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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by radlad »

conorgil145 wrote: post #576
radlad wrote: post #571

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's a very cool idea! The other big UX issue with 2FA (in my opinion) is backup & restore -- nail both and you'll have a pretty solid product. For disclosure, I work for Duo, so I'm a big believer in push-based 2FA. (Consider applying if you're interested in usable security!)

Ah! Duo is definitely one of the incumbents in the space that we looked at during our competitive analysis. As far as I understand it, your push based 2FA solution only works for sites which use Duo as the 2FA provider. Is that correct? I am hoping to build a solution which has a similar sounding UX to Duo Push, but works for any site that currently implements 2FA without requiring the site to make any changes at all…

Yep, we have integrations for many services, but software must integrate or support SAML (as Github Business/Enterprise does) for us to do 2FA. Our core product isn't really 2FA however, and we have different target markets: Duo primarily targets businesses looking to protect the services their employees access, while it sounds like you're trying to provide better UX for any consumers of 2FA.

I completely understand your approach and think it's a really neat idea. Looking forward to seeing it. :) Feel free to connect with me via email, I'd love to beta your product.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by demonshalo »

andai wrote: post #504
demonshalo wrote: post #37

Prime Factorization - Just as a fun side project. I do not expect that I will ever be able to solve it but at least once a week I learn something new about math! I've Been working on it for 3 years now and It's getting more and more fun every day. In fact, I have rediscovered so many things on my own that I thought never existed. My biggest "Eureka" moment was when I discovered factorization via the difference of squ…

I have had a hard time with math in formal education, I would love to hear more about how you are learning it now :)

I know that feeling!

I just took on a problem that I found to be simple to understand yet for some reason is still unsolved. Simple to understand turned out to be crucial because when I started I had no idea how much "I did not know" and for that reason I underestimated the problem which is a GOOD thing. It allowed me to slowly grow with the problem over time and learn more about what I need to do to get to where I want to.

The most important part for me is to find a problem that is interesting enough that will keep sucking you back in. Prime factorization is a great example because it is a simple problem so you will continuously make progress and actually feel/see your personal math improvement from week to week.

Initially, I started off by writing down all the numbers up to N to see if I could find some pattern. 20 mins in after some HTML and PHP I had this: https://imgur.com/a/7EhdI (primes in blue, everything else in white)

If you look closely you can see the diagonal shape of the primes. If you try changing the number of columns from 5 to any other number, you will get a distinct shape. The shapes sucked me in, why do they occur? wtf is up with them?! this is so cool yet random.

After having my curiosity tickled, I opened up an excel sheet and started experimenting by throwing these numbers/positions/order/whateverICanThinkOf together in an attempt to find some pattern. Currently, I have an excel file that consists of 35 sheets with different experiments on each sheet. Most experiments and ideas will fail, some will give you a result. But one thing is for sure, I have learned something from each one of them, especially when it comes to algebra. I just get an idea and try it. If I need some help I ask around or google for some info.

The latest idea/experiment that I did showed me that composite numbers do not occur in a random position along the axis of numbers. In fact, numbers come in chains that are related to each other "geometrically".

That's it really. It's like throwing whatever you can think of at a problem to see what sticks. While attempting to do that I slowly learned algebra, a bit of genometry, a bit of statistics and then some. Been fun really and that's all that counts :D

edit: sorry for the wall of text!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jrm2k6 »

I am working on iheartreading.co. I Heart Reading is an easy-to-use platform that allows students to track their reading, submit responses to reading and start a conversation, through comments, with their teacher about a book they are reading. Making reading a habit can be difficult for students. I Heart Reading helps students build regular reading habits by allowing them to add books, update their progress (number of pages read, books finished) and write reviews about books they have enjoyed. All of the responses to reading, reviews and progress the student inputs into the site are accessible to their teacher, making it a simplified and streamlined solution to independent reading. It is targeting K12 school in the US. I am working on getting new schools to use it (I have only two schools right now). It was mainly to help my wife, and to learn React/Redux. I have a lot of ideas on how to make it better. I see it as a private goodreads.com, and I am excited on working on gamification.

Second project I want to work on is an automatic answer generator for /r/cscareerquestions, as most of the questions are duplicated, I think it would be fun to work on a program that would give the most ironic response possible to some of those threads. I would like to work on NLP problems and that would be a good introduction to it.

Note: I am looking for design help for iheartreading.co, I did the best I could but it could be much prettier.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by stevelacy »

SnacksOnAPlane wrote: post #109

Problem: I don't know when the optimal times to go to Krispy Kreme for hot donuts are. Solution: http://hotdonuts.info/ And yes, this is the most important problem in the world.

Is the start date supposed to be in the future?

"The scraper came alive Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 12:33 AM."

Or am I in the past...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by conorgil145 »

radlad wrote: post #581
conorgil145 wrote: post #576

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah! Duo is definitely one of the incumbents in the space that we looked at during our competitive analysis. As far as I understand it, your push based 2FA solution only works for sites which use Duo as the 2FA provider. Is that correct? I am hoping to build a solution which has a similar sounding UX to Duo Push, but works for any site that currently implements 2FA without requiring the site to make any changes at all…

Yep, we have integrations for many services, but software must integrate or support SAML (as Github Business/Enterprise does) for us to do 2FA. Our core product isn't really 2FA however, and we have different target markets: Duo primarily targets businesses looking to protect the services their employees access, while it sounds like you're trying to provide better UX for any consumers of 2FA. I completely understand…

Thanks for the background on Duo.

I'll definitely reach out once we have a beta to demo. We'd love to get some feedback from folks outside our immediate team!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by fudged71 »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #261

I'm designing a 3D printed robot arm that doesn't suck. It uses all brushless outrunner motors for at least the 4 large axes (final two in wrist may be hobby servos for now). The arm is similar dimensions to a human arm. Initial calculations show it will be able to lift more than 2kg at full extension if I can make it strong enough. Actually the (rough) calculations say more than 10kg but that would break something.…

You should look into Automata. They have built some impressive 3D printed robotic arms with very tightly integrated industrial design.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tcgv »

P2P file transfer in the browser: http://directsend.co

Did this web app out of fun, with no intention of turning it into a service.

I use it to transfer files between my Phone and my PC when I'm feeling lazy to search for the Phone cable.

Works for most Android and Desktop browsers, but doesn't for iOS because it depends on RTCDataChannel[1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/RTCDataChannel

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by fudged71 »

schwag09 wrote: post #177

Project: R.I.P.Link - a tool for finding dead links on the web[0]. The inspiration for this project came from Wikipedia and the Internet Archive partnering to fix broken links on Wikipedia[1]. After briefly searching around I couldn't find any great tools for this, and I decided it would be an interesting side-project. I was also looking for a good medium-size project to improve my Go skills and understanding of conc…

Like many people, I use Evernote as a personal Knowledgebase. I started this because I realized a lot of my bookmarks were rotting. But of course, links in my evernote notebooks face the same problem (as much as I try to capture the content).

Would it be possible to extend your tool to search Evernote, bookmarks, Confluence, and other link lists for rotten links?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by skulquake »

I'm working on terms of service, and legal agreements API for websites, mobile apps, & SaaS products called CoContract.

You can track user acceptance, profile data, and versioning of your website's most common & critical legal documents all from one dashboard.

It's required to be legally compliant when doing business online and then to track and manage this over a long period of time can be tedious and disorganized.

We're making it easy for developers to easily add legal compliance in their software offerings.

https://cocontract.com

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