skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least in this case the proposal is "propose new laws for Congress to vote on" rather than "a secret classified surveillance program".
We have a product/website that used a blue cross in the logo. Blue Cross Blue Shield started hounding us about it, so we changed the logo to a green cross.
Everpix is mentioned in another comment. I tried Everpix last year, and it looks like since then they've made it possible to basically store photos in the cloud (without keeping a local copy). Could be an option...
From experience, most of the software engineers working in the defense, automotive or aerospace industries are reconverted EE or ME. No one at <Defense Contractor> read Hacker News or knew what Heroku was..
Indeed - I just didn't want to push Flask too much but that's what I use and I bring in the libraries you mention as and when they're required.
The "web bytecode" refers to the fact that the two script files are bytecode and not readable js.

Download them with:
1) curl "http://cdn.unrealengine.com/html5-4c0913f/UDKGame-Browser-Sh... -H "Referer: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/ > UDKGame-Browser-Shipping.js

2) curl "http://cdn.unrealengine.com/html5-4c0913f/UDKGame_Data.js -H "Referer: http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/ > UDKGame_Data.js

And all you get is 5.4M / 4K of unreadable bytecode.
> 1. Pick ... iOS ... for the job at the time

And voila, you have found yourself a closed system which wont let you treat your data as yours, just as pointed out in the comment you replied to.

There is nothing wrong with pointing out that Apple has a closed solution here, and that the solution is seriously lacking.
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If you're in Australia or Canada, you can find Gatsby links for your kindle or ipad at http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2013/05/its-legal-to-downl...

If you're in the US or Europe, I'd advise you not to find those links.
Google+ and your Android phone can manage 70GB of photos and ensure that they properly synced to multiple devices including a Mac ?
Time tracking is a fairly competitive market. There are hundreds, probably of thousands of solutions that you will be directly or indirectly competing with.

On the other hand, the market is very large and there's lots of room for different companies.

I haven't seen a variation so far that doesn't annoy me.
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Last time I tried aperture/iphoto, it created ~30gb of worthless thumbnails and previews out of a ~20gb photo library. That hurts on a 256GB macbook air (largest size available about a year ago). Plus, the Apple photo apps seem to go to great lengths to hide where photos are physically stored, as if you're not supposed to think about .jpeg files or volumes.
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This is also a problem with movies. On my Apple TV it seems to stream movies, but if I want to watch the same movie on my iPad I have to have the correct amount of space left to download it first.

This is one thing I like about Android/Google+. All the photos I take are uploaded automatically and I can access them on any of my other Android devices.
The other distortion is that there's not much in the way of preventative health care.

Diabetes is expensive and has a bunch of complications, yet obesity and excess sugar consumption is a serious problem that doesn't get much help.

Some mental health problems respond much better to early intervention. Leaving them means the person drifts along, not thriving, sometimes leaving work or staying at minimum wage. (Or, in England, on disability benefits). Getting treatment early (which can be as little as 14 sessions of 1 hour per week of talking therapy) can effectively cure some people, and provides remission and resilience for others. But, again, this kind of stuff isn't as widespread as it needs to be.

Note this isn't any kind of human rights argument for better healthcare. It's firmly financial benefit.
You have the right to remain silent if you are arrested. You aren't under arrest; the FBI just wants to "interview" you. However, the law against lying to a federal agent is always in effect. Even if you don't say anything incriminating, if you say something that they can claim is a lie, then they have leverage over you. I imagine that the FBI would also be exceptionally reluctant to conduct an "interview" if you had someone else with you who was also taking notes. Their preferred situation is when there are two of them who can corroborate each others version of the discussion, and only one of you.
They could, but it's strictly speaking not needed. It's already solved/fixed.

Just enable/install Google+/Picasa sync and you have all your pictures on all your Android-devices, and on the web, just in case you need it outside this semi-closed Google system.
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Don't want to keep banging on about it, but yeah Everpix is the solution. Install it on the desktop and Sync the iPhoto library. Install the Everpix app on the iPad, £3 a month, job done.
I've actually come up with the solution: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/fixing-employ...

Talented people sell call options on their time, on a freelance basis. The strike is the minimum value they'd accept to take a job over the next N years, and the option price (set by market, but with seller's right to set a floor) is the value of that call.

There has got to be some risk-neutral/wealthy person out there who'd buy the right to deploy a great programmer's time (possibly worth $500+/hour) for $150 per hour, any time in the next 5 years, up to K hours (the lot size).

This is, for a number of moral, emotional, and financial reasons, a lot better than the "N% of future income" gimmick that some people do to raise money for college. It could actually scale, which income-sharing won't (for a variety of reasons, related mostly to fungibility).

It also gives consultants a way to raise money (for living expenses) immediately while the allocation of their talent is outsourced to third-parties who buy these options and then deploy their time.
Took me a while to understand that i had to click on the search button in order to type (probably because of the animated vertical-bar-thing (what is it called?))
You obviously have no idea how bcrypt works; go search for "bcrypt work factor". In other words, making bcrypt slower while remaining secure is a matter of changing the work factor.

(This doesn't preclude bcrypt falling from grace for having - as of yet undiscovered - other security flaws; but it is designed with Moore's Law in mind. Saying "I don't know why everyone praises bcrypt, but HEY LOOK AT ME REBELLING, BCRYPT SUXXORZ!" is not very effective.)
This is much like how I felt getting my PhD a couple of years ago, with a bit of imposter syndrome thrown in.
Even though I know objectively the thing must be ok (as I passed examination, and I chose tough examiners), I still feel vaguely like I shouldn't have and that it is not much of a contribution.

It's like - I only passed through sheer hard work, bluster and a tiny bit of cleverness. On reflection, I suspect that's pretty much how anyone gets successful at anything.

One difference with your description is that I was only rarely exhilarated through the journey - usually when showing my work to those outside the field; I was much more often plagued by self-doubt.
Hey man, do something about the UK market. Brits are starving for Bitcoins and that means a lot of money for you.
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I love the iPhone camera. I have largely stopped using my other cameras because the iPhone camera is just so convenient.

However, the iPhone Photo App is extremely terrible. Everything exists in the Camera Roll, and you can't physically move them from there, so you have to search through the entire Camera Roll every time. I have 4000 photos and videos, and trying to find anything is impossible, to the point where I have given up. They have Albums, but those are merely pointers, so it doesn't really help organize the Camera Roll itself. Plus, you can't do simple things like see when the photo was taken, or search only for videos. You should be able to pull up a calendar, and see the number of photos on a per day, per month, or per year basis. It seems to be another example of an app that the developers themselves don't use extensively, otherwise they would fix these simple issues.
> NB: In my research, I've noticed that 99% of iPad users think iCloud backs up all their photos on all devices, which of course it does not.

Another common misconception by family and friends iDevice users is that everything is automatically backed up.

They don't get that you have to set things up, specifically, and that you must not ignore the warning messages about iCloud storage.
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I did one in London and they made me get out on the street, stop people and talk to them.

Uncomfortable? yes. Eye opening? yes.

In 3 days we made an mvp, got out and sold product. Literally the MVP was some html page on some vps. Sales were meeting people in person for cash!
Anyone know the differences between the "pro" and open-source? from at least the demo site the open-source demo page isn't resonsive.
1. "Wiretapping" is the wrong conceptual model for what is proposed and implemented in modern systems. "Vacuuming" might be a better term.

2. This is a power grab, not merely an attempt to maintain equivalent present powers. As people live increasingly more of their lives on or impacted by virtual systems, the power to monitor and abuse whole societies becomes significantly larger. If you have any doubts about this, imagine it is the North Korean government with the technology.

3. Private communication, the minimum of freedom of expression and closest to thought, of any kind is never a hindrance to prevent crime or its investigation. A crime and everything leading to its implementation (and after) has many consequences in the world. It is these effects that are critical and required for crime prevention and prosecution. If there was a technology to monitor everyone's thoughts at the same time, would you use it as part of the criminal system?

4. The costs are orders of magnitude larger to setup, grow and maintain such monitoring systems indefinitely instead of targeting crime prevention and investigation. That's your taxpayer money being spent.

5. If after all the above, the inevitable result is still for governments to have the potential ability to access all communication anywhere between anyone at any time, then to reclaim individuals' rights, they too have a powerful incentive to seek and create systems that achieve the opposite, including encryption. This will occur regardless of law, and the deeper the loss or perception of loss of private rights, the more widespread it will occur.

In short,

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
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LayerVault issued a DMCA Takedown because of it [1]. They did it because there were some assets that appear to be directly stolen [2] and were subsequently changed after the DMCA takedown.

In the discussion threads, you'll find a lot of discussion about what was legally justifiable and whether something was ripped off or not. I've often found that there's a dichotomy between certain views for those who are more designer versus those that are more developer. Take it for what you will.

As a designer, it's hard for me to appreciate the theme itself, let alone support someone with such a reputation. To me, they appear to lack any ethos characteristic of a designer...but I digress...

[1] HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766
[2] DesignerNews Discussion: https://news.layervault.com/stories/1992-layervault-whats-up...

Edited to add the DN discussion link which I seem to have omitted?
Any comments on what people use to manage the chef cookbooks (and why)?

Librarian or Berkshelf seem to be the two main contenders to make updating cookbooks similar to updating gems with bundler.
Microconf was indeed a tour de force. If you're serious about making the transition to products for your primary income, go.
Thanks for your input. Judging by your comments, our server had crashed while you were visiting it, limiting the functionality of the site. I will work on the first few points you mentioned - much appreciated for your input
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If you're a web developer, one of the single biggest sources of recurring revenue can be web hosting. I charge $100/year to most clients for hosting... you get 30 small sites on a $10/month VPS and that's a lot of profit for not much effort.
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> Wanting to store everything in iCloud is his usecase, and I doubt it's a popular one. Personally, I'd rather keep my library on an external Thunderbolt RAID array for speed and duplicated on an off-site backup.

I think his use-case is a lot more common than yours! 99%+ of consumers don't have an external Thunderbolt RAID array, or even know what it is. They just want their photos all in one place, accessible from everywhere, in the same way you can have your music on all devices with iTunes match.
What happened to the original title "Unreal JavaScript"? The biggest focus of the article is emscripten, not asm.js.
Thank you very much for your feedback. Our server crashed, but now we are back-up. I received a SIGNIFICANT amount of traffic yesterday from the post. I will look into the server issue. Thanks
It seems safe to assume anything involving "external Thunderbolt RAID array" is not "popular" either.

I think "All my photos are safe, and available on all my devices, including when I upgrade devices" probably IS a popular need -- but many/most people don't even realize it's not currently being met, or don't even think about it -- which may make it hard to build a business of it. They don't care from "the cloud", but the cloud seems the logical way to meet this need.
Your don't need to give up your GUI editor to do this. Vagrant sets up a shared folder automatically in the virtual environment under /vagrant that maps to the folder where your Vagrantfile is located on the host machine.

I do all my development now using Vagrant running Ubuntu VMs but I still do all my editing with the same Windows editor I've used for years running on the host machine.
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'Blitz' name is a bit tasteless.

This is what I don't get: this appears to be a self-study group, targeted at hacker-type personalities who want to expand their minds. BUT on the other hand, you're restricting it to an elite audience by turning the signup form into a job interview.

This does not strike me as sensible.
"such as speed of switching quickly between browser and vm terminal, the fact you need a fairly good computer to run even quite a modest server with a gui and if you don't use a gui, you're limited to 256 colours"

This implies you are running a terminal emulator in X on the VM and doing your coding there?

I use VMs for development all the time, and a headless VM with SSH access is perfect. It's almost identical to doing development locally.
Why are you switching between a browser and your VM terminal? I run my VM headless -- all the files I need to edit are in shared directory.
There are two problems with this. One, it's another physical device to manage which is a pain in the ass. Two, what happens if the external HDD breaks?
This isn't even an Apple specific use-case.

There's real opportunity for Dropbox (if they stopped syncing everything everywhere), or Flickr (if they suddenly made really great native clients) to sew this up.

Google probably hasn't a chance in hell given the neglect that they're showing to Picasa.
I know of a couple socially awkward men who did the following:

1. Cut a hole in a box.

Actually, no. Wrong concept. That's not it. Let's try again.

1. Go to Central Park on a summer afternoon.
2. Ask 100 random strangers out on a date. No fancy approaches or bullshit
pick-up lines. Just start a conversation, and ask before a minute's
up. Oh, don't ask for a phone number (you might get a fake, or
non-returned calls, and that's worse than a flat-out rejection).
Ask for an actual date.
3. Your median outcome will be zero; some people get lucky
and get 1 or 2, but don't count on it ...
4. ... but you've now been rejected 98-100 times and you're still alive.

Learning to sell ideas is a similar process. You're going to fail a lot, especially if your ideas are any good (because they threaten established power-holders). Just keep going. You'll fear rejection less as time goes on.
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It's a catch-22 pretty much. If you set it as pixels, it can be either too narrow (600 px on a full hd in full screen, though lines that are too wide/long suck too) or too wide (which leads to scroll bars).

Setting it as a percentage will obviously always make it look the same since it scales. However, a percentage on a huge screen usually makes it too wide to read lines comfortably.

You pretty much have to pick your poison, though IMO about 600 px is the maximum width for a line before it's horrible to read on a full hd screen.
I used Berkshelf and it works nicely! The only confusion comes when actually deploying via Chef solo and I forget to ensure the cookbooks are actually present.

Haven't tried Librarian - only because I saw Berkshelf first and it integrated nicely with Vagrant.
Thumbnails get generated because most cameras are outputting multi-GB JPEG/RAW which take too long generate in real time on low end Macs whilst scrolling the thumbnail view.

And Apple apps don't go to great lengths to hide photos. They are stored in your Pictures folder in a package e.g. Aperture Library. Just right click and your photos are there. Packages are great for inexperienced users since it is easier to backup and less opportunities to mess up the metadata.
I don't sell to individuals (consumers) :-)

While a freelancer/consultant is theoretically one person, they're wearing their business owner hat when buying my products. This is why they'll pay a fair amount of money to get more clients, raise their rates, etc., but will later scoff at paying $0.99 for a game on the App Store.

I would ONLY ever sell to businesses. And I think targeting bigger businesses (> 1 person consulting shops) is a great move to make. They'll churn less (if you charge a subscription), and they'll potentially throw down thousands of dollars a month if it helps them eliminate a position or nudge up their profitability by a point or two.

Regarding your particular solution... You could start with what I'm advocating in my article: Why do people hire you today? I imagine it has something to do with programming + finance. What's the smallest, sellable product you could produce and sell at scale to the sort of people who are cutting your paycheck? Or to others who want to work as a developer in finance?
> Your employer (reasonably) has an expectation that you will give them 100% during at least 9-5 hours and also be available for overtime periods on occasion.

If you're consulting you can set expectations on how much time you give to clients daily.

If I give clients a focused (no HN, twitter, coffee breaks etc, pure heads-down work) five hours of effort then they will likely be happy with the results. This gives me time to work on product, do chores, play with the baby and do whatever else is important to me.

This is obviously not feasible if you're a full time employee, where the usual expectation is that you're there in person whether you're productive or not.
That stinks. I've been using it on android for a while now and have had a great experience. It's really cool to be able to pull up a picture from a vacation you took ten years ago that happened to randomly come up in your current conversation.
You should persevere and push this Rob, it's really great and there's a space in the market. Better single photo view pages for sharing would be high on my wish list - a la Instagram web preview pages.
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As someone who's statistically inclined, I am not looking forward to this.
I think the argument would come down to the idea that the QR code could not replace the other nutritional information - if so, then that would mean only people w/ a QR reader would be able to view said info - and, since it can't replace, then what's the point?
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Next year, there will be a story about him being bullish on...Android, or whatever the Next Big Thing is at that time ;)
just an fyi (and a bit of a shameless, and useless, plug) - I was leading an active SICP study group in London from Jan - Apr. http://www.meetup.com/London-SICP-Study-Group/.
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