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Ask HN: What are some good examples of personal websites (Software Engineers)?

I am trying to build my own website, and I would like to get a sense of what makes a good and a great personal website. I am intending to start blogging as well. While I use FB/Twitter to express my interest and opinion, I am willing to keep my blog as a space to showcase open source experiments. In this case, do you see it as a duplication (Open Source on Github with Readme file + blogpost on...

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#RESPECT! that's a brave decision.
I removed the project.

Ask HN: Offline Text-To-Speech/Speech-To-Text Frameworks for Raspberry-Pi

Hi, Based on your experience, what's the best way to enable a natural way to read text using RPI, and transcribe speech commands on RPI. I tried most of some of the open source frameworks (Jasper, eSpeak, .. etc) but they don't feel natural. I tried also Watson, but the relying on the cloud is not really an optimal solution.What are your recommendations ?

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Ask HN: Would it be legal if I put my web scraping scripts (lib) on GitHub?

Hi, I am using the data for research purposes. How bad it is to show scrappers in my Github account. I am using scrappers to collect data from news sources, analyze them and work on some data analysis tools (recommendation sys, data visualization of aggregated data, .. etc).I tried to consult with some other people in the field, but most of them gave mixed signals, and recommended articles like...

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