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Which "Dictator's Handbook"? There are two on Amazon.

[1] The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

[2] The Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Practical-Manual-A...
Answers/Uservoice depend heavily on the team. I know the Windows IoTCore team is pretty heavily invested in their outreach on Answers and Twitter, and any issues reported there are triaged and then brought to the team's attention. I've seen regressions in our product reported on Answers and then brought to our attention within hours.

That said, yes, as a Windows Core PM I do trawl Uservoice (well, I get a push notification of new comments/suggestions) as well as Stack Overflow and Twitter. Seriously - lots of us are on Twitter (just look at @richturn_ms for Bash on Windows) and pretty accessible.
Good question. I think there are two big reasons this is more feasible now than it has been in the past.

1) Proliferation of compatible devices. Firefox OS attempted to launch with zero compatible phones. (The dev device I bought would crash on boot, every time). Postmarket OS is launching with hundreds of thousands of compatible devices already in the wild, many of which are sitting unused in people’s drawers. If it gets much contributor momentum, there will be millions of devices ready to switch.

2) As a React Native contributor, I am totally biased, but I think it represents a big shift in mobile development. Personally I don’t think ionic/cordova apps feel very good, especially on older devices. RN is the first open-source xplat mobile app environment that allows you to produce high-quality apps. Or at least, by the standards of FB, Airbnb, and Microsoft.
A decent chance of decreasing the severity of a collision or even avoiding it.
>Don't want to get diverted into politics

I don't think this has much to do with politics. If you're right, left or center, libertarian or authoritarian, doesn't matter, it's basic morality that this unwarranted aggression is wrong and must have consequences. If I was the president under which such a thing happened, I would make sure the consequences are severe enough that it would never happen again under my term.
I agree with the "interface at least as good as stock Android" part. I wouldn't even mind if someone re-created the Android UI with native GNU/Linux libraries instead of the ones from Android.

As long as the user choose the interface, this would surely make it easier for people to switch from Android to postmarketOS and users who'd like to use something different could freely do so.
Yes, but how many lives has it saves per million miles driven?
I guess it's no longer viable to go to protests unarmed.

Good to know.
Recent BBC Panorama on the matter was pretty good:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08qgbc3

That said, I'm personally certain the laws will evolve rapidly in a favorable manner. Privacy issues resulting from Facebook/Google and co are becoming increasingly unacceptable for the society.
This explains why I was far more worried in the 1970s/80s then I am today about being caught up in a terrorist incident.
I can't speak for the rest of Europe, but in the UK the only thing keeping us from numerous terror attacks per year is the panopticon we've allowed our security services to build. They are stopping numerous attacks every year. This doesn't feel like a win to me.
"After a couple of decades, hybrid and electric vehicles still account for no more than 2% of new-car sales in most countries."

This is just not convincing. The sales were weak because the products were weak. There are about 500,000 people who have placed orders for the Model 3 sight unseen. There is tremendous pent up demand for these cars, simply because buyers believe that the company selling them finally has the right formula.

"Unlike video cameras, lidar cannot be dazzled by bright light nor blinded by the dark."

LiDAR I've worked with in fact could suffer 'sun poisoning' if the sun shone directly into the receiver.

"Local governments will have to spend scarce resources making road infrastructure more AV-friendly."

Right, like fixing this false lane marker (the actual lane marker is the yellow line in the lane barrier's shadow): http://imgur.com/a/KnsXU
Afaik after the explosion no nearby car would run, and the advice to 'tune in a radio' seems futile as the EMP would zorch the modern electronics in either device.

BTW if you want real nightmare stuff, google the casualty rates after 1 year from the EMP of a nuke detonated high above the United States.
how much of the book is completed at this time?
In most cases, a more powerful inexpensive phone would cost less than trying to replace the battery. Heck, if you value your time a new phone is probably less expensive that trying to salvage an old one.
If it's merely a consequence of choices made to support complexity then I disagree. The aesthetic and utility of the design is a product of many limitations and hard choices made early on. C++ will always be an ugly language because those trade offs were made from the beginning to support a breadth of functionality and configuration.

Simplicity and accessibility are extremely challenging things to support when you have a product that does everything for everyone.

The need for 5 different lambda expressions is a perfect example of that.

I personally think C++ still has a role in the world, as it clearly has lots of adoption. But if you want non-Ugly then those various use-cases have to be broken up into single-purpose (or niche) languages such as Rust for systems programming and Python for 'scripting' and Lua for glue/config code. All of those languages listed have made hard tradeoffs to be good at certain things. C++ and Java did not - largely because they are "yes" languages, as Steve Yegge calls it (the language designers said yes to everyone early on).

If Ugly languages were merely 'bad' or 'wrong' for being ugly then they both would be the most used languages. They clearly have long-lasting value in the industry - which people like Yegge believe is because they are okay with being ugly.
I'm working on a similar minimalizing project and really appreciate you sharing this.

These types of write-ups are some of the best resources as I've grown as a developer. It's a great feeling to come across one that exactly answers something you're stuck on, or explains some concept that you're pretty sure exists but you have no idea where to start.
Pretty worrying that this article even needed to be written. In a scenario where a nuclear bomb has detonated it is rather likely many more will as well. I hope we aren't in a scenario where this becomes likely.

Also, if I'm sat home during a one-off detonation; what good is waiting for that nuclear material to rain down on my house?
There's also no strong evidence that any form of income taxation has a significant impact on economic growth. It's the equivalent of an economic old wives tale, one that gets repeated so often that even many progressives believe it. But it's been studied extensively (as one might imagine), and there's never been a study showing a clear connection, at least within the range of tax rates that have been tried historically.
Just because you like driving doesn't mean it won't see something before you do. 12 or so cameras, ultrasound, and radar might well draw attention to something before you'd notice it otherwise. Even 0.5 seconds warning might well significantly decrease the severity of a crash or even avoid it.

The move obvious example is when a car two cars in front of a tesla had an accident and the telsa warned about it before most people would have noticed.
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Wow. That's some incredibly short notice. One would think given the much larger company that acquired them, they'd be able to give a reasonable grace period before shutting it down.
Yes, George Long is only one translator for these works, though he is definitely the most popular. Most of the available translations are from the 19th and early 20th centuries, so you can expect them all to have some degree of difficulty. Also, if this is your first exposure to stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius is probably not the best introduction. Epictetus would be better, or Seneca. There's also a short (short) book by James Stockdale called Courage Under Fire about his time as a POW in Vietnam, and how stoic philosophy helped him survive. It doesn't explore the mechanics very well, but if you ever needed the benefits explained, that book will do it.

If you can stomach some slightly more archaic and difficult translations, Harvard's Loeb Classical Library translations are readable, and Aurelius is translated there by Haines, Epictetus in his Discourses (including the Encheiridion) by Oldfather, Seneca's Letters by Gummere. The Loeb editions are nice because they're side-by-side with the original Greek, so it comes in handy if you want to take your study to the next level. A quick note about Seneca's Letters: Most of the common editions only include some of his letters. You'll have to actively search for an edition which includes all 124 of them. The Dover Thrift Edition of Seneca's Letters from a Stoic include all of them and is also translated by Gummere, but does not include the original Greek and is cheaper than the Loeb edition. The Loeb books are really attractive in my library, though. If you're anything of a collector, you'll probably get hooked buying them.
And IIRC an association with seizure reduction (generally, not kids) was observed as early as the 1940's.

Blind, excessive, political criminalization kept this avenue officially closed in the U.S. for three quarters of a century. (Call it half a century, if you include those who started medicating and self-medicating despite the law.)

I'm not a recreational user. But I oppose stupidity and self-interest standing in the way of progress.
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Why no charges? (Diplomatic immunity?)

Also, law abiding US citizens can barely get the government's permission to exercise their 2nd amendment rights in Washington, how do foreign body guards manage that?
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Another consideration that's just as important is in terms of physical design. By dividing one large register file into two smaller ones with fewer ports you should be able to substantially decrease the overall size and power usage of the register files. Probably the bypass network too.

I've never worked on compiler design, does it really make it that much more difficult? I'd imagine that the compiler would have a clear idea of whether a value is a memory address or not and could simply put addresses in the address registers and data in the data registers but it's likely I'm missing something.
> He repeatedly kicked Ms. Usoyan, 34, as she lay on the ground. According to New Jersey records, Mr. Yildirim is 50 and manages three companies in that state.

Mr. Yildrim does not appear to have diplomatic immunity, so why aren't assault and battery charges being levied against him?
You can do EMV in under 4 seconds.
Source: https://squareup.com/townsquare/weve-chipped-away-at-emv-tra... and http://www.digitaltransactions.net/news/story/With-an-Update...
The most important part of journalism is discovering and publishing news that people don't already know yet.
Tesla reported that air bags being triggered dropped by 40% when they turned on the autonomous braking. Do you consider that "a novelty"?
Presumably Murdoch, for one.
Right, what's the last time you checked the recipients domain MX record before sending an email?

That's just nonsense, nobody does this, people just send mail through some client and never ever check MX records by hand unless they are trying to debug some kind of problem, in fact, the vast majority of people have no clue that something like an MX record even exists. To them email is roughly equivalent to magic.
For me personally, I want it to do what I need my phone to do, privately. I don't care if the entire UI is black and white and the only font is Courier New if it does that.

Design is second to having a rock solid platform to build on top of.

At the point where the phone OS can't make calls yet, worrying about style is a bit premature.
Previous post of an identical project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990160
Great idea for a wicked problem.

Phone manufacturers will be against it, telcos, retailers, and many consumers. Maybe we could get Green movement groups on board?
If you are not already in a building then getting there by a car can be considerably faster.
Except not in cities like Chicago that dominate the media coverage
How ready we are to sacrifice many of our freedoms and conveniences to * prevent 200 deaths - especially considering how mindlessly we accept risks that are multiple orders of magnitude higher, like driving cars. It is fascinating.

*try to
Yes, and its older brother the v10 is under $200 now. Very nice bang for your buck.
I think there are around 3,000 total restaurants, so that's 75% affected...
Not only that, but some of the "civilian" folks in the video (towards the bottom of the article) are just plain US citizens and residents. That they haven't been arrested yet either is pretty astounding.
I was honestly surprised that NYT did such a beautiful in depth analysis of videos and didn't have this video in there. How can you do an in depth research on that incident and not have this vital video?

I wonder if with modern machine learning backed algorithms, we can do a semi-decent job at reading some of the lips in that video.
I grow them in my yard.
Today is a bad day, so many startups going down.
Regardless of the state department, the protestors should sue and the US can freeze assets here.
A combination of IT policies and short sighted programmers.
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Every time I read one of these it's like watching someone in college learn about databases, but it's actually a company.
It's not done right unless there's a 1200 baud modem somewhere in the chain.
I can't edit, but states on terror deaths in the UK are hilariously skewed by how much harder they are to pull off now than they used to be. We pretend the problem is no big deal because bombs don't go off that often, but for every one that gets to the mass-murder stage there're probably at least a dozen that flunk out early.

The low, low price for this is our inching ever closer to police state status. No big deal, right.
Anyone interested in this should look into Trusted Timestamping. There's protocols and companies to study for inspiration of how to improve it combined with new work like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
I'm guessing nothing will happen. I have no idea if diplomatic immunity applies, but also the president and Erdogan are friendly. And, we have a lot of contempt for protestors in our country.
Because Google announced they were going to bring it to phones at I/O just a bit ago.
> You can also initiate withdrawals for any collected funds to your bank account through the Tilt platform until June 12, 2017.

I highly doubt that is legal. If you hold third party funds you can't just make some arbitrary statement or the money is yours.

They will have to make a reasonable effort to reach the affected parties and they will have to give them ample time to withdraw their funds.
Very interesting idea. I wonder how hard it would be to write a plugin to do this transparently on my browser.
But unlikely to do so when they're threatened e.g. by "someone" leaking evidence of "transgressions"... e.g. sexual encounters with affairs/prostitutes, excessive drinking, inappropriate conduct with minors, clandestine meetings with "sponsors" (aka corruption)... and Congressmen (or, politicians in general) are not exactly known for ethical behavior, which makes them all extortionable.

A lot of this kind of "searching for evidence" can already be done using existing surveillance infrastructure, I believe it was called LOVEINT after the Snowden leaks.
Hey thanks for the reply. Sounds like you've also thought quite a bit about this. I'd like to offer my thoughts on your numbered points.

For 1, you're right, we have to mine minerals to get these cars to work. I'm not really sure how much more polluting the production of Lithium and copper is compared to steel, but I assume it's bad. However in the long term I assume most of those polluting mining processes could be electric, could they not? The point is that long term you could make mining those minerals completely clean.

For 2, you're right there are plenty of electric cars you can buy right now. And obviously Tesla interiors aren't terrific, we all know that. The main reason I would choose Tesla is that EVs are their bread and butter. Chevy and Nissan have an interest in keeping ICE cars going, so supporting them doesn't align with the goal of making all cars electric long term.

For 3, you pretty much hit the nail on the head with Tesla being a software company where other companies see software as a cost center. As far as the autopilot goes, you should cut Tesla a little bit of slack, because while their software is not true-to-the-name autopilot, they are also limited by regulators with how much freedom they can give the driver to rely on the software. So in many places where autopilot falls short of being true autopilot, it's likely due to regulators holding them back.

So that's my take on things. I'm in my early 20s, and I take you to be a gen Xer. You know, as an aside, I am really disheartened by Gen X's lack of passion for climate change, no offense to you. I love HackerNews but I get a little sad when I see people blow it off. I strongly believe that how we handle this climate disaster will define humanity's fate in the 21st century, but coming here people seem very relaxed about the whole thing. Oh well. Cheers.
I had a similar realization when I found a private photo, so private that I had deleted it from everywhere in some Google's "backup" sites. I am very careful disabling every feature that could mean that personal images or text from my phone will end up "in the cloud" and still it got there through an accident... and a lot of Google's disregard for my wills. It's almost impossible to stop them.

The photo being private is most likely not what you think :)
America is in a sad, sad state when there is no recourse for something like this. What are we, afraid of diplomatically insulting an Islamist dictatorship?
The zynga stuff went away because facebook cut them off, not because of some collective decision or somesuch.
Could you help me understand why you find that scary? It's not giving him any information which wasn't previously available to him. I think you're concerned that people are overlooking his screen, and you'd rather he explicitly choose everything that pops up when you call? Do you think he wouldn't have included any identifying information about you?

As a user, I'd rather have not only a name but also a picture of a person pop up when they call me, and I'd rather it happen with as little work as possible on my part.

(disclaimer: I work for Google, although I had nothing to do with how this works)
Dunno, I'd prefer a nice clear 15" screen over every in car display I've ever seen (except for the model S 17). Being larger and visible at all times is pretty nice. Doubly so with a passenger that's helping out can handle nav duties.

Generally I look at fuel levels rarely, tach almost never (and doubly irrelevant if you can't shift gears), and speedometer only occasionally since I'm usually just pacing traffic.

Anything else normally on the dash display is often a tiny small icon that's hard to see. Was that a check engine light? An upshift light? Oh, is one of the doors open?
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Notice the good decisions came later than the bad decisions in the list.
Here's something funny.

It was back in 1995. I'd just loaded Windows NT 3.51 on my computer. Not long after, I got my first BSoD. What to do?

So of course I gathered as much info as I could, and I promptly reported it to Microsoft. (That just shows you now naive I was at the time). I think someone even contacted me; not that they ever seriously followed up.

True story.

But there's a larger point, which is that if, back in 1995, Microsoft actually made a serious effort to debug and fix these problems, we'd all be better off today.

Sorta like the quote, from memory: "If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed ... wait, he does!".
> Windows 10

I'd be worried about the system rebooting to do a system update while I turn my back for a minute to help a customer.
It's worked for PayPal for years... Google will find you a hundred examples of PP deciding to freeze accounts and the funds going up in smoke.
How many people do you think would rather have a tiny cramped display crammed in the hole of the steering wheel (and often partially occluded depending on user height, seat, and steering wheel position) vs a nice clear 15" display that both people in front and see?
Some teams (PowerBI, for one) have embraced the new customer service culture, others seem to still have the old "FU, pay me" culture. Pretending otherwise (not pointing the finger at you, but at MSFT management) to me just adds insult to injury.
Thanks, I just looked it up and yeah, looks like QT has cross platform mobile supported. Great.
> They usually do not care about the benefits of open source and sustainability anyway.

What market does? Do you have any evidence such a market exists?
Creating profiles or dossiers on people seems like a breach of the fair credit act
It exists. But I guess I get why you might be thinking this: with CM13 there were nightly builds for lots and lots of devices, but with LOS13 they heavily reduced the amount of devices for which they build nightlies.

I'm not sure if this means that they ceased to support LOS13 for these devices entirely. But it does seem that way, on account of how long it's been since the device tree ('DT') and kernel for my phone have seen any update. (HTC One M9, a.k.a. himaul)

Nowadays I just build LOS13 myself every once in a while, because it still receives generic updates and fixes, and luckily the current kernel and DT still work fine. It's just that, while the DT also wasn't updated that often back on CM13, iirc the kernel did receive updates and fixes fairly regularly. With that no longer being the case is why I suspect they halted supporting it at all.

My reason for staying on LOS13 rather than to upgrade to LOS14 is that the Xposed Framework does not exist for LOS14 / Android N. So that's what I'm waiting for. I wish the LOS13 would recognize how many people want to use 13 on the M9 and provide updates even if it's just once a month. Or maybe they do recognise this, but they just don't have the manpower, resources, or heck maybe there were too many problems when users switched from CM to LOS... I don't know.

There is just one really annoying error which I don't know how to fix, which is that the default camera app crashes, I suspect because of face detection. I thought they fixed that on CM13 ages ago. I guess he bug snuck back in. The OpenCamera does not crash, thank heavens, but it's still a nasty issue I wish would be addressed.

Anyway. My point was that it's still possible to build LOS13 for many devices.
It still works :)

A couple of months ago I sent an email about a bug in the iBooks iPhone App directly to Tim Cook. A couple of days later, an Apple PM responsible for the iBooks App sent me a mail telling me to describe the problem a bit more precise. I offered to take a video and sent it to him. It went back and forth a bit (but always the same person!) and in the next iOS patch the bug was fixed.
user@example.com$ cat "./forward"
user@gmail.com

How will you know that user@example.com ends up at Gmail?