CMUSphinx - open source speech recognition system http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net
Any specific reason your still on sourceforge?
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#482I am working on a side project - http://www.kopyscreen.com/ started this to learn Go lang, but with the interests shown by some of my friends, slowly building it into a website during the weekends. I am hoping to complete it soon.
How is this different than copy and pasting to Paint. What different does this do?
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#483I'm working on a piece of hardware to measure the progress of fermentation (as one of my hobbies is brewing). I'm going to do this through the use primarily of an FPGA to measure the speed of sound through the liquid. http://hackaday.io/project/1231-Zymeter
You are busy. For which type of fermentations does this work? For making vodka, beer, pilsner, etc.
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#484I'm working on PhoneCard, a service to make cheap international phone calls without requiring a data connection. You enter the phone number in the webapp and it calls you. Next time you're using poor hotel wifi or you're frustrated with skype (e.g. multiple disconnects per hour), try PhoneCard for a high-quality call. PhoneCard can call most places in the world, and in some countries you can also purchase incoming nu…
This is product that really solves a need for me! Right now I use a google voice number that I have set to forward to my Canadian and American numbers, however I cannot have it forward to my Indian number or some of my other VOIP numbers. I get an error when I try to purchase a number though, so not sure if the functionality for that is completely built out. Either way, will keep tabs on this to see when I can switch…
Well, number purchases do work when you top up with credit first! :) The problem amounts to the app realizing you don't have any credit but not showing an error message. This is the top issue I'm working to fix.
FYI, pairing PhoneCard with Google Voice can require a few tries. I've had issues intermittently where Google Voice wouldn't ring for the verification call, and even then it didn't always forward to PhoneCard like it should. Then again, Google Voice often causes me to miss calls.
If anyone else has problems crop up, please email me at support@getphonecard.net.
Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?
#485I'm working on PhoneCard, a service to make cheap international phone calls without requiring a data connection. You enter the phone number in the webapp and it calls you. Next time you're using poor hotel wifi or you're frustrated with skype (e.g. multiple disconnects per hour), try PhoneCard for a high-quality call. PhoneCard can call most places in the world, and in some countries you can also purchase incoming nu…
Tried to take it for a spin, and it worked fine until I received the call. But I only heard "thanks for trying phonecard" and the call disconnected. This is something I'd actually pay for, if it works as well as advertised! Cheers!
PhoneCard probably didn't like your destination number (either invalid or deemed too much for the test call). If you (or anyone else) would like to give the real thing a spin in exchange for some feedback or ideas to make the app better, please email me at support@getphonecard.net and I'll give your account some free credit.
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#486Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you haven't taken a look at Nimrod, it might give you some ideas, or perhaps inspire you to be a code contributor! As a python guy, I'm really liking it for some hobby work I'm doing. The compiler and standard library are MIT licensed. http://nimrod-lang.org/ https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod Also, there's a recent forum posting about the decision not to do LLVM codgen for now: http://forum.nimrod-lang.org/t/480 . Pe…
Yeah, Nimrod is somewhat close to what I'm working on, though my language is quite a bit closer to actual Python in many ways. Also, my language does not rely on GC, instead using annotated pointer types to get deterministic memory management (without requiring very explicit allocation and deallocation). I don't really buy into their reasons that LLVM is harder than C; it's just a different environment, closer to ass…
Very cool. Good luck to you and look forward to checking it out!
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#487just recently launched a service that will let you create interactive dashboards (pivot charts) off of your excel files. Got a huge influx of beta sign ups from HN and ProductHunt.com. General Site: http://www.machete.io Example Boards: $4.4B in startup funding: http://www.machete.io/board/view/seed_db_funding_rounds/157a... All Penalties in NFL's 2013 Season: http://www.machete.io/board/view/NFL_2013_Penalties/37316…
Perfect summary of your product. 10/10 How is it different than Splunk and Tableau products? I like this.
haven't used splunk, but IIRC, they focus on logging. Tableau is a better comparison. They (like excel) are the "do everything" solution. Meaning that if you want to change/tweak a chart or come up with a new chart type, you can. But most people don't know how to do that effectively and you can shoot yourself in the foot more easily.
Machete is geared towards doing only a few things, but knocking them out of the park. We try to follow data viz best practices by labeling elements directly, killing gradients, etc. (see http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked/). Also, all of our animations are informative. Tableau will show you a bar chart, then you'll filter and the screen turns grey for a few seconds then all the bars "bounce" back in. It causes users to lose perspective on their data (aka change blindness). We try to have object constancy, meaning the visual element on charts will morph/transition smoothly from one state to the next as filters are applied. It is much easier to tell what is happening to your data that way.
Tableau is a great product, but they're a minivan. They can do a ton of stuff, but they're not that fun to drive. We're trying to turn Machete into a ferrari - you can't take 5 kids to soccer practice or haul groceries, but it'll get you from A to B pretty damn fast.
my email is in profile if you want to get in touch. Thanks for the kind words.
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#488I'm working on my first consumer hardware project - an external Bluetooth camera flash for iPhone: https://wantnova.com . The hardware is now shipping and now I'm working on improving the iOS app, which I've made open source: https://github.com/nova-device/nova-ios-app
Pretty cool, but I don't think anyone wants to carry an extra rectangle with them just for a flash.
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#489I'm working on gamifying learning, here is our first project, it automates the learning of times table, kids like it: http://netforza.com/times-ninja-adventure/
Too much violence for an educational game.
Kids of that age group (who learn times table) play other violent games so to keep up we had to do something similar. My son helped us with ideas for this game and he learned times table with it.
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#490I am working on a hosted CMS with javascript templating and some neat features like pagespeed integration, CDN publishing, design and content separation, page generators etc,.