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I've known the developers behind Marty for years - and this is an incredibly well-engineered bipedal robot! With onboard WiFi or an RPi; and Python, Scratch, C++, ROS - it's a bit like the Turtlebot for humanoids.

Fun fact, back in March I had the pleasure to share the stage with a handful of Martys at the Edinburgh International Science Festival dancing away...


A friend of mine worked with Prof. Salter. He's an incredibly brilliant, smart and kind scientist. Unfortunately, much of his research was 'blocked' due to someone miscalculating the cost by twice the amount, starving the research field of funding until recently. There are quite a few related spin-outs (e.g. Pelamis Wave, website currently down). Edinburgh also just got a huge wave tank for more experiments (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27702506).


Some companies buy up the rights to old/out of print books that created this original material. Then they cut it up and automatically digitise it. There was a post on HN quite some time back about somebody describing his process to do exactly this for a repair-your-car book - and how he used it to make money via ads through SEO hits.


Do you remember about when this was? I've been searching for the post on HN and can't find anything.


I'm afraid not. I've been searching as well and couldn't find it. I recall his process to be

1. secure the rights to the book (he knew the author personally/through family)

2. cut the book open and run it through a high resolution scanner

3. use imagemagick to preprocess images

4. run OCR on the pages and convert them to markdown

5. have a compiler convert his markdown and images to HTML

EDIT: FOUND THE LINK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4974055


Thanks for tracking that down! Very interesting.


Go to the website of departments, research groups, and professors at your university and get a broad understanding of what they are up to. Maybe read (the abstract of or the entirety) of one of their recent papers or check out their public outreach work/press releases. This will help you build an understanding of who's doing what at your university, their current progress/steps, etc. Contact and talk to those professors/research groups that are doing work that you are interested in -- they might have some ideas for undergrad projects.


I've just finished doing the same for Edinburgh, UK and share many of the OP's frustrations. The monopoly that many letting agencies have in that they are also managing apartments adds to the shortage of accommodation in Europe's largest cities. Unlike in previous years, besides a worsening of the availability of accommodation I have also noticed an increase in scammers this year (i.e. people copying pictures from other city's agencies and trying to convince people to pay pre-deposits or application/administrative fees to 'secure keys').


Won my first game.

[Evidence: http://frupic.frubar.net/32232]


Thanks for the evidence, I was doubting your posts authenticity.


It used to be free a few years ago too until it became 'premium' in early 2011. [1] Difference is that now Skype features more ads than in 2011, even if you have multiple monthly subscriptions (A no-ad version is now a considerable perk of the premium version).

[1] - http://www.macworld.com/article/1157435/skype5.html


In what way would it be different from SoundCloud? No fancy commenting? Anonymous uploads?


The big thing about imgur is the community. Consider the front page of imgur. I think that's the cool thing about the idea.

You usually go to Soundcloud because you're linked there, it's not something that easily builds its own culture.


Soundcloud has a nice culture. I go there both to discover music and to listen to music I've liked. It's different than imgur but I think that partly is just due to the fact that it takes anywhere from 3 minutes to an hour to experience each 'piece' compared to an image which you can digest in a few seconds and flip through a bunch when you need to burn a minute or two.


You bring up an interesting point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614790


debatable. soundcloud has community as well, you just might not have gotten into it yet if you simply get linked or listen to stuff from the embedded player.


Yes. And a single use - upload and share. And SoundCloud is mostly for music, this is for random audio files only.

Also, I'd like to make the service free, ad free, and maybe add a very cheap pro option.


Wikipedia lists the F9R also as "Grasshopper v1.1" -- cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshoppe...


Ah, did not see that. It's confusing since the Falcon 9 Wikipedia page also has the Falcon 9 Reusable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Falcon_9-R


There are unconfirmed reports that the flight has made an emergency landing in [Naning/Nan Ming] -- but hours after it allegedly ran out of fuel (7.5h of fuel on board). Hope for the best.


Where are you getting this from? This would be major news if true.


There were a few tweets mentioning rumors of it. Also mentioned in this thread: http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/re...

Hoping for the best, but I've only seen word of this in social media. No official reports yet.


Only rumors, e.g. a tweet from Tony Fernandez (AirAsia owner) that they would be safe in Naning (China): https://twitter.com/tonyfernandes/status/442115903480557568


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