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by nabilt 14y ago
I'm interested to know what HN thinks this means for hardware startups. Is this a case of Chumby not executing well enough or is it too hard to build a hardware startup? I think it's the former, but many people out there including investors
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by nabilt 15y ago
Thanks. Didn't know about this one. I've been using Woorkmark's plugin ( http://www.wookmark.com/jquery-plugin ), but Masonry seems to have more features. Will be trying it out.
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by nabilt 15y ago
n=76 also seems low to me for this type of experiment. There was a great New Yorker article titled "THE TRUTH WEARS OFF", which if I remember correctly, discussed the difficulties of reproducing scientific experiments because we underestima
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by nabilt 15y ago
I built http://www.likelist.ca over a weekend and a few days. (Free App Engine Account) I built it to surface the likes, favorites, +1's, ... that tend to be hidden on most services. Basically about.me + Pinterest for your 'liked' content
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by nabilt 15y ago
A few notes why this project is interesting * There are NO restrictions to manufacture and sell these boards for your own use or resale * Open source and simple enough modify the hardware by most hardware hackers * Affordable components eve
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OLinuXino - 30 EUR, open source, hand solderable Linux computer (github.com)
1 points by nabilt 15y ago|1 comments
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by nabilt 15y ago
Academic tickets sold out fast, but genreal tickets were available for about 20-30 minutes. Last year google had another round of tickets so be on the lookout.
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by nabilt 15y ago
Great hack. For the Canadian folks here is the open data initiative with similar APIs http://toronto.ca/open . Likes for Ottawa, Edmonton and Vancouver are on the right. [Edit] Direct link for North America http://www.nextbus.com/predicto
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by nabilt 15y ago
Here is a 15 min talk were the founder talks about the challenges of building a hardware startup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afH8KGv0W24
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by nabilt 15y ago
OWASP looks great. Found some tools to help test CSRF (bottom of page) https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Testing_for_CSRF_(OWASP-SM-0... Also found a large PDF about testing with suggestions for tools https://www.owasp.org/images/5/56/OWAS
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by nabilt 15y ago
Very polished UI. I would prefer a bit more contrast on some of the controls, but the product looks solid otherwise. Is it possible to export the data into a standard file format (if one exists)?
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Ask HN: How do you perform penetration testing on your webapp?
16 points by nabilt 15y ago|7 comments
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by nabilt 15y ago
Well I should have clarified. I want an always on low power appliance with an easy web interface to host important data for people that are not capable or too lazy to set up a server.
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by nabilt 15y ago
Funny. I just asked for alternatives to Gmail and other hosted software on the Richard Stallman post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3551345 Harald's suggestions boil down to - share the administrative and financial effort with fr
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by nabilt 15y ago
I am curious to know what cloud services he uses if any. I'm researching alternatives to proprietary/hosted software for some of my important data so I can avoid the privacy and security issues. Some of the services I would like to replace
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by nabilt 15y ago
The presenter also has a catalog of screencasts here https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts . Haven't listen to them, but the topics look interesting.
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by nabilt 15y ago
I tried out the chairs at a local furniture shop (must do before you buy!) in Toronto called Design Within Reach http://www.dwr.com/category/workspace/task-chairs.do?nType=2 . It looks like you can buy online, but if you live in the states
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by nabilt 15y ago
No advice for these types of chairs, but I have been researching programming chairs recently. I spent 2 hours in the store sitting on Herman Miller, Humanscale and Knoll. I've come to the conclusion that if you are going to work on a comput
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by nabilt 15y ago
This sounds promising. I've seen the answers on stackexchange and quora about web security, but until my site is tested by a hacker it is difficult to know if I've done everything properly. So I like the idea of some kind of audit to help i
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by nabilt 15y ago
In their defence they did link to the National Science Board published a lot of information on the topic so it wasn't total link bait. http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/
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by nabilt 15y ago
I have limited web development experience so maybe someone can fill me in. Why is securing a web server so difficult? I understand they are complicated systems with many technologies, but large companies with lots of smart engineers can't s
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by nabilt 15y ago
Cool. You should post your project. I also made a diy web enabled thermostat + a bunch of other home energy gadgets. http://www.nabiltewolde.com/2011/11/home-energy-prototypes.h... I think these types of devices need to have a more open
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Nest thermostat teardown(sparkfun.com)
107 points by nabilt 15y ago|44 comments
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by nabilt 15y ago
I'm developing an electronic parts inventory web app because I needed a better way catalog, order and share parts. I couldn't think of a better way than a spreadsheet to display the dozens of parts a user might have. Each part has an ID fro
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by nabilt 15y ago
Direct link to some presentations Basics of programable logic http://www.altera.com/customertraining/webex/PLDBasics/playe... VHDL Basics http://www.altera.com/customertraining/webex/VHDL/player.htm... Verilog Basics http://www.alter
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FPGA, VHDL and Verilog online courses from Altera(altera.com)
2 points by nabilt 15y ago|1 comments
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by nabilt 15y ago
Doesn't work on the Samsung tab 10.1 either, which is an awesome gaming device if you don't mind virtual controls.
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by nabilt 15y ago
I wonder if that is why scrolling in Cyberduck is extremely slow. http://trac.cyberduck.ch/ticket/3799 I don't have a problem with using different UI toolkits as long as they look like native apps. The problem is these toolkits are always
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Google I/O 2011: HTML5 versus Android: Apps or Web for Mobile Development?(youtube.com)
3 points by nabilt 15y ago|0 comments
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by nabilt 15y ago
Great article that explains the basic technology and it's potential impact. Great link to send to some of your non-tech friends.

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