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Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by davehcker »

majewsky wrote: post #30
davehcker wrote: post #21

Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements. Hexafarms ( https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring). The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why…

Link that works: https://hexafarms.com/ Do you have any images of how the setup would look? Also: > A empty single-floor 2000 sq. ft. space can produce ~200k KGs of produce. Per which unit of time?

Thanks for fixing the link. That's another little known thing- an average field (max) produces three harvests of lettuce. I don't have actual data, but based on my experimentations I think a realization of 13-20 harvests is possible; actually there's literature on this as well. How exactly? Just a basic application of the queuing theory. A lettuce needs to sit in the main hole for max 20 days. Before that, within the same 2k sq. ft. that I mentioned, keep it in separate 'incubator'space which will take much less volume.

In the coming weeks I'll add pictures too.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by madalinab »

TypingDNA [1] recognises people by the way they type, and provides typing biometrics (aka keystroke dynamics) as a service via an API. This is currently used for Multi-Factor Authentication in industries like Banking and Education [2].

Don't take my word for granted, see it with your own eyes and even try it with a friend (can somebody else replicate your typing pattern?) [3]

There are free accounts provided to developers, so you can easily call the API yourself [4]

[1] https://www.typingdna.com/ [2] https://www.typingdna.com/authentication-api.html [3] https://www.typingdna.com/demo-sametext.html [4] https://www.typingdna.com/clients/signup

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by kohtatsu »

madalinab wrote: post #32

TypingDNA [1] recognises people by the way they type, and provides typing biometrics (aka keystroke dynamics) as a service via an API. This is currently used for Multi-Factor Authentication in industries like Banking and Education [2]. Don't take my word for granted, see it with your own eyes and even try it with a friend (can somebody else replicate your typing pattern?) [3] There are free accounts provided to devel…

Google's CAPTCHA also captures keyboard biometrics; https://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-no-captcha-adtruth...

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by hrishios »

Self-promotion, but our company Greywing (https://grey-wing.com) automates Covid-19 assessments and crew changes for maritime.

Over a million seafarers are still stuck on vessels around the world as governments refuse to let them in, and we're trying our best to bridge the gap with software.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by madalinab »

kohtatsu wrote: post #33
madalinab wrote: post #32

TypingDNA [1] recognises people by the way they type, and provides typing biometrics (aka keystroke dynamics) as a service via an API. This is currently used for Multi-Factor Authentication in industries like Banking and Education [2]. Don't take my word for granted, see it with your own eyes and even try it with a friend (can somebody else replicate your typing pattern?) [3] There are free accounts provided to devel…

Google's CAPTCHA also captures keyboard biometrics; https://www.businessinsider.com.au/google-no-captcha-adtruth...

Thank you for sharing this, very interesting! Although a bit old (2015), the article raises some questions on privacy & transparency, which are more important than ever (eg: the increasing legislation like GDPR, CCPA).

Luckily, the TypingDNA solution is secure and compliant, in accordance not only to the Privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA), but also to other kind of legislation like Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) required by the EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2)

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by axaxs »

iameoghan wrote: post #25
axaxs wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally, I find these companies dreadful. I tried it just to see and got flustered by the 5th question or so(renters). Typically, I just call a company, choose a coverage amount, and am done in all of 2 minutes. Wing, or Wing Alpha, is another that attempted this, to do number porting via chatbot texting back and forth. No thanks.

Out of curiosity would you classify yourself as a digital native or a non-native?

Mostly native, I guess. I would have been 11 or so when I got a computer/internet. 18 when I got a cell phone. But in a lot of ways, perhaps not. I absolutely hate texting as a replacement of a phone call, for example. Texts are fine for a notice, not a conversation. And that's coming from someone who doesn't like talking on the phone.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by lbrindze »

Apeel Sciences: https://apeelsciences.com/ I don't work for this company or have any affiliation but they are up to some really cool stuff in the food space. They develop a plant based coating for fresh produce that keeps it fresh for longer minimizing food waste and making produce easier and safer to distribute.

https://andela.com/ is another company that is really awesome and doing some cool stuff with helping make technology jobs more accessible to people all over Africa.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by milkytron »

iameoghan wrote: post #27
milkytron wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My company uses Okta now, and it's been the only SSO service I've used that's truly SSO. Every other SSO service I've used only worked for certain accounts, or only for first party company accounts, or for specific things. Okta is the SSO that actually does what SSO stands for, and I've been loving it because I don't have to think about it.

I'm a N00b - what makes this so special?

It worked.

Other SSO systems I have used were not entirely SSO.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by conception »

davehcker wrote: post #21

Shameless self-promotion here; but I think it meets your requirements. Hexafarms ( https://hexafarms.com/ )- an indoor farming startup which can match a throughput that will enable us to grow food in the urban pockets at an efficiecy between 10-200x (depending on what you're meauring). The website is a bit flashy and not very detailed. Also it is only this month I'm gonna be working ~full time hours on it. Here's why…

This is rad but want to hedge that this sort of farming is only viable for some leafy greens and herbs. The site for instance only talks about lettuce which is rad but nutritionally void.

The sun is a lot cheaper at scale than LEDs unfortunately.

It may solve some specific urban farming issues but we haven’t got endless sunlight beat yet.

Re: Ask HN: What's a radical company more people should hear about

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Post by CoffeePython »

giantg2 wrote: post #3

Why is Lemonade radical?

I tried setting up new insurance for a couple properties I own. It took 4 or 5 phone calls and the insurance agent just kept talking so much. Sometimes I just don't have time for all the banter. I have kids, a full-time job, etc. I don't want to spend my free time talking to some stranger on the phone. I kept telling him to email me the details and he would call anyway and "it will only take a minute".

If there was a lemonade for insurance broker type deals then I'd use it in a second. (i.e. I want to bundle my landlord insurance, personal home insurance, and auto insurance)

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