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shasaon “Decentralisation in stages” – Streamr DataCoin’s approach

The company is building a decentralized data streaming platform/marketplace for monetizing data produced by the Internet of Things.

shasaon Show HN: TweetLength- sometimes 140 characters are not enough

Well, I didnt want the user to move away from the site ( twitter). Otherwise we can use link to any site that allows to save text and generate generate links to it.

shasaon Show HN: TweetLength- sometimes 140 characters are not enough

Tweet@Length allows users to tweet more than 140 characters in their tweets. The additional text is converted into an image and posted with the tweet. Therefore, the users do not need to split their message across different tweets while posting.

Tweet@Length unlike other solutions does not require the users to move to another site to read the tweet because the image is automatically converted into twitter compatible image size and is readable from the twitter client itself.

You can log into the website http://tweetatlength.com with your twitter account and take it for a spin.

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You can log into the website http://tweetatlength.com with your twitter account and take it for a spin.

shasaon Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?

Back in Dec 2012, when we were planning to launch TripTern we were bootstrapped and didn't have any money for marketing. So we relied heavily on Facebook for promotion. One thing that we used to spread the word was to create promotional material based on movie posters ( see the links below). It helped us in getting the initial signups and also was instrumental in us getting featured on Mashable.

https://www.facebook.com/useTripTern/photos/a.38683168472634...

You can see the entire album here

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.386831684726346.90...

shasaon Massive ongoing DDOS attack against most large bittorrent sites

KickassTorrents and EZTV, two of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet, have been down over the past few hours. The popular TV-torrent group is suffering from a DDoS attack, which may have hit Kickass.to and various other sites as well. http://torrentfreak.com/kickasstorrents-eztv-suffer-downtime...

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This is not a mistake. It is based on a joke in the movie "These go to eleven...." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc

shasaon Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded

I don't think there are only 5 people on the team. Could be a coincidence or may be some hacker timed it to perfection. To check downtime: http://downrightnow.com/gmail

shasaon Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded

TechCrunch has provided a link to the person's resume... so much for privacy.

shasaon Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded

I didn't have any problem with gmail today though my roommate's mail was down. However, my yahoo mail is still down.

shasaon Show HN: I created this site to comment and draw on sites

not working on mozilla.

shasaon CES 2014: Audi Shows Off a Compact Brain for Self-Driving Cars

Carmaker Audi showed off a book-sized circuit board capable of driving a car on Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)

shasaon '42Coin' Is Less Than Two Weeks Old And One Coin Is Worth More Than A Bitcoin

However, at current difficulty 42coin is 10 times more profitable than Bitcoin.

shasaon '42Coin' Is Less Than Two Weeks Old And One Coin Is Worth More Than A Bitcoin

I think someone just created the coin as a response to DogeCoin. There are supposed to be 100billion dogecoins and this hacker went the opposite way to create 42 ( limited) number of coins.

shasaon Finding the Visual Studio Command Prompts in Visual Studio 2012

Because of issues like this I miss the start menu of windows.

shasaon Nate Silver Doesn’t Like Twitter Data.

The problem with social media is low information to noise ratio and given the sheer amount data available it becomes quite difficult to mine the relevant information. Also the rapid pace at which new information enters the system makes the task much more tedious. The media and other sources in their quest to provide news at the earliest more often than not compromise on the accuracy and/or authenticity of the news. And finally the verification issue, last week who would have thought that the AP news on white house attack was a hoax (due to account hacking) and not a true.

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Hi All,

We have released the beta version of our trip planning solution, Trip Tern and would like to have your feedback/inputs on the current design and how to make the solution even better. It is an initial version so you might see some bugs ( apologies in advance and please let us know about it) We are covering about 12 cities in this version and some of the features that we have added are

a. You can now select hotels,duration, interest and attractions that you want to visit before planning the trip. After logging through Facebook b. You can save trips in your profile c. Browse Friends' trips albums (picked from Facebook) on your trip Tern profile page. d. Browse all the places of interest/attractions from the travel guides.

We are a three member team working on this for a few months now. The solution might not be perfect but would appreciate inputs/feedback on the same. Will definitely add them in then next release.

shasaon Show HN: An IDE for poets

Excellent ! I was looking for a like button on the page :)

shasaon Ask HN: Help me estimate costs for my web app

I think you might want to look into amazon aws

shasaon Infographic: 1.36 years lost in planning a trip

I think you are referring about the data for the number of trips undertaken by an average user. It is just a statistic based on total number of trips/ sample size. No one is actually taking a half trip.

shasaon Infographic: 1.36 years lost in planning a trip

We would be taking some inputs from the user eg. city , number of days, interest ( art ,culture , night life ), budget. We then consider these inputs and use some of our such as ranking of places of interest, opening closing time, distance between two places. Keeping all these in mind we prepare the optimal itinerary for the user. We are also working on integrating the social aspect i.e. sharing trips with friends, saving you trip history etc.

shasaon Infographic: 1.36 years lost in planning a trip

We found that an average traveler plans about 10 trips in an year and spends almost 30 hrs in preparation ( travelers visit about 22+ website and numerous friends just to prepare a trip) We have been working for 4 months to create an automatic trip planner which can prepare a custom travel itinerary for travelers in a couple of seconds.We have now completed the planning logic and working towards a release next month. We are looking for some suggestions/feedbacks from the hacker news community so that released version comes out as a better product. http://demo.triptern.com shows the basic algorithm working with some key features missing. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Site : demo.triptern.com