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mkeungon Don't Buy Anyone an Echo

I live in a studio with 8 lights, 2 over my desk, 4 over my living room, 2 over my bed (how I setup the place). The two light switches are wired to 4 and 4. Alexa + light control lets me group them into desk, living room, common area (desk + living room), bedroom, all lights. It's more convenient than light switches which give me absolutes of all on or too many on depending on what I'm doing. The alternative is to rewire the place, which I do not own.

mkeungon Ionic Marketplace

http://ngcordova.com/docs/plugins/pushNotifications/

I didn't have any issues using the above.

You still need some sort of server (i've used rails, ex: https://github.com/rpush/rpush) to send the push notifications (and setup the apns certs), but the above will capture them on your ionic app itself.

mkeungon Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

but in a large building / campus, they can't possibly monitor electricity usage per individual or company occupying the space without upgrading the infrastructure significantly.

mkeungon Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

From my understanding, scrypt ASICs have been held back by the cost of memory hardware as scrypt requires more memory usage. There has been talk of forking existing scrypt currencies to require even more memory to counter ASICs further but so far I think only a few new coins have done this.

mkeungon Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

I don't see why not, custom-built just means grabbing consumer grade gpus, with the "best" one currently the R9 270, which is ~$200 usd each. I don't think you need a huge budget so for academic reasons, why not. Plus, there are many scrypt coins out there (or they could even create harvardcoin) they could use for research purposes.

Don't need to necessarily use the mainstream profitable ones

mkeungon Harvard supercomputing cluster hijacked to mine Dogecoin

If cryptocurrencies become mainstream, this will be a bigger problem I think. Even things like "free" electricity are attractive for mining purposes, ex: universities, businesses, etc. If every student setup mining, it adds up (at the university / business' expense).

If I am the one paying for an office at $500 a month that includes all electricity usage, is it fair to plug in a ton of mining hardware and profit / subsidize myself? What if I manage to use more than $500 worth of electricity?

Is shared space even setup for monitoring individual renter's usage behavior? I don't think so.

edit: note, I do mine Doge but with my own stuff at home

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

bookmarked, will keep an eye on it.

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

we just wanted to get feedback on the site, like any other show hn. wasn't trying to provide novel or insightful information, other than a guide simple enough that my parents could follow.

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

I haven't run any numbers (great analysis by the way). Other sources I can think of:

-conversion from other currency holdings (LTC, BTC), which some people have openly said they did

-recent run up / down of the value caused a lot of people who were previously holding to buy / sell (started around the time of the big news push with the Jamaican bobsled team fundraiser, right now it is dropping)

-general interest, people buying some amount to hold for the first time. i have had friends making their first crypto purchase in doge recently, who don't understand the technology and probably shouldn't (due to the news i think and not wanting to miss out on bitcoin 2.0)

-Chinese investors getting in / out? i think i saw a graph of cny to doge being a major part of the transactions

personally, i haven't looked into it that seriously because i haven't invested seriously. i put time in (especially for the site content), but all my coins are mined from an existing gaming computer. my total doge USD value is ~$50, which is probably lower than what people would expect of the dogecointutorial creator. my doge mining actually started because I wanted to cheaply explore how cryptocurrencies worked. then the tutorial site actually started when i was testing out aws / github pages for landing page hosting. originally i just had some sort of dogecoin index placeholder but found myself jumping around / searching for info as i learned about doge and cryptocurrencies...so i started my own guide. if you do more research, do share it!

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

there is a big tipping culture in the community, especially on reddit. in addition to karma upvotes, people can use a tipbot to send doge to each other. the /r/dogecoin subreddit has 40k+ subscribers, with lots of tipping in each thread.

additionally, it may be that each transaction is counted multiple times. if I were to tip you, I would first send funds to the bot, who then sends funds to you.

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

what? there is no sign up. copy paste into the wrong thread?

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

keep it up! it's def a pain point with the currency

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

Thanks, i'll update the content today

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

I mentioned in the wallet section that you can download most of the block chain in a file here: http://doge.rstreefland.com/

Hope that helps!

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

Hmmmm, you may be right...i'm not super knowledgeable on this type of thing though. I'll update the picture, but can you give me a explanation I can use?

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

thanks...I don't know what I was thinking haha

mkeungon Dogecoin Tutorial

co creator of the guide here, it is on my to do list. the guide in its current form isn't even close to complete yet, we just thought it was good enough to start getting feedback and be useful to the average person (who probably doesn't know Linux)

mkeungon What happens when you use a standing desk for two years

Look into getting a fatigue mat. I had the exact same issue when I started, and standing on the mat helps reduce the soreness.

edit: I used http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla... to get a standing desk for cheap

mkeungon Do Things that Don't Scale

My interpretation: this is just saying your success is likely to be higher if you work with what you are familiar with.

If you deal with enterprise problems and enterprise software, go for it. If you haven't ever dealt with enterprise problems, what are you doing making a start up for what you don't understand well.

mkeungon Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop

like help get better video drivers to linux faster

mkeungon Switch to Posthaven

It's nice you can import your posterous site (taken from the signup page)

mkeungon Disney Shuts Down LucasArts

"The only way to make money from games is what Disney have done, license the IP to other companies and get them to pay for it."

Not completely true, Disney has their own dev team and they licensed Temple Run to make their own versions. Still though, it's not a risky bet as it's licensing something successful already.

Edit: also not in the AAA part of the industry

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

Playing with it now, it's simple and straight forward. I'll see if it'll convince me to get more sleep. A couple things that I found odd: 1. What does the password color rectangle thing on signup mean? I know it had to do with password strength but the colors didn't make any sense.

2. I am doing a simple yes no question, it wasn't clear that checking the box = yes, and unchecked = no. I thought it was just missing a yes checkbox at first.

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

Fixed

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

Not yet but it's in the plans.

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

We do plan on making a mobile app. We just didn't agree with the direction the existing services were headed, we have a bigger vision for Thryv..this is just our initial release. One hint at where we are headed is the support for connecting with personal trainers that we're working on.

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

We think we fixed it

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

So it's free for personal use, with the paid accounts in the works.

As far as FB connect, it's in the plans.

BTW, hijacking this post to say we're having sign up issues right now.

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

We plan to charge professional services you connect to. It will be always be free for personal use.

mkeungon Show HN: Workout planner

we're looking into this