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Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#41
yay, what about gamedev?

someone need a little labor force at projects written on c#/unity?

or maybe you're have vanilla JS stuff?

let me know: cr189@yandex.com

P.S. my competition profile: codewars.com/users/pGc3m9

anyway, i don't know target auditory, and how skilled must be person, but i want read more stuff like that.

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#42

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

How do you take the nose prints? Do you tranquilize them and then literally press their nose against a piece of paper covered in an inklike material or is it photo based?

I don't know if Gorillas work the same way as dogs, but maybe you could put something that smells nice on a device that extends a small nose-boop extractor arm when close, and gather the noseprint that way.

To simulate this invention:

- have a dog

- put something smelly on your thumb

- extend arm to point thumb towards dog

- as the dog is within 5-10cm radius of your thumb, press your thumb against their nose (and say the obligatory "boop")

- imagine your had something to extract noseprints from their nose on your thumb

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#43
I'm working on a decentralized identity-based communications project. Think of this as an email (or instant messaging, social network, etc.) where your "account" is yours forever and cannot be taken away. We have email part functioning and there are some real users. At this point, I'm working on the decentralization part, where the identity registry will be put on a blockchain (likely custom Ethereum-based blockchain, to keep it free for users). Join us if you want to make the world a better place by fighting censorship and personal information collection. We are 100% open source:

https://ubikom.cc https://github.com/regnull/ubikom

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#44
Ad-hoc data formats like JSON and XML are too insecure for the modern world, so I'm developing a new format to remedy this [1].

It's a twin format, one binary and one text, so that you can input / edit the data in text, and then it passes from machine to machine in binary only (or convert back to text if a human needs to inspect it). The binary format is designed for simplicity and speed, and the text format is designed for human readability.

Both formats are designed for security and minimal attack surface, while providing the fundamental data types we use in our daily life (so you're not stuck doing stringification and base64 fields and other such hacks).

I've pretty much completed the base format [2], and am 90% done with the golang reference implementation [3] plus some standard compliance tests, but I could use a lot of help:

- Reviewing the specifications and pointing out issues or anything weird or things that seem wrong or don't make sense.

- Implementations in other languages.

- Ideas for a schema.

- Public outreach, championing online.

[1] https://concise-encoding.org/

[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding

[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/go-concise-encoding

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#45

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

How do you take the nose prints? Do you tranquilize them and then literally press their nose against a piece of paper covered in an inklike material or is it photo based?

I guess facial recognition is a more apt description. We just use photos of wild gorillas cropped around the nose. Not intrusive at all!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#46
I would love to team up with someone for the purpose of collecting detailed product data similar to Geizhals (gtin/ean, detailed specs, origin country, price history, available sellers based on country, etc).

My only requirement is that I'm allowed to use the data for my non-profit search engine (https://ask.moe), including exposing the data through a public API (you would of course also be free to use the data for any purpose). I would also love to use the data to build for-profit websites together (ideally in Hugo or Vue.js, and without any user tracking).

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#47
I have an idea to replace posting on Facebook/Twitter where you sell your and your readers privacy with posting on your own blog.

To achieve this, blogging platforms (I am aiming to WordPress right now) must remove the obstacles in user experience: people stopped blogging and switched to Facebook because posting on FB has more profits: it is easier (just visit front page of FB instead of logging to wp-admin and doing next steps), you have all content in one place (FB wall shows your posts and your friends posts etc) and tickles your ego (you immediately get likes and shares while on your blog barely anyone comment your post)

I am working on plugins and tools to remove this distance: front-end editor box for your blog ( https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box ), plugin to subscribe to other blogs and see their content as part of your blog, plugin to give local likes for posts, broadcast your content to other blogs...

Everyone will have kind of their own Facebook on their own WordPress blog.

I am WP plugin developer as my main job but all above I am doing in my free time as a hobby.

If anyone is interested in collaborating to make the network a bit less occupied by big techs, please reach me here https://github.com/kkarpieszuk/Editor-Box (create an issue or pull request if you have an idea how to extend this plugin) or find my email address at https://muzungu.pl/o-mnie/ (in Polish but you will easily find the address)

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#48
post #32

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

This sounds incredibly interesting and would love to know more about it. Where to read more or get in touch with you? (your profile doesn't mention any contacts or links)

Hey I just added me email to my profile. Happy to share more directly!

Re: Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?

#49

I work for a national park in the Democratic Republic on the Congo as a tech lead. Some of the things we are doing: LoRaWAN for tracking and emergency response, ML to identify gorillas by their unique nose prints, and long-range drones for mapping and surveillance, and a management web app. If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collab…

Hi there. Seeing as you are in DRC. I've worked on a number of projects there. Maybe you might be interested in checking out an app we made to help NGO/media etc learn about and manage their digital and physical security? Lots of groups on the ground there have used it in situations like kidnap, targeted malware etc. It's called Umbrella. It's free, opens source, on ios and Android available in many languages. If you…

Awesome thanks for sharing! I can see this being helpful for us as well.
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