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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by anthony_doan » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

dewy wrote: post #284

anthony_doan wrote: post #168

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> Is there a public link to your thesis? 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…

I'd love to read those papers if you wouldn't mind recommending them.

Selection Bias and GUIDE: http://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~loh/treeprogs/guide/wires.pdf

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

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mukeshsoni » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

I wrote a workflowy clone in draftjs, to see if it's possible to do it - https://dumpster.netlify.com/

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.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by tmaly » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:20 AM UTC

truebosko wrote: post #304

Waterluvian wrote: post #259

My family. Got a two year old and 7 month old. Bought our first and hopefully only house a month ago. Work remotely doing some really interesting programming. 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.

Good on you. I have a family as well and prior to it spent much of my free time coding side projects. Now, it's been tough to find the energy to do that in my limited time. 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.

Back when I only had 1 child, I use to say you can have exactly one hobby.

With two children, you can have a hobby once in a blue moon.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by petethepig » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:21 AM UTC

I'm making a robot that makes string art.

I have an instagram if you want to check it out https://www.instagram.com/string.art.bird/

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by peteforde » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:21 AM UTC

mrieck wrote: post #217

peteforde wrote: post #193

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Hey, just so you know... I went to snipcss.com and attempted to sign up for a lifetime membership, only to be informed that the payment processing was in dev mode. I went back and entered the standard test numbers, and it worked. You might want to lock this down. Also: take my money, please.

Thanks for letting me know! 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 installed the Chrome plugin, and then it prompted me to create an account... so I did. That took me to your dashboard.

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.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by osi1647 » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:24 AM UTC

I am working on a whisky app called Drammer https://drammer.com Where users can manage their collection, search by taste and use a barcode scanner to find a whisky quickly.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by masiulis » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:24 AM UTC

Creating a visual tool to replace CSS https://github.com/masiulis/Ugnis

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.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by bigmit37 » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:25 AM UTC

freeradical13 wrote: post #339

I've become bored with software. I just started a masters degree in Biology and have a vague and naive plan of becoming a cardiologist and running a lab with the primary goal of reducing human suffering, rather than money (been there, done that).

I’m actually interested in biology as well. I wish research equipment was cheaper for independent experiments.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by peteforde » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:25 AM UTC

quelsolaar wrote: post #206

peteforde wrote: post #161

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This looks really cool, but I don't understand when this process is required in an artistic pipeline. Do people who work in Maya/ZBrush have to export a texture map in order to paint in tools like Substance? Surely it's easier to work directly on a 3D object that can be rotated in space than an unwrapped map of cutout segments. Otherwise, how could you ever line anything up? Don't get me wrong: I understand that the…

Polygons are 3D and textures are stored in images (2D). So you need to have each polygon in 3D space correspond to a polygon in 2D image space. One way to think of this is to take a 3D model and unwrapping it on to a 2D sheet. Very much like you would do if you would design paper-craft. 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 p…

Thanks so much for this explanation. I had no idea that people couldn't paint their creations in zBrush directly. It has all of those fancy brushes and I thought it was an end-to-end solution. What's more, I'm kind of floored that if you do model something in zBrush that it doesn't generate a texture map for you. I've always been spoiled because our system was clearly abstracting this UV unwrap process completely - we were generating lifelike human avatars and had to come up with our own texture packing scheme. I've heard people discussing unwrapping and never understood what they were on about!

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Post by bjelkeman-again » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 5:28 AM UTC

blparker wrote: post #195

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #44

Indoor vegetable and fish farm, i.e. aquaponics, in a fully circular production system. 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,…

Any advice to an inexperienced person interested in getting started in aqua/aero-ponics?

We started with reading two things:

- 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.