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by eob 10y ago
We use it pretty extensively at Cloudstitch and like it on the whole. A few commenters mentioned poor browser support, but we haven't experienced any problems other than IE<=10. In many ways Polymer is just a shim for the WebCompone
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by eob 11y ago
I was mugged by a gang in Rio and, for a little over a minute, had a knife shoved against the front of my neck and a gun into my back. For me the experience was so bizarrely, intensely focused. The world didn't exist outside gazing int
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by eob 11y ago
I asked this question of the Boston VC community as a soon-to-be father, and the resounding advice was: "wait until the baby is at least a few months old" There are a lot of logical reasons for this that you already know, so I&#x2
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by eob 11y ago
This gives Foxconn/Honhai a globally recognized brand to put on products, which is a big deal for the growth of Taiwan's economy. Taiwan has gotten decades growth by manufacturing high-tech products for other countries (phones, lc
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by eob 11y ago
I think famous outspoken thinkers (Chomsky and Harris.. RMS comes to mind, Hitchens, Buckley, etc) can sometimes harbor off-putting personalities as a side effect of the situation they find themselves in: being a symbolic figurehead of a pa
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by eob 11y ago
We (Cloudstitch) would love to help you migrate your GSheet-driven pages onto our platform. We provide all the middleware tooling to run a GSheet-driven page or web app at production scale.
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by eob 11y ago
My first thought when reading the docs was: this is a game changer for the efficiency of applied ML (nlp, vision, speech) phd students. Coming from a school where there's a bit of a libertarian "write it all yourself, from scratch
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by eob 11y ago
To put this into the concrete terms of a story.. I used to be in the NLP group of a good school on the east coast. I was trying to reproduce an algorithm from a paper that won Best Paper from a good school on the west coast. A postdoc from
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by eob 11y ago
I agree there will probably be a performance lag for a while, but long-term I think the WC model wins out because it brings encapsulation and reuse into the formal suite of W3C specs. That's not a big deal for any one web app, but a hu
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by eob 11y ago
I've been using Polymer for a few months now after following the WebComponent spec for quite a while, and I'm really liking what I'm seeing. While it can admittedly lend itself to a very Java Swing-feeling development flow, t
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by eob 11y ago
I got to see Kerry present this work at UIST last year and it was very cool. The spreadsheet provides a great visual way to interact with both the API you're pulling data from and the web app you're ultimately providing it to. Wi
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by eob 11y ago
Hi folks -- what a surprise to check HN and see my own article. Here's a summary of the reports I've gotten since publishing it the other week: 1) It works. Most likely problem you'll have is installing the Python libraries I
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by eob 11y ago
That's really cool, and perfect for people like me who do everything in email (as opposed to having offline reader apps)!
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Four reasons startup founders should go to hackathons(medium.com)
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by eob 11y ago
This is precisely what we do at Cloudstitch. If anyone is interested in this model please reach out!
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Managing State Across an Ant Swarm of AWS Lambda Tasks(medium.com)
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by eob 11y ago
Hi finnn -- we're on it!
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by eob 11y ago
Thanks andrenotgiant! We're keeping a close eye on the SEO implications of this approach. Even with Google's snapshotting the page post-Javascript execution, I think there's still value in offering pre-rendering, e.g. to redu
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by eob 11y ago
Thanks for the feedback and encouragement, encoderer. All very helpful. We know there's a lot we can do to improve the landing page (well, every page). Totally feel you re: billing. At a certain point, you just have to kick it out the
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by eob 11y ago
Absolutely -- there's a whole interesting world of inside-the-firewall applications of this. Enterprise-style programming certainly has an important role to play, but we're pretty bullish on the role that lighter-weight solutions
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by eob 11y ago
Hi everyone, Ted from Cloudstitch here. Thanks for kicking the tires and giving feedback. We're particularly interested in hearing what domains you might be interested in using this for. We're going to be building out as many reus
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by eob 11y ago
Thank you!
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by eob 11y ago
Hi skrowl -- We know and understand your hesitation. It's coming this week. We'll have a free tier that we're aiming to make pretty broad in capability.
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by eob 11y ago
This is something we've been hearing from a lot of folks -- spreadsheet-driven websites are actually a really popular practice that we think should get more love and attention. I'd love to help you package that site you made for c
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Show HN: Cloudstitch – Build and share spreadsheet-powered web content(cloudstitch.io)
84 points by eob 11y ago|31 comments
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by eob 12y ago
It's a fair question, but from my heydays doing ML research even good libraries can be pretty revolutionary. The engineering-side of ML is still in relative infancy. For a great example look at all the papers Andrew McCallum's gro
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by eob 12y ago
I think I started, and then shelved, Anathem three times before finally powering through the first third of the book and like you was hooked once I did.
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by eob 12y ago
Interesting.. so what's the backstory behind the company that got the contract? It may just be the PIs have a good track record..
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by eob 12y ago
The Shakespeare sonnet wasn't written by a computer. IIRC Nate just had a text editor with a type-ahead suggest box that was weighted by an n-gram lookup into your corpus of choice. It was up to the human to choose which word to use.
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by eob 12y ago
This would be against the spirit of the offer, but I wonder if there is any easy way to arbitrage that credit into cold hard cash with low effort. E.g., boot up a bitcoin mining cluster (though this particular idea would obviously yield low

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