martinkallstrom

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by martinkallstrom 13y ago
The concept of a business is hundreds of years old and history has seen most types of business financing, both benevolent and scammy. As a result, there's a massive amount of regulations around it. No matter if intentions of the business ow
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by martinkallstrom 13y ago
Thanks. Came here to say this. For a consumer web service, the outcome may or may not be totally different.
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by martinkallstrom 13y ago
I find it strange that they seem to rule out asteroid impacts as a threat just because it is unlikely to happen within this century. They are unlikely to happen in any century but still do happen from time to time on a universe-scale timeli
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Link for the curious: http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
The deep irony is that the reason is that Google doesn't want themselves to become ungoogleable. Which is the word they pressured the Swedish language council to remove from the standard dictionary. But in Swedish ofc.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
It can't be done since it would bring the narrative of "Facebook is selling user's data" too close to reality. With the addition of occasional leaks of who is buying into their platform, it would provide media with a constant stream of savo
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Passwords are typically not used for encryption, since you don't want to re-encrypt data when user changes the password.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
A quantified proof might not be needed, but at least the slightest indication to if he has seen this process work in the real world would have made the post much more useful.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Memoto is a service where the photos from a lifelogging camera are organized and made searchable in an app in your smartphone. The cloud, no matter if you embrace that term or not, is inescapably needed as part of our tech chain. I think yo
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
You think that starting with an idea leads to fragility and that there is an off chance that you succeed. You are probably right. You state an alternative process which you say is leads to higher success rate. Great, but where is the proof?
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Hi, Memoto founder here. You can in fact double-tap the camera to have it take a photo at once. It will also be bookmarked for easy retrieval. If you want a viewfinder as well, the Memoto app allows you to take photos the normal way which e
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
It takes a few frames for the camera to switch off. Even flat on your back it would be a one in a million chance that your camera ended up being perfectly still with the front axis aligned with the gravity vector for any prolonged period of
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
"Maybe" is as close as I can get to an answer right now, unfortunately. We will certainly allow developers to create cool stuff that integrates with Memoto. Either through our API or by some other means. But there are a lot of hard challeng
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
It's fairly uncommon since in most cases you actually need the geoposition in real time. We use a third party service for historical ephemeris.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
You switch it off by putting it somewhere dark or flat (in your pocket, bag or on a table). If there was an on/off switch and you switched it off before going into a dressing room or similar setting where it's inappropriate to take photos,
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Memoto founder here, it's because the GPS radio data is converted to lat/long in the cloud. Before that it's just a radio sample. Normal GPS chips that compute the lat/long on the fly drains the battery very quickly since they need to wait
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Ok, so do I get this correctly... this person is shaken in her feminist/equalist beliefs because she wants to spend more time with her family and this doesn't fit her earlier view that women too can put their career before the family. The f
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Perhaps Tau Ceti is even close enough to not be trapped to the paradox of interstellar travel: "No matter when you launch a voyage somewhere, some one else will build a better spaceship and get there before you." Is there a sci-fi novel abo
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
The virtual brain could use the real world, just as the real brain is. Just like the Google cars and Watson are doing.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
The municipality in my city Linköping, Sweden has actually made a really impressive business model out of this. I pay them to pick up my garbage twice every month, and then I pay them to heat my house by burning that same garbage. And they
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Hi all, sorry to come late to this thread. I'm one of the founders of Memoto and a long term HNer. FWIW, Memoto would never have reached this stage without HN. Of course we are very happy about the results of the Kickstarter campaign. Perso
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Great idea, thanks! Will see if we can set up a thumblog for them. Email me at martin@memoto.com if you want heads up when it's live.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Last week I ordered a 3D printer (MakerBot's Replicator 2) for my home, to allow my daughters (6 and 8) to grow up being able to model and print out their own toys. Playing the game Minecraft has provided them the eye to see and create shap
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
It is perfectly clear that this is a story of safety margines adhered to in an admirably strict fashion; not allowing short term thinking rule over long term; and certainly not allowing marketing rule over engineering. This is how you move
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
Is there any information available on how this works with iPhone? Does the app have to be running in order for the geo-fencing to work? Thankful for any information on this.
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
The reason the investor wants to give the founder an early earn-out is that they don't want the founder to be defensive. If you've invested $45M and you're looking to make ten times that, the site needs to make it really big. And you don't
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
In the countries where investigative journalism would do most service to the public, putting yourself out there will get you jailed, beaten up or shot. Entire governments keep their reign in part by controlling media. And some organisations
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Why do YouTube views freeze at 301?(youtube.com)
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
I disagree wholeheartedly. Vision is also hard. Making and communicating a promise that gets people excited, is really really tough. There are thousands of product videos published every month trying to make promises people care about. Livi
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by martinkallstrom 14y ago
As a regular Apple user (iphone/ipad/macbook air are my main tools), in my eyes Gruber is jumping the shark here. He comments on the structure of the event, his own feelings watching it. He comments on what information that has not yet been

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