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by brd 1y ago
lemongrasscloud.com | Senior Kafka Engineer | Hybrid (Chicago) Lemongrass is a SAP focused consultancy support customers as they look to keep up with SAP's "migration to the cloud". We not so infrequently run into Frankenstei
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Ask HN: Where to Find Kafka Folks?
1 points by brd 1y ago|1 comments
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by brd 2y ago
I'm reading a lot of comments here that are defensive about their phone usage. I think that misses the point. It's fine to chase productivity (real or otherwise) and we can all rationalize how we burn our spare minutes: decompress
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by brd 3y ago
I won't even bother clicking this click bait title. I learned Pascal as a sophomore in high school and by my senior year I knew I'd never touch it again. At the time it was a great introductory language but there's very littl
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by brd 3y ago
MTurk has had this issue for years. If you tried to us MTurk to do any text or image labeling since at least 2018 you were majority of the time getting output from a poorly functioning ML system.
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by brd 5y ago
No, we've got our own fine tuning pipeline and initial tests showed better performance without traditional stem/lem processing so we dropped it from our classification pipelines and haven't seen a need to revisit.
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by brd 5y ago
I really appreciate how accessible SpaCy has made NLP work but their NER is definitely low accuracy. Where stem/lem felt critical to successful NLP processing a few years ago, we've found stem/lem work to be much less importa
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John McAfee dies by suicide inside prison in Barcelona(nypost.com)
41 points by brd 5y ago|2 comments
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by brd 5y ago
I'm not at all surprised to see this. The writing has been on the wall that Hitachi has an appetite for getting into enterprise software. 5-ish years ago they bought an SAP infrastructure shop that I used to work with when I consulted
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by brd 6y ago
This makes me uneasy. The fact that there will be regulatory investigations should also concern you since a solution like this could easily be implicated in misleading retail investors. Simple string matching isn't going to cut it, you
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by brd 6y ago
Amusingly enough, I've got a document that's essentially a list of ideas where the business model is spurious at best and on that list is a solution almost identical to what was built here. I appreciate that someone took the dive
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by brd 6y ago
As an industry we're letting history repeat itself and making all the same mistakes. There are different kinds of developers. At it's most base form, you have systems focused developers and algorithmic focused developers. Sure the
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by brd 6y ago
My guess is theres some sort of yet to be identified global issue. Seems Comcast has been spotty in parts of the US, slack is down, youtube was briefly inaccessible for me, etc.
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by brd 6y ago
The US in particular has taken the pursuit of convenience to extremes and the abuse of plastics is one of the clearest examples of that. Most packaging should be glass, paper, or metal. Fewer things should be so disposable. One thing I wish
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by brd 6y ago
Having consulted for a major glass manufacturer I can assure you that recycled glass is a coveted resource. It's easier to work with and it's less energy intensive. I wasn't involved much in that side of the business so I don
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by brd 6y ago
I've been talking to as many companies as I can during all of this. The surge is not evenly distributed but a lot of companies are seeing surprising upticks in online traffic and sales. The big question though is how long will this las
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by brd 7y ago
China is 2x the emitter that the US is and it's going to get worse. China has more than doubled their per capita emissions in the last 20 years. Many other countries will follow suit. The US and other more developed economies are plate
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by brd 7y ago
I don't understand the whataboutism happening in response to this article. Countries do bad thing sometimes, the US most certainly does. But can we not just be happy that there's some visibility being created about bad acts/a
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by brd 8y ago
The US was researching comparable systems (and smaller) back in the mid 2000s. I knew a few people involved in those programs and seriously considered joining. Things went very quiet on that front, I've heard no news on those programs
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by brd 8y ago
I've never worked in the industry but I've been casually studying about it for the last 10 years or so. I'm well aware of the roots of our current agriculture system stemming from the dust bowl. I've spent a good amount
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by brd 8y ago
I'm hoping for a single solid study establishing either A) alternative farming practices that are reasonably efficient and profitable to highlight a way for smaller scale farmers to thrive. B) the negative health effects of some of th
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by brd 8y ago
I cannot wait for the day that the US seriously revisits the farming subsidies and agricultural practices we've adopted. Everytime I read about modern, large scale farming I'm a little more disturbed by the norms we're establ
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by brd 8y ago
Absolutely this. We're actively building a system to better monitor effectiveness of social content and it's amazing hearing the relief from people when they're seeing numbers for the first time that look like actual KPIs ver
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by brd 8y ago
I have a doctor friend who's made it a habit to recommend that patients use GoodRx anytime they go to pick up prescriptions. Doctors can only be so involved in the pharmacy side of the transaction and a lot of pharmacists aren't a
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by brd 8y ago
"Big data" analytics pointed specifically at social media data. Netbase and Crimson Hexagon are two good examples of incumbents in the space.
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by brd 8y ago
I always thought Klout was a useless vanity metric. Since starting a company that operates in the social listening space I've had chances to do quick sanity checks against Klout scores and they've proven to be consistently less th
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by brd 8y ago
Glad to see this subject surface on HN. This is a topic that's near and dear to me, to the point that over time I've accidentally cultivated my closest friendships almost exclusively with people who share this interest/capaci
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by brd 8y ago
"(#200) Access to this data is temporarily disabled for non-active apps or apps that have not recently accessed this data due to changes we are making to the Facebook Platform. https://developers.facebook.com/status&#x2
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by brd 8y ago
1) Just page-id/posts. 2) Our CTO was originally testing with an old token he had from a previous pet project. Our company's API access was submitted for approval sometime in the last couple weeks. 3) Low volume, thousands a day a
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by brd 8y ago
We were retrieving posts and comments from specific pages. We're working with a marketing agency and were going through a benign data collection process of one of their clients.

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