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by saaaam 10y ago
We're having one in NYC on February 25th for those who are interested... http://stupidhackathon.com
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Show HN: Sign up to receive 500,000 emails from the Enron email corpus(enron.email)
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by saaaam 11y ago
We select them randomly...
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by saaaam 11y ago
Hey - I worked on Smell Dating (and co-founded Useless Press). Just to be clear, Smell Dating is a real thing - 100 people did in fact sign up, and we've sent them t-shirt samples etc.
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New stupid projects from the Stupid Hackathon(stupidhackathon.com)
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by saaaam 11y ago
Authors here - if anyone has any questions or critiques please let us know.
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by saaaam 11y ago
Hi all - I made this. In case anyone is interested, I wrote up a statement about it here: http://greetingsfellowalienatedsubjectoflatecapitalism.com/#...
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by saaaam 11y ago
Hey - author here. I used casperjs to do the scraping. It was a pain in the ass and I got temporarily banned a few times...
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Twitch for novel writing(pckwck.com)
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by saaaam 11y ago
I run this thing called Useless Press ( http://uselesspress.org ) - we publish interesting/unusual internet things. We came up with the idea of a real-time novel and then asked Josh and @leyawn if they wanted to participate.
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by saaaam 11y ago
Hey - I made this. Lemme know if you have any questions or suggestions. Tune in tomorrow at 1pm EST for the live experience.
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Make a project using our dataset of decapitated animals found in New York parks(uselesspress.org)
2 points by saaaam 11y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: The Data Drive – A Printed/collaged Reproduction of Facebook(thedatadrive.com)
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by saaaam 11y ago
Hi, founders of the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon (AKA "Stupid Hackathon") here, and yes we do have a certificate, linked below for future reference. http://i.imgur.com/8Qp91cE.gif
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by saaaam 12y ago
As an intermediate step of merging this into videogrep, I've been using moviepy/audiogrep to make these somewhat unnerving condensed c-span videos: http://lav.io/2015/02/c-span-excerpts/
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by saaaam 12y ago
I haven't, but I'll take a look. Thanks!
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by saaaam 12y ago
Hey all - I made this and am wondering if anyone here has any experience with pocketsphinx and could lend a hand in making the transcriptions more accurate. Let me know! (Or just make a pull request.)
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Show HN: Audiogrep – automatic audio “supercuts” in python(lav.io)
3 points by saaaam 12y ago|0 comments
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by saaaam 12y ago
We're doing it once a year in NY. We don't have a mailing list but you can follow @stupidhackathon on Twitter for updates.
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by saaaam 12y ago
FAIR WARNING - we are a patented hackathon: http://www.stupidhackathon.com/hackathon-patent.pdf
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by saaaam 12y ago
Well, I organized the hackathon. Does that count?
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Show HN: Projects from “Stupid Shit No One Needs and Terrible Ideas” Hackathon(lav.io)
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by saaaam 12y ago
It references Wilson's work, and thank you for providing the link, but it really isn't a content-farm piece. It's a critical essay that addresses women and labor in the tech industry.
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The Military Industrial Complex Yard Sale(thenewinquiry.com)
1 points by saaaam 12y ago|0 comments
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by saaaam 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback - I'll investigate the editor refresh issue (I'm leading that project) - as you say its very much in beta.
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by saaaam 12y ago
Yes - you can instantiate a p5 object: http://p5js.org/learn/examples/Instance_Mode_Instantiation.p...
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by saaaam 12y ago
Hello! Original author here. I'm not sure about the best tool for creating new .srt files, but for films, you can find pretty much anything on opensubtitles.org or subscene.com (although the quality varies). You can also download .srts
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by saaaam 12y ago
Great idea - although I think my next step is to automatically send out patent infringement cease-and-desist notices.
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by saaaam 12y ago
Hi! Original author of the post here. Yes - lot of the funny ones seem to be the result of translation issues. It's just amazing how the translator (I'm assuming it's automated) likes to pick the most graphic possible words f