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Ask HN: Opinions on our kickstarted product for reducing communication barriers 
Hi HN,

We have recently kickstarted the project to turn our working prototype into something more mass manufacture-able, user-friendly, and robust. Basically, it is a new kind of assistive technology for deaf. We are developing a hardware device and a mobile app that enable for the device owner to receive the texts from the smartphone's voice to text apps. Currently, our software is only compatible with Google Voice-to-Text but future plans will include Apple's Siri and Dragon Dictation. We believe that this device will be one of the first kinds and hope that it will be beneficial for people who are deaf or hard of hearing in terms of reducing the challenges of communication barriers with hearing world. We are interested in the feedbacks on our product. Hopefully with enough feedback and adjustments, it would become more appealing to our potential customers.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1931856606/iseewhatyousay

The video demonstration of this device - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDlEoL-rmaQ&feature=youtu.be

EDIT: The idea is that we want to simplify communication barriers by having a person to read texts on device and distanced away from someone else holding the smartphone with the installed app and speaking into it.
Very impressive! So incredibly fast.

My only thoughts are that search is the real bottleneck.
Broccoli is a new build tool. It’s comparable to the Rails asset pipeline in scope, though it runs on Node and is backend-agnostic.

This first line is a little disingenuous. Technically, it's not backend-agnostic, since it depends on Node being installed on the backend (in the same way that Sprockets [1] depends on Ruby). The Rails asset pipeline is a framework-specific integration of Sprockets. In much the same way, you could more closely integrate Broccoli with Rails if you wanted and call it a new Rails asset pipeline.

The project itself looks great, just the first line was confusing since they started the docs off by comparing apples to oranges.

A better comparison would probably be, "It's comparable to Sprockets (which powers the Rails asset pipeline), but runs on Node instead of Ruby."

[1] https://github.com/sstephenson/sprockets
Yes, Facebook is distraught by the fact that European startups are offering themselves up for aquisition on the cheap. It's apparently their own fault for not asking for more money.

Don't worry about the money you could be making in SV, you're fine where you are! We'll come to you.
That paper (as well as CurveCP) was definitely a huge inspiration for what I'm doing.

A big difference is I'm not running a packet scheduler (e.g. Chicago). Frankly, our data rate on a per device basis is just minuscule, and our internal protocol has back pressure built into it anyway, so I just skipped that part. If it becomes an issue (unlikely), I'll of course actually add an explicit scheduler so our UDP traffic plays nicely with others.

I'm not doing MLT's puzzle step (although I really like the concept). At the moment, all I can do is deny connections from unknown devices if we're under attack (I can drop packets from an unknown device with a single hash lookup). We're also in the process of moving to OVH, which is able to block DDoS stuff at the network edge, should it happen.

There's more stuff I've got planned, but that's it for now.
Agreed. The game changer for me turned out to be: https://github.com/rupa/z

It has an uncanny knack for getting me to where I want to go with very little in the way of input.
I am not sure why you're saying that the Sophia Antipolis tech area is an attempt to build a "Silicon Valley" - It's mostly big companies there and there's no incentive to build your startup there.

It's quite huge - around 1500 companies with a lot of R&D labs.

It was not built to mimic SV. And no one claims that except maybe some rare schools/companies brochures that want to sell the place to students/young engineers.

> The current party detaining majority is the Socialist Party (PS) so the idea that innovation comes from the state and individual action is just a burden

That's completely inaccurate... There's a huge effort right now to boost innovation in France by the current government - by Fleur Pellerin, through grants for private companies in tech and many other things.

Look at all those individuals the french government promotes at the CES ... http://blogs.afii.fr/en/2014/01/france-makes-waves-at-ces-20... - it does not look like a burden to the government :)
I am interested in anyone with serious attempts at communicating with this space craft. I think NASA decided they have no interest because they need to focus the deep space network antenna at the craft during data collection due to no local memory on the space craft.

The answer is to launch a cubesat translater to shadow the space craft. However the cubesat translater is only of use if the space craft is headed somewhere interesting. That involves a time window of only a few months. Also the cubesat is only practical if the ISEE-3 still has functioning instruments which are being broadcast.

The combination of interesting places being far enough away from earth that only very large antennas can transmit and the logistics of launching a cubesat mission that can escape earth's orbit which has never been done are why I think nasa is bowing out.

I would be interested in the cubesat mission if the legal aspects of the initial communication and trajectory change are ironed out. If there is a serious attempt within the law I am willing to donate my time as an electrical engineer.

darrin.taylor@gmail.com

PS I think the only way there can be a legal effort is if NASA and FCC bless it.
Forget about Crypto-Currency, Here Comes Crypto-Finance
So sort of exactly like 64:ff9b::/96 in NAT64?
I would be an advocate of this.

But.. competition is healthy, I am glad we are getting some great solutions in the space.
Entirely bogus comparison, as these are very different types of revenue flow. Apple pays a huge percentage of that money back out, whereas Microsoft actually keeps its Windows sales.

It'd be like pretending Google keeps all the revenue from AdSense, or Dell keeps all the money from copies of Windows sold with new PCs.
that top image has to be the most questionable trendline I've ever seen
Sure! You'll want to block ss.crowdprocess.com

An opt-out is under way, one website requested an opt-in but we haven't translated that yet: http://cdn.crowdprocess.com/opt-in.html
The market is clearly betting against MtGox having a fix soon. Based on this article it seems like their revenues are strong but their customer acquisition and retention will suffer immensely if they don't manage to re-instate withdrawals.

I find it hard to imagine that they won't solve the withdrawal concern soon. Especially with today's update.
be careful, I use xylitol regularly for the same reasons but I find that it makes me tired and fuzzy if I take the same amount as sugar.
I have suffered a lot with teeth problems since a child, but now at close to 40 I have managed to stabilize oral health and haven't had a cavity in more than 10 years.
There are new toothpastes in the market that combine remineralizing agents besides fluoride and they seem to work for me.
I like Biorepair the best, but I find the Novamin based toothpastes OK as well.
The key is to not let the ph drop too low ( avoid acidic foods ) and to rinse after acid attacks instead of brushing as the mechanical abrasion from brushing combined with the previous acid attack can damage your teeth.

Good luck, teeth problems suck.
I interpret "I want someone that can hit the ground running and if its not you, it will be someone else" to mean "I consider training you to be a waste of my time - start making me money day one, hour one or you're out."

Which seems short-sighted to say the least.
The point of the strawman was, I believe, to mock those who claim to want a free market, but support politicians who legislate such local monopolies.
If this is legit, it sounds great ... but you couldn't pay me enough to be one of the first people this was tested out on.
I wish F# had first class support from ReSharper.
They get common stock but without a cliff or vesting period
I was a kid back then so I don't know the details of the story. Can you give me a primer?
But if I'm really good i don't have a problem with short-term contracts & trial periods. I will be confident that there will be other good opportunities if the startup turns out to not be a good fit.
Hi, author here. I know that some scp flags are not handled correctly or that I don't provide a nice story to list and delete files, but I wanted to explain what I was doing early. I plan to write a bit more, e.g. about how I use Docker but I needed some kind of introduction first.
The fastest pulsar spins at 716Hz; its equator spins at 24% the speed of light
Oops! Indeed, I mis-perceived your comment as being a response to lotharbot's comment, about the tilt of right-hand pointing being an influence. Sorry.

However, I do think there's something more than "just so" to the darkmighty post you replied to, as well.

Anything that's hand-manipulated, and especially English writing on paper, must face the risk a dominant right-hand will partially obscure it. Thus we've got longstanding design tendencies, echoed on pixel screens, that more primary labels and information tends to be above and/or to the left, and more-ignorable (or even just defer-able) information goes to the bottom/right.

If damaging the visibility of some information for another purpose – as with an overlaid pointing indicator – a designer will thus have good reasons for allocating that damage in the down-right direction. (That is, tend towards obscuring the later/lesser information.) People immersed in our culture's visual design will even make that tradeoff subconsciously. So a "this makes intuitive sense" story, when reasoning about long-ago design decisions, is perfectly worthy of mention alongside other "historical evidence".
that may be harder to do efficiently than building the entire platform and we're an extremely small team. I'm sure some day we'll do it but can't prioritize that now.
Bitcoin at its best - ignore and outshout truths that don't help the value of your stash go up.
James Iry’s history of programming languages (illustrated)
Illumina and a Billionaire Want to Jump-Start Genomics Upstarts
Oh, please, then you should broaden your thought process. Sure, "very" is overused/misused. But there are all sorts of places where it is the perfect word, especially when playing like you are talking to a child:

"And when she was bad, she was very, very bad."

Let's all agree that using "malicious" or "malevolent" would "degrade the semantics and syntax" of the sentence.

The number of absolute statements you can make about the English language is very close to the null set.
How is this different from a smartphone? Couldnt you just make an app for that?
> you don't need to go to college to get a job as a software developer... However you'll probably be limited to smallish startups.

You don't need to go to college to get a job as a software developer - in 2014. What about in 2008? Or 2001? You're already talking about limitations and this is when times are relatively good. When times are bad there will be many applications for each job opening, with a decent chunk of them being people with diplomas. That is for jobs that don't require a BSCS. Like this one posted four days ago:

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/eng/4332469105.html

"BS or MS. in computer science or a closely related field"

These are good times, wait until the economy gets bad and money dries up like during the dot-com crash or banking crisis.
It's not .NET, .NET is a fantastic framework. The problem here is you're not just selling IIS and .NET, you're trying to sell the entire Microsoft ecosystem. There are so many MS components that just don't work on the Open Source world.

Microsoft makes most of its money with its business products, so it's not cheap. Some companies just simply don't want to pay the Microsoft premium.
How about "Brocfile.js"?
Guys, I'm the author of the app, so if you will have any issues, or idea, please let me know :)
I think more often for better, at least for this forum. I read commentary first more probabalistically based on the hype-sensationalism character of the title. I dont subscribe to the hivemind theory, in almost every thread there is well-argued commentary falling on both sides of the issues presented.

I don't want to reward linkbait and hype. A pdf link on the efficient implementation of the radon transform or compiler theory is much more likely to get an unfiltered click from me.
They won't have to do NAT. They can just route packets. Plus, the header format is much simpler, and all fragmentation should happen at the end node.
Stop Changing The User Interface
Modern economics? No. Land-title-era economics, where owning land meant you had autocratic control over it and could kick people out of it? Yes. To translate to modern economics, you have to change the names of things a bit.

Picture each set of colored properties as a separate country. You are an entrepreneur, so when you land in a country, you implicitly try to start a business there. The "base rent" for that country is the cost of doing business--corporate tax rate et al.

Each square within a country is an industry. As you build "houses" and then "hotels", you take over that industry. (Houses and hotels themselves make sense as markers if the industry you're taking over is real-estate; otherwise, interpret them as the symbolic equivalents for their own industry. For a manufacturing industry, this would be exclusivity deals with parts of the supply chain. Etc.)

When you've got a full set of houses on a square, you have a monopoly in that industry. This isn't as useful, though, as having bargaining/lobbying power from multiple industries that operate in the same country--having houses on all the squares. When you do that, you can convince the government to give you their contracts--to enforce the mega-monopolies for you, like in telecommunications or defense. These claims are represented by the hotels.

When you land on a square, and someone else has a monopoly there already? Your implicit entrepreneurial bid will be quite a bit more costly. But, of course, your customers expect you to expand into new territories, even if someone else controls them, so expand you must.

(I'm not sure what the railroads and such then represent, though. There aren't that many global utilities that actually give people power when they control them; the shipping-container era kind of fixed that. The internet backbone might seem to be a contender, but it doesn't really make that much money for the people who control it.)
What's the preferred replacement to 'very currency'?
"Come on, it'll be very."

-- Heathers
98% of Europe banned water 'fluoridation'
Given my preference for blocking/detecting its submissions I'm not likely to have any use for it - but regardless thanks for the pointer.
This would have been helpful for me a few months ago... haha great article.
We -really- don't want to seem sketchy and immoral. We plan to stop computing after a certain amount of time (still to figure out, so far we don't have that many tasks running for it to be significant), and we completely block mobile phones and tablets while the Battery Status API isn't present in all devices (http://www.w3.org/TR/battery-status/ only Firefox implements it currently)
So the only way to be committed to a language is to open-source it?
Have you tried Stevia?

It grows really well in my backyard. Smells badly(but tastes sweet) but is a great sugar replacement for making lemonade or ice cream or sweets without the high glycemic index.

You also probably have to learn to brush your teeth better. When I was a kid I had lots of cavities, then I learned that I was doing it badly(I had plaque and tartar in my teeth and I got used to it). No one really told me, dentist don't feel the teeth the way your tongue does, they use a piece of metal.

So I brushed better so the surfaces of the teeth became smooth(it took some time but then maintaining that is really easy).

Since then, decades had passed and no new cavities.
Show HN: What the Hash? – A chrome extension that explains hashtags
For someone who just wants to doodle and play around, while still learning the fundamentals, what resources would you recommend?
I think "pretty" is often used hyperbolically:

>"This curry is pretty hot" would mean it is hot, and hotter than normal, but not very hot in the context of curries. //

Probably what they mean, if they're British - and especially if male, is that the curry is so frigging hot it's bordering on inedible and likely giving them chemical burns but they're going to eat it anyway either to show "good manners" or prove they're well hard.
We did make an app but it is more convenient to hold onto the device, reading texts, while someone else holds your smartphone to speak into it. Sorry, we should have clarified that. For some customers, buying a smartphone may not be an option so this would be a cheaper alternative.
s/10/20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft#Hist...
That it's terrifying is true, but it's always been happening, and HTTP is just the next step in it. See here (the comments especially):

http://250bpm.com/blog:22
Depends. "Billions" of API requests off 5 Heroku dynos could represent an awful lot of profit if enough of them are being paid for at .25-.4 cents a request. And the 75% response rate to his emails is extremely impressive.

It seems scalable and repeatable enough as it is, to the point where I'm not sure what VC money and an enterprise sales team would add.
It probably will, but for TypeScript and similar variants where proper type context actually exists. Normal JS doesn't even support a reliable autocomplete, much less a compiler-as-a-service based one.
As a professional illustrator, I disagree with you. Have you read the Preston Blair books? They start with general lessons on how to think about and construct any shape in 3d, and I haven't seen a book with better examples of using lines of action (if you know of any, then please tell me).

I think it's a good idea for people to learn to construct simple 3d shapes before they tackle the complexities of human anatomy; it creates a framework for thinking about the drawing. I'd agree that there are better ways to learn drawing than from books, but still, a good book is much better than nothing.
I haven't found the original study yet, but here's an interesting example of the kind of thing. Note the talk of signals, this guy isn't looking at this raise as something JP Morgan thought Dimon deserved, he talks it as JP Morgan wanting to signal to others through the pay that this is the guy, so, buy our shares. -

The board’s decision to boost Dimon’s annual pay despite mounting legal settlements shows he probably will get the full options award, said Alan Johnson, founder of compensation-consulting firm Johnson Associates Inc. “It’s obvious the board wanted to send a signal about what they think of him,” Johnson said. “It’d be very inconsistent to say, ‘You’re our guy, and we want to send an emphatic public message that we think very highly of you.’ And then, ‘Oh by the way, you didn’t earn this over the last five years.’” ...

... While Sorrentino and Johnson said another major legal setback or trading loss could threaten Dimon’s options, last week’s pay increase sends the message that the board is willing to give him the full amount. “I don’t think the bank performed at a $20 million level, but I think they were trying to send a signal that they think he’s the guy,” Johnson said. “Unless something happens in the next six months, he’s highly likely to get it.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-27/jpmorgan-seen-payin...
I'm not a soccer referee but it looks really good.
Peoples definition of negligible probably varies.

Half a second is definitively enough that plenty of large scale tests have shown differences in conversion rate.

That difference gets much bigger for people with more than 1 page view due to perfect caching headers.
That doesn't solve every problem, but it helps.
Somewhat related, I've recently found and evaluated nodejs static site generators (including ghost which I find vastly overhyped and still too stuck in wordpress way of doing things). And the relatively unknown wintersmith [1] is just so awesome that it really needs some mention. It's easy to get started, relatively well documented compared to others, and you have full control to extend it should you need to.

[1] http://wintersmith.io
>I don't understand the trend from these last years of trying to copy successful model by importing just the emergent part and ignoring all which is hidden.

It's not a recent trend. Frédéric Bastiat wrote about it in 1850 [1].

Humans have an easy time understanding that something is of human action and of human design (e.g., flipping a light switch turns the lights on), and at recognizing that something is neither of human action nor of human design (e.g., today's weather). We are particularly poor at recognizing things which are of human action but not of human design (e.g., the market).

Recognizing emergent phenomena (i.e., spontaneous order) takes training/practice (and our language, which emerged within the context of humans' poor grasp of emergent phenomena, isn't great at expressing it). Further, politicians are incentivized to treat every problem as if it is in the first category, to treat symptoms as causal knobs to turn (e.g., price controls), thus placing themselves in the role of designer. To admit otherwise is to admit the inefficacy of politics (or more accurately, the state) to "solve" the problem. And with negligible exception, people of every political stripe refuse to accept that truth.

[1] http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html
Frameworks replace one problem with seven others.
"open source language" - such as F# or Clojure? Both don't require you to abandon the best IDE on Earth.

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0e53eaf6-b031-...
Personally, I don't really care about the guidelines all the time. If you take that overly literally, then nobody could submit anything that referred to something else via a link. I get the need to eliminate outright "blogspam" but not everything that comments on "something else" is blogspam.

If somebody reports on something and adds useful commentary, insight, whatever, I don't see the point in insisting on some arbitrary standard of "only link to most upstream source". It's not like people aren't capable of following links.
Ask HN: How much money would you beta test a startup for?
$5? $10? $50? $Priceless? What would it take to get you to try out a new site? For a few minutes a day, over the course of a week or two?

DISCLAIMER -- No startup in mind / not willing to actually pay anyone anything! Just curious in hypothetical question...
Built this over the weekend to scratch an itch after finding http://api.tagdef.com/

Any input welcome.
Broccoli, the laxative your JS needs.
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox plans to resume withdrawals soon
What service allows full SSL use without paying big bucks?
An actual monopoly still isn't free without a city contract
Flappy Bird Animated
Hmm I wonder if I can make a sublime add on to do this for various languages. I could probably do php pretty easy. Anyone keen to do a node module for it? CSS?
.NET is not a language. You always have to pay, but sometimes you pay directly and up-front.
Why can't Dart reuse (or provide) a tool that also works for things other than Dart?

Why does every language need to have its own everything unique to itself?
Do you have a Django plugin you'd like to suggest that does this?
pcworld.com certificate is only valid for localhost.localdomain
I would say moderately better. E.g. "C# is so much better than assembly language".