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I'm working on newer and better software for controlling stage and club lighting. It's still in the early stages, so the final form of the product(s) isn't clear to me yet. A likely initial release will be aimed at the club market, currently dominated by Martin LightJockey since a decent offering there won't require any custom hardware. I'm using Haskell and functional reactive programming. I intend to expose some so…

what is your hardware platform?

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I'm trying to develop my own mobile device. Going to be fun. Intel Atom 1.6ghz, Ubuntu-based, hopefully some kind of 5" capitative touch, software written in Qt/C++ (for lack of a better framework/X drawing option). http://avecora.com Also working with hnuser://jasonlbaptiste on Ramamia (beta), which lets you keep in touch with your family. http://ramamia.com -- as well as status updates for sports games at http://ti…

From your page: "Mark Bao (formerly Steven Bao)"

Interesting intro :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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transitioning away from my legal work back to startup work, learning rails while working on 2 early ideas and 1 underway. the 2 ideas i'm at will to share: 1 - .org - wikipedia-style database of case-law commonly used by pro-bono lawyers -- create something that would assist legal clinics manage their information locally but also something that stores that data and shares it with other clinics doing similar work. cas…

Your .org sounds like a possible .com

I can see that. We thought we'd keep it wiki-style at the beginning, possibly setting it up as a foundation. we think its more likely that legal clinics & others are more likely to trust it & use it that way. We would start as narrow as possible, possibly focusing on mental health working with the clinic I used to work with and then expanding outwards.

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transitioning away from my legal work back to startup work, learning rails while working on 2 early ideas and 1 underway. the 2 ideas i'm at will to share: 1 - .org - wikipedia-style database of case-law commonly used by pro-bono lawyers -- create something that would assist legal clinics manage their information locally but also something that stores that data and shares it with other clinics doing similar work. cas…

htsh - would like to get in touch. give me a ping - me at euwyn.com

excellent. will email after my breakfast & coffee this morning. -hitesh

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your .org sounds like a possible .com

I can see that. We thought we'd keep it wiki-style at the beginning, possibly setting it up as a foundation. we think its more likely that legal clinics & others are more likely to trust it & use it that way. We would start as narrow as possible, possibly focusing on mental health working with the clinic I used to work with and then expanding outwards.

I started to write a comment on how/why this could easily be a business. I have recently been involved in this area.

But then I remembered some interview with the founder of betterworldbooks.com: "This idea would be best embodied in a company." In this case, maybe it's not. Lowering the barrier for a non specialist lawyer to work on the kind of cases that attract pro-bono attention is good work.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Continuing on with my console editor ( http://purepistos.net/diakonos/ ). Aiming to get it to live up to being billed "A Linux editor for the masses". A recent version formalized an extension system (even though it has been extensible with Ruby for a long while now). Upcoming roadmap items: modes; window splitting; further development of the git extension; ...

Are there any plugins for Diakonos?

As listed in the release announcement ( http://purepistos.net.twi.bz/f ): a basic git extension; a Selector extension (isolate-as-you-type searching, using CSS or XPath); a comment toggle extension. Links to these are in the announcement.

More extensions to come. With the extension system, you can: create functions in Ruby, map them to any keys; bundle editor configuration (key config, syntax highlighting, new language defs); integrate the functionality of gems; you name it.

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Trying to make MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) suck less. Also working on a tool to make scientific collaboration easier.

How are you trying to make it suck less? (I'm just curious: recently, I had three MRI scans while I was in hospital).

The variable cost of MRI is scan time. The MRI technician needs to make a tradeoff: more time for higher quality image. I'm trying to get a better quality in the same time.

Big picture idea: the MRI doesn't spit out pictures, it spits out encoded pictures (the Fourier transform). Using a simple model of what bodies look like, I can dramatically narrow the search space when decoding the pictures.

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