skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your only knowledge of the existence of 'al-qaeda' is from what the people that brief the news men have chosen to tell you. For instance, there was a stand off between India and Pakistan during the glory days of The War Against Terror where it was alleged that there was 'al-qaeda' in between the two countries causing the trouble and that Uncle Sam could fix it. Obviously there were also the fake terror warnings where it could be red or orange depending on what random rubbish had been told to the media that day. Then there are independence movements in Africa where it is too complicated so 'al-qaeda' gets 'affiliated' so the story is explained that way. Then there is the actual creation myth of 'al-qaeda', wasn't it made up on the testimony of one unreliable witness in a New York court room? Wasn't there motive for inventing 'al-qaeda' in trying to prosecute Osama bin Laden under RICO laws, for which some organisation needed to be invented? Or did I imagine that?

I think you need to be checking primary sources for this 'al-qaeda' and doing some checking of facts, 'inclined to believe' is fine if it is a religion, but history is not a religion.
CGI didn't scale because forking is literally part of the API. It was a good idea other than that.
What kind of diversity do you see them lacking?
So much is hiding behind the word "allow" in your last paragraph. On balance I think it's a good thing that elite purveyors of propaganda are losing their ability to brand their product as something other than what it is.
Because they didn't like it and it had a chilling effect on a lot of artistic careers.

And so many people feel about current views.

But in both cases, if you are a bog-ordinary conservative or libertarian, it's hard to remain self-consistent and argue that private property and private contract are sacrosanct except when you don't like the outcomes.
(a) Tough shit for them, then.

(b) If they're that dependent, it is highly questionable that they even own anything in the first place.
> conservative housing policies

Rent control is conservative now? All of SF policy is leftist and pro government intervention. I wonder why it fails...
I've got a general rule of not supporting propaganda. If I lived somewhere else I wouldn't want propaganda there either, but I don't, so...

I'd rather it not be in my own country, especially because we've built the tools that have allowed it and have the power to stop it.
It’s simple: Get it to 50/50 using affirmative measures, and then see if that ratio sticks.
This 'takeover' is imaginary. What happened was that people who were sick of libertarianism and techno-utopianism (in some cases because it wasn't the first time they'd seen those ideas wax in significance in the bay area) began to vocally push back and argue that many of the ideas of libertarianism and techno-utopianism are flawed. I suspect you'd also find a pretty close correlation between intensity of left-wing rhetoric and economic insecurity due to rising rents and other factors.
The WSJ has gotten very Murdoch-y lately, and continues to contradict their own reporting to push Trump talking points on the editorial page [1]. Nowadays I tend to view them with the same suspicion I'd view a Fox News link.

Also, there's a paywall.

[1] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/the-wall-street-jour...
I do think however that protein folding is very much understudied in the ML community, relative to say the big three of vision, NLP, and speech. The lack of standardized data sets and benchmarks, not to mention the need for domain knowledge, have made it difficult to get into the field
This is a horribly un-empathetic position to take that ignores most women's testimonials. Reading the accounts of women in tech who have been forced out would not lead me to believe that they just aren't that interested. They are systematically encouraged to get out, and do something else with their lives.

Being so skeptical of these opinions because they're in the minority, rather than evaluating their actual merit is horribly toxic.

Also this is just a damn job. You don't have to love it completely to want to do it. I sure as hell don't love programming wholeheartedly but I still do it as a career—I'm one of those folks who doesn't do side projects when they get off the clock.
The study doesn’t say anything about feminism being ingrained in those cultures.
> Last evening it became clear that the UWP system, previously believed to be uncrackable

Who believed this? No DRM is perfect and all DRM can be cracked.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16404025

Done here.
Sure, but a single-minded ambition towards product excellence at the expense of cultural excellence creates a company that acts unethically towards its employees and, likely, its consumers/surroundings as well (if it doesn't go out of business due to its cultural problems).

That's just as bad as rudderlessness, if not worse. The answer needn't be an extreme, and these discussions needn't consider business success as the sole axis of correctness--ethics should be considered as well, whether or not it has a monetary value.
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I've seen this story in a couple of places now. Why is it getting so much attention? Is it just because people are freaked out by it?
Well bloody hell I hope so! Finally something useful!
And somehow GPS is surprisingly stable along the I93 when it goes thorough The Big Dig. Thankfully - it’s a warren.

It might be dead reckoning working remarkably well I suppose.
This is how I see it.

This article presents a thoroughly well-researched scientific study, and presents it in an objective way.

You presented what sounds like an ideologically driven argument. It amounts to “I don’t like that the implications of this study are at odds with how I think the world should be.”

You flagged the article, which had made it to the top of HN, which means that this community wished to discuss it and/or found it valuable, thereby hiding it from view.

I find that reprehensible.
Wand – Try on any outfits you see online on a photo of yourself
Propaganda is a fact of life. It occurs at every level in every field. It is up to the individual to look at what is being said and determine for themselves what is relevant.

So what if a foreign government or foreign company or foreign group takes out advertisements or reveals "information" during any election or other event. Considering the "facts" that are "revealed" by opposing political sides during the pre-election period or during pre-legislative processes, there is no functional or ethical difference.

As one of your respondents pointed out with the question regarding "good for the goose, good for the gander", any group including governments cannot point the finger, if they themselves are actively involved in what they are decrying of others.

You appear to forget that national elections have effects that are extra-territorial, so those extra-territorial affected entities are going to act on their own behalf. The US regularly spreads propaganda during the elections of other sovereign nations, so if you don't want the reverse to happen it is up to you to stand up and fight against your own nation doing it to others.
MailChimp isn't a bad example.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/06/technology/mailchimp-and-...
I'm still waiting for someone to make a wayland compositor that compares to compiz. One super important feature I use every day is being able to invert a SINGLE window and not the entire screen.

For all the "omg it's slow" posts about compiz and x-server, it's fast enough to run on my netbook with a 5-watt processor.
Interesting. When I took high school math as a kid, there weren't many explanations, (and for some reason, I wasn't up for looking them up/figuring them out myself- weird, 'cause I totally was up for that sort of thing in some other classes) - just x^(a+b) = x^a * x^b and x^0=1 -- memorize these facts, with the emphasis on memorization rather than on the connection between those facts. Most of what I remember is a lot of guess and check and factorization; something I automated using the rom basic on my Tandy model 100. These were the mid '90s, and looking back with a less resistant mind, I think they really were trying to get us to develop a mathematical intuition, and that if I had read the math text book the way I read the history or English lit textbooks (they were full of stories!) I would have done just fine. But I still can't read math books the way I read literature, and I haven't figured out why yet. I know my first decade of reading, I skipped a lot, like if I didn't understand something, I moved on and filled out the blanks from what I did understand as best I could. (These days when I'm reading literature I get all excited when I see a word or phrase I don't understand, and I immediately stop and research. (the world is awesome for that today. Once I was blocked on my way home, waiting for a family of skunks to move off of the trail. I was introduced to rimbaud by miller, so I bought and downloaded a bunch of his stuff to my kindle. By the time I was done reading, it was dark and the skunks started to approach me, so I took off (without incident) but I wish I could do that with math, and I'm not quite sure why I cant. I mean, reading things I half understand, and halfway getting something out of it.)

the calculus explanation I heard from a friend that I was talking about this about was extrapolating from x^.5 x^.4, etc, etc, and as the exponent approaches 0 the answer approaches 1 for all non zero values of x - but this was maybe two years back and the friend in question was educated overseas, and I still am not educated enough to use calculus notation to write that down (or even really to understand if I understood him correctly.) so it could be garbled, or only tradition on the continent, or something like that.
Is nobody responsible for the content of ads? If nytimes.com started displaying NSFW ads for porn sites, or (hypothetically) grisly death videos chosen by a high bidder that just wants to watch the world burn, they would likely be penalized for running afoul of FCC regulations.

Or, let's say a domestic buyer purchases ads that engage in libelous allegations. There are legal channels with which to pursue retractions and damages from the buyer.

The difference now is that a foreign party is the party that would otherwise be held responsible. Not very effective to sue the ad buyer in this case. So shouldn't the media platform be responsible for either the content, or at least for knowing their customer?
Is Online Political Communication More Than an Echo Chamber?
In Norway in Bergen few buildings made from bricks during last 20 years got problems with fungus. Once it gets inside the wall, it is very difficult to get rid of it. Yet wooden houses built over 100 years ago are ok despite a lot of rain (up to 9 feet per year).
Gee if you buy into that narrative you might just like... Peter Thiel’s new media company!

You are vastly underplaying the amount of power an (unelected) man of Thiel’s wealth and political connections has to shape the direction of our democracy. He wants power, knows perfectly well what he wants to do with it, and cares very little what anyone has to say about it. The only, very limited recourse a citizen has are boycotts and petitions to reduce that power.
> the 'intolerant'

i.e. anyone who disagrees with us.
I respect your opinion. But when Hillary Clinton gives a speech rolling up "foreign propaganda", "fake news", and "silicon valley" all in one sentence, and following directly in the wake of the shooting at Comet Ping Pong (4 days later), you can be pretty sure that some serious connections are being formed. (Even if only in your own brain.)
Abstract: We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online communication resembles an “echo chamber” (as a result of selective exposure and ideological segregation) or a “national conversation.” We observed that information was exchanged primarily among individuals with similar ideological preferences in the case of political issues (e.g., 2012 presidential election, 2013 government shutdown) but not many other current events (e.g., 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, 2014 Super Bowl). Discussion of the Newtown shootings in 2012 reflected a dynamic process, beginning as a national conversation before transforming into a polarized exchange. With respect to both political and nonpolitical issues, liberals were more likely than conservatives to engage in cross-ideological dissemination; this is an important asymmetry with respect to the structure of communication that is consistent with psychological theory and research bearing on ideological differences in epistemic, existential, and relational motivation. Overall, we conclude that previous work may have overestimated the degree of ideological segregation in social-media usage.
Russia has been doing information warfare very effectively since the Czars, and this seems like one more place where they've outmaneuvered us. I've found it frustrating how little discussion and coverage of Russian activity addresses that they weren't just pushing Trump as a candidate or pro-Trump agenda issues, they were pushing issues that they knew were polarizing Americans, simultaneously "Clinton is Satan's Candidate" and "Black Lives Matter" (setting aside the difference in the stridency between simply organizing a fake Black Lives Matter protest vs. the more paranoid baiting of right-wingers, which in itself would be an interesting conversation). The narrative continues to be "Putin tried to help Trump get elected" (which isn't completely false) rather than "Putin shrewdly exploited America's polarized political atmosphere of closed identity affiliations to weaken our core institutions".
Absolutely. When you have more than one team in different locations and cultures working on stuff in parallel you end up specifying your contracts. Many ways to do so, but nothing as binding as a JSON/XML Schema including samples.
Precisely! Not what OP's political views are but I would guess if he found the Midwest "stifling" and SF "a breath of fresh air", it's because he's aligned with the politics in SF.

Having also lived in the mid-West and SF, I would agree the mid-West leans more conservative, but in any decent sized city you'll find both view points (election resulted confirm it).

I would say SF is just the opposite of a hardcore conservative town. There is almost no consideration for having a different viewpoint. And if you happen to express one, you're certainly made to feel their is something wrong with you.
Please don't be rude, even if someone's reply seemed nitpicky.
If it's so bad, why do your bosses insist on living/playing in San Francisco?

Why do they selfishly set up shop in this aweful city? Why do they expect their employees to pay exorbitant prices for housing?

Personally, I don't like cities. I always felt San Francisco was one of the better ones though. When I was younger, I felt it was boring though, for a big city.

San Francisco has some of the better unions. Before this current bubble bursts, I would suggest taking some of the exams. There will be a huge swath of tech workers who see first hand what homelessness feels like.

Wealth inequality is everywhere. I don't blame Progressives for that.
Cool, thanks. Now at least I have a way to refer to this phenomenon that I know very well.
I mean, even engineers don't think and act like that when it comes to politics. They don't think and act like that even when it is about technology, but they are already invested and really want to be or at least be seen as right.

Example 1: anyone who refuse new architecture or tech cause it is new (and that exists a lot outside startup world).

Example 2: anyone who jump into new tech even when it is irrational and not ready or simply not suitable for task at hand.

Example 3: all engineers who talk with utter conviction about history or art or political/social problem - after they spent like an evening on wikipedia and cherry picked whatever fit their pre-existing simple worldview.

All exists and are frequent.
I have seen this happen if I try to reply soon after a post appears, but I don't recall it happening in the nested thread that I linked to.
But this is about application or user specific config.

In my experience, those tend to be either json, yml or plain terminal args regardless of the fact that the language is typed or not.

Am I missing something?
You are in for a bad time then my friend as that has nothing to do with WeWork. You just described every professional services firm in the USA (CPAs, Lawyers, and Architects concord by my personal experience) and most likely the culture of most team oriented employers in the United States.

It also turns out that the reason is because that’s what most people do anyway. Remember college? Most people were out drinking to socialize. These companies are jus trying to mimic that but with their employees instead of a group of friends hoping it will case friendships and better team cohesion to form. Also because they had a tough week and want to get smashed in the company dime too.
That's the problem. Any dissenting political view is twisted to something intolerant and becomes verboten.
But in the end it boils down to "wishing for smarter people" or "wishing for more censorship", right? I know which wish I'd be wishing.
Alcohol = frat boys. Ok.

Back in reality it's a very, very common social lubricant, and is a pretty good... Add-on(?) to we-work that attracts people. Alcohol isn't expensive if brought through a distributor, but most people attach a high 'bar' price to it, so see it as an expensive freebie when really it's not.

Just because some people don't drink means we-work is bad? Also not sure if 'wine tasting' screams 'frat boy'....
You can support diversity of thought and still be against billionaires who shut down media outlets and make additional billions off government surveillance and pervasive tracking of individuals (read: minorities)
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I don't get it. I grew up in Silicon Valley and I work in tech, and so do many other people I know. They run the gamut from far-left socialists to libertarians to own a bunch of guns. They have all kinds of ethnic backgrounds and religious views.

Some of my most libertarian/pro-gun friends have not been shy about their political views and it hasn't hurt their tech careers at all. They are far more welcome here than liberals are in other parts of the country.

It seems to me, from personal experience, that the people who feel alienated are the ones who bring politics to work in an overbearing contrarian way, seeking to cause offense under the guise of "debate," and then pretend to be shocked when people don't want to put up with their shit. Work is for working; it's not a debating society, and especially not when the debating is done in bad faith.

Peter Thiel has been more politically vocal than most, and he is vocal about things he knows to be unpopular. He can't be surprised that people who disagree with him are also vocal. If he can't take the heat he should stay out of the kitchen.
I'm proof of that!
Lest we as an audience be overly flattered by the "engineer's mindset," it's probably best to remind ourselves that in the field of software there are plenty of discussions and divisions that are frequently litigated in a tribal, adversarial manner. And that's just inside the field. Software engineers don't exactly end up uniformly distributed politically either.

So either we don't apply the engineer's mindset all the time, or the engineer's mindset has limits itself when it comes to bringing consensus. I suspect it's both, but maybe particularly the latter: every problem human engineers care about includes human values at some level, and human values aren't equally weighted (or even shared at all) across humans.

The mindset required to work on that last problem might not be engineer's mindset or lawyer's mindset.
Hugs and kisses. If you don't mind.
You can still fire or give interesting projects to someone else for any other reason.

Nobody’s perfect, if you need a decent excuse you’ll find one.
Next Time You Play a Video Game, Ask Why You’re Enjoying It
Just people arguing in bad faith, I think.
Old saying

If you're young and you don't have left wing views, you have no heart.

If you're old and you still have left wing views, you have no brain.
It's also entirely unnecessary to guess at this.

We have voting records and financial contributions to campaigns. Both tell the same exact story. San Francisco is as far left as cities get in the US.

The mistake being made by the top level parent, is thinking that there was ever actually a wide-spread libertarian burst. There was not. That was nothing more than a media meme for a few minutes, mostly thanks to Andreessen, Thiel and a few others. SF overall has been extreme left for the last 40 years plus.

Marc Andreessen for one, has entirely disappeared from the public discussion politically. He's a particularly openly avowed libertarian type in terms of beliefs. There's a reason he shut down like he did, it's the same reason Thiel is being evicted from the inner circles of tech. There is no room for mistakes in the current police state of speech that exists in SV. One mistake, stepping out of line with dogma, and you're done. Andreessen wants to stay in Silicon Valley and wants to maintain his VC firm at the top tier, so he shut his mouth to put it simply. Thiel is unwilling to go along with the political & speech requirements of continuing to exist in SV.
How is this different from animals having both a microbiome and an immune system? I'm guessing you rely heavily on Popper's theories in the lab, so I think you really ought to give this one the time of day rather than dismissing it without actually making an argument for why you don't subscribe to it.
That isn’t simple at all if women do not want to get into STEM at the same ratio you are either forcing them to chose a career path they do not wish or more likely forcing men into other career paths both of which are destructive like any other the equality of outcome measure.

What complicates this even further is that there are more women in secondary education than man and the ratio is growing men are also considerably more likely to drop out of school than women.

Both men and women have much bigger problems than the so called STEM ratio problem which is also only apparent in engineering and computer science faculties and less so in other science and then pops up again in the PhD figures.