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Microsoft | Principal Engineering Manager | Redmond, WA | Fulltime | Onsite

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/671627/Principal-Eng...

Microsoft understands the complexity of work management and is committed to providing software and services that help our customers manage through all of that complexity. Project and Planner are key to our company’s long-term work management strategy and our engineering team delivers a range of customer-ready apps and services at scale while working to ensure we deliver a coherent task experience spanning all of Microsoft software and service endpoints (Dynamics, ToDo, Teams etc).

Responsibilities
The Project and Planner team, part of the Office organization, is seeking to hire an Engineering Manager to lead the team responsible for our core Project Scheduling Engine and the Windows Project client. As a leader of this team:

You will manage a team of experienced engineers as part of larger Work Management investments.
You will be responsible for delivering a highly reliable, secure and performant scheduling component underpinning Microsoft’s Project Management Cloud services.
You will also own all aspects of engineering and shipping our Windows Project Client application in partnership with the larger Office engineering team.
You will be part of a standalone business where engineering work is tightly bound to our business and growth priorities and objectives.
You will use customer feedback to drive improvement and innovation in our products and ensure that customers are succeeding with our software and services.

Qualifications
Applications should have 2+ years of experience managing a software engineering team as well as a passion for C++, for solving complex problems and for delivering quality results.

Basic Qualifications:

A Master’s degree (or a Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of work experience equivalent) in computer science or a related field.
7+ years of experience with coding in C and C++
7+ years of experience creating, shipping and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
Druid and OrbTk have definitely caught my attention. The challenge for me is that while I have relatively simple needs for now (buttons, text, table widgets), I would like to do things not represented by the examples. With the (understandable) paucity of documentation it's difficult to be productive.

My current challenge is to swap out different top-level views as I navigate to different parts of the app. This may may be something best suited to something like Cursive.rs, but I'm still holding out hope that the GUI toolkits will mature at a reasonable clip.

It's really quite refreshing to see something more portable and lightweight than Electron gain traction. So far the only major detractor I've seen is that the project uses Zulip for chat/messaging and it's put behind a registration wall.
Lots of errors, not lots of eyes. This error brought to you by my failure to successfully use well-above-average software written by Googlers.
The real reason for restraining the government from restricting speech is the hope that people use the soap box, and the ballot box, instead of the bullet box to make the changes they want to see in the world.

The monopoly on violence does not necessarily have much to do with this.
I know several people who lurk and post on /pol/, and it is an ethnically diverse group from my perspective. I've heard this sentiment echoed by others.

Of course, if you live in a very white place, you probably can't tell either way, even if you know a lot of channers.

Maybe there are a lot of unironic black and native-mixed neo-nazis, but I'm not so sure myself.
Mostly it's hard to get from "here's a protein" to "here's a drug for that protein" for a variety of reasons.

1.) It's hard to know whether the candidate drug will bind. This is because while the physical principles are somewhat understood, they're way hard to compute and there are a lot of things that still need to be empirically determined. For example, if you have a protein structure, that's a single snapshot in a highly unusual environment for that protein (either a solid crystal or some form of NMR solution). It is often accurate, but a protein in a cell is always in thermal flux, getting knocked around by other proteins, and "breathes" so your structure may not reflect important biology. This also assumes you have a structure to go off of, but you don't always.

Models and computation are making progress in this particular area, but it's still nowhere near plug and play.

2.) Even if you have a drug that binds the protein of interest, it might be toxic, might bind to other things as well, might not last very long in the bloodstream, might not even get to the bloodstream in the first place if you take it orally. Tons of things can go wrong.

This area is still quite difficult for computation because the datasets aren't great and it's hard to get enough data to make progress.

3.) Assuming you have 1 and 2 covered, it's possible your protein is bad. Maybe it's not actually as important to the disease in practice and you don't actually alter patient outcomes.

For these reasons, in-silico drug discovery is still unreliable.

I'm working on a project that would try to address these shortcomings by taking a hybrid experimental-computational approach. Hopefully it works out :)
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LPL is an amazing lock picker, anyone with this level of skill is much better off working as a locksmith or a security consultant.

Most B&E’s aren’t exactly executed by master thieves they aren’t single pin picking your locks.

When selecting a door lock or a pad lock you should care only that it can be raked or bypassed, for bike locks you should also care that it can’t be easily cut.

For the most part your door is likely going to be the weakest link as most people don’t have reinforced doors and door frames.
Are you going to be saying the same thing when Elisabeth Warren's or Bernie Sander's webites/ads/donations methods get taken off the internet because big corporations don't like that they want to raise taxes?

The purpose of the canary in the coal mine is not to protect the canary. It is to protect the miner from the encroaching danger.
In your opinion why are behaviors that reduce competition bad? If the answer is it harms consumers... Amazon isn't hurting consumers so you should be okay with it?

Amazon got this big because no one wanted to be as customer obsessed as Amazon. Not because they stifled competition.
Only if you completely ignore the mortgage itself. The mortgage puts you into effectively negative liquidity as you have to meet the liability using liquid assets. By paying it off and gaining a home you can sell you've increased your liquidity relative to the mortgage but not relative to raw cash.

But as I said above raw cash (or near-cash) is even more conservative than mortgage repayments.

> Also, there is no reason to assume home values in general protect against inflation better than savings accounts or other "safe" investments".

History gives us a good reason to believe that. Cash depreciates. Homes on average appreciate.
- we generally give an average salary to expect depending on your skill level/ experience level, so both the candidate and employer going in with a similar expectation.

-at this time we don't offer health insurance but some of our companies still do during the 'trial phase'. It's something worth thinking about for the future though, thanks!
> private companies to essentially completely ban individuals from exercising their free speech on the internet.

"Free speech on the internet" is not something found in law.

> The canary in the coalmine was The Daily Stormer

Because The Daily Stormer was just a site to share ideas, right?

> The Daily Stormer, which has established 31 physical chapters in the United States and more in Canada

> Some of its readers do more than issue threats. Dylann Roof, who massacred nine African Americans in Charleston in 2015, posted on the site. Thomas Mair, the neo-Nazi assassin who last year killed Jo Cox, a British member of Parliament, was a regular reader. And just last month, another Daily Stormer reader, James Jackson, was charged with murder and terrorism after carrying out a plan to go to New York City to kill a black man at random.

How ever will the Nazis share their hateful and violent ideas without the private internet companies? Oh no, the poor racists!

> One message included an image of Gersh being sprayed with a green gas, along with the words: Hickory dickory dock, the kike ran up the clock. The clock struck three and the Internet Nazis trolls gassed the rest of them.

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2017/04/18/splc-sues-neo-nazi...
These kinds of stories have been popping up on HN with seemingly increasingly frequency over the last couple years, e.g.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19445827

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16916145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20585391

Long story short: most scientific disciplines are in crisis in part because of pervasive p-value hacking, and other statistics abuses likely motivated by perverse academic/personal incentives and/or biases.
Is it relevant who someone is if they break rules? Being 14 shouldn't exempt someone from the consequences of "violating hate speech guidelines".
The question is "who do you want to be your consumers" here. Both choices are PR choices. Legally, you're allowed to do either ("neutral platform" and "moderated discourse forum" are both things that are legally allowed to exist in the US at least).

If you want to appease the free speech crowd, you let the anti-vaxers stay (Gratz, you're running a Chan!) If you want to appease the intelligent discourse crowd, you ban/moderate people who violate your TOS (Gratz, you're running something closer to Hacker News!)
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> On August 8, 2014, dozens of FBI agents raided Hale’s house with guns drawn and searched his computer and flash drives. This all happened during the Obama administration, which declined to file charges. Five years later, Trump’s Justice Department revived the case.

The article fails to point out that it was the Obama administration that really turned up the heat on whistleblowers:

https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/10...

I suspect that at the time many Obama supporters simply didn't care. Their guy was in charge and that was that.

Short-sighted to be sure.

Far too few considered the possibility that the opposition was watching and learning what new things might be possible.
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The whole point of bringing 8chan down is to make it harder for them to congregate and fracture their community. It also makes it harder for new people to be indoctrinated.

Reddit found that banning hate subreddits reduced the overall usage of hate speech on the website. Even though the most dedicated users probably moved to voat, now some clueless kid who just wants to see look at memes is much less likely to just stumble upon that content.
>They are private enterprises which are free to act in however they want with regards to the service they provide as laid out in their contract.

Are they also free to only do business with people of certain races? The "private enterprises" line lost its punch about 50 years ago.
> but if we take a step back this doesn't seem wholly different from blaming violent video games for glamorizing gun violence or blaming rap music for gang culture.

One big difference is that generally video games don't claim that mexicans are trying in invade USA right now. They are violent, but they are not trying to convince you to take gun and kill real people. Unlike members of community we talk about right now, that have that political Goal and executed that political goal.

It is difference between Der Stürmer and Sherlock Holmes crime story. One of them claims to contain real stories. One of them is going out of its way to convince people to be violent while the other is going out of its way to be fun.

> There's a reason that most people, including racists/bigots/etc. don't go on shooting sprees or run people over with cars.

Yes. Most racists/bigots believe in own superiority, but do not actually believe Latinos are mortal threat that requires immediate action. You may believe they are dumber without perceiving them as acute threat or being so afraid.

That has to do with them not living exclusively in extremist bubble, but instead consuming different media.

And even those who do are in fact afraid to throw away their lives completely just like that.
> He claimed it was art and he was only expressing himself and not attempting to threaten or intimidate the individuals/groups in question, even though he was aware they would likely interpret it as threats. This is really a million times more threatening that some vague expression against an ethnicity. The supreme court ruled 8-1 in his favor. The US Supreme Court is extremely supportive of free speech, including the most detestable.

In this context it was not indeed a standalone statement.

from the wikipedia page indeed his statements are quite general and in a sense artistic. He did not argue for killing his ex-wife, there is no reading where he could encourage others to kill his ex-wife.

He really had a wish for it and was talking about it.

From what is reported in the wikipedia article even something like "I think it is a good idea to kill my ex-wife" would have been too much.
It's hard to discuss ideas that rely on words such as 'reprehensible'.

Freedom of speech is not some ideal in isolation. We don't have freedom of food and shelter. Without food and shelter, you die. If receiving food and shelter requires you to censor your speech, you don't have freedom of speech.

Almost nobody has freedom of speech, and it's not at all clear why anyone'd want it anyway. I honestly am not interested in most things people say - I want the freedom to be away from people's speech, if anything.

Freedom of speech seems to be some ideological distraction in American society - when in reality everyone's interested in freedom of food, shelter and being away from most other people's ability to influence their lives.
It's particularly interesting crossing the border from Germany to the Netherlands and seeing how the internet speed can increase so much after riding 20km.
> 100% of the CDN providers in the entire world

At best, it seems inconsistent that we are okay with other CDN providers not doing moral and ethical things. (Since we are okay with the speech being hosted elsewhere).
The 14 year olds with popular YouTube channels are several standard deviations away from anybody you have ever met, simply because the number of teenagers striving for internet popularity dwarfs the number that anyone has met personally.
Taxes can be just as high in the US, but without the services. Top rate for California is 50.3% (37% federal + 13.3% state), and New York City is 49.7% (37% fed, 8.82% state 3.876% city)

The US government actually spends more per capita on healthcare($4,197/person/year) than most countries with free excellent healthcare (Switzerland $4178/pp/y, Canada $3074/pp/y, UK $2802/pp/y). Netherlands govt spends barely more than the US govt at $4495/pp/y.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-spends-public-money-hea...
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That typically people who identify as conservative often take positions that are at odds with things that should be accepted as objective fact.

Saying "the Earth is getting warmer on average every year" should not be a political statement. But here we are, where you have one group of people who have a vested interest in denying that fact. To profess the fact that our planet is warming and that it is an issue is to implicitly identify yourself as a "liberal".

Black people are disproportionately punished by the legal system for the exact same crimes committed by people of other skin colors. There's actual data showing this. But to bring this up gets you labeled as a "liberal".

To remark that police treat white people who are known to be criminals better than black people who aren't even engaged in suspicious behavior is easily documented. Mention this and you will be called a liberal.

And denying this does no favors to liberals or conservatives. Because even the batshit insane liberals get to trout out that line about "truth having a liberal bias". Because, for the most part, it's not wrong. But conservatives get to mock the statement by using it against the most radical of ideas that are generally seen as "liberal".

But what are we gonna do? If hard facts and reliable information could actually change minds, we wouldn't have Trump as President. You wouldn't have his legions of followers denying that he's doing the very things he is doing. I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, Trump is not only unfit for the office, he's a criminal. The Republican party should be ashamed that he's representing them in the Executive branch.

But they're not.
Well obviously the media got involved - Youtube's track record of responding to content reports is pretty much non-existent, the only time they take meaningful action is when the media draws attention to it.
I’m curious how you reconcile the admission that you work at a place with bigoted witch hunts with the claim that you’ve never experienced any toxicity. What is your position on the war with Eastasia?
Hmm, yes, you're right. Thanks for the example. Perhaps further arguments could be made about what constitutes peace among individuals and what infringes on those definitions.

I believe we see scenarios today in which one's definition of peace infringes on another's.
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12-20 years ago, one of my largest life goals was to work for Google. (It's not anymore. I found other fun and rewarding jobs.)

I don't get why the Google management team allowed their team to get so... well, violently politicized.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but.. keeping politics out of the workplace worked very well for a very long time.
Deeply disingenuous, please stop this intentional misunderstanding of other peoples' posts; you're basically spamming at this point.
REPL != Syslog TCP. They're different things. It's not TCP that was the issue but the implementation of syslog on top.
Shallow statistics are never going to replace empathy* when it comes to sound policy making.

That study does show that banning content within a forum means that you will get less of that content on that forum. A useful but not entirely surprising result. As a Reddit user, I'm glad that the site has less of such content.

It does not prove that censorship reduces "radicalization" (whatever that is). As the study says, many of those users just moved their content to Voat.

*By which I mean cognitive empathy: the capacity to infer the motivational states of other people and anticipate their actions.
No, it literally makes no sense because you start off with premises that have no correspondence to any sane reality.

There are no "lgbt fanatics". That's not even a concept. I have been around LGBT circles my entire life and the most of extreme forms of advocacy of... anything there, are quite literally incomparable to real, actual extremists. So you're not really off to a good start as far as reasonably informed opinions.

You talk about "a man feeling like a girl", in which you're literally ignoring multiple lifetimes of study of the psychology and clinical evidence, by _very_ qualified experts in the topics who have studied thousands of cases. Again, if you're going to ignore expert advice and call the shots on whatever this isn't exactly helpful.

You continue by claiming that "Anyone thinking these shootings are due to 8chan is a fool, plain and simple". See, again, you ignore strong evidence on the history of deplatforming, going way back to right after WWII.

In what world do you expect to have "reasonable debate" if you spout garbage about subjects that you don't even know where the expert consensus is?
Regional nets should be regional politics. Just like for national infrastructure, the best thing for a city to do is probably to invest in subsidizing fiber and then have companies compete providing the service. Having providers dig their own cables and then get a monopoly in them is pretty bad in comparison.
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0.0% it's just her. It's too clever and referential to adult themes to be a kid.
About developing new pharmaceuticals: apparently something that works well with mice might or might not eventually work with humans, and it's a slow and costly process to notice this only at the end of phase III clinical trials.

If someone comes up with a way to do hyper-accurate and fast in silico testing of human physiology, the duration of the clinical research would be dramatically shortened from the 10-15 years it takes nowadays.

If this ever happens, the valuation of biotech companies creating pharmaceuticals will explode onto absurd levels (like internet companies did during the "IT bubble").
Which is still pretty bad...
Hardware is the new frontier of open source, I'd like to see schematics/PCB versioning on GitHub, with diff viewer and stuff.
They need to be put to shame. By every body.
> So if science and logic one day makes a good case for you to be intolerant you will then leave the tolerant side and become intolerant?

Yes. And since there is no reason or logic behind intolerance, I'm not seeing that as a risky bet of any sort.

And you're right, I don't have consideration for this topic because there is no topic as far as I'm concerned. I used to be on the right, and I used to hold all kinds of cognitive dissonances in my head at once to explain the belief system therein. And yes, it made total sense to me at the time, but with the benefit of hindsight and a lot of experience in life, I can say with complete confidence that I was 100% full of shit, indoctrinated into a moral system that has no basis in any kind of rational thought, that is largely based on fear and maintaining a status quo under which I benefitted greatly.

There is no reason behind intolerance. There is bigotry, fear, oftentimes disgust, and occasionally just good old fashioned hate. But there is no reason, no logic, and certainly no science.
> "You have the right to speak freely as long as you can't effectively do it"

That's a pretty gross misrepresentation of what I said. Think of it another way. Prior to the internet could TV and radio stations be forced to play an ad they disagree with? Could newspapers and magazines be forced to print ads or op-eds they disagree with?

You cannot force someone else to carry your message. If you are unable to broadcast the message yourself and nobody else is willing to broadcast it for you then that is your own issue. No private entity is responsible for giving you a platform.