Ask HN: What are you working on?
What do you spend most of your time on these days? Do you have a side-project you'd like to talk about? What is the community working on?
2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to stay through the entire program. 17 of them stayed.
As of today, 14 of them have gotten full time jobs (which was a high win for them, going from minimum wage to 130k+ per year). The remaining 3 of them are starting interview prep right now. I'm going for a 100% success rate.
Everybody learns at a different pace. The slowest student took 2 years and the fastest around 6 months (I actively made them stay around to help out the slower students for as long as I could).
I'm putting together a curriculum of all the pain points people face when learning how to code and come up with a comprehensive book. It will be free to all. The current rough draft is here: https://www.notion.so/garagescript/Table-of-Contents-a83980f...
To test the effectiveness of the book, I've just recruited a new student (my dad), who spent the last 30 years doing manual labor and barely knows any English. So far, so good.
San Jose (Bay Area). Yes, everyone is learning in person. I plan to release a (free) book capturing what I learned and wrap up this project (or let someone else take over)
A few things that helps:
1. Content must be lean. Learn foundations.
2. Really drill down those foundations.
3. Work experience: most of a student's journey is actually working together as a team to build / launch products. I role play as a project manager and run weekly sprints.
4. Relevant Technologies: I work as an engineering lead during the day, I make sure student's work experience covers all of industry trends (currently: GraphQL, React, Apollo Client)
Everyone around me seems to be implementing a GraphQl layer, and most of them don't have a graph database. I'm still not even sure what the `Graph` means in `GraphQl`.
Here's an overview of how Airbnb uses GraphQL: https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/how-airbnb-is-moving-1...
edit: OSS link - https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
You're missing some numbers at the start there, chief. How many people did you reach out to? How many responded favourably (first round of self-selection)? How many actually started the program (second round of self-selection)? Without these numbers it's hard to support your premise.
Of course, none of this takes away from the fact that you got 14 people from minimum wage into high paying software jobs in just two years. That's a damn fine effort! (And as others have said, where the hell can you get a $130k job straight out of a 2 year Javascript boot camp?)
His premise is that "anybody could learn coding if they tried", whereby "tried" I assumed applies to only the people who passed those two rounds of self-selection you describe.
Yes. That was what I was trying to figure out is, if there was an organized event could anybody (who are motivated to complete the training) get a coding job?
I would like to think so, but I work with many people in the industry who will say, 'nah they need the brains for it'.
I try my best to motivate those who lose motivation but ultimately I don't have the bandwidth to inspire everyone who loses motivation.
I probably still won't be a primary coder at my startup, but at least I'll be able to make more sense of the JS that our devs write.
2. Do you have experience working with technologies that are trending? If not, start a side project using them.
3. How's your speed? Given the assets, could you build this in an hour? (this was an actual hands on interview problem) https://www.google.com/logos/2011/worldsfair11-hp.html?hl=en
During the day our students do practice problems that drill these concepts.
2. Trending technologies do not necessarily make sense.
3. If I'm not mistaken, this is just: on mouse over, switch CSS class. CSS jutsu would be... interesting though. Oh, and set position.
Anyway, I am starting to see a lesson for myself here :) Thank you, sir!
Later this year, I'm planning to launch a "governance-first" ETF that gives investors the same exposure as other funds but is much more aggressive in fighting climate change.
I'd love any feedback! Feel free to email me at <hn-username>@greengovernance.org
-Which consumer product companies still use a lot of plastic packaging vs those already use bio-degradable packaging?
-Which heavy-industry manufacturing companies use coal or diesel as the main source of energy in their factories vs those use renewable energy source?
-Any company forbid their executives to fly excessively whether in private jet or business/first class? How many miles per year they travel ? It's simply not environmentally friendly when video conferencing should be effective in 90% of the cases?
One thing my fund will push for is more consistent and granular emissions disclosures across firms so that shareholders have a better idea of where firms are "spending" their emissions and identify inefficiencies.
I am also working on learning CW (aka Morse code), learning to play bass (already play guitar) and am trying to stay busy helping others too.
In addition to all that I do breakfix computer work on the side and a freelance gig writin technical tutorials for a site that specializes in selling small to medium sized, low budget VPSs. That has me learning things like Nginx and Redis, which I've never really spent any time on. It's great fun and my first professional writing job.
I also have a blog where I document my ham radio, automotive, and other misc projects, although I'm woefully behind on it. I built a 20 meter CW transceiver last week (from a kit) and have yet to post about that. I also had to repair a cracked body on the bass I am learning to play, but didn't even take pictures. Writing about things while you do them takes twice as long, at least. I'm lazy.
Lastly I took a recent promotion. I work remotely, training new employees at the web hosting company that I work at. I also develop training materials and am revamping how we approach that stuff. I've never done that before. It's the first time I've been off the front lines, and I like it. A lot.
Thankfully I have a lot to keep me busy so that my mind can focus on what I'm doing rather than on the troubles that plague my wife. She'll either survive or she won't, and my worrying won't affect it. All I can do is support her. Our adult daughter is her full time caregiver (I am not cut out for that, and we're all okay with it, I promise) and is with her, and that has to be good enough.
I've been blessed with an amazing support network and a few extra bucks to let me stay busy on projects. If I didn't have those to keep me going... eesh.
Lastly, I'm glad somebody asked this question. I had a lot to get off my chest. And if this didn't make a lot of sense, I apologize. It's a bit of a brain dump.
Good luck to you and your family.
In co-op/multiplayer this allows you to do things like send someone back in time to open a door for another player in the future, or pull objects outside of time to effect someone in the past.
There's a big focus on experimentation and discovery. To that end, I never fake or script any of the gameplay systems -- so there's a completely internally consistent time-travel simulation running all of the time, even during menus and in lobbies. The goal with that is to make a world that is always predictable; Loop Thesis is about figuring out how the world works and figuring out the subtle implications of its rules.
It's supposed to capture that feeling you had the first time you were programming and a concept like pointers actually clicked for you. It's about these tiny cool moments where you suddenly realize all of the things you can do with a mechanic, or you suddenly understand why this obscure interaction you were dismissing three levels ago actually matters.
For that to work, there can't ever be a point in the game where you ask why something happened, and the answer is, "oh, that's just a glitch, or a hard-coded interaction." Literally everything, from menus, to how save files work, to even how maps load in and out of memory, is consistent with the internal mechanics of the time-travel simulation.
If you're interested in this design philosophy of having almost radical consistency within a game's systems, I wrote a blog post early on in development about how that influences the way the game is coded.
It's a little out of date; since writing it some of the mechanics have changed, but it still provides a good overview of what I mean when I say that nothing in the game is faked.
https://danshumway.com/blog/design-is-implementation/
Ironically, in this article I mention:
> It's possible to take this philosophy too far. When I first started building an update system for entities within the world, I experimented with using events and special methods to pass around information... I still use events, but only when it makes sense to do so.
The current rewrite I'm working on is going in the opposite direction here, relying much more heavily on events and only using direct object references when its absolutely necessary. This is, again, to make gameplay more consistent; but also just because events make the architecture cleaner and make the modding API more robust. So in a way, I've almost become more dogmatic about this as I've worked on the game.
By the way, I think there's a typo on the About page. Below the video, the game is called "Reset Hard". Guessing that's an earlier name?
There there is one on your patreon page. :)
I'm not super-familiar with the Autistic community, so I haven't been consciously pushing in that direction, but I am definitely interested in making sure that the game is accessible for Autistic players, in no small part because the few Autistic kids I've playtested with have so far been really good at latching onto the emotional core of the game -- which is to try and build this puzzle-box of a world that just feels very safe and contained, where the more you learn about it and the more that you dissect it, the more the disparate systems start to fit together and make sense as a cohesive whole.
On the resource side of things, take both of these with a grain of salt because I'm not an expert here, but I do have two recommendations. The first is that there are a few child-friendly movie-adaptations of Flatland out there, and my niece watched one of them in first grade and was really into it. Flatland indirectly inspired some of the mechanics in Loop-Thesis -- particularly this idea of time being a spacial dimension that you can hop around in and move objects into and out of, rather than the strict line of cause-and-effect that's more common in other games.
Flatland was also partially the inspiration for meta-meta-time, which is how I reconcile the player being able to insert themselves into the game. The physical player exists in meta-meta-time, and is projected via their computer into meta-time, which is the actual game engine running on their computer. Then the game engine projects their avatar into the regular level timeline.
The other recommendation I'll make is the game "Baba is You", which is not related at all to space-time, but is probably the closest example of the kind of mechanical consistency that I'm trying to hit with Loop Thesis, and it might scratch some similar itches.
We are building our pilot installation right now. Additionally we got two government grants: one to set it up monitored with sensors, and a production management system, for future automation, traceability and transparency for the food chain; the other to start taking in food waste and converting into fish food via insect larvae, closing the circle.
Sweden has recently adopted a food strategy which puts a lot of emphasis on local, circular food production, and there is a lot of interesting stuff happinging right now.
It will be published here (currently Swedish only): http://cirkularodling.se
Then I took a break and (nearly) got a degree in environmental science. That lead to starting https://Akvo.org but before that I had spent quite a lot of time trying to build the business case for Seawater Greenhouse [1]. Recently we saw an opportunity to work on sustainable local food production, which is the aquaponics and associated work.
I've been devouring aquaponics setups on youtube with the ambition to eventually have a huge space for plant growth.
The trouble is that I'm in Nepal and quite a lot of the equipment is difficult and expensive to import. Is there anywhere we can read about your project?
- Small scale aquaponic food production. Integrated fish and plant farming, FAO, http://www.fao.org/in-action/globefish/publications/details-...
- The Aquaponic Farmer: A Complete Guide to Building and Operating a Commercial Aquaponic System, Southern and King, https://www.amazon.com/Aquaponic-Farmer-Complete-Operating-C...
Then we visited several operating facilities, including:
- Oberous Farms, https://www.ouroborosfarms.com
- Duurzame Kost, https://duurzamekost.nl
Then we have done a ton of research ourselves.
I've been playing with the idea of using existing physical infrastructure for building farms. Specifically, server farms.
I'm imagining isolated racks with individually, fully controlled environments down to temperature, pressure, humidity, light, etc. What are your thoughts on the efficiency of a system like that? Is it outside the realm of commercial viability?
Do you think such a system is still worth pursuing outside of commercial contexts (say, in the case where we NEED such systems? ie. space, deserts, extreme cold, etc.)
To me the smallest size which makes economic sense here is from one hectare and up (10000 m2). The bigger the better. We compete with the average greenhouse grower in the Netherlands, among others, which has four hectares.
For desert coastlines, check out Seawater Greenhouse. I know the founder well. https://seawatergreenhouse.com
Other extreme environments are very interesting to me, but I don’t foresee anything in rack size that makes economic sense. Food requires quite a lot of space to produce. But I could be wrong.
I’m currently involved in some work with interconnected mesh networks and have some contacts in this field. Feel free to message me :D
My bugbear is that all the existing apps suck. I want a way to say "give me a running route that lasts approximately 10km and is as scenic (greenery, water, mountains, etc) as possible, with few road crossing and is as safe as possible". Maybe I can even pick from the top 3 options. Existing apps can't do any of this.
This data is readily available (or can be derived) for many countries using the wonderful openstreetmap and other public sources (e.g. national hiking trail routes).
I've adapted the brilliant Graphhopper routing engine to handle the routing algorithm and alternative routes selection. PostGIS (with OSM + other data loaded) is used under the hood to generate weights for each of the "ways" (edges in OSM-speak) for each of my variables (e.g. greenery). I'm using Leaflet and leaflet-routing-engine on the frontend currently, but would like to make it into a native Android/iOS app in the future.
I had a look around in my last trip to the UK for short circuits with 5 to 10 KM, flat, not much obstacles, but couldn't find any.
Would be even better if I could also find some markers around the map indicating things like pull up bars or abs bench.
My frustration with Strava is that they have SO much good data, yet they do so little with it.
Whereas my frustration is that they have mountains of bad data (and we're sometimes talking egregiously bad here - segment times for runs that are >10,000mph etc.) which they do nothing about. It's a trivial data hygiene problem to note that, e.g., if an activity is marked as "running" and the average speed is 20mph+ over an hour, that's bullshit.
The motorcycling round-trip algorithm is quite crude, it relies on a user to pick a heading and then points N points in a circle on that heading and builds a route between them. It does not take into account any features of the map (e.g. forests, rivers, obstructions, etc). It's sufficient for longer distances though, but struggles on shorter distances.
My project isn't open source yet, but I hope to make it so if/when I finish it!
Strava's more recent "draw your route" feature is quite cool, but again it requires that you know the area and does not take into account the features of the land.
That said, the app would timeout if I tried to build a route over 15km long. Also, it doesn't seem to prefer scenic routes - it has me running on busy streets in London when there's the Thames very close by.
Although it appears you have to create an ImagineRun account to use it which means this goes straight into the "nope" bucket for me.
This is likely my last database kernel design. I can’t think of many ways to materially improve the algorithms and design, and there are some other computer science research domains I previously went deep on that I want to get back to once I am finished with this.
The storage engine is extremely fast but the only unusual capabilities it has are architectural: the ability to continuously, in the background, reshard data (many tens of thousands of times per second per inexpensive server) and shift shards between storage engines. If you think about it, all this really requires from a storage engine is the ability to concurrently create and destroy logical files at an extremely high rate, much higher than a typical file/operating system allows. Some of the internal algorithms are novel but it is still just a storage engine. It is tuned for petabyte storage densities per server -- it was originally designed for exabyte-scale sensor data models.
None of my database work has ever been open sourced AFAIK, though many companies have older designs. The biggest practical hurdle to open sourcing is that it would require many man-months of tedious unpaid work and I have zero desire to do that. It is also a production-grade research project; I currently have no obligation, explicit or implied, to maintain any kind of compatibility if I feel like redesigning some aspect of it. That said, I also want to get away from the current reality that every company wants someone to build their own slight variation of these designs.
Perhaps some of the companies have done conference talks on the systems built on top of your research?
"There is virtually no literature on practical representations of topological spaces, never mind parallel algorithms using those representations. A thorough exposition of both the theory and practice is on the order of a few hundred pages of dense technical literature that no one has had time to write, despite multiple implementations. Watch this space." - October 2015, J. Andrew Rogers.
I emailed you back in 2016 to inquire about your work and wondered what had become of SpaceCurve. (Thank you for replying!) You mentioned recent work then on a "modality architecture." Is that related to the work you mentioned in your post above?
Obviously, you're a busy man with a desire and the potential to change the world with your creations. But perhaps also a drive to withhold your creations from public display until only after you have them distilled to their purest elegance?
If it is your intention to eventually share, I encourage you to do the world a great favor and just share what you've got so far (with a "no guarantees; no support" reminder in your README), even if some corners are unpolished, inscrutable, or built on shifting ideas. With an appropriate license, you'll at least get the benefit of easily taking bits of your implementations with you between projects, even without supporting anyone else who consumes it.
Do you have any peers who are familiar enough and excited about your work to start writing up some posts laying out the conceptual ground-work? Have there been any relevant research papers or books published that would be foundational to understanding? Maybe start with links to those? I'd devour them!
On the other hand, perhaps you are motivated not to share, while your skills are highly marketable due to near exclusivity? If so, I certainly don't begrudge you that! And like you said, you have no obligations. :)
"You see this in markets like databases, where open source has captured almost the entire market for undifferentiated capabilities, and there is a lucrative high-end market with unique product capabilities that don't exist in open source or CS literature. The trend toward treating CS research as trade secrets, originally started because algorithm patents were impractical to enforce, turned out to be effective at maintaining profitability in high-end software products if open source can't replicate capability."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20196610
Ah drat, apparently my fears are confirmed. If you should someday have enough money and not enough fame, I'll be eagerly looking forward to hearing the lessons you're willing to share.
I've also started a small project [2] where I'm posting photos of local flour mills built before WW2. I find them very interesting from an industrial-architectural point of view and by image-documenting as many of them as I can I hope that somehow these buildings will stir the interest of people with some more influence than me when it comes to architectural preservation so that maybe not that many of them will be teared down. I suspect this will be an "on-going project" for quite some time, as until now I've only taken photos of about 30 of these mills, while I counted 500+ still existing in the whole country (mostly using Google Maps/StreetView + Google Image searches + some old topographic maps).
In my part of the world people pay a higher price for 2nd-hand Toyota Hilux 4x4's from the 90's then they do for the more modern versions for just this reason.
Most recently I've been training acoustic models and writing a user frontend for the wav2letter++ [2] speech recognition engine, and porting Talon from Mac to cross-platform.
I will follow along.
The idea is to bring together space scientists (domain experts) and machine learning researchers to try and make a meaningful contribution to the field in a very short period of time. It's a lot of fun, and a really interesting mix of people taking part.
We've just finished week two, which means we're narrowing down our ideas and are about to start the "real work". We're split into teams working on different challenge areas (you can read more on the site). While I can't say much about what we're doing specifically, the outputs from the teams are usually published after the event at conferences/in journals.
There is an analogous program in the USA (NASA FDL) which is running in parallel.
(and who knows, I'm pretty sure there are some other FDL'rs who read HN ;))
A bunch of people I know are involved in the Australian space industry and a separate bunch are involved in machine learning research.
Here in Adelaide we have the new Space Agency and the SmartSat CRC and the Australian Institute for Machine Learning and the new Australian MIT Lab and the new startup hub in the same compound (a former hospital) so I'm really hoping we see similar programs.
I want VR reconstructions that don't lack details to be feasible for <1k$/acre flat area, not counting someone steering the camera. -
Places need to be archived like the rest of our culture.
[Current sub-part:]
I'm figuring out how https://www.gcc.tu-darmstadt.de/home/proj/tsr/tsr.en.jsp can be combined with https://igl.ethz.ch/projects/instant-meshes/ to get better meshes (with less wasted vertices) and also how this can be made to scale Out-of-Core or on a HPC cluster (the kind with lots of RDMA interconnect bandwidth and low latency).
AMA (I won't respond for a few hours)
Contact jcims-hn-reconstruction on d10.pw (beware of the digits in the domain) and I'll get you a sample result, if you're interested. Email should work ;)
Depending on how you take those shots/arrange for them there might be tricks to get (closer to) certain goals.
Feel free to mail me some questions regarding the shots/arrangements you mention.
What's your experience on this?
We recorded a video from a drone, split it into frames, and built the mesh using those frames.
When drone is competently flown it creates a nice stripe of overlapping frames - and overlapping stripes(i don't know proper technical english translation for that term) of overlapping imaginery are basis of aerial photogrammetry.
Worst case - you can keep every n-th photo, or use some more intelligent approach and select the frames based on contrast, and other parameters.
Usually gathering data is the expensive part - in photogrammetry you try to take as much imaginery as possible - especially in traditional aerial photogrammetry.
Existing software makes hand-picked pictures worthwhile, but I want full-auto behavior.
Near-term I want a construction worker to open the case with the hardware after cleaning his hands, and then showing all insides of the building to the camera, before swapping the storage and getting the data physically back to base for processing.
Also, video capture gets you continuity of motion. Unordered picture collections are horribly expensive to compute with.
I also prefer redundancy to holes in my textures or models ;)
My drone swirls around the buildings, btw. I want VR for walking, not google earth.
But indeed, if that works with a video, that's might be easier to use.
You're talking about imu data, do you do geo-referencing also? It might be difficult having a GNSS fix if your target is inside buildings.
Remember, the exposure has to be short due to motion blur.
Concepts of resonant rotating camera heads that use torsion springs and electronically controlled clutches with a torsion oscillator that advances the camera in a few milliseconds were made, but apart from an ability to capture ~1 Gpixel effective 360° data in 2 seconds (there is overlap due to covering the sphere with rectangles and not changing the horizontal number of images per revolution (oscillation frequency) to reduce overlap at nadir and zenit), the benefits were considered insufficient to warrant more time on it before I actually _have_ the camera. And I'll probably have an fpga that is too bulky to oscillate with it, so I need fatigue-resistant cabling for the 64 + 2 clocks high-speed LVDS lanes between them.
You can get e.g. the Blackmagic pocket cinema 4k that writes 30fps DCI4k DNG with an electronic global shutter to an USB-C SSD.
I have no plans to rely on magnetic field sensors or GNSS. I plan to fuse bundle adjustment with constraints from the raw sensor data. Offset and drift correction for both will be done there, and thus I don't get the typical drift-off issues from cumulating a sensor offset.
I _do_ plan to allow fixing feature markers in space, to handle geo-referencing and potential un-curling at the same time. (Depending on lens distortion you get variously strong tendencies for the area you scan to either reconstruct as a small hollow earth or a small spherical earth (in both cases the average surface curvature radius is up to a few km at most, often even less).)
And with video data the initial SfM isn't nearly as expensive as with unstructured picture collections, and it's even cheaper if you get accelerometer and gyroscope data from the camera to initialize the motion recovery part and help feature matching to skip known-not-overlapping views.
You actually only use ~10 to ~40 degree view angles for depth map reconstruction, because of occlusion and texture distortion degrading results at high angles.
Wanting to build an MMORPG was the main thing that got me interested in software development over a decade ago, so it's been nice to be able to work on this hobby project again.
I built something similar on google app engine way back when it was new and cheap. It was browser based so more text than cool graphics. And I didn't get to play with shaders.
It may sound dry but I was thrilled with the challenges of coding for NoSQL BigTable and its promises of cheap scalability. It was a fun project.
It's why I'm making an open source engine instead of focusing on making a single game - I can work on whatever tech problem I find interesting at the moment, and eventually (I hope) others who are more interested in the creative side will be able to build off of the engine and create their own games. My first run-in with MMOs was back in the day when there were lots of random MMO engines written in Visual Basic 6, and the indie MMO community back in those days was amazing.
I am somewhat surprised how there are no modern 2D MMORPGs. It seems like it should be inherently easier to develop those, but there is nothing. I think it's a pity because simpler engine / graphics should allows for more resources to be spent on other areas regarding the gameplay.
Maybe those games just aren't popular enough to justify the development in comparison to bland but flashy 3D games..
About ~ 15 years ago there were quite a few 2D MMO engines freely available, mostly written in VB6. The two big ones were ORE (a very basic FOSS project that didn't support much beyond logging in and walking around) and the Mirage family of engines (closed source, but was licensed and forked quite a few times, most notably into the Playerworlds engine). The various Mirage engines, especially Playerworlds, really lowered the barrier to creating MMOs, and consequently there were quite a few indie "MMOs" with userbases of ~ 50 - 100 regular players.
I know of at least one other FOSS engine project out there (Lunar Engine, which is much further along than my own) besides mine. My hope is that if a few easy-to-use engines are made available and promoted well, another community will form around these 2D indie MMOs. So we'll see what happens.
I decided to make my first print about rubber duck debugging. I had a lot of fun rendering a crazy hatch-mark pixelated rubber duck, but I keep going back and forth on the final layout and composition. I spent an alarming amount of time this week doodling thumbnails of ducks with different abstract backgrounds.
You can see some of my stuff here :) http://amydyer.art/wp/index.php/portfolio/technology/
All meeting management apps I found assume participants always get calendar invites, which I found to just not be the case.
So I wrote a small web app that uses qr codes to allow participants in meetings and workshops to introduce themselves, using their phones, on the spot and in a way that persists: https://quickintro.app
I thought I’d be laughed out of the room first time I asked a room full of people to “check in” by scanning a qr code and filling out a form, but no. It worked. So now I’m releasing it for others who might need it.
I'm in the process of creating a few meetings in QuickIntro and keep hitting the error of "[object Object]" when trying to save or "Create meeting."
Any guidance on a fix?
What a FANTASTIC site you are building. Beautiful design and usefulness.
Have you posted to r/investing? Quite an active community.
Congratulations.
It's a proposed classifier algorithm that is suppose to be better than Random Forest and XGBoost for classifying high dimensional data. The data sets are cancer data (prostate and myeloma). Unfortunately it's not going to be publish because I'd like to graduate sooner and that the software does not meet certain criteria for the journal we were aiming for.
The proposed algorithm uses two technique:
1. My forest consist of GUIDE decision trees by Dr. Loh. It is better than CART and M4.5 and such because it does not have the selection bias problem. CART and M4.5 are bias to selecting categorical predictor for node splitting. They're also bias on variables that enable more splitting so decision trees usually contain more levels. GUIDE is also aim at finding interactions candidate to split if it is statistically significant.
2. CERP by Dr. Moon. It makes the trees within the forest less correlated among each other. Much more so than Random Forest. Accuracy takes a hit as your correlation gets higher (obviously zero is the best). It also enabled ensemble of ensembles (ensemble of forests). Of course some of you may state that you can do ensemble of random forests but it is naive and won't help you.
I should be defending in this month or next month.
Not until my advisor okay my paper. He wants to see it first.
> Can your approach be used to do feature segmentation of 3D (triangle mesh) data?
Sorry, I have no clue what this mean so I don't think this is my area of expertise nor can I answer this properly. I'm an master student for applied statistic, this seems to be a computer science machine learning question?
I can point toward papers regarding either GUIDE or CERP if you like.
GUIDE definitive paper: http://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~loh/treeprogs/guide/aoas260.pdf
All other papers on GUIDE: http://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~loh/guide.html
CT CERP: http://www.ams.sunysb.edu/~hahn/psfile/aiim_moon.pdf
Took us a long time to work through the practicalities (think driving motorbikes over rickety bamboo bridges to get to a school who has a shipping container of paper records). Very traditional industry. But doing quite good now, well over 100 schools. And we really help them, which is pretty cool. Maybe the first time ive worked on something that is genuinely productive.
Also, its given me a newfound respect for people who work in education, what we in other industries do daily really does pale in comparison:
- We find it hard to manage teams of actual professionals getting paid to be there. They have to manage thousands of kids who would rather be doing something else. And their parents, who arent easy "users" to deal with (to put it mildly)
- We measure most of our KPIs live. For them, it can take 15 years to measure the impact (graduate employment rates, salaries). Such a ridiculously long timeframe.
And of course theres the compensation. How you can stay motivated given all of that is insane. But they do. Met some genuinely great people.
As others have said, don't be so hard on yourself: that you're teaching yourself useful stuff is the opposite of zero productivity. In fact, you're probably learning faster than if you were doing it while employed.
My best suggestion is that your local library will likely allow you to download an app such as Libby that will allow you to listen to audiobooks for free. During my downtime, nothing has brought me more respite from my depression than listening to - no joke - about 200 books. I alternate between sci-fi and non-fiction. I never would have imagined myself a listener, but I was very wrong.
Just put your routine in a FOR-loop and grind for increased STRength and STAmina stats lol
Active VR games are a legitimate cardio workout. Sites like https://www.vrfitnessinsider.com/reviews/ have real data if you don't believe me.
As for duration, I've seen people (including myself) happily play Beat Saber for hours who don't last 10 miserable minutes on a treadmill.
Off the top of my head: Certain oils are pertinent -- some should be avoided, others sought out -- and iron deficiency can cause depression.
I really enjoy the challenge of learning to do something that isn't one of my natural talents. As a programmer, obviously, I would be better suited to learning music but I've always wanted to draw.
Becoming an artist as a part time job outside of writing code has been a journey into time management, budgeting and discipline. It's taken me a lot of work to get to a place where I create art on a regular basis.
Learning how to be creative is utterly different than building software. Even though building software is an intensly creative job, making art requires turning off a massive portion of your brain. You have to just let things flow.
I do not use any generative software in the creation of art. It's just me. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_gqSQAdcu/
The result: https://github.com/typesense/typesense
It took me over 3 years to get the nuts and bolts right. It's now production ready and being used in quite a few production environments. Of course, there is more work to do and so it's still actively being worked upon.
It started as a challenge to learn German, and now it's spiraled into going to polyglot conferences and doing "learning challenges".
Right now, my main focus is on Swedish, but I've joined a 3-month language challenge, where I'm trying to learn as much of Inuktitut as I can.
Since 2 weeks ago, I study most days on Twitch as personal motivation; I think most people would find this boring, but I've had a few people show up semi-regularly, so here's the link if that's something that floats your boat: https://www.twitch.tv/letsstudylanguages/
Thanks for the reminder re: language learners forum ... I was on there a year or two ago. I'll make sure to check it out again and try to stay active! :D The polyglot community is such a cool group of eclectic people.
How do you manage all your life sustaining activities after work?
I usually go out with coworkers on Friday evenings and on Saturdays/Sundays I find myself at a local brewery or event with friends. Certainly not out drinking every night.
There was definitely a conscious decision to prioritize this learning time and turn it into a routine. It also didn't happen all at once... it started at 45 min a day, then 90ish, etc.; I invested more as I saw the return on investment piling up. There's certainly days where I get little to no studying done and others where I get loads, but I try to get a minimum in.
At the beginning, I'd mostly just got tired of telling myself "someday" and registered for a class. From there it's kinda snowballed. Once I found out there were other people doing this and that they had meetups and conferences, it was that much more motivating to spend time on.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/snipcss/hbdnoadcma...
The current version is a Chrome Extension that extracts every CSS rule needed to rebuild the DOM subtree of a selected element. Unlike other tools it never uses computed styles and uses the actual DevTools protocol to get the CSS. The current extension doesn't handle CSS specificity or inheritance correctly, so I'm waiting until I fix those things before promoting it. Actually this comment is the first time I've told anyone about it.
Please do this. Is there a waitlist? If not, please make it so. :)
Eventually it would be cool to automatically create React/Vue templates but that's getting ahead of myself. For now I'd be happy if it just extracts the correct styles 99% of the time. Currently it's 80% there, but the last 20% is always the hardest.
You might want to lock this down.
Also: take my money, please.
The homepage doesn't have a link to the pricing page so I didn't think anyone would find that. I'll let you know when it's ready!
I loved the little animation with the critter coming to inspect the DOM element, but as of right now the plugin doesn't seem to actually do anything. It doesn't appear to emit any css nor is my css being transmitted to the site. It could well be that you're between iterations, but right now if I didn't know you were working on it, I'd be tempted to remove it.
I haven't had it crash in a while where it produces nothing while snipping. Maybe you found a new way to crash it. What if you try it on this site? (HackerNews as a test)
Also your Chrome version and OS might help me debug it.
Running Chrome 74 on Ubuntu
Can this do media queries? eg if I have 5 responsive ranges, do I have to snip 5 times or is it smart enough to grab all of it?
It will be smart enough to grab everything but I'm still working out the issues. The extension version only runs once, but for the desktop version it has a list of Device Resolutions to run through (typical Desktop, iPad, Mobile is default) and for the extra resolutions adds more styles to the list of rules by iterating through all the elements again. That seems to get almost all media queries so hopefully I can release that soon.
The desktop version uses puppeteer so I do force a hover state on each element and get extra psuedo selectors by doing that. I'm also planning to add something so you can interact with the page first to get the page in the state you want, because right now the selection process cancels all other events (you select something by clicking).
One of the first difficult issues that I ran into was that I had to modify CSS selectors to target the subtree. For example let's say there is a selector:
#mysidebar #atable tr
Now I only want to Snip/Extract the #atable element. I have to modify the selector by chopping off #mysidebar because the html I'm giving the user is just #atable and everything below that. The problem is modifying selectors like that ruins CSS specificity. That's just one example of how things became a lot more complicated than I originally thought it would be.
Common words give you little or no points, infrequent words give you points. You get bonus points when you write a sequence of words with points.
There is a leaderboard where you can compare your "skills" against other users and friends. Still need to implement a feature to segregate each leaderboard: general and friends.
The keyboard has realtime notifications and bidirectional communication with websockets, so you can know what other users are doing, this will be useful to have "death matches".
As you can see It's an experimental App. Currently is available on the Appstore (since last week) but I didn't promote it yet, I'm looking for users to iterate it more :) and crush few bugs along the way.
We don't sell information, nor we plan to use Ads, because of that there is a pay subscription.
Anyhow every time you need to type something sensitive you can disable or switch to iPhone's native keyboard and go back whenever you are ready to play again :). (by Apple's design 3rd party keyboard get disabled when typing on a sensitive/password/etc input)
I reflected early this week during Canada Day fireworks that I have literally everything I wanted out of life. Now I just have to learn how to live in the moment and enjoy it all. That's proving to be a small struggle.
Of course, one can prioritize the projects, but find joy in other aspects of life once the little ones asleep.
Trying to get back into a side project though, mainly because I'm feeling the itch.
With two children, you can have a hobby once in a blue moon.
Dont want to quit on either but learning to separate both.
"Show me podcasts about architecture that are less than an hour long."
"Show me books about abstract algebra that are visual."
"Show me MOOCs on machine-learning that are challenging."
Just last week, I released browser add-ons for Chrome/Brave/Firefox to make it super easy to use. Eventually, we'll implement unidirectional relationships so you see recommendations only from people you trust/admire.
I quit my job in January this year with no business but the thought that I must start, I can't work jobs anymore.
I built and marketed a simple micro-saas for Shopify ecosystem together with my co-founder. He handles tech, I do design and marketing. We both do customer support. App was launched on April 24.
June was my first month of revenue and we hit ~$450 MRR which I'm very happy about. Expecting large churn figures though.
This is the app -- https://apps.shopify.com/whatsapp-chat-button
Here's a post I wrote a month back chronicling the journey thus far -- https://www.preetamnath.com/blog/shopify-micro-saas-growth
Currently I'm learning how to code (Frontend, React) so that I can contribute to the app development, as currently our biggest bottleneck is development speed of new features.
- I will complete the final level of a beginner's Sanskrit course this August. This has been an intermittently executed project for me. I can follow uncomplicated spoken and written Sanskrit now, and can mostly understand Sanskrit at the level of Gita or the Indian epics. My long term aim is to be able to read Indian philosophical works in their original.
- I am teaching a few neighborhood kids Mathematics, Physics, and occasionally, Computer Science. This is immense fun!
- I am trying to learn at a deeper level some of the topics that I learned during my undergraduate studies. On this front, right now I am working on understanding operating systems and compilers a bit better.
I have audited a few introductory courses from vyoma samskrita pathashala (https://sanskritfromhome.in).
There's also the Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan in India (http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/) who have a two year introductory correspondence course. I believe they deliver overseas as well. I did the first year of their course with the help of a tutor I hired from urbanpro.com, but (as with all things GoI) I found the experience to be far less satisfactory than Samskritabharati's.
If you can read Hindi, you can also look at the school textbooks by NCERT as well, which are available for free (http://ncert.nic.in/textbook/textbook.htm)
Two "Western"-style books that I would recommend are:
* Devavanipravesika (An Introduction to the Sanskrit Language) by Robert Goldman
* Samskrita-SubodhinI (A Sanskrit Primer) by Madhav Deshpande.
One thing I want to do is to work through these books once I am done with Samskritabharati just to cement the things I have learnt.
The nice thing about Samskritabharati's course is that it doesn't just teach the language, but it also introduces you in a gentle (but unapologetic!) way to the whole tradition that flourished through it's medium. They also publish books in Sanskrit, which may also help you in your education.
Good luck!
Before I made this move, tinkering with Clojure and thinking about databases was just a hobby.
I wasn't around when Crux was initially designed and built, but my primary job so far as the product manager for Crux has been to figure out how we make the most of all the ingenuity and effort that's already gone into it. I also wear many additional hats at the moment: leading the development team, managing community interactions, speaking at events/conferences, creating the marketing, and working on sales & strategic partnerships.
This all keeps me incredibly busy but it is fun and it feels like the right thing for me to be working on and thinking about at this point in my life. I think of it like the perfect side-project that I am very fortunate to be able to work on all day long (and surrounded by excellent & talented people!).
Sounds like a cool passion project! Thanks.
Right now there is one dedicated server in Germany (AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 2950X with Hetzner) and all it does is display your IPv4 address, but once I am done it should work with both IPv4 and IPv6, and have servers around the globe to decrease latency as much as possible.
The API returns all data in plain text — or JSON/JSONP —, without any advertisements or extra data. Server has full disk encryption enabled and a no logging policy.
Usage is quite simple. There are no secrets here, just call the URL for the API and it should return the IP address of the machine you used to make the call.
Clear Text: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/
JSON: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/json/
JSONP: curl -s https://api.allonsip.sh/jsonp/
There are a few reasons for this, but it boils down to the need to improve my resume, as most of the work I done in previous companies are their propriety now. I also needed to get the public IP address of servers I deploy programmatically, and wanted to have control over how that was done, so I decided to turn it into a public project.
Since I did not want to reinvent the wheel and NGINX is so damn powerful, there was no need for anything other than pure NGINX.
It was a for-profit side-project, but since I moved to another country (following my wife's Masters) it became full-time.
If you lead a team and have 1:1s, take a look :)
let me know if you have any questions.
My idea is to create a tool that the manager uses, but also the team members use - and is actually more useful and actionable for the team members, helping them achieve their professional goals.
Currently, you can create "Long Term Goals" and "Short Term Commitments" for your team members. And they have their own account to check and edit their own Goals and Commitments.
What I am working on now is to create some sort of "Steps" to achieve a Goal and frequent "Status Updates" on how is it going. With it, email notifications - sent to the Team Members - so they report their status updates.
Future integration with Slack for those notifications is in the plan too.
EDIT: You (or anyone reading this) can contact me through the email on my profile
"Important dates" added to your calendar of choice would be neat.
Seemed like a good way to combine my interest in building software with my other interest in creating art.
I've been spinning off the various components needed to build it as separate rust crates: interesting ones are flo_curves, desync and flo_binding.
Anyway, I'm welcome to advice- if you want to check out the basic site, it's https://www.mendskin.co password: mendskin.
If you subscribe at the bottom (I'm a one man shop... I don't have the capacity to set up effective MailChimp campaigns, so you can trust me when I say I can't spam your inbox), I'll follow up with a personal hackernews offer once I launch.
A brand called “War Paint”, which I’m sure you’ve heard of, recently created some buzz and quickly attracted a lot of negative media. Did you learn anything from the negative feedback they received?
Basically, we code up apps that we hope will help promote veganism. In some cases, we lend engineering help to organizations that need something built (e.g. Meat The Victims, Rancher Advocacy, etc.).
Currently, I'm working on the website for Meat the Victims as well as a platform for education on the "why" and "how" of becoming vegan.
If anyone is interested, please reach out (my email is on the website under Gerard O'Neill). We're currently recruiting for experienced developers, ideally with PHP experience.
After being an evangelist at Twilio and running a number of my own meetups, I realized that that the biggest problem most groups had was getting the word out. This pulls data from Meetup, Eventbrite, and other places, uses some light ML to choose hashtags, company names, etc, and then tweets the day before and about a week before a given event. There's also a weekly pre-cap email that goes out.
If you're running a tech event in a major city in the US, we help you get the word out.
If you're near a major city in the US - or even just visiting - you can find out what's going on.
* We explicitly exclude job fairs, etc to make it SFW.
We help product teams centralize their customer feedback from tools like Intercom, Help Scout, and Slack, and then use it to make data-driven decisions about what features to build.
My business partner and I have sold two SaaS businesses (we started one and bought the other). Savio is our third. It was born from the frustrations we had at the first two. We'd get lots of customer feedback from support, sales, customer calls, surveys, chat, etc. But we never had a good process or tool to keep track of it and use it in a way that gave us confidence we were building the right features.
We soft launched a few months ago and are very much figuring out positioning, feature set, acquisition, activation... the whole shooting match.
Customer funding as we did with the previous two businesses. We like optionality!
Would like to connect and discuss my idea!
I've also been sporadically recording podcasts on topics near and dear to my heart—learning, mental models, code and bootstrapping.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/code-and-bootstrapping...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learning-machine/id144...
I’ve been working on this on the side for awhile and hope to launch an MVP by the end of the month. I transitioned to full time on the product 2 months ago and I’ hoping to make money by providing domain specific visual programming products. I’m currently thinking about a visual build system for example.
I'm making videos to track my progress (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ytq5cTCDE) and creating tools to accelerate the learning process.
Some examples:
- Chord Bunny (to learn chord transitions): https://dkthehuman.com/chord-bunny/
- Interval Trainer (to learn intervals by ear): https://dkthehuman.com/interval-trainer
I do intend to learn synths but not now since I don't want to spread myself too thin (the trap I usually fall into).
Less dreadful answer: Professionally I'm working on an Open data portal based on the python library CKAN for the University of Manitoba. Money isn't brilliant, but it's satisfying and has some odd challenges. In the upcoming month I'm taking an academic trip to Norway to explore undergrad thesis opportunities in the areas of Neural Networks and Remote Sensing, to which I'll hopefully be playing around with before-hand.
This was my weekend project but I'm still working on it in my spare time.
The concept is simple: All news stories have a ticking timer. After it expires the news story is gone forever. There is also a clear now button at the bottom that destroys all the stories on the screen if you want to binge even faster.
Once the story goes away, it's gone forever. You will never see it again! So it's like the HN homepage that never shows you the same story twice.
Made with Vuejs and hosted on Aws lambda (serverless)
There aren't many options because I just uploaded the first version and everything is still pretty rough. It's just a concept site I made for my own amusement :)
I wish to resurrect the "spirit" of the fox/dbase family where operate on data was much more natural. This lang also mix some ideas of array langs like kdb+.
If my bet is correct, this will erase the need of ORMs yet make it work as easy.
Is build on rust, a lang I also learning along the way (making it even MORE slow to progress!!!) but I start to get the gist of it.
Also working on a DataScience crash course with basic statistics, R, Python (Basics), Dataviz and webscraping (for journalists, biologists - for everybody).
Last, but not least, we have a music's group that is doing some visual + electroacoustic music (using supercollider and instruments). Our next step is to use Arduino and some other stuff.
resumes pretty much it.
(help wanted `:D )
It features:
* master/slave paradigm
* public + private key encryption
* XOR ciphers
* hardware tokens
* server-side validation
* .NET obfuscation
* Themida/WinLicense DLL packing/obfuscation
* Debugger detection
Car tuning is an industry where if your car costs $60k, tuners can charge you $999. If your car costs $120k, they know you are a wealthier client, so they blatantly charge you $3k for the same amount of effort on their end. Gross.
I'm a solo developer and find it gratifying to set aside a half hour at the end of each week to write down what I did. Otherwise all the work just becomes a blur. I wrote a longer blog post about the motivation behind it here: https://mtlynch.io/status-updates-to-nobody/
(forgot to add the link!)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-t...
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I can't find the link you're referring to. Did you mean to add a link to the bottom of your post?
I would like to revive it. However, i want the information in there (the lessons learned this week) to be less project/issue specific, but more transcending and transferable to new problems/environments.
Do you have a set of questions you pose yourself whose answers guide the write-up and make it a worthwhile knowledge vault?
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Not sure if I expressed myself in a coherent way.
The time when I do deeper reflection is when I write my monthly retrospectives. [2] I don't have a standard set of questions that I ask myself, but that's a good idea. My method so far has been to state what lessons I learned, evaluate how I did against my goals for the month, and define goals for the subsequent month.
The documentation lags quite far behind the actual build (really need to update these pages...) but can be found at https://johnvidler.co.uk/mechanical-engineering/electric-mot... if you're interested.
It is close to be a niche but solid product. I can reproduce with it a reasonable amount of the pixel-art I see daily. I am currently writing the tutorials for it.
https://lbarret.itch.io/rectitude
The underlying engine is a restricted functional language and the architecture is based on streams of values. I am quite proud of the architecture because so far, I had very little accidental complexity to manage and that's key for me to stay motivated/productive on the project.
I've been doing that since late 2014 though, so recently I'm trying a new tack to free up some time for myself: I've been building a little desktop utility with three.js + Electron + Rust, that I'm going to sell in the Microsoft store (eventually elsewhere too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ANWHLvARM
I'll start beta testing in about a week--definitely excited :D I'll probably do a write-up of the project and post it here as well.
Edit: just fyi, 'Lucid Disk' is a placeholder name (my bigger debugger project I mentioned is called 'Lucidity').
Here we are many months later and I'm finally starting to be pretty happy with the results. It's taken many iterations, but it is quite effective from a usability perspective now.
I'm starting to put a little thought into what other kinds of hierarchical data it might be useful for exploring...
The dolphin could be included in the Premium Version.
Don't get me wrong: I understand that the ultimate output of a 3D mesh reshaping and painting process is an obj + jpg + mapping file, as I've worked extensively with systems that output files like this: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/pete-swagger-walk-a55d807de1...
We did all of the image packing ourselves, but every tool I've used will output a map based on its own algorithm.
So, given that my process is admittedly very different than a character artist, where does the UV unwrapping stage come in for most artists? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
A 3D artist usually starts by doing the 3D shape, then they create the UV unwrap, and then finally they paint the 3D model in a 3D paint program. Yes its sort of a invisible part of 3D graphics, but its very tedious, and therefor costly and doesn't contribute anything to the artistic to the asset.
A big part of automating the process, is also using it ins situations where no artist is even involved in the process, like when you do 3D scanning, and want to produce good 3D models with textures.
It's very useful with kernel-tls or multi-process web servers, to handle no key at all in the worker thread itself or shard processes by something only known after connection establishment, like the HTTP Host header or tls SNI.
Other aggregators exist, but often have commercial ties, paid listings, and such. We're building something to give shelters a really nice website, and native apps, to list their animals, as a free public service :)
There are many icon packs out there but they are almost all static. You can help users by communicating additional meaning using an animated icon. I think this is a gap in the icon market landscape.
It is still early days so any feedback would be appreciated!
There are a lot of kanban tools out there and I'm not sure people will sign up if there isn't some screenshot that looks compelling. (and not just generic images)
It is an Android application called StreetComplete.
Minimal user requirements are following:
Person who can - read and write - use smartphone - use maps
Obviously, there are still many things to improve.
Edit: think in trees, weatherproofed with solar panels
Power HARVESTING and having a downtime/idle hours is key in my experience.
I like the Banana Pi Pro because it has onboard wireless and two camera channels built in. People often get third party bolt-ons that further complicate power consumption issues.
I'm working on Grid engine 9, which should release some big improvements to out-of-the-box multiplayer support. It's the only source code-based Lua game engine that I know of with first-class multiplayer support that has a dogfood project. Everything else out there is roll-your-own w/ LuaSockets. I've been writing it for the last few years due to not being able to find a solution that fit my needs.
There's one method, 'run', that takes a simple data structure that is the test suite. No need for special setup, teardown etc methods when you have objects and closures already. It can automatically run on the browser after webpack is done rebuilding, so it's good for running tests on phones.
I'm refactoring it now so it works on the console for server side stuff as well. I think I will release, but I will keep using it myself regardless of if anyone else cares because it works so well for me.
Basically, the site is just a listing of content creators that accept tips in the form of Basic Attention Token sent through the Brave browser
I'm pretty happy with the project and the site is getting some decent traffic (https://simpleanalytics.com/batgrowth.com), but I think the current UI/UX is not good enough
This is the draft for the next version (The texts are placeholders, it's just a UI/UX draft) :
https://twitter.com/MaxenceCornet/status/1144929703058399232
EDIT: Direct links to the draft:
Now, if I can only figure out what that is. Embedded development for medical devices, maybe?
I try and limit my exposure to too much web dev crazy ness, usually by avoiding any 'framework' that requires its own command line tool.
I hope to find time and tech to advance for me to help the dumpster fire: if you see projects like GuiLite it definitely is possible to make things efficient and solid. So that is me hoping for enough advances in webassembly.
For now, embedded I find a lot more fun.
There are so many ways you can improve on existing CI if you integrate deeply with a specific language. You can cache test results for packages whose source code hasn't changed; you can run a specific test n times; you can run a benchmark and block a merge if the geomean regressed; you can run a linter and suggest it's fixes in GitHub comments; etc.
It's a little bizarre to me that existing CIs don't even bother to parse the test output and display it nicely. Go has a -json flag that makes the test output dead-simple to consume, but it's certainly not infeasible for other languages. Wouldn't it be cool to see individual histories for each test, showing how many times they've failed, or how much total time has been spent executing them?
So my goal is to make a Go-specific CI that's 10x better than existing language-agnostic CIs, and then shop it around to high-profile Go projects. Those developers would also make for ideal contributors, so hopefully I can source some external contributions that way too.
- Open issues in the review for compiler / lint / format errors - Gather coverage per test and use that to determine which tests are needed for a given change
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KcLz3yAqqyI
And my volumetric lightning effect too
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DdUve22wlvg
(Both on the unity asset store as “physics based flames” and “physics based lightning”)
Check out www.findsourcing.com to learn more. We believe we can be a magnitude better on all metrics (time, cost, effort, quality) and believe in transparency and opening up this industry which still work by handshakes (if you don't know the right people you are screwed).
At the moment it tests GraphQL queries at given intervals, but I've been struggling to find people (other than me) who need the service.
I'm building AntEater (www.anteateranalytics.com) with my team to bridge this gap and empower everyone who uses Gmail and Slack to be more knowledgeable - and as smart as the entire team, using AI. This is a radical shift in terms of information flow in organizations but I truly believe a more transparent workflow will lead to less work and less frustrations.
You can check out the project here - it's free for small teams https://try.anteateranalytics.com/
[1] https://twitter.com/girlie_mac/status/1143693961069916161
I want to really allow everyone to see first-hand the impact of re-writing queries to be more performant and adding the right indexes so I've been spending a lot of time to create great exercises where you get to optimise poorly performing queries over some very large and interesting data sets.
I launched the course on HN a bit over a week ago and had a really great response (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20260292) so has been great motivation to continue working hard! Really enjoying myself at the moment.
The site is ready for people to start designing tickets with live preview and helpers (although still need to fill in a lot of info bubbles), and you can order as well. Still a few things I'd like to fix up/improve before I really launch it.
The site won't really make much money, it's made to be cheap and affordable and to help out fellow stub collectors who hate having missing tickets in their collections due to loss, having bought at the door, or only having the option of digital or print-at-home tickets.
Would love feedback!
[1] http://www.delayinsensitive.com
I feel most of the newsletters that aggregate stories and articles have too links. The reader gets overwhelm with what to read and what to skip.
I am taking a different strategy and aggregating only four links per week. The reader could quickly scan the four links. If any of them is interesting, click and read. Otherwise, hit the delete and move on for the day. I don't want to reader to be captive if he finds the links do no add value for them. Their time is to valuable and I respect that.
Also I am using this side project as motivation to consume the various articles for my day job.
It's a rapid development web framework written in newLISP, with inspiration (and many many ideas) taken from Dragonfly.
I had stopped working on it for a few years while I worked on other projects, but I wanted to make a new and updated personal website, so I've updated the framework to also include a basic blog with comments and a discussion forum, and some simple customization options for administrators.
Eating my own dogfood (as it were) has been an interesting and fun experience. I now have three sites running on the latest version of Rockets 2.0.
I really missed working with LISP and it's a lot of fun to get back to it!
We're upto 460TB of data being transferred, :)
Until it gets to about 32TB of used storage it won't cost me anything, and at the current rate of growth that is going to take decades.
I’m working on a podcast community site to give a place for listeners to get together and connect.
It’s not too far along but the basics are there, feel free to check it out/give me feedback:
I'm a very visual person and for a long time wished there was a browseable map of interesting places to visit and things to see and do when planning backpacking trips. I couldn't find anything that quite did what I wanted so thought I'd have a go myself.
The data itself is sourced from a combination of Wikivoyage and Wikipedia. The biggest features I'm looking to develop next are search and a way to leave reviews/comments on places and listings.
Still very early days but would love to hear any feedback.
Automatically analyze online content for credibility.
Barebones alpha launch last night, 4 July 2019 :)
Improve credibility in social networks. Long term plan is to detect when social shares are trending upwards, analyze the shared articles' contents, and submit an automated reports into threads.
Currently the heavy lifting of the system is done via fakebox, supported by a small suite of services you can see in the docker compose configurations. https://github.com/dino-dna/informed-citizen
I'd love for others to get involved and help out!
Only the reddit-like portion of the site is ready right now, but there will be new tools released soon that will make the discovery of new sites trivial. It has been really fun to make, and I really look forward to making a Show HN post when it's ready for a growth phase.
My side-project is Classient.com, a class booking system / marketplace. My wife has been using it for several months now to teach a weekly class to kids in the neighborhood. A class could be simply watching kids and keeping them entertained (group baby-sitting) so no formal teaching experience is required:
I keep running head first into terms I’ve only loosely heard before and having to wander off to find out what they mean before coming back, it’s been absolutely fascinating though.
It's a self-hosted one command deployment tool that makes running CD to your own VPS quite trivial.
Current version allows to deploy any dockerized apps quite easily, but I really wanted to have a simple way to deploy Node.js functions (be it HTTP, background process, or trigger/reaction). So Exoframe v5 includes is exactly that (and nearly ready!).
Create index.js, run `exoframe init -f` and then `exoframe` is all it'll take to deploy a function once I'm done. I'm quite happy with the result :)
API has teams, users, roles, permissions, subscriptions and plans, following the paradigm that a user can belong to or own multiple teams and easily switch without logging out, users can be invited or request access to teams, admins can set and change features per plan... Etc...
The idea being minimal changes needed to go to market with an idea. Add a few services or features the 'what's it do' and everything else is ready to go.
It's an email forwarder that lets you hand out burner addresses so companies/sites don't have your real email address. Kopi supports replying to messages too - so you can have whole conversations without giving out your real address.
Not just useful for website signups etc. - it can also be part of a strategy for de-googling yourself.
You can re-direct specific mail forwarders to publish mail as an RSS feed (useful for Github, StackOverflow, etc.)
Just finished implementing "bring your own domain" functionality, so you don't have to be locked in to the Kopi domains.
It will be available in the form of a hands-free music controller supported on what we call the "neck unit" or on a variety of hand-held units of different fingering styles that we call "finger units".
Are there any videos of it in action?
It seemed crazy to me Redis was still single threaded in 2019. Sometimes the rationale was one thread was enough to saturate a machine (it is not). Other times it was justified by the fact that you could create a local cluster - but I thought that was needlessly complex. Eventually I went ahead and just did it.
The project has since expanded to include Active Replication and a bunch of other new features.
It has helped me reduce information overload, and allowed me to switch between tasks more efficiently - and I hope other people will find value in this as well.
It's an idea I've been toying with and prototyping in different forms on and off for about four years now.
I'm finally releasing an open Beta this summer/fall, as soon as I implement delta updates and the license validator.
The first is working with my friend on remote pair programming in service of levelling her up faster than would otherwise be possible for the average graduate of a coding bootcamp program. She got a job as a junior dev almost immediately out of the program, and I spend sometimes many hours a day screen sharing and talking through problems. It demands patience and good communication, but the results have been one of the most incredible investments I've ever made. It's also one of the most intimate connections I've ever experienced. We both have a ton of gratitude, and I've learned an amazing amount in the process.
I've also been working on my own Rails project, which I've been converting from ad hoc jQuery to Stimulus and Turbolinks. One of the things I've learned from working with my friend is that when it comes to the whole React/JS-for-everything ecosystem, the inmates are running the asylum. In this case, inmates are a critical mass of relatively new devs in an echo chamber that thinks React is the default choice for every project and have little practical experience to base this on. Sadly, Stimulus/Turbolinks is not the hipster choice and part of the problem is a lack of visible examples of how amazing these libraries actually are. I'm excited to publish a series of posts about how warm the water is on our side of the debate.
As far as tracking goes, I can't think of a need for it with my idea, but I know it's used a lot commercially already.
- Creating variants on the fly [1]
- WebGL shader composition [2]
- Plug n’ play wireless mesh devices for sensing and control
My goal is to properly test them with absurd interactive art projects :D
[1]: https://github.com/awfulaxolotl/tastes [2]: https://github.com/awfulaxolotl/lucida
In my spare time I write and research algorithmic trading strategies. I’ve been sticking to the traditional techniques, with a small toe into statistics for modeling.
With whatever time is left, I’ve been learning rust and have enjoyed it quite a bit so far.
We recently launched a Performance line of servers leveraging NVMe technology that boasts millions of IOPS and up to 6,400MB/s disk throughput, while still being 75% lower cost than what you would pay with at competitors.
Ever been to a bar where the music was too loud?
Wallfly is cruise control for sound. The sonic control system measures the ambient audio levels in every room using your device's microphone or Wallfly Sonic Sensor (coming Q4 2019) and modulates amplifier gain to keep the levels just right...because you can't tell someone you love them when they can't hear you.
A lot of the people in our office work from home on any given day. A joke emerged where we come up with funny alternative words for 'WFH', like 'Worshipping Foreign Horizons'. Anyway I quickly ran out of original combinations, so I made something to generate some. I figure there are probably others out there who would get a kick out of it.
I'm also spending quite a bit of time looking into the ability for these neural differential equations to understand phase space. What exactly do they learn, and why? Can you predict beforehand how well you can learn the equations directly from data? Of course, this is intertwined with the previous part, because to understand how well you can auto-learn neural SPDEs you need the ability to quickly solve neural SPDEs, along with all of the implicit solvers and GPU support.
On the side, I'm working on a feature documentary and I'm also exploring some ideas with a friend of mine who is a talented film director.
Most of my spare time is spent with my son and wife. I'm recovering from burnout and as part of the Scandinavian mindset I'm relearning how to have a healthy work life balance.
I'm building an IOS app that uses your food photos to create a social food diary, which when aggregated with posts from your friends, also creates this communal food brain of legit food. I call it friend-sourcing instead of crowd-sourcing.
An example use case is going to Tokyo and trying a bunch of ramen places. You take photos and upload the ones you like onto a geotagged list (called Tokyo Trip).
Your friends are going to Tokyo soon and ask you for ramen recommendations. Instead of creating a google map with pins or a long email lists with no pictures or geo-capabilities, you show/send them the list with the app and it will show them all your ramen photos on a map.
We want to help answer "What is the closest legit food my friends have tried around me?" wherever you are.
We are looking for beta test users and will be launching this year. You just have to love food and like telling your friends where they should go eat (like me). Feel free to reach out at weizou@legitlist.me
Here is the beta test link if anyone is interested: https://testflight.apple.com/join/3Ho5creV
Each chunk can be tagged and searchable (so that they’re easy to find), versioned (so there aren’t duplicates of the same information), and composable (so that they can be reused in different pieces/versions of training materials).
On a personal level, I have been doing a deep dive into the Napoleonic Wars, and spend most of my free time reading. I had an idea the other day to attempt to build some sort of battlefield/timeline visualizer using the newly realized Google Earth Studio. Has anybody used it for anything other than simple flyover animations?
Two years running, just crossed 5700 subscribers. MRR between $600 and $1000. Most successful thing I ever started and still love doing it. Kinda scary to have an “audience” of that size :)
Something similar to Zapier, but appropriate for heavy workloads, with separate dev & production environments, which handles throttling (you don't want to accidentally DDOS a third-party API) and doesn't structure an array of objects into arrays of their properties, etc
The goal is to be handle to handle all non-crud backend workflows.
It's quite challenging really.
The idea is to find a good model for predicting a time series given a set of other time series. Input is basically an excel file and output is a CSV file, expected to be delivered within a minute.
I mostly test it on power load and supply data but it should work on anything.
Also, it's free.
- The current medical application used in our hospital does not have a way to track if a case is a re-admission or not. This information is very important in surgery and urology. The doctors are using an excel file to track this information at the moment and we are building an app so that this information gets put into a database and will also later be integrated into the main medical system.
- Currently, students in radiology do not get very many chances to actually look at images to practice so we are building a crowdsourcing platform for radiology images. This will also be useful for interviewing or general practice for professionals.
On the side, I've been working on https://ewolo.fitness - a workout tracking app that also has running and weight tracking built-in. I found all existing solutions too gimmicky and annoying - a workout tracker should be as flexible as possible and let you add your data and get out of your way...
So that anyone could create a nice UI by drag’n’drop, without writting a single line of CSS. It also works as a design system, so companies can create their own component library quickly.
After 3 years of trial and error, finally getting really close to beta version.
I've actually had this same idea since grid is so flexible and the order of components don't matter for the container grid, so the structure of the HTML doesn't have to change by moving things around in a grid, just the CSS rules generated. Anyway good luck on launching the Beta version.
I present to you, the worst game in the entire world - https://www.lifepim.com/apps/LifeSIM/battle
It's a free, open source app with best practice advice on how activists/journalists/aid workers/travellers can learn about and manage their own digital and physical security.
It covers stuff like travel safety, staying safe at protests, dealing with arrest, surveillance, sending a secure mail or communication etc. Our background is working with activists and journalists to keep them safe, so we wanted an all-in-one guide for anyone who needs help. You can read more about it at https://www.secfirst.org or try it
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/umbrella-security/id14537153...
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.secfirst.u...
It keeps data in local storage and has an option to back it up to your dropbox account.
Nowhere as smooth and bug free as workflowy, but it was a fun experiment.
Warning - Has a lot of bugs in mobile. Leads of loss of data.
The idea is to be able to scan Android apps installed on your device and see which libraries/SDKs were used to develop them.
This feature will allow
1. to share notes using cloud of your choice 2. and so to access notes on mobiles and in browser.
More on this: https://notes.sciter.com/2019/06/28/note-sharing-is-coming/
It's stack-based, "concatinative" and Categorical. It's a little like Forth+LISP.
I had just implemented some type inference[2] when Warren's "Logic Programming and Compiler Writing" went by here on HN[4] and I got into a very rewarding Prolog rabbithole.
So now I'm writing a compiler in Prolog for Joy.
[2] http://joypy.osdn.io/notebooks/Types.html
[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220280364_Logic_Pro...
Original discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587992
At the moment it's just an application to create some reusable templates and snippets, and extend and share them with colleagues. My next step would be to create a browser extension that allows to easily injected the content from the application into other websites directly while typing (for example into any web email client, google docs, any website form, etc.).
The main benefits of the application would be to save time, reduce errors, and potentially to standardize a company's business communication thought a collective effort (document, template and snippet creation) where also employees that generally don't like to write emails can benefit (as a developer I find myself in this category).
Still in alpha, feedback is greatly appreciated: https://getlimpid.com
I am also currently working on my Master's in Cybersecurity and Info Assurance.
It's a drop in e-commerce system that allows people to start selling products on an existing site very quickly (a similar space as Snipcart).
Now just building out the marketing and wondering if anyone will want to use it.
I'm reading through all of TSR's D&D products in chronological order. Part of this project is to compile the most accurate chronological list on the net.
* Doing some IT work through field service platforms like Fieldnation. About to start writing some software to auto-bid on some preferred assignments while I sleep. ;) This is a more involved task than you might think because it involves parsing free-form text and data mining email notifications. These sites have an annoying habit of not notifying when an offer is declined. Many projects post a ton of boilerplate with some relevant text in the middle. It also has to figure out if the city is close enough to other assignments so I don't wind up driving 30+ miles. * Working on my main software project, but really not. * Working on a new project related to helping people work on their cars.
It feels like I am level capped at an RPG. I need to raise my programming skill, which I want to do right, so I want to raise my math skill.
2. Tool that shows an image of each field to the user and allows them to enter human readable prompts (title, description, input style).
3. A PWA that uses the prompts to help an end user complete the form, collects signatures, etc.
4. Add the ability to link/upload some tabular data and tie fields from the data source to fields on a PDF.
5. Communications—email a unique short link to somebody to request they complete a form, pre-filled with data.
6. Build an example web site that consumes 1-4 and shows off e.g. completing a legal contract. Notifications when a form is completed.
7. Multi-party forms
8. Start figuring out how to charge people and who to sell to, build more niche wrappers around the product, stand up an auth/billing service, etc.
Curious about your method, as the process (e.g. to detect the coordinate of the header/footer fields, etc) is very manual and specific for each PDF template. Do you happen to encounter the same challenge? If yes, how do solve it, use machine learning? heuristics? etc?
Together with a local friend; garden & home automation/security with Pi’s and Arduino’s.
The code is at a state now that I'm happy enough with (at least to prove the concept), but I realized that it is not as obvious to other people why a thing like it should exist than it has been to me.
I was working as programmer as well as a sys-admin-type years before DevOps became a thing, and I always thought there was something missing. We are automating a lot of stuff, but not up to the 'last mile', there is always some manual requirement install or preparation necessary. And I always thought that once we can wrap every single one of the tasks 'around' a software project into a re-usable, formalized structure, it would make a lot of things easier, and open up lots of possibilities that are hidden from our views for now.
Basically, I think we should be able to create any desired state in a specific computational environment (physical machine, VM, container, filesystem, infrastructure, ...) using a single instruction, and one (optional) dictionary-type structure for arguments. Be it trivial (like make sure a folder exists) or fairly involved (setup a complete Wordpress instance incl. reverse proxy, Letsencrypt cert, firewall, ...).
There are technologies that help with some of the issues I have (Docker, K8s, Terraform, config-management ...), but it feels like they all have a slightly off-target focus and priority for what I have in mind.
I'm still struggling to find the right words (as you can probably see) to explain the what and why, but it's an interesting experience working on basically reverse-engineering something I think is important but can't express (it's like trying to explain a color). Gaining a lot of understanding about the problem too. And the funny thing is, I don't think I could have done all that before I went ahead and actually implemented the/my solution to the problem itself.
Also setting up a mediawiki server for the family, mainly so I can get all of my mom's great recipies and share them with the rest of the family :)
It allows you to define recipes and track the stock you have in your fridge/pantry so you know what recipes you can cook at any point in time.
Context: I train for endurance events, and that's seen my resting heart rate fall by about 13 beats per minute. On some days this goes lower during training, and some days it doesn't. The idea is that certain kinds of foods, and certain activities might help me make my training more effective. Also, a part of the inspiration comes from here - https://a16z.com/2019/06/13/ai-doctor-deep-medicine-topol/
http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/caches-are-cheap-buil...
Thesis: The reason, instead of automating browsers, that we collectively started making HTTP-level load scripts and investing expensive labor hours in "correlation" was because hardware was really expensive.
Around Y2K, A single server might cost 500 a month in hardware and rack costs. Now a 72 core machine can be rented for an hour for under a dollar.
So I'm making a real-browser load testing service that lets you use the same integration test code you already maintain. Fewer tools, fewer specialties, CI/CD ready.
I've also been working on Custom Voice Commands an Android app and web app that let's you load web content like YouTube video playlists, Google Drive or OneDrive documents, manage lists and reminders by voice plus ask Alexa questions: https://bit.ly/custom-voice-commands
It's node-based, which allows you to try different ideas very quickly within the same scene. You can process models and geometries, or even create your own glsl shader with just nodes. And if you're not a coder, it can also be a good way to learn.
https://polygonjs.com/ and some tutorials: https://vimeo.com/polygonjs
Its been an interesting challenge making this. I had to learn about how to structure lessons, how to setup lighting, and a whole host of other things. My 5 year old daughter is helping me make it. She does some of the video and she helps me iron out the lessons.
Its slow going, but its a lot of fun.
It's like Optimizely except it weighs just 5kb, is self hosted and allows you to build and launch split tests from inside your IDE or via CD.
I'll most definitely submit it to Hackernews at some point. But for now, I want to refine it so it's easy for others to pick up and use.
The stats and maths are mostly on the reporting side. We just rely on a bunch of Chi-squared hypothesis tests - that's about the hardest part to an A/B testing system.
RB tree insert:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ArDMmfbOxi4
RB tree rebalance:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O2-8uEEtvso
I previously did the same thing for quicksort (see my YouTube channel for lots of videos), and am currently thinking of way to generalize this approach.
I started doing pushups everyday before shower, started with 10 and less than a month after i'm up to 110. And to be honest, even in something that simple as pushups are, you develop a sense of the nuances in the mechanics. Amazing.
The project came about because I was using Celery to communicate between Django projects, but it felt like a kludge.
I’m getting close to an official release soon, but there are already extensive docs at https://lightbus.org
Code is in GitHub, linked to at the above address.
A photo app that lets me view (and make galleries to share) of my photos uploaded to s3, that is self/locally hosted.
Not sure if that exists, but it sounds like someone should have made that.
The report designer is iimplemented using Datatables.Net library (demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ-viTQARTk) and I am implementing the same functionality and some more features (column renaming, custom column expressions) using VueJS.
Ive mentioned this many time but I'm close to being done. Fall of this year.
I'm also doing some Emacs related videos, presenting a single concept each time. I'm a big fan of Doom Emacs.
Still to come
- Full text search
- Capturing a snapshot of the site to allow Full text search, offline view, 'saving' pages incase they go offline.
- Learning tags based on page contents
Pricing on the main page is a template at this point and signup is still free/unlimited as i'm not 'releasing' it yet.
I'm going to see how viable it is to host a Matrix/Riot server from my house. Looks like there's going to be a hard time with SSL given that my router has its hook into Port 80 regardless of DMZ. Perhaps I can just use a self signed cert.
I would host it in a VPS but I'm looking to use the bridges for Whatsapp/FB Messenger/Telegram
It's been an awesome experience so far. I have enough customers now that I can go to pretty much any board game event and find people who are fans of my business.
I'm working on editing a video for an upcoming kickstarter that we're about to run. Super excited :)
I’m playing with the idea of making it export into several agencies formats and then sell that to them so they don’t keep formatting stuff by hand, but it’s not quite there yet.
I started it because I didn't want to get up to control the movie playing on my laptop, and it has turned into a fun experiment in UX and network security.
I like how you include the episode and season info. Do you search for that online or have it locally?
Really cool project, thanks for sharing.
Working on a infrastructure change tracking service called Deltatrail.io. It tracks changes both automatically (via API, Jenkins, AWS Cloudtrail, etc) and also manually (via Slack, etc). It really helps us when trying to debug outages or issues that arise. Most come from changes that have been made/deployed.
Both sides are a lot of fun!
Please join in if you can on mentoring... there's a pretty big back-log.
[1] https://exercism.io/contribute [2] https://github.com/exercism/exercism
This wasn't anyone's sole income, so it's not a disaster. It's certainly been a learning experience, so there's that.
The goal is to help employees try to find an expert (or content) in a company when you need to solve something. For HR we provide insights about employees (satisfaction, influence levels, etc) in an attempt to reduce turnover (#1 cost to businesses).
I worked on setting up jekyll and made the site as per my like. I have plans to continue writing and maintaining an online journey. Brings a smile everytime I make some commits in the repository. :)
I hope that will bring consistent users to the website
Had some successes, mostly failure, but getting there. Should be more accessible, use less water, less expensive, and produce better/more food than traditional hydroponic systems (and far more than traditional farming).
LPA grow system without needing any pumps.
That has been going quite ok for the past few months.
Another side thing I'm working on is a set of tutorials for Robot Operating System but that one I started just couple of weeks ago.
I'm also working on a generative mobile game in react-native, which is fun but is taking a while to do.
https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2018/fall/weeks/7/notes/ look for the example on WORDS
You can find it on Steam or Reddit, search for "Bloody Rally Show".
Hoping that it makes it easier for folks to create native-like apps, especially games.
I have an instagram if you want to check it out https://www.instagram.com/string.art.bird/
I also wish I had time for some Side Projects.
TL:DR; see https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
In a nutshell, I've got 20 years of digital photos and videos, spread over tens of hard drives, CDRs, crashed laptops and servers, and takeouts from failed photo services.
Nothing I tried could sweep everything into one neat and deduped pile.
Nothing I tried scaled up to several hundred thousand files, with cross-platform support (to minimize vendor lock-in).
And nothing I tried had a UX that made browsing that large of a library be delightful and serendipitous.
So I'm making it.
I've currently got a build for Mac, Windows 10, and Ubuntu desktop. I've got a preliminary snap and docker image, and look forward to trying it out on a raspberry pi 4 soon.
I'm looking for more beta testers, if this sounds interesting and you'd be willing to share feedback! Email signups are in the above link.
Primarily, PhotoStructure doesn't touch, move, or delete any file that it hasn't generated. It only copies into your library (if you pick that option). See https://support.photostructure.com/why-doesnt-photostructure...
* Learning DEC PDP-11 assembly language, may "port" the above Lisp interpreter to it... The -11's instruction set is so nice.
I'm building AntEater to make every on teams as smart as the team - using AI. It's free to try (for Gmail and Slack - https://www.anteateranalytics.com/) for small teams and helps share knowledge and activity for truly transparent teams to help individuals work less and work better.
Working on hug 3.0
Scatching my own itch on a shell history thing that isn't annoying. Baby steps towards a releasable version.
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I've seen too many campaigns attempt to run hundreds of volunteers, do crazy tricks with Google Sheets (just to have volunteers accidentally delete critical information), and I've been a volunteer waiting to be told what to do.
I'm not currently living in the United States so I'm building a software with my mind on Israeli left-wing politics. It had a pilot run and it was great, and now I'm working on getting another customer!
On the side, I am working on a sports web app with a friend as I find time using the same stack.
Also, lately I have been trying to learn reinforcement learning. What about yourself?
Marketing and recruitment for people who want to get paid consulting who have done amazing adventures (like travelled around the world on a bicycle, climbed Everest etc, please reach out if you have). Essentially I want to have a consultancy for people who have done amazing things and want to get paid to consult to people who have done those things before. https://www.adventurecopilot.com
Also seeking suggestions on how to learn marketing, it's a skill I'm keenly interested in acquiring.
And considering a Trump related merchandise business (not because I like Trump, but I think it would sort of market itself). I love businesses where people have strong opinions. Strong opinions travel, positive or otherwise.
Also writing about entrepreneurship and personal excellence at https://www.davidparkinson.com and polishing up my 'find your phone, escape a boring meeting/date service' https://www.phonemyphone.com (fun fact, launched this on Hacker News 10+ years ago :P).
Feel free to rip any of those ideas/concepts apart :P.
https://mixtape.ai (in alpha and only works on chrome)
Wish us luck.
Now we have added itself to the list of websites it should check. So it is self secured.
Your feedback and validation certainly helps. Thank you again.
- The Effective Engineer
- Crime & Punishment
We're a personal recommendation social network. We're the antidote to crowdsourced averaged algorithmic recommendations. We started with map based personal recommendations of places and will expand once we have traction. We'll be doing a ShowHN shortly.
We're on iOS and Android.
*we've soft launched on both appstores so if you want to check us out just type "Bibimapp" into the appstore search.
Also we're fully bootstrapped