Hacker News: voiceclonr

New comment by voiceclonr in "How to Be Successful"

voiceclonr — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 01:57:16 +0000

This is a well written piece. However IMHO, one cannot lay down a path for success. Moderate success, yes - but huge success no (which is what this alludes to). Success doesn't refer to a rule book before manifesting. There are lot of great nuggets one could take from the article and apply - but I see them as little breadcrumbs that might lead to success. Even if it did, we have no way to prove or disprove success factors.

Best thing is to take the learnings, enjoy the journey towards potential success and try not to become emotionally invested into the end goal. It's super hard I know.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018"

voiceclonr — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:34:54 +0000

Interesting project! Kudos on shipping.

Ask HN: What's the best document parsing tool/SDK that you've heard of?

voiceclonr — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 14:46:49 +0000

I am looking to parse various documents (docx,ppt,pdf,pst etc), extract metadata, text etc for search. I'm looking into Apache Tika - but my gut tells me a native windows tool may be better long term. Can anyone refer to tools/SDK they've used or heard to be successful ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376081

Points: 1

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New comment by voiceclonr in "Running Costs of a SaaS app"

voiceclonr — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 22:00:04 +0000

Agreed. +1 this :)

New comment by voiceclonr in "Teaching Kubernetes"

voiceclonr — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:33:23 +0000

I tend to agree with you. Often, I see some of these stack decisions are forced by decision makers who want their design to look modern.

New comment by voiceclonr in "How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50M Fortune Vanished"

voiceclonr — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:56:11 +0000

Still have hard time believing he's going to be in jail for life. Also hard time to believe he was doing what HFTs don't do already.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Learn fundamentals of TensorFlow and deep learning, without a Ph.D"

voiceclonr — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:05:45 +0000

+1 Looks very interesting!

New comment by voiceclonr in "RethinkDB Postmortem"

voiceclonr — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 21:23:30 +0000

Grim read, but fantastically put together. Thanks for writing it up.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Ask HN: How to get word association from Google?"

voiceclonr — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:12:04 +0000

Thanks. It works for me atm as well. I wonder if Google will somehow integrate into their NLP api.

Ask HN: How to get word association from Google?

voiceclonr — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:48:41 +0000

If I go to Google and type "vpn vs", it automatically shows ["proxy","tor","remotedesktop"] associated words. Google's NLP API do not seem to provide list of associated words. Are there any pre trained corpus available or is there a way to programmatically get it via google ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13366227

Points: 3

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New comment by voiceclonr in "Show HN: RealIdeas.site (submit an idea, get 10 real ones back)"

voiceclonr — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 03:07:22 +0000

Neat idea! I think you should allow comments.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?"

voiceclonr — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:46:31 +0000

http://www.voiceclonr.com

Text to speech engine I built a while back. It was a fun project because I got to do some front end programming with React.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Introduction to Machine Learning for Developers"

voiceclonr — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 01:19:24 +0000

Never heard of it. Thanks for the pointer!

New comment by voiceclonr in "Introducing the Nextcloud Box"

voiceclonr — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 21:54:35 +0000

Agree. That's why I prefer to use cloud as they are replicated automatically.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Introducing the Nextcloud Box"

voiceclonr — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:46:29 +0000

Not a good idea. As a personal anecdote, I had my 1TB HP simplesafe drive crash and I lost lot of precious pictures from recent years [Before moving to cloud]. The drive was Western Digital and none of the recovery software worked. You run the risk of drive failures with these and also not easy to migrate data once data grows or hardware evolves.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Machine Learning in a Year"

voiceclonr — Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:55:10 +0000

good one!

New comment by voiceclonr in "Ask HN: Has anyone setup successful algo trading (retail)?"

voiceclonr — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 17:02:12 +0000

Interactive Brokers can be used as well (I have heard Oanda's fills are not as good as Interactive Brokers). I am looking to see if anyone has actually setup a profitable system.

Ask HN: Has anyone setup successful algo trading (retail)?

voiceclonr — Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:45:53 +0000

There was a recent thread on Zipline that had some interest. Would be interesting to have a survey to know if any retail trader has been successful setting up an automating trading system at all ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173199

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by voiceclonr in "Introduction to Zipline: A Trading Library for Python"

voiceclonr — Mon, 25 Jul 2016 22:43:32 +0000

I agree with you. I have spent my nights and weekends into trying to find an edge and am still looking. As a retail trader, it is very difficult to find anything but random data all over. I hope I will prove myself wrong someday, but as of now, I think a retail trader finding an edge is nearly impossible.

New comment by voiceclonr in "Statistics for Hackers [video]"

voiceclonr — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 17:24:40 +0000

Nice one!