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This is a divisive issue, and originally I found myself agreeing with this post, because, in general, I expect a conference to about mature professionals focusing on the craft.

That said, LambdaConf advertises itself as a "magical place" with a "passionate and friendly community of like-minded souls."

Given that, I understand why people are upset. They are trying to have it both ways.
To show the intelligence of the interviewer I think.
Just got my rejection email. Oh well, there's always next time! Good luck to you guys!
Those wonderful things are called Bilar:

http://www.cloetta.se/ahlgrensbilar

"... sold since 1953 and marketed as "the world's most sold car" (which is possibly technically correct, by number of cars)."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GWDqdnE2yk

"Det finns bara ett sätt att stoppa den - i munnen!"
You can keep your marketplace.

May we assume you'll be moving somewhere without such, rather than trying to tear ours down?
The cost of us wanting everything cheaper, and yesterday...
But in no case was the right of speech lost, merely the right of audience, or rather, of publicity.
I would posit that it is "drinking beer and breaking bread", or otherwise spending time with, and getting to know others in the profession. I would also argue that a programming conference is not the appropriate forum to discuss or debate ideas related to racism, sexism, etc.
I've followed this saga with much confusion and I wonder if you could explain why you'd avoid a conference with a speaker like this.

For me, if I'm evaluating a conference speaker, all I care about is:

1. Is the topic useful or interesting?

2. Is the speaker well informed and the content correct?

3. Does the speaker present the material well?

I couldn't care less about them otherwise, and especially not their political views. For most conference speakers, I couldn't tell you anything about their political views, because it's just not relevant.

What's your reasoning for including that aspect of a speaker when evaluating the conference?

I also wonder, if we take it as a given that political views are important, do you vet all conference speakers' views before you attend a conference? Or do you have faith that the community will root out views you find unacceptable?
To be fair once you've propsed a thesis your PhD is pretty much on autopilot. There's very little question he would have graduated.
Here is the link i referred to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11465528
Thought experiment:

Is there no set of personal views sufficiently abhorrent to dissuade you from associating with a given person?
I mean, they have contests to determine a solvable answer to this question... :)

But you're right. Whatever brings you the most happiness. I wish that you'd tried shooting film before jumping straight to iPhone. I shoot tons of photos on my iPhone, but there's a galaxy of difference between Instagram and the shots I'm proud of.

For what it's worth, I was deeply skeptical of film to the point of actively derisive until I tried it. Seemed like cultist holdouts and then I had no choice but to acknowledge that I wasn't seeing the big picture.

Send me your address and I'll send you a camera to borrow and some film to try out.
It seems to me that a truly 'healthy' community would not draw it's boundaries so tightly.

If I were building a community I'd want it to be one that welcomed even those with views I found despicable so long as they could engage in thoughtful, reasonable discourse. A community should allow for people to be wrong, and still be welcome.

Having near zero interest in Curtis' political writing his recent AMA [0] and Medium post [1] come off as earnest and harmless.

0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f/im_curtis_yarv...

1 - https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/why-you-should-come-to-lam...
This anti-free speech and being against keeping politics out of technology/business conferences is as radical and distasteful as anything I've read about neoreactionary.
One could say that, by letting a known asshole speak, they are not showing a strong intolerance of the practice of assholery.
Yeah, that will catch a lot of direct shorts and opens but some problems just don't show up until the device has been thermally cycled and baked in for a few thousand hours of usage. It's also possible that there was another problem in the circuit which caused overheating in the transformer.
I know it's anecdotal, but my experience lies with krakensden. I've tried some of the settings lower in the thread, hopefully it'll help.
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Basically it was flagged as spammy or link-baity which I must say I strongly dispute
You're correct, there is no advocate
It should be noted 'free speech' is the reason you can have this conversation in the first place.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. That is, if you wish to not have your opinions censored you cannot ask for the censorship of other opinions you feel offensive.

I wish bigots and other prejudiced people would spare us, but I value my freedom to speak my mind more than I dislike hearing hateful speech.
Yep. This is a known issue, and there are ways hardware manufacturers can mitigate it:

http://www.usb.org/developers/whitepapers/327216.pdf
I don't think those are very good examples.

> Most email is spam. ... runs a mail server

If your mail server is an open relay and sends a lot of spam, you might expect it to get blocked at a minimum, and possibly to see some legal problems.

> Most cash contains traces of drugs. ... pays in cash

If you run an ATM and the money you put out has a higher proportion of drugs on it than the average currency, you might expect some inquiries.

> Most BitTorrent content infringes copyright. ... torrents a Debian ISO

This isn't even hard to disambiguate like the others. Is the torrent being downloaded/served infringing in some manner? If it's not, you're fine, if it is, you might have a problem. BitTorrent isn't a single system, it's bunch of loose networks.

There's a useful discussion to be had over whether someone running a Tor exit node should expect some increased risk of inconvenience and/or exposure to mistaken legal action, but I don't think these really advance that conversation at all.
Both channels are pretty funny in their own way. While BigClive churns out a lot more videos and is more eclectic, Mehdi's ElectroBOOM is clearly more comedic.
Are you imagining a site that forces communication through emoji and nothing else?
That only works if the device is grounded, and the fault is to ground. Neither is the case here. :(
I haven't used Instapaper much since Marco sold it, but if the underlying service is much the same, does this mean that saved articles (minus ads) will then be served in newsletter form with Instapaper's sponsor's ads thrown in the mix?

Sounds a bit unethical if I have it right.
I think it's (intended to be) closer to the first, basically like an academic forum.
- "Send the emails you want added to this directory to goodcopy@frontapp.com"

I don't like this... it would better if I could send a PR to some git repo.
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Those Tax 'Loopholes' Were Created for a Reason
> They also knowingly rented to a drug dealer.

How did you establish intent there?

I know as a fact that by depositing money in the bank, some of that money will be lent out by the bank. I also know that some people who lend money from banks will be criminals. I thus know that by depositing money in the bank, criminal behavior will be enabled.

I do not know however if my money specifically will be use for criminal behavior, nor do I know whom the criminals are or what the crime will be. In order to "knowingly" participate in a crime, the will, whom, and what is kind of important.
I don't think I ever heard this growing up as a Mormon, at least not as something considered as a serious belief. My Aunt quipped once how silly it was that my Granpda (also a Mormon) believed that 'the Jews planted dinosaur bones to discredit Christianity' - he's dead now and I don't know if he actually believed that, but it's possible that he did.

My experience growing up as a Mormon is that questions of how exactly God created the world are mostly left up to science. I haven't seen any hints of evolutionary science being considered 'taboo' with any seriousness in quite a long time.
Indeed.

I wouldn't even really say 'most' of the news. Unless you're in high finance or a journalist, it really is just trivia.

Weather forecasts and crosswords are probably the best bits. For the rest, you're better off reading classic novels, all scandals are history playing itself.

It feels a bit 'tragedy of the commons' to me. It's important that someone is reading the news (because otherwise democracy falls apart). But my personal utility is maximised by reading a book about tax law rather than an article about the Panama Papers.
Indeed, nowhere in a tech conference have I ever been forced to drink beer or converse with anyone I didn't want to.

These communities are large enough where you don't have to directly engage with all people or even attend every single talk. Find your own subgroups within the larger community who you want to spend time with, avoid the rest. Pretty easy. I do this with at tech meetups all the time by avoiding business/PR people. And I probably disagree with the politics of at least 90% of people at any of these conferences to varying degrees.

What matters is there are people there you want to learn from (about the topic at hand) and spend time with.
I received rejection mail a couple of minutes before
Dude, the Germans love cheese slicers. (Granted, the cheese we slice is mostly Dutch. But still :)
What does "submarine" mean here? It must be a pretty unusual term because even Googling "submarine sponsored content" doesnt work
Using a blockchain for messaging means all your messages are stored until quantum encryption can come along to crack them open. Sure the usual distributed setup which blockchains like bitcoin have has advantages (namely in the hiding of metadata), but I'm not sure an actual blockchain is necessary or optimal for this.
No.

Part of what you're paying for is access to the market; furthermore, without this logic, you have a race to the bottom for low corporate taxes (for any companies that deal in IP, which is eventually most nontrivial ones). The result is the tax base from commerce collapses, and the only means to raise revenue for the state is to tax labor (via payroll and income taxes), real property (disproportionately affecting individuals), or consumption (via sales taxes). Not sustainable, so use whatever logic you need to arrive at a sustainable solution.

Not for nothing, 8% of global wealth has been stashed in tax havens. This is a bad thing for the world.
I'm also in a country with much cheaper universities and interest free student loans. But I got a degree and it opened a new world for me, I couldn't recommend it more. That said an engineering degree is far more valuable than some of the other degrees out there.
While this would be a great option for engineers, I'm certain forwarding an email is much easier for the vast majority of people.
Nobody is happy about the price of film.

My suggestion is that you consider how - for a lover of the format - $4 a shot is a cheap price to pay for something that realistically should no longer exist, and that every pack is a kind of artistic patronage... a tithe to a barely profitable entity run by a skeleton crew that rarely ever even meet the folks that appreciate their efforts.

It's a specialty item. Unless you lose your mind over banking fees and the price of artisanal chocolate in a boutique, you might be ignoring the bigger picture: no price is too great for something you love.

Shipping new hardware is expensive, risky and very hard... but shipping old hardware is just bonkers because there's no practical upside by any typical investment standard.
>Those two are supposed to be the same side.

How is it different from how "Progressive" and "Classically Liberal/Libertarian" are pretty much opposites?
It's methanol, not ethanol. Not sure what the price difference is though.
I will now nitpick your nitpicks ;-)

* I'll give you "advance".

* I guess you dislike the lack of hyphen in "high performance"? But then you dislike the hyphen in "light-weight"? But no comment about "high impact"?

* The "its" is actually "correct" (standard) usage.

* No article on "powder metallurgy technique"? Okay, sure, but this is an incredibly common mistake, especially for non-native English speakers.

* I would think simulation results are "analytical" by virtue of not being physical. Seems fine to me.

Most people are only native speakers of one language. The amount of effort required to iron out these extremely minor "problems" (if you accept your English teacher's notion that there really is a right or wrong way of using English) in a second language is simply not worth it for most people. They still got their message across, don't they? Their research is still understood and made use of, isn't it? So why not let it slide?

Yes, these things can grate on my nerves, too. But were I writing formal papers in languages that aren't native to me I would only hope to do as well as these authors appear to have done.
"Cooperation is unstable, in both game theory and evolutionary biology, without some kind of punishment for defection. So it's one thing to subtract points off someone's reputation for mistakes they make themselves, directly. But if you also look askance at someone for refusing to castigate a person or idea, then that is punishment of non-punishers, a far more dangerous idiom that can lock an equilibrium in place even if it's harmful to everyone involved." - http://lesswrong.com/lw/42/tolerate_tolerance/
I wonder if the Cuban food in the U.S. is the authentic version, imported by those who were able to flee the revolution, while the food found in Cuba today is the result of fifty years of poverty.
As long as they don't act on their views (except to write essays explaining and discussing them), then no.

If they were rude to me or to others (in a personal way), then I would not want to associate with them, but that's true of anybody regardless of their views.
METHanol. Not ethanol. It's not made from corn.
Just got my rejection email. Best of luck to everyone!
tldr; echo chamber of a silicon valley (and friends) startup speak
Exactly this.

In 2012 there were 747,408 sex offenders in the US. The population was 314,100,000. This means 0.2% of the population are sex offenders.

So, ignoring clustering, if you work for a company with 500 people, then 1 of your coworkers is a sex offender.

For instance if you work for Facebook, 25 of your coworkers are sex offenders. How can you live with that? Should you quit on moral grounds because you can't work with sex offenders?

For a less extreme example. 44% of americans are "pro-life". How big of a company do you need to overcome clustering effects and have a coworker that believes the opposite of what you do? 10? 50?
I'd love a search engine built around something like this idea. Of course, how would you pay for something that discouraged the idea of advertising?
While I suppose there may be some codes of conduct out there that truly make those assumptions, most of the ones I've seen are simply predicated on the assumption that it's better to proactively make rules outlining acceptable behavior -- and, ideally, outlining both the ways complaints will be handled, including enforcement.

We'd all like to believe that "trust everyone to not to be jerks to one another" is code enough for any convention, and I get that "X, Y and Z will not be tolerated" can come across like taking sides in a debate. But establishing a CoC first is the social engineering equivalent of test-driven development. Handling complaints on an entirely ad hoc, subjective basis works as long as complaints remain relatively minor, but the failure mode can be pretty spectacular, and not in a good way.
An ideal hash function would have perfect avalanching; that is, changing one bit of the input would result in a 50% chance of each of the output bits being flipped. While modern cryptographic hash functions have at least really good avalanching, definitely enough to resist a genetic search, I'm not sure that it's perfect. Home-brewed crap like what Petya was using is unlikely to be very good at it at all.
Please stop posting ideological rants to Hacker News. That's not what this site is for.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11471106 and marked it off-topic.
>If you don't like him, protest him.

How about just ignore him.
Ah! Fair enough. I'm mostly aiming my aggression towards US schools.
Love to be able to attend, unfortunately kind of hard to fit in the schedule. Side question: Is wednesday a good day for a conference?
Why is Yes, Inc., creator of Heyo cloning Down to Lunch's entire app?
I still hope for a day where Lua is implemented into browsers themselves, though this would set off the whole "but VBScript" arguments again, but at least Lua is pretty much standardized and it can be compiled almost everywhere. Not sure how much it would or wouldn't compliment the browsers DOM and such though. If it were added just on experimental browsers just to test it out and see it's upsides and downsides that would be great too, maybe in Electron or Nw.js somehow?

I'm sure I'll get critical comments on this but it beats compiling Lua to JS to make it convert itself back to JS. Maybe WebASM will be a solution for this, but it's too soon to tell for me how reliable that is for now.
I swear there was no pot involved whatsoever, though if there had been, I'm certain you'd have been spared of the annoyance of yet another 'Why am I here/Everything is meaningless' piece.
I think even the buzzword is a misnomer. Hint: What did people call <canvas> before "HTML5" took hold?
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Yes, it's pretty clearly brushless DC, since it's driven by an H-bridge and has the Hall-effect position sensor. But as you say, it's still 3-phase, just square rather than AC sinusoids. A description of brushless DC control is here: http://www.nxp.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/app_note/AN405...
Can an algorithm remove gender bias
China’s Xiaomi has just shown how serious it is about India
Just got a rejection email. Would it be too much to ask to have YC show us their internal commentary ?
Ahhhh, thank you for that clarification. Still would appreciate any input though :)
Or just didn't until Stalin and Mao.
The article has reasonably valid points though I'm not sure I agree with any of them

1 content is limited now, but is not likely to stay that way forever. The commentary about porn is humorous but unreasonable - vr does not need porn to succeed

2 hardware will get cheaper and lighter rapidly. Also I expect a notable market to develop for vr as an alternative to monitors (which requires about the same space as a pc).

3 kids don't drive $1200 high end gaming pc sales. The vr market the author addresses is not today's market

4 direct-to-brain vr will be cooler than today's tech, but they both have a place
Is it meaningful that there is no link to LambdaConf in TFA? Don't make me Google...
Exceptionally lucid and captures every this I think of and aligns well with my position.

It is ironically said that fundamental Christians of today would give Jesus the hardest time if this was his Era.

Likewise, I have observed that the most "militantly liberal expousers" seem to be the most intolerant of other views.(I speak as an observer from outside the western world where this is prevalent)

I hope this is the end of this issue.

This response will serve as template for future moral police people
Yes. Cuba, like every other modern State this side of Oz, has some human rights issues. And yes, Cuba is probably worse than average, though you would need to present some references to make a compelling case that it is anywhere near the bottom 10% or so.

That does not make the experience of the article's author any less real. Or the culture he discovered any less valuable.

It can be even argued that some of those virtues do exist today not in spite, but thanks to the human rights issues. Normal people want to do selfish and/or stupid things all the time; and in a democratic society you let them get away with all but the most destructive of those behaviors as the cost of preserving those human rights. It is a trade-off.

On the other hand, Cuba is an example of a different society that chose a different, not necessarily worse or better, trade-off. As a matter of fact, given that this little island was geopolitically isolated at the fall of the USSR, you may even dare to call that tradeoff successful.
> If you want me to provide stats for your class homework, sorry

That's unduly personal. Please edit stuff like that out of comments here.
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iirc, 'Surface Detail' explored this in depth from one society's use of a 'virtual hell' afterlife to instill behavioral control in 'the real'. My favorite Culture character's view on the subject was expressed in 'Matter', the previous novel in the series, by ex SC agent Xide Hyrlis. In Hyrlis's view, the characters were experiencing the base level of reality based on an a moral argument because "... only reality produced ultimately by matter in the raw can be so unthinkingly cruel." and that to be otherwise "... god or programmer, the charge would be the same - that of near infinite sadistic cruelty."
Slack is down (for some)
Is it? (real). Last time I checked, this article was right next to the "Are we living in a Computer Simulation", and it's not been written by random depressed people (like me) either.
There are many more operating systems that are free (both free as in freedom and as in free of charge). None of them became as popular as Linux.
Nothing is 100%, but the chance should be sharply reduced via certain tests.

Supposedly the CE marking in Europe should be a good indicator, but sadly there are various ways that a company can self-certify products.

I think the biggest problem is that Amazon allows anyone and anything to use them as an outlet by default. Thus many fly by night resellers can used Amazon's brand as a cover.
Interesting. I was literally in Cuba last weekend. (I'm an American) I have a very different take on the city of Havana and the country.

Going to wrap up my medium article soon.
Found an archive of it:

http://archive.is/5G7y7

Probably will have to pop open the JSBins as live ones to have them properly function.
Yet definitely relevant to the people who would choose to attend the conference. It's definitely going to make some people feel uncomfortable attending, knowing that they invited someone who believes that you are not deserving of human rights and dignity to speak.
Same, I got rejected. Good luck to everybody who applied, and to those like me who didn't get accepted, please carry on working on your idea!
That's great for you, but you don't dictate whether people who see things differently have valid views or not.

Consider that what is "relevant" in your experience depends heavily on what kind of bullshit society throws your direction on a daily basis. It's easy to not see a problem here if you're not the group Yarvin advocates subjugating. If you are part of that group or empathize with it, things obviously looks a bit different.
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I hadn't heard of this project before, but this sounds pretty awesome. I wonder what the fidelity is and if it could be used to fill in the height tag missing from lots of OSM buildings.
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Organic chemistry weeds out a lot of premeds before they even get to medical school. Also medical school is not the end of it. Lot of people fail out of residency. And residency is a lot more brutal. You don't get to keep making mistakes. And then the medical boards do take away lot of medical licenses for all kinds of stuff based on complaints by patients, pharmacists, others.
...or that