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Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?

710 points by avrmav 8y ago

What's your favourite talks of 2018? It can be anything, programming, management, life, anything.

henning 8y ago
I liked Erica Joy's keynote at Strange Loop a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi02tn3K2b4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi02tn3K2b4
chirau 8y ago
Kelsey Hightower's talk on the "Path to Serverless". https://youtu.be/oNa3xK2GFKY https://youtu.be/oNa3xK2GFKY
- chimen 8y ago
  I really enjoy Kelsey on all his talks. The most laid-back and funny presenter. All my initial Kubernetes knowledge was drawn from his lectures.
- CorvusCrypto 8y ago
  Really great talk! I think my favorite was his continuous emphasis on not being so vendor-favored. It's increasingly important to be reminded of this these days.
blojayble 8y ago
Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM
- deleted 8y ago
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- agumonkey 8y ago
  I wish he had time to do part 2 and part 3 of this.
- nabla9 8y ago
  This is next level hacking. To do CAD program for synthetic biology Chemistry professor writes his own implementation of Common Lisp.
- IshKebab 8y ago
  That was a great talk! Wish he had more time.
- drmeister 8y ago
  Author here - thanks folks! I'm glad you liked it.
  - blojayble 8y ago
    I will take this opportunity to thank you. Not only was your talk very interesting and informative, I also found it very inspiring. It really made me rethink what my goals are as a developer. Hope to see more from you.
GolDDranks 8y ago
"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA
eranation 8y ago
A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec
- unit_circle 8y ago
  This is marketing trash and cloud 101 dude
rrherr 8y ago
From Deconstruct: Nabil Hassein: Computing, Climate Change, and All Our Relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing-climate-change-and-all-our-relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing... Tom 7: Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
- jeklj 8y ago
  Yes! I also loved both of those talks, especially Nabil’s.
- acobster 8y ago
  This. I was at Deconstruct too, and Nabil's talk got a standing ovation. It ran way over time, and I didn't notice. Tech people need to hear this. Tom's talk is also amazing in its own right. Let's Program a Banjo Grammar was also one of my favorites. :D https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/ryan-herr-lets-program-a-banjo-grammar https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/ryan-herr-lets-program-... Edit: I just looked at your username...that you, Ryan? :)
  - rrherr 8y ago
    Yep, that was me — thank you for the kind words! Gary Bernhardt had a creative concept for selecting speakers. Half were invited, internet famous people like Tom 7 and Julia Evans. Half were people who'd never spoke at a conference before, like Nabil and I. For the call for proposals, we submitted 2 minute videos instead of abstracts. Gary invested a lot of time mentoring the new speakers, which I'm so grateful for! In September, I did another, kind of similar talk at Strange Loop, called "Picasso, Geometry, Jupyter." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJ77F_8kq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJ77F_8kq0 The topic and ideas were good, probably better than my Deconstruct talk. But my execution and presentation were uneven and unpolished, so I'd like to try it again at another conference. I'm submitting to PyCon — we'll see!
    - acobster 8y ago
mprev 8y ago
One of my favourites was James Governor’s Sympathy for the DevRel. A call for people in tech to take better care of themselves. https://devrel.net/dev-rel/sympathy-for-the-devrel https://devrel.net/dev-rel/sympathy-for-the-devrel
lathiat 8y ago
Deviant Ollam - The Hotel Room Gourmet https://youtu.be/qtFV73wpEAw https://youtu.be/qtFV73wpEAw Also not 2018 but his elevator with Howard Payne talk: https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I (1h version) https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus (2h version) And the search for the perfect door: https://youtu.be/4YYvBLAF4T8 https://youtu.be/4YYvBLAF4T8
- unixhero 8y ago
  Deviant Ollam seriously needs an award.
gt5050 8y ago
What bodies think about - by Michael Levin at NeurIPS 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg I dont really know anything about biology, but this piqued my interest.One of the most interesting talks of 2018.
- leesec 8y ago
  Seconded. Had no idea what it was going to be about and thought it might have been the most interesting talk I've ever seen.
markbnj 8y ago
Kristen Jacobs' talk on low level container networking at Kubecon 2018 in Seattle. https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrWx/container-networking-from-scratch-kristen-jacobs-oracle?iframe=yes&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no# https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrWx/container-networking-fr...
- ra7 8y ago
  YouTube link for this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_BDHIgOY8&index=255&list=PLj6h78yzYM2PZf9eA7bhWnIh_mK1vyOfU&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_BDHIgOY8&index=255&list=P...
0XAFFE 8y ago
Some of the better talks are yet to come https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/index.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/index....
- pizza 8y ago
  Do you know of anywhere to watch them live? I found this https://streaming.media.ccc.de/ https://streaming.media.ccc.de/ but I'm not 100% sure it's what I want
  - Grollicus 8y ago
    That is probably the correct location for live streams. If it doesn't work, https://twitter.com/c3voc https://twitter.com/c3voc will know what's up. The Streams will later be edited and uploaded to https://media.ccc.de/ https://media.ccc.de/ where they will appear incrementally a few days (or sometimes even hours) after the talks are over. So it's usually not a problem to miss a talk.
jeklj 8y ago
This talk by Nabil Hassein at Deconstruct is perhaps the best talk I’ve ever seen given to a conference audience ever, let alone in 2018. I feel lucky to have been present for it. https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing-climate-change-and-all-our-relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing...
wetpaws 8y ago
Nothing can beat Charles Stress talk in my eyes: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  > Charles Stress A pretty apt typo given what feeling many of his blog posts induce in readers :).
binarymax 8y ago
Shameless plug for my talk in haystack in April, which was a couple years of casual research rolled up. I really enjoyed giving the talk and I've had lots of great feedback, so thought I'd share it with y'all. "Algorithmic extraction of keywords, concepts, and vocabularies." Sorry only slides and no video: https://www.slideshare.net/MaxIrwin/haystack-2018-algorithmic-extraction-of-keywords-concepts-and-vocabularies https://www.slideshare.net/MaxIrwin/haystack-2018-algorithmi...
- bialpio 8y ago
  You forgot to mention the talk's subject.
  - binarymax 8y ago
    Added, thanks for pointing that out.
- d_burfoot 8y ago
  > only slides and no video Please, people in this situation: learn how to make a screencast! A screencast is the most amazing piece of technology that most people don't know how to use. If you're on a Mac, you can do it already - QuickTime has a dead-simple screencast tool. If you're on Windows or Linux, you'll probably have to download some small piece of software, there are tons of good choices. Then do a screencast of the actual talk along with the slides, and post that instead of just the bare slides.
- softwaredoug 8y ago
  Hey and the next Haystacks CFP is open. You should submit a talk Max! http://haystackconf.com http://haystackconf.com
ttiurani 8y ago
"Maybe Not" by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug Another excellent talk by the creator of Clojure, and like the previous ones, relevant for all programmers.
- reikonomusha 8y ago
  I don’t like Rich’s appeal to human intuition and the physical world as justification for not using—and even disparaging—mathematical structures. His quote from memory was something like “There’s no such thing as a Maybe Sheep,” and that was aggravating to listen to. He then gives the simplest possible examples, and fails to convince me that his approach scales to the real world. At some point he starts talking about what a “person” is and what an “address” is and, somewhat in jest, he says something like “I know I know addresses are difficult this is just a simple example.” It’s precisely the difficult case that I want to see his “intuitive” view of programming actually work out. Rich is a good speaker but I don’t find the line he toes to be agreeable.
  - zengid 8y ago
    He's a genius but I think he's getting bitter about how people are happily sticking with static strongly typed languages. At the end of the day he's trying to sell people on using Clojure, so of course he's going to rip on other languages.
- maxhallinan 8y ago
  I thought this was one of the notably bad talks this year. The whole premise that a function of Maybe a should be a function of a without an API change is neither intuitive to me nor really justified by Hickey. Different things are different. It's sad to see someone build such a wall around himself when faced by something (type theory) that he doesn't understand.
  - chubot 8y ago
    Are you sure that he doesn't understand it, or is it possible that you haven't worked with the same scale of systems he has? Here's my response to his talk, which I found insightful: https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_povjwe https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_povjwe Also, I think your comment suffers from the problem here, where you invoke "type theory" without any elaboration: https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_ioeyob https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_ioeyob Rich has taken the time to explain his thoughts very carefully, and his clear about what his experience is, and domains he is talking about. Whereas I see a lot of vague objections without specifics and that aren't backed up by experience.
localhost 8y ago
"Deep Learning to solve Challenging Problems" by Jeff Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzi3cvCde4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzi3cvCde4 I'll watch Jeff Dean talk about pretty much anything, and his keynote "stump speeches" are more or less a greatest hits compilation of recent stuff from Google Brain.
quaunaut 8y ago
"How to Win" by Daniel Gross[1] It's an approach to living your life in a way that lets you be effective at accomplishing whatever you're after. Starting on something similar to a Mazlow's heirarchy(in that you must establish each level before going to the next one), you eventually find a way of not only living better and more effectively yourself, but finding how to expand that to your team and those around you. I didn't expect it to be good, but I liken it to Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"- it gets to the core of the problem in the best way possible. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4
bkgh 8y ago
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late? by Alan Kay https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?Live=28442&bhcp=1 https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?Live=28442&bhcp=1
- contingencies 8y ago
  Kay begins at 4:00.
CorvusCrypto 8y ago
"Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way" by Michael Bryzek [1] Really good discussion on event-collaborative microservice systems that scale well for performance and maintenance as well as a good argument and use case for server and client code generation. Definitely my favorite so far. [1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infrastructure-cd https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infra...
- ausjke 8y ago
  it's said microservice is phasing out to serverless?
  - johndubchak 8y ago
    I was under that impression as well, that "Microservice" was now becoming too much boilerplate overhead, inconsistently defined within our industry, and easily misunderstood by those that implement them. Serverless architectures do solve these issues, however they are not a panacea.
  - CorvusCrypto 8y ago
    I think more and more it's a case of people realizing there is no definitive "microservice" architecture. Because of that architects around the industry are now focusing on the flow of data and using whichever tools are best to get the right behavior in their business. What was called microservices imo was just a higher level modularization of code to allow easier parallel development and maintenance/scaling, but since it needs a server that meant some boilerplate to initialize and keep the app running. A lot of people went about this in different ways which made things a bit chaotic to those new to the idea I think. The next logical step would be to remove that server code by running on a serverless architecture to focus on the functions that operate on data rather than having to maintain the initialization code and other boilerplate as well. Among all of this advancement, an architect thinking the way Michael Bryzek does would have no problem using either approach since the focus is on the data and how data is used. Still, server-based microservices are still very prominent, and I'd argue they are also much more platform agnostic if done right whereas (if I'm not mistaken) much of serverless is done in specific platforms causing you to be vendor-locked due to different deployment processes for each platform. I think research is being done to make platform-agnostic serverless deployments easier, but I haven't read much on it yet and am unaware of current advancements in that area.
StreamBright 8y ago
2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: C. Schafmeister “Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM
lejalv 8y ago
Why Germany cannot and should not pay to save the Eurozone, by Yanis Varoufakis (Video in English) http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/events/seminars/Muenchner-Seminare/Archive/mucsem_20180611_Varoufakis.html http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/events/seminars/Muench...
- typon 8y ago
  Any talk by Varoufakis is worth listening to.
  - danaos 8y ago
    He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.
    - halfastack 8y ago
      Controversial in the very least. I also got the impression that he was quite anti-EU with his whole Greece rhetoric during the discussions about another Greek buyout. Maybe I got him wrong..?
      - denerio-a 8y ago
        How could he not be? The people he was negotiating with to try and save Greece were telling him - look, we know you’re right, but we’re going to completely ignore that fact and institute policy that completely fucks the worst off Greeks. Here is an interview that explains his position a bit better than my paraphrasing: https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/yanis-varoufakis-people-were-confused-that-i-didnt-support-brexit https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/yanis-varoufak...
      - elorant 8y ago
        The guy is a jerk. He fucked up in an unprecedented way, his whole negotiation strategy was just a blackmail toward EU-Germany that eventually backfired. In the meantime all his proposals for reforming the public sector were laughable, like the idea of giving cameras to tourists to record tax evading shops. He may be good at writing books or giving lectures but he was a complete disaster as minister of finance.
twunde 8y ago
I really liked Paul Hill's "Failure is not an option: Building a culture of continuous improvement at NASA", the keynote from this year's DashCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkgk-7aIBc&index=16&list=PLdh-RwQzDsaN-evaS8HbRZW6THM-L4Ine&t=101s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkgk-7aIBc&index=16&list=PL... It was really nice to see that the current Devops/SRE best practices are reflections of engineering/operations best practices in other fields
Asparagirl 8y ago
“Be Human To Your Machines” — Scott Ganz at TedXSanFrancisco 2018. https://youtu.be/Y6eNSf4br5Y https://youtu.be/Y6eNSf4br5Y Emmy-winning TV comedy writer becomes award-winning AI conversation designer, frets about the dismissive way humans interact with computers and the corrosive social effects of badly-designed bots. Explains why conversation interfaces need to stick up for themselves and push back on bad behavior, for the good of human discourse.
casi18 8y ago
Dave Ackley's Retirement Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzKgTxtVH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzKgTxtVH8
anotheryou 8y ago
The upcoming "chaos communication congress" always has a few gems https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...
chillaxtian 8y ago
AWS re:Invent 2018: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small https://youtu.be/O8xLxNje30M https://youtu.be/O8xLxNje30M
- the_duke 8y ago
  I haven't seen the talk, but just from the title, a "taking control" talk related to AWS is kind of ironic. I'll have to watch it though.
TaylorAlexander 8y ago
I am really proud of a talk I gave in March about my motivations for designing open source 3D printed robots: https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA And this talk I gave about Starting a Business in Silicon Valley got a lot of traction on HN: https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA
faitswulff 8y ago
I rather enjoyed RustConf 2018's Closing Keynote, "Using Rust For Game Development" by Catherine West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M I learned about the ECS pattern and got to see some Rust refactoring in action. Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977906
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- brodo 8y ago
  This one is one of my favorites of the year too. ECS seems like a pattern which can also be used in other contexts then games. I‘m currently writing a simulation tool and I am considering switching to ECS.
  - seventhtiger 8y ago
    Simulations and games are highly integrated and iterative. Having every process be done in frames or steps makes the preservation of information for the next step/frame really important. Systems are also tightly coupled and not easily separated. That's why I like ECS. I also like the EC part to just be a table I can query, and the S system should be very tight and the dependencies should be used explicitly. That way you go around some thing like dynamic ordering of the update function based on object pools and other nonsense.
- sn9 8y ago
  Jonathon Blow had a really interesting but subtle response to this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk&feature=youtu.be
  - brodo 8y ago
    Thanks, very interesting. He is right, the Rust borrow checker can not deal with arbitrary graphs and she added a memory management layer on top of the Rust one. However, you would have to do the same in C++. It is an interesting obervation. I spoke to Benedikt Meurer from the Google V8 team recently and he pointed out the same for Javascript Engines. If you do not have DAGs, Rust can‘t help you with safety. (at least it can not prevent use after free) I still like the whole ECS idea and it makes sense for me that using ECS in Rust will provide a performant and clean architecture.
seba_dos1 8y ago
2018 is not over yet and CCC happening again next week usually delivers talks that place very high in my personal ranking.
bhoflack 8y ago
Teaching kids to code at goto berlin: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=patyK226zeE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=patyK226zeE
qwertox 8y ago
Not necessarily the best, but definitely one that should be watched "Escaping the Global Banking Cartel" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgI0liAee4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgI0liAee4s
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stormbeard 8y ago
"Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models" James Mickens https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...
- m_b 8y ago
  This is definitely the most hilarious one, James is a genius.
- cheez 8y ago
  This guy is a philosopher
  - pvarangot 8y ago
    He's fun for sure. Also there are actual philosophers like Jaron Lanier with higher level and more poignant analysis of the same problem that I can't recommend enough as at least a good read.
- IshKebab 8y ago
  Watched 20 minutes of it. Fairly amusing but if you know anything about machine learning you won't learn anything.
  - dethos 8y ago
    You should watch the whole thing.
    - IshKebab 8y ago
      Eh I feel like a talk should tell you one thing that only the speaker knows in the first 20 minutes.
- vitaminCPP 8y ago
  I understand why some criticizes the lack of depth of Mickens' presentation. But, you got to admit that getting people to be interested in engineering ethics is remarquable.
vishnu_ks 8y ago
Alex Hannold's Ted Talk on how he free soloed El Cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM6M_7wBMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM6M_7wBMc Another favorite one of mine was Jimmy Chin talking about how they shot Free Solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_vvnxZ6I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_vvnxZ6I0
- krispbyte 8y ago
  To other people not getting what free solo is, it means climbing a cliff without ropes.
  - Aeolun 8y ago
    I don’t think listening to someone so foolhardy would impress me very much.
    - outside1234 8y ago
      It’s dumb as rocks, agreed. But it’s the massive prep they do and skills they have that make it genius
    - vishnu_ks 8y ago
      I think you missed the point. Alex Honnold didn't woke up one day morning and decided to climb El Cap in the afternoon. He has been preparing for the climb for almost 7 years. He memorized each and every step he would make during the climb. He even abandoned his first solo attempt because the conditions didn't seem to be right. It was never a do or die situation. He wore the same set of clothes throughout the practice sessions and the climb. Everything was done to minimize the risk. For me Alex Honnold's solo is an example of what a Human can achieve with the right amount of practice and preparation.
      - Aeolun 8y ago
        I mean, it’s amazing, don’t get me wrong. I just feel like doing it served no purpose and needlessly put him at risk. To be honest, I thought this was a guy with a wife and children (there was a story earlier about him doing a free solo), since he’s single I guess his life is his own.
jchanimal 8y ago
I enjoyed Juan Benet’s Long Now talk about the permanent web http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/aug/06/long-term-info-structure/ http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/aug/06/long-term-info-stru...
open-source-ux 8y ago
I really liked this talk about the history of programming and how so many ideas we consider recent or modern are in fact much older than many of us realise. Watching this talk merely amplifies the feeling that the programming profession is in a perpetual loop - discarding or forgetting ideas or concepts, then re-discovering them anew. What's also striking is how rich and varied were the programming ideas that emerged from the 60s and 70s. Kevlin Henney - Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE
- franky47 8y ago
  Although a bit repetitive from one talk to the next, Kevlin Henney's talks are of great quality, both in content and form. If you're interested in a deep analysis on software development behaviours, through patterns either at the code or organisational level, his talks are gold. I particularly enjoyed his take on management analysis, it resonates with a lot of "failure" situations that I had experienced in my previous job: Kevlin Henney - Agility != Speed https://youtu.be/kmFcNyZrUNM https://youtu.be/kmFcNyZrUNM
aeleos 8y ago
Recent but great talk posted here, What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System [1] by Prof. Michael Levin. He talks about how long term low energy electrical networks between all cells in living organisms shape how the organism grows. I think what he talks about will be the future of medicine as it allows for an amazing degree of high level control over how animals grow. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg
- kajecounterhack 8y ago
  +1000 Really cool talk / highly recommend! Some things you might learn / amazing facts: - Children 7-11 can regrow fingertips - Planarians (a kind of flatworm) are immortal - If you teach a planarian to find "home", chop off its head and let it regrow its brain, it will still remember where home is Note also that this was presented at NeurIPS so the talk also includes some discussion of non-neural information systems this kind of thing could inspire.
- inevrela 8y ago
  Oh boy, this is cool!
- kilburn 8y ago
  Wow, just wow! I've often felt that we (humanity) have pushed the boundaries of our knowledge right to some really hard lines to cross: relativity won't allow interstellar travel anytime soon, we are making progress in "soft AI" but "hard AI" is still insurmountable, even fusion seems as far as it's always been. Further "real" progress seems sometimes nearly impossible, or very arduous and slow at best. Then this guy shows up, cuts a frog's leg, shines some weird lights on the wound... and the frog regenerates it! (frogs do not normally regenerate legs). This has been really astonishing to me. I hope this whole research area lives up to my excitement after listening to that talk, because really awesome things may come out of it. I highly recommend this talk to literally anybody who has scientific curiosity en general!
  - aeleos 8y ago
    I definitely agree with you, this feels like REAL progress. I feel like this is a revolution in our understanding of how life as a collection of cells is able to function with such repeat ability and reliability. What is even more amazing is how this talk isn't even just going over our lack of understanding in this area, its saying hey everyone we just filled in this massive gap in our understanding, and look at what real things we can do with it. It does feel like this research crosses a big line in science. Especially with the recent articles about how gene editing can cause weird defects that we don't understand, this shows we don't need to tinker at the lower levels when life already has the tools for higher level control.
rosiesherry 8y ago
This one struck a chord for me, related to trying to share your personal/health situation at work, not a topic that is talked about alot - https://ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/i-have-a-secret-anusha-nirmalananthan https://ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/i-have-a-secret-a...
abledon 8y ago
joe rogan and jake the snake
walterbell 8y ago
The 2018 Turing Award lecture, by John Hennessy (MIPS, Stanford, Alphabet) and David Patterson (Berkeley, RISC) https://iscaconf.org/isca2018/turing_lecture.html https://iscaconf.org/isca2018/turing_lecture.html > Titled “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development,” the talk covers recent developments and future directions in computer architecture. Hennessy and Patterson were recognized with the Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.”
cpeterso 8y ago
Jeff Vogel from Spiderweb Software gave an awesome retrospective on 24 years of creating old-school-style fantasy RPGs at GDC 2018: "Failing to Fill: The Spiderweb Software Way" https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs
cpeterso 8y ago
A walk through of PDF's history and file format, check out Chas Emerick's 2018 Red Monk tech talk: "Building 100 year systems in the shadow of PDF". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPn6plqkEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPn6plqkEs
ArtWomb 8y ago
Inside The Fake Science Factory from DefCon 26. First you'll laugh. And then you'll weep for humanity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q Also really dug Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Outlines the rollout of a possible new engineering platform consisting of free energy, satellite internet, and AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA Keep the links coming, please. Terrific counter-programming for holiday down time ;)
sn9 8y ago
Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop: * Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/contracts-for-getting-more-programs-less-wrong.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/contracts-for-getting-mo... * "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/its-just-matrix-multiplication-notation-for-weaving.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/its-just-matrix-multipli... * Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/hackett-a-metaprogrammable-haskell.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/hackett-a-metaprogrammab... * Git from the Ground Up: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/git-from-the-ground-up.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/git-from-the-ground-up.h... From PyCon: * Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYucYon2-lk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYucYon2-lk * Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw * Automating Code Quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lDk_WKXvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lDk_WKXvY There are probably more I might add later as I remember them.
- vitaminCPP 8y ago
  > "Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level" +1 Very interesting. I will make sure to check the `Hypothesis` module.
agentultra 8y ago
I thought Hillel Wayne's talk, Everything about distributed systems is terrible, was probably the best talk for the motivation behind why you should be using TLA+ to design systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnldxWlOhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnldxWlOhM
RickJWagner 8y ago
My favorite talk was called "Generations @ Work", presented at Red Hat Summit 2018. It was about different generations in the workplace, what each grouping typically liked, disliked, was motivated by, and how they communicated differently. I really liked it because of the content, but also because it was given by a small panel, I was a member of it. :) Why did I propose such a talk? I usually submit technical talks to conferences, sometimes they are chosen. This year I did NOT have a technical talk selected by the Summit committee, but on a whim I had submitted this 'softball/managerial' title. It was the one that got me a ticket to Summit! You never know.
smilesnd 8y ago
I love any talk with Joe Armstrong or Alan Kay in it. Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ
lamby 8y ago
I quite liked Johann Hari on Sam Harris's podcast on addiction, depression, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msP0-NqRhZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msP0-NqRhZE
dplgk 8y ago
Sam Harris talks to leading AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky about why humanity will probably be killed off by AI (if not by something else first) https://youtu.be/AaNLX71Hl88 https://youtu.be/AaNLX71Hl88
joaovitor 8y ago
It is not only about the content but the energy and how to present it. They rock presenting great content in a great way. --- Monica Dinculescu (https://github.com/notwaldorf https://github.com/notwaldorf) PWA starter kit: build fast, scalable, modern apps with Web Components (Google I/O '18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3lLo-UFtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3lLo-UFtk --- Kelsey Hightower (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/ https://github.com/kelseyhightower/) Keynote: Kubernetes and the Path to Serverless - Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNa3xK2GFKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNa3xK2GFKY
suyash 8y ago
Machine Learning for JS Developers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xm8ox1mmzE&frags=pl%2Cwn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xm8ox1mmzE&frags=pl%2Cwn
throwaway010718 8y ago
It's not a talk, but worth a mention. Joe Rogan interviews Matthew Walker, a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science and author of the book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig
allenleein 8y ago
Peter Thiel on Trump, Gawker, and Leaving Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t5prZD57s&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t5prZD57s&t
simonebrunozzi 8y ago
Most articles on Idlewords.com
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notoriousjpg 8y ago
I thought this was incredible: What's Next for Marketplace Startups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl14Ty5-0Ko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl14Ty5-0Ko Great explanation of this space and their views on augmenting existing regulated markets.
unixhero 8y ago
Joe Rogan has had an incredible year. Joe Rogan interviews Dr. Andrew Weil https://youtu.be/WjYYdMNUXF8 https://youtu.be/WjYYdMNUXF8 Joe Rogan interviews Elon Musk https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI Joe Rogan interviews James Hetfield https://youtu.be/5O6QPTawR14 https://youtu.be/5O6QPTawR14
raghava 8y ago
Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI I find almost all from GOTO 2018 very insightful. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=goto+2018 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=goto+2018 esp ones listed below. GOTO 2018 • The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTM_b7EJg5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTM_b7EJg5E GOTO 2018 • Pragmatic Event-Driven Microservices • Allard Buijze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd_0zGxsIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd_0zGxsIU GOTO 2018 • Why Business Cases are Toxic • Chris Matts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOcjmpPQCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOcjmpPQCc GOTO 2018 • Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ0uTOerUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ0uTOerUI
einstand 8y ago
Eugenia Cheng: "The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHZKX0H6cUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHZKX0H6cUE I saw an other version at Scala Exchange but that one requires registration [1] and it's seems to be almost the same talk. It's very impressive summary of her latest book ("The Art Of Logic") about the importance of abstract logic in every day life and how abstraction can help us to understand each other (together with emotions). [1]: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/12089-keynote-conveying-the-power-of-abstraction https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/12089-keynote-conveying...
bibek547 8y ago
I made a playlist of all the youtube links form this section: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6DLqe0B3ZCLi1bYvQrnYPeTYjB5OrNF https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6DLqe0B3ZCLi1bYvQrn...
- dawid-s 8y ago
  Thank you

710 points by avrmav 8y ago

What's your favourite talks of 2018? It can be anything, programming, management, life, anything.

I liked Erica Joy's keynote at Strange Loop a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi02tn3K2b4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi02tn3K2b4

chirau 8y ago

Kelsey Hightower's talk on the "Path to Serverless". https://youtu.be/oNa3xK2GFKY https://youtu.be/oNa3xK2GFKY

chimen 8y ago
I really enjoy Kelsey on all his talks. The most laid-back and funny presenter. All my initial Kubernetes knowledge was drawn from his lectures.
CorvusCrypto 8y ago
Really great talk! I think my favorite was his continuous emphasis on not being so vendor-favored. It's increasingly important to be reminded of this these days.

blojayble 8y ago

Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM

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agumonkey 8y ago
I wish he had time to do part 2 and part 3 of this.
nabla9 8y ago
This is next level hacking. To do CAD program for synthetic biology Chemistry professor writes his own implementation of Common Lisp.
IshKebab 8y ago
That was a great talk! Wish he had more time.
drmeister 8y ago
Author here - thanks folks! I'm glad you liked it.
- blojayble 8y ago
  I will take this opportunity to thank you. Not only was your talk very interesting and informative, I also found it very inspiring. It really made me rethink what my goals are as a developer. Hope to see more from you.

GolDDranks 8y ago

"The Hard Parts of Open Source" by Evan Czaplicki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA

eranation 8y ago

A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QdzV04T_kec

unit_circle 8y ago
This is marketing trash and cloud 101 dude

rrherr 8y ago

From Deconstruct: Nabil Hassein: Computing, Climate Change, and All Our Relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing-climate-change-and-all-our-relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing... Tom 7: Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0

jeklj 8y ago
Yes! I also loved both of those talks, especially Nabil’s.
acobster 8y ago
This. I was at Deconstruct too, and Nabil's talk got a standing ovation. It ran way over time, and I didn't notice. Tech people need to hear this. Tom's talk is also amazing in its own right. Let's Program a Banjo Grammar was also one of my favorites. :D https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/ryan-herr-lets-program-a-banjo-grammar https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/ryan-herr-lets-program-... Edit: I just looked at your username...that you, Ryan? :)
- rrherr 8y ago
  Yep, that was me — thank you for the kind words! Gary Bernhardt had a creative concept for selecting speakers. Half were invited, internet famous people like Tom 7 and Julia Evans. Half were people who'd never spoke at a conference before, like Nabil and I. For the call for proposals, we submitted 2 minute videos instead of abstracts. Gary invested a lot of time mentoring the new speakers, which I'm so grateful for! In September, I did another, kind of similar talk at Strange Loop, called "Picasso, Geometry, Jupyter." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJ77F_8kq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYJ77F_8kq0 The topic and ideas were good, probably better than my Deconstruct talk. But my execution and presentation were uneven and unpolished, so I'd like to try it again at another conference. I'm submitting to PyCon — we'll see!
  - acobster 8y ago

mprev 8y ago

One of my favourites was James Governor’s Sympathy for the DevRel. A call for people in tech to take better care of themselves. https://devrel.net/dev-rel/sympathy-for-the-devrel https://devrel.net/dev-rel/sympathy-for-the-devrel

lathiat 8y ago

Deviant Ollam - The Hotel Room Gourmet https://youtu.be/qtFV73wpEAw https://youtu.be/qtFV73wpEAw Also not 2018 but his elevator with Howard Payne talk: https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I (1h version) https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus https://youtu.be/ZUvGfuLlZus (2h version) And the search for the perfect door: https://youtu.be/4YYvBLAF4T8 https://youtu.be/4YYvBLAF4T8

unixhero 8y ago
Deviant Ollam seriously needs an award.

gt5050 8y ago

What bodies think about - by Michael Levin at NeurIPS 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg I dont really know anything about biology, but this piqued my interest.One of the most interesting talks of 2018.

leesec 8y ago
Seconded. Had no idea what it was going to be about and thought it might have been the most interesting talk I've ever seen.

markbnj 8y ago

Kristen Jacobs' talk on low level container networking at Kubecon 2018 in Seattle. https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrWx/container-networking-from-scratch-kristen-jacobs-oracle?iframe=yes&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no# https://kccna18.sched.com/event/GrWx/container-networking-fr...

ra7 8y ago
YouTube link for this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_BDHIgOY8&index=255&list=PLj6h78yzYM2PZf9eA7bhWnIh_mK1vyOfU&t=0s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v_BDHIgOY8&index=255&list=P...

0XAFFE 8y ago

Some of the better talks are yet to come https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/index.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/index....

pizza 8y ago
Do you know of anywhere to watch them live? I found this https://streaming.media.ccc.de/ https://streaming.media.ccc.de/ but I'm not 100% sure it's what I want
- Grollicus 8y ago
  That is probably the correct location for live streams. If it doesn't work, https://twitter.com/c3voc https://twitter.com/c3voc will know what's up. The Streams will later be edited and uploaded to https://media.ccc.de/ https://media.ccc.de/ where they will appear incrementally a few days (or sometimes even hours) after the talks are over. So it's usually not a problem to miss a talk.

jeklj 8y ago

This talk by Nabil Hassein at Deconstruct is perhaps the best talk I’ve ever seen given to a conference audience ever, let alone in 2018. I feel lucky to have been present for it. https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing-climate-change-and-all-our-relationships https://www.deconstructconf.com/2018/nabil-hassein-computing...

wetpaws 8y ago

Nothing can beat Charles Stress talk in my eyes: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...

TeMPOraL 8y ago
> Charles Stress A pretty apt typo given what feeling many of his blog posts induce in readers :).

binarymax 8y ago

Shameless plug for my talk in haystack in April, which was a couple years of casual research rolled up. I really enjoyed giving the talk and I've had lots of great feedback, so thought I'd share it with y'all. "Algorithmic extraction of keywords, concepts, and vocabularies." Sorry only slides and no video: https://www.slideshare.net/MaxIrwin/haystack-2018-algorithmic-extraction-of-keywords-concepts-and-vocabularies https://www.slideshare.net/MaxIrwin/haystack-2018-algorithmi...

bialpio 8y ago
You forgot to mention the talk's subject.
- binarymax 8y ago
  Added, thanks for pointing that out.
d_burfoot 8y ago
> only slides and no video Please, people in this situation: learn how to make a screencast! A screencast is the most amazing piece of technology that most people don't know how to use. If you're on a Mac, you can do it already - QuickTime has a dead-simple screencast tool. If you're on Windows or Linux, you'll probably have to download some small piece of software, there are tons of good choices. Then do a screencast of the actual talk along with the slides, and post that instead of just the bare slides.
softwaredoug 8y ago
Hey and the next Haystacks CFP is open. You should submit a talk Max! http://haystackconf.com http://haystackconf.com

ttiurani 8y ago

"Maybe Not" by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug Another excellent talk by the creator of Clojure, and like the previous ones, relevant for all programmers.

reikonomusha 8y ago
I don’t like Rich’s appeal to human intuition and the physical world as justification for not using—and even disparaging—mathematical structures. His quote from memory was something like “There’s no such thing as a Maybe Sheep,” and that was aggravating to listen to. He then gives the simplest possible examples, and fails to convince me that his approach scales to the real world. At some point he starts talking about what a “person” is and what an “address” is and, somewhat in jest, he says something like “I know I know addresses are difficult this is just a simple example.” It’s precisely the difficult case that I want to see his “intuitive” view of programming actually work out. Rich is a good speaker but I don’t find the line he toes to be agreeable.
- zengid 8y ago
  He's a genius but I think he's getting bitter about how people are happily sticking with static strongly typed languages. At the end of the day he's trying to sell people on using Clojure, so of course he's going to rip on other languages.
maxhallinan 8y ago
I thought this was one of the notably bad talks this year. The whole premise that a function of Maybe a should be a function of a without an API change is neither intuitive to me nor really justified by Hickey. Different things are different. It's sad to see someone build such a wall around himself when faced by something (type theory) that he doesn't understand.
- chubot 8y ago
  Are you sure that he doesn't understand it, or is it possible that you haven't worked with the same scale of systems he has? Here's my response to his talk, which I found insightful: https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_povjwe https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_povjwe Also, I think your comment suffers from the problem here, where you invoke "type theory" without any elaboration: https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_ioeyob https://lobste.rs/s/zdvg9y/maybe_not_rich_hickey#c_ioeyob Rich has taken the time to explain his thoughts very carefully, and his clear about what his experience is, and domains he is talking about. Whereas I see a lot of vague objections without specifics and that aren't backed up by experience.

localhost 8y ago

"Deep Learning to solve Challenging Problems" by Jeff Dean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzi3cvCde4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jzi3cvCde4 I'll watch Jeff Dean talk about pretty much anything, and his keynote "stump speeches" are more or less a greatest hits compilation of recent stuff from Google Brain.

quaunaut 8y ago

"How to Win" by Daniel Gross[1] It's an approach to living your life in a way that lets you be effective at accomplishing whatever you're after. Starting on something similar to a Mazlow's heirarchy(in that you must establish each level before going to the next one), you eventually find a way of not only living better and more effectively yourself, but finding how to expand that to your team and those around you. I didn't expect it to be good, but I liken it to Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"- it gets to the core of the problem in the best way possible. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH1bewTg-P4

bkgh 8y ago

The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It. But Is It Already Too Late? by Alan Kay https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?Live=28442&bhcp=1 https://videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?Live=28442&bhcp=1

contingencies 8y ago
Kay begins at 4:00.

CorvusCrypto 8y ago

"Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way" by Michael Bryzek [1] Really good discussion on event-collaborative microservice systems that scale well for performance and maintenance as well as a good argument and use case for server and client code generation. Definitely my favorite so far. [1] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infrastructure-cd https://www.infoq.com/presentations/microservices-arch-infra...

ausjke 8y ago
it's said microservice is phasing out to serverless?
- johndubchak 8y ago
  I was under that impression as well, that "Microservice" was now becoming too much boilerplate overhead, inconsistently defined within our industry, and easily misunderstood by those that implement them. Serverless architectures do solve these issues, however they are not a panacea.
- CorvusCrypto 8y ago
  I think more and more it's a case of people realizing there is no definitive "microservice" architecture. Because of that architects around the industry are now focusing on the flow of data and using whichever tools are best to get the right behavior in their business. What was called microservices imo was just a higher level modularization of code to allow easier parallel development and maintenance/scaling, but since it needs a server that meant some boilerplate to initialize and keep the app running. A lot of people went about this in different ways which made things a bit chaotic to those new to the idea I think. The next logical step would be to remove that server code by running on a serverless architecture to focus on the functions that operate on data rather than having to maintain the initialization code and other boilerplate as well. Among all of this advancement, an architect thinking the way Michael Bryzek does would have no problem using either approach since the focus is on the data and how data is used. Still, server-based microservices are still very prominent, and I'd argue they are also much more platform agnostic if done right whereas (if I'm not mistaken) much of serverless is done in specific platforms causing you to be vendor-locked due to different deployment processes for each platform. I think research is being done to make platform-agnostic serverless deployments easier, but I haven't read much on it yet and am unaware of current advancements in that area.

StreamBright 8y ago

2018 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: C. Schafmeister “Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbdXeRBbgDM

lejalv 8y ago

Why Germany cannot and should not pay to save the Eurozone, by Yanis Varoufakis (Video in English) http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/events/seminars/Muenchner-Seminare/Archive/mucsem_20180611_Varoufakis.html http://www.cesifo-group.de/de/ifoHome/events/seminars/Muench...

typon 8y ago
Any talk by Varoufakis is worth listening to.
- danaos 8y ago
  He is a very controversial figure in both Greece and Europe as a whole.
  - halfastack 8y ago
    Controversial in the very least. I also got the impression that he was quite anti-EU with his whole Greece rhetoric during the discussions about another Greek buyout. Maybe I got him wrong..?
    - denerio-a 8y ago
      How could he not be? The people he was negotiating with to try and save Greece were telling him - look, we know you’re right, but we’re going to completely ignore that fact and institute policy that completely fucks the worst off Greeks. Here is an interview that explains his position a bit better than my paraphrasing: https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/yanis-varoufakis-people-were-confused-that-i-didnt-support-brexit https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/yanis-varoufak...
    - elorant 8y ago
      The guy is a jerk. He fucked up in an unprecedented way, his whole negotiation strategy was just a blackmail toward EU-Germany that eventually backfired. In the meantime all his proposals for reforming the public sector were laughable, like the idea of giving cameras to tourists to record tax evading shops. He may be good at writing books or giving lectures but he was a complete disaster as minister of finance.

twunde 8y ago

I really liked Paul Hill's "Failure is not an option: Building a culture of continuous improvement at NASA", the keynote from this year's DashCon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkgk-7aIBc&index=16&list=PLdh-RwQzDsaN-evaS8HbRZW6THM-L4Ine&t=101s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMkgk-7aIBc&index=16&list=PL... It was really nice to see that the current Devops/SRE best practices are reflections of engineering/operations best practices in other fields

Asparagirl 8y ago

“Be Human To Your Machines” — Scott Ganz at TedXSanFrancisco 2018. https://youtu.be/Y6eNSf4br5Y https://youtu.be/Y6eNSf4br5Y Emmy-winning TV comedy writer becomes award-winning AI conversation designer, frets about the dismissive way humans interact with computers and the corrosive social effects of badly-designed bots. Explains why conversation interfaces need to stick up for themselves and push back on bad behavior, for the good of human discourse.

casi18 8y ago

Dave Ackley's Retirement Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzKgTxtVH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzKgTxtVH8

anotheryou 8y ago

The upcoming "chaos communication congress" always has a few gems https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events.html https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events...

chillaxtian 8y ago

AWS re:Invent 2018: Close Loops & Opening Minds: How to Take Control of Systems, Big & Small https://youtu.be/O8xLxNje30M https://youtu.be/O8xLxNje30M

the_duke 8y ago
I haven't seen the talk, but just from the title, a "taking control" talk related to AWS is kind of ironic. I'll have to watch it though.

TaylorAlexander 8y ago

I am really proud of a talk I gave in March about my motivations for designing open source 3D printed robots: https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA And this talk I gave about Starting a Business in Silicon Valley got a lot of traction on HN: https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA https://youtu.be/V6HWLJqTASA

faitswulff 8y ago

I rather enjoyed RustConf 2018's Closing Keynote, "Using Rust For Game Development" by Catherine West: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M I learned about the ECS pattern and got to see some Rust refactoring in action. Previous HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17977906

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brodo 8y ago
This one is one of my favorites of the year too. ECS seems like a pattern which can also be used in other contexts then games. I‘m currently writing a simulation tool and I am considering switching to ECS.
- seventhtiger 8y ago
  Simulations and games are highly integrated and iterative. Having every process be done in frames or steps makes the preservation of information for the next step/frame really important. Systems are also tightly coupled and not easily separated. That's why I like ECS. I also like the EC part to just be a table I can query, and the S system should be very tight and the dependencies should be used explicitly. That way you go around some thing like dynamic ordering of the update function based on object pools and other nonsense.
sn9 8y ago
Jonathon Blow had a really interesting but subtle response to this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk&feature=youtu.be
- brodo 8y ago
  Thanks, very interesting. He is right, the Rust borrow checker can not deal with arbitrary graphs and she added a memory management layer on top of the Rust one. However, you would have to do the same in C++. It is an interesting obervation. I spoke to Benedikt Meurer from the Google V8 team recently and he pointed out the same for Javascript Engines. If you do not have DAGs, Rust can‘t help you with safety. (at least it can not prevent use after free) I still like the whole ECS idea and it makes sense for me that using ECS in Rust will provide a performant and clean architecture.

seba_dos1 8y ago

2018 is not over yet and CCC happening again next week usually delivers talks that place very high in my personal ranking.

bhoflack 8y ago

Teaching kids to code at goto berlin: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=patyK226zeE https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=patyK226zeE

qwertox 8y ago

Not necessarily the best, but definitely one that should be watched "Escaping the Global Banking Cartel" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgI0liAee4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgI0liAee4s

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stormbeard 8y ago

"Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? A: Because Keynote Speakers Make Bad Life Decisions and Are Poor Role Models" James Mickens https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/mickens https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...

m_b 8y ago
This is definitely the most hilarious one, James is a genius.
cheez 8y ago
This guy is a philosopher
- pvarangot 8y ago
  He's fun for sure. Also there are actual philosophers like Jaron Lanier with higher level and more poignant analysis of the same problem that I can't recommend enough as at least a good read.
IshKebab 8y ago
Watched 20 minutes of it. Fairly amusing but if you know anything about machine learning you won't learn anything.
- dethos 8y ago
  You should watch the whole thing.
  - IshKebab 8y ago
    Eh I feel like a talk should tell you one thing that only the speaker knows in the first 20 minutes.
vitaminCPP 8y ago
I understand why some criticizes the lack of depth of Mickens' presentation. But, you got to admit that getting people to be interested in engineering ethics is remarquable.

vishnu_ks 8y ago

Alex Hannold's Ted Talk on how he free soloed El Cap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM6M_7wBMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iM6M_7wBMc Another favorite one of mine was Jimmy Chin talking about how they shot Free Solo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_vvnxZ6I0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq_vvnxZ6I0

krispbyte 8y ago
To other people not getting what free solo is, it means climbing a cliff without ropes.
- Aeolun 8y ago
  I don’t think listening to someone so foolhardy would impress me very much.
  - outside1234 8y ago
    It’s dumb as rocks, agreed. But it’s the massive prep they do and skills they have that make it genius
  - vishnu_ks 8y ago
    I think you missed the point. Alex Honnold didn't woke up one day morning and decided to climb El Cap in the afternoon. He has been preparing for the climb for almost 7 years. He memorized each and every step he would make during the climb. He even abandoned his first solo attempt because the conditions didn't seem to be right. It was never a do or die situation. He wore the same set of clothes throughout the practice sessions and the climb. Everything was done to minimize the risk. For me Alex Honnold's solo is an example of what a Human can achieve with the right amount of practice and preparation.
    - Aeolun 8y ago
      I mean, it’s amazing, don’t get me wrong. I just feel like doing it served no purpose and needlessly put him at risk. To be honest, I thought this was a guy with a wife and children (there was a story earlier about him doing a free solo), since he’s single I guess his life is his own.

jchanimal 8y ago

I enjoyed Juan Benet’s Long Now talk about the permanent web http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/aug/06/long-term-info-structure/ http://longnow.org/seminars/02018/aug/06/long-term-info-stru...

open-source-ux 8y ago

I really liked this talk about the history of programming and how so many ideas we consider recent or modern are in fact much older than many of us realise. Watching this talk merely amplifies the feeling that the programming profession is in a perpetual loop - discarding or forgetting ideas or concepts, then re-discovering them anew. What's also striking is how rich and varied were the programming ideas that emerged from the 60s and 70s. Kevlin Henney - Procedural Programming: It's Back? It Never Went Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE

franky47 8y ago
Although a bit repetitive from one talk to the next, Kevlin Henney's talks are of great quality, both in content and form. If you're interested in a deep analysis on software development behaviours, through patterns either at the code or organisational level, his talks are gold. I particularly enjoyed his take on management analysis, it resonates with a lot of "failure" situations that I had experienced in my previous job: Kevlin Henney - Agility != Speed https://youtu.be/kmFcNyZrUNM https://youtu.be/kmFcNyZrUNM

aeleos 8y ago

Recent but great talk posted here, What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System [1] by Prof. Michael Levin. He talks about how long term low energy electrical networks between all cells in living organisms shape how the organism grows. I think what he talks about will be the future of medicine as it allows for an amazing degree of high level control over how animals grow. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg

kajecounterhack 8y ago
+1000 Really cool talk / highly recommend! Some things you might learn / amazing facts: - Children 7-11 can regrow fingertips - Planarians (a kind of flatworm) are immortal - If you teach a planarian to find "home", chop off its head and let it regrow its brain, it will still remember where home is Note also that this was presented at NeurIPS so the talk also includes some discussion of non-neural information systems this kind of thing could inspire.
inevrela 8y ago
Oh boy, this is cool!
kilburn 8y ago
Wow, just wow! I've often felt that we (humanity) have pushed the boundaries of our knowledge right to some really hard lines to cross: relativity won't allow interstellar travel anytime soon, we are making progress in "soft AI" but "hard AI" is still insurmountable, even fusion seems as far as it's always been. Further "real" progress seems sometimes nearly impossible, or very arduous and slow at best. Then this guy shows up, cuts a frog's leg, shines some weird lights on the wound... and the frog regenerates it! (frogs do not normally regenerate legs). This has been really astonishing to me. I hope this whole research area lives up to my excitement after listening to that talk, because really awesome things may come out of it. I highly recommend this talk to literally anybody who has scientific curiosity en general!
- aeleos 8y ago
  I definitely agree with you, this feels like REAL progress. I feel like this is a revolution in our understanding of how life as a collection of cells is able to function with such repeat ability and reliability. What is even more amazing is how this talk isn't even just going over our lack of understanding in this area, its saying hey everyone we just filled in this massive gap in our understanding, and look at what real things we can do with it. It does feel like this research crosses a big line in science. Especially with the recent articles about how gene editing can cause weird defects that we don't understand, this shows we don't need to tinker at the lower levels when life already has the tools for higher level control.

rosiesherry 8y ago

This one struck a chord for me, related to trying to share your personal/health situation at work, not a topic that is talked about alot - https://ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/i-have-a-secret-anusha-nirmalananthan https://ministryoftesting.com/dojo/lessons/i-have-a-secret-a...

abledon 8y ago

joe rogan and jake the snake

walterbell 8y ago

The 2018 Turing Award lecture, by John Hennessy (MIPS, Stanford, Alphabet) and David Patterson (Berkeley, RISC) https://iscaconf.org/isca2018/turing_lecture.html https://iscaconf.org/isca2018/turing_lecture.html > Titled “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development,” the talk covers recent developments and future directions in computer architecture. Hennessy and Patterson were recognized with the Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.”

cpeterso 8y ago

Jeff Vogel from Spiderweb Software gave an awesome retrospective on 24 years of creating old-school-style fantasy RPGs at GDC 2018: "Failing to Fill: The Spiderweb Software Way" https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs https://youtu.be/stxVBJem3Rs

cpeterso 8y ago

A walk through of PDF's history and file format, check out Chas Emerick's 2018 Red Monk tech talk: "Building 100 year systems in the shadow of PDF". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPn6plqkEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EPn6plqkEs

ArtWomb 8y ago

Inside The Fake Science Factory from DefCon 26. First you'll laugh. And then you'll weep for humanity! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ras_VYgA77Q Also really dug Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Outlines the rollout of a possible new engineering platform consisting of free energy, satellite internet, and AI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA Keep the links coming, please. Terrific counter-programming for holiday down time ;)

sn9 8y ago

Some of my favorite talks from Strange Loop: * Contracts For Getting More Programs Less Wrong: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/contracts-for-getting-more-programs-less-wrong.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/contracts-for-getting-mo... * "It's Just Matrix Multiplication": Notation for Weaving: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/its-just-matrix-multiplication-notation-for-weaving.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/its-just-matrix-multipli... * Hackett: a metaprogrammable Haskell: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/hackett-a-metaprogrammable-haskell.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/hackett-a-metaprogrammab... * Git from the Ground Up: https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/git-from-the-ground-up.html https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2018/git-from-the-ground-up.h... From PyCon: * Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYucYon2-lk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYucYon2-lk * Dataclasses: The code generator to end all code generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TwcmT6Rcw * Automating Code Quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lDk_WKXvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1lDk_WKXvY There are probably more I might add later as I remember them.

vitaminCPP 8y ago
> "Beyond Unit Tests: Taking Your Testing to the Next Level" +1 Very interesting. I will make sure to check the `Hypothesis` module.

agentultra 8y ago

I thought Hillel Wayne's talk, Everything about distributed systems is terrible, was probably the best talk for the motivation behind why you should be using TLA+ to design systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnldxWlOhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfnldxWlOhM

RickJWagner 8y ago

My favorite talk was called "Generations @ Work", presented at Red Hat Summit 2018. It was about different generations in the workplace, what each grouping typically liked, disliked, was motivated by, and how they communicated differently. I really liked it because of the content, but also because it was given by a small panel, I was a member of it. :) Why did I propose such a talk? I usually submit technical talks to conferences, sometimes they are chosen. This year I did NOT have a technical talk selected by the Summit committee, but on a whim I had submitted this 'softball/managerial' title. It was the one that got me a ticket to Summit! You never know.

smilesnd 8y ago

I love any talk with Joe Armstrong or Alan Kay in it. Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ

lamby 8y ago

I quite liked Johann Hari on Sam Harris's podcast on addiction, depression, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msP0-NqRhZE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msP0-NqRhZE

dplgk 8y ago

Sam Harris talks to leading AI theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky about why humanity will probably be killed off by AI (if not by something else first) https://youtu.be/AaNLX71Hl88 https://youtu.be/AaNLX71Hl88

joaovitor 8y ago

It is not only about the content but the energy and how to present it. They rock presenting great content in a great way. --- Monica Dinculescu (https://github.com/notwaldorf https://github.com/notwaldorf) PWA starter kit: build fast, scalable, modern apps with Web Components (Google I/O '18) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3lLo-UFtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3lLo-UFtk --- Kelsey Hightower (https://github.com/kelseyhightower/ https://github.com/kelseyhightower/) Keynote: Kubernetes and the Path to Serverless - Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNa3xK2GFKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNa3xK2GFKY

suyash 8y ago

Machine Learning for JS Developers : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xm8ox1mmzE&frags=pl%2Cwn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xm8ox1mmzE&frags=pl%2Cwn

throwaway010718 8y ago

It's not a talk, but worth a mention. Joe Rogan interviews Matthew Walker, a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Founder and Director of the Center for Human Sleep Science and author of the book "Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

allenleein 8y ago

Peter Thiel on Trump, Gawker, and Leaving Silicon Valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t5prZD57s&t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0t5prZD57s&t

simonebrunozzi 8y ago

Most articles on Idlewords.com

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notoriousjpg 8y ago

I thought this was incredible: What's Next for Marketplace Startups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl14Ty5-0Ko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl14Ty5-0Ko Great explanation of this space and their views on augmenting existing regulated markets.

unixhero 8y ago

Joe Rogan has had an incredible year. Joe Rogan interviews Dr. Andrew Weil https://youtu.be/WjYYdMNUXF8 https://youtu.be/WjYYdMNUXF8 Joe Rogan interviews Elon Musk https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI https://youtu.be/ycPr5-27vSI Joe Rogan interviews James Hetfield https://youtu.be/5O6QPTawR14 https://youtu.be/5O6QPTawR14

raghava 8y ago

Blockchains Are a Bad Idea (James Mickens) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI I find almost all from GOTO 2018 very insightful. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=goto+2018 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=goto+2018 esp ones listed below. GOTO 2018 • The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTM_b7EJg5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTM_b7EJg5E GOTO 2018 • Pragmatic Event-Driven Microservices • Allard Buijze https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd_0zGxsIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd_0zGxsIU GOTO 2018 • Why Business Cases are Toxic • Chris Matts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOcjmpPQCc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvOcjmpPQCc GOTO 2018 • Unconditional Code • Michael Feathers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ0uTOerUI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnZ0uTOerUI

einstand 8y ago

Eugenia Cheng: "The Art of Logic: How to Make Sense in a World that Doesn't" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHZKX0H6cUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHZKX0H6cUE I saw an other version at Scala Exchange but that one requires registration [1] and it's seems to be almost the same talk. It's very impressive summary of her latest book ("The Art Of Logic") about the importance of abstract logic in every day life and how abstraction can help us to understand each other (together with emotions). [1]: https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/12089-keynote-conveying-the-power-of-abstraction https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/12089-keynote-conveying...

bibek547 8y ago

I made a playlist of all the youtube links form this section: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6DLqe0B3ZCLi1bYvQrnYPeTYjB5OrNF https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh6DLqe0B3ZCLi1bYvQrn...

dawid-s 8y ago
Thank you