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wvl

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@wvl, email: wayne [@] larsen [.] st

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postlight.com 6y ago

Yap, from Postlight Labs

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www.designernews.co 10y ago

AMA: Jason Fried, CEO and Co-Founder of Basecamp (formerly 37signals)

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blogmaverick.com 14y ago

Dont Follow Your Passion, Follow Your Effort

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engineering.linkedin.com 14y ago

LinkedIn open sources IndexTank: search engine and service

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boingboing.net 14y ago

What the Vaio Z says about Sony's design problem

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arstechnica.com 15y ago

World IPv6 Day went mostly smoothly, with a few surprises

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www.youtube.com 15y ago

Science For Smart People [video]

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www.engadget.com 15y ago

Tobii and Lenovo show off prototype eye-controlled laptop, we go eyes-on

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arstechnica.com 15y ago

IPad newsstand "The Daily" finally makes debut at 99 cents per week

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www.npr.org 15y ago

Restaurants Try Texting To Speed Service

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blog.segment7.net 15y ago

The Ruby Stdlib is not a Ghetto

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wholehealthsource.blogspot.com 15y ago

Understanding the Twinkie Diet Fat Loss Experiment

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hckrnews.com 15y ago

Hckr news: chronological interface to hn, plus chrome/safari5 extension

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picoproject.wordpress.com 16y ago

Immersive Gaming – iPhone 3GS plus laser projector

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trada.com 16y ago

Trada’s Position on Staying in Stealth Mode

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www.paulcarvill.com 16y ago

Mobile network operators are just big dumb pipes in the sky

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blogs.ft.com 16y ago

The secrets of Malcolm Gladwell

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www.marksdailyapple.com 17y ago

How to Eat According to the Primal Blueprint

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www.jackcheng.com 17y ago

Maxing out your love-growth-cash triangle

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www.ericsink.com 17y ago

Product Parenting: Eric Sink on Product Managers

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2 days late, but creator here -- this is as designed.

Every entry on hckrnews has hit the homepage, so 'all' is exactly that. The current homepage filter is simply a filter to show what is presently on the homepage of news.ycombinator.com.

But this is not the first time someone has been confused about the homepage filter, so I could probably explain that better somehow.

This matches my experience having received one Nov 2018 (and returning it a few weeks later). It was constantly getting my actual sleep times wrong, more often than not marking me as being asleep while watching tv in the evening.

After contacting support, their solution was an upcoming update to their app where I'd be able to edit the data so that I could override the app whenever I knew it was wrong. Which completely invalidates the primary reason to own this product. I mean, if I knew when I was asleep, why would I need a ring to track it?!

So given that it couldn't properly track sleep, doesn't track activity (by design), the only other purpose in my mind was to track HRV. And count me as skeptical of the accuracy of that data as well.

"Water, Pea Protein Isolate*, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Natural Flavors, Cocoa Butter, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Apple Extract, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Vinegar, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Beet Juice Extract (for color)" vs "Beef" is a minuscule difference?

That's what is intended -- it shows the items currently on the frontpage. So it will not show entry from the previous days because they are no longer on the frontpage. (The UI should not show the previous days in this case, and maybe there is something more I could be doing to make more obvious what is supposed to be happening).

Curiously the entries from April 6 that do show up is a bug due to an issue I had with the process going down for a number of hours, leaving those two entries not being properly updated to remove the 'homepage' flag.

I find the chronological history of hckrnews.com adds context to why many things get flagged. For example, immediately after the bloomberg article was posted about Google firing the memo author, were several other articles with the same content (from arstechnica and nymag) which were immediately flagged. Any time an inflammatory subject gets beat to death, the same process happens.

So in that respect, I often agree with the submissions that get flagged (including this one), but I do think news.ycombinator.com could do a better job of collecting and displaying these flagged submissions. For example, duplicate submissions could be made children of the submission that was allowed to stay.

As an aside, I do find it interesting that this submission is nowhere to be found from the main page itself (or at least 5 pages back, despite 50 points and 17 comments. I guess it was flagged/vouched back, but having showdead on in your hacker news profile does nothing to help if the algorithm drops the submission into nowhereland.

That is reason enough for the existence of hckrnews.com, imo.

The Sweethome likes it, but it's expensive:

"We tested the $300 Coravin system against Private Preserve, comparing bottles of wine that’d been saved for five days against a fresh bottle. While the Coravin-preserved bottle tasted more like the brand-new one, its price makes it impractical for many wine drinkers; it’s better suited for restaurant use, or serious oenophiles. For everyone else, Private Preserve is still the way to go."

http://thesweethome.com/reviews/best-way-to-keep-open-wine-f...

[dead] 12 years ago

I'm intrigued by this product, however as someone who can sleep comfortably with earplugs, but find in-ear headphones to become uncomfortable after a couple hours, I'm not convinced.

I always thought the ideal product would be a comfortable, soft armband (think sport sweatband) with bluetooth and a vibration motor. This could be paired to the phone with an app similar to these earplugs, and then used with (or without) regular earplugs for noise dampening. Does such a product exist? Perhaps the Hush folks would consider making it as product number 2?

Hacker News API 12 years ago

Please consider opening up the issue tracker. Other people might benefit from seeing these issues, such as the issue about the comment count that I just raised as a comment here.

Hacker News API 12 years ago

Would it be possible to cache the number of comments a story has? Or am I wrong in my understanding that the only way to find the number of comments a story has is to walk the tree of child items and maintain my own count?

Sorry if I never got back to you about this.

There were definitely some bugs around the filtering / content loading. I _think_ they've been resolved for a while now, so I hope you'll give it another shot.

Huh, I never even realized that Chrome had removed the ability to install extensions from third party websites. I'll get that up on the chrome web store when I get some time.

Looking at this again 3 days later, it seems the license has been changed again. The license is now the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license.", and they're charging for commercial use.

I probably didn't explain that well. There are plenty of non wysiwig markdown editors out there. The appeal of this demo is that you're editing the markdown source through a wysiwyg editor. However, with this demo, there are two authoritative sources of content, the html in the contenteditable, and the markdown. I'm arguing that there should only be a single authoritative source of content; and I'd like that to be markdown. I think it's possible, though difficult.

I want something like this quite badly. However, I'm not sure this is suitable for the users who I want this for (ie, people who don't need to understand markdown formatting)

1. Doing an html to markdown conversion, as you seem to be doing, feels like a giant hack. And one with leaky abstractions to boot (Hit enter off the end of a list, and you get <div></div> inserted into the markdown source).

2. Link editing is super important, and, also a very difficult problem (selection/range management issues) without the html to markdown problem added on top.

I think something like this is doable by having the transformation only happen one way (from markdown to html), given a markdown parser with full access to the parse tree. However, there's many other issues that would arise from doing it that way.

That was my first thought, however, from the docs:

MailerJS will send mail to the address you enter on your account page. You can't specify the receiver dynamically, as client-side JavaScript is publicly accessible by definition, and we want to protect you from spammers.

Why steal someone's api key just so you can send them email?

[dead] 15 years ago

I've emailed pg, hopefully we can get back up and running properly.

pg, if you see this, I've updated my crawler to be fully compliant with robots.txt (my delay between requests was too low, even if the overall req/min was fewer than 2).