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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Surprised to see GPSLogger here on Hacker News. I've been using it for 8 years now, basically ever since it's been possible to track location on a phone all day without recharging. This app is a gem. Besides Google Location Histor
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
> BTW: This lady has a Masters from MIT. She def knows her way around things. Moreso than that, Lea is near the end of a Ph.D. in David Karger's group, an expert on CSS, and overall amazing researcher and developer for the web.
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GitHub official CLI released, overlapping with GitHub employee's CLI “hub”(theregister.com)
3 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|1 comments
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Waking up around the world in 2020: Time-series plots of Covid's effect on sleep(jeffhuang.com)
1 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
The article avoids directly addressing this, but I think is the real elephant in the room -- whether you have the right to web scrape for research. The article says, "You might be able to use what you scrape, but it’s worth checking th
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I did my Ph.D. in information retrieval and had studied the workings of the 3 major search engines from the inside during various points about a decade ago. Without giving away any trade secrets, part of it is the power of search behavior d
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I seem to remember that Opera was the first stand-alone browser that brought the world tabbed browsing. People switched to Opera for that and its fast performance. Other browsers including Mozilla copied the feature to catch up. Opera was t
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Agreed. This article is so loaded with not-so-obvious observations that can be used as a source of ideas for mini research projects. It's a goldmine for things to try. Kudos to the author for sharing their thoughts on this space.
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Since this topic has been a bit click-baitey recently, I was expecting yet another busy page with ads and popups and stock photos of students. It was so refreshing to see just a list of universities with text.
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Not for Garmin, but I have saved my data from the servers for the Microsoft Band [ https://jeffhuang.com/extracting_my_data_from_the_microsoft_... ] and Hello Sense [ https://jeffhuang.com/extracting_my_data_fr
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
GPSLogger (the one walrus01 linked to) is a gem. I've been using it continuously for 7 years. Not all location trackers are the same. It lets you log with cell tower but fall back to GPS if the accuracy is poor. Like walrus01 says, it&
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Thanks for the comments. I don't have it in time-series format. You could scrape the page pretty easily to get it (even just a grep should get you most of what you want). I'm not sure if the N is big enough per year to give a reli
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
If anyone likes checking out other lists of best paper awards, I've been collecting them (with the help of a few individuals and AllenAI) at https://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards/ There's 29 top CS conferen
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I've written a bit about combining a todo list with notetaking in a single text file: https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ Last time I posted it on Hacker News, quite a few people told me they adopted thi
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Great question. There's a use for usability testing, where paid participants currently sit at an application in a lab to do eye tracking. So there can be a similar version online for if let's say, Bloomberg is testing a new versio
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Hmm, not sure -- do you see the gaze dot when you're looking at the center circle?
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Author here (I didn't use Show HN because it's a larger collaborative project). Yes this is basically a tradeoff between accuracy and flexibility+accessibility. For usability testing, physical eye trackers have to be used one pers
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Webgazer.js webcam eye tracking on the browser(webgazer.cs.brown.edu)
138 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|54 comments
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Participant-Led Research in the Quantified Self Community(quantifiedself.com)
1 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Just wanted to say, thanks for writing the article about DARPA, and this analysis of the endless frontiers act. From reading both articles, obviously you're very pro-DARPA and anti-NSF. I have two thoughts that might erode your thesis
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
That's a good point. University labs are more nimble than a military contractor. The PI at a university directly does the work with their students (in some big labs, it's arguable that the PI manages the students that directly do
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Some fields already do have their own publishing orgs, like ACM and IEEE. I don't think I've published anything of note in one of the standard publishers in a while. The field-specific organizations seem to be notably better, but
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
They find the volunteers, coordinate them, figure out and handle the paperwork, and politely hassle them until they do their work. Basically, a similar function to university administrators, mid-level government employees, corporate project
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
That's pretty harsh, maybe because the expectations are unfairly high for Sam. It's just someone writing on their blog some thoughts they had, so maybe we should treat it like that. But for some constructive criticism, there are s
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Show HN: The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Changed Our Sleep(jeffhuang.com)
3 points by lazyjeff 6y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
Everyone here is imagining all the technical ways to replace publishers. That's quite feasible as you and others point out. I think there is also real work needed to solve social (people) problems, for example: - explain to the stakeho
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
It's possible, but there are only a few reviewing systems that are commonly used and their permission systems are robust as far as I know. I think a simpler explanation is that someone in the fraud group has a "higher permission r
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
I don't think this is true from my experience. I've been on several program committees, and have managed a couple as well. Usually if you're above the first-level reviewers (e.g. senior PC, track chair, PC chair), you can see
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
File formats change fast. It was not too long ago PNG was the newcomer, and people were touting how much better it was than GIF for non-photographs (alpha transparency, better compression, etc.). It has been successful, and now almost all a
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by lazyjeff 6y ago
In general I agree with the warning in your comment, but I think there's second challenge besides funding at universities. I mean, funding is always hard, but right now it's a decent time for computer science funding. There's

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