skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If investment in renewables took place on a continental scale, with high capacity connections between solar installations in Spain, wind turbines in the North Sea, nuclear plants in France, renewable and lower carbon utilization could go up and some of the gas and coal plants could be spun down.

Yes, but countries don't typically like being dependent on each other for their energy needs. We are even in an era where people are openly questioning the future of the EU due to the rise of Euro sceptic parties in France and the Netherlands.

The power grid operates at a snail's pace compared to the rest of the high tech industry. Getting the permission to build something, passing all the environmental impact assessments, financing, etc, can take years before the first shovel of dirt is moved to build the project.

> I noticed in Germany, there are solar panels on houses and barn roofs everywhere, even in not so sunny regions - maybe that investment would be better put into grid scale wind, while Spain and Portugal build out grid scale solar.

This I do agree with. Financially, I can't see how it makes sense for someone in Germany to install solar, when places like Spain or Greece get far more sun in the year. It simply a question of location, and northern localities such as Germany receive much less annual irradiation than more equatorial localities do.

However I think most people in Germany would install solar not for the electricity, but because they are conscious of the environment and believe that by installing solar, they are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

Ökostrom (ecological electricity) is very big in Germany.
There are similarities, but given that people are pretty use to the word "nonce" being limited in use to crytography, I'm not sure that we could say definitively that re-using it here would be less confusing overall.

From a more practical sense, the naming is most likely to stay unchanged just because a lot of people are used to already.
Reporting the freakiest phishing attack ever?
I just got an email from a customer that had a link in it (sendgrid, redirected to something else). The moment it asked for a login, I replied to the customer alerting them that their email has been compromised.

Here's where it gets freaky. The bot replied on that person's behalf assuring me there was no virus. I forwarded that email again to his email ID and the 'bot' that has compromised his account replied again, exactly like a human would, assuring me everything was OK.

Here's the transcript, hoping a some email security folks are around here who can study this further..

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Email moved to pastebin: http://pastebin.com/uXTYCNPu

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Upon which I entered fake auth details and tried opening the link which redirected me to downloading google drive. Called up the customer and turns out (surprise surprise) they didn't send the email.

Now I'm in tech, but this is either a super-freaky AI phishing bot or a really quick human phisher (as I write this up, I realise this could be an option :-|). I'm not sure how effective clicking "Report Phishing" on Gmail is, so posting this here in the hope that someone here can report it to the right folks at Gmail and others so they can detect this in the future...
For those who are not familiar with Helm is basically apt-get for Kubernetes apps
That's the kind of apology you expect from someone that's sorry they got caught. She can't get through the first paragraph without trying to make another excuse about not feeling well. Completely removes any sincerity from the rest of the piece.

Different people have different morals, and honor isn't as universal as we would hope.
I can't help but believe that we would be better off (at least in the US) if utilities had embraced renewables 10 years ago. Rather than fight solar and wind, utilities could have played the role of solar installer/integrator and could have encouraged renewable installation and made appropriate investments in infrastructure to support their variability. Instead, many US utilities chose to fight back against renewables slow their adoption. Now the utilities complain that the grid cannot handle the variability and complain that their job of balancing the grid is getting harder. It's just unfortunate that many public utilities in the US chose to fight innovation rather using the benefits of their monopoly to embrace the change and try to profit from it and provide better service.
Thanks for this. I did enjoy it and it!
Monozurki in Web Design and Development
Thoughts on Agile and Usability Testing
The same quote is only 12% "toxic" if you remove the ... inside, and only 10% if you quote the entire thing (with ").
From the docs:

> Terms of Service

> The Upspin website (the “Website”) is hosted by Google. By using and/or visiting the Website, you consent to be bound by Google’s general Terms of Service and Google’s general Privacy Policy.

Really a shame.
"You teach best what you most need to learn."
Does git have any path away from SHA1?

I know the attack isn't practical today, but the writing is on the wall.
I'm sorry, but given that we're gold fish looking out of the bowl from the inside; trying to predict the future from vague memories of the immediate past; we have no clue what's causing what in this mess. Any one who claims otherwise is an ignorant prostitute, doesn't matter if they're aware or not. There are huge monetary incentives to pushing this agenda, and plenty of bullying to get people to walk in line. Have a look around today, and most scientists seem to agree that we're rather heading into the next ice age.
Yes. Because white is a color, an caucasian is a race.
was actually thinking about this the other day...how it would be great to have a realtime skype aging filter

the problem with these DNN systems is they don't make a 3d model of the subject like the brain does. If you asked an artist to age a person, they'd imagine them old in 3d, then project that back to 2d for the painting. But the DNN has no conception of the 3d surface or the process of aging. You can see the problem in the 'aged' images: they're basically just scratchy versions of the younger ones but they don't have sagging skin, blotchy veins, and the higher fractal dimension surface that comes from years of scars and wrinkling.
This sounds very interesting. I have been using cucumber in my development with Selenium WebDriver (cucumber-rails) and the author here has promised things that were missing in PhantomJS and Capybara-WebKit that drove me toward using Selenium and Chrome instead. Namely the option of running in either Headed mode with the inspector available, or Headless.

Does this project require your system-under-test to be a pure Node.Js application to work with it? (I am not sure if I had heard of electron, but it looks to be the case.) Is there any possibility of porting this to be a driver for test systems that use Cucumber for systems built in other languages?
> I am moderately confident that there is no-one on the planet using Docker seriously AND successfully AND without major hassle.

Though the tone of this article is very negative, the conclusion is interesting to me as someone that's considered Docker but hasn't done much with it beyond experimenting locally.

I'm assuming if there's any forum that has users that can speak to their use of Docker in production, this would be the place.
The main idea behind the collision is that you can put a lot of garbage inside a pdf in a zone that the pdf reader will ignore. This is very common for most file formats, like jpg, doc, ... so the same idea applies to most of them.

But it will be very difficult to disguise that in a PR. If you send a PR that says

- printf("Helo");

+ printf("Hello");

+ // UIHIUEDN7heuiheuih7h00eduhuihoiu[...]hiouHIGo77OUIHIUHJ&g6(&(HHHIUHIIOJIOJK8jjoijoijdnYIHIHI

the maintainer will be very suspicious. (And if you do this in a business, they will fire you.)
It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. Deleting things on DA doesn't always do what you would expect, and it surely sounds like Wix thinks they are going to offer work for free.
https://about.deviantart.com/policy/submission/

3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are
uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a
worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following
things during the Term:
a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for
digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in
any format and by any means now known or not yet known or
invented;
b) to display, copy, reproduce, exhibit, publicly perform,
broadcast, rebroadcast, transmit, retransmit, distribute through
any electronic means (including analog and digital) or other
means, and electronically or otherwise publish any or all of
the Artist Materials, including any part of them, and to include
them in compilations for publication, by any and all means and
media now known or not yet known or invented ;
c) to modify, adapt, change or otherwise alter the Artist Materials
(e.g., change the size) and use the Artist Materials as described
in Section 3(b); and ...

The only thing a DeviantArt user can do is to delete their content, shut their account, and leave the site.

The policies only apply for the "Term" in which a user exists and the art exists on the platform.
> I find it kinda lopsided to read an article that only mentions the good things without giving a proper/full picture.

Did we read the same article? Here's some points the author made that seem to contradict your claim.

1st paragraph:
"boy oh boy, there have been major changes"

That implies change, ie: it was worse before.

2nd paragraph:
"There was obviously major corruption going on behind the scenes, which prevented this improvement from happening for so long. "

"In bigger cities like Kathmandu and Pokhara, the hotels have always been a bit hit-and-miss"

"Visa regulations in Nepal are a little stricter than in Thailand"

Having re-read the article, I'm glad the author took the time to present this.

> Some people might not really understand what it's like in a 3rd world country.

I'm not sure your description of an entire country as a "total dump" is accurate or helpful to people like me who genuinely want to understand what it's like in a 3rd world country.

Luckily, there is a broad range of independently captured data on Streetview, even of the Annapurna trail, Kathmandu so folks can evaluate conditions for themselves without bias.
looks like an oh-my-zsh one
Distributed Cloud Storage Provider Storj Labs Raises $3M
The article specifically addresses the fact that profit motive alone does not account for the prevalence unnecessary treatment.
Further, only about 20% of US hospitals are private, for-profit endeavors. Over 75% are not-for-profit or government. Of course, they are still affected bybthings like revenue, prestige, "performance" metrics, etc. But Canadian hospitals suffer from those same drivers.

I applaud the work you are doing, but I question your confidence that the US system is the only system with these issues.
> To expand hydrogen capacity, you need more pressure vessels.

Even simpler, you can store it in salt domes which are currently used for natural gas reserves. The pipes and related infrastructure may need to be replaced due to hydrogen embrittlement, but the storage itself is already there.
I think HN is basically already like this. It has its own set of problems, but I agree that it's an improvement.
The title is slightly misleading. This just looks like an alternative way to run Cucumber, not a complete alternative to Selenium.
>So I can't be the only one who has noticed the correlation between this and the field at question. As soft sciences like soc, psych, and medicine seem to have the most problems with it. I'm not saying hard sciences like physics don't, but it is less common.

It is a problem in physics, although a "different" problem. See my comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13715197
Mobile World Congress 2017: 5 things not to miss
My visit to the  ISIS front line
Probably Hyper. Don't use it unless you like terminals that crash anytime any program you're running spits out more than a few lines of text too quickly.
Woooooow hahahahaha

Someone didn't get the call back from FB recruiters.

But really, bringing this kind of vitriol to an Ask HN is counter productive
Here I thought it was also on topic as jwz's views regarding FB.
Why we don't have phone support
Haha. Not entirely wrong.

(I am a paying member of DA.)
Not trying to defend fossil fuels here, but I'd interpret that 2015 global fossil fuels subsidy figure ($5.3 trillion) with some caution. Looking at the paper, they're not really talking about direct subsidies. They're counting 'implicit subsidies' like "undercharging for global warming", "air pollution", "broader vehicle externalities" etc. These unpriced externalities make up at least 78% of the total estimated fossil fuel subsidy.

This is a fair thing to do in theory, assuming the same approach is used when pricing other forms of energy generation. But deciding what is and is not an attributable externality is a bit subjective, and externalities themselves are notoriously difficult to quantify.

All that aside, even if global warming somehow didn't exist, it still makes a lot of sense to phase out coal power generation, as it causes around one million deaths per year (mostly from air pollution).
Major Internet Outage Today?
Tests can constrain a problem enough so a human programmer can understand what was intended. In theory, many programs will pass the tests, but in practice most matching programs will be convoluted and in poor taste - they only pass the tests and not the general rules implied by the test cases. In other words, there are additional constraints implied by common-sense principles of software engineering.

Developing an AI that can infer a simple, tasteful set of general rules (and suitable types) from a small set of test cases is certainly hard but not theoretically impossible.
> This is ego, politics and career ambitions undermining modern science.

When has this never been the case?
Even when used positively, hyperbolic words like profanity indicate a level of close-minded passion about one side or another of a discussion. The purpose of Perspective seems to be to foster rational discussion between open-minded individuals in a comment string. I'd be hard-pressed to find someone who moved a conversation in a non-toxic direction by typing "I bloody respect your opinion, but here's why assumption X is wrong."
The compression is applied after the hashing, so it doesn't make any difference. Only the "blob <size>" header matters.
There are three components: facts, techniques, concepts.

Being fluent with techniques is not strictly necessary, but is generally important and can aid in helping to understand concepts by demonstrating relationships. But a student who prioritizes concepts is probably better off than one who only understands techniques.[0]

My objection to the article is that it is advocating memorizing facts. Figuring out that 3/5 == 0.6 is trivial if you already understand the concepts and knowing that 3/5 == 0.6 is pointless if you don't know what it means.

[0] - Anecdotally, I breezed through calc 1 in high school. First done with every test, always aced those tests, never studied. Had no idea what I was doing, because I was just memorizing and applying rules. Knowing just the techniques was equivalent to knowing nothing.
> As confirmed by internal sources, they experienced massive troubles to get Docker working in any decent condition

I call B.S. on this. Amazon wouldn't have spent so much effort on ECS if this was true.
35+ Examples of regex patterns using sed and awk in Linux
Well, perhaps this is reading too much in to the language, but you actually draw the circle segments without them crossing, but the gluing to reconstruct the space doesn't permit the segments to be glued back in to the circles they were decomposed from.

So you can draw a decomposition of the shapes in the decomposed space which apparently satisfies the properties, but you run in to trouble when you try to glue those partial solutions back together -- in this case, you can't simultaneously reconstruct the space and the shapes.
Since you work for cucumber, a pro tip: put a summary of what the project is right up front on the Web page, assuming visitors know nothing.

What is cucumber? What is Electron?

For example: "cucumber-electron is a Javascript module (available via npm) that combines cucumber, a framework for writing Web page tests in plain language, with Electron, a framework for building desktop apps using Web technologies. ..."
" more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research suggests."

I understand there can be many reasons for this - but that doesn't take away from how incredibly damning this is.
A lot of that commerce happens in violation of copyright, and sometimes in violation of other laws too; it can fly under the radar when it's person-to-person but would be harder for the company to monetize.

Is Twitch profitable? Have they had to face a serious copyright infringement lawsuit from a game maker yet?
Your link is a Business Insider story that cites a Bloomberg story that cites a "a previously undisclosed document." That's a bit loose isn't it? Additionally the statement is for "February" and only the United States.

"In February, Uber earned an average of 19¢ per ride in the U.S., according to previously undisclosed financial documents."

You realize that comments from analysts have been hugely wrong before? See Henry Blodgett and Mary Meeker.
I used to self host Ghost on Digital Ocean and then switched over to their hosted offering.

I'm really happy I went with them, the culture and idea behind the company appeals to me and the lack of bells and whistles is made up for in a really simple and fun to use editing experience. At least in my opinion it far outshines Medium.
Hi, author of the article :)

I don't deny that open source is now more prevalent than it was in the past, I just don't think it's on the verge of taking over the world, where every sector will be open source, especially in the ridiculously short timeline of 12-24 months you stated in the article. There's too much value for certain industries, sectors, or companies to keep some, or even most things close to the chest, and there are plenty of companies that haven't been convinced that opening up their codebase would be worth the extra time and effort it would take to do so.

You didn't even address my example of the game industry, so I have no choice but to assume you either agree with me for that industry or just don't have any way to disprove it.

Yes, Microsoft, once known as the chief closed-source proponent, is now embracing open source more, but that's a single company with completely different management than it had ten years ago and in an environment where they're no longer the king of the development world. And in particular for developers, being more open is usually a good thing because it gives us more freedom when developing. But that's only one sector of the programming world.

I have worked for at least a dozen companies over the years, and while I've incorporated at least little pieces of open source software or libraries in most of those jobs, the resulting codebases for those companies was never opened up, nor was there ever any talk about possibly opening it up. We were generally always too busy working on the next iteration to worry about opening our software up or dealing with that. Additionally, at least once I recall us rewriting our application to remove an open source portal software (uPortal) it relied heavily upon because uPortal was just a convoluted, restrictive mess to try to do any real customization with it.

And quoting William Gibson, is cute, yet proves nothing. He's a talented writer who tells good, believable stories about future technology, but he's hardly a prophet.
Addressing Tech's Diversity Problem
And yet if the problem isn't specified enough, we engineers will run off and deal with failure cases that aren't relevant to the client's needs.
"God dammit! Don't you know who I am? I finished 355th at the North Face 50 Mile National Championships!"

I mean... on some level, I get you. On another, though, I can assure you that no one cares about your marathon time or finishing place, unless you're at an elite level.
Do we really need swap on modern systems?
It seems the implication is that America today is less adventurous than in the past. Maybe.
But the job market for most of us who can find work is rather homogenous, and worse, the likelihood of employer assistance is scant.
And if one already lives in a area with a robust job market, why leave?
The article's source - The Complacent Class -- says it all. My question is whether the author means job seekers or job creators have become complacent.
America's first immigrants had to wait 8,000 years to be admitted
7 weeks minimum vacation by law, so everyone has the time to stay healthy and sane (could do a 4wk-long hike/year and you still have 3wks left for regular vacations and other stuff, plus holidays off). Quickest and surest route from here to there.
Amazon employee confirming the article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12364522
Yes, thanks that was a good read. It seems we need a "Map" of biological sciences, in which every study could be a 'pin' in a particular location , signifying that 'this study studies this very particular problem here'. Maybe that would help figure out where are the biggest gaps. Unfortunately, most studies broaden the impact of their results too much to the point that reading the paper abstract can be misleading. Maybe people should just publish their results, but not be allowed to make any claims about them; let others and the community make those claims.
They're actually really open with their numbers...

https://ghost.org/about/

Active customers: 4,257
ARPU: $14.40
Monthly Run Rate: $62,796

Requests / month: 80M
Registered users: 601,492
Github Stars: 24,921
Themes: 481
Precisely. Any attempts of even discussion about Higher Order theories on that list ends up with Harvey stating something that can be translated to those without the technical expertise as "Every higher order theory is a first order theory in disguise".
Which is true but besides the point. Just look at Peano's axiomatization of the Natural Numbers and perceive how intuitively bad it is at abstracting what Natural Numbers are. He constructs an "ugly" object that is isomorphic to Natural Numbers, but doesn't correspond to what Mathematicians intuitively believe the Natural Numbers to be.
With a Second Order theory you can just axiomatize the Natural Number in a pretty straightforward way that correspond to Mathematician's intuition about the Set...
It didn't even occur to me that there were other ways of using Selenium than Selenium-WebDriver!
Sure, but you don't end up with two images that differ only in background of top half by accident...
Click bait from the BBC. 2/3 of scientists have failed to replicAte a study is not a statement that reinforces the headline. If 2/3 of people have had trouble sleeping that does not mean most people can't sleep.

If you've ever tried a simple science experiment out of a book, it's easy to screw one up no matter how sound the underlying science because you messed something up. A bleeding edge study is several degrees of difficulty beyond that.
What the, didn't this used to be a lot cheaper?
> What's your advice for indie hackers who are just starting out?

> Honestly my single piece of advice would probably be to stop looking for so much advice. Shut the fuck up and go and build something.

I like this. I see a lot of people, and I fall victim to this myself, over analysing the best way to do X, rather than just trying it and learing / adapting as you go. I think there is some value in figuring things out up front, but not at the cost of never taking the plunge.