Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by jpcx01 » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 10:55 PM UTC

dangrover wrote: post #4

I've got updated versions for all of my products ( http://www.wonderwarp.com ) in the works. I've got an incremental update to ShoveBox in testing now, but I'm spending most of my resources finalizing the iPhone version of the app and getting it to sync properly with the desktop app. That will probably be 1.8 or 2.0. I'm not sure if I should charge for the iPhone app or not though. I'm worried Windows people will acc…

Cool! I love shovebox. iPhone sync would be rad

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by pxlpshr » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 10:56 PM UTC

Going to take a nice week long break away from my home in Austin. For the past 4 months I've been cooped up in my place trying to get everything put together with this mobile app company. It's been many late nights and 7 day work weeks... time to recharge.

Spiked egg-nog... here I come!

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by brandnewlow » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:04 PM UTC

Making a local politician tracker for Chicago.

Basically a Chicago clone of this:

http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by randomwalker » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:05 PM UTC

I'm a grad student. I'm working on a way to turn papers written in latex into a form that's readable online, because having to print everything is so 1990s. I start from the output of latex2html and go from there. For instance, if you hover over a citation, I pop up a bubble showing you links to author homepages, the abstract of the cited paper, download links, etc., even though the latex bibliography didn't specify any of those.

Edit: I do this by doing a full-text search on the citeseer database, which is a couple gigs uncompressed. Right now I'm grappling with the xapian library: http://www.rkblog.rk.edu.pl/w/p/xapian-python/ If someone knows an easier/better way to do this, I'd love to hear. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by ruddzw » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:06 PM UTC

For my last winter break, I'll be working on completely re-doing a web-based game I made. I'm thinking I might also work my way through a simple book on NLP (http://www.nltk.org/book).

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by qqq » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:09 PM UTC

Gonna read more Feynman and Popper.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by GavinB » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:12 PM UTC

Writing my novel!

Okay, so I guess I'm not a real hacker.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by clearlytired » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:16 PM UTC

Brand-jacking: http://twitter.com/clearlytired

Exit strategy: get rid of crappy service without having to pay for the 'privilege' of doing so.

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by leftnode » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:17 PM UTC

Working more and more on my PHP framework, it's starting to get some traction as I will release 0.2 before new years. Check it out, http://artisansystem.com

Re: Ask HN: Any Special Projects Over the Holidays?

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Post by elviejo » Sat, Dec 20, 2008, 11:33 PM UTC

speek wrote: post #2

Flock simulator in either ObjC, some form of lisp/scheme, or Erlang. Haven't decided yet but Erlang really makes me happy. I'll probably start up another company January 2. I have a dream about educating the world's future smart people.

Yes please explain.

I have some projects on how to make college education cheaper.