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Flux-Mithril The Flux overview video seemed convincing. It's a web app architecture that lets you ask "How did my app get into this state?" and always have a straightforward path to an answer. It turns out Mithril fits the architecture as well or better than React does, and for me mobile-friendliness is important so I really like Mithril's size. My Hello World Flux-Mithril app's source is at https://github.com/brlewi…
Nice LoTR reference :)
It started as HN's "Who is hiring" thread but on the map and with better search. Mainly to solve the mess with suff like: SOMA, SF, valley, San Francisco, there is way too many ways to describe this one location ;) Also there not much of a difference when you are looking from Europe if it's Palo Alto or San Francisco.
Although right now it is more than that, I've wrote parsers for 8 major IT related job websites, and more in progress.
At some point I was extremely annoyed by the fact that I have to visit many sites to see all interesting job offers.
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Any plans for a self-hosted version?
No. It wouldn't be very practical, nor very useful. The overlap between people who could self-host it (node.js data collectors, Redis caches, EC2 and Aurora instances, background workers, etc) and whose analytics requirements aren't more advanced than what it offers, is probably nonexistent. There's already a bunch of good self-hosted options out there.
The Work Explorer - http://theworkexplorer.com/ It's a personal photojournalism project to learn more about different occupations and the people who work in them. "We spend about 30% of our waking adult lives working. During that time, many of us experience only a small fraction of the available varieties of work. We may have some understanding of the occupations held by our friends, family, and coworkers. Outside of…
Composer's Sketchpad — http://composerssketchpad.com It's basically an iPad sequencer with the UI of a drawing app. You're given a canvas that can be panned and zoomed like any scroll view, with a grid indicating time on the horizontal axis and pitch on the vertical axis. You draw notes with your finger, and although you can snap to the grid like in most sequencers, you can also choose to start your notes at any poin…
You might enjoy this; it uses a similar visual representation, but for sample playback: http://at.or.at/hans/solitude/
Elevator pitch: UBNB.com lets you rent someone else's car to stay in for the night.
Optionally you can request food service and in this case the concept also ties in delivery hero in which the car you rent is being used for pizza delivery at the same time.
The company tag line is "UBNB, sleep well, travel well, eat well."
A modern version of Karel the robot with different programming methods (a Scratch-like interface, a function-based approach, or an OOP based approach) with support for either Python or Javascript. A combination of tutorial and documentation for a previous "stable" version can be found at http://reeborg.ca/docs/en (French and Korean versions also available). This is slow on-going work that started first in 2004 with a desktop program (rur-ple) used by many in formal settings to teach programming.
It right now supports batch processing via local files as well as streaming through FIFO files, but the architecture is extremely open, and connectors for docker containers, mesos etc are planned.
What is awesome with SciPipe IMO is that half of it is not even a framework or engine, but rather a pattern of how to use the concurrency primitives in the Go language to build a dataflow network which also becomes an implicit workflow scheduler.
This means that there is not an aweful lot of code, and since it is mostly just Go language primitives it will fit in nicely with basically anything else. Great orthogonality you could say. That is, as long as you can accept to read and write on Go channels or write wrapper that does that for you. But who wouldn't?
It is a bit rough yet but we are just starting work on putting it in production later this month, so things should improve fast.
Wave Gliders: http://www.liquid-robotics.com It's a wave-powered, autonomous sensor platform built for longevity at sea. We do things like monitor salinity in the arctic, circle oil platforms looking for leaks, track tagged mammals on migration, and do coordinated fleet maneuvers for ocean floor mapping and exploration.
Those are pretty cool. I suggested an idea to James Gosling that about 25,000 of them could be used to greatly remediate the Pacific Gyre[1] of its plastic. Sure the initial cost would be high but they would work autonomously day in and day out gathering and compacting plastic and dropping it off at a central collection unit where it could be decomposed into carbon with a solar powered incinerator. Sadly not somethin…