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by feniv 13y ago
I get the same error with https, but the http version of the homepage works just fine. See also, https://search.nerdydata.com/
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by feniv 13y ago
Thanks, do share it with your wife! I definitely need to work on my pitch more. As for search engines, I tried to target the words Online Diary/Journal (which seem to get searched a lot (1M+ queries per month)) without coming off as sp
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by feniv 13y ago
That looks pretty good! You have an interesting model of abstraction with the records, cats and magnitudes. For me, each data point is an Entry. Entries have a primary Metric/Action and many details, which may have a numerical amount a
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by feniv 13y ago
Because I believe that privacy and the cloud can co-exist in a mutually beneficial fashion. Just because the app is online doesn't mean that it has to be "social" (there is intentionally no social-sharing options for the log
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by feniv 13y ago
By the way, the site's running entirely on a single ec2 micro instance (nginx, redis, posgres and go). I'm curious to see if my optimizations pay off and if it can continue to handle the HackerNews traffic.
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by feniv 13y ago
I totally understand. I'm the kind of person who keeps a diary inside an encrypted true-crypt folder, so security and privacy have been my primary concern from day one. The main reason I'm deploying this as a web-service rather th
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by feniv 13y ago
Sure! I can release it as a library if there's interest. It's basically a go-client querying a redis instance which has been pre-fed with the NLTK categorization for most common words (about 8000 or so).
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by feniv 13y ago
It would be nice if the duration of the "slide" animation was based on the time difference between the two slides. This adds some implicit context to the timeline. Things that happened back-to-back will appear quickly (like 300 ms
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Show HN: Journal Your Life as Data with Thyself.io(thyself.io)
45 points by feniv 13y ago|25 comments
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by feniv 13y ago
See Nicholas Felton's work for a more design-oriented approach to personal-statistics. He has an extensive report for most years since 2005. http://feltron.com/ar12_02.html
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by feniv 13y ago
Oh wow! This looks awesome. It's basically a collaboration/connection platform for developers, designers and businessmen. I've seen a lot of other sites attempt to do this, but they fall short of their goal and ends up being
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by feniv 13y ago
Took a while to load but it scroll surprisingly smoothly. The sign-up button takes me to a wikipedia page about contextual advertising. Is that intentional? And for those who can't view the project, try the post about it (from their ho
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by feniv 13y ago
On a positive note, the front-end design is pretty good. I like the sketch on the header; it explains the concept pretty succinctly. Most of the page is responsive, but the menu isn't visible on small windows. Other than that, just f
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by feniv 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I have a super-simple REST API setup for the site (documentation isn't online yet), so if you can roll out your own service how you like and use my endpoints for the storage/synchronized access.
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by feniv 13y ago
I've also been working on another journal app: https://thyself.io (though it's not quiet ready for prime-time) Like you said, building the habit is the hardest part, but this type of introspection really has it's
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by feniv 13y ago
My experience has been pretty similar: Go is perfect for building high performance APIs. A lot of the library infrastructure is still in early stages. One suggestion: Don't bog down your application server with serving static files (Sl
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by feniv 13y ago
That would be biased towards the frameworks named as some common word (like "go") being mistakenly marked as more popular than they are.
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by feniv 13y ago
Red Cliff is an awesome movie! I loved it because it focused on the strategy and politics of war, rather than the warriors or fighting.
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by feniv 13y ago
I'm working on a analytics-related project and this looks like something I can use! The input format is a little restrictive, but understandably so (since this is meant to be used for tabular data) The data I'm working with is a
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by feniv 13y ago
The odds of getting hit by a lightning is actually surprisingly high (1 in 3000 in an average lifetime). He should really go see a doctor though, since there's a 70% chance that he may be affected with serious long-term conditions. [source
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by feniv 13y ago
You should polish this up and release it on the app store! It has that perfect mix of fun and challenge to keep you entertained when you're waiting for something and its conveniently easy to pick up and play also.
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by feniv 13y ago
The layout makes all of the difference. The numbers aren't right next to each other on hackernews, so there's enough visual difference between the two.
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by feniv 13y ago
It looks pretty nice! I would suggest that you get rid of the list numbering. It adds little value to the front page (knowing the exact rank of a post isn't very useful) and makes the points a little more confusing.
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by feniv 13y ago
Rather than waiting for data from future games, you should backtest on old data and see how it performs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtesting ). You might also be interested in checking out the book The Signal and The Noise by Nate Sil
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by feniv 13y ago
If the article is long, I usually add it to instapaper or pocket to read later. The time spent on the actual site is low but I still engage with the content.
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by feniv 13y ago
The form factor is very... "unique".
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by feniv 13y ago
I love hypothetical science fiction movies like this, but they so often get criticized for the improbability of their premise rather than admired for their vision.
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by feniv 13y ago
The copyright reads 2001-2013, so I assume the code has evolved over time in design, but kept the old-school table layouts. If you look at the (admirably short) CSS file, most of it has to do with fonts and colors (and one block for drop sh
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by feniv 13y ago
Wow. Great UI! The selling point for me is the ability to simply plot points using python code in a browser.
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by feniv 13y ago
I like the "optional" hands-on challenges he listed for applicants in the jobs page. It may end up filtering out some talented candidates (not wanting to put in this much effort for one application), but it will certainly call out to the ti

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