Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by bm98 » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

trey_swann wrote: post #48

https://www.truevault.com/ TrueVault is a HIPAA compliant data backend for apps, devices, and sites. Developers use TrueVault so they can develop healthcare apps without building out their own HIPAA compliant infrastructure. You access data in TrueVault via our API and native clients. Think of TrueVault as Stripe for confidential patient data. You use Stripe to store credit card data so that you are PCI compliant. Ou…

So are you going to sign Business Associate Agreements with your customers? They won't be HIPAA compliant otherwise, under the latest HITECH rules. That's where the analogy to PCI breaks down.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by rooster8 » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:40 PM UTC

Happy Scale (http://happyscale.com) - A moving-average weight tracking app for iOS

It's cool because it changes your relationship with the scale. Your weight fluctuates up and down naturally during a diet, and seeing a high number in the morning after you worked so hard the day before can be so demoralizing. With this app, that number is just a data point. You can enter a high number into the app and find out that your overall weight trend is still headed in the downward direction, so there's no need to freak out!

On a personal level, it's cool because I actually SHIPPED and because I've gotten to learn so many new things like design and marketing. And getting an email from someone who tells you that it's helping them in a way that no other system has ever helped them before feels incredible.

PS- Reading Hacker News has been a huge inspiration for working on this and persevering during the rough times. Love you guys.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by madoublet » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

http://respondcms.com/

I know "why do we need another CMS?" It's cool because it makes it really easy to deploy Bootstrap sites. Plus, it has a full API and a great UI (well, at least I think so).

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by 616c » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:41 PM UTC

rolleiflex wrote: post #234

I'm building a distributed network, called Aether, that allows people to create and participate in reddit-like forums anonymously. It's fully encrypted. Take a look at http://www.getaether.net It's cool because: * It's anonymous. The posts jump from one node to another with no author information except a nickname. They cannot be traced back to the origin. * It's encrypted with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher suit…

Very interesting stuff. What are your thoughts on the I2P darknet, the Syndicate system, and why are they inadequate in your opinion?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by dc_ploy » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

An interactive food recipie application for the gov

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by rolleiflex » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:45 PM UTC

scottlilly wrote: post #301

rolleiflex wrote: post #234

I'm building a distributed network, called Aether, that allows people to create and participate in reddit-like forums anonymously. It's fully encrypted. Take a look at http://www.getaether.net It's cool because: * It's anonymous. The posts jump from one node to another with no author information except a nickname. They cannot be traced back to the origin. * It's encrypted with TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA cipher suit…

I was thinking about doing something similar. One of the things I wanted to incorporate was an reputation ability (beyond just blocking). It would be similar to a referral engine in Netflix or Amazon. So, I'm user A. I mark user B as a high-value poster. User B marks user C as a high-value poster. When I run across a post by user C, I see they have a good reputation. If many people I ranked as high-value, also ranked…

This is cool, but you're making assumptions about information that is outside of your immediate connections. This could work in a network where one could trust that all the information one receives from immediate connections about others is true, but that is not the case. In your case, user B could mark everybody as a high value poster, and it be successful in diverting your attention. This causes problems even in the core stack, I cannot believe what a node B will say about at what IP address node C is. A malicious node B could overwrite everybody's node information to one single IP address to create a massive DDoS.

So the solution I found is that there are separate degrees of trust for derived and produced information. If you receive something over the network about a third party, that's derived information, which might not essentially be true. But if you have connected to that node personally, that's produced information, and no derived information can overwrite that.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by iamwil » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:46 PM UTC

Cubehero (https://cubehero.com) It's cool because:

* host 3D printed projects with version control (based on git) * generate previews of STL and OpenSCAD design files * can make commits through web uploader, so you don't need to know command line git.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by rossj » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

sunspeck wrote: post #30

A biodiverse, edible forest garden in the center of an public high school. We are breaking ground with a team of students in about an hour. This is (very) cool because it will expose adolescents to a variety of concepts, perspectives, and phenomena that are severely lacking from most urbanized places.

Sounds great. Would love to hear more. Is there a blog/project-page anywhere?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by spindritf » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:49 PM UTC

nav wrote: post #251

Seat 14A (www.seat14a.com) a). Most men hate shopping. b). Sizes are never consistent and a number cannot define a unique bodily shape. Our solution: We simply send an email with a few complete looks every few weeks, if you like a look - order it and we make it made to measure for you. We ship globally for free. Each look is about $150-$175 (so won't break your bank account). Each look is based off of heavy research…

They only have a few outfits but some http://seat14a.com/ensemble/the_valley are really great.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jaredsohn » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 8:50 PM UTC

I have been working on a couple of projects.

The first is software that automatically pauses/mutes your music when you watch a video and restores it afterward by looking at process volumes. It is called mute.fm but only available for Windows at the moment. http://www.mute.fm/

The second is a location-based pasteboard called near.im that lets you share {contact information, addresses, links, text} with people who are nearby who don't necessarily have a particular app installed. I've recently discovered it can also be used as an appless Chrome-To-Phone. http://www.near.im/