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chair-lawon Ask HN: Tell us about your S2017 startup

We make it easy to schedule group meetings with up to 10 other people.

chair-lawon PostGraphQL: PostgreSQL meets GraphQL

Also- is graphQL useful for non-social products?

chair-lawon Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

HN is a bit intuitive how they control emails. I added my email to the box marked 'email' and expected it to show up. Looks like you have to explicitly add it to your 'about' box. Should be there now.

chair-lawon Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

Thought I just added it?

chair-lawon Ask HN: Have any of you switched to Bash on Windows?

Shoot me some sort of message if you are trying to sell the xps 13.

chair-lawon Google opens access to its speech recognition API

What is the difference from a speech recognition API and [NLP libraries](https://opennlp.apache.org/)? This information was not easily found with a few google searches, so I figured others might have the same question.

chair-lawon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL

Add.Ninja: https://add.ninja

We wanted to make a website where people could give back to charity without having to make a direct financial contribution. So we are using sponsored content to see if people can find something they want to read, and support good causes in this manner. Our end goal will probably not involve using links from Outbrain, or Taboola, unlike our current product.

Feedback would be appreciated!

chair-lawon World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

How complex is an edge detection algorithm?

chair-lawon World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days

The algorithm dosent need to be too complex. You basically look at each still frame as grayscale, generate a hashtable of brightness values mapping to monospaced characters, and convert each grayscale pixel to a character.