skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does the author live that they think the “prevailing food paradigm” is vegan?

Obviously not the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-02/have-a-me...

I'm really not sure what's supposed to be so bad about quorn.

Yeah, it's a fungus. So what? We eat lots of different kinds of fungi. Mushrooms, obviously. Yeast. The mold on various types of cheese. Asian comestibles like sake, soy sauce, tempeh...miso. The list goes on.

I agree that it shouldn't be marketed as a "plant food" -- fungi are not plants. They're their own kingdom entirely.
That's because it's an unpublished manuscript.

http://www.ajhepworth.yolasite.com/resources/9822-a2.pdf ha a writeup on page 277 and cites:

Ward, G., & Keltner, D. (1998). Power and the consumption of resources.
Unpublished manuscript.
Just trying to wrap my head around this. Photon energies are distributed across quantised states. We can obtain the single photon energy for a given wave-length by the Planck-Einstein relation. We then assume the photons become "entangled", and decrease their speed. Is this to conserve momentum/energy, assuming the frequency is unaltered. I assume this frequency stays the same on the premise of constructive interference, and hence not altering the phase or frequency.
Same, except our bar is made of plywood and is tacky as hell. It attracts our employees. I'm also here to code but some free drinks while I socialize with my colleagues isn't bad, especially given central London drink prices.
Whether you a pro lisp, anti lisp or agnostic, I think most HNers will find watching this talk time well spent.

I have no relationship with Lisp, YC, or Rigetti.
You really "LMAO"?

Because you should be "fearing your ass off" when people are afraid to express their legitimate political views. This has all happened before and it wasn't pretty.

update: come on downvoters. At least give me a clue.
As someone who is an outsider looking in on this whole situation (someone who both does not live in Silicon Valley and does not live in America), I honestly think the whole place and everyone there is fking insane.

Both sides are seemingly entirely incapable of accepting that people, with all their complexities can have differing view points and not just assuming they are the devil incarnate.

I used to think that I was pretty far-left leaning, but recently, with the attitudes of the so-called progressives, I honestly want nothing to do with these people. How is it that more people aren't terrified that the left has turned themselves into an echo-chamber so against even slightly differing ideals that those who do even slightly go against the norm will have a social-media storm come down upon them to ruin their career and life.

And don't think conservatives are any better. Here is a hot tip for all the conservatives out there - white supremacy and neo-nazi's are not the types of people you want to associate yourselves with. The fact that it's been over 70 years since the end of WW2 and you haven't quite figured that out yet is almost as baffling as the idea that conservatives cannot accept that gun-control does not mean people want to take your guns away, but simply want to make sure that people who would abuse guns can not get them.

Honestly, if the lot of you could start acting like mature adults who can have a reasonable discussion of actual issues without resorting to calling each other names and organizing mobs, the rest of the world that still follow America's example would be thankful.
Taking this heuristic to its ultimate conclusion, one should trim writing until nothing remains.

(I should have followed that heuristic in this comment.)
Chomper is essentially a wrapper around mitmproxy - http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/ (albeit a large wrapper). When mitmproxy first runs, it generates certificates into ~/.mitmproxy (http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/certinstall.html). One of the steps of the instructions is to add these certificates to your browser as trusted authorities (https://github.com/aniketpanjwani/chomper#installation), though in the future this step will be automated.

There are some websites which due to certificate pinning will not be properly filtered through the proxy (http://docs.mitmproxy.org/en/stable/certinstall.html#certifi...). For example, while Chomper is running, even if Dropbox is not on a blacklist, it probably will not properly sync. Eventually, I'll add the ability to make exceptions for these websites if desired.

It's been ad-hoc tested on my computer and on a fresh Linux installation. There's really no components right now worth unit testing, since it was really just a lot of configuration work. Once I start adding more complicated filter rules, I'll write formal unit tests.

Does that answer your questions?
I agree with the premise of this piece. I have lunch with some people that lean right, all of us keep our mouths shut for fear of reprisal whenever politics comes up or a progressive work program is discussed. No one actually cares what we think, no reason to suggest anything at odds with echo chamber.
I dont think that I've ever seen cat really sleeping in one of these positions, they usually change position after they are really deep asleep and are then either curled up or in some totally ridiculous position.
Great, feel free to go out and socialize. No need to try encourage alcohol - one of the most destructive social drugs in our society - in the workplace. There's plenty of people with drinking problems, recovering and former alcoholics who don't want the awkwardness of it all just because some 22 year old frat boy hasn't grown out of his college beer pong man child phase.
>otherwise you should try to include people that look very much different from you.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. - MLK

Perhaps you should rethink your life choices when you're making offices "diverse", read exotic, for rich people to enjoy themselves in.
>racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-welfare-state politics

This is not exactly what "conservative thought" is, but the conflation does nicely demonstrate SV's toxic mix of ignorance and intolerance.
I know a lot of first generation immigrants who shed tears when he was elected because they're worried about the security of their families. I don't think your characterization of politics as a tribal affair like sports contests is well grounded in reality.
you just proved the point of the article. Thiel had massive balls to support Trump early and publicly. Hats off, it paid out well vv
I don't understand infatuation with NYC subway. Moscow subway, while being very old, very deep and in supposed third world country had count down clocks for 25 years, all major carriers LTE for years, very fast wifi on stations and in tunnels for forever, doesn't even require stupid login, just connects, imagine that. The only feeling I have for NYC subway is shame. That pride that some people have is apparently because they never visit anywhere. Oh, and trains are very fast, and come every 3 minutes
“Technology” is a very broad term. A kid could be on social media, passively consuming media or on Khan Academy learning mathematics, actively engaging with the content. So it doesn’t make sense to have a blanket ban on all technology, because frankly you’re depriving the kid of a whole range of other experiences, many of which will be beneficial.

The last time this came up on Hacker News, there was a very insightful comment that basically said that isolating children from technology will isolate them from their peers, thus causing the same problems that the ban was supposed to prevent.

Edit: more commentary
Libertarian views are far less extreme in many ways than modern Republican views, and often align rather closely with progressive/democrat views. In fact, the libertarian ethos evolved from classic liberalism, including support of LGBT issues, racial and gender equality, and a largely non-interventionist global view.
Android Apps Split Screen Working on Chrome OS
While that may be true, in this instance he is quoting (nearly verbatim) from the study author:
https://youtu.be/0vvl46PmCfE?t=1m41s
I have said yes, lets split it.
I've seen one large Smalltalk project, and it seems like it evolved into a tightly coupled group of classes. It looked really hard about reasoning about any changes since the dependencies were pretty high. I think if you went with clusters of VMs talking to each other you could probably do a pretty good job.

I do wonder if the work at Yale on Linda[1] & Tuple Spaces[2][3] would have been more popular when it was introduced in Java[4] then people would have reasoned a bit differently on big systems. Going the CORBA[5] route always seemed to generate really problematic systems.

The again, I really thought it would be cool to have people program in Occam[6] just to force some thinking about organization of programs.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space

3) https://books.google.com/books/about/Mirror_Worlds.html?id=j...

4) https://www.javaworld.com/article/2076849/core-java/jini-tec...

5) http://www.corba.org/

6) https://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~cs366/occam.pdf [PDF]
Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain [pdf]
Inflation is different to speculation.
This is a very western outlook. I recall reading that on the ISS, the American astronauts considered the Russian cosmonauts to be rude because they would pick out whatever food they wanted. Maybe apocryphal, and maybe not, but I - Russian, and born and raised there for ten years - have zero qualms about asking to take the last of something.
I think in 2016 it was one of the biggest themes for YC startups. They've founded a lot of startups in the recruiting field trying to innovate. Problem I see so far is that they don't tackle the actual problem. Automation and online coding tools to "evaluate" candidates aren't real solutions.

Someone has to stop at some point and stand. By that I mean Google, Facebook or any other influential companies. Enough of these stupid technical interviews. No more college like questions, no more stupid puzzles, stupid algorithm questions. We don't like white boarding crap, we don't need it. Last time I wrote a function on a whiteboard I was 12 years old learning how to code. Today I'm in my mid-30's. Slack actually did it, they stopped evaluating candidates like that, but it's a tiny player in the space. As I said we need big players doing the same thing. It all started with Google back in the early 2000 and everyone followed. It is such a mess honestly... a startup itself wouldn't fix it. It has to be fixed by each and everyone out there.
I'm 37 and, God, people treat me like I'm a dinosaur. I've been programming C for 25 years and it's hard to relate to young people who don't know what a machine register is. We can argue about it, I can get downvoted, whatever.

I moved out of the Bay Area after 5 years, and to be honest, the divide between where I am and where the ideological center of Silicon Valley has drifted just continues to get wider.

It has little to do with politics, and it has more to do with the role of technology in human life and the future.

Silicon Valley is overrun by techno-utopians.

I used to be into that, believing that software was this wonderful force that is going to turn man from the ape he is into some kind of artificially-intelligent hyper-being. It's a fail, it's a fantasy. It's just not going to happen, and it's time to wake up from the dream. We're not going to be living on Mars or visit Jupiter or become immortal, not in the next 10 years or in the lifetime of anyone reading this. With high probability you're going to live out your life and die somewhere between 70 and 100. Just like the billions of humans before you. Get used to it! It's OK, even.

I moved away to get out of the shouting match, to get away from so many young bright software developers like me straight out of college, who just want to disrupt everything for no reason, and to get out of that echo chamber. Everyone's a unicorn. Everyone's gonna change the world. FFS your stupid chat apps are not going to change the world.

Moving out of the Bay Area is not about being disillusioned, it's about focusing on things that actually matter, instead of the silly bubble.
Trim until the idea to be conveyed disappears. Then ctrl-z once.
Spot on.

If the captain and the navigators are incompetent, and the shipping company send you to the wrong port, then no crew can save the company.

The places were "Agile" goes bad, are the places where just about every management process goes bad. If too many don't know how how the sausage is made you get "list guys" running around with lists and metrics that don't make sense, reporting to committees filled with other "list guys", an ever increasing admin-per-developer ratio, and a productivity that slowly falls down to zero.

Faking process and order is much, much easier than actually managing the semi-chaos that a large development process is.
Transip.eu is solid. I have been working with them since 2014. And i have (and still) used Linode and DO too.
https://www.brightbox.com

Simple straightforward IaaS
Homelessness isn't just a city-wide problem, but a national one. National policies regarding drugs, housing, economics, play a huge role in how homelessness in a city turns out. There are also homeless populations that move around to different cities. A city can do a lot to change their own situation, but it feels like there's only so much that can be done on a local level when there are huge higher-level pressures.
> But unwritten rules fail for people on the margins, and falls apart at scale.

How ever did society survive before written CoC's?
Conservative propaganda has learned from the left how powerful victimology, feeling persecuted, is. White resentment is through the roof when I talk politics with a lot of my white friends.
I love the concepts Kafka defines so clearly, but the software is too complex and have dozens of knobs you have to adjust.

Simple code with "obviously no bugs" vs complex code with "no obvious bugs".
I didn't equivocate them, I listed them both individually. Didn't seem like a hard sentence to parse to me?
I think a lot of it depends on how you present it and who you see. I have had the best results when leading the doctor on just to the point of tricking them into thinking they came up with the idea themselves. Play to their vanity!
>The grains will be bought by farmers, who will grind them into pellets for fish and cattle. “Twenty-five years ago, people were starving for want of this,” he says, marvelling. “Now we feed it to animals.”

Capitalistic, industrialized farming is coming fast to these countries. Food production will explode.
You missed my point. I was saying that all candidates have flaws, and people find reasons to vote for them anyway. Whether you voted for Trump or Hillary, you were voting for a flawed candidate. It is only your personal political bias that makes Trump in "completely different plane".
I've never personally encountered a bug like this but I have hit my fair share of weird/hard to track down bugs over my embedded software career.

Almost always, they leave me a) longing for the blissful ignorance of low level details our whole computing infrastructure is built upon and b) wondering, how on Earth our technology is working as well it does, considering there are layers upon layers of abstractions which could have a lot of issues which are either worked around or just not hit in particular application.
For the US, correct [1]. For other countries, YMMV.

Edit:

e.g. in the UK, sui generis rights apply to a database [2], such that if creation of a database required

"substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting the contents of the database"

then someone else cannot copy it and re-publish in another form. This is very different from US law, which requires some "creative originality" to be involved.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc.,_v._R....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_generis_database_right
I've been paying attention to the tech world and have a hard time identifying what you're referring too. Could you elaborate?
You realize the user hostile nature of basically all crypto currencies is not a feature right?
I saw in your other comments you mentioned that you had looked into a blimp to do this.

At this point I’m going to assume you’re either trolling or just severely out of touch with reality.
Sorry, I’m pretty new to vim (switched from ST this week and loving it so far). Thanks for the advice though
Do you approve of black teens - or teens of any colour - listening to loud music in a public place without earbuds? Is it something the rest of the world should approve of, in your opinion?
DevOps and Governance
Yes, that is my experience too on Linux. However, most times it isn’t actually necessary to write the full RAM out and IIRC Windows and macOS actually don’t. There are a few approaches that work, e.g. you can do memory ballooning and drop caches to reduce memory usage before suspending. In addition, you can write unused RAM pages to disk during normal operation, so that when the user wants to suspend, most of the pages are already on disk.
Are you figuring in the privacy impact of having a hot microphone in your living space listening in 24/7?
Can NJ & NY Transit do something similar?
(Disclaimer: I do not intend anything in this comment as a judgment.)

In my view, exactly what happened is that a generation of feminists used the internet (esp. blogs and social media) very effectively. You can look to gaming culture, not as a primary source of this necessarily, but at least as a convenient observable thermometer and timeline. Again, I don't mean to suggest that gaming was the source of all this, but you can watch the dissemination of the ideas, and the predominating cultural shift, by reviewing the timelines of the Penny Arcade Dickwolves controversy (2010-11), and GamerGate (2014). A more direct connection is that the central figures in GamerGate did in fact offer anti-harassment consulting services to SV technology companies.
This article isn't mainly about Thiel. He's in the rare position in that he knows he can live comfortably for the rest of his life even if his employment opportunities are reduced to zero. This article is more about overall atmosphere and culture experienced by standard tech workers. The full excerpt from Tim Ferris (part of which OP's article quoted) really captures this:

> Now, more and more, I feel like it's a Russian nesting doll of facades -- Washington DC with fewer neck ties, where people openly lie to one another out of fear of losing their jobs or being publicly crucified. It's weird, unsettling, and, frankly, really dangerous. There's way too much power here for politeness to be sustainable. If no one feels they can say "Hey, I know it makes everyone uncomfortable, but I think there's a leak in the fuel rods in this nuclear submarine..." we're headed for big trouble.

I can definitely identify with this sentiment.
> Work is for working; it's not a debating society, and especially not when the debating is done in bad faith.

If this were actually true of the current milieu of tech employment in the bay area, I'd likely still be a willing and active participant in that workforce.

Substantial energy is wasted discussing ideologies and arranging/having meetings on what are fundamentally social issues we're not realistically fixing in the short-term at the workplace from the bottom-up. The reasons appeared largely focused on satisfying the expectations of a vocal minority of SJW-types bringing this crap into the workplace with HR departments jumping at the opportunity to appear busy and influential.

Edit:
Maybe my experiences were unique, though my social circles were complaining of similar things at their respective startups.
>The point is the dominant opinion on Hackernews is "James Damore was right!" or at least "James Damore made some good points",

Uh, that's not my impression. My impression is that the pro-Damore posters say he should not have been fired for the views he expressed. And they're not the dominant opinion; rather it seems neither the pro- or anti-Damore opinions are dominant.
GFCO (glutenfreecert.com) holds the manufacturer to whatever they self-declare (20ppm, 10ppm, 5ppm, etc and even undetectable).

GFCO certifies individual products with testing.

GFCP certifies facilities with required systems and processes. These folks basically do the certification at a higher place in the chain and is where the industry is headed.
Show HN: Easypz.js automatically makes visualizations interactive via pan and zoom
Does this raise any questions for you about the objectivity of the study author?
That's the thing, that's pretty damn central in the US too. The problem is that's not good enough for some people. In the US, legally, we treat everyone equal. However, we're (in theory) a meritocratic society based on survival of the fittest. The modern "far left" ideology is interested in equal outcomes for everyone and defines any statistical dependencies they perceive, and anyone who doesn't support correcting them, as racist, sexist, generally "-ist". So they've moved the goal posts. It's become a battle between equal opportunity and equal outcome and as far as the left is concerned supporting equal opportunity and not equal outcome is deplorable and should be shunned.
Right. Outside of fresh fruit and (some, not all) vegetables, there are very few foods that aren't "processed" in some way. For instance, virtually all grains and legumes are eaten cooked, often being ground into flour or meal before cooking.

Someone mentioned soybeans below. Raw soybeans are actually toxic to humans (though not to ruminants like cattle).
Let's take a country that's mentioned in TFA, and ranks higher on the gender equality scale: Sweden.

Here, just as in the US, we have way more female nurses. However, we are also going towards way more female than male doctors; more women than men are admitted to medical school.

What we are not seeing however, are more women in science (biology is a bit of an outlier, though) and technology.

Outside of managerial roles, IT in particular is as bereft of women as it has always been.

As we have more women in medicine and law I have a hard time believing they are setting their expectations lower. I think it's as the article claims: for whatever reason they just aren't interested in STEM (in average).
10x what, salary? Never met an engineer making 10x my wages. If you make 10x my wages, let's talk
”Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

—Unknown, attributed to Einstein
A short-term competitive advantage can come with long-term fragility and susceptibility to disaster. For instance, imagine two countries with identical resources, one increases its population so that yearly food production can barely sustain it, while the other has a smaller rate of growth. The first will have a competitive advantage every year until a drought comes, when it will be hit by disaster.

Similarly the competitive advantages you describe may come with long-term risks that are harder to measure or predict, especially those that come from the government itself.
Gawker was found (not over Thiel's outing, but anyway) guilty by the court. It might be a sad state of affairs that you need to have Thiel's kind of money to take down a gossip rag like Gawker, but... good riddance.
As someone who once lived in a WeWork for a bootcamp of sorts, and 1776 during the daytime for those weeks, and has spent 6 years abroad prior as an American working abroad, so well said. This really resonates with me. I feel general unease in such places because we are all so similar and I feel the same towards all of us from my private high school: let's pat ourselves on the back after mommy and daddy put us in socioeconomic padding to force us into the pit of success!
What company would invest $300M and not expect some period of exclusivity?