skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They key difference between Nashville and SV is Nashville doesn't claim to be anything but what's it is. SV culture claims to be inclusive and value diversity of thought. However, plenty of people experience exactly the opposite of this and that makes people feel lied to. Eventually the true SV culture will become more understood but until then I can understand people's frustrations
Can't help it! #JustDeveloperThings
Not sure if on purpose, but think you got that the wrong way around.
When it is useful to point at the future? And when not?

Looking back, did all the discussion of whether PCs had a role in homes actually accomplish anything? Or all the "well, there's only the Vatican archive so far, but the WWW is going to be big!" conversations? Or about tablets and phones?

People often don't picture design spaces and their critical constraints; and don't track tech changes and their impact on those constraints; and say so many silly things.

So here we are again, this time with VR/AR.

GNOME, KDE, Qt? Well, I guess Motif still exists. And MUMPS.

It was clear in the early 1990's that tablets would be a thing a decade later (eg, DEC was showing a prototype and nice year-vs-performance/size/cost curves), and that mice wouldn't be sufficient. We ended up writing a lot of Java (from 1995) and Objective-C (1985) and C++ (1985). And fought Microsoft over JavaScript. But a lot of known programming language features, which would have helped us, we didn't get to use.

I really wish our programming languages today, were a little further along towards not sucking. Because we're about to rewrite the world again.

But when/where is it worth taking the time to discuss such?
Did you accidentally reverse the arrow? Or is there a smart joke sailing over my head?
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Yes? I'm frankly baffled that people on hn cannot seem to see how this could be a bug.
Flagged and killed? I just got here through front page. I know you like being a victim, but you are not.
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I get the idea of generating less technical debt. That's important. And completely separate from the fragmentation of titles/jobs within CS. Part of 10x productivity is being great at a wide variety of tools, not just excellent at one. And yes, part of it is employing good code practice and data models and such.
I fully agree. However, it can go the other way, too: my ThinkPad trackpad (with virtual buttons for the trackpoint) FINALLY started working properly with libinput, with zero configuration, after weeks of tweaking evdev options without success. YMMV...

It did break two-finger-drag though :(

On the general topic of removing functionality: I get where they're coming from. I had a look at the old synaptics evdev code, and it really complicated with tons of long-forgotten special cases and obscure settings. I see why they're actively getting rid of those, the libinput code is much nicer to look at (and, presumably, maintain). I just wish they weren't that aggressive about it...
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You need to zoom way the hell out, or you will miss the forest for the trees. Whether or not Trump is personally racist or sexist or whatever is basically immaterial. The very fact of his election, and his continuing popularity despite events, is direct manifestation of deep-seated cultural problems in the USA.

Simply dismissing the concerns of tens of millions of americans as "racist and sexist" is not helpful and in fact perpetuates the problem. I am not a Trump supporter, or a Thiel supporter, but it's not self-evidently bad that a person with some means chose to work with the guy in charge to try to make a difference. This kind of lazy dismissal is part of the problem.
That is my personal experience too. Conservative ideas tend to be more thought out and logical, hence why traditional cultures are conservative. They're traditional because they lasted a long time, and they lasted a long time because their principles match reality.
Link to paper:
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797617741719

Some analysis (source of link):
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...
Do people really want to advertise tech companies by using their merchandise? You couldn't pay me enough to even entertain the thought.

Lemme just pull up that poorly sitting abhorrent short sleeved Microsoft Office business shirt real quick and we are off.
I wonder if it's possible that men and women, on average, have differing criteria for choosing careers, and artificially forcing the distributions towards the middle might do more harm than good.
Too many political article today on HN.

This, code of conduct, fake news, peter theil ect
This comment breaks the site guideline which asks: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." At the time the parent was posted, it was flagged off the front page.

Worse, of course, is the personal attack. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do it again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would have been interesting to control for wealth. Unless I missed it in the article, it could be valuable to analyze a group of countries deemed "rich", but with low gender equality (I don't really even know how the latter is calculated).
There's junk in low earth orbit. But this object is in solar orbit. There's very little junk there. There's very little anything there.
I am in no way worried about internet points. My concern is trying to parse social signalling. Downvotes can express rebuke of undesirable behavior here. Ignoring that fact is not a good thing.

I am very leery of concluding that downvotes can be wholesale ignored simply because I am a demographic outlier and many people will knee jerk disagree with me. That fundamentally breaks an important social feedback loop.

I didn't make it to the leaderboard by assuming I was getting pushback merely because I am female and men here are clearly sexist pigs and I can ignore their rebuke. I put quite a lot of time and effort into sorting out what I could ignore and what I needed to take seriously as an indicator that I needed to do something differently.

Granted, what I did different wasn't necessarily what other people thought I should. But that social feedback loop matters. It never works well to suggest that minorities can and should simply wholesale ignore such feedback. That goes bad places.

It has been extremely helpful to me that really ugly comments aimed at me are often flagged to death. Unfortunately, this sometimes only happens if I point it out. Then my comment pointing it out is often also flagged and/or downvoted.

It has also been extremely helpful that some people give corrective upvotes. I, also, do that to comments that I don't think really deserve to be in the negatives. Getting back to even after being downvoted feels much, much more to me like "Okay, others don't see it that way and your viewpoint is an outlier for this forum" and much less like "Shut up, bitch. No one wants you here anyway."
Of course. But do you really not know anybody who has fucked up a canary rollout or had a rollback system with a flaw that prevented an automatic rollback?
Melamine foam (magic eraser) works really well on soap scum in the shower.
Beware the metaphor as a mental model
Yes, that would have been less misleading and clickbaity.
You are wrong. Read the link here: https://gettingthedealthrough.com/area/18/jurisdiction/52/la...

"Similarly, ‘conduct of the employee’ means that dismissals based on sickness absence, underperformance, etc, will usually be considered reasonably justified. In most cases, however, it will be a requirement that one or more written warnings have been given before the dismissal to allow the employee to remedy the situation and thus avoid dismissal."

Google didn't issue one or more written warnings. The dismissal would therefore have been judged unjustified.
As Peter Thiel ditches SV for LA, locals tout 'conservative renaissance'
Yes, 10x is a lot of things. Technical debt is important. But none of that is important if you choose the wrong tools. Why not both?
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Yes it is. When you support Trump, you support his vile brand of leadership. The majority in this the country do not support this man or his ideas. They simply don't. The base that supported him and made this presidency possible is collapsing by all reported metrics (as in they are literally dying off, and younger people neither support Trump's ideas nor are they as religious). So while Trump's base may have squeezed out a win last time, their chances of a repeat decrease significantly as time goes on.

Time is not on their side, and I suspect History is not on their side either.
I'm automatically suspicious of headlines that use "admit". It almost always indicates a judgmental pre-conception of the activity rather than unbiased reporting.

If "confirms" or "acknowledges" had been used instead it would be a much more neutral report.
India with all of its poverty, inequality and bigotism is more or less Trump's ideal country.
No, he isn't. Democrats said the same thing about Bush, and they're saying the same thing about Pence. Anybody with an R next to their name would get the same backlash if they were president.
Doesn't Peter Thiel know what it's like to be gay in 95% of America?
The Accenture link I posted is a living example of a highly successful micro-services architecture in a critical internal application in a large corporation.

What more do you want?
More chart illiteracy probably. Here's a chart zoomed in https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2016-09-01%202... and the fake news area under the curve is quite a bit larger until around the time of the election. About the most honest thing you can actually say is that around the election people just started googling it more. Big whoop. There isn't any correlation with the term "fake news" as you may glean from the first chart.
Maybe, but really the point isn't about me. The point is the dominant opinion on Hackernews is "James Damore was right!" or at least "James Damore made some good points", which, whether you believe it or not, is absolutely a right-wing, conservative opinion, not the kind of "liberal SV PC culture" that is supposedly dominant and oppressive.
Yes give the police have more excuse to stop and ask for "papers please" guess which type of citizen will be asked for this.
None of the three people profiled in this article are tech workers. They are investors, or whatever it is that Tim Ferriss is.

To the extent tech workers are leaving Silicon Valley, I'm willing to bet the dominant factor is the cost of housing.
According to SV startups, you're ancient. :)
Unless he’s paying a PR firm to make it so, which wouldn’t shock many here I suspect. Clearly he’s not concerned about negative press, and this kind of negative press will attract a certain kind of ideologue. It’s all a win for him, as we lose by bickering over the parting words of someone who seems to utterly lack a conscience.
From my PoV it seems like this has mostly been sorted out by now.

While up to a ~year ago the position of "we must never ever put limits on immigration!" was hugely overrepresented in the media and by politicians. It became quite apparent that the majority of the populus does not support this stance, and that it's neither wise nor a good move to attempt the Nazikeule whenever anyone says something ever-so-slightly different from "we must never ever put limits on immigration!".
"If governments want to increase women’s participation in STEM, a more effective strategy might be to target the girls who are clearly being lost from the STEM pathway – those for whom science and maths are their best subjects and who enjoy it but still don’t choose it"

I don't understand why we should try to make somebody choose a subject they didn't choose to do.
> they feel people there are resistant to different social values and political ideologies

This is just bizarre to to me. I moved here from the Midwest, which I found stifling. There's a far greater variety of social values and political ideologies (not to mention backgrounds and interests) here than pretty much any place I've lived. The main hostility I see is to intolerance, but that's hardly surprising given SF's long, welcoming history and the paradox of tolerance. [1]

If I were to worry about any sort of uniformity, it wouldn't be political, but in startup culture. 20 years of success has created some very well-greased rails into which most innovation has to fit: bright young founders, seed round followed quickly by A and B rounds. That can be fine as far as it goes, but it has become so orthodox that I think we're not a great place for doing anything other than a plausible Next Big Thing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The fact that you can't see that it's in the media's best interest (manily to stay in business) to push outrage and sensational headlines and enable constant outrage is surprising. Facebook also further reinforces the outrage (on both sides) again for huge profits. Outrage sells, and business is a booming.
No sure why you were down voted, it's a reasonable point that women have more economically viable career choices in countries with better gender equality.
Maybe it's the strange notion that having an opinion that doesn't hurt anyone should lead to getting fired that's the problem...

The irony is not obvious so here it is:

You want Damore to be ex-communicated from Google, for having an opinion you disagree with. People of HackerNews have decided to ex-communicate YOU, for having an opinion they disagree with. (Assuming that's what happened on HackerNews, and not that you were voicing your opinion in a manner that's counter-productive)

Do you see how you're crying about the very same behaviour you're all for, when it's somebody else?

The double-irony is that you're allowed to post on HackerNews again, and Damore is not back at google!
It's not cost efficient compared to whey protein.

4.5oz Nutritional yeast from Bragg gets you 50g (25 servings of 2g) of protein in the entire container for $7.29. That's about 15 cents per gram of protein.

ON Gold Standard Whey gets you 1776g (74 servings of 24g) for $55.04. Thats about 3 cents per gram of protein.

An entire $7 container of nutritional yeast is also only 50g total which is actually less than an entire days worth of protein for an adult male.

It just doesn't scale.
Wait how is this offensively wasteful?

Also how is it impractical?
Lisps are like tiling window managers... Some have a taste for them. Most, don't.

Unfortunately some of the Lisp cool features are hard to implement without its simple syntax. Maybe the lesson is that we should find a f way to have syntax-independent programming languages! Just as we expect any successful language to have at least a couple implementations before being taken seriously, maybe we should expect a language to have at least a couple different alternative syntaxes and instant perfect translation between them (with comments and code style preserved), so I can use syntaxA and work on same codebase with my colleague using syntaxB. Than we'll be sure any metaprogramming or code intelligence tools don't suck because they'll be damn forced to not use the program text but the AST (that will have to be standardized) as they should instead...

Lisps would not even seem so cool anymore if we could get our s together and build languages with (a) standardized AST representations and (b) multiple syntaxes... we've like already imported most lisp features into modern languages anyway, and standardized ASTs would make macros both trivial and manageable...
A group thriving does not mean it didn't do damage to (former) members or others while doing so, and neither should "but look at what we achieved!" be a good excuse for it. (of course, groups also can have written rules and still behave badly, rules do not automatically solve these problems)
Not to mention money laundering. Look, the charges against Trump can be argued, what cannot be argued is the attack by Russia against our country and Trump has refused to say one single bad word about Russia, while simultaneously having a public record of praising Putin and getting financed by Russian oligarchs. This is a matter of public record and fact that is beyond dispute.

Lastly, both houses of congress passed additional sanctions against Russian with super majorities, beyond veto proof and Trump refuses to enact them. We are living in a constitutional crisis and for some reason every move Trump makes seems to benefit Russia.

This is not normal. This is not OK.
Years ago I think I may have before Udemy jumped the shark with the perma-discounts
They could be, as are the tomatoes I can find in Los Angeles, but there are some very tasty kinds (though never remember what what is). Back in Bulgaria, in my father in-law's village house the veggies are always tasty (it could be something else happening in my brain that makes them so, but that's how I started eating more hot peppers, by first trying his own ones, then liking it more and more).
San Francisco’s “progressivism” is undermined by how terribly the city operates. Dirty streets, aging infrastructure, crime, homelessness, laissez faire law enforcement, conservative housing policies, and extreme wealth inequality everywhere. If the progressives can’t get their own house in order, good luck selling their vision to the rest of the country.
It would be cool if machine learning researchers would start participating CASP and CAPRI. If you crack Go, you get fame, but if you crack protein prediction, you get Nobel price and completely revolutionize biochemistry and medicine.

http://predictioncenter.org/

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd-srv/capri/

edit: Why there is no XPRICE for protein folding?
Was in House :)
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The defensive tone of this article is alarming. If you don't study computer science now you will likely be in the same boat 30 years from now with illiterate folks of today. Disparity in computer science education in Western countries puts women at a massive economic disadvantage and is a major geopolitical risk. Arguing that women naturally prefer non-STEM fields is sexist and dangerous. Helping drive up the numbers of women and other underrepresented populations in CS should be a major priority for developed countries.
Ironically, your post perfectly illustrates his/her point.
When 60% of the country actively hate the guy, it doesn't make for good business. On a moral level, Trump is literally one of the worst human beings on the planet. Every awful trait you can associate with a person, Trump has it.

The dude is a walking billboard for the 7 deadly sins.
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> My concern is trying to parse social signalling. Downvotes can express rebuke of undesirable behavior here. Ignoring that fact is not a good thing.

My point, which I didn't convey entirely well, is that you can't use downvotes as a signal because there is no agreed upon criteria for when they should be used. Don't agree with the comment? Downvote is fine. Don't think the comment is on topic? Downvote. Have an emotional response to the comment? Downvote. I'm not sure how you can pull signal out of that noise.

I say ignore downvotes because they should not be used as the anti-validation of an idea, thought, or concept. The groupthink can be (and often is) wrong.

> It has been extremely helpful to me that really ugly comments aimed at me are often flagged to death.

Flagging does have guidelines for their use, and ugly comments should (IMHO) be flagged to death. There is a line between disagreement and incivility, but that's what HN mods are for (thread detachment, ban warning, bans) and their attention can be requested with those flags.

With all of that said, I think the HN moderators are fairly astute as to whether someone is participating in good faith, and taking corrective action if they're not. Sorry if we've gone off track. People are hard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Assume positive intent until observation proves otherwise.
"Fake news" was in the lexicon well before pizzagate, which you can see in the link. The point I'm trying to make is that the phrase "fake news" was pushed in place of the phrase "pizzagate", and this was done by all the major media outlets when the phrase pizzagate came to prominence.

To my mind, if there had been no "pizzagate", there would have been no spike in "fake news", and we wouldn't even be talking about "fake news" today.
Previously asked and answered. No, slack is IRC-like. The Wave approach also mixed in notions of emails, wikis, and group editing.
I have always wondered why the subways in London, NYC, and Paris have no cell signal in the tunnels. Subways in many large Asian cities (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo) have signal in most tunnels. From the article, it sounds like it's because London, NYC, and Paris had subways very early - and so didn't anticipate having to install telecom equipment in the tunnels:

> In addition to the smart city initiatives, Transit Wireless obviously is eyeing the tunnels as one of the most important infrastructure challenges going forward. Given the age of the tunnel construction, they are much narrower than the engineering standards used today for modern transit systems. In some cases, installed equipment has to fit within just a handful of inches of space lest a moving train rip the equipment right off the wall.

It reminds me of the Galápagos Syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_syndrome), where Japan pioneers some technologies, but they're often incompatible with the rest of the world because Japan itself is isolated (ATMs, mobile phones, etc.).

Edit: wrong about Paris! Thanks for correcting me :)
Perhaps not valley-centric, but definitely metro-area-centric, which tends to lean agnostic/globalist/liberal/capitalist/etc.

That, and wrongthink need not limit itself to politics. On HN we have it for technologies as well!