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Maybe I'm way off, but I think this is kind of what Google intended in some sort of way with their Google X lab. They're exploring innovative and new ideas but I think it's with the intent of spurring on this competitive spirt with the other tech giants. One company exploring these ideas is innovative but may not make much progress; having a bunch of companies compete to come up with the best version of these ideas may make the progress on these technologies increase rapidly.

I'm pretty sure those are just some tongue-in-cheek jokes, all in good fun

An Arduino might be more ideal solution for that. There is a huge collection of physical measurement devices for it and it would probably would be easier to implement with that. I'm not sure you can get an anemometer for it but a bit of tinkering would probably yield an equally effective solution. Sparkfun has a bunch of accesseries you can browse through.

I wrote a blog post (http://goo.gl/PnaxJ) on this a while back along with a work around

Interestingly enough, the University of Waterloo runs its co-op program through a website called Jobmine which allows students to search through job postings which they might be eligible for. Coincidently, it is also only available until midnight on weekdays and just recently started being available 24 hours on weekends.

It's also used at the University of Waterloo in Canada for their first few CS courses.

This is great. I've been looking for an open-ended life tracking tool like this for a while. After playing around with other services like Daytum, which ended up feeling constricting and unintuitive for what I was hoping to do, I kind of gave up. I'll be keeping a close eye on this as, after a quick once over, it looks pretty awesome. Good luck with this Matt!

That would be so awesome for people not located anywhere near SF (like me). Hopefully this happens!

Wow, great concept. I can see just how addicting this site can become. Sidenote, this is my favourite chain so far: http://doodleordie.com/c/1qp-p7-YK

Ooops. Thanks for that.

Thanks! Great tip.

Hey, thanks a ton for your feedback. I really appreciate it. To address your comments:

1. I'm actually concerned about this, it doesn't look obscenely bad on any of my test setups (OS X, Windows 7 and Arch). Could you elaborate on what you viewed the post on (Browser, OS, etc.?)

2. I'm open to more suggestions on fonts :)

3. :(

4. Waterloo, Ontario - Where I happen to be writing the post

5. I'm not much of a designer but I'm working on it. The site is just statically generated HTML and CSS (yay Jekyll)

6. The post really isn't intended for the tech savvy readers of Hacker News, it's really just an instructional guide on how to setup AWS to tunnel your browser traffic for you.

7. No referral links :)

Thanks again for your feedback, it's a great metric for me.

Hey HN, I just finished writing my first real blog post and I was hoping to get some feedback. I would really apprecatie it if you guys could quickly skim through it and give me any comments you have on it. The post itself is just a simple guide on SSH tunnelling through an EC2 machine.

Thanks!