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> There was a mission. A serious social mission. Not just, "make money" or "build cool stuff" or anything. There was a buzz that made you feel like you were playing your role in mankinds intellectual history. That's an amazing feeling that I've never been able to replicate.

This resonates with me. Sometimes we developers need to get off the "move fast and break stuff" bandwagon (which has been ongoing for over decades now), and consider we're the ones responsible for preserving almost all human digital heritage of our epoch. There's a simple and obvious method to implement preservation-friendly content implicit in the web architecture: emit/materialize everything as plain HTML, even dynamic content. This is of course antithetical to most of this decade's SPA web development trends, but I think it's worth drawing a line between web content (worth preserving in the first place) and web apps (which have highly volatile content not worth preserving). I feel like this distinction isn't considered sufficiently in our staged web app architecture dicussions which are all about your latest JS MVw framework, to the degree that newby web devs really don't learn the fundamentals of HTML etc. anymore, and are lead to use React, Vue, etc. for content-based web sites.
> any internet user has to take care of their own privacy and anonymity.

Easy to say, hard in practice when there's some really dodgy shit going on and given that most people don't actually (want to) dive into the subject, this isn't something that can apply to the modern age.

I mean while I agree, you postulate some libertarian ideal - freedom for all on the internet. And while I agree, there's some scummy companies that take liberties with that - and when they have a data leak, it's your information that's out there, despite your own protection.

I mean you could advise people to use an adblocker, but when said adblockers are exploited (so that advertisers can be unblocked if they pay a fee, mafia like schemes), or when the creator takes the money and hands over the code and effectively silently-auto-updating backdoor into the user's machine, they're fucked - not because of your best intentions, not because of their ignorance, but because something outside of their control.

When there's a big government with the power to shut down companies looming over there telling people to not allow said breaches in the first place, you'll be better off.
Any use for backend devs or is it a shop where everyone is an engineer and the division of labor is not in title but on what you're working on at any given moment?
People get to the top by being manipulative and making themselves look good.

I would imagine similar traits lead to writing a biography that sells well.
It is the best system invented.

Like maybe someone learned mind control and made El Chapo do it. But when he is not under mind control he is 100% law abiding citizen.

It will be a crazy defense, but it will be up to jury determine if that is the case.

Or another scenario is that El Chappo had no choice because rogue officials in the US demanded him smuggle drugs to the US or his family will be killed.
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What were the links posted? They were flagged and removed.
> These are very real, very concrete negative effects of GDPR

Your annoyance is misplaced. Don't be annoyed at GDPR: be annoyed at all the companies who have spent the last decades building an entire web-infrastructure with zero respect for user privacy. We built massive amounts of technology infrastructure that just assumed that privacy and tracking wasn't an issue. Why do these websites need all these cookies in the first place? If I'm visiting a random blog with no advertising on it, why is it asking my for cookie consent? What possible purpose could that cookie serve, except tracking users?

As an analogy, imagine taking a black-light to a hotel room and realizing that the room is absolutely filthy. Would you be angry at the black-light for revealing the filth to you? Or would you be angry at the hotel, for not properly cleaning up?

If cookie consent forms or GDPR compliance forms annoy you, don't blame GDPR. Blame the sites that have no regard for your privacy and make no effort to comply beyond throwing up annoying prompts.
> consider the degree to which today's neural nets are simply engaging in (admittedly far more complex) pattern-matching, with little more understanding of the actual meaning than Elektro.

Yes, that's one of the things I'm referring to...
The cartels are embedded in the local population. If you treat the cartel as a military that needs a military solution, then you end up not just with civilian casualties, but with local hostility to you (for killing friends / family by collateral damage). If there was an effective way to fight a guerilla military embedded in the local population, the US would've already won in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Houthis in Yemen would've been long defeated, and Hezbollah long forgotten.
I vouched for your post because as far as I can tell, it's written in good faith and is not in violation of any HN guidelines. I'm not sure why your post got so rapidly killed - the posts you link to are clearly discussing bond defaults, so I'll take your word for it that they're discussing the same problem as the Reuter's article. And that would indeed seem to be prima facie evidence that this particular story is not being censored.
Don't know about the bridge but he can definitely build the next Facebook.
Would you mind making a tour or demo? What you have is three buzzwords and a signup button. Even if it's free, the aleph-null signups all over the web are getting tedious.
It's somewhat amusing watching the overt rhetoric of advocating for data privacy enforced by governments when the majority of even technical people understand covert exploitation that is happening by said governments (and leaked to n number of 3rd parties [non govs, ngos, even the public occasionally via incompetence/leaks/hacks, etc] around the world on an increasing basis), which has the dual benefits of making the uniformed or willful ignorant feel good without actually changing the state of things.
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That is the amount suggested (with zero evidence) by the original comment in this thread.
Sorry, I think we are using the term 'technology' in a different ontological context.

I like the brief description "Technology: the methods for using scientific discoveries for practical purposes".

I.e. how to apply accrued knowledge practically.

The opposites to technology-based problem solving would be trial-and-error, political or ideology based mandates, etc.

This does not exclude adaption, nor does it mandate a hierarchical organization to implement the technolgy.
1. how do you know you are not a screaming asshole that other people tolerate, with your inflated sense of self worth about your technical ability being your motivator for demanding more - so you call it success.

Have you overcome any longstanding relationship issues with anyone in your life? have you supported someone through a mental breakdown?

The very fact that you measure your success "over" your colleagues to me highlights that at no point have you been working towards making a better world.. I mean its cool that you are an aspie and all but ts actually of not much use to the humanity.
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Even when your company is small. I mean just the emotional pressure alone, you're still responsible for the well-being of however many employees you have, in addition to your own.

No wonder a lot of top level executives are psychopaths, the emotional detachment must really help.
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What is the "western world"? Does it include Spain, Italy, and Germany during their respective dictatorships? Does it include East Germany during Soviet control?

Or, let's consider only western democracies.

Does that include Volksverhetzung in modern Germany?

Does it include the US during the various anti-socialist and anti-communist movements? Or those prosecuted under the Sedition Act of 1918, like when Debs was jailed for speaking out against US involvement in WWI?

Nor is the US alone of the western democracies in prosecuting people for their seditious acts of speaking out against the government.

And then there are the western democracies which have (or had) laws against blasphemous libel. Was Canada not part of the western world in 1935 when Rahard was found guilty of saying things "calculated and intended to insult the feelings and the deepest religious convictions of the great majority of the persons amongst whom we live"?

The historical evidence says that your views - that the ability to 'voice unpopular opinions' - is not a fundamental part of the western world, nor even a fundamental part of western democracy.

Important? Certainly. Influential? Yes. But fundamental and a default state? No, I don't think so.
> Why can't I debug a function without restarting my program?

Because you use C or one of its derivatives

It's doable in java which is, I think, a derivative of C.
"it is common to see many devs who spearhead projects get higher titles and progress faster"

True, but if we're going with anecdata I'd point out that it's also common to see devs (and managers) who are taller get higher titles and progress faster too. My own experience is that the correlation is at least as strong as that with getting stuff done.
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The future is WebGPU.

If you're interested on why a Vulkan binding for the web is not a good idea, I found this doc (from two engineers working at Google) quite interesting : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-lAvR9GXaNJiqUIpm3N2XuGU...
They did not shoot Osama on sight. While that would have been legal since there was an AUMF, as a practical matter had he surrendered he would have been arrested. Extrajudicial execution is abhorrent.
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Did it couple of times.

One trick is write output pixels transposed. This way both passes will be identical, and they both read image linearly. Two transposes cancel each other.

Another one is use local memory.

Finally, the right place for the kernel values is compiled into the code, in immediate values. Everything else is slower.
Dishonest people will be a constant obstacle, but communication is also important so others know what your contribution is. There can't be progress without measurement.

Being accurate and quantifiable without becoming confrontational is an art though, but ultimately necessary. Going over people can often lead to worse results. Eventually the truth does come out but whether it's worth the time and effort is up to you.
> I've seen front end javascript frameworks fragmentation everywhere and they're fine with it

just because they're fine with it does not mean that everyone is fine with it
> Secondly, you decided to link something completely out of context to the discussion of the state's well armed militias, which is the only thing I am referring to in the whole post.

You claimed "The States are exempt ... from oversight from the Federal Government as long as they pass their own laws to justify their egregious behavior" as an explanation for why the US Federal Government does not (or chooses to not) interfere with State militia. The lawsuit by the US DoJ against California's NN law demonstrates that your claim doesn't hold.
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Could you give a reference for this claim of Wittgenstein’s, please?
I appreciate that the work is hard, what I cannot come to terms with is the apparent and total lack of accountability of the role (speaking about big-company CEOs).

Yes, a "bad" CEO will be fired, meaning that he will pocket a fat severance package and he will be able to try again in another company with almost no stigma attached.

Even if he did it so badly making himself unhireable for similar positions, he will have already earned more money that most people (even with professional jobs) see in their lifetimes.

"With great power comes great responsibility" seems not to apply to CEOs, more like "the house always wins".
I love Opera, I've been using it for about a year now. Its leagues ahead in most things, although I've started using edge on android because its significantly faster load times.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/arizona-swat-team-cleared-marines-... :(

I can't believe how amateur these guys are. They just stand there, no one checked the corner, no one was looking at not-the-fucking-front-door, and when they finally decided to go in, almost everyone was in the line of potential incoming fire. 13 year-olds do it better in Call of Mario.
When I was a kid my only internet access was at the local library, and for a while they only had an ISDN connection shared between multiple computers/users.
Even after they upgraded to DSL, for a long time my only way to carry files home was through floppy disks.

I still remember the pure JOY I felt when I found an utility that could format floppies to store 1722 KB!
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Probably because none of the lawyers on Uber's side had the credentials to stop and ask themselves "hey, is this even patentable?!"

Nobody consulted any engineer. Just lawyers fighting each other, and the side with the biggest pockets won.
> half a dozen consent popups every day

I don't see any such things. What I got is many emails when GDPR started and companies asked me to click a link so that they can keep my data and emails saying that they changed privacy. I didn't click any of those links.

BTW I use ad blocker and that hides many nonsense. Even before GDPR there were too many of these dickbars[1] everywhere and I'm annoyed at those. Every site has those subscribe to email popup and other dickbars floating around.

So GDPR didn't make things worse like you say. Although the internet has become worse with tracking everywhere and stupid designs making us suffer.

[1]https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
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They need an antitrust suit along the lines of the IE one lodged against Microsoft in the 90's
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> Every electronic device is hackable with physical access.

iOS 11+ Apple devices are pretty much not.
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It's as if people can still think for themselves and make arguments from the available information (even if they prove to be wrong), instead of expecting the final story to be handed down to them...

The reference to the "95+ page document of complex legal argumentation"? That's evidence in support of the claim in the comment. Parent didn't make up that it's a complex lengthy legal document themselves.

Sure, the theory that he was a strawman might or might not pan out. But that this is no simple "engineer vigilante" is evident. Perhaps it's a very organized vigilante with big resources (and the money mentioned also point to that). But such a move is not above suspicion of some other corporate entity being involved. Should anybody thinking so just keep it to themselves? Or are people that might agree at fault if they vote such a comment up?
Just some links to articles in Chinese websites that talks about defaults recently:

http://finance.sina.com.cn/money/bond/research/2018-04-13/do...

http://finance.sina.com.cn/money/bond/2018-08-31/doc-ihinpmn...

http://finance.sina.com.cn/money/bond/research/2018-06-15/do...

http://bond.jrj.com.cn/2018/09/30133825154607.shtml

http://bond.hexun.com/2018-08-01/193639187.html
I wouldn't want to live next to El Chapo and I didn't talk about typical neighbourhood drug dealer. It's about scale. There are many people I don't like, some of them even politicians but I wouldn't suggest harming them in any way.
The interesting thing for me here is a problem with all censorship: Those doing the censoring need to understand the issue to work effectively. So the censorship bulletins need to provide enough information that they become a source of truth. It gives investors an incentive to read them, because they are a factor in where the market moves.
One of the great advantages of the West happens when biased sources do not overlap.

That is for example the CNN or NYT looking with microscope whatever Republicans do badly and ignoring what Hillary or Obama does wrong could be extremely valuable is there are "opposite biased media" that looks with microscope whatever Hillary does wrong.

This happens in multiple levels, there are financial interest that own media and will never criticize its masters.

The Churches also own media, the Unions own media, the military and farma industry own media. Google or Facebook ARE media.

People in power should be controlled, and that is one of the most realistic ways to control people in power. Wanting media to be unbiased is a dream. Most people are biased.
My own experience with C++ is mainly limited to game development since the base classes in UE4 are written in and can be extended with C++ (as is most of the engine itself).

Unreal has a crazy bolted on reflection system implemented with its own pre-processor to work around the lack of reflection in C++. Otherwise C++ makes sense there I think because (a) performance is extremely good which is important for games, 3D games in particular; and (b) games are the type of program which can often benefit from OO design and inheritance.

I'm a long time C casual who only recently made the leap to C++, but I know what you mean when you say two C++ codebases can have vastly different styles. Of course that is true of many languages but it does appear to be amplified with C++.
That would be fantastic, at least for sites that comply with the GDPR - they don't get to bug me, and since I also don't explicitly opt-in, they also don't get to track me.
There's a kind of interesting way to think about this, especially in the UK. Because people don't automatically think in terms of opportunity cost and don't know eg. that the long term equity return is X, there's a disconnect between reality and how people think of it.
People in the UK think of rent as "wasted" money. In an efficient market, it wouldn't be wasted at all because the saving from lower rent vs mortgage could be put into eg. equity/bonds. Someone will reply that there is no saving but that itself is a symptom of the way we run housing.

But because people think that, and think that no-one would ever want to rent, we tolerate super weird policies like a residency house being exempt from capital gains tax, poor protection for renters, government tax transfers (in the UK they will literally give you money to buy your first house, the government is so committed to the your-house-is-your-bank philosophy).
All these distortions then actually CREATE the conditions which mean that you're consistently losing money if you rent, because the government is effectively taxing you much more.

So our misunderstanding of economics creates an economic system which conforms to our mistaken beliefs, it's kind of amazing.
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Could it be possible to reuse the ad blocker functionality Apple allows on Safari by building an app/extension/however that works to catch all loaded URLs in Safari and replace them with an "Open in #preferred_browser#" link perhaps?
Or maybe it's a way to take someone out without risking lives of many of your own people. Bringing them to court could just be too hard. But yeah, it's subverting of justice process. We should just send them notices about court cases and they will come if they're respecting law...
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The bigger question is if this means it would be harder for the NSA or other American government agencies to get my data?

I assume a Chinese company would laugh at a National Security Letter? Since I'm an American, I don't worry about China having my data.
Goodness yes, everybody knows that a mere engineer can never be a clever lawyer.

Except perhaps patent lawyers, which in most jurisdictions have both engineering and lawyering degrees. Or perhaps just a motivated company founder with 4 years of expertise fighting patents. Pretty far fetched I know, but perhaps one should keep a open mind...
The complexity of Pokemon is much lower than the author implies.

It's not really an open world game. There are lots of choke points where your branching factor is limited drops down to two, continue forward to the next trainer or go back and regroup.

There is no issue regrouping in Pokemon, you always end up stronger. There is also very little punishment for pushing fowards and failing, you lose half your money and maybe some time/frustration getting back to the same point, which is meaningless for an ai.
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Why 'Goblin', though? There's no explanation in the article, nor on the wikipedia page, and I can't imagine an explanation by myself.