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Friendly reminder that 1.1.1.1 is a real, valid, public IP. Seen plenty of networks that don’t recognize this, use it for some internal purpose, and break https://1.1.1.1/

I've been pretty happy with the devices, when they work. But they don't seem built to last. Of the 6 Fitbits I've had in the last 5 years (the original, 2 Fitbit Ultras, 3 Fitbit Zips), only one of them didn't fall apart or otherwise stop working .. and that one I lost. The Zip in particular seems to have an issue with the battery cover, where it wears out and becomes too loose and the device won't stay powered on.

Having trouble getting past the author's failure to distinguish between the web and the Internet... :-P

Just before seeing this on HN, I randomly came across this article on "dark lightning" -- a burst of gamma rays that accompanies the RF burst that precedes visible lightning.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130424210319.ht...

Here's another one, for the US: http://hint.fm/wind/

"I’d like it to get OSM to seven billion contributors in the next year or two."

Surely that's a typo. Nearly all the world's population contributing to, not just using, OSM? Seven million maybe?

In Austin I pay about 1.3 cents/gallon, or 10.4 cents/cubic foot of water, $10.40/CCF. This is including waste water service, which is nearly twice as much as water service (but based on the same amount of water).

However, this is based on my own bill (total billed amount divided by total water used) -- a bit tricky since there are tiers and surcharges.

Also, we're under water restrictions due to the drought - water the lawn once a week, no washing your car in the driveway, etc.

Love the idea -- I recently started capturing more and more data on my own life. But I have an Android phone .. haven't seen any other mentions of Android options on this thread so I thought I'd throw this one out there... EvenTrend ( http://code.google.com/p/eventrend/ ) is a pretty neat freeform personal data tracker. It lets you enter data, will generate pretty graphs, and even calculates some correlations (strong <-> weak, positive/negative). The data can be anything you can put a number on. It also allows aggregation -- you can tell it to only store a sum or average for a particular field for some period: e.g., I want to know how much time I spend exercising per day.

I would think the accelerometer trigger would be in case of any unintentional dismount or an unscheduled end-of-trip, rather than a cyclist powered change in speed. But yes, have both. Options are good.

Funny story: We went on a road trip recently. Checked into a hotel, were given a magnetic stripe key card and a room number, hauled our bags upstairs, attempted to open the door to the room ... and discovered that it was already occupied. Another guest was already in the room, with the inside bar lock in place (so the door would only open two inches).

In a crazy coincidence, we spent the next night in a different hotel in a different city and the same thing happened again.

I was surprised by this. I had assumed that the system that tracks reservations, available rooms, etc, would somehow be connected to the system that reprograms the magnetic stripe keys. I thought it would be harder for the front desk to hand out a second set of keys without some kind of warning message ("Hey, you already checked someone into that room ... are you sure you want to give out 3 more keys to the SAME ROOM?"). Apparently I've overestimated the room key/reservation systems in place at most hotels (another commenter here mentioned using DOS for reservations?!).

So, does UPM solve this problem? :)

You might be interested in this previous Hacker News post: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=1355292 "Twitter's Alex Payne quits, heads onto something new", namely http://banksimple.net/