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bernatfp

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Building Human Lambdas | https://bernat.xyz
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bernatfp··on Foam – A Roam Research alternative with VSCode, Markdown and GitHub
I think the parent is referring to unlinked references: https://www.roamtips.com/home/roam-unlinked-references
bernatfp··on Amazon A2I is now generally available
Is anyone using it? I'm working on a human review / human in the loop platform that has some resemblance to it, while allowing for much greater customisation and flexibility.
bernatfp··on Show HN: SatoshiVPN – Create a private VPN server, no user registration required
Probably Ethereum or a stablecoin on top of the Ethereum blockchain. This would also open the door to supporting in-page transactions with Metamask, which might make a smoother experience.
bernatfp··on Show HN: SatoshiVPN – Create a private VPN server, no user registration required
I like the concept. Have you considered supporting payments in faster, transactionally cheaper cryptocurrencies?
bernatfp··on Ask HN: Instagram deleted my company handle for no reason, what should I do?
If you can get ahold of a Facebook Inc. employee they should be able to help out through the standard internal procedure (Oops).

Sources: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/14/facebook-oops-special-employ... and I am a former FB employee

bernatfp··on Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
We build highly customisable software for human in the loop operations. Our focus is on the software. We are completely agnostic to the human layer of the operation.
bernatfp··on Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
Great question! It really depends on what you need: Webflow, Zapier, Retool and Human Lambdas (disclaimer: what I'm working on) are my favorites.
bernatfp··on What Working at Stripe Has Been Like
I think he means role titles don't include seniority level
bernatfp··on Chariot is shutting down
FWIW Citymapper offers a similar service in London. Essentially carpooling with more seats. Admittedly though, they don't cover such long distances.
bernatfp··on Show HN: Swimlanes – A web app for creating sequence diagrams with Markdown
I use this tool a lot. Simple but effective!
bernatfp··on Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri
> The importance of the machine learning people that do AMAs on reddit (Lacune etc) [...]

I assume you're referring to LeCun?

bernatfp··on What New York Can Learn from Barcelona’s ‘Superblocks’
Sorry if this sounds pedantic, but the singular of "Superilles" is "Superilla".
bernatfp··on Deep learning for NLP resources
Surprising there is no mention of any CNN based methods for NLP. A different approach that seems to provide results on par with the state of the art in some NLP tasks [1].

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5882

bernatfp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2015)
Location: Edinburgh, UK / Barcelona

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Matlab, Julia, C, Java, Go, Hadoop, Pig, MongoDB, Redis, HTML, CSS, Javascript (Frontend and Node.js), Clojure.

Email: bernatfp@gmail.com

I am a Masters student in Artificial Intelligence at University of Edinburgh, graduating this Summer. I'm about to start my dissertation on algorithmic music composition using neural networks (LSTM to be precise). I also run my own side project, https://calloud.com

I am looking for interesting opportunities/projects that need versatile people with Machine Learning skills, or for Data Science work.

bernatfp··on Domain without dot (http://uz)
Don't think so. Works fine with Safari in my iPad.
bernatfp··on Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
I can attest this. For the rest of the year documentaries make the trick as well.
bernatfp··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
I'm working on a voicecall widget that lets businesses be called by their visits for free with just one click (using Flash and WebRTC). It's called Calloud (https://calloud.com ).

I'm doing it because I'm a big fan of tools like Olark or Zopim which are essentially the same but for live written communication (chat). Because some people prefer talking rather than typing, I'm selling a live voice communication alternative so websites can tailor to this preference as well.

bernatfp··on ClickInsights – One Click Email Surveys for Instant Feedback
This is one of these very simple yet useful ideas. It's much more likely my subscribers will respond to one question by clicking than by having to reply my email.
bernatfp··on What was your best passive income in 2014?
Yeah, but quite a relative issue depending on the exchange. The first thing you learn is that you can't sell at market prices, you just have to place some orders and wait. To be honest I made a few mistakes related to this when I was starting and lost some money. On Btc-e my orders aren't that large so there's nothing to worry about when placing them. It felt more risky on Bitstamp, and Kraken specially due to low volume, but I rarely have to trade there.
bernatfp··on What was your best passive income in 2014?
Not much at the moment:

Profits realized from a very long term Bitcoin investment: 10000$

Bitcoin miner: 600$ (profits) so far.

Now I'm covering the costs of running my own SaaS [1] with these profits to create a more sustainable business (I've lost confidence in Bitcoin from an investment standpoint). At this moment my SaaS has 2 trial users but no paying customers.

[1] https://calloud.com

bernatfp··on Show HN: Show HN
Many posts on PH aren't submitted by the creator of what is being posted. The main idea behind Show HN posts is posting your own creations. The public here is also more tech oriented than in PH - more product oriented.
bernatfp··on Show HN: Calloud – Let your visits call you from your website
Because all these services ask you for your phone number and shift the conversation to your phone, while with Calloud the conversation takes place in your computer and you don't have to give away your phone number. So, instead of interacting with your computer at the same time you are using your phone, everything happens on your browser. It is a more fluid and better experience.
bernatfp··on Show HN: Calloud – Let your visits call you from your website
Will take into account. To be honest, I've considered adding a trial option but can't afford to give away many accounts because I'm self funding it and there's no revenue to cover operating costs yet.
bernatfp··on Show HN: Calloud – Let your visits call you from your website
Hey, I'm the creator of Calloud. What else do you need to know? What has put you off? I've tried to keep it simple, communicating the basics on the landing page, trying to address more specific questions on the FAQ and added a demo at the bottom of the landing, where you can test call a voicemail.
bernatfp··on Show HN: Calloud – Let your visits call you from your website
Hey, thanks for your feedback! Calloud supports phone numbers from way more countries than Google Voice does, plus we are focused on building an awesome product for businesses, there are many things that can be done on top of our service, and we can't wait to roll them out. Additionally, Google Voice is expected to integrate with Hangouts (they are probably focusing more on B2C), so it might lose some of its current functionality http://phandroid.com/2014/03/18/google-voice-hangouts-coming...
bernatfp··on Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack? Beats Deal Suddenly Makes Sense
Something that I can see happening eventually. Externally, the audio jack is the most constraining part of the iPhone. Removing it would mean slimmer iPhones, and makes sense with this trend of bigger screens and slimmer devices.
bernatfp··on Apple To Abandon Headphone Jack? Beats Deal Suddenly Makes Sense
Not that impossible. I listen to music on my iPhone while charging it when I'm on my secondary laptop and Internet connection is too slow for streaming music over iTunes Match.
bernatfp··on Ask HN: Mentor Saturday
I used to feel this way too (knowing about a broad range of things, but thinking I was not good enough at anything specific to be "hireable"), but luckily I realised this is not necessarily bad. Generalists are ideal people to found a startup and they can be a huge asset to have at any company, especially at small companies / startups. And furthermore, don't push yourself too hard, at the end you're still a student. You can specialise later if you want.
bernatfp··on There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
I also wonder when is Apple going to update Safari with WebRTC support. It's something many users could really benefit from.
bernatfp··on How I'm using Twitter to acquire 100 uniques a day for my startup
The problem is that Twitter's filtered Streaming API has quite a small limit on the number of words that you can provide to match tweets. So, it would be impossible to scale.

A better option might be retrieving tweets from the Firehose Streaming API, but one would need a massive backend to handle it. Additionally, access has to be requested to Twitter and it's very rarely granted. Alternatively, Datasift or Gnip can be better sources for the firehose, but I think they only provide a fraction (like 1/10) of the real amount of tweets that go through the actual firehose.

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