skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wonderful thing about the free market is that you don't have to use magical algorithms to determine the "correct" price of things, you just set the price you're willing to buy/sell at, see how many takers there are, and then adjust the price upwards/downwards.

If you need to hire twenty people, and you find twenty people willing to do the job for eight bucks an hour, and you can't find twenty people willing to do it for seven bucks fifty an hour, then eight bucks an hour is the correct price. It's not that tricky.
As a marketeer, I'm sorry to say IMO this app is going to be hard to monitise in any serious way.

Correct me if I'm wrong but the main user cases I can see;

1) To transfer contacts across platforms. The main traffic I guess would be iOS <-->Android. Given there is already an easy way to do this via a gmail account you're not in a great place to take much market share.

2) To do a back-up. Again this can be done in real-time via Gmail or via their csv download.

Both of these have free alternatives with relatively easy user experience. You will find it difficult to win organic traffic as your business is within popular keywords with established brands. You could buy sales via advertising but I expect you would be paying $4-$10 per download. So without ongoing revenue in the model (I hope you're not monitising the contacts downloaded...) you can afford to advertise. And even if you could I don't see people people paying for this app in any significant volume.

I find products like this interesting and a good example of where tech / marketing and accounts people should have a chat before building a product. I had a chat with a person recently where he was building an ad revenue driven app. I pointed out if he changed his audience slightly to a in-demand audience cohort the click revenue per ad would go from about $0.75 to $10.00.

Anyway - if you building another app feel free to ping me for a marketers view. It's all opinion and I could well be wrong. For the success of your product hope I am.
Racing proposers cause paxos to fail to converge.

A: Prepare(1)

B: Prepare(2)

A: Accept(1, Va) # fails.

A: Prepare(3)

B: Accept(2, Vb) # fails.

Etc... In practice randomized backoffs when this happens causes it to converge extremely fast, but the exact right situation COULD cause it to delay forever. Don't lose sleep over it though.
You have a bit of a namespace collision - http://www.reactable.com/
I'd say the assertion was under the assumption that the devs in question know the .Net stack well enough to gain at least a 10% productivity gain over using a stack they are less familiar with.
Nobody wants OpenGL on XBox. If anything, we'd want a PS4/Mantle style hardware level API. In practice since the hardware is so similar between XBox and PS4, the APIs would probably be pretty similar too...

On the other hand, the use of Direct3D is a competitive advantage for them. It made ports easier with the XBox 360 and it probably still makes them easier for the XBox One.
The post makes some valid points, but this reads more like self promotion "content marketing" for her expensive make money online by bootstrapping course than an objective analysis.
From the website:

> It should be noted that this is NOT A VACATION. Participants are expected to work hard during "school hours," Monday - Thursday.

> You are free to choose any project you like, ideally something you think will help you improve as a programmer. Participants are encouraged to work on open-source code and 'for-fun' projects, but they are also allowed to work on commercial projects, such as freelance work or startups. We also encourage participants to spend as much time as possible pair programming and collaborating with other people.

> All included, we think participants could live frugally and get by on $3,500 for the three month period. However, a participant would have more flexibility with a budget of $4,000 - $5,000.

Will anything "cool" come out of this? Who knows. But $5,000 for a three month trip hardly represents an expensive excursion to the tropics, and it appears that the intent is to put in place a structure that participants are expected to adhere to. What's the problem with that? It's not like the hackathons and "schools" in the United States are consistently churning out masterful feats of engineering.

On another note, since when did you have to be overweight, unshaven and overworked to be considered a legitimate programmer? I didn't get that email.
If you live anywhere near Heathrow then you will see a lot of A380's. In fact it is hard to imagine there are so few of them given how many go flying overhead. Heathrow is a busy airport operating at full capacity. The A380 therefore makes complete sense, there is no other way to increase capacity apart from bigger planes.

Hence, from the perspective of anyone living in West London, you have to wonder why airlines would buy anything else. It is all a matter of perspective, very much so. The order books are full for the A380 and it is obvious that there will only ever be a finite need for such a large aircraft. Therefore, if the order books are no longer growing then so what?

Maybe the maths doesn't add up, however, keeping those A380s in the air is going to be pretty good business when it comes to spares and repairs. Again, perspective. Compared to those stupid fighter jet programmes the maths really looks a whole lot more plausible for the A380.

I think that American sentiment towards European planes is easy to figure out. Cheap and dependable planes, yes, high tech wonders (Concorde, A380), no.
TL;DR: Robby Russell wanted out-of-the-box functionality for newbies, and auto-updated turned on. Sorin Ionescu wanted better tailoring for experts and didn't want the auto-update which he saw as annoying.

Thus the split between the code bases.
Khronos, not Kronos.
The title of this link is a bit sensationalist. Keep in mind:
"What makes it so extraordinary that HealthMap picked up on the outbreak before the WHO’s announcement is not that the tool necessarily identified it first (it’s doubtful that it did), but that the algorithm was able to detect such small bits of informal information and piece them together as soon as the first reports of an unknown hemorrhagic fever started spreading."
> In other words, easy money rewarding easy money. That’s why startup winter is coming.

That's the ideal for every financial endeavor ever.

This article is very empty without any actual data or evidence indicating what has changed now.
Non-starter.
If you'd prefer to use Scheme over Common Lisp and would like to get your hands dirty, consider hacking on guile-wm. I try it out from time to time and make small patches to improve it. You can modify guile-wm at runtime by connecting to the REPL server using telnet or the geiser Emacs extension. I recall StumpWM not having something as convenient.

I wish guile-wm was under more active development, so maybe a few more hackers could help get the ball rolling.

https://github.com/mwitmer/guile-wm
Victoria's even warmer, and gets far less rain. Plus the opportunities for living an outdoor, active lifestyle are even greater.
Initially I thought, other than some toy stuff I wont have anything to make with that. Then I broke down and got one. Now everything like a nail that needs a 3d printed hammer. Built test replacement parts for my wife's antique knitting machine, for the antique spinning wheel, fixed my waterproof mp3 player, and can easily make custom enclosures for my electronics project. I cad something up and then play dota while it prints which is perfect as I can check it every 30 minutes to am hour which is the right interval for these things
We don't unless there is a bunch of money involved. Then the grievance and injustice becomes too much to bear.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25369262/jesse-jackso...

Call me when there is concern about gender ratio among garbage collectors.
Strawman. Vivek Wadhwa scolded Democrats for not taking a deal proposed by the Republicans whereby 55K diversity visas in exchange for startup visas. [1]

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/10/dear-congressman-gutierrez-...

Startup visas have nothing to do with diversity. It has to do with enriching the US economy. Nothing wrong with that. I support the startup visa moment, but not at the expense of other visas. We should be giving more visas - not less or the same amount reclassified.
TL:DR - Amazon can go kill puppies, and I will complain loudly. I will not, however, make my displeasure felt by NOT buying products and services from Amazon, because, um... if you think about it,its because they already won.
Although I'm sure my rants are keeping Jeff Bezos awake at night.
That's the same attitude we have towards American planes. I wish the sky was dark with SSTs.
>There are others, including myself, that believe low skill work is too cheap to be replaced in the near term

Well, the vast majority of low-skill work has already been replaced by relatively simple machines -- harvesting wheat, digging holes, moving big heavy objects around. Now we're in a situation where the remaining low-skill jobs are things which are easy for a human but hard for a machine, like harvesting oranges, or (for that matter) making hamburgers.
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I wonder what the legality of using the manuals in homebrew and emulator development is.
Wow! I had no idea the Immigrant Investor Program (IIP) worked that way in Canada![1] Basically you just give the Canadian gov't an $800K, interest-free loan and you get residency? Maybe I'm not reading it right, but you don't invest your money, the gov't invests it for you? And it's guaranteed?

I thought it was more like the US system where you had to invest money in a company of your choosing. If the company went under, tough.

The interesting thing is that the US program has an annual cap of 10,000, but hasn't reached it in the last few years. In Canada there was a backlog of tens of thousands of people.

[1]http://www.cic.gc.ca/enGlIsH/immigrate/business/investors/in...
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>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.

Indeed. You can find a few people willing to complain about it, but you can find a few people willing to complain about just about anything, and that's how we fill the 24-hour news cycle.
Indeed it has, photosynth - I blogged about it before, http://alicious.com/making-3d-models-from-photos/, http://photosynth.net/preview/view/6de2eb38-4e7e-424b-94a3-9... - which came from Microsoft Research. It looks like this is "just" the video version of what they were doing before with photosynth walkthroughs. Very impressive.
Nah, we have come a long way in screen resolution. The pixel count goes up by four when you double the resolution, and graphics hardware doesn't improve that fast.

It wasn't too long ago that 320x240 was a pretty normal resolution. At 1080p, we have quintupled the number of pixels more than twice- from 76,800 to 2,073,600
Yeah, it looks amazing. If the video is taken at faster speed (like 10X), then they can get a smooth realtime result when slowing it down at post processing.
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Just to second derefr's point, that's 6+ years where you MUST stay at that job and your employer knows they don't have to keep you happy. I've heard more than a few stories about this being publicly discussed when deciding who works on some unrewarding slog. Imagine spending the better part of a decade knowing that if you want to do more than, say, Sharepoint upgrades you'll have to do it in your own time.
My read: not really. Micropayments are too fussy in a whole lot of ways. Though of course, if someone wants to prove me wrong they're free to try it.
I worked in Vancouver as a Microsoft employee for a few years, it was a great experience. Ping me if you want to chat
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I'm not sure but will it be easier to build an interactive console especially for golearn? I believe the IPython system is a boost to Python's success on scientific computation.
This is a tenuous link, but your comment reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoZ2BgPVtA0

Not exactly repair, more adapting to change.

This is also a fabulous use of tech and a wonderful story.
I support open borders for the reasons I listed.
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"Unlike most previous outbreaks, which occurred in remote, localized spots, this one began in a border region where roads have been improved and people travel a lot. In this case, the disease was on the move before health officials even knew it had struck."

What if someone in a major US city got infected? How bad could it get? Could they even contain it at that point?
That's just DGM output, and excludes R&D and capex in military manufacturing. It also excludes manufacturing of consumables, i.e. munitions.

It also excludes everything that comes under the "other procurement" categories in the military budget, which is often purpose built for the DoD and/or made and sold in a market that excludes foreign manufacturers.

And, on top of all that, procurement as part of "overseas contingency operations," is not broken-out or included in DoD procurement.
To be fair, it is possible to change jobs when your application is ongoing. Just tedious. Tedious enough to be a strong disincentive.
That sounds great, I'll shoot you an email tomorrow. Thanks!
Why not write the window manager itself in Haskell (e.g., xmonad [1]) to take advantage of Haskell's type system, and provide extension points to allow users to tweak the desktop environment in the language of their choice -- for example, Scheme [2] or Python [3]?

[1]: http://xmonad.org/

[2]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/husk-scheme

[3]: https://github.com/bjpop/berp
Well, I admit that I was pretty ignorant about the work being done on this project in regards to time-lapsed video. I guess I could add to my previous statement that they also cut out irrelevant frames (parts of the video that aren't in the camera path). I don't think this would be THAT difficult to do manually, but I admit that the technical video showing how they were able to graph/visualize the irrelevant frames is pretty cool, and the interesting resulting effects people are discussing in this thread (disappearing/appearing objects, the video game loading effects) are amusing.

I never said that it was trivial, just that similar stuff has already been done and made a "standard stabilization technology", automatically and easily just by uploading to youtube. It seems that youtube's techniques aren't necessarily completely different: there's a screenshot of an article from Google in this video [1] called "Auto-directed Video Stabilization With Robust L1 Optimal Camera Paths". However, I do appreciate and shouldn't disrespect the specialized work being done for time-lapsed videos. My apologies.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgAdeuxkUyY
Nobody can be serious about containing this outbreak unless they stop the planes flying and close all borders.
Are there any databases like Reaxys that are publicly available with sane (or even permissive) licensing terms? It looks like the stumbling block for retrosynthetic analysis is getting that large amount of reaction mechanism data, not necessarily figuring out the exact rulesets up front. You can use very limited rulesets if your target space is as overwhelmingly large as 10^60.
I wonder how many of these sorts of algorithms are out there? We might be hearing about the guy that received 10 consecutive accurate stock tips.
Good news. This was actually making feel negative towards FB, to the point that I would only log in for absolute necessity and never for more than 5 minutes at a time.
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Do any ordinary travelers care about the type of plane they're on? Do they even know before they get to the airport? If I had to choose between an old 737 with a 4 hour flight, and an A380 with a 6 hour flight (including the layover) there's just no question. And I can appreciate the presence of a bar in the back! It just doesn't matter that much.

It seems obvious that an airline is going to focus on initial costs, fuel efficiency, customer preferences, etc. And it's not like they don't sell liquor on 737s...
It is important to understand the two types of traffic at a hub. There is connecting traffic -- people who are going from somewhere else to somewhere else and just using the hub as a point to change flights. And there is what the airline folks call "O&D" traffic (which stands for "Origin and Destination") -- people who are either starting their trip at the hub or ending their trip at the hub.

Traditionally, hub locations have been chosen based on offering convenient connections to other places, but also on high levels of O&D. Thus, for example, New York in the United States, London in the UK, Frankfurt in Germany, and so on; all of these are convenient locations to get to other parts of their respective countries, but they are also major business and/or tourism centers, meaning lots of people are either based there or want to go there. O&D traffic is typically more valuable to an airline than connecting traffic.

But there are now four airlines/hubs which have extremely low O&D traffic, and exist almost solely to provide connections between points in Europe/the Americas and points in south/southeast Asia and Oceania. Those are Emirates (Dubai), Etihad (Abu Dhabi), Qatar (Doha) and Singapore (Changi). This is a very different business model from other airlines, and to an extent it can only work if the carrier and the hub are heavily subsidized by the local government.

So there's less incentive for other airlines to fly into those airports; generally it only happens when the airline can partner with the home carrier (as Qantas has done in the past with Singapore, and now does with Emirates, or British Airways connecting to alliance partner Qatar in Doha), but it still isn't as desirable as flying to a place which has significant O&D traffic. Which means it's less likely that the middle-eastern hubs will see significant increases in service from other airlines, and much less likely for them to see lots of other airlines buying A380s to fly to those hubs, because for most of them it just doesn't make financial sense. BA, for example, does fly to Dubai as a connecting point, but does it on a more-economical 777, and uses the A380 for heavier O&D routes like London-Hong Kong and London-Los Angeles.
WTH? How can they do this?
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Mind blowing results! Although the name Hyper-lapse doesn't really convey the goal, it should be named Smooth-Lapse, because thats what its doing. Too much hyper-x already.
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Not sure why you say MSF is "almost entirely tapped out"—from MSF's website "Please note that Doctors Without Borders' response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is fully funded." Nevertheless, they're a pretty excellent charity to donate to (c.f. http://www.givewell.org/international/charities/doctors-with... and note they spend over 85% of funds on programs [~12% on fundraising, and ~1% on management]).
What about motion sickness. I can't imagine trying lapse videos in the Rift without puking in one minute.
BTW the above should have said Mutable Instruments stuff comes WITH outstanding documentation, not without outstanding...you get the idea.
Its a fair question, and in truth just printing plastic utensils is not a killer app, just like calculating sums on a microcomputer made less sense than buying a calculator. Rather I expect the transition to 'user focused' 3D printing to be the point where nearly every gizmo you use around the house is printed and then recovered after use. Any container, tool, decoration, replacement part, mounting bracket, paper good, or packing material, pretty much anything that you have to go out and buy today, and have to recycle responsibly. The value proposition will be that it is exactly what you need, right now but you don't have to store it for a future need. I'm still on the fence as to whether or not it will ever be practical to 3D print clothing but given the Disney demo of soft printables I know people are thinking along those lines too.

Step past thinking that it is a spoon that you can buy a pack of 50 for (which you have to in order to keep the costs down) to thinking that in the space where you would store a pack of 50 spoons, knives, forks, plates, and napkins you can have an nearly inexhaustible supply of spoons with a birthday theme, serving, color matched to a table setting. Every time you set the table you can print it all out, from place mats to drink cups. And then throw it back to be recycled again with just the organics left over.

And to return to my previous theme, having been the first person in my family to build their own computer in 1978 and listened to everyone about how stupid and inane it was to own a useless computer, only to live my life and find them become the 'smartphones' of today. When I walked through Makerfair this year and saw all of the 3D printing stuff there and heard the same sort of dimissive comments which I had heard at the West Coast Computer Faire in 1980, it really struck me. The same feeling you get when you are halfway through a book and realize you've read the same story but set with different characters and in a different place, but fundamentally the same story.

Its going to be interesting.
Fair enough. For us, the thing we are trying to 'do well' is to build the sort of community that we'd enjoy living in while we work on our various projects. Perhaps it's a point of personal preference, but we enjoy living within a diverse community.

Disagree with our values or priorities? No worries - start your own flavor of community project and let's exchange notes. Ain't the free market grand.
Take a look at an older paper 'Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization'. That seems to do an ok job
http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/06/magical-3d-warping-te...
Back in my days, we had to put hours and hours into gluing together and painting our warhammers!
Surely todays kids shold be able to 3d print the parts and do the gluing and painting by hand.
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