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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ »

loxias wrote: post #514
jessriedel wrote: post #190

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…

This is doable. If one were, uh, hypothetically, to write a library that did this, how would the HN community recommend monetizing it? I have no experience selling my wares to anyone but a large company, let alone an app store or something like that. Would the tool primarily be applied to nice clean audio, like books on tape, or also required to work with significant background noise?

IANAL but I can't see any harm in releasing some demo samples of what your system can do. To be fair, an example of how the system breaks down it gets pushed too hard would probably be useful too.

With that in hand, perhaps you might create a new post showing the samples and asking for advice. (Maybe you could also let people make sample requests via comments?)

It's possible that you may receive offers from people interested in being business partners (treating the situation like a startup); have fun with that ;)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ »

jakosz wrote: post #513

Grep for the internet. What I often want is not a search engine, not a recommender, but a filter. Something that would allow me to look at the distributions of content on the Web rather than trying to answer my questions. I badly wanted to pay someone a few quid for a service like this, but had to build it myself. Feel free to piggyback on the next batch job; use fBd7guQLDLx6RIm00GE7uH5h0Lk1CKKl as access key. https:…

Cool.

Suggested secondary source: https://archive.org/details/alexacrawls?&sort=-publicdate&pa... (spotty; sometimes the crawls are dark and can't be read)

Also: when you get lucky with ACD: https://redd.it/5s7q04 (I've heard other users getting hard-capped at 100TB though)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by mchan »

sne11ius wrote: post #370

Problem: people don't want to have to enter the sms TAN manually when they do online banking. Solution: I'm creating an android app + webservice + chrome plugin to do it automatically. So the app reads the tan from the sms, sends it to the webapp. The webapp sends it to the browser plugin. Browser plugin enters the tan for you. ... Huge win :) User base: everyone who does online banking with sms TAN 2fa but can't be…

Other potential users: People who are overseas who need to make transactions, but don't have cellular roaming available (whether by choice, or because the carriers don't have a roaming agreement), but can get Wifi. This particularly applies for travellers.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ »

lmcd wrote: post #502

* A pixel-perfect WebGL/JavaScript implementation of UIKit/QuartzCore that runs basic iOS apps in a web-based simulator at 60fps * A Swift 3 -> JavaScript compiler with many language features, full type inference and more * Many interesting ways of combining the above to form interesting new development/learning/prototyping tools * One such tool/product has a full WYSIWYG app builder, with drag/drop UI components, au…

> A pixel-perfect WebGL/JavaScript implementation of UIKit/QuartzCore that runs basic iOS apps in a web-based simulator at 60fps

That sounds really interesting. Do you have a demo URL or (60fps :D) video of this in action?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by i336_ »

kevinwang wrote: post #33

I'm trying to make a search engine that gives you the opposite of what you search for: this is what I've got so far http://sample-env.wk77znpmqm.us-west-1.elasticbeanstalk.com/

This is hilariously fun.

If you drop search_term from the query it bombs out though.

And when I searched for "KKz4xj0jON+5zfTrikgvIXiJLXE=" (head -c 20 /dev/urandom | base64) I got a 504.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by jessriedel »

i336_ wrote: post #719
jessriedel wrote: post #190

I have a project idea that might be useful for someone to learn about audio processing (and maybe neural networks?). I like to listen to audio and watch video of podcasts (and lectures and other human speech) at faster speeds. Sometime, especially if I'm trying to "skim" to see if the media is worth listening to carefully, I'd like to listen at 3x or faster. Very often, the limiting factor is the intelligibility of t…

Nobody else has mentioned anything along these lines so I'll do so. If you haven't talked to the blind community about this sort of thing already I would strongly recommend doing so as they'll be able to rapidly point you at the bleeding edge of what currently exists - they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds. (I also heard of one guy who would listen to TTS from his computer with one ear, whi…

Great comment, thanks. Agreed that blind users would be at cutting edge of this and provide the most useful feedback.

> they routinely use text to speech cranked up to illegible speeds.

Note that this is not quite what I'm talking about. TTS is a slightly different problem since you're constructing the speech, and you can actually choose voice synthesizers that sound weird but remain intelligible at high speeds. On the other hand, trying to modify existing voice audio (with no text) for greater intelligibility at high speeds is a different problem.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by lmcd »

i336_ wrote: post #724
lmcd wrote: post #502

* A pixel-perfect WebGL/JavaScript implementation of UIKit/QuartzCore that runs basic iOS apps in a web-based simulator at 60fps * A Swift 3 -> JavaScript compiler with many language features, full type inference and more * Many interesting ways of combining the above to form interesting new development/learning/prototyping tools * One such tool/product has a full WYSIWYG app builder, with drag/drop UI components, au…

> A pixel-perfect WebGL/JavaScript implementation of UIKit/QuartzCore that runs basic iOS apps in a web-based simulator at 60fps That sounds really interesting. Do you have a demo URL or (60fps :D) video of this in action?

How's about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD15ncn7KQw

Note: this video is 100% real, but I trimmed out some frames here and there (during keypresses and Shopify auth) to make for a seamless pitch.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by StephenCanis »

martinvee wrote: post #674
StephenCanis wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Ya there are a ton a features I think you could add to this - beacon and location support would be very cool.

Great idea! Would it be implementable with Google Project Tango? Currently working on an idea with museums, and they don't want to handle any installations (i.e. beacons)

At the moment I haven't considered how I would implement that feature. First I want to see if I can get people to use the basic version.

Do you have a website? If so you should share it, would be interesting to see what you're doing.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by joshuaheard »

jressey wrote: post #481
joshuaheard wrote: post #308

Scuba diving computers have become a necessary part of diving. Current models have indecipherable interfaces that hang from dongles or are worn as bulky wristwatches. I have developed a scuba diving computer HUD with a simple graphical interface placed in the diver's mask and is easy to learn and use. Also, scuba divers must maintain neutral buoyancy during the dive. The current method is manual, making it a difficul…

This is cool stuff and I wan that HUD, but I take pause with the following statement: > With these two innovations, you would not need a certification course to dive safely. There is a lot more to diver certification than learning how to control buoyancy and how to read your computer. You need to be comfortable breathing through your mouth, you have to know how to share air, you need to know how to configure and conn…

It's true a big part of the certification program is acclimating to the underwater environment and learning emergency procedures. I guess I should say it would streamline the certification course. It would probably reduce the all-day classroom portion to a one-hour video.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on?

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Post by sp33k3rph433k »

bgaluszka wrote: post #572
sp33k3rph433k wrote: post #540

I'm working on building something that will incentivize site owners who have some kind of creative content on their site to remove ads in favor of donations to their site. It's a pretty unobtrusive widget they can add to their pages and it makes it so the user doesn't have to leave the page to donate. Still a WIP, but it's getting there! http://trussapp.com

Not sure why but your link didn't work for me (Server not found) but that one http://www.trussapp.com/ did.

Interesting! I'll fix the DNS. Thanks a lot!
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