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It does. But to my knowledge, no one submits pull requests as a set of SHA1 hashes.
For SIFT computation, I recommend VLFeat[1], which there are some python bindings for[2] (although I haven't tried them myself).

[1] http://www.vlfeat.org/

[2] http://www.janeriksolem.net/2011/06/another-python-interface...
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The illustration makes it easy to see how credit or gift cards benefit Starbucks' workflow, by removing the price interaction. Regulars with a card can just hand the card over with the order and payment is immediately processed. This removes the round trip around price.
> They are also asking the facilities to turn off their overhead lighting as well --which presumably is not billed.

I assume google owns their own data centres, and even if not, its highly likely they would negotiate on points like this with the owner for price.

[EDIT: okay. so its been pointed out I didn't read the article properly (not google owned). The second point still stands however, I am sure that Google can negotiate with price on a total-energy package]

> Moreover, since most would be fluorescent, the amount of energy wasted would be minimal compared to equipment.

I don't know how you can make that statement. There is a probably a pretty low-frequency of physical access to each server, so it seems obvious to me that a couple of rechargable LED lamps roaming around a huge space is going to be hugely more energy-saving than drenching the whole place with fluro lights (which also need regular replacement, and add to the heat load) constantly.
Well the arms race can begin... more potent water pistol.
Then nerf dart gun...
then golf balls gun...
then gotcha gun... (at this point gets dangerous)
Unless I made a mistake Khandwa is where the man was from and he tracked his family from a memory of the station there.
Another crazy Republican out to destroy our freedoms. What a loser.
Heh. Yesterday the Senate passed a bill saying the gov't can take away your passport if you owe more than $50K in tax. What do you want to bet that the actual law will say ". . . if the IRS claims you owe more than $50K."

Draconian comes in all flavors. We aren't waiting for the Santorum bus to drive up. It's already here.
Is there an API for implementing screen sharing + video chat?
I use OpenTok! very good for adding video-chat, but not sure about screen-sharing API. Any advice? Want to make it compatible with iOS/Android/Desktop, so Flash is no (ruling out Adobe connect API :-()
Perhaps Rose is hired as a fall-guy: take the helm of Google+ which is failing and be the public face of it's fall (kind of joking but I guess time will tell). I'm wondering why Google doesn't buy Pinterest to be honest, it makes a lot more sense and would tie in G+ to their entire search ecosystem nicely.
I think I might have to set up postfix and do some experimenting. One of the strangest things I've seen is that some domains are rejecting emails with links to our site in them, but will accept them if the links are removed (plain text or HTML).

I swear, someone could make a good living handling this for companies looking to handle transactional email internally.
When I lived in San Jose while working at Yahoo (Sunnyvale), I had a roommate. I guess since I moved out of the valley, they've outlawed this concept.
From the title, it sounds like Santorum just lost (lol)
Santorum looks both gay and addicted to porn.
It's not for you to decide. Why do NBA stars get millions of dollars for being able to throw a ball in a hoop really well?
I just use gitx when I'm on OS X or tig when I'm on a terminal for per chunk or per line (gitx only) staging. git -p is too user unfriendly.
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I … don’t … understand?

So everyone and their mother are complaining about big government and one of the two guys who has good chances of becoming the nominee is in favor of doing draconian (fascist, even) big government stuff. What?!

American voter, what’s going on? I’m only confused. I have given up making sense of it.
this is a lot of work if you are OCD and print out your diffs to mark with a highlighter. A decent git gui like GitX on mac will let you do it with almost no effort at all.
Thanks for your comments. I'll review them to choose one.
So I don't see any confirmation anywhere. Techcrunch once told us that Digg was being bought by Google, so I'm somewhat skeptical.
To be clear, he's advocating cracking down on "obscenity" and not "pornography". With the notion that pornography can be legal but obscenity is, by definition, illegal.

The fact that we still have obscenity laws on the books is, well, obscene.

It's all moot, though, as there's no chance he'll get the nomination, let alone the presidency.
Yeah, as soon as i'm done with school I'm just going to have internet, with Netflix and other services. Land lines and Cable are a waste of money.
True, but at this point I would worry more about unapproved access to my Google account (for example) than to my computer... given the amount of personal information Google has about me at this point.

Google search history, Gmail, Calendar, Maps history, Latitude location history from running on my Android phone, Chrome browsing history and bookmarks, ...
AS it turns out, that's exactly what it seems to be. But no fear, they had just started, so we're good for 2-3 years.
It's the neo-conservative campaign slogan.

Get out of my business, and get into my bedroom!
Jan Erik is an outstanding guy. He has helped me through a couple of rough spots. The OpenCV python bindings for SIFT don't seem to work (or exist). The ones for ORB work really well. Here is an example: https://github.com/ingenuitas/SimpleCV/blob/master/SimpleCV/...
This type of stuff is why I expect Romney to be the actual nominee. Going by everything else, I would seriously doubt they put Santorum in the VP slot.

I do wish we could get a TRUE small government candidate from either party.
Of course! I was thinking LinkedIn but not all founders keep that updated or even use it. Should've thought about Crunchbase sooner.

Other than the creepiness aspect it'd be kinda fun.
Organization comes down to the user's habits, not the operating system. Last I saw, Windows 7 still used the same files-and-folders paradigm that XP did. Am I missing something huge here? Are files "taggable" now?

Well, there are the Libraries[1], but in my limited experience, I've never see anyone creating new ones or adding folders to the existing ones; in fact, I think the whole concept is unclear and confusing to someone who hasn't read a guide or article about them.

...If there are no XP-compatible drivers for your video card, that is.

Well, there's DirectX 10/11, since XP is stuck on 9. To me the differences are somewhat irrelevant, but I know many a gamer who dropped $400 to get a new graphics card and a copy of Vista just because of it.
Actually, no, most people are NOT familiar with the repeal of Glass-Steagall (not Glass-Steagal, incidentally). Including you; if you were you'd realize that there's no coherent argument for how the so-called "repeal" of Glass-Steagall[1] actually led to the financial crisis or to increased profits for GS. Lessig didn't name an actual regulation that might have caused this, and neither have you. There's a reason.

Further, you fundamentally misunderstand how markets work, what GS is doing in these cases, and even what a conflict of interest is. What GS is doing is called "being a broker"[2]. If you don't understand what a broker is, then you may not be well placed to pontificate on financial markets.

[1]: Everyone and their dog likes to trot out the "repeal of Glass-Steagall" and feel clever. If pressed, a few of them will even stammer out something about it being a law that seperated investment and commercial banking. In actuality, the main function of Glass-Steagall was setting up the FDIC, and it's never been repealed. It did contain a lot of other rule changes and regulations, most of which have been repealed decades ago - and good riddance. Do you think it should be illegal to offer interest on a checking account? No? Great, you too are a supporter of the "repeal" of Glass-Steagall. As for the restriction on retail and investment banking...god only knows how that's supposed to have prevented any problems. Not only did it not do what it claimed to do (Citibank merged with Saloman Smith Barney while the rules were nominally still in effect), nobody can explain how the rules intention would have done anything worthwhile. None of the competing theories of "what went wrong" and "how to stop it" have anything to do with seperating commercial and investment banking (and none of the large merged banks failed while several large banks with only commercial or only investment banking operations did fail). So...

[2]: Of course, maybe you want to argue that being a broker is illegal? Or should be illegal? Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
> I assume google owns their own data centers

The article specifically referenced Google's cages in Equinix data centers.
He's just trying to bait Romney. Nothing to see here.
>If we'd had enough time to do what we wanted, Y Combinator would have been in Berkeley. That was our favorite part of the Bay Area. But we didn't have time to get a building in Berkeley.

I'm in Berkeley and quite like it here but that's also because I mostly avoid networking events. Berkeley's startup culture is a bit weird because the city is in some ways anti-software business. If YC were here, it would have been enough of a political force by now to have actually shifted the epicenter of Silicon Valley around enough for Berkeley to be taken more seriously as a place for startups.
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Has any kind of border between "normal" pornography and obscene been defined?
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This doesn't directly answer your question, but it's related:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3711278
I think Reddit is the greatest thing to come out of the first batch.
>I assume google owns their own data centres, and even if not, its highly likely they would negotiate on points like this with the owner for price.

The Article is specifically talking about space Google rents in other data enters. It would appear they are more sensitive to losing competitive advantage than a few dollars in energy savings
Here are some of the situations I run into on a regular basis at my
current company, which is Perforce based, where I wish we were git
based instead. This would be as true in Subversion. They might be
maybe less true in Mercurial or Bzr, I'm not as familiar with those
ones.

* I am hacking on some bit of code, so I set up a Perforce branch. While I'm at it I notice some ugliness and want to refactor it. I could make a new Perforce branch and put it there and then do some horrible merging apparatus but it's complicated and they live forever and it takes me out of the flow state, so I just make a commit. It is now very difficult to extract that commit from its context so that I could apply it independently.

* I make a mistake on a commit that is on a private Perforce branch, or maybe I did something out of order. The Perforce way is "you shouldn't have done that, then." and so my commit logs are full of "fix stupid typo" type commits that are basically just noise.

* I forget to add a file to Perforce and nothing tells me about it, ever, until we get to testing (or sometimes to production!) and Puppet won't run because it can't find some file <foo>. This is fixed with the 2012 betas and p4 status, but those require a server upgrade (because the p4 client is a thin wrapper around what the p4d server understands) and that isn't in the cards yet. This alone is enough to make me want to use git-p4 for everything.

* You can really tell that Perforce is built around a file system of RCS files sometimes. While it has atomic commits, many, many operations are based on individual file revisions (labelling, cherry picking, merging). This leads to the following:

* Cherry picking in Perforce is hard, because it's hard to get handle on the content of a changeset, as opposed to individual upticks in each of the files referenced. It can be done but it is a lot of effort, way more so than in git.

This is not the entirety of my complaints about Perforce, by any
means, but they're the most visible UI limitations compared to what
I'm used to from git.
I'd love to read your story on how you only made it through 2/3, and not the whole YC session.
Yeah I totally hear you on that. Wasn't really suggesting anything there. Best of luck with the project!
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Vision affords high input bandwidth and loose constraints. The key constraint being, you have to look at the interface.

Other senses afford low input bandwidth and have many constraints. They tend to trump vision only where needing to look at the interface is problematic, or where the data exists in another form (audio) and transcoding it is problematic, or where closed-loop feedback control is needed (tactile feedback & haptics).
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If Rick Santorum becomes president, I think the attempt at eradication of porn will be the headline of a very short presidency.

The porn industry isn't unified and has virtually no lobbying power, when (depending on the reports you read) it brings in 1/3 of the revenue of the movie industry, without ever getting a box office receipt.

When you're talking about ending an industry, not only in the US but trying to ban the global industry, you're not only going to align them against you very quickly, but I bet they would be willing to spend a lot of money to smear campaign you into the ground. Oh and look, they have exceptionally hot women that (depending on the studies) approx. 40-50% of them have worked as prostitutes.

Basically, Rick Santorum would be facing an industry with the money and the means to line you up for a massive scandal that would completely destroy a "conservative family man" image.
agreed. another good example s sean parker. sean who? oh the guy that created napster 2 decades ago.
Here's an idea from a non-idea-guy: do for those of us who have no clue how to approach your list of non-technical skills what Codecademy has done for those with no idea how to approach programming. Start us slow, treat us like we know nothing, but give us the chance to prove otherwise. Allow us to work on our own time, and charge us orders of magnitude less than an MBA costs. I would pay for that.
Several of the most popular porn sites are in the Alexa top 100 (ish) in the U.S. You don't get that kind of traffic without having a massive number of Americans watching porn regularly.

There's a perception that watching porn is taboo, but that's probably because it's not a socially acceptable topic of conversation. Everyone does it or has done it.

There is absolutely no way that this idiotic pledge of his can have a net positive gain for him. If anything, this will probably encourage otherwise non-voters to vote against him.
Six years as a CEO of an internet company is quite a long time. I probably would have itched to do something new after two or three years.
"Wilma"

WTF?
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so instead of building his own thing, the best idea is to go work on a Big Corp?

I mean, is that a good way to "leave a legacy"? Why not keep trying on Milk?
what I wonder is if/when YC will start to take institutional money....that's what's going to take YC up to upper caliber of VC funds.
In the US it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_v._California http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test
doesn't answer my question in any way. Why work for someone else instead of "building your thing" (like he was apparently trying)?
Yes, it's called the "Miller test" and it was created before the internet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test

The big question here is what the hell are "community standards" when talking about the internet?
The point is not that it can't be done securely, it's that they don't want the hassle of being responsible for a large amount of sensitive information. By not storing the information in the first place they can guarantee that they won't be hacked and have their customers data stolen.
Maybe no one else will but you have to call it like it is: this is just pandering to the extreme conservative base of the GOP.

"The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws."

You mean the obscenity laws that SCOTUS keeps beating down? They have limited the FCC now so you will at least be able to hear accidental cussing on TV without the stations paying insane fines. The Superbowl/Janet Jackson 'nipple-slip' punishment has been completely reversed.

Since porn is on the internet, it is NOT easily accessible to minors. Outside of the few corner cases (public wifi mostly) it's not that easy for minors to get access. At that point it's up to parents to limit exposure through the readily available software.

"Santorum’s administration could take American-based porn distributors to court for violating obscenity laws, said Volokh, and have them shuttered."

They failed with magazines, why would the internet be any different? It's only a different medium in that the content is delivered more easily. That doesn't make it more obscene.

All this talk is why Santorum might win the nomination but lose a landslide of an election. While centrist Republicans might vote for him just because he is GOP, his extreme views turn the independents and undecideds off and that's who you need to win an election.
Neal Stephenson might even have been more effective in some of his novels (I'm looking at you "Diamond Age" - a personal favourite nonetheless) if they had just stopped a chapter or so before the end.

I vote more for "What Happens Next" and less for the "Hollywood Ending".

Note: in keeping with the theme of the article, I didn't read the second half..
hmm. I don't see much "interactive" about it. it just spits "Sorry, this solution is not quite right!" at me. WTF am I supposed to do?
The Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell does this brilliantly IMHO
so google creates the most sophisticated javascript app so that you can have a desktop-like application in your browser.

what do we have here? a desktop application which tries to mimic a page in a browser. great.

why should we use it? because it's beautiful. don't you know mac people just download anything that looks or sounds beautiful?
i imagine that if the DC didn't have stringent enough security policies to keep non-googlers out, google wouldn't be using them.
That was a nice hack while it lasted.
Well if IE is so important to you and you're running it virtually anyways, might as well jump up a couple generations and grab the Windows 8 Consumer Preview:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-previe...

I have to say that in using it over the past few weeks as essentially my primary OS I'm really liking it and actually think MSFT's heading in a good direction with it. Plus you get IE10.
When you run `githug` it will tell you what it expects you to do.

If you are unsure, you can type `githug hint` to get a hint.

The solution for the first level is `git init`

I hope this helps you on your way.
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I walk in to such facilities carrying a backpack full of assorted gear and two camera-equipped smartphones, nobody ever says a word. They know there's no practical way to enforce the rules.
I think in part he's documenting modules. Because modules often crosscut the primary hierarchy of files/classes/methods, it's awkward to document in the source itself, and so usually isn't documented at all.

Git allows documentation across files; and because commits are naturally associated with specific revisions, it can't get out of date.

{ Still, it does seem a lot of work, and it would be nice to document within the source itself; and in a way that helps and is needed by the code (so it can't get out of date). A bad example: specifically requiring/importing another class before being able to use it. This documents dependencies, and remains current or your code stops working (it would need to be an error to require a class without using it). It is a "bad example" because it doesn't help you, just raises a barrier then "helps" you cross it, like a stand-over man in an extortion racket.

What's needed is some immediate benefit (e.g. reduce code) to associating files/classes/methods in a crosscutting "module". }
He's feeding slop to the low-IQ quartile of voters, nothing more.

That said, I remember advocating a simple manner of obliterating the porn industry a long time ago. (Not porn, mind you, but rather the nasty business of actually producing it.) Just reduce copyright protection of pornographic material to 1 day. After this, what's currently piracy would become ultra-cheap, legal trade, and it would be quickly unprofitable to finance new material.
If Santorum is elected president, I will throw up.
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"If we'd had enough time to do what we wanted, Y Combinator would have been in Berkeley."

As a co-founder of Berkeley based company from YC S11 batch. Darn it! Berkeley would have been a great place to start YC. With Berkeley campus supplying a lot of CS students and the easy-going counter-culture that Berkeley provides (which gels well with counter-intuitive funding strategy of YC). It would have been great! Of course, the VCs would've to trek to Berkeley to attend demo days but that filters out the people who aren't serious. :)
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It's a bit problematic when you're an anonymous group, everybody can claim to be part of it.
Not exactly. The zmq library is already LGPL. It's the plugins and examples that are GPL. That might be a potential reason crossroads I/O was created -- to start an ecosystem of plugins that are LGPL too.

source: http://www.zeromq.org/area:licensing
The article lists marketing almost as an afterthought whereas it's probably more important than analytics and at least equally important as the other team members.
This is pure speculation, but I wonder if google has photoelectric sensors that use light levels to send alerts to their administrators.

I bet it's a clever way of handling physical security. If anybody is accessing the server, they'll want a flashlight. Light sensor detects the light and alerts an admin. If it isn't a scheduled access, then danger will robinson!
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Sort of. Obscenity is relative; it's something that offends the prevalent morality of the time and thus what is obscene differs by both time and place. Or for a related definition it must be material "utterly without redeeming social importance". Of course, what is "socially important" is very much changable and ill-defined.

As a result, the question of what is and what isn't rarely easily answerable. In the US, these days, child porn is obscene (but is also illegal several times over via other laws, so that hardly matters) and even a textual and fictional account of the rape of a child might be obscene if it seems to a jury that it was meant purely to titillate. On the other hand, an autobiography of someone who was abused as a child, or a textbook meant for social workers discussing how to help the victim of child abuse would not be obscene (assuming, of course, a jury agrees on what the material in question is). Depictions of bestiality and other similar acts are probably obscene, but maybe not - it all depends on what a jury says. And there are different rules at the national level and in the various states. Sex toys are never obscene at the national level, but are obscene in Alabama. On the other hand, nothing is obscene in Oregon.

tl;dr summary: Has a border been defined? No. :)
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Also the targeting issues are vastly simplified and they're very effective in swarms.