skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a handshake that's done with the PCIe device; It doesn't cost anything to keep the address/data lines off until the handshake is complete, and require that the user approve the handshake.

True, this will not stop an e.g. accepted external drive from DMAing - but it will stop a randomly plugged thing from doing so.

Not having this level is worse than Windows' of old tendency to autorun anything called "autorun.inf" on a media - because autorun was still subject to user privileges whereas the PCIe "autorun" is not.
Can you, or somebody, explain to me why it is either a responsibility or moral imperative to make HN, tech, the corner store, or anywhere else, a welcome environment for any particular set of people?
I like the term "gender agnostic." Perhaps because I am a gender heretic, heh.
People took issue mainly because the App Store is the only way to get apps on iOS devices. And they took even more issue with the often random and vague rejections.
The fact that you're being discriminated against and keep saying that "it's just human nature" and you "don't mind" doesn't mean that other people can't campaign against discrimination. Unless you are actively supporting it? Is your argument that we should have more discrimination, or just that we should turn a blind eye?

PS - this sort of thing is ingrained in everything technology related. Not just in HN articles about bros.
> Because, hate to break it to you, but you were born a feminist. Everyone is. Every person that has ever lived on planet Earth was born a feminist.

I'm sensing some religious overtones... Everyone is a born into this world an innocent child, but the world is not run by God. But everyone wants to reconnect with God.

> Every person that has ever lived on planet Earth was born a feminist. Because the idea that women are somehow in any way inferior to men is a completely fabricated notion by a sexist society that instills these views onto people (meaning all of us), and feminism at its most fundamental is simply the premise that women and men are not different (in terms of hierarchical notions, like one being better than the other, or more "valuable", …etc.), which is the default view of any newborn mind.

Sure, if feminism = equality of sexes, and just that. Maybe I'll also say to you that you were born a communist, and if you don't identify as one, you hate equality. (Or you hate freedom if you're not a capitalist, for that matter.) What is the problem with me saying something like that? Maybe communists intent and goal is equality, but it is not just an idea that people should be more equal; it also brings with it all kinds of things on how that should be achieved. It's an ideology. In the same vein, feminism isn't just about equality between the sexes, but about a whole lot of other stuff, like how that equality should be achieved, worldviews, if equality of opportunity is enough or if we should have equality of outcome. So if the ideology doesn't fit your worldview, even though you might agree on the goals they have, you might want to find a different kind of ideology.

Feminism is more unique, in this regard, since it is the only mainstream ideology that concerns itself with equality of the sexes. As a result, anyone who says that they are not a feminist because they don't agree with some parts of the approach ideology and the culture, even though they might be for gender equality, can be easily targeted as social piranhas because they don't have any mainstream school of thought to claim allegiance to. So then they might be told that "you don't need to look for a school of thought on the problems of gender equality because there already is one: Feminism! Clearly, if you are not one of us, you are against us on all levels!"

> You are born a feminist; if you don't die a feminist, you lost a bit of your humanity during your life.

Again, religious overtones. :)
What awful grammar and spelling. Color me unsurprised.
Videogame consoles for the longest time have been a closed ecosystem. Steam is merely one way of adding computer games to a pc.

For the iphone the appstore is the only way to add applications. No one would care if they allowed competing marketplaces.
So you're saying let's not protest because of the smoke?
From typical Ukrainian POV EU is just better place to live and it is all about long term plans. Sure, Ukraine will have difficult time during adoption of EU rules and regulation, but in the end they will have better living.
Yeah right, that's John Kerry (under orders from Barack Obama) who is orchestrating Ukrainian revolution. That's one of the funniest theories about that whole mess I ever read.

>>> but it could just as well be part of a clever complex multi-year gambit by the Russians who have a strong tradition of playing chess

You realize that not all Russian are the same, not all of them drink vodka, are chess grandmasters, wear ushankas with red stars, play balalaykas and dance with bears on the streets? Traditions of chess have absolutely nothing to do with modern Russian politics (actually The Godfather would be much more instructive there than The Luzhin Defense), though of course Russia meddles with Ukrainian affairs - it's a huge country neighboring them and having centuries-old ties, along with the little fact that it also carries a lot of Russia's gas lines. But that is a trivial conclusion, not very illuminating.
No one is asking anyone to stop using the word bro. It is about context. As in, being mindful about using the word bro when both men and women are involved in a field where women are actively discouraged from participating in the first place.
> They want Ukraine to join European union

No. If you were more familiar with the situation, you would understand that EU is only being used as a token signal (not goal) of the direction the country should be heading in. What the protesters really want is for the current government to resign and not to sign a (undoubtedly corrupt) deal with Russia that would effectively infringe on Ukraine's economic and political sovereignty.
end up in prison and beaten (did they cause her spinal issues or just prevent treatment?)
Good. Stay home. Higher salaries for everyone else.
My favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, and keep in mind that OS/2 did not depend on DOS at all.
Not everything has to fit into a giant unified philosophical framework. It's okay to avoid things simply because they make people unhappy. It's also okay not to have a single arbiter of "right" and "wrong" and just to think in pragmatic terms of "will my words attract the type of people I want to attract, or repel people who I might otherwise want to work with?"

Anyway, I'm not offended. I can see why some other people would be. My purpose with this comment thread is just to explain why and how my opinion has shifted over the past year, and possibly provide a different perspective. What you or any bystander chooses to do with that information is up to you.
"The courage these activists are showing is going to do a lot to help accomplish their political goals."

What are their political goals? The author of this piece seems to say that there are none, other than being generally angry. Even if you know what you're fighting for, it's hard to accomplish; if you don't know what you want, it's rather unlikely you'll get it.
Secret papers show extent of senior (UK) royals' veto over bills
No one trained them to do exactly this, but they were trained to be aggressive and ruthless, behave like soldiers on a tactical mission in war, not like guardians protecting the population. Guardians wouldn't do this to a person, soldiers have to do what has to be done for the mission - if the enemy hides weapons in body cavities, then cavity search it is, what else would you do with the enemy?

The cops, of course, could be punished, and in this case even the blue wall probably won't save them. But punishing single individuals would not prevent next time from happening, it would keep happening like clockwork.
Didn't a trial already set a presidence for the "only following orders" defense for doctors?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors'_Trial
Funny timing, I published a similar projects just a few weeks ago!

https://github.com/rprieto/tldr

It doesn't have all the "bro" features, but has a few extra ones too:

- less offensive name :)
- syntax highlighting of input parameters
- pages are stored on Github (pull request friendly)
- but no way to upload/vote on suggestions for now

Happy to hear any suggestions!
FYI, Baltic states and ex-ussr-satellites are doing great in EU. Sure we still got a long way to go. But current state is good enough. Well, at least 10x better than Ukraine, Belorussia and other ex-ussr states that stayed together with Russia.

Many Russians/Ukrainians/Belorussians come to ex-ussr-now-eu for shopping and medical procedures. Why? Stuff is cheaper and better quality here in Lithuania. And salaries are higher too :)

Source: Born and living in Lithuania
It's a great advice right here but I'm going to nitpick a little bit:

> Buy Valve.

Valve is a privately held company that displays zero desire to be bought by anyone. I don't think it is possible to buy them at all.
I don't think we can hope for the Nuremberg for the War on Drugs. But at least we could hope for a peace treaty?
Actually he indeed was, but one of his first steps he took immediately after was to imprison his main political opponent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko#2011_trial_and...).
Agreed. Even the most world-changing idea would only be as strong as its presentation.
As read in an earlier HN post, being a programmer is all about having been socially excluded from evry circle. At 7 yo, excluded from football. At 8 from the local bike boys. At 16 from any group at high school. At student age because I'm a nerd. At 29 because a woman stepped ahead for the management job I hoped for. Do I look unhappy? I still have the best job someone could hope for. And tolerant friends.

Part of the happy programmer's life is, being socially excluded and building a potentially successful life for above social considerations.
If you change 'hardware' to 'console hardware', that's an accurate summary.
> And just to throw an anecdote or two into the mix, I have at least two female friends in tech fitting that exact description who very explicitly avoid Hacker News for these reasons.

I'm a guy and I'm getting bloody tired of it. There was a blog post submitted here that had an imaginary conversation between a boss and developer. The explanatory text referred to the developer as "she". Cue people complaining about forced use of "she" being ridiculous and how they couldn't figure out if the author was trying to be "edgy".

Personally "bropages" just sounds childish, like if it was called 31337_h4x><or_pages.
Feminists told me that their movement fights for equality for everyone, despite the fem- in their name. Am I to understand that this is no longer the case? All these feminists keep telling me different things. Talking to a feminist about gender equality is like talking to a christian about marriage equality. They all think they have the divine truth, but divine truth never seems able to agree with itself.
A few minutes in you see that famous tv commercial for the Mac. What I heard was that they only had to show it once, during the ad break for a football game.
I think Jeremy is being a bit disingenuous here. There are many good reasons for not wanting to fork a language, and getting a change made to CoffeeScript is frustrating and glacial. To be clear, I understand why this is: bad decisions are hard to reverse. Unfortunately, the specific issue raised at the top is a poster-child for bad decisions that are hard to reverse.
Sorry if it wasn't clear. My comment was purely about the founders, not about the idea since I know they put so much more weight on the first than on the latter.
EU' mandatory data retention proofs useless as dutch reporters spoof metadata.
Imagine a Thunderbolt display on a desk. The attacker builds a small box that plugs into the firewire port on the back and exposes the port over wifi (or runs a prewritten script). The target plugs in their computer to work and is rooted.
> doesn't mean that other people can't campaign against discrimination.

Of course not, I never said that. I don't support discrimination in any way. I love different people and all the diversity living in such a society entails. I love living in such a vastly different world and interacting with different people on daily basis, even if it sometimes causes misunderstandings to happen. I am just asking everyone to check their emotional baggage at the door and act like mature well adjusted individuals and stop pretending that well meaning cultural references/jokes/memes are the same thing as discrimination/racism/sexism etc. There IS a difference. Let's stop acting intentionally obtuse and conflating these things.

> Is your argument that we should have more discrimination, or just that we should turn a blind eye?

You are attacking a strawman. I neither said that we should have discrimination nor that we should turn a blind eye to it. I hate discrimination with a passion. But I am equally against people who think they can fight discrimination by forcing everyone to hide any signs of cultural identity. Do you realize that those things kill diversity worse than any discrimination? Do you have any idea how harmful it is for diversity, creativity and the society as a whole when everyone starts acting the same in fear of being labeled a bigot/racist/sexist? Blatant discrimination and your way of fighting discrimination have exactly the same effect of suffocating diversity - they just happen to be placed on the opposite sides of the spectrum.

Anyway, I'm done having a discussion here because no matter how reasonable I am trying to be here, you are still sticking to your extremist attitudes and failing to see my point. Good luck.
There is an equally significant anti-Western bias among liberal university-educated people who were born in the U.S, so it mostly balances out. In addition, we now have maps like this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/24...
Including the women who aren't crazy over sensitive outrage promoters.

Shocker, there are women in tech who don't shit their pants every time they see the word "bro." I think the feminists will intentionally never manage to notice this, though.
I have been to Russia more than once. And I speak Russian well enough to travel there on my own, with no support from any travel agencies or guides. On one occasion a couple of guys wanted to steal my suitcase, because I foolishly left the airline stickers on it so they knew it had to contain something worth stealing. But they didn't grab it. They didn't pull out a weapon. Instead they smiled and laughed and try to talk me into going with them to some place nearby. It was like a game of cat and mouse. Or chess. I have heard of other people who ran into similar thieves. Rather than using force they try to outwit you. If you don't fall for their tricks, then you are free. That is how chess works. So I think that the multilevel strategic and tactical thinking of chess is more widespread in Russian society than you claim.
Well, Greece kind of shot themselves in the foot didn't they?

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/greek-debt-crisis...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/07/greece-a...
Kris Burm on programming languages
The American Medical Association take stand against doctors' participation in execution by lethal injection.

The "following orders" defense doesn't work either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors'_Trial

Generally speaking, doctors are forbidden to perform procedures without patient consent. If the patient affirmatively refuses consent, the doctor can be charged with assault and/or battery.

If a patient is a threat to themselves, or others, then certain protocols apply. The doctors are most definitely not excused from liability in those cases.
You said "I have literally been denied housing multiple times on the account of not being a local and that fact wasn't even hidden from me. Do I care? Not really"

To me, that sounds a lot like you "not really caring" about "prejudicial treatment of an individual based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category" which is the wikipedia definition of discrimination. So I'm not seeing the strawman here.
Factory Jobs Are Gone. Get Over It
Please elaborate on this: "conclusion is based on experience of former Baltic USSR republics". I am from a former Baltic USSR republic and I have no idea how you came up with your, as you might say, stupid conclusion. It is just plain not true.
And the cost of not having smart officers is not taken off the police's budget ;)
Instead of that, I would sniff a supplied keyboard instead.
Buying Oculus would be a great move for Nintendo, but I don't think they will for a couple of reasons:

1. They've already been burnt from trying to enter the VR market early with the Virtual Boy. I understand that times are different now, but the memory of the previous failure would definitely have some influence.
2. VR doesn't fit in with Nintendo's ethos of social gaming, which runs deep in the company. The idea that Nintendo seems to have with the majority of its products is to bring people closer together, here are some small touches that highlight this... Famicom (family computer), N64 (four controller ports), Gamecube (handle on console so can easily move, including to bring to a friend's house), Wii (all the casual games), I could go on. VR isolates us, we're physically there but our attention is not.

Perhaps Nintendo will do something with multiplayer VR (requiring more power than single player VR), or with AR, but I do think it'll take more than just a shrewd business decision to get Nintendo back using VR.
LTC4YOU.com hacked, 5500 emails/passwords leaked
I still remember when my dad brought home a Mac. He got rid of it and lamented that he had. I found him a Mac plus and gave him for his 64th birthday this fall. Thing still works. Great machine.
> women are actively discouraged from participating in the first place.

Alienating people by having extremist attitudes is surely not doing you any favors in terms of getting more accepted.

It helps to keep a sense of humor about things. No one is being discriminated against. The man created a Linux command line tool and did a word play on the original name. If you find this offensive and exclusionary instead of seeing it as a clever pun, you've got serious baggage. Over and out.
Foreigner here (French). Why is Tin funny?
It stands for the small metal box with food inside, like Can, doesn't it?
Ugh. What is not equal to men in my comment?

And, irrelevant sidenote, I have never attached the "feminist" label to myself. I'm just a woman, calling it how I see it. So tell me your perspective.
This. I've been lurking on the hackintosh forums[1] and it really isn't very hard. I'm about to jump into the hack world. The decision process was pretty difficult, but I think I've crossed all the t's and dotted all the i's. I recorded the hardest decisions in my blog[2]. Since I needed RAID 5, it took a while to feel comfortable, but now I do and I'm about to purchase the hardware.

[1] http://www.tonymacx86.com/forum.php

[2] http://envoy510.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/new-mac-pro-or-hack...
I don't get it. If someone made a command called "bi###", people would feel that it was hostile towards women - and understandably so. But then someone creates a command with a name that - by your account - is hostile towards a certain kind of male archetype, that name is... hostile towards women?
You're moving the discussion goalposts. This isn't about housing in Asia and I have no time to discuss that. I have made my opinion on racism and discrimination well known. If you are choosing to ignore that and move goalposts around, it just proves you're an unreasonable person.
This question is actually on the "Personal Productivity" Stack Exchange, so it's actually perfectly appropriate to the topic.
I do recognize this. All the time. 6 months ago, I would not have batted an eye at this "bro" thing, so I certainly am aware of other women who don't notice. But I wouldn't call myself a feminist so maybe that's the rub.
Whats interesting is that this view seems to tally fairly well with BBC's world service's view.
You should always hibernate to crypted partition, when you are away from you computer. With modern SSD it's fast.
Depends what you mean by upgradability, my main dev and gaming rig is watercooled. It is so silent the only noise detectable is the spindle HDDs.

I can slam in another PCIe SSD RAID next year and hopefully get rid of those too.

The Mac Pro of course can't slam in a PCIe RAID, you have only thunderbolt, which isn't as fast as a 16 lane. You have no ability to choose graphics cards made by third parties, my box just has reference design ones, with ek blocks on them for the cooling. Of course this means changing the graphics card takes 1 hour, then letting it "leak test" in the bathroom for a night. I would still say it's upgradable, but clearly I've traded ease for silence and performance (you can generally get very reliable over clocks with such cooling).

This is why people complain it isn't upgradable. You can't easily put in anything you want, it has to go external, which is fine for some, but abhorrent for others. The options of what you can upgrade are entirely a single vendor lock-in. Some people dislike that. These people (such as myself) like to have a free market of competition and innovation on every component available.
Nintendo already bundles an AR-based game (which is called, er, "AR Games" [1]) with every Nintendo 3DS console since the launch, so it's definitely one of the directions Nintendo actively researches.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR_Games
Pro tip: looks like refreshing the page gives you different faces.

I wonder if these are pre-compiled or is there some algorithm at play that makes these dynamically?
The technical follow limit is 1000, but Twitter states "this is a technical account limit only, and there are additional rules prohibiting aggressive following behavior".

see https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-twitter-limits-ap...
Reminds me of the kid in China that was run over by two trucks and no one cared

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Yue
I come from one of your "former Baltic USSR republics" (actually a country with a long history before being occupied by soviet Russia).

I saw the changes from gaining freedom from Russian occupation and joining the EU with my own eyes.

We gained so much from EU, I don't know were to start.

Financially: we got a lot of our infrastructure built with EU funds (roads, etc.), if you see anything modernized even in the remote places of my country, you usually see a EU sign next to it.

Legally: there are always discussions about EU legislation, but a lot of it makes our lives better. Most recent example: smoked meat products will be allowed to be produced only with smoke, not chemicals.

Culturally: I used to be living in a land of grumpy cats interested only in themselves. To some extent it still is that way (see http://imgur.com/z5rYv). However the open borders policy has a big ongoing effect: most of the people have seen (or seen the effects on their friends) how people behave and communicate in the Western Europe. Majority of people have got more friendly, polite and positive about the future.
I recently watched a lecture by Philip Zimbardo (of Stanford prison experiment fame) about systems that creates such situations [1]. His example was the Abu Graib. It's quite long, but there is also a shorter Ted talk on the same subject.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xpsVlY3QQc
> The EU experience wasn't all that good for Greece, for example.

Greece got itself into a bloody mess by overspending, and while low interest rates due to Eurozone membership may have made that easier, it is in no way the fault of the EU that the Greek people elected an inept government. OTOH, EU membership now helps them get out of this mess with billions and billions of euros.