skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Promiscuous" also has a long history in computer networking. E.g. network cards with "promiscuous mode" (allowing it to receive all available packets rather than only passing on packets with the correct address; not as relevant any more, but was commonly used to sniff packets on a hub, but also to implement aliases). Commitment is non-sexual and often used in all kinds of contexts that does not imply anything sexual.

But I agree with you that no matter whether you are ok with the terms, calling it slut shaming is just strange.

I also agree with you that acting like a jerk would be a better reason for banning someone. But I'd also argue that "outing" him is worse than the alleged behaviour in that respect - if they're going to punish him for what has been reported, then they also ought to punish that kind of public shaming that pretty much makes it impossible for said person to get fair treatment.
Sturdy beam is a great idea. Better to rip off the top of the Truck, and maybe give one driver whiplash, than to take down an entire bridge. Surprised it isn't the default case where bridges are at risk.
Not to mention what is going on around the world.

Imagine being German. My friend, she is German, living in Germany. Her very young sister (barely a teenager) was sexually assaulted at their community swimming pool by migrant refugees. Of course, on the one hand, migrant refugees of German descent could also commit this dastardly behaviour, but on the other hand, speaking out against allowing refugees is seen as politically incorrect in both Germany and globally. That answers the question here.

My friend says she used to go to that neighbourhood swimming pool without her parents - because they had lifeguards there, and everyone felt safe letting their kids go there. Now, no locals go there, according to her -- and especially not children -- after that happened.

Somehow we live in this world where the above ultra-tolerant politics exist, yet I sat on an airplane with a 20-something hispanic women's studies girl who told me "yea but my neighbourhood is ghetto," and as she described it, she said "you'd be beat real bad if ya' ever came through there," and I said "wow, that's a shame," and she said, "no, it's right that way, because you discriminated against us so it's right that now we are taking what's ours and if you or your people come to my neighbourhood you will be shown what's up." No one bats an eye at that, WTF is this shit. How did it come to be that our media, politicians and education is shaping the world in this way?

The real scary thing is, even just saying this, I have this real fear of pressing enter, that someone will take this post and label me, somehow, through some twisted logic, a racist, and that my career, friendships, and life will be ruined.
I would say that this does in some way gratify my intellectual curiosity. I hope to never find myself in this situation, but it's good to have some guidelines if I ever do.
What you are saying makes no sense and certifiably wrong because a team of experts recommended changing the standard to ensure min height is always reported, not max height.
Controlling the volume wasn't obvious to me at first - or maybe key parts weren't rendering? - so for any others maybe similarly confused, drag the red box to the right of the Volume label left and right.
That must have taken its toll on you. I'm glad you did the right thing by those families. No-one should have to learn about something like that by text or impersonal phone call.
Signal to noise ratio, in comments and in content both. I was a loyal Slashdot reader (and comment lurker) for many years before coworkers introduced me to HN. I was stunned with the high-signal qualities of the main page results--I almost never visit without reading multiple links off the main page. The selection of what is currently considered interesting by the mods/voting process fairly closely maps to interests of my own. I like, among other things, that 'old' articles and links are permitted, but signposted that they're not current.

And yes, the comment threads are healthier than elsewhere, and the signal ratio tends to be high enough to be worth reading from time to time. I don't read comments every day, but I do read Ask HN posts from time to time, and on particularly current and relevant articles. Likely enough to find interesting discussion contributing to the topic to be worth the time reading.

So yes, HN is one of my top visited sites now, and has pretty much completely supplanted reading Slashdot...I've gone from visiting ./ multiple times per day to looking it up once a month when I'm bored, just on the off chance they picked up something I'd missed elsewhere.
Inkscape is defiantly software where reading the manual is a good idea. I tried to use it with out doing so, and found it unusable.
I suppose having only 2.5k characters available at a time on the tray means it would be used like a cache --- presumably the rarer ones would be kept somewhere else and swapped in as needed.
> If your system is well and truly FUBAR, to the point that all but /sbin is gone, and termcap's missing, you need to know how ed works.

I would agree with this a 10+ years ago, but I think we created better technologies since. I'd rather say that if your system is so broken you should know how to 1) snapshot it for analysis, 2) replace from original image, or orchestration. Using ed may be fun, but why not just move the snapshot to a working system instead? And apart from massive filesystem corruption, why would we ever lose /sbin in production in the first place?
You are too dismissive. It seems that one can conceptualize natural selection in terms of a multidimensional fitness function that modulates over each iteration. Then one might ask whether, given our current understanding of processes of inheritance, the complexity we observe could have evolved by those processes given the age of the earth. If not, then our understanding of evolution is either incomplete, or our evolution was 'helped along' by an intelligence, which btw is not an appeal to supernatural intelligence, but alien intelligence. Naturally these last are unlikely, but that is not the point. The point is that the question is legitimate.
Pilot car should have backup Radar/Lidar as well as the antenna to detect if no sufficient clearance. Likewise, there should be constant electronic Comms back to oversized load, with deadmans trigger + visual cue if the insufficient clearance height is hit. You can add the (almost certainly to be 100x less reliable) human in the chain if you want, but that should be in addition, not instead of.

The Oversized truck should also have an electronic map, which captures cautions regarding height speed issues along every part of the trip.

Simple technology, with a bit of process, could eliminate about 95% of these errors that likely exist today.

Of course, that 5% will still bite from time to time.
This kind of petty, childish nonsense is why I find the whole talk/conference community awful. Which is a shame because there are good talks that are given all the time. But those can be watched online without having to deal with people who get outraged over the kinds of harmless comments quoted in this post.
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Both heights should be available. If only one number is to be reported, then yes, report the lowest height. But, for more advanced scenarios, such as electronic Maps, you should report the lane heights as appropriate.
I find the fact people continue to support these conferences quite disturbing.

Things are not going to change until people, including speakers pull out of conferences that display this sort of behaviour.
This is exactly what I use it for. When I'm ssh'd into a server without my vim config, I prefer to use nano simply because I'm so used to my own vim. Using any other vim config is actually difficult, especially since I'm not actually that knowledgable about vim.

Nano takes the cake in this situation. It's everywhere, it's easy.
Good luck. A DDoS is basically lots of traffic. Perhaps run IPX? (Joking)
Somewhat related: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
The "C" designation actually means "confidential", which is one of the levels of classification, the other common ones being "secret" and "top secret".

"[Confidential] is defined as information that would 'damage' national security if publicly disclosed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_...
If you think Altium is bad, you've never used Orcad.

If you think Orcad is good, you've never used Eagle.
Thanks for the (double :-) ) explanation! This kind of capability in PowerShell is definitely interesting.
one of the buttons crashed out my firefox, I'm liking the 3d asciisector thing it's showing at the moment though :O
> it's important to note that Douglas Crockford can definitely be abrasive [1]. The issue at hand is that whether this abrasiveness is a bad thing, when compared to the contributions he's made and whether it leads to constructive discussions.

I'm not sure what bearing, if any, one's contributions should have on how individuals or communities respond to behaviour and "abrasiveness". Good deeds should obviously be respected and appreciated, however they should not shelter one from criticism.

> automatically associating Douglas's personality with being a jerk.

Being a jerk is usually associated with one's personality.

> By allowing certain viewpoints to dominate and silence a subset of speakers, we're ultimately limiting our views and building an echo chamber,

One could argue that by enabling abrasive and overpowering personalities and cults of celebrity to dominate these events we were already doing that.

> If we're going to dismiss speakers, it should be on merit of their talk and previous talks, not their speaking style.

I would think speaking style matters at least somewhat if one is planning on speaking.
This seems to be the source she is referring to: https://github.com/tqh/haiku-efi/tree/master/src/libs/icon/f..., specifically the FlatIconFormat class. Some of the most interesting deconstructions and experiments have come out of The Recurse Center, great learning experiences and blog posts by these students. I found the concept of the format interesting in how it meets the goals of being modern (a vector format) while staying slim for disk reads (optimizing the format specifically for icons). Lastly the usability aspect is tackled by creating an icon editor specifically for the format. In the creator's blog post, he notes that creators might not be able to take full advantage of the format because they might not know how the it works, but I think it's fine since the format constrains the palette anyway.
There's a lot in EE that's nothing to do with hardware per se. Like digital communications and signal processing.

EEs also study computer architecture and OS internals in detail, depending on one's emphasis.
There are perfectly legitimate reasons to put a network interface controller into promiscuous mode [1], and it's nothing to be ashamed of, and perfectly acceptable to discuss at conferences.

Back in the "bad old days" of the simplex NCP protocol [2], before the duplex TCP/IP protocol legalized same-sex network connections, connect and listen sockets had gender defined by their parity, and all connections were required to use sockets with different parity gender (one even and the other odd -- I can't remember which was which, or if it even mattered -- they just had to be different).

The act of trying to connect an even socket to another even socket, or an odd socket to another odd socket, was considered a "peculiar error" called "homosocketuality", which was strictly forbidden by internet protocols, and mandatory "heterosocketuality" was called the "Anita Bryant feature".

Anita Bryant [3] slut shamed not only all gays but even Jim Morrison. It's not like Douglas Crockford held a "Rally for Decency" at the Orange Bowl to slut shame a popular poet and performance artist [4]. Just throw a pie in his face [5] and move on.

http://www.saildart.org/IMPSER.DOC[SS,SYS]

When the error code is zero, the next 8 bit byte is the Stanford peculiar error code, followed by 72 bits of the ailing command returned. Here are the Stanford error codes. [...]

IGN	3	Illegal Gender (Anita Bryant feature--sockets must be heterosocketual, ie. odd to even and even to odd) [...]

Illegal gender in RFC, host hhh/iii, link 0

The host is trying to engage us in homosocketuality. Since this is against the laws of God and ARPA, we naturally refuse to consent to it.

http://www.saildart.org/FTP.NCP[S,NET]

; Try to initiate connection

loginj:
init log,17
sixbit /IMP/
0
jrst noinit
setzm conecb
setom conecb+lsloc
move ac3,hostno
movem ac3,conecb+hloc
setom conecb+wfloc
movei ac3,40
movem ac3,conecb+bsloc
move ac3,consck
trnn ac3,1
jrst gayskt ; only heterosocketuals can win!
movem ac3,conecb+fsloc
mtape log,[
=15
byte (6) 2,24,0,7,7
] ; Time out CLS, RFNM, RFC, and INPut

[...]

gayskt: outstr [asciz/Homosocketuality is prohibited (the Anita Bryant feature)

/]

ife rsexec,<jrst rstart;>exit 1,

(The PDP-10 code above adds the connect and listen socket numbers together, which results in bit 0 being 0 if they are the same gender, then TRNN is "test bits right, no change, skip if non zero", which skips the next instruction (jrst gayskt) if they different sex.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promiscuous_mode

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Control_Program

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Bryant

[4] http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jim-morrison-prom...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-A2Ql81WTY
> to assume that no other animal has self awareness or even emotions.

No other animal other than monkey? I don't think monkeys have self awareness either.

It's because animals don't communicate anything about themself, their signals are mostly based on pattern matching and direct response to events. They never communicate anything showing any evidence of an internal state.

They only communicate in response to external events, and maybe sensations from their bodies.

Even the chimps that did sign language never communicated anything showing any kind of internal state. (For example they never asked questions - events and things simply were.)

Emotions though, I agree animals have emotions. For example that sign-language chimp expressed sadness.

For animals to have self awareness they would have to show they are "thinking about something" - and I don't mean thinking about a solution to a direct goal for a problem in front of them.
> If parent had talked about military or police, would you have posed the same question?

If he had talked about the military, yes I would have posed the same question. That people in the US seem to be okay with paramilitaristic private companies is beyond my understanding, but I was not criticizing this here. I am honestly interested in his motivation, because I cannot think of anything I would do with these consequences attached. Maybe when not doing it would make it even worse, but I do not think this applies here. There is another thread where a doctor describes the same horrors, but his motivation is clearly that sometimes his actions can actually avoid this. Yes a soldier could save his friends in a battle, too, but to me the most effective way would be to convince his friends to not go to the battle in the first place, maybe even by leading by example.

> Well, you do seem judgemental.

As seen above, I am a bit, at least I might have a different view on things. Still you can talk to each other and my question is not political but emotional: Just how can you keep going?

If he had talked about the police with this number of losses, I would also ask how you can keep going and not become either depressed or politically active. While there are police deaths, that many OP is describing here are not normal if you look at international statistics, since OP does not seem to be some sort of national police chief, who has to visit every relative of a dead officer and I guess would already be a kind of politician trying to solve the issue.
Bootstrap v4 provides an opinion to use flex box instead of the traditional grid.

http://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/getting-started/flexbox/
There is an absolute zero percent chance that these morons have heard of promiscuous mode. That was my first thought as well.

Eventually they'll get to that. Hopefully they'll denounce TCP as a result and remove themselves from the internet.
Most of my professional experience has been with Orcad, and the folks who write that tend to write it for people who pay good money for it. Generally, those people tend to be in the semiconductor industry. As a result, there are a ton of features in the Cadence suite that are highly optimized for that industry. That doesn't make them easy for laymen to use. It just makes it easier for the people who are keeping Cadence in business.

That's my read on it, anyway. Anyone who figures out a way to make EE CAD software better and easier to use stands to do well for themselves.
How can tor nodes be used for that?

Tor exposes a SOCKS interface, you can't control TCP/IP with the level of detail needed to perform these attacks.
Strange, confusing site. Sort of fun to explore though.
I can't resist being pedantic here. Nodevember's shitty tweet does not likely fall under "libel" because it's not a falsehood. It may be considered defamatory (and libel is a kind of defamation), in the way that "We've decided not to invite Douglas Crockford because we want to maintain an environment where children aren't abused" can be technically true but defamatory by insinuation.

I justify being pedantic here, though, because the justice system is not just a binary system of "Someone got hurt, and now someone will pay in a court of law". Other common-sense factors are taken into consideration (such as the magnitude of alleged defamation, and whether the defendant is a public figure). And in terms of how things are regardless of U.S. civil law, the reality is that Douglas Crockford is Douglas Crockford. Just because some relative nobodies said hurtful things to him and he got disinvited from a privately-run conference doesn't mean he needs to turn to the justice system to find recourse. As we speak, whoever is running Nodevember's Twitter account is probably wishing they were running @CincinnatiZoo, post-Harambe. And the people who made allegations against Crockford are likely getting death threats and other things hurled their way. I'm not implying that I, or Crockford, think that this is the way things should be, but unless Crockford can conclusively argue that being shunned by Nodevember has destroyed his livelihood, arguing that Crockford deserves legal recourse against personally harmful speech would require some radical revamping of First Amendment rights.
It is a guitar effects pedal: http://dawnerprince.com/products/boonar
I tried to get the thing to play Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy talk... Couldn't get the thing to work.
Ask HN: Is wanting to be a VC a red flag for a startup hire?
I've noticed a fair number of people trying to work in the startup space are quite set on going into VC ("eventually"). Have you ever hired such a person? How did it go?
Indeed, his aversion for comments in data-exchange formats is much more grounds for excommunication. He's also a code-style nazi. And sjeesh, his hangups on the keywords 'new' and 'class', yes, we know, Javascript is not Java, but they're just shorthand dude, what's in a name and such, get over it. Or the deranged second half of "The Good Parts", where he earnestly assumes a linter implementation is a good introduction to a programming language. And stop already with shoving all those functional programming paradigms down JS coders throats; you're goading us on to write inscrutable, nested C-syntax vomit, without having any of the advantages of a real functional language, like you know, type safety, strict compilers, decent performance. He's both Javascript's best friend and worst enemy.

I'm joking of course. The Good Parts is amazing, and JSON is amazing. The attendees of nodevember will miss out on an amazing speaker too.
Stay away from multimode stuff, unless you are doing 100G inside data centers.

Single mode cable is cheaper and the optics are about the same for all use cases other than very short range 100G.

10G Etherner SFP+ modules aren't $100 a pop, it's more like $20-40 from third party providers. You can also do better than $0.33/ft for 12 count outdoor fiber.

100G optics are $400 for multimode and $1500 for singlemode. You gonna pay a lot more for switch or router ports tho.
Ok, I know this is pedantic, but grumbling is not shouting swear words - in fact it's the opposite of shouting.
In their code of conduct, the conference states, in part:

Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.

Crockford appears not to be a good match, even on just abrasiveness grounds alone. Though it would have been better to determine that before inviting him.
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It depends on what you want to fix.

The 11'8 bridge does indeed seem a lost cause as far as preventing people from ruining their overheight vehicles. But the problem for the bridge has been solved: they installed a beam in front of the bridge which takes the impact.

The same sort of thing could be done with this bridge. Install a sturdy beam ahead of the structural bits. You won't stop people from driving overheight vehicles onto the bridge, but you will stop them from destroying the bridge in the process.
If there is subresource integrity, then is there a problem with that per se?
Retro internet. So I upvote without thinking.
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I ended up watching more videos from the site.
Following time and following distance are linearly related. Either way, it's less than half.
A red flag for what danger? Sounds like they're pretty dedicated to making themselves a lot of money to achieve that goal, presumably via working for your startup. I don't see why that would be a red flag at all; rather, they're probably going to be willing to work hard to realize that goal.
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> If he actually did something wrong, take him to court and let the facts be decided in law. Otherwise, he's innocent and should be treated as such.

This is hilariously ridiculous. Being unprofessional, uncivilised or objectionable is not illegal. In fact the majority of reasons for someone to be fired do not involve breaches of the law. And even if it was illegal conduct e.g. sexual harassment the onus is on the accuser to have enough evidence to convict. Which is not always the case.

And no he doesn't have a libel case against the organisers.
Unrelated to the general tone of the thread but:

My biggest problem with this Taleb piece is that it doesn't really take into account the probability of success from a particular intolerant minority. In practice there's a kind of signal-strength effect where the further up the chain you go the less effective any one person becomes. Once you factor that into the model Taleb's argument falls apart.
The next best thing to holo-signs: A visual barrier, but won't actually harm you if you hit it.
I'm generally interested in why you think it's a terrible word in the aesthetic sense? thx.
New Report Blames High Costs for Bitcoin Mining Centralization
I worked on maintaining this software quite a few years back. It was quite innovative when first released.
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This makes me want to buy a Dawner Prince effects pedal and I don't even play guitar anymore. Pretty effective advertising.

As a side note, the Look Closer button consistently crashes my browser (firefox 48.0.1). Anyone else having the same issue?
You have to click on the comment's timestamp to go to its page. Then (assuming the comment is [dead]) you'll see a 'vouch' link at the top. That's the same place where the 'flag' links for comments appear. If the comment isn't [dead], there's no 'vouch' link, because the reason to vouch for comments is to resurrect them from [dead].