skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, if they want you to do it, it isn't assault. If they let you do it, they may be avoiding a worse fate, while still not consenting.
I don't doubt W. is a smart man, but I seriously doubt this:

> One of my students asked “How involved was President Bush with what was going on?” I smiled and responded, “What you really mean is, ‘Was President Bush smart enough to understand what was going on,’ right?”

Some presidents delegate more to trusted subordinates(Reagan), preferring to pick a knowledgeable person. Some have a more collegial atmosphere and take on things directly.(Clinton) [[Politics of the Presidency, 6th edition]]

I think that's a valid question to ask without meaning "how smart is Bush". For example, many decisions were made about the Iraq war, such as de-baathification of the country. Bremer ordered this, but did bush know and or order it, or did he trust Bremer to make the right call? This is important to interpreting and judging his presidency. And instead of answering that (important) question, he assumes that the student is asking if the president is dumb. He doesn't even let the student answer if that was a correct interpretation!
This is not what you want to hear, and probably not the correct answer. But the pragmatic answer is to leave. Whatever happens is going to come at significant human capital to you, unfortunately, and unfairly, even if you 'win'. Suck it up, till you can get out of there.
I used to worked for a startup where the CTO and CEO were older in their 40s and didn't hire people over 30 because they weren't a "culture fit". I was constantly asked what my age was (I look a bit older). The team clocked 60+ work weeks for a product that was barely progressing. The CTO was so work obsessed that he got married to his pregnant fiancee in the morning and came back in the afternoon to make up work.

Thankfully for my next job, while the staff is still older, they work smart instead working hard.
web programming in C# is not very good. Although I like C# as a language. I hate ASP.NET and the way it is built. Java has much better support for writing web applications and tons of open source libraries.
The Iraq War.
Giving up on Bin Laden.
Zero-down mortgage initiative.
...

Really, what did Bush do right?
Yeah I read it as tongue in cheek too.
In a Typed Racket program that does not import any untyped racket code, there is no runtime enforcement. Runtime contracts are only introduced at the boundary between typed and untyped code. This allows programs to be soundly transitioned from untyped to partially typed to fully typed.
If I recall, he lost his first race for public office because his opponent criticized him for being too academic, which prompted him to change his image.
He doesn't claim it was a finished product
That was funny, but then again, he went to Harvard, so perhaps all that folksy crap was a zelig-like adoption of the mannerisms the peasants like. I mean, it worked - he became president.
> This release also brings improved support for Flatpak apps in GNOME Software. Flatpak apps are designed to improve the software installation process in GNOME and Linux in general by making it easier for developers to package, and users to install, software across distributions. With Flatpaks you don't need to worry about dependency conflicts or even if your distro of choice has the app you want. Flatpaks also offer improved security and stability by sandboxing applications.

Another competing packaging format. Why?
Localized storage on households and businesses can help even if it never feeds back to the grid, because it means that batteries can charge via off-peak electricity and switch to discharging to fulfill local demand during grid peak times. It has pretty much the same system effect as discharging into the grid during peak demand but it's more efficient to use the electricity at the same point it was stored.
Just enough for junior dev
Christopher Hitchens also thought invading Iraq was a good idea.
1. Tear down the UN since it has failed. Russia, China or the US will always block something. The security council is clearly dysfunctional.

2. Establish e.g. EU humanitarian intervention taskforce. And the same for ASEAN? And maybe even North America when it's ready to re-join the global community again? [ :) ]. I think the key is to de-couple things from Russia and China at least until they themselves begin to be responsible citizens in the global community.
To lend additional credence to this article, GWB in 2006 alone read 95 books that year:

http://www.omnivoracious.com/2009/01/george-w-bushs-reading-...

That comes out to about two books per week. If you look at that list, I wouldn't call any of those books light reading. Considering his job at the time and how he loves outdoor activities, calling him a fast reader would only begin to describe it. I would call it a stretch to say he's half as stupid as a lot of people like to think
I highly recommend the lab manual to go along with it as well:

https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Art-Electronics-Hands-Course...
I thought you were just being petty until I tried to read it. There is so just much context switching without any clues at all to the reader, it is really jarring.
Nix has been working on reproducibility: http://nixos.org/nix/
HN: come for the links, stay for the 20+ replies about the benefits of mirror writing.
> From what I can tell Hindi phonemes are a superset of English phonemes.

This isn't exactly correct. There are a variety of allophones that many Hindi-native speakers use in their English that aren't used by most native English speakers outside of India such as the retroflex t, trilled or flap r, and others. There are also others missing from Hindi entirely such as /ʒ/.

See phoneme tables for English and Hindi/Urdu (in IPA for instance) for more details.

I agree with your premise, in any case, that Devanagari describes far more than the English/Roman script.
No, they aren't. Kinect was using motion tracking and stereo vision technology that already existed. They just refined it and it was clearly a dead end. Also it was just a "me too" response to the success of the Wii.

Surface studio is just a big touch screen. Nothing new.

HoloLens is the most innovative but again this kind of AR has been around for a while, it's a refinement and I think it will just be a dead end like Kinect ultimately.

Truly innovative means something that actually changes things. I think the list I gave in my comment makes that pretty obvious; the web, home broadband, Linux and smartphones. Those changed the world. The Surface Studio will not.
Exactly! Resolution can also be used as a form of dismissal if done right. You can tell someone who isn't worth your time to go away simply with body language. When I can tell someone is trying to elicit a reaction, I simply won't look away from my screen effectively saying they aren't worth my time.
By reading the PDF I was able to find said piratebay videos (no I didn't download). It looks like all been uploaded by user sharkmp4

https://thepiratebay.org/user/sharkmp4/

Update: Camcast confirms account is owned by Steele.

https://torrentfreak.com/images/copyright-troll-honesypot.pn...
Here is the ebook link without giving away your email address to spam:
https://mega.nz/#!UhlUjKqa!aZIgmyaTpPPFkyWt3dFI827fqU97PSSzi...
Hi Bob, Agree about "simple" being a bad choice of name. What I meant is that it's not one of the crazy souped up SAT solving algorithms directly. I'll drop "simple".

FWIW we've seen those kinds of type errors in Go already with vendoring, which lets you have multiple copies of the same package. Good errors are essential (and we only get them half right).

Thanks.
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Its funny you say that makes you dislike the article.

I agree with everything he wrote, and it makes me like this article a lot.

> Do you assume that he is unintelligent because he made policy choices with which you disagree?

This was spot-on to who I was 10-15 years ago in the bush years. I've actually come to the conclusion since then, before reading this, that I was very wrong about that (and a lot of other things) but this article is spot-on.

I know its a hard thing to realize and accept that you're living in a delusion, I'm right there with you on that.
I'm curious if you have a conception of exactly how much money creating, testing, and deploying a SKU of a product actually runs. Now multiply it by the number of permutations of the product. You should get a reasonably large number with six or seven zeroes at the end. Be honest: are they going to even break even off of the micropopulation that cares?
It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped of all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World War in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and The Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China.

And Formosa and the Pescadores are today governed by the by the Republic of China, at least.
I mean, they they are synonyms after all ;)
I don't think he is stupid, but he certainly cultivated an "average guy" persona that had a disdain for expert/elite opinion. It also doesn't excuse the (bad) decisions he made in office on a variety of issues.
As a North Carolina resident, I'm glad it didn't detonate (even though I wasn't alive yet)!
Depends on the location. Depends on your profile.

Smart techs go to tech companies. Smart & ambitious techs go to finance.

If you're at Google, you certainly won't participate in conversations with coworkers about how Google just tried to poach you with an offer soooo ridiculously low it's laughable.
> his boss/roommate mentioned this particular application to me several times over several months. . . it came up repeatedly in casual conversations and after leaving SpaceX he seemed to genuinely believe he had a shot of selling this product to SpaceX

> I do find the author's story very plausible.

Aren't these statements completely contradictory?

On the one hand, you say it was a SpaceX project. But later, you say that the author is correct (meaning it was a Silk Road project).

So... which is it?
You can usually tell by the very few people willing to maintain the code/feature. Some of it has layers upon layers of duct tape.
Schwarzenegger works on keeping his accent. Bobby Jindal is definitely capable of speaking without his southern accent. George W Bush, likely, is capable of not acting the way he does. But all three realize the benefits of their image.
I don't think he's stupid but I know he coasted through life on his parents money and prestige. It's not much consolation that Al Gore did the same. John Kerry and John McCain both funded themselves with family money and connections as well.

I think people are generally fed up that US politics confuses legacy with competence.

But when Bush became president, he surrounded himself with the same Republican apparatus that his father did, leading to disastrous results. At the end of the day, it didn't really matter how smart Bush was. His decisions were stupid.
I hope you did not buy multiple ones when they broke! They send them out like candies if you can prove yours is broken! I have 3 surges (2 with broken bands) thanks to this policy!
Good . Dark matter is bullshit. There's no proof cause there isn't any "dark matter". Whatever the hell that was supposed to mean anyway.
> I'd love one if I could put linux on it

You can.

https://ramsdenj.com/2016/08/29/arch-linux-on-the-surface-pr...

"Something that sets the Surface apart from other popular tablets, is that it doesn’t artificially limit your capabilities. If you want to use it as a laptop, or install alternate operating systems on it, you are free to do so. I think the Surface is going to make a great Linux laptop, and I look forward to spending some time playing with it."
That story about the CTO getting married in the morning and going back to work is cringeworthy...
This is the problem with "mental health" as a metaphor from bodily health. It's better than simply moralizing about addiction, sure, but leaves people with very muddled thinking about the topic through taking the metaphor too literally.

So much of these debates seem like there's a confusion of causes and symptoms. Childhood trauma is as predictive of addiction in adulthood as obesity is of heart disease. Loneliess and personal trauma are just enormously corrosive to a person's mental well-being, but it seems like the mental health frame rarely attempts to deal with problems like that.
"We're just wise enough to know that it leads to no good outcome."

I'm middle aged, working with some very young people right now, and I'm having an epiphany, because they are running around like chickens with their heads cut-toff, and I see there's no reason for it, they are equating 'sweat and crunch' with 'value' and making all sorts of mistakes. The epiphany is: they remind me exactly of me at that age!

And they won't take any advice. I mightn't have either ... though I did definitely respect my managers ... and they have none ...

These problems are particularly pernicious when the younger teams have no upper management, or have never worked in larger organizations.

Hopefully, we are starting to realize the value of older devs in some situations and can respect their abilities wherein they are valuable.
Setting up an LLC is a fairly straight forward thing to do, especially with services like LegalZoom. There are direct benefits of setting this up before you do any work as you can run your business costs through the business rather then paying them on your own. When it comes to tax time you'll have business deductions rather than just spending money out of your own pocket
> For historical reasons and convenience, the tuple type with no elements (()) is often called ‘unit’ or ‘the unit type’.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html
Be her lover.
My First Mistake
I read this is a higher-level overview of the situation, and not a direct transcript from the classroom.

I wouldn't assume that this was asked in isolation, or that there was no follow-up. Also, it really only serves as a framing device for the rest of the article, its not particularly material to the meat of the story. Unless, of course, you want to argue that nobody thought George Bush was a dummy which I know to be personally untrue.
Ask HN: Mail app for phone for private mail server?
After the yahoo release, I was thinking it would be nice to use a private email server that does not scan my email and serve me ads.

I was wondering if there are any better phone apps out there for this case?

The default mail app on android is not that great in terms of features.

What do you use on your phone to interface with a private mail server?
Also Snowden was certainly aware of the fates of previous intelligence leakers like Thomas Drake[0] and William Binney[1] and others who tried to blow the whistle through the proper channels, only for nothing to happen.

[0]http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/leaks-and-the-law-the-...

[1]http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Interview-the-original...
overkill: Don't let iTunes interrupt your workflow
People do sleep tracking with the Apple Watch, it doesn't take very long to charge at all. I don't, but I know people who just charge it up once or twice a day and wear it all day and night.
You should look up what the movie Rambo is actually about. It's an interesting and important story.
Well, the explanation is waaay to long, but basically when you have a government mandated exchange rate at Bs.10/$ (that can only be accessed by corrupt military and government officials) and a black market rate that has reached 500 times the official rate, you get massive corruption.

You sell $5000 at the black market rate of Bs.2000 per dollar, buy $1mm at the official rate of Bs.10. Repeat ad finitum,until you drain the country's reserves. But no worries, we still produce oil and it's the solution to all our problems!

Then, the oil price drops in an economy that has no industries (because it's so cheap to import everything at the official rate, who would want to risk producing anything??) and does not produce anything other than oil. So the govt runs out of money to import food, toilet paper,etc. So people go hungry, you get the highest inflation in the world,etc.

Add to that, a "socialist" president that in order to fight for the poor, confiscates the little industries, farms, etc we had. No one in their right mind wants to bring a cent to invest here.
I've been reading through Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People recently. One of the principles that he strives to beat into you is the idea that you can't win an argument on sheer aggression.

While you would very well win the surface battle by shouting the loudest, you haven't won over the most important person: your opponent.

In situations like this, engaging in a pissing contest doesn't lead anywhere. When cornered, we (as in human beings in general) react by being defensive, arguing our own points even stronger in the face of facts stating otherwise. The most tactful way of moving the conversation forward is to win the other player over by letting them save face.

I noticed your comment's been flagged a lot and I'm wondering if you had meant to elaborate on your response and accidentally hit 'reply' too early? Maybe it would bring a better understanding to why you associate this type of response with submission.
The proverb goes: Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.

If GWB was actually brilliant, he must have cultivated this façade to hide malicious, self-serving intent. Via the endless wars he started, he grew his family's oil wealth and enriched his VP through government contracts with Halliburton and Blackwater at the expense of global stability and the United States.

This professor does us a service. It's easy to write off an idiot, not so easy to write off someone that intends to actively harm your country for self-serving purposes. Maybe in some just world he and his cabinet would be tried for the war crimes they committed.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5ipjbp/kuberne...
I'm with you. And I've realized lately that what I've come to believe as facts were just merely mainstream public opinion, where the opinion came from somewhere with intent and was adopted by my peers, then adopted by me.

If I truly reflect, I expect that many of my judgements of anything are rarely my own.
The UN was not created to be a humanitarian force. The UN (like the League of Nations before it) was created to prevent another world war. The League failed, but since we haven't had WW3, I think it's a bit disingenuous to claim that the UN has failed.
It is intellectually lazy to call the decisions of people you disagree with "stupid" instead of trying to understand how their priorities and principles may be different than yours.
The USA major foreign policy problems involve guerillas operating in small states.
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13194523
You are really downplaying the growth of solar over the last 10 years. In many places in the US, utility scale solar is the cheapest power you can buy. Prices have gone down from ~$100/W in the 1970s to ~$0.30/W today. The amount of solar installed in the US is growing exponentially. The growth rate will likely slow a bit, but the US already gets 0.5% of its electricity from solar. When factoring in exponential growth, there will be a very significant amount of solar installed in the next 10 years.
> I know I've handled that particular situation in a bad way.

This is a key realization.

Assuming you really want to stay at the company, you should speak directly to the PO if you can keep from being defensive/angry/frustrated.

To be specific, first talk to your direct supervisor/boss and explain that you would like to improve your relationship with the PO. You have to mean this, of course, but tell your supervisor that your only goal in talking to the PO is to make the relationship better and so ask your sup if it's ok that you chat with her and ask for any guidance on how to do that effectively (this is less about getting advice from the sup and more of a check in since s/he is responsible for you).

Assuming your supervisor buys into you chatting with her, then set up a time to chat with the PO. Specifically address where you think things went wrong, why they went wrong and propose how you think it can be better (use the argument you had, your role in it and how you should've handled it differently as an example of how you'll interact differently in the future). And then ask her how you can make it better. It might not be fair that the burden is all on you in this situation, but based on what you're saying about the PO's standing in the company it sounds like the burden is on you.

You absolutely can salvage this relationship assuming the PO is a reasonable person, but the key is the burden is on you to fix it. Talking to the PO won't magically make her a different person, but great working relationships can be founded on once-toxic situations. If the risk in talking to her is too great, listen to the many people who are saying stay quiet, do great work and find another gig.
I'm a massive fan of .NET and MVC as a development stack and think VS is the bees knees when it comes to my IDE (with a Vi plugin of course). But I'm hugely excited about .NET Core for the sole reason of abandoning the Windows OS. It really is a horror, it comes bundled with crapware which gets reinstalled when a major update is applied, the major updates are foisted upon you whether you want them or not, after a major update they re-pin their own products to the start bar, there is numerous thing you have to switch off to opt out of their data gathering (and I believe there's some data gathering it's not possible to switch off), they don't allow you to uninstall certain software such as Edge, they don't give the user the means to change OS and re-install Windows if your copy of it was bundled when buying the computer, and that's about all I can think of at the moment.

But pretty much everything I listed above is Microsoft willfully doing things at the expense of the user for their own sake. I could list loads of other things that I'd prefer they did another way but I wanted to highlight things that weren't just subjective preferences.
Yes, we know the Gnome team (and by extension, most of Freedesktop) wants to reimplement macOS on Linux. But trust me, Miguel isn't coming back, the best course would be just going to macOS instead (or hell, Windows, he's a happy camper now, isn't he?) or do your work downstream.

The rest of us just want our own systems to run as well or better for our own usecases as they currently do. Wayland is a great opportunity to rearchitect the Linux display system rather than organically grow it as X11 has over decades. But if you don't take into consideration those of us who use our Linux workstations as more than a Facebook machine with SSH preinstalled; you're just going to recreate the problem.

People will start disregarding freedesktop, Wayland and so on and either stay in X or using a Wayland compositor that couldn't care less for standards and short-circuit every single convention and security protocol you have designed as long as it lets them get shit done, because at the end of the day, as beautiful as we like our code to be and our software to be architected; people want their systems to work for them.
That sounds super stressfull
WSJ doesn't accept press releases.
I can actually do them a favour. That agent doesnt like sitting there all day. He was assinged to intimidate. Mission acomplished. By photographing him you acknowledge the message and he can be assigned to sonething else. Moving the nonverbal conversation along might actually trigger them to make a formal, polite, approach.

A lone FBI agent wont be happy, but he wont break cover be reacting. He will just drive away.