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Or, for another perspective:

1. Pick the best (free) iOS management tool for the job at the time

2. Invest eight years of curation and 70Gb of photos in it

3. Use the setup with more than one device and the same way that 20M+ other users use it

4. Expect that I shouldn't have to be a contortionist to continue to do so
What is this "web bytecode" you are referring to?
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A so-called "watering hole" hacking attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to nine more global websites over the weekend, including those used by European aerospace and nuclear researchers.

Originally discovered on 1 May, the Department of Labor's Site Exposure Matrices site began, via JavaScript inserted into an iFrame format video, redirecting users to an infected site hosting the Poison Ivy remote access Trojan.
I think `width: 70%;` is a bad idea. If you have a very wide screen, 70% of it is too much and on a mobile device you don't want to waste 30%.
Absolutely. I gave both iPhoto and Aperture a spin, but they're really really horrible when it comes to managing copies and eating drive space.

In the end I settled for using the OS X "Image Capture" to transfer .jpegs and .mp4s into my own directory structure, so I can rsync it to my linux backup server or copy them to an USB drive and _see the images are there_, instead of some magic "photo.library single-file-folder-hidden-contents".

And then I settled for Picasa to browse them. I freed up around 20% of my hard drive just from losing the iPhoto/Aperture thumbnails and 1024x1024 previews.

Unfortunately Picasa still wants to cache thumbnails and it takes up quite some space, but I'm still coming out ahead.

Photo streams are a brilliant idea, but horribly executed. The article hits the nail straight on the head.
But there are bunch of idiots who keep admitting students in such courses even after they fail into entrance exams. I think govt in India has no control over such colleges. These colleges are running just for the sack of money making.
But this is a pretty darned standard use case, isn't it? It's not like he's asking for the sun and the moon; he's just asking for a way to easily organize photos taken with multiple Apple devices, without using up all the storage in those devices.

That said, my family has the exact same photo problem, but only half of the devices involved are from Apple. A solution which was not limited to a closed ecosystem would be much better than an Apple-specific solution, in my opinion.
Isn't that part of the point? This is a totally normal thing to want, but no it is forbidden. Could a third party developer fix it? They could on Android.
1) Pick a well written article that makes a few good points

2) Ignore those points and make a cynical/spurious criticism

3) Derail the discussion away from anything useful
meetup.com is a good place to start.

Set some basic goals for yourself like meet a new person each week. Get some cards.

If you're really starting from zero in terms of networking, go to a meetup and start talking to people, then aim to spend a year practising networking. You'll find out what constitutes quality in terms of networking soon enough.

Also check out Ruben Gamez's course on mixergy.com/premium called "networking for introverts", and his interview is good too.

In fact, just go watch mixergy :)

If you'd like to have a longer discussion about networking feel free to email me iain@workingsoftware.com.au

I used to think networking was for losers, but done right it's surprisingly non-spammy, fulfilling and lucrative!
It would be better if MS has gone with Posix Standard instead of causing everyone trouble and making proprietary non-standard OS. Portability takes a lot of work, which could've been used to improve the program, instead of trying to get stuff to work with the crappy Windows API. We need less fragmentation, not more. I would hate to write separate programs for Windows, BeOS/Haiku/Mac and *nix.

In my opinion, Unix is much nicer than BeOS. Also, BeOS uses C++, and not all programming languages work nicely with OO. In contrast it is easy to use all languages with C.

Also, why don't you complain when someone makes a program that only works for Windows? There percentage of Unix-only programs is really small compared to number of Windows-only programs.
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That's not a political reality. Since healthcare bought by an employer counts as an tax-deductible expense and healthcare bought by an individual gets no such breaks, there is a huge incentive (equal to the marginal tax rate) for individuals to have someone else write the checks for the bulk of their healthcare costs.

Before market-based healthcare will work, either 1) employer-provided health insurance benefits must be taxed as income or 2) individual healthcare purchases must be tax-free.

1) is an obvious political non-starter. 2) is a huge new loophole in the tax code and an accounting nightmare.
I also tried using the Dropbox backup approach but it's a massive waste of time syncing endless photos to multiple devices. I don't actually want the files on all my devices, I just want them stored somewhere I can access them later.

So I've started using https://www.everpix.com/ backup from multiple sources Facebook, Flickr, iPhoto, Insagram etc, finds de-duplicates and I don't have to ever worry about running out of storage.
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And don't even think about going down the path of multiple users sharing an iPhoto Library across multiple devices, because you know...I want/need a separate photo library than my wife.
Wow. Doesn't seem to be big into serendipity, does he?

In general, I don't see the point of doing all that analysis. Or, at least he doesn't provide many good reasons (in my opinion) for doing it. This is the only one I could see:

> Very early on, back in the 1990s, when I first analyzed my e-mail archive, I learned that a lot of e-mail threads at my company would, by a certain time of day, just resolve themselves. That was a useful thing to know, because if I jumped in too early I was just wasting my time.

Now, this seems like a genuinely useful insight. But, in my mind, this isn't personal analytics. This is email analytics. See mailstrom - http://mailstrom.co/
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Commenters in this thread might not think compound interest is advanced mathematics. But you're right, the majority don't have enough confidence in maths to attempt basic finanicial planning, and this is an issue for society.
TSA tends to protect it's employees allowing them to get away with almost anything.

They are really on a power trip. And they are in a position where if you resist you will loose lots of money. Its brilliant and fucking evil.
Not really sure what he means.

Apple isn't using smaller and smaller drives for the MacBook Air. The current release goes up to 512GB which is the max so far. And 10 years worth of high res photos and movies is always going to take up space. Why doesn't he just buy an external hard drive like a normal person or use Dropbox/S3 etc ?
I have no idea what people are talking about here (web bytecode and web assembly doesn't make any sense to me... thought the latter probably is intended to mean asm.js which is just a subset of js that allows for optimization based on the limitation of this subset).

They compiled C/C++-code using Clang (or possible gcc w/dragonegg, but my guess is Clang 3.2 as that's the supported compiler for emscripten) to LLVM bytecode and then to JS/HTML5 using emscripten, which is aware of asm.js and optimizes for it.

Mozilla (which Kripken is also highly involved with) are behind asm.js and is supported in the latest nightly of firefox (supposedly giving speeds to within 2x of native code, which is damn impressive), and the guy behind emscripten (again, Kripken) works for Mozilla.

I'm don't know to what extend emscripten is part of Mozilla or his own personal project.

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Slides by Kripken on emscripten (http://kripken.github.io/mloc_emscripten_talk)
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Poe's law. There is no parody so outrageous that someone couldn't make the same argument either sincerely or as a troll.
Exactly this kind of service is where the closed Apple ecosystem should excel. Unfortunately, Apple has missed the transition from the Mac as a "media hub" to the cloud. iCloud came a bit late and they fail to keep up with the rapid innovation speed of other online services.

But how is the scenario described in the article not the standard use case for everyone who has more than one (internet connected) device that takes pictures?
I think the point here is that it took you time to set up that dev environment.

It shouldn't matter where your environment is (a VM, a laptop, etc), you should be able to recreate it easily and reliably. This is what the automation tools are for. I prefer salt stack and have a salt config for my work laptop. If something happens to the laptop or I get a new one I just need to run salt, wonder off for an hour and when I get back my entire environment is set up. I also use it with vagrant so that when a new dev joins the team they can run one command and have a copy of the project setup in a vagrant box, databases and all, ready to go.

You could set up a similar thing so that if you lose that USB key you can have your prefect setup reinstalled with minimal fuss.
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Why does it always seem like he had won his PhD in the lottery?
It's a bit annoying since you have to opt each device out, but you can use the Selective Sync feature in Dropbox to not sync your photos folder to each device that you have Dropbox installed on.
This is the source code of the extension, it is very simple if the mood strikes anyone who is interested.

https://github.com/Kequc/heynicejacket-chrome
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Well, picking one of my ideas at random:

I've always been amazed at how poor companies are at simple timesheet tracking. For example, the company I'm at now is a s/w dev company and we are still expected to fill in bloody Excel forms for managing time spent on specific projects/customers. We also have to fill in holiday forms in Excel, with the result that people (including my manager) never know when I'm on holiday until they are surprised by the Out of Office email reply.

So - a simple time tracking system, then. I would probably make a SaaS version online, and one which you could purchase and install locally yourself (or pay me to come and set up for you). And we can assume that it's going to be the awesome of awesomeness.

I'd probably write enough of it to make a minimally viable product that looks juicy and could take to customers. How would I go about finding these potential customers? Do I have to go door to door in my local area? Google Ad-words?
What about Wakari[1]? Full Python and IPython, in the browser, backed by AWS, online interactive plotting (via Bokeh[2]). One click sharing of IPython notebooks. Enterprise version is installable on your own machine or cluster.

[1] http://wakari.io
[2] http://github.com/ContinuumIO/bokeh
It's not as non-standard as you think - I've got this exact pain-point. As well as my sister, who is not technical at all. I've gotten a couple of calls from her "Where are my pictures going?" and all I can tell her is "Hell if I know."
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KickBorn is a software robot act like your friend.

Emotional and sensible.

One can set reminders, ask weather, persons of the country, remember your stuff so that you can ask them later.

Do you find it useful ?
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Yes, though it's slightly more complex than that: if you've got multiple tabs open, you'll probably want to resize the window again to view the other tabs, and (at least in Chrome) if you open a new tab or window it'll also have that increased font-size which you'll have to decrease again.
You're correct, I should have left it as "Unreal Javascript", but it's too late to edit now, I guess.
Classify Images based on whether image contains text
I want to create a system so that it can classify whether a image contains text or not. How can this be done.

As per my research I think Neural Networks would be best choice for this. Can anyone suggest few methods?
Yup, but I'm right in thinking that also prevents you from adding new photos on that device?

Current setup is to use the Dropbox Camera Sync with Everpix, then just cull the start of the folder when it gets over 5GBs / every few months.
Most of the complaints I've read so far seem to center around a lack of data: apparently Google doesn't have elevation data for a sloped bridge, nor for whether a particular tunnel is walkable. It's an excellent idea and well-executed given the available data.

I see a routing problem. I had assumed this tool would give longer routes to avoid steep inclines, but that's not always the case. Take the suggested case: Nob Hill to Russian Hill in San Francisco. Drag marker A to the corner of Vallejo and Powell (to the east of that big hill.) Now drag B to Union and Polk (to the west, and one block north of Green.) The resulting route includes some "very difficult" parts along Broadway when it could suggest one block over to Pacific and eliminate those black dots.
Personally I hate it when my name's overused; it makes me feel as if I'm talking to a pushy sales guy / the person using it gets a high score on either the "creepy" or "slimey" meter.

"John, I'm so glad you downloaded a copy of MegaThingyFoo. I know that you, John, like myself must have to struggle with generic problem which MegaThingyFoo is supposed to resolve. John; if you could provide me with some feedback on this product I'd be eternally grateful." Eugh!

I have a feeling that as soon as these studies are made public they begin to effect their own findings - i.e. those who can take advantage of the findings do and for a while this works. However as this becomes standard people build up a social immunity to these tricks (either through familiarity with the texts (social vaccination) or through exposure to the users of such techniques (previous infection).

I'd be interested to see a fake study published which claimed something like "People who wear yellow ties generally make 1% more sales", when in fact genuine studies show that tie colour has no effect. 5-10 years later repeat the genuine study and (assuming this fake knowledge went viral) I suspect you'd find people who wore yellow ties would fall behind other tie colours on sales.
Can you do JavaScript development with just an iPad at hand?
Amen. I'm right in the middle of figuring out how to set my mother up with an iPad - as her only computer. No mac, no iTunes sync.

The only problem? She's got an iPhoto library almost as large as the iPad drive, and there's currently no way to store her iPhoto library remotely.

I'm looking at Space Monkey - but it's not clear yet just how it works or if it will be a truly seamless experience. (People like my parents can't be bothered to manually move photos around - it just needs to work.)

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.
Spent some time looking around and I think it's http://freelancersweekly.com/
It doesn't really work because of iOS's stupid ban on background processes. You have to start Dropbox and keep it open for it to sync photos ...
"Microsoft has simply suggested IE 8 users upgrade to a newer version for now, but has also said it will tackle the exploit in a Patch Tuesday release in the near future."

Typical. "Our old browser sucks, but hey, you can buy our new OS! (And a new computer)"
Can you give me some context? why was this done?
The sickest among us are by far the most expensive to provide healthcare to: the dying, the elderly, the disabled, the chronically ill. The ACA does a lot to limit costs for those age groups through mandating coverage for pre-existing conditions, introducing caps on premiums, and removing dollar limits on how much coverage an individual is entitled to (both annually and over a lifetime).

You can argue that those are beneficial steps, but they certainly distort the economics of making healthcare decisions.
Hell for that matter, just try sharing your photos with your family on a home network. Both iTunes and Windows Media Player seem designed to frustrate that very common scenario.
Snapjoy seemed to be taking the right approach to dealing with this issue. Dropbox bought them, so maybe this will end up a solved problem - though the last thing I want is to be able to 'sync' photos out of existence which is why Dropbox itself is a bad solution to photo storage. Agree that right now it's surprisingly hard to keep all your photos in one place.
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Do what everyone else does when they run out of space, buy an external HDD.
IPython is not like RStudio, at all. The closest Python thing to RStudio is Spyder (spyderlib.googlecode.com).

IPython Notebook can serve similar purposes of data exploration as RStudio, however.
The "teardown" term here (in the rewritten title of the submission) is misleading, there seems to be no tearing down of hardware (as this term is usually understood), but rather digging up information from the published Glass kernel -- which is still a very interesting feat.
Hey Brennan,

I've bought your last couple of book and got a lot of value out of them. One question:

Why the focus on selling to individuals (with the books etc). How to you feel about B2B and building products targetted at a small business niche - worth persuing? pros, cons etc?

For backgroung: I currently work in finance in London as a programmer, I'm competent in back to front webdev and I'm earning more than enough on my day rate to pay a good offshore developer. What would you do in my situation to begin to build a recurring income?
No your deluded if you think people will shop around for something that has no direct influence on their finances. Your absolutely correct that ideally everyone would do the "right thing" and make the financially prudent decision that benefits society and shop around for a good price on a procedure. However no one will do that. Most people don't care because like I said it doesn't influence me and even if I did the "right thing" I am bound by both my fellow employees ( via our small pool ) and US tax law ( by medicare and insurance subsidies ) to split the cost of _everyone's_ actions so unless a majority of society gets on board my actions matter little.

In effect I will continue to go to the nice hospital for elective surgery because its nice there, ya so what they charge someone else 300% more for the same stuff, the food is better and I get free TV in my room.
Emscripten uses web workers to compile multithreaded code, provided they don't use shared states (which isn't doable in JS).
I don't see 'Erlang' when searching that page. Where does it come into play?
> MacBook Air so that after 10 years of taking high-res photos and videos I couldn’t actually fit them on your my desktop hard drive

The MacBook Air isn't a desktop, and the iPad isn't a remote control for iPhoto. Besides, 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. Also, Photo Streams aren't the only way to get things in to iPhoto, if that's not your flavor. Image Capture will pull the full files off the camera and iPhoto can import anything it understands from anywhere (like, ~/Pictures/ImageCaptureDump). A small change in workflow would solve this guy's problems.
I'm terrified of marketing and trying to attract customers.

Every time your boss annoys you with a "How's it going?" status ping you are forced to sell yourself. Granted, there isn't immediate income on the line, but the status fluctuations have ultimate income-altering effects, sometimes with severe nonlinearity (i.e. your slight annoyance at a not-enough-to-do boss's fourth-in-a-day status ping ends up rippling into you getting fired).

That's not to say that consulting isn't harder, because it is. There's an established (if hilariously corrupt and inefficient) market for full-time employment. The consulting market is a broken word-of-mouth mess. And you constantly have to fend off the parasitic type of client that wants more leverage over you than he should, by rights, have. (That is, he wants to pay you on an as-needed basis, but have the reputation-impaling power of a boss.) That sucks, for sure, and it's one of the reason why medieval-style reputation economies deserve to die.

The fact is, though, that you're already constantly selling yourself as a corporate employee. If you have 27 good months and fall down in the 28th, you'll probably be fired, or at least harassed in some permanent way ("performance improvement plan") that makes it useless for you to keep coming into work; your career there is over. In that context, you're already a freelancer, even if an employee.

Sure, freelancing is terrifying but I've seen enough to look past the selling points of employment and realize that it's a form of freelancing that is (a) less selective and therefore easier to get, but (b) designed to pay you just enough to survive, so you can't save for lean times, in the way that a genuine freelancer does (and must).
Funny, Google+ and my android phone do everything he just mentioned. Why not just switch ?
I could not agree more, the whole iPhone, iPhoto (mac), photo stream situation actually confuses the hell out of me. We're generally smart people on HN and if we don't get, try explaining it to parents and it's a whole world of confusion - normally ending with "You suggested we buy Apple because it was simple to use". My only reply at the moment is "Yeah, I know ... it's complicated".

To anyone making closed ecosystem comments, it's even harder to explain how to do any of this photo management to a parent (the dominant market with disposable income at the moment) with Android and Dropbox.

There really is no way back from "So wait, your telling me Google is IN my phone and so people can search my photos?"
I actually pondered making that into an AskHN discussion after writing my reply - proposing to add "sarcasm" and "joke" tags more readily, but it occurred to me that this is precisely how it should be and how people like it.

It's a kind of hypersensitivity that acts as quality control. Instead of firing off sarcasm quickly without too much thought and cheaply pointing it out with a "sarcasm" badge, you only get to make jokes or be sarcastic if it is very, very well thought through.

I actually got away with (meaning - positive karma) a joke the other day, although I later pointed it out in a reply to somebody who didn't realize it. Still - felt like an accomplishment and I suppose that's how it should be.
I just posted this as well. Some people just like to complain. A 3TB external HDD is pretty cheap nowadays, and if that is not enough room, he could always buy another one.... You never know though, he might complain about that as well!
I'm not quite sure why this a) is restricted to 15 people or b) requires sponsorship as from the information there it seems to be essentially a book-club type format. Perhaps I'm missing something - are there not already groups/clubs that get together and do things like this?
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What got me, as an east coast transplant, was the use of "pop" versus "coke" or "soda." I literally wouldn't register it when people would ask me: "hey do you want a pop?" I'd be like, <pause> "wait, what about your father?" This is even though I knew they called it pop in the Midwest, and over a period of years. It would just catch me off guard.