skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like the DoD asking for bids for a support for a product, which can only be legally fulfilled by the authors of the product--instead of considering replacing the product where more than one can actually bid for it.
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Haha, I pay $.30AUD/kWh, and that's with some discounts. I'll be looking into solar panels for next year, but alas the government prefers coal and has cut the solar rebates.
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That's the actual intended policy, though, not some undesired side effect. The public policy has been that electricity should be highly taxed, both to encourage conservation and to raise funds for making it cleaner.

It's also, like many things in Denmark, tied in with national industrial policy. Greentech in general, and wind turbines in particular, are seen as an important export sector. So Denmark has an interest in "modeling" the benefits of this technology at home, with the expectation that between Vestas, smart-grid technology, etc., the whole endeavor of associating Denmark with wind energy will not only be "green", but also net-profitable for the country.
I think it is actually 5m. 1m gets pretty close to spy satellite territory. The planet labs lens only has a focal length of <30cm.
In Denmark this is mostly managed by the interconnects with neighboring hydro-heavy grids. On calm days, Sweden releases more water from reservoirs and sells electricity to Denmark; on windy days, it closes the hydro gates and buys cheap electricity from Denmark. Fairly fortunate situation to be near large amounts of hydropower (Sweden gets about 50% of its electricity from hydro).
You did not apply the same level of research to a different field. MRI studies, of, for instance, extraordinary criminals are going to show significant differences from ordinary people. That does not mean their brains are not trained that way.

And, they did provide evidence, citing at the very start of the blurbs from the book a recent study pointing out evidence that empathy parts of these "sociopath" brains did light up under certain conditions. They simply have more control over them then others. But, so do countless non-criminals who also have to forego ordinary emotions and adrenaline reactions as part of their very civil and very social jobs (like cops, surgeons, soldiers, etc).

Anyway, not sure why you would want to dabble in some other fields and expect the same results without equal level of efforts.

I have dual studied comp sec and psychology, and in both instances, been focused on theory, sure, but also results. (To stave insanity in one instance, and to make a living and have some fun in the other. Won't say which one is which.)
Encrypt-Then-MAC just makes sense. If the first thing you do when you receive a blob of encrypted data is check that it's authentic (in constant-time!), the attack surface is greatly reduced.
Several third-party services for reviewing uploaded images have been suggested. I don't argue with their value. But how can one review effectiveness without viewing images? There is stuff that just can't be unseen.
I was sent an e-mail to my .gov address with a code to signup for the service.
It would be really interesting to see what mitigation would be possible if this became a serious problem. I suppose the simplest solution is for the responsible cdns to just buy up all of their bitneighbors.
Ask HN: How to socialize, have friends and date?
I am 30 and have zero friends. I am new in sf and so far I have failed to attract any friends. I have always been people repellent all of my life. No wonder I dont have GF or wife.

Any suggestions on how to change and improve
myself ?
I want to attract people left and right, go on date , enjoy my youth. So far none of this has happened.
I am Indian and used to blame things on my baldness but even after shaving my head I am getting safe result.
Most unhappy person on earth I know is myself.

Any suggestions or hacks to become people magnet and have dates ? Apps like tinder make it incredibly hard for ugly guys like me ,tbh.
If you want feedback on your project or startup, you need to do a "Show
HN:..." post. You can find all of the current "Show HN" posts under
"show" in the top menu, and you can find the rules for doing your own
"Show HN:" post here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This subject is often poorly described, because it's usually written about by historians, not engineers. Here's
a more realistic view.

1765. Steel is rarer than titanium is now. Cast iron is available, but brittle and of variable quality. Welded seams are a long way in the future. Building a pressure vessel is hard, and building one that won't blow up is harder. Newcomen's engine is an incredibly inefficient one. It's not really driven by steam power at all; it uses steam and water to create a partial vacuum, so that atmospheric pressure pushes the very leaky piston into the partially evacuated cylinder.

Watt realized that cooling the cylinder on every cycle was just silly. Exhaust the steam for cooling elsewhere. (If you've got the water, don't even bother condensing it. Few steam locomotives carried condensers and thus required huge amounts of water.) He also used a little steam pressure on the cylinder; not much, only a few PSI. That was possible with machining no better than that used for Newcomen engines.

To go better than that, you have to have better boilers (ones that don't leak or blow up) and cylinders that don't leak so badly. One of the early specs for a cylinder/piston fit was that they should fit well enough that a shilling coin couldn't be pushed between them.

The next big breakthrough was when Wilkenson, who had a cannon-boring business and knew how to make a big accurate round hole in iron, got one of Watt's engines for his cannon foundry. Wilkenson saw how badly the thing leaked and how poorly the piston fit the cylinder. He realized that if he used his cannon-boring machine to make a steam engine cylinder, the engine would leak far less and do far more work. So he did, and cut a deal with Watt to make cylinders.

That made steam engines much more cost-effective and more widely useful, and launched the steam era. The next century was about getting the temperatures and pressures up without boiler explosions.
Depending on the answer to my question, it is totally relevant.

> but on the long run eco tech wins the race

Fine, but if some cleaner alternative is developed over the carbon repayment period, we could in fact be better off sticking with the current technology until then.
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Hello,

I am thinking on working on some personal project to build a mobile app to listen to your emails. Not sure if there are similar app available in the market. I know one of them is swipeapp which is no longer available. And another one is Text'n'drive but haven't tried either.

I just want to make sure that nothing similar already available before proceeding.
Related: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/spotify-washington-lob...
Yes, there is more than the per-kilowatt-hour figure. There is a fixed charge for being connected to the public grid. That connection, here in Denmark, is mandatory, by the way.

But apart from that, there's nothing more. That's the cost I see, that's the price I have to pay. And I do mean HAVE to pay. Going off the grid, producing my own electricity, will only get me into taxational hot water and possibly fines.
Also, most of the corporate people still have forced IE installed on their work laptops. SPAs do generally break in IE.
Seriously, or only joking? That's interesting. How did you measure it?
I wonder if the root cause here isn't the almost unlimited availability of government student loans but how we're raising children.

Particularly in the developed world the trend seems to be that we raise children telling them the whole way that they're smart, they're amazing and they are entitled to pretty much everything.

The problem is we're complementing what children (ostensibly) are rather than what they do. This is really damaging:

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

I remember seeing this:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/24/pf/college/student-debt-1000...

Here's an example:

> Salvagin dreamed about being an actress, and even studied to be one. But she has put aside her dreams, and has taken on two jobs -- as an executive assistant at an advertising agency and at a nonprofit doing events -- to pay off her debt load.

> She's managed to lighten it a little -- Salvagin graduated with $95,000 of debt.

What possessed anyone (who obviously can't afford it) to spend ~$100k at a private school to study acting?

Louis CK talks about entitled 20 year olds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTaZkf4dih8

> You know why, because you're 20. That's why. Because you're a 20 year and you have no idea how the world works. Because you think you deserve better. You think you're too interesting a person to have a shitty job. Every 20 year old that I encounter behind the counter gives me that look. "This job sucks." Yeah, that's why we gave it to you. Because you're 20, which is a mathematical guarantee that you have no skills and nothing to offer anybody in the world. You're 20. For 2 decades you've been taking and sucking up. Education and love and food and ipods. Just sucking it up and judging it.

Is it really any wonder that no thought goes into how much earning potential you have before spending 6 figures on a private school to study art history?
PhotoDNA is the gold standard for this. I tried to get access to this via the NCMEC to use with Neocities, but the process was, frankly, very convoluted. I signed at least 10 forms and still didn't end up getting what I needed.

I'm happy that Microsoft is providing this as a free service. It's going to be a lot less painful for me to use it than to figure out how to run my own (or in this case, figure out how to even get it).
> Strange if they'd never seen this one studying programming language history

Read this summary of Robert Griesemer's talk (The Evolution of Go) then you don't have to speculate: https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123645585015
Exactly my point. It has never been a good idea to use something like a social security number and the high school you graduated from to authenticate you as a person. But no one gives a shit because it works for the majority. But most importantly, because that problem isn't being addressed by anyone. Securing a bunch of G employee's information is much less exciting than building the newest SaaS app that gets a few million in funding.
Nobody who actually uses psychology seriously takes, lol, "psychopathy" as a serious label. Even the name is obvious to them "ill mental". Not exactly byzatine etymology, lol...
I use the term sometimes, and have approved of some others of using it sometimes. As a brief epitaph that quickly describes some assholes disposition, lol.
But, besides it not being in the DSM, and nevermind the fact the DSM is its' self sketchy in many ways... lol... (I could list some of the newer ones they have come up with which are absurd, though I do not discount the value of the book)... the book, its' self, warns against taking these labels strictly.
It works great for helping to consolidate observations and experiments, for medicating well understood and common conditions or treating them otherwise... but it the authors were never so stupid so as to even begin to suggest the book should be an encyclopedia of labels 'written in stone'. Not, anyway, since I have been looking at it, since, like 82. :/
FYI, it also starts right off citing a recent - and important - study showing the traditional classification of "psychopath" is inaccurate and they could get traditionally defined sociopaths shown as having the capacity of empathy. Just they are turning it off at the wrong times, and probably too much.
Getting adrenaline to kick in with them is something besides the 'lack of empathy' aspect, and I bet such studies would show it is pretty trivial to get adrenaline to kick in even in the most hardened "psychopaths"...
I looked right at the domain name, cotse.com, said to myself, "that sure looks real familiar..." and still failed to remember it. On a second look, it finally dawned on me, "Church of the Swimming Elephant!"
Did you read my post that started this thread? :)
I've been pondering a lot lately about the question: "what took them so long?". Why wasn't the printing press already invented/discovered by the Romans? Electricity? The Newton laws? The modern University? The steam engine? And on a related note, how come there are these "golden eras" where science advanced tremendously in certain regions at certain times (e.g. Germany 1871-1914 with Planck, Einstein, Röntgen, to name just a few)
I have some ideas, but would welcome your comments/sources...
don't be sad. how can one appreciate your comment, if he can't even recognize the meaning of the formulae at the hackchat homepage?
Hey Scott,

This is my perspective, and shouldn't be taken as the be all, end all of marketing. I'm also not very good at communicating, so I'm sorry that I've done a bad job.

First, deal with Google. Given your felony conviction, and the shitty college rag stories about your arrest, you need to mount simple, positive PR campaign. Create a website S....tA....ski.com, and an about.me page. Maybe a twitter, @S....tA....ski, and a Discuss account. On these properties, you'll need to communicate a very fluffy image, where you say nice things about yourself. The goal being to push the old, no good stories off the front page of google.com

Marketing is about finding an audience, and communicating the value you provide to them.

From what I've seen of ParIni, it looks like you're hanging your shingle as a web app developer who's super focused on security. That's great, now you need to find an audience.

You know much more about your market than I do, but a really great resource I've found has been forums that contain people who could be your customers. One mistake I've made is to find forums of people who are more like me, than my customers. In your case, it could be app-sec developers. The focus should be on people who own, or need app-sec.

Now that you've found a forum of potential customers, you want to create an account(use a personal name, not corporate), set up some keyword alerts, and lurk. For app-sec, keyword alerts could be something like bcrypt, or scrypt, or heartbleed. You'll know best what keywords to use.

After you've seen how the forum works, understand the lingo, and decorum, start being a positive contributor. When someone asks a question, write a good answer. If the forum allows it, answer old, unanswered questions. Be as helpful as possible, and you will be seen as an expert in this community.

As you gain status, people will mention you when they need someone with your expertise. Gradually, people will find your posts, and reach out to you asking for help. These people are now leads, and you did a marketing.

One thing to keep in mind is that you don't go from maligned employee to $XY,000 per week over night. You're going to want to think of smaller steps, how do I go from maligned employee to someone giving me a dollar for doing app-sec.

As for specific resources, read the books, 'Double Your Freelancing Rate', and 'Double Your Freelancing Clients'. Both books really teach some fundamental skills that are not intuitive. The main thing I got from 'Rate' was how to practice empathy with my clients.
Does it really matter if you pull a USB out before it safely ejects?
Yes. Based on what I've read, abusers typically trade with other abusers in more private ways.
See also Bob Harper's blog for a more leisurely exposition:

https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/27/the-holy-tr...
Another aspect worth considering, which I haven't seen mentioned yet, is that this database clearly fits the standard criteria for Top Secret classification (potential to cause "exceptionally grave harm" if compromised). I really think Archuleta and Seymour should be brought up on criminal charges for mishandling information that should have been classified Top Secret and likely also should have been associated with a special-access program. Even if the records for an individual person don't rise to that level, 20-ish million of them together absolutely do.

That's 1/15 of the entire population of the nation. There just are no words for the asininity of storing all of that data in a single database in the first place, IMO - let alone a database that is actually accessible through any number of network pivots from the internet.
Why they should be banned? You know that you can just stay away.
I'm totally with this, the idea that no market for 'excess' electric will appear doesn't pass the sniff test. A paper I read discussed a pilot plant in the 50's that produced iron from sulfide ores. Certainly sounds like a process that can consume excess power without much trouble provided that situation happens frequently enough.

http://www.ulcos.org/en/docs/Ref03%20-%20Electrowinning%20-%...

'High purity iron was produced, with a current yield of 85% and a power consumption of 4.25 kWh/kg iron'

Far as I can tell, 1 GW for an hour would produce ~250 tons of iron.
Hey, thanks for taking the time to respond. I appreciate that, truly. :)

Re: Forums... I neglected to mention that I've sort of already done this in StackOverflow, which had a lot of old questions with a plethora of insecure answers (esp. cryptography advice).

I've managed to clean up the most popular ones (at least as far as Google search results go as a metric for popularity) and discovered a pocket of the developer community that cares about security I didn't know existed in the process.

As far as my personal/legal name goes, I'd rather just give up on that front. There's no way I can legitimately compete with the SEO resources of the news agencies that, several years later, still top the Google search rankings for my name. I'd rather just do a lot of good things under Paragon's name and make that something worth recommending. My name? A lost cause.

I'll start saving up for those books. Thanks for the recommendation.
Aside from the fact that JavaScript is often poorly written, I generally don't want untrusted code running on my computer.
That's all good -fine. If she did wrong, let the company deal with it. They hired her. But here she's been left out to dry. Totally different from Toyota where an executive smuggled prescription drugs into Japan[1] and the company stood by her --she stepped down once she understood the implications of her transgression in the eyes of Japanese law.

But this is not the company firing her --it's the internet firing her. I don't like this approach at all. management by popular opinion is not good. Imagine managing a professional sports team by popular vote --it'd be nuts.

[1]http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-toyota-executiv...
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As far as I'm aware the EU is the only jurisdiction without a liability cap for airlines. Presumably you think that's because planes are dangerously unsafe too?
Can someone give me an absolute layman explanation to homotopy type theory (and why it's so interesting)? I'm hearing about it everywhere, but most of the introductions to the subject assume the reader is already familiar with either type theory or category theory.
Can someone give me an absolute layman explanation to homotopy type theory (and why it's so interesting)? I'm hearing about it everywhere, but most of the introductions to the subject assume the reader is already already familiar with either type theory or category theory.
NASA also needs hardware to operate under extreme conditions. For example, anything that goes into orbit is going to have a significantly increased likelihood of a gamma ray burst (because it's no longer protected by the atmosphere). I'd also imagine that they have a much lower tolerance for faults than your average consumer machine as well (because they're doing things that are much more critically important).
Would it be enough to report content flagged by other users as CP? Is there a requirement to review content before submission? That's not something I'd ever want to do. I don't think that I'd want to pay someone else to do it either.
Function.prototype.partialApply, how to make JavaScript functions lazy
I think a few minutes of research would leave you amazed at the number of liability caps for all sorts of things you do...
Extensive discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9857250
It is depraved and cynical to suggest that the purpose of a college should be job-training. This is a wholly american idea, and a shitty one at that.

The purpose of college is to make one educated. If one wants to study art history, then one should study art history. One can easily build up skills on the side to complement one's education (I did programming on the side with my philosophy major and have a great job).

Ideally (and as it happens in civilized countries) the state should be paying for an education, and students should study just whatever they damn please. College shouldn't cost 6 figures in the first place.
SF apartment rent for a studio perhaps. This is a house, a hanger, offices, a runway, and some metalworking supplies. How much is that in SF?
"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."

The article makes the point that one small country which has invested extensively in the technology was able to fill its electricity generation needs on one specific day. Now, I'm not going to minimize that -- it's an impressive demonstration of what wind power can do under optimum conditions. But it says absolutely nothing about the practical replacement of fossil fuels and nuclear worldwide, including in nations that aren't nearly as well situated to take advantage of wind energy as Denmark, or which aren't wealthy enough to build and subsidize expensive wind infrastructure.

"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?"

Why would any industry, no matter how safe, turn down a government-provided liability cap? If the government was willing to put a liability cap on Nerf guns, I guarantee you that Hasbro would happily go along with it, and most likely fight to keep it once in place.
Also funny which trumps both even if true.
> Go began with Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. “What should a modern programming language look like” (the story goes as they were waiting for some C++ to compile).

Cute. Nice to keep a dig[1] going. Since that horse has been kicked quite a few times over the years, how about those in the Go community address these language criticisms:

http://yager.io/programming/go.html

For specific examples from the aforementioned link:

The "correct" way to build generic data structures
in Go is to cast things to the top type and then
put them in the data structure. This is how Java
used to work, circa 2004.

And:

Go has the null pointer (nil). I consider it a
shame whenever a new language, tabula rasa,
chooses to re-implement this unnecessary
bug-inducing feature.

Of which the latter has been regretted by its inventor[2] for years.

1 - "[C++] certainly has its good points. But by and large I think it's a bad language." (source: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson)

2 - http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2015/tony-hoare-sorry-fo...
According to the OPM's web site[0], notifications for the first breach they announced have been completed, and notifications for this newly announced one have not yet begun (see the end of bullet point 2).

I don't believe they have officially decided yet what sort of remedy they will offer either - I'm really hoping it'll be a lot more than the 18 months they offered for the first one. A period measured in decades would be more appropriate.

[0]https://www.opm.gov/cybersecurity/