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Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by bobbles »

zminjie wrote: post #39
egypturnash wrote: post #34

I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.

Nowadays, I find the only interaction I have with the scroll bar is to look at it to determine how far down a page I am. I always use the scroll wheel on Windows or the two finger scroll on the Mac trackpad to scroll a page.

Yeah which is why its so frustrating that so many sites are updating to ones which hide the scroll bar.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by sdrothrock »

I'm glad this is finally out! I signed up for the notifications about this back when it first started, but never got an e-mail about Gyroscope... so I'm glad I saw it on HN today.

I hope there are plans to integrate data from Google Fit. I know my watch tracks my steps and heart rate, so it seems kind of redundant to get Moves for the former and not be able to use data I have for the latter.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by adminprof »

aprilzero wrote: post #77
Karunamon wrote: post #49

I really like the design of this site! Question: Moves (which I already use) tracks cycling and runs - why do I also need to link Runkeeper/Strava/Fitbit in addition? This appears to be redundant. Other question: How do you get back into the "follow these steps" page once you've clicked away? The link on the front page has been replaced with a notification that i'll be emailed when my account is set up. ( http://gyro…

Moves does theoretically track that stuff, but it is not reliable enough. For example, walking quickly or being in a car often ends up being considered cycling for half a block. On the other hand, if you turned on Runkeeper or Strava and say you're going for a run, that's probably 99% reliably what you actually did. Also I think the page you want is the dashboard: https://gyrosco.pe/dashboard/ - we are working on bui…

I also tried Moves and found it really bad if you're actually interested in accurate tracking your location. Runkeeper and Strava seem to use a lot of power because it's GPS only. Is there a GPS+celltower combo app you've found? I found GPSLogger for Android tries both GPS and cell tower, and stops when one of them returns with an accurate enough coordinate. So it gets amazing accuracy and uses very little power at the same time, since 95% of the time it uses cell tower.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by JungleGymSam »

harlanlewis wrote: post #7
AbeEstrada wrote: post #4

I can't create an account because it uses Facebook, I'll wait for the next version.

This is a product for tracking everything you do, and tries to accomplish that by pulling data from other services that track everything you do. Is Facebook uniquely untrustworthy in this category? Is there anything about Gyroscope that makes it uniquely trustworthy, if only they gathered your data directly?

I don't like Facebook but I have an account because my mom and wife do too. So I choose not to connect my account with anything. Am I an unacceptable weirdo?

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by brianshaler »

aprilzero wrote: post #78
buremba wrote: post #62

I'm OK with the personal data but it doesn't seem to be good idea to allow you to access my private repos in Github.

Yeah that makes sense. We've started to switch more towards things like Rescuetime for that information, since the github auth options are very all or nothing. I wish there were more granular scopes so we could use just the metadata or timestamps, which is all we care about and not nearly as sensitive.

I had only thought about this for Twitter before, but it would be nice if a trustworthy third party could act as a mediator between some of these APIs to give developers the ability to request less information or for users to restrict/filter what personal data is given away. That would help with this github all-or-nothing problem.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by brianshaler »

vinceyuan wrote: post #74

The UI of this web site is very cool. How to make this 3D animation?

Look up CSS3 3D transformation and transition tutorials for the basics. Then, a 3D tilted stack effect would go something like this:

Apply 3d perspective and rotate the parent/container element about the X axis ".container{perspective:400px; transform:rotateX(-45deg);}" (or maybe a positive 45deg)

Next, push the children forward along the Z axis ".child{transform: translate3d(0,0,100px);}"

Then, add transitions to the properties being changed, z-translate different amounts for different items in the stack, add some interactivity, and you're set.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by Jemaclus »

aprilzero wrote: post #50
Jemaclus wrote: post #45

It says there are 5 steps, with the first four steps containing free apps, and the 5th step containing an integration to RescueTime, which appears to cost money. I don't particularly want RescueTime. Am I just going to be on the "waiting list" forever, then? Also, please provide a way to cancel the account. :)

Rescuetime is free. They have a paid upgrade but you don't need it. And you don't need to have all of the steps complete, just a majority of them. There isn't an exact threshold, we just want people to have a good experience and not start off by landing on a mostly empty page.

Awesome, thanks for your response!

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by chrischen »

ericflo wrote: post #22
pkinsky wrote: post #17

502 bad gateway :( That said, I would pay money for a license to run a personal instance of this. The data aggregation you need to make it work would be much less scary that way.

Our worker processes are overloaded at the moment, working on spinning more up right now. EDIT: And we've now got more workers!

Hope you guys aren't hiring illegal immigrants and paying them under the table.

Re: Gyroscope: A personal site powered by your life

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Post by cbhl »

egypturnash wrote: post #34

I really hate it when websites override Safari's scrollbar and substitute a 5px one that may fit the theme of the site, but is virtually impossible to grab because its hotspot is only a tiny bit larger than the edge of the window.

Can you actually grab it at all?

I'm under the impression these kinds of designs are built for the Macbook monoculture and assume you scroll using a touchpad gesture.

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