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:) "identifying as alternative gender"

Given how many interesting, relevant, revealing studies made it onto the frontpage of HN, wondering why did the ongoing silent chemical and psychological war against most of humanity didn't made it into the list. Nobody is mentioning the "medification" of our food supply as one of the (possible) causes for that part. That evolving mixture of chemical weapons being purposely introduced into every part of our environment, its effects on pre-natal development in humans, havoc that some of the same chemicals are causing in nature. Do you think it's an accident that you won't find anything in your bathroom that does not contain SLS? (what was it, 5 days halflife? not bad for an endocrine disruptor used daily, absorbed through the skin, don't worry, they even add it into children's toothpaste, gotta love the FDA). How many mutilated children are being born because their mothers were exposed to those weapons? Have you seen the numbers? How would you explain those? Not to mention the targeted destruction of families, values, the fabric of human nature. Don't hipster folk watch TED videos anymore? Why are you not capable of making connections that would at least have a chance to make the world a better place? Is it some kind of mental block, a fallacy by association electrical wire knotted around your intellect with a buzzer held by some sociopath in an expensive suit? Modern-era mental slavery disguised behind "political correctness"?

Humanity is being transformed. Books have been written about this for decades, even popular ones(Huxley & co). Lectures were given, well-meaning, manipulated idiots with doctorate degrees are publicly advocating a new human species. Hipster with a PhD, the perfect slave, the right soup of ideology and ego stimulation and he'd kill 100 million people for whatever "higher purpose" we convince him he is fighting for. Power never had it easier.
Is ARX a common term in the literature? I have never seen it used before this post (though I'm not exactly up to date on the latest crypto...)
This is why the US system is broken. Wind the clock back 70 ish years and stop this and you'll likely end up with the same system as other developed countries like the U.K. Or Australia.
It's problematic because plenty of people host websites and other network services on their own infrastructure at home / work, all in the residential IP space.
This page has some good data on 2018 rate increases, provider changes, mandate enforcement, etc.

http://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/an-early-look-a...
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It's no mystery to those in the industry. They simply made some bad bets, and decided to meet high local demand by importing panels rather than being able to manufacture on their own. This is from the US solar industry's trade association in response to Suniva's requests for price floors and tariffs:

>Listen later today to our witnesses who will tell you about:

• how Suniva’s ion implant cell technology was a commercial failure;

• how Suniva shipped its cells to other countries to assemble into modules because its own module assembling facility in Michigan was poorly designed;

• how Suniva and SolarWorld both failed to take advantage of opportunities to sell to some of the largest residential solar developers in the country;

• how both companies failed to meet basic delivery and product quality standards, leading to a loss of repeat business; and

• how SolarWorld had the opportunity to sell American-made 72-cell modules to utility-scale developers but filled those orders with imports instead, because they clearly don’t have the capacity to meet U.S. demand for these products.

https://www.seia.org/sites/default/files/2017-09/OPENING%20S...

Basically they tried and failed, where others are succeeding. Now they are trying to play into a political narrative that doesn't apply to them in order to prop up their business, at the expense of all the downstream solar installers in the industry.
Interestingly, I once worked for an employer that required everybody to take a personality test. The results were never discussed with anybody, and the whole thing could have been a bunch of hocus pocus, but it nonetheless raised the issue.
But couldn't you rebuild them yourself?
yes. https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2016/10/1... https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/ecrypt/courses/albena11/s...
But as an employer in the U.S., you get to write off medical insurance as an expense that isn't counted as income for the employee. It's entirely tax free, and a rational employee will take it into account as part of their compensation package.

If you don't want employers to give it to employees, then we should fix the tax situation.
Friendly advice..

It might be better not to disclose this level of detail about your professional security practices, especially when there is a trail of breadcrumbs in the HN profile on your account..
Does it support Android Auto/CarPlay? I use AA all the time now.
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That's the point, I dont think, in my search example, a full stack developer with an MS and 5 years experience is going to be making ~90-127k 25th-75th percentile. Sounds like he'd be getting ripped off.
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A Harvard MBA once told me that going from zero to ten is a 1000% increase. I was not impressed.

Also, George W Bush.
With cloud providers it's likely a "bad" IP will eventually get re-assigned to a "good" customer whom you don't want to block. That's why an exponentially increasing ban is generally a good idea, I think. The more abuse you get from a given IP address the longer you ban it each time. If it's use for a one-time attack and thrown away, you forgive it relatively quickly.
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C-h t (ctrl+h then t). This will bring you to the emacs tutorial. It's similar to vimtutor but covers primary emacs usage.
That would be a double whammy since debtors have diminished political influence/lobbying power even with the vote.
No, what he is complaining about is the fact that a solar install is a durable good--it has a lifetime and must be amortized.

If the install is cheap crap and only lasts 5 years when you need 10 to amortize it, that's a problem. If the cheap crap drives good manufacturers out of business, that's even worse since now you can't recover once you discover it.
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Wow what a great idea, if you could interact with jupyter in tandem it might actually lead to more powerful data exploration.
Hey, they're not United, which:

- Breaks Guitars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

- Killed the World's Largest Rabbit: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/united-airlines...

- Forcibly Disembarks Doctors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMTpvzJp4ps

Delta's still shitty with their pricing, but they're clearly the lesser of those two evils.
I believe it's common for malware to beacon out with a similar method.
Yes.

As Charlie Munger says: "Never think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives."
> rational producer

With perfect information.

snort
That doesn't make it not true. It's very possible (and seems likely to me) that each generation has been more coddled than the previous in recent memory.
Not sure why you've been downvoted, doesn't seem very nice considering most of us are stuck behind the paywall for this article.

Thanks.
they probably just went in for the government subsidies
3.1.1 is well tested. Everyone should upgrade. If you find regressions they'll be my highest priority.
Solar panels are a semiconductor technology, and as such follow Moore's Law, and have been for decades.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/smaller-chea...
"But even software ARX gets into trouble when protection against power or electromagnetic analysis is a threat." - I still don't get this. If attackers have physical access to your machine, you should consider it compromised. Switching from SHA2 to SHA3 is irrelevant.
What if a consumer can't afford it?
You know what would be cool? Piping these sessions to a web frontend and letting people watch these attempts in real time (or recorded) using a JS terminal emulator to display it all.

I would sit there and watch that.
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In the US at least, a huge fraction of costs for residential solar are in customer acquisition. Something like 20%-30% of the cost of a residential install goes to paying for lists of potential customers and marketing to them! This makes US residential solar much more expensive than in many other countries.

After that cost is reduced, there may be room for innovation in reducing install costs by bundling solar with roof replacement, or something similar.

I'm not so sure that transmission losses themselves are a huge win, since only about 5% of power goes to transmission and distribution.

However, if storage + solar allows the utilities to avoid transmission and distribution capital upgrades, that's a much larger chunk of the cost of electricity, about 36% according to the latest numbers and rising every year.
I've been involved in meta cognition research, but I am confused by the distinction being raised between consciousness and meta consciousness, as 'conciousness' seems to reduce to 'interact', as in particle A hits particle B, and so reduced seems to have no meaning.
Doesn't OWS distribute free-software-licensed APKs? Does F-Droid have a policy of not accepting things that aren't uploaded by the original authors, or something?
Google, Bing, Yahoo data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work
Hey, I mentor 4 juniors at the moment and am happy to help via emails and Google Hangouts, my email is in my profile, reach out if you need some direction / help
Many/most of the "data science" posts on StackOverflow are actually "data engineer" or "machine learning engineer" positions.
Even if so, installation costs are minor when solar is included in the initial construction of the house. So I expect a much bigger emphasis on that soon...
I am not an npm user. I do use pip and I do use maven so I get the idea.

There is way too much whitespace on the front page, there ought to be some signaling about what the user will get if he searches, also some saved example searches that work, unlike the search for "rules" that wound up, after a long grinding giving the message:

"InstallError Installing the packaged failed."

+1 for having visual indication that something is happening while you wait.
thats already the case where companies dont offer insurance.
6% isn't really a non decline, it just isn't a huge decline.

The major component of residential cost is non-labor soft costs. The NREL pdf is easier to read (https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf) and lists them: permitting, inspection, and interconnection, land acquisition, sales tax, overhead and profit.

According to their modeling, it's mostly profit, overhead and sales and marketing costs.
Over-producing isn't a thing in a pure free market, but it's absolutely a thing when government subsidies get involved.
Inflation-adjusted residential costs according to nrel.gov are shown in the chart on page vi of https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf

The raw costs, not adjusted for inflation:

Q1 2014: $4.52/W total for $1.03/W modules [0]

Q1 2015: $3.09/Wdc total for $0.70/Wdc modules [1]

Q1 2016: $2.93/Wdc total for $0.63/Wdc modules [2]

Q1 2017: $2.80/Wdc total for $0.35/Wdc modules [3]

Conclusion: Even if the modules cost $0.0000001, the total price could not fall much more unless the rest of the business model gets updated. Probably some solar installer companies will drop out of the market, and the survivors will adapt to lower profits.

[0] Page 12, https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/60401.pdf

[1] 5.2kW system. See page 7, https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy15osti/64746.pdf

[2] 5.6kW system. See page 16, https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy16osti/66532.pdf

[3] 5.7kW system. See page 21, https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy17osti/68925.pdf
In 1950, Alan Turing published a rough, operational definition of "intelligence" (http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html). In 1980, John Searle published a reply (http://web.archive.org/web/20071210043312/http://members.aol...), arguing that Turing's operational definition of "intelligence" fails; it does not capture the important properties of "intelligence".

An interesting property of Searle's argument is that, if true, it means that the "strong AI" program is worthless; no discrete system that involves following rules (including neural networks and statistical models) can really "understand" anything.

The reason this came to mind is that Searle includes a large section addressing most (possibly all) of the responses to his argument by counter-counter-arguments. The SEP (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/) has a lovely discussion of the problem and responses since 1980, which seems to fulfil your desire for a "concise summary of what exactly is the current state of art answer". (Unfortunately, that isn't the case in general; the SEP page on Zhuangzi (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zhuangzi/) simply presents one approach, although it's one I haven't seen anywhere else.)

Unfortunately, while Searle presents counter-refutations to the refutations of his argument, and others since have added more and deeper levels of refutations, none have, to my knowledge, been universally acknowledged as prevailing. I personally don't buy Searle's argument (if you accept it, and especially his response to the "systems response", you will have to admit that no one understands Chinese), but that's neither here nor there; others do, and others find failures in his argument that I think are silly.

This is the case with most all philosophy. The only way for a philosophical point to be incorrect is for it to be logically inconsistent with other parts of the same argument, and that is almost never the case in any real arena. A similar sort of situation holds occasionally over in mathematics, say, where Euclid's fifth axiom was argued over for most of 2000 years; eventually it was discovered that you can invert it and produce a similar system that is intuitively inobvious, but logically consistent (and useful). Likewise, which philosophical points you accept depends entirely on what axioms you start with (and unfortunately, philosophical axioms are harder to pin down than geometry's).

My bottom line is that the historical discussion is the point of philosophy. Understanding complex arguments, even if they aren't "true" or if you don't agree with them, is considerably more than worthless.
This comes off to me as an insult directed at the Chinese president.
I've been a loyal toyota buyer for over 30 years. But I will not buy another car, unless it has first class CarPlay support. (and it should support the android equivalent as well) Having to interact with the phone while driving is a safety problem and Apple (and presumably android too) delivered a great solution several years ago-- no excuse for not implementing it.

Especially given that auto makers really suck at this kind of software. My car has navigation and all the bells and whistles (was not a choice when buying) and I ONLY use it as a bluetooth audio receiver, effectively. IT's just terrible for everything else.

I'm drawing a line in the sand here. I will buy a 10 year old used something if I have to and put in an aftermarket CarPlay system. (They're also making it harder to put in aftermarket systems..... ok you going to do that, then you better make yours first class.)

I love that with my current toyota when I get in my phone hooks back up and starts playing music, but I hate having to use the phone screen for navigation and the like, since there are no good auto mounts I can find. [1]

[1] I have a vent based magnetic one. The magnetic attachment is great, but the vent vanes swing back and forth and its never been quite satisfying... right now if I turn at the right speed the phone swings over and turns off the radio by hitting its button. annoying.
Not much. Negociation of prices with government and pharma companies, maybe.
Health insurance in general doesn't make sense. Insurance is supposed to be for random catastrophic events, not regular things like checkups. Car insurance doesn't pay for oil changes, the concept of health insurance doesn't make sense.

That's the same reason I don't really agree with forcing companies to cover pre-existing conditions. That's like calling up a car insurance company after totaling your car and expecting them to cover it. It's no longer insurance at that point.

The entire system needs to be remade.
Ditto for onsite free lunches.
>> Less sex

When I was in high school, I had no idea of what STDs looked like. We learned about it in sex-ed but none of us knew tangibly. There were rumors it was like the flu. Now, google "Genital Warts" and you get an up close view in no time. That alone drives far more caution than what I exercised 25yrs ago.
Those aggregators linking to the article could be counted as a "super vote"
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> - Were you born in America or has your employer held your pay down because you have a green card?

This might be true for H1-B holders, but a green card gives you the same freedom to leave and join employers as a citizen.

> - How many times have you changed jobs (each time probably leads to a $15k bump or more!)

I don't know about what goes on in the startup world, but at the big-name tech companies you typically get a stock grant vesting over four years every year, meaning your compensation will not top out until at least four years into the job, so switching jobs frequently can actually dramatically cut your compensation, by a factor of two or more.
It's a problem when market prices drop below the cost of manufacture. That can lead to a financial collapse for individual producers, lack of investment in maintaining capacity and a lack of investment in new technology and manufacturing processes. That can lead to sudden reductions in supply and unpredictable price surges which make it very difficult to control the costs of long term projects.

Extreme price swing for panels aren't guaranteeed to happen, it depends on how governments respond in financial support for producers and changes to subsidies, but that's just shifting the costs of all of this on to tax payers.
In the global race for valid metaphors for quantum theory, I thought this was a pretty good one, thank you.
> why it took them this long

There is no direct business value in banning users from your platform. In fact, doing so is a short-term net negative.

This is also why Twitter was so slow to ban bots: you gain a fraction of satisfaction for your users that interact with annoying bots, at the cost of dwindling user numbers.

> suspending accounts that are politically opposing to their worldview

Because highly visible users of their platform (verified celebrities) started DMing the CEO and threatened to leave if bullies were not dealt with. Creating a safe space for the social elite is very much adding business value to Twitter and makes investors happy.

I think Twitter just awaited the US government reaction, and took as long as the law / future business prospects allowed them. That Twitter propaganda has become a major problem for the intelligence agencies and anti-terrorism units is evident. It takes a long time to properly deal with these problems, just like Twitter will probably take years to combat astro-turfing bots meddling with a foreign election (which seems to me, the logical next step in the evolution of mass automatic banning of problematic accounts).
FANTASTIC! Wish I could have accessed to something like this in my undergraduate journey
There's strong correlations as well. Less working likely means less money. Less money means less alcohol. Less alcohol means less sex.
I'm a happy Prius owner, but I bought mine before CarPlay existed. I'm not sure I would buy another Prius to replace my current one, primarily because of the lack of CarPlay and Android Auto.

The Entune interface just isn't very good, and it's not going to get better. This isn't unique to Toyota -- no matter how good the system in your car is, it will seem very outdated after 5 years. In contrast, CarPlay and Android auto are great now and will improve with software updates over time.
What?! Surely this can't be possible. We already have an Affordable Care Act...
So from 16 to 17, the total cost aside from modules went up?
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You nailed it. When I started my own consulting business I just about fell out of my chair when my accountant said I couldn’t write off my health coverage. I pay about $19K a year and that’s after taxes so more like $25K+.
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So, good preparation for how interviews work, then?
Thanks for the book! I really like your style and I think this is another great resource I'll get a lot out of.

One of my concerns about .NET core is it seems that there are a handful of ways to do things compared to Java. But I'm starting to like the fact that there are fewer options that work really well. Plus there are things like LINQ that I haven't seen used much elsewhere that blow my mind.
Is apropos really code completion? It is neither using static nor dynamic type information, it is just using a local and/or global namespace. It is horrible for the browsing that code completion is mostly used for.

If I remember correctly, clos had a strange naming connection that included the type in the symbol name. I guess that would make apropos sufficient, right?
> when was the last time you USED View Source on something done in JS and actually used on a production site

I don't disagree with most of your post but I am confused why you brought this up as a point of contention. Viewing source is pretty common?
The discussion in your first link is interesting. Smaller installers can end up having lower costs because they spend less on customer acquisition. They pay somewhat higher prices for material, but plummeting panel costs and not holding panels in inventory have worked out well for them.
Entanglement is more than the coin thing, and less than the FTL thing. Which can make it pretty frustrating to explain, because people just keep oscillating between "Oh, then it has instantaneous observable effects?" and "Oh, then it's just agreeing on a value ahead of time?" instead of stopping at the right point.
> So ... they're both more sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec. And less sophisticated than you think when it comes to opsec.

A lot of their recruits are people in their 20s or even teens from various countries including western ones. They are basically regular users that try to learn opsec as they do. And the youth from most muslim countries also use smartphones and most of the services we use too.

ISIS used to be more sophisticated in terms of opsec when their officers were mostly former officers from Saddam but since then it feels like either the drone strikes managed to decapitate their hierarchy or that there were internal purges to promote the truly ideologically crazies.

Also, when an operation is said to have succeed thanks to opsec, always remember that it can be a way to cover an internal humint source.
There's an Air Argentina flight ( ARG1326 ) that's departed EZE and is scheduled to get to Punta Cana DR at 5am or so.

Talk about a bold move.
Yup, for that reasons you still write letter with pen and paper, and print out photos when you want to show them to someone who doesn't live in the same city as you do.

There's clearly no value in sharing digital photographs, videos and links with other people with ability to get feedback from them.

By extension, there's no need for HN, right?