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Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by sharemywin »

hacky_engineer wrote: post #4
sharemywin wrote: post #2

Interests: Web3, OpenCV, NLP, using AI libraries and Apis, semantic search. Languages: C#, Asp.net, Databases, some python, Played around with Django, I was working on a way to scrape problems out of social media. Also an AI idea generator.

I was working on a NLP(ish) idea for a while and got a descent prototype put together, but haven't had time to take the project past that. The idea was to train a model to classify tone of voice (a kind voice, angry voice, whiny voice, etc). Writing this out again now. I wonder if we could train a model to predict whether a statement is sarcastic or not..

The dataset would be the hard part.

I played around with Sentence Embeddings and Sentence Similarity.

I thought about being able to compare a sentence with "Happy" and get a score between them. This could be a generalized solution for a nlp problems.

I noticed it tended to match things a little different than I would expect. I would expect the subject of the sentence to match first.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by pm2222 »

There are columns of data, and as a simple example they are {{1,a},{1,b},{1,c},{2,a},{2,b},{2,c},{3,a}} of two columns and seven lines. I'd like to process the data through a function which would yield {{{1,2},{a,b,c}},{{3},{a}}} which is slightly better than {{{1,2,3},{a}},{{1,2},{b,c}}} because former has 7 leaf elements vs latter 8 leaf elements while both has if you will two lines.

How to write that function?

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by ternaryJimbo »

meesterdude wrote: post #7

My project is a new way to browse the web, spatially. Built in unity/c#. Mostly done but there's always more to do so open to help with hte dev, Would also be great to work with a Ruby on Rails dev on building out the platform side. would also love help building up traction/excitement with users/potential customers. email is violentpurr at gmail if you're interested. I'm based on the east coast.

Interested! By spatially do you mean this is a vr app?

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by mannanj »

Your Life in Blocks: A concept inspired by Tim urban's Your Life in Weeks and by my weekly poster which I write a few blocks of text in.

I wanted a way to track significant things that happened in my life, and looking back at the physical poster, it has quite the impact on my perspective but I noticed it's a hassle carrying that thing around.

Angular, Firebase, Sass, NGRX Store: The MVP was functional for this stack but only for one account and without Firestore rules written. It has since been defunct and I've been stuck on scaling it to work for more than one user without public database rules.

Site: https://yourlifeinblocks.firebaseapp.com/user

Git (open repo): https://github.com/mannanj/life-in-blocks

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by thenewwazoo »

I've got an open-source Homebridge plugin (https://github.com/thenewwazoo/homebridge-lutron-caseta-leap) that has a bug in its client-handling code. There is some problem with connection handling that is causing user pain. I am an experienced developer, but new to Typescript, and absolutely cannot chase it down. I would love the help of someone with Node socket coding knowledge willing to take a look.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by jka »

I've been developing a recipe search engine and meal planner at https://www.reciperadar.com/ -- all the code is free and open source.

I think the two largest challenges it has at the moment are:

- Developer experience / infrastructure setup: the service is Kubernetes-based, composed primarily of Python+Flask microservices, and although the setup steps are documented[1], they're not yet automated.

- User interface: my lack of user interface design skills are fairly apparent, I think. Having some clear UI goals to work towards would be helpful - there's likely some overlap with product design questions here (what should be the range of functionality that the the app offers?)

To be transparent: although I hope to offer compensation in future, the project is zero-revenue currently, and I don't feel ready to provide any monetary returns yet. If that hasn't put you off: any feedback is welcome, from discussion comments to pull requests to business model questions/critiques!

PS: Don't forget to mention one or two of your own side projects if there's anything you're looking for help with, too.

[1] - https://github.com/openculinary/infrastructure/

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by lesuorac »

pm2222 wrote: post #12

There are columns of data, and as a simple example they are {{1,a},{1,b},{1,c},{2,a},{2,b},{2,c},{3,a}} of two columns and seven lines. I'd like to process the data through a function which would yield {{{1,2},{a,b,c}},{{3},{a}}} which is slightly better than {{{1,2,3},{a}},{{1,2},{b,c}}} because former has 7 leaf elements vs latter 8 leaf elements while both has if you will two lines. How to write that function?

I think you need to provide more information.

Do you have a CSV file? Is this a specific data structure in some language?

Is the output another CSV file / std out?

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by petronio »

pm2222 wrote: post #12

There are columns of data, and as a simple example they are {{1,a},{1,b},{1,c},{2,a},{2,b},{2,c},{3,a}} of two columns and seven lines. I'd like to process the data through a function which would yield {{{1,2},{a,b,c}},{{3},{a}}} which is slightly better than {{{1,2,3},{a}},{{1,2},{b,c}}} because former has 7 leaf elements vs latter 8 leaf elements while both has if you will two lines. How to write that function?

If the data is ordered by row as in your example (e.g. {1,a},{1,b}, etc), a relatively straightforward option would be to read all columns for the row and use the values as a key such that hash(columns) -> list(rowNum).

This may not give you the lowest number of leaves depending on your dataset. If you're looking for the absolute smallest number of leaves, you could use each column as an individual key and start intersecting their lists to see if that produces a reduced leaf count.

Re: Ask HN: Who needs help with side projects?

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Post by digisign »

hacky_engineer wrote: post #3

I am working on a baby book called Computer Engineering for Babies ( https://computerengineeringforbabies.com ). The biggest question I have is an SEO/branding one. I have about 3 brand names, and I don't know how to structure them or which ones to get rid of, and how to have a cohesive brand. Anyway, I'm looking for someone that can coach me on some SEO/branding stuff..

Looks fun, how can I get a couple without having to wait until December? Seems like that would be an easy way to boost conversion, to have them come in once a month. Guessing you don't have enough volume?
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