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Well no, they are literally selling a service. If they were selling themselves as an object, the purchaser would actually own them.
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I wonder how far you can get by using a "naive" timelapse of selecting frames from the video, but being smarter about which frames you choose. Rather than just choosing every nth frame, try to choose visually consistent frames by making the intervals between the frames loose, then apply conventional stabilization after the fact.
I know the BigCommerce integrated app experience is an Angular app.
> Of course, businesses are free to spend their savings however they like. For some, that may mean more quality ingredients or services. For others, it might be competing with other restaurants by maintaining the same level of service and ingredients but offering even lower food prices.

Or it could mean management just stuffing the money into their pockets. Somehow I think this is the most likely outcome.
Location-based messaging sounds interesting.
There's a big difference between an "internet connection" and "facebook". My opinion (as someone who cancelled my Facebook and netflix accounts this month, never had a TV, but do have a smartphone (mostly for GPS)) is that anything meaningful that happens on facebook can happen just as easily via text or email. If your close friends are planning an event or talking in a group chat, great, they can shoot you a text or email.

The things that facebook (and twitter) has the market cornered on are the things that no one cares about. For example, with these sites, you can see random updates from old acquaintances that really do not impact your life. That would never have happened before social media, and personally, I did not feel that 140 character quips, infini-scrolling feeds of irrelevant info, or gossiping were benefiting my life at all, so I've been on a deactivation spree.
I imagine him then moving to California and rarely going outside.

Vancouver weather is pretty close to London England, except sandwiched between an ocean and majestic mountain range.
The article specifically said that the company was redirecting him to Vancouver, not just Canada. For that matter, one can look at pretty much any coastal location below the Arctic Circle and say with a pretty good confidence - "I probably won't experience 20 degrees below zero there" (well, one exception comes to my mind: Vladivostok).

I wouldn't be packing my swim trunks and sunglasses if I were being redirected to Southern Patagonia, on the basis of hearing that Buenos Aires has nice beaches.
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but if the aggregate long term (think 24 month) price projection is lower, then price sensitive establishments will take the bait.

Have you looked inside a mcdonalds kitchen lately? They've automated quite a bit of it already.
If I were them I would offer this as a web service: upload your video and have it converted for $1.
So instead of paying some bozo minimum wage to flip burgers, you have to pay someone to fix the burger robot every time it screws up. Which it probably will, frequently, because it's got a zillion moving parts and a bunch of loose messy ingredients which can get stuck in them.

Replacing people with robots works great if you're replacing large numbers at the same factory, because firing workers and hiring robot repairmen still saves you a lot of money. If you're only going to replace one or two workers per site, though, it sounds pointless.
It's a cool machine, and I'd buy a burger from it for the novelty factor, but I'm not sure the economics of it stack up. For each burger sold, the staffing cost is probably no more than 10 cents. This machine would have to be sold rather cheaply to be able to replace those staff.

I've never had a problem with service time in most fast food restaurants, so I'm not sure this will improve experience for the customer. It'd be cool to see something like this applied to busy bars, where it could make any drink you wanted.
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I just finished a project with ASP.NET MVC over PostgreSQL via NHibernate. Worked great. Just out of curiosity, I actually even set it up so I could change it over to SQL Server with a config change. While it was a small and relatively uncomplicated data model (20 tables or so), it encouraged me to consider doing this combo more often. This project is hosted on AWS with AWS RDS for pgsql. Made it easy to use the basic Windows servers on AWS and not have to manage the data servers for pgsql.
You've not worked in fast food I take it? It's highly competitive. There is no margin for "stuffing pockets"
Automation tends to hit at the middle, not the bottom.

For example, blacksmiths got replaced by automation. Highly skilled labor, replaced by machines + lower/unskilled labor.

Burger automation is the fantasy of automating all the way to the bottom of the skill pile. But I would put my money on new waves of automation that disrupt skilled labor. There may come a day when we reach the bottom of the pile and utopia/dystopia is realized, but I don't think that day is today.
Toronto rarely even gets to -20c in winter, the average low is -6c in the coldest month (January). Ottawa/Montreal is slightly colder and much snowier though.
I'm not concerned about how often it happens. I'm concerned about the potential for it to happen. The Richard's example shows that potential. Your insistence on more examples as some metric of proof is none of my concern.
Big burnt bits on the bun isn't a good way to say that it does it well though...
> 2) The Geek Feminism Wiki, although simply referring to itself as "feminist", subscribes to a particular form of third-wave poststructural feminism that is not so much concerned with equity, as it is preoccupied with dubious and subjective gender politics. Indeed, their editorial guidelines outright say "[We]... accept each person's self-reporting of their feelings and lived experiences as valid". Ultimately, this leads to a lot of bias, misrepresentation and is only a specific feminist viewpoint.

What you are saying is very wishy washy. You say dubious and subjective gender politics, but what does that even mean? Also, how exactly does accepting someone's self-reporting about lived experiences lead to a single point of view and allow for misrepresentation? If we are excepting self reporting and lived experiences, we are by definition excepting quite a large set of points of view.
This is super exciting. Would the people who argue against this machine on the basis that it replaces human workers also argue against the use of robots to produce cars and computers to replace secretaries? Yes, some people lose their jobs in the short term, but in the long term the asset reallocation that goes on in the economy actually creates more jobs than it destroys. Plus, who doesn't want a more sanitary, cooked-to-order, more customizable burger rather than the microwaved shit we get at the low-end fast food restaurants today?

The company even addresses the issue on its website: "The issue of machines and job displacement has been around for centuries and economists generally accept that technology like ours actually causes an increase in employment. The three factors that contribute to this are 1. the company that makes the robots must hire new employees, 2. the restaurant that uses our robots can expand their frontiers of production which requires hiring more people, and 3. the general public saves money on the reduced cost of our burgers. This saved money can then be spent on the rest of the economy. We take these issues very seriously so please feel free to tell us how we can help with this transition."

We don't need to take them at their word because something like this is inevitable anyway. We just need to enjoy the burgers!
Labor is typically about 25% of sales, a very high volume restaurant might do a little better.
It is pretty well understood that 25-30% percent of costs of operating a restaurant was the labor. Dont forget that things like payroll tax, health insurance, overtime, etc.. goes into that.

Food is 25-40% and the rest is rent/profit.
Yeah, but if they just work two jobs for 40 hours a week each, then they can have an income of $45k. Heck, if you work 3 40 hour a week jobs, you're firmly in the middle class!
Thinking about the numbers.. the average McDonald's kitchen, at a midsize store when I worked there many moons ago, all by itself, had between 2 and 6 people in it. At full staff, there were two assembly lines with two people each, one guy on the grill, and one guy starting orders by preparing the buns (the initiator). At low times, one guy on the line, one guy on the grill.

Assuming a reasonably busy location where there is no such thing as a "slow time" (airport, central metro area, etc), that means you have to pay six people around $8 an hour for 8 hours. Works out to $384/day on kitchen labor, give or take.

$2688/week, $139,776/yr. (And that's before taxes, local wage variances and so on - this is a very rough, very conservative estimate)

There's no way this thing will cost less than $150k - a shake/ice cream machine costs aroud 50-75k for a much, much more simple set of parts (liquid pumps, an auger, and a compressor). And that's before you get into maintenance costs and the cost of having a single point of failure.

Example: One of your kitchen guys gets sick, you can usually call in a replacement, shift someone from elsewhere in the store, or just run one person down and deal with it. The Burgermaker 9000, on the other hand, say the tomato slicer breaks? You're down. Completely and totally.

Combine that with the insane time to break even and see even a penny of ROI.. it ain't happening. Not anytime soon.
They didn't tell us that Vancouver was "the warmest major Canadian city" when they were telling us that we were being relocated here. All we knew was http://i.imgur.com/X2l9uxU.jpg
This is awesome. Any plans to do an Android equivalent as well?
Yea, fortunately pythonpy supports lazy iteration over sys.stdin when you really need it. Just like in python, the syntax won't be as nice as using a list. But it works:

py 'itertools.count(1)' | py 'itertools.islice(stdin, 0, 10, 2)'

However, the number of times that you need this are surprisingly rare. Most lazy operations don't require that each row be aware of the surrounding row context, and using the much simpler:

py -x 'new_row_from_old_row(x)'

will get the job done in a lazy fashion. Usually, when you need rows to be context aware, as in:

py -l 'sorted(l)'

or

py -l 'set(l)'

it's just not possible to accomplish your task without reading in all of stdin.
I got one of these 2 months ago. It worked perfectly out of the box, but when I updated everything the trackpad stopped working. I went back and forth with the Dell Ubuntu team until they figured it out. It took a while, but the Ubuntu support team over there is awesome. Overall the machine is great. The touchpad screen is odd since it will never be used. Otherwise it does what I need it to.

On a side note, I bought a macbook pro at the same time I got this Dell XPS13. The Macbook pro is amazing compared to ubuntu.
What's the best alternative for this? I'm doing a GoPro video while cycling with some friends... And this would be insanely usefull
Has there been an update to this project or are they still in the 'hope people give us money to open up a restaurant staffed by robots' phase?

Their website doesn't appear to have changed since 2012 (when I first heard about and was excited to see that their restaurant was 'coming soon'. It is a shame that they haven't yet done so.
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In fact I should add that I just looked at an article Chalmers wrote in a Douglas Hofstadter's book on analogies. There, Chalmers is making good, serious arguments that I agree with.

My impression read about Chalmers in Wikipedia is that he went from making intellectually difficult but dry arguments about the particulars of consciousness to making rhetorically satisfying but intellectually flabby arguments grounded on the uniqueness of each person's subjective experience. By the time of the Ted Talk, his deal has become just pep talk for the uniqueness of consciousness.

I don't know - pseudo-scientific arguments validating a person's uniqueness have a strong appeal even for those with a strong intellect, simply because they appeal to people's emotions. But that doesn't actually make them any more valid.
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Restaurant kitchens are also rather hostile to precision mechanisms. They are greasy, hot, and stuff gets thrown around without a lot of care.
> You can see this in the list of out-of-scope items. For example, no "apologia for misogynist, anti-feminist, oppressive, or other harmful actions or ideas" is allowed - in practice this tends to include stuff like having an unfeminine attitude to sex and sexuality, doing sex work, being friends with anyone who does, opposing bans on it, being kinky, or complaining about any bad experiences you've had with other mainstream feminist women including systematic online and offline harassment (which is a serious problem for some groups of women).

Am I misunderstanding you? If your point of view is against sex work and "unfeminine" attitudes towards sex (wtf does that even mean anyway), it seems to me that you are being misogynist and quite possibly oppressive. I don't doubt those people exist, I've met quite a few of them, but that doesn't say anything directly about what the geek feminism wiki does and represents.

> If you think about the guidelines it's easy to tell they exclude some women's feelings and lived experiences, but there's no way to tell which. The linked page makes it sound like the policy affects oppressors when it's mostly those who are worst off that get screwed.

Is there any evidence to suggest that geek feminism wiki does that? Are viewpoints on sex work or sexuality skewed towards one point of view, or are there many points of view about those subjects on the wiki?
It actually is a constant drizzle, though only in the winter. Rarely do we get proper rain. It's one of the few things I miss from Atlanta's weather. Frankly, Seattle's climate really is very nice compared to much of the United States (say, the entire East Coast and the Midwest). It is not as nice as chunks of the California coast, but I'll take my lower cost of living over the Bay and my 15 minute commute over the terrifying sprawl that is LA. I can't really make an argument against San Diego, though. Every time I've been there it's been beautiful.
A common rule of thumb in the food business is that 90% of your costs will be equally split between staff, rent and ingredients.
The only "Halt and Catch Fire" I'd heard of before was from the satirical computer instruction set from the 70s(?):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
Is this Hamburg? "getrankemarkt" :)
That's exactly what people said about self-checkout lanes.
I've managed a quick service restaurant and I can tell you this is the stuff of dreams for someone trying to manage that staff, Your estimate of the staffing costs is way too low. Hands down the biggest challenge was turnover. It took us about two weeks to train and employee and about a month after that for them to be really good in the kitchen (if they were ever going to be). The day crew were stoners and slackers, the night crew was high school kids. In other words, no one cared much about the job. Our turnover rate was probably 90% in a year and we offered a pretty nice food service job compared to something like fast food. (It was a McAlister's Deli. On par with a Panera.) Anyway, not having to train part-time staff, deal with their ongoing drama, substance abuse, constant scheduling conflicts, etc... would be worth a lot.
Right here — http://hyperlapse.tllabs.io/
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Stunning effect, can anyone help me see the practical or entertainment-value use?

I'm also curious if anyone else got motion sickness while watching the video.
This has the same properties as B in his examples though - one can simply fail to catch the exception and the same problems arise. I actually much prefer the B solution (or a variation, where instead of returning error codes, you pass in an exception handler function), as opposed to exceptions which are "hidden" from the API and rely on users to read documentation (hint: most people don't, until they find out the hard way).
You know what's empty every time I go to Home Depot and Costco? Self checkout lanes. The Costco by my house just took out half of them and added more staffed stations.
I just get a bunch of $ symbols around the math parts.
Does anyone have a video of this thing? I can't find anything.
Yep, I've lived 10 years London and now 10 years Vancouver and it's comparable. It's probably even nicer in Vancouver, as we have a ground pool and air conditioning here, while in London those were more of a rarity. Vancouver does get a very grey and miserable November, but the Spring/Summers are usually very good. It's a cliche, but I've often done the 'ski in the morning up the mountain, swim in the sea in the afternoon' May/June. That's got to be good, right?
We changed the url from http://theiff.org/oexhibits/paper01.html to what seems to be the most substantive part of the series.
Is this some kind of ugly joke? Where is the profit in this patent?
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Seems like a rather US-based perspective.

It's true that no US-based airline has bought one. That's because the US has so many cities, that it makes sense for airlines to serve (say) SEA-NRT and SFO-NRT with separate smaller planes rather than just one honking big plane from SFO-NRT.

Countries whose airlines have bought A380s are countries where the vast majority of international air traffic is concentrated through one or two hubs. Singapore, Germany, France, Great Britain, Australia, Dubai, Malaysia, and so forth.

It's true they've sold "only" four hundred of 'em. I have no idea whether that makes them a profit or not, and I doubt anyone outside Airbus knows that either, the economics of airliner manufacturing seems to be a pretty closely guarded secret (even the actual prices of planes are a secret...)
> I could name a hundred and you still wouldn't be happy. Why bother.

I could support what I'm saying, but that's too hard. The reality is there aren't many examples of someone being unjustly sanctioned by a code of conduct.
based on all Stellar addresses and the balances I found here
http://www.reddit.com/r/Stellar/comments/2cztpg/all_stellar_...
This looks lovely. As someone who has battled too often with jQuery DataTables - which can do everything under the sun but often feels like you're performing unanaesthetised emergency dentistry on yourself in the process - it would be terrific to have something more modern and flexible, even if it's not quite at feature parity. Here's hoping this might be it!
The article makes it clear that this is the big question. Suspects are fruit bat poop and bush meat.
Presumably once you have the working machine, this can be adjusted to taste. Actually you'd expect a variety of settings.
Everything they can, at least. Still, someone has to load the fryers/grills, assemble the sandwiches (of which there are at least three different basic kinds, and many, many more variations, even some more then in some places), and wrap/package the result.

I don't forsee a machine handling the entire process anytime soon. There are too many edge cases.

(And I remember quite a bit of expletive-laden rage at the automation we did have when I worked there.. when it breaks, it's annoying. Fry dispenser not loading baskets, things getting stuck in the bun toaster and holding up the whole line, timer buttons on the holding cabinets failing so you can't tell what's been there for how long..)
You are completely wrong here. Please note that the EME proposal does _not_ specify a plugin interface for the Restriction module! It only specifies how the Restriction module is exposed to JavaScript. How the Restriction module is implemented or connected to the browser is up to the browser developer. Both Google and Microsoft are involved in the creation of the spec and Apple is also supporting it. All three companies make up a large share of the web browser market. And all three companies have their existing DRM solutions which they are using for their EME implementation. None of them have announced a plugin interface to allow other companies to provide a DRM module.

The only browser vendor who wants to implement EME via a plugin is Mozilla. Simply because there can't be a free software Restriction module implementation (and consequently due to the W3C's efforts there defacto can't be a fully free software web implementation). And Mozilla already made a deal with Adobe to provide the Restriction module.

So no, there won't be a market. It will actually close down the market. Content providers will have to support those four DRM solutions if they want to offer their content on all those platforms. They won't have any choice.
The article was discussion class mobility, not race.
There have been ramen-making robots for years. This isn't a disruption at all. There isn't anything to see here until we read a headline that McDonalds will pilot it in N stores for 6 months.
Postmodern gender theory, the application of Frankfurt School narratives (pseudo-Marxist dichotomies reasoned over scenarios where Marxism isn't traditionally applicable, like race, sex, etc.) and so on.

Well, in theory, yes. Not at all in practice. The vast majority of people who edit the wiki are part of a general postmodern feminist hivemind, and those who espouse more traditional feminist viewpoints about gender equality without the vast baggage of sociological theory that is taken for granted tend to be reverted. You can read the editorial guidelines, it's all in there.
Ask HN: How to market a utility app?
Hi folks,

I, along with a few friends, have created a small app "Contacts to Excel & Email" which exports your contacts straight to your inbox with only one tap of a button. We wanted to make something so simple that even a grandma could use it without help from a techie.

The app is available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. Despite the fact it has been featured several times on WP platform, we're unable to generate any sustainable revenue out of it. Marketing the app is a challenge because of its very simple and isolated nature.

So I was wondering if I could get ideas/feedback from folks on HN, particularly those who have developed similar utility apps. How would you have marketed the app if you had developed it?

Thank you.

Link: http://c2x.eastros.com
> Without some major innovation in ease of use, print resolution, print time, print material, or reliability

The biggest innovation I've seen is a British outfit (botObjects) who claim to do in-head mixing of base colours to give proper multicolour printing.
When i lived in Toronto -20c was relatively common in the winter. It might only be a 3-5 days each winter, but it happened pretty regularly. -30C was really rare.

Apparently Toronto has 22 days per year where the temperature drops to less than -10c.

http://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Canada/Ontario/Places/...
I now make it a point to look and make sure products I'm buying do not include triclosan. Such a proliferation of antibiotics in everything can't be good.
When was the last time you walked into a fast food burger place and heard sizzling in the background? I haven't taken the time to find out but I do know that, in the rare times I visit a Burger King or Jack-in-the-Box, I have not seen anyone 'flipping burgers' but, instead, grab them out of what looks like a steamer. So my suspicion is, no cooking takes place for burgers, at least.

Can anyone verify that?