skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See renewables as fossil fuel saving addition to the grid. Yes, you need conventional power generation to cover the worst case scenario. Yes, it will make the power grid more expensive. No, it will not make it less stable if configured properly. Every Joule generated by a renewable source saves a Joule from fossil fuels for future use. Every Joule saved on fossil fuels means less import (for most countries). So, financially for most countries, renewables are like a savings account which pays back over the next twenty years.
How can I have evidence for an opinion other than expressing it?
This hypothetical sounds so divorced from reality, it's kind of tough to imagine that anyone would think of it as reflective of poor people's reality.

I'm saying, if you're living on $800 a month, and you get that sweet, sweet EITC money, you're going to use it to buy a new sofa, since your brother puked all over your sofa one night and you could never really get the smell out, and get all your bills current.

You might say that the stink of puke is worth putting up with, and the hypothetical poor person should pay for two credits of an associate's degree at the community college instead, which, ok, education is great, but the real reality is that for a lot of people, it's just not possible to work harder or earn your way out of poverty.

Not because of bad choices (e.g. living high on the hog from their magic $10,000 lottery ticket), but because low-end jobs in this country are unlivable and there's a whole cottage industry built up around screwing the poor with extra fees on every transaction they face throughout the day.

The solution isn't to tell poor people to put up with the puke smell and work their way through a 20-year associate's degree two credits at a time, so they can make 30c more. The solution is to make the economy work for them, as well as it works for those of us posting here.
I would love to have answer to this question. If I stay in my current position doing support/changes for next 4-5 years, would that mean my chances of being hired be high?
Renewables are more than capable of substituting the fossil fuel energy generation ecosystem and the nuclear energy generation ecosystem. I think this article makes that point pretty clearly.

And, like I said, I'll be convinced of nuclear power's true safety as soon as the industry puts its money where its mouth is and the liability cap becomes history.

After all, if it were as riskless as they tell us it is, they would be happy to see it go. Right?
It's possible to post a perfectly calm, sensible, well-argued comment in one place, and post a spiteful, obscenity-filled rant in another place (or possibly the same place), so, yes. If you want to get fancy, you can use two computers and click "submit" on both simultaneously, so, yes, you can, even for pedantic definitions of "while".
I used to work at a spam company and we did this and similar techniques.

One similar technique was we basically created our own fake ISPs, disguised as rural wireless Internet providers. Paid yearly ARIN fees, had or own /20 blocks of IP space allocated, etc. We specifically requested ip filtering completely removed from our peering connection with major upstream/backbone ISPs. They did so without question. This allowed us to source route any IP out to the Internet. Then, we would purchase large blocks of IPs (a couple of /20s a month) from Romania and Argentina. We would create GRE tunnels over to RO and route them back to the US. It's been years since I was involved so my memory of the technical details is hazy now...
The problem is mostly discussed in Germany in context of north vs. south - the north with the coast and all its wind parks, and the energy-hungry, industry-rich south. Right niw the solution is to build new power lines, but that spawned a huge political debate (NIMBY). Power lines are about as unpopular as new freeways, and there is a risk of court cases dragging on for years, stalling the energy transition program. The compromise right now is to spend more tax money and use underground cables in densely populated or otherwise sensitive areas (e.g. nature reserves).
Contracting would be nice but wouldn't it be stressful looking for work every time project is finished?
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Ask HN: Website Ideas from various API?
Any website Ideas which I can create using various APIs like youtube API, flickr API, Bing Search API, Google Trends API, Amazon/ebay product APIs, IMDB APIs.

what about using Analytics - before or After invoking the APIs?
I am also reading NLP use cases which I can use.
Share your ideas
Your safest bet is running a system where you have no way of knowing what users upload. Depending on jurisdiction, reviewing and moderating content may increase your civil and/or criminal liability. There's typically a "safe harbor" for service providers. You just need to respond to LEA and DMCA takedown requests.

Edit: Other advantages: 1) you never risk viewing stuff that you can't unsee; and 2) you outsource content review to concerned users and other third parties.
Of course it is. This is just a subsidy that is very well hidden compared to the rest of them.

Unlike all of those renewables subsidies. They get a disproportionate amount of attention.
I browse /r/all occasionally to get out of the bubble of the subs I'm subscribed to. And sometimes there is a popular post in an obscure subreddit that I've never heard of before and get that gets me to subscribe.
AFAIK the database of hashes is maintained by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who unfortunately do have to deal with the disheartening task of viewing some of that stuff.
Financially it is, at least in the short term.

Australia has a lot of coal (no need to import raw material).

Australia has coal mining companies (no need to import technology).

CO2 is only a global problem, the coal which Australia burns won't make a big dent in the effects and the cost is shared globally.

So, financially it totally makes sense to use up the local resources first. At least in the short term until these resources get scarce.

In the long term, saving resources may be the wiser option. E.g. have coal plants on standby most of the time while solar and wind supply the grid. Then you can export some of the coal or save it for future generations.
So your entire point is that there is nothing a CEO can do, ever, that would let an outsider form an opinion on how effective they are.

And even if I was an employee; well there are always disgruntled employees, their opinion isn't reasonable either.

These are absurd arguments. By the same logic, the CEO of whole foods could hold a press conference and just go on a racist, hateful rant, and I couldn't possibly have a meaningful opinion on their effectiveness as a CEO.

In any event, the people I meant who did have the internal data weren't employees, I meant their board of directors.

And is it possible that a CEO is really awesome, but really really unlucky, and it just _looks_ like they are bad at their job outwardly? Sure, there is some non-zero chance of this; much like there is some non-zero chance of damn near anything.

Perfect information is an impossible ideal; arguing that a rational opinion is impossible regardless of any circumstance since we don't have access to all the information which exists would imply that no person can have a rational opinion about anything, ever.
> Revealing the name of a covert agent can jeopardize their life and the lives of others. The claim that it's an "open secret" doesn't exactly hold water (being an oxymoron and all).

He did not leak the name of just any random agent, but the name of an agent directly involved in the torture program:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/us/ex-officer-for-cia-is-s...

> In October, Mr. Kiriakou pleaded guilty to one charge of violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act when he disclosed to a reporter the name of an agency officer who had been involved in the C.I.A.’s program to hold and interrogate detainees.

Edward Snowden knowingly intentionally leaked thousands/millions of classified intelligence documents to reporters.

What do both of these men have in common?

They both worked for a government that refused to hold its own criminals accountable.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/us/former-cia-officer-plea...

> In 2010, Justice Department officials overruled a recommendation by its ethics office to sanction for professional misconduct the Bush-era lawyers who wrote those memos, and decided not to charge C.I.A. officials for destroying interrogation videotapes. Then in August, Mr. Holder announced that no one would be prosecuted for the deaths of a prisoner in Afghanistan in 2002 and another in Iraq in 2003, eliminating the last possibility of criminal charges by officials who carried out brutal interrogations in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

And let me check http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com .... still showing "NO". And that's for a man who is taped on YouTube as having committed perjury before congress!

When the government refuses to obey the law it is saying that there are two laws: one for them, and one for us.

Under these circumstances what are you supposed to do?

The definition of a whistleblower is someone who finds themselves in such circumstances. Ethically responsible government employees have no choice but to go outside the system so that the criminals within the system have some shred of a chance of being held accountable. Without names there is no accountability, and without accountability the government will continue to commit crimes with impunity.
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What kind of "degree" do they use to measure temperatures?
Why would they self report it then?
A year offline, what I have learned
In Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, Canada and Washington, USA at least, I am certain that company that builds a wind farm gets a contract where some entity guarantees they will buy all of the power the wind farm will produce at a pre-determined rate(s). Otherwise nobody would put up the money to build the wind farm.

You are correct that new renewable plants never have to pay to export excess power, but conventional generation such as old-hydro, gas, nuclear, coal, etc that don't have sweetheart contracts with the government do have to contend with negative prices, and the system does have to pay someone to take that power. Then the local rate payers through some non obvious lumped in "market operating charge" or other mechanism end up paying for that power they didn't use.

You could feather the blades, but at least in the markets I've worked in they never would.

edit: Actually, the ratepayers don't pay to get rid of the energy they didn't use, the generators that generated it at a negative price have to pay for not being able to shut down.
"Did we learn nothing from the 2008 housing bubble?"

there is an old saying--it is hard to get a man to understand something when not understanding is vital to his livelihood.

In other words, many of the rich and powerful people and institutions that own, control and influence the media, and on whose support the corporate media requires, make their living off the higher education scam.

This "economy" depends on americans going into debt.

The corporate media is not going to be too hard on or notice too much about this scam.
In Germany, the private consumer pays for all the additional cost imposed by renewables while the industry still gets the old tariffs. Naturally, because a small fraction of consumers need to cover the whole cost, normal people see a much higher bill.
This random security site that I have not vetted at all says the site loads a file containing suspicious javascript "show_ads.js"

http://www.quttera.com/detailed_report/torrentz.eu
I completely agree with you. That was nothing but a lazy search. I'm not heavily invested in the sub. However to claim the sub's intent is to be "diametrically opposed to SRS' is incorrect. It has not war against SRS. It's a watch dog.
OP said "API", and refers to many thousands of images which need to be evaluated. It seems like he is pointing out here that this problem is unlikely to have a completely algorithmic solution, and if it does, the solution is probably not to spam the police with tens of thousands of criminal accusations against his customers that have never been vetted by a human.

Whether or not this is moral is irrelevant if it's not scalable. How about automated flagging of images for moderator review, and thinking about ways to reward or remunerate the moderators?

CV age detection should really be a thing, if it isn't already. Maybe there's an opportunity there if it's not already done, or way too hard?
You mean the same mob rule that HN seemed to support to make sure Brandon Eich lost his CEO position?
They demonstrated why it's not safe. No private insurer is willing to take the risk. If it was safe, then someone would see the opportunity to profit by insuring nuclear plants -but anybody who looks at the technology realizes they could end up having to spend on the order of a trillion+ in the event of a major disaster, and so walk away unless they have their liability capped at some small number.

Their point is very good - as soon as private insurers feel comfortable insuring nuclear power plants, then we have some evidence that nuclear energy is becoming more safe.
This seems highly unlikely (without further evidence) to have a global effect anywhere on the level of climate change, and if it's part of the solution to that problem, I'll take it.
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Denteractive: Text and Video Chat with Dentists
I can't see how anyone could describe nuclear power as 'problematic'. At best you could argue that the shitty reactor designs from the 1960s don't always endure outrageous levels of incompetence and systemic corruption.

Chernobyl was an onion of layered stupidity and incompetence. (Fun fact: eleven reactors of the same core design as Chernobyl are still operational today. Eleven. Today.)

In the case of Fukushima, it took a one-two punch of the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history and an absolutely catastrophic tsunami in order for TEPCO's incompetence to become a problem.

Though it may not seem it, you can make a statistical case for nuclear power being among the safest forms of electricity production per unit of energy. Burning fuels for power kills tens of thousands of people every year. Hydro dam failure has the blood of hundreds of thousands on its hands. Workers fall off wind turbines and rooftops -- rarely, but it's statistically significant compared to the unit output.
"Earlier today, the Chernobyl power plant has fulfilled its 5-years plan of thermal energy generation in just 150 milliseconds"

Talk about mad swings.
We just launched an app to find and interact with dentists, including text messaging and video chat. In emergencies, the first dentist online will be able to respond and evaluate your issues. HIPPA compliant document transfer capabilities and search by insurance types. Would appreciate your feedback. - Denteractive product team
Yes, yes, yes. Not only Google Fonts, and not only China.

Jurisdictions

Anywhere where internet filtering is done leads to the risk that non-self-hosting (i.e. giving responsibility for delivery to a 3rd party) leads to a denial or degradation of service. This might even be somewhere in your neighborhood.

3rd parties:

Avoid CDNs (or run your own CDN) unless you only care about delivery to where you are/where places similar to you are.

Fonts: Self-host, or just use a stack of commonly installed fonts.

Analytics: Google Analytics is useless when Google is disrupted. Got visitors from China/other? Your analytics don't show them. Use something like Piwik that can be self hosted [and leave you in control of your data].

Media: Link to a picture or video? Self host, again. Multiple media hosts are blocked across multiple jurisdictions.

Anything else: Self-host if you care about delivery. Use 3rd parties when you're happy to not have delivery happen in cases that are felt not important enough to care about.
The Oil and Coal industry have massive subsidies, and not just the environmental externalities.
Ask HN: How to socialize , get friends and date?
Question is simple yet very important for me to figure out. I am almost 30 and I have zero friends at the moment.
I had few friends with whom I have cut all contact because most of them always insulted and acted phony with me. Unfortunately , 1 or 2 good friends are also got cut out because of it.

I have moved to SF last October and so far failed to get any single friend. It's incredibly hard to get someone to have casual drink here in SF.

It's of course catch 22. No one hangs out with me because I don't have friends and I don't have friends because no one hangs out with me.

I am Indian by ethnicity. I came to US 8 yrs back to get my masters degree. Although I take of my personal hygiene, smell good I have failed to attract people.

I don't have GF ( never had , tbh ) or wife. Loneliness is killing me.
It's so so true that money does not buy happiness.

What can I do to have friends ?
What can I do to have date and possibly get married ?
I disagree with the statement that highly variable sources of generation won't make the grid less stable. The more non-dispatchable variable generation there is the more quickly dispatchable firm generation you need to make up for the power which can suddenly disappear. Electricity systems use the frequency in the short time frame to determine if more or less power is required, big changes in generation cause changes in the frequency, which is one aspect of grid stability.

good points otherwise!
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But natural ecosystems have a very stringent natural selection operating, so you always end up with diversity that represents an objective improvement, something that isn't guaranteed when diversity is driven by a company's philosophical notion of justice.
Like most forms of human behaviour, if you add enough resistance, people generally start looking for alternatives. With that in mind, I would suggest you consider a service similar to Mechanical Turk to perform random checks on images, and ban any accounts the violate your terms.

Using a service like this (perhaps not MTurk exactly, i'm not sure how they feel about this content type being reviewed on their service) you could identify how long it takes until you can trust an account, to reduce your expenses associated with the filtering of traffic.

Sadly, not this is not a free option (Probably 1c per image + MTurk commissions), but I imagine eventually you can optimize the process to a point where either you spend very little reviewing images, or you hit a critical mass of a user base that the site can moderate itself.
Because the sheeple are bleating.
Same error on connect here, same problem with not being able to get the Steam programs to see each other.
GitHub How To: https://developer.github.com/guides/basics-of-authentication...
And the OpenID Connect standard (essentially OAuth V2 + identity service): http://openid.net/connect/
FTC exploring Apple rules for streaming music rivals in App Store
These are the costs you are paying for having a better and cleaner future not only for yourselves but also the next generation. Nothing wrong with that.
Make sure you qualify what "most expensive" means. Here in California, we have some of the highest electric rates in the United States but also some of the lowest electric bills [1]. Saying we have "expensive" energy requires defining what that metric is; sure, CA loses on energy rates but I'll argue the rate is a questionable metric at best. I have no idea what the situation is in Denmark, of course, but there's more than the per-kilowatt-hour figure.

For the curious, California achieves this by a regulatory measure called "decoupling": a utility's profits are not connected to how much raw energy it sells. In particular, CPUC (the statewide utility regulator) lets electric utilities, both municipal (e.g. SMUD) and investor-owned (e.g. PG&E), charge higher rates if they implement energy efficiency or demand-side management measure to reduce total demand, allowing the utility to maintain about the same level of profitability but at reduced energy consumption. It's pretty cool.

[1] in 2012, from EIA data, CA paid $0.15/kWh rate and $88 average monthly bill mo whereas the national average was $0.12/kWh and $107/mo. Slides from Jane Woodward.
Pretty much, yes - as much as it feels super tingly great inside to feel like you've judged the career effectiveness of that person you don't know, you really don't have much info at all, and this doesn't fall into the extreme argument of "while you know 99% of the things, you technically don't know 100%, so it's unknowable - checkmate!"

And yes, literally it is true that the CEO of whole foods could go on a huge racist rant and you could not have a meaningful opinion on their effectiveness as CEO. Or rather, what you want to say is "in this extreme example, this CEO is clearly ineffective", but we know of morally shitty CEOs who drive huge company growth & profits and are therefore effective CEOs.

Anyway, can you show your work that you were referring to behind your analysis of the magnitude of the damage that the recent reddit blackout did?
Speaking as someone who is also personally affected, I'm actually disappointed by this move. "Heads rolling" doesn't actually imply that the problem is going to be fixed, and until she resigned we at least had someone in charge of the agency who was advocating finding and fixing the problems. The flaws that led to this hack existed long before she was sworn in back in November 2013, and we would hardly know about them today if she hadn't been pushing for security audits of their terrible systems. It seems silly that she resigned for uncovering a major security flaw that she was in no way responsible for creating, and I would much rather have meaningful policy and security changes implemented than merely firing the director of the agency.
Are there actually any sites that do this? It is somewhat interesting.
Something I looked for on this very intriguing site was a reconciliation in my mind between dependent types and higher kinded types. This has been a nagging question since the announcement of Scala moving to the DOT calculus[1].

While this page[2] helped a bit, doing more research unveiled an example put out by Runar here[3].

Has anyone else considered a reasonable method for addressing what higher-kinded types provide currently in a DOT calculus, especially as it pertains to "matching" the type parameters in a higher-kinded type?

1 - http://lampwww.epfl.ch/~amin/dot/fool.pdf

2 - http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/dependent+type+theory

3 - https://gist.github.com/runarorama/33986541f0f1ddf4a3c7
Impulsiveness and Executive Functioning deficits contribute an extreme amount to crime, one of the primary sources of executive functioning ADHD has a number of great treatments. XR Stimulants work, many people in prison have ADHD and wouldn't have been there if they had taken their meds, recently it has become popular to doubt ADHD(See barkley for evidence) it's real and a big deal. The fact that it is so treatable is a miracle. Stop the nonsense.
It is a question worth asking. The biggest risk I see in energy extraction is deep ocean thermal. Where deep cold water is used against shallow warm water, effectively siphoning off a thermal reservoir that has taken hundreds of years to accumulate.
The approach we use for large files in our Python app is to set an X-Accel-Redirect header in a dynamic response to a location protected by the 'internal' directive.

That way your dynamic script is only responsible for access control and generating headers.

Apache supports similar functionality by setting a Location header on a 200 response from a CGI or mod_wsgi script.
Evercookies and supercookies? I've missed something.
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