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[Note: I am the aforementioned Stephen Grider]

This comment is on point. I am told that many students on Udemy use videos courses as a reference, where they skip through videos to find the exact content they are looking for. I'm sure people do this, but I don't think its an effective use of video teaching.

My goal with videos is to show the entire beginning to end process of building some arbitrary app. Many commenters here on HN are advocates of apprenticeships for learning tech; I view video courses as an easily distributable form of apprenticeship.
There will be, by physical necessity, surface damage reflecting the forward motion of the penetrated vessel.

http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/170821080742-04-uss-jo...

There is no visile damage indicating that the penetrated vessel was moving forward. The damage is perfectly symmetric, as you can clearly see.
Even the low estimate is gigantic. The high estimate for WWII is something like 3-4% of the world population.
I created an online course this year, which was based on a somewhat popular blog post of mine which I now use to send people to the course. So mainly yet another "learn how to code" class.

Moneywise, it has not been worth it, I have so far earned < $500 in 5 months (I publish on Udemy and using the free tier of teachable). I took me 3-4 months to create the course (almost fulltime).

However, I see this as a learning experience. I wanted to figure if I like creating a course. And I can say that it requires much more work than it seemed to be but I enjoy teaching and the overall satisfaction I get from creating a course.

My next course I want to research much deeper upfront (building a mailing list) and also self-publish only. It would not recommend publishing on Udemy. All of my sales on Udemy have been a 10-15$ promotion, which means I earn very little on each sale. I didn't know that before, but I don't think anyone sells the course for the official price. The pricing seems to be just a marketing trick.

I think making serious money online is something for the long haul and requires to have several products. You need to have your substantial list of followers that you can sell products to on your own platform OR find a lucrative niche which is getting harder to do. Also, you have to enjoy this because it is a lot of work to create quality courses.
> “I don’t see HackerNews or GitHub as competing against us directly for the same dollars or even the same attention,” CEO and co-founder Joel Spolsky said at the time.

Does Hacker News make "dollars"?
"a Twitter user who is falsely identified as a bot has little recourse to dispute the charges."

That's the spirit! What was this saying again? "Better to convict 10 innocent men than to let at least 1 guilty go unpunished." That must be it...
Actually when proof of stake hits, ethereum's supply will actually decrease. Buterin has stated multiple times and also said the total supply will be around 100,000,000.
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Yeah I miss this as well. I have a Hyper-V Linux VM into which I have mounted a share from the Windows host, and it works great for everything I can do from SSH, but the graphical desktop performance is awful.
They're trying to do bot classification on twitter.
Blocked on our corporate network at CapitalOne as "suspicious"
This is my theory - Proof of Stake.

Ethereum is going to hard fork (whenever they can figure out) to a proof of stake model - CASPER.

https://www.coindesk.com/shifting-changing-ethereums-casper-...

This means that there is no serious investment on the farm side of things. No chinese miners running to invest millions of dollars to build mining farms.

To a large extent ETH is centralized in its stewardship through Buterin. So, the whole ecosystem is holding its collective breath. The next phase of growth (or fall) will only come after CASPER.
There is a way, doxx every account. It's not nice but it would work 100% of the time.
They do. The median active investment fund underperforms the market, but the median active retail investor way underperforms the market.
Their twitter has over 3000 tweets, and not all of them look like they were auto-generated or retweets.

If it's not real then I don't know why someone would go through all that trouble, unless it's real in the sense of existing solely for conning someone or acting as a front for a 3-letter agency or something.

EDIT: Yeah, it's definitely real. Their team page's link to CEO Twitter account has 14 400 tweets and 1st tweet features a video of a guy listed as one of their engineers.
I can't think of a single rest area that's within a 1.5 hour drive of Mountain View.
In Qatar, which has a national firewall, I was able to use Tor to browse torrent sites, and then use a regular bittorrent client to fetch the contents of the magnet links (encrypted connections only). That worked great for the few years that I was there. The Qatari internet was a fair bit faster than what I am used to from Canada, about 30 - 50 MB/s at max torrent.
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The idea is that computers spend much more energy moving data between the processor and memory than actually processing the data. Unums use a variable length encoding which makes processing more costly but reduces the amount of data transfer. At least in theory; whether this is a net benefit remains to be proven.
We can't get any major engineering projects done in the West anymore because any idea will be held up indefinitely by the need to deliver thousands of pages of environmental assessments, archaeological reports, traffic impact reports, fish habitat studies, soil and erosion studies, pollution and economic impact reports. Plus the hundreds of permits required, mandatory consulting with native tribes, town hall meetings and public comment periods. And then you'll be sued by everyone, so you can't so much as pick up a shovel until each of the lawsuits and appeals have run their course...

Meanwhile, if China wants a city in that spot right there, they go and build a city right there.
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Nice writeup.

But if you do this don't you get 4.3?

http://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_4.3_BSD_on_SIMH#Enabling_...
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What else would you expect would happen? In a town without law, it's only a matter of time until the vigilantes show up. Either Twitter is going to police its platform, or users are going to start policing it for them.
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All bets are off for the owner of the device or the author of an app? Bad for who's security?

As a device owner and user I don't care for DRM style 'security' protecting app authors from me running my software on my computer.
Off topic: I'm very glad the open banking API's are coming to the EU. Every app can request access to your account and build services and software around it. Think it's called PSD2 for those interested.
> Always shocking to see individuals who claim to be rational and open-minded in one domain become irrational, closed and judgemental in another

Is this your first time on Hacker News?
If the only outflow was was from evaporation, the salinity would keep increasing. Eventually the salt would have to be removed somehow. Perhaps some of the energy harvested at the Straits of Gibraltar could be used to exchange some of the water to keep the salinity down.
Oh the horror of being cut off from twitter...
Agreed - my point was in reference to the OP who wrote: "Meanwhile, in marketing school, there's a teacher writing on a whiteboard: "Never ever tell anyone what your company does."

Any decent marketer, imho, would argue against not telling people what your company does (it's usually the CEO making that case) - the good marketer just moves the "what you do" to behind a value/benefit.
How is it that the business is pushing the costs off?

If you have a job, you're selling your labor. The commute is part of what you have to do to get your goods to market. Are you, as a purchaser of bananas, "pushing off the costs of transport" on to the seller? That seems silly considering the transporter prices that into the bananas, just like workers can price in longer commutes. Don't accept less money to travel further each day.
When cold emailing someone with the goal of getting a phone call, you want to avoid giving the person enough information to say no.

Why? What's the point in wasting time having a call with somebody when the answer is going to be "no" either way? Better to get to "no" as fast as you can, so you can move on to a better prospect.
There is a Posit BoF at SC17 (supercomputing) Nov 14 DEN: http://sc17.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof135&sess=...

Posit Paper: http://johngustafson.net/pdfs/BeatingFloatingPoint.pdf

A new data type called a
posit
is designed as a direct drop-in replacement for IEEE Standard
754 floating-point numbers (floats). Unlike earlier forms of universal number (unum) arithmetic,
posits do not require interval arithmetic or variable size operands; like floats, they round if an answer is inexact. However, they provide compelling advantages over floats, including larger dynamic
range, higher accuracy, better closure, bitwise identical results across systems, simpler hardware,
and simpler exception handling.

source: https://twitter.com/daniel_bilar/status/920252363159539712
You have, quite obviously, created a straw man. ("Tweak computer model until catastrophic outcome emerges.") This is not how influential climate science research works.

Here's a paper (~200 citations) in JGR-A, by a colleague, to illustrate how it really works: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008JD010015/full

Briefly, it's well-known that model representations of cloud ice are a significant source of uncertainty in climate modeling. This is because the ice scatters light upward out of the atmosphere, and can also trap emerging long-wave radiation from below.

Cloud ice is hard to represent for many reasons - to mention just two, the particular form of the ice crystals (spherical or planar, termed "microphysical properties") matters, as does the vertical profile of the ice/water mixture in the cloud.

How to improve their representation? One way is to measure cloud properties over years-to-decades time scales (which is now being done - no accident) and use this data to introduce the right cloud-process components into climate models. The paper surveys the measurements, proposes specific model improvements, and model-vs-data checks.

As I said, I happen to work with the lead author of the paper above (although I'm not a climate scientist at all). He is, in fact, not twiddling knobs until catastrophic outcomes emerge. Sure, that's a logical possibility, i.e., someone could do that, but it does not correspond to reality by any stretch. Honestly, the notion is ridiculous, the gap between that notion and reality so large as to be hard to convey.

Probably, at macro scale, the difference is that your straw man is purely open-loop (no checks on the knob-twiddling) whereas the one in the paper is brutally closed-loop (we will identify and make independent satellite measurements to quantify your model's accuracy).

The paper describes working with others to design new measurements to get information about the key processes driving climate, so that the models can be improved and we can see what large-scale human forcing is doing to the climate system. Humanity is not a bit player any more, we're a driver, and we have to own up to that role.
When proof of stake comes to ethereum in a year or less, the total supply of ethereum will actually decrease very slowly over time. Bitcoin will always continue to add coins to the network, albeit in smaller amounts. Eth will subtract coins from the network.
The author implicitly advocates censorship ("curb online harassment or hate speech") and then transitions into speaking about inherent bias in data sets and algos, but does not mention the risk of bias in censorship algos.

Reminds me of Dave Chapelle's bit on MLK getting a sneaker endorsement deal.

https://youtu.be/zSNcSEWFK8U
In my case, while I'm on my phone, the pdf is automatically downloaded and opened in a different app; so it is nice to have a warning.
Ethereum just had a hard fork where a ,,quick patch'' for a bug was created 2 days before the fork. The developers didn't agree if there should be a hard fork or no at that point. I would never put my money on a system like this, and I would never roll out a system like this where I can make tens of billions of dollars of damage so easily.

Also people who were using an official Ethereum multi-sig wallet to be extra safe lost real money, because the devs don't even bother testing the smart contracts that they provide (while Bitcoin devs just created a language from ground up that allows proving properties of smart contracts)
Didn't watch the video, but a quick point on how the energy efficiency of this works out:

Electric heaters are 100% efficient at turning electrical energy into heat. All the energy they take in, that's where it goes.

Bitcoin mining (and computers in general) are basically in the same boat. There's some ancillary energy use for blowing air around or shining lights or making sound waves, but for the most part the electricity turns into heat and does some math along the way.

Sounds great! Perfectly efficient! But the important caveat is that heat pumps are (effectively) more than 100% efficient. They can take 100 watt of electricity to transfer 300 watts of heat from outside to inside.

It's not technically a measure of "efficiency", we call this the "coefficient of performance" instead. Or we call it the "seasonal energy efficiency ratio", which is the same thing except multiplied by some constant factor because somebody wanted a scale that went up to higher numbers. Or for heating, the heating season performance factor, which I forget the specifics of, but is geared toward how well it works pumping heat in from outdoors when your heat source (outdoors) is very cold.

In short, it's just as efficient as any other electric heater, but heat pumps are 3-4x better than that.
In Siberia power is paying for you!

Seriously though in Irkutsk electricity is about 0.017usd per kilowatt/hour
Why would you want to do that?

I won't pretend I'm great at sales, but this is directly contrary to the advice I get, which is you want to filter out people who are a sure "no" or not a match (eg, on budget) as fast as possible so you don't waste sales resources on them while minimizing the chance of leaving a bad impression from trying pressure tactics on someone who wont buy.

What am I missing? (I guess it could be intending to be unethical, but I prefer to assume I don't understand.)
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> The ethereum network rewards miners with 5 new ETH approximately every 15 to 30 seconds (~18,000 per day).

This is not true. After the last hard fork, the reward for miners went down to 3 ETH.
Very much aware. I use colemak, because I was convinced by the arguments of QWERTY's insufficiency.

Although, the costs of switching outweigh the benefits for almost everyone, except for those with repetitive stress injury.
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One key difference being that, when you see people every day, it is much easier to measure, manage and mitigate this behavior.
> when the answer is going to be "no" either way

No one is ever going to say 'yes' to a $10M sale from a cold email. They'll only say yes after they've met you in person, but they're not going to agree to meet you in person until you've done a phone call.
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Good point, it is surprising this keeps happening. There was difference, though. The London Whale got too big for his market, but I don't recall him ever suggesting that he hadn't even considered the effect his own trading would have on prices.
Towards the end of the video, the owner makes a point that this democratic distribution of mining power instead of large miners controlling the network is a good idea. Curious to hear more about this -- does anyone know good writing re: Democratic / distributed benefits of mining?
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You could allow this in config though. I.e.

() No app spoofing
() Microg apps can spoof Google apps
() Any apps can spoof any apps
Good to know i'm in good company then. :)
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We'd all need to get the Cone of Silence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA
The platform doesn't only show the AWS. You can also take action on the resources by double-clicking on it.

You can even visualize cost on top of your resources too.

It is real time.
This is an extremely naive view of living situations and how "easy" it is to just move somewhere.

I worked for a company in NYC for years and lived 8 miles from work. It took me a minimum of 90 minutes to get to work.

You seem to think I can either just uproot my family and move to some sort of utopia city with short commutes, good public schools, and well-paying jobs; OR I can just change New York City itself.

The fact is that most people in the US have commutes of 25+ minutes. Folks who walk to work are not the norm, and city schools across the US are a complete failure and joke. Don't assume your situation applies to everyone.

* According to the US Cencus Bureau: https://project.wnyc.org/commute-times-us/embed.html
Why don't you just find a new job if you aren't happy with your company's employment conditions? Why resort to blanket government intervention instead of just addressing your concerns on an individual level?
It's a basic but good point. Always mention what your start up does AND include a sign up page.

For instance, I'll often start off with something like(notice that I start off with the value proposition too):
"Never break your code: We build Regression tests, so you don't have to" Check us out here: https://swif.club/?s=hn

And I include that in my signature as well.
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Also, many companies that are competitors to Amazon in some form or another. Those tend to be the larger customers in my experience.

Source: Am MSFT dev on the Azure side of things.
There are other cheap, abundant, and non-toxic rechargeable batteries. NiMH in particular fits all of those, the only downside is that its (slightly) heavier than the standard Lithium Ion.

Indeed, NiMH used to be the standard before Li-Ion took over. NiMH can pack nearly the same energy as Lithium Ion, except do it in a safe, renewable, non-toxic way without any exotic, potentially non-ethical materials (like Cobalt). NiMH is still widely available as well, virtually every rechargeable AA cell out there is NiMH.

What benefit does Iron have over NiMH?
Reminds me a bit of my writeup here:

http://www.jdpressman.com/2015/11/27/how-to-emulate-unix-v7-...

(I figure if you enjoy this tutorial you'll probably enjoy trying that one out too.)

To OP: The networking is a really nice touch. I didn't even attempt anything like that so kudos to you.
So what's the benefit over just sending an email? If I do not need to respond immediately, why do I need an immediate notification (sound + popup/flashing window) that you've sent me an IM? Let it go to my email and I'll think about it after reading the email.

>Not having to immediately stop everything im doing allows me to stay in flow state.

So is it OK in remote work for me to turn off IM for 2-4 hours to remain in flow state? If not, then there will be no flow state for me.
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it's kilowatt*hour to be correct. btw, a night rate is even less, somewhere around 0.01usd
In a way, I agree with you. I despise Twitter and what people use it for. However, if being cut off from Twitter is not a big deal, why is this bot hunt worth doing?

If we assume that it's important to get rid off fake users, it must be because accessing a platform like Twitter is important.
There are many other cases of people heating homes with mining rigs, especially in places that has a year-round cold climate. Electricity savings in cooling the rigs as well as heating the home + the profit from mining, makes the whole thing worth it...

... IF you can tolerate the noise that the rigs generate
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He only payed $20 a year for his shack http://edricketts.stanford.edu/Campbell_Ricketts3.pdf and also went up to expeditions in Alaska during this time which only cost 25 cents per day. I guess you could do this now, find a rural trailer somewhere and live as cheap as possible to read all day but not with school debt/insurance obligations.
https://developer.wordpress.org/ really has everything you need. Examples, best practices, function documentation, etc.

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Thanks for pointing that out! Our transcriber usually does a great job, but he doesn't get 'em all right.

The awesome thing is that our transcripts are open source and somebody must've read your comment, because I just merged a PR fixing this.

https://github.com/thechangelog/transcripts/pull/13

Our site auto-updates the transcripts after a merge, so your comment is now outdated. :)
There are different types of audits. Yes someone doing a full security audit is going to be happy with doing reverse engineering. But I can perform a quick check on a lot of the software that I use that it doesn't do user hostile things (like ring home on startup) this is harder to do on a binary - so given the choice I'll use the open source option.
So we should all be more like China with regards to our consideration of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous people, pollution, etc etc?

And also with regards to the democratic nature of our decision making?
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You're saying this like you're entitled to the content, though. You're not. And quite frankly, I find taking the content without supporting the creator to be much, much worse than you consider ads to be.
I'm an American in my 40s and I occasionally have a (vegan) donut for breakfast, but I recognize this as the ridiculously caloric and unhealthy choice that it is. I don't really consider donuts breakfast food.
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Being remote doesn't fix that. They'll just initiate a video call or start a conference.
In the article they claim 93.5% accuracy.
I expect this will have no real impact and these guys will have to find something else to do with their time.
mps / mps-youtube :)
Dale Carnegie's seminal book is "How to Win Friends and Influence People", for those who were wondering.
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Looks more like an aircraft's auto-pilot. It's not something that would look for obstacles, read signs, or take any kind of input from the environment besides current position.
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> I can no longer focus. I am constantly pulled into meetings.

If this behavior changes solely because you start working remotely it may not necessarily be to your advantage. Yes, in the short term you may maintain the ability to focus. However, in the long term you may find yourself being excluded and and diminished within the organization. These meetings, etc. don't stop when you work remotely, only those attending them do.
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