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pk78··on Ask HN: Does anyone use keyboard/mouse extra buttons for coding?
Pretty much the same mappings here. Excellent mouse!
pk78··on Ask HN: How do you organize your knowledge?
Developed a website for this (free to use): https://www.mapsofmind.com

It's a more flexible mind map that allows adding urls, videos, images, richtext etc.,

I have different maps for different topics - like "things I want to learn", "my ideas in XYZ", "project A" etc.,

pk78··on Turn to RSS Feeds to Regain Control of the World Wide Web
Been using it for over a decade now. My only source of info.

It was google reader -> digg -> ino reader -> self hosted TTRSS (using now).

Anyone got suggestions for good non-mainstream rss? in area of Tech/dev/design/ui/business/finance etc.,

pk78··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Thank you!
pk78··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Yea, I was thinking about a similar approach - will try it soon! Thanks for the suggestion!
pk78··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Because I launched it as a free app... I didn't have any confidence in it and at that moment, there was no way for me to accept payments internationally.

I recently revamped the app, added features like real-time collaboration, chrome-app integration etc., and put that under a subscription. But have no time to market or spread the word around. Moreover, I'm not sure how to get free users to convert over to paid so, that's why exactly why I think this site is an apt example for this topic.. haha!

pk78··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Thank you!
pk78··on Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Mind mapping: https://www.mapsofmind.com

More of a scratching my own itch kind of thing. Has over 30k registered users but I don't even get enough to pay for my server! LOL.. So meh.. doesn't matter...

pk78··on Show HN: I made a job board that doesn't allow HackerRank tests
Similar collection of jobs: https://github.com/poteto/hiring-without-whiteboards
pk78··on OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding
Fair enough. If it's for potential customers, then it's probably better to make the email part optional?

- IMHO, a deck consists of slides(s) so a slide deck = set of slides. So using just 67 "slide decks" would have been a better title.

pk78··on OpenDeck: 1,200 startup slide decks by category – Team, Market, Funding
2 things:

- Why do you require an email if it's a free download?

- Link goes to your google drive where no more than 67 decks are listed. Why not just put a link to a single zip file on your landing page?

pk78··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
self-hosted TT-RSS
pk78··on Mastering PostgreSQL Administration [pdf]
Thanks for sharing this!
pk78··on Mastering PostgreSQL Administration [pdf]
First time I'm hearing about soyoustart. I've been under the assumption that Linode's instances are the cheapest ones, but the one you linked is <1/2 the price of Linode's equivalent!

Can you share your experience with using soyoustart?

pk78··on K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers
Not exactly a dev-specific tool, but I created a mind map for storing all the interesting stuff I've read/want to read in different formats than just plain text:

https://mapsofmind.com

No restriction on "topics" or "maps" or anything. Fully free to use.

pk78··on Show HN: Kinopio.club – visual thinking, brainstorming tool
Hey! Nice tool! I created a similar mind mapper a while back - it's completely free to use: https://mapsofmind.com

If someone is looking for a similar tool, do take a look! :)

pk78··on Show HN: TradesViz – An advanced trades management and analysis platform
Hi all!

I just launched my second product (first was: https://mapsofmind.com) - TradesViz: An complete trade logging and analysis platform.

The goal of TradesViz is to assist regular traders to manage and analyze their trades very easily. Most current platforms are either too expensive for beginners or are very limited in what you can do so I tried to address a lot of those pain points while adding features which many traders wished they had in their trade logging platform - one of those features being very flexible charting for any trade on TradesViz.

I'd really appreciate any feedback, opinions! :)

I've also written a few posts on how some features on TradesViz work here: https://www.tradesviz.com/blog/

pk78··on Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
Replying to my own comment to update on the issue: The issue seems to be related to session-id and CSRF token not being correct. Unfortunately, I would need to try a clean install (I probably messed with some Django settings) and test again which I can't do right now due to other work that I have. So, for now, I've just disabled fr locale totally - meaning, you will only see the website in English. Since you mentioned that the translation is bad, I'm not sure how helpful it will be to just leave a bad translation as default. Sorry about this!
pk78··on Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
-removed comment-

Edit: It still appears to be an issue - I'll post an update here after I fully fixed it.

pk78··on It’s Time to Get Back to RSS
Same! Started from: Google reader -> Digg reader -> Ino reader -> tried a bunch of other things and didn't like any -> settled on a self-hosted TT-RSS instance.
pk78··on Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
Hey! I just saw your reply.

No, I don't use any framework (still haven't had the time to learn any) - it's just ES5.

pk78··on Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
Hey! Sorry for the late response. By default only English was available but I found a lot of my users we from France, so I added the French language support using Google translate - that's why the translation is poor.

I'll try to add a way to switch locale to English or do you think it's better to keep just English as the only language till I can get other languages translated professionally?

Edit: Added language dropdown on the top-right of the landing page.

pk78··on Ask HN: What's your Django side project?
https://mapsofmind.com

Django - channels - celery

Another project to be launched soon that uses a similar stack. Just waiting on stripe activation.

pk78··on AI Winter
and in how many recent applications has this "old" symbolic "AI" surpassed ML? I agree with the parent commenter.

>"hit something of a brick wall decades ago"

Is true. Why do you disagree? What improvements did "old-school, mostly symbolic AI" bring to the current field of research?

Sure, ML has failures - but those failures are in applications and fields where old school symbolic AI can't even reasonably be applied to. We have to start somewhere and just using symbolic AI is far behind in terms of the requirements we have currently.

>"How many layers do you need and why? How many training cases do you need and why? What has the network learned and how do you know that? What important things has the network not learned? When will it fail?"

A lot of these issues have been addressed in many recent papers. A lot of these papers have been solely focused on understandable/explainable machine learning which is an overarching topic that covers all your questions.

>"Until you can answer these questions, you're not doing science."

So, you are essentially saying a large part of CS academia is not doing "science". I'm not sure what kind of "science" you have done to make such comments. But I'm pretty sure there are plenty of researchers out there who are far more of an expert than you are in this field would wholly disagree with you.

pk78··on Show HN: MLJAR – build machine learning models without coding
I did not realize you started working on this from 2016. I guess you could have easily commercialized this then since were way ahead of the competition. But I do understand that it's hard to offer this as stand-alone service. Anyways, good luck with your project!
pk78··on Show HN: MLJAR – build machine learning models without coding
Aren't there many similar tools out there? like IBM cloud, Google's AutoML etc., Why did you decide to create something like this? I'm interested in hearing your opinions on what additional/new values does your service provide over the existing similar SaaS tools.
pk78··on Ask HN: Favorite teachers on YouTube?
I'm surprised no one has mentioned smarter everyday's destin. Great guy! Has excellent content and would probably be an amazing teacher at a school/uni.
pk78··on Show HN: Open source non-linear notepad app
Nice app! I created a similar app a while back. The difference is that you can also connect the boxes(a mind map like concept) you create, otherwise, the click-anywhere-to-add kinda feature is similar. I'd appreciate it if you check it out - it's https://www.mapsofmind.com
pk78··on Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26
I was able to get Inoreader to visually look very similar to Digg reader. I do not want to use Feedly yet because the free version seems to too restricted. I'll try using Inoreader for few days before I make a decision.
pk78··on Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26
Any suggestions for alternatives? I tried Inoreader, Feedly, Old reader - didn't like any of them! :( Been using Digg for several years now and would like something similar to this!
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