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I don't see any belittling. Just a plea to recognize the complete reasons why one is where they are. It's not all self-initiated hard work, or shrewd planning. It's some parts of those, and also an excellent starting position.

The starting position makes more of a difference than a lot of people want to admit to themselves. To those on top, it feels like an attack if this is pointed out. But it's not. And thinking that your station in life is completely a result of your own actions leads to poor treatment of those who don't have what you do.
nice, pointing out that he used an anecdote to respond to a person also basing their opinion on anecdotes
"urban youth" is also a wolf whistle. Just say "kid".
It's not about who is dominant, it's about the fundamental right of the non-dominant minority (whatever that is in any particular place and time) to express themselves and not having to hide.

Equality of opportunities/rights for the particular individual wherever they may be, not attempting to get equality of outcomes for the aggregate by harming individual rights or justifying local oppression by some wider goal.

If a gay person has to hide their orientation, it's bad - not because gays need protection, but because that individual is restricted.

If someone has to hide their religion, it's bad - not because that religion needs protection, but because that person gets restricted.

If someone has to hide their political affiliation - same thing, no matter if it's support of some presidential candidate, legalization or criminalization of some drug, support for or against unions, etc, etc.
That quote can easily be used to justify intolerance towards groups by choosing not to hire them ("pariah status"). Are you sure you want to defend discriminatory hiring under the guise of free speech?
If I understand - with the piping you could share a read only terminal over the net?

My team has been using Atom and Teletype to pair - but no lightweight method to share the test console. Could this be it?
I wonder how alienated employees of Murdoch owned companies feel in their “echo chamber”

The victim card being played here is quite pathetic. A religous conservative who is told they can’t discriminate against gay people claims you need tolerate and respect his intolerance and disrespect because of religious freedom.

Someone who benefitted from privilege, or born into an upper middle class household, claims discrimination if they write a screed on merit against their coworkers and suffer from it because of efforts to reach out and broaden the applicant base.

The “echo chamber” being complained about are broadly shared cultural values we expect Americans to hold, beliefs in All Men Are Created Equal, that really aren’t normal subjects of debate. The only issue debatable is the best policies to maintain them.

Many of the complaints don’t argue for how to achieve it, rather they take a rather extremist view of meritocracy and hyperindividualism like they just graduated from Ayn Rand University and try to apply it to the very messy real world.

Is it too much to ask to just do your work and if you don’t like policies against sexual harassment or racial or queer harassment at your company to go work somewhere that tolerates it?
this is an obviously disingenuous argument. bigot refers to prejudice. a person can be a pro-choice extremist, but not a pro-choice bigot. the phrase simply has no meaning.
If you do this every day for millions of years, it's reasonable to expect a hit at some point.
I found my current job (since 2015) working 100% remote in the whoishiring thread, and I'm super grateful for that. Besides that, it's been my go-to source for tech and startup news and great (sometimes frustrating) discussions.
That’s the excuse I hear a lot from people who, upon closer inspection, simply see spouting their particular brand of extreme intolerance as something which should be utterly free of backlash. People like Peter Thiel, who seem to be some flavor of neo-nazi/white nationalist and don’t like that their noxious opinions have little remaining audience.

You have every right to speak, and people have the same right to speak against you. I don’t agree with the kind of treatment someone like Jacob Rees Mogg received when he tried to speak at a university, but someone like Thiel? To hell with him.
Within a couple of hundred years (maybe even much less) someone's going to go and collect it for bragging rights and/or as a trophy. See if they don't.
I hope that other members more in the know can clarify, but I thought that the launch into deeper space was done as a 2 stage thing - first, they got the car up into earth orbit, THEN they did a second burn to break orbit. i.e. the second burn was done while the vehicle was moving tangential to the Earth, and not radially away from it?
Did we read the same article? That article says there has been no change, and in fact people ate even more gluten in the past.

(The small bit at the end where he tries to guess a reason can be ignored, since he's basing it on nothing.)

Maybe I misunderstood you and you were bringing that article to confirm what I said?
If Hacker News and Reddit comments roughly approximate SV attitudes, SV would be very right-wing compared to mainstream Europe on the whole.

In any case, this sounds more like other people's distaste is slowly grinding Thiel down and he's just trying to rationalise it to himself with talk of echo chambers and whatnot. You'd think he'd have more sympathy for minorities who have had to put up with that from birth but he does come across as someone who is frustrated when others don't subscribe to his exceptionalist view of himself.

It's not SV, it's Coventry he doesn't like, and he'll be sent there wherever he goes.
HN is my main source of up to date news. The technical orientation and relative absence of mainstream "noise" is well aligned with my interests. For example I found out about Golang and Closure by reading HN.
is it absurd to claim that the NRA's refusal to compromise re assault weapons has led to the death of many kids in American schools? what is the absurd part here? how many kids can a gay person be alleged to have killed just by being gay? there is no conservative boogeyman in my post. I am referring to the practical effects of policy decisions.
That's true, but optimization is always an exercise in economy. If the money is there someone will do the optimization, for instance, in the Bitcoin mining arms race you could see the writing on the wall for CPUs long before the jump to GPU's, FPGA's and eventually ASIC's.

In mobile phones I always expected battery life to cause a resurgence of things like assembly programming but it never happened, people are happy to recharge their phones. I wonder what would happen if someone introduced a smartphone OS based on old school principles jacking up the battery life to 5 days or so.
I agree with you that the numbers are very skewed, but I agree with the parent in that, of the few outspoken conservatives I've worked with, I have not seen anyone's career suffer for their politics.
This is a year old. Any movement on this technology since publication?
I'm sensitive to gluten.

I ate wheat with no issues for the first twenty odd years of my life. Then I developed psoriasis, an autoimmune disease. The psoriasis was probably unrelated, but I discovered that gluten was a trigger.

Whenever I fail to resist wheat (cake, pizza, etc), I end up with rashes all over my body and horrible bloating/gas. This subsides after a week or so of abstaining from gluten.

It's terribly inconvenient, and breakfast has gotten more expensive.
> but the guy next door to me who owns a flooring business (run out of his van & home) with one employee is in the capitalist class

Probably middle class, since presunably if the business is run out of his van and home, his applying his own labor to it is vital.

> One is rich beyond most people's wildest dreams

Wealth and class are correlated but separate axes of variation.

You know how many pro-athletes end up destitute shortly after they stop being able to sell their labor at high prices? They dependence is the hallmark of the working class.

Now, it's true, they if you are making what a star player does in any of the major sports, you have enough money coming in that you could easily buy yourself into the capitalist class; but until and unless you do that, you haven't changed the basic manner in which you relate to the economic system, and remain a rich worker, not a member of any other class.
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Don't think I've ever watched fox news in my life...
>I am talking to you here and not on Reddit because of stronger guidelines (and the resulting, to my mind, higher quality of discussion).

That's a really interesting statement - I think that it has more to do with the actual people in the community (including the individual people moderating) than the guidelines they wrote. I think that if you took the HN guidelines and told a major subreddit's team to implement them, the discussion there wouldn't get any better. Why? Because it's all dependent on the judgment of the community and the moderators, and you either have that resource (and are already using it) or you don't.
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Agreed. This is probably my biggest gripe with SV tech companies. They seem to genuinely believe that there is no natural intersection between tech / software innovation and ethics. I would love to see a law similar to GDPR come to the US for this very reason...
Leaks? Spillage during filling? I don't know, but the odors are undeniably intense.
The spin direction is such that it will land on the buttered side if let fall.
Most (all?) functional programming languages implement structural equality automatically. Referential equality only makes sense when records can be mutated. Immutability eliminates whole categories of errors.
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Err, the "shittiness" of the example was deliberate. Of course I could point out violations that everyone would agree with, such as the TSA confiscating your electronics. That threat is personally threatening to people, so all of a sudden they're civil libertarians.

Consider another example: what benefit is there in the government spending so much time and money giving due process, health care and other rights to murderers, child predators or terrorists, while free, good people go without healthcare? It's not because the criminals deserve it. If I advocated human rights for these people when we didn't have them, you would say the same thing you are now: "I agree with human rights, but you just picked a really shitty example." The point is this: to consider what constitutes legitimate government.
I used to believe #2 but experience brought me to #3. People are really irrational. Racism, sexism, and ageism are really just a few of the many dumb conditioned biases that guide decision making.

A random example: taller people and people with broader shoulders make more sales.

We are intelligent minds grafted clumsily onto apes.
Clearly the next big development in this space will be some form of server-side scripting language which can be embedded in HTML and is tightly coupled with the web server, some sort of Hypertext Preprocessor.
Yes! Which (to me) reaches the article author's bewilderment about "cynical" / "utilitarian" reading: it's now very rare that I get immersed in a game. My now frequent attitude when gaming is more distanced, I'm not in the game but more observant of the game, sometimes judging it and often wanting to finish the game and be done with it, in a similar "utilitarian" way, rather than enjoying the experience. Which utterly defeats the purpose of the time-consuming experiences to be lived that games are, right?! It feels kinda sad.

One might say my interest for games may simply have faded, or that I now know what I like and what I don't, and am less tolerant about what I don't like. Maybe.
Though sadly casting float conversions are still UB. There's a really good writeup about it here:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/10184#issuecomment-...
In Canada, I have run payroll and it takes one day. It is vis direct deposit.
Out of sheer curiosity, is Chez Scheme still used at Cisco?
On the consumption side of wikipedia there are other options for getting it into bandwidth poor areas.

for example there is endless OS (https://endlessos.com/) which is essentially an offline linux distro aimed at school kids preloaded with a snapshot of wikipedia, khan academy, etc.
He will find out soon enough that people don't like him no matter how far away from them he lives.
So interestingly, they are storing extra metadata in the object pointers, which means no more compressed oops (ie 32 bit pointers). Curious what the effect of that on heap sizes is considering most JVMs run with <32gb heaps
I disagree; there absolutely is a tolerance paradox. You chose a rather benign example, but one that would be more illustrative would be Nazism. Expressing tolerance of those principles makes them more accepted and mainstream, thus making more accepted and mainstream the intolerance they demonstrate toward nonwhites.
Ditto. I don't know what the most polite way of addressing it is, but I've done that as well and never seen it be the cause of bad feelings.

I've also adopted a behavior I learned from a friend, which was to say something like "Anybody want to split the last one with me?" or "Does anybody else want the last one, or want to split it?" or something to that effect.
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I agree with you in the general sense, but want to point out that programmer productivity is far more than writing code. I think you’ve lumped quite a bit under “productivity for the entire team”.

Debugging code and reading others code are the two big ones to point out that are usually equally important to writing good code.

I have experienced that you can compare programmers in these tasks on a micro level and see drastic different results.

Top programmers tend to not only write code with good foundations, but also have an uncanny sense for the root of seemingly obscure issues, as well as the ability to understand other code almost on sight.
> If I buy a video game and play it and occasionally get loot boxes

Why do you hide the repeated purchase?

The game is bought, once.

Loot-boxes require another purchase - an uninformed one. You purchase an item for a chance at something else, a chance that you don't actually know.

Mario Kart would be gambling, if you had to buy every crate as you hit it. As it is, with no additional purchase, it is simply a randomised strategic feature. Currency of some form needs to be exchanged to create gambling.
No... it was bought by Google in a very primitive form, years before even its initial release. Android at the time of acquisition would be mostly unrecognizable today.

I don't think it's fair to say: "They only bought it so it doesn't count." You could just as easily say: "They only hired Paul Buchheit, he was the one who came up with GMail, not Google." Real inventions aren't spontaneous point events, they take many years of development, and can die anywhere along the way if you don't continuously create the necessary environment to foster them.
The point is that Apple provides both OS and drivers for a relatively small set of hardware. In these conditions, the fact that it has kernel panics at all is just Bad. Kernel panics should not happen in 2018, we have the knowledge and the technology to make it happen. It's bad for Windows and Linux as well, but they have the drivers excuse at least - MacOS has no such excuse.
"But it can't proberly open .docx and play PUBG"
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Sure, people have the right (and possibly a moral duty) to speak against those who they believe to be immoral advocates of the wrong belief.

"Feeling alienated" because others don't agree with you is a reasonable result; I mean, this is a zero sum game, all viewpoints can't be most popular everywhere. But it crosses the line when it comes to actual discrimination in the workplace, which is bad no matter whether it's done by or against the nationally dominant "tribe". If people have to shut up or face personal consequences (as opposed to getting ignored because the voice of others is considered more sane), then "You have every right to speak" has failed.

If I can say whatever I want but my political opponents (who want to implement evil policies for immoral reasons) can not, then we don't have free speech. Even if someone rabidly opposes free, inclusive, diverse society, says so, and gets punished for that - that's not a free, inclusive, diverse society; just as in that overused "Voltaire" (Evelyn Beatrice Hall) quote.

Political opponents will always consider and label each others policies and arguments as immoral and unacceptable, as you say, extreme and noxious; so unless we allow (in practice, by ensuring that people don't get punished for that by others) speech that seems immoral, unacceptable, extreme and noxious then we ensure that the political opposition doesn't get free speech. People should be able to talk in our workplace about why they like the noxious candidate and why the evil policy is needed (to achieve the immoral reason) without me or the workplace punishing them - otherwise I might not be able to talk in our workplace about why I like my candidate and why I want to have the opposite policy for incompatible moral reasons, which seem immoral and evil to them.
I imagine this correlation could be explained by engineers having a high average salary, and I think high salaries (on average) correlate with being conservative.

I don't have references though.
I state that China advanced immensely but nowhere close to the level of the hype now.

I'm laser-focused on the developing markets (although China is already past that stage). Moreover, I hold investments in mutual funds for emerging markets, including those with stock in Tencent (for instance).

But I can't name anything in China except:

* bigger supercomputers

* bigger bitcoin mining facilities

* clone cryptocurrencies

* bigger number of patents filed by Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu

* hiring of Andrew Ng and then him quitting Baidu

* proliferation of cashless payments

* excellent team work of techies and business people resulting in WeChat, which would not have succeeded elsewhere

* I no longer buy the claims of ML applications (speech recognition, face recognition) surpassing human accuracy - I've been hearing these for years and then reading refutations, but yes, sure, let's assume a few algorithms were tweaked successfully

Does it all work, yes. It's far beyond the China where I was doing business a decade ago wondering whether the developers I was in contact with have a functioning brain. But is it "more advanced than Silicon Valley" - nowhere close to it, it's well-managed cookie-cutter tech. If anything, the credit goes to the Chinese tech-savvy business people not prone to the American corporate waste syndrome and forced to dive deeper into the tech.

Can you name 3 (three) projects where the tech was not licensed or borrowed elsewhere and is indeed so advanced it did not surface elsewhere? I'd be sincerely interested to learn of such.
> Giving airtime or lending legitimacy to holocaust deniers, ethnostate-supporting white nationalists

Pointing to the most extreme end of political spectrum as justification for silencing or ostracizing the people everywhere on that half of the spectrum is both disingenuous and terrible for the political atmosphere. Imagine the reversed situation, someone stated "our company should tolerate liberal views" and I responded by saying, "but what about the mass starvation of the Great Leap Forward, and the genocide perpetrated against the Ukrainians by the USSR?" It would be absurd, which is also how I regard this response.

Tolerating conservative views is no more an endorsement of Nazis and the holocaust than tolerating liberal views is an endorsement of the Khmer Rouge, the Holodmor, etc. Silicon Valley would be a better place without this kind of rhetoric.

> anti-science FUD types

Arguably, this could just as easily be applied to mainstream liberal views on the danger (or lack thereof) of nuclear power, GMOs, etc.
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>believing that the more you earn, the more tax you should pay

I suspect you've fallen for some propaganda here if you think the rich pay less in taxes in the US or that Republicans think they shouldn't pay more. The top 1% already pay half of all taxes at the federal level.

The argument comes down to what proportion of income should go to taxes at various income brackets. This is hardly a settled topic even in liberal countries like France.
I also understand it to be read only.
Any reason why screen or tmux session sharing can't handle your use case?

On-topic: Great 2.0 release! Asciinema is great software for tutoring or showing off a terminal app, I use it a lot!
Trump deported more people already living in the US; Clinton and Obama deported more at the border, by enough that total deportations were higher.
Permitting private individuals to enact injustice such as slavery is advocating anarchy. You should read a little bit of Locke, Hume, JSM, Jefferson on democracy... The idea is very generally that we agree to a social contract to "give up some of our liberties to protect the remainder." Nobody has a right to remove the rights of another in this tradition, and it has always been that way going back, long before the Civil War. So the state using force to protect the liberties has always been just.
I was hoping to emphasise the crime issues. There are 40M slaves (UN stats) that want their AML back. Kids being abused and photographed probably don't like BTC paying for their servers. Enough is enough really. It is turning into a large problem with pretty disjointed and tepid regulatory responses. The regulators have dropped the ball on this.

There was a BTC-e fine of $110M in mid 2017 that also noted the problematic role of Dash and tumblers. It is hard to image Monero and Zcash are more tolerable to FinCEN.

The bubbles are a worry when 80+ yr olds start asking me about BTC when its price is on the National News each night here. That's a slightly different problem. Ensuring that both currencies and virtual-currencies comply with AML/KYC/CTF/Slavery regs should be at top of mind for most ethical people I'd hope.
How is meritocracy conservative exactly? I worked in a big tech company in Bay Area, and it is empathized in my hiring training session heavily that we are not afraid to miss good people but we are afraid to end up with bad ones. Not agree with far-left opinion != Being conservative.

A lot of my colleagues who happily brand themselves as liberal, all think unregulated illegal immigration will cause problem, I don't think there is any chance they will self identify as conservative.

As an individual I might agree with some of the points, but disagree with the rest, like I all for more restrictive gun control and think it is due to an outdated law. It is indeed a problem itself to force people into two buckets and create a us-vs-the-world mentality.
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It’s true not just in software , but in many aspects of modern society. We value innovation (even when it is bot innovative) a lot more than maintenance. Just look at physical infrastructure as an example.
That just means that when the Tesla returns to the same point in its orbit, it will pass a few hundred miles above Earth's orbit (where the final burn was performed) instead of directly intersecting Earth's orbit.

The difference is virtually meaningless compared to orbital perturbations from other sources. Either way, it's close enough for Earth to affect the Tesla's orbit if it were at the right place at the right time.