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Smarter Every Day explains this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oai7HUqncAA

Similar news from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334001

I've been thinking that in order to write well, the author has to empathize with their audience. The effect is that the reader is able to empathize with the author.

Math, programming, and writing are verbal skills, but good communication requires empathy, an emotional skill. I realized this was true after I realized I needed to consciously work on empathy because it is so crucial.

The article mentions planaria, a type of flatworm that can regenerate from a small piece of tissue. Many experiments with these animals involve cutting them up various ways.[0]

I agree that animal testing is integral to modern medicine, but I also agree with the parent that unnecessarily inflicting pain on even lower animals reflects badly on humanity. How many of these experiments are actually necessary? Do research institutions make the researcher convince them that the suffering is really necessary for medicine, rather than merely to satisfy some curiosity?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planarian#Regeneration As a side note, the next section of the Wikipedia article, describes even more grotesque experiments.

"The company plans to leave much of that interpretation up to its volunteer army of intranet moderators, who have day jobs at Google but in their spare time oversee discussion groups..."

It sounds like these employees are not also paid for their extra time spent on moderating.

Yep, fixed!

Your SSL certificate works in Chrome, but not in my Safari 11.1.1. SSL Shopper (not sure how reliable this is), also shows warnings.

https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html

Thank you for the video.

As someone who is still in school and struggles with emotion/time management/procrastination, I was particularly hit by "focus on goals that are after which you wish to achieve." People around me have pointed this out to me, but it was only until recently did I realize how serious it was.

I think that my impulsive nature and addiction to novelty fuel this problem. Even browsing Hacker News is a manifestation of this. HN always has some cool idea that I could be studying or hacking on when I have free time. But I spend too much time thinking about possibilities than getting done what's right in front of me, because I'm addicted to novelty. I especially neglect school work, which isn't boring at all and rather fascinating and useful, and instead try to find weird things to explore. My huge queue on Pocket is one of many testaments to this. The result is poor, and I feel miserable and disappointed in myself.

Of course, as the video touches upon, modern technology (social media, apps, even internet pornography) exploits humans' desire for novelty (though as previously explained, I think I'm far more vulnerable than average). The video helped me see the connection between my habit and this tendency.

> “She was acting as a rental daughter, but at the same time she was telling me how she felt as a real daughter,” he said. “And yet, if it was a real father-daughter relationship, maybe she wouldn’t have spoken this honestly.” ... Yūichi Ishii, the founder of Family Romance, told me that he and his “cast” actively strategize in order to engineer outcomes like Nishida’s, in which the rental family makes itself redundant in the client’s life.

> I thought about my missed shrink appointment, and about a psychology professor I met, Kenji Kameguchi, who has been trying for the past thirty years to popularize family therapy in conflict-averse, stoical Japan, where psychotherapy is still stigmatized. He said that he thought rental relatives were, in an unschooled way, fulfilling some of the functions of group-therapy techniques such as psychodrama, in which patients act out and improvise one another’s past situations or mental processes.

From this reading, it seems to me that Japan's fake relatives are the equivalent of counselors and psychiatrists in other countries.

The page is broken on Safari 10.0 but works on Chrome 59

Facebook in fact is engaged in web breaking behavior. Look at what they recently tried to do with internet.org and Free Basics. Basically calling their walled garden the internet and giving it away for free to developing countries.

I think the title is being satirical of the current state of web development, which is often needlessly complex.

"One weird trick" is something we associate with class of false advertisements. The irony is that we don't expect turning a website into an app to be easy, but it turns out it is.

Perhaps you were being humorous as well?

I agree with the others under this comment that websites already hide their source through obfuscation. What I am slightly more concerned is how this will go with the law. I think it is much harder to get into trouble when messing with obfuscated JS than when decompiling binary code.

Yes, you can get into trouble when you decompile code: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/30375/93013

I just stumbled upon N1, although I haven't tried it:

https://github.com/nylas/nylas-mail

This leads me to consider that although ISPs previously weren't forced to collect users' browsing history, they had the legal right to. The only difference the bill does is to share the power corporations had with the government.

Another option is Slate, scriptable with JS

But it uses flash, which turns off people like me.

If I understand correctly, Unicode only provides the semantic meaning, not the actual rendering. The font provides information for how to render it. Am I right?