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lming··on Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides
Nice project for looking for pitchdeck references. Thanks for building and sharing it. I am curious about the tech behind it - are you doing OCR on images? The search is very responsive - it's definitely not elastic search, curious what index/search system are you using?
lming··on Notion Acquires Automate.io
You are absolutely right that building a performant rich-text-editor for large document is indeed a very difficult problem. Mixing real-time collaboration put further challenges on api design and server processing. It's a whole different level of engineering challenges compare to building a performant CRUD web app...

I am wondering how your team does note taking in Linear - are you guys create one issue for each document? It doesn't support collaborative editing, right?

lming··on Ask HN: Which VPN?
What's the purpose of the VPN? If travelling to China or other strictly censored countries, I'd recommend https://foxshadowsocks.com
lming··on Cloudflare Workers: Run JavaScript Service Workers at the Edge
Would Cloudflare endorse VPN services over Service Workers? Sounds like a great option to help people in censored country.
lming··on Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
Spent a few hours to create a website for it: http://exitvi.info/

Interestingly, I found domains like howtoexitvim were registered immediately after this post showed up on HN.

lming··on Horizon 1.0: a realtime, open-source JavaScript back end from RethinkDB
Hey Slava. Promising stuff! One question:

A websocket connection between client and server is great for real-time apps, but for non real-time app, the unnecessary websocket connections create more work for devops -- specifically DNS and load balancer. Does/will Horizon support that clients only use the Collections API to get/set data without websocket (for real-time sync)?

lming··on Crowd's reaction to Google's new logo
Very interesting analysis! There are about half positive and half native words about the new logo. But all words about classic logo are positive!

In any case, logo change doesn't matter much for big companies. People won't start or stop using your product because of logo change. I don't understand the rational behind the change.

lming··on Japanese mini Segway “WalkCar”
"VentureBeat reported that it can go up to 6.2 miles per hour for up to 7.4 miles. It needs three hours to charge."

It's amazing that the tiny battery can run 7.4 miles...

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/07/pocket-sized-personal-tran...

lming··on The Chinese Lingerie Venders of Egypt
It's a fascinating read! I released my app a while ago and found most users are Arab. I am eager to learn more about my customers and this article provides great insights.
lming··on Show HN: MooChat – Find interesting people to chat by magic words
Thanks for reporting bugs! I don't have a MotoX 2014, but will test it in emulator. It looks your account is new. Much appreciated!
lming··on Show HN: MooChat – Find interesting people to chat by magic words
You have to "go into" a MooCode. Indeed it's like IRC channels. The difference is that there is no action to create a channel. Any words can be associated with a chat room.
lming··on Show HN: MooChat – Find interesting people to chat by magic words
As a non-native English speaker, I am so encouraged to see your approval. Thanks!
lming··on Show HN: MooChat – Find interesting people to chat by magic words
Hi HN community, I launched MooChat a couple months ago and since then I kept iterating. I'd appreciate if you could share me your comments on this new version. More specifically:

Does the home page explains what it is? Is it interesting to you?

Thanks!

lming··on Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger
Oh, my bad. I should not put bug reporting and compliments in the same post. Looking forward to updates on your twitter account!
lming··on Show HN: Nod – Anonymous proximity messenger
After installation I swipe down and the app reboots my iPhone 6+ :)

It's impressive that you can get 10K organic installs in 1 week! Are there any trick/hack that other app makers can learn from it?

lming··on Show HN: MooChat – why watch WWDC alone? Chat with other participants
Thanks for letting me know! Wondering what I can do here. Maybe report to them for a false positive example?
lming··on Show HN: MooChat – why watch WWDC alone? Chat with other participants
Thanks! If you are not satisfied with MooChat, please let me know:-)
lming··on Show HN: MooChat – why watch WWDC alone? Chat with other participants
Founder here. Thanks for the question!

I created MooChat with three differentiations in mind:

- Easy to start chat. The app does not ask any of your personal information (email, phone number, social login etc), user can start chat right after downloading the app.

- Large group oriented. Hundreds of people can join a chatroom instantly. While it's much difficult to create large groups with other chat apps.

- Because it's so easy to form a chat group on MooChat, we are targeting to events or similar case that many people gather together for a short period of time.

I hope this make sense to you:) let me know if you think another chat app is better fit for wwdc onsite participants and live stream viewers.