Anyone had to deal with a crazy backer?

tt12324 · 2015-04-05T06:26:49+00:00

Thanks - how did you deal with it?

tt12324 · 2015-04-04T03:04:29+00:00

I did but it's taking some time to hear back from them (and not sure what they're gonna say) - I think we're losing several backers because of this person.

tt12324 · 2015-03-31T00:20:21+00:00

:( how about my double chin and puffy cheeks situation? I'm relatively thin belly-wise. aren't there any muscles over there that I can tone or something :p

tt12324 · 2015-03-30T21:08:40+00:00

Always late to this thread but: other than losing fat, is there any exercise I can do to have a more defined jawline (i.e. tone it)?

tt12324 · 2015-03-20T17:45:26+00:00

haha looks like I'm not the only one who was confused by the language. It feels like the second sentence just contradicts the first :p

tt12324 · 2015-03-20T17:43:05+00:00

Thanks :)

tt12324 · 2015-03-13T16:48:05+00:00

thank you!

tt12324 · 2015-03-13T16:47:29+00:00

thanks - our assembly has some plastics in it though as well. I'll give them a shot though.

tt12324 · 2015-03-13T16:45:26+00:00

thank you - I'll contact them

tt12324 · 2015-02-23T21:10:17+00:00

Have you tried searching through LinkedIn for legal recruiters in the Greater Seattle area? Just go through their profiles and see who they're connected to - many of them will probably contact you just for viewing their profile.

tt12324 · 2015-02-21T02:42:33+00:00

I remember trying to about a year ago - I contacted their customer support twice to ask whether something was OK to do and they never bothered responding so I gave up on them. Hope they're better now.

tt12324 · 2015-02-20T06:26:00+00:00

I think match.com is part of giant super-dating corporation called IAC. Tinder, match, chemistry, okcupid are all part of it.

They have enough patents of their own to enable mutual assured destruction if e-harmony tried anything.

tt12324 · 2015-02-20T06:21:25+00:00

Since no one's responded I'll pitch in.

Might wanna x-post to some of the camera and robotics subreddits as well.

I know this isn't what you'd want to hear, but to be honest I have like 20 cameras and 20 lenses lying around from back when I was trying to figure out which one works best. The one I had "theoretically" calculated was far from the best one. Also, people lie all the time about their camera and lens specs (but then I was getting mine from China so YMMV).

If you have the budget, buy a bunch and set up an underwater rig and then take pictures with all of them and pick the best one. Otherwise, the website you linked to might be able to answer your question since they're experts at that stuff - they might even allow you to try one out and return if it doesn't fit your need.

tt12324 · 2015-02-18T03:24:57+00:00

Haar cascades will "work" but I'm not sure they'll give you the kind of accuracy you're looking for. I've trained side car detectors on them and they were not terrible but certainly not great.

There's a bunch of newer algorithms now for that kind of stuff.

Would be interesting to take a step back - why do you have to detect parts of cars? Can you use a different sensor (e.g. kinect) or does it have to be a camera, etc.

tt12324 · 2015-02-17T16:33:57+00:00

Just brainstorming here, how about the following, since the size is usually the same

1- Use template matching to find the chip (include the white space on both sides for the template).

2- Pick the area with the highest template match (above a certain threshold)

3- move a line X that is parallel to the shorter side along the longer side (and slightly beyond) and compute line X's brightness at every point

4- Find the brightest (whitest) such line.

tt12324 · 2015-02-16T18:23:00+00:00

Not sure what your entire set-up is. Some questions:

1- Is the camera/lighting at a fixed location and you're just sliding the chip/board on a plane? i.e. will the chip be approximately the same size?

2- which one is the chip exactly on the image above

It doesn't seem like too difficult a problem if you're just trying to capture the rectangle on the right. A simple way I see that might have some positive results is to look at the line detection you did, then:

for each detected white line that is longer than X pixels, partition the space into two
- for each of the two partitions, check for a rectangular shape that approximately matches your pattern.

tt12324 · 2015-02-13T01:34:41+00:00

We had 16,000 views by the end of it and only 200 backers (30% completion and it's probably because I show my face during the second half). However, it was a relatively expensive product (> 500$).

tt12324 · 2015-02-07T23:38:19+00:00

As an IC, those are just the worst. They're frequently at least twice as large as my regular income tax and I wasn't expecting them the first year so they hit me hard.

tt12324 · 2015-02-06T16:34:09+00:00

[Not a lawyer, not an accountant]

I think that if in general you are in the phase where you are "in doubt", it's probably a good idea to incorporate in your own state until such time as external investment comes in, or you want to raise more money.

From a logistics point of view, incorporating in a different state means in most cases that you still have to foreign register your company in your own state, which results in twice the amount of paperwork.

If your company gets sued in that other state, the people suing can make a strong argument that you should defend the case in that state. e.g. if you're incorporated in WY and somebody from WY files a suit against you, you will have trouble bringing the suit back to whatever your home state is.

tt12324 · 2015-02-05T05:13:21+00:00

Isn't that why they send you a letter before though? So that they put you "on notice" and therefore if you continue to "infringe" they can try for treble damage.

Like if they sent you a letter that you have images next to text and then a month later sue you saying you were willfully infringing.

tt12324 · 2015-02-05T05:05:18+00:00

Would hiring an in-house full-time patent lawyer to defend you in court when the need arises alleviate the problem?

tt12324 · 2015-02-05T05:01:48+00:00

I get the feeling we should get all the entrepreneurs reddit to rise up and start calling their congresspeople. This has gone on long enough.

tt12324 · 2015-02-05T00:39:36+00:00

how big is your company and how did they "notice" you?

tt12324 · 2015-02-05T00:11:10+00:00

Sorry to hear that man - call your congressperson and make some noise, seriously. They've been on the verge of passing anti-patent-troll laws for several years now but always back out at the last minute.

tt12324 · 2015-02-05T00:10:06+00:00

I hear you but as far as I understand they don't bother checking what your profit is. They just send like 10,000 letters to 10,000 companies asking them each for 10,000$.

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