skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free speech is such a pretty principal when you can always foist its costs on other people. You can keep your marketplace.

I'm going to be emphatic, because i am emphatic about this position:

Free speech is a powerful principle because speech has power. Because speech can hurt people, because speech can change the world. If speech did not matter, free speech would not matter.

If speech matters, and speech has power, then its effects must be considered. To do anything less is irrational. The idea that rejecting Yarvin's ideas so emphatically that we would deny him platform would lead to unjust suppression of speech is a fallacy. It is a slippery slope. So many people who strive to be rational individuals and avoid cognitive biases, and yet balk at treating speech for what it is instead of a sacred object that should be worshipped.

By saying Yarvin should be allowed to speak, you are merely saying that protecting his speech is more important than the emotional and professional cost it exacts on the people he targets. And yes, he targets people. Through all his extremely verbose, meandering writings, a clear thread of contempt for certain others' runs.

"The relationship of master and slave is a natural human relationship: that of patron and client." - Curtis Yarvin

You can react to speech the way you want. But you're not taking any moral high ground with your approach when you explicitly deny the impact of speech on others and how they react to it. Association is a form of speech. Petitioning others to stand with you is a form of speech. Protecting Yarvin's speech on the grounds of principle, which is rejecting others' speech out of hand in contradiction of the same principles is inconsistent. All speech has consequences, and there is no neutral advocacy of "free speech" because truly free speech is a realm of conflict and inconsistency.
That's sort of the question of whether conferences are training and professional development, or thinly veiled junkets...
"But consider the following: I am a pro-choice atheist. When I lived in Ireland, one of my friends was a pro-life Christian. I thought she was responsible for the unnecessary suffering of millions of women. She thought I was responsible for killing millions of babies. And yet she invited me over to her house for dinner without poisoning the food. And I ate it, and thanked her, and sent her a nice card, without smashing all her china.

Please try not to be insufficiently surprised by this. Every time a Republican and a Democrat break bread together with good will, it is a miracle. It is an equilibrium as beneficial as civilization or liberalism, which developed in the total absence of any central enforcing authority." - http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-co...
Myself and each of my parents have a microserver with 8TB of storage. We have ~2TB after compression of family stuff that is duplicated across all three. They think it is 6 TB so I use the spare space to duplicate each of our private areas.

As they are both techy (photographer and electronic engineer) we will all upgrade in a few years.

This is a relatively unique solution (triplicate and completely owned in house) that has drawbacks (effort and electricity costs).
IANAL, but I don't think they are allowed to make it known if they learned it as part of an attorney-client privileged conversation.
Listening to a technical talk at a technical conference qualifies as drinking beer and breaking bread? I dunno about that.

I've always felt that professional adults should be able to work with people who think different things that them. If you work in an office with 50+ people I guarantee you have coworkers who think horrible terrible things that you passionately disagree with. But that's ok. Because we're all professionals and those naughty thoughts aren't relevant and aren't brought up.
Actually, it is. We're currently running simple personalization campaign with two versions of landing pages which has different design, messaging, etc.
Quoting from a Lobste.rs post [1] on the other side of this issue:

> Here’s a different approach, which explains this quite reasonably: LambdaConf made a lot of effort to contact organisations involving PoC, introducing diversity scholarships etc. to gain some fame. Then, suddenly, out of the blue, they decide to run a person which is clearly incompatible. These organisations cut their ties and oppose the project they supported. It’s all very unsurprising. You can’t shout “everyone is equal, please spread!” and then invite someone on the speakers list who wrote hundreds of thousands of words how he thinks people are fundamentally unequal by disposition and some should be slaves.

> I’d be far less aggravated if LambdaConf had just been a run-of-the-mill conference, but it tried to be the diverse conference in FP. Now it shows that they actually meant “libertarian”. Appropriating terms like “inclusive” or “diverse” for that is just a recipe for disaster...

> LambdaConf chose to be a temporary, short space where anything goes unless it’s not physically violent. What they communicated was something different though. And that difference is biting them now, making sponsors jump off and people protest.

In sum: people are upset because they feel used - that LambdaConf made one set of promises and advertised in a specific way to gain fame, then flipped on those values afterward.

[1] https://lobste.rs/s/dibl7y/why_we_re_sponsoring_lambdaconf_2...
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Fleetwood Mac: A Study of Group Dynamics
> Free speech advocates have gathered on one side, advocates for social justice on the other

wtf

Those two are supposed to be the same side. There's some really perverse twisting of words here to put social justice in opposition to free speech. How has the debate come to this?
Well, what do you want for free?

"ad-supported"
I'm somewhat hesitant to post this link since it's a bit self-promotional, but I wrote up my thinking about what makes good product copy: http://sonyaellenmann.com/2016/03/how-to-describe-your-produ...
Wait, 14 hits? What does that mean? Views on your video?
My foodie friends call that a `guitar'.
Technology Boom Allows the Wizards of Silicon Valley Unusual Freedom
This is odd, given the recent news that Apple and Google just struck a rather large deal to move iCloud onto Google Cloud[1].

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-stra...
thanks. will definitely check out the conference.
> I'm not obligated to drink beer and break bread with them

Degoes is not making an argument that you are obligated to attend.
Except you don't enter a plea for an action, you enter a plea for a criminal charge. A murderer can confess a crime to his lawyer (under privilege), and still honestly plead not-guilty to first-degree murder (for example, it could be considered manslaughter).
This is my favourite of all the answers, because it would mean that the dev would have known how incompetent s/he was, and thus made a weak system in order to account for the likelihood of a "self-inflicted wound".
>I have been looking for a different answer than the usual 'yeah life is meaningless, which is why you make the most of it'.

That's a bit confused. Normally, you make the most of life because it's entirely real and entirely meaningful.
It is well known how to represent arbitrary-precision decimal numbers in a computer, so I don't get your point about precision of counting. Furthermore, the fact that the simulating computer stores the state of our atoms in some kind of floating point doesn't mean that when we think about the concept of numbers, we are limited to floating point. The abstraction capability of the human mind means that we can think about numbers that are larger, or more precise, than any physical magnitude in the universe. It is easy to write a number way larger than the number of elementary particles in the universe, and we don't make the universe overflow when we do that.

In fact, we know that there are limits in our world to how small a physical magnitude can be - Planck's time, Planck's length, etc. This seems quite coherent with a computer with finite memory simulating our world.

If the guys creating the simulation have enough resources and skill (superhuman beings from an external universe wouldn't necessarily make bugs when coding) I don't see why we would notice any glitch. Even more so when the part of the universe that we perceive is relatively tiny, and anyway the set of things that we can and cannot notice may be determined by the program itself.
What's happened to Japan's car culture?
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I suppose it makes me immature but whenever I hear anything about this language I'm distracted by the name.
The new Ford, a Silicon Valley software company
I would try and get both "supertitles" and "captions" in your promo copy. As someone who used to organize supertitles for Opera and captioned performances for hearing impaired patrons, those are the words I expect to see and search for.
I respectfully note that their conclusion is the opposite: that you can separate the person from the talk. That an informative talk well spoken by an asshole is still informative. And, well, the speaker may still be a jerk. But the conference wants to have an air of professionalism, and therefore you should go to be informed, not as a vote in a popularity contest of any kind.

They also seem to have a strong intolerance of the practice of assholery. So should anyone overstep, it sure seems like retribution will be swift. So if people behave, then there should be no worry: people are expected to behave. And if anyone bullies - in any way - expect moderation with extreme predjudice (that is a great phrase in English).

There may be many closet assholes out there, but we don't bar them, since we expect people to behave by default. Expect the best of people and prepare to be temporarily impressed or disappointed.
I've taken up painting in the past few months - digging into art history some and aesthetics, as I try to understand the nature of the thing I have undertaken. It really causes me to reflect on the intertwingling of art and culture; the mentalities that produce an imaginative image and the image giving seeds to the mind.

Perhaps, these are simply images that reflect on the artist's view of what the buying society would appreciate; and thus we can infer a variety of things about the buying society.
No. I am claiming we are the first to use a human readable ID in a URL, integrated with the DNS
...if only the reality of Cuba was as positive as so many bloggers think it is.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cuban-agents-brutalize-democracy-...
We have IOS, Android and web apps. We have group chat. Auto-Responders 6-8 weeks away
Cool post! One little tidbit to this:

> Now just to warn you: regular expressions in programming were once based on this automata theory, but have since been made much more powerful. Regex can describe much more than just regular languages.

Rust's `regex` crate is actually limited to regular languages. In particular, it uses both NFAs and DFAs to do matching in linear time!

I look forward to seeing more automata work done in Rust. :-)
Hmm I believe you but it just seems low for how much it does right?
oh man i don't even need to click, i know its big clive! i spent all of saturday watching his videos holy shit there are some dangerous products on the market!
Here is the comment linking to the talk I mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448482
A speaker-blind selection process selected a talk by someone who is considered by some to be offensive for reasons not directly relevant to the content of the talk.
Link is down. I assume it's about https://github.com/paulcuth/starlight

I'm not sure what the current progress is like. Other projects to get lua in the browser:

* moonshine.js - same author as the OP

* lua.vm.js - emscripten based (I maintain this one; I'd like to think of it's API as the "gold standard" for lua on the web. however it has issues around leaking references to the JS VM (to be solved when javascript gets WeakRef))

* brozula - abandoned
The things you can experience and learn about people while on ecstasy and LSD don't even compare to meditation. Meditation is about silence in your mind and removing thoughts. The most profound effects I've seen from LSD and ecstasy come from when people interact with each other. They feel a sense of bond that is nearly impossible sober. People are free to express things with each other on these drugs and the mental barriers are removed which creates that strong connection.

There is another element that happens at festivals where there is the feeling of not following the rules. Not just to break the rules, but you are free to do whatever you want and no one will judge you. This reenforces that connection feeling by just talking to people while you are high and feeling no judgmentalism, which is near impossible in normal life.

Further I feel like meditation has reached a state of popularity and like it is what you are supposed to do which makes it lose some of it's essence for some people. Anything that's done because others are doing it can cause this feeling. The fact that I see kids age 5-15 meditating makes me think this because there's very little chance all those kids have the problems and mental state where meditation will be a huge help. It's more of something they should be doing which takes away from what meditation is really for.
I was referring to the physical changes in the brain, which I guess could translate into noticeable behavioral change. I wish meditation was a "take this once" pill, but from my experience as well, when I slack on my practice I notice myself falling back to my original baseline, but maybe a bit higher than when I started.

Anyways, if a meditative practice seems to bring fleeting results, I'm sure you can imagine how much quicker the psychological breakthroughs on psychedelics can dissipate.
This is an open letter of people protesting LambdaConf's decision: https://statement-on-lambdaconf.github.io/

I invite anyone to peruse that list and tell me these aren't some of the brightest professionals and integral community members in functional programming (subtracting me of course). I welcome anyone to make the claim that these individuals haven't come to their positions through reason and deep consideration for the ramifications of how this issue is resolved.
In AWS, if anything, it's the other way around. Devs always run their own services at first, and ops teams start helping out once the service reaches some kind of scale where a dedicated ops team makes sense. (source: I work for AWS)
That quote is used in one of 2015's top electronic songs: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17515-dj-koze-xtc/
[q]In this case it means giving a voice to a racist advocate of slavery.[/q]

This is possibly disingenuous, and at least overly rhetorical.

They are not "giving him a voice" to talk about anything related to anything racist, and I'm sure if he used his slot to talk about anything racist, he would get perma-banned from the conference.

It is hard to say more than this without just repeating things said in the conference's statement. The idea is that a professional society ought to be able to cohere even when the members of that society disagree on matters outside the subject at hand. It seems like a good idea.
how about "Letz"..sounds like let's but is not.
Glad I could do that. I wrote it in a pretty down state, so it pretty much wrote itself albeit the imperfect language and structure.
Bernanke: What tools does the Fed have left? Helicopter money
is this a superset of features that integrates with docker compose?
You're making a lot of assumptions about me. Just like everyone else in the world, people have said things that have hurt me, too. But I can recognize that the temporary emotional injury I experience is not a good reason to overturn the entire foundation of liberal society. Free speech is a pretty principle because if, god forbid, the tables were ever turned, I would enjoy its protections as much as Curtis Yarvin does now. It has nothing to do with whether he is wrong and I am right, or whether the things he believes have any special power to injure me.

Inclusivity, egalitarianism, and protecting the views of the minority are in direct contradiction to Curtis Yarvin's thought. So ironically, Curtis Yarvin's mere presence at such a conference would be a direct contradiction of his views. In other words, they're arguing against him by inviting him.
What? My life exclusively consists of getting off work on Friday night to drink beer at some tailgate / bonfire out at the county line and finding some girl in Levis and a ballcap to jump in my truck and taaake it slooow on some back road... something something fill your cup with ice-cold beer, look into her baby blue eyes, etc.

Country is at a nadir right now, and I'm seeing a lot of parallels to mid-2000s rap. I hope that it experiences a similar revival, because I really do like a lot of older country music. These days, I've been listening a lot more to folk music to get the thoughtful lyrics, and it's sad that it's going further and further underground.
"Free will" is almost certainly an illusion as well.

This has been proven in many different ways over the past 50 years.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5975778/scientific-evidence-that-you-...
You can still run those through a bed-of-nails tester to verify insulation, continuity, and pinout.
My mother asked me around 15 years of age if I "believed in dinosaurs"
I don't recall this kind of brouhaha affecting more "academic" conferences, e.g. ISCA or Supercomputing, but I can't come up with a decent reason why that might be the case. Did the LambdaConf organizers just get unlucky?
>There's no such thing as "not becoming political".

I'm always suspicious of this statement. It's always made by those with the skills and disposition to achieve power in political situations.
Not sure if HN knows about Mehdi Sadaghdar's (aka ElectroBOOM's) YouTube channel, which is somewhat similar - but takes a more lighthearted view on electronics.

E.g. Compare Big Clive's mention of a full bridge rectifier in the video vs Mehdi's YouTube video of the same thing :)

https://youtu.be/sI5Ftm1-jik
Do GPU-optimized databases threaten Oracle, Splunk and Hadoop?
The author fails to mention that the reason the internet is not available to most people in Cuba is because private internet access is illegal in Cuba. The public internet (internet cafes, etc.), including social media, is monitored by the Cuban secret police. Political dissenters, or anyone criticizing the Castros or their cronies, are harshly punished, usually without a trial. Censorship is strict. So, good luck with it, Netflix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba
Needs a [1998] in the title.
I agree poor people aren't stupid, you're projecting that on me. People who go to payday loan places are generally desperate. And desperation can often lead to irrational decisions. It seems like the major contention between us is that you believe that payday loans are good because in a vanishingly small percentage of cases they provide a net good. Virtually all of the data shows that in aggregate payday loans are a net bad.
Their main design office is in Sweden and most designers are Swedish. Sometimes they collaborate with 'star' designers and they have been accused of plagiarism quite a few times.
Good, finally a place where the foodie plague can't reach
>he was a master persuader and accomplished (affected the world) in a decade more than most people couldn't in 1000 years

No. He accomplished what most people wouldn't and oughtn't in a thousand years.
That is interesting. I thought that it was mostly and European thing. What kinds of cheese is common in Brazil?
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I know that a lot of effort has been put into creating the line-up of talks on offer - should be a great conf!
That is fo YC, not for the YCFellowship. :/

https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/faq/#nonprofits

But I think they are still accepting aplications for YC.
I'm not quite so sure...

I think they will get some social media messages, and perhaps some lost sponsors. Nothing they can't weather.
It sounds like it means "I feel threatened by these people's views even though they've shown no interest in physically acting on them." Which is kind of ironic, given the context.
> Another interesting thought is if we ever become capable of simulating such a universe, it seems much more likely than not we're also a simulation, since there's a possibility for each simulation to produce it's own simulation or collection of simulations.

There's a lot of "ifs", though, for the argument to work:

The simulations must support a higher density of life than the universe does. If you need a planet the size of Jupiter and a hundred years to simulate one second of life on Earth, then each nested layer of simulation is going to make the number of simulated humans smaller. It seems highly dubious to me that simulations could be dense enough: if you can build a simulator capable of evolving a million life forms, couldn't you slash all the overhead of environmental simulation and use these same resources to build ten million life forms that interface with the real world directly (imagine nano-life, if that helps)?

There must be sound economic reasons to build these simulations. Otherwise, too few of them will exist, and they will not be run for long enough. I can think of a few reasons, like research or entertainment, but I do not think they would suffice. Specialized, focused simulations are useful. Simulating whole universes is overkill. It's a waste of resources.
Interesting comment on OCD, given that I have the disorder. Could you link me a source for that claim? Many friends of mine study neuroscience so I'm inadvertently becoming more interested as an amateur.
I think you'll find a number of fans of the tarsnap service on here. There's also Amazon glacier. Some folks have NAS devices set up. Ideally you should replicate to another NAS somewhere offsite. Putting media into a safety deposit box also works for some, but then finding a good long term media is a tricky problem. Wish I could go into more detail but this is something I'm wondering about too!
I am the OP so I can't downvote this, but man you have a crap attitude about the things other people are passionate about. What exactly makes your hobbies more legitimate than someone else's?

I'm a fat 37 y/o serial entrepreneur that hasn't had facial hair since my 20s. I do like decent coffee, though. I guess that brings up my hipster quotient.
> “Medium doesn’t need to be the thing you check all day, every day. We’re not looking for addiction,” says Williams. “We’re just looking to give people one or two of what they think are the most important things on a daily basis. Things that they care about, things that change how they think about the world.”

With a business model exactly like BuzzFeed's, which is built on optimizing for content and titles that can be turned in native advertising. It's not changing the way how we think about the world...it's the changing the way we think about how advertisers want the world to look like.
From what I've heard from actual Swedes, any non-leftist opinion (or one that isn't leftist enough) will quickly result in the media turning on you and labeling you as a racist, Islamophobe, etc. It'd make you a social pariah and probably end your career. It's apparently not even kosher to suggest decreasing the number of immigrants coming in each year.

I wonder what their responses to that question would be if they weren't afraid of being identified (by their voice, information they provided on the call, etc.).
oh man, the way they spun his quote in the title for outrage clicks...
The W3C once stood for the open Web. After decades of using
its power to make companies agree to clear the barriers that
prevented innovation, now they're helping them create those
barriers. It's a shame.

It's shameful.