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Surprised they didn't develop something like this earlier, as part of their rebrand (when they significantly redesigned the website and app.)

This is somewhat true in New York also, where some buildings are 7 floors with no elevators.

Related: a great article series about mobile UI and app trends in China: http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/01/31/more-chinese-mobile-ui-...

(from a wechat product manager / Silicon Valley transplant)

I use the app occasionally, and it's only used 2% of my battery on average over the past 7 days, according to the battery section in my settings. I turned off background refresh.

Strange that the author is going through a guesstimate process when there's a built-in tool that'll tell you exactly how much juice an app uses, and if it's mostly from background activity.

It's almost better to ask this question of people living now

During the winter, are there more bikes available, or do they decrease the supply?

Ah I've already done that, but I also have a listening history I want to preserve. I should have been using last.fm :(

I did manage to get the past year though, via a comment below.

Ah here's a solution: make a cURL request for all your history data.

Simple way to get a well formatted request:

* Go to the history tab (http://www.rdio.com/people/username/history/) and pull up the inspector

* Scroll down once or twice and go to the network tab

* Find the `getHistoryForUser` request and right-click it, select "copy as cURL"

* Paste into your editor and change the "start" param to 0 and the "count" param to 99999

* Make the cURL request. Boom, no rate limiting. I got 3.5mb of history (though it seems to only go back 1 year.

Does anyone know a good way of exporting my rdio "history" data? I have years of data in there.

Very interesting to see the density of others' guesses. It doesn't seem to show every other guess though — how do you choose which ones to show?

A page about mobile design dos and don'ts and it's not even mobile optimized!

Here at least. Bus bombings are almost common in some places: https://www.google.com/webhp#q=bus+bombing&tbm=nws

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6605015

You could use the API to export all your annotation data

Agreed. I'd pay for pro if one of the themes was "larger font size, higher contrast."

I found steering a little confusing since it's not correlated with the current direction of the tank, but still very fun.

It's taking a while to connect to everything, but I'm really pumped to see my data in this interface. I've been working on something similar — an automatic journal based on Moves/Instagram/Dropbox etc. One reason I'm scared to publish is data security — are you storing any of this data, or pulling from 4+ APIs every page load?

Ah so this is the consumer version of the http://aprilzero.com site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8043203

don't forget to check out the annotated version ;) http://genius.com/www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/...

> In the summertime Whittier is bustling. Seasonal workers come for jobs on fishing boats, charter boats, or in the cannery, and cruise ships bring hundreds of thousands of tourists to the harbor. But thriving harbor industries—freight, fishing, tourism—don’t seem to translate into growth for the city. Over 700,000 people visit Whittier annually, but most tourists don’t stay in town for longer than an afternoon, if that. Instead they go directly from the cruise ship to a train that takes them to Anchorage. Residents sell food and crafts to visitors, but most of the tourists’ money goes straight out the tunnel. The Alaska Railroad Corporation is the majority landowner in Whittier, but it doesn’t pay property taxes, and it employs few residents. A supply barge comes into town once a week, but most of the workers who unload the freight commute from Anchorage. Not everyone who tries to live in Begich Towers can take it—a newcomer from Florida compared it to jail—and there simply isn’t much space on which to build alternate housing

There's more by the same author here: http://reedyoung.com/project/whittier-alaska/r-young-whittie...

Photographer has more photos here: http://reedyoung.com/project/whittier-alaska/r-young-whittie...

Also the full version of the article in OP's link

Sounds a little derivative of Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis

Yes. We are truly lost as a species. Not only are we creating banal organizational apps, but we're also taking the time to try to make the author feel bad by decrying its lack of higher purpose in a HN comment.

The score does not correlate directly w/ number of upvotes

Drivel? "Only hire A players" has 800+ words of justification, c'mon. Read a little more and I think the vague quality of the titles will become much more clear.

This is a student's account. In the CS department at Northeastern, each student is given some server space and can do almost whatever they want with it, including hosting a website.

I was in Northeastern's CS program for a bit.

For technical reasons: we want to allow users to annotate arbitrary segments of text, so what better (or other) way is there than adding an annotate button to highlighted text?

For philosophical reasons: genius is about annotating text, and as a result, about close reading. We'd rather optimize for a close read than a speed read.

If you guys know a lot about the period, I just transcribed it on Genius and I'd appreciate some help annotating it: http://history.genius.com/George-orwell-review-of-mein-kampf...

(full disclosure I work at Genius.)