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I used to be a frequent player on hubdub.com, where you could 'predict' (or bet on) the news. Hubdub sadly closed in April, but I've been considering something on a much smaller scale for a different domain.
My question is - are there any working prediction software clone tools out there that you can easily configure, setup for many users, many topics and scales well? Like pligg is to digg.com, I'm after prediction market software.
I've looked at Zocalo, but it's a bit too academic. Bookmaker has too many bugs open and hasn't been developed in years, and Prediction Market and Betting System are still in their infancy and don't have working websites successfully based on their software as an example.
Any suggestions welcomed, if I have to code the whole thing up myself fine, but I'd hate to be reinventing the wheel...
There is a module for drupal, but the development seems to have stalled. Anyway, from what I have been looking at, there are no viable off-the-shelf open source prediction market products.
There are several Drupal based solutions, but I believe they are all in various states of disrepair. I wrote a post about them a while ago and it's still pretty accurate. Certainly one or more of them could be a basis for great work.
There is also Zocalo which has been going relatively strong since 2005. Zocalo is, however, a Java based application which, in my opinion, makes it inaccessible to most people who "just want to setup a site."
http://ideafutures.sourceforge.net/
Relatively old and not active, but the code is there (PERL)
Runs http://ideosphere.com/ (probably the oldest prediction market on the Web)
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I'm about to enter the world of programming. I know a little bit, but practically nothing, but I'm usually a quick learner when it comes to tech-related stuff.
My brother came up with an idea that I thought I would like to help him with, but I'm not sure what the best way to go about it is.
In order for you to better understand the functionality of the programme/website, here is a little backstory:
My brother spends a lot of time making sourdough for his burger business and optimising his baking all the time.
The way he is keeping track of everything is through an Excel spreadsheet, where amounts of flower, which kinds of flower, cost etc. goes into the spreadsheet.
This is fine if it's only for one type of bread, but he bakes several types of bread.
So, what would the best way to go about building a website for this application be?
I'm thinking that this could be applicable to more than just sourdough, but for simplistic reasons, let just start with that.
The visitor should be able to create a user and that user should be able to store their own recipes, log their changes for future reference and rate the different recipes.
So, on the top of my head, I'm thinking MySql for database, HTML/CSS for styling and Python for functionality?
Can Python and HTML be integrated?
Let me know what you guys think! All help is deeply appreciated!
If you are interested into websites javascript and node js is the most popular choice for server development. Python is mostly used for Neural Networking not for server sided development. Do some more research on what is the best to start with. I started with lua for my first language making dedicated servers on roblox,rust, GTA fivem and ect. What ever entertains you the most with programming is where you should start.
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Has anybody seen a resource covering specifically the use of machine vision for locating a human in a room, including cases where they may be partially obscured? I know about OpenCV and other machine vision packages, but I'm looking for a paper/library/code example that focuses solidly on identifying a human in a room; something that is readily integrated into code rather than being a rough idea that would require weeks or months of tweaking or enhancing to do a reasonable job of succeeding at the task. I'd prefer something that does not require binocular vision and can work with a single camera.
First: you should read this about human detection. Then you can find/use opencv code implementing the training step of this kind of detector. You will need to access to a database for training like INRIA Person dataset.
Second: if you need to handle partial obstruction, you may need to implement a human body tracker that can handle this problem. Particle filter could do the work.
If you have problems with implementation feel free to ask more specific questions.
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I have an applicaion, that can best be described 'loosly' as a scripting application, primarly designed for part time developers, engineers and sciences types with a VB.NET background (can theoretically do C#).
This has been a long three year hobby and I am about 95% complete. I am planning to make the applicaiton freely available for most (if not all) uses, but I do not want to open source it (at least right now).
I was looking for an online place to post and collaborate with some folks for feedback, to get some testing done and finalize the application (my wife wants me to be DONE with it). My searches online have revealed many spaces, but all seem to be open-source spaces that require release of the source code, or just aplace to post 'free' completed software. I am looking for the collaboration part.
Can anyone point me to a such a space that does not require providing the open source code (if it even exits)?
I think you can use most of the collaboration places without actually uploading any source to the repository.
I've seen a bunch of project on Google Code Hosting that have no source (usually its then on GitHub) and just use the Google Hosting for bug-tracking and collaboration.
I created a BitBucket account. Looks like it might work. Many of the sites require you to choose an open source license before you even create a space. BitBucket does not.
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Does anyone know of a FOSS alternative to mediawiki?
Specifically I'm looking for the in-built features of granular access control, a hierarchy of pages users can navigate, and more easy to use than mediawiki.
Well, there's Dokuwiki. It's very nice, and it's my Wiki of choice. It is supposed to provide granular access control; I have never really worked with it, however, and my impression is it's not that great (I can be wrong, though, I've never really examined it).
Building hierarchies of pages is easy though, and showing a navigation structure too, using the indexmenu plugin.
I find the setup of a fresh Dokuwiki to be a bit cumbersome at times, but the everyday work is very easy and straightforward. I do not know Mediawiki that well so I can't compare, but if you are looking at Wikis, Dokuwiki is definitely something to look at.
There's also the WikiMatrix, a comprehensive comparison of a huge number of Wikis, incidentally built and run by the author of DokuWiki.
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.