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To explain people in another way, the conservatives tend to be religious and liberals tend to be atheists/secular. This argument of liberals being 'logical and rational' vs conservatives being 'anti-intellectual and anti-science' is the same thing if conservatives said that they are the party of 'God and morality', whereas liberals are the supporters of 'Satan and immorality'.

This is what we get when one side gets to frame the debate. The whole debate on science and reason is framed by the liberals, so they get to decides the rules here. According to these rules, you need to look at 'scientific evidence' of things in order to form your opinions.

My claim has been that people form their opinion first, and then they look at the scientific evidence. Jonathan Haidt has done some work on this in his book righteous mind[1]. In addition to it, the concept of 'Mental Models' is another reason why either side accept 'proofs' or evidence for their opinion.

A simple example is the resurgent 'Flat Earth Theories'. Most of the people would reject any attempts to prove that the Earth is flat. Only a small minority of people who believe that earth is round, spend their time debunking and debating that Earth isn't flat.

To the rest of us, we don't even go around and say "There is some debate whether Earth is round" even though a group of individuals is very heavily advocating for it and writing pages and pages worth of material on it. Would a rational and scientific minded person just reject 'evidence' on it's face value? Apparently we do because that 'evidence' isn't really proper evidence. Saying that there is a conspiracy among the world authorities to claim that Earth is round isn't a proper hypothesis, not because it requires it doesn't sound feasible.

The same thing goes with why the right rejects what left deems as 'scientific evidence and reason'.

1. http://righteousmind.com/
> alongside the perception that conservatives are anti-intellectual, hostile to science and at war with the university.

This seems like the main reason. Republicans have attacked the importance of education, trying to sell candidates "you want to have a beer with" instead of the traditional intellectual betters that the left would rather see running the country. Education is often a transformative experience that becomes part of your identity and when your identity is attacked, you react tribally and defend your tribe.

The interesting thing is that I see both sides wanting to make their sides feel superior through what they value as important. Democrats view that every race, gender and life choice is equally valued means that the most intelligent and most educated will naturally rise to the top and feel most important. The Republicans message of anti-intellectualism, racism, sexism, homophobia and such will make a whole different group of less educated people feel superior. But both groups have an underlying need to feel superior to others. That seems endemic to our species. It's just that as access to education increases, the educated are now a large enough bloc to use that attribute to satisfy that deep-seated need.
No, the session state itself may be orders of magnitude larger than an id. At 4 bytes per token you can store up to 250M ids per 1 GB. But session state might store kilobytes of data per user for roles, permissions, names, descriptions, links etc.

And you're overestimating the necessary size of a revocation store. Only a tiny fraction of your users ever log out or otherwise invalidate session via means other than TTL. You're looking at storing just a couple thousand 4-8 byte revoked session ids and ttls instead of gigabytes of session data.

If you have a security breach and need to invalidate all tokens, just reject all tokens with an issue date before it's fixed. And they all fall off anyway after a week (or however long the ttl is).
I don't believe c++ support exists yet for Windows (although it works if you are targeting Android).
I don't think Zuckerberg is malicious, nor are people working at or in control of facebook. However, that doesn't exclude the whole system from being bad for society, just like the constituents of of viruses or cancers are just benevolent atoms and electrons.
Not until Apple implements getUserMedia in Mobile Safari.
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Pretty sad though, the loss of authenticity. And the resignation of a comment like this. Also the part about how customers should accept it because of the considerations capital has in starting it up.
I wish there was a better way to get craft beer/cider from other areas of the world. I suspect the biggest obstacle is regulation, but I wish it was at least possible to get from airports.
I had suspected this existed, because it's pretty obvious from just being in the US that "generic Irish bar that could be anywhere in the US" is a thing.

Low-end American-Chinese restaurants are the same way.
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Everyone (within first world geopolitical borders, at least) has access to all of those things though. Self-made still refers to the part that sets the individual apart. The dictionary seems fairly clear on that.
HN does have a noprocrast timeout available, although it's almost undocumented.
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I’m one of the creators of WikiHouse project (and lead founder of WikiHouse Foundation) – @ben_howes (http://twitter.com/ben_howes) gave me a nudge and suggested we throw some thoughts into the mix on this (it is Hacker News after all). Some really great points made here - I’ll focus on a couple and try to keep it brief.

The WikiHouse project began as just an experiment into digital, distributed housebuilding, but has turned into a serious open source project aiming to change the way building information works. We’re doing it the hard (and slow) way – so currently busy working through certification, regulation, liability, commercialisation etc. It’s already in use in various pilot projects by a bunch of teams around the world already, but as you can imagine, change happens slowly in this space.

In a nutshell, the advantage of digital fabrication is similar to any fabricated components (think IKEA). It brings speed, value, precision, performance-predictability, safety and mistake-proofing (which lowers skill and risk thresholds for small players) to construction projects, plus it’s editable as code. The opportunity we see is to push this from big centralised factories to distributed networks. The lead technology, WikiHouse WREN, is just intended as a starter for ten really. We started designing for machines and materials that are pretty widely available (Plywood, CNC), and then invited others to fork and edit, which is what’s happening. It is strong, buildable, airtight, performs well on cost etc, but yes, at the moment, it is limited in terms of span, height... Please do fork and improve it, or get into developing other open building technologies.

As a couple of comments mentioned, the key issues are around the limitations of sharing static design files, because, yes, price, conditions, regulations etc vary depending on where you are, and yes, there is a legal risk of any specific design shared being interpreted as professionally certified, and therefore exposing professional contributors to risk. So, over the last few months we’ve been working on some browser-based generative software for designing and delivering homes digitally without relying on external proprietary software like Rhino and Sketchup, with support for distributed supply chains and with checking protocols built-in. We’re hoping we’ll have some stuff to release before too long for people to get their teeth into, but as you can imagine, we have to moderate our excitement with a degree of sensible caution and thorough testing. But as a rule, we’ll be open-sourcing everything we can, as soon as we can.
Thank you for your charitable interpretation of my knowledge about the difference between men and women, you must be fun at parties.

Since you have already committed to disagreeing with me i'll make the deductive leap that the article is comensurable with your worldview and assume that you personally believe that morality can only come from the nurturing mother (as stated in my quotation). From this i'll take the liberty to conclude that your opinion on the matter is... freudean at best, and disregard it completely. What a fruitful discussion we're having.
Interesting, I still haven't seen Irish pub with loud music. In the evening some of them transform into night bars, so I don't count those. I live in Dublin btw
You can roll your own browser interface using WKWebView — if (for whatever reason) your app supplements the browsing experience, you'd use WKWebView.

SFSafariViewController provides its own Safari-like interface and has an extremely limited set of configuration/customization options.
Facebook messenger is also unencrypted, and I'm not sure if their privacy policy grants permission to read the chats, but I know they definitely do insert Uber ads into messenger whenever a car or "ride" is mentioned.
Black box warnings exist in the drug industry because its understood people do not understand complex risks and they don't read the fine print. Facebook IS a threat only because many of its users are sharing information ignorant of the risks.

HIPAA exists in healthcare because its understood data can be misused to the great detriment of patients. Facebook IS a threat only because its users have no recourse over the misuse of their information.

Products liability laws exist for manufactured goods because raising the costs of failure to protect your customers results in safer products, and because it decreases government's obligation to support injured consumers. Facebook IS a threat only because there is no cost associated with injuring users, and little awareness of how Facebook is injurious.

Its a systemic issue beyond Facebook. Legislative reform is required.
Society gets to make up the rules, not individuals.
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Wire transfer is definitely the way to go if transactions are only Europe to Europe or USA to USA. Unfortunately, I'm doing business in UAE, too, which creates huge problems. :/
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None of that violates REST; REST is not statelessness. In fact, REST (REpresentational State Transfer) is all about state and how it is changed and how those changes are manifested.
A mobile app of that sort is basically just a single-purpose web browser. I agree that makes it generally less capable & shittier, but most of them presumably exist to be better at the one specific task they're designed for. Guess the jury's still out on whether Facebook has achieved that. Though it's also true that their goals and the user's are often orthogonal or opposed.
The video in https://glitch.com/about/ does a good job of quickly explaining what this is.
Are you asking "why do we use scientific languages"? If that's your question, the answer is the same reason that you don't write a webserver in assembly.

If you're asking "why Julia versus other languages" it's that, well, Julia is fighting to answer that question for itself. As far as I can tell:

- Versus R and Octave: performance, coherent syntax, and more features for writing "programs" instead of just "scripts"
- Versus Python + the Scipy stack: its scientific features are built into the language (instead of being an awkward layer on top of it)
- Versus any proprietary platform (SAS, Matlab, etc): it's open source and free-as-in-beer, and therefore not confined to legacy/enterprise applications

I'm a data scientist and I currently use R and Python. I've been wanting to give Julia a try for months, and now that the ecosystem is starting to mature (plotting and data frames are must-haves for me) it's making more sense to spend some time with the language.
I suspect a subtle mistranslation here. Chekhov seems to be talking about decent people, or maybe good people, not cultured ones.

In English, it is quite possible to be cultured but bad. You know all kinds of stuff about literature, music, art, history and science (and therefore you are cultured) but you cheat on your wife and your taxes (and are therefore bad).
Some people certainly seem to like Trump, but I can't say I see the charisma myself. Some pretty toxic, hideous, unpleasant people have been elected to very high positions.
> the mutually beneficial arrangements will nonetheless tend to benefit the one with power more than the one without.

I've seen this argued before, primarily in the Marxist analysis of the relationship between employer and employee (or capitalist and worker). I can see how this relationship could be exploitative given one employer, but in a liquid market where companies are competing for employees in the job market, the capitalist perspective would be that companies that offer a more enticing employment package (better benefits, wage etc) would naturally have an easier time hiring and would thus be able to grow faster, out-competing companies with poor offerings. I've not seen a good counter-argument to this.

Also, the idea of wealth capture going to the capitalist kind of makes sense in that part of the implicit exchange between employee and employer is one of income stability: the employer agrees to pay a set rate no matter how much value the employee is generating, and in exchange they absorb risks around market fluctuation, unemployment (which is a real risk for higher-value-capture individuals like contractors) and devaluation. At-will employment seems to mess with that arrangement in the US but here in the UK it seems like a fair trade. If one wants to capture a larger share of their value then one must go freelance/contract (or start a business) and accept the risks that come with those types of work arrangement.

> Some do, but I think natural monopolies can also exist, due to inherent barriers to entry in some industries. Things like natural resources, incumbent infrastructure, and network effects.

Natural resource monopolies don't seem to really exist (all natural resources are heavily competitive and end up being commoditised) and infrastructure such as water can be competed on (both directly as in a second water plant, and indirectly as in building home water tanks). As for network effects, there comes a point where pain from monopolistic exploitation outweighs the marginal utility of the product. If facebook started charging money, for example, people would leave in droves.

Government doesn't really solve any of these issues itself and instead acts as one big monopoly that increases prices not through profiteering but through inefficiency, politics and bureaucracy. Libertarianism certainly has its faults but when weighed up against statism it doesn't seem any worse even in its failings.
Have you tried Create React App? We made it so that you don’t need to deal with any of that.

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app
Genetic variety does not need immediate purpose. Where slight changes to gene make no real difference to survivability one should expect changes to arrise and be maintained in a populations. Perhaps one day that gene will matter more. The population will then be ready for the test because it has already fielded a bunch of options. Being more ready to evolve as needed is itself an advantage.

Random mutation is a cornerstone of evolution. Where those mutations are not being naturally selected the randomness builds into a greater number of types. If we didn't see that, if genes not tied to survivability were homogeneous, then we would need to reevaluate core theory.
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You don't say.

Of course the Free Software Foundation is going to disagree with that statement.
having it "just Work" is relative even in academia and R&D, again, there are domain specific languages being used in these environments that "just work" and have been designed to do so in the most efficient manner.
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> If you consider democrats liberal then perhaps you could help me understand why 88% of african-americans voted for Hillary?

Different priorities. A lot of astronauts and NASA scientists don't believe in anthropogenic nature of climate change. Are they backward, anti-reason, anti-science religious individuals? Perhaps you can help me understand why?
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Not only that, the team is resistant to enhancing the build system. Example of one of my struggles: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/11711

On a side note, their build scripts are all js and node is probably my last choice for build scripts. As a result, you have callbacks and promises everywhere. I understand they don't want people installing more dependencies but using something common like Ruby would make it much easier to build great build tools.
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awesome.

What would be really great is a fuse DAG.

Some paths should run programs on write, others on read.

The filesystem is already the lock provider for a lot of programs; we should be using it as the event processor.

This is inherently polyglot -- every programming language in common use has FS utils.
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It's not absurd to me anymore, I "get" how CA, and the bay area especially, operate now :) I've heard good things about Verizon, and I personally use a Project Fi phone as a hotspot. It's decent enough for hackernews/reddit/google/stackoverflow, except for the tunnels right outside the city.
Numerical programming takes more expressive power than one might imagine. In most languages, numerical primitives like integers and floating-point numbers, and numerical operators like `+` and `[]` (array indexing), are very special and are endowed with enough magic to be usable. E.g. in C, `+` is too polymorphic to be defined as a function; in Python, `+` has special `__radd__` methods to (hackily) emulate multiple dispatch; in Java `int`, `float` and `double` are entirely different kinds of values (non-objects) from normal user-definable objects. In many ways, the fundamental premise of Julia is to design a language with sufficient power and performance that numbers are not special: "primitive" types like `Int`, `Float64` are just defined in normal Julia code, and operators like `+` and `[]` are normal Julia functions like any other.

This recent post gives some more motivation: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-motivation-why-weren....
> all number sequences can be found within the digits of pi quite easily

I dispute that, although I guess the general brute-force solution is 'easy' given infinite time.
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Your comment is barely comprehensible to me. Can you condense this to simple English? What are you even saying in half of your post?

> It allows one to achieve a view where they don't judge others

So you're telling me that being cultured allows one to not judge others, but while clearly having the effect of outwardly being smug to others?

That's basically what I got out of your comment and the parent post.

Your aside also implies that his comment basically shouldn't be allowed despite your explicit comment that it's "not to say."

This seems all rather smug and rude.
I agree. I would like to be able to go to a website where there is a discussion around a site on how it is disruptive or innovative (why and/or why not). Reddit/Wikipedia/or?
Sure but restricting ourselves to just Republicans and Democrats (aka not Libertarians) don't you think one of these has a more truth based platform than the other? It isn't like Donald Trump is out there quoting Sowell.
Trump is extremely charismatic.

Look at the pundit reaction to his speech a couple weeks ago, or at how well people respond to his extemporaneous word salad.
> I wonder if there is data to support the conservative notion that liberals are not job creators. It seems that there is a stereotype of the liberal elite as a person who has benefitted from cushy jobs in media, press or higher education.

Perhaps liberalism is a job creator for the kind of people who tend to be liberals.

> The conservative viewpoint would say that the liberal likes this status quo because it is "easier" to maintain their status as elite with a population that does not value liberty...

Which is really ironic, since the original meaning of the word "liberal" was "in favor of liberty (in the form of the freedom of individuals)".
No, everyone in the first world doesn't have equal access to those things, even within any given country, and the people described as "self-made" disproportionately come from the segment with better-than-average access to them.
It sucks. Their default upgrade tool does more harm than good. Currently I start a new RN project then do a diff to see what I have to update on our actual app. Fun, right?
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> What's the thing about russians and noses?

Well. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/g/gogol/nikolai/g61n/
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I have family and "fiends" who are conservative and I don't watch major news networks...

Having recently spent some time with them I can say the amount of overtly racist, overtly homophobic, overtly anti Muslim (not just the radical ones, all of them), overtly anti immigrants (even though they themselves have immigrant grandparents) is mind blowing.

And..
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They claim absolute knowledge that climate change is a hoax without any supporting evidence.

They are ant-marijuanna legalization based purely on perceived moral reasons and only believe the scientific studies that support their view.

Every single Republican[1] Trump voter I have personally met is like this. Which is purely anecdotal but I don't think it is all the opposing media.

[1] The Libertarians who voted Trump are a different story. I've found most of them to be somewhere on the spectrum from voting for Trump because they weighed the issues and felt he was a better vote than Clinton and Johnson all the way to intentionally just wanting to see the government burn.
I'm sorry to say, but this reads in parts like a stoner philosophy. But perhaps the article does not do the book justice.
The definition of liberal has morphed quite a bit over the centuries. I hail from the camp now known as "Classical liberalism"[0]. I value freedom and consider the government to be a necessary evil to be minimized.

From the other comments here, it seems we're all from the US, but I'd imagine if any Europeans chime in, they'll have a different take on the word liberal altogether.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
I do a little bit of everything, front-end, back-end, databases etc., and man, the front-end feels like such a janky disaster to me. I really miss the simplicity of the "old" internet that I had growing up (I'm in my 30's). I'm with you, I'd much rather be writing code on the back-end and spend my time solving interesting problems. My front-end problems are almost invariably styling/ display issues, etc. The kind of problems that are just labor to solve, not interesting.
Don't worry. Chekhov's advice is only meant for talented people.