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Not open source, but https://fluen.ai does a good job at translating subs, while using your own or standards style guides for the target language - ie. reading speed, max characters, "chunking" sentences where it grammatically makes sense, re-adapting them etc.
https://fluen.ai gives very accurate subtitles (and subtitle translations).
Yes, I’ll give you that. I think the point I was trying to make was that being denied some activities ( or have them severely restricted) as a young kid, may have repercussions later in life that ends up being the opposite of what the parents wished for.
I think the step from books->TV was much more dramatic that TV->SocialMedia. the delta of stimulation is much greater in the former, imho.
In any case, 1hr of iPhone/day is way too strict for a teenager nowadays. I was lucky to be the 3rd child, and my parents didn’t really paid attention to how I was spending my time. I overdosed on a bunch of things as a kid: TV, videogames, my computer, the internet when I got it (I’m in my late 30s), but then I got over them, except computers, which became my profession.
On the other hand, people my age that were only allowed one hour of Nintendo per day as kids, are still craving the next PlayStation like grown up junkies. Last time I played a videogame I was maybe.. 22.
Shouldn't this account for a round trip, and the speed through copper (~ 2/3rd of the speed of light)? That would lower the radius to much more than 500 miles.
I agree, except for the 'common political entity' bit. EU, till now, has been mostly a financial institution, rather than a political one. We will be a political union only when all of us will speak a common language, and all of us will be allowed to vote on the same set of politicians/leaders. Obviously, there's no well-intentioned advice from Soros, and we all know it.
How about all those people who learned english as a second language and then went to live in various english speaking countries? My accent is a weird mix of Italian/Irish/Northern UK sounds, it wouldn't fit anywhere in that list..
A News reading App based on the most popular news stories being shared in real time on Twitter: http://newspo.st
This is like the 3rd time a similar question get posted on HN this week. BTW for mainstream news I use my own app: http://newspo.st
It's a iPhone news aggregator that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news stories based on how much they are shared in real-time, laying them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.
It's really interesting because it lets you find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and it puts you in a whole different point of view.
The bare bone MVP is currently available in US, UK and Italy. I'll soon release a new version with categorization and custom topics.
Or, more notably, Robocode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocode)
It's only iOS at the moment.
For tech news: here, verge, gigaom, TNW, lifehacker, venturebeat and various subreddits.
When I have time to read for a little longer and non-techie: The economist, guardian, the atlantic and other stuff in my mother tongue.
And of course if I want to read mainstream news I use my app http://newspo.st : it magically guess what news are trending on Twitter so you get what people are reading the most, which is surprisingly interesting. Still an early version, I'll soon introduce categories and custom topics as well. At the moment it's only available for iOS in US, UK and Italy.
To get a glimpse of the impact of this new TLDs you can just look at how much ICANN charged the registrars 'cartel' to open up this new top level names: 185K for each name [1].
This, I suppose, means each registrar plan to make a little more than a few thousands for each domain extension if they want to be profitable. They know already it's not going to be a widespread phenomena, otherwise the greedy bunch running ICANN would've charged a lot more.
Still I don't understand why the internet top-level domain control is in the hands of a private and fake non-profit organization, instead of being directly controlled by an international, third party organism such as the United Nations or something similar.
[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/47031-icann-selling-custom-top-...
Being an old trombone myself, I find the learning curve to get proficient in any recent UI framework isn't worth my time.
I use an old school text editor to write html/js manually, and then maybe I play a bit with photoshop. Results are not jaw-dropping but not too shabby either, and I can put together a landing page in a couple of hours. ( eg. http://newspo.st )
So yes, I'm here just to brag about it. I'm a terrible person. :)
Simply put, I did it because what is interesting for Canadians or Australians is slightly different from what matters to people in US. I'm working to open it to other countries as well, but that requires some work on my side. At the moment is only available in US, UK and Italy. I should've mentioned it.
I'm working on a news reader that works in the opposite way of traditional news reading apps. It uses Twitter as a sort of enhanced RSS feed and ranks news based on how much they are shared in real-time, and lays them down in a newspaper-like format specifically designed for mobile devices.
It allows you to find what's important for people rather then what matters to newsroom's editors, and put you in a whole different point of view. I belive it's extremely interesting, and I'm trying to make the reading experience as enjoyable as possible.
The first raw version is available for iOS: http://newspo.st
I'm in the process of adding categorization and custom topic search as well.
Ok, so I had a closer look at it and now I have a question: on the homepage you have 121 ideas atm, but I don't see where I can browse them, except for the top 10. The hello page states "Every month the Assembly community picks an amazing idea for an app". I signed up and logged in, still can't see anything past the top 10. Am I not 'community' enough or are you openly 'faking till you make it'?
Dude, can I just say I wanna make love with the idea behind assembly? I just saw the website and video and it makes so much sense!!
I could build you one of those without privacy intrusion, and add the ability to switch from home/work/car automatically using GPS.
I'd be happy with 1% of what they raised , anyone interested? :(
What's the record amount of applicants per batch so far?
Ditto. I clicked them both. - Cheers from Italy.
Not on the top of my list right now, but I could definitely consider it in the future.
Clickable: http://newspo.st/dev-preview.html
I believe the most straightforward way of doing this is with your 3rd option (interactive hints through the workflow). You can easily accomplish this with popups and overlays.
I believe ITJobsWatch ( http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/ ), despite being limited to the UK, gives a much more comprehensive overview on the topic.
The Museum of Modern Betas (MoMB) has been around for many years now. http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/ It's worth a visit too if you're into this sort of stuff.
Back in 2004/2005 (pre-youtube era) I created a site with a voting system similar to Digg/Reddit where instead of links or text people could upload video files. My servers were able re-encode any video format into flash, and queue the videos into the voting system. I would grab the videos at the top of the stack (the ones with the most votes) and broadcast it on a streaming video channel shown in the front page. The streaming would've been non-stop granted that I had at least 24 hours of material uploaded each day, and guaranteed to only show the best videos voted by people.
It never took off because I was a scrappy student in the middle of nowhere (Italy) and 180$+/month for a dedicated server somewhere in PA was hurting my savings. I ran the prototype for a few months and then I decided to go back to my engineering classes. Sometimes I have the feeling that if I were born in SV I could've built something serious out of it.
I think that one of the most valuable points this article makes is the "keep it simple" message, the apple ad example is particularly spot-on. It's great advice especially when you're trying to promote/market a new service/app/whatever. When you're into product development, you'll always tend to be slightly technical when you describe it. Removing any technical reference during the first approach is good to bear in mind. Unless you're aiming to a particular market, 99% of your users won't be that savvy.
Just out of curiosity, what is it tweeting about? I've always been interested by what refrigerators thinks.
I'm not sure how he got this figure, but a 56% failure rate doesn't seem too bad to me.