palcu

436 karma · joined November 13, 2011

Member of Technical Staff, AI Reliability Engineering (AIRE) at Anthropic

Previously: SRE at Google Cloud (taking care of GCE and GCP) and Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir.

https://www.palcu.net/

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/palcu; my proof: https://keybase.io/palcu/sigs/425bZ1Ip-RwE52Uws06rLF54qq21RU2pQQyi8cXICv8 ]

palcuon Ask HN: How to create an online self-hosted anonymous dead-man's switch?

Google has an inactive account manager that feels like a dead-man's switch. But, it's not anonymous https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive.

palcuon Ask HN – Simple APIs Without Authentication?

You could take a look at the Apigee list https://apigee.com/providers.

The Facebook API also has a simple authentication. Just go to the graph explorer and get your token https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/.

palcuon Ask HN: How does the "apply late" in YC application work?

For me it does not work also.

palcuon Show HN: Tool to combat eye fatigue

I've used a similar app that made a beep after a certain number of minutes, but I made a habit of ignoring it after a week.

Now I use Breaktime (only for OSX), which inserts itself in the system tray part of the screen and displays a big overlay when "time's up". It is more effective because it forces me to get up.

You could build a browser notification that gets the focus of the user.

palcuon Ask HN: What are some Interesting things I can do with my location history?

You could build something like the Foursquare Time Machine https://foursquare.com/timemachine.

palcuon Udacity Course: Make Your Own 2048

Love the fact that for prerequisites they state "Nothing", the videos are structured as a dialogue and that they even tell you to use a simple editor like Sublime.

palcuon Opal: Ruby in Your Browser – the Basics

He may add source maps and debugging will not be cumbersome. Handling Coffeescript is not difficult if you can jump and add breakpoints in your browser over the original code.

palcuon Codecrap - HN for bad code

Love the examples. Especially http://codecrap.com/content/400/.

palcuon Udacity – Machine Learning 1–Supervised Learning

As a student who finished the Coursera Machine Learning course, this seems more hardcore. The problem is I do not see any practical applications, just theory quizzes. In Coursera ML, after every chapter, we had to write the algorithms in MatLab. We even built our own neural networks that recognized digits.

palcuon Evernote 5 for Mac

NixNote is fairly good Linux client.

palcuon SaaS Class is Live

>Those submit homework 1 and receive a passing grade will receive a coupon good for 100 hours of small instances of EC2 for use on the remaining homework assignments plus a coupon to upgrade their free GitHub accounts to a Micro account (both good through the end of course).

Looks like they've put a lot of effort into this course. Judging by the syllabus, I think a better title would have been: Intro to Ruby and Web Programming