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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by StephenCanis »

natzar wrote: post #606
ajones05 wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm doing something similar for local news/events, called SeeAround.me, where people can see/submit local news stories and their locations. But I could see sort of a cross between that and Your Audio Tour as particular interesting for people who want to do their own walking tours, for example.

I already made that for a client. Don't think users will write stories from their mobile, at least good ones. It was difficult to start with no content, too similar to twitter.

I find that's the trouble with alot of good ideas I have. They work great if you can get to scale but that's easier said then done!

Is your site still up? I would be interested to see it.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by xj9 »

tracking user engagement on a federated social network. its an interesting problem, because there isn't a central database i can ask for basic information like: login time, recent activity timestamps, or even usernames. i built a proof of concept using a bunch of huginn[1] agents, but i want to build a more robust system using a gnu/social server and a statistics bot.

the goal is to have real-time statistics for the entire federated network, tracking update volume, user activity, and user acquisition. i should also be able to determine how much time people spend on the network per day.

[1]: https://github.com/cantino/huginn

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14023396 https://source.heropunch.io/bbnet/fedstats https://loadaverage.org/fedstats https://social.heldscal.la/xj9

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Post by MaulingMonkey »

jessriedel wrote: post #608
ianhowson wrote: post #605

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I did a podcast/audiobook player app ('lectr') with gap removal and had experimental support for what you describe. Roughly, it removed samples if there was no significant difference in the frequency-domain spectra. This was a simple threshold test (the threshold could be adjusted by the user). It works for some material. Some speakers (usually professional book readers) have even pacing and it's more effective. A si…

Thanks for your insightful comment! Is Lectr still available anywhere? Nothing showed up on a Google search. > between 1.5x and 2.0x is the sweet spot for me, and almost no apps provide that. Agreed, this is super frustrating and is some evidence that the market isn't that interested. (Why would they pay for advanced compression if no one bothers with trivial stuff like finer gradation?) Fwiw, on Android I use Audibl…

HTML5 video speed can be controlled with a bookmarklet on Desktop at least:

    javascript:document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate=4
You probably don't want my 4x speed as chosen here ;)

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Post by MaulingMonkey »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #346
dnautics wrote: post #279

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It is the case that you can teach yourself to understand faster and faster speech. The blind often have human interface devices which speak at absurdly high vocal acceleration.

This also depends heavily on information density. I can listen to some types of content at 2x without issue; other content I can't accelerate more than 10-20%.

Some content I have to scrub and rewatch even at 1x speed.

Some content I can watch at 4x.

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Post by schwag09 »

fudged71 wrote: post #589
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?

It's definitely possible! I'd just have to teach RIPLink to ingest data from different sources. I.e. have it parse a text file (or other type of file) instead of HTML. Would you mind opening an issue on Github?

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Post by schwag09 »

cmahler7 wrote: post #304
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…

aim it at SEOs if you want to make money, broken link building is a pretty big strategy in the SEO world

Interesting! I like the idea!

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by Diaznash »

Several things around VR. Creating 360 degrees content that can be viewed using HMDs. Creating a website that is a directory of any fun place that people can go to. I though of this after I realized I hardly have any fun and I couldn't get one place that had a list of outdoor activities. The directory can be monetized by doing 360 photography and videos for all the listed businesses, e.g bungee jumping, safari walks, etc. And finally, merging all that by creating a commercial vr showcase. This will be done by syncing several devices (preferably samsung gear vrs because of quality) and use this to do product showcases and demos at events and trade fairs. Yeah! Its a lot and maybe am getting over my head with how much impact VR can be. I'd love to hear thoughts. My location is Kenya (Africa) by the way. So all this is completely very new in the market and experimental and am in it full time. Zero competitors.

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Post by dokument »

conorgil145 wrote: post #524
smnscu wrote: post #433

Working on my second encrypted email project. The first one got some traction but ran out of money. https://oakmail.io/

I worked for an encrypted email company for ~4 years and I'm pretty familiar with the space. How do you solve the user experience problem associated with PGP in terms of sharing keys? You cannot send an encrypted email to someone you have never communicated with before, right? Do you have a blog or anything to follow?

I can't comment on oakmail, but I can tell you how i'm doing it for my project (decentralized mailer/messenger, look for my post on this page). But basically you perform a lookup (X address = Y privatekey). The problem is when your users don't want their pubkeys to be public.

In a nutshell, I create a new keypair using the recipients address as the seed for the keypair. Addresses in my system are similar to bitcoin addresses (I also use elliptical curve encryption) so the addresses have embedded hashes and checksum of the public key.

This means that pubkeys are encrypted and only people with your address can retrieve your pubkey.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by smnscu »

conorgil145 wrote: post #524
smnscu wrote: post #433

Working on my second encrypted email project. The first one got some traction but ran out of money. https://oakmail.io/

I worked for an encrypted email company for ~4 years and I'm pretty familiar with the space. How do you solve the user experience problem associated with PGP in terms of sharing keys? You cannot send an encrypted email to someone you have never communicated with before, right? Do you have a blog or anything to follow?

> How do you solve the user experience problem associated with PGP in terms of sharing keys?

Rely on keybase.io and keyservers to offer some potential matches + in the future work on a better protocol for key discovery (e.g. key discovery as an smtp extension). This was talked about before, and in the past our competition showed interest in supporting it.

> You cannot send an encrypted email to someone you have never communicated with before, right?

Yes, unless you generate a keypair as the sibling comment suggests. That's not something we're considering yet, I'm not sure yet how it would affect our policy of "zero knowledge" (misappropriation of a cryptography term, meaning that the server doesn't have access to unencrypted data at any time).

> Do you have a blog or anything to follow?

Subscribe to our mailing list ( https://oakmail.io/ ) or hit me up at my username at google's email service.

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Post by contingencies »

cdiamand wrote: post #89

Problem: software developers want to hear about software needs in other industries. Project: Opps Daily ( http://oppsdaily.com ) interviews people about the software they wished they had, and sends the interviews out every day. We then connect interested devs to the interviewee when possible.

1. How big is your list?

2. How does one get interviewed?

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