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I've written a short blog post about it, and similar link time optimization tools:
http://perl11.org/blog/bolt.html
Not sure how your edit makes your point more clear. The intro explains how it's calculated and how you could use the data that tiobe provides.
Personally I wouldn't worry too much about such lists, use it as inspiration to find new technologies. The more languages you know the easier it is to switch when the world around you changes.
The correct analogy would be a software engineer who crafts hacks for autonomous cars that tracks drivers to their locations, then sells them to oppressive regimes that go murder them. Yes, those engineers are scum of the earth.
If you think about what you asked Siri it's a sensible response.

You didn't ask her to set an alarm for 6:15am. You asked her to turn on an existing 6:15am alarm.

Which since I am assuming it didn't exist Siri asked what others you did want to turn on.
Everyone wants to go everywhere - because people live Everywhere and have jobs Everywhere and their friends live Everywhere and there are stores Everywhere.

No one is entitled to anything - you added that word apropos of nothing in my post.
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That's because they're treating overdose as a proxy for heroin purity
Bit of a selection bias... you are much more likely to notice the ones that are in the same spot day after day, and not notice the once that are in constant use.

This is the average revenue, I am sure there are some that generate a lot less/barely any.
By 'The Saudis' he probably meant 'A fixer for the highest levels of Saudi leadership'
I am not sure if it IS mostly tourists. I see a lot of people riding them from the office to lunch places and the like.
Actually, I’m pretty sure American Airlines has 950 jet planes on lease, and they have a century’s worth of pension and other obligations that remain hidden in their books.

Companies are far too complicated to compare based on single numbers. Try not to make this mistake —- it’s great for clickbait, not so much for critical thinking.
It helps to distance yourself from the situation. Like you've said, "If it doesn't matter after X time, chances are it probably doesn't matter now."

The way I think of it is "if it doesn't kill me or my loved ones, who cares." Let the leaves fall the way they will. Good and bad will come out of it.

If you're too focused on the wall in front of you, you won't see the opportunity sitting besides it.

For very bad moments, it's important to bring perspective. I love "Oh dear.", because it encompases the terrible and puts it into a cute little bottle.

Medias and exposure wants us to have skin in the game and nothing feels worth doing unless it's a big deal. That rush and fear will end up being blinding you from the obvious and keep you from achieving your best (imho).

On people, it's important not to be a dick to anyone, even in the most stressful situations. That's because relationships will supersede situations. And relationships is often what will get you out of a mess. So keep that boat floating, communicate as best you can and know that shit happens. Unless it kills you, ride on like nothing can stop you.
and because he was wearing an apple watch
I live in a small university town and people are always on them.

When I spent a week in Denver they were being used everywhere as well.
> because he was a journalist

He was a columnist for The Washington Post. He was known for having interviewed Osama Bin Laden a couple times.

News was slow and after the Chinese trade imbalance/conflict (finally someone stepped up to address it), so it looked like there was news to be had against another objectively-bad-government. Even if just to see what Trump might do to resolve (or sabotage) our uncomfortably close relationship. Nope, he just tried to promote it like the moron he is, in context of the assassination.

I really wish he woulda dumped another of these 19th century (depending on when they became stable) strategic allies, as I'm certain there's 0 chance the next POTUS will.
3 months? Wow. Definitely not, then. Especially considering that cars drive around every night to pick them up, charge them, and drop them off again.
For the sake of anyone uncertain what to search for: hit 'start searching' and then 'random result'.

It's a worthwhile endeavour.
Just an old kind of relevant article from Torrentfreak

https://torrentfreak.com/copyright-monopoly-dead-buried-alre...
Right, and the context of the software is to catch terrorists and cybercriminals, and it was misused, as all tech can be. "The explicit purpose to harm people" is not an accurate description of the softwares primary purpose.
thats pretty much why I left the DC area, thats what they all do in the defense sector.

and the technologies generally weren't trendy, PRIORITIES
Google "nokia2mon2" that was the username Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to the Saudi court used on various US-based hacking forums.

Here's a wiki article about him on a Las Vegas based hacking forum https://wiki.hackforums.net/index.php?title=Nokia2mon2

He did not make any efforts to conceal his identity.
Sometime I imagine myself watching myself as another person, (like I'm doing a thing, but seeing myself as somebody else) so I can try to think about how others can see me in some situations, what I do how would it look in the eyes of others. This helps me behave more appropriate in some situations and helps me see myself more objectively.
I think this case blew-up because the Saudi's were caught red-handed. Erdowan realized he could put extreme pressure on the Saudi's because his evidence was so strong. I think you're probably right that this sort of thing happens with some frequency, but you can only call foul if you have hard evidence which is much more rare.
Protein function prediction does not require knowing the structure. In fact, nearly all function prediction is done on protein sequence alone, using alignment algorithms.
If you can't edit a yaml (or HCL) file, you shouldn't be using Kubernetes / Terraform. All these "you too can be an artist, just draw inside the lines of this coloring book" configuration systems (ie helm) are just distracting people from doing things the right way.
Given that Israel regularly employs deadly force against civilians, this does not absolve NSO's software engineers from moral culpability. That is like saying the backroom boys at Dow who developed napalm thought it was just being used against "bad guys".
Yes, Julia tends to be quite good at this kind of thing. Which level you want to operate at will depend on the details of the accelerator. Happy to give some pointers if you can give me a rough idea of the target architecture and what software already exists. My email is in my HN profile.
I wish US high schools could spend more time on primary sources like this. I only bought myself a copy of "The Federalist Papers" (and another collections with anti-federalist writings too) a few years ago, but I keep going back to it to compare how issues they faced at the founding of our nation still can relate to issues we're having today. Some of the issues they discuss are comically not applicable today, but even reading those essays gives me insight into how even very intelligent people can be utterly blind to the future.

It's amazing how much more I learned from those essays than from years of formal classes on the topic of government though. Just getting the author's perspective from them directly, and realizing that they absolutely were thinking deeply about the impact, source, and validity of their arguments brings me so much closer to understanding the way things were designed than textbooks which reduce complex philosophical arguments down to their trivial outcomes like "So-and-So opposed a centralized bank".
unless you try to tap into xkcd effect if you see what I mean

"precher le faux" as they say in France
But an acre of land in Ohio isn't worth anywhere near as much as an acre of land in Manhattan.
Combination of spending too much money on myself and taking too many short term loans. Eventually I needed more loans to stay afloat, and then when my settlements were going entirely to loan payments, I knew I was done. Well before that point I tried refinancing through a traditional bank/credit union and nobody would touch me.

The night of that worthless settlement I started looking for a job back in trucking, there was a job fair for a local company the next morning, and I ended up there for 1.5yrs.
There are a lot of valid answers to this, but I honestly feel like they can all be boiled down to the same idea: people organize into groups, no matter what.
Let's assume for a moment that all famous old books are good books. We might then say that time is a great filter because all of the old books we know of are good books.

However, it might be that time actually has a false negative rate of 99.9%. Almost all of the great old books are filtered out by time. In that case, time probably sucks as a filter. But then again, if your only goal is "read only great books," time is still a useful filter even if it has a terrible false negative rate, since it's irrelevant to you that there are lots of other books being excluded, so long as you get a sufficient supply of good books.
> litter all the public sidewalks

Is it really that big of a nuisance? You literally walk around them, I don't see the issue.

You should give them a ride one day to "see what all the fuss is about." They really are an incredible idea and allowing them to be "parked" anywhere is one of its main appeals.
What about the US Digital Service?
I think the big issue that most people have with them is the large externality of having scooters littered around the sidewalk.

In a lot of places in West Los Angeles, you are having to step around them constantly if you walk down the street. People literally just drop them in the middle of the sidewalk, because there is no incentive for them to not do that.

This means that everyone who doesn't use the service has to suffer.
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Inappropriate market timing ;)
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> Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose.

That's the big positive from this announcement. Giving ample prior warning, and even helping the transition will certainly atenuate the feeling of betrayal community members have when being ousted.

I sure wish Yahoo did this during the first "advertiser cleansing", back when they acquired Tumblr.

Instead, I remember the dread as I scrolled through my blog to find 5 to 10% of the carefully curated pictures on it had been censored out, with no warning whatsoever.
I don't recall a time when I wasn't hearing people complain about their recommendations. Steam's recommendations are legendarily bad in the circles I hang out in and I don't remember the last time I bought a game off of one. I may never have.
Some of this strikes me as good advice; it's certainly always good to engage in the "what if I'm wrong?" thought experiment. But I don't find "am I upset?" to provide a very strong signal either way. I'm often upset when I'm wrong, but I'm also often upset when I'm right and the thing being discussed is simply upsetting.
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I finally had a chance to try one out recently and was very frustrated with the experience. After attempting to use several shown on Bird's map I gave up. Some were broken, some were almost certainly being hoarded inside of apartment buildings, and some simply could not be found anywhere near the map marker. The experience was a huge letdown after being tempted to try the product so many times.
Plain yaml files have far too much repetition for common use cases.

If I have 100 microservices, and I want to run all of them in a production and staging cluster, but I want all the staging cluster jobs to have an extra environment variable/tag and have lower CPU limits, there's no way to do that without 200 yaml files, which quickly get out of sync and inconsistent.
Does anyone have a reference for "In 1966, researchers at the System Development Corporation discovered that the best programmers were more than ten times as effective as the worst." ?

I'm seeing the year 1968 at
http://thecomputerboys.com/?tag=black-art#fn-156-1

Is there a 1966 reference out there somewhere? Or perhaps the actual study was done in '66 and didn't make it into press until '68? I didn't pull the original paper.

(The fact checkers at the New Yorker are typically very sharp.)

edit: I pulled the original paper (10.1145/362851.362858). The studies were done in 1966!

Interesting to see the genesis of the myth of the 10x programmer.
> The main difference is it's designed to be easy to edit, even by non-technical users.

Yaml is beautiful and easy, this looks like a nightmare.
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OK, I have a (probably stupid) question. If the 3-month T-bond rate is say 2.32%, does that mean that I can buy such a 3-month security 4 times in a row in a given year to get a total of 4 * 2.32 = 9.28% ROI on the money I am using to invest? Actually, the return would technically be higher than since the second, third and fourth times I am buying the T-bond I will use not only the original cash I had on hand but also the 2.32% return I received each time I bought the T-bond. So, assuming everything is re-invested in the 3-month T-bond the total ROI for a given year would be about 9.6% (assuming the rates stay the same of course).
A ROI of 9.6% is quite good and beats stock market return over most years, while also being virtually risk-free.
Am I missing something here? Why invest in a (risky) stock market unless you can reasonably expect a return in the double digits that can compensate for the extra risk, compared to a 9.6% risk-free ROI from T-bonds?
Please pardon my ignorance and thanks in advance.
Didn't we (sort of) try age restriction metadata during the '90's with P3P? (or a closely related technology.. the name escapes me)

If you tightened the settings in Internet Explorer it would only allow you to access sites with P3P data - which was pretty much _nothing_ on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
locked in system

Is exactly the system they won’t be using on starbucks wi-fi. Laptops are cheaper than console games.

Chrome books cost less than a PS4. You aren’t going to solve this by locking down the client side. Not at school. Not in the home. Not even in federal prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_in_prison

You are out of your depth.
In light of some feedback we've received on the article, some
clarification is needed. The ocap (object-capabilities) approach does
not by itself make systems secure. Rather, it an enormous step
towards making systems secureable. Even after taking this step, making
complex systems secure can still be very hard, depending on the
specifics.

In an ocap system such as SES https://github.com/Agoric/SES , an
object can only directly cause effects on the world outside itself by
using the capabilities it holds. Objects come in graphs held together
by references, so an object can still only cause effects, directly or
indirectly, according to its connectivity to the rest of the system
via references. The different between direct effects vs general
causation is the difference between permission and authority
[1,2]. Permission is often vastly easier to reason about than
authority, but our safety depends on reasoning about limits on
authority.

The event-stream exploit would have been prevented merely by practicing
the principle of least permission. Hence this article did not need to
go into these subtleties. Hence, this exploit is a good example for
introducing people to these concepts, tempting them to dig deeper [3].

[1] Paradigm Regained http://www.erights.org/talks/asian03/paradigm-revised.pdf

[2] Permission and Authority Revisited https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45570

[3] References page https://agoric.com/references/
You're really persistent in your beliefs, I'll give you that.

I suppose I am too; filling out those patent forms was a lot of work.

Query: why do you think the military doesn't have any autonomous ground (or air) vehicles? Military virtually always has the most advanced tech; unlimited budget -lots of motivation for supply lines which run themselves and can't be shot at, lots of reasons not to expose expensive soldiers to fire, and very little care for stuff like safety. Yet, somehow they have no such things. I wonder why that is?
>Sorry, I don't agree with making the world worse just for the sake of money

If I don't do it, someone else will .
The terms "terrorists" and "cybercriminals" are basically euphemisms for political enemies.
i will look into it