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> Ask them what do states have to hide by having stuff classified as "top secret" or why do they run secret services.

I’m as tinfoil hat wearing as they come but will still say that’s a terrible answer. States have intelligence agencies and maintain secrecy for both security reasons (nuclear codes shouldn’t be public right?) and privacy reasons of citizens involved (innocent till proven guilty).

> And why should I, as an individual, be transparent with an entity that is not transparent to me?

The first half of that is enough to stand on its own. You shouldn’t have to be transparent simply because that’s your choice to do so.
Didnt Larry Ellison do the same thing with Oracle DB.
I'd forgotten that book existed,I need to read it again, it's up there with "office space" for humourous tech related media.
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Whilst "Dutch disease" is a well established if not uncontentious theory, Venezuela has suffered notably worse effects in response to oil price downturns to every other oil-dependent country, and it's difficult not to see a link between that and the government's extreme antagonism to non-oil businesses and longstanding currency mismanagement (as well as the less-unusual corrupt control of the oil itself by regime-linked kleptocrats)
The problem is not the testing. The problem is that if you have classes that depend on other classes that depend on other classes that depend on specific configuration.

Then you have a mess without DI.
Thank you, that's great to hear. You might like the cheat sheet then. It's similar to the buffet, just a different approach: https://hackerthemes.com/bootstrap-cheatsheet/
Btw, the ground rule I used here is that the amount of "security-related mental-gymnastics" I have to perform to stay on the safe side during normal browsing should be zero.
"Bank statements on a postcard"...this is the first time i heard this one...but, man, its a good one!
I've gone through the entire article and have taken a moment to check the links and it's amazing very organic and very astonishing nature has the hidden gems for us discover.
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"You many not have something to hide, but you have something to protect"
Thanks for that. OK, that indeed confirms the list's uselessness.

TL;DR: It counts all the hits on N search engines for any language with its own wikipedia page.

Obviously that will bias towards older languages with a large cumulative number of mentions. I don't see it as useful for evaluating the current popularity of languages.
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My office is 4m by 8m and there is only me in it.

Boss was happy for me to work somewhere quiet and the only space we had was an unused meeting room that takes up up half the second floor of our second building.

It's glorious.
While a nice quote, It's not addressing why privacy matters. Most people already have an understanding of why freedom of speech is important, but might not think privacy is as important. They could easily call this "comparing apples and oranges", a similar scenario to the one in the original post.
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I wonder if the monster disc is missing?
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What if one country wants their poor to stay poor, and one country wants their poor to aspire to be rich, so they can take advantage of opportunity for upward mobility?
This keyboard is better than all the chiclet island crap.
Unfortunately they've taken a left turn on the quality front, at least for the iOS app. It was unmaintained and slightly buggy, but then it became maintained and slow, power-hungry, and extra-buggy, and new versions usually don't make it better. At least the macOS desktop app is still based on WebKit rather than Electron, so it doesn't guzzle battery.

They've added some handy features, and there are more in the pipeline, but the current mobile experience is so bad that I'm having trouble not looking at alternatives. This despite the threading and content model (inbox divorced from chat is amazing) that has kept me very loyal for a very long time.
Losing an engine in an airliner is as close to a non-event as you can get and still declare an emergency. It's practiced literally every time a pilot steps into a sim. It's practiced very often in actual planes if you're not flying something as expensive as an airliner. If you're flying a multi-engine prop plane, there's a better than 50/50 chance your examiner/instructor will cut fuel flow to one of the engine and not say anything to you about it.

The only reason I wrote that is because I think it helps us to keep in mind that journalists don't necessarily know any more about this subject than they do about technology, although there are no glaring issues with this article in particular. Just take any technical/engineering/process points with a grain of salt, that's all.
> you can just embed the JVM the usual way and ship the Graal compiler with it

How feasible would it then be to use Graal NFI for FFI from vanilla Java? That seems useful given the performance limits of JNA and the complexity of JNI.
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It's not hard to rebuild old laptop battery packs with new 18650 cells.
> And nature itself is a construct of humans.

What does this even mean?
To "clickbait" poor person with luxury car is easier than rich person.

It is not a bad thing because in the end yes, will be discriminated at the counter by amount of money they have. Of course no one should get stuff for free.

It is bad in general, because people will be closed by their socioeconomic status and will have less possibilities to see better things. It can reduce economic mobility by some business not wanting to deal with people who are classified by automatic classifiers, even though they might have more money, be smarter, than what their FB history is telling.
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I think most people here are missing the point. You need not convince them that they do have something to hide, or that other people have good reasons for hiding things.

The key point is that you do not get to decide if you have something to hide.

When you share data extensively with companies or the government, they now have the power to use it to make decisions about you. They may use that power in ways you disagree with. They may punish you for things you don’t think are wrong, or deny you employment for reasons you think are stupid, and so on. It’s not your decision that you are perfect and have nothing to hide; they get to use your data and decide that.

Daniel Solove has expressed a version of this argument before, that privacy is really about power, and it is compelling: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=998565

Moxie Marlinspike makes a similar point that positive social changes, like acceptance of homosexuality or marijuana, require the ability to do socially disapproved things in private. With no privacy, the changes would never happen, because nobody would have been able to, say, privately have a same-sex relationship. https://moxie.org/blog/we-should-all-have-something-to-hide/
You explicitly quoted the part about economic decline, and indeed this was critical to the sort of scenario Montrose was referring to. His comment isn't suggesting that Rome be taken as the best historical case study for understanding Venezuela today, but rather that Venezuala might give us a sense of the on-the-ground human element during the decline of Rome.
> But how is him being white relevant? You seem to imply that a white persons accomplishments are less meaningful, solely because they are white.

You have the relationship backwards: being white meant no barriers. He never showed up for a meeting to be pointed at the back door or asked whether he was there to apply for the job as janitor or security guard. Nobody assumed he was there to take notes. He didn’t face constant questions about whether he could actually do something or was just “the diversity hire”.

That’s huge, especially when you look at the stats for things like loan or VC approval rates. Starting a company as a white man isn’t easy but it’s still easier than what most other people have to do.
This always works best yes, up until a person doesn't mind and you get to see things you rather not.
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Plugin developer here. Just had a look at some of the review... they are in no way in-depth.

I would call them plugin descriptions at best, but not reviews. Each of the bigger plugins like Gravity Forms or Advanced Custom Fields has so much functionality under the hood that I feel you're not even touching the surface.

Again, good and possibly useful description of each plugin, but they are not in-depth reviews.
long tables with bench seating

So everyone at the table has to have identical ergonomics?
I think the author is making an implicit and questionable assumption: namely that the top end of the S curve doesn’t dip back down again. But that’s not true. Standards change, use cases change, operating systems change, and unless there’s a lot of work going into maintaining those libraries - or building new ones - the existing libraries slowly become less useful. Yeah, they provide a base, but then you’ll have to work around a quirky bug because you’re using it in a way the original author never intended, or other libraries you need to solve this problem don’t exist, or...

My point is that the S curve only remains an “S” through constant ongoing effort by the community, and that’s what makes a language viable _for a domain_.

(I should also point the it that that curve actually represents the viability of a language for a particular problem domain.)
The company I work for, has devs/teams in multiple countries (at least 4 that I know of) and most of us work on the same product. The only people who will find it hard to survive are those who need to be hand held. Personally, I follow "asking for forgiveness is better than permission", except in production and money related activities. If I have an idea to test it, a new library (or design or whatever) to use etc, I rarely ask, I just do it. Once in a while it will be a waste of time, but no one gets upset because I tried something new.

Communicate effectively, be a self starter and above all, organize everything well so people aren't scrambling to find stuff when you are not around. Those would be my tips

Of course, everything in moderation and all that...
WebAssembly is a low level portable bytecode. You still need to write the code in C++ or Rust to get performance benefits.

GraalVM improves the performance of Ruby, Python, etc and also allows you to run C and C++ code in the same VM as a bonus with good performance. Unless you're using an intermediary bytecode like WebAssembly or JVM Bytecode you will also need to ship full sources with your C or C++ application.
OK thanks for that. I guess you confirm that I do, indeed, live in a bubble!
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Such as what kind of regimes?
> It does not make sense to market luxury cars to the poor,

Luxury cars aren't the concern. It's tumbrels we're worried about.
It creates separate horizontal blocks that feel natura, as opposed to the weird vertical windows in slack.

It also supports markdown.

You can try it at chat.zulip.org
I didn't downvote you, but I believe I understand why folks got upset. It appears that you are taking a passive aggressive dig at all religions because the parent comment referenced a Christian biblical verse (1 Timothy 6:10). While this usually isn't an issue here, the comment appears unrelated to the main conversation and may be seen as trolling.

I could be wrong.
Better headline would be "Decades-old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician and Straight-Up Genius Aubrey de Fucking Grey"
There is no huge problem, just an interrogation over how this happened since the UI doesn't allow it and the documentation states this is not possible.
Far from recently. It's simply returning to its original Stalinesque ways.
As a programming language developer, this is a persistent difficulty I’ve slowly been training myself out of. I know how to use a language I’ve written because, well, I wrote it—but if I sit down with a new user for an hour, they discover all the bugs I knew about and a few I didn’t! (This applies to all kinds of software, of course, it’s just particularly noticeable with developer tools.)

But an hour of someone’s time is hard to get, and once they’ve used the software a bit, they’re spent—you can’t make them naïve again. So fuzzing and randomised property testing have begun to take their place for me, as well as an adversarial dialogue in my own mind of “What happens if I try this stupid thing?” versus “The software should patiently and correctly do something reasonable, with no casualties, no matter what stupid thing the user does”, each constantly trying to one-up the other. It’s pretty fun, actually—I’ve thought of getting a “devil duck” and an “angel duck” to personify them, in addition to the standard-issue debugging duck. :)
I don't think a comment on HN has ever made me as viscerally upset as this one.

It's just the epitome of hubris. People have been trying to find counterexamples since at least the 19th century, without success, and now that a formal proof has come around, none of the thousands of professional research mathematicians alive has found any flaw with it.

But no, they must all be wrong, because of your (trivial and very easy to come up with) counterexample! Nope, the counterexample was shown wrong in minutes.

The worst part isn't that you didn't see how your example could be 4-colored. That's fine, everyone makes mistakes in mathematics. The worst part is that you have such a low opinion of everyone else's intellectual abilities that instead of asking "am I understanding the problem statement wrong?" or "what's the four-coloring of this graph that I'm missing?" you simply assert that you're right and the entire field of specialist mathematicians is wrong. Do you really think your counterexample is so shockingly clever that you're the only person capable of coming up with it in 150 years?
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I myself didn’t care what information was collected about me. I liked the idea of having a smart digital assistant that knew more about me so I was fine offering up my info.

Then I realized that companies tracking me might financially cost me. Maybe it doesn’t happen now, but if an airline knows I really need to get to my mother across the world because they know there’s been a family death, they can charge me more? That thought made it click why I care about privacy.
But they redact the phone numbers so how can you do that?
Still no sane installation, still can’t use. “Clone this git repo and run this Docker thing” isn’t for me. If this was made into a normal system package like a .deb and/or .rpm, I would run this in a heartbeat. Or even if it could be run as a Heroku type buildpack. But this whole process is unnecessary complex.
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> To me it felt rogue since it had been generated without me knowing nor expecting it

That's understandable. Fastmail do the same, i.e. acquiring certs for their customers' domains without asking or informing, with a view to moving them to HTTPS.

The general opinion here seems to be in favour of this practice. So we can look forward to a future where your domain may publish on the web only with the permission of a CA.
We don't live in a world where your race doesn't matter, unfortunately.
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Yeah that was what I was getting at.
Lots of good responses here so I will add a tangent. I have often wondered what it would be like if we had total openness and everything everyone did and said was recorded and available to everyone. Would it be a nightmare or not?
Why would this patent or the associated technology (which in my view is barely patenable) have any bearing on a governments ability to do this? Governments have been doing this very successfully for thousands of years without the need of a machine learning model.
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I split one in two and use them that way, I've gotten to work with them in before without noticing, maybe worth a shot.
It's terrible that she died. Facts don't change because of a medical outcome and I resent the implication that we should be less critical of factual errors (of which there were none) under any circumstances. I was simply providing more context, which most people here seemed to appreciate.
The difference between secrecy and privacy is the key here. Emphasize that. People think they have nothing to hide (implying secrecy or guilt), but they'll admit that there are things they want to keep to themselves.

There was a speaker on stage (sorry I forget the source) that asked an audience member up. The speaker asked the individual to read aloud her credit card number to the rest of the audience. She refused. He took it a step further -- he asked her to remove her clothes on stage. Again, she refused. Was she hiding something? Was she wielding a dangerous weapon under her clothes? Or was she reacting like most people presumably would by refusing to undress?
I’ve been playing with this analogy for years and used it a few times but I don’t know how effective it is.

Imagine you’re having a party with friends. Just a regular party.

Now imagine a uniformed policeman says “I’m just going to attend your party hold this tape recorder. Don’t worry about me. You won’t have to interact with me. I’ll just hang out and sit there. You aren’t in trouble at all. I’m doing it in everyone’s house.”

Would your behavior change? Would you be slightly nervous? Will people truly let their guard down?

That’s exactly what surveillance is. Except we don’t see that cop in the room so it’s hard for us to imagine.
I once bought a Chinese brand tablet and it turned out to have a malicious root installed. Why would I even think of buying a Huawei phone when there are rumors that they have spyware installed?
Do you have other example of "small scale, hand made" products from Japan?
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And I live in mine :)
I'd rather have untargeted ads.

When I read a printed tech magazine, I get the ad targeting that may be interesting for me, just because of the content I'm reading. There is no other information flowing back to online advertisers, or, to be more realistic, person tracking companies, which is what they really are. The content should be enough to determine the ad category, which would suite your desire for more engaging ads.

There's no reason why online publications can't do that as well. If I read a blog post about food, show me an ad about the coolest frying pan on earth and also one about the one with the best price to performance to ratio.

Show me ads for a Porsche even if I can't afford it, I may in a couple of years, and in the meantime the ads may have told my subconsciousness that this Porsche should be my goal.
I've always had to solve 3-4 captchas. They are insufferable and I have simply stopped using most of the sites that use recaptcha unless they are vital to me.

It feels like Google is using me as a mechanical turk to solve their autonomous car rubbish, which will make them millions, and I have no choice but to do it, or I'm barred from the sites I need to access. It's profoundly despicable, as if I didn't hate Google enough already.
Look at the page you are linking to though; it starts off with twentieth century propaganda posters — and just read that first paragraph!

Their response will be that they are not a target for such scams. They'll say they don't have any enemies. That they only share their holiday pictures after they get back (so criminals won't know that they are away, they're not stupid). OpSec? They'll kindly let you know that it doesn't apply to them.

And besides, admitting that leaving your private data all over the place means you'll be tracked, manipulated, monetized, and cloistered from anything outside of your comfortable bubble, would also mean accepting that the vast majority of society got it wrong.

Try overcoming that cognitive barrier.
That's true, and I generally dislike them, thus I run an ad blocker and some limits on JS. However I have a bit of a broader view on the topic. For one instance, we wouldn't have many of the things we have without the economic backbone of the internet - ads. Google Maps - No, E Mail services - No and many more as they are just to drive user engagement to serve more ads or to lock you into the rest of their ecosystems hence Android and iOS and their integrations with the services. However I don't mind at all some higher quality marketing like technical blogs with some real value + a plug for their service on how it solves the problem, and similar sponsored content.
There is almost always to sides to both stories.