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by diafygi 8y ago
And I hate the fact that I can't trust the network to not modify your sites when I visit them. So I guess we can both be mad together. Remember that https offers both privacy and integrity, so even if you don't care about the pr
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by diafygi 8y ago
I feel like you're looking for a hole to poke. It seems pretty obvious that R&D funding is still good even when existing technologies are good-enough-to-deploy-in-mass. Ford got past the R&D stage for the Model-T a long time ag
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by diafygi 8y ago
1) You're right. Every time VC tries to get involved in energy, they lose their shirt (with some rare exceptions). Luckily, there are many other more established funding options in energy (strategics, grants, private equity, experience
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by diafygi 8y ago
It varies, but by and large we do not have arbitrary access to utility customer data. For most utilities, customers are empowered to give written authorization for a party to act on their behalf to access/manage their utility data, so
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by diafygi 8y ago
Yes, I agree that software engineering is still in its infancy compared to other engineering fields. I always keep in mind the final passage of They Write the Right Stuff (1996): "And that’s the point: the shuttle process is so extreme
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by diafygi 8y ago
Howdy! Thanks for the links. I didn't mean to come off as so fatalistic. I'm still very optimistic about our future, whether or not other people in tech participate (it will just take longer, and we'll suffer more consequence
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Sorry to Bother You Has an Eerily Familiar Villain(theatlantic.com)
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by diafygi 8y ago
Heh, seems like a good adaptation for the old saying. Politics and regulation is like third rail of tech, no one wants to touch it. But that's where the power is.
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by diafygi 8y ago
Here's a comment on what specific software needs there are in distributed solar[1], and here's a comment on where to look around for interesting energy companies that may be hiring software engineers[2]. [1]: https://ne
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We're building an API to interact with utilities. Most interactions with utilities (data requests, interconnection requests, etc.) are still manual processes, adding significant customer acquisition and asset management costs and slowi
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by diafygi 8y ago
Most of the supercomputers in energy are currently at grid operators (in California, it's called CAISO[1]). Lots of interesting neural networks stuff being done to drive the energy futures wholesale markets and grid services events. Th
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by diafygi 8y ago
My favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!" I have a startup in cleantech software, and often I feel very alone on HN. Every time the energy transition or
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by diafygi 8y ago
If he says he doesn't remember his passcode, won't six months in jail pretty much guarantee that he will never remember it? I forget my passwords all the time if I don't use them frequently. It's like muscle memory, so e
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by diafygi 8y ago
A lot of people watch physical TVs, even if they don't watch "TV". This is about tracking what people are watching on the physical device, no matter the source. If I watch a Blu-ray or Netflix, my smart TV will still send a f
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by diafygi 8y ago
Correct, this strategy has been best practice for a while now. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258 (Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack)
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by diafygi 8y ago
Can anyone who has used pyup.io give a review? I'm curious to hear an on-the-ground experience.
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by diafygi 8y ago
How about fighting climate change? We are currently transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables. The problem now isn't the technology, but the scaling. How do we go from <5% renewables to >90%? Solving that scaling problem invo
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by diafygi 8y ago
My favorite climate change joke: "They say we won't act until it's too late... Luckily, it's too late!"
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by diafygi 8y ago
Does this work? https://diafygi.github.io/svg-font-to-svg-sprite-converter/e...
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by diafygi 8y ago
In the talk, there's a parallel drawn between the nuclear industry 60 years ago and big data now, where the nuclear was originally touted as a miracle cure for everything, then disasters happened, then it never really got over the stig
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by diafygi 8y ago
I love how some of the tech industry is beginning to see data as a liability rather than an asset. It dramatically reduces the ability for government mass surveillance for two reasons: 1. If companies only collect what they need (to reduce
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by diafygi 8y ago
Don't system wide ad blockers rely on using a VPN to block ad traffic? Wouldn't that mean that you could just install the OpenVPN app and use a special ad-blocking proxy?
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Show HN: Printer-Friendly Diceware(github.com)
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It requires GPG, so you need a neo/v4
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Let's Encrypt has an account keypair you use to sign your API requests when issuing a certificate. Does anyone use their OpenPGP key as their letsencrypt account key? How would you convert the signatures from gpg into the jws for the l
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Transcending Oil(transcendingoil.com)
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Show HN: Gethttpsforfree.com (online Let's Encrypt client) wildcard support(gethttpsforfree.com)
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by diafygi 9y ago
Right, so how can I decrypt the chats you sende email notifications about if my base pgp key is on a smartcard?
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by diafygi 9y ago
I've tried, but it still doesn't support yubikeys/smartcards. So people send me messages on keybase chat, but I can't decrypt them :(
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by diafygi 9y ago
> From their own privacy policy: https://samba.tv/legal/privacy-policy/ they track what you watch, when you watch it, your location, your interactions with other apps. And they share this with... well, everyone

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