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humanlambdas.com 5y ago

Show HN: Human Lambdas – Create Human in the Loop queues and outsource them

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thenewstack.io 6y ago

Stages of a Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning Application

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hackernoon.com 6y ago

Introduction to Human in the Loop Machine Learning

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www.humanlambdas.com 6y ago

An Introduction to Human in the Loop

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www.humanlambdas.com 6y ago

Implementing a Moderation Enforcement Framework

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www.humanlambdas.com 6y ago

The Different Stages of a Moderation Operation

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link.springer.com 9y ago

Functional Benefits of (Modest) Alcohol Consumption

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brnt.co 9y ago

Helpbot, Slack bots and the future of work

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www.kickstarter.com 9y ago

Fidget Cube

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Anybody working at Customer Support?

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www.gv.com 10y ago

The Design Sprint

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quant-econ.net 11y ago

Quantitative Economics with Julia [pdf]

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airbnb.klm.com 11y ago

The Airplane Apartment

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karpathy.github.io 11y ago

Hacker's Guide to Neural Networks

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brnt.co 11y ago

A new journey

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quickmail.io 12y ago

QuickMail.io – Get more responses from cold emails with less effort

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okdork.com 12y ago

5 Tips for Connecting with a Cold Email

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calloud.com 12y ago

Show HN: Calloud – Let your visits call you from your website

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www.zdnet.com 12y ago

Oracle buys MICROS Systems for $5.3 billion

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www.noisli.com 12y ago

Noisli – background noise and color generator for working and relaxing

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www.businessinsider.com 12y ago

Fred Wilson's inspiring interview

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www.techstars.com 12y ago

Techstars Stats

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www.fastcoexist.com 12y ago

Can't handle the steep hill? Take a ride on this bike elevator

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Dogfooding

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www.fastcolabs.com 12y ago

Crowdtilt Says "Hack Vacations" Are Its Secret Engineering Weapon

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www.usetickle.com 12y ago

This app gets you out of awkward situations

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www.economist.com 12y ago

What exactly is an entrepreneur?

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medium.com 12y ago

50 Articles and Books that will Make you a Great Product Manager

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www.kennethnorton.com 12y ago

How to hire a product manager

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sicpinclojure.com 12y ago

SICP in Clojure

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Is anyone using it? I'm working on a human review / human in the loop platform that has some resemblance to it, while allowing for much greater customisation and flexibility.

FWIW Citymapper offers a similar service in London. Essentially carpooling with more seats. Admittedly though, they don't cover such long distances.

Location: Edinburgh, UK / Barcelona

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Julia, C, Java, Go, Hadoop, Pig, MongoDB, Redis, HTML, CSS, Javascript (Frontend and Node.js), Clojure.

Email: bernatfp@gmail.com

I am a Masters student in Artificial Intelligence at University of Edinburgh, graduating this Summer. I'm about to start my dissertation on algorithmic music composition using neural networks (LSTM to be precise). I also run my own side project, https://calloud.com

I am looking for interesting opportunities/projects that need versatile people with Machine Learning skills, or for Data Science work.

I'm working on a voicecall widget that lets businesses be called by their visits for free with just one click (using Flash and WebRTC). It's called Calloud (https://calloud.com ).

I'm doing it because I'm a big fan of tools like Olark or Zopim which are essentially the same but for live written communication (chat). Because some people prefer talking rather than typing, I'm selling a live voice communication alternative so websites can tailor to this preference as well.

Yeah, but quite a relative issue depending on the exchange. The first thing you learn is that you can't sell at market prices, you just have to place some orders and wait. To be honest I made a few mistakes related to this when I was starting and lost some money. On Btc-e my orders aren't that large so there's nothing to worry about when placing them. It felt more risky on Bitstamp, and Kraken specially due to low volume, but I rarely have to trade there.

Not much at the moment:

Profits realized from a very long term Bitcoin investment: 10000$

Bitcoin miner: 600$ (profits) so far.

Now I'm covering the costs of running my own SaaS [1] with these profits to create a more sustainable business (I've lost confidence in Bitcoin from an investment standpoint). At this moment my SaaS has 2 trial users but no paying customers.

[1] https://calloud.com

Show HN: Show HN 12 years ago

Many posts on PH aren't submitted by the creator of what is being posted. The main idea behind Show HN posts is posting your own creations. The public here is also more tech oriented than in PH - more product oriented.

Because all these services ask you for your phone number and shift the conversation to your phone, while with Calloud the conversation takes place in your computer and you don't have to give away your phone number. So, instead of interacting with your computer at the same time you are using your phone, everything happens on your browser. It is a more fluid and better experience.

Hey, I'm the creator of Calloud. What else do you need to know? What has put you off? I've tried to keep it simple, communicating the basics on the landing page, trying to address more specific questions on the FAQ and added a demo at the bottom of the landing, where you can test call a voicemail.

Hey, thanks for your feedback! Calloud supports phone numbers from way more countries than Google Voice does, plus we are focused on building an awesome product for businesses, there are many things that can be done on top of our service, and we can't wait to roll them out. Additionally, Google Voice is expected to integrate with Hangouts (they are probably focusing more on B2C), so it might lose some of its current functionality http://phandroid.com/2014/03/18/google-voice-hangouts-coming...

I used to feel this way too (knowing about a broad range of things, but thinking I was not good enough at anything specific to be "hireable"), but luckily I realised this is not necessarily bad. Generalists are ideal people to found a startup and they can be a huge asset to have at any company, especially at small companies / startups. And furthermore, don't push yourself too hard, at the end you're still a student. You can specialise later if you want.

The problem is that Twitter's filtered Streaming API has quite a small limit on the number of words that you can provide to match tweets. So, it would be impossible to scale.

A better option might be retrieving tweets from the Firehose Streaming API, but one would need a massive backend to handle it. Additionally, access has to be requested to Twitter and it's very rarely granted. Alternatively, Datasift or Gnip can be better sources for the firehose, but I think they only provide a fraction (like 1/10) of the real amount of tweets that go through the actual firehose.