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#241
I've been spending time working on my board game accessories business https://burgertokens.com/

It's been an awesome experience so far. I have enough customers now that I can go to pretty much any board game event and find people who are fans of my business.

I'm working on editing a video for an upcoming kickstarter that we're about to run. Super excited :)

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#242
Combining open-source photogrammetry software into a system that scales reasonably to >100k images (with accelerometer/gyroscope data from the video camera) and >1G vertices in a single, consistent, high-quality mesh. It later computes a texture map based on the images, not smoothing them, but just minimizing seams and using some seam carving and color interpolation to make most seams invisible.

I want VR reconstructions that don't lack details to be feasible for Places need to be archived like the rest of our culture.

[Current sub-part:]

I'm figuring out how https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp can be combined with https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/ to get better meshes (with less wasted vertices) and also how this can be made to scale Out-of-Core or on a HPC cluster (the kind with lots of RDMA interconnect bandwidth and low latency).

AMA (I won't respond for a few hours)

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#243
I’m not actively working on anything any more after my son was born, but I’ve spent some time trying to build https://resumedrone.com to more easily update my resume whenever I need to do that.

I’m playing with the idea of making it export into several agencies formats and then sell that to them so they don’t keep formatting stuff by hand, but it’s not quite there yet.

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#244
I'm working on a authorization protocol for IoT (ABAC+ReBAC and a little of RADAC). The main idea is to make it easier for non-tech people and secure (yes, everybody wants that), made the threat model and stuff - was my master's thesis, want to do a PoC to see if it sees sunlights ;)

Also working on a DataScience crash course with basic statistics, R, Python (Basics), Dataviz and webscraping (for journalists, biologists - for everybody).

Last, but not least, we have a music's group that is doing some visual + electroacoustic music (using supercollider and instruments). Our next step is to use Arduino and some other stuff.

resumes pretty much it.

(help wanted `:D )

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#246
I've been doing work with the Vegan Hacktivists. https://veganhacktivists.org/

Basically, we code up apps that we hope will help promote veganism. In some cases, we lend engineering help to organizations that need something built (e.g. Meat The Victims, Rancher Advocacy, etc.).

Currently, I'm working on the website for Meat the Victims as well as a platform for education on the "why" and "how" of becoming vegan.

If anyone is interested, please reach out (my email is on the website under Gerard O'Neill). We're currently recruiting for experienced developers, ideally with PHP experience.

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#247

Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system. We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae,…

I'm an absolute beginner in all things botany/agriculture related, and don't have much experience in electrical engineering. However this idea is something I find really interesting and I've started researching it more.

I've been playing with the idea of using existing physical infrastructure for building farms. Specifically, server farms.

I'm imagining isolated racks with individually, fully controlled environments down to temperature, pressure, humidity, light, etc. What are your thoughts on the efficiency of a system like that? Is it outside the realm of commercial viability?

Do you think such a system is still worth pursuing outside of commercial contexts (say, in the case where we NEED such systems? ie. space, deserts, extreme cold, etc.)

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#248

Up until a year ago I worked on a personal project that involved putting online photos of old cars from my country as found on GoogleStreetView + some photos of the same old cars personally taken by me [1], the reason being that most of those cars will be totally gone in the next 10 to 15 years (many of them are already gone since Google took most of the photos back in 2012 and 2014) and so I wanted to sort of preser…

I'm just curious, are any of these old cars known to be very reliable?

Lots of Eastern European brands that I’m not familiar with, but I venture yes: relatively simple power trains that can be serviced and don’t rely on much complicated technology.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

#249

Erudito Keyboard for iPhone ( https://erudito.io ) It's a mini game in an iPhone keyboard, you play from any App, just by writing. Common words give you little or no points, infrequent words give you points. You get bonus points when you write a sequence of words with points. There is a leaderboard where you can compare your "skills" against other users and friends. Still need to implement a feature to segregate each…

That's kind of cool, but I immediately ask myself what kind of security measures are in place. What happens so that every word I type isn't automatically uploaded somewhere where I do not know how it is handled?

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#250
I'm building https://learnawesome.org - essentially, a stumbleupon-equivalent for learners with richer data. The idea is to make it easy to answer queries like:

"Show me podcasts about architecture that are less than an hour long."

"Show me books about abstract algebra that are visual."

"Show me MOOCs on machine-learning that are challenging."

Just last week, I released browser add-ons for Chrome/Brave/Firefox to make it super easy to use. Eventually, we'll implement unidirectional relationships so you see recommendations only from people you trust/admire.

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