skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only seen Crockford once in person, years ago [0], and though I never heard of him and his curmudgeonly-approach to JavaScript, I came away with a very favorable impression of him (and JS in general).

So I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt, out of sentimentality. At the same time, I know that one speech and/or book is not enough (if anything ever is) to judge whether someone has or hasn't been harmful to people who are not me.

But after reading the original critique on Medium, and the OP's transcription of when Crockford allegedly "slut-shames the audience", I don't feel convinced to have a negative impression of Crockford. I'm not saying that the original complainant isn't justified in their critique or that there isn't more to the story, because I know that things are different in person. But I could also be sympathetic towards the OP's defense of Crockford.

In terms of Nodevember's decision, well, they have different prerogatives when running a conference. And having a speaker who allegedly so openly derides other speakers is definitely something they have to think about in ways that I as an individual do not.

[0] http://original.livestream.com/etsy/video?clipId=pla_1463e54...

edit: One thing I personally find disingenuous about the OP's writeup is their appeal to the dictionary definition of "promiscuous" to defend Crockford. I guess it's just up to people's opinion, but I felt that Crockford was clearly using "promiscuous" in the first sense -- "indiscriminate mingling or association". I've never even heard of the second sense, and very little in Crockford's transcribed statement seems to suggest why "promiscuous" would be the right word to use instead of something like "heterogeneous".

That said, I also don't feel that Crockford's statement was slut-shaming. Saying, "Back in the day, you could browse the web like a whore, not caring what your computer connected to. But with the new web..."

But that's not what he says at all. You could read a sexual connotation to what he says, but the words he use is very much about being indiscriminate about security and identity. He even states that there is a benefit to promiscuity -- "because you could go from one thing to another and discover stuff and start forming relationships" and directly implies there's a tradeoff with the security of commitment.
Can anyone recommend a good article that explains how attacks like these work, and what is required to stop them?

Also, we're on Heroku and they advertise Ddos mitigation as a feature, but "mitigation" sounds non-commital and I'm curious how they'd fare against a similar attack?
Many of us fall in this boat- we're untouchable until presented with something we have no control over, and unfortunately fail to realize it until we're thrown into the thick of it.

When my wife went into labor at 26w with #2, it hit like a ton of bricks. I remember vividly sitting in the atrium at LPCH after being told she was going to deliver within the day, and we didn't know what her issues were ("any handful of genetic disorders are likely") I lost it. That moment, seared in my memory. I had an hour alone to digest before I had to go back and be strong for her, and to this day, she hasn't asked me what I did, what I thought. She can look at me and tell by the tears in my eyes what I went through.

And then the NICU director came to visit us, and reminded us, "take the long perspective, there will be ups, there will be downs. But for every down, she's still here fighting to be just like any other normal baby. Thrive on the fact that she wants that more than you'll ever know or the other kids will ever know, and we're going to do our damnedest to deliver that."

Now 18m later, she's doing better than any of them would have predicted. And not a day goes by that I can't see a LPCH commercial without losing it...

To the author and all other doctors...my full admiration for what they go through, the miracles they work, and the strength they confer to families in their most vulnerable times...
This comment will be unpopular. When you have gone through something like that, how can you continue to do the work you do? How can it still be worth it? I do not know what exactly you do, but could it someday be someoneelse telling this to your family?
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Move to Seattle. (On second thought, please don't, the rent is high enough, thanks.) Public transport is universally dog friendly.
Thanks to you both. Looks like the use of antibiotics and carcinogenic chemicals is an issue. http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_33.html

At restaurants I don't think I've ever seen imported shrimp (don't really eat at chain restaurants). I'll have to pay closer attention to the source in the frozen bags I buy from the grocery.
Hate to be that guy, but saying "thousands of years of Turkish history" is exactly as ignorant as saying "thousands of years of American history"
They're price-matching DigitalOcean, so raising prices is probably out of the question.
It's almost entirely contained in the javascript community.
Why do we launch rockets from Cape Canaveral? (2010)
I wonder if this is a diversion to keep Linode's security team busy so they won't notice someone compromising the Xen nodes with XSA-185/6/7/8?
> It is often not worth the effort.

This attitude is why we can't have performant smartphones with 1GB of RAM.
Thanks - I use this everyday, the tool has seriously increased my productivity.
Sounds like you just came up with a new service. LyftLeg?
“I would rather cry in a BMW”
I thought this wouldn't be an issue in CS; thankfully it only seems to be the Js community -- or at least I hope so. Medium is now becoming less informative on technologies and software into a platform for finger pointing and complaining, which is really depressing imo.
This explains why Package Control, Ansible Docs, etc. were down. Sucks. I knew this has happened before, just didn't know it was Linode.
Been doing RF/Microwave/Antenna design for 20 years. Fortunately I have stayed hands-on with hardware development. Start with simulation, then PCB layout, followed by lots of measurements in the lab. Sometimes meetings for customer requirements, writing technical parts of proposals, getting capital equipment purchased, etc.
It is common to use such metric for all generation and it is the maximum power facility can generate. The other metric used is 'capacity factor'(you probably are looking for this)
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I'd guess people with lots of social capital in the JS community told the conf orgs Crockford had to go and the orgs decided disinviting him would be less risk than having Crockford's enemies campaign against the conference.
I like Altium and solder fumes.
It's happened in Ruby and Python as well—so if you hate it stay away from dynamic web languages with low entry levels.
QR Code on that web page... "Scan to view on mobile". Because typing getmobicss.com on your mobile is too difficult?
Make it no longer profitable.

Facebook gladly serves up utterly phony sports/celebrity "news" ads complete with bogus ESPN.com or People.com displayed URLs (by right-clicking on the URL you can see where clicks really go, e.g. ufcheatnews, vovnianko, xlvitrin). They'll keep serving them up until Disney or other trademark owners sue the hell out of them.

I will never, ever buy anything with any connection to a Facebook ad. Even if I see something I can't live without, I'll navigate there with a native URL on a different browser.
Yes, because "decimate" means greatly reduced rather than eliminated, so the example would be like saying "Drought has greatly reduced 80 of cattle" which doesn't make much sense.
I couldn't agree more.

There's, I guarantee, MILLIONS of things to figure out for making a "company" which techcorner thought of. Taxes, lawsuits, security, employment laws, facilities: you name it. Yes, true, by bringing in more people, growth _is_ possible, but there's also a lot more risk involved. Usually, you add more people because it is the ONLY way to get to where you need to go.

While there's nothing wrong with teamwork, it _can_ go horribly wrong. The corpses of failed tech startups litter the pages of past TechCrunch articles. Don't become one of them, techcorner.
What is this general rule of which you speak? I suspect you of talking nonsense, sir.
I think the significant change is that the tech community is growing to include other subcultures. And some of those subcultures bring new/different focuses on what's important to them.

Also, I think there's some amount of momentum behind the legitimate disclosure of unacceptable behavior. The fact that many women and minorities lately feel unashamed in admitting that they were oppressed/assaulted/etc is a net win. The perpetrators of that oppression and violence should get justice. But it probably brings with it some risk of attention-seekers and easily-offended folks too.
The folks calling for Crockford to be disinvited weren't complaining about his talk quality, they were complaining about his behavior. And there really isn't much beyond what this blog post mentions that they are complaining about. One person cited a post of his from 9 years ago about weight loss as being evidence of him fat shaming. They also cited a GitHub comment from 4 years ago where he said some code was "stupid". My guess is the campaign against him is rooted in personal animosity.
Oh, for sure. I certainly don't mean to disparage her skills, just that 'doctors' come in a lot of different varieties, and not all of them retain general medical skills.

I remember a friend who became a paramedic. My home state brought in ambulances-for-everybody. If you wanted an ambulance, the dispatcher couldn't say no anymore, you got an ambulance. And for people on low-income cards, those ambulances were free. So my friend got called out to a lot of junk calls (his term: "coughs, colds, and sore holes"), and said that it was a problem for the paramedics because their skills rusted - some paramedics reported only seeing one heart attack in a year, and they have to pause and think what needs to be done again.

Medicine is very much a 'use it or lose it' discipline, at least when it comes to the details.
This wasn't something recent was it? Which datacenter?
Actual data, not just anecdotes, nice work.
Thats the thing right, a CSS framework with a lot of sweet features is a lot of complicated. There's so much to learn it's almost easier to just use plain css.

But if you make your own framework, it's much easier because you know it all.
Russia has several rivers that flow south, and one of them, the Yenisei, does reach down close to Northern China. The Yenisei valley is also known to be a corridor for cultural migration in more recent times.
TL;DR: The typewriter has 2,500 distinct characters, and in order to increase typing speed, characters that are related meaning-wise are placed together.

As an aside, typewriters are very interesting piece of tech, if you look under the hood. I have one that I use regularly, and it's quite pleasing to use (I've an Olympia Traveller de Luxe).
I have to wonder if this was a real complaint or if it was done to highlight the obvious problem here, a bit like the guy who patented a "Method of exercising a cat".

I mean, if you're going to ban Douglas Crockford from your conference it should at least be for his stated prejudice against comments in data-interchange formats. Not vague allegations that may damage his personal and professional reputation, to which he not only has no right of reply, but any response could be damaging by generating more attention. This is the classic trolling strategy, but stepped up a level.

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.

I also wonder, given that the allegations haven't been published, just implied, if he would have a libel case against the conference organisers?
+1. They needed a cluster benchmark to make this a more fair test.
Citation needed. Not that i object to the fact that c++ is usually faster :)
Can someone explain what this does, or was used for in the real world?
I can see a point to what you are saying. Dams can result in 1000s of deaths, but they already help millions to survive.

>>Are dams ever a good idea?

Yes, I guess, without dams the developed nations would not have been so developed either in terms of technology and even sociology. Without dams there won't be cities, without big cities there won't be mixing of different strata/groups of society.

So, when I think of dams I think of the immense value they provide to humans and their progress. It's difficult to get rid of dams. What we need is a lot better technology to ensure their reliability and robustness.

Another reason why we need dams more is: the sheer population increase is putting a hell lot of pressure on natural resources (including water, of course) these days as compared to 19th century. So we must address this issue also.

Also, the increasing consumerism should be restricted/reduced. The mindless consumerism is also adding to this pressure.
It is just more natural too since all of io is inherently async.
So do you also object to people referring to things as "gigantic" or "microscopic" which aren't in the order of a gigametres or a micrometres respectively?
I don't know who you are, but I am giving you the biggest hug in my head.

I'm not sure about testing kits, but there is naloxone, which is becoming part of standard operating procedure in reversing overdoses and is even available OTC in some states. If something is learned from your daughter's death, I hope that the availability of naloxone becomes better known and even more widely adopted.

My parents were devastated when my brother died. Coping with his death very nearly killed my mother, and almost certainly killed my father. As cliché as it sounds, there is life after death, and you have loved ones who will help you through this. Not believing that probably worsened my parents' state of mind. I wish you strength, peace, and light in the coming months.
I know nothing of this situation other than what I just read in the linked blog, but speaking as someone who is very sympathetic to the cause of the continued problems of sexism in the tech industry, I'm very confused about what the problem is, if it is in fact related to either of those two quoted statements.

Nodevember's tweet seems borderline libelous to me, unless they are willing to explain exactly what the event/statement/whatever is that got him pulled from the lineup is.
This happened last time.
My father died younger than 50 years old when I was a child. My mother was left behind with several small children and financial struggles. On the day of his funeral there was a funeral of an 18 year old boy afterwards. She has told me she consoled his girlfriend and when she saw the young girl standing there crying, she thought that even though her own situation was as bad as it could possibly get, this was even worse. Must have been a strange moment for her. Maybe even a bit uplifting, as perverse as this sounds.
Does the US have a competent cyber-crime division that can handle stuff like this?
Tax imports of products that pollute as part of their manufacturing process. There, this both evens the paying field, creates an incentive for everyone to play ball, and promotes non-polluting economic growth.
Programmer Arrested for Hacking Linux Kernel Organization
I believe it's this:

"SPOC, a navigation monitoring computer used by NASA in a 1983 mission, was a modification of a commercial computer called GRiD Compass, produced by GRiD Systems Corporation. ... SPOC automatically computes position, orbital paths, communication locations, etc. Some of the modifications were adapted for commercial applications."

http://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/database/spinoffDetail.php?t...

Here's an Adafruit blog post with pictures of the hardware: https://blog.adafruit.com/2016/09/03/grids-compass-os-bootab...
Exactly. Hardcore languages like C++, Lisp, Haskell, etc. should be safe for a little while longer. SJW presence seems to be inversely proportional to the degree of rigor required to use a language.
I think the people who coded Altium liked solder fumes... A bit too much.
>the one in December did take them offline for a few hours

That is a bit of an understatement. Our servers were down every couple of hours for a week, and the attack bounced around to pretty much all of their datacenters.
My speculation is that Yandex wishes to gain a foothold in the US/Europe/ANZ market for display ads; they already command a significant share in cyrillic countries and Turkey; Turkey is incidentally a large Twitter market.

The primary cyrillic social network is vKontakte whose popularity in those regions is to the detriment of Facebook. Meanwhile Google is a serious threat to Yandex' search share (and therefore, ad money), so expanding beyond their home base would be a good hedge against Google.

If you look at Yandex's portfolio of services you'll notice they're missing a general-purpose social network, and their coverage looks similar to that of Yahoo, with elements of content production (like Verizon/AOL/Yahoo) sprinkled in. But unlike Yahoo which was cash-strapped and couldn't figure out how to monetize Tumblr, Yandex has cash on hand and Twitter would be an expensive, but very strategic purchase.
People and organizations can be justified in shunning Crockford's allegedly level of abrasiveness, so I don't agree that Kas took it too far in opining that Crockford, by Kas's standards, is a jerk (I do, however, disagree with the purported evidence of Crockford's "slut-shaming). My tolerance for what is jerk-like behavior is probably not a good one, and I think I've definitely made people feel unwelcome at times, even if inadvertently.
I spent a few hours in Hasankeyf in 1999, on a tour to view a total solar eclipse. The buses parked on the Tigris shore and we all climbed up through some of the cave passages and houses. Here are some pics[1]. Certainly the town is a hugely impressive historic site. However the population is small and poor, so probably has little political clout.

[1] https://cortesi.smugmug.com/Solar-Eclipses/1999-Turkey-Hasan...
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> I'm not quite ready to believe that.

I used to be where you are.

I am now however firmly of the belief that there are these sociopaths wanting to exert control over others.

What's worse is that their righteousness only fuels their fervor.
> "And how does that work for people trying to concentrate while working, with barking etc?"

People are considerate enough not to bring poorly-behaved dogs to work. I've run into many dogs around the office and have never had a barking problem - they usually just roam in a small area around their owner/team, quietly.

Pretty much the only time I've heard a dog bark at work was when someone accidentally kicked it...
And Ruby, and Python. Don't forget the guy that got fired from his job for making a "forking" joke at PyCon.
As JshWright said, when there's something to be said involving a child, most people turn to the mother rather than the father.
Absolutely terrifying!
"If he left his socks on the floor again today, it is all right." - the only sentence I could relate to. I hate my life.
Oh yeah, he was a total quack! The stuff he worked on toward his death was so useless that the federal government decided to immediately classify all of his papers as being sensitive to national security and locked them away. O_O
Skeleton is perfect.

https://github.com/dhg/Skeleton/blob/master/css/skeleton.css

It's tiny, simple, and so easy that if you read it and understand it, you could write it again yourself. It's meant to be tooled and modified to suit your needs. Bootstrap is just gigantic, it's a big unwieldily blunt instrument that eventually needs to be removed from the project.

The framework in OP bothers me because of the way it handles margins around components, makes unnecessary use of flexbox, and hides the entire sidebar of the page on mobile. Which I don't think will often be very useful.

I'm very opinionated about my css frameworks.
You are confusing them with Dreamhost: http://www.manton.org/2011/03/brent_on_baked.html
This is the software that would've run on the Grid Compass [1] (coincidentally, one of the earliest laptop computers), which was flown on some early shuttle flights and was used to monitor and display ground position, orbital path, and some other stuff.

Basically, it was a UI to let astronauts monitor the shuttle's location in orbit. The shuttle's flight computers (especially at the time, prior to the glass cockpit upgrade) didn't really have a user interface to speak of; the SPOC gave them that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_Compass
Are there any CSS frameworks nowadays that use flexbox instead of the float-grid model?
I don't know about more obscure but I've frequently used Foundation and like it. It doesn't feel as bloated at Bootstrap. I haven't used Bootstrap in awhile, so maybe it's gotten better, but I always felt like the number of elements required even for a simple modal seemed like overkill.
There is lots of good software for EE, it just costs $$.
I got tired of playing NoScript roulette. I don't know what goes through the heads of web "designers" these days when they can't control the impulse to pull in scripts from a dozen or more sites.
Sorry I should have clarified. Our servers were down for a total of 4-5 hours spread across a week or so. After the first incident it only took a few minutes for them to come online each time, although I hear others had varying downtimes while they mitigated that DDOS.

Thankfully it was over Christmas time so our clients were mostly offline.
I've noticed this too! The communities I deal with that spend the least amount of time worrying about tangential issues like "who's offended" are the CUDA/C++ and the Verilog/VHDL communities. Never see any issues like this come up, ever.
Quite the opposite. Our government at least appears to work very hard to make sure these attack venues remain wide open.
From the video, using a typewriter seems to be sufficiently quick to be more efficient than handwriting, and of course more reliable. I find it a bit of a pity that a more phonetic writing system did not end up taking off. The most interesting bit to me is the shot of the code pages; these code pages remind the contemporary person of computer code pages.
If you think Altium is a "overpriced piece of technical debt", HOLY SHIT you should try anything it competes with. It's sooo much nicer then anything else out there in the EDA market. At my work they use Proteus, and it's horrible.

Also, solder fumes aren't toxic!
Yeah, but as long as it isn't humans fighting humans I would consider that a better place for now.
Yes, the FBI. They're fantastic at it and part of their job is helping businesses recover from compromise and going after the attackers. However, they're overworked government employees with not enough resources.
Ah. I've not noticed better signal, I don't think. But I do enjoy the phone regardless.
I'm going to start using brainfuck for everything.