skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, I'm well aware of glTF, and it's a cool initiative. Just didn't want to overwhelm readers with new stuff.

Also, even though it doesn't have the same backing yet, I'm more optimistic about OpenGEX as an exchange format because it's not such a big ask. It serves the same purpose as FBX, but is completely open source. glTF on the other hand - and please enlighten me if I got this all wrong - is asking engines that already have their own tailor-made runtime format to support this one as well (or even instead). That's asking a lot.

I guess if glTF could convert FBX files as well as it converts COLLADA, it'd quickly become a lot more attractive. Maybe support glTF output in fbx-conv?

https://github.com/libgdx/fbx-conv
last few threads were not so active. I think you are right, may be we should limit these to monthly.

so, what was the project you started working on? Were you able to finish it?
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There is a lack of free open source state of the art game engines. The best one are based on the open sourced Quake 3 engine and Cube2, though they are 10-15 years old. Additionally such an engines needs a good WYSIWYG editor with an inbuilt shader editor like UnrealEd, CryEngine-Editor. The Quake3/Source-Engine editors are very basic and outdated. Game engines are written in C++, with game logic in a scripting language like Lua or JavaScript.

There is also a lack of web 3D engines that ate not based on ThreeJS. Every demo and tutorial is using ThreeJS, instead of WebGL. ThreeJS is an abstraction layer that made sense some years ago when WebGL wasn't around. ThreeJS is slow. One can compile C++ code via emscripten to ams.js, that's great - the downside is the JS filesize.
Can you give some examples of libre or open games from teams Mozilla has worked with?
Easy Expenses:

There are lots of expenses saas apps out there, but the pain with expenses is scanning in all the receipts. I should be able to do this by just taking a picture of the receipt at the time I get it. Perhaps include some computer vision stuff to pick the numbers off the receipt and let me choose which one was cost (incl./excl. VAT). Include other fields for project, time, date, reason, etc.

Then when I'm finished I click a button and it emails the expenses so I can forward it onto my accounts department.
Not just looking at the phone, though, even the tablets (kindle fire) are crippled because FireOS is subpar to stock Android in virtually every way that matters.
Cloud Foundry has an incubator project -- Lattice -- for this purpose as well[0].

It's an extraction and repackaging of next-gen Cloud Foundry components.

[0] https://github.com/cloudfoundry-incubator/lattice
> I think there might be a need for Website-for-SaaS-as-a-service. What I meant is that whenever a developer decide to start a SaaS, you have to have a website for that service (that has info, landing page, billing, account management etc.).

Yeah I like this idea. You can get so far with Bower, before you inevitably start spending so much time working on "product boilerplate". I remember being dismayed by this when I wanted to launch my invoice management app, I thought I was at "the last 90%" and I was -- of my product implementation. But then came the billing integration, legally required unsubscribe stuff, privacy policy, t&c's, blah blah blah.
Looks like a FBX-to-glTF converter has sprung up recently (linked from the glTF repo README: https://github.com/cyrillef/FBX-glTF). I have no experience with it though so I can't say how well it works.

> glTF on the other hand - and please enlighten me if I got this all wrong - is asking engines that already have their own tailor-made runtime format to support this one as well (or even instead). That's asking a lot.

For our Superpowers game maker, we didn't end up using glTF as the actual runtime format but we have a fairly simple importer that reads glTF, scavenges for what it needs and builds the final data. I expect most engines would still need a "last-mile" conversion, still some processing but much simpler than working with COLLADA or FBX directly.
we have that already, the layer is called "money"
you can give people rides and be compensated in the "money points (usually US dollar).
Later you can use this points to recieve rides yourself by others.
great thing is that you can use those points for many goods and services and not only for rides.
Hmm, yeah I guess you're right about the color. Fine on my monitor but I've encountered similar difficulties on other sites, so I'll take your word for it. Better now?

As for Stallman and open source, yeah that can be debated, but he's definitely an idealist.
But it rules out other kinds of tricks like storing info in file names. If all the metadata is counted in the length of the tar file, these tricks don't stand a chance. There's way more than 1 byte of overhead per file in the file system and Mike needed a rule that counts all of them.
Do the others provide an SLA and have a concrete ToS? I wouldn't have a problem trusting Google with my prod servers.
A TV-show backing system, after the fact.

Many shows are not available in countries where they are as a result, vastly downloaded. Sometimes they're available 6 months later. Sometimes you need bundles with various companies in order to get the shows you like. Sometimes, they're only available with so much advertisement that you lose the plot, while the same ad has been served 3 times in 40 minutes. These shows are GOOD. They deserve people's money, other than being split by an equal length of advertising to content ratio.

If a website had most TV show cast / writers represented, with a trusted authority overseeing, and an anonymous donate buttons; I can think of many shows to which people would donate their monthly entertainment-budget to.

TV is greater than ever. Writers are brilliant. Casts are amazing. But the whole system is rigged and barely functional. I realize the system cannot be flipped suddenly, but an initiative such as this one could drive to fundamental changes in modern TV production.
The article makes it sound as if UE4 was closed source or at least unwilling to take pull requests, which is not the case. Also, as far as I can tell from skimming, the UE4 source is really comprehensible and you can fiddle around with it, add custom shaders and objects and learn from it.

Though I do agree that an absolute beginner should start with a less powerful engine. I learned a lot tinkering with Cocos2D-X that helped me grasp basic concepts of OpenGL.
Seems like a good idea! But doesn't a service like this exist?
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I posted this link few days ago and it didn't had any traction

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9143993
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NLP as a service. It's a growing field yet setting up training models and all of that for a wide variety of NLP related services is pretty hard still. Things like sentiment analysis, Named Entity Recognition, etc.
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After the 20% they pay to Uber, and income taxes on the money earned from Uber, they would wind up with half of the miles they had earned through this "money" layer. With this, they get full value for each mile. Additionally, Uber is restricted from entering into many markets (example: their failed entry into Nevada, where one of the largest tourist markets on earth is located). With free - as in no money changing hands - rides, presumably the app would be allowed everywhere.
qutebrowser is my favourite now since it uses qtwebkit.
https://github.com/The-Compiler/qutebrowser
I'm interested in building a 3D mobile game that allows you to build your own life through scanning items around you through your camera and then representing them by making them interactable inside your phone. You'll have quests and stuff..

Can this idea be a worth giving a go at it?
From this I get that "BIOS compatibility mode" is a required specification. Then I can ignore all the rest of the article.

I have recently been learning about OpenBSD. I really like how they have handled all the weirdness associated with PC architecture booting/partitioning. OpenBSD simply ignores it and does everything on top of it. Once you have a partition marked as OpenBSD you are done the architecture specific stuff. Then you go on to do things the OpenBSD way which is the same over all architectures. So when Intel comes up with UUEFI (or whatever) you can continue to ignore the whole mess.
"Games must never stop being weird"

Reading this kind of stuff heartens me and gives me hope for the games industry.
I still spend a ton of time on gaming, and except for a rare gem, indie games are one of the only places you can see original thought, even if sometimes it is poorly executed.
I believe they're capped at 200 but I also get the impression they're accepting at a rate that assumes a lot of attrition prior to "full" acceptance (completion of foundational courses with a b or better).

For example, this last semester saw a lot of people accepted without compsci or math experience. That would make the prospect pretty daunting.
A desire to be left alone is perfectly fine. Automatically describing people as harassers if they try to strike up a conversation, with no qualifiers, is over the top and comes up against the fact that a lot of people (including women) welcome social contact in the same context.

Now let me be clear that I am speaking in general. I don't think it is justified to judge her, or her harassment claim, on the basis of that. It is that it is very understandable to see being approached as negative based on her specific experiences with it.

E.g. I've seen this in the past with female friends, who have in very general terms denounced being approached in public, and when I've pointed out that they've previously gushed over approached by guys they found nice (and ended up going out with in some cases), I've gotten the reply of "but that's different because ....".

Often what such statements boils down to is that they don't want to be approached in creepy ways by creepy people. They just can't (and most of us can't) clearly delineate, what makes an approach creepy and what doesn't.
There's only a second wrong if the accuser is just outright lying. Or do you prefer that victims of harassment never speak out?
expensify does this already
> With regards to a quota system I do believe at the senior levels in particular directorships and board appointees they are essential.

Why only there? The fact that there are more people in board appointees is a result of men being more prominent at both ends of distribution of psychological properties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_psychology :

- more males than females in the top and bottom of the IQ distribution

- males are generally more likely to display aggression than females and when any endeavour is successful, aggression is likely to enhance success, and when it is unsuccessful, it is likely to aggravate failure

- men may have evolved to be more risk taking and socially dominant and sometimes taking risks pays off, sometimes not

- etc - the general idea is that there are more men at both ends of the distribution in various things.

This results men in being entrepreneurs, executives and board members more often than women, but it also results in men being homeless, sick and dying prematurely more often than women.

It also has the result that men pay more taxes, and contribute more pension payments, but use less public services and are paid much less in pensions.

Therefore, if we set quotas for senior levels in particular directorships and board appointees, shouldn't we also set quotas for the homeless, jobless and poor?

I.e. if we apply quotas in some areas to disadvantage men, shouldn't we apply quotas in other areas to disadvantage women? For instance, reduce pensions to women after the age where men on average don't get any (i.e. are dead), and make a suitable percentage of old women homeless?

(You must realise I'm intentionally quite provocative and not entirely serious, but I think these are valid points to discuss before setting gender quotas.)
>Swift's syntax is hardly any different
from languages in the ML family.

Call it superficial if you like but I consider the syntactic features that Swift derives from curly brace languages (not just the curly braces themselves but the syntax for generics, the lack of double semicolons, etc.) what makes it a lot more appealing than any ML I've been exposed to.

Beyond my own preferences I think this matters for language adoption. The name "Go++" implies it will be recruiting from Go users. (It's probably why Scala went with curly braces.) Here being associated with Apple might actually be a detrimental factor for Swift.

>All the languages in the ML family
have automatic memory
management. Be it RC, GC, or
compiler dataflow models like affine
types.

I never said they didn't. What I said was that none of the languages you listed combined garbage collection and a curly brace syntax. Rust and ATS are memory safe but their memory safety features require greater programmer effort to use (especially ATS', I imagine).

>Swift's type system, is just like any
ML language.

You're right. I was mistaken to claim the type system as an advantage Swift has over other candidates for "Go++".

That said, I am not sure about the OO model, which Swift carries over from Objective-C. I have not used OO in OCaml. How does it compare to Swift's?

>Unless Apple decides to rewrite
WebObjects from Java into Swift that
is.

While that is not impossible it is unlikely. Regardless, I expect the users of the language to port something like Java's Spark long before that happens. It will only happen if and when Apple makes the language open source, of course.
I didn't understand the title. I thought it would be a math trick to determine if a number was divisible by 14, in your head. (Eg, check if the number is even, and use the technique for testing for divisibility by 7.)

Instead, it counts the number of numbers in a range which have a "14" in the base-10 expression, using Python code like:

len(["14" in str(i) for i in range(10**n)])

Followed by a more clever recursive solution:

def counting(n):
if n == 2:
return 1
elif n < 2:
return 0
return 10 * counting(n-1) - counting(n-2) + 10**(n-2)

It ended there, but I'll continue a bit further. As with the recursive Fibonacci implementation, this takes exponential time in n - try counting(100). A linear rewrite gives:

def counting2(n):
if n < 2:
return 0
prev = 0
curr = 1
for i in range(3, n+1):
prev, curr = curr, 10*curr - prev + 10**(i-2)
return curr

where counting2(100) = 6339...7499
I recommend reading this (or at least pages 4-6 if you're in a rush) and the footnoted sources:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1soIYek-YEIvqtu9brv3ecdPb...
> It has all been in women and men's fashion magazines (with a particular focus on Asia) whose readers will generally have slighter frames.

This is something I've never heard. What is this based on?
Generally cloud services like AWS or Google Cloud aren't about the specs you can get in a machine though, but about being able to deploy, resize and manage machines at scale; if you only need a single box of course you're better off with a VPS.
Unfortunate if I came off that way, that was not my intention. Just tried to keep things short by bundling all the 3 mentioned engines into "different brands of free".

UE4 is indeed open source, though not open to the extent of your average open source project, YET. But I'm not at all trying to give them a hard time about it. I know these things have to happen gradually. What they're doing is great.
If it is true, that engineering manager had another option - don't say something like that. Simple, and the responsibility would be where it should be.

Issues like this generally deserve more attention though, not less - for every issue that is vocalized, there are usually many that are handled in silence, or harassment dealt with by silence. It is not a good environment to be in, where serious problems are swept under the rug.

In the US military, if you are found guilty of sexual harassment/assault, you get hit with a double felony - one for the action, and one for the bad conduct discharge as a result. It still happens, but everyone knows to keep things professional in interactions with the opposite sex since the threat of a discharge under dishonorable conditions hangs high - it is more than a career finisher for the person charged. The mantra in the military for this sort of behavior is zero tolerance, and punishments reflect that - that behavior wrecks havoc on morale, trust in leadership & peers, and overall ability to get the job done.

Unfortunately, the tech industry does not take this issue seriously enough to impose this sort of punishment. What do you do when the company comes to a conclusion that turns out to be incorrect? Suing is not a good solution since you're fighting against a company with a lot of money that can lawyer up easily (and in this case, has lots of internal lawyers). The person in this case did leave and get a different job a little while ago, and only now is making it public after there was an investigation internally. Even worse, I have been told by Googlers that if there is any doubt, Google will not promote a candidate - by following that logic, the person should not have been promoted due to strong allegations of improper behavior towards a subordinate, and apparently he was.

It is a difficult problem for women to have to deal with, and we as men seem to have a problem empathizing with it because we can't understand what it is like to live in a world like that where we don't have control of our destiny because the institutions are set up against us.

The real problem seems to be that women do not have a way to seek recourse against this bad behavior in our industry, and the brutes/bros take advantage of it. Our industry is failing them.
What you describe is very much a thing. Variations of the basic concept exist under terms like "advertorial", "sponsored content", and "native advertising". At HuffPost, where I work, we have something called Partner Studio [1] [2], where people in our organization will produce such content for brands. Companies also often use PR firms to generate and pitch stories for journalists. It's pretty common for PR firms to hire journalists.

[1] http://digiday.com/publishers/huffington-post-branded-conten...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/sponsored-content/
How does this idea differ from Kickstarter? Or those other websites that you get your ideas funded on.
As the Wikipedia article states, there is no single thing called "the" extended ASCII. It is a nonstandard term that can refer to any of the multitude of 8-bit encodings that contain ASCII as a subset.
I'm sure tampering with a police car is illegal and that police forces are famous for their lack of sense of humour. They won't take this lightly.
Thanks a lot. I removed ahbl.org.
Idea: a personal blood testing device for use at home (to test for many parameters including vitamin levels).

It would be beneficial to be able to test at least monthly in order to avoid risks associated with various deficiencies, to detect possible diseases early, to monitor relevant parameters while on a diet or exercising etc.. Also, we'd like to keep our results confidential to avoid trouble with insurances and other interested parties.

Labs have large, expensive devices tuned for throughput (e.g. http://www.healthcare.siemens.com/immunoassay/systems/advia-...). They can probably be reduced in size and cost to something comparable with a laser printer. Newer testing methods would work with single drops of blood (e.g. Theranos) so no special skills would be required.

(personal motivation: discovered an extreme Vitamin D3 deficiency, supplements seem to have a dramatic effect)
I don't have any experience on NLP, but are any of these suitable for you?

http://blog.mashape.com/list-of-25-natural-language-processi...
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> Another, absolutely brilliant move by Ableton was to host a MOOC

I'm sorry but I believe you're mistaken. I googled and could not find any evidence that Ableton had anything to do with the Coursera MOOC whatsoever.

Most of what I did find suggests that it's run by (and for) Berklee College of Music. (So our point about MOOCs as marketing could still be valid, as Berklee has a big online program, most of which is not free.)

http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=17996

https://www.coursera.org/berklee
"This kind of accusation... can ruin a career"

It sounds like reporting the harassment ruined this woman's career at Google, so if that's what you meant, then yes. I doubt the man she named will suffer any consequences. Certainly he's never going to suffer the hateful abuse she's currently getting on Twitter.
ScrapBook : It allows you to save web pages offline, mark-up (highlight, annotate, make text-box callouts), indexes the whole collection + has tags. It unfortunately doesn't do sync yet, but provides an Import feature that is good enough in conjunction with rsync / Unison.

Scrapbook has been a serious "problem" for me: I could never make the switch from firefox to chrome, even in the intermediate years when a majority of folks had ditched FF for Chrome; I needed my scrapbook.

Link with screenshots, manual: http://www.xuldev.org/scrapbook/
Regarding the SaaS as a service, it might not be precisely what you are thinking of, but im working on a SaaS-in-a-box sideproject that includes a lot of those things. You can find it here, all ideas are welcome!

https://github.com/AndersSchmidtHansen/LaravelSidequest
>What other keys should they pre-install?

4/5 biggest linux distros. BSD, maybe? Does that seem unreasonable? Would you complain if these keys were added?

>Let's face it, most motherboards will run Windows, so it makes sense to ship Microsoft's keys (also they have to do that to get certified by Windows). Do you really expect OEMs to go hunting down keys from Red Hat, SuSE and Canonical?

Gosh, no. That sounds super hard. Three whole public keys?

>What about all the other little distros?

Give the end user an easy way to add their keys and I'm happy.

>And the CA model will definitely not work

You seem to be missing the point. This IS the CA model.
An app, possibly desktop one, which gets two music fragments and tries to figure out the stack of effects that were applied to one of them.

Context: I realised recently that a lot of film/series music is processed, compared to the album version. Specifically, I noticed blues tracks on Suits sound so much deeper than their album versions. I'd like to know how was that result achieved and how to make a chosen track sound as if it was processed for that series.