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by Jack000 8y ago
Google keyword planner - great way to ensure there's decent search traffic, which is a reasonable proxy for customer interest.
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by Jack000 8y ago
I made colormind.io - it makes about 200 a month. Here are some concrete steps you can follow: 1. market research: think about a field or niche you're interested in. Type some keywords into Google keyword planner to gauge search traffi
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Show HN: open source bin packing for laser cutters(deepnest.io)
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by Jack000 8y ago
edit: if this was recent, you should see an audiologist immediately. Google SSNHL. it happened to me last month. Hearing hasnt returned after 6 weeks, so it's looking like permanent deafness. The clinic I went to thought it might be an
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by Jack000 8y ago
#1 is oft-repeated advice, but as a dev this is a great way to end up with another static site generator, obscure javascript library or css framework. Might be better to apply this to non-coding domains, or applications that "normal&qu
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by Jack000 8y ago
not really a company, but for my (profitable) side projects I just serve the models with flask/wgsi, on a single server. its much cheaper than the cloud solutions, but I suspect it will fall over if it ever gets on hn..
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by Jack000 8y ago
the featured tab is manually curated. If they like your submission it's possible to end up on the front page the day after you submit, even with few votes (this happened to me a few times).
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by Jack000 8y ago
my thinking is basically: I'm not trying to sell, they're trying to buy - I don't need a quick cash infusion so not selling is my default, but if they want to convince me to sell they should be willing to pay a premium on top
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by Jack000 8y ago
My SaaS has similar revenue and I've thought about selling to fund other projects. In the past year 3 large companies cold emailed me about selling - one of them twice from different departments, but after a bunch of emails back and fo
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by Jack000 8y ago
I have a ton of advice for the 25 yr old me, but I think most of it wouldn't generalize well to other people. The one thing I'd stress to everyone is - don't take your (good) health for granted, it's really the foundatio
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by Jack000 8y ago
hoping for some advances in this field personally, although not sure how to feel given the other crispr related headline today. I became totally deaf in one ear two weeks ago, presumably from a viral infection. PSA: if you have sudden heari
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by Jack000 8y ago
I think that's not a fair comparison - a digital control system needs much finer time slices to compete with human reaction time. A control system that worked off of webcam images at 4hz would be a jittery mess, or just very slow if us
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by Jack000 8y ago
you can't do timing sensitive stuff without an RTOS, because resources could be preempted by the os or other applications. it used to be that certain chipsets could do motor control by bitbanging the parallel port, but modern pcs/
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by Jack000 8y ago
frankly, probably not. Even stormpath closed shop and dropped their api. I probably wouldn't be able to trust a small startup to not do the same..
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by Jack000 8y ago
haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if they're comparable. Afaik all the non-kinect depth cameras are structured light vs ToF with the kinect2.
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by Jack000 8y ago
> a small group of participants recorded very high ideal IQ scores (> 1,000) for the purposes of the survey it seems like some respondents didn't know how the IQ scale works, they probably assumed 130 is just above average.
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by Jack000 8y ago
a bit disappointed with the image quality. The original realsense r200 was probably the worst depth camera I've tried - it was barely better than two webcams and parallax processing. The new cameras doesn't look to be much better
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by Jack000 8y ago
about 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448100
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by Jack000 8y ago
is Linode actually cheap though? I have a few boxes with a random no-name provider for 1/3 the price and so far they've haven't seen any down time..
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by Jack000 8y ago
the last outage was in Fremont as well. I think I'll be moving my servers to Dallas or another provider..
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by Jack000 8y ago
is it actually possible to do this? I can't just deepen my voice on command, can some people do it naturally?
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by Jack000 8y ago
step 1: Look at the top most upvoted products on ph: https://www.producthunt.com/e/50-most-upvoted-products mostly curated lists and color tools. Make one of these, make it well designed. step 2: market. Get on ph&#x2F
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by Jack000 8y ago
I have a few. partkart.com (now defunct) - it was supposed to be thingiverse but for cnc projects. I made it one summer when I was in school and had the naive notion that users would find it organically or through cnczone. I think one or tw
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by Jack000 8y ago
depends on your lifestyle and income I guess. If you have high income and high expenditures you have the choice between immediate pleasures or early retirement, and that choice isn't so clear cut imo. for software guys like mmm I'
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by Jack000 8y ago
yeah, the probability of death depends on a ton of priors so assuming the distribution is uniform is not quite right either. just intuitively though, a probability of .7% for dying before 50 seems way too low
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by Jack000 8y ago
what you're doing is (129+192+405)/100000 = 0.7% this means that out of 100k 25-50 yr olds 726 died during 2016. This is the probability that you will die during this year, given that you are a 25-50 year old, which is different f
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by Jack000 8y ago
this happened to my family as well. The amount of money you can save by being frugal is very limited. IMO you're better off living a reasonable lifestyle and focus on income rather than expenditures.
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by Jack000 8y ago
I don't think that's the right way to look at the graph. It says that out of 100k 15-24 yr olds 74 died, and also out of 100k 85-1xx yr olds 13k died. This is purely a measure of death rates and doesn't take the age distribut
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by Jack000 8y ago
the main difference is length of interaction. With work/school the people in your social circle will be there for years, for better or worse. Friends made while travelling tend to be more ephemeral.
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by Jack000 8y ago
I quit my corporate software job in 2014 to travel (I was 26). I don't regret the choice, but the thing I didn't expect was how hard it would be to make friends without a school or work environment.

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