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I'm a big fan of Oak[1][2] since it is free, but unfortunately it is iOS only. Being able to have on-demand guided breathing and meditation exercises without having a monthly cost make it good enough™ for me

1: https://www.oakmeditation.com/ 2: https://www.oakmeditation.com/privacy-policy

It is one of the most impressive uses of "scrolljacking" and made it really easy to focus on the points of interest in the video.

Man.. From the title I was hoping this would be a way to find people doing long form writing on niche topics.

For the site - Your primary color/white combo used for your CTAs and links doesn't meet WCAG contrast ratios. You are running the risk of hindering users by reducing their ability to read text.

In the UX world they are usually called urgency or scarcity triggers [1][2]. They also play in to the social default bias [3] people tend to have, where when alone you tend to do things that you know others have done.

1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259906084_Scarcity_... 2 (PDF): https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/economics/assets/docs/sem... 3: https://www.coglode.com/gem/social-default-bias

This is really great! I love the implementation and the idea of having you actively chose to do something you feel is unproductive.

One thing that would be nice to see would be a way to track the referring site - for HN or Reddit it would be easy to go in for a minute, open a ton of tabs, then waste hours. Having the tabs count against the timer for the originating site would help

There are some nice "minimal" launchers out there that restrict you to essentially a phone, camera, and messaging app. It adds a hurdle to accessing the apps that are easy to waste time in.

While now 100% the same as this, I've found introducing some extra friction can go a long way in curbing unwanted behaviors

I was just looking for something like this - a way to aggregate all my chosen feeds across multiple services.

It sort of feels like the next iteration of Fever[1]

[1] - https://feedafever.com/

Here's two more for you

1. The American Sign Museum - https://www.americansignmuseum.org/ - Cincinnati, OH. Dedicated to preserving neon signs from across America 2. The International Museum of Surgical Science - https://imss.org/ - Chicago, IL.

I really enjoyed the Metro UI.

I felt like the tiles displayed the right level of information where I could quickly glance at my phone and see if there was anything important that needed my attention, while helping to reduce the mindless time I spent getting distracted by noise.

When I was using my Windows Phone it felt like the UI was built to decrease interaction with the device, which was a positive to me. It was trying to get the right information in front of me so I could get back to being detached from the screen.

But that is a sample size of 1.

1. Finding things that drive and recharge me. I feel like I tend to mindlessly go through motions but I am not getting much value out of my day-to-day and find after a while I am worn out and tend to blow up at some part of my life.

2. Ensuring I build time for myself and not lose my personal identity while being in a relationship. I tend to put my personal needs on the back burner and go out of my way to please my partner, which leads to resentment.

The two feed in to each other.. I only seem to gain value from 2, which leads to problems, and when I have time to myself I have no idea what to do with my time to make me feel like I am enjoying myself so I choose to have less time for myself.

That's interesting. I've had the opposite experience when ending my psychedelic experiences. I find that I get overly critical in my introspection and pick apart every perceived flaw, leaving me in a raw and negative mental state.

Instead of leaving me feeling refreshed I am drained and dread the idea of going back to being "normal" where I become blind to those obvious flaws and complacent with living a sub-par life.

Amazon doesn't release sales figures for devices, but a writer at The Guardian tried to extrapolate sales figures based on traffic and ad impressions and estimated about 35,000 devices in use [1].

[1]:http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/26/amazon-fir...

right?

"Best way" implies there are other correct ways. There is only one way to hold a slice - you fold it.

The site looks really nice and polished. I just passed it along to a coworker who handles most of the IT for his church. I know he has been kicking around the idea of spinning up an online directory and some social networking aspects for a while. You may have just saved him a lot of time!

You may have some luck opening a support ticket[1]. I had the same issue and they sent me a shipping label to send the controllers in for a firmware update. I haven't turned the console on since I've gotten the controllers back, so I don't know if it fixed the issue but they claimed it would.

[1]: https://support.ouya.tv/anonymous_requests/new

It looks like they embed the CDF at the end of the post (line 549), and Chrome interpreted that as "let's download this file without any warning". Both Firefox and Safari just display a "missing plugin" box.

This is most likely a chrome issue, not a Wolfram issue.

And here I thought I would be reading about the App.net PourOver posting service[0], which the NY Times Opinion account uses for posting[1]

[0]: https://directory.app.net/app/255/pourover/ [1]: https://alpha.app.net/nytopinion

Same issue here. FF 28.0 on OS X (10.8) and none of the animations are working.

Works fine on Chrome and Safari

> "I feel like my work has no meaning in this world, but at least today I get to pretend that I'm the one making the news."

So what you are saying is I should be pulling stupid pranks today...

I'm in the same boat. For me it was craft beer and whiskey, so I don't keep them in my house anymore. I found that cutting back on all those empty calories made it really easy to drop weight and left me with more money in my bank account at the end of the month.

Instead of yoga, I took up running. I found that it worked really well to alleviate stress and was a much better coping mechanism than drinking. I feel better, am less irritated, have more energy, and I no longer feel like I need to have a drink. I now get to enjoy my drinks instead of using them as a tool to not care about the things that bother me.

The CM/GV integration is most likely going away. There was a recent post on G+[1] that called out May 15th as the end of unauthorized use of Google Voice

> - Finally, we want to make Google Voice as secure as possible. There are a few third-party applications that provide calling and SMS services by making unauthorized use of Google Voice. These apps violate our Terms of Service and pose a threat to your security, so we’re notifying these app developers that they must stop making unauthorized use of Google Voice to run their services and transition users by May 15, 2014.

[1]:https://plus.google.com/u/0/+NikhylSinghal/posts/MjyncJEbzxK

Now all it needs is HDMI pass through and it will be a wonderful little device.

I enjoy that it can quickly switch to my Chromecast stream, but once I am finished with whatever YouTube video I am watching I want to just as easily go back to the previous video input.

The larger issue is that Twitter has pushed news services to focus on being first over being correct. It seems like reporters are falling over themselves to be the first to break a story, journalistic integrity be damned.

c) I don't.

The service had a value to me when there was a focus on interaction, but as it transitioned to a news feed/advertisement service it lost any and all use to me.

For news, there are enough sites that all spout off the same reviews and "exclusives". If there is truly breaking news that I need to be made aware of, there are a multitude of channels I can get the information from and all of them will convey the information better than a 140 character tweet could.

There has been a lot going on in the past year for the service: * Free tier of accounts. Limited to following 40 people, limited file storage * Multiple microblogging clients on just about every platform * 2FA and messages, files, search, and geolocation APIs

It isn't just a "gimped facebook clone", the App.net service is a framework for developers to build a multitude of social networks on top of a single platform. The microblogging aspect was just the easiest "get" for them out of the gate. You can look at their One Year post [0] if you want to see a list of everything that they've implemented.

[0]: http://blog.app.net/2013/08/14/we-are-just-getting-started/