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by vikp 12y ago
Just to clarify, we weren't accessing any Guyanese databases. And as far as I know, nothing illegal was going on.
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by vikp 12y ago
I thought this way before, and looked down on what I had made, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that its more about how well the approach works and what it teaches you than about the technical details. I definitely wouldn'
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Learning to code kept me sane when I was a diplomat(vikparuchuri.com)
100 points by vikp 12y ago|46 comments
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by vikp 12y ago
TulaLens -- http://www.tulalens.org Yelp for low-income people in the developing world. They just did a pilot in Hyderabad (India), and helped pregnant women living in slum areas discover hospitals around them offering better,
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by vikp 12y ago
This is great, brandonb, and I love to see people making tools that raise awareness. If anyone is looking for this in iOS app form, I made something a few months ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/heartgram-phy
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by vikp 12y ago
I'm not seeing any compelling reasons or examples on your landing page about why this is a better fit for the educational market than something more general, like Parse. Digging more into your docs show that you have specific endpoints
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Hipvote, gamifying congress since yesterday(hipvote.us)
3 points by vikp 12y ago|1 comments
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by vikp 12y ago
What I'm working on: Turfly ( http://www.turf.ly ) Why it's cool: You get to capture real-life territory by running and walking through it. Just keep your phone in your pocket. Compete with your friends if you want.
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by vikp 12y ago
We made this over the weekend. Getting more people to signup will help us test with real-world data and optimize. It is fun, I promise! Any comments are very welcome.
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Show HN: Turf.ly, our weekend hackathon project. Sign up to help(turf.ly)
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by vikp 12y ago
Your comment is definitely interesting, and I will remember it for more than 10 minutes. But the real question isn't "is what people do in their free time a good thing?", it is "is what they could do in their free time
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by vikp 12y ago
This is interesting. One question and one semi-question: 1. Do "Big Men" first come into any semblance of power through redistribution (I give my food to Tom down the street, now he is my first follower), or does it start some ot
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by vikp 12y ago
Humans value conformity more than we care to admit. There are a couple of studies in this vein, but one from Baylor shows that people in groups punish others who are more generous, even when the generosity benefits everyone[1]. The author
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Show HN: Scan, a simple automated essay scoring server(github.com)
1 points by vikp 13y ago|0 comments
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by vikp 13y ago
I wish that I could switch back to a "dumbphone", but as a web and mobile developer, it would be infinitely harder to effectively make tools targeting the smartphone audience if I were not a part of it. So while I hate the produc
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by vikp 13y ago
Amazon had a crazy long term focus: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/04/why-amazon-... . Their lack of a profit seems to be intentional, in that Jeff Bezos is willing to sacrifice sho
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Show HN: ShareMyTime, an easy way for others to book your time(sharemyti.me)
1 points by vikp 13y ago|0 comments
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by vikp 13y ago
NIV (non-immigrant visa, like a typical tourist visa) interviews are the worst. Imagine sitting in a chair, behind bullet proof glass, with a room full of people in front of you. You and the other interviewing officers (I was in a very sma
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by vikp 13y ago
Oh man. "Papers, Please" is way too realistic. I used to be a Foreign Service officer, and part of my job was doing visa interviews/approvals. Playing feels very similar to the job (minus random in game events, etc). I tri
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by vikp 13y ago
The interesting part (for me at least), and the real reason that you guys are having a debate at all, is because our notion of value is so far abstracted from human necessities these days that its hard to put a finger on what value is. Ther
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by vikp 13y ago
Interesting stuff, although it would be nice to see more analysis and less tables/charts. Some regression lines would also be good, and help in interpreting correlations. I was wondering how your post got 3 million facebook shares, th
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by vikp 13y ago
I think the thing that is most often missing from educational software (and most online course delivery formats) is the most important thing: motivation. The teachers that I most fondly remember weren't the ones that taught me the most
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by vikp 13y ago
It really would be. I was hoping that this "coding club" would do something like what you described, but it seems to be more of a pay-for-learning approach.
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by vikp 13y ago
I made something similar a few months ago, also using Django: https://github.com/equirio/movide . It's really hard to get teachers on board in a bottom-up way. There are a couple of classes using it, but it too
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by vikp 13y ago
I just open sourced the code: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/snapcheck . Can verify, nothing tricky going on.
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by vikp 13y ago
I made a site to check if you are affected by this leak: http://www.snapcheck.org . Happy new year, everyone (although on a bad note...)
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by vikp 13y ago
Thanks for the link, interesting stuff. It may actually be easier to model "coherence" by using natural language processing on the midi file pre-render. It is very hard to get coherence features that work across an entire piece.
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by vikp 13y ago
I can't vouch for this service at all, but it looks like it would meet your needs: http://www.macincloud.com/
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Making music automatically with markov chains and genetic algorithms(vikparuchuri.com)
4 points by vikp 13y ago|2 comments
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by vikp 13y ago
I've been bouncing the idea around in my head for a while to predict the weather in an area from a photostream (ie flickr, twitter, etc). More brightness -> hotter is a simple correlation, but you could extract a lot of interesting

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