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Ask HN: What real-world apps are based on less popular disciplines of CS?
63 points by acconrad 11y ago|22 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
Wow, HN can't get enough of AI/ML lately! Here's some more links: http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ http://deeplearning.net/
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is a great point - experimentation is huge and a big part of my own growth as an entrepreneur. To me I feel better knowing my side project work isn't sucking up someone's money when it doesn't work out, and I'm bu
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by acconrad 11y ago
>How much of a jerk is your boss? (0-10) e^pi >How chaotic is your environment? (0-10) 10+i10 >What have you done that is illegal or unethical that can be used as grounds for firing you? I used an iPhone once, apparently that
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by acconrad 11y ago
> FiveThirtyEight is just as bad: The vast majority of our editorial staff, including me, went to elite, selective colleges. (I went to Columbia.) What an ironic article, given that most of the article doesn't stop talking about e
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by acconrad 11y ago
YC partner Aaron Harris had a similar problem with his first startup[1], and is a lesson for all startups: It's risky to rely on one customer for the majority of your revenue. 90% of PriceZombie's revenue was dependent on affiliat
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'm very intrigued by this "authenticity rating." On the one hand, I feel like it's kind of racist to assume that someone of a race will automatically know what good food from their native country tastes like (for exampl
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by acconrad 11y ago
Neat! I had tried a project like this a few years ago as a way of measuring the perks and extras outside of the standard Glassdoor-esque metrics. The tough part is that the ideal startup/job is different for so many people, and many of
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by acconrad 11y ago
It's not a might, it absolutely is for some. I'm one of them. I tried keto for close to a year and my blood sugar shot up to being pre-diabetic. Why was that? Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (MCAD) Deficiency[1]. It produces a
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New Identity for the Sydney Opera House(underconsideration.com)
2 points by acconrad 11y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
I mean...yeah. They do the work no one else wants to do, hence the supply is low and demand is high, so the employers have to pay more. Makes sense.
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The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up(sazzy.co.uk)
540 points by acconrad 11y ago|332 comments
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by acconrad 11y ago
From a financial/investing standpoint, he's in a way accepting the teachings of value investing - the business inherently has value in it, regardless of what the general market may irrationally place on the company; and that in th
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is a strong reach of an assumption and very click-baity. What this really should be worded as "if your neighbor wins the lottery, you're more likely to succumb to 'keeping up with the Joneses'".
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by acconrad 11y ago
Yeah but see you have something called empathy, which this guy clearly does not have. If he didn't want to see homeless people because it upset him that we weren't helping them, and he was doing everything in his power before comp
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by acconrad 11y ago
Should and can are vastly different things. It's going to be impossible for me to make the business case to my CEO that we no longer support IE10 if 25% of our business travels through there. Some people are locked in - their offic
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is interesting - how does one price out this membership? Different venues charge different amounts for different shows, how can you possibly loop them all in together and make sure everyone makes money?
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by acconrad 11y ago
Funny that this gets upvoted so high and a more reasonable article that was posted in the same day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931349 ) did not. I've done ketosis, high carb, and moderate carb, and the fact
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by acconrad 11y ago
As someone who is also a seasoned Ruby engineer also looking to get into freelancing (and then a business), I'd really love to learn more about your personal journey - really inspiring!
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by acconrad 11y ago
My apologies! Most of the 4300 or so gyms are located in the US (where I'm based) so unfortunately I don't have a very vast network at the moment, but if you let me know where in north England you are I can see if I can find a few
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by acconrad 11y ago
Yes, both of those will be added!
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by acconrad 11y ago
Cool! I like that project, how did you source your feeds - directly from Google Places? My data is sourced in-house specifically because I didn't want to include globos that had crappy policies or insufficient equipment.
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by acconrad 11y ago
It doesn't matter from a business side of things, but since this is the Hacker News community, and not a fitness enthusiast community, I wanted to have some common ground that would be interesting to the HN community :)
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by acconrad 11y ago
So the original idea for this was that I wanted to find quality gyms in my area with vast arrays of equipment. I specifically disregarded globos like Planet Fitness and WorkOutWorld, which have shady contracts and terrible policies. So my i
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by acconrad 11y ago
Super fast performance, easy to develop in, and great functional programming environment with being able to call libraries from both Elixir and Erlang.
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by acconrad 11y ago
This is correct! You're likely in a smaller demographic where I don't have a lot of price information. I haven't fully fleshed-out how I want to handle this, originally I wanted to order by any that had a price (lowest to hig
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by acconrad 11y ago
Yes! I wanted to have community edits available by the end of the week, but it's been a crazy week for me (I'm a competitive powerlifter and I have a full time software development job) so it's not out yet. If you sign up on
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by acconrad 11y ago
I wondered if that lack of gender-netrual naming would catch someone's eye. It was an overly-subtle attempt to lampoon the gym culture you see (e.g. BroScienceLife), but right now the 4300 gyms we have are mostly centered around the Un
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by acconrad 11y ago
I'm a Rails developer so the transition was really smooth. I'm also very curious so I've tried a host of other languages in my time (Clojure, Haskell, Go, OcaML) so it wasn't too difficult to pick up. One thing I love is
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by acconrad 11y ago
For auth I forked my own build of the Passport hex. For uploads I used the Arc hex, and for SSL I used Letsencrypt though I eventually realized that Heroku charges $20/mo for SSL and I'm not accepting anything like credit cards ye

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