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by DTE 12y ago
A lot of the underlying technology for paperspace certainly exists today and its best to think of what we are doing as providing a layer on top of it all (and polishing the pieces that didn't work so great before): To give an analogy,
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by DTE 12y ago
(apologies for the confusion -- we are working now on reworking the homepage with more info) just to clarify: the paperweight is completely optional. The primary interface for paperspace right now is a web browser but if you want an inexpen
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by DTE 12y ago
great questions! amazon workspaces is conceptually very similar but implemented very differently. A few key differences: 1. they focus pretty exclusively on enterprise and the tooling around configuring, monitoring, and backing up AWS is no
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by DTE 12y ago
The paperweight is completely optional. In your case, it would make sense for him to use one and then you could access his desktop through your web browser. One of neat things about streaming desktops is that you get screen sharing built in
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by DTE 12y ago
awesome questions! There will be tech blog deep dive that goes into more detail, but just to clarify things a bit we are using h264 as the underlying codec but the protocol is a combination things -- h264 packets over websockets is where we
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by DTE 12y ago
General computers are undoubtedly getting fast enough for a lot people. However, hosted computers (VDI, DaaS, etc) can do things that regular computers can't. I hate having to upgrade a physical computer (which isn't even an optio
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by DTE 12y ago
Absolutely. If you are a very large company (lets say >500 people) then you can buy some expensive and complicated tools from the big guys to handle this kind of thing. We are trying to wrap the hard parts of administering desktops into
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by DTE 12y ago
We take privacy and security really seriously and have designed the brokering process (the part that connects you to your remote computer) to support this claim by following industry best practices. We are still in a limited pilot program,
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by DTE 12y ago
Apologies for the confusion (and yes, the website needs some love). To answer the questions, we are primarily building a streaming protocol that makes remote desktops usable for a broader range of applications (namely "media-rich"
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by DTE 12y ago
Yea, so VNC is really versatile but not very performant. We set out to build a remote desktop protocol that could stream HD video streams and which would make doing things like high-end graphics and other media-rich applications possible. O
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by DTE 12y ago
We did a lot of prototyping on AWS and still use them a lot, but really we are pretty agnostic as to where the VM lives. We need nvidia GRID cards (which is what we use to scrape the remote desktop really fast and which AWS has for prototyp
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by DTE 12y ago
Hi HN! Founder here. We just announced Paperspace today and I'd be happy to answer any questions (technical or otherwise).
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by DTE 12y ago
I've been testing their app and its great for what it was designed to do -- giving orgs their own app for internal communication. Congrats to the GroupAhead team!
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by DTE 12y ago
Thanks for the shoutout :) (Paperspace cofounder here) Just to followup a bit - we let you run an full desktop computer in a web browser (we host the machine for you, so its fully managed). This means you can turn a macbook air or chromeboo
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by DTE 13y ago
How can you take privacy seriously[0] when there is the option to capture full screenshots and send them back to the dev team? That is absolutely not an expected behavior of any app. Am I not understanding something here? [0] "We take
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by DTE 13y ago
exactly...it is unlikely they would be interested in data storage being treated as the commodity it is.
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by DTE 13y ago
Although clearly not completely resolved, there are a number of really interesting ideas at play. The programmatic and reactive color schemes that we first saw in iTunes for album art, for example is really nice. The parallax effect looks f
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by DTE 15y ago
3D modeling software such as Rhinoceros ( http://www.rhino3d.com/ ) uses this model with great success and I'm sure there are others. The program has a GUI that is very modular and customizable but the command-line interface is the primary
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by DTE 15y ago
The feds were worried a long time ago but full disk encryption (or any encryption really) was not adopted by the public. The barrier to entry was too high. Only now is this odd relationship (encryption is ok but only when it isn't commonly
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by DTE 15y ago
I just did exactly this...Ryan is a great asset to the ruby/rails community and I am happy to support his continued involvement.
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by DTE 15y ago
Seems like a whole lot of technology solving a problem I don't think many people have.
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by DTE 15y ago
The idea of presenting calculus visually is certainly a good one, but this is useless for anyone other than the author. The point of illustrations is to enhance the material and this is just plain unreadable. Here is an interesting project
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by DTE 15y ago
Absolutely. And are there any significant efforts or new ideas for dealing with this problem?
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by DTE 15y ago
I'm sure this has been worked out by the team, but I am curious to know more about the load-bearing nature of the concrete shell. I would imagine this is a very important consideration if it is to be used in post-disaster areas (i.e earthqu
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Show HN: AFRAME - simple iOS custom font viewer
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