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Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by joshmn »

hack_edu wrote: post #20
joshmn wrote: post #5

In 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…

Great site! I'd really recommend you change the name though. 'EDM' is pretty cringe-worthy word these days (much like 'electronica' and 'alternative'), and just generally doesn't roll off the tongue too well.

Thanks! I'm usually much more cautious about branding/naming but for the life of me, I couldn't hit a sweet spot.

So I went with whatever I could think of.

Open to suggestions :)

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by CSDude »

lalos wrote: post #25
CSDude wrote: post #4

http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files. Main motivation: I…

Guessing the use of docker is to mitigate possible harmful student code executing in the server?

Yes, and they can open same ports, same message queues, semaphores concurrently without problem, and makes it easy to define custom build environments. As a bonus, students can replicate my exact environment, so they cannot say "But it works on my machine"

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by Pezmc »

A web application for my Computer Science dissertation (I'm writing up the report at the moment).

The idea was to produce a web app that you upload your bank statements to, the system categorises the transactions and then predicts how much money you will spend in each category next month.

Underneath the system is using machine learning techniques to model the spending, deciding whether or not a particular transaction will occur and triple exponential smoothing to predict how much would be spent.

Screenshot of the homepage (fake data): http://i.imgur.com/Tr05dfd.png

I'm currently seeking research participants if any UK based (not tested with non UK data) users would like to give it a try: http://secure.pezcuckow.com/register. There's a survey link on the home page.

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Edit: I also put together a biblatex checker which I've been using to validate my reference files for my report.

http://i.imgur.com/an054GS.png https://github.com/pezmc/biblatex-check

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by wingerlang »

Neat. I just posted on reddit so I guess I'll just grab the same text.

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This is still an expense tracker "Spendy".

- Multiple currencies are handled smooth. You have one main currency but you can add multiple others and set up exchange rates for them. You can add expenses/incomes for them in any currency and in the log-view it will automatically show you both the entered currency and a smaller converted amount in your main currency. Perfect for travellers.

- Easy, quick. Non verbose UI.

- Data will not be locked in in any way. Dropbox sync, email data in CSV etc.

- Pretty? Color theme can be changed.

- Basic basic basic charts for now. 14 days overview is implemented. Will do more later.

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So I've worked a bit more on the app and I thought I'd put it here again. This is the previous version: http://i.imgur.com/L54TV4O.jpg

And this is the new one: http://imgur.com/EtcpEqp (excuse the layout and/or the large res)

I'll see if I can sum up the changes:

- Changed color to green, although I've made the color-theme chooseable by the user (see the bottom). The color theme is on the buttons, the "tints" (such as some text colors and etc).

- Made the Money log entries bigger/more space.

- Less stuff in the menu.

- Added a "settings" panel.

- Chart is now colored and includes both incomes and expenses.

- Before I had alertviews for lots of things. This has been replaces by inline buttons (see: delete/edit). These are also affected by the users chosen color btw.

- The tag-view is still bare-bones, but centered and alternating row-colors.

- The Currency-view is completely remade, see the bottom for how it looks. I tried to make "more" out of virtually no info and I do think it worked pretty well.

Any feedback is welcome!

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And a short GIF of the app in action. http://imgur.com/PFnRae7

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EDIT: Format. Sorry about the length of this text.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by Pezmc »

CSDude wrote: post #4

http://imgur.com/QUGUkxa PAGS: Programming Assignment Grading System. I'm a Msc student and a teaching assitant. Grading programming assignments of students takes so much time because of preparing files, environments, viewing code, multipe outputs etc. Besides my research, I developed this Docker based web application, where assignments are Dockerfile + run script + required/supplied/output files. Main motivation: I…

Really like the idea, my uni is currently investigating use of domjudge to mark assignments, but couple that with face to face feedback while reviewing the code.

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by Pezmc »

bunkerbewohner wrote: post #29

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4cflduw99mys261/22.04.2014.png Together with my brother I've been working on our little passion project "Nations Online" (still very early stage). The goal is basically a decent Civilization-like game that runs in the browser and on tablets with improved and larger scale multiplayer (at least up to 32 players) and 3D graphics. It was mostly born out of frustrations with Civ 5's slow and bugg…

For early stage it looks pretty good! Would move to see it completed. It suit Civ style play particularly well if it could be set up to notify everyone when it was their turn (similar to how some online chess apps function).

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by ew »

erik wrote: post #26

Life Goes On! A game, built in Unity, about sacrificing knights and using their dead bodies to solve puzzles. http://i.imgur.com/qeuo84C.jpg http://i.imgur.com/g1oFM31.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7PoX6th.jpg This game started at a game jam two years ago. It became an evening and weekends hobby, then it became a full commercial release, and we just launched on steam. ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/250050/ ) I thought…

I was at that game jam! Glad to see this released :)

Re: Ask HN: Screenshot Saturday

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Post by coffeecodecouch »

dang wrote: post #14

All: it's not clear yet whether we should have "Screenshot Saturday" and "Idea Sunday" as regular features, or whether they should be weekly if we do. Happy to hear arguments pro and con, though perhaps not in this thread. (Edit: On second thought, we might as well discuss it here and keep it at the bottom.) If are going to have these regularly, we'll ask the whoishiring account to post them automatically. That's the…

Currently I like the idea of Screenshot Saturday. If I'm not mistaken Hacker News wants more user created content. Screenshot Saturday allows the community to know what each other is working on, and can even help people build traction for their projects. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future people have their weekly Saturday posts prepared in advance with links to their email list sign up and Twitter handles. I do still think though that it should be named "Side Project Saturday"[0].

I'm indifferent about Idea Sunday, so if you were to remove one to keep the automated submissions to a minimum I would ask that it be that.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7580150

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