Working on a spend management tool geared toward understanding and managing spend on SAAS services.
Do you have anything you can share about this? I'm very interested to see and am happy to provide feedback.
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#132As a side project I have a reddit chrome extension which I like working on every couple months, but I recently have been working on a node service that screenshots and compares the landing pages of different news sources, think (Huffington Post vs Breitbart) which is endless fun with the new administration
extension: http://iampueroo.github.io/rComments/ news differ isn't finished
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#133As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update. https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/ Have a few working prototypes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw ), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make…
That looks great! I was about to comment that you can still see a large one in use, but apparently NY Penn Station took theirs down earlier this year.
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#134Currently I'm working on Rakun.js (https://github.com/lukaszkups/rakun.js/tree/dev) (but as You can see I didn't push code to dev branch recently ) - it's an un-opinionated JavaScript framework.
The idea behind Rakun.js is to create framework that doesn't require any additional dependencies but at the same time provides all the modern framework features (router, state management, components).
My main objective is to create tool, with a bit old-school'ish feeling (e.g. front-end devs, who worked till now only with jQuery etc. should feel like at home during work with Rakun.js) but at the same time powerful as other modern frameworks.
If I should compare Rakun.js to something, that will be Vue.js, but without templates method - it will be up to developer which render solution he will choose and how components will behave when their state updates.
You can read more about Rakun.js on my website: http://lukaszkups.net.
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#135Right now I'm mostly focused on building NeuralObjects, an open source "Machine Learning As A Service" platform, and the associated hosted service offering to go with it.
The idea is to simplify the provisioning of compute clusters and the installation and configuration of various F/OSS platforms and toolkits for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and then provide convenient APIs for common operations. For the first release (coming Real Soon Now, really) we'll have engines based on DL4J, probably SystemML, and a very simple engine based on Apache Commons Math (for doing simple stuff on a small scale). We also bundle Apache Zeppelin as part of the stack, for interactive analysis in a workbook format.
We'll have a REST API for operations like - defining models, training models, working with model versions, and making predictions with models. We'll probably also offer an RPC based API for predictions, likely based on gRPC.
Long-term, the vision is to serve as a one-stop-shop for all of the popular (and maybe some not-so-popular) F/OSS tools in the ML/AI space. Some things are are on the roadmap include Tensorflow, Caffe, Keras, Mxnet, SK-learn, and MLLib.
The first cut is using clusters based on Hadoop/Spark, but we'll probably also add the ability to provision MPI clusters. We'll also be exploring how to possibly take advantage of the Amazon FPGA instances down the line.
And since the whole thing will be OSS, anybody who wishes to install it locally will be able to do that as well. To that end, we plan to eventually add support for provisioning with OpenStack. We'll also add support for other cloud environments besides AWS at some point.
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#136Problem: Track players on an ARK: Survival Evolved (Steam) server, to better manage inter-tribe aggression. (When does another tribe have more players online - at what hours should we be diplomatic, and when can we be aggressive?) Project: ARKData has been an ongoing project since mid-2015, when it began as copying player names from the arkservers.net page into an Excel spreadsheet. Having transformed this into a sta…
This looks real baller! I'll have to look into ARK...
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#137Project: Hosted & On-Prem fast full-text search with faceting, filtering, multiple ranking algorithms and plenty of other features. Not yet ready for launch but built a simple demo trying to get into startupschool ( failed unfortunately :( ), which lets you search every hackernews post while letting you filter based on domain / user / story type. http://searchhn.com
This is amazing. Are you also going to implement Soundex?
Thanks.. yes that is something I'm planning. Keeping the engine super flexible. Currently does TF-IDF, Okapi BM25 or an Algolia like tie breaking algorithm.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?
#138As a hardware side project I've been designing and building an open source split-flap display - the kind of electro-mechanical displays you used to see in train stations and airports that loudly flip through letters and numbers as they update. https://scottbez1.github.io/splitflap/ Have a few working prototypes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bslkflVv-Hw ), but I'm currently redesigning the electronics/PCB to make…
This is super cool! The clackety-clack is soo satisfying.
I'm working with someone on developing electronic noses (arrays of gas sensors to identify compounds, do process automation), and he too is concerned on keeping the boards easily-built: DIP ICs, through-hole components, etc.
I always wonder what the actual demand is for this. Open-source hardware is great, but how many people are ordering bare PCBs, sourcing each individual resistor, power jack, trimpot, etc and soldering them? I use arduinos all the time and consult their schematics constantly, but I wouldn't dare build one when I can buy 3 nanos for $10.
I'm mostly making an argument for embracing the awesomeness of tiny surface-mount components and then getting a place like CircuitHub to do a fully-assembled bulk run of them.
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#139Problem: We believe document versioning is broken for most people: writers, attorneys, academics, journalists, etc. We engineers have Github, but others don’t. So, we decided to solve this problem and create Tuiqo
Project: Document versioning for humans
We built a prototype: http://tuiqo.com (video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs). We are accepted to YC Startup school founders track.
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#140Everyone is writing about their startups. My startup makes self-driving delivery robots ( http://robby.io ). But that aside, one of the things I'm working on is trying to use RNNs to create a better digital piano. Even the best digital pianos out there are far inferior to a even a YouTube recording of a concert grand piano. One of the biggest problems I notice is the complete decoupling of resonances between strings;…
Do you know pianoteq?