skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess you'll never be allowed to speak at this conference after a comment like this...

> There are perfectly legitimate reasons to put a network interface controller into promiscuous mode

Absolutely - for a long time it was the only way of adding multiple IP address aliases on a single network card in Linux for example (might hav been the same on other OS's - I don't know).

I once had someone imply we were trying to hack because our web servers had the network cards in promiscuous mode for that reason (of course this was a genuine concern - they could not verify the difference between someone innocently adding IP aliases and someone listening in on the mostly unencrypted traffic intended for the other servers connected to the same hub (I don't miss hubs...)
Anything is possible: "After you read the New York Times over breakfast, a drone comes to pick it up, and you resell it as a fire starter."
We've moved off vultr. Too many network down times for no known reason and hard reboots on our servers causing loss of data. A friend has had similar experiences. Their support was also poor.
Because we all adopted codes of conduct that assume we're easily agitated children, and then took them seriously.
I realize I'm replying to a 2 weeks old comment, so nobody will read this ever, but from your list sndio supports: streaming audio over a network, user-land mixing of audio sources, mixing of multiple audio streams at the same time,
and per application volume settings.

> Per application input/output source settings

No, but the input/output device is selectable per application via the AUDIODEVICE environment variable.

> bluetooth audio devices

OpenBSD has no bluetooth support, so no. I'm also wondering why the kernel wouldn't create audio devices from these that the userland daemon can then just transparently use? Does an audio daemon need special support for bluetooth audio devices?

The sndio daemon has more features. Give the man page a read if you're interested:
http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man8/sndiod.8
There is a simple explanation for this. NodeJS is a popular new environment; it's much more likely that a developer starting today will survey the job market, and choose to pursue NodeJS. It's very likely that a developer starting today belongs to a younger generation.

Generationally, these concepts of triggers and safe spaces are almost exclusively limited to younger generations.

Therefore, if younger people are choosing Node, and they're the people who believe in this nonsense, you're going to have some overlap there.
Up voted, and seconded. Last pass is great for group sharing as well.
As mentioned above, the vote has been made - but is not legally binding. I completely agree that one should respect the vote of the voters - after all, isn't that one of the basis of our western political systems?

On the other hand, what if the electorate did not vote out of protest, was misinformed by the politicians or media, or simply not educated enough to make the proper choice? Apart from the shocking failure of an established western democracy to make a good economical and political choice, what are the consequences at stake here?

For our startup, for instance, it means that we considered dropping potential R&D partners from the UK. For the UK economy, the consequences might be devastating.

In general, I am all for removing UK's special privileges, and their counterproductive attitude towards the EU. But I also do not want to see them go. The EU would loose a member state, and the UK might desintegrate (Northern Ireland and Scotland sure want to stay in the EU!).
These aren't norms and they aren't new the subject has changed but this is exactly the level of thought policing that true liberals used to fight and even die for.

This is no different than the puritans or any other group that wish to enforce their own opinions at the expense of everyone else.
"The ADA? What on earth could the ADA have to do with a PC making a beep? Well it turns out that at some point in the intervening 25 years, the Win32 Beep() was used for assistive technologies – in particular the sounds made when you enable the assistive technologies like StickyKeys were generated using the Beep() API. There are about 6 different assistive technology (AT) sounds built into windows, their implementation is plumbed fairly deep inside the win32k.sys driver.

But why does that matter? Well it turns out that many enterprises (both governments and corporations) have requirements that prevent them from purchasing equipment that lacks accessible technologies and that meant that you couldn’t sell computers that didn’t have beep hardware to those enterprises."

Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2010/01/04/wh... (search for ADA)
The XEN update was a scheduled thing -- I got an email about it weeks ago (had one linode I hadn't moved to KVM), and it was already scheduled for this weekend.

That said, I don't disagree that the attackers might be trying to distract the team while they exploit that... though I don't see what it gets them compared to quietly exploiting the XEN issues before they were common knowledge on 9/8.
> Not sure what the solution is, but it's just an observation.

You're constrained (enabled) by the competitive strategy your HCS employs: cost leadership (e.g. Wal-Mart), differentiation (e.g. Apple), or focus (e.g. Southwest Airlines). [0] Strategic focus allows companies to better align their incentives with culture, and it seems to work better.

If your HCS doesn't fall in one of these categories, compensation's even more difficult to solve. On HN, you'll hear a lot of large tech companies (targetting differentiation) claim to have solved ranking and performance compensation when a simple look at Glassdoor and critiques of the trade-off call these claims into question.

The bottom line is that executives have a set budget to allocate and never enough data, yet they also have to make a decision. Thus, you can only get a good (bad) solution and never a perfect solution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter%27s_generic_strategies
Strikes me that you could turn this around somewhat...

When people are publishing what they want, that looks to be a good starting point for travel/lodging companies to come in and make offers to these folks.

"You're looking to stay in Bucharest on Sept 18 and 19? Our hotel can offer you XZY for $ABC on those nights."

Sort of like lendingtree-model for travel. Not quite sure why that's not taken off yet, other than, perhaps, larger company IT systems?

This could possibly work well for smaller regions - contact a local chamber of commerce and have them have all the local businesses make offers to people looking to stay in areas on specific days.

Basically... define a format and let them integrate with you if they want access to the market you've defined, not the other way around.
Sounds like you are an outlier in terms of your tolerance for sugar or the negative health effects. Maybe you aren't in the best position to evaluate what is the best broad policy to be imposed by the government on everyone.
I mentioned the "non-coding" related politics which seem to be deeply rooted in JS-based communities.
If you want to use it for complex things, sure, there's no end of potential features. If you need some logic with your data, I like Lua.

Say some more about this. I look at YAML as a way to do data exchange, like using JSON/SON. How does Lua fit into this?
"Other grain."
That's what these diversity groups do, they insert themselves into the process and then act as the new gatekeepers.
Not saying anything about that. When I say "transparency" I mean it's public. Not putting any other value in the word.
Well, most of my friends and acquaintances are women and it's not uncommon for them to say stuff like "I need to grow a pair" or "I need to just man up" if they think they're being a bit unconfident. They're very gendered phrases and I must admit to finding it a bit strange hearing women say them, but it does demonstrate that they've become pretty neutralised in modern parlance.
Those countries aren't stupid. Surely they already know of Tor's applications here. Certainly China puts significant effort into blocking it, for one example I'm familiar with.
It's not a worthy goal, no. It's an actively harmful goal. It takes simply working on a good project to be so overly politicized that everyone has to be constantly on their toes about what they do or say and their priority is becoming pleasing the SJW overlords of their project instead of just doing good work. I'm all for anyone who wants to contribute contributing, but scanning code for words that might offend someone is not contribution, it's childish whining.
It is an extremely common tactic in online discussions to take violent offense to the least charitable possible interpretation of a post, in order to paint someone you disagree with as an idiot.

For example, having read my post, one might actually try to understand the point I was trying to make OR one might imply that I was incapable of understanding the concept of logical contradiction, for the sake of making a point. I was calling out wyager for that behavior.

I invite you to step back and think about which party is using "rhetorical tricks" in bad faith, here. And think about your own post while you're at it.
> Even though people didn't meant to offend, harass or shame other people.

That's the thing - people who shame others are not looking at intent behind actions; they're getting offended by shallow interpretations (a sign of insecurity). Any reasonable person looking at Crockford making his "weak" joke would not think his intention was to harass physically weak people.

This kind of shit is also why you see people like /r/the_donald aggressively provoking and fighting back against these so-called "SJW's" - the pendulum has swung way too far the opposite way.
Phrase.it - speech bubble photo app.

Built it a couple of years ago but lost interest. Still used by 100+ users per day. Ping me at Contact@phrase.it
Isn't that what rot13 is for? A think a special compiler switch, along the lines of -Drot13, would work just fine for people who have special needs like that.
For all the flak Chicago gets in the news for gun deaths, on a per capita basis it's fun death rate is actually a lot better than many other cities in the US.

http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/01/gun-violence-us-citi...
>We've evolved a way of dealing and working with each other that assumes a certain physical world. That world no longer exists.

Couldn't agree with this more. It's going to be interesting to see how things play out.
For my Espresso machine it's going to be a Sikorsky CH-53 drone ;) These are heavy buggers.
One of the documents is 38 pages and the other is 20 pages. Were there are emotions such as immigration and especially illegal immigration, it is important to provide the data and answer the exact question which I could not see the proper distribution.

“The facts support the application of Ricardo’s theory to immigration. Skilled immigrants lower the wages of skilled natives, and unskilled immigrants lower the wages of unskilled natives. … In contrast, in the United States, which takes in a far higher percentage of low-skilled immigrants than the U.K. does, it is unskilled wages that have stayed low: the income of unskilled workers has barely kept pace with inflation for the last forty years.” -- Tim Harford: The Undercover Economist (2nd ed) p. 30
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199926514/

Financial Times columnist Harford has a BS & MS Economics Oxford

The question is: For people whose parents were born in the US without a high school education and also without a college education, and including those who have no income because they can't get a job is there wage growth or a decrease?

It is economists that state that immigrants who are uneducated displace those citizens who are working class.
Algorithm design – Can we exchange the permutation of a sponge construction?
I use YAML as human-editable JSON - especially for non-programmers (although it's surely more pleasant to write even for programmers).

I would like a clearly documented YAML subset that left out some of the more complex stuff and avoided a few 'more than one way to do it' features. That would go a long way to removing some of the criticism of YAML with very little cost in functionality.
Neural Plasticity of Other-Race Recognition [pdf]
"self-deprecating" was the one I was thinking of right after I hit 'post'.

"weather" jokes can take on a regional-aspect, potentially insulting or offending people in a particular region. And... I don't think I'm being too reaching in that reading, especially if (as we're lead to believe) "the web used to be promiscuous" is somehow 'slut shaming'. People can really find anything to be offended about.

I'm sort of wondering if people have always been 'offended' by many things, and we've only just grown the communication platforms to really expose the victims, or if we've really just found more things to be offended about.
Sometimes I wonder if these groups are false flags. I know they aren't, but perhaps it is better to say they are their own parody. There are serious issues out there, discrimination is alive and has been demonstrated in studies, statistics, etc. Garbage like this makes a mockery of the whole thing, the real hurt and issues gets mixed in with this trash and gives some people, I'm sure, solace that all of it is just a tempest in a teapot, and there are no real issues out there.

Groups and fake controversies like this distract from real issues of discrimination. They do more harm to inclusive movements than good.
You make a great point about TV. I'd like to go farther.

We've evolved to function in small tribal groups, and that we instinctively want to do so in all sorts of contexts, be they political, economic, etc. But the fact is that the incentives that allow this to work on a tribal scale break down when we try to apply them so broadly. F.A. Hayek argues that this is a big part of the "Fatal Conceit" through which socialists wrongly believe that they can successfully manage an economy (and thus a society).
Alex – catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing
>It's not crazy that under prohibition, taking all those extra steps would be seen as evidence of an intention to violate the law and make drinkable spirits.

I naively walked around this planet giving the benefit of the doubt to anything and everything as well, for a long, long time.
One of the classic examples was Joe Sutter[0]. He was the Boeing 747 program lead & engineer who sadly died a few days ago.

Boeing management was putting pressure to cut 1,000 engineers from the program. He knew that would cause the program to fail, and he really needed 1,000 more engineers. He thought he was going to get fired that day, but still said what he believed.

The 747 became one of the most successful airliners in history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Sutter
When you have two people, you have politics. Nerds just have this ridiculous social signal where they have to pretend to be above it.
Some note: compared to the Haskell mooc, the FUN ocaml mooc is quite pragmatic, they don't go into faux monadic concurrency through Continuations or Tree Functors. There are some mind bending exercices though. (speaking from the previous run of course)
TL;DR: this is a map of the world. You put in the date and trajectory, and it charts where the shuttle is as it orbits the Earth, in real time. This map includes world-wide transmission stations, which basically follow the shuttle's orbit around the globe.

It was run on these laptops on the shuttle for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass
If you have IP network, It's pretty easy to setup a FTP(S) server. Just close it when you are done with the transfers.

The problem I think is NAT, witch makes everything much harder. But it also works as a basic firewall ... I remember the age when you used to connect your PC directly to the Internet, and if you didn't have the latest patches you would get the sasser virus within seconds. It would be scary running even Linux not behind a firewall. And many devices (smart-TV's etc) now a days expect a LAN and will be completely open.

Raise your hand if you would be OK with exposing your whole LAN to the Internet.

Whatever you do, do not use e-mail to send files! Your e-mail will go though many servers on the way, and will take up server disk space. And the data will be encoded to base64 witch will make them about 30% larger. Small files <20 Mb will be fine, but don't send Gigabytes!
They weren't down for the entire two weeks, but various datacenters went up and down for hours, then quieted down for a few days, then was back again, then another hit; stretching across two weeks.

One thing that took them so long was that their upstream ISPs at some of the datacenters were themselves unable to handle the DDOS, so they had to switch ISPs, which took a while.

I don't see Google/AWS as easy to attack; but I'm not sure why similar tier players like DigitalOcean aren't being hit -- or maybe they're just less transparent about things, or are actually a smaller target (didn't think they were?).

edit: here's a postmortem from linode of the christmas attack - https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospect...
I agree with you. But I was surprised that the author was able to run a Tor relay in Singapore without significant interference. That tells me that at least one authoritarian country was willing to turn a blind eye on Tor and some of its shadier uses. Will the new greater emphasis on human rights cause Singapore's authorities to give it greater scrutiny? Maybe, maybe not. But it certainly won't help.
>One study focuses on procrastination — a subject of great interest to behavioral economists — by looking at bookings. Are they last-minute? Made weeks or months in advance? Do booking habits change by age, gender or country of origin?

Airbnb is already making tangible changes based on this kind of data. One example is using it to make predictions of demand, and then tell Airbnb hosts the optimal price that they should charge to maximize revenue and chances of being booked.
Agree. I ran a dating site for 7 years and had to deal with such inquiries on a daily basis ("Buhuu, that guy/girl sad mean things to me, close his/her account").

Most often it turned out the complaining person was the problem.

Worst cases were third parties who requested such actions on behalf of the "victim". They were loud, asked other members to complain too and even showed up in our offices to demand account closings - without any proof or valid reasoning.

I never understood how people handle their real lives without being able to argue or verbally discuss such issues. Even if these include occasional insults. IMHO these are just words - you don't need to cry for higher authorities (site admins, conference organizers or law authorities) all the time.
A social justice warrior would suggest that those women are experiencing internalized sexism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internalized_sexism
Paul Graham's Essay on 'What You Can't Say'

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
25 grams of sugar is less than a bottle of gatorade...Most kids aren't even close to this target
I don't think "worthwhile" had anything to do with their motivation for flagging it. They're probably afraid that the conversation might spark a backlash against Nodevember and their corporate sponsors.
Something that plays recordings back the way they were originally recorded. With gaps between tracks. Like vinyl, tapes, CDs, and Spotify (before gapless playback).
A simple neural network can accomplish symbol association by merely categorizing things, without any deep knowledge or understanding of them.

Neural networks like this are trained with pavlovian methods, and are not self aware or conscious. So such behavior is not at all evidence of any kind of self awareness or consciousness.
"But events like Nodevember, Strange Loop, and Lambdaconf are not academic conferences, they're not a serious part of the citation record for their field, they're put on by private citizens with their own objectives, they're fundamentally about entertainment, and they can make whatever calls they want."

Claiming that a technical conference is "fundamentally about entertainment" is about as convincing a dodge as those "for entertainment purposes only" notices on pirate video sites. Technical conferences are an important way people in a field network, educate themselves, and advance their careers. You're stating that it's okay to blacklist people from advancing their careers because they have a political viewpoint that you don't like. Were you okay with the Hollywood blacklist in the '50s? Because that's what this is.

(And to forestall it: of course they have the legal right to do this, just as the blacklisters in Hollywood did. That doesn't make it morally right.)
Dependency hell for me is when I have one target depending on two or more libraries that result in conflicts that can not be resolved without resorting to butchering one or more of the libraries.

One nice example that springs to mind here is that there is a package in some linux C library that defines a 'list', which in turn conflicts with lots of other libraries and applications that also wish to define 'list' but in their own scope.
If you continue to pursue religious points in a community that clearly is not subject to ham-fisted rhetorical manipulation, the charitable assumption becomes that you are trolling

I'm not accusing you of trolling. I'm saying it is now the most charitable interpretation of your behavior.
What's really behind 'free college' and America's student debt problem?
Sensitive subjects seem to be effective conduits by which manipulative people can control others.

What drives me to despair is that all too frequently it takes only a cursory glance at the Twitter feed of the person making the loudest complaints regarding inclusivity and diversity to find comments which compromise these values.

The individual in this instance goes by @nexxylove on Twitter, and has recently retweeted such statements as: "We love our freedom rhetoric in this country, but most white don't actually believe in true freedom. Removing choice is their default"[0] and "…I'm tired of the intellectual dishonesty of cis men. Disgusting."[1].

Thankfully I see significant effort by those around me to tackle these problems discreetly and in sobriety. Inclusivity isn't an extreme position, and discourse need not be monopolised by those who shout the loudest.

[0] https://twitter.com/polotek/status/772113530761859072
[1] https://twitter.com/nexxylove/status/771182690238287872
this is marketing tactics. how would she know if the ipad she received is working great out of the box? seriously, our screens are not yet tactile or programmably textured or termperatured yet. she should work on that stuff perhaps.
What's to say that Leave is going to be able to keep to their promises on immigration either?
A friend of mine is blind and I've heard him echo this sentiment. I tried TalkBack for Android a few months ago just to see how he uses his phone and it was a buggy piece of crap.
It'll never take off.
I don't agree with your original analogy, but everything you've got here sounds spot on.
I had a similar experience with the Rust board, so (anecdotally) it might not be related to the low barrier of entry.
> Usually foods with added sugar are also high in fat,

Things like low fat yoghurt often use large amounts of sugar to improve mouth feel. The 80s war on fat in food has been pretty terrible for public health, allowing bags of 100% sugar candy to be sold with big "Fat free!" stickers.
Wasn't it the USDA (US Dept. of Agriculture) that did that?
They are probably getting disability benefits, and there are many private charities that assist the blind. Very likely that a blind person who needs a tablet or PC can get one at minimal to zero cost.