skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cluster might suit your needs. It's not photo storage, but it's photo/video sharing that's only to private groups of people. In fact, people can't even know what other clusters you belong to, other than the ones they share with you. Works on the web at https://cluster.co and it's on iOS and Android.

Disclaimer: I'm the iOS developer on Cluster.

As always, feedback appreciated if you do check it out.
I spin up a lot of these low end instances for testing and small projects.
> SVG performance in just about every browser except for Chrome has always sucked balls.

That seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy to me. If it's broke, fix it. Don't do clunky workarounds that mean that it's less likely to be fixed in the future.
I hate to hang anybody out to dry, but I can't even half finish reading this without having a feeling of "you don't know how good you have it".

I've got 30k in student loan debt, a job that won't make me 300k per year if I worked it for the next 50 years, and I feel lucky next to my friends with three or even four times as much debt with no immediate prospects of ever paying it off. None of us have lost our families, that has to hurt, but I feel like you can always do better than "I used to be somebody," no matter how far you fell.
You can get centimeter accuracy with gps. http://swift-nav.com/piksi.html
Even with cheaper modules and phones that dont carrier phase rtk, you can get meter which would be plenty for this application.
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Thanks!

Out of curiosity, which browser are you using? As far as I'm aware, I didn't build in any Cmd+N hijacking into the app (I did do Cmd+S for syncing/saving though, and Cmd+1,2,3,4,5 for switching between files -- is that what you mean?).
Most people forget to factor incentives and bargaining into the new/old/buy/lease argument. I've leased new cars that cost less than the depreciation on a purchase. You can also buy a used car for an exorbitant amount, spending more than new.
Earth and Moon are much Older Than We Thought
Why not try laws from countries that aren't worse.

Some European countries have a fairly sensible approach.
As a US-based company, DigitalGlobe launch and operate their satellites at the whim of Federal regulators. With the advances in privatized spaceflight, I see this field as ripe for disruption from Chinese or Russian based competition.
SANS : Small and Nearly Silent, a collection that tiny, nearly silent things
I really like this. I work for an NGO that does work all over the world and I can see something like this being really useful for areas that have bandwidth concerns!
Just learn a (or both) HDL, they are not hard to understand.
Better direct programming would be a big help, but check out 'dynamic method migration' sometime. There is still work to be done on the performance, but the concepts have at least been demonstrated; quite a while ago, actually.
I wish more of those tutorials and books would cover the synchronization and communication between services using RabbitMQ. I have not read extensively enough on the matter, but it seems like it's a much better fit that helping entities communicate than HTTP.
>This is not right.

This is reality though. Our expectations of privacy must adjust to changes in technology.
I've been a contractor since 2010. I've never had any problem finding work. I have received 1 job through my website, everything else has been through contacts. Before contracting I had 10 years as an employee of various companies. I think it is much harder to do contracting with less than about 5 years experience, you just won't have the contacts.

There is no trick to what I do, whenever I run into an old colleague, I tell them I'm contracting now. They will either have or know somebody looking for my skills. I've even gone back to companies I worked as an employee and helped them during crunch time.

I think when you are employed full time, people are reluctant to make you offers, but as soon as you are a available the offers seem to appear.
Since I built the first prototype a few weeks ago, it's been changing every day for me! Interesting to observe the change in contexts.

Right now it's: Thoughts, Code, 5iler, Today, Private
What use case do you have for requiring a /48 on one server? That's 65536 /64s.
This seems like a clear recipe for premature optimization, or "the root of all evil" as Knuth likes to say.

Ending up with an exploding car is also an end result of premature optimization. It means you're focusing on revenue to an extent that is counter-productive.

That means that revenue isn't the overall goal, either. The overall goal is "an ever-flourishing company".

KPI is only one way to try and marshall the resources of a company to move in the right direction, but it seems easy to use wrongly, leading to balkanization of departments, etc. The other way is to use a system like Theory Of Constraints, which encourages a systematic view of the company's overall goals, that is transparent down through the implementation levels, and do regular constraint analysis to identify the (ever-changing) root constraints that block progress towards the overall goals.
Actually the root issue there predates temperance by a wide margin. The US governments primary revenue sources in the early days were tariffs and excise taxes, particularly taxes on alcohol.

Alcohol is a great commodity to tax because stills require lots of sugar, grain and barrels and thus are/were very easy to spot. Even today, the ATF will drop by for a visit if you're purchasing large quantities of sugar, and you'll have a hard time buying lots of sugar without identifying yourself.

Many states followed a similar model, so there is a historically ancient precedent of such regulation. Temperance and post-prohibition regulation added more layers.
Following on GP's advice, you might find it therapeutic to write something up about your experience. What (if anything) could you have done differently to be more successful? What skills should you work on to be more successful in the future? If you're up to writing a blog series, I think you've got a big potential audience and you could make some decent ad revenue from it. Do it anonymously if you wish.
just read the part about running on etherium.
It may be a college thing, they want to prevent college students and/or handed-down fake IDs from college students.
Evernote Discussion Forum Hacked
There's two aspects to the kinds of licensing at issue:
(1) Quantitative limits, and
(2) Substantive requirements (which vary by specific license) that limit who can use the license.

Letting licenses be transferrable is a way of limiting the public-agency workload in managing #1, because you then have less work managing a queue of pending-availability license requests at the public agency.

Even where license are transferrable, the recipient generally has to submit paperwork to the agency and be approved that the meet the appropriate requiremetns related to #2 before they can use the license.
Let's eat s*. Billions of flies can't be wrong!
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I buy CPU+GPU unification (in fact I highly anticipate it) and I also buy that a DSP could function as a dynamic coprocessor, as they are often programmed in C.

But my day job revolves around HDLs, and it is my opinion that a higher level language isn't the answer. Fifty years from now it might be, but state-of-the-art HDL compilers just aren't good enough yet. It's like C compilers a few decades ago, where you had to insert some inline ASM in your code here and there because the compilers were still developing.

So I guess what I'm saying is you can't target CPU, GPU, DSP, & FPGA in one compiler until we can master targeting FPGA even just by itself.
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Try the HN freelancer posts every month, just respond to requests that fit your skill set, compete on price and over-deliver.
Its a legitimate question actually.

The difference is that they got their logistics and pricing down. The Y2K companies didn't.
FYI: I am planning to open source the code within the next two weeks. Please get in touch if you're interested in contributing!

hello@5iler.com
I'm so happy these computer generated little girls are now safe.
If the person I replied do doesn't like the JVM why are they writing Clojure in the first place?
It's hard to make blanket statements about the US, it varies quite a bit by state, county, and municipality (that's part of the point.)

Around me, the process is (theoretically) similar to how you describe: you make an application to a local body of elected officials, there's a hearing, and they deny or approve it. Neighbors have an opportunity to object or seek concessions. And I don't think you can really sell a license.
Have a look at OpenCL, I know that can run on at least FPGAs and GPUs.
> you can set "pdfjs.disabled" in about:config to turn it off

Already do that. Bonus: I'm on a laptop intermittently without internet access, and can open up PDFs to read offline without having them be lost when my browser crashes.

> Now if someone can provide a means of un-embedding streaming video as well, that would be very useful.

Really hard to do, unfortunately. For HTML5 video, maybe (and I'd love it if someone came up with something of the sort), but for flash video the problem is that there isn't really any standard for flash video players, so you can't really parse the flash file to figure out what video to play without running it.

That being said, maybe some sort of local proxy that recognizes when a video file is requested by flash and reports a 404 to it, with a popup "do you wish to open this link in a local player". But that way lies madness.
>Because the BoJ is going to keep on funding the government's debt forever with freshly printed yen, right?

It's all printing when it comes to a country spending its own floating-rate non-convertible currency. Spending creates, taxing destroys.

> You don't see a problem with that?

If and when inflation comes, there will be a problem. In 20 years, it has yet to manifest; which suggests there's much more room for spending.
Ask HN: Static site with browser CMS?
I'm wondering if a tool along these lines exists, I can't really find a way to google it successfully.
I'm looking for a platform where the site is FULLY static on the server, but includes a Javascript client CMS or something similar that authenticates to FTP on the server and edits files. In this way the site could be hosted on Neocities, cheap static hosting, etc... without needing to be managed from a desktop app or command line. Similar to Webhook but without the external build and database.

I'm considering building something along these lines but I'm wondering if it already exists.
> 5iler (pronounced ‘filer’)

No. This isn't intuitive at all.

Five-iler?
I might write a new post about getting started, but essentially I just strung up a portfolio website on strikingly.com and a google apps account. FigBug is right, most of your work will end up coming through people you know, you can augment that by hitting up meetup groups and hackerspaces.
There is a problem i see. I have too many emails to go through which are unread. I have filter my email and get the tasks out .

I would not not want my tasks to be mixed back with email. does not work for people like me.

you see the problem, if you see how many emails you get / reply a day.
Feels like they're flogging a dead horse to me a little. IE is constantly playing catchup to the other browsers, and MS gave us the web development darkages thanks to version 6/7/8. I kind of wish they would just kill it off and offer the completion up to the users.
Interesting I wouldn't have counted them twice, as my instinct is that we're talking about an adjective and an adverb - BUT - flouncing is also a noun that is the material that is used to make a dress flouncy.

Sewing definitely has at least as many technical terms as comp-sci.
Ask HN: What are you using for Email Marketing?
We've been using Mailgun for our email marketing campaigns but it really isn't giving us the data and the insight that we need.

I'm looking at moving over to either: https://iterable.com/ or, maybe http://mailchimp.com/

Just looking to see if anyone has some insights into these two options, or if there is a better option that everyone is using these days.
True University
I'm guessing you're not a fan of the movie Se-seven-en :)
Is it really a crime to proposition a virtual child?
Visualize your Golang import dependency graph
This is going to be an extremely unpopular opinion,but I would like to actually have some meaningful discussion about this - am I the only one to think that chatting/flirting/talking about sex with a generated avatar, no matter what is it of, should not be a crime?
Only this year did BC announce they would remove legislation which outlawed having happy hour specials.
jq 'reduce .[] as $obj ({}; .+$obj)'

or

jq -s 'reduce .[] as $obj ({}; .+$obj)'

should do it. `+` adds objects by merging them.
In my design these days I specifically write down: test the HTML/JS/etc code in FF and Chrome only and forget about IE fully.

I mean really, why do I need care about IE at all these days?
Not necessarily. It could do key pinning for example, which at least protects already-established users.
Why are credit cards 'evil'? Honest question.

I mean they don't go spend themselves, are protected 100% against fraud (in the US at least) and if paid in full every month, cost nothing to the card holder.

If anything, it is not a company's fault that Northern Europe has social/cultural hang-ups for a mode of payment!
Even an online CS degree from Stanford (if one existed) could not compete with their regular CS degree. I think this is more appropriate for "average" developers to put a stamp on their resume, and demonstrate to a prospective employer that they have taken the time and effort to complete a course. It is possible that you do not hire average developers, but then you are a minority.
Serious question: Other than a credit card, how can you pay for things online? Paypal? Bitcoin?
How To Fix Twitter
Neat, minimalist idea. I like it.

Small nitpicky feedback: Your keyboard shortcuts say to use cmd + 1/2/3 to switch files. In Safari, that will load the first/second/third bookmark. The correct shortcut for Safari is ctrl + 1/2/3
Not really. That happens regularly just because of luck.
Twitter breaches privacy by misreporting who is following suggested users
After starting a new Twitter account (A) with an alternate email address I had myself emailed from my professional email address, I noticed the following phenomenon on my Who to Follow list:<p>[B: account of user I had emailed with my professional email address but not followed]
Followed by [C: the Twitter account associated with my professional email address].<p>Thing is, C is not following B. C never followed B. I had simply permitted Twitter to retrieve my professional email address's contacts -- and now they appear as people C is following under Who to Follow for A? This error occurs for several of my professional email address's contacts.<p>Seems to me it's unwise to give Twitter one's email contacts. Has anyone else noticed this, and does anyone have more intel on it?
If you know it's an avatar, maybe not. But if you think it's a real girl, then yes, absolutely it should be.
>> It just seems like I'm a) giving fb more information about me and b) inviting gatorade to try and sell me things.
Am I wrong or is becoming a fan of a brand just all bad for the user and all good for fb/the brand?

This assumes that giving Facebook information to deliver ads for things you actually want is a bad thing, a position I disagree with. No matter how hard I try, I will be advertised to. I'd prefer to get ads for things I might actually want than a return to the lowest common denominator ads of the past (which tend to be things like diploma mills, insurance, or payday loans).
I don't have a phone smart enough to do this, and my experience with voice-inputs for most things usually forces you to pull over and type it in by hand anyway after several minutes of screaming.
Is there a suitable material for a lightweight "roof" you could put over your property that would block aerial photography but still allow sunlight and rain to penetrate?

One could even make it shielded against electromagnetic frequencies. No more drones hacking your wifi!
I wouldn't expect to be able to sign up for a mobile app not through the mobile app. You also have the choice of granting them access to your contacts list, it's not mandatory or surreptitious.
In the UK, a common loophole for extending "Sunday trading" laws is that, while they can't exchange money for goods, they can let you in the store and collect the things you want to buy so you'll be ready for "opening" and can go straight to checkout.
So weird... `dig` properly resolves planleaf.com to an IP, I can ping that IP but both Fx and Chrome say "Server not found" ... :D
Aren't your last two points contradictory?
I wonder if, had this been done by the police instead of a private charity, if this would constitute inducement or if any arrests would hold. And if a affirmative defense could be mounted -- often there is nothing overtly illegal about text or computer generated imagery.

It would have been fascinating to be the fly on the wall at the various meetings to decide the legality of arrests based on this information.
It's probably the same principle as offering to kill someone for a cop; even though they didn't really have you kill someone, it still is enough to put you in jail. Here, the perverts thought they were trying to get a little girl to take her clothes off, even though there wasn't a real little girl.

Now, if they knew it was just a computer-generated image, I think you might have a point; they'd still be perverts, but maybe (IANAL) not criminals.
Something similar has been available on Launchpad for years. There's a tool called "ssh-import-id". If I want to give you access to an Ubuntu server, I might type "ssh-import-id kentwistle". This would fetch public keys that the kentwistle user on Launchpad has published over HTTPS and then add them to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

I don't think there's any reason that ssh-import-id needs to be Launchpad-specific.
the task email froze my claws-mail in html view.
js and pictures are disabled for html view.
This was one of the strangest things for me when I lived in Toronto. For some reason I always thought Canada was quite liberal with alcohol. LCBO stores were few and far between too. It was about a 30-40 min walk to my nearest one. Back in Ireland I can hit about 10 stores selling beer and liquor in that time! And there are a lot fewer drunks on the street.
What is funny is while the FAQ says a lot about past release versions of IE not supporting this, it does not say anything about whether future release version of IE (like IE12) will support this.
So...it's a crime to think about something? Is it a crime to think about murdering someone? Or about stealing a purse, but without actually doing any of these things?
I've never been able to see the point. I signed up years ago, and abandoned my account a few weeks later. It has always struck me as a platform for self-absorbed 'celebrities' and marketers to talk to each other.
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The only way I can see this as profitable is at a huge markup or they start stocking items themselves just like a grocery store does. I think people care less about what grocery stores the shopper goes to than getting the correct items. They should just have a food warehouse and stock stuff.
Not a happy coder
Google Quietly Buys Satellite Specialist, But For Connectivity or Cars?
Watch_Dogs original [much better] graphical effects found in game files [PC]
What if you are under the assumption that said child was real?
The number of people on the internet (even if we strictly limit to the USA) is far larger now than it was in 2000. There were an estimated 400 million worldwide internet users in 2000. It's now estimated at over 3 billion.

In 2000 only 41% of all US households had internet access. Now it's 81%. This number also doesn't include internet in your pocket (74% of all Americans have some kind of mobile broadband).

The idea of "groceries on the internets" was never bad, it just tried to enter a market that didn't actually exist yet. They also tried to do too much, too quickly: i.e., launching into low population density markets that had zero chance of being cashflow even in the next 20 years. Notice that Fresh, Instacart, Google Shopping Express, and all these other perishable delivery companies are now strictly only in the densest urban areas where there is sufficient economy of scale to make the numbers work.

There are also some smaller contributors to success: people in general are much more willing to put their credit cards on the internet and buy things through the internet. People are able to access the internet while on the go. In the case of Amazon and Google they're leveraging a brand and existing user base that they've been building for years. The state of web tech also means the products are far less painful than before - keep in mind that 2000 was before AJAX, where every click of every button meant a completely new page load... over a connection that is likely dialup.

The game is very, very different from the way it was in 2000.
Where does troubled Mozilla go from here?
Help MuckRock crowd-FOIA Stingray usage around the country
More and more, it seems like most y2k ideas were good. Unfortunately they were almost all too early.
No, but if it is clear you do not know the child is virtual then it is clear evidence that you are the sort of person who would proposition a real child. That information can make cases against predators easier, and might even be valuable for the police to get a search warrant.
The linked article by David Brady, "Loyalty and Layoffs", is also a good read:

http://heartmindcode.com/2013/08/16/loyalty-and-layoffs/

Brady's article was also posted to HN 10 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6240495
For now, I don't want to be a full time employee because the capitalists reward me well for forgoing the security and rights I would have as an employee. I am nevertheless concerned that casualisation of labour is not a healthy trend for society overall.
The project is still alpha, so pardon any bugs.
Critical feedback welcomed.
Used this for starting a quick ToDo list between friends over the weekend.

I really like how this allows me to quickly collaborate with people across different platforms (and devices) without needing them to go through a signup process.
Here's a brilliant idea: how about instead of being a dick about it, you explain the circumstances.

It was a serious question that deserves a serious answer, not self-righteous snark.
I am a father of two.

I am personally troubled by this approach for the simple reason it's very binary approach (no pun intended) to a very complex issue.

The articles language alone (predators) a formulation which will ensure that no matter what these guys did it will be understood in the worst possible way and inform public opinion.

I fact I believe that FastCoCreate is guilty of a form of sensationalism something we last saw during the Spanish inquisition.

And yes if someone did something like this to my kids I would want to worst possible sentence to those people, which is why it's good that we have a system where I am not going to be the judge.
Reminds me of a Bukowski poem:

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.
You can get a /56 - which should still be sufficient for most users needs.