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Hi HN,

I've just started freelance web development this Summer, and as I had some spare time this weekend I decided to make DayScore. I built it to satisfy my own itch, but just making a spreadsheet sounded boring so I ended up making a web app out of Rails/Heroku/JQuery/MongoDB. Only time will tell if this will actually help me keep a consistent routine :). All comments and suggestions welcome.

Cheers, Pete.

PS:
Here's what it looks like after a few days of use:
http://i.imgur.com/Pu5sR.png

Blog post describing the project
http://ukoki.com/post/32638044434/hacking-life-with-dayscore
Reminds me of a demo I built 3 years ago ( http://cheeaun.github.com/streetview-fun/ ). Though there's no find feature, it has some cool stuff if you click on the links at the bottom :)
Indeed, Holmes. Opera Turbo in the next version of Yandex.Browser.
Well played :)

(assuming the acronym was intended...)
I detest all .co.*'s - I'm not sure why they implemented this in the first place?!
Show HN: I got tired of using whatsapp and Facebook Messenger, so I wrote my own
The difference between UK and French pension payments is that in the UK you actually own your contributions, in France you merely hope that a future politician won't decide that you're too rich to get a state pension ("means-tested benefits" is fancy word this in the UK). In Denmark it's a national sport for politicians to figure out just how many pensioners/soon-to-be-pensioners you can afford to piss off in a given election cycle and adjust various limits accordingly.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland after Southern Ireland gained independence. After Scottish independence, I expect it would change to the United Kingdom of Southern Britain and Northern Ireland.
App to help developers stay active, just won startup weekend:)
Hi, I'm the author here. Just thought I'd give some background on the app, and also to listen to suggestions and feedback anyone may have

I mainly wrote Flip out of my frustrations of using whatsapp (which somehow became the default mobile messaging app of choice) both in its poor usability and (at the time) questionable security measures.

I was also getting worried about Facebook's prevalence in every aspect of our online lives, and really didn't like seeing it creep into what I think is our most intimate form of online communications.

So I wrote Flip, as an alternative to both of those, and also (hopefully) provide more value than them too.

Please let me know what you think. I'd be more than happy to receive any feedback :)

Thanks
Jerrold
Already knew this (checked before commenting to make sure they didn't have it and found that out). Although using regex might make it a lot more server intensive - even though, the majority of people wouldn't use it besides "nerds" like us
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i like it :D
Gentle introduction with underscore.js
This is the most overdone news story in recent months. It was two tweets, and yet entire articles are being written analyzing a small quip.

Now how many times do we have to go over the argument? x86, for the moment, is just as open as Windows 7. ARM is not, it's very locked down. Windows 8 as a whole consists of both versions, in that respect it's considered less open. The fear is that we're going to see ARM become the major OS (for various reasons, mostly tablets/phones/mobiles becoming more popular) and at that point there won't be an open Windows. That's the concern. Yes, it's a slippery slope argument, but it looks to be the direction we're headed in.

And please, stop with the "then why did he release on iOS/Xbox" argument ad nauseam, it's an ecosystem which was locked down from the beginning, nothing is being "lost".

This story has really embittered me, so I apologize if this is brash. But all the personal attacks I see on various websites against Notch are incredibly disheartening.
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Pro tip: make sure you have enough processing power and bandwidth available before you post things on HN :)

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When you get a chance, go find a copy of your national budget and find out how much of it goes towards education, health and infrastructure. Then stop using that argument.
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Funny, the US should be the worse place for startups then since the government doesn't pay for people to go to universities there.
Wait a minute.. people pay good money for Cherry Mx Keycaps, can't you do those?
The question is, will this be another Rockmelt which was just Chrome with a social sharing and Facebook chat extension thrown in or have they taken Chromium/Webkit and re-engineered a faster/better browser and integrated their technology.
Make yourself busy with truly interesting things. HN is a cheap shot of dopamine but there are far more potent sources. If you're procrastinating on HN it's probably because you don't have yourself mind buried in something engaging enough.
Any stats on how big the typical HN traffic spike is?
Torque: Big data meets time-based maps, bundled with CartoDB 2.0
Let's face it, there's not an infinite number of unnecessary spending, at some point you have to be close to a balanced budget and even though I think taxing entrepreneurs too much is a bad idea, they aren't starving and I think asking for a little solidarity isn't too much to ask.

You probably don't want to pay for "those lazy public sector employees" (and if you do, forget this sentence) but it's just a front for selfishness.
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They still pay until high school.
> extremely dangerous

In which way? Unless the cyclist is moving like a madman in a crowd, the worse that usually happens is a bruise (and in rare cases, a broken bone).

When I'm riding, cars pass centimeters away from me, and that's not because they're careless but because in some areas there's simply no other choice, except riding on the sidewalk.

> aren't used to cyclists

Unless you organize like here[0], people need to cooperate with cyclists, whether in a car or on foot.

As arrethuza mentions, a bell on your bicycle helps a lot (and cars simply don't hear that bell). It's not aggressive in any way (entirely unlike a horn on a car), and people just move out of the way of cyclists without much thinking about it.

[0] https://maps.google.com/maps?q=strasbourg&hl=fr&ll=4...
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Ask HN: Learning About The Start-Up Process
Can you suggest the top resources for learning about start-ups in general?

i.e. What I mean is: If one were to go embark upon the long road towards putting together a start-up, is there some sort of road-map or training material that you would recommend?
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Great idea, but the ever growing blacklist would be a major problem, no?
I need gcc, vim and a shell and a nice big screen with the ability to type easily, that's why I use old-fashioned PCs. I also don't like how all the pads and mobile devices are locked-down and more focused on tracking user activity (EDIT: and selling stuff) than being a computing device. I guess I'm getting old.
If they do nothing else but default the search engine to Yandex, that's what for.

Longer term, one of the benefits they might be able to offer users, over other browsers, is better compatibility with local sites, e.g. local banks. And maybe curated apps/extensions.
(And the Wiki, of course.)

I think Minecraft as a programming teaching tool would be a whole lot more valuable with a proper API and hopefully that will be introduced before the game starts to fizzle. It would be one less barrier to entry for kids, as currently they have to learn Java and get thrown into a messy (deobfuscated) codebase. Not exactly the best first experience with programming.

I think Valve's Portal 2 map maker is another good example. They give you a really nice interface for the easier stuff, and then for advanced changes you can import it into Hammer.
They're just punch cards made on glass.
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Right. To be fair to finance, there are a lot of companies (and groups within large institutions) that do value technology. Arbitrageurs, for example, rely on technology. (Financial risk in arbitrage is extremely low; but the danger is that, if your technology sucks, you'll be running at a high burn rate and making few trades.) People are starting to get it, even if it takes a long time.

The across-the-board startups = good / finance = bad mentality makes no sense to me. It may be true in the aggregate, but I haven't seen enough data and what I have seen shows no correlation. If you're in the back office of a huge bank, you're probably not in the best environment for an engineer. On the other hand, high-frequency trading requires a certain technical acumen that's fairly rare and that people will pay a lot for... and if you're really good at that stuff, a lot of the politics works itself out.

I think it's essential to become an XWP ("X Who Programs") even in mainstream software shops. Unless you have a national reputation as a great software engineer, you need some credibility that's independent of your performance as an engineer. Why? Because if the architecture's bad or nonsensical, good engineers won't perform well because they don't think in FactoryFactories and inheritance hierarchies. You need control of the architectural landscape in addition to engineering ability to perform at a 1.5+ level. Otherwise, if you take a typical software job, you're at the risk that you perform at a mediocre level because of architectural decisions made by other (less competent, but more powerful) people and never be able to convince people that you can take the architectural reins. You need that X (data science, project management, quant finance) to convince people that you're substantial regardless of your performance in the particular environment that's given to you.

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Thanks.
Well, on any Android device software installation from third-party is easy. 1, 2 and 3 are definitely true, but not 4.
CD:s are just punch cards made on aluminium.
Could you move the pictures to Amazon S3? Or another CDN?

(But as far as your actualy question, I don't know what kind of traffic the app store would generate.)
Nice domain name! Did you buy it long ago?
Foxconn "Brawl" past week seems to be due to security guards bad-practices
To give some context for an otherwise abstract label? Like .ac.uk is likely to be a school or university, .gov.uk is something government related. To me, .co.uk is the wild west of the UK domains, so be a bit more guarded.
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If you think you're browsing a particular site too much, here's what I do.

Block the site on your work computer. You can use any method you want, I just edit my computer's host file, so the site won't load.

You can still access these websites on any other computer, your phone, your tablet, or whatever, but then your work computer becomes used for work, and if you want a distraction, pick up a different device.

I find the separation of work from easily accessible distractions quite helpful.
It's hypocritical that PUA tactics are socially commendable or envious, but if one does the same with a number of prostitutes it's condemnable.
I'm really hoping this doesn't come out as an attack too, but instead as an extra datapoint for your business. I agree with OP's perception. When I hear the phrase "tinfoil security" the word associations that come to mind don't really sell security. Tinfoil is just not a substance you think of as being thick and defensive. I do like the playfulness of it, but I'm not sure that's a quality that customers can draw brand value from, in the context of keeping their stuff secure.

But either way - the tech industry isn't (yet) at the point where brand names make much of a difference to the bottom line. Branding hits your bottom line at the supermarket when I'm buying detergent from you, but not so much when I'm looking for the best search engine/maps product/security offering. :)
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A sense of entitlement amongst startups
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Use SSH (and AWS, or something). I agree on the big screen.

(I checked the iPad SSH clients this spring, they seemed to be able to handle vim but not Emacs. Time to check again, I guess. WTF -- terminal emulators that don't let much of key codes for control etc through!?)
Next generation visualization lib
Of course they do; how else are you going to get your DSL?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ExactlyWhatItSays...

It's a hack because it's clever, unexpected, and small. It's social because it happens to be about a type of social interaction.