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> the rest of them share non-trivial programs freely

Heh. Most Scheme dialects don't even have source compatibility despite implementing the same standards.

Common Lisp lets you write portable (between different CL implementations) applications, but it's easy to end up doing something that is implementation-dependent if you're not careful.
There is no such thing as European standards.

Czech and Poland are entirely different from France and Denmark when it comes to such. Germany and Switzerland are also far different from France.

There are at least a dozen nations in Europe with very aggressive hard right parties, often derived from former neo-Nazi parties, that have won a political seat at the table in the last decade. That trend is still continuing. Europe overall has a worse far right problem than the US does and it's getting worse at an alarming rate. Europe even has multiple fascist dictatorships, in Belarus, Turkey and Russia.
If a woman doesn't feel compelled to pursue STEM to escape poverty - if she can make a career choice based on non-economic factors - then it's reasonable to assume her more innate traits and desires will come into play. (One such trait that asserts is a preference for dealing with people over abstract systems.) These traits are at their root biological and only modulated by culture.
That is the goal but it is a very wide and deep problem you won't catch me trivializing but we are chipping away at and seeing success.
Our group working on laypersons synonyms because most folks with rare diseases do not know the terminology.

https://human-phenotype-ontology.github.io/2016/03/24/layper...

I should probably be more effusive about all we do as we always seem to be further along than most attempts(and we give it away), but as one of the sausage makers I always worry someone will run into something that is not fixed yet.
Michael Lewis and the parable of the lucky man taking the extra cookie (2017)
Ask HN: Recommend lesser known communities not tech/finance/biz related?
Tired of reading about tech, finance, biz and politics all the time. Are there any other communities that are small, not well known but good and most importantly, welcoming to beginners and new comers? Creative, crazy, odd - anything that is interesting.
Some people had fun with these, having xml, json and the like as a local DSL. One made "lib" .. for years, few people know about.
I have seen the far left and far right discriminate in nearly every job I've been in since the mid two thousands. It was worse on the right in the finance industry, but recently someone provided me with a blacklist of right wing individuals in which my name was on it. I found this funny as I am basically a socialist who dedicated a huge portion of my spare time to helping minorities in tech. The world is polarized, just make sure to call it out when you see people being stupid.
Where has SV claimed to be tolerant of conservative thought? The suggestion that it claims to or ought to welcome racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-welfare-state politics did not appear to arrive on the scene until the fallout of the Damore memo.
I often try checking my overground train times while on the London Underground.

There's free Wi-Fi on the tube, but only in stations. So you have around 30 seconds to connect and check before getting disconnected.
> if you shed tears because Trump won the election you are mentally unstable

Upvoting you to counter your ridiculous downvotes. What the hell people. If you shed tears because Trump won then you are actually part of the problem. You are on "Team Blue" and crying because "Team Red" won. This simplistic tribalistic nonsense is not how you run a society.

update for the downvoters: unless you view Team Red as intrinsically illegitimate, in which case you need to ask yourself - do you live in a democracy? Really - a one-party democracy? What a splendid innovation!
Why the assumption that nurses are "lower" than doctors?
Good code should be readable and self explanatory. Comments should not focus on explaining the code, but rather present the overall logic.
A good piece of code is one that doesn't need the reader to get into the implementation details.
Commenting code is an art...
Clearly he isn’t talking about murder, he is talking about the seven Christian virtues, and yes Trump pretty much embodies the opposite of all them. I feel like you’re conflating “taking something at face value” with ignoring context.
> In the United States, political views are a protected class and one can sue if fired on the basis of them.

Political views and affiliations are not protected under federal law, though at least some states have protected them. See this page: https://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
The problem is that among this crowd, simply saying "I voted for Trump" or "I hated Hillary so I just didn't vote" is considered "controversial" and worthy of personal and professional backlash.
Probably moving to greener (redder?) pastures with younger, fresher blood.
Great response.

Being a 10xer means being fast at finding the right abstraction within a reasonable time frame which allows to further diminish time constraints that are part of the execution.

In other words, think (well) before you act.
Anyone can be harassed, white males included. There is a very legitimate fear of speaking out against extreme left wing political statements in the tech industry. This CoC is yet another weapon to use against people who don't agree in inherent white male privilege (a concept that is most definitely political).

The politically neutral move would be to not have a CoC or have one that excludes all demographic white/blacklisting.
This has been downvoted, but this is an important distinction that our legal system even recognizes. There's a qualitative difference between a "public person" (like Thiel) and a "private person" like some random co-worker who doesn't tour around doing speeches and writing opinion pieces.
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That sounds genuinely interesting. That said, I have to ask, why you would want to do such a thing?
> If he can't take the heat he should stay out of the kitchen

Exactly, that's why he moved away.
Lisp is everywhere these days. Look at destructuring, higher order functions .. this is just the tip of the iceberg. These genes stood the test of time and spread all over.
thanks for the links. I hadn’t found any vendors on those 4 node systems.
It's kind of ironic that the tube is one of the last places on Earth where you get can respite from a lot of the most annoying human activity?
> I think I can do an OK job of not being an asshole, but I honestly have no idea what is or isn't going to piss people off or classify as flamebait here.

I wish that there were some sort of metamoderation system. I downvote the mods whenever they post about abusing their power, but I don't know if that even has an effect, or if moderators' posts are immune from downvotes.
The Housing Game (2015)
Really? (warning anecdotes :), When I lived in the south east (Alabama / Georgia), I didn't notice any stifling because I was an atheist. Sure, you had to deal with people's super religious fundamentalist beliefs which got expressed all the time, but my barrage of dissenting opinions didn't get any backlash, except for the "prayer for my lost soul" which did happen on occasion.
Thanks for the note on the renewals (and the caveat!) - that does make it less concerning as it would only impact new services.
> more bugs already found and fixed

I'd argue that libraries that used to have bugs found and fixed tend to have many more of them to catch you by surprise later. They also tend to have less stable interfaces.

> more answers on Google

Also, the libraries complex enough to need many questions on Stack Overflow are normally the same as the ones above.
So if you disagree with someone's political views and you want to reduce that power it should be fair game to try to have that person fired from their job? At what point do you draw the line?
It’s pretty incredible to imagine that after most of the monuments man has built for man have vanished, Elon’s Tesla might still be orbiting the Sun.

Feels implausible.
> Because the only values I've heard expressed have been standard democratic talking points and once in a while far left ideologies.

You've not been around much of SV if you've not run into a libertarian, or an anarchocapitalist. Either that, or you've made the considerable error of confusing their values with "standard democratic talking points".
Oh hey, I've used qp-tries in an interpreter for a Forth-like language. They're really elegant IMO. Thanks for publicizing and implementing your discovery!
> facing the backlash from openly supporting Trump

thus further proving the headline
> Playing around with it with a program, and seeing what happens, you get a hands-on experience that no amount of ..abstract generality can replace.

That’s not really correct. I think we’re talking about two different things. I’m not stating that you can learn mathematics without actively doing it. I’m stating that programming is a poor medium with which to actively do mathematics until you’ve already learned it. Active learning is absolutely important, which is why solving problems is important. But those problems rarely take a form that are straigtforward to implement in code.

The reason is because the broader theory of mathematics does not translate into code without significant difficulty. You can do computation of particular formulas by implementing them in code, but it would be strange to e.g. reason about what a field is by writing code to generate an array of numbers that technically adheres to the field axioms for addition and multiplication. You can do it, and it would help you a lot for operations over fields, but that isn’t going to help you prove that the set of all rational numbers is a field. You’re already past that if you’re implementing the code, because the computer is implicitly accepting that all xy and x + y are in Q if x and y are in Q.

I’m a fan of using something like SageMath or Mathematica in a learning environment for computational math homework. But I honestly can’t imagine learning from a textbook and following along by writing code. The code is very useful for deriving insights about what something is, but it’s not as useful for insights about why something is.
Let me guess, you don't know any Trump supporters?
> Everyone is being alienated everywhere because the country has a leader who is actively polarizing the populous

No. That is the fault of mass media corporations (and now, also thinly-veiled "grassroots" organizations). It's quite simple to pick and choose quotes from individuals that can be construed as offensive ("superpredators", anyone? The list goes on), craft a narrative, and put them on the national stage. This is what these organizations do, at the expense of other issues. You will not find a more powerful, more influential reason for the division this country is experiencing. It is these organizations and those who profit from them the most that are most responsible.
It's a spectrum, not black and white. The self driving car is a lot closer to one end, and the other examples are closer to the other. None are perfect examples of the extremities.
I've no doubt certain individuals have been given a hard time, as in the accounts you've read.

But I don't believe for a second that women "are systematically encouraged to get out, and do something else with their lives."
Jesus fucking Christ. It is a law saying that if you want to own a guinea pig you must also own a friend for that guinea pig and you're talking about the founding fathers.

I've read the rest of discussion and this is just the weirdest thing to trigger it.
I doubt it. A credit score is a good implementation of your material value to capitalism. If you have a bad credit score, you are punished exactly to the extent it makes sense from a statistical perspective.

'Social credit scores' muddy this system with a bunch of basically peripheral values: filial piety, political opinions, and so on. It undermines the basic efficiency of a system that only cares about you insofar as you matter - i.e. insofar as you're economically active.

The only way a 'social credit score' will help the system that institutes it is if the society is more stable as a result. I don't really see this happening, unless people like it. If everybody hates a society, you tend to get a kind of creeping malaise, where nobody believes in the system, and everybody's just trying to steal as much as they can from it - sort of like Russia in the 80's. No amount of repression will help you if all of your secret police are busy trying to sell every state asset they can get their hands on.
Yes, Max is one of the instructors I'm talking about.
Ask HN: What's the best HN Alexa skill?
There are a few out there, but none with many reviews. Has anyone spent enough time playing with them to have opinions on them?
Most "far-leftists" tend to view liberal identity politics as a distraction, or a way for the ruling classes to promote infighting and discord, occasionally handing out scraps to keep the proles occupied.

Leftists aren't really bothered about whether the CEO or President is black or white or male or female or transgender, but by the fact that any single person is allowed the wield the power that a CEO or President can yield. Many of them also reject reformist politics.

Black Panther Party member Fred Hampton(As good an example of a "far-left" American figure as you can find) can probably explain it better:

> We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.

> We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAN REVOLUTION. That's what it has to be. The people have to have the power: it belongs to the people.

> We have to understand very clearly that there's a man in our community called a capitalist. Sometimes he's black and sometimes he's white. But that man has to be driven out of our community, because anybody who comes into the community to make profit off the people by exploiting them can be defined as a capitalist. And we don't care how many programs they have, how long a dashiki they have. Because political power does not flow from the sleeve of a dashiki; political power flows from the barrel of a gun. It flows from the barrel of a gun!

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/fhamptonspeech.html

A good rule of thumb is - Anything done by multi billion dollar corporations is probably not leftist.
Alright, we've changed it back.
heard it a lot after the 2003 Iraq Invasion

People on the left strenuously objected to the invasion of Iraq as a criminal waste of human life, and for commentators on the right to say they were defending freedom (including the freedom to criticise their ongoing war) was a specious argument, to put it mildly.
So if we go back in 1977 we should pick lisp instead of fortran because they invited if statement first.

Since we are in 2018, I'll go with python
Voting for an openly sexist person is extremely controversial. I don't find "I hated Hillary so I just didn't vote" controversial at all.
Thanks for the heads up on "What the Health". Sadly, I can no longer edit the submission.

For a meticulously documented presentation, see "How Not To Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, and Reversing Our Top 15 Killers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXXXygDRyBU
> libertarian/pro-gun friends have not been shy about their political views and it hasn't hurt their tech careers at all

It's interesting that you specifically choose "libertarian". While maybe technically further to the right than Republican it truly seems supporting specifically Republican candidates is wholly furiously unacceptable in the bay area -- especially at tech companies. Try wearing a pin, t-shirt, hat, etc... "openly" supporting Trump to a tech company in the city -- actually for the safety of your career and physical self better not.
Yes, there were lots of arguments and loud people (referring to the 1990s), but thanks to open protocols, there were newsreaders suitable for every kind of usage profile, and many of them had very effective killfiles.

Even the dumbest of them would remember what articles you read and let you pick up where you left when you came back the next day. That's a straightforward feature that is sorely lacking on most web based discussion sites (Twitter does it, but is lacking in threading).
Do you live/work in Texas? The big cities (Austin, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio) are overwhelmingly liberal.
Agreed. Moreover, speaking at a nationally-televised political convention is an inherently public, political act.
I think it is more about understanding the problem and the structure of the data that goes with it rather than abstraction.
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Reference for reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1231447.stm
> he is talking about the seven Christian virtues

I had no idea he was talking about this. How could anyone guess that. If true then he has failed to communicate so completely that I am inclined to ignore everything else.

If you have a coherent argument which embodies what "he meant to say" then let's hear it. Shifting the goalposts on past arguments, however, is not allowed.
Show HN: Tracing perlin noise
Your username suggests other factors at play...
I'm assuming he means money as in time, to install, configure, optimize, and monitor those distributed systems.
few times I've read that lisp is on the edge, if your project doesn't need wild experiments you won't benefit, but when you do (a bit like other language, haskell) you'll see exponential returns
Thank you - I've added some text at the top of the re-hosting to make it clear why it's being hosted there in addition to Medium - I hope that makes it clearer.

Is there a way of avoiding this problem in the future, and possibly reducing your workload?
Your comment is a perfect example of the Valley's intense hatred of any remotely conservative viewpoint that the article is referring to. People have all kinds of reasons for voting for a particular candidate. It doesn't mean they endorse all of their actions or views. In this last election, I suspect that many Trump votes were made simply because they didn't like Hillary, and there were only two choices.
That can't quite be true, given how central the Tenderloin is within NW SF.

Which reminds me of an interesting experience I had. I was living in NY, and took a trip that had me spend about 8 days each in SF and Cuba. It took me a couple days to put a name on a feeling I was experiencing in Havana. I realized that it was the dissonance of the staggering inequality plainly in the Union Square area of SF I was staying and the relative flat deprivation of Havana. The latter lacked the overtly utter destitution of the Tenderloin.

I didn't have any profound takeaways other than that it seemed like there should be some way of getting the benefits of American society, with the baseline of Cuban society, given how much more we have in resources.
Yeah I don't get it either, especially the "feeling alienated" part. Does that include being feted and having a respectful discussion with your liberal friend and old colleague, Reid Hoffman, on the Stanford campus on Jan. 31 of this year, moderated by a very sympathetic Niall Ferguson? With laudatory words and praise from the President and Provost? https://news.stanford.edu/2018/02/01/cardinal-conversation-r...

Look, if you're going to speak at the RNC and actively support Trump, you will be on the opposite side of a super-majority of college-educated people in this country at this point. And definitely a large super-majority of people under 35, women, Asian Americans, Latinos and African Americans. So if you're surrounded by such people, and are loudly promoting such views, don't expect your interlocutors to not criticize them, or necessarily want to hear them ad nauseum.

The evidence however suggests that Mr. Thiel is certainly being given PLENTY of platforms to continue expressing his viewpoints in a respectful manner in front of influential crowds of people, including students. Who is pushing this whole narrative?
Yes, I'm aware of this theory.

How would you distinguish between such a "sowing chaos" campaign and random Russian people/groups who have different interests in the US?

I'd also wonder why an intelligent person might think this is worse than, say, Saudis and Israelis formenting US wars in the middle east, which we know they have actually done in the corporeal world, rather than the fever dreams of conspiracy theorists.
> Your rule 3 would probably create a looooot of drama.

I could provide a translation into US English. Asshole? Jerk? Douche?
Huh? I mean you realize elections have real-world consequences right? It's not exactly like their team lost the superbowl. What about the dreamers, surely they're allowed to cry because of Trump's win right? What about trans people? What about those who would benefit from medical marijuana? What about those who have insurance because of 'Obamacare'? What about those with family members in 'muslim countries'? Maybe you didn't have too much at stake in recent election but many, many people do and they're perfectly justified in their tears.

>This simplistic tribalistic nonsense is not how you run a society.

Ironically it seems like you two are being just as tribalistic as the people you complain about. Maybe something to think about.
You can't correctly say there are no hard-right parties in Europe. They're in nearly every European nation and often have large political positions. Ignoring that is like pretending the alt-right Breitbart crowd doesn't exist in the US. Much of Eastern Europe in particular is overflowing with a hard-right quasi-fascist ideology currently.
> What you're arguing is for a complete removal of teaching math, period.

No. I suggest focussing on explaining concepts, not drilling sums. And explain them why in ancient times the teacher used to use a cheat sheet because drilling didn't work because science found out our minds are not wired for that.

Besides, from over 7 billion people on Earth, how many need Algebra 2? Please try to be honest and give us here an estimate teacher. In your life Math is important apparently, but in most lives it's not. Teach it to those interested please and don't push it through the throat of those not interested.
And I know which you'll be getting...
I'm supposed to feel bad for Peter Thiel? The guy is a billionaire. He can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants.

He thinks it's hard to be a conservative in California? Try being a liberal in most of the red state parts of the country who actually has to work for a living.

Give me a break.