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Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use. Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficul…

This is cool stuff and I wan that HUD, but I take pause with the following statement:

> With these two innovations, you would not need a certification course to dive safely.

There is a lot more to diver certification than learning how to control buoyancy and how to read your computer. You need to be comfortable breathing through your mouth, you have to know how to share air, you need to know how to configure and connect your equipment, what materials are appropriate for what kind of dive. You need experience with some trusted people. Most importantly, there's only one way to learn that spit and baby shampoo are the only useful defoggers for your goggles.

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Thanks for the heads up, it appears something has changed in the social login code since I put it up in 2015. I am working on version 2, so I hope to have this fixed soon. I am doing a complete redesign and moving from a custom database engine I build over to a well know open source db. It has been slow going.

Ok. May I ask what your source of data is? I am using Yelp's API currently.

just a few users inputting data as they come across food.

I have not really done any major marketing for this as its a side project right now. I may in the future

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use. Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficul…

This is cool stuff and I wan that HUD, but I take pause with the following statement: > With these two innovations, you would not need a certification course to dive safely. There is a lot more to diver certification than learning how to control buoyancy and how to read your computer. You need to be comfortable breathing through your mouth, you have to know how to share air, you need to know how to configure and conn…

At least two ways: scuba diving and skiing.

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#485

http://www.eathow.com/ EatHow is a web app that helps you plan your meals and gives you recipes you can make with the food you already have. Long term Id like to completely automate grocery shopping and meal planning so all you have to do is a one-time setup where you set a budget and diet preferences and Eathow takes care of planning everything else. While anyone who cooks at home would find it useful, it would be p…

how do you handle food that has a short shelf life?

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#487

I'm working on a Uber like service for home-made food in my spare time (apart form having a day job). http://crave.yorker.me

great idea, I have a few friends in NYC that order food from chefs. I am working on a different sort of food app as my side project.

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#488

Made this web app to help you figure out how your favorite language is doing in the job market / what to learn next. Every month I scan the previous months’ Hacker News 'Who Is Hiring' thread and build these stats. Hope others find this useful. Constructive feedback welcome. This is only the first version. Next I'm planning to add more data for previous months/years as well and show the evolution of individual langua…

Damn, no FORTRAN.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#489

A compact way of encoding nutrition information so that it can be transmitted via a data URI or 2D barcode. The idea is you could include it in a menu or cookbook or recipe website and scan/click it to add to a food-tracking app.

cool idea!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#490
I was frustrated with Selenium community so I started selenium-utils and selenium-components. The first deals with advanced Selenium acrobatics whereas the last provides a set of components (page object) that are commonly used (datepicker etc.).
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