skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let us assume the goal of a human is to 'lead a long and happy life'.

The chance you win the jackpot with Lotto is miniscule. It is basically so small, that it isn't worth the investment. You're better off not taking that chance because the risk isn't worth the reward. These games are, basically, fallacies designed to manipulate humans, tricking them into behaviour they should not [logically] resort to.

With cancer, you have genetic risks to get (certain types of) cancer, sure.

However, for example living next to a highway increases the chance you get cancer. So, not living there increases your chance of not getting cancer [at a young(er) stage of your life]. Which increases the goal of human life as we agreed upon.

So I agree they're not the same, but your example of Lotto (or similar games) I find rather bad.

I think with regards to cancer this is related to risk/reward. People take risks such as speeding, eating overburned food, or living near a highway. They feel the risk is worth the reward, and they live under the assumption they get away with it.
I... can't say anything other than:

Apparently not.
It does one thing and one thing well. It's still my favorite box modeling application. I can get a character modeled up 2 times as fast as Blender. I'm a big fan of Blender and use it for character animation, but my familiarity with Wing 3D goes back many many years. Back then Blender's modeling was horrible. These days Blender does everything, and most things very well!
Yes, for something that is so full-featured and sophisticated, I found the media filename issues to be exasperating.

For those that aren't familiar with it, Plex REQUIRES a particular filename format. If you happen to have a media file that is named "wrongly" it either won't show up or it will try to randomly guess what it is so that it can display DVD-title image in your library. There appears to be no way to just force it to accept whatever filename you want. (This might have changed in the last year or so since I uninstalled Plex).
Yet another piece of proof that Linux remains a great operating system for programmers and techies.

For the rest of the world... sadly, just look at it.
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How so? It's an elongated version the trash can Mac Pro design.
I think there is another issue to remember, you can't trust the source.

So, I doubt any security professionals would say its preferable to not have the source, but to do the job of verifying the software you have to do it at a lower level than the source anyway, so having the source is a bonus, not a requirement.
Would you really trust government-controlled internet provider? I'm not usually one to spout conspiracy theories, but even I'd be unable to prevent doubts about the content coming through it.
There are a lot of advice out there for this, only that it is always for full-time endeavors, ambitious startups with a team of co-founders and even hire marketers.

These advice can give insights but are rarely directly appliable to side-projects. What you want is a constant, predictable source of people genuinely interested in your project, rather than growth hacking your way to the exponential explosion.

The best way to do it for a side-project is to have access to and trust from an audience.

There are two ways to do it. Write a blog and be part of an online community where your target audience hang out. That is why the advice of having experience at the industry you are focusing is even more a sine qua non than with startups.

Both actions are actually very complementary. Regularly write interesting posts on your blog and create an audience with time. Regularly contribute at HN or subreddits or Twitter or whatever and gain trust.

In both strategies be sure to be useful and deliver value not necessarily related to your side-project. If people sense you are only doing that artificially as pure content marketing, you will lose their trust.
And for one-man side-projects, this kind of trust it is even more important than to startups.
But if you buy something for a lot of money, and then you figure it out you paid way too much you don't typically walk around bragging about it.
Wow, he's a devil of a scientist!
That's true but not the end of the argument: it's also the case that the poorer neighborhoods tend to be denser (affluent property owners prize open space) with narrower roads and in economically favorable locations (the poorer neighborhoods tend to be older, and the most economical places to build tend to get the ones that get built up first).
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for me no, but I use it as a way to block out distractions if a lot is going on around my office. I still prefer silence if I can have it.
I just read the book Evicted by Matthew Desmond which goes into great detail about how much money there is to be made from this approach.

It's definitely sympathetic to the plight of the very low income tenants but not unjustly so; anyway I found it fascinating and worth recommending here:

https://www.amazon.com/Evicted-Poverty-Profit-American-City/...
Is your car an entry-level bicycle? What kind of servers are you running that cost 30x an actual car? We run some expensive servers but none that cost anywhere near 30x the cost of my car.
There is a good podcast/audio interview[1] with C Charles Isbell, Jr., Professor and Senior Associate Dean at GA Tech., on the TWiML podcast. He discusses how their first online master's program has worked, and I found it quite informative.

1. https://twimlai.com/twiml-talk-4-charles-isbell-interactive-...
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I don't know if the link above has been changed by mods or was a mistake, but here is the link to the original article:

https://thebittheories.com/masters-versus-ph-d-2b26ef33f883

The original content is licensed under a CC license [1], and now (it probably has been updated) the reposter is respecting the terms of it:

1. Please attribute the original work to me (Matt Might) and link back to this page in your reproduction: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/ as The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D.

2.When you attribute, please also link my name, Matt Might, to http://matt.might.net/

3.And, don't forget the "Keep pushing," at the bottom!

So I don't see any reason why the original link can't be shared in thread's comments, especially because people should be allowed to see by themselves the original article in order to forge their own opinion on discussions happening here.

[1] http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/#licen...
The cost of moving to new workflows is what keeps many shops from adopting new software. And people have been burned by Autodesk (e.g. their buying and sunsetting Softimage), so if you already have a working pipeline based on a popular open source tool, it would be very unwise to switch from it just because you now have money to spend on a propriatery package.
It didn't launch its own AMP. They are now supporting Google's AMP by replacing all links on CloudFlare powered webpage into AMP ones with that little thunderbolt.
Safari uses Webkit (a fork of KHTML), Opera and Chrome use Blink (a fork of Webkit), Firefox uses Gecko.

Except on iOS where all browsers are forced to use a crippled version of Webkit.
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I would love for you to substantiate that into something meaningful.

So by all means. Prove me wrong.
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Most of the workflows that feed into Plex handle this pretty seamlessly. To be honest, I never even knew it had an issue, so I'm speaking out of a state of blissful ignorance of filenames—but that's how I want it to be, so can't complain.
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I really don't understand why there isn't a niche company that does nothing but make high quality peripherals that work in Linux. I just bought an atheros wifi card off amazon marked ENGINEERING SAMPLES ONLY, because no one sells the chipset I want standalone.

Intel chipsets are OEM only. Cards are readily available on Amazon, but are all gray-market apparently.

In short, I don't expect normal users to do this, but I'd expect them to be willing to pay triple the normal markup on $20-$50 componens if they "just worked" in Linux.

To be clear, I'm talking about having an ODM run off copies of Intel/Atheros reference boards. The engineering effort is as low as it gets for hardware manufacturing.
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Press the SpaceBar, then type in what you are looking for. Everything is accessible.
We... we still have those in the linux desktop. Window managers still are a choice. Surely that's a feature?
Self identifying as a skeptic is easy. Changing opinions as new facts come in is hard.
For those wondering for the first, from the help:

> To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands are ignored.
>> It is not the same degree that's awarded...

This is just inaccurate and a falsehood.
Sure, but those are then by definition not opposing arguments. They are opposing stances on some political issue, sure, but on the facts side one party puts more value in one variable where the other party values another.

I was stating that two opposing arguments can't both be true, because then there is no truth.
Would Windows 10 not give you most of want you want?
It happened to me too, I just hit reload until it worked.
On the contrary. Blizzard cancelled a project also called Titan which they had never actually publicly announced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(Blizzard_Entertainment_...
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> 1. Many languages don't support this (including Go and Lua, AFAIK).

I don't think this is necessarily a property of the primitives. greenlet doesn't support anything like gevent.joinall(gevent.spawn(foo()), gevent.spawn(bar()), but gevent does by adding python code to greenlet. So I'm sure that in the same manner one could do it in Lua using Lua's coroutines. (There might be some concern that we have the wrong primitive: greenlet provides symmetric coroutines and Lua provides asymmetric coroutines. I don't think it matters for this which one we use, but if it does it is simple to implement either in terms of the other.)

That's not to say that the situation is ideal! To a great extent it's good if a language comes with a standard way to do this stuff! But it would be silly to say something like "Lua doesn't have inheritance" because it has a DIY inheritance construction kit instead of an "extends" keyword.
Really like how minimal but not ugly that blog is
I can dig this, but the next Mac Pro needs to compete with the current line of HP Z840:

http://www8.hp.com/h20195/v2/GetPDF.aspx/c04400043.pdf
Please share a screenshot if possible with a comment of what exactly you don't like. We'll see if we can fix that.
Vivaldi does not feel as fast as the old opera.

On some pages browsing would slow down to a halt while CPU usage would spike to 100%.
Sadly, it's approximately you plus like 12 other people who care about the issue you describe. The experience works and works well, so very few people care how it works.
if you dont like whatsapp you can use Signal. it's the open source software that was integrated into whatsapp and is the basis of it's e2e encryption.

both are better options than telegram.
Sometimes you aren't allowed to - the local regulations can prohibit you from building your own last mile even if you wanted to pay the huge cost to needlessly duplicate it.
If there's any degree that's ideal to being completed online its CS
It's the same standard but it's Cloudflare's own viewer, cache and the AMP URLs are managed by Cloudflare and not Google.
Completely agree. It's a sign of health not sickness that we are experiencing this change.

What people often forget is that at the same token lies can be spread so can corrections to those lies.
Because the gap isnt as big as you think it is. I have a retina MBP, a Surface Pro 3, and a Zenbook UX32VD all running Arch Linux. The trackpads on all three are very good and they can all use 3 and four finger gestures fully with Gnome and libinput. Maybe the scrolling isnt quite as good as OSX but everything is just as fluid these days.

On windows is another story, everything feels janky when using trackpad gestures.
> Personally I don't mind, since everyone's on Telegram.

I don't know a single person who is on Telegram. My friends have not even heard of it despite the fact that they all talk online and a good percentage of them are developers. Why would I start using it if no one I know uses it?
I write software for iOS / Mac as my day job and it's really gotten to a point where it feels like writing C# on Windows used to feel (which is not a bad thing). The big difference is that back then I could build a powerhouse PC for $1500 and have a handful of big monitors and really feel ahead of the power curve.

I don't feel like I have the option to do that these days, and I'm pretty disappointed by it. $4,000 on a laptop is my best attempt and it's still not.. quite. there.
I also had one big black page. I thought it was a joke and it meant the author thought there was no Mac Pro 2 coming. Then I remembered this is not Reddit and there are no funny links on HN.
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> I would urge you to give me examples in politics which can't have two different political outcomes both potentially true.

Climate change.
No personal experience, but a review at https://hackaday.com/2017/01/05/hands-on-with-the-first-open...
I would love it if all AMP sites were opt-in. I understand the target audience and I agree that making the web a faster place is important. However, there are tradeoffs that come with AMP, and I personally have an amazingly fast and unlimited LTE connection. I don't need AMP, so all I get is the downsides with none of the positives.

The mobile Internet has become a far more frustrating place for me since Google introduced AMP. I just want to be able to turn it off.
There is zero reason for AMP to be hijacking URLs or embedding any additional elements into a page that are detectable by the average user.

Beyond that, universal opt-out should be possible and stats on the percentage of users opting out should be published real-time.

As such, until this is addressed, I am against AMP.
If there was a version for Minix, now that would be newsworthy!
I got my bachelors while working FT. I did well, and it was manageable. My only caveat is examine your other obligations outside of work and school: family, hobbies, etc. Your time will be severely limited.

It's like running a side project that's actually used and not just for learning/experimentation.
They need some way for people to easily hide archived content, since they have no clear right to publish their copy. You can send them an e-mail instead, but those take comparatively more resources to process and robots.txt at least sort-of indicates that you actually are in a position where you can demand the removal and can be processed automatically.
And yet they still have a huge money faucet.
It's a cluster. The way Microsoft rolled out .NET Core and all these related technologies did nothing but confuse everyone, even seasoned .NET developers and architects such as myself. The name changes, horrible Visual Studio tooling, version numbers with seemingly no rhyme or reason...it's been a nightmare.

They are finally clearing things up with .NET Standard 2.0, which is like the One Standard to Rule Them All. I consider .NET Standard 2.0 and its related implementations, along with Visual Studio 2017, to be the first real production-ready set of standards, tooling, and frameworks. It's what .NET Core should've been from the very beginning.
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"Messing with configurations" enough to add a password requires no more specialized knowledge than installing a database server. Personal responsibility has to come in to play at some point here. We're talking about real companies who said "We're going to put all of our data into this system and not set a password", not a fast food worker trying to pick up Rails development in his/her free time.

Furthermore, running "apt-get install" usually isn't enough to get something exposed onto the public network, even for home users, whose routers block all incoming ports by default. Someone has to go in and explicitly open the traffic before something like Mongo gets exposed; there's no reason that labs, developer machines, etc., would be publicly accessible.

Mongo is hardly alone here; comparable services like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis also install without a password by default. For MySQL, this is perhaps less noticeable because Debian/Ubuntu (and probably some other distros) include a prompt to allow the user to set a new root password as a post-install script. For PostgreSQL, the default mode uses IDENT authentication, i.e., it's accessed by dropping to the "postgres" user ... and, like all other system users, including root, this user is passwordless by default.

For Redis, it's passwordless by default and I'm sure there are many installations that have this same "vulnerability" in redis-land (there are also many installations that have real vulnerabilities, because Ubuntu's redis-server package in 14.04 hasn't been patched), because people rarely think about redis auth either. Just since last year, there is a feature called "protected mode" that requires the user to explicitly disable a flag if they intend to run a server that is a) bound to a non-loopback interface and b) not passworded (but it doesn't actually require someone to set a password). That's a cool feature, but as users don't RTFM, I'm sure they either flip protected mode to false without understanding what it does or just give up on redis and install MongoDB instead. :)

The point here is that pretty much everything you can install on a server is passwordless by default. I don't think the system of someone who never thinks about passwords would last very long at all. This is NOT a MongoDB-specific anomaly. Passwordless is the typical case for most services.

A feature like Redis's protected mode is a nice bonus, but it's not fair to lay responsibility for this at the feet of Mongo or to call it a "vulnerability", as the OP does. The responsibility lies with people who say "I'm going to put all of my company's data in here and push it live without thinking even a tiny bit about security."

Do a lot of people do that? Yes. Should MongoDB take more steps to protect such people from themselves? Maybe. But this is a very basic, very routine thing, which is easy to look up and rectify -- not some obscure anomaly buried under 600 pages of documentation or requiring a special compile-time flag. Mongo doesn't deserve the heat for people who never set up a password.
Not sure what you mean here.

Itanium was a VLIW and the Yale Bulldog compiler solved the VLIW code generation problem with trace scheduling back in the 80s. At this point, that's standard Dragon Book stuff.

Itanium failed to be sure but it wasn't the compiler. However I'll grant that the workload didn't match the EPIC architecture and the compiler. EPIC succeeded at scientific workloads.

As to whether Mill respects the current level of compiler tech a lot more I'd like to know more about that. They need to get their LLVM backend up and running.
"At Google we believe in designing products with speed as a core principle. The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) format helps ensure that content reliably loads fast [...]"

Yeah, that's certainly one way to look at it. Yet in my book, the "AMP 'format'" (emph. mine), above all, ensures the continued assimilation of the open web, and with it most of ad revenue collected there, into the huge moloch that is Google (and its AdWords and Analytics infrastructure). I think it's a disgusting technology to adopt, and none of its supposed benefits are worth the drawback that you're giving away control over the end-to-end communication with your actual users.
It feels like the author's claim that 3D modeling is just like using VIM could be generalized to "any application that has keyboard shortcuts can resemble VIM in that the keyboard can be used to do things in the application". It seems like there's some overlap in Blender's keyboard shortcuts and VIM's key bindings, but the bit about using a mouse seems like a pretty big departure from VIM usage.
macOS:

Ctrl-left/Ctrl-right switches workspaces for me. Four-finger swipe does the same.

what am I doing wrong?
A text editor shouldnt tie someone to a platform in 2017
The town he's using as a case study is Lafayette, Louisiana. You can just pull it up on Google Maps to see what he's talking about. From what I can see, the largest building in the town is a Wal-mart.

The argument is that improving neighborhood infrastructure will tend to improve housing values; that's noncontroversial. Increased housing values implies increased property tax; that's axiomatic. Poorer neighborhoods are denser, so a single neighborhood intervention has more impact on a larger number of properties. The poorer neighborhoods tend to be cheaper to improve. And the poorer neighborhoods have more upside: it's difficult to improve the value of properties that were recently designed and built to maximize real estate value.
Are these moves due to the "scaling back" of the rumored Apple automotive efforts?
Well, now that you mention it....

But really, was that a cute way to describe ssh, or are you actually dialing into stuff in 2017? Because that would be weird, but kind of cool.
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That sounds really intriguing, I'll take a look!
By "original" I meant where the content originally came from, not the "original ripoff link". So no, the mods did not change that, I did link to Matt Might's site.
Somebody had explained this to me in words long ago. Interesting to finally see the visual representation!
1. No distinction
2. Not unless they ask you

And everyone who's been exposed to both says it's the same courses and rigor as the on-campus version.

(Source: 2 classes from finishing)
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He won? That is very quantifiable. Despite on 69% of statements lying according to politifact.

I would love for you to show me how people cared as much about truth now.
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