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Solo founder at Emysound[1]. Started 10 years ago as an open-source project, building an algorithm for audio fingerprinting. Added a commercial offering, selling storage built spec…

I'm really not good at marketing. Essentially I have to learn how to do it first. I plan to spend more time learning this new skill and then applying it. I've been recommended this…

My goal for the next year is just to work fewer hours. Covid pushed my work habit to the extreme, and I need to rebalance. 1. Read more books, less social media/news. 2. Spend more…

This reminded me of Sergiu Celibidache, a revered and criticized conductor who had a different opinion about tempo on major classical works. He viewed his performances more as "exp…

For binary vectors you can choose a different distance metric (not geometric one, i.e. Jaccard) that can be used to effectively hash similar data points into similar buckets. Treat…

Didn't know about the change, thanks.

If you delist your Shopify app from the app store you will not have to pay the 20% monthly commission from the new customers. It also means your app is private, and you will have t…

Very thoughtful point. I was concerned about it as well. Rushing a half-backed vaccine that has serious side-effects will fuel antivaxxers for decades.

One of the most challenging things in growing a software product is managing complexity. If you are designing a product for future use cases, you add complexity upfront. To keep a …

There are a couple of concepts in F# that I really like: * actor-based approach to concurrency[1]. Very useful when you want to design your code lock-free. Treating instances as ag…

Musimathics is great [1]. If you want a more interactive source you can play with python notebooks from the music information retrieval site [2]. I've found it helpful, as you try …

Radio/TV broadcast analytics is the most frequent use case. At least I receive a significant amount of questions regarding it, so the library has been optimized for this task. YouT…

I've been working on SoundFingerprinting [1] for almost ten years now. Its Shazam for developers. First 8 years I worked mostly during my free time and weekends. 2 years ago, I dec…

The crypto industry at its current stage is far from any practical purpose. It's just unfortunate that "Haskell in Practice" is associated with crypto BS.

I was born in the USSR and it also had it's "own way". And it didn't resist even 70 years. The elephants in the room mentioned by others in the comments are all "meta" things at th…

It's the same narrative all over again. When no strong arguments are present to defend a viewpoint, the topic suddenly becomes a "cultural" thing. Sounding smart and mysterious. In…

If you switch to non-lidar mode for unfavorable condition, why don't just use the non-lidar for all conditions. A system that is safe for unfavorable conditions is likely to be the…

First example I've checked is wrong [1]. Shuffle a list, with a static Random object initialization. Using a static random object is not thread-safe in .NET. "One common solution i…

Greed.

Hello HN, here is a short summary of how we (3 co-founders from Eastern Europe) bootstrapped a startup. Hope you find it interesting!