LeeHwang

Not surprised.

Scanning my own personal feed, it seems like everyone is successful and happy. It makes me depressed even though I know the feed is biased.

Population increases and declines are not evenly spread across the world. The migration crisis leading to the rise of global populism seems to be set to happen again.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-africa-ana...

Yes it's a pretty disturbing message that actually goes against the ACLU's opinion on free speech. Also it worries me I'm seeing more authoritarian traits in silicon valley elites.

Those who make peaceful protests impossible make violence inevitable.

Here is a link to the actual technical report,

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/e756

Which has all the hallmarks of misleading data.

See the comments for more http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/e756.com...

Except piercing ears is not a sex organ. This seems like an attempt to deflect from what circumcision actually is : genital mutilation. Genital mutilation is not okay for girls or boys.

The research you are trying to dismiss several times in this thread as "suits" was done by Parikh.

After reading your replies to myself and other users in this thread,You clearly have an issue with him, by the rather extreme lengths you've gone to discredit him in this thread.

I don't want to be part of your crusade against an ally of diversity.

I don't seem to understand why you refuse to take Jay Parikh at his word. He is a indian minority who stands for diversity, and yes he often works very closely with Sheryl for many years. Jay Parikh is not a suit or corporate hr person at all. http://www.today.com/popculture/sheryl-sandberg-speaks-new-g...

Facebook hasn't released any of their data. They have said normalized for experience, the gender bias goes away. So I can't agree with you based on the WSJ article.

Also I personally have a hard time believing a company with Sheryl Sandberg as it's COO would lie about their conclusions. She is a strong positive force for increasing women in tech.

Its unclear to me as well. I've been hearing speech can be violence from my younger coworkers.

Basically a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14247221

The Verge is using the WSJ as the source.

That article has been thoroughly disproven on multiple sites, multiple times.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-exci...

Its not unreasonable. I really hope scientific authorities start realizing there is erosion of trust and they need to take extreme steps to fix it.

While I started watching the show and like it, I don't really think its timely or realistic for the united states at least. The only timely comparisons I see are in the middle east currently.

I find myself leaning towards McArdle's article here. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-25/no-the-ha...

A pretty good discussion here, that gave me food for thought. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14227241

Wow can't say I expected this under President Trump, It's something I thought Obama would do.

Yea. I have the same concerns.

If this tech evolves, I'm really worried about brain harvesting or trafficking, we already have increasingly desperate people turning to organ trafficking, and human smuggling is tied to organ harvesting.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-traff... https://www.decodedscience.org/organ-harvesting-human-traffi...

I only buy technical/developer e-books, and read them on my computer, or open them for a quick sanity check on a concept at work. I can take them everywhere rather than carrying 40 lbs of reference material.

However when it comes to pleasure reading, I usually like to buy a physical copy.

I hear from my full stack web developer friends. They get new job opps at least once per week and thats on the east coast.

Why? If they are already writing the curriculum,lectures labs/homework and Professors are justing using that material and forcing kids to pay for it.

Why don't we just cut out the extremely expensive middlemen, universities and professors ?

Wow, It seems like we already have the technology ready to go to create fast track online programs.

Why don't we just allow Pearson to bypass universities altogether and award degrees for cheaper than the 40,000 current universities cost.

In light of this new politico article: The media bubble is real. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/25/media-bubb...

I think this is a bad idea. Fake news is already a loaded term combined with the media bubble it will just make things exponentially worse.

We need to deal with the media bubble bias first, to restore faith in real news.

If he's not running for office, maybe it's to prevent a huge public backlash to facebook ?

There is increasing unrest and resentment towards the very rich including silicon valley ceos in america.

I think it is dangerous as well. Alphabet has shown to more interested in political power than principles.

From Eric directly being involved in the clinton campaign. https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-... http://www.googletransparencyproject.org/articles/googles-su...

And now google donating money to Trump. http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/21/google-donated-285000-to-t...

Plus we know the amount of pressure PRISM and the other intelligence agencies can put on Silicon Valley companies.

Its impossible now. Wikileaks showed the the cia goes into incredible detail to frame other countries.

https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-dump-gives-russi... http://thehackernews.com/2017/03/cia-marble-framework.html

I also bet that other countries do the exact same thing, probably even more likely considering the "marble project" source code is leaked.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4427452/CIA-launches... Also it looks like a hunt for the internal leaker has begun.

Whatever the source, We do still have to deal with the content of the leaks.

The content is what we need to take a very close look at begin to increase and harden our security. Especially senior developers and software architects.

Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes should be a huge indictment of Tech Journalism as well. Many critics were right about her, but smeared as misogynists. I know I bought the hype, and called some friends sexists.

At least the Wall Street Journal is still doing investigative journalism, who knows what a nightmare situation Theranos would have caused it they didn't get caught.

I hope someone there is doing some investigation on Uber and Lyft as well.

Good point, but scientific papers can have larger ramifications in social policy,funding allocation(billions of tax dollars), even daily public life (food guidelines).

It's also far more important for science to keep its hands clean because fair or not its public relations is important. In our high technological society, we cannot allow people to lose faith in the scientific process, It would be a global disaster.

Yea. It might even be happening in the us. I still can't believe this slate article that says Millenials want more traditional gender roles.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2017/03/31/millennials_...

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14164600

I used to think that especially in the arts.

I don't anymore, I've added links in the bottom. Even if the tech is half as good as I wish it was. It means less people can do the work of tons of people with computer aid. Essentially I don't think it will lead to lots of people getting work like the last industrialization did in terms of factories.

https://www.instapainting.com/ai-painter

https://deepart.io/

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/after-20-minutes-...

http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10805398/friends-neural-ne...

Am I the only who likes Ubuntu's latest decisions ?

It seems like they are refocusing their efforts on their core, rather than being stretched.

I caught that as well. It really gives the fake news meme a horrific twist.

Especially in the light of the all the warmongering in the mainstream papers. https://theintercept.com/2017/04/07/the-spoils-of-war-trump-...

Yet everyone I know on the right and left is anti-war. The alt-right of all people even had a huge protest in DC.

Its beginning to feel like Iraq WMD's again. Sad times.