nichodges

I have an account with no friends and that is an admin of one page, which I buy ads for. It’s not my real name, but obviously has my real CC info in there.

Interestingly, a friend showed me his contact list entry for me (I believe created through a 3rd party OSX app), and in the Facebook field it had the name used on the admin/ads account I have. Given I don’t use my real email address on the Facebook account I am amazed (but not particularly surprised) that the connection was made.

This movement is the output of a combined R&D lab for LVMH watch brands (Tag, Zenith, Hublot, Bulgari). So the movement will likely to be rolled out to watches by all of those brands.

This video may help, as you get to see the movement in action: https://youtu.be/xWh0p9Irznw

It doesn’t clearly show the mainspring, however at around 10:45 you can see the small gear spinning. That is being driven by the mainspring, and if you removed the escapement it would spin super quick until the mainspring was unwound.

It’s the constant rocking back and forth of the regulator that limits the speed that small gear (called the escape wheel) can rotate, therefore limiting how quickly the mainspring releases it’s energy.

Very nicely standing on the shoulders of Brian Eno's Generative Music ideas, his Bloom app in particular[1].

[1] http://www.generativemusic.com/

So many publishers still have such a long way to go in working out how to do native content well.

While the study is interesting, I reckon that piece took Matt Yglesias (an otherwise great writer) all of about 10 minutes to write. And the token "make sure to save enough, own stocks for the long term, and stick to passive strategies rather than trying to beat the market." is just awkward.

Such a shame that a car company's response to the danger cars present to cyclists is to modify the cyclist. Victim blaming at its best.

My initial reaction was dismay that Google seemingly didn't consult any decent auto designers on this. But then I wonder if that's actually fine.

My kids will likely be baffled by the idea that we attached so much of our own identity to our cars. The financial investment in cars to make a statement about ourselves (over and above getting us from A to B) is immensely irrational.

With self driving cars ownership will likely disappear, and be replaced with time sharing. At that point the connection between our view of ourselves, and the car we ride in disappears.

I'm not sure that completely excuses the lack of modern car aesthetic here, but it could go some way to explaining it.

That's awesome news. Now the app is here this was the final drawback of using Fastmail.

Sliced democratizes access to hedge funds. Even though hedge funds have outperformed S&P 500 over the past decade, very few investors have access to them.

Hedge Funds on average do not outperform market indices such as S&P 500. I'm curious as to whether this was TechCrunch's take on the problem, or the startup's?

This is so great. I have a text file named "1000 Things" that I update weekly. The file has headings "I am an aspiring ____", and I list the things I did that week to move closer to that goal, counting down from 1000.

So my questions...Is it possible to load up a bunch of existing data in to the app? And would there be a way to implement a count of the achievements for each category?

Also I'm sure you'd track this, but from an audience-of-one I can say this is great content marketing! I've used SendGrid previously on a few side projects, and will now definitely be checking out your service.

I'm so glad someone asked this. I'm originally an industrial designer, and ended up in advertising. I spent ten years in advertising, and recently resigned to take a step back and work out what's next. I can code, but I'm definitely not a professional dev.

I've been reading HN for around 5 years. I'm here because I love technology, and love seeing what people are doing with it. Outside a few email lists and Twitter, there's no other site/source that I've stuck with for so long.

What do I get out of it? Aside from always learning new things (I have very little use for lambda calculus or univariate linear regression in my life, yet because of HN I know a lot about both). I spend a lot of my time now working with / mentoring / investing in Melbourne-based startups, and the comments and links I read on HN give me perspectives and thinking and experiences from a global startup community that I wouldn't always have access to.

Of course those opinions and perspectives and experiences are almost always skewed, this place is a filter bubble, but if you keep the bias in mind it's a phenomenally efficient filter of quality information and thinking.

These are great. I'm a week off shipping a product that is primarily delivered via email, to C-suite'ers. Most of these people check all email on their phone, so these are an amazing help in shipping the MVP.

Great project. I'm definitely going to give it a shot as a Raspberry Pi hosted thing.

One comment on the site though - it would be really cool to be able to see a demo. I get a good vibe from the description/images, but a demo site would be great.

Before and/or after the fact, research participants are made aware that they were part of a psychology experiment.

I wonder if Facebook plans on alerting subjects of this experiment to their participation?

Load the data into the js however you want, then use the update method on the chart. D3 is pretty quick rendering, so it's about as useful real-time as you're going to see in the browser.

I've just finished up a project using NVD3, and at first glance this looks like a slightly simpler option. This is a good thing - NVD3 has become complex to the point where I would recommend someone to just learn D3 rather than use a reusable library.

Epoch appears to be a good alternative for people who just want to quickly build charts for today's web. Great work.

I was messaged by a local business owner, asking if I'd be interested in putting his product in my listing photos, mentioning the business in the listing, and also in my "welcome to the apartment" notes for visitors.

Next time I was in his shop I told him I really don't rent the place out enough for it to be worthwhile, but asked him how the response from other people he messaged was. He said one woman was really angry in her message back, and a few others took him up on the offer. To be honest the ROI for him wouldn't be great, especially given many of the customers from AirBnB won't be returning.

If it is against AirBnB's terms and they take issue with it I can only imagine the irony-laden field day the media would have.

Reminds me of my first Raspberry Pi. It was from the first batch, and only worked if I gave it a blast with a hairdryer. Once it warmed up it booted fine, but if I turned off the hairdryer it would turn off after about 30 seconds.

At the time it was about a month wait for a new one to arrive, so I did a lot of initial Pi discovery with a hairdryer.

Very cool. This has been on my sparklist[1] for quite a while. I'll be installing on a Pi tonight, but from the documentations it looks very well executed. Awesome work!

[1] https://github.com/nichodges/sprklst/blob/master/sparklist-n...

Once I was at the screen showing me the summary, in the right hand 'Share' column - I can't copy the text in the link, image, or embed fields. (FF4.0 on OSX 10.8.5)

Really interesting. I tried it with an article I wrote for Wired - both to see how it handled lengthy content with multiple points, and also how it handled my 'loose' writing style.

Really surprised with both the quality and succinctness of the result: http://www.textteaser.com/s/t1bNud

Well done.

(Also to the project owner - copying the link is borked in Firefox, I had to type it out manually)

As one of the people who decides where and how brand marketing budgets are spent - I would say Twitter's advertising product and approach is far more viable and attractive than Facebook's is (or ever has been).

On top of that, the work Twitter is doing with TV networks, producers, and sporting organisations is unique and has a high chance of success because it provides value to those organisations.

While some have tried, nobody else has come as close as Twitter to accessing and disrupting the $180B (annual) TV advertising market.

I wish them luck. I think they're going to nail it.

Given I have an Airport Express as well - no. My PyFi is just for FLACs, I still use the Express for radio/spotify/soundcloud.

I've been using this for a couple months now.

Setup was perfect, as per the instructions without anything weird popping up (which has happened on every other Pi project I've done)

Streaming FLAC from a network drive was jumpy, so I bought a USB drive to plug in which is loaded with my FLACs.

The Pi is plugged into a Scot Nixon USB Chibi DAC, and then a Rotel 1080 pre and power amp.

I did some A/B tests comparing the Pi to an Airport Express running RCA's directly into the pre amp, and the difference is huge. Lower noise floor, much better separation, and a lot of detail. I'd suggest anyone who's wondering should give it a go. Also the mPad app on iPad and iPhone works perfectly.

As an Australian, I was disappointed to see the team attempt to use "Aussie humour" as a shield. What would have been more Australian would be to harden up and apologise.

I was actually showing someone in Australia the site earlier today and it was snappy. Seems HN has caused some slowness :(

The headline of this ad is the giveaway to it being little more than an ad agency and their client wanting to 'be famous' (in the world of advertising), with a video about their idea that will reach 1000x as many people as the purported audience of the actual ad.

The use of charity clients by agencies to win awards is not unusual. Sometimes the ideas that win awards are truly effective and wonderful (The Tap Project[1], Million NYC[2]), but more often these are 'scam ads' that are never even seen by the intended audience.

The traditional advertising industry is attempting to cope with obsolescence in a way that sees it increasingly loosing touch with reality.

A tweet for Oreos recently won a major advertising award, and 14 people were credited[3]. How a lenticular that nobody will ever see in real life makes the top of HN is a bit of a mystery to me.

[1] http://www.unicefusa.org/campaigns/tap-project/ [2] http://www.millionnyc.com/ [3] http://t.co/lxI7W1ty9A

I did not see that link initially, I think it would be worth a/b testing a version where the option to play without signing up button is visually as dominant as the signup.

Visitors that know that they don't know enough will always signup. I knew that I'd like to learn more Foundation, so immediately submitted my email address. But I would suggest that a decent slice of your users don't know what they don't know - ie. that there is a Bootstrap alternative that is just as flexible, powerful, and easy to learn. Getting those people three steps down the path before giving them a hurdle of signup would, in my opinion, result in a larger user count and greater project impact in the long run.

This is something that I've always felt Foundation needed. I'm a side-project hacker, and as much as I love Twitter Bootstrap I always wanted something different. I used Foundation for a few projects but found myself gravitating back to Bootstrap because of the abundance of tutorials that have built up my familiarity.

The structure of these lessons is great - probably more useful than Bootstrap 'getting started' pages. The use of JSFiddle style learning is awesome.

The only thing I don't like is that it requires email/password - however given it's not built by Zurb I can see why the makers have gone down that path. Perhaps a better method would have been to only ask for those details once a user wants to go beyond the first few lessons?