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by fnbr 10y ago
I agree. This works until it doesn't. (Rap) Genius tried this a few years back, and was killing other lyrics sites until Google got wind of it. They've never really recovered. https://techcrunch.com/2013/12&#x
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by fnbr 10y ago
It would probably depend on how closely related the tasks are. For instance, there's been a few papers talking about "transfer learning" where a network is trained on video data for the equivalent of tens of thousands of hour
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by fnbr 10y ago
I've spoken to a few people who are interested in applying machine learning to hydroponic farming with the aim of creating vertical farms. If you could isolate the different rooms sufficiently, you could run machine learning to optimis
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by fnbr 10y ago
I know that we're pretty unhappy with Okta at work because they recently acquired & shut down Stormpath, which we were using for authentication. It's made us reluctant to trust Okta & similar SaaS.
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by fnbr 10y ago
He answered a similar question (mine) below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13895615
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by fnbr 10y ago
Thanks- that's what I thought, but I wasn't sure.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Between this and the efforts by police to get Alexa recordings [1], having voice assistants in your home is looking risky. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/amazon-wont-disc...
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by fnbr 10y ago
Expanding, what do you think about team that are working part-time while working to develop MRR that would make them ramen profitable? How negative of a signal is that?
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by fnbr 10y ago
I didn't know that mkdir took flags- thanks for that. That's really handy. Reference for -p for anyone else who doesn't know: > -p Will create nested directories, but only if they don't exist already. [1] [1] https:&
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Useful bash oneliners(finbarr.ca)
3 points by fnbr 10y ago|2 comments
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by fnbr 10y ago
I work for a reasonably high end software consulting firm. We find most of the work through word of mouth or in-bound responses due to projects we've put on the web. Two suggestions: 1. Patrick McKenzie ( http://www.kalzumeus
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by fnbr 10y ago
Where did you find them? eBay?
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by fnbr 10y ago
That's absolutely true, but you can serve both. Look at Github- they have Github, which is low cost and self serve, and Github enterprise.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Is Price Intelligently an automated service, or do you provide consultants/analysts to do the analysis?
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by fnbr 10y ago
> There are too many factors obfuscating the landscape in real markets On the one hand, yes, but on the other hand, machine learning gives us a powerful set of tools to analyse these factors, which we could use to come up with a model t
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by fnbr 10y ago
I agree with this. We've been looking at pricing services suggested in this thread, and we've been self-selecting away from the extremely expensive services (e.g. Price Intelligently [1]), as that indicates that the service is tar
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by fnbr 10y ago
Are you aware of any ways to actually estimate demand curves? It seems like a really powerful way to price products, but no one appears to do it.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Also, "you should code like that because that's how we code here" isn't a good reason. If you don't have a good rationale for the changes, I would consider not making them.
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Ask HN: How do you set prices?
584 points by fnbr 10y ago|175 comments
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by fnbr 10y ago
Let me know if you're interested in talking about pricing (probably once the work from launching settles down)- I'm working on a pricing analytics service and would love to get your thoughts/feedback.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Hey! I think this is a fantastic tool. There's only one thing: CHARGE MORE! This is easily worth $5 per month per user. It's Github, but lean and fast. There are very few people who would sign up at $1 per month who wouldn't
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by fnbr 10y ago
Ah, fair enough. Too bad, I'd be really interested in hearing how you do that. I work for a consulting firm as a data scientist, and we have a lot of issues with data size. I'm aware of the tricks for image data (rotating & fl
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by fnbr 10y ago
Are there any public posts discussing how you augment data? Also, what do you use you spin up multiple jobs in parallel using EC2?
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by fnbr 10y ago
What worries me about this is the liability- if you mess up someone's asylum claim, they can die, or suffer extreme harm (e.g. if they're tortured). I'd be interested in seeing how DoNotPay manages their liability.
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by fnbr 10y ago
I could see it being some sort of shared memory problem, where the system is misallocating memory because it's running out of free space.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Exactly. It's hard to say that they've had massive successes when none of the companies have returned money to their investors. That's proof that you've succeeded. The rigor imposed by the SEC makes it a lot harder to fa
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by fnbr 10y ago
This is the dark underbelly of startups. I think it's important to recognize that this happens- founders keep thinking they can close the next funding round, sign the next big deal, and as a result, employees pay the price. I think it&
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Unit tests make you write down your assumptions(finbarr.ca)
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by fnbr 10y ago
I'll shoot you an email.
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by fnbr 10y ago
Have you done any pricing experiments? I've been tossing around some ideas about how to optimize pricing through machine learning, but I haven't been able to validate the idea at all. It would look something like: 1. Use historica

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