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Yes. I hope I did that.

China is treating these waters differently today for National Security reasons, and because of a unique period of history in which Chinese growth and infrastructure development has skyrocketed (China has been successfully industrializing into a modern economy). I had said: "Today, China is trying to build infrastructure, shipping routes and naval security in this area. This is important to China because of its historical vulnerability to naval embargo, through the Strait of Malacca and elsewhere."

The American media bubble is the narrative that China is being aggressive, that China is being unilateral, that China has no claims (especially vis a vis Philippines), that there is a unanimous interpretation in Asia, etc.

The media bubble in this regard isn't "something has changed" but "this is what's changed and this is what's going on."

It's a nice story about good versus evil and American freedom, sure, but that's only good for headlines and public consumption. It's not what is going to fill the history books.
>Just like I don't care about the politics of any other service I use, as long as it doesn't interfere with my using it.

So I'll ask again. How, concretely, do Coraline's politics interfere with your current usage of GitHub?
Have you run into any significant issues with the overhead of "bloat" that comes with inline styles? Injecting so many styles inline especially for complex list items might potentially have some performance issues despite having a virtual dom.

I have been considering refactoring my personal ui lib to use css for static styles with css modules while all themable/dynamic styles inline. Many might say the mixture gets increasingly complex scaling but I have not run into such an issue.
That may be the dictionary definition, but it is no longer the generally accepted definition in my experience.
However, IIRC, unlike Lisp, ST doesn't have any AST transformation or parsing hooks (macros and readtables, in Lisp parlance), so while ST has a lot of the semantic extension capabilities of Lisp (indeed, it's more semantically extensible than some of the less Object Oriented Lisps), it lacks the syntactic capabilities for extension.

However, you know ST better than me. Am I right?
Popehat comment: "Based on my observations throughout this case, it couldn't happen to more deserving criminals."

Which I totally agree with. When this situation started unrolling it really offended my sense of justice. Here were criminals using the judicial system as the tool for their crimes. It really showed how the US judicial systems costs and processes have created a mechanism for abuse. I wish sometimes there were some criminal law around abuse of a public institution which would capture this sort of thing more quickly and effectively.
I was replying to the person who said the very same thing I said. I literally use their own comment to demonstrate how bad comments like this are.

Maybe I should have explicitly called that out for those that weren't reading this comment in context, but the person I replied to knows what I said, and they were who I was replying to.

If you are against this comment, you should also report the original comment that said this as well. It's here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13192777
I own a Prius. Fuel efficiency doesn't seem to be any more variable than the conventional cars I've driven. The distance remaining estimate seems reasonably accurate in that it goes down ~50 miles after I've driven 50 miles.
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I find myself more than a little disappointed in this "todo" list. It looks more to me like an "ambitions" list. These are future long-term projects. It doesn't look much different to me than someone with a todo list that includes multiple long term software development projects.

A much more insightful todo list for me would be to see one of the day-to-day todo lists I find myself writing for every weekend. These include things like "Finish writing chapter 15" or "Refactor [component] into [design pattern]." I want to see the granular tasks Edison and other "great men" worked on in the day-slivers of their lives.

Seeing a big list like this reinforces my impression of Edison as a less of the hands-on inventor our society tries to make him out to be and more of a high-level manager who put mostly signed the patents for everything his workshop of inventors produced.
...thank you. I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt this way. I kept backtracking thinking I missed something. It's reads like a random stream of thoughts.
Well I think Whisper is more of a social sharing site while this tool is about sending anonymous messages to a specific target number. As for the stack it is Rails(which was probably overkill but I have yet to do much with Sinatra), Twilio, with Stripe integration. I send the messages via Twilio and then use their API to redact the logs so I can't see what people are messaging using the service.
I already covered that:

"But my computer is a different story. I usually do the same thing with it for hours at a time. Under those conditions, the estimate was both accurate and useful."

Can we now move past the part where we assume I'm an idiot, and get on with the conversation?
In general: That's why we all love watching stupid criminals on TV.
You can install Xming and then you can use a linux GUI terminal emulator.
There are good 3rd party apps for sleep tracking, and they can store the data in Apple Health. They left everything except basic exercise tracking up to 3rd parties with apps (that exists in 3rd party apps as well).

If you care about privacy, I'd imagine it's the best solution in the market.

As for battery life: I have a new Series 2. I wore it yesterday for about 16 hours of normal use (some Siri, looked at an app or two a few times to check something), and did 90m of exercise. When I took it off battery was 70-75%.

They charge up pretty fast. I know of people who use them all day and sleep track with them. Depending on the battery life (model, size, age, your usage, etc) you can just charge it once or twice a day on it's charger (such as when you're in the shower) and that could be enough to keep it full. It doesn't take long to change since it's battery isn't that big.

I'm not going to say it's perfect, but I've found it to be non-issue. I know that workouts are one of the things that can be hard on the battery, along with GPS.
Back in the early 70's, I worked for a government (HUD/ERDA) sponsored project to promote alternative energy use. It was the first flowering of OPEC, gas prices at the pump were rising over (gasp!) $1/gallon, and there was a sudden massive interest in reducing dependence on foreign oil.

What my shop was pushing was using solar collectors to heat hot water. That was about 20% of the average residential energy bill, had a relatively low up front cost, and a relatively short payback period. We were aware of and tracked a variety of alternative energy sources including photovoltaics, but expected them to get niche pickup at best because they were simply too expensive. To a large extent, that's still the case.

Another point to note is that energy usage isn't just electricity. Back then, a national energy budget divided roughly into quarters, with industrial heating and cooling, residential/light commercial heating and cooling, transportation, and electricity making up the demand. The total amount of energy consumed is rather larger, but that breakdown is still pretty much the same. I don't see solar electric power addressing things like heavy duty heating and cooling, nor most transportation.

One thing I got convinced of back then is that the form of energy used will be the cheapest that will do the job. Energy from fossil fuel still predominates because it is still cheapest.

Solar is still essentially a niche market, though growing, and lower costs are the driver. I was grimly amused a while back over the woes of Solyndra, an effort to create large scale photovoltiac production in the US, that got about half a billion in government funding. The underlying notion was creation of US jobs.

Photovoltaics is semi-conductor electronics, the Chinese jumped in with both feet, and started turning out solar cells at prices domestic producers couldn't match. In fact, some Chinese producers came to grief. They dove in based on demand estimates that were unfounded, produced a glut on the market, far lower prices for buyers, and failures among firms that were late to the manufacturing party. Solyndra couldn't compete.

People went on about US jobs, and I thought "Drive on the NJ Turnpike, and every other pole has a solar cell array generating power to help run the Turnpike. Somebody has the contract to design, produce, install and maintain those arrays, and those jobs by nature will be local. Decreasing costs for the raw materials used to produce the arrays made it possible to sell the end products cheaper, and increased the demand. The Chinese can do it cheapest and can have solar cell production. The money is in moving up the value chain and making things people will buy that use those solar cells."

I'm delighted to see solar electricity costs dropping to the reported levels, but anyone who sees it as a solution for overall energy woes isn't looking at a big enough picture.
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Is the percentage then accurate? Hardly.
>Think about the effects of your words

That's fair enough. For what it's worth, I do have sympathy, and I do believe that some people treated her in a sexist manner.
I found it very interesting they're committing to keep Apple Health integration when FitBit themselves don't provide it.
Back in the early 70's, I worked for a government (HUD/ERDA) sponsored project to promote alternative energy use. It was the first flowering of OPEC, gas prices at the pump were rising over (gasp!) $1/gallon, and there was a sudden massive interest in reducing dependence on foreign oil.

What my shop was pushing was using solar collectors to heat hot water. That was about 20% of the average residential energy bill, had a relatively low up front cost, and a relatively short payback period. We were aware of and tracked a variety of alternative energy sources including photovoltaics, but expected them to get niche pickup at best because they were simply too expensive. To a large extent, that's still the case.

Another point to note is that energy usage isn't just electricity. Back then, a national energy budget divided roughly into quarters, with industrial heating and cooling, residential/light commercial heating and cooling, transportation, and electricity making up the demand. The total amount of energy consumed is rather larger, but that breakdown is still pretty much the same. I don't see solar electric power addressing things like heavy duty heating and cooling, nor most transportation.

One thing I got convinced of back then is that the form of energy used will be the cheapest that will do the job. Energy from fossil fuel still predominates because it is still cheapest.

Solar is still essentially a niche market, though growing, and lower costs are the driver. I was grimly amused a while back over the woes of Solyndra, an effort to create large scale photovoltiac production in the US, that got about half a billion in government funding. The underlying notion was creation of US jobs.

Photovoltaics is semi-conductor electronics, the Chinese jumped in with both feet, and started turning out solar cells at prices domestic producers couldn't match. In fact, some Chinese producers came to grief. They dove in based on demand estimates that were unfounded, produced a glut on the market, far lower pricers for buyers, and failures among firms that were late to the manufacturing party.

People went on about US jobs, and I thought "Drive on the NJ Turnpike, and every other pole has a solar cell array generating power to help run the Turnpike. Somebody has the contract to design, produce, install and maintain those arrays, and those jobs by nature will be local. Decreasing costs for the raw materials used to produce the arrays made it possible to sell the end products cheaper, and increased the demand. The Chinese can do it cheapest and can have solar cell production. The money is in moving up the value chain and making things people will buy that use those solar cells."

I'm delighted to see solar electricity costs dropping to the reported levels, but anyone who sees it as a solution for overall energy woes isn't looking at a big enough picture.
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My thoughts exactly! Glad I'm not the only one.
I assume they meant that it was seriously confusing to read an email without context, only to find the context in an earlier email after reading another full page of content.
Well, I mean, I didn't post it just so you could put the other guy out of business... :) I liked what both of you are doing!
I never had that happen unless there was some major change in the work my computer was doing, in which case I'm grateful to know about the change.

That's probably what I dislike most about losing this UI tidbit, actually. Number of hours to empty is good, but knowing that my energy usage has silently gone through the roof is really handy.

We're both just talking about our personal experiences, of course. But your position requires nobody to have had my experience, whereas my position is compatible with people having had your experience. I fully acknowledge that the estimate was not perfect and wasn't useful for everybody. But it was for me.
The author's title seems misleading, since in the post's comments Thomas acknowledges how he's not sure if his design was being actually used for Silk Road or if his leaseholder really was freelancing for SpaceX.
That is a historically true statement, this situation has strayed from historical norms in several ways.
I would rather not make it explicit since it would provide enough information for any colleagues of mine reading HN to connect the dots and be 100% sure who I am.

I was pressured to do something during that meeting, I refused with the argument that it wouldn't benefit any of us and I explained why. The person kept asking. I kept refusing. It was uncomfortable.

I know I've handled that particular situation in a bad way. I could just have done it even if it meant trouble in the future but I took a stance out of professionalism. It was a mistake, no doubt.
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We're all trying to have as civil and substantive a discussion as we can here, and this is about as active as one can get in inviting an political flamewar. Please don't do this.
I don't mean to discount your experience, but honestly I don't feel like this is the whole story.

At least from what I've seen these sorts of things are systemic issues, and it is extremely rare for such problems to be caused by a single bad apple.

Again, not trying to discount your personal experiences or lessons, but I'd just be very wary of assigning scapegoat status to a single person for what is clearly a toxic workplace in general ("Management stayed quiet and attempted to push it under the rug for a bit", "Workplace politics were on the rise", etc etc). Often times this mentality plays to the people in power who are responsible for the lack of safeguards, and when you don't fix the underlying causes you're essentially just relying on HR to filter the "bad apples" out of the hiring practice... and we all know how much of a crapshoot hiring in tech is already.

Last, I'd re-examine your impulse to go out and celebrate when this guy was fired. I obviously don't know the details here, but it definitely sounds like an "us vs him" mentality was being fostered, and that could have very well contributed to the exacerbation of this guy's toxic behavior. Often times these sorts of people are just desperate for attention or social contact, and the only way they've figured to get a consistent response from people is to piss them off. Disengaging and relying on "management" to solve these issues very often can make a problem worse. Other times these people can be simply responding to being bullied themselves, often simultaneously, by other groups within the company, or are reacting to problems in their personal lives. These explanations are not absolving them of responsibility for their actions, but it's important to realize that most assholes aren't genuinely bad people, they're just normal humans like you and I who respond to stress and stimuli in a poor way.

Going to the guy as a group and discussing his behavior, while uncomfortable, often can be very illuminating and solve issues that would have just festered until someone was forced to be fired or leave. Worst comes to worst you'll immediately realize the situation is untenable at that point, and the solution will be quite obvious.

Again, disclaimer, I don't know the specifics here and I don't want to indict the parent, but let's make sure we don't use the above example as a primer on how to deal with toxic colleagues in general.
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As far as I can tell, this guy is motivated, entrepreneurial, proactive, professionally competent, etc. He thinks working at Google would be awesome and he's worked hard to give himself a shot at doing so. He might be completely wrong, work for Google for 6 months, realize it's all bullshit, and quit. Even if that happens, there's nothing "sad" about it. Maybe you have some insider experience with Google and you already "know" that it's all bullshit once you get there. But we can't all have complete knowledge of reality and those individuals who keep moving, in any direction, to go and look and see and decide for themselves, are not sad.
We have very different experiences then. But again, what word would be better? Is there anything notable about the statement "Black people eat a lot of chicken"? What adjective should we use?
Ok, but do you think it is illogical?
My position isn't that everyone is lying. The person I replied to said this. I was demonstrating to them how easy it is to take that approach and have it turned against them. They replied as well, and understood what I was saying.

Maybe I should have been more clear what I was doing, but considering I know what I was saying and so did the person I replied to, I feel it's fair to say that assuming I was being negative and not understanding the context is also on those who disagree with what I said. Especially considering the status of the post that says all this in the first place.

Basically, I stand by what my comment says (assuming everyone is lying is wrong), and those that disagree with me are wrong.
VISA, MasterCard, the US Federal Reserve, and IRS etc are a vast targets. However, while people regularly fake CC, Visa's internal systems seem safe. Suggesting defense is actually easier than offence when both sides are competent.
Thanks! The hardest part right now is finding the right audience to put it in front of.

I definitely will! Another benefit of actually finishing a project is being able to share with others the challenges/successes/unexpected that happen during.
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I actually suffered through corporate pressure against my use of Linux for applications I developed (and users LOVED), because of the press onslaught in the trade magazines about the ridiculous SCO trial. (And then I see from a comment above that this is being appealed. Still. 13 years later. OMG.) So, my cynicism may be intractable.

You may see a "new" Microsoft, but all I see is a Microsoft which is making moves they HAVE to in order to survive. In this world of "the cloud" and the utter dominance of Linux in everything with a CPU that ISN'T a desktop computer, what else can they do but the things they're doing?

That Microsoft is executing WELL is a byproduct. If they didn't, they'd have become the IBM they defeated 20 years ago, and we wouldn't be having this discussion. (They'd offer legacy support for Windows XP, and we'd all wish we could cut them out of the budget, along with the mainframe.) I credit Nadella for this, but none of this is due to some sort of newfound egalitarianism or philanthropy. It's just business.

I find the bright and cheerful comments like yours depressing. They seem to belie a belief that the upper management of Microsoft has somehow been knighted with a sense of civic duty. I see it as the same business shrewdness they've always shown. They no longer have the power to dictate absolute terms to corporations, and must play nice with the rest of the IT world.

And I bet it chaps some of the old guards' asses.
Here is a direct link to the whitepaper https://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform/blob/...
We are; it's very clear that the world is tilting back towards power politics rather than multilateralism and cooperation.

Actually, Vietnam has been asserting its territorial rights in an increasingly sour dispute with China - but it's not reported on as much, because Vietnam is a smaller country. All sovereign countries are equal in some sense as being distinct entities whose existence is recognized by each other, which is a fine principle. but in terms of economic and military affairs size matters and thus the disposition of the largest countries captures most of the attention.

Think of the world like a zoo, all the different enclosures let you see a wide variety of animals. In nature, some of these animals share the ecosystem with each, others would never meet, such as kangaroos and camels. Now, if you opened all the enclosures and just let the animals go free inside the zoo, it's safe to predict that the elephants, rhinoceros, lions, and tigers will will shape things more (at the outset; over generations in a sufficiently large zoo results may vary) than coyotes, llamas, zebra, and camels. All the animals I've mentioned are optimized for different roles in different environments but some are better equipped to handle confrontation than others. I use the analogy of the zoo because it's small, like the planet as communications and transport technology have reduced epic journeys to a logistical operation. We're effectively walled in with much less psychic and transitional distance between us than there used to be.
I don't understand what it would mean for you to "evaluate this for yourself". You have no way of independently verifying what's she's saying, quotes or no quotes.

The background assumptions behind this sort of comment strike me as weird. It's as if you think that women themselves aren't able to tell whether or not they're being harassed, and this can only be determined by an online panel of (mostly) male nerds who have no direct knowledge of the relevant events. I.e., please tell us more details so we can figure out for you if you're actually being harassed or if you're just a crazy female.
Try switching "young" to "old", and see how that sentence sounds.
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The other way is to search before:"2016/12/15", and delete all the search results.
Practically, it pretty much is.

Yes, you can add new lints with an RfC. However, the bar for inclusion is very high.

I'm totally okay with the status quo, but I very much disagree that there is scope for uplifting lints to rustc from clippy with the current policies.
> US power projection would be tested and probably ultimately fail due to unbelievable expense

I think you're wrong here. The US has been investing in power projection for 80 some odd years now, and is leaps and bounds ahead of any other nation. Yes it would be expensive...but we've been paying a premium for quite a long time to have this capability. Additionally, the supply chain is drastically shortened because of the sheer number of US or allied bases in the area - Japan, South Korea, the Philippines (though that one has become a bit questionable).
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Bar chart, kinda looks that way: http://hn-stuff.appspot.com/poll_chart/build/?thread_id=2175...
There are still investments in the Openstack space and I work on one of them(Managed openstack deployments). Intercloud was previously EOL'd 4 months ago, this is just the formal announcement.