skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why you have collaboration software such as Atlassian's Confluence, Jira, etc. The questions get posted to the collaboration site, linked with the code under review, and developers can find answers to questions that have already been asked.

Even better, as the questions get answered you can have more tests in the codebase so the developers can find the answers before they ask the questions.

You do raise the interesting issue conveniently left out of the original article though: if you put 100 couples onto "Project Baby", you have a very high chance of getting multiple babies even when you only wanted one.
This is awesome. Who cares that it's a little cumbersome - it works!

On a more national scale, could something like this be done for Congress? C-SPAN already does most of the hard work of filming and uploading to the web, so perhaps it won't be too difficult. I think it would certainly attract a lot of interest... maybe I'll give it a go.
You picked an argument that has a high bar to clear, because, as you noted, Airbus planes are very prevalent among US carriers. Jetblue, for instance, flies mostly Airbus planes. So to clear the bar, you have to show that somehow flying Airbus planes is OK, but the 380 in particular is somehow anti-American.

It seems far more likely that long-haul hub-and-spoke products just aren't a good fit for the US market. The inefficiency of that model is practically SWA's whole operating thesis, and it's one of the 3 most profitable large airlines in the country.
Google does not owe you a job. If every company had an agreement to not to hire with any other company and there was nobody who didn't work for any of these other companies, then they would have to terminate their agreement or go out of business. But of course, that wouldn't happen because that situation would incentive companies to break their agreements or not form them at all (such as Facebook). Sure, Google and Apple drive wages down in the same way that Facebook drives wages up.

But to answer your question directly: Yes, if nobody wants to hire you... nobody wants to hire you. I don't see why Google should be forced to hire you anymore than you should be forced to work at Google.
Thanks. This code sample will be useful for me to study. It follows the structure I am using (a separate 'users' package which creates a users Blueprint) but hand-rolls the stuff I was trying to do with flask-social, whilst still leveraging flask-login.
meh... a number of US airlines fly primarily/exclusively Airbus (JetBlue, Virgin America) and they don't don't seem to have suffered a lot of negative PR.

The 777 and 787 beat it on fuel economy, and only NYC is really slot-constrained. I'm not even sure if more A380s mean more passenger throughput since the super-jumbo needs longer separation between aircraft on takeoff and landing for wake turbulence. So what's the point?

Yeah, it is a negative article, but just seems obvious they took a risk and overestimated the market. When they jumped in with the A350 to compete with the huge orders of the 787 it was a tacit admission Boeing had made the correct market call.

Not like there haven't been a ton of negative articles about the 787's problems, Boeing spent $25b on it and they really need to sort out the kinks and ramp up the production rate to make a proper return.

I flew an Emirates A380 a couple of years ago and it is a sweet, quiet ride.
Meteor Capybara – Acceptance-Test Your Meteor App Using Ruby and Rspec
I think they're less sure that humans can catch it from fruit-bat poo.
> allowing domestic yuan conversion to western mortgages

And now it all makes sense.
Thank you, that's extremely encouraging. I think we can effectively migrate the web service to Nancy while keeping our C# business logic as is.

Should be a fun week!
Buying a Macbook only to put Ubuntu on it seems like a bit of a waste. You get Unix out of the box, and the battery performance is stellar. The gesture support is awesome, but I don't know if the drivers available for Ubuntu will help you maximize that. There's also quite a lot of very good software available for OS X that's not available for Ubuntu (Alfred, Tower, F.lux, and Dash come to mind).

This isn't to say that Macs are the superior choice, but from what I can tell you'd be throwing away a lot of the above by switching to Ubuntu, and those are a big part of the value proposition of the Macbook. If you're going to shell out for the Macbook, just use OS X.
Persona verification is typically:
- one or two forms of ID

- a bill showing the address

- a phone call to the phone listed on the bill

I deal with multiple certificate authorities as a partner and typically you won't need much else. If you're applying as a company, you might need a notarization but this is uncommon.

I can sell you a code signing certificate for $75 from Comodo, but I've never actually applied as an individual. Shoot me an email, in my profile.

Edit:
As per 3.2.3.2 of the Comodo CPS, they require:

- A photo ID "which discernibly shows the
Applicant's face" to verify your name.

- "A government ID, utility bill, or bank or credit card statement" to verify your address. "Comodo MAY rely on the same government issued ID that was used to verify the
Applicant's name."

Comodo also states that they may "[require] face to face verification of the
Applicant's identity before an authorized agent of Comodo, an attorney, a CPA, a Latin notary, a
notary public or equivalent."
The 19th century had pretty open borders. That's when the white world got rich.
Has anyone here been hired by or hires engineers for an american company which has an office in Vancouver? Would you be kind enough to talk about you experience
How about pay? Job offers were literally almost half compared to Seattle 2hrs away in Vancouver, and life is cheaper in Seattle.
The last piece of the article is painful to read. Anyone know how we can contribute to supplies, etc to fight Ebola?

"A Desperate Call for Help

By June and July, Sierra Leone was becoming the center of the outbreak. At the government hospital in Kenema, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan was leading the efforts to treat patients and control the epidemic.

But he was desperate for supplies: chlorine for disinfection, gloves, goggles, protective suits, rudimentary sugar and salt solutions to fight dehydration and give patients a chance to survive. Early in July, he emailed friends and former medical school classmates in the United States, asking for their help and sending a spreadsheet listing what he needed, and what he had. Many of the lines in the “available” column were empty. One of his requests was for body bags: 3,000 adult, 2,000 child.

Before his friends could send the supplies, Dr. Khan contracted Ebola himself. He died on July 29."
Firefighters should be fighting fires 24/7 and not have enough free time to do charity work?
Why do we need 50/50 ratios?
Back of the envelope, i get 7680 frames to process, one minute each which is just under $1300 for a medium windows azure instance. Not cheap, but probably doable. I'd bet you could spend a few hours fiddling with large memory instances versus medium, and find a sweet spot.

Set aside $50-100 a month, it'll probably be a lot cheaper in a year. (assuming optimizations and cheaper cloud services)
I suppose you mean that we have to wait for a "Visicalc for 3D printers" then...
As mentioned in the article, for some countries like Cuba, these records were not digitized and are the only source of the music of an era
Thank you for that file. I have thought about trying StumpWM. Your setup is going to be helpful.
There are others, including myself, that believe low skill work is too cheap to be replaced in the near term. The exact opposite can be said for many currently "High-capability" people. That's why it's "software is eating the world" not "robots are eating the world". Mental process replacement is much, much more scalable than physical process replacement do to the raw material costs.

We're much more likely to see things like doctors, lawyers and plumbers replaced with low skill workers that simply act out the last physical mile dictated by either fully automated decision making or software provided decision efficiency that allows for example, only one doctor to diagnose every patient at a hospital. The last physical mile is much more expensive than high level decision making to replace at scale.
Generating a 3D model of an environment from the output of a moving camera has been done. There is obviously a lot of improvement to be done in that department, and those projects are neat, but I think it's appropriate for this project to focus on what it adds to the scene, which is camera path smoothing.
> airline market as a whole is shifting away from the "have a single massive international hub and send all flights there" model

Dubai airport is closing in on Heathrow at the #1 spot. If long-haul traffic through Dubai continues to increase, will this change demand for A380s by non-Emirates airlines? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_busiest_airports_by_i...
I wonder if music itself is a "hack" of our sensory and cognitive apparatus.
The server supports HTTPS, but the videos are improperly embedded resulting in mixed-content errors. This is disappointing.
>There are lots of others who need, but aren't worth, survival wages

That's got to be such a small (and unfortunate) pool of people that I'd happily send some taxpayer money to meet the article's living wage number. We can probably pay for it by not buying another single jet next year or something.

And honestly I'm not trustworthy of corporations' judgments of low end labor worth anyway. For one thing, you can work at extremely busy stores and get paid the same as workers at the very dead stores in the next county over because they use blanket values for these positions.
Nevertheless, I would still strongly recommend using Handbrake or something else that uses x264— that's the best H.264 encoder. x264 has good presets for various speeds/qualities, or I could help you optimize the settings for this type of content if you're interested.

Handbrake has a CLI in addition to the GUI, ffmpeg is another good CLI option.
That's good to see. Now if they could support OpenGL on Xbox and WP / Windows RT, that could be even more useful.
That chart is purposefully misleading. Percent change.. really?

here's the actual data for June 2014:
http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/adv/pdf/durgd.pdf

Shipments (in millions of dollars): 238,213

Same, excluding defense: 226,688

So 11.5B in defense in June out of 238B.

Edit: and notice it says shipments are up 4.2% over last year (excluding defense shipments)
When I say the Chinese came first I did not want to say that they invented writing.

I am talking about sophistication in language,not just script. Most of the early Egyptian and Sumer writings are very simple accountings, mostly numbers. Very little to do with what we consider writing today.

latin is called an Indo-European language becomes it comes from India. Not just the language, but the race.
You already have passion. Now go for the money
There is a cost-benefit tradeoff to every decision. Analyse the tradeoff, and make your decision.

Less glibly, it might be worthwhile to target companies who already exist in SV/Seattle. I find it hard to believe that Facebook (the example given in the article) forced its engineers to accept a 50% pay cut to go to the Vancouver office.
Sure, they should have plenty of time to do charity work. On their own time, out of uniform, as individual citizens, as members of the Elks Lodge, members of a church, members of a soup kitchen, whatever,.... just not on work hours as firefighters. Their job in that capacity should be simply to fight fires (and perform related public services).

Again, just my opinion.
Oh thanks, I'd missed the "live" part.
Seriously, this is what you're going to talk about? Nothing about the technology? And it's "disappointing"?
Ah, I missed that subtle point. Very astute.
A fact I love to point out is that China's manufacturing employment is reducing too.

"And manufacturing employment is falling almost everywhere, including in China." Source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-04-28/why-factory-...
Working for 6-7 years for the same employer is now considered "grinding away"??
ANGLE is not a proper OpenGL support, it's a workaround. Better than nothing of course, but still second class citizen.
Good night gents.
That depends heavily on your definition of "real production," and probably quickly devolves to no true Scotsman. I absolutely think this could be used in productions I would consider real, particularly documentary/travel/reality programs and sports.
Startup Winter is Coming
There is an extremely long term trend, though, in which low-skilled labour which anyone can do is slowly replaced by high-skilled labour which requires intelligent people.

A thousand years ago, perhaps even a hundred years ago, 90% of jobs could quite easily be performed by someone with a two-digit IQ, because they were manual labour. But as we replace manual workers with robot repairmen we run into the problem that some people who were smart enough to be manual labourers just aren't smart enough to be robot repairmen.

Eventually we reach the point (which I think we're already pushing against) where the number of jobs which can be performed by people with (say) two-digit IQs is less than the number of people with two-digit IQs. What do we do then? Put them all on welfare and wait for our cities to burn down? Invent bullshit make-work jobs to keep them busy? Other more controversial solutions which I dare not mention?
So you believe prostitution harms the people in it, so your remedy is to cause further harm by sending the clients to jail?

If there are women being forced into sex then there are laws already to protect them.

Why do you feel its necessary to tell other people how to live their lives?

Who are you to decide whether a woman and a man can agree to exchange money and sex?
Do firefighters routinely do charity collection while on the clock? I don't think I've ever heard of that, but I'm from the UK not the US. Are they from small fire depts that operate as charities and rely on donations to stay open or are they collecting for unrelated charities?
So are they going to join, sabotage, and abandon WebGL like they did with OpenGL?
A video tear down with a knowledgeable electrical engineer:
EEVblog #491 - Nintendo 64 Game Console Teardown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScicrgZwvg4
The N64 development manual and SDK leaked a few years ago. Here's the documentation for the curious: http://level42.ca/projects/ultra64/Documentation/man/
I guess that it's not a proximity problem. For example, in the first video at 3:08 a gray mountain with snow appears on the upper right corner, and replaces a piece of sky. I think that a big rock was occluding the vision of the mountain in this frame, and the algorithm has to choose a texture from another frame to fill the void, and it made a mistake.
I highly doubt any firefighters are doing charity work while getting paid. Most of them are probably just wearing the uniform because kids think firefighters are cool. And firefighers _are_ cool, so I don't think it is completely unwarranted.
It's striking but it's far more believable when you realize that they need to play at a much faster speed than the source, so they have tons of extra samples from which to extract information. They basically use all that data in the extra frames (that would otherwise simply get tossed away in a regular time-lapse) to construct a 3D scene. This wouldn't look nearly as good if they had to play it at normal speed.
Nice to see this but there are few other related projects based on React(Not 100% React) that I know of:
https://github.com/bgerm/react-table-sorter-demo
https://github.com/josebalius/ngReactGrid
I'd love that. Just finding the correct replacement knob, switch, harness, etc. drives me nuts. IIRC, antique car enthusiast Jay Leno just recreates the parts he needs.
Incredible results. I'd kill to try this with Oculus Rift.
>I would guess that I could upload a shaky video to youtube to get it smoothed out, download it, and speed it up with similar to their rate and get similar results.

No you certainly wouldn't. Watch the technical video at the bottom of the page. It will explain why this is not trivial to do and why standard stabilisation technologies aren't useful to smooth out time lapses.
If you are referring to recent proposed visa changes, you appear to be defining dysfunctional as not passing visa programs very beneficial to a tiny group of people: incubators like YC, and owners / large investors in tech dependent startups. As not a member of those groups, that's quite a stretch.
I think a killer app for 3d printers is completely unified design for small-medium businesses. Sorta like how Disneyland has mouse ears on everything.

The real money will be made, just like with minicomputers, in the software. Desktop publishing had themes, future software will make it easy to make stuff that looks like, lego or erector set or trees or whatever. High detail procedurally generated themes to surface whatever objects people are producing.
6-7 years? Thats a very generous estimate even for EB2-India right? I've been told to expect 9 years unless the immigration reform passes.
> Plus any US airline which purchased the A380 would get negative PR from it.

Yes, the airline would get negative PR. But not for the reason you claim. The article has the real reason:

Shares of United would plunge at least 10 percent
if it bought A380s, according to one analyst,
because of concerns that they would bring too much
capacity into the market.

If you add up all the US airline profits and losses in their history, until recently the sum would be negative. US airlines routinely enter and exit bankruptcy. Now they're finally making money again. Big money.

So it would be insane for US airlines to buy the A380 now. But not for "Us. Vs. them" reasons. For much smarter business reasons.
Sometimes you're so busy looking for ways to survive that improvement doesn't really even enter into it. Also, I'd imagine the whole "being poor sucks" would provide motivation to do better. Finally your embedded assumption that somehow being "motivated to do better" will fix the problem (ie it's their fault).
Thank you so much for the link, I had never seen this, it's pretty amazing! :)
it is actually quite sad that things like "fairness for highly skilled immigrants" is held hostage to CIR.
Yes, it's pretty common in the US. They stand at traffic lights in uniform with empty fireman boots for passing motorists to deposit money for causes unrelated to the fireman mission... Muscular Dystrophy research among other things.

And to respond to above post, yes, they are often being paid while doing this
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/may/01/charity-taxpayer....

But the point is not about receiving payment. The point is, they are representing themselves as fireman out doing something other than fighting fires. And this irkes me.

I'd love to go to Costa Rica and plan to at some point in the future. But when I go to Costa Rica I'm going to surf and drink beer and eat a lot of seafood and lie in a hammock and do some shopping. I certainly don't plan to waste time in front of a computer writing code during this period. I do that here every day and I don't dream about Costa Rica nor worry about how many women nor minorities are in cubes next to me while I'm doing it.
It would still be an issue, this just makes it larger.
Sure; mostly because that's seven years where you have no chance of getting a "horizontal promotion" by switching employers. Meaning, then, that your career trajectory is completely at your employer's whim--which usually means "stagnant."
And you know, everyone who's not xenophobic, enjoys living in a diverse community and philosophically believes people should be able to live wherever they want.
The golden time for creativity is when half-daydreaming and half-attentioned for me. If I am completely gone to daydreaming mode, my brain doesn't handle complexed tasks. So, I feel like taking long vacation where you tend to become completely daydreaming mode isn't good for my creativity.
Added to http://www.reactjsx.com/, where you can search reusable React components
Does anyone know how the match graph is created? (The part that is used to identify redundant frames). The paper barely mentions it.
If you'd looked at the site, the authors actually do the exact comparison you suggest: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hype...
It's better than a raw timelapse, but not (IMHO) nearly as good as their results.

From the paper intro:

Video stabilization algorithms could conceivably help create smoother
hyper-lapse videos. Although there has been significant recent
progress in video stabilization techniques (see Section 2),they do not
perform well on casually captured hyper-lapse videos. The dramatically
increased camera shake makes it difficult to track the motion between
successive frames. Also, since all methods operate on a
single-frame-in-single-frame-out basis, they would require dramatic
amounts of cropping. Applying the video stabilization before
decimating frames also does not work because the methods use
relatively short time windows, so the amount of smoothing is
insufficient to achieve smooth hyper-lapse results.

And later on (section 7.1):

As mentioned in our introduction, we also experimented with
traditional video stabilization techniques, applying the stabilization
both before and after the naive time-lapse frame decimation step. We
tried several available algorithms, including the Warp Stabilizer in
Adobe After Effects, Deshaker 1, and the Bundled Camera Paths method
[Liu et al. 2013]. We found that they all produced very similar
looking results and that neither variant (stabilizing before or after
decimation) worked well, as demonstrated in our supplementary
material. We also tried a more sophisticated temporal coarse-to-fine
stabilization technique that stabilized the original video, then
subsampled the frames in time by a small amount, and then repeated
this process until the desired video length was reached. While this
approach worked better than the previous two approaches (see the
video), it still did not produce as smooth a path as the new technique
developed in this paper, and significant distortion and wobble
artifacts accumulated due to the repeated application of
stabilization.
Canada launches mission to map Arctic seabed
Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) is an excellent choice. They have been integral to controlling several past Ebola outbreaks, and have been fighting this one since the beginning. They are almost entirely tapped out right now. http://www.msf.org

I can't vouch for them, but the Liberian Ministry of Health also has donation instructions: http://www.mohsw.gov.lr
Correct, that is a best-case estimate (updated to say this).
If the MSR researchers are here -- I'm curious what does it look like when bordering hyperlapse with regular input? i.e., if there were a video consisting of input frames at the beginning and the end, with a stretch of hyperlapse in the middle, what does the transition look like? Does it need much smoothing?

Also you probably saw this over the past week: http://jtsingh.com/index.php?route=information/information&i... (disregarding the politics of that) Whatever he's doing (I assume a lot of manual work) it has a very similar effect and it has these beautiful transitions between speeds.

Amazing work and the videos are stunning.
The users of those resulting products benefit too, just like Tom Cruise isn't the only one who benefits from him selling his acting services.