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Probably not. Trump didn't put these tariffs in place, he renewed tariffs Obama had put in place. I think those tariffs are more about protecting American manufacturing.
I'm amazed that anyone would choose Snickers if they were hungry. It's just sugar -- eat a snickers bar and you'll be hungry again in 20 minutes. Is this not common knowledge?

I myself would only buy a Snickers if I was having a stressful day and needed something to make myself feel better.
I am not convinced air-gap is even a good idea for PLC networks. More and more these systems are developed by consultants and OEMs. Who then need to service and troubleshoot them. I work for an OEM with this problem and it plagues me all the time. "Sorry, I can not fix your issue without access and I am not flying someone down for this."

This business reality is going to get worse as time goes on. Companies would be receptive to change if people at the executive level were educated first. The carrot being more cost effective system development.
All of the above is true. But coal is also alive because of the way the EPA was politically forced into classifying coal ash as solid waste as opposed to toxic. This has amplified the negative affects of coal residuals a hundred fold. It has also made it increasingly difficult to regulate as well as made it easier for state and local politicians to defend. This started decades ago

The epa provides guidelines on coal ash storage but does not have the power to enforce them. This power falls to the local level and is expected to be enforced via citizen lawsuits. Some state politicians are working hard to prevent even this.

http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/politics-co...

This is directly a result of lobbyists and campaign contributions.
While jq is definitely faster, for more complex tasks I love using ramda-cli [1]. It has all the functions from the excellent Ramda [2] AND you can use LiveScript's [3] terser syntax (and pipes!).

Here's a quick command to output a list of recent files on Linux:

xml2json < ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel | ramda '.xbel.bookmark |> pluck \href |> map replace /file:\/\//, ""' -o raw

1. https://github.com/raine/ramda-cli
2. http://ramdajs.com/
3. http://livescript.net/
How China Spied on the African Union’s Computers
Show HN: Take real-time notes on conference calls with AI
> I would think that the orgs / people holding Tether would be the ones to suffer the most, not the holders of BTC

They will suffer, but the ~$2.4B in tether value is tiny compared to the value of BTC that it's been driving/propping up.

If tether dies BTC would only have to drop about 1% to take another $2B off the table. If it drops 10, 20, or 50% there will be blood.

> > Julian Hosp, co-founder of cryptocurrency payment service TenX, has listed tether as one of four big risks, with a 10 per cent likelihood of a crash this year which could pull the market down by 15 per cent.
So, 10% chance that Tether is a scam, and if so, it would hurt BTC (and probably other coins too) by 15%. That seems much more realistic to me.

I'm not sure that I'd take the word of a crypto insider as gospel on the chances of a Tether crash... Unless he's seen the bank statements with the $2.4B USD in them, he doesn't have any authority there.
ARM already did.

https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

The Meltdown/Spectre class of attacks affect certain CPUs. Spectre is a microarchitectural attack on any CPU that does speculation and uses data caches, regardless of architecture.

Arguably, it has been handling Meltdown and Spectre in a much much more humble and transparent way. See https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update/compiler-s... for work they are doing with the compiler communities to address the Variant 1 both on current and future chips.
Bitfinex is Tether, they are basically the same company. I wouldn’t worry about them getting screwed on this one, they are the ones doing the screwing.

Most exchanges shouldn’t be holding Tether because the exchange itself isn’t supposed to be on the other side of the trade. Every time you buy BTC with Tether you are buying it from someone else. So someone is holding Tether, and when they realize it’s not real money they will start dumping it.
I've never heard this before. Based on my (relatively limited) experience with JavaScript, they don't seem alike at all.
Sure, the term might not be the most appropriate one, but if we are talking about choosing the most effective use of capital to create energy, and one method has negative externalities that are shared by the whole world but are not taxed, and one method does not, then it's much harder for solar to be an attractive option. The market is skewed.
Apparently Dell has $50B debt, maybe a large chunk was cash? Unless that's private buyout debt I guess.
"He encourages us to assume that progress is fragile, is not automatically improving and that we need to be active in defending our freedoms, our progress and the things we take for granted."

But would Pinker or Bill Gates disagree with that statement? I don't think so. Bill Gates is devoting his fortune to doing so, and is doing so very effectively.

And even if Pinker is wrong, I believe his message is much more likely to get people to defend freedoms and advance progress than Gray's would be: it's much easier to act if you believe that your actions will be effective.
I don't understand why the type of bint was chosen, and what impact, exactly, does it have on the usability of the network.

Or, asked differently: Given some task that you want to train your network for, how do you decide which type you should choose?
There are explanations and reasons for everything, but it doesn't matter much if you are disappointed with your experience and want to sell. It seems to me you have run out of patience / have lost your faith that IOTA will ever get where they want to get.

To be honest, I don't think anybody's personal user experience has been much of a concern to the IOTA project up until now. The new wallets might change that, so you might want to hold on to your coins until then.

They promise to solve all of the issues that you mention:
- Automatic node selection rather than the limited amount of nodes currently listed in the wallet software.
- Automatic re-attaching and promoting transactions.
- Address re-use detection.

Automatic and distributed snapshotting of the network is also on the roadmap, this would address your zero balance issue.

But like I said, if you have run out of patience and you have your eyes on other projects that do deliver what you are looking for, then by all means...
Relevant: Programming Languages as Operating Systems

https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/icfp99-ffkf.pdf
I think we're just in a bull market so people ignore bad news
I agree this policy is terrible but the specific situation you describe appears to be covered according to the article.

> A list of codes from Missouri is significantly longer, with more than 1,900 diagnostic codes that could indicate non-emergency visits. The list includes multiple types of “unspecified injuries” and “chest pain on breathing.” When asked about the Missouri list, an Anthem spokesperson said the latter diagnostic code regarding chest pain has since been removed from the list, which has been updated and revised.
Arm Accelerates Its AI Efforts
I think a general purpose UX should err on the side of "make it difficult for non-technical users to make mistakes"

Renaming/Deleting files in use is one of those things that us nerds like to complain about, but it makes sense when you think of an accountant that has an open spreadsheet and accidentally deletes a folder with that file. For average non-technical people (on any OS) I would say it makes sense to block that file from being deleted.
Hah, at least they didn't have an anti-VM plugin (yes, there's such a thing) that forces you to install a dozen "security plugins" onto your host OS.
His books are an expanded version of his TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_viole...
> Completely side topic question - are there any studies on how much surface of the planet would need to be covered with solar to make a measurable impact on absorbing and/or reflecting enough sunlight to affect some cooling?

I don't think solar will have any impact here. The whole point is to absorb the light (and energy), not to reflect it. That's one of the reasons solar panels appear black, not white: they're absorbing light.

If the alternative is coal, solar energy will warm the planet less, but it's not going to actively cool the planet the way you're describing.
The High-Tech Poorhouse
I wasn't thinking about another data storage system but more about what core abstractions should be provided by an OS?

For example, could the Erlang model be an OS? Say the OS provides a namespace for a constellation of communicating processes. You still have freedom to implement various languages and configuration systems but you submit your code to a process rather than store it in a 'file system'. Storage is accessed via a process and can be switched out with another process with a different implementation, etc.
Microcode is not reviewed by anyone outside of Intel.
Call the negative externality costs whatever you like, but the coal industry doesn't pay it, which makes it seem cheap compared to solar. Which is why this article is news.
Subsidy just implies that someone other than the coal industry is paying for a cost that the industry imposes.

The only time the term subsidy didn't make sense was when we didn't know that these externalities existed. But the moment the costs were clear, not assessing them on the coal industry became a subsidy.
CoreRT – .NET Core runtime optimized for AOT compilation
You're talking about the Lightning network which is not bitcoin. It's some other thing entirely, which happens to be built on top of bitcoin. For all intents and purposes, it might as well be a different crypto currency. I was directly talking about bitcoin, as it exists today.
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like a hospital has had an incentive to do that in the past. They make less money by charging urgent care rates instead of emergency rates. They also have shifted liability onto themselves. When they get it wrong and tell someone to go to urgent care instead of the ER and the patient gets sicker or dies they now face increased risk of a lawsuit.

The health insurer in this case is actually changing the incentives for the better. Now the hospital risks not getting paid because they didn't triage up front. Unfortunately the patient is caught in the middle here and doesn't have any good option until a less expensive triage option is developed. Hopefully hospitals will respond to insurers denying ER visits to improve their triage as you've suggested.
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Anyone know why the project bids are in units of energy? From my experience with home solar projects are priced in units of power.

(EDIT: From further in the article, these look like operating costs, not e.g. initial build-out costs that one would be quoted for a home installation. Makes sense, though I wonder now if they include amortized build-out costs.)

And then, why the mixing of MWh and kW·mo? They're similar orders of magnitude, why add in a layer of confusion with the constant factor difference? (For reference: multiply $/kW·mo by 1.39 to obtain $/MWh.)
the deal isn't the price, but the quantity: if you need 1,000 pills of any medication, you should be under medical supervision/follow-ups, not buying them like they were groceries.
I (like other commenters) am cautious to attribute the lack of Post-WW2 global war to the UN. The development of nuclear weapons seems a far more likely culprit since we now live in the age of MAD (mutually assured destruction).

So I can of course get behind the idea that War is Bad [tm]. The problem is that in evolutionary and social terms it served a purpose. And that purpose was (and is) the ultimate resolution to resource allocation problems.

If you think about how wealth is being concentrated into the hands of very, very few, you can attribute at least some of this to globalisation. Look at historical figures [1] and you see that in inflation-adjusted terms some would be far more wealthy than the wealthiest people of today. What about the likes of Julius or Augustus Caesar? 2000 years of compound interest!

Now it's true that wealth doesn't tend to survive many generations but there are exceptions.

Then look at conflicts like the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution or any number of European conflicts. War really seems like it served the purpose of being the ultimate means of wealth redistribution.

Of course it's ghastly but my question is this: in a stable world without conflict, how is it that the wealthy don't end up owning everything?

And with an ever-rising population bordering on arguably more than the planet can support with ever-dwindling resources, how does this not end with catastrophic conflict since we've virtually eliminated every form of population pressure?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_...
We have anthem and have had no trouble getting anything paid for that is covered. Including an ER visit that turned out to be nothing.
Also the comments about Mexico:

https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/31/politics/donald-trump-mexico-...
There are U.S. solar panel manufacturers who were suffering due to the flooding of the market by Chinese imported panels. Is it possible for the man to do anything that won't be seen as evil? If solar is important to you, you should be happy to foster domestic capability, just as we foster domestic food production with farm and dairy subsidies. If you are a big-government type person, as most Trump critics are, this sort of federal level economic shaping should be something you can get behind.
>Perhaps in 20 or 30 years we will have something akin to plan9 or inferno composed from nodes on these networks?

Seems highly likely to occur within less than a decade. Tops. Just not on the blockchain. Likely something not-blockchain, e.g. https://ecsa.io/ (which /interacts/ with the blockchain, but isn't blockchain based.)

People massively underestimate just how fast technology progresses at the moment.
The situation reminds me of the famous Casablanca quote about gambling.

So in 99% of cases, streamers have nothing to fear because their activity is beneficial for all involved parties.

Until they do something wrong, get bad press or otherwise manage to piss off the developers. Then those will be shocked, shocked! to find that this stream is conducting copyright infringement on their game - and the streamer is basically dead.

Whether or not this is a workable state for the industry, that's not how law is supposed to work.
Imagine if every language was it's own Interactive Shell with no kernel. Scripting and functional languages already have this, as do C and C++[1].

You would lose language interchangeability on the system until someone wrote compilers for the other language software that they want to support.

And who doesn't like to write compilers in their favorite language.

[1] https://github.com/root-project/cling
Then again the web oriented world all too often come across as architecture astronauts...
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From their homepage: Every tether is always backed 1-to-1, by traditional currency held in our reserves
The IQ rise of 3 points per decade has stopped and even reversed in many countries, like UK and Norway. That seems like a very big point to leave out, hopefully it's mentioned in the book.
Active Self Protection is some good stuff, I've seen a few.
I would love to get solar panels but it feels like the price is artificially high. Panel costs keep going down but I've never seen a set of solar panels for less than $20k, regardless of panel cost. I think the solar companies keep increasing other costs to keep it at the same level, which means there isn't enough competition yet.
You're describing a one-man Ponzi scheme, and it cannot work in the long run - it only works as long as more money is coming in, which requires the value of BTC to rise indefinitely.

Consider what happened in your scenario when BTC lost ~40% of it's value essentially overnight. Did BFX have enough extra BTC reserves to cover? What if they did but it had dropped 50, 60, or 70%?

It doesn't take much work to see the impossibility of 'backing' a stablecoin with an asset other than what it's value is tied to...
I don't know if there is much difference, considering "I did a few assignments" is what people do in school.
And here's a more interesting example using output from Algolia's search API:

curl 'https://<redacted Algolia url>' | ramda '.hits |> map pick <[title url story_url objectID points num_comments]> |> evolve title: take 2 |> sort (.points) |> reverse'
I have yet to meet anyone who gave a good answer to this question. It is obvious that we (as a species) behave like this because we can get away with it. Plain & simple. Whether it is a good long-term strategy is unclear to our brains that refuse to look at far-off effects. Time will tell.

Besides moral relativism helps us to justify much of our destructive behaviour and inability to accept hard changes that might be necessary to make the world better for all living things.
What does this product do?
> promote complacency

I get the exact opposite feeling. Things aren't hopeless and there's no reason to stop pushing for improvement because what we've been doing for the past 100 years is working! Maybe it depends on if you are an optimist or a pessimist.
The ‘Killer Robots’ Are Us
Yes, there are many ways to determine that on the command line. As far as a GUI, I couldn’t say as that isn’t how I do system administration.

I’m not sure what scenario you are envisioning. Usually upgrades are handled via the distribution and its package manager, and the maintainers take care of library issues. It’s not like windows where you go all over downloading packages from websites and installing them over each other.
It never really bothered me that police cars contained these cameras.

But for some weird reason civilian cars carrying these cameras (and collecting and re-selling my plate information) really infuriates me.
"Voice first" seems like a misguided philosophy pushed by people who think that we're due for some sort of "revolution."

Voice is important but mostly for narrow use cases (in the car, music control in the house) or for shortcuts ("Siri, open accessibility settings").

Though I can imagine some kinds of routine, tedious computer tasks that could be automated with voice and AI someday--"Computer, convert all the files in this folder to jpegs and then put today's date at the start of their filenames, then move them to Dropbox and share them with my wife"--stuff like that. But it seems like for all that to happen we need something approaching general AI. Most voice assistants just move you along predetermined paths.
The CC Intro
With the Qubes Air architecture, the unpopular Intel ME/AMT could be repurposed as a VNC server for web browsing on a dedicated device, e.g. old laptop. The AMT VNC client could be run in a thin Qubes VM. This would isolate the web browser (main x86 CPU), VNC server (Intel ME cpu) and VNC client (Qubes device CPU) on three physical processors. Usability would depend on performance of the AMT VNC server.
Bwahaa, is this not the same Apple we're talking about? The one that eliminates headphone jacks and Flash and usb ports and cd drives and anything else people hold dear all in the name of YAGNI?

If they could eliminate even less, I'm sure they would. The fact is, we need exactly what we have now, nothing more and nothing less.
What's the book? Can't load the page on mobile.
I hope the new wallets fix everything, but, in my opinion, having to promote transactions is a terrible hack and the new wallets don't seem to fix that (they just make it automatic).

Combine that with the hand-waving of the vulnerabilities by the community, and it's not a good sign. However, I'm not really interested in speculating about the price (I've never bought more than $100ish worth of any cryptocurrency), it's just that I don't see IOTA being a useful currency for me to play with.
I wouldn't use it, but I did try it out. I've thoughts, but I'm not your target audience.

Put a pointer indicator on the right side, to indicate where success will be. (Eg, like https://cms-assets.tutsplus.com/uploads/users/1557/posts/289... , though that's at the top.)

De-randomize your RNG so it doesn't have the same animation two times in a row.

Stop the animation after 5 seconds or so. If people want to see it again, they'll hit randomize a few times.

The rocking wheel is a nice touch. Have it rock once or twice more.

Start spinning on down-press, and don't start the slowdown until release.
Table partitioning for storing logs in PostgreSQL
A CT scan in the middle of the night costs less than US$1000 and the ultrasound is about half that in New Zealand. That’s at a private facility with on call staff. At a public hospital where the staff are on a shift it would be considerably less.
Cool. I just set up my own Matrix server (Synapse) the other day and have been using Riot.im on my iPhone. To be honest, everything works much better than I expected.

Right now, my only complaints are that there are some notification settings that you can't change from the app, and that the user interface is a little redundant. I'm highly optimistic though.
It’s worth noting that the act of sorting, inserting, removing, and putting away clothing is not very labor intensive.

Having to manually wash each article of clothing takes actual effort, which can be quite tiring. It’s not easy to engage in other pursuits when one is tired out from physical labor. One could argue that the savings in exertion even outweigh the savings in time.
There is not really a need to modify LaTeX at all to make it run in the browser. It already exists. Without modifying a single line of code, we have implemented a full browser-based port of LaTeX as part of our Browsix project, which makes it possible to run full, unmodified Unix applications inside the browser. See http://browsertex.org and http://browsix.org (and http://bpowers.net and https://jvilk.com/ and http://plasma.cs.umass.edu).
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Mapzen Post Mortem III: A Letter Just to You, with Flowers
Smelly Vagina
Strangely enough, installation in the US is a lot more expensive than it is in Germany and most other countries with a significant installed base of solar, even once you ignore subsidies. And according to something I read from the US Dept of Energy, one of the big reasons for that is reckoned to be over-regulation. That's because each US state has complicated, separate laws for permitting, attachment to the grid, and so on, whereas Germany has a unified regulatory system which allows installers to get decent economies of scale.

The US has all sorts of odd subsidies and issues of regulatory capture like this, I'm thinking also the corn subsidies, and the block on buying cars direct from retailers. It's ironic that all of that happens despite all of the vastly stronger rhetoric about cutting regulations. In my opinion it's another indication that a 'starve the beast' approach to government is not effective even on its own terms. To actually get rid of specific bad policy you have to campaign against those measures specifically, and have people in government who are acting in your interests, you can't just rely on a general anti-government government.
It's a shame this comment got parked in the bottom of the page, it just shows on how the article is right; IOTA is immature technology that hopes to be better one day (maybe with all fingers crossed)