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We do selective consulting. We choose fun and interesting projects to work on. We offer a service where we build a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and ship in 4 weeks.

Stack needed: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, SQL.

If this sounds interesting to you, shoot an email to zach@breue.com

zvannesson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2015)

Location: Washington D.C. and San Francisco

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Yup

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, Swift, Xcode, HTML, CSS, SQL.

Resume: Will be sent upon request

Email: zach@breue.com

I'm a full stack developer and designer. To see some of my recent work: http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

I'm currently offering a service where i'll build you a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and ship in 4 weeks.

zvannesson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Remote & Washington D.C/San Francisco (remote preferred)

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, Angular. For iOS apps, I use Swift.

To see some of my recent work:

http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

I'm currently offering a service where i'll build you a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $9K and ship in 4 weeks.

My email: zach@breue.com

zvannesson Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2015)

Location: Washington D.C. and San Francisco

Remote: Yes, preferred

Willing to relocate: Yup

Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AngularJS, Swift, Xcode, HTML, CSS, SQL.

Resume: Will be sent upon request

Email: zach@breue.com

I'm a full stack developer and designer. To see some of my recent work:

http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

I'm currently offering a service where i'll build you a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $5K and ship in 40 days.

zvannesson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2015)

SEEKING WORK - Remote & Washington D.C/San Francisco (remote preferred)

I'm a full stack developer and designer.

For web apps, I use Ruby/Rails, JavaScript, Angular. For iOS apps, I use Swift.

To see some of my recent work:

http://breue.com/

https://dribbble.com/zachvanness

I'm currently offering a service where i'll build you a neat minimal lovable product for a fixed $5K and ship in 40 days.

My email: zach@breue.com

zvannesson Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2014)

SEEKING WORK - San Francisco, Washington DC

Available for remote work.

Breue is where products and technologies ferment: http://breue.com/

I'm offering an experimental MVP service, where I build you an MVP, well more of a minimal lovable product for a flat $5K and ship in 40 days.

I'm also doing some more advanced projects: http://www.zachvanness.com/nanobird_relevancy_engine.pdf

Stack used: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS

Portfolio and CV will be shared upon request.

My email zach [at] breue [dot] com

zvannesson “No-CAPTCHA” reCAPTCHA

This stuff kind of seems like an overkill to me.

I think asking really simple questions that only a human could understand seems to get the job done most of the time.

Perhaps something like: "What is the opposite of bad?" or "How many planet Earths are there?"

I've used things like this for a handful of projects and have never had any problems: https://github.com/kiskolabs/humanizer

zvannesson Neural Networks That Describe Images

This is one of the coolest things i've seen in a while. I'd guess this is super similar to what the folks on the DeepMind team at Google are working on now, with the overall vision of being to classify images that have no metadata and add them to a dynamically learning knowledge graph:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24946-google-buys-ai-f...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Graph

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

zvannesson The Day Israel Attacked America

Relevant link: http://pr.aljazeera.com/post/101339900710/israel-knowingly-a...

zvannesson Laura Poitras: ‘Facebook is a gift to intelligence agencies’

The statement is somewhat fair considering that In-Q-Tel, early on, saw Facebook as a goldmine for human intelligence and decided to make an investment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Software

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5...

zvannesson What It's Like to Build a Startup in Gaza

Now, what are the odds that you are part of that Hasbara thingy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_(Israel)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-s...

zvannesson What It's Like to Build a Startup in Gaza

Uh oh, get ready for being called "anti-semetic" if you even remotely show any sympathy for these kids...

I came across an article a while ago about some Palestinian kids inventing a device to convert plastic waste to petrol. I think it's amazing that amidst a world of hell, they are still trying to apply their minds: http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/12/occupation-cant-stifle-innova...

zvannesson Microsoft developer explains on Reddit why Windows 10 is called Windows 10

Link to thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo...

zvannesson Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

Right now i'm at:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://www.apple.com/live/2014-sept-event/" on this server. Reference #18.2d2f0660.1410283131.13b065e3

zvannesson Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not going to pursue?

Something a bit like Pocket app, except where the content is automatically summarized for you.

I've made a naive summarizer that seems to get the job done for the summaries part: http://breue.com/summarizer

I'm just not sure what the final product would look like or if there would be enough of a reason for people to prefer it over Pocket.

zvannesson Israel spied on John Kerry during peace effort – report

Very good point. It seems to be that they pump in millions to our politicians and get back billions. Millions to billions scheme that ends up causing us a world of headache.

zvannesson Israel spied on John Kerry during peace effort – report

I'm most likley going to be down-voted into oblivion and called "anti-semetic" even though i'm half semitc.

A really serious question, why is it our job to continue to support Israel? They continue to humiliate John Kerry and Obama. It seems like a one sided deal. We continue to give them whatever they want. And we get absolutely nothing back in return.

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Edit: Hmm, I wonder why this post was shot down so fast.

zvannesson Keep Bananas Fresh Longer

My apologies for posting a poorly written article. I came across it through Prismatic (http://getprismatic.com/). From my understanding their content is curated directly by them and not the users.

Just as @jeroen has commented, here is a less confusing article giving the same solution: http://lifehacker.com/5967424/keep-bananas-fresh-longer-by-s...

zvannesson Ask HN: Idea Sunday

That would be a great! A verification algorithm of sources and how objective the information is.

The concept I mentioned relies heavily on Wikipedia and Wolfram Alpha. It seems like unfortunately Wikipedia is starting to see it's own share of not so important/factual information.

zvannesson Ask HN: Idea Sunday

A search engine for knowledge and facts.

I think there's huge value in a search engine of knowledge and facts, where all sources are verified. A search engine that is objective and contains no opinions, crappy blogs or tweets, content farms. A search engine where you can't game your rankings through SEO techniques or through higher add spend.

Google is amazing. Google Search is going to be here for a long time. I doubt anyone will be able to come up with a solid replacement. But one of the current problems with Google is that they have too much information.

So far, i've put together a tiny version of this concept, which i've found very useful when i'm trying to learn new things or do some research. I would love to see some smarter people turn it into something more.

zvannesson Breue – The Screening Room for Products

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for coming across as really pretentious. We're aiming to be selective rather than pretentious here. We should probably change the site to reflect this fact.

zvannesson Breue – The Screening Room for Products

Good point! Thanks for the suggestion. I think we should work on the landing page a bit to make it more descriptive for first-time visitors.

zvannesson Breue – The Screening Room for Products

Thanks man! I really appreciate the kind words, we're excited to see where it goes! :)

zvannesson Breue – The Screening Room for Products

Hey James!

Great point!

We carefully vet every Breuer out before letting them in so we can set an environment where everyone feels comfortable to participate and comment. We have zero tolerance for snark, trolls, or hateful remarks.

zvannesson Breue – The Screening Room for Products

Hey HN!

Zach from Breue here.

Breue started as Headlinr - a billboard for startup and product launches. Well, it was actually a curated list of useful good looking products.

From the products rejected on Headlinr, many of the founders reached out to us, asking how they could improve their products. We noticed a pattern of designers and coders unsure of what to build and how to launch their products.

So, we put together a little experiment called the Screening Room and ran it for a week. The results were spectacular. It became clear where we needed to focus our time and energies.

So, we built Breue.

Typically, we try to get product advice and feedback by posting somewhere online where people can see it. You receive a bunch of mixed advice. Only a few people give you good advice and feedback. And you have to deal with snark and hateful remarks.

Breue is a community where people give you the best advice and direction they can on your vision, business, product, product flaws, etc. So far, there has been zero snark. There are no remarks like "looks cool" or "sounds interesting". Just really helpful, worthwhile, invaluable stuff.

We've put together an amazing community of smart talented people who want to learn from and help each other out. As a member of the community, you get to engage with other smart talented people. You get to see, read, and hear things that others don't. You get to help shape things.

Please take a minute to read testimonials by founders of products showcased on Breue:

http://breue.com/stories

I'm here to answer any questions from the HN community!