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 vitorbaptistaa » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 9:54 PM UTC

Shellshare (http://shellshare.net) -- live streaming of your terminal

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCXnIgsEqK0

It's cool because: * It lets you share your terminal session, read-only, using just one command. Easy to get (or give) help.

* Many people can watch the same session. If you pair it with Hangouts OnAir, you could do live trainings.

* It's not as powerful as tmux or screen sharing (as it's readonly), but it's much simpler: there's no need to open ports in your firewall, configure your router, or create users. Being read-only also is an advantage in its use-case.

I haven't launched it yet (I'm finishing some performance tuning), but it's usable. Its only dependency is on Python and Script. If you're on Linux, you just need to run:

  python -c "`curl -sL http://get.shellshare.net`"

This will download the client and run it, automatically sharing your screen and giving you its URL.

Feedback welcome :)

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

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Post by trey_swann » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 9:54 PM UTC

bm98 wrote: post #321

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.

Yes, TrueVault is signing Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) with our customers.

TrueVault is also the first to cover customers under a comprehensive Privacy/Data Breach Insurance policy. As a result, TrueVault is able to indemnify our customers for, from, and against regulatory fines and the cost of breach remediation.

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

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Post by rolleiflex » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 9:55 PM UTC

frank_boyd wrote: post #364

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…

You get this kind of forums with http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ - it's a part of the "encrypted and distributed communication suite". Quickly growing community.

This is cool. One difference is that I am not making any assumptions about your peers being your friends. Aether is designed to face you with strangers.

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

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Post by michaelmior » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 9:56 PM UTC

mercuryrising wrote: post #363

This thread needs more hardware. I'm making bike lights. First a little story. I was late to class one day in March, pothole season. I was cruising in the drops, when I came up to a T intersection. A van pulls up, and stops at the stop sign. As I approach the intersection, I see a pothole, swerve to avoid the hole, and the van pulls forward. I have about 1 second before I hit the van, land with my back on the hood, s…

This is awesome! Hope you figure out a way to manufacture it :)

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

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Post by ScottBurson » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 9:58 PM UTC

quasque wrote: post #172

contextual wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A little friendly advice: don't ever tell someone what they can and can't achieve. It's impolite and the future is malleable. Feel free to sign up for when the first of many self experiments is launched: http://flowandzone.us2.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=bc7fdf29...

I understand that you must have invested a lot of your time and energy into this idea, so it may be difficult to accept criticism of its base concept. However by posting about it on a public discussion board you are implicitly inviting others to discuss and critique it, so I don't really see how that can be considered impolite.

Saying flatly "this could never work" is impolite, arrogant, and possibly wrong. "I don't see how this could ever work" suffers from none of these failings.

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

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Post by philbo » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 10:03 PM UTC

mtdewcmu wrote: post #269

philbo wrote: post #201

Currently I'm working on a few different developer tools, as part of my continuing mission to make my own life easier. I figure they're probably cool because if I'm scratching my own itch then I should be scratching itches for other devs too. * GitHubReminder - serendipitous email reminders about your starred repos on GitHub. https://githubreminder.org/ * JSComplexity - code complexity metrics for JavaScript. http://…

Have you tried using Lucene for the source code search engine?

It's still pretty early days with it at the moment so things are liable to change, but I have elastic set up right now. I'm completely new to search though, so I don't really know the ins and outs of different solutions. Plenty of time to learn though, as I'm still working on the crawler part right now.

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

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Post by dom96 » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 10:05 PM UTC

Nimrod (http://nimrod-code.org).

It's cool because it's a systems programming language which compiles to C with generics, an awesome Python-like syntax, AST macros and other metaprogramming features.

I am one of the core developers. I developed a lot of the standard library and tools such as the Babel package manager, Aporia IDE and a build farm all written in Nimrod.

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

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Post by vinchuco » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

nileshtrivedi wrote: post #47

I have been working on a web-based interactive environment for creating 2-d mechanics problems (with bodies like particles,disks,boxes, forces like gravity, springs, linear & circular motors and joints like revolute joints and sticks etc.) and simulating them. Think Algodoo for the web. I think it's cool because nothing like this exists for the web. I recently gave a presentation at a Javascript conference in Bangalo…

Maybe you'll be interested in this for some examples to try out http://507movements.com/

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

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Post by trey_swann » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

jph wrote: post #313

chasb wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's a use case for this?

My client's use case: we have multiple hospitals that need to share confidential information, for example a patient intake survey that is essentially a typical web form. We need somewhere to store that data. Building the AWS site to do this took upwards of 1000 person-hours to figuring out HIPAA-compliance issues. This will continue to be an ongoing cost for us, because HIPAA is an ongoing law and it changes sometime…

That’s a great example. Thank you!

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

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Post by huragok » Sat, Oct 26, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

Hyperglot (http://tmcnab.github.io/Hyperglot) - a language experimentation platform.

Basically, gives you the tools to make languages that compile to JS in one nice, neat package. I've already written a lisp-like language and a python-like language this week which is pretty rad.