skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is stupid. Crockford would be a centerpiece of any JavaScript conference.

There is no sexism in his remarks at all.

By attacking Crockford, that specific activist group is advocating discrimination against older generations. The kind of humour which Crockford used is totally normal for people of his generation.

He comes from an era where the software industry was run almost entirely by men - You have to forgive him for these harmless comments.

I would feel uncomfortable going to Nodevember knowing that members of this hypocritical intolerant group are among us.

I think even if Crockford was sexist (which he is clearly not), he should still be invited to talk - What happened to freedom of speech?

The real world is tough, sometimes people are mean. People should just grow up and toughen up.
I don't understand the application of this to filesystems. To me it sounds like it the usual way to have file icons is a simple mapping from a file type to an icon file, and in this solution that icon gets put into the metadata of the file instead of it's own file, so it's not a property of the file type anymore, but of the individual file. This couples the FS implementation to the GUI right? Isn't that horrible? If you want to change the Icon for one file type now you have to walk the whole file system and touch the metadata of every file. Also if you change the extension of the file, you have to change the icon in the metadata as well.

Edit: I would just teach the GUI to cache the icon folder in RAM.
And the rest of us who say no too.
> I find private collection of information a bigger threat than I do government tracking

Why?
>Looks like an astronomy problem to me. Aristotle is also considered one of the early astronomers.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. My point was that Plato and Aristotle (and other early astronomers) realized that astronomy had to be based on observation. No-one (except perhaps a few cranks that no-one remembers) has ever tried to do "armchair astronomy".

>the ones that we have solved we now consider science, the ones that are still unresolved we consider philosophy.

I think the distinction is really just the distinction between empirical science and metaphysics, which is a distinction that Aristotle would also have made, though perhaps in slightly different terms. For this reason, I think the image of armchair philosophy gradually yielding ground to science is wrong. Broadly speaking, philosophers have always worked on philosophical problems using philosophical methods, and scientists have always worked on scientific problems using empirical methods. There hasn't been any great shift from one to the other. What has occurred of course is a shift in prestige: society currently values empirical science much more than it values philosophy.
Also, the uninvited speaker is male, so in this context it makes sense that that's what was first on OP's mind.
Please, for the sake of everybody else, don't install those blue-spectrum high intensity headlights. They glare more and wreck night vision more than the old yellow incandescents.
I think it's you who are looking at this the wrong way. They wrote:
> That's because young people don't have families.

People who are currently 25 have less babies than people who were 25 ten years ago.
People who are currently 30 have less babies than people who were 30 ten years ago.[0]

People living familyless lives longer means that the cars will come later in their lives. Having children and not have a car is a very tough proposition, considering the volume and mass of babystuff you have to handle.

Of course the cars might not come at all if people continue to chose solitude over offspring.

[0] http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=fertility-and-birth-r...
I believe that the best way to bring issues to light is pull request. Second best is the issue. Comment on Hacker News is somewhere down the list
The magic values look ok to me. I mean, some values are known, some aren't - it's still early days. Hopefully more will be labeled / split up into components with time.

But I agree that it would be dangerous to use now. And the author isn't a skilled VCS user or open source dev either. (comments say all rights reserved)
I really feel bad for these folks. Does know if they have a DDOS mitigation strategy other than RTBH with their transit providers? I would have thought that after the 2015 attack they would have looked into traffic scrubbing with something like Arbor Network or Prolexic. I understand that these are not cheap and Linodes as well as many other hosting provider's margins are probably thin but I would think that it would pay for itself in one or two attacks by minimizing customer churn an event like that causes.
GNU Taler is a technology, not a company, so it doesn't "know" things in the sense that would be bothersome here.

From GNU Taler's website:

“When you pay with Taler, your identity does not have to be revealed to the merchant. The bank, government and exchange will also never learn how you spent your electronic money. However, you can prove that you paid in court if necessary.”
> 木 is not a word in modern Chinese

Eh, 木 is used commonly by itself.

这张椅子是用木做的。 (This chair is made of wood)
What's the point with web animation API now?
In case of an article (which is cheap) there is no need to wait for confirmation, it's enough to wait for transaction to appear in mempool and have enough fee.
I strongly disagree.

I order a physical (weekly) newspaper for two reasons:

a) It provides a broad range of interesting articles on topics which are otherwise outside my filter bubble. This is incredibly important in an era where many people get all their news through their facebook feed.

b) It's perfect to flick through over breakfast :)
But is it true that other guests have complained about me making them uncomfortable?
There's a great website for that: https://www.sideprojectors.com/project/home
Oblig: please file a bug about this if you haven't already!
Oh, I forgot one big deal: Bluetooth audio. I use bluetooth headphones when commuting and I have a Bluetooth receiver at home for convenience. Here it's a big deal if you compress with a lossy compression two times: once to MP3 and again when using Bluetooth. The loss in quality is significant.
TempleOS is finished. God made it.

I am waiting to be CEO of Intel so I can glorify God's temple.

It will be world news.

I am in prison.

God says...
shooters Chippendale's slick Crayola's soubriquets cleaver downtown lineament repast's Pete's argot incomes ashier flummoxes calcified giggliest hierarchy nook unluckier fragrance straw frills deodorizes bassinet overhauls aery's deserts inhere barricade Americanism's Barents punters
As in english you use 'an apple' and 'a girl'. It's just linguistic quirks. Not a demeaning term
That is not what they said. You are creating a strawman.
As a startup it doesn't quite work, as the large companies that will want that info.

As a feature added to an existing gateway - say Amazon or Google - it could allow anonymized demographics whilst not exposing you to all kinds of data protection issues.

One of the main reasons for using a payment gateway is to avoid the legal requirements for card handling, it seems like a logical extension to me.
> This extensive list of skills is exactly why cycling is a lifestyle choice/hobby, not an effective method of transportation.

I take it you've never been to Denmark. I don't think I know of anyone who doesn't own one or more, young or old.

The only means of transportation that is more effective is public transportation here.
It computes the position of the Shuttle orbiter in orbit at any point in time and displays a world map with the ground trace (the position on earth that the orbiter is over). It also has the coverage of the tracking network, so it can be used to predict when the shuttle is in contact with the ground.
The JavaScript/Node.js community attracts a lot of young programmers compared to other communities - But there are also a lot of older people - The range is just broader; that's why we often get into these kinds of debates... I guess it makes it more exciting.
Here's the thing; I am technically from a "marginalised" group and yet I still often use what you'd call marginalising pronouns. I use them not to marginalise anyone, but because they're commonly used and there's no reason to not use them.
When I say "he", it's probably because I am a male so I default to "he", but that DOES NOT mean that I mean to "marginalise" women, in fact be free to substitute "she" in if you feel like it, it is sort of implied if you're a female and I am technically talking about all genders.
In reality, it's just faster to not watch every word your write for "inclusiveness" or "marginalisation", because I assume you're able to infer the inclusiveness from context.

If you're searching for offence, you WILL BE offended, even if no offence was meant by the original poster and by doing this you're actually marginalising the real problems marginalised groups face.
Bugs in the YAML specification
Wow. I was going to build this exact same thing. And I still might. Would love to chat. My emails in my profile-- didn't see yours.
WoSign Incidents Report [pdf]
After the smartphone, the next commodity technology platforms
Brave uses Bitcoin, which is otherwise known as "prosecution futures", so doesn't really fit the bill.
Why is it not viable?
Nails it, I think :)
I'd suspect the reference was at least partly prompted by the recently released prequel (it was broadcast 2 days ago):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hyacinth

Keeping Up Appearances was better than Young Hyacinth IMO. Here's an intro to Mrs Bucket:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsZGHxb4caA
"Instagram is foodless"

You deviant!

Also it's Bouquet dear! Really...
Mitochondrial evolution in snails gives hints on the adaptation from sea to land
My reply was to comment about hacking culture. And it's not "assumptions" but experience.
Has this course changed or evolved in any way from the one that was given last year at this time (which was very good but had a few sizeable discreet jumps in the learning curve at certain points, which could have done with being smoothed out a little).
Simple: the NSA refused to give Clinton the same secure BlackBerry setup they had provided President Obama.
I would be very interested in that as well. Also: maybe you should write that book.
Do you have bug reports about PDF printing issues, I’d like to have a look myself (I have some interest in streamlining LibreOffice text layout code and part of it would be killing PostScript printing support at some point, but if PDF printing is buggy then it has to be fixed first).
Another important caveat is that Clinton, as far as we know, hadn't intended to leak or otherwise share classified information. While the server may not have been up to State Department security standards, it was not there with the intent to disseminate classified material to anyone without clearance.
>> whether or not it is a clean-room reverse-engineered code, like Wine/ReactOS

> No. Not clean room, not chinese wall.

If it's not clean room, then there's probably copyright violations. For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

Also, offering commercial licensing? That's a good way to get a lot worse than just a DMCA takedown.
Decent bluetooth receivers can decode mp3 / mp4 & a correctly setup sound path should pass the mp3 packets straight from source to speaker without a decode/encode stage.

Weirdly, this seems to be one of those tech things where it’s impossible to actually find out whether a bluetooth devices supports more than just the mandatory codecs & it’s equally impossible to find out whether your sound path is passing the source through or not. It’s all completely opaque.
Reversing in the first place is almost certainly illegal if you were to check the Skype ToS. Making a profit off it is just asking for trouble. I could be wrong though.
> it's kind of snobbery to use paid software in Russia

Perhaps there's a big percentage of people who feel the same, but there are also many people who pay for software:

http://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-succ...
It is "Apache OpenOffice", not plain OpenOffice.

I hope they are honest enough to hand over the assets to the Document Foundation.
People aren't saying that you are trying to marginalise women and transgendered people. And if they are saying that you can safely call them idiots and ignore them.

What they are saying is that switching from "he" to "they" is simple and easy, and will make life better for many people. It's correct English, and has been in use since the 16th century, albeit with some push from prescriptivists.

You're right that in the face of things like rape statistics (women are far more likely to be raped by men) or domestic violence (women are far more likely to be killed by male partners) worrying about "he" vs "they" is a small thing.
Because the inherent idea is control of power. One would trust a small company over the government because the small company can't do much damage with only that much data, whereas the government can, combined with all the other data. The small company can earn more money, what we can rely on given that they are in it for the money, with helping us with the data than they can by selling the data.

How ever, as the company grows, or uses a system developed and controlled by a larger entity, the data being collected can be combined with other larger data sets and can become much more powerful and potentially hurtful for us. In the same scenario, the power of the government has still remained the same, and given the history of Power, we the common people have some measure of control over them. More control than one would have over the large corporation.
This whole article seems pretty disingenuous.

It would clearly be a huge overreaction for someone to lose a speakers role at a conference for the two comments highlighted in the article.

The sourcing for this claim is incredibly weak, two tweets from people unaffiliated with Nodevember.

Nodevember have stated that they took this decision based on private feedback.

It could be that having Crockford on the speaker list meant that booking multiple other speakers became significantly harder, in which case uninviting him is an (arguably) justifiable logistical tradeoff, but without knowing the specifics its impossible to make any kind of real judgment of the merits of this decision.
>Being unliked is also a reason that people won't want to associate with you.

Not a good reason.
Aside: ages back I asked an arachnologist friend about the origin of this myth.

As far as he could determine, some researcher was once asked on some random TV interview what the most poisonous spider was, and responded that no one knew, and that it may well be the daddy long legs. From that an entire generation of internet consumers now believe they are.
Comparing the Space-X explosion with the speed of the capsule abort system
A medium agnostic protocol layer
They do get a dime. When I buy a new hardcover book I remember that the book will have a resale value and account for that in what I am prepared to pay.
Includes a non-disparagement clause, and PayPal's mark must "at least at par with other payment methods offered", plus some new exclusions from their Buyer Protection program.
IT’S a BOY THING
Original was: "problems a speaker at a conference might have, as long as he gives a good talk/presentation."

The pronoun refers to "speaker", singular, yet indefinite, we don't necessarily know who it is.

Let's substitute "they: "problems a speaker at a conference might have, as long as they give a good talk/presentation."

Yep, works for me, but I think the "they" definitely talks about about that single (if indefinite) speaker. Yet we use the plural of the verb ("give"), so the sentence is confused, grammatically. I wonder what will give as this evolves, whether "they gives" becomes acceptable or we simple leave "they" grammatically plural even when it is semantically singular.

Language. Fun times!
Interesting - don't patients have a right to see their medical scans in full quality under HIPAA [1]? I have successfully requested DICOM files from an MRI scan I did (although it was from a study, not a hospital).

[1] http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/guidance/...
The difference is that "you" can be grammatically singular or plural, whereas "they" is definitely grammatically plural.

"they gives me the shivers"
To improve your chances of being seen, turn your lights on and wear bright colors to improve contrast.

I guess that's why quite a lot supercars have vivid colors. Reds, yellows, greens, whatever stands out.
What is the name of the newspaper?
From the colors it looks like he simply run Meld on text files with assembler.
I really need a technology like Bluetooth, but there seems to be no other that works with all devices. Bluetooth audio is a black box and you never can't be sure what happens between the device and receiver.
I do hope that the Skype people see it as an opportunity to improve product rather than threat / opportunity to sue the hell out of this project. WhatsApp would not have been necessary if they had gotten their act together. But at the time they were seemingly too busy sorting out technical and political ramifications of the MS acquisition and overlap with Lync. A more open approach to clients could save it, especially in the light that people are looking for alternatives after facebook is now starting to monetize WhatsApp.
I can relate to the feeling of being a 'silent' minority. As an introverted white guy who lives in a foreign country, I feel that I am being discriminated against all the time.

I literally have to force myself to act extroverted in order to succeed in the workplace. People just assume that if you're a guy, you're just a confident hussler.

I know several introverted white guys who are extremely qualified but missed out on job offers because they were honest about their qualifications and didn't talk themselves up like some other guys do.

Being introverted, shy or weak isn't necessarily a female attribute. The fact that someone assumes that makes THEM the sexist one.
1) security 2) annoyance 3) disagree with tracking 4) speed (rural internet yay!)

I find it particularly annoying when clients demand adverts on paid-product sites, i.e. they have a site which is fully funded by their sales but they want that tiny bit extra at a huge cost to site appearance and load times.
You make me uncomfortable.

Clearer now?
Maybe perhaps they should instead opt to lose these "others"?

I'm unsure as to who the "jerks" really are in this situation.
Who's doing more damage to the community - Crockford or Kas?

The intolerance that Kas is selling is not something that we should value.
It was cool to have when I first worked with a Linux command-line and didn't really get any introduction. The instructor just told me to type in "nano filename.txt" and from then on I could work out the rest.

Not that it was terribly necessary. Another instructor told people to use vim, showed them around for half a minute and then they could do just as much with vim as I could with nano.
Social media are tools, and a tool is as good/bad as the use we make of it, we should never forget.
Interesting! I don't see any contact info in your profile, how can you be reached?
See previous discussions on Taler

GNU Taler 0.0.0 released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840453

GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10258312
OK, the exchange will know your identity. That's not anonymous.

Edit: Anonymity is a strong claim. Even Tor daemon warns "This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity."
Also interested in something like this but I don't think I have time to do it on my own. If you end up taking it up and would like some help, give me a shout.

My email is miguel at <username>.com
Entrepreneurs: being a rebel is inherent
Except there's no real re-action documented here, just cherry-picked anecdotes and vague FUD pandering.

When I was in school, mobile phones were new, and having one and texting (as opposed to calling a landline) was the constant, relentless (and deeply worrying, obviously) pursuit of social validation of the time. Today, apparently, limiting yourself to texting is the pinnacle of measured restraint and self-control.

This exact paragraph (substitute "text" for "like" and "tweet") could have been written about texting ca 1999 (and probably about landline telephones in the 1950s):

To these teens who opt out, the relentless pursuit of “likes” looks exhausting. “I think it takes too much time and kids get too absorbed,” says Annie Furman, 19, who grew up in the Dallas area and is about to start college in Iowa. “I’d rather see my friends in person than tweet at them. I don’t want to spend all my time on my phone. I want to spend it in the real world.”
No, absolutely reasonable. They say that multiple other speakers have stated that Crockford's "presence would make some speakers uncomfortable to the point where they refused to attend or speak." So they chose to prioritise them over him, something which they can totally do as organisers. Do they owe everyone a detailed explanation for that? I think not.
We already know that we are very similar to animals. Our mind and consciousness are last things that distinguishes us. We are strongly attached to this idea. It was hard for people to accept the fact that the Earth is not the center of the universe, and despite the simple explanation of the phenomena that surround us.

Regarding consciousness there is too much philosophical discussion. Wordplays of which little is clear.

The sense of sight has exhausted such emotions. We are able to say that a simple multicellular organism having one photosensitive cell is a primitive ancestor of the eye.

What do you say if we define consciousness as the next sense, but in contrast to other senses directed to the center, that is, to our memory.
Being a speaker at the same event is hardly being forced to associate with someone, nor indeed a reason to attempt to publicly repudiate them.

Additionally, in my experience Linus Tovalds is not a jerk. Is this something you sense you get by reading email threads?

Perhaps you associate a lack of politeness and deference with being a jerk, but it really isn't the same.
I suppose it depends on where you are. IIRC some countries explicitly allow reverse engineering for interoperability. Which is arguably the case here.

(Side note: That any kind of reversing is illegal anywhere at all is by itself a testament of the sad state most legislatures are in.)
So to summarize my thoughts (had a nice cup of coffee and thinking, Sunday anyways), the people I allow to do compression for the music I buy is the artist/producer herself or me. I really don't like having a third party in the middle turning the knobs for the music I buy.
Consciousness Is Made of Atoms
GPU Ray Tracing the Wrong Way
I'm guessing he's going for the lessor of (n) evils?
A British sitcom called Keeping Up Appearances about a middle class woman from a working class family, and the many ways in which she tried to pretend she was something she wasn't.

I guess that's the reference, in that so many people on social media are pretending to lead exciting happy lives when in reality they are quite ordinary and boring.