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Calin Furau
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calinf··on Show HN: Wikimap – A map of all geotagged Wikipedia articles
I used this API to create the "Around Me' feature for http://llidia.com/. It's pretty handy while traveling alone.
calinf··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
llidia.com - An audio encyclopedia for general knowledge lowers.

Like a podcast player with Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britanica audio content.

calinf··on Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading
Good idea, thanks!
calinf··on Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading
Because of legal reasons we can only have books from the public domain. If you know some that are free, just point me to them and I'll match them for you. I need them to be in .epub format for both languages.
calinf··on Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading
Totally agree, we'll work on this feature next.
calinf··on Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading
We do have a tool that does real paragraph matching based on the Gale–Church alignment algorithm and offline dictionaries. On top of that we have an additional manual process to make sure that the alignment is correct. However many of the books were pre matched and we didn't align them using our tool.
calinf··on Paralleltext: Learn languages by reading
Seems like you found a bug, works as expected for the other language combinations, we'll fix it a.s.a.p. Thanks!