skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I automated synchronization of the photos folder on my phone with my desktop computer whenever I'm at home. Removes one tedious step in the process at least. You could probably automate other steps as well.

Used FolderSync Lite[1] for Android. Syncs via ssh to my desktop (linux) every hour, but only when on the home wi-fi. I also sync deletions so moving them from the folder on the desktop removes them from the phone as well.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/search?q=foldersync%20lite
Well, if you want to be pedantic, "dynamic range" (DNR) is not about white and black, it means the ratio of the largest/smallest values of a changeable quantity. This can be sound, it can be light, it can be a neuron response. The bits of a color component give you how many finite pieces you can slice up the range into. An encoding (linear/exponential/etc) give you a projection from that bit representation into the range of reconstructed values. My general point is, it's not purely about the # of bits, it's also about the range and projection function used.

But yes, you are right about the other stuff. But I'm not concerned about what can be achieved with real physical display panels today. I was talking about idealism, not incrementalism, I want to look at a display and almost not notice it's there, like looking through window on my wall. is Rec 2020 going to get us there?
Well it takes time to get to work. I wake up early to let my dogs outside and get ready I have to leave by 7:15am. I don't know, maybe it's just me.
If you did the same thing for Dogecoin, I can almost guarantee that it would be committed within a day.
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The point of node-webkit is, that you do not have to think about a backend. Really. If you are in the middle of you angular app and want to read a file, you just have to

require("fs").readFile("myfile.txt", ...

directly in-place. You can query databases, do requests, and so on without any problem and natively inside your angular app. Everything that node.js could do, which is everything a webserver could do.

And, in combination with NPM, you have everything you ever need just a `npm install ...` away for direct use in you angular app.
Why do I believe it will? Seems like a pretty extraordinary claim. There are plenty of other tech businesses that saw meteoritic growth, and they didn't all peter out like diseases.

Many forces that are at play with diseases (immunity for one) are absent with tech products, and a big one from tech products (the fact that the tech product is built by a company filled with intelligent people who want it to succeed) is absent from diseases.

Infectious diseases seems like a pretty tenuous analogy for a 10-year old tech business with thousands of employees.
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Snapchat and Pinterest is hardly fragmented internet life and it has every bit as big a world domination wish as FB.
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Tracks (Collaborative Playlist!):

--- Please Read Me - Bee Gees

--- Push It - Salt-N-Pepa

--- I Can Change - John Legend, Snoop Dogg

--- She's Got Issues - The Offspring

--- Repo Man - Ray LaMontagne And The Pariah Dogs

--- Stash - Phish

--- Log Trucks - Brian Regan

--- I Think I'm A Clone Now - "Weird Al" Yankovic

--- Red Eyes - The War On Drugs

--- Fork In The River - The Black Crowes

--- Checkout Time In Vegas - Drive-By Truckers

Born out of a Saturday night team hack session with a growler of IPA close at hand
You can always take a trip back in time, and make scale models out of clay & Styrofoam. Then maybe do a little smoothing in CAD. It's going to take a while for creation tools to make computer-assisted-creation of realistic texture & coloring as easy as painting some clay.
Facebook won't be going anywhere, just like Yahoo never did. Facebook Groups has way too many people locked in on daily basis. These are same people who are hooked on email and email lists.
Are we allowed to discuss solution here? Or everybody has to work out the results separately?

I don't know Ruby, but I can guess what it is doing basically:

1. Read a list of words from a file with an input path or a default path

2. Take the runtime input from the user with any number of words before carriage return (I guess the words are separated by spaces)

3. Do a loop to compare each of the input words to lower case against the words in the list loaded from the file. If there is a match print out the original word, other wise print out something wrap up the word.

It's a O(NxM) algorithm. If the data set is small, we won't see to much difference. Otherwise, we need to concern about better algorithm to improve the speed.

1. Sort the list from the file (remove duplicates)

2. Always check the either half to reduce the number of checking in the list

3. Sort the input list (save the number of duplicates)

4. Print the duplicates directly without comparison again
etc.

This way the runtime can be improved to O(N*lg M). This may not be the best algorithm. I'd like to hear from you about better solutions.
It reminded me of the techno-thriller book Daemon. A virus takes over the world, infects every major company, and creates a darknet reality based on a popular MMORPG. Everyone who is a part of the darknet wears VR glasses to tag and control physical objects as well as see new layers of virtual reality like interacting with AI beings.
They haven't wisen up yet :)
Your observation reminded me of the Million Short search engine that skips past the first N ranked hits.

Is there a name for the phenomenon that the first entries in any contested ranking tend to be less interesting?

There's something about the ranking systems used on the web in the way they tally the nearly-effort-free actions of hordes (clicks, likes, upvotes, star ratings) that means they represent one kind of magnitude (statistical average impulse behavior) but very little of another (deeper reflection & significance). Deeper stuff tends to see less impulse attention and therefore sinks down the ranking, but is there some other way to identify it?
Buyer spends 1 BTC @ $800 USD/BTC. Value of BTC goes down to $400 USD/BTC. Seller left with 1 BTC worth $400 (if they don't cash out). Buyer requests refund of value @ $800. Seller has 1 BTC @ $400.

I guess this would be mitigated by immediate exchanges... Haven't used Coinbase enough to know how well this would work, specifically their merchant services, but what's the per-transaction cost to immediately exchange BTC on transactions? Also, I've seen buy/sell prices on CB - is that the same in their merchant accounts? I see daily cashouts as a merchant option, but that doesn't entirely remove the fear of a market crash. Or even smaller daily variations (morning price high, evening price low, etc).

I could see how there would be at least some potential for long-term concern.
The same way you can write an if statement without understanding of math. i.e. You can't, but we don't label it math, because it is not the invention of new mathematical concepts. Only people sitting in ivory towers doing things with math that the world has never seen before are considered to know math in the eyes of most programmers, it seems.
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So, if Apple had incorporated GCC's parser into Xcode like they have included clang's, what would have been the effect?
Why FEW people succeed in startups
FB habits are very different from Google or Yahoo. Last earnings call, FB said that half of their daily users are mobile only. About 25% of Google searches are mobile.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/30/nearly-half-48-of-daily-use...
http://www.businessinsider.com/mobile-sends-a-quarter-of-sea...
A few links to your projects would be very helpful here - are any of your projects opensource? Can you put some of your personal projects on Github? You said you published two iOS apps - could you post the links?

____________________________

A few notes on your CV:

1) "Personal portefolio" - it's "portfolio" in English.

2) I wouldn't list McD job there.

3) "conception and realization" - "planning and implementation" sound a bit better to me.

In any case, good luck!
None like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3oiThw2RxE

The Obama salute is the best part.
I'm gonna go with: "not doing it". (Alternative answer: "wait till next year".)
You also need to keep in mind that this is an Atlanta-based company and not a Silicon Valley based one. The employees are likely to have worse contracts that what you'd find in the Bay Area, especially if the original and seed investors were local to the Atlanta region or Southeast. I know that term sheets from Raleigh-Durham investors are typically less favorable than out here in the Bay Area and I would expect the same in the Atlanta ecosystem.

In secondary funding markets, VCs have far more bargaining power. If you have real traction and are in those markets, you simply don't raise money there. You come out to the Bay Area instead where more VCs will compete to invest in you.
Not only that, but that bit of Q3 code was at one point in time a mystery to even John Carmack. Which is why it has the "what the fuck?" comment next to the magic number. Eventually they did track down the guy that authored that bit of code. Not only did the guy that wrote that have a good understanding of the math behind it, but he also understood the low-level mechanics of floating point. Which is something your average math major wouldn't know much about. Even most software engineers don't know floating point, sad as that may be.

But Doom and early Quake are bad examples of why math is needed. Those were ground-breaking games. Their math has been encapsulated and turned into libraries and things like DirectX and OpenGL. Today, you generally just take a physics engine and 3d engine off the shelf and tweak it a little here and there.
Sorry, should be fixed now! Turns out lots of people want to score their solutions :).
I've also helped a few people with Windows 8 and they are just lost, lost, lost - it is a very confusing interface to use. It catches me out all the time and I consider myself fairly adept at these things.
Private cloud: "but it allows you to use private servers and directory systems for authentication, keeping the entire system behind your firewall and never touching AeroFS' servers". Their first product, Hybrid Cloud, used AeroFS servers for authentication.
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If you were a professional filmmaker, would you only watch movies made by Steven Spielberg and Michael Bay? If you were a chef, would you refuse to eat anything but lobster and filet mignon?

Apple and Google are the lobsters and the Steven Spielbergs of the technology world, so to speak: they're highly respected, rich and popular. In a way, there's nothing wrong with that: I use a Macbook, Gmail, etc., because I think they're very well made.

My argument isn't that the software industry should jump into bed with Microsoft; I'm saying that trying technologies like the Windows Phone is vital to our professional development as software engineers.

If you consider yourself a creator in any given field, you can't keep up without at least dabbling with different and sometimes lesser appreciated products. New ideas often emerge when we deviate from standard tools and practices.
Oh, I expect game habits will absolutely come to real life. After playing Half Life 2 for the first time, I had a powerful urge to duck into every service tunnel and lose access grate I saw. I can only imagine if I had played it in VR.
We’re talking about David L. Brown, the CEO of Web.com :)
This is exactly what I'm wondering too. It's ingenious, but isn't Heroku + GA Live + Dynosaur both more complex and more expensive than just using AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which has Auto Scaling? What am I missing?
The conclusive headline (use of the word will) is the Guardian's editorial decision, not used by the scientists, if that's the main objection.

The article has a more measured statement: "Extrapolating the best fit model into the future suggests that Facebook will undergo a rapid decline in the coming years, losing 80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017."

Observing common network effects and using it to make predictions seems like valid scienfitic research to me. The hypothesis may or may not be correct, but it's a (very) testable and falsifiable hypothesis. The science is good.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4208v1.pdf

Edited to add - jarrett: I accept your point that the research could be more thorough; it's a shame only Myspace data appears to have been used. However, I think this is a valid thread of research and the word 'bullshit' was unwarranted.
Read that as "Infocom raises a Series B round of $23M" and my heart went pitter-pat.
Or just populate a hash with the input and see if the entries exist in the hash. If they do print it otherwise print the non matchy one.
lol the domain for the MUD I ran from 1999 to like 2005 still exists, and the person that took it over is still running the site design I made back in 2004.

I'd ask for it back but I have no idea what I'd do with it.
Well I think ur bullshit.

What a great way to communicate.
Do you guys have any plans to give BSD systems (FreeBSD has Jails perfectly suited for Docker) some love, given the amount of money you were able to get? :)
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Wow police supporter on HN. Even can speak broken English. Stop posting bullshit, Putin whore.
ha! they need not worry about my ISP. Because youtube is totally blocked for more than year now. hehe.
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Looks like they are using docker this year? If so maybe they will open source the code so we can run it ourselves? I'd love to make it available to my team to work on.
The apple employees working on it are the minority, that is the point. If apple decided to have their employees work on a closed source fork, they would have less than 25% of the current developers of LLVM/clang working on their compiler. LLVM/clang would still have the other 75%+.
I hate it when that happens. I wonder why my submission didn't get rolled up into the previous thread as a vote? Sorry about that everybody.
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Michael Abrash's post about his talk at Steam Developer's Day, which includes a link to his slides: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/my-steam-developers-da...
They would have to honour GCC's license, like they have to do with clang's license or any other piece of software.
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I found the same thing. I reports it to TW and (unsurprisingly) they refused to admi anything. Switched my DNS to OpenDNS and YouTube works perfectly.
My tips:

Avoid JQuery and use JavaScript 5 native API, if it's reasonable target (no IE8 < 9).

Check out http://jsperf.com/popular and use fast (and sane) methods.
tl;dr: When you explicitly grant a website access to your microphone, the site may keep listening in a popunder window after you close the original tab.
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I agree with a great deal of what is said here, but the article doesn't discuss the fact that it appears that multi-touch devices have become the entry point to gaming (and technology in general) for very young children.

At coffee shops I am now constantly seeing the situation where adults are chatting amongst themselves and a toddler has been given a mobile phone or tablet to watch netflix or play some very simple kids game.

I think it should be genuinely concerning to Nintendo that kids growing up with multi-touch tablets may never feel the need to move onto a Nintendo system.

It makes me wonder if there is space in the market for Nintendo to develop a toddler focused, bomb proof, tablet in addition to their traditional handheld lineup.
Exactly- hashes and sets are much more efficient than arrays.
I think it would excellent if there existed a blacklist of companies that do this. This is clearly not an isolated incident (think freecreditreport.com). All we would need are the following columns:

offender || evidence || amount || date
You understand that Google is protesting the NSA surveillance?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/read-the-8-biggest-tech-compa...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html

http://www.zdnet.com/google-engineers-rage-at-nsa-7000022874...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/cybercrime-and-hacking/23090/...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/google...
without any visual cue that it is listening, while normal chrome tabs show a visual cue.
Domain Name Wire found out about this program, directly from Web.com. Essentially, if your domains are within the top 1% of traffic at Web.com, the company is going to opt you into WebLock.
1.

> Yes their record iPhone 5S sales and what will surely be record iPad sales reflect that is a large scale thing that is actually happening.

Record sales is a deceptive(and a lagging) indicator of customer/potential customer sentiment. Because:

a. The number of smartphone users has increased exponentially

b. The number in itself cannot be used to ascertain the number of users who owned iOS devices that have switched to other devices or the number of first time smart phone buyers who purchased the device

c. Whenever iPhones are compared to other smartphones it is done with a single make/model ex: 194 million iPhone's vs 80 million Samsung S4's. In the context of this topic, this is a pears to oranges comparison.

- A pear to pear comparison would be to compare iOS sales to Android smartphone sales. In which case it would be 194M vs 880M or a ratio of 0.2204545:1 in 2013

- You can take this a step further and now compare it year over year. i.e. 125M iphones vs 450M android smartphones in 2012. or a ratio of 0.2777777:1

- Using the previous two statements it could be said that iOS smartphone sales have reduced 21% in comparison to android smatphones year-over-year

- The comparison above is not too fair either, to take it a step further you should first remove most international sales (by country) and only keep the numbers from select countries. I would use US and Canada (maybe throw in UK). Next remove all phones that were NOT on a 2+ contract (this would level the playing field, and drops the pricing issues to an extent).

- There are other factors that could also be considered

2.

The overwhelming majority of people don't follow silly patent slapfights and tech news. It just has 0 bearing on their life and how much they like their chosen telephone.

Touche.

Unfortunately, you are discounting one basic (and HUGE) fact, most of this majority rely on the advise of the minority aka the active tech enthusiasts and professionals to help make the buying decisions. This minor group does care about lack of control, patents etc.

There are multiple instances of the tech enthusiasts caring enough for making or breaking a product.

For example most designers, engineers and tech enthusiasts (myself included) have despised IE, yet among the hundred (more likely thousand) of people I moved over to Opera, Firefox or Chrome (in that order) less than 3 had ever noticed a webpage to be broken and thought it was IE. It was simply a pain in the ass for us, the developers and we made IE burn.

There are hundreds of such examples.
I mean, floppies cost money. Even if you had a second phone line to tie up downloading a collection of floppies, where would you store it?

(Or did you have an HDD by that time? I forget)
Ask HN: Open Sourcing your CV
Well at least part of it.

You wouldn't want people forking your address or personal numbers, but what if you could open source your skills and let other people pull it, confirm that you do indeed have those skills and get that confirmation pushed back to your public skill list.

It would be interesting to see people using their GitHub profiles to do such a thing. Considering that GitHub is a major aspect in getting hired (for techies), your peers will also be very careful to confirm any skills you have, as that puts their credibility on the line.

This may give a true reflection on what skills we think we have and what others see.

What do you guys think? I see both pros and plenty cons in this too.
You are assuming that AirWatch is going to stay in ATL. What happens when VMWare wants you guys to move?

I dont know why you still consider yourselves a startup, you guys were probably a startup in the Wandering Wifi days but I think those times have past.
There's a lot more to it than that, actually. (We'll talk about it more once the contest is over.)
I tend to agree but I would not understate the value of marketing. The downside is pretty modest.
I wonder where X% or $Y over or under median has a bigger impact on quality of life.
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If you are a US citizen and purchase something from a British site in pounds, you wouldn't expect a refund in dollars would you? You assume the risk of currency fluctuation and fees.
I strongly agree with your post.

It is baffling to me that some people on HN have such strong resistance to trying other platforms, or are so defensive of their favoured platform.

I assume that all software sucks, all hardware sucks, and there are only minor variations in levels of suckage for experienced users.

It's weird that many people on HN will have no experience with home computers of the 80s era, or different OSs.
From what I have heard about working at AirWatch, they dont really care about screwing their employees.

Source: friends who used to or still work at AirWatch.
I wasn't communicating with the authors of the article, just with the commenters here. I was not even insulting the authors (only the "forecast"). You, on the other hand, are throwing insults at people (me in particular) - and doing so in a largely inarticulate manner.

Another pretty poor analogy, I suppose. I can see why you liked the article. </sheldon-joke-mode>
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It's not really ridicule. If you do a Kickstarter-style fundraiser to accept Bitcoin instead of just accepting it, it's a pure PR move. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I have this as well, and I'm in Los Angeles, which seems like one of the earlier markets they'd nail down. Can someone who does have results for their area post a screenshot of what it looks like?
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I'd be happy if my TWC in Austin would just stay up. I've had many techs out and the service goes down daily for sometimes hours at a time. ugh...
Great product! I used it a ton when I was .NET programming. I used wcfstorm to load test our API to show response time degradation.
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As someone partial to the concept of memetics and Universal Darwinism, I happen to like when biological/Darwinian principles are applied to higher-level concepts. That being said, there may be ways to differ with the article's analysis even within the biological analogy: it's possible that Facebook and its users have a symbiotic relationship (social features in exchange for traffic/attention/ad impressions) in which case the user base may continue to stay with the site until an even more advantageous website comes along.
App.net is a subscription service. We have a subscription state machine that works great with Stripe. We have systems to deal with upgrades, downgrades, proration, shifting to different plans. Additionally this requires us changing our accounting systems and wading into new tax complexities.

It's fascinating to me that people think that for any retailer to accept Bitcoin it's as easy as embedding a widget on their site. I have been comparing notes with other companies that are also considering adding Bitcoin support and these are the sorts of questions that come up.
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