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Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#41
Oort - the cloud, in space.

We are building an orbital communications network and linux based satellite operating system that lets you program your small sat in widely used programming languages, and gives you access to unprecedented, low latency compute and storage on orbit, and enables uninterrupted connectivity to the ground.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#42

https://sherloq.io We detect and stop online hate speech, harassment and other kinds of cyberbulluying, allowing companies to have toxic free discussions and environments.

I tried your demo and it worked great! I tried saying similar things to see if it was just word matching, for example:

  "You should crawl under a rock and die." -> offensive
  "You should join a rock band, that music is to die for." -> fine
My only complaint with the demo is that you keep trying to refresh the result as a I type, and I quickly overwhelm whatever rate limiting you have in place and get a "please wait before trying again" message. If you just gave me a "submit" button rather than refreshing as I type, that would fix it.

What I'm curious about is, how do you plan to sell this? Is reddit or HN going to pay for it? Are you going to make a paid vBulletin plugin? Something else I'm not thinking of?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#43

Oort - the cloud, in space. We are building an orbital communications network and linux based satellite operating system that lets you program your small sat in widely used programming languages, and gives you access to unprecedented, low latency compute and storage on orbit, and enables uninterrupted connectivity to the ground.

Good lord, the Star Trek geek in me loves this idea. I have no idea why yet, but I want to become a customer, where do I sign up?

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#44
https://beakerbrowser.com/

A peer-to-peer Web browser. We let users create and host unlimited sites from their own devices. We think the technology can support thick hostless applications, which eliminates data silos and makes every application forkable from the browser. No blockchains, just an improved variant of BitTorrent called Dat [1].

We've been quiet the last 2 months but our 0.7 release is coming up, and we're excited about it.

1 https://datproject.org/

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#46

Oort - the cloud, in space. We are building an orbital communications network and linux based satellite operating system that lets you program your small sat in widely used programming languages, and gives you access to unprecedented, low latency compute and storage on orbit, and enables uninterrupted connectivity to the ground.

That sounds amazing! Forget the home cloud, try a satellite.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#47
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RadBots ( http://radbots.com ) We build tools for bots. Monetization, Bot-to-bot communications, Persona temporal key/value store, and more fun stuff coming out. :)

What are bots in this context? What is this context? Couldn't figure out from your landing page.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#48

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Just curious, why is the limit 10 (and not say 11) and why have a limit at all?

Sorry, has to be done... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc

If you hadn't, I would have had to.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#49
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This is cool ! How does it compare in size and power generation to a modern upgright wind turbine ?

Thanks! The size we're targeting now is a system of two kites on one tether, each with a wing span of 20 m and weighing 1650 kg. This would generate around 1 MW. The largest off-shore wind turbines right now have 80 m blades and generate 8 MW at a weight of 1300 tonnes (excluding foundation), but the main reason they are so large is economies of scale, off-shore wind turbines are expensive. Kite wind turbines do not…

But with a traditional wind turbine with 80 meter long blades, the total "footprint" for each one is roughly a 160 meter wide circle. In principle you don't need much space between those circles in a bigger wind farm (but because of turbulence and the wind shadow there usually is).

What is your "wind farm" model? Reserving a kilometer wide circle for each kite pair does not really seem feasible even off-shore.

Re: Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

#50

Oort - the cloud, in space. We are building an orbital communications network and linux based satellite operating system that lets you program your small sat in widely used programming languages, and gives you access to unprecedented, low latency compute and storage on orbit, and enables uninterrupted connectivity to the ground.

yeah you're gonna have to define low latency here

what are you doing differently to solve the predictable latency problem? having all the processing happening in the compute cluster so that there isn't enough back and forth to the ground to notice?

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