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> Do you deny that Russian trolls do regularly use this tactic?

I don't have information either way, but attacking motives instead of arguments never seems to lead anywhere useful, in my experience. The response from a troll or an innocent is often the same; indignation. This often results in confirmation bias taking over, and an argument from one side believing the other is acting in bad faith, and the pother believing they are talking to assholes.

> Could you present an example of this?

"First, while you've stated Clinton has a link to Russia, I'm unfamiliar with the parties involved or the evidence, and you didn't substantiate your claim. Can you point me towards resources where this is explained?

Secondly, while there may be a link with Clinton, a link, by itself, does not mean anything. A link is not the same thing and influence. I am probably linked to President Obama through a chain of three to four (or less) people. I also likely have an almost zero chance to get a specific message to him, much less exert influence. Not all links are equal, and I would be surprised if most the career politicians didn't have links to people in almost all the major nations, on purpose. If I was in that career, I would cultivate these links and people with more of them, as those can be extremely useful in communication. Do we all truly believe the Obama and Putin communicate purely through speeches and official visits, and have no way to express specific desires and sentiments through back-channels? What's a back-channel but a link by another name?

The important thing to consider here is not whether there is a link, but what type of link it is and what influence it may exert."

> It's awfully hard to have a useful discussion when trolls are trying to take things over.

Keep in mind that the purpose of trolling might well be to stir the pot enough that normal discourse has no chance, not just to discredit a specific idea. Who cares if a good discussion happens if nobody is around to see it as it's lost in a sea of vitriol? There was even a moment prior to my original reply, when I wondered where you were trolling in this manner. I quickly discounted it, but I imagine if I had acted on that thought, our conversation would be much less useful to all involved.
Ask HN: Does anyone here use OS X as a webserver?
We have webservers running BSD, Linux, Windows, but when it comes to OSX, I have only seen people installing server software on it because they do development on it. Does anyone here run/administrate a big website (say with a million users) on OSX? Why did you (or your company) choose OSX? Can you compare it to hosting on other platforms?
Sorry, completely glossed over it. Looks like we agree on this :)
Is it all you talk about?

That's why I see getting people ridiculed about things that are actually real concerns- it's practically all they talk about.

I take privacy & security measures, but you wouldn't really know it, talking with me over a drink.

Also, a fundamental beleif that everyone is out to get you (true or not), will turn most people off.
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I like the phrase "collaborative filtering" and it fits what we have in mind for HN nicely. (The term we use internally is "story review game", because we want to make a game of it.) But I think there's value in having HN's front page be the same for everybody, even though that guarantees that it's optimal for nobody, and produces a daily crop of "why is this on HN" protest comments.
I've started and stopped a number of times. Mostly I don't have an itch to scratch that pushes me to make anything interesting.

I find myself particularly struggling when language walkthroughs get to libraries and code organization. Follow all the paths and dependencies is really tough for me.
But why point it out? It's one of the least "privilegy" privilege I could imagine. Living with parents is the default, something "privileged" people try to escape. It's more economically sensible, so in this way poor people are more "privileged" by being more likely to live with their parents. Yes, you could point out various groups like people who've lost their parents, or people with abusive parents, etc. but at this point one has to realize that for every possible attribute X you could carve out a social subgroup that doesn't have X, and call X-havers privileged. It's meaningless.
I am being intellectually honest. Going back generations and claiming historical territory doesn't work peacefully in the long run.
It may not be a human right, but restricting one of the most fundamental of human needs is definitely a major cause for concern. The cumulative effect this has had actoss the country is disastrous.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/03/wealth-i...
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I think you're misreading that, particularly since he also said: "In retrospect, I'm proud of what we did, I really felt sideswiped on that one."

That, plus the end of your quote, makes it pretty clear that he is PROUD to have sued Napster and been shitty to every pirate.
I literally said modern games, meaning whatever is the most modern at the time, since 2011, not only at 2011.
You're effectively making the case that e-voting is flawed, because a completely controlled slave who has Stockholm syndrome can't vote for whom they want.

1) It's possible to revote unlimited times. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you would get an opportunity to revote in private.

2) If your ID card gets taken away, you can get a new one from the government.

3) If you lack the funds for the necessary travel, the government will provide that.

4) If you're being held locked up against your will, you can call the police.

5) If you're worried about getting murdered after you visibly vote for someone who you don't want to, you can set up a cron job to change the vote after even if you're no longer breathing.

In addition. If there truly is such an adversary that can completely control your life & silence any requests for help, then that very same adversary is also capable of requiring you to wear a hidden live streaming camera when you go to paper vote, so that they can see you really cast your paper vote for the candidate they insist on.

Dreaming up such astronomical edge cases can be useful, but in regards to e-voting, I have yet to see a scenario that has a negative effect on e-voting while the same effect doesn't exist on classic paper voting.
From my system of morality, people have a responsibility to provide aid to those who are less well off, and alsoalso have a responsibility to provide knowledge to those who do not have it. I think this follows from the idea that we all have a right to life, dignity, and knowledge.

However after some thought, and the rather unpleasant experience of having attempted to discuss and argue this point before, I do not think I can answer in a way that would convince you to change your current viewpoint, rather we would end up arguing opinions.
Thank you for that perspective... from a graying beard. Unfortunately the social potential of the _idea_ of software and APIs is so much greater than its IRL application and usage. But congratulations nonetheless, it seems you have adopted the hacker ethic (re: OSS-as-duct-tape) and that's a great first step even if it's your only one!
I agree. I think however those must come at least with a delay though I'm afraid, realistically, or it would send too much of a double message about how the US treats the sources of it's intelligence leaks. Intelligence safety is still a pretty big deal.. you can't just go and have the president give a medal to the guy responsible for one of the biggest intelligence leaks of all time.
Which is a poor choice! Picking yum or apt as the model would have been a saner choice! I feel the same way dealing with Arch Linux - being different (read "weird") isn't always better!
Rutkowska is among the crème de la crème of computer security researchers. That she's dedicating her time towards a project like Qubes is sorely under-appreciated by the public today, but is certainly something that inspires me to believe that, given enough time, defenders can win.
I disagree that talking about equivalence or isomorphism would be clearer, simply because those two terms are ambiguous. They each have multiple definitions, whereas, as far as I'm aware, alpha conversion only has one. You are correct in your interpretation.

I'm not making a song or a dance about alpha conversion, I'm simply using it for description because it is a well-defined notion with a precise meaning. I don't see the point in trying to come up with some other term that means the same thing, when a perfectly good term is already available.

Anyway, I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful, but I stand by my phrasing :)
I realise it's a bit buzzwordy, but social justice is a useful catch-all term when describing what political activists fight for. Is there a term you prefer in its place?
How does it demean the work of those people? They worked for something (Better conditions for their children), and they got it. Whether or not it conveys an advantage over other people is irrelevant to the value of the work, and the results that work produced.

Moreso, I think that we have a responsibility to provide that (better conditions) not only to our children, but also to whomever else we can.
I've made a couple of attempts and I'm about to make another attempt to learn to code. I think the problem I run into the most is that a lot of the online learning is not project based, or takes too long to get started on a project. For example, I started the TeamTreehouse Flask Track and it takes a while before their tutorials challenge you to actually start building a site with Flask. I signed up for onemonth.com and I liked their approach much better, where you just dive in and start building something from the beginning. However, the OneMonth Python/Django course that I was taking shutdown right in the middle of the course I was taking, due to problems with the course material. It's also been very difficult to choose a language/framework, but I think I've settled on Python/Django. I'm thinking that I will resume my Flask course at TeamTreehouse and also give Code4Startup.com's new Django course a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g

This talk is even better. "C++ templates are to Commmon Lisp macros what IRS tax return forms are to poetry". I don't know both well enough to tell if it's true, but damn it's a good metaphor.
> Why pay people to do this?

At the moment bots cannot gain neither trust of the people nor reputation and without that they cannot be effective.
You are looking for Spintax ! That's how bots do comment-spam.

Example : "{|||Wow! |Hey! |Looks {nice|cool}! }{{I like|I love|Like|Love} {this|your}|{Very nice|Nice|Cool}} {photo|foto|picture|pic|image|img}{.|!|!!| :)| ;)| :D| <3}"
There are lots of startups that I considered dumb

And in the vast majority of cases you were right. A parallel comment pointed out that it's a lottery. I don't even think that's true, as with the lottery I know exactly what the odds are. Odds on some random startup "...only for dogs, on the Internet"? Fuck if I know.
Oddly enough, Natrum Sulphuricum seems to be a homeopathic remedy, not a common laxative - can anybody shed some light on this?
It made sense at the time, and most people probably weren't around when you could tweet by SMS, but almost 10 years later we're still working with this imposed limit. And doing it well.
Comparing sci hub to napster is a bit misleading. Elseviers customers are not individual scientists, they're university libraries who pay huge sums to get massive bundles of journal licenses. I have an extremely hard time imagining university libraries cancelling their deals with Elsevier and instead telling their users to check SciHub. What it might result in is slowed growth as new customers feel less pressure from their users to purchase licenses as those users can already access the articles. So, a problem for Elsevier, but very unlikely to be its death knell or a cause for it to change its business model.
So unrelated to this, what are the best couple resources out there for understanding the PKI system? I understand it in vague terms and I can use it. I just don't know enough of the details of it to be comfortable with it.

It may be that I would be even less comfortable with it if I knew the details.
Couldn't agree more. Just selling the "Wow" factor. In reality, most talks are baseless, same with startups. Some do manage to make millions just by selling the "Wowness". A whale buys the product and dumps it.
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Yesterday I learnt that cats have such efficient kidneys that they can re-hydrate by drinking sea water. I wonder what would happen if an artificial kidney was capable of doing that.
I'm pretty sure they were here long before you posted your comment. As usual for subjects like this.
You can travel on the subway and busses as much as you want for about $110 per month.

The passes cost $29 for 7 days. So a family of four, visiting NYC, can ride around for a week for $116. Not a bad deal at all!
jackson_1, if you read this, your posts are being marked as [dead].

jackson_1 posted a list of what they feel is order of difficultly, just giving a little snippet:

1:Pong 2:Minefield 3:Tic-tac-toe 4:Memory Puzzle ... 44:Stratego 45:Risk 46:Go 47:Diner Dash 48:Fire ‘N’ Ice 49:Chess

I'd strongly disagree with this -- I'd prefer to do a Chess clone than a Pong clone myself. While doing a good chess A.I. might be hard, doing something reasonable is much easier than many other games on this list. Doing a good enough chess A.I. to beat 50% of people is fairly easy if you use the power of a modern machine.
Modern traffic systems are managed by a centralized hub these days. For example of why, suppose a major accident on a major road. The system can adjust light patterns to help route traffic around the accident, keeping the roads operating as sanely as possible.
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Something like that would probably be better off with Aho-Corasick, with is similar to a trie but ends up with more compact FSMs
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Not me personally, but Imgix uses Mac Pros in their datacenter for graphics related work.

http://photos.imgix.com/racking-mac-pros

And not directly what you asked, but a thread that comes to mind is this one, where an unnamed company (presumably Mathworks) built a rack of Macbook Pros for testing purposes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9967357
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People have lived in bubbles forever but now with the Net they're encountering oppositional thoughts directly without filtering. This conflict further deepens already existing society division through a kind of memetic assortative mating.
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There is an image CDN (EDIT: imgix, as tristanj linked below) which runs OS X for their image processing servers and I've seen pictures of rack holders for Mac Minis for build servers, but in general OS X isn't a very interesting choice.

Running it on non-Apple hardware is legally questionable at best (the EULA forbids it, if this part of the EULA is applicable in your country is a question for a lawyer), Apple doesn't do server hardware anymore, it costs money and you don't get support or special software from Apple for server-usage for it, and since nearly nobody runs it as a server OS it probably isn't very high on the priority list to support that usage for other software vendors or open-source project.

A lot of things probably will work well since they are made to run for developer usage, but if you do not absolutely need integration with something apple-specific or just want to reuse an old mac lying around for a hobby project it doesn't give you anything over other OSes as a normal web server.
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I would think the main barrier to doing this is the tie-in between the hardware and software. Mac hardware doesn't even really have a "large server" piece. And certainly if they did it wouldn't be very cheap compared to a Linux box. Since basically any software you would run on OSX to run a server you would presumably be able to run on Linux as well (e.g. nginx, etc.), I don't know what the advantage would be.
I tried to recognize and acknowledge that I have a step up having earned an engineering degree and even gave some pointers on how to complete one with all the time constraings involved (sleeping on benches in university overnight in order to save time was one). Do you think anyone was interested?
"...incantations specific to some configuration/OS/Language/Tooling"

This is one of the things that I struggle with, much more than actually learning the programming language. I'm embarrassed to admit it because it's part of the DNA of programming environments, and it feels like no-one will take you seriously if you don't love or master the command line to perform tasks in your environment.

But I'll say it, I (mostly) hate the command line for the endless, excessive configuration/installation/tooling/updating tasks that are such an intrinsic (and unfriendly) part of "modern" programming setups. It also feels like there is zero interest in ever changing these things.

Anyone else want to admit they struggle or dislike this state of affairs? Or am I the only one?
I found Guix ones more understandable.

Also Guix switch challenge is incredible from a security perspective: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Invoking-...

Nix should take those things back. Overall, it's a great package manager.
The author acknowledges this and isn't arguing about whether the lottery exists, but what the stakes are. For the working class, they stake their livelihood. It means that failing to win the lottery might mean starting a career from scratch, that is, if they enough to still have roof and food.
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I was going to go with 2 EVGA GTX 1080s [0] in SLI with 4 4k monitors [1]. I currently have no video cards at all, and will be installing using on-board video. The computer will be used for both development (therefore 4 monitors) and gaming (powerful video cards), and without any video cards, I can't really use it for either. I want to get pascal chips with GDDR5X, but can't wait months for the next wave of cards to be released. What would you recommend?

[0] http://www.evga.com/Products/Product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-6180-KR

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PC9HFO8/?tag=pcpapi-20
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also expect rubber hose cryptanalysis
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Yes Travis CI supports OS X and we used it for a while for Homebrew.
AMD is never going to get their OGL driver up to par with Nvidia's. That's why they created Mantle and are enthusiastic about Vulkan/DX12. It gets them off the hook to make and maintain those drivers.

Whoever decided to save a buck back at ATI and not hire a massive driver development team a couple decades ago did irreparable harm.
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Nope. People that hire/need programmers are commodities.
a redesign of nix command line is on the way. so thins should get easier.
A few of the continuous integration companies that support iOS/Mac development run fleets of Macs. If you need info, talk to the folks at bitrise.io or CircleCI
Up to this point graphics docks have either been hacked together or proprietary one-offs, so they're not widely used. Standardized TB3 graphics docks are coming very soon though.

https://youtu.be/vGFRoWj0YOw?t=181

Compatibility wise they're supposed to work with any laptop that has Thunderbolt 3, supports the Intel eGPU UEFI extension, and is running Windows 10.
While I still disagree that Snowden's blind trust in those two particular journalists (whom I referred to as "the media", not to discredit these two journalists in particular, but because I was trying make a more general statement) was justified considering the massive scale of his leak and the fact that he was quite literally dealing with matters of national security, I admit that the trade-off between having more objectivity in what gets redacted vs the risk of leaking damaging confidential information of no public interest is an interesting one that I hadn't considered. Do you have any references for why this might be considered an established practice?
The 1991 referendum was: Do you support re-establishing the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as a subject of USSR and a party to the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR? That means to be on the same level as Ukraine in the USSR, not under Ukraine.

There were additional referendums, in 1992 and 1994, but they were asking questions with the reality of being part of Ukraine.
$500 is too big price for "high-end" class video card? We are living in different worlds.
The article was about some woman who was unhappy and quit her job, and had some resources to fall back on.

I am sure lots of points can be projected onto it, but the long and the short is she didn't do a very good job at saying anything very clearly.
It's because there's a wrapper div with "overflow: auto" around the entire page. This means you're scrolling inside the div (unaccelerated, need to repaint) instead of scrolling the entire document (accelerated, no need to repaint, can just move around pre-rendered tiles). Removing the "overflow: auto" makes scrolling smooth.
My friend got hired at the start up like that and now he is doing fine. The truth is that I am very honest and critical of myself, I just don't have the confidence in my abilities. He also had several years of experience, I don't. I might start hanging out at local meetups again but the tech scene is small.
> being different (read "weird") isn't always better!

To go further, being different is almost always a bad idea. People are used to how current stuff works; you need a really good reason not to provide the same interface.
the major reason for poor package support is low number of osx users (hydra - nix build farm - builds binaries also for osx).
I always get a headache when using an iPad in the backseat of a car. But not in a train. I always wondered why this was, because it doesnt happen with my phone and never used to happen with my gameboy as a kid. Is this the phenomena you are referring to?
They missed the most obvious one!

http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/on-brainstorming-session...

Edit: I thought they missed Breakout, but it’s in there, but they’re calling it “Arkanoid”. Bah.
If there are nonetheless economic consequences for the publishers, the end result will be the trimming of some fat.
Depends on what you mean by commodity, but considering that a commodity "has no qualitative differentiation"[1] I would say no.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity#Types_of_commodity
> I suppose the notion of press freedom has changed between 1991 and Gawker's case.

Press freedom doesn't mean freedom from being sued by individuals. Gawker's case has nothing to do with Press freedom. It isn't the american government who is suing Gawker.
Nix is not great for casual Linux desktop usage - I tried installing the Atom editor, and cancelled when I saw X11 being downloaded. You might as well run NixOS in a VM.