mandela

I'm thinking to build a language-specific personal assistant, like Siri or Cortana. I'm excited about the technical challenge but wondering about its feasibility.Some of the challenges are:1. NLP: I am not aware of any non-English library and don't have much background on the subject.2. Voice recognition: same as the above.3. Web crawling: there are tons of libraries for doing crawling and I...

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Top Changes in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6

Posted by mandela on Friday April 08, 2016 @06:11AM
from the stephenwalther.com dept.

http://stephenwalther.com/archive/2015/02/24/top-10-changes-in-asp-net-5-and-mvc-6

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As Valk Fleet is put into administration

Posted by mandela on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:57AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/04/valk-fleetingly/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the podcasts you guys listen to? on Sunday April 03, 2016 @09:35AM (#11416050)

- hidden brain

- 99% invisible

- radiolab

- only human

- planet moeny

- criminal

- from scratch

- ted radio hour

- talking machines

- data skeptics

- In our time (BBC)

Listen through Iphone podcast app during commute to work.

Re:Failed Startup code graveyard on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @09:08AM (#9929354)

Looks pretty awesome, but logo could use some improvements. e.g lose the cross or replace with stone or something else. Religion sign might put some people off.

Re:Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:16PM (#9800667)

Could you create couple of sample videos for those of us who do not want to create an account?

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Posted by mandela on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @03:12PM
from the thegatesnotes.com dept.

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Personal/Why-Nations-Fail

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The Mark Zuckerberg Era Is Over

Posted by mandela on Thursday January 31, 2013 @07:42PM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-mark-zuckerberg-era-is-over-2013-1

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Re:Really hate clone ideas so I made this site to call them out on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @12:27AM (#5138244)

Good idea, but you should do research before calling applications/startups clones. For example, Microsoft OneNote was released on 2003 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_OneNote) while evernote was founded in 2007 (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/evernote). At least get your facts straight.