Hacker News: jyothi

HTML5 Chart That Renders 100,000 Data Points in Few Milliseconds

jyothi — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 16:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://canvasjs.com/javascript-charts/performance-demo-chart/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15824713

Points: 6

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New comment by jyothi in "Shifu: A Smart Way To Manage Your To Do List On Your Smartphone"

jyothi — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:27:13 +0000

Wouldn't Google Now at some point do all of this ? I think I guess Shifu makes it a little more mutually controlled. It would be good if this learns over time on what to remind and what not. A pebble app integration would be nice.

New comment by jyothi in "Rap Genius is Back on Google"

jyothi — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:58:42 +0000

It is digital and everything can be traced back - almost. But it is still the world of rich and famous. A similar & more severe penalty was lifted off the most popular Indian ecommerce site - flipkart. I remember meeting their head of marketing in 2011 who had no idea of the penalty which hit the site probably 2009-10.

As a user, yes I would like this site to rank up just so RG fans are saying they like RG result in google. But it is so unfair Google sends cryptic messages on webmaster for reconsideration requests but can entertain a direct call and lift off penalty. The least Google could do is to be transparent (fairness is hard)

New comment by jyothi in "Ask HN: Share a learning & a happy moment from your startup in 2013"

jyothi — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:35:15 +0000

Learning: Single Focus. Speed. We digressed a bit and we lost the game both ends a bit. Wish we had focused on one thing.

Happy Moment: We were 17 people and we went out for a trip from the company, stayed in a good resort, had a time-off. It made me happy to think back from where it started.

edit: going by what I said on the post - one liners. removed rest.

Ask HN: Share a learning & a happy moment from your startup in 2013

jyothi — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 12:25:08 +0000

With the year ending & many a startup founders around the world working on their dreams through the midnight - it would be great to celebrate it with your best moments and share a learning to help others

PS: One liners preferred

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6990154

Points: 17

# Comments: 12

Startups and Mountaineering

jyothi — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:57:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/on-startups/f27ef895e988

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6610645

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jyothi in "Gift for a 10 year old"

jyothi — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 14:45:45 +0000

www.play-i.com would have been perfect. They just don't have it yet.

edit: From play-i => Using a tablet or other mobile device running compatible software, the child will be able to program his or her robot to perform certain actions. The bots are expected to cost under $100

New comment by jyothi in "A weekly assemblage of startup founders in Palo Alto"

jyothi — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:15:10 +0000

This is a great initiative. But it might need way more customization and polishing and set rules before it can help founders with problems at hand or direction or anything that matters.

Good things where even VC meetings can't help:

1. Founders have better on the ground idea on petty things but important in a way and tedious to solve. eg. food in office or affordable monitors that are great, a specific case of an employee etc

2. Founders can relate to problems, help solve or collaborate in solving together. eg. technical issue in infrastructure or log processing say.

3. Boosts morale and can provide some light even after a week of bad sales or VC meetings. Some can even make you see the truth or accept it if the situation is truly negative

4. Business opportunities - VCs most always connect startups to pilot with portfolio companies and other startups. This can bring early clients and introductions

However I see some critical issues with this model:

1. People need many sittings to understand the product landscape, persona of the founder or the team to provide relevant suggestions or advise - which means either known people have to meet or it needs the same set of people to meet again and again

2. Moderation can be an issue. With known friends who are founders it is easy to converse & open up on issues - but with a random group it might become chaotic or a silent dinner.

3. The moment the meeting is unpredictable (not consistent week on week) in terms of value the zeal to attend would fade over time.

4. Given the unknown value of such a meeting you do not have a measure to value this time against a release you planned to do or an interview or even some mundane task at hand which has to be finished.

I am a startup founder in India. Given we lack the ecosystem even when VC/angels are involved it is only founder-networks to bank on here. These meet-ups have worked well only with founders who are friends/ex-colleagues.

New comment by jyothi in "Why I’m Going to India"

jyothi — Thu, 30 May 2013 10:27:58 +0000

Gates is finding a sample where (India) it is easy to implement solutions (knowledge of understanding, having a support system to solve the problems) and then take them to the larger audience. It is debatable if food & nutrition issue of India or Polio in India is comparable to problems in Mosambique or Brazil.

It seems like the basic problems of food, shelter, hygiene, health and education are basic needs and can be solved in similar ways across the nations without having to depend on govt policies.

I think this is a very sound approach. He should however pick a smaller geographical region than India.

New comment by jyothi in "Why I’m Going to India"

jyothi — Thu, 30 May 2013 10:16:49 +0000

For the benefit of people not from India: Aamir Khan is a super hero around here who is leveraging that popularity to spread a lot of influence on the society and predominantly accepted as the right thing. He has been part of many serious struggles here in India - He fought against raising a dam for River Narmada which would have displaced a lot of people and disturbed nature. - He supported an anti-corruption movement

His Satyameva Jayate was a very interesting TV show that brought to light many deep rooted flaws in our system - which were never discussed or taken seriously by the society. It would take many such runs to even get people to wake up and act.

Most of his recent movies (last 10 yrs) are strongly opinionated and have some social cause in them: national pride (lagaan, Rang de basanti), education & dyslexia (taare zameen par), corruption (sarfarosh)

So, here is a person who has been successful in waking up the Indian society and doing few things himself. I think Gates is meeting the right forces which are active here.

New comment by jyothi in "The declining profitability of Google Adwords"

jyothi — Mon, 27 May 2013 09:16:31 +0000

there is no best alternative as Google owns more than 80% of overall market. If you want scale you cannot ignore Google - hence the monopoly and inflation of bid rates.

the next best alternative which can bring 1/4th of google adwords traffic are bing adcenter, retargeting companies like adroll, vizury. Facebook & Linked Ads work for specific domains.

New comment by jyothi in "Show up"

jyothi — Mon, 27 May 2013 06:05:48 +0000

I think this is one of the simplest and powerful thought in building something. Just do something everyday.

Show up

jyothi — Mon, 27 May 2013 06:00:28 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/i-dont-know-a-thing/f15065e7f4a6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773621

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by jyothi in "SEO Is Not Just About Ranking Up"

jyothi — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:18:42 +0000

oops. I need to check what is happening on the domain then. Thanks for the info

SEO Is Not Just About Ranking Up

jyothi — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:24 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.hiveminds.in/2013/05/ctr-vs-position-search-user-behaviour-in-india/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5762267

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

CanvasJS HTML5 and JavaScript Charts

jyothi — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:45:00 +0000

Article URL: http://canvasjs.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558792

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

New comment by jyothi in "Andrew Mason's statement about being fired as Groupon CEO"

jyothi — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:18:59 +0000

so true. just that if they superimpose then for sure you go into depression. Now that can be life changing.

New comment by jyothi in "Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets"

jyothi — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:55:02 +0000

Supporting a retweet or reply would be fantastic. Gives some kind of virality and sense of community for the vine yard :)

New comment by jyothi in "Miss real-time search on Google? Try the HashPlug extension for Chrome"

jyothi — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:44:55 +0000

I got lucky to use this while it was in private beta - author is HN user webmonks. Would love to hear feedback on this.

I like this better than the way Twitter was integrated by Google on Search:

1. It is not inbetween search results. It doesn't distract esp since the plugin isn't smart right now to distinguish query as worth for "real time" results

2. It always gives the real time results. We had mild tremors couple of months ago and this would instantly confirm when I searched.

I don't like tweets from other languages crowd the results sometimes, but it is just as smart as twitter search :)

Miss real-time search on Google? Try the HashPlug extension for Chrome

jyothi — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:46:42 +0000

Article URL: http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2012/11/06/miss-real-time-search-on-google-check-out-the-hashplug-extension-for-chrome/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4748871

Points: 12

# Comments: 10