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Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by webmaven »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #445
chrismorgan wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you heard of ZODB? You might find it interesting to look at—perhaps you might even find it does all you want, and more.

Yeah I know ZODB, but it's not what I want for several reasons: -Requires C extensions to run (makes it complicated to install on other systems) -Does not provide advanced querying capabilities (to my knowledge) -Does not have transparent references and lazy loading (to my knowledge) -Does not interoperate with MongoDB and other DB systems (to my knowledge) The nice thing about Blitz is that it allows me to switch fr…

I can debunk two of these right off the bat:

Requires C extensions to run - Nope, there are pure-Python implementations as well.

Does not provide advanced querying capabilities - Nope, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.index, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.app.catalog, http://docs.repoze.org/catalog/

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by adamonduty »

reledi wrote: post #500
adamonduty wrote: post #163

I'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…

I missed the call to confirm my number. I don't see an option to retry the call. What do I do?

Please email me your number at support@getphonecard.net and I'll manually fix it.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by acj »

thibauts wrote: post #375
acj wrote: post #180

An app for playing media on a Chromecast using AirPlay on an iOS device or Mac. It's currently an Android app, which presents an odd set of hardware requirements; hoping Google releases a Cast SDK for Mac sometime soon. First iteration is done and will be shipping soon.

You might be interested in these https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2 https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2-client

Indeed I am. Thanks for your efforts!

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by zo1 »

buttscicles wrote: post #438
zo1 wrote: post #328

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask where you got your front page image? Stock photo site?

Apologies, I can't remember exactly where as I was trawling through various free stock image sites at the time, but it may well have been somewhere on this list which was posted to HN. https://medium.com/@dustin/stock-photos-that-dont-suck-62ae4...

Thanks very much! That's just what I was looking for.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by ThePhysicist »

webmaven wrote: post #501
ThePhysicist wrote: post #445

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah I know ZODB, but it's not what I want for several reasons: -Requires C extensions to run (makes it complicated to install on other systems) -Does not provide advanced querying capabilities (to my knowledge) -Does not have transparent references and lazy loading (to my knowledge) -Does not interoperate with MongoDB and other DB systems (to my knowledge) The nice thing about Blitz is that it allows me to switch fr…

I can debunk two of these right off the bat: Requires C extensions to run - Nope, there are pure-Python implementations as well. Does not provide advanced querying capabilities - Nope, https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.index , https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.app.catalog , http://docs.repoze.org/catalog/

Thanks for the clarification, ZODB sure is a very interesting project!

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by jlhonora »

meowface wrote: post #155
jlhonora wrote: post #42

I'm connecting a Hedgehog to the Internet :) . I have a hedgehog that runs all night in a wheel. Counting the laps gives me the traveled distance, so every morning he'll tweet how much he ran. He runs up to 15 km./9 miles! Check him out at https://twitter.com/runhedgie This project is a combination of hardware and software. I'm using a Raspberry Pi, a custom-built wireless node based on Arduino, Python, Redis, and a…

Very cute hedgehog. Any particular reason you're intermixing Go and Python? For something like this I imagine Python alone would be more than suitable. And if you just wanted to mess with Go and learn it, then you probably could've used Go for the whole thing.

Thanks! Good question.

I wanted two things from this project: get it up and running as quickly as possible and learn Go. That's why I programmed an MVP in Python while I finished the backend in Go. I figured that if I waited for the Go code to be finished I may have never shipped it.

I'm still going to use Python for the raspberry Pi, since I don't know any serial port libraries for Golang (well, a quick google search shows me an option: https://code.google.com/p/goserial/) and anyways that part is already working fine.

But if I find the time then yeah, I'd totally rewrite it entirely in Go. But there's many things I'd do before that:

- Live streaming with a Pi NoIR camera (WebRTC + a paid CDN I guess).

- Visualization and data analysis. I'm thinking github-style punchcard for the running activity, and when you click a day you can analyse the minute-by-minute laps.

- Correlation with other sensors. I have temperature, humidity, and ambient light sensors, which could be use to correlate the activity or even predict it.

- Public API.

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by jlhonora »

stefek99 wrote: post #350
jlhonora wrote: post #42

I'm connecting a Hedgehog to the Internet :) . I have a hedgehog that runs all night in a wheel. Counting the laps gives me the traveled distance, so every morning he'll tweet how much he ran. He runs up to 15 km./9 miles! Check him out at https://twitter.com/runhedgie This project is a combination of hardware and software. I'm using a Raspberry Pi, a custom-built wireless node based on Arduino, Python, Redis, and a…

Greenpeace / Animal rights defenders are now on the way [just kidding]

:)

You're not the first person to tell me that. They always tell me they're kidding, but I guess there's some truth to it :) . Please, could you elaborate on your thoughts?

When Antu came home we had an open space for him, where he could run somehow freely. Then winter came and we had to bring him inside our apartment. After a while, I built a wheel for him (not the same one as he has now) and he ran like crazy. Now when we put him in the open space he prefers to run on the wheel. I always wonder if he really enjoys it or we just messed him up. It seems that it is the former:

http://animals.io9.com/wild-animals-sneak-onto-laboratory-ru... http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2014/may/21...

Re: Ask HN: What projects are you working on?

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Post by braindead_in »

rokhayakebe wrote: post #202
braindead_in wrote: post #21

We are working on a MTurk like system for audio/video transcription. We have developed a four step process to ensure that the accuracy as high as possible irrespective of the difficultly level of the file. Check it out at https://scribie.com

If your cost of transcription is above 10-15 cents/minute email me at 1000app at gmail and I can give you some feedback on how to get there. If you are already below, then Kudos.

Cost of transcription is not really the problem. The problem is quality.
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