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A recent episode[1] of Fresh Air (NPR) discussed medical implants. Pretty eye opening.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/01/17/578562873/are-implanted-medic...

I've noticed patterns quite like these (viz. #5, 11-13) on the surface of beer in a pint glass. I've speculated it's the result of either the different sizes of bubbles or differing rates at carbonation sites, but I hadn't noticed the similarity to Chladni patterns.

With proper citation, there's no violation, right?

Budgeting tips (cash income) back when I was a restaurant server was hard, so I recently built https://www.tipoutapp.com to make this easier.

It works well (I think), but I haven't gotten around to marketing it yet, so no one really knows it exists.

Just once.

Why isn't Signal on the prism break page?

> It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don't understand these magnificent creatures, don't feel any special connection to them.

So you're saying that to have a "special connection" to ocean wildlife we need to keep animals captive in a small pool?

Obviously we can't all go on excursions into the sea, but aquariums don't seem like the best model for understanding and appreciating wildlife.

> basically I'm taking enough undergrad courses to fill several semesters, before even getting to MS work

Was your undergrad in computer science or did you 'hop' into the masters?

I love that there's a copy of Creating Web Pages for Dummies in the background of the first photo in the hand kneading section.

This is a pretty basic product but it's got all the necessary functionality I originally thought out for it.

The idea is to give restaurant servers (or really anyone who works for tips) a simple, no-nonsense tool to track income & expenses and see their daily spending budget.

This could be disastrous, but if you want to login and look around, you can use username 'employee' with pw 'applesaucegingersnaps'. I guess we'll see what happens if multiple people are logged in making edits at the same time!

When I was server, this is something I would've liked to have had. I haven't done much market probing yet, but any critique is welcomed and encouraged, per usual Show HN!

"To Sell is Human" by Dan Pink. It doesn't so much teach you how to sell as to take the perspective of people whom you may want/need to convince or persuade.

What exactly is happening here: "a.style.margin=++s+e%300"? (Specifically, the "++" part.)

Why does this post have so many upvotes and comments?

So it's at least worth looking into. Thanks.

That makes sense. And no wife or kids, so my lifestyle is pretty flexible.

I haven't heard of Recurse, but thanks for pointing me to it!

Also thanks for the feedback on the app. It is small, but it was the first complete web app I've made. I'll step it up for the next one!

Good ideas aren't always obvious, and just because an idea seems bad that doesn't make it bad. If you have a valid refutation of this idea, why not present it?

This essay might be remotely insightful if Sam explained why great companies "often look like bad ideas at the beginning" and "look really risky at the seed stage".

It bothers me a little that (<)100 is half-way around the meter while (<)400 is all the way around. I don't usually quibble about small details, but if you're going to make a meter, just make it sensible.

Why not have a continuous (or at least less discrete) meter?

I hope I never have to use (most of) those.

But sharing a milkshake isn't like sharing a piece of music. If I saw the icon below an article, I'd think, "read this article with another person". (Ok, maybe I would think 'share', but that doesn't make it a good symbol.)

While the milkshake icon is in part for humor, it doesn't represent the same concept that the other icons represent. The acts of 'sharing' a piece of music and 'sharing' a milkshake are different. When people share a milkshake, the implication is that they're both there drinking it. Sharing a milkshake like you'd share an article would be to give the milkshake to someone else. You wouldn't even need two straws.

i'm assuming the solutions involved proving that there was a unique curve that satisfied the constraint. seems pretty non-trivial though.

no, but it makes sense!

It's a good start, but it may serve best to remind us of the limitations of basic technology. Instead of an X detector, what we have is an X detector detector. From a design perspective this is obviously odd.

On the other hand, in a sense it's a multi-detector, since in theory it should respond to detectors of many sorts. There are some upsides to that.

A midi keyboard. If you already have a computer, then adding some free software and a midi controller gives you endless possibilities for exploring music creation.

A tournament chess set (vinyl board, plastic weighted pieces). Chess is an amazing game and a portable set will let you play more often and with more people.

very strange.

Woe is me...Twitter has stunted my creativity. Give me a break.