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It's hard to explain, but with these sort of games your brain "feels" if something is off (a little bit of latency, etc). I get a similar feeling playing instruments. It's quick to adapt to these changes, but the feeling of something being "different" still lingers for a bit.

Used to play (still could if I got back to it) at that difficulty with my keyboard. Got to the point where I could have conversations while playing. I also play guitar so I stopped playing Stepmania to avoid extra strain.
Individual data points don't isolate temporally local events sufficiently.

A better measure would be to chart each season as an error-bar range on a graph and visually compare the averages over time to observe trends. I think you might be able to compare that with data at other observation points (airports are usually a good candidate) to show how things likely looked when they weren't under observation.
A moving speech, but totally tangential to the much more limited request I made.
I think it's all going to depend on how the tenure mechanism is implemented. There's got to be some way for new money to "catch up" to old money within some reasonable time horizon, say 10 years, rather than old money's voting power growing unbounded.
Try to refute any of the arguments presented in the post.
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1. I would make sure to get your main domain setup before showing to any potential buyers the wixsite domain makes it look like a smaller or brand new company vs. appearing much larger than you are.
2. Same goes for the @gmail.com contact email.
3. The Logo seems a bit weak, I would think about using a tool such as Snappa to create a solid / polished one or 99Designs.
4. The main CTA "Call-To-Action" should be focused on the customer and not the "Sunflower Power System" tagline... A more benefit focused statement for the prospect.
5. I would consider blurring the image too, it detracts from the prospect reading the CTA first.
6. As gus_massa said, the photos are a must as well as making sure it does not say "Out-Of-Stock", I would consider saying something along the lines of "Pre-Order" if no stock exists yet or get on "Get on Waiting List".
7. The link under "Contact Us" is very misleading. What do you want accomplish with the prospect? Requesting a quote, a phone call, a pre-order, etc? Make sure your CTA is clear with the one at the top of the page. It keeps the sales message clear.
8. I would change this to a more clear CTA of what you want to accomplish: "And if you feel like it, just fill our 5-min survey!".
9. Having the TypeForm link not attached to a HTML button seems sloppy, I would add a CTA button such as "Request a Quote".
10. The color of the contact button blends in too much, I would make a brand color accent that really pops against your base brand color.
11. Make it clear what a prospect can expect for the subscribe button, right now what is it in for them? I would say something like "To get updates about Sunflower System and news about product developments please subscribe below".
12. The site counter seems very 1990/2000. You want to position yourself to look like a huge company even as a start-up. Especially with this vertical in the market.
13. For the learn more I would develop a whitepaper proving the technology.
14. I would also add testimonials and pictures of the units installed at various sites you have them to build additional trust with the prospects.
Generally I'm a pretty big AWS fan, their work has made my life as a developer much easier. Arguably too easy, I find myself thinking "but then I wouldn't have RDS" far too much lately.

But Lightsail annoys me. It's an implicit admission they are more expensive and complex than they need to be. It's most annoying with regards to their exorbitant network IO costs. For $15 I get how much network IO? Wait $15 wouldn't by me half of that on regular EC2, can I just move everything over to this, nope.

I shouldn't need a spreadsheet to work out if its cheaper to get a VPC interconnect via a third party at a flat rate $/MB/second to bridge my traffic to a second cloud where my network ingres/egress is as much as HALF the cost of AWS.
I don't think I would go so far as to say he faked his data. But he did intentional misrepresent his work to the press and during the TED talk to boost his own status/ego.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/corvidresearch.blog/2015/03/12/...
I believe you are thinking of the Key System (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_System) which crossed the lower deck of the Bay Bridge. Amtrak never crossed it.
Forget poor form. If you can be profitable, go for it.
Wayfair is just a drop-shipper as far as I can tell. They're just middlemen posting pictures and reviews up like everyone else trying to sell cheap crap at a 'discount'.
i used to lurk on 4chan and now absolutely believe that anything with a political angle to it is tainted. (and please tell me why weather is political in the US)
Don’t hire team members like they’re consultants
So few companies are clear about it in their hiring processes, and therefore wind up hiring for all sorts of skills which have at best weak bearing on actual job performance in most roles (eg. brain teaser memorization) that the answer is, empirically, yes.
I'm not sure if there's a common switch with less travel, but you could look into using spacer and/or landing pads to accomplish what you're looking for.
>We must show that the accused, not the accuser, will suffer when a case goes public, and do so by building institutions of support for victims who come forward.

Shouldn't it be "that the one proven guilty will suffer"?

With effective assumption of innocence for accused and accuser.

(No "someone said x did y so x must be guilty" and no "nah, z is just claiming that for attention" without proof)
Yep. Or web proxies; I remember one that was disguised as an educational site, but if you entered the right credentials into the "admin area" login, unlocked a PHProxy instance.

This was also what led me to first install Tor.
We should teach mice (and ants) to negotiate an agreement and stick to it. I would be fine feeding some mice or a lot of ants if they would just stay out of the house!
Shifted my schedule 2 hours earlier so as to get to the office while it's still quiet and get some focus time in.

If there were any offices left in this city that weren't open plan, that would be the next step.
I am with you with the relative movements. Most of the faster songs are fun because they have triplets or alternating patterns that are easy to adapt to once you're used to the pattern.

As for the game you played, it must have been the DDR series. You can't "finish" Stepmania since it's an open source rhythm game where the community has created thousands and thousands of songs to to play.
Or, Friendster not selling their patents to Facebook, and instead collecting license fees from Facebook and others.
The experience of 100 ms latency is definitely noticeable. Ask anyone who's ever ssh'd to a server across a continent or ocean. Empirically, I notice I have a lot more typos in such a situation.
Could be they slashed a bunch of features, but I wouldn't be surprised if they replaced a bunch of homebrewed frameworks with third party equivalents. "Line count" is such a vague measure, it's easy to get counter-intuitive results.
When you say "Full time gig" are you referring to full-time revenue to live on or full-time such as 40 hours a week? I turned my micro SaaS (B2B) company into a full-time gig (After about 12-15 months), it generates around 45K per year of revenue and requires little time to maintain (around 5 hours a month), albeit it took me 750-1,000 hours to build it and another 100-150 hours of customer dev before I could reall dial in the business problem. My other more truly full time gig is a SaaS company (B2B) that generates around 100K and that takes up nearly all of my time (30+ hours a week). They both started as ideas, then on-to side-projects, and finally to full-time gigs. It did take some time and I had to keep coding away until I say enough traction to really know it would evolve though. Does that answer your question?
The telling things are signs like the failure of Georgia's peach harvest; peach trees are sensitive to how much time each year the weather is in certain temperature ranges, and use it as a trigger for their seasonal behaviors.

The number of sufficiently-cool hours each year is now less than half of the historical average:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-a-warm-winter-destr...
> legal fiction that the shares are "owned" by Joe Schmoe, even though all he really has is an attenuated set of contractual rights

What is a stock really, if not "a set of contractual rights"?
Author here! Thanks for the comment. Just for some background info: This book is written for people who want to begin using code as a creative tool, and many readers just learned the basics of JavaScript. Color theory quickly gets extremely hardcore, so the emphasis here is to present an alternative to the standard color spaces that is easy to use in JS. I think that HSLuv solves that problem, and it has been very helpful for my students when I introduced it in undergrad classes. There are many other relevant perceptually uniform color spaces, but none of them are as easy to understand as HSLuv for students who already know sRGB HSL.
I don't think anyone would (or should!) argue that 9 months delay is responsible disclosure. If they do then they are wrong.

But dumping zero days isn't any better.

This 2003 paper from SANS[1] talks about the BugTrac policy of full disclosure after 14 days, but says most recommend 30 days. I think that is a reasonable expectation.

[1] https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/threats/define...
I think that for America, and white america in particular life's non plus ultra is senior year of high school. At the very least country music seems to paint this picture.
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If they were offering transit services as a common carrier, and enjoyed the associated protections, absolutely.
I just gotta say I LOVE these un-styled pages. I come across them more and more – a result of us all being sick of bloated web?
I alluded to this in another comment, but I'll be a little more specific. When it's raining hard and I want to assess slide risk for my own sake, I look at several factors:
- what's the total rainfall over the last ~6 hours;
- what are the average wind speeds, and gusts?
- how quickly are the rivers rising, and how much have they risen overall?

I think there's a signature in here, where if all these factors are above critical values then a slide is much more likely to occur. I need to test this by identifying how often this set of critical values have been reached over the last xx years, and then see if that correlates to known slide activity.

I think the river gauge is an indirect measure of ground water saturation. If the river gauge is rising at maximum steepness, that's an indication that the ground is fully saturated. If it's raining hard and the river gauge is not rising at maximum steepness, then the ground isn't fully saturated. That's why the river gauge is a key part of this slide risk signature. Fortunately we've had a river gauge in place since before the recent spate of slides.

These discussions are motivating me to take the next steps on this analysis. I think I'll do some analysis tonight, and see how far I can get.

> As slopes fail, I think they tend to stabilize themselves, so it might be that only increasingly intense periods of rainfall would cause further slides.

That's an interesting thought. There's lots of steep land, so there's plenty of land that hasn't slid for a long time but could slide under the right conditions. Repeated slides probably won't release as much material, but then again slides remove what vegetation was holding a slope together. So if a slide doesn't fully unload a slope, I wonder how stable the remaining debris might be.
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I was using it on Friday. My friend couldn't connect and I had trouble jumping into voice chat. I closed the client and was able to log in 10 minutes later. Overall I only noticed an issue for about 15-20 minutes. Having just read the post mortem I'm pretty impressed with their service and operations.
Agreed that cost transparency is good. Better is what your non-US friends are saying: "an X-ray is this much" regardless of where you get the service and if you have insurance or not.

ps: hope your biopsy was ok. Must be a very stressful thing to go to, and then have to deal with payment issues after.
Really? I don't see that, I just see a karma level.
That works on an individual level but why not modify the rules to fit the norm so the people who exceed the law when practical don't conflict with the people who follow the law reality be damned?

Your comment also reminds me of a proverb to the tune of "bad drivers aren't a problem until they meet".

Sure, one can be that driver that leaves death and destruction in their wake but still look good on paper if the metric is legal and financial penalties since those only loosely correlate with actual bad behavior.
> inflammatory, unsubstantiated nonsense doesn't belong here

I have to be direct to say that your post is a perfect example of this statement. The OP certainly points out an issue and is substantiated with a reasoning that long term change cannot be observed by individual in much smaller time scale, which is totally reasonable and a preferred way of thinking.

Because insufficient methodology produces inaccurate observation, in turn flawed process to address the issues.

Just labeling OP as “inflammatory and unsubstituted nonsense” basically is 1) distorting the fact 2) trying to impose false claim on reasonable ideas, and 3) shuting down non-uniform ideas.

This, in reality, does not belong here, or I believe based on my understanding.
A big difference between Hexagon and most other rhythm games like Stepmania, Beatmanias IIDX, Guitar Hero, etc, is that pattern is the same. Just like musicians memorize complex music that they later perform[1] with precise timing, the same is possible for these step/note patterns. I've personally seen someone perform one of the insane speed/note-density DDR songs blindfolded. Humans have surprisingly good internal timing and mechanical ability, iff you can memorize/practice it before hand.

Super Hexagon doesn't allow any of that. The game is randomly generated each time, making memorization impossible. It's 100% reaction against the incoming wall pattern, with no pauses. Except you don't actually have time to "react".

I recommend this[2] essay that does a much better (and more poetic) job of explaining how uniquely Supper Hexagon interacts with human perception.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRUwpUqSFbI

[2] https://problemmachine.wordpress.com/2015/04/11/hexagon/
The transaction fee for $1 is still a lot. For example, in Stripe's case it would be 2.9% + 30¢ so about 33 cents. I guess if that's an acceptable margin, it's no big deal, but I was just curious if your company got discounted fees.
From a capitalistic point-of-view, congrats to Midnight Labs for successfully repeatedly pivoting until something stuck. From a cultural point-of-view, I'm afraid for my (future) kids.
You can't disable automatic migrations in GCP. You can choose between allowing live migrations (move the instance while it's still running) or (hard) instance reboots.
I think it does sometimes. Right out of the gate I feel more optimistic about you as a developer / founder to clone it as you claim to have "inspiration" for the market. I think clones that come from a place of passion and inspiration for the market. Also, if there is little competition the market still has room for additional players and I assume is not overly saturated yet. Some competition could actually be good for the businesses in the space. I would say yes overall. Before I would clone the product though, I would try your best to search social media, forums, etc, and find any complaints or wants for the current products serving the market and try to at least one-up on some level the existing solutions, both in terms of features, but also in design and marketing.
>I want to turn left but rather "there are 30 cars behind me going straight, with no room to pass me on the right.

Thank you. I'm going to use this reasoning next time someone complains.
LOL They used to cram a bunch of them into a room. There was also a secretarial pool which wasn't just a pool of typist who'd be sent out to an office, but was a giant room full of people pounding on noisy typewriters.

That was the standard for jobs like that. It also took a lot more manpower to do stuff like that. So, they crammed them all into a room and let them have at it.
Which has nothing to do with this article about climate scientists.
While you can't directly observe an average temperature difference that small, observing the effects on the local environment is different. Particularly if we're talking "frozen" versus "not frozen". People who grow things outdoors will notice when the last frost is in the spring and when the first frost is in the fall.
Anonymous compliments seem nice to me, am I missing something?
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That’s right. They can take away the stuff the culture depends on, they can take away the workplace you feel so secure in, but the compensation is written into the contract. Plus that’s the actual reason why we all get up in the morning and do this shit.
If climate change does bring the predicted changes, automatic wealth redistribution would be a side-effect.

The current holders of high-dollar waterfront properties would be pushed away. Those holding less expensive properties further inland will be given an unexpected windfall.

Scientists are predicting warmer temperatures will also bring increased crop yields, lessening world hunger.

If climate change does come to pass, it won't all be bad.
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What do you think about the role of Christianity in the decline of Western Europe after the Western empire fell? The Church was very powerful. And there was an absolute focus on "spiritual life", with physical reality considered as just an illusion.
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The expected changes are higher at more northern latitudes.

It's certainly true that people can mistake a mere swing for a long run change. But, that doesn't mean changes are invisible!

Here in Quebec and New Brunswick the leaves have been turning later, and there have been warm days later into autumn. When it feels warm, we can check historic temperature records to confirm whether it's abnormal or not.

There are already noted effects on fall leaves: https://www.wsj.com/articles/leave-it-to-the-heat-to-dull-au...

In Canada's north, the coast is eroding, and building foundations are shifting: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/thawing-permafrost-sinks...

We also have ticks moving up from the south, and other invasive species that used to be unable to live up north.

What latitude do you live in?
>and please tell me why weather is political in the US

Three reasons:

1) The strength of industrial and energy lobbyists, for whom climate change would mean stronger environmental regulations, which would interfere with their profitability.

2) Environmentalism (and by extension climate change, FKA "global warming") is traditionally seen as "left-wing," associated with effete liberals, tree-hugging hippies and feminism, which automatically causes the right wing to oppose it on principle.

3) Conservative Christians believe that God gave the world to humans to dominate and conquer, and climate change challenges their assumptions about the world and humanity's place in it.
>so considering those places 'darker' in 500-1000CE is somewhat misleading

Standards of living declined dramatically, war and violence were more widespread. Most people would call that darker.
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When are we going to have a legislative crack down on psychologically abusive software? It's not just this, though it's a particularly egregious example. Facebook itself is a huge online predator.
It will and that has been my point. That the majority of the world population does not live in the western world and uses 1/100 if electricity per person once they start using more the world is
That was from 2005 and there has been a world of changes in how things are paid for recently.

"Most notably, the share of total spending on hospital inpatient services declined by one-third between 2006 and 2016, from 32 percent to 21 percent, while payments to Medicare Advantage (private health plans which cover all Part A and Part B benefits) doubled, from 15 percent to 30 percent, as private plan enrollment has grown steadily since 2006." https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medica...

Anyway, I still disagree with how many of these things are calculated. You need to look at the indirect cost part of COGs critically and in context of other related government spending.

Again, the problem with GAAP it assumes all spending is prudent which is far from the truth.
I agree. I think man-made climate change is looking pretty good as a hypothesis, but there is a lot of noise in the media about personally observing climate change that strikes me as phony.

One specific example of this is hurricane season in 2017, which many news sources have frequently linked to global warming.

I'm not saying it's impossible that there's a connection, but based on my understanding (pretty much just this [0]), this is not something anyone should be speaking confidently about.

A lot of people seem to have an "ends justify the means" perspective about this stuff: that being right in general about global warming gives them the right to exaggerate in order to stimulate a public response. I'm not really comfortable with that thinking.

[0] https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
Ask HN: Best way to monetize free compute power?
For various reasons that I won't go into, I have free access to an unused g2.2xlarge EC2 instance (8 cores, 15GB RAM, GPU) for the next 6 months. What is the most profitable way to turn that free compute power into money?

I am currently attempting to mine ETH (I have never mined anything before), but from my limited understanding this is probably a waste of time with these compute specs. I'm sure there are up-and-coming coins that would be easier to mine, but the variety of choices is quite daunting. According to my tests, it has a mean hash rate of ~1MH/s, and a max of ~3 MH/s.

Bandwidth will be billed at the regular AWS rate, so any schemes that involve moving large amounts of data around will probably be unprofitable. I also have limited time (I work full-time at a startup and do consulting on the side), so labor/time-intensive ideas like starting a WordPress host will not be possible. I have ~20 years experience of programming and linux skills, so suggestions can be technical as you like.

I'm not expecting to make huge sums of money, but beer money would be nice, and would avoid having the machine sitting idle. I'm willing to try out any (legal) suggestions, however left-field they may appear.
I love the idea of perceptually uniform color spaces, but I’ve found that in practice, they just make your UI look dull and murky. Something is lost without bright reds, greens, and (sometimes) yellows.
Sure, but the start and end value are the easiest ones to measure. As I alluded to, once you have the two extremes, you can the activation plot [1] to get the exact activation time. For the case of Cherry MX Blue, it would be at 62.5% between the start and end.

[1] https://i.stack.imgur.com/GzswL.png
or even that there isn't really an arrow. i think .. all of the places which essentially had a near-mandatory eat together culture spent an awfully large amount of time organizing and executing lunch and very little time doing anything else. we got to know each other, but it didn't mean we worked* together