Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — polytap

polytap

HN member
Joined
Wed, Jun 18, 2014, 11:18 PM UTC
HN karma
44
Public activity
14 items

About polytap

I'm interested in remote sensor networks and SaaS analytics to make them useful.

b@polytap.com

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #12191855

    I couldn't upvote this enough. The lack of objective comparison in comments is astounding, and it fits a pattern.

  2. comment
    Comment #12141712

    This story reflects most poorly on the author himself.

  3. comment
    Comment #11978636

    The strange barb at music synthesizers was uncalled for.

  4. comment
    Comment #11492799

    Compared to many other institutions, Stanford does a good job of dealing with that issue. 85% of students receive some form of financial aid. There is no family financial burden fo…

  5. comment
    Comment #11433943

    Taller, flexible buildings are much better at distributing shock waves.

  6. comment
    Comment #11175157

    You might want to consider naming your pricing plans differently. There is a plan offering standard definition streaming called "Basic", and a plan offering high definition streami…

  7. comment
    Comment #11151681

    Yeah, they really seem to have taken it up a notch this year. I was presented with a refund that was only possible if I purchased a small business plan. When I declined, the UI red…

  8. comment
    Comment #10807945

    Here's a little taste of how things have turned out since SCE and SDGE decided to give up fixing and maintaining San Onofre: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/aug/03/counting-customer-…

  9. comment
    Comment #10263249

    There are more than 2 million "farms" in the U.S. Snag "One in Three" of those as paying customers (at nearly $1k/year) and it's very unlikely you'd need to use TechCrunch as a mar…

  10. comment
    Comment #9736863

    You have a strange way of congratulating someone who achieved what they consider to be happiness.

  11. comment
    Comment #9472194

    If search optimization is what you're after, why not just use "local"

  12. comment
    Comment #8045575

    Great idea and gesture to the community. Does any of your land receive irrigation? I'd like to send you several surface and subsoil sensors to deploy that will communicate back to …

  13. comment
    Comment #7913832

    SoCal. The professional/industrial environmental sensor market sucks. Pretty much any sensor offering high precision is sold exclusively through authorized resellers that in turn h…

  14. comment
    Comment #7913528

    There are not, though I am building such a thing. RF-equipped sensors (315 or 433 Mhz) transmitting to a GPRS or WiFi enabled hub would be best. A fairly affordable foundation for …