either new materials and methods have been employed or many parts has been automated away or outsourced, therefore I love this instance from Japan where they rebuild a wooden temple once every 20 years so that many generations of artisans can work on the project together and pass on the knowledge:

“I saw one elderly person who probably has experienced these events three or four times saying to young people who perhaps participated in the event as children last time, ‘I will leave these duties to you next time,’”

Similar to this post, Jack Kinsella has written how he used Spaced Repetition Software to learn and keep programming knowledge in the following articles:

http://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/janki-method

https://www.jackkinsella.ie/articles/janki-method-refined

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JCHkqVoX598Ob_111khrGoJ5cpe...

Derek Sivers also has written on memorising a programming language using SRS software: https://sivers.org/srs

One important thing in the original article is about flow, or the feeling of being in the state of flow if you don't need to remove yourself from the task for looking up documentation. I think that is a worthy goal to aim for but I am amazed at the amount of cards he has created, nearly 10,000 over a period of three years. He has put in lot of effort and reaped the reward.

Generally this is true, but I think you are being dismissive by throwing this truism at his note taking attempt. The point of keeping a personal wiki, is tonote the things that has come to his attention and not to forget it and to come back to it later. Writing things down gives it a concrete form. Sometime I even force myself to write down things that I read and that is a reasonable cure for my binge reading procrastination. Even if you think it as just a glorified bookmark manager, it is more useful than your browser's bookmark manager . Many people who do not maintain a wiki may not realise that knowledge is incrementally gained and by having a wiki (or any place really) to note these things makes the process transparent and recallable.

It is interesting to me that only four of them are protesting—German, Czech, Danish, and Slovak—by blacking out their sites on 21 March 2019 in opposition to the proposed EU Copyright Directive.

Why is it that other EU Wikipedia language editions like French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish not joining in the protests? Did they come up with a different conclusion on the potential impact of the new copyright directive? Can people who know about the politics of other EU language Wikipedia comment whether they had discussed of joining this black out?

How can governments identify which properties are foreign owned when companies incorporated abroad can buy real estate via local arms and byzntine holding structures?

It appears so. What a filthy guy. Don't read if you don't have the stomach for it

https://blog.timesunion.com/animalrights/descartes-and-anima...

Gary Francione (Introduction to Animal Rights): “Descartes and his followers performed experiments in which they nailed animals by their paws onto boards and cut them open to reveal their beating hearts. They burned, scalded, and mutilated animals in every conceivable manner. When the animals reacted as though they were suffering pain, Descartes dismissed the reaction as no different from the sound of a machine that was functioning improperly. A crying dog, Descartes maintained, is no different from a whining gear that needs oil.”

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bow from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrow may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable."

- The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran

I got the above from an HN comment on the topic of raising kids. I noted it in my personal wiki and this changed the way I think about this topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11006199

Gibran's The Prophet was published in 1923 so it is now (2019) in the public domain in the USA.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58585

Excel has named cell ranges. So instead of

  =A5*A6

you could have

  =interest*principal

You can create them easily too -- can name the individually, can assign names from existing tables and so on. You can have constants too, that is, they don't have to point to any cell [1]. It is a godsend when working with bigger tables having lots of formulas.

[1] https://www.ablebits.com/office-addins-blog/2017/07/11/excel...

[2]https://www.contextures.com/xlNames01.html

Thank you for mentioning it. It is a useful way to organise a book for busy people who wants to cook. I found this aspect of the book interesting and searched for some reviews and found this critique of its ingredient list; that it is expensive:

>>> ... seem unaware of their privilege ... ask you to buy near industrial quantities of certain expensive ingredients. Worse, there’s often no suggestion as to alternatives if the budget cannot quite stretch to a kilo of black raspberries ... painfully unconscious of this element to their book ... an expressly upper middle class lifestyle cookbook. [] <<<

I usually discount criticisms of privilige but in this case of a cookbook it seems to be synonymous with expensive.

[] http://cookthesebooks.com/a-new-way-to-dinner-amanda-hesser-...

Anyone know of other books or resources along similar lines?

Just press F5 in Notepad to insert the current date and time.

One of the things I like about wikis is the concept of backlinks [1]. I currently use TW5 (TiddlyWiki) for my 700+ notes and I always find something that I have written but have forgotten ever writing those down. From the screenshoots it appears like MindForger has this feature and I am glad they chose to implement it. Very few note taking software seem to implement it these days. The ability to see the relationship of existing notes is revelatory. I will be watching this one to see how they progress. Hope they will release a Windows version too.

[1] : http://wiki.c2.com/?BackLink

Now it is self-administered eye drops (inefficient) or an injection to the eye (ouch) [1]. This thing, if it gets adopted [2] can be used by the patient themselves and at the same time will deliver the drug better.

Here is the reporting from Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/dissolving-microneed...

[1] Intravitreal injection : https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007629.htm

[2] A 2015 report saying almost same thing : http://www.optometrytimes.com/modern-medicine-cases/new-tech...

Consistently recording logs is the importannt factor. You don't need fancy tools, a simple text-editor is all you need to have.

In Emacs one has org-mode, in Vim, vimwiki, even for plain Notepad, one can easily create a time log by pressing the F5 key. It will fill in the time and date automatically. Create a text file like day_log.txt, open it at the start of your day and press F5 key to fill the date and time. Just add couple of words on what you want to note. Done.

Some other similar tools I added to my notes from a similar thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17905666

Interactive PostgreSQL SQL Tutorial - https://chartio.com/learn/sql/

Select STAR SQL - https://selectstarsql.com/

SQL Bolt - https://sqlbolt.com/ - Learn SQL with simple, interactive exercises

SQL Window functions - https://www.windowfunctions.com/

PostgreSQL Exercises - https://pgexercises.com/

SQL Zoo - http://sqlzoo.net/

SQL Teaching - https://www.sqlteaching.com/

What is an iodine protocol?

Here you go : https://archive.fo/9kz4u

Feed URL :https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...

Project URL: https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content

Please note that the video may be disturbing to watch.

Here is the report on the BBC site: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45599973/cameroon-a...

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-monday-ed...

Francis Galton was Darwin's cousin. Reading the Origin of Species he became convinced of evolution. He believed that “what Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly.” He was also into statistics and measurement. There is an interesting story of him measuring an African (Khoikhoi) women's impressive derriere without touching her using a sextant from a distance. Women’s beauty consumed him. One of his experiments was to find which place has more beautiful women. Sorta like a 19th century HotORNot. He had two counters in each pocket, one for hot and one for nots. According to his study London had the most attractive women in the UK, Aberdeen the least.

https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/tag/francis-galton/

https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/2015/09/26/footnote-...

https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/eugenics-to...

The author mentions writing down a summary after every chapter in the book itself. The final notes are prepared from each chapter's annotations and handwritten summaries. If anyone is interested in reading to retain more, try How to Read a Book [1] by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler. Reviews and summaries of the boook [2, 3].

[1] : https://www.amazon.com/How-Read-Book-Classic-Intelligent/dp/...

[2] : https://fourminutebooks.com/how-to-read-a-book-summary/

[3] : http://oxfordtutorials.com/How%20to%20Read%20a%20Book%20Outl...

"For the very niche topics, i basically maintain myself lists of sites."

I have a Google CSE for the sites I have subscribed in RSS reader. It provides results that I could never get with straight Google search. Curious to know what your sources are like if you don't mind?

A good alternative to Google news is http://newsnow.co.uk

It has high information density. It is headlines only which makes it easy to scan lot of information in one go. The categories are also very wide covering everything one can imagine a news aggregator to cover. Only problem is that it doesn't filter or categorise by events or topics so there tends to have duplicate coverage from different sources.

http://radio3.io/rivers/ by Dave Winer is also good. You can make your own aggregator with his River5 (node.js) program. Do anyone of you have any other suggestions?

Great link.

"Happy mortal. When you read me, I will not be any more, "writes Joachim Martin on one of the found plates, clearly showing his will to leave a trace of his existence, but also of his thoughts. "My story is short and sincere and frank, because no one will see my writing is a consolation for forced to be read"

Under the floors of the castle of Picomtal. The posthumous writings of a carpenter from the Hautes-Alpes (1880-1881) by Jacques-Olivier Boudon

Google Translate: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https:/...

mGSD is based on TiddlyWiki Classic, here is GSD5, a new project, built on the current version, TiddlyWiki 5:

http://gsd5.tiddlyspot.com/

John Gruber recently blogged about Frontier:

> If you never used Frontier, it’s hard to explain what made it so special. My very favorite thing about Frontier is the “object database”. It wasn’t like using a database in the SQL sense. It was just persistent storage. You didn’t have to deal with the file system at all. You just wrote to, say, scratchpad.foo or examples.bar or any other unique identifier and whatever you wrote would be there when you went to read it. And, even better, there was a visual interface for exploring everything in the object database. You could see it and explore it, because in addition to being a language, Frontier was also a real Mac app. You could even customize the app’s menu items just by editing the system.misc.menubar table in the object database. It’s a wonderfully self-contained design. Re-reading the documentation makes me wonder why there’s nothing like Frontier’s object database in other scripting languages.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/04/25/30-years-of-fro...

Thank you for suggesting this. I never knew about this. I learnt that it is from/ part of Imagemagick [1].

Unoconv tool [2], recommended in another comment here, is also great to convert documents to and from formats that are supported by OpenOffice (LibreOffice?).

Pandoc [3] is also a worthy option to convert between document formats.

[1] : https://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php, https://www.lifewire.com/convert-linux-command-unix-command-...

[2] : http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/unoconv/

[3] : http://pandoc.org/

Hawkins wanted to keep the familiar voice he has been using. He did not want it replaced with 'better' voices because he came to identify strongly with the voice.

They (Intel?) replaced the hardware and software with a better system, called Assistive Context-Aware Toolkit (ACAT). It allowed him to use computer easily (compared to the old system) [0]:

The new Intel user interface operates like an engine. A sensor mounted on Hawking's cheek is detected by an infrared switch attached to his glasses, helping Hawking select a character on his computer. A customized version of the popular SwiftKey app has greatly improved the system's ability to predict his next characters, words and actions so he only has to type the first few characters of a word. That information is relayed to his speech synthesizer.

To search the Web, for example, Hawking previously had to take lengthy routes: Exit from a communication window, navigate a mouse to run the browser, navigate the mouse again to the search bar, and finally type the search text. The new system automates all of these steps seamlessly and quickly.

[0] : https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/12/02/intel-hawking...