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Re:Ask HN: I made a cool OCR based desktop app. Possible to commercial... on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @09:56AM (#14255633)
Thanks! I can parse any applications really since it reads the data from the display buffer. Web browsers was just an example, it is application agnostic at the core.

> If you could parse out other applications I could see it being a hit.

Could you elaborate?

Ask HN: I made a cool OCR based desktop app. Possible to commercialize?

Posted by bhavin on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @08:15AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Dear HN,I recently worked in my spare time to develop something for the fun of it – A desktop software that can monitor the current activity on a given machine for all the web browsers, including incognito modes.Basically, the software continuously runs silently in the background, uses screencap, image processing and OCR to resolve what is being accessed, hence it can work on all browsers (and...

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Re:Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @10:11AM (#4659886)
The prime difference is that the proposed feature would rate the stories according to HN algorithm (taking threshold into account) not chronological order as 'new' does. It'd give a filtered-out 'new' section. As in, a story that is upvoted by 2-3 people and has made to second/third page of HN but never makes it to front page. Few good stories deserve wider audiences IMO.
Re:Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @09:58AM (#4659849)
Great feature!

I had a suggestion: This feature gives you stories 'above' a certain threshold. I think it would help a lot if there was an option for stories 'below' certain threshold.

Rationale behind it is that lots of folks here (like me) don't check the New Submissions section regularly and lots of good stuff never gets much love. If there was an option for generating a front page for stories below certain points, a user can review them and upvote worthy ones, which eventually can feature on normal front page. Any opinions?

Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps on Friday September 28, 2012 @11:33AM (#4586024)
Every time I read something from aforementioned blog, I finished with a feeling of disappointment. No insights, no deep thought process, just plain apple-fanboyism.
Re:Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing on Friday September 28, 2012 @09:51AM (#4585471)
No they don't. In both cases, this patent is cited by the examiner, who probably had good sense of humor.
Re:Patent US6368227 - Method of swinging on a swing on Friday September 28, 2012 @09:49AM (#4585461)
I went through both Samsung and MSFT patents that 'refer' to this patents. This patent, in both cases, is cited by the examiner. So, my idea behind that is the examiner either didn't like his job or had a good sense of humor about whole patent process!
Re:0th-world Problems on Sunday August 19, 2012 @02:57PM (#4404803)
You're free to classify me as foolish for this, but before clicking the link I honestly expected this to be one of thought provoking articles (as there are often ones here on a sunday), with an intentionally absurd headline.

Not to beat a dead horse, but could we be any nearer to reddit? I wish I could hear from people who upvoted this one.

Re:Anic - Faster than C, Safer than Java, Simpler than *sh on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @12:17PM (#4381672)
It would help if fellow HNers read through the content a bit before upvoting something quickly. Here is a project which was last updated more than 2 years ago (no changes in source/tutorial/wiki in 2 years). There's no working implementation to support the claim. Any sane programmer would highly doubt existence of a (faster_than_C && safer_than_java) claim. Why are we as a community are becoming more and more obsessed with sensational link-baits?
Re:The real reason you can't hire developers.... on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:43PM (#3353271)
You said you found the writing style immature, but have you considered the job ads of the companies OP might have applied to? "Xbox's PS3 Nerf guns Starcraft/Rock band competitions !!!".. How mature is that?

I am not talking about the 20% interviews where it didn't workout, but the other 80% where there was no reply, I am sure many of those job ads won't classify as "Mature" in your view. Some of the best programmers i know can't write even proper English sentences, since its not their first language. Do you think they are any less able to do the job? And does it disqualify from expecting even a reply to their application?

Re:Google Fiber: 151Mbps down / 92Mbps up on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @05:40PM (#2918482)
its 40k, not 20k.

Ask HN: Why Usethesouce isn't much alive now?

Posted by bhavin on Monday July 11, 2011 @03:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

May be I am one of the very few people who check UseTheSource for jobs anymore, but I still check it every now and then for jobs and I've noticed there has hardly been any postings there in a while.I wish it would revive. Is there any other place I could look for HN jobs (except monthly)?

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Re:Ask HN: Why there are no non-profit Social Networks? on Thursday June 23, 2011 @03:19PM (#2689403)
umm, what I meant when I said there have been attempts is - those seem to be not full hearted with no outside support. E.g. there's no open-source social network project I know of which plans to run through people's contribution (financial and technical).
Re:Ask HN: Why there are no non-profit Social Networks? on Thursday June 23, 2011 @03:16PM (#2689387)
I completely agree, but on the other hand, facebook was at one point of time far behind myspace. one of the reasons it became a huge success is that the myspace had even bigger issues with privacy etc when facebook was considered nice and trustworthy. And its only after facebook became clear market leader, the user backlash started/became frequent.

Ask HN: Why there are no non-profit Social Networks?

Posted by bhavin on Thursday June 23, 2011 @03:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

At each successive facebook backlash, I find myself asking why there are no non-profit social networks? A quick search revealed that there are a few attempts at this, but none exceeding 50k users. And that looks to be pretty much it.Does anybody have a greater insight as to why there are no non-profit projects in Social Networking domain such as in others (e.g. wikimedia, craigslist etc). Not...

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Re:BofA Programmer Heads to Prison After Coding ATMs to Spit Out Free ... on Tuesday May 24, 2011 @12:22PM (#2580469)
One would wonder if there were any code reviews in place or not? Any code that has monetary effects has to go through a series of code reviews (saying from my experience working with a client in banking industry) and tests. I would be curious as to how the 'bug' went undetected until deployment!
Re:Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google on Thursday May 12, 2011 @08:45AM (#2540355)
They are too young of a company to be pulling this sort of seedy stuff.

I do not think this kind of seedy behavior is appropriate for company of any age, young or old. If anything, a company should get more responsible as it gets older.

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