skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Further, the tariff applies to all imported cells, not just those originating in mainland China, which is odd if this just to counter unfair advantages that Chinese manufacturers get.

If the tariff were just to target China, China would just route the shipments through other countries to get around the tariffs.

The upside to this news is that the tariff expires after 4 years according to http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/370171-trump-im... while the Bloomberg article implies it will stick at 15 percent until someone cancels it.
Without being too crude, a female professional athlete probably has some physical attributes that help out during something like a routine speeding stop.
And this happens shortly after SolarCity errr Tesla gets their "Gigafactory 2" in Buffalo, NY up and operational.

https://electrek.co/2018/01/09/tesla-solar-roof-tile-install...

This isn't necessarily great for the solar industry, but this is great for Tesla!
This makes sense, thanks for the explanation. The unfortunate thing is that setting up a local HTTP server is easy, while proper authentication takes more work. Based on the nature of their fix, it seems Blizzard doesn't really want to expend effort on proper authentication. I wonder if browsers could send a special HTTP header indicating the host that initiated the request?
> But what if sitting in a cubicle inverting binary trees all day, mostly in isolation, doesn't appeal to others, and maybe those other are more likely to be women.

It is hard to buy this as the cause when we've seen the percentage of women grow and shrink dramatically over time. Is this work lifestyle so different from software engineering in the 80s when representation in cs programs was far better?
This analogy is great, thanks.
Of course. That's the same non-cynical answer to the question "Why would TSMC sell the hardware instead of mine with it?"
If you couldn't, vocabulary would be impossible.
"get out of jail" would make more sense. Jailing can happen to be questionable, speeding or running a red light can't, it's simple and forbidden for a serious yet easy to understand and hard to argue reason.
True. Monolingualism is neither necessary nor sufficient, but it is not nothing. It is still a unifying force.
Because it destroys the local industry which you will need at some point.

As simple example: the British supported the German chemicals industry prior to WWI.

At the start of WWI, the money the British spent had been turned into German chemical expertise. This lead to the development of the Haber process, poison gas, and generally making Germany a powerhouse in chemicals in the same way Britain was in mechanical manufacturing.

If a tariff had been put in place on German imports to Britain the German chemical industry would have been much smaller, with much less capability and WWI would have finished in 6 months because Germany would have run out of nitric acid for their explosives.
Protectionist politicians have always had an answer.

* Manufacturing them at home is better for local workers and provides a straightforward path for dispaced workers from other plant work.

* Trying to compete on even terms with what is essentially slave labor overseas drags us all down.

* There is value in economic independence, especially when you're importing from a fairweather ally. You don't want to wipe out a local industry that you might need to lean on someday.

The reasons for having tarriffs are apparently obvious to everyone except economists.
Best part is he's trying to protect solar manufacturing plants, which are largely automated and only employ a few highly-skilled people, while harming installers, which need hundreds of thousands of working-class lower-skill manual laborers to install on roofs.

Congratulations white-working-class Trump base, you played yourself.
> We have hyper-concentration of wealth now. Yet there are new entrants entering billionaire class every year.

Your proof? Most of the 'new entrants' actually have quite a wealth of already accrued money. For example, Jeff Bezos had a loan from their parents for 300k, which is equivalent to for 15 people's yearly salary
Apple appears to have sold out to the China government and at least Google chose instead to leave.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/10/technology/apple-china-iclou...
Apple: iCloud in China will be run by a state-owned company - Jan ...
The PHYs aren't even on the same board for them; it's just SERDES going to a connector.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_tr...
Add some demo apps
Oh yeah, I know. I was just theorizing about another way to defeat the camera.

On the subject of the ring doorbell, we have one, and the most annoying part is that after 30 seconds of recording, it stops until another motion event triggers it. I have several recordings of people knocking at my door, but the recording cuts off before they leave.
Because having large datasets allows me to merge the data with proprietary sets, or increase my own predictive models.

I have real estate models, Energy Trading models, cryptocurrency models, mechanical failure predictive models, insurance models, sentiment models and clustering models

Everything is monetised
I mean what I really want is the ability to have my phone just be native Linux/GNU with android in a container. Ideally I'd like to be able to have 2 androids in a container so I've for somewhere to dump work apps and other invasiveness.
If kids play with native kids, if they go to daycare and school, they will pick up the native accent from other kids.
“+The Secret of Fast Programming: Stop Thinking
> Permanently hiring someone (and emphasis on the permanent, firing someone on a CDI contract is extremely costly, far easier just to leave someone without work but still pay them until they quit) is so expensive that almost all new jobs (~85% actually) are for temporary contracts limited by law to 12 months. 65% are for <1 month contracts.
Think about it: 2 in every 3 people who get a job offer in France this week will be unemployed in a month.

You are twisting the statistics. Of course you don't sign permanent contracts as much as temporary contracts: you sign one and you keep it for 3, 5, 10, 20 years.

The fact is that 80 to 90% of employees have a permanent contract. It is just that the small pool of employees with temporary contracts generate a huge number of contract because, well, they are temporary. And the very short temporary contracts will generate an even bigger number of contracts that longer temporary contracts.

Also, the limit for a temporary contract is not 12 months. In the general case, it is 18 months (there are cases where it is 9 months, and others were it is 36 months).

> An employee in France making the country's average wage costs the employer (in absolute terms) almost the same than an employee in Switzerland making that country's average income (which in PPP is higher than France's).

No way.

Average wage in France is 2300 € net / month, which is 3000 € gross, which costs the employer around 4000 €.

Average income in Switzerland is over 5500 € gross / month. I won't even bother to calculate the employer's cost to give an employee such income, because the figure is already way higher than the French one.
>Check context, and restrict access

But then why do you need the blacklist?

I refer to this post by vec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16208419

If you think you need a blacklist you should probably be using a whitelist. If your problem can't be solved with a whitelist then it's probably better solved in a way that doesn't involve a blacklist or a whitelist.
A profile of the Sackler family:

https://forward.com/fast-forward/385375/the-jewish-family-ma...
> that is it's more important to first have stuff work and then make it look appealing or making it usable by non-technical users.

Exactly! With that being said, contributions from UX people are welcome of course.
Bitcoin ASICs are literally "Bitcoin Processing Units".
> Which cause is first and which effect second?

The nature of a positive feedback loop is that it doesn't matter much in practice; it is a never-ending cycle where each step leads back to what preceded it.
So they are like the saloon owners of the gold rush - huge profits made off of short term insanity of the masses.
Someone made a violin out of a laptop – and it sounds just lovely
The article ends rather abruptly.

Is CRISPR really seen as a realistic cancer cure, or a significant component of one?
Having those US solar manufacturing plants buy materials in the US and machinery made in the US creates more US jobs.
> If the Chinese Government and its citizens want to subsidize clean energy production in Europe by selling us subsidized solar panels why should we say no?

Because European know-how and industry, and thus competitive advantage, gets lost. I don't want a dictatorship like China having the massive amount of leverage it already has. China has brought European solar, steel and electronics production to its knees by a combination of slavery-backed price dumping, industrial espionage, knowledge-transfer extortions (aka "to do business in China you have to find a local partner and work with them") and outright buying of the shells of doomed European companies.

Especially the stranglehold China has over the West when it comes to electronics will bite the West more sooner than later.

By the way, China is doing a similar thing to Africa: with all the money the West gave to them for cheap electronics they're building (and thus taking operational control) rail and road infrastructure.

From Chinese perspective it's the perfect ultra long game... the rest of the world is in for a massive shock once they run afoul of Chinese goals wherever and whenever that might be.
Hulu has started offering this as well -- HBO, in particular, doesn't really care about the streaming platform per se so much as making the content available. I think this is likely to be a path that others will take to take advantage of the fact that consumers may have a preference, and HBO would prefer to offer a nice standalone app, but perfectly happy to let customers choose Amazon/Hulu etc., for customers who prefer a different or integrated experience.
Stick is usually cheaper when you're looking at minimizing the on-paper spending of the federal budget.
I remember we used to apply every semester until we gave up years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2426118

Now our company has become pretty successful without taking any VC. David Heinemeier Hansson (one of our advisors btw) at least is pretty proud :)
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Particle accelerators have a direct benefit. Miners, IMHO, do not provide direct benefits, only indirect ones.
My only fear: soon there will be no BitTorrent seeders left.
Answer:

The service should check that the `Host` header on every request specifies `localhost`, `127.0.0.1`, or whatever other name is normally used to access it. If the `Host` header specifies a possibly-attacker-controlled name, the service should reject the request.

Explanation:

The problem is that the service is relying on same-origin policy to prevent a web site running in a local browser from making requests to it -- but it does not actually check what origin requests are addressed to. A random web site running in a browser normally cannot make requests to a hostname other than its own. Or, more precisely, it can make requests, but it can't read the responses. The Blizzard updater therefore forces the client to make an initial request whose response contains a secret token, and then subsequent requests contain that token, proving that the client was able to read the response and is therefore not a web site running in a browser.

However, it's perfectly possible to define an evil hostname whose DNS records assign it the IP address 127.0.0.1. Thus requests to this evil hostname would end up reaching the local Blizzard updater service. Unfortunately, the service will happily respond to these requests because it does not pay attention to what hostname the client was requesting.

(To actually exploit this, it's necessary to load an evil web site from the evil host name, which then performs the attack. This means that the evil hostname can't only map to 127.0.0.1, but must also map to the attack server. But a hostname can indeed have multiple DNS records, and the browser will arbitrarily switch between them, allowing an attack to proceed.)
A better title would be "An optical sensor which makes a laptop into a bowed musical instrument".

Nevertheless - a lovely performance on a rather unorthodox instrument!
The 51% bit had to do with ‘not needing trust’, not the anonymity.
Was skeptical at first, but this makes a lot of sense. If you've ever done any significant amount of media encoding or transcoding, this should at least get a solid head nod.
More jobs for robots.

Do you know how few jobs a solar panel factory produces? It's on the order of a few thousand.

If you want a LOT more jobs, you need to make sure solar panels are as cheap as possible in order for more to be installed, which is where the labor costs will be.

If China can make cheaper solar panels, LET THEM.
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I think part of the definition blacklist and whitelist is being a list.
Yep, a better approach would have been to enforce a labelling standard for the efficiency of the panels, furthering the cause of commodifying them. Then when the dumpers finally jack up the price (their long term strategy), people just switch suppliers.

I don't think Trump would have went for that solution tho, since he wants to kill EnergyStar: http://e360.yale.edu/features/killing-energy-star-a-popular-...
It doesn't matter because there's no incentive for companies that raise to do this. Dumb money is easy to raise, why try to fight for smart money?

In other words, you could come up with this really complicated scheme to verify trust with your ICO in order to win over savvy investors. Or you could just hack together a buggy, insecure ICO in a few weeks and get flooded with retail investors clamoring to get their dumb money into any crypto they can lay their hands on. Barely computer literate friends and relatives have asked me recently how they could get into crypto. There's virtually an army of these woefully uninformed "investors" to get money from in an ICO. Why the heck would anyone lose months (at a minimum) of development time to build some trust that nobody cares about anyway?
PoW will go away. Noone will entrust their wealth to miners. There are plenty of other ways to achieve consensus and coins are moving away from PoW.

But we are still not done with the Bitcoin bubble.
Curious why it is ridiculous to sugest that you can just type bing.com instead of google.com?

It is two characters less? Not saying it is or is not but more curious the rational for your thinking?

It is not like Google blocks MS as far as I am aware from crawling their properties and YouTube search on Bing is excellent.
Those people didn't invent those definitions...
That used to be the case for Steam if you could get your game in, but the impression I’ve heard more recently is that it’s become more of a dumpster fire of unfinished shovelware. Throw something together from unity asset store pieces, call it early access, and see how many suckers you can get.

There are occasional breakout hits, but discoverability for indie titles is minimal. Plus their revenue cut is (maybe not confirmed, but widely speculated to be) the same as Apple’s 30%.
In the state of Georgia it's actually illegal to wear a mask in public/on private property without permission. I think they consider it a security concern, which makes sense in some situations. But really sucks for trying to not spread sickness. On the plus side, I've noticed a lot of doctor's waiting rooms have a sign saying you can ask for a mask if you have XYZ symptoms. But I wish it was common at work, too. For the same reason I wish handshakes weren't so common in business. I'm pretty sure I know the exact moment the flu was passed to me this year.

"(a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor when he wears a mask, hood, or device by which any portion of the face is so hidden, concealed, or covered as to conceal the identity of the wearer and is upon any public way or public property or upon the private property of another without the written permission of the owner or occupier of the property to do so."[1]

[1] https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-16/chapter-1...
invoke-webrequest has a "native" short alias too: iwr. I like these native aliases because they use a consistent pattern of abbreviations for verbs and nouns, e.g., the same "i" for invoke is used in icm = invoke-command, iex = invoke-expression, ihy = invoke-history, etc.; then if you look at the nouns in one of those others (since invoke-webrequest is the only "webrequest" cmdlet), they're also consistent, e.g., gcm = get-command, shcm = show-command, trcm = trace-command.
The thing that bothers me is how long it takes for content to come to Netflix. For example, in NZ, I still don't have access to season 2 of The Expanse. Remind me again why I'm paying monthly for this service!?
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Also, how much of it is in fees collected and stored as cryptos themselves? If crypto takes a dive, does their revenue retroactively lose value?
The Untold Story of How Massive Success Made GoPro’s CEO Lose His Way
How could this affect US solar prices/watt over the next 10 years or so? People seem to be taking a "this could be good in the long run" approach but there seems to be evidence that we don't have a "long run" to tackle climate change [1]. We seem to be playing chicken with a freight train and hoping that the economics will allow us to survive (because capitalism is more important than survival, essentially).

I'm not saying this is a bad move necessarily (I'm not entirely against protecting domestic industry to some extent), I'm just wondering if we were able to muster the collective will to take climate change seriously and do more than just let the market do its thing and hope for the best, how seriously could this affect the total cost? If we were to need to install 500GW of solar power over the next 5-10 years, would this dramatically increase the cost of that effort? Is it remotely possible that domestic production could accommodate a massive public push for solar?
You could probably keep the vpn and incrementally move services "out", starting with low-hanging fruit (few dependencies) and/or popular ones (eg: (Web)mail). Basically low cost/high benefit trade-off.

At some point you'll have a few dinosaurs on the vpn, and can take those services quietly out back and retire them permanently.
That makes them a traitor cop, with the same (well-documented) negative effects on their career as to cops who report on corruption in their department, cops who enforce laws against other cops, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence
The hilarious thing is this is going to drive people back to engaging in piracy on various levels (i.e. ripping streaming shows for personal use and/or organized piracy groups).

The main reason for piracy's decline is $20/month for a couple streaming services is less hassle for most people in the 1st world. They are restoring the incentives that led to its rise. Its quite hilarious.

I mean if eztv hadn't been taken over I'd be going to them right now because I'm tired of the balkanization of streaming services now that even Hulu is getting knifed in the back like Netflix is. As the knives come out and the backstabbing continues because "its worth money", people will be pushed back into doing that.
...Montana will vote Republican...

It's almost as if this issue has no obvious link to simplistic partisanship, but rather is a pretty good measure of official corruption.
It's really a boom and bust. As Netflix's 3rd party library continue to be siphoned off more people will turn to piracy because they're not going to subscribe to n different services.
I agree the audience is currently small, but I don't agree it is getting smaller. People rediscover eras and genres.

The good part for Netflix vs Blockbuster is that this is a one-time cost and it will be digitized forever. You don't have to market it to a mass audience or attempt to determine the number of VHSs you'd have to create. I don't think they need to market it at all. Just do it. Surely it is only a fraction of the cost of having Will Smith in a Police-Alien movie and it'll boost your catalog.
Netflix is focused on original content. Their interface is designed to emphasize it as well as licensed movies and TV they think you’ll like. If your home screen is like mine, they barely have room to recommend licensed B-content anymore. It’s not my favorite way to display information, but they manage to display enough interesting material I haven’t seen yet to get me to choose one. Anything beyond that isn’t actually beneficial to me and I suspect I’d be in a minority of users if I refused to watch a good show in my recommended items because I didn’t see 30 recommended good shows.
i mean this doesn't strike me as any worse than AU or eV or any other unit rescaled for convenience in some particular domain.

if they try to claim patent or trademark that's obviously a problem, but otherwise is this so terrible?
Do you have more info about that hypothesis? I always thought that the usual explanation was simply that people are inside buildings and cars (and thus around other people) more often when it is colder outside.
Do you see people printing banknotes out of feathers or some other randomly expensive material? No, and similarly mining bitcoin is some randomly expensive process. The process of securing a "coin" can be done very cheaply with minimal computing cost and the world will shift to that.
Why is it great for Tesla? Is the GF2 actually building solar panels? I thought SolarCity was buying them from Asia like everyone else?
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This isn't a hypothetical, incidentally; the US has caught Chinese goods being routed through other countries and mislabelled as to its origin in order to avoid similar tariffs before now.
They had ~110 million subscribers as of Q3 2017

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/NFLX/4303980673x0x959...
There was no picket line to not honor. I was in the backoffice IT department as a Unix admin, they were on the plane. My "union" of IT workers did not strike, and I didn't fly during that time, so there was literally no demonstration of my opinion. Perhaps you misunderstood my comment?
While this is possibly true, this is also the most wishful of interpretations for the Trump administrations actions. It's much simpler and more likely to interpret the action as anti-solar & renewable, and pro fossil fuel.

Unless it's also backed up with added incentives to manufacture solar in country. I predict that won't happen, and even if it did new plants of any significance would be 5-10 years out and in the meantime all we've done is shot ourselves in the foot.
UDP for IPC seems to be especially crazy to me. I mean sending data over TCP to localhost is basically a memcpy(), what advantages could UDP possibly have in that context?
pedantic, but I don't like this application of the term "isomorphic"
Disney owns Hulu FYI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu#Business_history
“Tomorrow: Housing” 1945 US Army Signal Corps
Anything can have "value" if someone is willing to pay for it. The US dollar is just a piece of paper if nobody is willing to exchange anything for it. Cryptocurrency has value because some speculator is willing to pay for it because they think it'll be worth more in the future.
Bitcoin won't be the crypto
payment method. It'll
be the Crypto gold that keeps the market together. Another small and light coin will
be the payment method and possibly replace bitcoin after a while.