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www.M93.org

Project Description: M93 is a personal dashboard that's equal parts habit tracker, progress tracker and life logger. Conceptually, it takes the UI concept of a Github-style contribution graph, adds interactivity to it and makes it the centerpiece of the dashboard.

What do you want to be tested:

1. I want to test if its valuable. Will you use these features? What would you use it for? 1a. What other features would you want from it? 2. What do you think of the UI? Is it intuitive? Easy to use? Which part is confusing? 3. Did the landing page make sense? What didn't make sense? 4. Did the signup tour do an adequate job of explaining how to use the app?

Thanks in advance

" Cyclists press the "buzzer" located near the closed security gate. After security staff locates the cyclist on a security camera, the gate is opened remotely. "

Freestyle Libre has their own app. I havent tried it yet though but its supposed to be not great. I assume its good enough to watch trends for a non-diabetic seeking glycemic feedback on their meal

Veri/Levels as others mentioned if you dont mind paying $$ and want the fancy data viz and UI ...or just sign up for a free (15$ really) trial of the freestyle libre here: https://www.freestyle.abbott/us-en/myfreestyle.html . It'll ask you if you're a diabetic and you just click yes

Out of curiosity, I looked up the original data source for the search and found this: http://www.s-anand.net/blog/the-calvin-and-hobbes-search-tak... . I think he deserves as much credit as the guy who created the search engine.

TLDR: Some guy manually transcribed every single Calvin and Hobbes strip only to get a takedown notice and remove it.

I recommend reading "Digital Minimalism" by Cal Newport. It identifies this problem well and has a lot of practical suggestions for countering it. The one that worked for me was uninstalling twitter/reddit/HN apps and replacing them with using the browser. Doesnt sound like much but the added friction of typing out everything in the browser (I'm mostly on incognito) took my compulsive dopamine-fix phone-checking behavior down by a lot. For HN, I also try to rely on the "Hacker Newsletter" to counter any FOMO.

> It is, in a way, an almost "sacred" place, in a weird secular sense

Apart from _actually_ being a sacred place for the local people. Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma, meaning "Goddess Mother of Mountains".

Have you seen the video? She clearly says "“Again, this is what we got last night: four pallets of water, three pallets of meals and 12 pallets of infant food. Which, I gave them to Comerío, where people are drinking out of a creek." And "What stands behind me is all due to the generosity of other people"

http://youtu.be/rtY9OtQ5vE8

What part of that did you not understand?

I happily use a github repo for taking my 'programmer notes'. Advantages: 1. Goes well with my programming workflow: Change/Commit/Push 2. Allows me to use my preferred editor 3. No need to worry about backups: Git push and you're done 4. Accessible from anywhere, even if you don't have your computer

Is there anything that Quiver would offer that I wouldnt already have with a github repo?

anyone know what the charting library is used for the time series graph?

>Less possible rumors in the room

I think you meant something different, but I'm not sure what. murmurs? noise?

Can anyone comment on the startup/tech scene in Vienna? I need to move there for some immigration reasons and am trying to figure out what kind of jobs I can look forward to. Also, how easy can it be to get by at the workplace with english + broken German ?

Got excited for a moment...then did some prerequisites digging and ended up with a prerequisites dependency chain:

18.06 -> 18.02 -> 18.01

Where 18.02 = Multi Variable Calc 18-01 = Single Variable Calc

Considering that my whole point of learning linear algebra was to clear it as a roadblock for Machine Learning, this is what my whole Dependency chain looks like:

Machine Learning -> Linear Algebra -> Multivariable Calc -> Single Variable Calc -> high school algebra and trigonometry.

I have a feeling I'll end up sticking to being a web developer :)

I see your point, but the primary challenge of delivering large, complex software projects in a reasonable timeframe applies to both endeavours.

> A hacker who has an idea will do it regardless of whether it'll make them money or not.

That's exactly the motivation that drives me to create side-projects. But it's still a bummer when nobody uses them.

The point is not about money, but creating value. Hackers don't always want to create things just for flexing their technical muscles. In the end, we all want to provide value in one form or another. If no one is using your software, then it's wasted effort.

You could modify the approach outlined in the post and just verify peoples' pain-point and see if they'd be willing to just use your software instead of asking them to commit to paying for it.

A visualization of the 2012 Federal salary data set posted recently by Enigma.io. I submitted recently to HN, but it didn't get much attention. I've cleaned up a few things and added a median salary/top ten section. All the code is on Github now.

I created a quick and dirty app to visualize the data set they're using:

http://federal-salaries.herokuapp.com/

Engima.io showcased their tool recently on HN with Federal Employee Salary data. They provided a link to the data dump, which I decided to play around with. I'll put the code on github once I've cleaned it up a bit.

Engima.io showcased their tool recently on HN with Federal Employee Salary data. They provided a link to the data dump, which I decided to play around with. I'll put the code on github once I've cleaned it up a bit.

Have you tried releasing your project in small iterations instead of waiting for a year? Having users use the product that you're building and giving feedback on it is a motivator that works for me. Keeps reminding me __why__ I do what I do every day.

Maybe the reason to not give up citizenship is simply "The option to go back to being a US resident-citizen and enjoy all other benefits". I can't see why this benefit needs any funding.

The lower middle class person's venture alluded to in the parent comment is most definitely not going to be anything remotely resembling an LLC. These ventures are more like "Autorickshaw Driving" or "neighborhood grocery shack" than "Instagram for dogs". The business is probably not registered anywhere and the loan is obtained at usurious rates from the neighborhood money lender who has the leverage of muscle-power or contacts to make you pay up. Of course this varies depending on where in the urban/rural lower-middleclass spectrum the entrepreneur falls under, but you get the point.

> railing against the semantics of an exaggerated expression

I'm arguing that those exaggerated expressions seem to be in use so much lately that its misleading people into believing false information about the H1 program and its evils. I would really hope that none of what I clarified needed to be clarified and was common knowledge already. But despite HN being a fairly knowledgable crowd, the extent of the discussion here suggests otherwise.

Agreed

I guess we're addressing two different issues. You're focusing on enforcement to address the abuse of the H1 program, whereas I'm taking the H1 worker perspective and trying to dispel the notion of indentured servitude.

Because as I clarify in the post, no H-1 is BOUND to work for their employer. They are free to quit and go back home, or change employers. Yes, the employer has an advantage of being in a position where he can kill your American Dream, but H-1 workers change jobs ALL the time.

According to AC21[1] 106(c)

", the approval of a Form I-140 employment-based (EB) immigrant petition shall remain valid when an alien changes jobs or employers, if: • A Form I-485, Application to Adjust Status, on the basis of the EB immigrant petition has been filed and remained un-adjudicated for 180 days or more; and • The new job is in the same or similar occupational classification as the job for which the petition was filed. "

[1]Policy and Procedural Memoranda on the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act of 2000 (AC21)

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Laws/Memoranda/Static_Files_Memor...

> the only people who see it have an economic incentive to not rock the boat

You're assuming that the employee themselves don't have a reason to rock the boat if their filing paperwork lists a salary higher than their effective salary? As an H1 whose paperwork lists a salary higher than my effective salary, there's nothing that stops me from realizing that I'm underpaid and switching employers when convenient.

Speaking from personal experience, an immediate GC filing is something that I have negotiated as a sine qua non for changing jobs. I understand that H1s in other professions may not have the leverage to negotiate this, but the current demand for software developers makes this a no-brainer at the negotiating table.

As for the time taken, my personal experience has been that PERM takes about 6 months. After that I-140 + I-485 can be concurrently filed if your Priority date is current. They can take another 6 months to get approved. After that there is a mandatory 180 day period before you can switch jobs. Total average case time should be around 1.5 years. This assumes that your application is not audited and your immigration lawyers are not backlogged. YMMV.