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#302BookStorm: an awesome way to explore the world of books. Why it's awesome: we're helping to maximize intellectual freedom in a world dominated by "smart" algorithms and "social" recommendations with old-fashioned serendipity. http://bookstormapp.com
I'd personally much rather get recommendation of books based on what people similar to me swiped.. This is how I discover new musics on streaming site (By searching for new playlists containing songs that I like). But I'm sure you know that already so what's the story behind the no "smart / social"? Is it because you feel those are too easily abused by marketers? Or that some books are just never suggested since they…
The recommendations are implicit...i.e., the book will only be in the app because someone felt strongly about it.
We're leaving out 'smart' because we feel that smart people are smart enough to decide for themselves what they should explore, and we're leaving out 'social' because there's already many solutions out there to find out what your friends are reading.
Personally, there are a LOT of books out there I a) wouldn't otherwise consider reading or b) never even know about unless someone placed it front of my face and told me why it was worth reading. That's the purpose of this app.
It's not meant to be the only place for one to discover books...it's the place you go to get lost. Sometimes you want that, and sometimes you don't.
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#303I decided, against my better judgement, that I should teach myself Hack (because why not), and by extension, how to set up a Vagrant box (since I'm using Windows and the tutorials I found for that assume Vagrant.) As an experiment, I'm porting over a HN clone I had written in PHP to it. So far, I'm able to get the box working, get the database up and get everything running, and a basic XHP based layout, but the actua…
Hi! I created a tool that may help speed you along! https://puphpet.com You can spin up a VM with Hack installed and get to learning HAck, not how to manage a VM!
Thanks, that looks like it could have save me some time...
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
#304Earlier quoted context omitted.
I completely agree that standardized test scores aren't the only thing parents are looking for. The main issue is: What other data set is there that exists state/nationally given we're working with 100,000+ schools? -Special needs: Hadn't considered this, but the data is there to break out numbers and performance of special needs students. Are there other factors we should consider? - Arts/Music/Sports etc: Yes, woul…
> What other data set is there that exists state/nationally given we're working with 100,000+ schools? You could try to crowdsource this information, or contact schools in an effort to get them to self report.
True, that has worked well for NPR's Playground app, for example. http://www.playgroundsforeveryone.com/
The two main issues when we've thought of this are:
1) how do you ensure the data is accurate/up-to-date?
2) the graveyard issue where you don't want to show what's NOT on your site. As an example (and I know I'm probably picking on them unfairly) check out GreatSchool's crowd-sourced photos here: http://www.greatschools.org/search/search.page?q=boston%20ma)
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#305Easy Office phonebooths
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I've found lots of startups want more private spaces for individuals to work and do calls, but most solutions cost thousands of dollars or require builders.
Does anyone want to test and give feedback on a better office phone booth?
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#306I'm spending some time creating a logo generator tool targeted at idea/early stage products and companies, or for side projects, open source projects, etc.
It's called Logocaster - https://logocaster.com
Logocaster is meant to help you explore a huge universe of logo designs when brainstorming your brand/logo. It makes it quite easy to scan a bunch of style/font/palette options and then "drill down" and see designs which only incorporate the features you like.
Right now it's a playground for testing out fonts, colors and a few logo styles. I'm planning on incorporating graphics from the Noun Project and giving a bit more of a rich experience around tweaking a specific design.
You can explore the functionality without registering, and save/download your favorites as SVG if you do register (edit: for free, at least until I've incorporated Stripe).
I'm looking for any feedback on the direction the project is headed, or interesting use cases where the API that powers this whole thing could be put to use, cheers!
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#307Open source banking software written in Go: https://github.com/ksred/bank The project is an answer to "what would a bank look like if it were built today?" - iOS Client: https://github.com/ksred/bank-ios - Visa package to hook into the bank: https://github.com/ksred/visa - Articles on the process: https://ksred.me/tags/banking-infrastructure/?hn
What is your opinion on banks using bitcoin? Or Bitcoin as a way to route around traditional banking?
I'm not sure banking can get away from the traditional. I like the idea of a blockchain (or some version of it) being implemented to assist in interbank communication.
Banks will probably only jump on BTC way down the line, if they ever do.
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#308A password wallet that syncs over Dropbox, Google Drive, Syncthing, even rsync.
https://github.com/stevenkaras/kasefet
Got fed up with Dropbox creating conflicted copies of my keepass database, and decided there must be a better way. I expect the base KV store will be easy to use for other apps in the future as well.
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#309BlurrrSDK: Write native cross-platform 2D games in C, Lua, JavaScript or Swift. (iOS, Android, SteamOS/Linux, OS X, Windows, Raspberry Pi).
I just posted a demo video yesterday of Swift development for Android. I think this could be the very first video of a (cross-platform) Swift program running on Android. https://youtu.be/w6FY_qSi8yY
A more talky introduction here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWFqHJC_gI&index=1&list=PLf...
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#310I'm working on a new Machine Learning Platform as a Service offering. We will be providing an easy to use, API driven platform for quickly and easily spinning up an environment for ML based on Spark and (in the first version) SystemML. Eventually we'll add support for working with TensorFlow, Warp-CTC, etc. I also envision having APIs for OCR, NLP, etc. as we develop.
One thing about this: everything will be Open Source. Obviously all of the "back end stuff" (Spark, SystemML, TensorFlow, etc.) is already open source, but even our provisioning code and API's will be OSS as well. The idea is to put the customer in control. So if you don't like our service, or decide you can do it cheaper running your own hardware on premises, whatever, you can deploy the entire stack yourself.
There's nothing at the URL right now but a (very) primitive landing page, but if any of you guys want to take a look, here ya go:
Everything is hidden behind a (temporary) login page right now, since this isn't really public yet. The login is 'user123' with password 'realitybomb40'
Also, ignore the video that's there, it's a placeholder to mark out where our explainer video will go when it's recorded.
We plan to eventually offer both "pre canned" routines that you can use out of the box as well as the ability to deploy your own models. There a lot of other stuff on the roadmap as well, but it's probably too early to talk about any of it just yet.