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Re:Ask HN: Has CodeWars helped you career-wise on Monday July 25, 2016 @04:12PM (#12161265)
What kyu did they get to?
I want to be the leader, but no one will let me.

Ask HN: Please take these ideas and run with them

I want a service that can do the following: Integrate with my credit card ( ala Mint.com ) and do things like this:For each charge on the statement, geo-locate the business and put it on the map.For a given time period, put all those charges and locations on a map. Add some cool arrows to show the sequence, and if you threw in the approximate miles per hour that would be awesome too.Finally,...

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Ask HN: How would you find “interesting” audio from a video file or stream?

Let's say you have a 12 hour long video file from a surveillance or security camera, and you know that motion detection didn't find any interesting events in the video part. What about the audio? Is there any software that can let you define "interesting" audio, even just amplitude over a certain level. For example, given a minimum threshold in dB and a video file, give me a shortened video...

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Re:Are You a 10x Programmer? Or Just a Jerk? on Friday June 03, 2016 @07:07PM (#11833881)
Why not both?
Re:Leaving the Nest on Friday June 03, 2016 @04:26PM (#11833006)
I have two dropcams and the intercom has always worked great for me on both of them.
Re:Crying on Friday May 27, 2016 @02:26PM (#11787889)
Seconded for "Up". All the sad scenes involving the wife. This movie, and only this movie. Makes me cry every time. I'm a 40 year old man.
Re:The Secret of Billions on Monday May 23, 2016 @05:01PM (#11756948)
Wow, -2, this proves my point...
Re:The Secret of Billions on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:25PM (#11755319)
I have noticed that any comment on HN that mentions the Fed's money printing gets downvoted to hell quickly
Re:Ask HN: Is this a billion dollar business idea? on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:52PM (#11742167)
Let's say you went as far as designing a rack, for hot swappable modules. The rack just holds them in your trunk or wherever and provides 12v power, maybe with a ups.
Re:Ask HN: Is this a billion dollar business idea? on Friday May 20, 2016 @06:51PM (#11742158)
As an individual, you would create a profile on the site, so you can find opportunities. If you own a car, you might want to see how you can get paid for putting a wrap on your car, or driving around with a box.

Gotta think of a good name for this. It's like when you pay a data center to host your box, except this time, your car is the data center.

Ask HN: Is this a billion dollar business idea?

There was a post today about selling space on municipal vehicles for AVLR systems and gas sensors. I was reading this and thinking, how do we generalize it? How about a portal for municipalities who can register and search for monetization opportunities? Then I wanted to expand this further. I want to connect Companies-Who-Want-To-Do-Wardriving with Uber-Drivers-Who-Want-More-Money and also...

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Re:Ask HN: Dropcam without the camera on Monday May 09, 2016 @11:32PM (#11664994)
Thanks for those recommendations! I also found some software that can upload to Youtube as well as Dropcam and Google Drive integration!
Amazon AWS is not a terrible way to get started. It has a firewall that is on by default, you will have to deliberately add rules for your services ( for example to allow port 80 in to httpd )

Ask HN: Dropcam without the camera

Is there a cloud service like Dropcam, but the video can come from anywhere? I want a service that provides the 7 days of cloud video storage, the app, and the web-based video player with time lapse and DVR-like features. This might look like a software agent that you install on an old PC with a webcam attached.

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Could you elaborate more on what you actually do?

I am really trying to understand how someone is worth $230k+

I am a server-side guy with a CS degree, proficient with C, C++, Java, bash scripting, and some .NET, PHP, Node.js, and I have never gotten close to even $180k in salary, and I have been working for almost 20 years, and I am in the Bay Area.

Run away