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by dsiroker 4y ago
Totally understand how it might feel that way initially. Rewind is built privacy first. Unlike other cloud-based products, all of the recording data is stored locally on your Mac. It's not accessible to others (or to us as employees).
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by dsiroker 4y ago
I'm Dan, co-founder & CEO of Rewind. I am eternally grateful to Hacker News for helping me launch my first startup, Optimizely (YC W10), so I’m back here to launch my second one: Rewind. Rewind is the search engine for your life. C
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by dsiroker 4y ago
> I'm assuming there is some sort of encryption, but if the software can transparently decrypt the data to access it, then what is to prevent someone stealing the key from the software? You are right that if someone compromises your
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Rewind: The search engine for your life(rewind.ai)
21 points by dsiroker 4y ago|2 comments
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by dsiroker 4y ago
I'm Dan, co-founder & CEO of Rewind. I am eternally grateful to Hacker News for helping me launch my first startup, Optimizely (YC W10), so I’m back here to launch my second one: Rewind. Rewind is the search engine for your life. C
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Gamma(gamma.app)
1 points by dsiroker 4y ago|1 comments
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by dsiroker 4y ago
A great alternative to Google Slides
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by dsiroker 4y ago
Fun fact: Photoshop does exactly that if you open images of currency. See: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/cds.html
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by dsiroker 4y ago
Good points. To be more precise, my point was more practical and less utopian. The main characters in this episode lie in a way that could easily be proven wrong. It’s fun to watch and dramatic, but I think unrealistic in a world of perfect
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by dsiroker 4y ago
Fantastic episode! “The Entire History of You” The biggest difference is that I believe we would all be more honest with one another if we had perfect memory. It would prevent more marital strife than it would create.
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by dsiroker 4y ago
> Unless it's entirely self-hostable and/or runs entirely locally on the user's machine, it's a hard pass from me. It runs locally on your machine. > Also, this marketing copy makes your product sound a lot more li
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by dsiroker 4y ago
We are building a privacy-first transcription & recording solution. Sign up at https://www.rewind.ai for early access or if you are super eager email me at dan@ at the domain above.
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by dsiroker 4y ago
The most effective thing the team behind this feature did to drive adoption was to threaten to remove it. More people know about this feature now than ever would have through traditional marketing tactics.
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by dsiroker 5y ago
While this is helpful, just looking at successful pivots suffers from survivorship bias. Anyone have examples of failed pivots?
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by dsiroker 5y ago
I just tried this yesterday and I was very impressed! I didn’t expect it, but there was something magical about setting goals for the hour, seeing the faces of six strangers on mute, and a timer ticking down. It drove focus and accountabili
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How We Design Our APIs at Slack(slack.engineering)
3 points by dsiroker 5y ago|0 comments
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A Soft, Wearable Brain–Machine Interface(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by dsiroker 5y ago|0 comments
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by dsiroker 6y ago
They published a blog post comparing themselves to GitPrime and other competitors: https://www.usehaystack.io/blog/top-alternatives-to-gitprime...
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by dsiroker 6y ago
I just signed up and I'm blown away by how great the entire experience was. Their product is fantastic (better than Screenful or LinearB), their Slack community is awesome, and they even made me a personalized 5min onboarding video as
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by dsiroker 6y ago
Not sure exactly what happened but I did personally interview the first hundred employees so that means I probably interviewed him or her and would have done so regardless of how the other interviewers felt about the candidate. My interview
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by dsiroker 6y ago
Sure, I just responded because you asked so nicely. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24369766
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by dsiroker 6y ago
Over the years I A/B tested each of my interview questions in order to better measure what I was looking for. It sounds like you might have been asked an early version of one of the questions I used to ask so sorry you didn't get
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by dsiroker 6y ago
Haha, certainly no drama and no one forced us or even asked us to step down. I wrote a blog post about it: https://link.medium.com/mHgtiQ3bu9
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by dsiroker 6y ago
(co-founder of Optimizely here) HUGE thank you to YC and the entire HN community for all their support over the years. It was almost ten years ago that we launched here on HN. [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178
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by dsiroker 6y ago
> They are then vital for memory recollection. Even if specific proteins are needed for memory creation (which is debatable [1]) it doesn't mean you need to model those proteins to retrieve the stored memories from the structures th
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by dsiroker 6y ago
> The NES example is not really a good one because it’s a created object and knowledge of it is complete, therefore replicating it is possible. One could replicate the NES hardware without any knowledge of how it was built by reverse eng
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by dsiroker 6y ago
Connectome: How the Brain's Wiring Makes Us Who We Are [1] [1] https://www.amazon.com/Connectome-How-Brains-Wiring-Makes/dp...
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by dsiroker 6y ago
The gradual replacement approach (as you describe it) is a useful thought experiment that gets people more comfortable with the possibility of mind emulation but the end state is the same for both approaches. One just intuitively feels mo
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by dsiroker 6y ago
OpenWorm [1] has made a lot of progress toward building a fully functional model and when it simulates a worm's behavior it is almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Here is a video they produced in 2013 of C. elegans moving: h
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by dsiroker 6y ago
The notion of self is an illusion the mind creates. (There are many benefits for doing so, not least of which is self-preservation which is helpful to producing progeny and so therefore is selected for during natural selection.) To answer y

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