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   Orchestra 1.0, an open-source system for Robotic Process Automation(blog.b12.io)

   3 points by marcua 8y ago|0 comments
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   B12 Bishkek: How we extended our team in Central Asia(blog.b12.io)

   49 points by marcua 8y ago|14 comments
3. 33.▲
   by marcua 9y ago

   Good question! When a designer is extracting content from a customer's old website, they save all of the structured information about that customer in a single context, keyed by the customer's ID.
4. 34.▲
   by marcua 9y ago

   Hi all! B12 co-founder here. We'd love to answer any questions you have, or help you get started in using Kinase!
5. 35.▲
   by marcua 10y ago

   Thanks for your reply, @mamikonyana! Through Orchestra, the human-assisted AI work platform we open sourced ( http://orchestra.b12.io/ ), our customers benefit from a high-touch experience - equivalent to what you would expec
6. 36.▲
   by marcua 10y ago

   Hi there! I'm Adam, the co-founder and CTO of B12. Happy to answer questions!
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   Fun with Voter Data: How campaigns can use your public voter participation data(github.com)

   1 points by marcua 11y ago|0 comments
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   by marcua 11y ago

   (Orchestra dev here) If you're curious how it can be used, Daniel Haas put together a wonderful example of how Orchestra could be used in a newsroom: http://orchestra.readthedocs.org/en/latest/example_use.html
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   Orchestra: An open-source system to orchestrate teams of experts and machines(orchestra.unlimitedlabs.com)

   121 points by marcua 11y ago|20 comments
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    An N=1 guide to pursuing startups after grad school(blog.marcua.net)

    5 points by marcua 11y ago|0 comments
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    Burgernomics 101: Crunching the data on Burgers and Obesity(blog.locu.com)

    9 points by marcua 13y ago|3 comments
12. 42.▲
    by marcua 14y ago

    We're actually as interested as you in this. Doing data analysis on hipsters was fun, but we're hoping it's the start of much deeper and more meaningful studies. Joining our data with other macro- and micro-economic datasets will be aweso
13. 43.▲
    by marcua 14y ago

    Awesome! We're looking into making a more general-purpose city explorer. And thanks for the feedback---we're on it!
14. 44.▲
    by marcua 14y ago

    Thanks a bunch! On it!
15. 45.▲
    by marcua 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Sending to our designer!:)
16. 46.▲
    by marcua 14y ago

    It's OK to feel sad. If you start feeling worse, reach out to someone. Happy to talk if you need---email in profile.
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    The Human Side of Crowdsourcing(blog.locu.com)

    3 points by marcua 14y ago|0 comments
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    How Locu's crowdsourced task decomposition process works(blog.locu.com)

    6 points by marcua 14y ago|0 comments
19. 49.▲
    by marcua 15y ago

    Thanks for submitting! The nice thing about our publishing model is that I can edit the document with suggestions, so send them my way!
20. 50.▲
    by marcua 16y ago

    You don't ask assembly line workers to build an amazing car on their own in a single step. Similarly, you shouldn't ask low-paid information workers to synthesize amazing text on their own in a single step. I think that your HIT design hig
21. 51.▲
    by marcua 16y ago

    That's probably the balanced approach. I'll try to do it if I get some free time.
22. 52.▲
    by marcua 16y ago

    Thanks! My problem is not being able to find a discussion that already exists. The "post to YC" bookmarklet would create a duplicate submission, so I needed something slightly different.
23. 53.▲
    by marcua 16y ago

    Thanks! I thought about that, but there might be multiple threads for that URL, so I wanted to let the user know there might be multiple. Should I open multiple tabs?
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    Show HN: What Would Hacker News Say?(blog.marcua.net)

    11 points by marcua 16y ago|9 comments
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    Debugging with a Circular Buffer(evanjones.ca)

    4 points by marcua 16y ago|2 comments
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    by marcua 16y ago

    You avoid locks by serializing transactions at any site. Since you're not waiting on disk (in memory DB) and each partition runs on its own block of memory and has its own cpu/thread, you simply don't let two transactions on the same parti
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    by marcua 16y ago

    Depending on 1) The storage engine you're using, and, 2) What other queries you run against this table You could cluster the table on the 'time' column. That would store the data in the table in the same order as it appears in the index, a
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    Roundup of papers about Twitter at the WWW 2010 conference(blog.marcua.net)

    1 points by marcua 16y ago|0 comments
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    Notes from NoSQL Live Boston(blog.marcua.net)

    14 points by marcua 17y ago|1 comments
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    Why Social Computing Is the Future Of Interaction(groups.csail.mit.edu)

    1 points by marcua 17y ago|0 comments