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Re: What are you working on?

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post #10

Scraping Gwern's darknet market dataset ( https://www.gwern.net/DNM%20archives ) for my undergraduate thesis. Looking to see how police interventions affect costs of drugs on darknet markets and get a general sense of how the markets work (from an economic standpoint). I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.

> I will publish a clean dataset along with my analysis once it is done.

I would be happy to add it to the torrent once you're done. :) The more cleaned datasets the better.

Re: What are you working on?

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post #19

A news aggregation/dashboard that does not show you reposts. I love it so much I use it everyday. http://niftykick.com I am working on a webVR project similar to super mario maker but in 3D http://niftykick.com/niftyWorld

What did you use to actually agregate all the news?

A mix of site's public api's, rss feeds and webcrawling

Re: What are you working on?

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post #25

I am following two projects one extremely technical and another more sale oriented. The technical one is rediSQL[1] I am embedding SQLite into a redis module. Until few days ago I had performance issues that I wasn't able to figure out and I tracked everything in an issues. I finally figured out the problem, solve it, gain a lot of performance and I am about to write a blog post about. The next step is to get the exa…

Have you thought about selling stickers for tech conferences. Could be a nice way to get bulk orders.

Re: What are you working on?

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post #25

I am following two projects one extremely technical and another more sale oriented. The technical one is rediSQL[1] I am embedding SQLite into a redis module. Until few days ago I had performance issues that I wasn't able to figure out and I tracked everything in an issues. I finally figured out the problem, solve it, gain a lot of performance and I am about to write a blog post about. The next step is to get the exa…

Have you thought about selling stickers for tech conferences. Could be a nice way to get bulk orders.

Hummm, what you mean?

I thought about send some free sticker to the conference to make myself some marketing.

However I could also make the sticker with the logo of the conference and maybe send along also some related stickers...

That was your idea? It is actually quite interesting...

Re: What are you working on?

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post #25

I am following two projects one extremely technical and another more sale oriented. The technical one is rediSQL[1] I am embedding SQLite into a redis module. Until few days ago I had performance issues that I wasn't able to figure out and I tracked everything in an issues. I finally figured out the problem, solve it, gain a lot of performance and I am about to write a blog post about. The next step is to get the exa…

Are you sure you're allowed to print other company's logos on stickers and sell them?

Re: What are you working on?

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http://www.averageweather.io - get average weather data, fast. Great for planning vacations, weddings, which marathon to pick etc. I shared on r/weddingplanning and it shot to the top which was exciting. Made $20 in Adsense and had 2k visits in one day. I've also had some tweets from people with 100k+ following, so for around a week now I am averaging like 300 uniques a day. So, now I ask, how can I make some real si…

Can you handle queries over a few months? It would be nice to handle the use case: I'm looking at planning a vacation to Place X in July, August, or September, and quickly discern whether the weather is better at any certain week in that period.

Re: What are you working on?

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post #30

Recently finished http://hackerpixels.com/ - a side project to extract all video links from HN comments (and play with Docker). It's a huge time waster - the videos are very much in sync with the community, which is a good thing.

This is interesting. Is your overall goal something like Hacker Books or is there a different vision for the ropes of videos you include?

Re: What are you working on?

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post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you thought about selling stickers for tech conferences. Could be a nice way to get bulk orders.

Hummm, what you mean? I thought about send some free sticker to the conference to make myself some marketing. However I could also make the sticker with the logo of the conference and maybe send along also some related stickers... That was your idea? It is actually quite interesting...

If there is an aws sponsored conference you talk to the organisers and see if they want to buy 1000 aws stickers for the goodie bags, for instance.
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