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Yes, I'm pretty certain the rig uses some kind of accelerometers to detect the threshold event. Any fall from the seat is typically preceded by a kick. And yes, you can certainly can still "hit the ceiling", but it's not clear if such mode of injury is common among cyclists.

By any measure, it sure beats riding without helmet.
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With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?
I really want to get back into blogging (for many years and ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job.

Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries.

Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet all month, my followers are still there. But it seems to me that having an email newsletter is still the best solution for someone in my position.

Sure, we're all already buried under an avalanche of email, and half of it goes into the spam folder. Nevertheless, when I have a large number of email addresses from folks who trust me and want to hear what I've got to say, I'd argue I have the most direct line to them than any other method of publishing.

So I spent a lazy rainy Sunday afternoon today building this:
http://tinyletter.com

Thoughts?
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That's what I was thinking, e.g look at the impacts on mtb freestyle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDaqcEkQRnM&feature=relat...

You can use tracker
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to calculate the decelerations on jumps. They are huge, bigger than the car hitting the back on the bike.

The only way to do this is to monitor the direction of the deceleration, not only the magnitude.
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I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job.

Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries.

Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet all month, my followers are still there. But it seems to me that having an email newsletter is still the best solution for someone in my position.

Sure, we're all already buried under an avalanche of email, and half of it goes into the spam folder. Nevertheless, when I have a large number of email addresses from folks who trust me and want to hear what I've got to say, I'd argue I have the most direct line to them than any other method of publishing.

So I spent a lazy rainy Sunday afternoon today building this:
http://tinyletter.com

Thoughts?
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Give the crawler a few minutes (no more than ten) to catch up - currently new feeds aren't crawled immediately. I'll add that to the list of things to change.

As for advantages over Google Reader: most of my feed reading is done on my mobile phone, so that was my starting point - I wanted something as quick and simple to use as possible, one click and you've got all the new articles in one page, loaded. That way, losing signal on the journey to work isn't a problem because I don't need to keep loading pages. I guess this will translate well to the desktop too - everything is there for you immediately, with minimal user input.

If there are any features you'd like to see, please do say!
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I've experienced going down the wrong path to a lesser extent. I wanted to study physics or computer science. My parents wanted me to be a doctor or go into biotech, and I caved to their will. All through college I struggled, hating my major and what I was learning. I even continued to grad school down the same route.

I had been depressed for years, but then one day, it dawned on me that I should drop out and pursue what I knew I wanted in life. I picked up programming again, am now an aspiring web developer, and I'm quite happy now.

Sometimes I think of how much better things would've been if I had started on the right foot, but Ed's story goes to show it's never too late to discover your calling. And when you find it, you may be destined to do great things.

That was quite a motivating story. Thanks for the share.
As mentioned already, one possibility is to take part in events... For me personal, I've been looking within my network and business contacts. Services as linkedin or xing are worth to look at.
Yet another reason NAT sucks...
Can you elaborate on why this is a good thing ?

Instead of using a 200$ GPS, they are required to spend a long time studying a body of knowledge superseded by technology.

And this translates to higher costs for the casual cab-rider.
People have been doing this for years already with tools like Wireshark. The only thing the app he has released does it to draw a massive amount of attention to the already existing problem. I say superb. Brilliant effort. Well done. Hopefully more people will stop stupidly sending session cookies over unsecured channels now.
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Ask HN: How do you tune your life?
Time is a valuable asset and we have a limited amount to spend on our project, considering that we have also to live a good life to avoid stress and burnout. How do you tune your life and manage your time to be able to waste as less as possible?

I will begin with what I do. I have a full time job and I work on a personal project on my spare time. Of course with all this work the risk of burnout is big, as I already experienced in the past: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1545774

I can tell you how I manage right now. I'm 20 minutes biking from work, and usually 15 minutes from anywhere else. Biking saves me a lot of commuting time, because I don't have to rely on public transportation. Here in Amsterdam I can bike where I want and it's much faster than taking a tram. Moreover it's healthy, so I can keep fit during the week too.

I start working at 9, but I wake up at 6, so each morning I get a couple of hours to work on my project. This implies of course that I have to go to sleep early in the evening, so I usually go to bed at 10 to have the sufficient amount of sleep, which is crucial to stay productive.

I'm now in the proceeds to buy a house. The main reasons to buy a house still apply, but I have some more: living in my own house will mean I will not have to deal with a landlord, which is making me lose a lot of time right now. Moreover when I will be living alone, I will pay someone to clean the house instead of doing it myself. I value my time more than the money cleaners ask and I'm willing to spend money to get back time. Washing machine for clothes, dishwasher for dishes and I don't iron clothes at all (if you learn how to hang them it's almost useless).

To avoid the burnout, I made up some rules: no work in the evenings, so when I go home from work and I'm tired I don't have the pressure of doing something on myself and I can spend those 2 spare hours after dinner relaxing (reading a book or some hobby). On friday I dance tango, on weekends I usually work on my project but still I go to parties or out with friends. Sometimes I go on a trip somewhere. I go running for one hour every weekend, to keep fit, release stress and clear my mind. This all helps to avoid burnout and stress.

How do you tune your life?
256-color terminal up to par with Terminal.app
Finally a fast Terminal.app replacement that has support for 256 colors, full-screen mode and more. A few bugs and missing features, but a worthy replacement nonetheless.

Thank you, prashantv, for pointing me to this.
Wow... I think you undersell your previous blog. Being old enough to remember I think that Fuckedcompany.com was the Techcrunch of its time. Loved to read that site - it brought a sense of reality to the startup/web space which is probably still required to this day.

For tinyletter, I like the idea however the one thing I would note is that it doesn't actually provide any sample of the type of newsletter that it would produce. For instance, what is the value of using this site as opposed to simply having a Google spreadsheet form to collect subscribers and sending the emails using Outlook?

Does it provide HTML templates to easily produce structured newsletters or does it only provide a big text field to type the newsletter? I'd be hesitant to sign-up without seeing at least sample visual of a newsletter that would be produced with the system.
Perhaps this would be (or would be posed as) a security problem, too.

I am not familiar with any specific methods of causing a large explosion that access to a 120V AC socket would allow, which not having access to one would not, with what is currently allowed to passengers through airport security [0]; But considering that producing a cigarette lighter or some nail polish remover in the cabin are grounds to be tackled by an air marshal and prosecuted, an electrical outlet is a hell of a lot of accessible power.

[0] kindly disregard my past five minutes' search history, NSA sniffer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tereré when working and with friends :)
Also. If you want to use Facebook completely over https. Install the "HTTPS Everywhere" Firefox addon. It forces a number of sites to make all of their requests over an SSL secured channel.
For anyone using the "color picker" extension, there is a better option (Windows only, sorry). I use ClipX, which is a utility for having clipboard history (i.e., you can ctrl+c 10 things and have them all available.) It's amazingly useful, and works exactly as you'd expect out of the box.

It has an extension called Color Picker, which gives you a shortcut for popping up a Color Picker/Eye Dropper tool whenever and wherever you want, anywhere inside you Operating System. It's customizable as to what exactly gets copied to your clipboard. It is a much better option than having an extension, IMO, both because it's part of a utility I use anyway, and because it is available anywhere inside Windows, not just your browser.
However they don't share the same session cookie for different service as far as I know (which they negotiate that through TLS protected link)
Likewise they have also made several other services TLS only (e.g. calendar, docs)
I suppose there are cases where people want to go to certain places, eg. "the shopping center", without having specific enough information to look it up with a GPS. Also, the driver knows ways that may be faster than what a GPS will suggest, since he knows about traffic, construction, etc.

Then there's the social aspect: by being more strict and maintaining an image of quality, you can attract better, nicer drivers.
Look at their website and blog:

"The cab stand in your hand". Tags of "taxi", "cab" and "taxi stand". A name that includes the word "cab".

They're clearly positioning themselves as a taxi company, then saying "oh, but we are not a taxi company!" when called on it. The whole thing reminds me of Napster when they tried to claim they had nothing to do with all the pirated music available via Napster.

Other apps, like taximagic, avoid the trouble by simply dispatching a taxi instead of playing this limo / taxi licensing game.

I find it fairly offensive that they're trying to complain that they're just too innovative, when the reality is that they entered a heavily regulated market and made a conscious decision to ignore the regulation. Too bad, so sad, deal with it.

Mobile taxi hailing is obviously coming, but I'd back the horse that is smart enough not to piss off the taxi and limousine commissions in the launch city. That seems like an action that's likely to get them extra governmental attention in every new market they address.
You can easily have 20g impact when you speed over road bump.

The accelerometers in your car are bolted to your 4,000lb frame, riding on dampened shocks and rubber tires - you will never experience acceleration anywhere close to what you would in a frame-on collision.

They don't have a shipping product yet.
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Yes I could do that however the yellow is the primary color of the brand which would mean more than a simple change. I'd prefer to reduce the large expanse of yellow than change the primary brand color.

I also have a queasy feeling a/b testing aesthetics especially when its a brand attribute which over time may become a strength as opposed to a current weakness. In other words I think for certain things, a/b testing starts to create homogenised results and sites.
Remember this is from the days before GPS devices were so common.

And frankly, given how rubbish a lot of those devices are, a human's intimate knowledge of the side roads is a very good thing; for example when you hit unexpected traffic and the device's service hasn't updated yet and you're in a hurry.
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IANAL, but it sounds like his threats are just piss and wind. I can't see how he has any rights, other than those of a minority shareholder and as a (former) sales manager.

On the other hand, you can sue him for acting as an agent without actual authority. Those hires and purchases he made that you explicitly vetoed? Invoice him, and watch him squirm. Tell him he can pay for them with some of his shares. But ask a lawyer first.

If he keeps making noise, ask him if you can speak to his lawyer. He doesn't have one. No lawyer would advise him to make such stupid decisions (trying to roll a CEO with just 20% of shares, vague threats, etc).

You have to buy him out eventually, or he'll be a recurring headache. It might cost more than 400k, as his investement has matured.
Ask HN: Would you use this website? CouplesCash
Hi HN,

Non-coder here but I love the site.

I've got a concept for a website called CouplesCash.com and would just like to get some initial feedback from yourselves on the concept and whether you would use it if it was available.

The premise behind the site would be that of Brownie Points earnt and spent within a relationship, Brownie Points being the unseen and unspoken currency in a relationship which allows both people to get various things from the other, hence the name CouplesCash.

The site would allow both people to offer Brownie Points for doing various things for the other person, and then spend or redeem the points on things they would like the other person to do for them.

The aim of the site would be to remind both people in a relationship all the small (and big) things they do for each other, as well as providing motivation to keep doing them, in an entertaining style.

Your honest feedback would be much appreciated.
Same here - probably too much paranoia, but then again it does not cost much to stick to the platform wall :-)
It's fairly easy to do if you are logged in on the network already. For example, for the iPhone you can use something like pirni to spoof the mac address of the router. That way you'll receive all data on the network, and can send it on the router yourself. In the meantime, you can dump all cookies that are passed on. I think the tool even allows you to list all twitter and google cookies, and set them in Safari.
Check the prices on ubercab versus regulated taxis.

2 mile: $7.15 v $17.80
5 mile: $13.90 v $32.50
10 mile: $25.15 v $57.00

idling: $0.45 v $1.25

The expensive ones are the less regulated cars of ubercab.

And for what it's worth, in New York, the only time I've had bad experiences with Taxis were times I waved down a livery, or got another unlicensed taxi.
I'd like to buy such a server at low purchase and maintenance cost.

The Pandaboard[1] looks like a good fit, but the instructions to install a Linux distro are a bit scary [2]. I guess I could do it, from my Mac, but I'm a bit afraid to mess things up with the low-level disk utilities.

Does someones sells SD cards with a distro pre-installed? Or an equivalent device with an easier setup?

If not, there's probably a market for that...

[1] http://pandaboard.org/

[2] http://omappedia.org/wiki/OMAP_Pandroid_Main#Getting_Started
Relationships built solely on Twitter, Facebook and the like may well be fleeting, but I have found them to be very effective tools for reinforcing and extending existing, meaningful relationships:

My sister doing public health work in Africa shares her photos on Facebook and Flickr.

My married friends doing research in China: status updates on Facebook.

My scattered high school and college friends: all on Facebook.

My 'In Real Life' software developer friends: all on Twitter. I have too few opportunities to see all of them, so being able to connect on Twitter and share the occasional note is extremely valuable.
Funnily enough, I actually take a nap sometimes when I can't figure out the solution to a problem or I'm going around in circles.

Perhaps it's not realy sleep, but more often than not I wake up with the solution, or at least more ready to tackle the solution.

I've also found almost ubiquitously that whatever had me completely confounded the night before is a hell of a lot easier to work out in the morning.

Perhaps it's just me but I find that sleep for me is a natural reaction to mental stress, and I always feel better afterwards.
I would not use this site.
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There's plenty of advocacy sites if you google for them.

A very nutshell summary is that the minor benefits are accompanied by minor drawbacks. For example you'll not get much benefit if dragged under a 16-wheeler and research shows that drivers will come closer when overtaking someone wearing a helmet.

A major problem though is that well-meaning types want to legally enforce helmets in the name of safety. An immediate impact of this would be to reduce cycling amongst those who think helmets are a nuisance or uncool (as well as another reason for cops to hassle the poor/minorities for breaking laws that they won't bother the better off about). It's fairly well documented that more cyclists/cycling means safer cycling so anything that discourages cycling makes the remaining cyclists less safe.
Always use encryption, while using open wifi. I use openvpn ( http://openvpn.net/ ) for this.
That's an incredibly drastic change and I seriously doubt it can even be done with IP4.
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No offense, but that custom scroll bar on the right is incredibly annoying. It's way to skinny to grab with the mouse without paying an inordinate amount of attention to my pointer.
Even the dumbest script kiddies have been doing this for years anyway. There are plenty of existing tools. This one just lowers the bar so your mum can perform the attack too.

It almost makes me angry that websites like Facebook and Twitter don't force all traffic over https. They've got the money and the expertise. They just don't care if your account gets sniffed and taken over at a web cafe.
In case this isn't clear: if you ssh to someone else's machine and use it as a proxy or VPN, the owner of said machine can of course still steal your HTTP cookies. (not trying to say anything about the trustworthiness of the above 2 posters, just a general statement)
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It used to be so, but newer servers can now serve more than one HTTPS domain using the same IP. For more details, check out http://serverfault.com/questions/109800/multiple-ssl-domains...
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This was already happening on a massive scale before this new app was released... I honestly don't think it will increase the number of attacks by all that much. It's brilliant as a tool for spreading the word though.
> it sure beats riding without helmet.

Obviously an airbag helmet will be safer (but more inconvenient) than no helmet. Presumably it will be less safe (but maybe more convenient and better looking) than an ordinary helmet.

It needs to beat both to succeed: that is, either some people who currently use helmets need to be convinced that the loss in safety from using an airbag helmet is small enough to be outweighed by the gain in convenience or looks or whatever, or some people who currently don't use helmets need to be convinced that the gain in safety from using an airbag helmet is large enough not to be outweighed by the loss in convenience or looks or whatever.

This seems pretty difficult to me, especially as I bet the convenience gain isn't very big: I bet an effective airbag helmet needs to fit you about as well as an ordinary helmet, and it'll need to be put on with about as much care.
How many new servers are going to be needed now that https is used for everything and requests can't be cached?

The main thing holding us back there are browsers that go apeshit if you load images via HTTP on an HTTPS page. Requiring JavaScript or other active content to be loaded from the same HTTPS server would be a good thing in many cases. I think currently ANY https server is allowed, which doesn't actually defend against any kind of XSS, so it's pretty meh. Or is there some kind of meta tag etc. that enforces same-origin? (If not, that would be a cool addition. Maybe a list of allowed domains?)
Making a custom scroll bar that is a beautiful and unique snowflake is probably a recipe for failure. See, e.g., http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050711.html
shmeedog wrote a server in eventlet that solves the blocking thin problem.
I think most demonstrations are there to make the demonstrators feel better. So changing your Twitter avatar can make you feel better - it works just like the real demonstration?

Except that if you go to a real demonstration, maybe you can make some real friends. You don't actually meet anybody by changing your Twitter icon. But that is another side effect - the original "I want to do something" works both on Twitter and on the street.
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Actually, it's even easier than that! You can edit every plug-in right within the interface. Click the Edit button, then click "Go" on whichever plug-in script you want to edit. That page will load and the Go button changes to an Edit button. Click that and the code editor interface pops up. Change the URL and click Save!

I should redesign that Edit/Go button interface to make it more clear. A couple people have thought they can't edit the plug-in scripts.