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- johnchristopher 12y agoIt would be really nice to add the option to select metric units.
- Aardwolf 12y agoYes please!
- slashink 12y agoYes, first thing i thought about. I sadly never learn to have a simple conversion baseline between these two, even if i travel a lot between the different continents.
- sergiosgc 12y agoOne pound is half a kilogram, three feet is a meter[1], one inch is the size of my thumb. No, they're not precise, but it's easy enough to memorize, close enough to understand a text. (I also use one mile=2km but I have the notion the error on that one is huge, although I never remember if it is actually 1.8km or 1.6km) For Fahrenheit, I never managed to memorize a conversion rule. Weatherwise 0 is friggin' cold, 100 is friggin' hot seems to be enough for daily consumption. [1] Actually, my mnemonic is that I measure 6ft (1.82m), but I don't think my mnemonic is useful for anyone else.
- klaasvakie 12y agoFor a relatively accurate guess to go from miles->kilometres you can use the fibonacci series. If the current number is in miles, the next one will be the same distance in kilometres. Works from 2 onwards. So from 2 3 5 8 13 21 ... you can see that 3 miles is 5 kilometres, 8 miles is 13 kilometres etc.
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- adamtj 12y agoFahrenheit is pretty easy. The key temps are 30, 60, 90: -30 is dangerous, hibernate. 0 is frigid, wear a thick coat and warm pants. 30 is cold, wear a coat. (freezing point of water) 60 is cool, wear clothes. 90 is hot, no clothes. 120 is roasting, God help you. (melting point of humans) Bonus Temps: 72 is room temp. 78 is time to wear shorts. 48 is time to wear shorts in cold regions*. * That is, in any place where people don't understand why finding outlets to plug in electric cars is a problem. Sure, you can't currently plug them in at the store, but your garage has power. What's that you say? Well, of course many people live in apartments and don't have garages, but they can just use the outlets in the parking lot. What, you don't have outlets in your parking lot? Well where do you plug in your gas powered car? You know, for the heater? To warm it up enough to start when it's 30 below? What tropical island do you live on?
- EToS 12y agoI think this is a great way to gain motivation, especially when your seeing slow weight loss running 30+ kilometers a week etc..
- rbinv 12y agoThis is pretty cool. Maybe add the total pounds lost for each entry? Also, it's not clear that "weight range" refers to "before", not after.
- smartera 12y agoAgreed, and filter by pounds lost.. also calculated BMI before and after would be great!
- rikkus 12y agoCould do with some explanation, e.g.: Set the sliders to a range around your own height and weight. You will be shown pictures of people who are within the height range, and have (at least at one time) had a weight within the weight range.
- gambiting 12y agoCould we please change that to metric units? I have absolutely no idea what my weight and height are in feet and pounds.
- collyw 12y agoGoogle isn't so difficult to use.
- gambiting 12y agoUsing SI units also isn't.
- welly 12y agoNeither are metric units.
- collyw 12y agoI didn't know what my weight was in pound before I saw this either. It was very little effort to find out.
- gambiting 12y agoIt's not about the effort. It's about the fact that I disagree with websites using units that the majority of the planet doesn't use. Just like some websites use Fahrenheit units,despite them being used by literally 3 countries out of over 120+ we have on Earth. That's what standards are invented for,and we should keep to them.
- learc83 12y agoThe US doesn't follow these standards, so using metric units would alienate the majority of this website's user base. The developer is following the standards and customs of the country he or she lives in. Do you also disagree when a Chinese developer doesn't use English for a website? It might make sense to have a toggle switch, but then again maybe 95% of the user base is from the US and the developer didn't think the extra effort was worth it.
- omnibrain 12y agoI "found" this on reddit and think it's pretty neat. The creator spoke up in that thread and I try to point him to this thread so he can see the suggestions.
- Octplane 12y agoSeriously, IMPERIAL UNITS ?
- xyproto 12y agoWhy these local banana-state measurements instead of international standards?
- krzrak 12y agoYou know, that in the civilized world we use meters and kilograms? ;)
- hoektoe 12y agoThank You
- edent 12y agoActually, we prefer "metre" :-) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/metre http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/metre
- nailer 12y agoAnd civilised.
- onion2k 12y agoAt least the US is consistent. In the UK we use a weird mix of different things - short distances are metric (centimetres, metres), long distances are imperial (miles). Temperatures are in both depending largely on the age of the person talking. Vehicle speed is entirely in imperial (mph). Area is in metric for small things (wallpaper is meters^2), imperial for big things (fields are in acres). And so on.
- toolslive 12y agoA proper English gentleman utters his weight in stone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_%28unit%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_%28unit%29 (just kidding, I'm Belgian and only know SI)
- virmundi 12y agoOnce I started to play around with the sliders, I completely lost the ability to use the browser's back button. I had to retype news.ycombinator.com to get back to post this comment.
- aaronem 12y agoFor those who apparently never bothered learning any system but SI, here's some help: 2.2 pounds to the kilogram; 0.454 kilograms to the pound. 3.28 feet to the meter; 0.304 meters to the foot. You are reading this on a machine powerful enough to handle unit conversions. Do them, and find something substantive to say.
- thisjepisje 12y agoMakes perfect sense, I'm gonna learn the imperial system right away!
- jackvalentine 12y agoFor those who apparently never bothered learning any system but imperial, here's some help: 1 vershok = 1 3⁄4 inches 1 arshin = 2 1⁄3 feet 1 funt = 0.903 lb
- jackvalentine 12y agoCame here and noticed that ~70% of the comments were about, or replies to comments about, the imperial measurements. Just goes to show how you can so quickly alienate your audience and derail any conversation if you don't localise the product (or in this case, de-localise).
- rplnt 12y agoWhat it shows is that most of the US population is sleeping right now. Those comments would most likely be down-voted.
- koyote 12y agoWhy would it be downvoted? I think this is akin to posting a link to a page in a language that is not English. Surely there would be many comments reflecting the users' annoyance of having to use Google translate to read the page; no matter 'who' is sleeping or awake. That being said, a single upvoted comment on the matter should be enough to make the OP aware.
- rplnt 12y agoThat's the general trend I noticed on reddit. Comments about imperial/metric units are either upvoted or downvoted depending on the time (sometimes topic). Maybe HN isn't as bad. And I have to agree that one post would be enough (and comments about using search engines are not necessary).
- Houshalter 12y agoBecause there are dozens comments saying the same thing, and many of them are sort of rude.
- lnanek2 12y agoI'm US, and voted the complaints up because I found them both funny and useful - pointing out a flaw that makes it tougher to use for many people.
- jackvalentine 12y ago
- laichzeit0 12y agoThis looks exclusively focused on fat people losing weight? I was kinda hoping to see what I would look like if I put on another 5kgs of lean muscle and reduced body fat by another 2%.
- rectangletangle 12y agoWow, that's really amusing to mess around with. However their method for sourcing the data isn't quite perfect. Messing with the height option to get the tallest few women returns a few men (or possibly very manly women?). Regardless, it's more than good enough to be useful.
- Xcelerate 12y agoA question for the site author: I'm working on an idea that involves user uploaded photos of themselves; however, I'm wondering how you get an initial "batch" of photos. Clearly, I'm not going to use anyone's photos without permission, but how do you get roughly 50-100 photos to start with? Just contact people and ask? A stock photo website would be even better if I knew one that I could just pay for portraits of a variety of people.
- edgecrafter 12y agoSite states on front page: "the accuracy of the data on this site is limited to the accuracy of the user-submitted data on reddit.com and the automated scraping of that data" - apparently scraped from subreddits r/loseit and r/progresspics
- diggan 12y agoThis particular site seems to be scraping reddit for images so asking the site creator about using photos not without permission might be slightly off.
- cordite 12y agoThe history seems to be quite spammed by the sliders and such, made it difficult to come back here to comments about how it made me smile.
- serkanh 12y agoJust when i thought i had the perfect idea that nobody thought of as of yet :(.I just started almost identical side project 3 days ago, same idea utilizing sub-reddits and other websites.
- Aardwolf 12y agoPlease implement it anyway, but then with SI units! Thanks! :)
- ThomPete 12y agoNice. Feature request. Kilograms
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- breitling 12y agoJust a personal pet peeve: almost all apps are targeted for weight loss. I really wish apps would start considering people wanting to gain weight. I started using MyFitnessPal to keep track of calories and although I set my goal as weight gain, it tells me I'm doing great when I'm 500 calories under my target for the day/week.
- danesparza 12y agoThis SO makes me think of Arrested Development .... http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121126034756/arresteddevelopment/images/1/16/2x02_The_One_Where_They_Build_a_House_%28046%29.png http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121126034756/arrestedde...
- imgabe 12y agoThere is no snobbery more obnoxious than metric snobbery. Please get over yourselves.
- mproy 12y agoI think it's perfectly reasonable assumption that the majority of this apps users will be in the US and trying to lose weight. It's fine to want features that aren't there (yet) but it's obnoxious to presume that the developer simply didn't think of them.
- webmaven 12y agoNice project! I found a few in my height/weight range that were very inspirational!
- gms7777 12y agoThere should probably be a way to flag things as wrongly categorized. Just in a quick glance, I came across a decent amount of wrong gender posts.
- mobiuscog 12y agoIt would be very useful to add a slider for age range, even if bracketed. Someone who's middle-aged won't really get much use from seeing someone who is in their early twenties, even if the weight ranges are similar.