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here’s a much better article with images of an actual reproduction: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a695541...

Slides With Friends | Software Engineer: Front-end/full-stack | REMOTE within USA, Canada, Latin America, Europe | Javascript/Vue.js | Full-time contract (4-6 months) | https://slideswith.com

We're building a platform for live group teaching, training, and team building (think interactive slide decks, live polls, games, and quizzes). We want to make group experiences more engaging, fun, and useful.

Our small, fully-remote team is looking to hire a full-time (contract) software engineer for 4-6 months to help us build product features and updates. You’ll work directly with our CTO to create and launch new features and make our product better. This is a central, hands-on contributor role and you'll build things that directly improve our customers lives (and see immediate results from the things you build).

We're looking for:

  - senior level work experience
  - strong vue.js/javascript skills
  - very good spoken English

For this role we're offering $4000-$8000/month depending on location and experience. All applications will be reviewed by a real person.

Full job description: https://darkgrey.notion.site/Senior-Front-end-Software-Engin...

Apply here: https://forms.gle/sTcNg2nC8ddUqrt88

I’ve been using Nhost for the past year and both the software and founders have been really great. There’s a vibrant discord community, an active group of contributors, and it all makes for a very productive stack.

Highly recommended!

This was the first thing that came to my mind

I just recently launched https://slideswithfriends.com for exactly this purpose — it's a slide-based game builder with a bunch games made for team building. Imagine Jackbox-meets-Powerpoint but designed for companies.

We have a lot of trivia games, some Quiplash-style games, photo sharing games, and other interaction slides that make for some really interesting and fun event options. And everything we have is customizable so you can add content specific to your company if you want.

Plus there's a sound board :)

This looks really neat and I'd love to connect and talk about partnering somehow.

I'm working on a related project[1] aimed at the same problem but with a slightly different take. We don't do game hosting and our software is more of a "build your own zoom games" platform with a slideshow/presentation UI. But I think a lot of companies probably want a dedicated host and would be happy to pay for it (I'd be interested to know what that breakdown looks like).

In terms of what games you're working on, I think you're on the right track with games that help create real connections and deeper relationships. It looks like remote work will be permanently elevated (not to current numbers, but estimates look like >300% above pre-pandemic levels[2]). Bottom line is I think the team bonding and remote closeness problem is here to stay.

[1] Slides With Friends — https://slideswith.com

[2] Predictions 2021 — https://go.forrester.com/blogs/employee-experience-in-2021/

I'm working on a game builder to make remote team events more fun — imagine a trivia or Jackbox-style game customized specifically for your company or team. The UI is mirrored after a presentation/slide builder (e.g. Powerpoint) but you can add all sorts of deeper interactions like multiple choice questions, vote-for-your-favorite-answer games, and even image uploads.

It's called Slides with Friends: https://slideswith.com

As you might expect this started as a pandemic side project, but it's since turned into a full-fledged company and we've had lots of demand to solve the very real and very difficult problem of creating team connection/cohesion remotely.

Message me if you're interested in this space, I'd love to talk!

Just applied.

I've been looking for something like this for the past few months — we've recently shipped our MVP and I'm gearing up for the long push to find good marketing channels and the right features/message to fit. I find it incredibly valuable to have good community support during this phase because there's often very little outside positive feedback.

And I personally love the bootstrapper focus and the entire SEAL concept (this was the first I'd heard of it).

Interesting feature release even though it doesn't impact many of us (e.g. 150k/yr buy-in). I'm very curious to see exactly what level of personalization and per-user optimization their Optimize360 suite offers. I think this is the sort of thing that is going to take enterprise testing to the next stage and probably give Optimizely and VWO a very hard time.

Also, side note, did Google borrow the 360 branding from Adobe or the other way around? http://www.adobe.com/marketing-cloud/web-analytics.html (see: Adobe Customer360)

This is awesome --> "In order to make research progress faster, we are additionally supplying a new version of a pre-trained Inception-v3 model that is ready to be fine-tuned or adapted to a new task. We demonstrate how to use this model for transfer learning on a simple flower classification task."

Fine-tuning these models for different applications has been a great way for me to build out new things without relying on an enormous fleet of K40s to train a new set from scratch. Lots of progress in this field, thanks to the whole team for releasing this.

"Valuations are based on what the company might accomplish (potential energy), not what it's actually accomplishing (kinetic energy)"...

I'm not exactly sure why but for some reason this metaphor irks me. Just seems like a stretch, I'd probably be happier leaving the actual physics terms out of a statistics/financial discussion.

I agree with you on this, but generally they'd have an easier job of it if they worked as a connected mesh rather than independent controllers. I can't say for certain but it doesn't seem like the added engineering time would be that much greater.

I agree with this entirely. I've been waiting patiently for a way to add microphone distance to my Echo and this is perfect for that... except it doesn't work that way.

I am very much hoping they fix it in the future and add a software layer to combine/route commands with one single wake word.

This is a better product than the original. They added one of the most requested features (audio out) and didn't remove anything important (unless you don't have a better plug-in speaker system).

The biggest oversight is now the fact that it can't work together with an existing Echo: Amazon is making us order these _using_ an Echo... but the two devices don't communicate at all and require individual wake words. I wanted this as an added mic for my existing system, not as a new independent system.

Big step in the right direction though.

Congrats guys this is pretty exciting. We've used unsplash in a lot of our projects (some pretty heavily) and it's always nice to see that the biggest source for original cc0 photos is alive and growing strongly.

Keep up the good work.

Hey HN, co-founder of Glyphs here. We're trying to make SVGs much much easier to use. The SVG format is in a similar place to where font-embedding was years ago when TypeKit was founded (somewhat complicated, multiple best-practices based on usage scenario, etc.) and we think there's a big demand for SVG that works for anyone.

Our app hosts SVG content for you, has a library of our own SVG imagery and icons, and delivers everything via cacheable JS-injection served through MaxCDN. Basically: add one line of code to your site and you have all of the benefits of SVG, one cacheable http-request, and 99% browser compatibility (we have a PNG fallback built-in).

I would absolutely love to know what you guys think.

Very cool! Love the inclusion of SVG and not just canvas, I'm personally very invested in that format so it's nice to see the tech being pushed forward.

It's been pretty clear for a while now that data has enormous financial and strategic value.. But that doesn't mean code _isn't_ the future. You really don't have much value out of one without the other, at least in the age where most of our data is not easily understood.

The biggest issue with our learning algorithms is that they are incredibly complicated and require high levels of mathematical understanding. The number of people driving forward machine-learning is small simply because it is such a difficult subject. There are many more people aggregating large and interesting collections of data. I think by releasing TensorFlow Google is encouraging data-collection built around their software; making it easier for a majority of people to benefit from machine learning while ensuring the continuation of their own product, code, data-collection, and ecosystem.

Excellent read. Especially interesting trying to figure out all of the behind the scenes reasons for writing this essay, timing, content, etc.

My co-founder is a woman and we have a somewhat similar dynamic: she doesn't write as much, doesn't like the publicity or argument that sometimes happens with a position in business: but at the end of the day she helps create a feeling of family in our team. I don't know if it is gender-based or just her personality, but it's nice to see someone in a similar (albeit much more successful) position getting some recognition.

I always love seeing clever ways to be random. Hadn't considered this one but it's a pretty good idea, and I'm sure there are even better ways to run with the basic concept (maybe analyzing color values of recent pinterest or instagram photos).

If you can find a private source of community-driven-randomness that'd be even better.

Interesting changes, seems like the trend of pulling items out of icon-based menus and into persistent nav is gaining speed.

I'm not sure how I feel about the full-width pages yet.. easier to read commit messages but stylistically I did like the icon menu on the side. The narrower version also seems ever-so-slightly easier to read, but it's hard to say without trying it first. Looking forward to demoing once the roll-out starts.

Very true. There's another one floating around somewhere about how good we are at estimating the IQ of other people. Pretty interesting.

We've had to deal with an onslaught of of free users at our startup https://glyphs.co/ quite a bit over the past few weeks: last week we took in something like 4k new user accounts.

I'm definitely a big fan of freemium, and specifically I really like limiting accounts by features (less by usage), but I think it's 100% imperative to control the rate at which new users are given access to your system. We're currently in beta which makes it easy (by only allowing users at our pace) but I think in your case (given the amount of processing required) it would have been very advantageous to build a line for the free account and let people wait for a bit. That builds demand, lets you control user-flow, and people who are very interested can pay to skip the line. Anyhow, just my thoughts, obviously every scenario is different and you guys know this area best.

"The beauty of the market is that we allow people to be Bayesian" [...] "People come in with some prior belief, but they can also follow prices to see what other people believe and may update their beliefs accordingly [...] participants in the market could focus their bets on the studies they felt most sure of, and as a result, rough guesses didn’t skew the averages as much."

It certainly isn't a fool-proof method of increasing accuracy, and it does favor popularity of a theory over other factors, but overall it's probably a nice layer of data to consider adding to the mix.

I find these breakdowns fascinating. As an enthusiast PC builder I occasionally consider running my own data-systems or servers... In the end though I'm glad I have guys like you putting these together: clearly an enormous amount of thought going into it. Thanks for the write-up.

Easy and very pretty, thanks for putting this together.

It is interesting to consider how some of these communities likely benefit from leaving their styles the same for a long time. Many of the biggest update very rarely: reddit, 4chan, etc... The familiarity to old users, simplicity and speed of an older design, and the added walling-of-the-garden that probably helps keep content quality up.