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by vitovito 12y ago
Probably not for free. I also haven't done this kind of work in over a decade. The current links I have are: Annosoft's SDK: http://www.annosoft.com/prices Annosoft made a command-line front-end to the Microsoft
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by vitovito 12y ago
Word (and phoneme) level granularity is usually used for lip-synching (CG, video games) and karaoke-type applications. If you have an accurate text transcript, but not detailed enough timings, you can use speech recognition on the audio and
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by vitovito 12y ago
After this, he gave a much longer, more detailed talk about social software and small group theory, "A Group is its Own Worst Enemy": http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html The talk is an accurate an
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by vitovito 12y ago
You've mentioned Rosenthal before, about the Myo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280700 Was that conversation and/or those sketches ever published? I didn't find anything in a brief Google Scholar sea
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"Longer term, however, we expect that the performance and feature gap between the Web Player and WebGL will become much more narrow, and we expect that browser vendors will make the Web Player obsolete by dropping support for plug-ins,
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Yes, but how many people, and is it a problem they would pay to solve? The problem with "us" having problems is that we are, all of us, very atypical. We don't experience "normal people" problems, being comparati
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by vitovito 12y ago
Hi! Designer and researcher, here. When Steve Blank/Eric Ries say you should "validate" your idea, this is not what they mean. This is not validating an idea. This is having a solution and looking for a problem. To actual
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by vitovito 12y ago
Two-letter .st domains are actually €999: http://www.nic.st/twoletter
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Basedrive might do it; it's an actual local server running their platform which you backup to/collaborate on, that you buy, rather than a service. http://basedrive.me
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Can a mod change the date? It's a repost of his original answer from 2011: https://web.archive.org/web/20110416041922/http://answers.on... There's been a lot of discussion since, including ht
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by vitovito 13y ago
I'm told the new Galactic Starfighter expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic has a lot of the things people liked about XVT in it. It's free-to-play now, might be worth checking out: http://www.swtor.com/galact
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It's been done at least a couple of times at MIT: http://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/ http://witrack.csail.mit.edu/ And at University of Washington: http://wisee.cs.washington.
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by vitovito 13y ago
Lots of positive comments in here, but I think you probably need to learn how loss prevention works in stores of all sizes, first. The way you're phrasing your value proposition says you don't understand that. Here's why: I
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by vitovito 13y ago
Hi! Researcher and designer for a US-based healthcare company, here. To a layperson, this probably sounds awesome, but the red flags to me are: - "So I've came up with the design" Industrial design? If so, are you an indus
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Remember, too, that another recent iOS 7 device can also run as a BTLE "client" and pair: that's how testing iBeacons works. You can pick up an iPod Touch and write an app for it that uses the Touch's sensors to do what
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by vitovito 13y ago
Contractually, any new employer in the same market is going to want to make sure that you're allowed to work for them, that you won't be in breach of any non-competes, non-disclosure, or confidentiality agreements both with your s
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by vitovito 13y ago
Inspiration is overrated. Demonstrate value, instead. You don't need anyone's permission to go do customer development. Take a few days off. Talk to your current customers. Shadow them in their workday. Talk to prospective cus
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by vitovito 13y ago
My attorney is $250/hour, I think? patio11 talked about billing out at five figures per week: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin... My starting figure for freelancing was around $10
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by vitovito 13y ago
I switched from development into design because of Jef Raskin's book, "The Humane Interface." It's a design book for engineers, explaining things in terms of usability and ergonomics and metrics, instead of aesthetics.
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Yes, please do! I can only begin imagine some of the issues, having fed a couple thousand minutes through typingpool, but there isn't a lot of writing about using it at scale. I'll look forward to it.
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I've been working on my own mturk-based proofreading system for OCR scans, modeled after Ryan Tate's typingpool. This is very close to a web-based version. Your illustrations suggest you chunk content to mturk at the paragraph le
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by vitovito 13y ago
I tried really hard to get audio out of a remote Xen VM without a soundcard, for quite some time, and failed. Happy to send you my notes, see if you get farther.
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I was an early tester for Hunie, and I've designed online communities in the past, including a system like Hunie for a similar audience. I think there is a need for this kind of community, but I don't know that the people who ne
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by vitovito 13y ago
You seem to have a nice infrastructure setup that could compete with the various alternative solutions (VMware ThinApp, etc.), but you'll never sell enterprise infrastructure without an enterprise sales team. Instead, offer turn-key ap
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I always point people to Rands, a veteran technical manager whose advice I've come to trust quite a bit: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2008/04/11/the_busines... HN regular patio11 wrote up a
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by vitovito 13y ago
Local archives are great, but they help only you. Please consider having your archiving scripts/services store their content in WARC format so you can submit bundles to the Internet Archive for integration into the Wayback Machine. Tha
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JPEG actually support self-repair: when you save out a JPEG, you can insert "restart markers" every so often, which basically repeat the original headers and allows a decoder to recover from any corruption. If you put enough resta
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by vitovito 13y ago
Oh, okay, cool. In that case... Just kidding, that doesn't change my core premise, that it's an immature organization and you're dealing with the problem in an immature fashion. "It's an internal struggle of mine
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Hi, sorry, I think this is really jumping the gun, and this is going to sound like a personal attack, but I'm not sure there's another way to phrase any of this. The way you've described the problem, the way you've class
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1. You don't have enough life experience to relate to anyone working for you, let alone to have them imagine they could relate to you in response. Respect and trust is something you have to earn; it doesn't just come from the titl

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