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Thank you for your insight! It's too bad Scythe isn't as lucrative as you hoped... seems like it's hard to get serious software noticed in the App Store over free, bite-sized entertainment apps. Incidentally, my app is targeting the iPad as well, but I don't really mind the business reprecussions: I'm writing it for my own personal use above all else, and I wanted to give my trusty old iPad 3 something useful to do instead of just serving as a very expensive web browser. I was thinking of going Lite/Pro, but perhaps freemium might be better after all; I just really don't philosophically like the idea of charging for individual features, especailly when they're part of the MIDI standard already. (But that's just business, I guess.)

There's been a lot of talk recently about the iPad languishing, and it seems that Apple is taking notice. Would not surprise me if they made more of a marketing push towards promoting iPad apps in the coming years, especially with the possible arrival of the iPad Pro.[1][2]

Crazy that the VST market can be so lucrative! It makes me happy that some people are still willing to pay a fair price for their "workhorse" software.

[1]: http://www.macrumors.com/2015/02/08/apple-ipad-grammys/

[2]: http://www.macrumors.com/2014/12/31/apple-expands-start-some...
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Some Remarks on “The Repeated Deaths of OOP”
If it was technically interesting and met the same standards that saw the Urbit talk selected as one of dozens out of hundreds, bring it on.

Do you think classical liberals don't read "Syntactic Structures"?
School textbooks also often make the case that Native Americans didn't make good slaves because they were native to the area and just walking away and vanishing was relatively easy for them. That's very different from asserting genetic racial differences were the factor at work.
"After all, the people we are talking about are communists... Similarly, today, with the exception of a few points of economics, the ideas that almost everyone in communion with Harvard University believes are communist ideas, and would have been labelled as such even fifty years ago."

This is a core tenet of Moldbuggian neoreaction, that American and European politics are run by a "Cathedral" that adheres to communist beliefs. Claiming that mainstream political positions are communism is absolutely insane.
This has nothing to do with banking.
The term "politically correct" comes directly from the quote, as does African genetic predisposition for slavery.

It's also not an isolated, out-of-context quote. For instance, it's easy to find Moldbug holding forth about the evils of South African apartheid abolition.
Microsoft lets EU governments inspect software for backdoors in Brussels
I will, it's a recursive Python script actually. I think the algorithm is suboptimal and a bit messy, I'll share as soon as I rewrite it.
Marketing your mistakes: making the most of failure
I have followed Terry for a few years. I think he is really gifted. I always wish the best for him. Terry if you are reading. I admire and respect your work. Your skills keep me making sure I improve mine. Thank You.
The political left in America were made enemies of the state during the era of McCarthyism. People's careers and personal lives were ruined during that Red Scare. That is "silencing". That is "limiting speech".

Who on the right today has been similarly "silenced"? If someone is called out for racism and then voluntarily chooses to exit public life or withdraw further commentary, that's their own cowardly choice. Being criticized does not "silence" anyone.

The right in America has a political and media apparatus that far outstrips that of the left in funding. Worry not: hate is no danger of being silenced in this country. Far-right demagogues continue to fill newspapers, magazines, think tank briefing, the Internet, and airwaves with their ideas despite decades of criticism from the left.
No, I said I was faintly acquainted with Urbit's code --- meaning, I've read through it, but hadn't retained much. How familiar are you with that code?
Since the demo now uses GLFW it could call glfwGetTime, which uses clock_gettime where available.
It seems fair to point out that this turn of events seems highly compatible with Yarvin's own worldview.
"He has literally written that several of his co-speakers are genetically more fit to be slaves while he, a white male, is genetically designed to be a master."

Certainly a powerful use of the word literally.

Frankly, I'm actually considering recanting. Who wouldn't rather be Galileo than Giordano Bruno? But recanting is a serious matter - it's the sort of thing you need to get right the first time.

To appear at future conferences without my fellow speakers worrying that I'll enslave them or kick off Holocaust 2.0, it'd be ideal if someone can tell me what I have to believe. I'm guessing it's either:

(a) all human beings are born with identical talents and inclinations.

(b) human beings may be born with different talents and inclinations, but these talents and inclinations are distributed identically across all living populations.

Let's face it, Strange Loop is an awesome conference - there's a reason I applied. And I think Alex's decision is totally understandable for practical reasons, as someone downthread explains. If there's a chance of being invited back next year, I could totally go for (b). But if it has to be (a), I might still be all "e pur si muove" and stuff.
I'm curious what "politics" you think this discussion is about. I mean, if Yarvin were an avowed Stalinist, I hope we'd have the same arguments being made, which don't have much to do with his particular heterodoxy.

Don't security conferences attract some rather idiosyncratic characters? Why should I choose one that culls those too far outside the mainstream over the merit of their presentations?
Here's how "net profitable" works. Before:

Merchant buys 5 units of item at $1 each and sells them at $3. Supplier makes $5 in revenue. 5 customers each get one item at $3. Merchant makes a profit of $10.

After:

Merchant buys 20 units of item A at $1 and sells them at $2. Supplier makes $20 in revenue. 20 customers each get one item at $2. Merchant makes a profit of $20.

Net profit: merchant is $10 richer, supplier is $15 richer, 20 customers are each $1 richer.

People have different resources and trade between them generates wealth. More trade generates more wealth. This is not a zero-sum game.
Wall St. firms who didn't benefit from bailout want their share
Ask HN: What's wrong with my launch page?
I've had some success getting people to visit my launch page at http://wellzly.com but my conversion rate for getting them to submit an email address is too low. What needs to be improved?
Cold-blooded murderer kills a man
They have this rule, which they claim is one of their most common reasons for rejecting and app (from Apple.com):

NOT ENOUGH LASTING VALUE

If your app doesn’t offer much functionality or content, or only applies to a small niche market, it may not be approved.

This certainly suggests that the more you cut back, the more likely you are to end up rejected entirely at some point when you submit some unrelated bug-fix upgrade for approval.

It also suggests that iOS developers can't create useful apps that are just for their own family and friends. If Apple doesn't see the benefit to their other customers, your family and friends won't be allowed to have your app.
The Bacteria on the Handprint of an 8-Year-Old After Playing Outside
I've seen a couple of codebases now that have coded themselves into corners and
made it nearly impossible to go microservices without a major rewrite.

- avoid code sharing wherever possible. It creates an implicit dependency.
(If you have a common library or util file, you've done it wrong. try again.)

- don't merge your trees:
(ie: each component in the code should have it's own readme and tests folder.)

- write far more unit tests than functional/integration tests.

(if you separate out components later, those tests can't move with them)

- if you use an ORM or similar, you are probably going to have a very bad time about it

(breaks the no-shared code rule)
Sooo, this is saying that Mitt Romney probably committed election fraud throughout the 2012 primary?
I would have no idea what to expect from the site once it launches. What's a "community of health care investigators" in this context?
How safe is air quality on commercial planes?
If your point is merely that "data collection has not helped with government transparency," I do not refute it (and I know of nobody who would -- there is no reason that Gmail nor banking nor even the price of tea in China would help with government transparency). That is, however, a rather inane point to make.
Something like this would be a huge benefit to me. It's good to know that something like codementor exists too.

Depending on your reasons for not going back to school, if there is a local college in your area, auditing courses is a cheaper way to go. It sounds like you need something more than an online course (video lectures, etc) and need to work with someone. I know that feeling. I can self-teach okay, but sometimes I need someone to bounce my learning off of that is more knowledgeable, so that I improve.
Science is not a democracy, and consensus means little when the peer review and tenure review process is designed to reward conformity rather than truth.

Use your own brain. Denying the existence of races is completely absurd. See for instance:

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-scientific-basis-for... and https://jaymans.wordpress.com/jaymans-race-inheritance-and-i...

And lots more reading here: https://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/#race
Maybe. I think it would cause a very serious disruption to bring a guy like Terry into a normal team dynamic. The CIA delusions alone would make most people understandably uncomfortable, to say nothing of the racism.

With a very patient and understanding manager, a very isolated workspace or maybe a couple very patient and understanding coworkers, and probably someone filtering all of his communication, it would be workable. I can see why Terry would not want to be an environment like that, of course.

That's not to say that someone wouldn't take a chance on him given his strong technical ability, but I'm not sure most people would look on that decision in retrospect as a good one.
As a friend texted me this morning: "the talk on Urbit could have been dismissed on technical grounds". Perhaps it's interesting to you, but it brings very little that's new to the table in terms of research. Urbit's author, meanwhile, has had nothing but invective for people doing valuable research in the relevant sub-fields of compsci that his work touches upon. Purely from a technology perspective, this in an individual who operates in bad faith.

> "And how are we supposed to correct problems in society if we cannot talk honestly about them?"

Pick up a paper. Do you think our society lacks an ongoing discussion of the repercussions of racism? Moldbug has no place in this discussion because the views he's defending – that people of some ethnic backgrounds are subhuman and fit only for slavery – were roundly rejected by society decades ago. Including him would be pandering to a common denominator so low it barely even registers today.

> "Now maybe Alex wishes to cater to the more thin-skinned in his audience"

As I suggested to another commenter: why don't you take a look at who was asking Yarvin's dismissal on Twitter and inquire with them as to whether they would describe themselves as "thin-skinned". Better yet, try asking them in person the next time you cross paths at a tech event. It's easy to characterize the hypothetical "other" in your head. Why not test your own thick skin and look them in the eye when you call them cowards?
Should I drop out of a top med school to pursue a career in CS?
I was a student at a top 3 med school (US News), but had a bunch of issues during 3rd year. I think I got really depressed, hated my clinical rotations, didn't enjoy the hospital, etc. I started failing rotations, and my adviser told me to take a break.

I ended up transitioning into the software industry, got a job as a software engineer with a 6-figure salary, and have been working as a developer for about 1.5 years now. It's fantastic. Life is much better than it used to be...I'm much happier now. Not only that, but I'm learning the skills to hopefully start my own company one day.

I might hurt/disappoint some people were I to drop out (e.g. parents [though they're getting used to it; and my mom happens to love Mark Zuckerberg; they are aware of the money you can make in this industry). I tried getting reinstated with the school, but my request was rejected. They do allow me to appeal this decision back to the committee. If it's rejected again, I can appeal the Dean, Provost, and President of the university, in sequential order. Appealing the committee would involve obtaining and submitting letters of support, which isn't that difficult. However, if the committee rejects my appeal, I don't think I would appeal the Dean and onwards (this may involve actual lawyers).

My question is, what would you do? Would you move on and pursue a career in a field you love (with the hopes of starting your own company one day), or would you try again to get reinstated? If you were my parents, what would you want me to do?

Were I to get reinstated, I'd have about a year remaining to get an MD. I imagine an MD might be helpful at some point (requesting funding from VCs, prestige, finding a job in case the economy tanks or if there's another bubble, etc). I might get depressed again were I to go back, but at least this time there's a back up plan. I think I can probably suck it up for a year this time around and just try to get through it.
High resolution:
http://www.microbeworld.org/component/jlibrary/?view=article...

The author discusses in detail how she made the print in the comments.
Cap-and-trade systems offer more directly defined caps. If you have confidence about how much of something is "correct", a cap-and-trade regime can just set its cap to that amount and let the price be whatever it may be. Cap-and-trade also has the advantage of being sometimes politically easier to implement as the status quo -- just set the cap to whatever current usage is, hand out credits to whoever is currently using the resource, and then no current stakeholder loses as a result of turning on the policy.

Taxes, by contrast, require some amount of tweaking the tax every time you think the resource is being overconsumed. Even if there's political consensus to do something now, there's a very real danger of undershooting, the resource being still overconsumed in the future, but the political will to raise the tax again no longer being present (example: imaging trying to raise consumer gas taxes in the US today).

Both regulations have the same basic goals -- raise the price of the thing to reduce usage, maybe collect some revenue in the process. Which regulation makes more sense depends a bit on the political reality (and future reality), and the relative diffculty of administering a tax vs a cap. It depends on context.
Your first sentence implies that technology and politics are divorced. I disagree with this. Furthermore, _certain_ views merit more consideration than others, especially with regards to something like a conference, see raganwald's comment elsewhere in this thread about conferences being cultural.

Second, I've been aware of Yarvin long enough that I am not particularly aware of how I came to know the psudonym. I don't remember it as being particularly private. I did not go out of my way, I saw his name on the program and instantly remembered. I'm not in the habit of digging through histories, but when I see a name I recognize, I recall a history like anyone else.
Ok but, letting a person speak isn't implicit approval of all their viewpoints. And if his talk is about tech, his political motivations aren't even relevant. I could see the motivation if like, he was going to bring in a wild group of radicals from his appearance or something and that would be disruptive, but as far as I know his viewpoints are pretty fringe.
Is it acceptable to flag such things? I only flag such articles because the discussion quality tends to be really low. There's little insight in the comments. While they may be important topics, and I'm sure some folks have interesting ideas, the results don't seem very useful.
A real project like writing a Kernel or implementing a programming language?
First, no, I don't think security conferences tend to attract white supremacists who advocate for the abolition of democracy and hint at the benefits of a restoration of apartheid.

Second, security conferences --- at least the kind I'm familiar with --- are different from Strange Loop. Strange Loop speakers are selected on the basis of presenting interesting and entertaining ideas to the audience. There are a couple people who get Black Hat talks on those terms, but most Black Hat talks are accepted based on how important their technical contribution is. If you have a new EMET bypass technique, nobody really cares whether you're a closet monarchist, because they're there to see the EMET bypass, not you.
Fair point. I meant that if the HN front page were your only source of information, you'd have to be pretty lucky to have stumbled across any of these threads.

I don't have any objections to the way HN works, just surprised so many users see this topic as flag-worthy relative to those seeing it as an interesting discussion.

EDIT: Nevermind. I see this is back on the front page.
As, I would imagine, the professed beliefs of many on HN, yet here we are.
Roughly 10%, but I forget the exact numbers. It took over a year before those private buyers could sell above cost.
Ha - yea, we're not the first machine shop, but we're doing something really new in regards to: instant pricing/feedback (inside your CAD), speed, and much more to come
See also JFramework, a sophisticated rapid prototyping framework for React + Meteor.

https://github.com/quixey/jframework
I do not accept the premise of this argument, unless we're talking about textbooks from the 1910s.
Perhaps it has to do with the runtime being GPL'd? Regardless, the Adacore FAQ specifically councels that the GPL version is suitable for free software only.[0] Admittedly, I find the licensing situation confusing and could be completely in the wrong here.

[0] http://libre.adacore.com/tools/gnat-gpl-edition/faq/
Whoa, 5 people cried out on twitter? Clearly we need to ban him now.
That's a good point, it is really vague. How explicit is too explicit though? Other launch pages seem to keep things mysterious.
According to Norwegian Wikipedia, he got knighted in 2012.
The goal of banning him is probably not to "suppress his ideas". I'd imagine the goal is something more like "not allowing the experience of conference attendees to be made a little less pleasant in the service of what is a quirky and maybe interesting but probably pretty marginal technical talk".
Charged with obstruction of justice for clearing browser history
Barring peculiar talents such as resembling the POTUS, you should go for (b) and get yourself re-invited to this year's conference.
I do not know the man's writings. There are many links on that page to things he wrote. So this is the most informative link I am likely to be able to provide.

As for why not read his writings: why not read the writing of the timecube guy, or those of reactionary christian authors? Because I try not to waste my time on idiotic polemic.
The paper offers VERY strong statistical evidence of vote fraud of a specific type occurred in Romney's favor in the 2012 primary. It seems that almost without a doubt, wide spread vote-flipping (the type of fraud analyzed in this paper) was in play and had large impacts on the primary, on the order of hundreds of thousands of votes and to the extent of causing the outcomes to differ (meaning the fraud caused Romney to win in places he maybe wouldn't have). The fraudelnt votes have compounding effects on the election that go beyond the flipped votes because of momentum loss effects on candidates election campaigns who were losing (but shouldn't have). Votes were being flipped from Santorum and Ron Paul to Mitt Romney. To a lesser extent votes were also flipped from Newt Gingrich. Other types of fraud were considered beyond the scope of the paper, such as ballot injection or vote removal.
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It's pretty difficult. Racism, like other ideas that at some point were not considered unacceptable in public, is nowadays covered in what we could call Hermetic writing: In other words, instead of saying what they really want to say, a racist says things that imply they are OK with racism.

A way that you can find all over his writings is talk about how people and businesses should be free to refuse dealing with people for any reason whatsoever. It's not quite saying 'I do not like brown people', but instead 'In my ideal society, we are free to discriminate against brown people, or people that don't share my religion'. It's the same kind of rhetoric you'll find in traditional racist groups. That's enough for many people to call that rhetoric racist, but I see how you might not agree.

What I find most amusing is that in that libertarian utopia where people can discriminate at will, you can discriminate people because of their political views, or because you think it'd make some people feel less welcome, and that's exactly what happened here. Having people that defend the right to discriminate at will complain due to discrimination is interesting to say the least.

Either way, I don't think this is an economic decision though. Last year, StrangeLoop ran out of tickets in a few hours. This year, I know they had more companies wanting to sponsor the conference at than they had slots! So Alex could have reacted either way to this controversy, and he'd have done fine economically. This just seems like very predictable behavior given their pro-diversity direction, taken after a few years ago, they had so few women that they had turned all the female restrooms in the opera house into male restrooms, leaving just a single 'family room' in the entire venue for women.

If anything surprises me, is that they didn't vet their speakers before accepting submissions. Rejecting conference talks because of who the person is happens all the time. What turned this into a contraversy is that they rescinded the invitation after making the list public. I would be surprised if, for next year, they don't add an extra step to their process, to try to catch something like this in advance.
Without historical context this analysis is meaningless. Is this one election the exception or the norm?
Few quick questions:

I'm a Zionist (see my top-level post and its link.) Does that make me unacceptably racist, in your view? I know Deleuze thought Zionism was a racist ideology.

Given that, in a conference as large as Strange Loop, there are undoubtedly people who do think Zionism is a proper subset of racism, would you support them in a call to have me excluded from that conference?

If not, what exactly about either my views or those people's intensity of repugnance for them is insufficient to get me kicked? If so, then as there are by far more racists of the Zionist stripe likely to attend, shouldn't you be looking into that? Why aren't you?
There was a way to point out that Klabnik's politics may conflict him out of this debate, but calling him a "proud communist" wasn't it. Personal attacks aren't allowed on HN. Sometimes the line between personal attack and ideological critique is blurry. The closer you get to that line here, the more carefully you need to write.