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elvisds··on Display brighter-than-white color on Apple devices
This was explained in demo website [1] that was submitted earlier today [2]

> It works by displaying a color whose brightness is way outside the standard range of sRGB color space.

> Unfortunately, this color cannot be represented with CSS colors (rgb(999,999,999) doesn’t work) or any of the widely-supported image formats. However, an HDR video can represent this color.

[1] https://notes.dt.in.th/HDRQRCode [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36384625

elvisds··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
A friend is getting such a system to production for Indian recipes with Mechnical Chef [1] The demo looks incredibly cool [2]

[1] http://www.mechanicalchef.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBB0ZaN1paE

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://sensara.tv

Sensara is an AI-powered Hybrid TV company. We make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile, machine learning [1] and hardware [2] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for Android Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers (Dialog Systems, Speech Recognition) and Backend Engineers (Python/Django)

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://yourstory.com/2018/01/sensyfusion-make-cable-tv-smar...

[2] http://www.sensyremote.com/

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://www.sensyremote.com/

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to improve TV viewing experience in India [4]

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on India has banned disposable plastic in Delhi
The ban has been active in Bangalore since March, 2016 [1] and in Mangalore for much longer [2]

I was surprised to learn Delhi did not have such a ban so far

[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/Total-plas...

[2] http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Mangalore/mangalore-bans...

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2016)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://www.sensyremote.com/

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems [4] towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://www.sensyremote.com/

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems [4] towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2016)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://www.sensyremote.com/

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems [4] towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://sensara.tv

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems [4] towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://sensara.tv

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems [4] towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Sensara | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | http://sensara.tv

At Sensara, we make India's best TV Guide and Remote app - Sensy. We use mobile [1], machine learning [2] and hardware [3] to understand TV deeply, solve hard experience problems [4] towards a better TV watching experience in India.

We are computer science geeks - looking for engineers open to working on any part of the stack - Machine Learning, Audio Processing, Search & Discovery, Android/iOS, Product/UX. Join the tribe!

Write to us at hello@sensara.tv

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.sensara.app...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ad-break-patterns-bharath-kum...

[3] http://www.sensyremote.com/

[4] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-just-designed-smarter-remo...

elvisds··on News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier
The stuff I read in the morning is very different from the stuff I read through the day. The morning is all about news - where I am playing catch up to what the world's editors think is important for me. I hardly look back at yesterdays news. In contrast, what I read through the day is largely intent/search driven, suggested by a friend or colleague, discovered through email etc. This content typically has longer shelf life, and is more valuable to me.

This is why I think, what I read as "News" should be largely driven by what I'm doing throughout the day. I'm working on Pugmarks.me [1] with this exact premise. Here are some design principles we're using:

1. What I read should be greatly influenced by my professional interests, as opposed to what is popular 2. My colleagues often have an overlap with my interests, and their experiences should help me discover great content 3. If have a set of sources that I trust, and this is continually evolving. A system should attempt to help me discover content from these sources (and potential new sources) before reaching out to the larger web 4. When I discover great content, I should be able to hold on to it, and rediscover it when I'm in a similar context again in the future

With these principles in action at Pugmarks.me, I've been able to significantly improve the quality of my reading.

[1]: http://pugmarks.me

elvisds··on Digg says it’s serious about building a replacement for Google Reader
Some of the alternatives available to Reader also have one additional feature built in - Discovery. These companies might look at acquiring Reader users and giving them a taste of discovery, while satisfying the feed reading use case. Discovery then leads to potential monetization avenues. Google could have moved Reader users to Google Currents [1], but I'm not sure why they chose to shut down the product the way they did

[1] https://www.google.com/producer/currents

elvisds··on Which investors will invest in your startup?
Does "Investing in You", "Investing in your idea/team", and "Investing in traction" correspond to Angel, Seed and VC funding? If yes, this might mean the answer to "Investing in ..." should help you decide what round of funding to raise. If you already have traction, you might be in a good position to approach a VC. If you just have an idea or a team, then you must approach an incubator/seed fund...
elvisds··on Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court
I use a chrome extension called HackerNew[1] that lets you do this. Look for 'filters' on the top right of the page, once you have installed it

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lgoghlndihpmbbgmbp...

elvisds··on DuckDuckGo is blowing up
alternativeTo seems to call it googlecom

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alternative+to+googlecom http://alternativeto.net/software/googlecom/

elvisds··on Show HN - socl.in
Just signed up. Neat application. I like the colors.

1. The font makes things hard to read. Have a clear font.

2. When I say "Next Wednesday" in the Event Time, it calculates the date for me, which is neat. But when you show the list of events, you show the date and not "Next Wednesday" -- which is the way I remember it.

3. An option for DD/MM/YYYY date format would help.

4. If I say "Next Wednesday", you'll assume "At around 12.00PM". I think you should just say "Next Wednesday", and show timing info only if the user has entered it explicitly