skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most residential solar installations in the US are grid tied, meaning that excess generation heads out onto the grid (this is counted as a credit under net-metering regimes). This explains why AC inversion is required. Since most solar production is midday and most household electricity use is in the morning and evening, this arrangement allows for a net-benefit to the homeowner (and to some extent the utility since daytime electricity is more expensive for market-based customers than nighttime electricity for regulated-rate-payers). Otherwise you have to store the electricity and that is expensive and very inefficient.

There are other concerns as well (e.g. no standard DC outlet, most AC appliances with DC motors would have to be modified, there would then be two electrical standards in the house since DC is still not suitable for most transmission or distribution needs, firefighters would need to be retrained, etc).
Although this is a useful service, the Amazon Security team may block your site. Even if your site is trustworthy, this increases Amazon's liability for phishing attacks on other phishing sites.
I haven't been reading HN for that long, but I'm rather impressed that this thread didn't get that much similar comments. I think it shows community maturity and also that these subjects are getting through in the IT crowd.
> We pointed out that because the Earth moves around the sun, any dark matter signal you see should go up and down with the time of year, peaking in June, with a minimum in December.

Why June and December? (Perihelion is around January 3, if that's relevant.)
and one similar to Elevated
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4slGD4
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It gets worse: attackers don't even need the paper invoices - at least in 2012, they were social engineering them directly out of Amazon CSRs [0].

[0] http://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-sociall...
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> How does the Feminist movement square itself with the fact that many women actually like being prized for their beauty and sex appeal?

I didn't see any mention of appreciating beauty and sex appeal. I read an article about rape threats, degrading comments about appearance, and objectification of women. I don't know if you mean to equate those things, but they are not equal. Also, 'prizing' women is objectification (though perhaps you didn't mean that literally) -- people aren't trophies or racehorses -- complimenting someone when they are receptive to it is just nice.

Comments about beauty and sex appeal also can be a way to attack women. For example, if you were a woman my comment here could be 'don't worry your pretty little head about it' or simply 'wow you have great tits -- can I sleep with you?'
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You're impressed there weren't more comments like mine? Can I ask what it is about my comment that you did not like?
> Anita Sarkeesian once reblogged a Tumblr post of mine and it ended up on Reddit. I got so much hate mail from dudes that I left the internet for three days,

Unfortunately, hate for Anita Sarkeesian will transfer to her associates.

> Nicole Tanner is a former editor of IGN, and was one of the founders of "Girlfight.

Editor/writer. Don't know what Girlfight is.

> Every time I'm interacting with an enthusiastic fan

Another public figure

> Carolyn Petit is an editor for GameSpot.

Editor

There are no anonymous developers here (save for the reblogged post). This is clearly public figures in tech. I'd assume there are less public female figures in tech than there are non-public women in tech.

As for telling them to develop a thick skin, I have no opinion on that. If you are a public figure, you will be subject to this kind of behaviour.

The title of the post pisses me off. If they had just said "Online harassment of female authors", I'd have no complaint to make. But it is clickbait.
I have been stalking these guys vigorously since they launched RunKite.com (before it was just Ghost hosting); they're a smart, talented, scrappy bunch. UseKite will definitely be improving my team's workflow and development time.

They have something else up their sleeve, too, which I won't talk about. I say this because they have some really exciting things, and they're someone to pay attention to.
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Cards have different sizes though. I think a one dollar bill might be better for this.
interesting, but oddly switches to italic half-way through
I think they do.
It could be used as part of the process, for example to access a URL with an android exploit on it that the user would not normally visit. It could also detect periods of inactivity, or high background noise. This is a real attack vector not worth dismissing.
Can anyone reproduce this? I am trying to command my phone via Chrome's web speech API but it doesn't pick up "OK Google."

http://www.ianww.com/voice_assistant_abuse.html

Seems like this attack could be trivially prevented by disabling speech recognition while speech synthesis is running. It looks like this may already be the case for the web speech api (or the synthetic voice is just too different from mine).
This article was posted a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8033051 (170 points, 19 comments)
Nice idea whats different between what they are doing and minecraft?
Funny that you cite Wikipedia, which is citing... the link that this HN discussion points to.
Your iPhone may be rigged to spy on you
There's life out there: the artist shooting bonsai trees into space
what would also be nice is shared read-only Canvas, etc. available in Web Workers so image processing (specifically analysis steps) can be paralellized without copying the entire canvas (or parts of it) through message passing.
Will there be a video of the landing, as seen from Earth?

Is the rocket currently aimed "at the Atlantic", or are they operating with the precision they need to land back where they took off from: and in that case, do they have a camera pointing at the landing point from a ship?
Java servers get around 900K requests/s [...] while Rails squeezes out 6K

Yes, but that's for the /json test, which serves a static object that the framework converts to json.

I'm not sure it is really representative of the overall speed you'll get with whatever framework you'll be using: how often do you have a static page that's best served by your framework instead of leaving nginx serve it directly?

I prefer watching the test results that actually involve the database (/db, /queries, /fortunes and /updates), as it shows less raw speed for serving static things and more overall speed for your dynamic pages.

With /queries for example, Java does ~11.3K, while php (on hhvm) does ~10.7K, Python is at ~7.7K and Dart ~12.8K (For the fastest framework of each language. Rails still does bad though).
Men are found in the top and the bottom of society. Men are much more likely to be wrongfully accused of incest or sexual offending children.

It's not the same I agree. But men are equally vulnerable just about other things.
Assuming one was starting from scratch and didn't care whether the available appliances of the day required AC or DC power, but all the power coming into the home was solar, what would the motors on the appliances look like? Would it still be desirable to use AC motors, and if not, would it be practical (other than for the obvious reasons) for appliances to use a standard DC voltage?

I don't mean to suggest that we abandon ac powered appliances, I'm just curious about what electrical wizards would come up with, if they were doing it all over again.
I sort of had the same feeling ... esp since they JUST released Zocalo on the enterprise side of things
"constraints are what breed elegance"
This; 1000x this.

I think this is also the reason so many really old-school video games are still not just playable, but can actually (arguably, of course) be even more fun than most of the current-gen eye candy. I'm thinking of Pac-man, Joust, and their ilk. Talk about embracing constraints.

EMBRACE CONSTRAINTS!
I'm interested in this too, in particular answers which assume that:

* I already have a server running under my desk, running Apache, and a git repo web-served via CGIT, where I can store any serious code snippets that require versioning. So I'm not interested in anything that uses third party hosting.

* I'm the only blogger: no multi-user capabilities needed.

* The publishing side doesn't even have to be web-based; the minimal requirements are that I can log in to a shell account and post a blog by creating a text file and running some command. This then updates the page nicely, including the RSS feed and whatnot.

* No user comment feature required; it's okay if users mail-in comments, and there is a way to publish selections from the mailbag.
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So I have to trust my domain with a 3rd party and pray they never shut down? No thanks!
I saw a form asking for my Amazon password and noped out of there. I really want to try the service, but how do we solve for this trust issue?
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How did two non-tech founders raise 500k without a prototype or engineer lead?

This can't be usual....
And most stuff I see done with it reminds me of late 90's games, while driving my fan full speed.

Only a few selected mobile devices are able to run WebGL. Those that do, have a tendency to drain the battery quite fast.
Warby has an ocular distance measurement but I don't think it's a "virtual try on".
budgets are for people who can't do things themselves.

managers are for people who can't do things without being threatened with oversight.

a true technologist just gets it done. the one bad process was obviously hiring people that believe otherwise.
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That's actually a great point I hadn't thought of - if the attack uses English, your average Chinese person won't know what's being said and what's being taken.
Kerbal space program is a fun game, but you cannot use it for budgeting real launches, especially in this case. It only has minimalist physics, especially with fluid dynamics, which governs much of a first stage recovery.
Proof that long-distance relationships can work
I'm in Texas. I know that at until the start of this year, if you didn't have any access to a group plan (including via COBRA), and you applied for an individual plan and were refused, then there is significantly more expensive coverage that you can get through some program offered by the state and Blue Cross. Though that may not exist in the post-ACA world where no one is supposed to be denied coverage any more.
Hear hear! One quibble though: it’s not quite true that the market demands this. We, the people, consumers and producers alike, are the market. The market here is constrained to the 40hr work week by a multitude of regulations and assumptions codified into law, affecting everything from full/part time work status to preferential tax treatment to labor laws. Many of these laws are design innocent enough but they happened to be designed in the context of a 40hr work week being paramount. That assumption, now cast in steel, is now inflexible to more modern needs and demands.

Those wishing to change the status quo should seek to end tax treatment of employer provided healthcare, reform of overtime wage rules, reform payroll taxes, and overall placing freelancers, small business and independent contractors on equal footing with W2 labor.

The classic struggle of labor vs employer has been waged entirely within the context of the W2 9-to-5 employment paradigm. That entire war has been fought within the confines of a prison.
Chrome. On Ubuntu.

> Everything shows up as HTML5 video for me.

That's weird.
It may not be killer, but tortoiseGit has been good enough for my windows needs...
Makes the community look bad.

It's like a funhouse mirror that whoops-a-doodle was a regular mirror the whole time.
No doubt, I just think the fact that the user is going to interfere with any direct exfiltration ruins this as a stand-alone attack.

Your idea, however, is exactly the "missing piece" to this attack.
"I'm sorry, what do threats have to do with insults? Conflating the two is a classic technique in this strange attempt to create some sort of right to never be offended, but they have no relationship to each other at all."

They do have a relationship - indeed, there's two of them embedded in this conversation, one of which you introduced:

1. Insults as a form of threat to one's health, in the form of pushing someone toward suicide. As noted, this relationship between an insult and a threat was of your own creation.

2. Rape threats are insults. They are suggestions that a woman (or man) is a lesser being. A thing. Something to be commented on, their violation a subject of idle speculation. Their autonomy denied because of who they are. All those are insults, as well as threats.
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yeh but does anyone here think Zocalo is going to go anywhere?
Why does the rocket tipping over cause a loss of hull integrity? Does that mean that it actually exploded, just from going horizontal?
It's worth it, sat down and watched it last night. They did a really interesting, in-depth presentation including the history, quirks of the trade and video from pen tests.
The EXACTLY 8 characters worries me, because it suggests that they are storing the password in plaintext in an 8 character column.
"it fell over, as planned"... great attribution of the fundamental nature of gravity.

But mad props to SpaceX for working towards recycling their boosters.
Honestly, at this point, "Science" is a wedge issue.
It's also pretty aspecific. Your user agent string is likely to be more specific.
Likely peak and typical power output( order of magnitude difference ), as well as waveform( automotive inverters tend to output square-ish waveforms ).
Different companies can use the same format without colluding. Are you suggesting that in a competitive environment content companies could not afford to anger their customer buy using DRM? These companies believe that they would lose more sales by not having DRM than by having it. Look at GoG vs Steam. GoG gets some bonus points for not having DRM, but having DRM doesn't seem to costing Steam too many sales.
It all factors in. SpaceX has performed grasshopper tests on windy days that would be a problem for a parachute landing. There is also the issue that parachutes sufficient to slow down the stage to a soft land-landing would be far too heavy.
No, I didn't introduce an insult/threat having a relationship. Insulting someone who is in the wrong frame of mind is still not a threat.

I understand that we are simply going to disagree on this, so I won't bother rebutting anything else, but I'd appreciate you not adding context to my own thoughts.
@Ecio, we are different in a few ways:
1) we are monitoring tool agnostic
2) we provide a much better UX than clunky nagios interface
3) unlike event handlers, we provide best practice script templates so that you don't have to figure out entire script yourself
4) finally, we offer rate limiting features for executing scripts (think don't run this action more than 3 times in last one hour).

In a way, neptune is your virtual first-level on call engineer. If we can resolve alerts for you automatically, neptune won't bother you. If action fails for some reason, it's escalated automatically to right on call engineer.
I wonder why more sites don't allow you to create a second read only set of credentials for your account. This would solve a lot of trust issues when using a service like this or say for online banking services like Mint. If you want to stream Netflix/Amazon from an insecure computer would be another use case.
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I've been super impressed with how efficient SpaceX is in getting launches into orbit. I did a visual comparison to the Space Shuttle program. It looks like SpaceX will overtake the Space Shuttle launch efficiency by the end of the year.

http://snag.gy/wUTD7.jpg

sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_shuttle_missions

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_launches
Amazon's product search must be a textbook example of dysfunctional. I always search elsewhere first, because unless I know exactly what I want (or am just browsing), it's hardly possible to narrow down based on product characteristics (there are a few filters, but far to few to really work well).
A glance at the smartphone pricing chart of India tells the story. Xiaomi (pronounced show me) has a reputation for creating high-quality smartphone designs that sell for $250 and below, competing with 80% of the devices sold in India. So does Google’s Android One, which will be sold in India by indigenous manufacturers Micromax, Karbonn, Spice, Celkon and Intex.

There is no place on the chart for the iPhone 5s, priced at $901 in India. Call it the post-iPhone era.
great :) I wonder, how did they find all those logos?
Good point!

It makes you a fullstack developer for sure! :)

I think that a buzzword can be a nice way of communicating the expected role/output between an employee and the employer.

When you advertise that you need a DevOps engineer, you are actually saying that you need someone with a good knowledge of configuration management, cloud operations, good coding skills, etc... (I noted only the tech skills, but the same goes for cultural traits too).

As a "DevOps professional" I unfortunately see that this buzzword is currently being overused. I hope that it is a temporary phase...
Would love to see all this components implemented as web components.

3...
2...
1...
GO!
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> Scala's capabilities are not really comparable to OCaml, which doesn't even have traits.

Yes, it has a bit of everything anyone thought about in FP in it.

However you can make use of traits like feature by mixing in modules and objects, while taking advantage of first class modules in OCaml.

> JavaScript has many influences beyond Self

Sure, but I am unaware of any that make it such a great language.
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Voice commands with via sound. news at 11.
Think belly flops on a rocket scale.
Off-topic: With today's changes to Github I can no longer see a commit diff by clicking on the corresponding SHA in the commits page. Any idea where has that gone?
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Oh, I don't think people are any worse - I just think there's more adherence to the letter of whatever regulations there are now. The principles of zero-tolerance (three strikes...) have been widely applied, regardless of the nuance of some situation.

Note also that it turns out the OP was "fired" but immediately rehired too...
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Yup. The Soyuz landing capsule uses solid fuel retro-rockets at the very last second to slow down, but even then it is apparently a rather unpleasant bump.
> The issue with a lot of procedurally-generated content is that overall things become same-y

Yes. It's easy for a developer to say "trillions of possible combinations" or "every x is unique with a high degree of certainty" but those statements mean very little without seeing the end product.

Creating vast numbers of combinations is completely trivial. E.g. http://jsfiddle.net/JpZ7s/3/ which has ~10 million possible combinations but most are garbage and they're all very samey.

> I'd be really interested in learning about any work in the "interestingness" of procedural content.

Given that selecting "interesting" content from a pool of procedurally generated content is essentially a curation problem, I imagine any such method might also be applied to select potentially interesting content from a pool of human-generated content. As publishing in all media grows easier and easier, curation is going to increase in importance and difficulty.
I can honestly say, picking a new logo for a new business is hard work!

You want something recognizable and unique, represents your brand and message... at all pixel sizes, in greyscale and color, etc. How will this look printed on letterhead? How about in an email signature? What about stretched out for a banner on our building? Is it too similar to someone else's?

With all that said, -- the logos in the article are all pretty generic "safe" logos for more "corporate-like" businesses... which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
So I wrote at the risk of being a self-promotional jerk. Here's the blog post: http://blog.heavybit.com/blog/2014/7/21/video-release-former...
The problem is that the company is afraid that you'll bolt the second you get an offer at the n level again. They'd rather not hire you at all than hire you, invest in you, and then lose you just as quickly afterward.
Maybe a merchant who mostly sells through Amazon anyway and who also has one or two physical stores?
Probably not exploded, just that the lateral stresses that the rocket is designed for.

Rockets have to withstand a lot of different types of forces (axial, all sorts of vibrational, probably hoop type stresses), but massive lateral shocks aren't really one of them.
I agree wholeheartedly with hnnewguy.

He doesn't care. I don't care. Nobody cares.

Our complete and utter lack of an emotional reaction to your attempt to provoke is conclusive evidence that this sort of thing is simply not a big deal.

You are just wrong.

Grow up already.
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Those figures shouldn't come as a surprise to me nor anyone else. However just seeing them really drives home how small their computer business is relative to their i-devices.

Even if their Macs are more profitable (and I have my doubts) they cannot cover over eight times more units. Plus Apple double dips on their i-devices, also making a little bit more from the App store and other digital content sales.
Which is a refutation of the idea in the essat that the best engineering happens when there are no constraints.
> You are saying very confusing things.

So you admit that you just cannot understand.

Ha!
> You can have a local police department without existing in a police state.

Feel free accepting a local police department dedicated solely for policing you located inside your own house. Or for example, imagine yourself with ball and chain, or some kind of electronic device attached which limits what you can do in your own house as if you are a criminal. Others find it completely unacceptable. That's exactly why it's police state like and it seems that you don't get the point.
wow, it's improvement from last year. This engine just keeps running.
Actually, the Founding Fathers did consider anonymity to be an essential component of free speech, which is why they published the Federalist Papers anonymously.

TL;DR You're wrong.
The scientific journal “Interciencia” has been hijacked by cyber-criminals
Ask HN: What a senior dev looks on a job proposal
Now a days, what are the main issues that makes a senior dev change work place? Salary? Company size/reputation etc?
Good job equating death threats with what some easily offended pearl-clutcher thinks is a sexist joke.
Well it's open source, you can host it yourself too.
Nope, they just reappropriated the quote.