skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the interesting things now about being off grid, is that the problem of generating sufficient kWh per month via photovoltaics is very nearly solved. Even in winter. If you can afford to buy solar panels by the pallet load, the cost is about $0.42 to $0.58/W STC rating. Then it becomes a relatively low tech construction question of how do you build a ground mount for something like qty 80, 360W 72-cell panels, each of which measures 2.00 x 1.00 meters in size.

In the northern hemisphere, you'll have to size the PV+Wind system's predicted kWh per month production to the shortest sunlight days of the year, from mid November to mid February. December and January are particularly bad. If you have a home that you are certain will not draw more than 1500kWH per month in those times, the PV system will need to be able to produce a cumulative 2000kWh in December. This does mean that you'll have a significant excess of kWh in all other, longer months of the year, even enough to run small air conditioners from late May to mid September.

Forget ever using electrical element heating, which is 100% efficient from a thermodynamics perspective, but uses a ridiculous amount of kWh per heating unit. Household heating will have to be designed another way, with passive + insulation + natural gas/propane + wood stove + other BTU heat sources considered. Anything that's not electrical, unless you're quite wealthy and can afford to build a gargantuan ground mount PV system.

The harder problem is the energy storage. Until the advent of things like the tesla powerwall and similar Li-Ion based storage systems, people bought massive banks of AGM lead acid batteries and replaced them every 5 years at great cost. The cycle lifetime of those is quite limited, they're huge and heavy, and their cycle lifetime is significantly shortened if you regularly cycle them on a daily basis below 40% state of charge.

As economics of scale for battery storage improve (due to market demand for electric cars, drops in $ per kWh stored with 21700 batteries, etc), the fully-built system $ per kWh cost will drop further. It's totally possible to combine wind and PV charging feeds, with multiple different charge controllers, into one battery bank.

It's not going to be as cheap as electricity at $0.08/kWh in Seattle from the mostly hydroelectric fed grid utility, but amortizing the cost of the big PV system over many years you can achieve a fully off grid cost in the sub $0.20/kWh range.
I originally thought this was based on N years of schooling in Scotland for some value of N but after a bit of searching it seems the "normally resident in Scotland" bit isn't really very well defined.

It's debatable whether it's very ethical to do what you suggested - though I don't imagine it's particularly common.
get your CISSP, it cost $700 to take the exam... and you can command 100K with your background. I didn't even have my CISSP and started off at 75K. Granted I have 20 years in programming, DBA, Network Administration and System Administration. You'll do just fine.

I will tell you one thing... security is pretty boring if you are a person that likes to be in the trenches. It's more of a manager role (they even tell you to think like a manager when getting your CISSP). Your role is to identify a problem, document the solution and then audit the outcome. You don't ever fix or correct problems.
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yes - there's a lot of research on benefits of ketogenic diet and fasting as well as toxicity of sugar.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28877457

basically goal is to trigger cellular autophagy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41580-018-0033-y
Offer remote positions and quit making lame excuses about why you can't do that.

Seriously. The companies that make remote work happen aren't stupid and they aren't failing at it.
Yep, we hate Python 2 too!
But we develop the project in Python2 to use the library NXT-Python (the library responsible to control the Lego Mindstorms NXT). But, in our defense, w also have created a branch of the project using Python 3 :)
As an OCaml user, I do not see at first glance how any of your statements about where tyxml “goes quite further” are true, with the exception of completeness on the Rust end (but I am very dubious that there is completeness on the OCaml end—HTML is not as simple as you’d think). This makes me think that if you’d like to convince people who are not OCaml users to look at your library, you should provide examples of why these things are true and how they are useful. Otherwise, we just come off as smug FP weenies.
I think old style basic is very easy to learn because of goto, you can do a lot of stuff just with goto and if statements. I guess this 'goto is harmful' mantra made it much more difficult to get started with programming as you are now forced to learn more syntax before it is possible to express anything meaningful. The lack of goto has created something of an artificial barrier.
Had a look at the Tasks integration built into GMail now? Essentially the same as reminders. Add a due date and they function the same as reminders - across google calendar as well. On the phone there’s the Tasks app. Works pretty well IMHO, especially having the option to drag an email into a task.
Those companies already exist (they're intermediaries between large publishers and YT) and all they bring to the table is yet another layer of "it's not my fault, the computer says no" indirection and blame shifting. They add another huge source of false positives which will delete what you create with no accountability.
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Knuth help you if you have enough socks to justify a 5-D matrix. YAGNI. ;)
Ah yeah, that makes sense (as an aside, I am jealous and hope to get there someday). You'll almost certainly have on-call in ops, which is what OP seemed to be most interested in.
Find complements to what you do now that are security related and move from there. If you do devops and SRE, you’re a practitioner in security.

To the right organization, someone with your operational and Dev background is super useful. Many security orgs came from a policy background and have challenges because they lack experienced operations or dev focused people.

Make sure that you understand what you want to do. Map your experience to the appropriate security lingo. Understand the core concepts in NIST 800-53

A lot of the material you’ll find on the web about the industry is consulting focused.
> tptacek

I am waiting for his seminal thoughts on this actually...really.
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This is a solid perspective. Thanks for sharing.
> 3rd party sass companies which are willing to do this screening

That’s not a technology business. It’s more like insurance. The principal balance sheet item would be legal liability. As a result, legal costs would be high. You’d need to capture most of publishers’ revenues, I think, to make the books balance.
Apple News is awful. Worse, you can't uninstall it on MacOS. Since when is it OK for machines built for professionals like the MacBook Pro to come with crapware, let alone uninstallable crapware?
I work as a developer.

- I have matching up to 8% on 401k

- I use my unlimited PTO for two week vacations about once every two quarters when work is slower. I take random Fridays/Mondays off often.

- My insurance is free.

- No equity, I'll give you that.

- I get in whenever, leave whenever, and work remotely as I want. My manager is completely fine with this and trusts me to do my work.

It sounds like you're at the wrong company.
A while back I used eval in a matrix multiplication routine, to make it accept matrices of arbitrary size and generate code to multiply them:

https://github.com/rogual/mxd/blob/master/Matrix.js#L50

It benchmarked pretty well back when I wrote it, though I haven't checked against current JS engines to see if it's still a performance win.
I've lived in the bay area for 4 years now and am still perplexed by salaries here. Sites like paysa.com and H1B salary sites tell one story, then job sites like Indeed tell a very different story. Also whenever a recruiter contacts me and includes a salary range, it's usually on the very low side considering the cost of living here. What are people in the bay area really making across all company types? I honestly don't know.
Crypto is going to come back with vengeance. Maybe not bitcoin and maybe not in the next 6 months, but people have seen the future and they want more.

In order to maximize "exchange of value", there needs to be a way to exchange tiny amounts of money easily. Right now there isn't such a way and crypto might solve it.
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On the copyright front, arguably Google should be liable if they "monetize" pirated content with ads.
Google's answer to this is a trifecta of AMP [1], Contributor [2], and Funding Choices [3] -- to deliver content signed by the publisher [4] from Google's CDN and display less-annoying ads in the meantime, or purchase an ad-free pass to the publisher through Google.

This venture is predicated on the assumption that Google and the publishers both need each other: publishers want revenue from ads, revenue whose amount is proportional to the number of viewers, while Google wants quality destinations to which it can direct traffic and/or quality sources of content which it can display in a captive newsreader.

This is a reality in a world where paid newspaper subscriptions are down, media makes money with just-in-time auctioned online display ads, and paywalls interfere with the positive effects of wide distribution, like the likelihood of new customer acquisition.

[1] https://www.ampproject.org/ [2] https://contributor.google.com/ [3] https://fundingchoices.google.com [4] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage
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T1 lines provide a scant 1.544 Mbps of bandwidth.

No one is doing any amount of video over T1 lines in 2018.
It's using Cloudflare - not sure why you'd get that error...
My understanding of the argument is that you have to assume you keep playing after you lose, so your stake is dictated by the risk. For the example in the article, the potential upside is 110% profit and the potential downside is 100% loss, so the optimal stake is relatively conservative in order to prevent any loss from impacting your future ability to invest.

Imagine you get the expected result of one win and one loss and had staked 5%: you'll end up with 1.055×0.95=1.002 wealth. If you had picked a 50% stake, you'd be sitting at 1.55×0.5=0.775 wealth instead, since the loss more than erases your winnings.

The unstated contrast is to models where e.g. there are only a limited number of investment opportunities, losses aren't total, or there are capital infusions.
That sounds more like a quality problem of the particular dev shop than an indictment on Angular.
If you know precisely what to do, then remote work is ok. However, once you need to communicate with people and problem solve with them, all forms of digital communication are inferior to face-to-face.
Polling every second would be wasteful; you can just make an HTTP request and hold the connection open until it's finished. Or just pass an URL, and let the other side call you.

(That's assuming HTTP, which btw is not the only protocol which can implement REST constraints)
Technically, rust’s packages are called packages, and they’re made up of one or more crates.

“Compilation unit” just doesn’t roll off the tounge the same way as “crate.”

(And “funk” is how many pronounce “func” as in “function”, they’re using the short name to reinforce the tool’s name. That’s not “no reason.”)
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But is there parity between a $14k scooter and a $500k car? Probably not, but as the Devil said, "there is no accounting for tastes."

I think the better question is, who will buy a $14k scooter if and when $24k electric cars become available? Given the affect of mass production, will this scooter eventually get to $700?

Personally, I think that thing is ugly as sin and I still prefer crotch rockets.
This is already very common in places with lots of rich tourists but low local incomes. Hawaii, for example.
> Crypto is going to come back with vengeance.

Bold statement.

> Right now there isn't such a way and crypto might solve it.

weak support.

Why do people need to exchange tiny amounts of money?

EDIT for clarity: Why do people need Crypto to exchange tiny amounts of money?
>there's no reason someone couldn't make a small bit of desktop software which, fed AWS/Azure/GCP/DO/

The gp (notatoad) mentioned technical skill as a barrier and you responded to that point but easy-to-use idiot-proof software isn't really the issue.

The bigger problem(s) mega-sites like Youtube solves is financial.

When one uploads a video to Youtube, it doesn't matter if it gets 0 views or 1 billion views. The cost is the same to the uploader: $0. Hosting it on one's own with AWS/Azure/GCP/DigitalOcean/etc will have variable egress costs and budgeting/forecasting a potential expense of thousands of dollars is not something regular people want to tackle. (The difficulty of this should be apparent from the stories of sophisticated tech geeks getting blindsided by unexpected AWS bandwidth bills.) The other option of placing a bandwidth limit to cap the costs means you create a different problem: a popular video will result in web surfers seeing annoying "bandwidth exceeded" error messages.

Another financial problem Youtube addresses is monetization. Hosting it on a self-managed cloud means less opportunities for ad revenue. Yes, a lot of HN despise ads but many uploaders of desirable video content like the ad payouts.
"people have seen the future and they want more"

Citation needed. The impression I get is that other than a get rich quick/MLM scheme, there isn't really anything there of interest to the general population. And I say that as someone who has spent a lot of time thinking about Bitcoin and crypto in general.
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I don't know Scotland's rules, but other places I've lived usually required living in a place for 6 months or a year before starting your studies in order to be considered resident for tuition.
Are you joking? Bitcoin is a terrible medium for exchange of small quantities of money. A few places around where I live set up bitcoin payment machines a few years ago. They all gave up. Transaction processing times reached over 30 minutes at the slowest times.

Cash is already the perfect medium for exchanging small amounts of money.
How are you using peco to view csv's?
> Nothing in REST prevents you from asking and getting only what you need. Assuming you're using HTTP, that's a common use of URL parameters; alternatively, you can pass a more detailed request in the body (yes, even in GET).

GET is specified as not having a body and conformant HTTP implementations ignore the body of a GET, so in addition to violating RESTs general proscription on violating the underlying protocol (HTTP, in this example), you break compatibility with standard toolchain components if you do this.

What you seem to want is SEARCH pulled out from under the weight of WebDAV, i.e.:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-snell-search-method-01
Education in NYC specifically is a clusterfuck of school choice, because school choice doesn't scale up to a school district that has a million-plus kids.

As a result of citywide school choice, people don't really get gentrified out by parents looking for good schools. But many kids will also have really long commute time, and applying for middle and high schools is like a mini college application process, and only people with the time and money can truly navigate it.
NPR has had its text-only domain (text.npr.org) since 2005: https://www.poynter.org/news/text-only-news-sites-are-slowly...

I agree it's a good practice, and one not unrelated to how NPR is one of the few news orgs with a good API [0]. Tribune Media, meanwhile, has had a different saga since 2005 to put it lightly, and it includes the industry's most epic failed mergers and reorgs [1]. I'm not privy to their internal development process, but I'm willing to bet that their lack of a GDPR site is much more about being unable to do so due to corporate/financial chaos, and less so because of a purported hatred toward "people's basic rights to privacy".

[0] https://www.npr.org/api/index

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-history-of-tribune-ownersh...
The problem is that current cryptocurrencies are not good for such use case. You cannot use Bitcoin for "tiny amounts of money" and for sure you cannot use it "easily". So cryptocurrencies might win in the long run, just not the currently existing ones.
> There's a known solution to sort out the SO2 emission, but it would cost a bit more.

Not if you're Volkswagen.
https://torrentfreak.com/canada-increases-music-industry-sub...

I'm not Canadian so I don't know the details, but it doesn't seem like a terrible model to me.
"Outstanding shares" in the definition of earnings per share et al only count shares held by shareholders, not shares held in the treasury. So it is dilution whether the shares came from a reserve or new issuance.
Encryption is basically conversion of one form into other , also know as ciphered text. The encryption is basically done to hide meaning from other person except the one for which it has been written. Encryption is used to protect the confidentiality of data.
Hashing is basically conversion of string or data into shorter fixed value or key which represent the original string or data. Hashing is used in many encryption algorithms.
Shout-out to everyone who's ever worked for a large to mid-size ISP, that has acquired and eaten/digested a smaller ISP which has already existed for 12, 15 or 20 years... So much weird legacy gear in weird locations, doing weird things. So many SDH circuits and OC-whatever transport systems.
I was recently working on an API where we decided to use protobuf. I remember the first time I saw the message as encoded by protobuf; it really made me aware of how wasteful JSON can be. I know that usually that all comes out in the gzipping but there is nothing quite like seeing half a page of JSON become 1 line of gibberish to demonstrate the point.
Agreed totally.
Right but... you're basically suggesting I implement a query language into my REST backend. Why would I do that if a similar QL already exists in the form of GraphQL?
A couple good points. I agree w/ your 2nd and 3rd sentences. That said, I'm personally glad I invested in React and its ecosystem.
But I don't think it's a problem solvable by more money... The upload fee would just funnel to legal costs, since no one has anything better than content id, and europe is saying that content id isn't good enough.
So in summary - HTTP calls for front-end, but not back-end to back-end services?
So just out of curiosity re: exchanging tiny amounts of money, are you suggesting that cryptocurrency and blockchain tech replace banks? Because there are loads of ways to exchange tiny amounts of money...
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Background in infrastructure is the best you can have - you will be far ahead compared to many newly educated ‘security engineers’, knowing the application domain.

What I would think about if I were you (was so 15 years ago - started as systems engineer in telco, although has been playing around with systems since childhood) is to try and capitalize on knowledge you’ve got - pick entrypoint to secuirty market as ‘security for X’, where X is the type of systems you’ve been administrating. This way, you’ll have a solid base of problem domain experience, and will be able to easily associate new learning material and new work challenges with experience you’ve already got.

Security is a huge domain of knowledge - being able to bite it with digestible chunks is crucial not to turn into another checklist drone or certified skript kiddie.
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You can tell everyone wants it by the way demand has crashed through the floor
lmao. People have seen the future and it is decentralized fax machines
You'll do fine.

Don't waste time with certificates. They mean fuck all in the industry. Any job that cares about them is a job you don't want.

Try to get some clarity about what part of security you want to work in. All the subfields are open to you. Do you want to do operations work? Do you want to exercise your software development muscles? Do you want to work offense or defense? My advice might be different depending on the answers to those questions, but no matter what you want to do, you should be fine.
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People already exchange tiny amounts of money. It's done through this cutting edge service called "banking." I think the implication of the GP's comment is that he considers blockchain/cryptocurrency tech a replacement for banking.
Like? For example how to do micropayments on the web?
> Cash is already the perfect medium for exchanging small amounts of money.

Yes in person, but not over the internet. Crypto currencies definitely have potential for exchanging small amount of money there!
I'm not trying to be snarky but writing a performant server or web server in userland Ruby doesn't seem to be good engineering. We already have nginx & apache. If you want to write performant servers you probably want something like Go, Rust, C++, C, D, JVM, BEAM.
I use Todoist to plan my life (and work), and try to stick to it.

If you are interested to know what is Todoist and how does it work, I have written a blog post on it. Have a read.

https://www.kashifaziz.me/todoist-productivity-tips.html/
(not an investor nor a banker)

"At its peak, in November 2017, it briefly hit $19,783 - which means the price has fallen by about 75%."

If this were a real stock market and those were real $$$s, isn't that the kind of crash that causes great depressions or investors jumping out of windows (movie trope, but not really)

How can something so volatile possibly be worth pursuing or investing in, other then get rich quick schemes.
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Standing desks might be but adjustable desks are not. Who wants their neck at the same angle all day everyday for years?
A couple years ago, not long after moving into their South Lake Union headquarters, they overfilled the offices to the point that they had too many people and not enough bathrooms. I heard stories of people being forced to work from home so they didn't violate the building code.
Oh no, my $10 is now worth $5
Completely disagree with the op re bit coin, but I do agree that people need easy ways to handle small transactions seamlessly. Mpesa and venmo provide plenty of reasonable use cases...
If you have the means, relocate. Chicago has a lot of jobs, same with the Milwaukee area. While the COL can vary, it will definitely be better than the bay area. The other factor, leave your location off your resume. Sure it will show you worked at companies in a specific area. Just don't include an actual home address. And then have a "go bag" ready.
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Shouldn't all the True Believers be mortgaging and leveraging everything and going all in?
I wanted to get some bitcoin to buy some things off a website where bitcoin was the only thing accepted.

I was immediately turned off when a different, exchange website asked me to upload a photo of myself holding my driver's license in one hand and a paper with the name of the website and date in the other.

Just my experience. To me, it seemed like a joke.
It's a shame - he was a celebrity in Japan, turned around Nissan and Renault's fortunes, and could have retired as a living legend. Now even if this turns out to be false, his reputation will be in ruin. Why would you do tax evasion for small amounts when you already have dozens of millions in the bank