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Really? Dojo won? jQuery never accomplished anything? For 10 years, people have been going to web conferences talking about how Dojo already did all this?

Apparently, I've been living in a completely different corner of the web than this guy.
Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens
It's not that simple though, it's also about: does predator A hunt at times and in areas when/where prey 1 lives/acts? If not, then you get a Hawaiian Rats vs. Mongeese scenario.

Like so many invasive species that now run amuck on islands around the world, mongooses were intentionally introduced to Hawaii. Sugar cane farmers took their cue from Jamaican plantation owners who imported mongooses to control rat populations. In 1883 the mongooses were let loose in the fields, an approach that proved to be colossally uninformed. As it turns out, rats are nocturnal and mongooses are diurnal. The exotic predators never came in contact with their rodent prey, and native bird populations began crashing instead.

https://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-invader-advanc...

In addition Australia doesn't have many large predators that weren't introduced, except for reptiles. The most impressive of those, the saltwater crocodile, isn't exactly suited to hunt anything far from shore.
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Everyone reading the article knows the source of the fortune. The millions of people who have interacted with Sackler supported cultural institutions likely had zero idea of where the money came from, myself included.
Uh- That is a really cool article you shared. Very impressive stuff.

Would love to read a write up on:

> Our servers don't have persistent storage, RAM only. (At boot, it's a manual restore from something like Tarsnap.)
Sure, but using some other language than js could become attractive to people who avoid frontend because of it. Not that that makes it a good idea, per se.
Show HN: Inwemo – Webminer with mandatory opt-in and optional USD/EUR payouts
Actually, in fact, you can still use React 16 from a CDN. [1], [2]

1 - https://cdnjs.com/libraries/react
2 - https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/893099358484353024?la...
For most people language is just a tool, and, given a choice, nobody in their right mind uses a soon-to-be-defunct, second rate tool.

People aren't going to compromise their lives to maintain someone else's cultural zoo.
>>I hope the author is right and the next generation of tools does away with a lot of the current complexity (especially the build step! - please no more need for cli, node.js, a "toolchain", etc.)

If that's what you want, then it's not a function of a new framework to enable the vision you articulated. I think evolutions in the HTTP protocol is needed to allow unbuilt/unbundled code to be effectively delivered over the wire.

There is a clear distinction between how developers need to abstract and organize code vs how code is more efficiently processed by programs. The framework that the developer uses will always be designed to cater to what the user needs. If there is the need for a build/bundling step, then so be it. Framework designer should never sacrifice the former for an easier build/bundling step
Cryptonite
Show HN: Barttar – Easily trade anything with anyone
Are 3D Printers Leaving a Carbon Footprint?
> Nobody bought them.

Because those phones lacked many other features that people ALSO wanted.
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In the Massachusetts episode of Parts Unknown, Bourdain talks to a general physician who explains how patients who were administered OxyContin for routine procedures & injuries quickly developed a habit for the drug and when they couldn't find it post-treatment moved to illegal variants like Heroin and now Fentanyl.[1][2]

Bourdain travels to Franklin County to explore the heroin epidemic that’s spreading throughout this and other New England towns.[1]

Dr. Ruth Potee of Greenfield, Massachusetts talks about how they were taught in their residency that their ER / Hospital performance was tied to their pain scores and the generous administration of pain medication to patients.[1][2]

Purdue Pharmaceuticals promotion from 1996 can also be seen.

[1] Video - Parts Unknown - Massachusetts

https://archive.org/details/AnthonyBourdainPartsUnknownMassa...

22:16 Purdue Pharmaceuticals Promotion from 1996

25:10 Dr. Ruth Potee of Greenfield, Massachusetts

[2] Transcript - Parts Unknown - Massachusetts -- CNN

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1502/20/abpu.01.html

Edit: Another link to the same Parts Unknown - Massachusetts video

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58d4ci
Would you please not post flamebait to HN? We have enough trouble without it, and like most attempts to be funny, this is not as funny as it thinks it is.
Fiber has 0 calories, which implies people in the US in general barely eat fruit and vegetables. No one overdosed on fiber. It's quite silly to claim that 2000kcal of legume carbohydrate (more than 300 grams of carbs) will alter my hormones or metabolism in a negative way, so demonizing a macronutrient is bad science.
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>Reproduction beats predators apparently

That's the entire point behind rabbits and also rat-species.

Nature favors two strategies. Simple, fast, often reproduction with quick-to-sexual-maturity where they can stand to lose many of the nest and keep spreading. Or, a few babies that take (relatively) forever to mature and need protected but once mature, are stronger and more intelligent.

Quality vs quantity. Both are viable strategies according to nature.
The worst effects of excessive Insulin, non alcoholic fatty liver and insulin resistance (which becomes type 2 diabetes after some time) can be reversed pretty easily by cutting sugar, fasting or a diet with extremely low levels of carbohydrates (Ketogenic Diet). Check Dr. Jason Fung and Robert Lustig on youtube. They both have done a great deal of research about the topic and have published very interesting material.
I have adopted a very high fat, low carb diet (LCHF) and avoid all sugar for a couple months now and it is absolutely incredible how it changes your body, makes you loose fat and increases overall energy. Gone are these cycles of high and crashing after meals etc. I am absolutely convinced, that we will have a wake up to the toxicity of sugar very similar to that of cigarettes. Especially cancer and sugar seem to have a very strong and under researched relationship.
Psst. Kids in class are broadcast all the time on the news. Sometimes they're even identified by name, school, and municipality in recognition for some achievement.

Honestly, privacy is nearly dead anyway. I'm not happy about it but there are databases with enough information on us to steal anyone's identity.
With that level of information already existing... it seems kind of silly that what we're most worried about with police cameras basically comes down to embarrassment.

It's also weird how hacker news has forgotten that Google Street View has tons of pictures of naked people with automatically blurred faces. Same for Google Maps/Earth.
olliej comment above says nothing about lower burden of proof with swifter, cheaper, and more certain consequences.

Harassment, personal and aggressive questioning from the public, low sentences, and general catastrophic impact on the victim from going public. Those were the arguments on why victims don't go public.

If lower burden of proof and harsher punishment for the accused is needed for victims to trust the legal system with sexual assault cases, then just be clear and advocate for that. The legal system can always be changed.
The build step wouldn't be too bad if it was a single command that didn't require any configuration. We're almost there already. Waste a few hours coming up with a good webpack config for your use case, and then you can mostly forget about it. Until the next breaking change of any library inside your build toolchain, at least. Or until the next hot build tool comes out /s.
Ordered a copy. Thanx!
Take away their immunity if they can't produce the videos and try them as citizens. I can't recall the specific immunity but it's something like special immunity or classified immunity for police officers when on patrol.
sure.. but they have issues distributing food and medicine.. do you really think they're distributing a lot of solar panels?
That's interesting, it seemed like the most challenging problem to solve given the balloons are always moving. They mention using machine learning to perfect the coverage:

> This is the first time we have used our new machine learning powered algorithms to keep balloons clustered over Puerto Rico, so we’re still learning how best to do this. As we get more familiar with the constantly shifting winds in this region, we hope to keep the balloons over areas where connectivity is needed for as long as possible.
What altitude? This is a tradition that started in Persia and still exists in parts of India. I don’t think altitude has much to do with it. There are social issues when the Towers of Silence that used to be away from the population centers become surrounded by the growing cities, carrion eaters aren’t always the tiniest of creatures
Have a look at Elm. The problem with building webapps is not Dojo/jQ/React... It's JS itself. Also React is not enough to build a large webapp, you need various other tools as React is just the "V".

> please no more need for cli, node.js, a "toolchain", etc.

I'm okay as long as it is wrapped, and I do not have to fiddle with it for 95% of the use cases. Tools will always be part of the job, but the current JS situation is way too messy.
I read the whole thread, thanks.

I'm pointing out that your support of only speech that is currently considered lawful (and by implication, your support of restrictions on free speech that are currently codified into US law) means you are no more a free speech absolutist than the person you are arguing with.

It invalidates your entire argumentative posture throughout this thread IMO.
There is _no_ amount of butter (or fat, in general) that you can eat that will make you gain weight, provided there is no sugar in your diet. You will physically not be able to eat more than your body can deal with, this is because fat, unlike sugar, triggers the i-am-full hormones which make food impossible to eat.
that's such an edge case that it will never influence the direction of apps delivered over web
Sure, I'd see no problem highlighting how far they've come. Sharing success stories is important. Which is why I found it odd that they were making multiple condescending references to Europe such as (paraphrasing) "if you're not in Boston or SF you might as well be in Europe" where it's making it sound like Siberia...
> The Home Assistant community appears to be more active (about 2x) and the barrier for entry is much lower.

I would go so far as to say Home Assistant is literally the best open source community out there today. Very active, lots of folks happy to help users with issues, and lots of devs happy to help newer devs through the PR process.
Australia actually lacks large inland predators.

Because of this rabbits actually support invasive predators as well (foxes, cats, etc...)

The only real "native" predator it has is the dingo, but those too were introduced by humans (only they were introduced thousands of years ago so they've been naturalized to the environment).
No, butter makes the other stuff more delicious, making you eat just a little more each time.
It turns out that some ideas are toxic, as in, people get sucked into them, are too stubborn/whatever to admit they were wrong, and become rabid believers of nonsense.

Witness the adherents to the flat earth society or those that stringently don't believe we landed on the moon, never the Googler's sexist manifesto. Anti-semitic screeds like "the Jews run the banks and this is why you're poor!" frequently leak into open comment sections of your local news' website, or YouTube comments.

They're called echo chambers for a reason - semi-public forums become echo chambers because people won't seek out forums where people stringently disagree with them, they'll find supportive or semi-supportive forums, but in some cases those forums are stormfront or 4chan (where copying and pasting n-gger a million times passes for insightful). See also: HN's poor response to the Googler's firing. Vice.com had an infographic on Twitter about this, courtesy of MIT's media lab - https://news2-images.vice.com//uploads/2016/12/TwitterData1-.... Or multiple reports that certain groups of people have Fox News as their exclusive news outlet.

Even without social media, we see the same patterns in the past as we do today. Fun fact: Rosa Parks not the first person to stay seated at the front of the bus, but she had the unimpeachable character to deflect ad hominem attacks. It took a pre-organized movement just waiting for someone like Rosa Parks to refuse to move in order to catalyze change; homeless people, prostitutes, and drug addicts arrested for sitting at the front of the bus need not apply. We see this today, with Colin Kaepernick protesting "wrong" and that we could support Occupy Wallstreet/Black Lives Matter/Antifa if only they weren't protesting wrong.

When Twitter pretends to be powerless to do anything about death/rape threats to women journalists, the light of civilization is dimmed, ever so slightly. When entire classes of people disengage from mainstream discourse because they are being threatened by bodily harm, maybe it is possible that it is disingenuous to pre-conclude that anything possibly resembling censorship will result in a dystopian police state where African Americans are still denied the right to vote.
The Angular Cli does a wonderful job of abstracting all of the webpack config from the user. One simply need to understand the ng build command and the associated parameters to effectively build the Angular project for server deployment.
Have you tried to use it with xDrip plus[1] and an NFC capable Android phone? It allows you to calibrate the values using accurate blood glucose values. If you do a bit of research and do the calibrations right, it can be as accurate as the values from a fingerstrip reader.

[1] https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip
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A silly mistake I've fixed it now!
http://3zanders.co.uk/2017/10/13/writing-a-bootloader/boot3....
I'm not sure if a specialized manual input device helps IPv6 adoption as much as it highlights a dearth of automation in the target market.
So they check .bash_history and then they realize they just need to also `alias /usr/bin/sudo`.
Ah Mr Sacklers, I have been waiting for you. It is time to pay back for your crimes, and you will not leave until the very last cent has been repaid. Indeed what you have sown, you will surely reap.
The moment that forever changed our lives – Satya Nadella
Also Tibetan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial
Indubitably.
What about a web server that does the build step automatically, with no configuration required?

Something like webpack-dev-server, but usable both in production and development.

To deploy, drop your typescript/html/css files under /srv/www/ and your web server will take care of everything.
”In battle situations where high speed was necessary, the mothership would be powered for short bursts by a Casimir1 force battery using zero point energy to produce enormous power.“

Hmm, OK...
He lived with them for a bit too.
No build chain is required, you don't even need JSX.
Earn more words via replicating. Start with enough words for one paper.
I'm reminded of that line from Chinatown. "Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford?" Is there really no point of diminishing returns, where you can tell yourself you've made enough money?
This also raises an important question.

Do these museums have a responsibility to disclose the source of the Sackler family's wealth?
Successfully finishing it, I doubt he will manage that.

PS. Why did he won? He became president because everybody thaught he was a smart business man ( and not a politician), because he appeared in a tv-show ( the apprentice - which is about "smart businessmen" ) because of Trump Tower.

And did you ever look at who "produced" the apprentice? Guess who claims that "Trump" is a good businessman....

Your statement still doesn't falsify mine.
You can still get React from a CDN and don't need to use JSX, though if you really want JSX, as smarx demonstrates you can use standalone babel to compile JSX in the client: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15522420
If the author of this article would try to persuade me to join his company as a techie, I would say no. The reason is simple: as experienced as he sounds (and he sounds like a total badass, by the way), the overarching conclusion that a hacker may take away from this article is "startups are little more than a lot of clever marketing".

Which is sad, in a way. We all read about how Woz was hacking logic boards during the early days of Apple, or how Sergey and Larry built their company on top of their groundbreaking PhD research. As a techie, you would dream that you can join a team where your contribution is crucial and consists of something that can't be outsourced to Ukraine. Yet, this mostly doesn't appear to be the case.

Sad.
This is in response to how accessible React is to beginners (amateurism).

The original tutorial allowed beginners to get started quickly (via CDN), even allowing them to write JSX via script tags in their HTML.

They can take that HTML and host it anywhere.

The new tutorial requires the usage of create-react-app or running the code on CodePen.

A tweet by a React core developer with instructions on how to get CDN support working better reinforces the point about not being open to amateurism, by the way.
No, that is plain wrong. Calories count, no matter where they are from.

Ketogenic diets might increase your metabolism and reduce your appetite and hunger, which makes weight loss easier, but you'll still gain weight if you eat too many fat calories each day. Even if you cut out carbs entirely.
They may be useful and/or convenient but no, they are by no means essential.
Ya i think its good
I imagine building this was a useful learning experience (and your intro blog post alludes to that), but keep in mind that Redux is much more a way of thinking about state transitions than it is a library for providing them.

The Elm architecture was the original inspiration for Redux, and I recommend running through the rest of the Elm examples [1] to decide if your removals from Redux are worth pursuing. Notably, how will you handle composing your action-reducers? Can you build the "dynamic list of counters" example without compromising the simplicity you're looking for?

[1] https://github.com/evancz/elm-architecture-tutorial/blob/f8a...
China's Communist App Store
Read everything JVToups wrote, it's quite fun and inspiring.

elisp monads

stack monad (forth like threaded code)

pattern matching

lots of good bits
Hmm... I half expected this to be a joke and the post about how they had to compile it themselves and were trying to get the dependencies squared away.

Friends don't let friends run Flash. Does Gentoo have Firejail readily available? That would have prevented this, I'm pretty sure.
There were wormable vulns in both ffmpeg-thumbnailer and Gnome’s thumbnailer in the past months.

So you shouldn’t trust that this doesn’t happen again.
I don't appreciate your aggressivity.
Aren’t the doctors to blame for this as well? It always surprised me how quickly and easily they prescribe serious painkillers. A few years ago I had a tooth pulled, and the doctor gave me prescription painkiller. In the end, I ended up using regular ibuprofen, and that was more than enough.

I wonder how much of this comes pharmaceutical sales reps pressuring the doctors to use their medicine. That whole system seems broken and unethical to me.
But who runs flash on server as root?! If this was the source..
> Webpack, NPM, Babel and React.

Each of which alone has more flaws than jQuery could ever dream of producing, and combined they produce more complexity and problems than they solve (in most cases). Larger code base, enlarged attack surface, code maintenance and management, higher costs, surrendering of control, etc. Everything in this world is a trade-off and you seem to greatly underestimate the downside of the things you champion.

> React's target is complex apps.

Very few web-apps need to be complex. The front-end portion of the web is a presentation layer of whatever data is stored server side. Granted not all applications are like that but the vast majority are (I'd argue over 99%) or at least should be.

> jQuery never was designed to scale. And anyone who started with jQuery and built a rich single page app will generally tell you of all the imperative pitfalls you'll find.

What's with this scaling fetish? It's a website that runs in a browser. If you cant get it to work with jquery, it's you that can't "scale" not the tools. Again, I grant you that in some cases more than jquery is needed. However, this scaling fetish is a symptom of the failure on the part of the devs not the tools. Fyi, this is how you sound right now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs) which I don't think is a healthy attitude to have.

> The thing is, the web has evolved. The simple tools that attracted us to the web when web was mostly a presentation layer just don't cut it.

For every 1 example you give of an application that has such need, I will provide exactly 1000 counter-examples.

> For beginners...

I hate this elitist attitude.

The web isn't that much better today than it was 10 years ago. I've been doing web-development for 15 years now and all I see is increased complexity in return for visual flair. Granted, that has its value, but it isn't as great of a thing as you claim it to be.
Fair point maybe they were cut from other features. I'm only quoting a few thin articles about the massive sales of thin but fragile devices.

I'd love to see different proportions and design decisions, I'm sure there are sweet spots
> This is what worries me about WebAssembly. If most web code goes binary, then it is no longer possible for the next generation of developers to View Source to see how things are built.

A beginner already can't "see how things are built" in an application compiled with closure or whatever unless the developer ships sourcemaps to production, and then… nothing precludes having sourcemaps for webassembly.
Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494093.

Those are great comics. People should lament Snyder's retirement too, not just Watterson's.
I feel like the iPhone 5c followed along similar lines.
The business of death in a growing world
You can make the same argument about react. For most apps React (or any other framework) is not needed yet people use it. It is a weird mentality but I am willing to bet that you will see the same thing happening with WebAssembly
Oklahoma City has a small but strong Biotech and medical device scene ($6.7B Revenue, $2.2B salaries for a workforce of 51,000). Even then most companies in OKC raise money in SF & Boston and either have an office there or move back and forth. Which is pointed out in the section on satellite offices. The satellite office trend I don't see stopping given how cheap flights are and how fast communications have become between coasts.
Ask HN: How long does Twitter let's a new user login without verifying email?
I just created an account and I see that Twitter let's me repeatedly login without verifying the email that I used to signup. How long does Twitter let's a new user login without verifying email ? Are there any suggestions around letting users login without verifying their email address for a certain duration or number of login attempts ?
Minification has already fucked it over for the most part

At the very least webassembly gets ypu drbug symbols, so maybe there's a chance you can go through it
Create-react-app is enough for most of the scenarios, and it requires precisely 0 configuration.