jkent

Xihelm | London, UK | Computer Vision Engineer | ONSITE

Xihelm is reinventing how city infrastructure is managed using our Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision platform. We now improve maps using the visual world. And that's just the beginning.

Xihelm has received substantial investment from Entrepreneur First and others. We were invited to pitch at Facebook and at the Home Office. Other achievements include winning a Greater London Authority competition for smart cities and having real enterprise customers.

We are starting to tackle interesting research projects in the field of deep learning. Do you love machine learning as much as we do? Like to implement state-of-the art research papers? Think creatively? Like challenges?

We work woth Python, C++, SQL, Theano, Tensorflow, Keras ... and you can be employee #2.

If you think you fit, please reach out via https://angel.co/xihelm/jobs/181032-deep-learning-engineer - or jamesofkent [at] gmail

In the late 90s, I started a cloud-type hosting provider, with an angel round $100k+, dropping out of university. The dotcom crash happened and raising more money became near impossible. I was inexperienced and tried to do everything myself, and hired the wrong people.

I morphed it in to a web development business that did OK, then worked out it was easier working for someone else (got my life-work balance better) - in a VC-backed startup that ultimately got acquired.

I left to finish my degree. Got confused for a year and did a bit of sales. Then another startup that I couldn't get off the ground (services marketplace) - perhaps insanely ambitious.

Then I trained as a teacher (forgot that), teaching inner city kids how to add up.

I now work at Google in partnerships, where I am largely happy, married, get to travel a lot - and occasionally still 'get the itch' ...

Good question. Google Tag Manager is about improving marketing and tracking tag/pixel performance. These scripts shouldn't do document.write too much.

We don't recommend putting tags in Google Tag Manager that manipulate on-screen elements due to the asynchronous behaviour.

Hi,

I think that for complex sites you have a good point on letting anyone publish tags. Fortunately, it's possible to allow users just to view and edit tags - and not publish them. This leaves the testing and publishing to IT - our testing interface is pretty good - perhaps you could test it :)

The speed up is really around asynchronous firing of tags and for that it may not matter where code is hosted. This should help in situations with either synchronous or poorly designed code (in some situations it may not lead to a measurable improvement).

You've got a good point - we've got more work to do explaining this topic. Thanks for the feedback!

Under the Google Tag Manager Terms of Service, the account holder owns the data. We don't do anything with that data without your consent and Google Tag Manager collects very little data itself - it's cookie-less. I hope that helps!

It's a fair concern - we recommend using just Google Tag Manager (synchronous and lightweight) code to fire all your other tags asynchronously. So in most cases, where you call more than one remote code snippet, it could speed it up.

I think the initial implementation can be tricky (we'd recommend a Google Analytics Certified Partner to help), though once that is done, our initial experience is that adding tags is not too difficult.

We can help with updating tags (please reach out to your Account Manager), or please reach out to me in my profile.

Hi

I manage this product here at Google (for the USA).

We think that it should speed up site loading (in most cases) by asynchronously wrapping your other synchronous and asynchronous JavaScript tags.

We've included built in templates for our own tags at first though we will be introducing easier support for third-party tags soon (templating). At the moment you can do this by adding custom img or Javascript tags in the interface.

This product has most impact where you want to add/remove multiple affiliate tracking or remarketing tags (for instance), across your whole site quickly and easily.

Hope that helps.

A great idea - though this may be confusing, potentially vs. YCombinator?

Perhaps consider a different name - socialisingStartups.com ?

Also good, but the last line doesn't work (in my opinion): to get from 0x1 to 1 you need to undo the x0, i.e. dividing by 0. Which is undefined ... Zero, confusing 10 year olds for centuries!

I successfully managed to explain 3^0 to 10 year olds (as a recovering high school math teacher) as:

  3^2 = 9
  3^1 = 3  (divide 9 by 3)
  3^0 = 1  (divide 3 by 3)
  3^-1 = 1/3  (divide 1 by 3)
  etc

Unfortunately this doesn't really handle 0^0 but fortunately 10 year olds are rarely that difficult.

Appears down from the UK at around 11pm BST Sunday, unfortunately!

I always recommend 'other' and 'none' options for practically all HN polls.

Not everyone is employed. Some people have unusual relationships (internships?).

Great idea, some questions...

Can we have a vote on this?

How will this be enforced?

What's PG's take on this?

I'd rather sell my textbooks for money (perhaps I don't like beer). I can then choose to buy wine, more books, cigarettes, course fees ...

That said, it's kind of a neat way to find which site is paying the most for my books. Kudos for a simple execution.

Google Analytics does not track user behaviour across domains and sites, unless those domains and sites are specifically linked.

Google Analytics uses a 1st-party cookie set by the website that runs it.

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/concepts/gaConcep...

Robert Scoble - blogger, technical evangelist, author and MRI machine ...

Can we have a 'None of the above' and an 'Other' option?

Great poll, though we may be missing some information here.

There are a lot of suspiciously low-karma and recently created accounts commenting on this.

What about an 'I am not involved or particularly interested in startups', and an 'Other' option?

(This is in the interests of fairness and not out of any personal bias.)

Do you have reason to doubt the validity of this particular survey?

I personally can't see significant problems of this over any survey technique.

There are problems with questionnaires and self-responses, sure, but to say they are worthless is to exclude an entire category of data based on a selective opinion. Horses for courses, if you like.

Many statistical methods are available, some of which are more appropriate than others in particular situations. There is little wrong with convenience sampling if what is of primary importance is convenience, e.g.

(That being said, I'd be careful with taking the results of this poll and applying it to any technology site and therefore the interwebs etc. Inferring from this data that we don't have an ageing population problem would be dangerous).

In playing this Game, Players acknowledge that it is a game of chance, that the outcome of a Play in the Game is pre-determined by the Interactive System at the point of purchase, and that the winning of a Prize in the Game does not involve the exercise of any skill or judgement by a Player.

It does say this fairly clearly - although the author is correct in that by determining the outcome on the server side means that even if the game isn't completed, you can still be credited for the win.

There is even an option to bypass scratch card play and get the prize immediately (Reveal Instant Wins outcome automatically.)

There isn't really much skill involved offline (compared to none online). That being said, I wonder how many people don't spot winning prizes when they buy a ticket in the store - if I find a ticket, I might check!

Can you give specific examples where the search returns a lot of spammy content?

I switched from AltaVista because Google.com was faster and less full of spam. I still think that is the case compared to other search engines for common searches.

That being said, more and more searches are using ever increasing numbers of search term words, and that can get spammy.

Google make no secret of investing in search and the presence here of Matt Cutts is testament to the fact that we(?) are listening, with very frequent algorithmic tweaks and responses.

I don't feel it's useful comparing Facebook's "like" system with a search engine. Whilst it is useful to know what friends think of things, this can also be gamed by smart marketers.

I don't think it sucks - but there are use cases and perhaps for certain users where the experience indeed sucks. I for one have been using the 'spam flag' extension for Chrome and feel that something can be done with the results. Perhaps this will help?

(my opinions are my own and not necessarily that of my employer).

I would think that Google probably don't need or want to colo in Manhattan. Jersey is only milliseconds away.

That being said, a growing NY engineering staff probably don't want to be in Garden City.

It's a bit unclear what I am getting for $11 (over say a flickr stream).

Whilst they have been predicting the bubble for some time, it's important to remember that economists have successfully predicted 9 out of the last 5 downturns.

In Spain, Tuenti is considerably more popular (Spanish equivalent of Facebook). This probably explains the density difference.

It's a really nice looking site but it's not obvious to me what you are offering, and how I go about getting it.

A clearer, less busy, highlight Services and 'Contact Me', perhaps. My 2c.

I think a lot of the stock exchanges have their data centres in Jersey now, iirc?