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Whether JavaScript is a good fit for a news site and whether news sites should be single page apps are two separate questions. It's possible to build a server rendered React app without requiring any client JavaScript execution at all.

News sites are also more complex than you would assume. I went from building products at Facebook to a large news site. What shocked me was the surface area of the user facing products. There were so many little one-off pieces of functionality and randomly integrated services. Tools like React and Relay make it much easier to manage this complexity and promote code reuse.
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My point was that you were misrepresenting what Reid Hoffman said. Is this an answer to my point? I guess your 4th and 5th paragraphs finally get there, but I don't read Reid's statement as saying what you think it does.

Why don't you directly discuss the issues instead of trying to complain about your reading of Reid Hoffman's words supposedly framing the problem incorrectly?
This is one of those situations that can be summed up rather succinctly:

Christ, what an asshole.
Facebook does it well, you can use your email, username and phone number to login.

If you don't NEED a username, refrain from using any, it's just annoying. Worse yet don't require one.
How one dresses makes a big difference (see "Dress For Success" by Molloy), as well as height and general level of physical attractiveness (for both men and women). Scott Adams notes in "How To Fail" that even altering the timbre of your voice makes a difference, as well as your word choices.

I suspect that everywhere you look for a difference, you'll find one.
Building an airport is only about 100 times cheaper than building a rail line.
Sia is quite volatile. If the payment is held for 12 weeks, the host has no idea what that payment will be worth. Do you have a mechanism preventing this issue?
> In a thread 3 years ago, I made a list of the top US cities by GDP,

That's really not a useful analysis, you could make the same sort of list of London, Berlin, Madrid, Turin, Istanbul, Dublin, Athens, Moscow, Budapest etc, and demonstrate that a high speed network is useless in Europe, but nevertheless it exists. You need to do the same with the 100 biggest cities, that's where the system is most effective. Of course, just as in Europe, most of the journeys will be better done by plane, that's not the point, high speed rail is just another option which is particularly useful for particular circumstances. It would be substantially less useful in the US than in Europe, because as you say the distances are greater, but it definitely seems like it should exist more than it does.
So, either they actually quite enjoy playing world police, or they're quite frankly so manipulable it becomes scary.

‘Both’ is also an option.
Finally another use for those huge scissors mayors love so much!
Something you should keep in mind is that a man is also affected if he has a child. Available time, sleep quality, stress levels are all disrupted, and it affects our cognitive abilities to extreme degrees often times. So just be sure to discriminate against men who plan to have kids to some reasonable factor as you do women.
> I'm suprized you don't know that.

They don't know because you're mistranslating from the French -- not all terms are subject to literal translation simply because they can be translated literally.

The proper translation for "harcèlement moral" in US/UK English is "workplace bullying". No English-speaking country (with English as a native tongue) commonly uses the term "moral harassment".
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US government spends more per person on heathcare than Canada. So, we could use their system for essentially zero extra cost per year post transition. The difference is US heathcare makes people rich, where US social security for example does not. This waste does not translate to better care just vastly more waste.

The VA hospital system is a US example demonstrating vastly lower costs with similar outcomes. Scale that to say all of Medicare + all government workers and costs drop enough to cover vastly more people. Now add in other programs like the Ryan White AIDS program which covers ~300,000 people with very high cost care and the supliments to Rural heathcare systems etc and heathcare would look very different and cheaper.
I wouldn't go so far as "never", but historically, developer tools with lasting growth tend to spread via word of mouth & community recommendations rather than ad campaigns. See eg. Ruby/Rails, Python and supporting ecosystem, JQuery, Node.js, Express, Postgres, Vue.js, GitHub before they took VC, Parse before they were acquired by Facebook, etc. Even Google - they had distribution deals starting early on, but they were very reluctant to spend money on advertising up until about 2010 (I remember watching the first Google SuperBowl commercials at TGIF, and hearing a lot of questions about why were spending money on advertising and what it meant for organic growth).

When ad campaigns are run, they usually work by targeting programmers' bosses, encouraging the organization to purchase & standardize on one solution and then forcing developers to adopt it via management fiat. That's the route taken by Java, MongoDB, Oracle, .NET, many of the companies in the Hadoop ecosystem, etc. It certainly works - these are big companies - but it requires a consultative enterprise sales team that can work to get the solution deployed across the whole enterprise. The author obviously doesn't have the resources for that.

The middle ground, where you provide a developer tool with $100-200/year CLTV and hope to get it distributed via paid advertising, is a very difficult place to occupy. That's the area occupied by FogBugz and RethinkDB and Sandstorm and many analytics providers. Most of them go the community-building route, and it's still very difficult. Only company I can think of that's thrived here is GitHub, and they went the word-of-mouth, community-building route first. Companies like Jetbrains, Atlassian, Rational, etc. thrive as well, but they've got large enterprise sales teams that standardize a whole organization on their products.
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The $500 billion you're quoting for mass transit, would build high speed rail for California, Texas, and maybe a few states on the East Coast. That's it. Might cover 15% of the US population.

> Second US gets almost nothing per dollar from it's military spending due to inefficiencies

Most US military spending is on human soldiers, not on weapons programs. The waste you're referring to is a few tens of billions of dollars per year. It's not hundreds of billions. Your premise of somehow saving a lot of money by reducing waste, doesn't pan out under any scrutiny accordingly. Unless your plan is to slash hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their associated costs (even if we close half our foreign bases, which would save tens of billions of dollars, we would then need to significantly increase the spending on our domestic base capabilities to handle those soldiers; or we have to dramatically slash our soldier numbers).
"I've always wondered which one of the two is more user friendly".

Well, I'd say neither one. I personally prefer OAuth and a sign in with X (github, google, facebook, etc).

This gives the user the most flexibility and quickest/easiest sign-in/register experience. They also get to pick and choose what you get access to and depending on what you need the user might not have to even give away his email.
Strongly agreed. Hitler was psychologically capable of doing what he did because he sincerely believed Jewish people are _morally_ bad.
Did you read the article? It's about extensive bias in optimistic vs pessimistic questions and has nothing to do with pregnancy or 'gendered' issues.
I would be happy to have a good-faith discussion with you, but unfortunately you don't sound interested in that.

If you continue to descend into using HN exclusively for ideological battle and fulmination, we're going to have to ban you. That's not because we disagree with $your_politics, it's because ideological battle is not what the site is for (and destroys what it is for). We've asked you before to stop this, so if you want to continue commenting here, we need you to stop it now.
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For developer tools? Apple certainly spends a ton on brand advertising for consumers, but most developers I know develop for Apple because they want to reach Apple consumers. (I spend a year doing smartwatch apps before giving up on the platform...the only reason I was developing for Apple Watch is because that's where the users were.)
What? Trains are worse than buses, in that they taken you further from where you want to go in a slower manner that you still have to uber to your actual destination from.
Haven't read the article yet, but this headline is dumb.

If the subject of the headline is an expert, how could they be shocked? That would imply they've hit a limit to the relevance of whatever their expertise is.
There's no evidence that teaching ethics makes one more ethical. Professional ethicists are no more moral than other philosophy professors or other professors.

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/EthSelfRep.h...

The Self-Reported Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors
(in draft)

Eric Schwitzgebel and Joshua Rust

Abstract:
We examine the self-reported moral attitudes and moral behavior of 198 ethics professors, 208 non-ethicist philosophers, and 167 professors in departments other than philosophy on eight moral issues: academic society membership, voting, staying in touch with one's mother, vegetarianism, organ and blood donation, responsiveness to student emails, charitable giving, and honesty in responding to survey questionnaires. On some issues we also had direct behavioral measures that we could compare with self-report. Ethicists expressed somewhat more stringent normative attitudes on some issues, such as vegetarianism and charitable donation. However, on no issue did ethicists show significantly better behavior than the two comparison groups. Our findings on attitude-behavior consistency were mixed: Ethicists showed the strongest relationship between behavior and expressed moral attitude regarding voting but the weakest regarding charitable donation.
For those of us that have to deal with urban centres, a car is often extremely inconvenient. Add a half hour to your trip time just to park it. You have to go back and get it when it's time to leave instead of just hopping on the nearest train station, etc. That and cost of ownership. I'd rather spend the couple of bucks/quid/x00jpy to have someone take care of that for me and get off when I need to. Plus I'm less bored on the train because I can engage my mind with reading/work/games instead of yelling at all the drivers that are clearly not as good as me.
The definitiveness of your statements is surprising in light of how incorrect they are. Read https://www.justia.com/real-estate/docs/easements.html to learn about implied easements.
No, it's a jerk on Hacker News.
Wonder how this affects websites that allow comments, but are not primarily "social media" sites?

Many sites that use e.g. Disqus for comments are filled with vile racist, homophobic, and other hateful comments.
It’s been getting smaller over time: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/1...
Yes. The unconscious assumption -- evidently made by female as well as male VCs! -- seems to be that a female entrepreneur is much less likely to found a company that will become huge. If an opportunity has less upside than others, it is natural to look more closely at the downside risk.

I wonder whether YC has managed to free themselves to some extent from the effects of this bias by standardizing their interview process.
It's 500 billion per year, 5 trillion in a decade. Mass high speed rail in Texas is a stupid waste relative to places where lots of people actually live. North East cost has 17% of the US population on less than 2% of the US's total land. After you build high speed rail in that area extending it to that area city's will want to be on the network just as the US highway system was so popular.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis So extending to some of these other regions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis#/media...
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The issue of hate speech is real, but putting private companies in charge of deciding what is hate speech and what isn't, is a bad idea.
He belongs in jail.
> "decent type system". Which seems to be only Haskell...

Haskell, OCaml, Elm, Purescript, arguably Scala although I don't like it personalyl.
The point is, HSR is a 2600k and maglev is a 4790k.

Both are old vs the shiny 7700k maglev, but if you're gonna buy the 2600k just doesn't make sense.

"high speed rail" is an oxymoron. There are no high speed rail transport methods. 200MPH is not high-speed.
Now I've read the article. A better headline would be "One old man is surprised that the world doesn't work the way he thinks it should."
And what exactly do static types forbid you from doing? (For the sake of argument let's consider state of the art static type systems such as those found in Haskell, OCaml, Elm and Purescript)
When you're talking about something like fixing infrastructure the amounts are in the trillions of dollars but there is a realization that you are not going to come up with all the money in a single year. Coincidentally $165 billion a year would have more then made up for the infrastructure funding gap of $1.44 trillion over the next 9 years:

https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/...

Even not looking at those numbers saying that amount 'wouldn't accomplish anything' is ridiculous. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year is a huge amount in any sector of the economy, even for the US. You can try and defend it as much as you want but that is a hyperbolic statement completely disconnected from reality.
That's what database-level user IDs are for.

Don't push your technical requirements onto the user when it's not needed.
I'm not advocating that any correlated signal should be considered a gravitational wave. I'm just saying that, if residual correlation is such a problem, then it would make more sense to create a combined signal by minimizing the residual correlation.

This discussion would then simply be about how well the combined signal matches a gravitational wave, which seems a lot more sensible.
I'm kind of worried by the fact that the system judges depth based on visual cues (like a human with one eye closed does) instead of actual depth sensing hardware, to the point that the system needs to recognise kangaroos specifically.

Shouldn't the car stop for any obstacle, even ones it doesn't recognise? They surely can't expect to train it on every possible type of debris.
Are halophytes the crop of the future?
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It's not totally clear to me when a fee can be charged (or who can charge it), but it's possible that the fee covered land beyond the mean high water mark or amenities, parking or something like that.
This is C, I'm talking C calling convention (and x64, which is the same). Caller cleans up the stack, so va_list is a zero cost abstraction.

Citing the bastard architecture of iOS isn't really making the case for "usually".
Las Vegas is the single most friendly city in the country to smokers, I’m sure the hotels will be fine.
> US government spends more per person on heathcare than Canada. So, we could use their system for essentially zero extra cost per year post transition.

I've made that point numerous times in this thread. I think you're missing my point: the US has to slash a trillion dollars in expenses out of its system. That trillion dollars consists of jobs & people's income & tax base loss. It is not a zero cost transition, it's a massive cost transition. You're talking about it as though it would occur in a vacuum, it would not.

The VA system is not an example of lower costs. You're wrong, it's more expensive than both the private sector and medicare:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/02/report-va-health-care-has-...
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Hehe fair enough.

There is an argument latent here drawing upon Horkheimer's observations that the collective, under the increased technologization and automation of society, has become a proxy for the individual, or perhaps more accurately replaced the romantic/enlightenment notion of individual, which would indeed cause a sort of paradox in which utilitarianism, the collective being by proxy identified with or being an extension of the self, would be selfish.

All that aside, I was not being precise in my terminology--I was simply trying to express that most of the students were utilitarian so long as a few conditions held: (a.) they were either in the group that benefited or persons they know/social groups they interact with benefited and (b.) they were not in the minority that suffered negative effects form the utilitarian decision to simply benefit the majority. (c.) They could somewhat offload responsibility for the moral choice by claiming they were simply making a more 'objective' decision by working based on quantities and benefiting the majority (in reality as per (a.) often really just working off a sublimation of their own interests)

Now, sophisticated utilitarians who actually know what they are talking about don't fall prey to this sort of stuff--I'm talking about the average American who is utilitarian to the extent he heard the term summarily defined once and now considers the benefit to the majority the de facto best choice in every situation and does so with little reflection--as stated prior, his utilitarian bent often suddenly disappears when he suffers as the minority in the decision or when he isn't a member of the benefited majority (in which case he simply doesn't take a stance and considers the decision to not concern him).

Similar charges could probably be leveled against Kantians, but I think Kant's theory enjoys a bit more immunity from these sorts of adherents as it has not been popularized like utilitarianism--chances are you'll come across the term 'utilitarian' in everyday life at some point whereas you're not likely to hear anything about Kantian morality outside of an academic, or perhaps in a rare case judicial, context.
I have never had to stand on MetroNorth, even during the morning rush.
Yes, I can edit too, which I usually do if a comment has changed and I see that change after I submit.

You're reading way too much into this.
Where do you live where trains are slower than buses?

To a certain extent you’re right in that it’s all just a question of where you live. But for me recently all the trains I have been taking are in Japan or UK, and if I need to get to somewhere that’s more than a short walk from the central train station there’s been a light rail or underground system for me to transfer onto.
And is still just a conceptual idea, no one gets fined in the real world.
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Europe Sets Exascale Supercomputing Goal Amid Divisions on How to Achieve It
Though the difference between Balsamiq and an IP address lookup service is that HNers don't think they can make Balsamiq in a weekend.
Now you're playing ignorant. Feel free to substitute stack accesses with register reads, but since we're talking "variable args" I feel you're going to run out of those quickly.
You'll likely need an angle grinder with a metal cutoff blade (bolt cutters can't handle a good lock, though if it's on a chain, the chain might be a weak link).

The article said there's security on the premises, so be prepared for that sort of trouble (make sure you've got an emergency number and people who know what's going on in case you're arrested). Though, I have a hard time seeing how restoring legal public access could be considered a crime. Maybe just bringing witnesses and cameras will be enough to protect you from security.
It seems "prevention" questions would imply skepticism on the part of the questioner. You lightly touched upon this, but were there equally drastic discrepancies between the types of questions posed to male versus female founders in the presence of equal growth/success metrics? I would certainly believe it -- maybe even expect it, but would love to hear more as this point really hammers home the extent of the bias
As a single example that immediately came to mind: WWDC. If that isn't a massive marketing channel directly targeted at developers I don't know what is.
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In case you're wondering, I was reminded about your sites in the thread about profitable email newsletters which I only stumbled across today. Saw how deep the Dov story went and just had to submit :-D
> Your opinion...

I've provided a number of examples, you've provided exactly none.

> I never said dynamic languages guarantee those issues, or that static languages guarantee the absence of those issues.

Your comments are full of snide comments against dynamic languages:

> That does correlate with being unstable and offline.

> plenty of those companies had plenty of scaling issues and growing pains that just throwing a cache in front of didn't solve

> choosing dynamic just leaves more opportunities for inefficiency and runtine errors.

> You either have to write more unit tests, or pray, or be infallible.

> but in a dynamic language I have to write more unit tests or pray, and I don't like wasting my time on either.

> and all other things being equal, a static type system has a higher chance of resulting in quality software.

Which is categorically False. Software quality refers to how well it adheres to its fitness of purpose and how it competes with competing alternatives.
Users generally prefer to use software which are easier to use and provides them the most value where by being able to iterate
quickly holds the most value, which is arguably an inherent benefit in dynamic languages and why they're a popular choice amongst startups. Especially when you're competing in a new market category, velocity is of utmost importance.

In fact almost all successful companies that I can think of that were competing in a new software category were developed using dynamic languages including: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, Dropbox, GitHub, Pintrest, Reddit, AirBnB, Uber, Slack, Khan Academy, Coursera, Twitch, Hulu, Kick Starter, Patreon, Trello, etc. Results are overwhelmingly in favor of building new products in a dynamic language. I struggle to think of any recent successful Startups that were able to out compete their competitors and achieved their dominance starting out with a static language. The major ones I can think of predominantly built with typed languages are: LinkedIn (2002), Netflix (1997), Ebay (1995), Amazon (1994). The most recent one I can think of is Stack Exchange (2009) (which I know of because I used to work there :). Of course once they've established market dominance and implemented their core feature-set many go back and focus on optimizing their system of which many identify and rewrite hotspots in more appropriate languages. Which remains a strong case for starting out with a dynamic language first.

> But the trade-off is still there, and when it does cause quality issues, users will notice.

There's a trade-off on whether adopting a static language is worth it, of which most successful SV Startups don't agree with - and their users are better off for it.
Banishment?