I'm working on a HTML 5 renderer for the most complex subtitle format in the world (that is actually in use).
Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#602I'm tackling the issue of managing Reddit saves. Across all platforms (not just Reddit), people including myself like to save/bookmark interesting content in the hopes of getting some use out of it later. The problem arises when you start accumulating too much content and forget to ever check that stuff out. I'm working on a solution to help resurface Redditors' saved things using personalized newsletters. I'm callin…
> I'm calling it Unearth... Why not call it Digg?
hehe I see what you did there ;)
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#603We're trying to improve the security of the Internet by replacing Certificate Authorities with a distributed root of trust. DNS is currently centralized and controlled by a few organizations at the top of the hierarchy (namely ICANN) and easily censored by governments. Trust in HTTPS is delegated by CAs, but security follows a one of many model, where only one CA out of thousands needs to be compromised in order for…
Do you have any plans to address TLD squatting?
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#604Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why/how is this better than existing IP solutions (e.g. https://www.maxmind.com/en/home or https://www.digitalelement.com/ )?
Here are some reasons why someone might choose to use us: - We're super developer friendly - you don't even need an access token to make up to 1,000 requests per day. We have a clean / simple JSON response, and official SDKs for most popular libraries - We have a quick, reliable API. We obsess over latency and availability, and handle over 20 billion API requests a month. (here's a technical overview of how we reduce…
Thanks! Do you have a work email I can contact you on? We currently lookup >1 million IPs per second and are in the middle of evaluating IP-geo solutions.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#605Characterizing the effect of near-surface humidity and wave action on Ka/Ku band satellite transmissions from a surfboard-sized autonomous swimming vessel. I have a little sensor platform, and customers that want it to do a whole lot more. Bandwidth can be hard to come by 6000 miles from the nearest human. Also, working on how to integrate a small team of hackers into a big team of production oriented engineers. Maki…
Semi random question. Is this related to the refractivity of the near surface atmosphere above the waters surface affecting directionality and bandwidth?
Yes, and a couple of other things- the water acts as an RF ground plane, so different sea states experience this differently; the humidity in the first few inches off the surface is enough to affect signal performance; and mist and spray from splashing affects things more.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#606We're trying to improve the security of the Internet by replacing Certificate Authorities with a distributed root of trust. DNS is currently centralized and controlled by a few organizations at the top of the hierarchy (namely ICANN) and easily censored by governments. Trust in HTTPS is delegated by CAs, but security follows a one of many model, where only one CA out of thousands needs to be compromised in order for…
Do you have any plans to address TLD squatting?
Handshake has built-in mechanisms to prevent squatting. All TLDs are won through an open vickrey auction (if you win you pay the second-highest bid for the TLD). This prevents squatters from being able to easily buy up all the good names at once.
There is an issue though — the auction system gives early advantage in buying names for cheap. If only 100 people are buying names on day 1, they’ll be able to buy a lot of the names without competition. Handshake has a mechanism to prevent this. Names are released for bidding over the first year so that people who learn about it six months late can still register good names. The release schedule is basically a hash(name) % 52 to determine which week you can start registering any name.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#607I recently launched Homematchx.com as an interactive way to connect future home and buyers at similar stages of the real estate process. Unlike other real estate listing platforms that shows move-in ready homes in less than 30 days, Homematchx list future homes and buyers at various stages of the real estate process to empower users to find the right match to close when they’re ready. Everyone has a plan and a price! Why wait until you're 30 days from buying or selling when you can find the perfect match to extend the closing date at your convenience.
According to bankrate.com over 60 percent of millennial home buyer regret their home purchase. SHOCKING! In our industry this stat is overlooked and it has made me wonder why. I was working with someone who's lease was coming up and wanted to explore buying a home. They had two choices, rush into a home or wait another year. They decided to move and lease in the area they wanted to purchase. Being unfamiliar of the housing market after signing a 12-month lease there is no way to identify future homes that will come to the market when their lease is up. This story led us to a problem in our market. To avoid the traditional move-in ready market in less than 30 days, our users can match to homes that will be available for sale at their expected time to purchase. This is a perfect way to build confidence and prepare for the journey head.
Let's keep it 100 percent! We don't have access to who is planning for the future which could produce a better outcome. As a real estate professional over 10 years I’ve noticed soon after buyers move into their new home better homes in the neighborhood were listed for sale around the same price. We often times think we purchased the best home at the right time, but everyone has a plan and a price,That’s real estate right!
Would you be willing to wait if you found the home worth waiting for or made the seller an offer they can’t refuse for your one of a kind? Homematchx assures you never miss out on wishing you could have purchased the home next door, the home across the street, or the home around the corner. Our platform allow consumers to see available homes for sale up to three years out giving you access to more inventory than today.
I think seller are at a serious disadvantage when they need to sell. Days on Market is a huge issue and its a growing concern in real estate. They are unsure how many buyers fit their home's description and would be willing to purchase it at their desired time. To time selling your home perfectly is unpredictable. Our platform allows you to see all the buyers, their compatibility to your home, and if they have been qualified or not. Never will a seller list a home for sale without know who will actually purchase it.
We are heading into the new construction industry to help home builders better understand the real estate market and who's available. There is so many missing things that buyers don't have access to in order to time their new construction journey perfectly.
I'm excited about the many problems we can solve but I know we cannot be successful without the users knowing it exist. I'm on a Godly mission to finally change the real estate market and make it accessible regardless of your timeline.
Stephen L.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#608Earlier quoted context omitted.
Curious if you've thought about this as a browser extension where it injects what you've saved into the main reddit feed. For example, one saved item per refresh. So you naturally rediscover and engage with items you've saved in the past, with a decent algorithm to help prevent any fatigue from seeing the same item too many times.
canada_dry also brought up the idea of a browser extension (for privacy's sake). I think that paired with your idea of inserting saved content into the main feed is very enticing. I would need to figure out how injection would work for saved comments, do you have any ideas? I'm definitely going to save this idea so thank you!
awesome, not sure how I'd handle comments since this approach would aim to be as seamless as possible. Maybe when they click into the thread you use the UI to remind them of the other saved items they have using the right sidebar for example, but I don't like how it tries to grab attention from the core experience. They could also always click the browser extension similar to Pocket, but I imagine this action would be used less compared to things naturally appearing on the pages that they browse. You'll have to find ways to train the user to use that behavior regularly, perhaps again similar to pocket when they click "save" the browser extension shows a little popover so they see it saved in the extension, can tag it etc., and know their other content/saved comments live there
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#609Flight search. I hunt deals for Aussie travellers ( https://www.beatthatflight.com.au ), but an inordinate amount of my searching for deals is manual. - initially, all manual - secondly, timers - I know when some airlines do deals, so I go look - thirdly, I found other sites indexing unusually cheap flights, but they're not always the same price on my site - fourth, built a script to search my own site for a route, b…
Thought your username looked familiar, I've seen your site on OzBargain many times. I always wondered how/if finding cheap flight deals could be automated, and it's interesting to hear that it's as hard as it seems. Just FYI, your logo and part of the menu disappear off the sides of the site background on my 4K screen.
interesting - thanks! Would you let me know what browser/OS as well, just so I can have a look?
Re: Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
#610Flight search. I hunt deals for Aussie travellers ( https://www.beatthatflight.com.au ), but an inordinate amount of my searching for deals is manual. - initially, all manual - secondly, timers - I know when some airlines do deals, so I go look - thirdly, I found other sites indexing unusually cheap flights, but they're not always the same price on my site - fourth, built a script to search my own site for a route, b…
I've always wondered how flight search sites develop a system for such a difficult problem with minimal API options and Google limiting access to QPX. There seems to be a lot of data fragmentation in the travel industry too. How do you automate under those constraints? Are there good alternatives to QPX?
Not easily. Sometimes just doing manual-esque queries using selenium(!).
There are rate limits on a lot of tools/APIs as well, so if I can narrow my search boundaries quickly with some hand tweaking, it helps a lot.