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Couldn't agree more. Most people will tell say it's 80% diet, 20% exercise... and, though that ratio may change somewhat based on weight & goals, I think it's mostly right on.
If you don't mind moderately difficult games (my personal preference) I strongly recommend taking a look at the blurbs for these few tremendously good games and seeing if they appeal to you:

Adam Cadre - Varicella http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=ywwlr3tpxnktjasd

Jon Ingold - Make It Good http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=jdrbw1htq4ah8q57

Andrew Plotkin - Spider And Web http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=2xyccw3pe0uovfad
> I've always thought there was room for Interactive Fiction in the modern world, it's just a matter of how/when (I hope!).

There is room for interactive fiction. The community of interactive fiction writers didn't grow quite as quick as the community of professional and hobbyist video game developers, but they're among us. You may have heard of Andrew Plotkin and his runaway Kickstarter deal: http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/15/technology/kickstart_plotkin.... If you haven't played his games, do yourself a favor and take a look, there's a javascript interpreter, so you don't even need to download anything: http://eblong.com/zarf/if.html. Dreamhold is the easiest to get into; Shade and Dual Transform are both single-room games, but each provides wonderfully peculiar game mechanics.

If you want go get a perspective on the present state of interactive fiction, http://brasslantern.org/ is a hub of sorts, you can find game files and reviews there. There are annual competitions. If you use iOS, there's a port of Frotz interpreter.
My bed is far too firm for this to work. I could never get it to respond to anything.
There is actually a hack to get around this - I don't know if its still there but I did it a couple of hours ago and it worked:

1) Copy the link from the email (right click on the red button in the email and save link location)
2) Open another browser or incognito tab that you're not logged into.
3) Create an @gmail.com account or use an existing one if you have it and paste the link in the address bar once you're logged in.

It seems like the invite is just the token in the link, it's not specifically linked to a given email.
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Thanks.

Note that you'll always want a way to resync the redis copy of the data with what's in your database.

Why is that? Isn't Redis persistent?
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The reviews on iTunes store says it's faking data and graph

http://itunes.apple.com/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id320606...
If I were you - I might switch all the free content to be at the top of the page. Initially when I clicked the link I immediately saw "sign up to access" on 6/7 of courses. Luckily I know how to use the scroll bar :) Just saying I fly though most of these links and sometimes don't even stop to scroll. HN is an awesome market for your team - it might even deserve it's own offer splash page or something.. ? Keep up the good work.
For general, practical, and relatable health & fitness tips, I'm obviously partial to http://www.greatist.com.

For the record, though, scooby's pretty sweet & his videos are for sure an interesting, if kinda goofy, resource.
This. The product description is extremely appealing to me - it tackles exactly what I find to be most wrong with current social network software. If I could, I would begin using it immediately and would probably get 60-80 people in my network to do the same and try it with me.

If this product gets any traction, it seems like a near certainty that Facebook will launch a "Circles" UI for their groups feature, very quickly, no?

I understand why Google is taking it slow, but if the idea sounds like old news by the time Google lets me invite people, I suspect they're going to seriously compromise their odds of user adoption.
Only thing I can think of that is also aneutronic pB11 fueled fusion reactor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#Possibility_of_net_pow...
Are suggesting that the personal information you upload to Facebook isn't available to random strangers at that particular corporation?

At least Google has aspirations of not being evil. Mark Zuckerberg only seems to aspire to eliminating privacy altogether.
It won't be free forever.

Once we know how well it works and we've ironed out any bugs, then we'll start charging.
Initially we'd rather deal with people who don't trust us because we're free than people who are pissed off because we aren't free and don't work :P

Also, it was a fun project to work on - we had to learn all about the Bitcoin API and host our own daemon!
Google tested 41 shades of black and users preferred #2d2d2d.
As far as I can tell, none. See here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...

Page 6, specifically: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...
If you like Anchorhead, you may enjoy Slouching Towards Bedlam, which has a similar atmosphere and similarly beautiful writing.

http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78
This. Also it's inconsistent with the bar at the top of the Gmail interface. Perhaps this will be rectified/consolidated going forward. Overall it seems like a strange choice for the company that popularized the clean white interface.
I'm surprised Google kept the I'm Feeling Lucky button. When was the last time someone used it on purpose? The rumor I heard last week was that the button was on the chopping block.
See the help here (hopefully it works for people not in the trial): http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&...

I'll quote the relevant part:

> If a post was shared with a limited group of people, you can click Limited at the top of the post to see the profile pics of up to 21 other people who can also see that content, as well as the total number of people on the post.
Sorry, what exactly does that mean? Can you give some examples?
scary: if you visit google.com with Google Chrome, you can search by voice, even from your desktop computer (if you have a microphone and many laptops do). The idea is cool, but this seems like a huge security/privacy problem!
Its not faster than Memcached. More likely it is slightly slower. The benchmark the author of Redis did is under dispute.
Nice in that it glues together lots of tested parts rather than rewriting everything from scratch.

With the selection of Lua as the scripting language, you might even get people cutting their teeth on WoW mods and going to MUDs!
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Yeah I was worried for a minute. When I wrote the app I was taking a calculated risk because there have been a number of Hangover apps in the store for a long time. I figured the chances were good that no one would complain. 1 week before the movie release, there were several Hangover 2 apps in addition to mine. They all disappeared at the same time, yet apps for the first movie still are around now.
Writer's clearly butthurt.

Not sure where Thiel is stating that entrepreneurs are only ever born. He's saying that your time and money are better spent honing your skills running a company in the real world and learning from the infinite supply of material available for free, than spending 200k on an Ivy League education that will more likely teach you how to become a corporate drone, and waste a lot of time.
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By "graduates" do you mean "people who have just graduated"?

This was the case early on (when YCombinator was marketed using the whole "drop out of college and do a startup meme).

I believe they have stated that the age distribution is much wider now. Having said that, it's probably easier to live on the YCombinator investment if you are young don't have kids than if you do.
You mentioned posting to Hacker News before, and hey, I was the one guy who left a comment! heh.

I also have an iPhone game in the store, but I've done a little bit better than you have. I made about $8,000.00 in my first year.

Just echoing everybody else's comments: People are very reluctant to spend any amount of money on a game without being able to try it first. You must have a free option to get them interested. In my case, I have a crippled free version and a paid version. I started before in-app purchasing was available. Today I'd probably go with "free but pay to remove ads" instead.

The mistake I have made is that I program too slowly (heh). Eight grand a year for an app is not bad, if I could crank out a new one every three months or so. The app store audience favors having a bunch of shallow apps, rather than one big app you pour your heart and soul into.
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That's more or less what I told him on his other question. He originally wanted to make it more general-purpose, so that this same editor interface would be used for programming languages in general. I did my best to talk him out of that madness and he has since narrowed his scope to XML.
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I second that. I had problems with shin splints and sore knees running which seemed to go away once I switched to VFFs (Bikilas). You must take it slow and really focus on your running form to avoid hurting yourself though. Also, in my experience, running in VFFs will not result in you going any faster (probably a little slower), but definitely more comfortable.
I've had a similar shock getting into iOS development. I'd never done any Cocoa coding before but had heard it praised so highly over the years that I assumed it was going to be all rolling fields and sunshine. But it really does feel primitive in many ways compared to the modern web. Apple will address some of the biggest pain points (layouts, styling) in their next set of OS releases but it's made me appreciate what I've taken for granted for so long in web UI.

I haven't written any apps in Android yet but I've been studying their UI docs and it's clear that their UI kit was informed by the web. If you squint at their code samples they don't look all that different from HTML5 apps: layout in markup, wireup event handlers, go.
I wouldn't at all fault you guys for taking advantage of the coverage. I'm just wondering why the HN crowd decided to give free advertising to a small incremental update.

This does give a compelling reason to join YC, though: plenty of cheerleading around YC startups.
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> but on the other hand, we do end up turning away a few otherwise qualified candidates.

I've had to turn down several otherwise-qualified candidates recently for culture fit reasons. While it would be awesome if all qualified candidates were created equal, their technical qualifications are only one piece of the puzzle.

In reality, the culture fit and the ability to work with the rest of the team is key in a small company. Everybody has to deal with everybody, so if anybody has issues dealing with anybody you can run into some major friction that'll cost you more than you gain.

At the end of the day, the way to look at it isn't "they're qualified but they don't fit the culture", but rather "they're not qualified because they don't fit the culture". It goes a long way toward eliminating the mixed feelings.
To learn Ruby I decided to redo my website in it, and I felt the complete opposite. I was surprised there's nothing comparable in the Ruby world to Jinja2 or Mako. Nothing supports blocks/macros or template inheritance, so I wrote my own small template engine in Ruby that does.
Absolutely. This is why I think native apps are going to hit an asymptotic growth limit eventually. Native will have its place but it's already so much easier to build a typical data-centric UI in HTML5.
But you can't make the same development with Google's demographic. People you know with a Google account are disparate - friends, online colleagues, family? Filtering down through the geeky to the end user makes sense for them I think.
Yea I dislike Picasa as well. I was disapointed to see Google+ integrating with it. Although there really isn't an alternative...
Your identical story happened to me. I never received a third unit to replace the second defective unit. Quite frankly, they can keep it.
You give Twitter all those permissions too.
I'm not exactly sure how they plan to compete with Google Apps in the small business market when they don't offer a free service tier.
We've had this in Australia for ages: None!
Worked for me earlier and works for me now. Either it was down temporarily or you've got something else going on.
Could it mention platform or OS?
As an aside, I really feel like Apple is losing the plot with their latest batch of UIs. Wooden end panels, birch bookshelves, the glossy reflective dock, leather-bound notebooks etc, all smack of a lack of imagination and an timid need to convey value in outmoded terms.
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How about Lark (https://www.lark.com/mylark/)? It's a similar product in a completely different price range ($129!). Has anyone tried it?
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I got a lot of value out of the Couch to 5k jogging program. Just downloaded the Robert Ullrey weekly podcast [1]. Then it was just a matter of putting on my running shoes every other morning and following his coaching.

It helped to follow two rules:

1) As soon as the alarm went off I was committed to get up right away, pee, step into my shoes, step outside, and close the door behind me. Once outside, if I really didn't want to continue, I could opt out and go back inside.

2) The following morning I do it no matter what. No more than 1 skip between sessions.

It worked really well for me and I recommend others try it. No fancy equipment, no custom apps. Just my music player, running shoes, and a piece of paper with the 27 (9 weeks x 3 sessions/week)workouts for me to tick off as I did them

I really wanted to try ShovelGlove [2] but have too many kids running around for me to feel safe.

-

[1] Looks like his blog is gone, but you can download his podcast files here: http://c25k.com/podcasts.htm

[2] http://www.shovelglove.com/
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Wow.. So many interesting sounding suggestions. I'll start with Trinity and go from there! Thanks!
They have six months to renew the domain name… they’re hardly “waiting until the last minute”.
> Is Hipmunk's information on flights to Australia actually decent? I took a look at it a while back for Canada-Europe flights and the results were less than inspiring.

I always found Hipmunk to be fairly average to-and-from Australia. In fact, as an example: to fly from Perth to Shanghai, the cheapest/least agonising flight is $1477.

Direct via Singapore Airlines' website, with the same amount of agony (just the one transfer at Changi (Singapore)) is $1126, flying with the one airline the whole time (even better!). There's also the Cathay Pacific option at $1136 odd.

Hipmunk is probably darned good in the US, by all accounts, but internationally it's a bit weak.
Less predictable. We thought we'd learn how to pick winners. What we learned instead is that it's impossible. Not just because luck is such a big factor, but because founders change.
Interesting. Seems I haven't grasped the flexibility of jinja. I'll look into this, thanks.
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Clearly a pair of these are necessary: http://www.voidaudio.com/product_detail.asp?id=42

You know you want to. I mean, look at them. They're made of kevlar for god's sake!

And these plots should speak for themselves:

http://www.voidaudio.com/pdf/plots/Air%20Motion%20Plot.pdf
Good points. Storytelling is so important in delivering a message and having people successfully learn and remember it. I would say a key point is to keep in mind what you want the audience to actually remember from the story -- it's easier to tell a story and have people remember the interesting bits, but more difficult to structure the story in such a way that places the focus on the bits you would like the audience to remember. Daniel Willingham in his book "Why Students Don't like School" spends a decent amount of time talking about the value of good storytelling.

On another note, the Presentation Zen blogger and author, Garr Reynolds, was a professor in a course I took a few years ago. Although the class he was teaching at the time had nothing to do with giving presentations or speeches, he was so passionate about the topic that peripherally* I ended up learning more about giving great presentations from his class than any other class I've ever had (including Speech in college). His blog is a great source for improving too.

*The topic constantly came up and Garr constantly organized related events outside of class
Cool. Proud of being part of the Montreal tech community!
I didn`t say they were waiting til the last minute. I asked the question. How long does the NY Times need to decide to renew?
This is much better than what I found last time I went looking, thanks. I think I need to roll up my sleeves and dig deeper... Being able to mutate the templates to suit what I usually might build seems cool (but a big time sink!).
I wrote the article and can vouch this effectively was the business model of Commerce One. I didn't do into gory detail in the article as that wasn't the point. Basically Commerce One had a suite of products (Marketsite, Net MarketMaker etc) that were essentially business hubs with the goal of charging per business transactions and scaling recurring revenue. Commerce One also had a number of ancillary products but i would characterize them as non-core. If any ex-employee disputes the model then I'd venture a guess they didn't know what they were talking about. Commerce One obviously charged for the products themselves (and licensing/maintenance) but over time their was concern that the number of hubs would consolidate and that revenue stream would slow (after all the cost to stand up a fully blown MarketSite deployment was often in 7 figures) I worked at ForestExpress, Elemica, and Exostar as a Senior Consultant at Commerce One. Amazingly those companies are still going concerns (although none use C1 products anymore)... I imagine 80-90% of the other hubs shut down.

In addition to my "day job", I currently run a few blogs including http://techystocks.com and http://bakkenstocks.com Look for our upcoming article on NetSuite!
Great interface, but the number of fonts is a bit overwhelming to browse through. It would be awesome if you could sort by "most downloaded" or "most used" -- just to get some ideas.
FWIW, the people who did this UI redesign have nothing to do with Android.
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You make a really good point about the fear / miss-conception people will have about having search tied to their profile.

I really hope Google realizes that and draws a big fat line between searches and social profiles, and then makes it really apparent to their users.

Making people think they're sharing their everyday searches with their social circle is enough to completely kill this before it even gets started.
That's what they were going for. Too many people were tuning the top bar out for their liking probably. Now it's unmissable.
I actually own the domain NewCircles.com and was working on an idea very similar to what Google has done here (including group video chat) but with emphasis on users finding and joining NEW circles instead of just organizing existing friends into circles. Think Meetup mashed with Facebook with a dash of Chatroulette.

After this announcement I'm not sure if I should continue working on my project...
This is so unfair. I finally mastered the GIT console pushing and pulling stuff around. And this awesome product comes and the console is now obsolete. Jokes apart, this is super tool that will bring new users that are still not familiar with the console. Great job guys!
Well, for Gmail users, it shouldn't be hard to match names with specific people, if they have them in their contacts.

I don't know exactly what's the file format from FB backup, but it might be possible to identify linked users based on similar content (as long as both users have already uploaded their profile to Google+).
The original idea was to have a place where people could give other people awards for their achievements, but the first set of people that used the site didn't want to engage in that way. That's really what I wanted to build. After a bit I realized that most people weren't congratulating other people but actually tweeting or updating their own wall with their own achievements. That's why the site switched its focus to more of a "bragging" site. It's weird that talking about real world achievements has a negative connotation, yet online gaming achievements are not. Thanks for the reply.
Attention Bay Area people!

If you are in SF: some of the best running terrain in the west is just over the Golden Gate bridge. Hop on your bike, ride to the Marin headlands, and go for a walk. If you're already pretty fit, go for a run. The trail network is amazing and you can go as far as you want.

If you are on the Peninsula: you're next to some of the best road biking on the west coast. You can make tons of loops up to Skyline Rd and they are all awesome. For starters try starting down in Palo Alto and riding over Arastradero to Alpine Road, work up to climbing Old La Honda.

Why go to a gym?
It really was a tongue in cheek comment ;) Main point is this trend towards grey on black is a UI nightmare.
I turned Cleartype off and that helped. The text shadow trick helped as well. I would have thought that using Chrome would mean that Google's fonts would have displayed correctly, but I guess Cleartype overrides that.
I miss the day when testing a website meant using just IE and Netscape -- now I have to turn Cleartype on and off ... ugh
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HN,

What are some of the best, simple designs that you've seen online?
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I use it, but really only for the "intelligent snooze" feature, which decreases the length of the snooze each time until it starts refusing to snooze. If anyone knows of a simpler app with the same feature, I'd love to hear about it.
Circles is the killer feature of Google+ and will be one of my main reasons to at least give it a try. Finally i am able to organize my online identity the way i want it to be .
If people get the idea behind sharing and privacy, Google+ can and will be a Facebook "killer".
Plus i have more trust in Google than Facebook concerning my data.
oh geez internets, are we speculating over who owns a domain now?..
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I really don't think this will be an issue. Think of how often you browse Facebook just looking at people and reading info. This is not information I would like to have public any more than I'd like people knowing about what I search for.

People won't give this a second thought, and hopefully Google will do a good job in keeping the concepts clearly separated.
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anyone have experience using this after typekit? we've been somewhat disappointed with the inconsistency of typekit's rendering lately and are looking for another option...