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Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
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Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
#202https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7u3f9rllmb1jbx/Screen%20Shot%2020... A utilty for finding and exploring internal rhyme schemes in poems and songs. I made this in order to better show people just how complex a rap artist's rhyme combinations can get. This was created with CMU's pronunction dictionary ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Pronouncing_Dictionary ) The screen shot shows a subset of the rhyme combos found in the…
You should incorporate the metre of the music itself to help wtih identifying rhymes. For example, the middle chunk of your example is missing the full picture of the rhyming from the 'reality' part onwards, specifically where it's missed 'he won't have it, he' with 'have it, he' being on the same beat as 'reality' before it. I think the timing will help you a lot rather than just trying to notice punctuation. After…
The reason 'have it' wasn't matched is because the vowel phoneme in the word 'have' is: "AE" whereas the example in the screenshot was matching combos with successive vowels "AH - IH". So 'have' didn't match that scheme. I agree that these should match, and have been throwing around the idea of matching similar sounding phonemes together.
I completely agree though, the metre/rhythm plays a huge part in a poet or rapper's flow and you don't get the full story without incorporating it. The issue is that I haven't found a way to programmatically pull the metre from a song, and rapper's don't generally keep track of their metre, let alone put it online in a machine readable format (though I'm sure you could find ones for hugely popular songs like 'Lose Yourself' online!).
I am interested in figuring this out though, and have been throwing around ideas for people to simply generate metre for songs by having a tool that simply allows users to match words to times in a song. Though I'm not sure how scalable that is, or how to create such a tool that is drastically simple and fast to use, because otherwise it defeats the point. My hope is that there'd be a way to algorithmically parse the audio and look for inflection points in a song for where words might lie but I've done no research towards that end. digression: This kinda tech would probably be useful for generating 'sing-a-longs'
Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
#203Massive multiplayer browser game I've been working on with meteor.js. http://imgur.com/cryCE2s
That looks awesome. Would you mind briefly describing what technologies you're using for the graphics?
I rendered .png files with the 3d program Maya. Then used svg to draw them. Meteor.js handles updating them. Here's an example https://www.meteor.com/blog/2014/02/06/a-reactive-svg-demo
Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
#204In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point. While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit…
I hate to be that guy, but nothing you have under IDM is actually IDM. It's decent glitchhop/dubstep, but I don't know how/why you created that sub-category to shoehorn IDM in there somewhere.
I scraped a few blogs and then took in their tags thinking they would be accurate.
Evidently, they are not always accurate. :(
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey that is really nice! Are you interested in looking for a way to get them manufactured?
If there is community interest, I definitely would! I love the Pibow, by the way. ;)
Drop me an e-mail (details in profile) we're definitely looking for e-paper/ink options at the moment!
Glad you're a fan of the Pibow! :-)
Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
#206http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg Today I tested https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine on Windows and thought I should add a mention to the README. This is completely unrelated to my day job, but we all have hobbies. Also, about a week ago, I fixed https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so now it works with https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell
Could you tell me what that font is? :)
It's https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font, which is based on the x3270 bitmap fonts which were, in turn, copied pixel by pixel from an IBM 327x terminal, IIRC, from an undergrad student in Georgia Tech. The idea is to bring back some of the 3270 terminal aesthetics.
Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
#207In early March I whipped up http://Listen2EDM.com because I was tired of searching for new music manually through SoundCloud, GrooveShark/Spotify still sort of required discovery, and Pandora just didn't fit my personal pain-point. While social media stats are meek, it's averaging about 32000 minutes played back each day (~400 uniques/day; ~2000/week). This has motivated me to develop it further and make the UI a bit…
I fucking love this. Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name. EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (an…
Thanks so much!
I'll consider adding a Spotify link in the next version (will be released soon, I hope).
RE: Favicon. I need a lot of design stuff! I'll whip up something for the next iteration too.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fucking love this. Also, I strongly disagree about the name change -- "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology, and you instantly know what the site does based on the name. EDIT: Since you mentioned Spotify, an "Open in Spotify" link for each song would be killer so users can save songs they like for later (if this is in there and I missed it, woops). Either way it's in my bookmarks bar now (an…
> "EDM" might sound stupid, but its widely accepted terminology Sure, it's widely-accepted terminology in the US or by people who are disinterested enough to label all electronic music as "EDM". It's also starting to refer to a very 'American' style of dance music, so it probably will turn off a lot of people, especially those most involved/interested in electronic music. Music genres are one of those identity-defini…
I would argue against "EDM" in the name not because it sounds stupid, but because it limits the point of reference to a very specific style of music in a worldwide music-playing web service.
The reason why "Spotify" and "Rdio" are such good names is because musically they are undefined by the service and defined by you; you can listen to almost any kind of music on them. Also I think it's better to avoid acronymns; that can be a little obscure. Don't limit yourself or your business to identity-defining topics. See: Amazon, Zappos, Google, Apple, etc.
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#209http://i.imgur.com/KpULrEs.png Localize.js, a javascript library for translating websites. It detects and translates text on your website, and provides a UI for ordering and managing translations. Docs: https://localizejs.com/docs/usage/installation
this looks very nice! is it possible to translate messages that only show in specific use-cases (for example error messages)?
Yes! Localize.js watches the page for changes, and immediately translates text that is added to the page (like an error message).
You can also translate text manually, like this: Localize.translate('Hello!');
Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday
#210Auto Miles: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/auto-miles-automatic-mileage... It's an automatic mileage logger for iOS I've been hacking away at part time for a few months. I wrote it because I constantly forget to log my tax deductible trips, and at the time couldn't find anything that worked well without requiring me to do a few minutes of work after every drive. This week (mostly today, really) I've been working on…
This is very nice/useful. Good work