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by asuth 15y ago
More examples: Swedish numbers: http://quizlet.com/3614707/speller/ German clothing: http://quizlet.com/1692182/speller/ French animals: http://quizlet.com/1060977/speller/ Japanese adjectives (good luck!): http://quizlet.com/343188/
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by asuth 15y ago
We decided the most realistic audio came from commercial vendors. In terms of mobile stuff, we've thought about doing our own but for now there are great apps being built on our API. We just launched V2 of our API with OAuth integration: h
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by asuth 15y ago
Rasmus gave a talk yesterday and I asked if they were switching to github. He said they'd likely switch to git (it's now happening, apparently), but not github because it can't do ACLs and the PHP project has thousands of people who need co
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by asuth 15y ago
Yea -- when we have arabic text on Quizlet, we override the font to this: font: 2em 'Al Bayan', Nadeem, 'Simplified Arabic', 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif;
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MIT junior dropping out to work on education startup he founded 5 years ago(quizlet.com)
76 points by asuth 16y ago|32 comments
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by asuth 16y ago
When I took a speech rec class last semester, we had a guy from BBN (subsidiary of Raytheon) give a talk about large-scale, extremely fast audio transcription. As in, systems that could process audio 30-40,000 times faster than real-time. T
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by asuth 16y ago
long-form transcription is a pretty different problem for language models than parsing search queries. There's lots of audio-processing overlap sure, but parsing a voicemail definitely has different, harder challenges.
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by asuth 16y ago
Alan Louie (one of the founders of Imagine K12) has been advising us on Quizlet.com for awhile. What they're doing is terrific. I think it'll produce some great companies. (see http://quizlet.com/about/team/ )
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by asuth 16y ago
We've been using SoundManager 2 on quizlet.com for playing audio clips. We're not just playing long music clips in the background, so it's essential to have all the precise APIs for preloading, playing, and firing callbacks when sound is do
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Realtime in-depth analytics with node.js and dtrace(dtrace.org)
18 points by asuth 16y ago|0 comments
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by asuth 16y ago
We're Joyent customers as well, and their support has always been great, so this is definitely surprising. You should get on the phone with them (they provide an emergency number). What kinds of machines are you running? Is it just one, or
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by asuth 16y ago
I was at an event at MIT with one of Watson's designers as I watched the show. I asked him about the 20s thing, and he said they talked about it when they were designing Watson but they figured the scenario wouldn't happen where another con
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by asuth 16y ago
from unscientifically looking at network sent packet counts, it's definitely phoning home for the answer.
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by asuth 16y ago
SF, CA (no telecommute) Quizlet is an education platform for high school and college students. We're one of the few web companies that's gotten lots of traction in education -- 2M uniques a month and growing. We're looking for developers wh
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by asuth 16y ago
We do exactly the same thing -- data-sensitive requests sent over HTTPS with a secure cookie, normal browsing over HTTP. At this point it seems difficult to implement site-wide SSL (CDN issues, browser bugs, overhead in SSL). It seems like
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by asuth 16y ago
SF, CA Quizlet is a study platform for high school and college students. We're one of the few web companies that's gotten lots of traction in education -- 2M uniques a month and growing. We're looking for PHP/JS developers who are excited a
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by asuth 16y ago
It doesn't quite work like that. TCP works in packets, so 256 bytes of cookies does not necessarily translate into an extra packet sent over the network. So if you have 10 static files per page, you might push a few of them over to an extra
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by asuth 16y ago
We were using cookieless domains at quizlet.com for our static assets (css, js, images) for awhile, but recently turned them off. Some of our users (enough to be of concern) wrote in saying the site looked all wrong, and on closer inspectio
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Tell HN: How to keep CA Security Suite from breaking your app
9 points by asuth 17y ago|2 comments