skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backblaze is $5/month (per machine) and let's you grab single files (or directories) from your backup if you want.
Just imagine the air to be made up of a bunch of tiny physical balls. The bowling ball does a good job of getting them out of the way fast but the feather trips and stumbles on them as it makes it's way. With none of these tiny air balls in the way both objects move unimpeded until they hit the earth.
You might be interested in Smugmug. They hit all of those and have a simple and affordable pricing model. $40/yr unlimited storage. No gimmicks. Really good privacy controls.
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By not voting your showing that you won't even make the slightest effort to get the government you want. I mean, voting isn't hard. It takes maybe 20 minutes. If all the people that don't vote because they don't think it would matter, actually fucking voted, we'd have a significantly different government.
This is like saying that there is something "wrong" with computers because they sometimes crash.
It's not a standardized API but you can use Lightroom plug-ins such as jfriedl's to "publish" to a variety of different sites. That said, this approach is more oriented toward uploading a curated and edited subset than your photos in bulk.

On that topic, I suppose that I'm going to have to think about how much curation I should do for the multimedia that I keep at all. I'm backing up about 1.5TB to cloud storage and that's at or over the limit of what I really have the network bandwidth to reasonably deal with. And I know that most of what's backed up could be easily deleted--but it would take time to do that curation.
Hubot as a service, but its pointed towards developers? Seems a bit odd.

You should try to target services that aren’t mainly for developers instead. (ie Salesforce, Zendesk, etc)
> and also something that some clients will use on closed circuits,

a tiny microscopic minority

> I said that rationally, since only a very tiny minority of people in the world can experience driving on the autobahn,

The amount of people who can experience driving a Tesla is much much smaller.

> autobahn driving is most probably not very important point of discussions for majority of people in the world.

Well, here in Germany a lot of people use the Autobahn. I see lots of people from Germany, France, Poland, Denmark, Austria, ... using it.

I bet that a lot of people buying a Tesla in France will try it on the German Autobahn. They won't get very far with it, though.
It's unlikely that I'd use this as my only means of photo storage. I will, however, use it to supplement iCloud and Backblaze.

Yes, there should be some underlying universal API for data storage like this. But, in the meantime, I feel that tying myself to a single provider might bite me in the ass.
Whoa, hell just froze over. I wonder how the OneDrive team feels about this? This kind of a decision was made at the highest levels of the company.
The nest is a little pricey, but it is really worth it. My family loves ours. We are thinking about replacing our smoke detectors with the protect next.
I was considering going after this as well, as none of the cloud storage providers would build an intuitive app to offer multiple backends that let you move away from their own.

A small budget for a v1 desktop & mobile app that gracefully removed all this fuzziness could disrupt this 'store your photos here!' war between giants, using their own cloud file storage products. However that's when the transfer rates become switching costs...

But I do believe photo storage is worth a premium over file storage
specifically:
Photos are of family;
Family is cherished;
some people would run into burning buildings to save family photo albums...

is now the time?
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Looks very nice, good luck! As for feedback, I like the monsters, but you should really show people more details about what they'll get (show graphs!). And, "Signup" should say free, if that's the case.
I agree. Have you ever tried listening to The Infinite Monkey Cage on BBC Radio 4? [1]

It's motto seems to be "Look at us! We're scientists but we're so wacky!!!111"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w
600 people isn't really a horde; its a light cavalry unit you could easily lose with an accidental command. More relevantly, At what year did the number of people flying aircraft reach 600?
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I'm not 100% sure and didn't test it through but it seems to work with an Amazon.de Prime membership as well[1]. Usually these services arrive later.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/s4NwAs1.png

edit: False alarm, seems to be limited to 10GB.
That's a good point, though it could just indicate that the nimby delta between the regions remained constant over time.
This is the same old story of time vs. space. There is no clear answer it really depends.
>Congress continuing to fund the NSA is the legal basis for their existence.

According to the rulebook, the Constitution trumps any and all laws Congress makes, and any unconstitutional law is unconstitutional from the moment it hits the books.

Conducting any form of surveillance without a warrant (the constitution doesn't talk about citizens) is illegal.

However, enforcing this requires something more than a rulebook. The USSR and the PRC had elections too; like any playground bully, the response of the state when caught cheating is always "Oh yeah? You and what army?"

In Egypt, just before the collapse of the Mubarak dictatorship (and just before the rise of another, slightly friendlier, military dictatorship), the Egyptian Army rolled tanks into Cairo. But the attitude there was far from confident. So much of the country was taking part in the demonstrations. Would the soldiers fire on a crowd that might include their brothers and mothers? The answer was no, and rather than have their subordinates turn on them, the military leaders turned on Mubarak.

In the United States, what will happen when we have our own Tahrir Square? Armed with the finest of "less-lethal" weaponry, from LRADs (sci-fi sound cannons that for those not in the loop about cool new police tech) to tasers to pepper spray to tear gas to drone surveillance, and just maybe weaponized drones, will the police, faceless and uniformed, be willing to launch tear gas into a crowd containing their families?

Personally, I think the answer is yes, because the American government is simply better at doing its job than the Egyptian government, and that is why Mubarak had tanks while Obama has LRADs.

Get ready for the boot on your face, HNers. If it's not already here it'll arrive soon, and it won't go away.
Check out Meteor: https://www.meteor.com/

Super easy, Super fast and all JavaScript.
What happens when you let prime lapse or forget or whatever?
It's the way to boost money-losing vendor-specific "client" solutions.

Expect other cloud providers to follow suit:

"Use our unlimited (and slow) storage if you'll sign up to use our crappy (device|app|service)".

Don't expect:

"Use our unlimited storage for (free|low fee) from anywhere".
Yeah we are getting there we started with Trello and Google calender for that exact reason :) Thanks for hte pointer!
News issues tend to work in a sort of priority queue, where only the top three or so get much time in the news cycle. Currently, in American media, the topics are the mid-term elections, Ebola and Islamic State (mixed with conflict in the Middle East in general). Gay marriage just got pushed aside and will probably come back once the election news subsides.

Legally-recognized polyamorous relationships, in one form or another, is probably going to be the next evolution of marriage laws, and there's a bit of discussion about it, but it won't get much attention until it bubbles up to the top of the queue. That might take on the order of years or decades to happen.
There is an option to "Download All Files".
Exactly.
Test it out and see what works for your target audience.
Opinion doesn't matter.
Fedora 21 Beta
From what I can gather, their waiting list for the Model S is ~3 months. So it seems as though they are sitting pretty close to the sweet spot on the price/demand chart.

There's no point in them making lower priced widgets until they can drastically scale up their production capacity (which is what they're trying to do with the Gigafactory, etc.).
That looks awesome! Going to look into it more
Obligatory:

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9812.html

$300,000 isn't a whole lot more than it would cost to get n entire novel cryptosystem for a complex application built out of idiosyncratic components assessed professionally. They should just retain Riscure or Rambus to do that for them instead of the PR stunt.

Previous thread about Telegram on HN, featuring Moxie Marlinspike:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6913456
While struggling to build companies some founders also quietly battle depression
Because it's:

1.) Not about Material design, but a single app
2.) Attacks the company, not the merits of the design itself.
>>a tiny microscopic minority

Yeah, that's what I said.

>>The amount of people who can experience driving a Tesla is much much smaller.

So is the number of people who buy S-Klasse AMG...your point?

>>Well, here in Germany a lot of people use the Autobahn. I see lots of people from France, Poland, Denmark, Austria, ... using it

Yep, I am not German and I use it too(thank you for it). Even if you added all Germans, Austrians, British and Poles together it's still going to be "only" a couple hundred million people. And most of them are not interested in going that fast on the Autobahn. When I drive through Germany there's plenty of people driving in the fast lane going 200km/h or faster, but there is even more "regular" people in "regular" cars going at 130km/h.

In fact I don't know what (and even if) we are arguing about. Tesla is awesome. And I would love to take it on the autobahn.
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Could you point us to this user interface of yours that used drop shadows in 1984? I'm not even doubting you, just interested.
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Yet another (succesful) attempt of Office to stay integrated into every household. I wish the entire Office suite would kust die over night but sadly it is too settled. There is no competition either or severely crippled.
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600 people a year on Everest is more annually than have been in space in all of human history.
Robin Ince certainly has a lot to answer for.

Ben Goldacre is the master of this style of science communication. Friendly and fun and enthusiastic, but in a way that appeals to both laymen and his peers. I suppose epidemiology is somewhat more human than astrophysics, so its easier.
> When students thought of their intelligence as a thing that’s just fixed, they were vulnerable. They were not willing to take on challenges that might test their intelligence, and they weren’t resilient when they came into obstacles.

And this is also why so many gifted children become mediocre adults.
That is quite cynical. Perhaps they want to compete against Dropbox, Microsoft, and Google for users wanting storage.
Next step is office being ported to Linux
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So you need to detect the face before you can detect the face...
Seems like all the big storage provider are bundling up feature. Integration with all their product for Apple, Office 365 for Microsoft, now this for Amazon.

I'm wondering if Dropbox has something in store ? Seems to me like they will need something soon to justify their premium prices.
They still have to track all those changes - NHTSA requires it for recall & safety purposes -- cars & highway gear are highly regulated.

A good example is the company that changed the design of their guard-rail endcaps. They reduced the size by an inch, which allegedly resulted in 5 deaths (court cases are ongoing). They (again, allegedly) failed to test the change, and failed to report the design change to NHTSA and the various state highway departments that specified it's use.

Another example is the ignition switch in GM cars. The engineer changed the design, but did not issue a new part number for it. Externally, same shape & mounting points & connector pinouts. Internally, very different.

So while a design change in a part might be "like for like", it requires a full lifecycle of testing and documentation. And that's expensive, so auto makers try very hard to get their designs correct up front.
I have always wanted to do something like this but using image and object recognition to scan a card and tell you facts and information about it. It could be useful for a few different card games.
You've shown profit is not necessarily optimally beneficial for customers. You haven't show that it isn't still beneficial.
Ubuntu is working on a new secure container hypervisor: LXD
To me this sounds very much like "Microsoft is buying Dropbox in the next 6 months"...
Woz sure seems like a humble guy.

You should read his biography 'iWoz' [0], it's a really nice read.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/iWoz-Computer-Invented-Personal-Co-Fou...
My nest paid for itself in the first 8 months of use. The difference in my utilities was that dramatic. And I was a person who had actually bothered to set his thermostat and thought I had a decent setup going.

I'm not so interested in the Protect product. I just need a smoke alarm to wake me up. The rest is just bloat to me. :-)
Well, I didn't die.

Needed a valve replaced too (no point installing pacemaker, then replacing the valve and having to re-install the pacemaker), so "don't die" stretched out to 11 days. After getting to watch a live X-ray of my heart, had open-heart surgery (which my boss wanted me to take as a vacation day), had an external pacemaker attached for 3 days (whatever happens, don't pull those wires out...hey, stop turning that "pulse rate" dial!!!), and then had the pacemaker installed. So now I'm a cyborg, with periodic data dumps and parameter tweaking, and looking at a the-hard-way battery change (whole unit upgrade while they're at it) next year. I couldn't sleep on my left side for two years because a wire was inductively stimulating my diaphragm when pressed close; eventually reprogrammed the wire's voltage/current to a tolerable state.

Feeling great, appreciate software which doesn't crash, and mechanical valve ticks like a clock.

As a bonus, the software monitors other things (while it's in there, may as well), and served to mitigate atrial flutter when that (unrelated problem) tried to shoot my heart rate to >350 beats per minute, pacer slamming on the brakes at 150bpm. ER crew was surprised when I walked in and calmly explained the problem. Glad that was in place to keep things together until the drive-thru heart surgery (run a blowtorch up an artery, zap 2 distorted nerves, go home) to fix that problem.
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The more integrations, the better....
It depends on the problem domain. Can you guess ahead of time how many child nodes that div will have, how many tabs the user will open, or how many functions this javascript file will create?

The classes in Firefox that he's talking about all start at some size larger than zero, either by default or by specifying a size when you construct them. For instance, if you know the string you're working with can live on the stack (it won't have to stick around in the DOM, or be sent to another thread, etc), you can use a string class that starts out as ~32 bytes on the stack and only allocates on the heap if the string grows larger than that. This saves an immense amount of allocation.
Good initiative, but it's too simple a project (only curation) to make a bbc article (with a title like this.)
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Integration between Box and Office was announced at BoxWorks in September, so this shouldn't be a shocker: http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/03/box-pushes-its-office-365-i...
Export Controls Prohibit Unapproved OpenSSL Patches from US Citizens
It is possible to become better calibrated for long-term predictions. This takes a longer amount of time, but is still doable. It's an intuitive process, and the way I do it relies on discovering the true probabilities associated with various feelings of confidence I have in a given domain.

The best tool I've yet found to do this is PredictionBook.com. It could use things like tags support (so you could see your accuracy for sports separately from your accuracy for development), but it's still useful overall. I've gotten much better at being accurate, especially for 90% predictions, which is a useful benchmark.
It used to be quite simple with IEs4Linux[1], but it only supports IE 5, 5.5, 6 and sort of 7. Not as useful nowadays.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEs4Linux
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Racket v6.1.1 released: fixes for Yosemite/32-bit Windows and lib improvements
I was just looking into js/node. Seems like thats what I'll end up using.
forward progress means learning.

if our colleague gets into an unexpected issue and he takes time to solve, we pat him for it. however it's important that the learnings have to be shared. they should be tangible enough to be reapplied if we get into a similar situation in future.
This is very peculiar. From past Dropbox acquisitions, one can extrapolate they're almost certainly working on online collaboration tools. I wonder if Dropbox is using this as a way to gain footholds in large enterprise.
While it only happens on a rare occasion, whenever I finish my projects early I'm always excited to show the client/management that we've been able to make better progress. However, I'm extremely cautious not to let their excitement alter their perspective about future estimates being completed early.

Another issue is that often clients/management will jump the gun into the next phase after an early completion without allowing the devs a much needed break. Perhaps this is one of the fears that keeps devs silent when (if ever) they finish early, or stretching their work till the end of the original estimate.
"Violently impatient" - I must remember to use that one myself
The terms of how they use the photos in the EULA seem rather reasonable at first glance: "We may use, access, and retain Your Files in order to provide the Service to you and enforce the terms of the Agreement, and you give us all permissions we need to do so. These permissions include, for example, the rights to copy Your Files for backup purposes, modify Your Files to enable access in different formats, use information about Your Files to organize them on your behalf, and access Your Files to provide technical support."

BUT: then they tack on "Amazon respects your privacy and Your Files are subject to the Amazon.com Privacy Notice." In the Privacy Notice, they state that any information you give Amazon in any way may be used "for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our stores…" Not sure how this interfaces with the Cloud EULA, but it seems to do the opposite of "respecting your privacy."
I think saying it will definitely happen is pretty widely accepted within social psychology. This is called group polarization, and it's the default state that you'll hit without very, very involved countermeasures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_polarization

The wikipedia article is a very good summary of the phenomenon and the several factors that have a role in creating it.
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Damaso Effect.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/vc-istan-8-th...

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/10/23/an-insight-o...

My attitude toward these numbers is... how the fuck are we not organizing? If a straight-out-of-school Stanford MBA is worth $300k, then I'm worth $750k at least on that piece of data alone, and I'm not the best programmer out there. What in fuck's name are we doing posting here, with evidence like that of the need to organize?

More (highly relevant, IMO) blog posts on the topic of what engineers are actually worth:

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/whats-a-mid-c...

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/software-engi...
here's there original research: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108...

an article about this gets published about once a year. here's the first one i encountered: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/jul/09/bouncin...
I was hoping the same thing, but the max length on a video is 20 minutes. Drats, foiled again!
This is the calculator from Apple Lisa in 1983: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa#mediaviewer/File:App...

But borders basically are what we are talking about.
I wonder if an STD vector would have similar performance, if you preallocated the memory on creation but still used standard library functions for code readability?
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How could I have better put not trying to argue that it is significant to space flight?

The basic thought behind my comment was that people reading your comment might find electric airplanes interesting but not be aware of the progress being made.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't the Cavs threatened to revoke your tickets if they catch you selling on a different site?

Also, hello fellow Clevelander :)
The demographic of Mensa members is highly-intelligent non-contributors. Early life (childhood) of praise and 'successes' turned into something harder; they perceive it as failure and back away. That's my take anyway.
Bringing back HyperCard
I am not a quantum physicist, can anyone explain what implications (if any) a deterministic model of quantum mechanics would have on the potential of quantum computing?
Why would they feel bad? They probably want to have a successful product not because the user has no option but for its own merits.
A LOT less. £18,000 in 2014 terms (RPI) is £27,659.
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Democrat in Texas. We're lucky we don't get shot by random passing Republicans & Libertarians.
It consists of long-range radar, a single forward-looking
video camera, and 12 ultrasonic sensors to create a 16-foot
bubble around the car providing lane-keeping, full drogue-
chute emergency stopping, and autonomous following in stop-
and-go traffic. It has long-range radar, a single forward-
looking video camera, and 12 ultrasonic sensors that create a
16-foot bubble around the car to allow for lane-keeping, full
drogue-chute emergency stopping, and autonomous following in
stop-and-go traffic.

Whoops.
I actually like the slow-mo as it reaffirms the fact that there is no air in that chamber.

When the feathers first drop you see a slight sway in the feathers, but only due to the acceleration. It's actually quite a sight to see feathers accelerate so quickly and stay so still.