skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no commercial market for what you're describing [4]. I spent 3 years building it [1]. It's all open source[2] and was funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation[3].

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jmathai/openphoto-a-pho...

[2] https://github.com/photo

[3] https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/jaisen-mathai...

[4] https://medium.com/@jmathai/hello-2014-goodbye-consumer-phot...

edit: added link #4
I just addressed this the other day, when a pull request wanted to use exponential growth in the buffer. I told them not to. The difference is that this software is going to run on an embedded sytsem for which I wrote the kernel, and I wrote the realloc function for. My realloc expands the block instead of moving data when possible, and I know that that's a likely scenario during normal operation. On top of that, there's only 32K of memory to go around, so wasting space on exponential growth is a bad idea.

Always be willing to question the standard doctrine.
The TechCrunch article is incorrect. While it is still an early service, there is no whitelist.
The AST viewer is not included in the 450 lines, although the comments are. Most of the difference is due to the more sophisticated parser and some extra features like arrays.
Boy oh boy, this technology is going to run into a lot of misinformed speculation like the above. I know that YOUR LOCATION DATA is super important to you and all the technology ghosts are trying to steal it from you but that is not how this works.
This same logic has been used throughout history by tyrants of all stripes, often when the election results were decided in advance.

You DO have the right to bitch about things, whether you vote or not. You have a constitutionally protected freedom of speech and not voting does not expunge that right.

You are presuming, quite arrogantly as I see it, that someone who doesn't vote has found or can find a candidate they are willing to support. Many people who don't vote find themselves unwilling to support either of the two talking parrots they are given to choose between and conclude the whole exercise if fruitless.

If you live in a state with very close elections it might be worth your time to select the lesser of two evils, or even a good and honest candidate should you have one available somehow. But we have a winner take all system and there are many people in this country who are effectively disenfranchised because they live in gerrymandered districts or districts with a large bias toward one party. Telling those people that they have no right to voice their discontent about the state of their government precisely because they recognize their own powerlessness to change it is extremely disrespectful and ignorant.
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confirmed I was able to do this (simply enable the API) on an existing project in the API Console
From the slideshare presentation on the homepage (p. 4)[1]

> Performs better than similar products (NeDB, TaffyDB, PouchDB etc.) and it's much smaller

It would be interesting to see benchmarks.

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/techfort/lokijs/4
Also of note is clmtracker: https://github.com/auduno/clmtrackr

Its open source (MIT license I believe) and performs some of the same functions as Face++ like detection, "landmarking" and replacing features/mapping a mask to your face. It includes some fun demos as well.
It was surprisingly challenging to come up with just those two examples to be honest. I don't think we really know what the killer location-based notifications are going to be yet.
The closer are the abstractions in the coding language to those in the specification language, the closer the spec resembles the code. If the two abstract in different ways, then not.
Thanks for the reply - that's a really fantastic resource. I've browsed through briefly and there are thousands of video. I've also found a good list of animated films in the public domain (US) so I might look for copies of some of those

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_films_in_the_p...

I'm situated in Europe so it does indeed raise the question of copyright outside of the US. I will have to investigate and try find some legal copyright resources on the topic.
Indeed.

Embrace. Integrate Office with it.
Extend. Buy DropBox.
Extinguish. Merge DropBox with OneDrive.

Wow didn't expect this comment to bring on the downvotes.
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Show HN: Name Shark – Shareable lists of names and faces for events, VIPs, etc.
Some google-managed base images would be helpful. The last time I checked, some of the major public docker images were still shellshock-vulnerable. Pre-installed GCE tools would be helpful. Perhaps automated environment variables about region, etc.
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Awesome. Updated as soon as I heard. Like the speed improvement in DrRacket boot-times, I still find I do most of my Racketeering there.
It's all open source (including kubernetes) - so worst case you move it to the cloud provider of your choice. Other than Docker / k8s being a little immature, I don't see a ton of risk.
Recruiters at Credit Karma are just terrible
Here's a LinkedIn I got from a Recruiter at Credit Karma:
<quote>
Hi {CANDIDATE_NAME},

I work with Credit Karma out here in San Francisco.

We just raised $85 million from Google Capital and were one of the first companies to be valued at $1 billion.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/09/29/credit-karma-tops-1-billion-value-with-75-million.html

Hence, we need some truly innovative, bright people like yourself to our team. I’d love to have a chat with you on the phone to learn more about you.

I look forward to your response.

Kind Regards,
Trish
</quote>

I think I'll pass, thanks Trish @ Credit Karma.

Sincerely
{CANDIDATE_NAME}
I hadn't known the show was on reruns, that's how good the show was/is. I recently started listening within the past year. However admittedly, I am an off and on listener. Tom was filled with life, such a sad loss!
The old maxim goes like 10 lines per day on average (of fully "developed" and tested code).

90% of time should be spent on studying textbooks, reading other people's code (only the best authors, like Joe Armstrong or Simon Marlow or Rich Hickey, you know), [wishful] thinking, visualizing, drawing diagrams (using a pen and paper, no UML and shit), writing pseudo-code (like they do in AIMA), [unit]tests (before code!) and then just 10% of time for coding, when you know what exactly you are doing and why.

This, by the way, is called "slow thinking".)
Unlimited photo storage was long due IMO. I remember when Google launched Gmail with 1GB storage, they blew away all the competitors such as AOL,Yahoo,Hotmail. That was the great customer acquisition move by Google. I kept wondering why nobody came forward with unlimited cloud storage or specifically photo storage!

Also speaking strictly about the services I tried --
-- started using free Dropbox with camera uploads and with all friends referrals increased upto 10 GBs which is ultimately not good enough when you auto-upload images from phone camera.
-- Then started using Flickr with 1 TB which does not have desktop client for simple drag-and-drop.
-- Inconveniently tried using Google Drive on-and-off but simply cumbersome.

Seems as a Primer subscriber, I will find this service valuable for auto-camera upload.
But how many resources were spent on improving EVs and how many resources were spent on improving ICE-vehicles?
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You should check out www.jobbox.io give it a try!
That isn't the original meaning of the term "Embrace. Extend. Extinguish." which harks back to the Microsoft monopoly trial:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

> The strategy's three phases are:[11]

> Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.

> Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the 'simple' standard.

> Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.
Why does programming have this problem? No unions.

Really. Compare film scheduling and construction scheduling, which are well developed disciplines. That's because, in those industries, there's paid overtime, and at rates higher than straight time. Thus, "crunches" caused by overoptimistic scheduling add labor costs, which come right out of the company's profit.

This forces scheduling discipline on management. There's a tendency to overestimate, rather than underestimate.
I imagine as wireless technologies improve we'll see a reduced barrier to entry.

I remember as a kid having to run downstairs to grab the hardwired phone. Then we got wireless ones (one for downstairs and one on the second line for my dads office). Then we got wireless ones in every room of the house.

Now in my house we don't have a single one, we have cell phones.

Computers followed the same trend in my parents house too. We ended up with 3 desktops and a laptop, from our beginnings with an old IMB running DOS.

Now I have one on my phone I carry everywhere.

We're now seeing cable companies releasing boxes that stream TV over wifi. We've got chromecast.

It honestly looks like the "smart home" market is too growth stagnant that technology is going to supplant it.

Markets are supposed to grow, but I've been hearing of "Jetson" homes since I was a kid and it never came true.

All it needs is a plug-and-play system that anyone can install and the market would see an explosion.

I've got a couple of wireless light switches in my house, which given enough frequencies could be used to do remote switching of every light in your house from a central transmitter.

Without intervention this is going to be one of those "singularity techs" where all the parts just converge on this use from the existing divergence of other technologies.
> Google could in principle give it away for free to new sign-ups for their service as a promotional goodie.

No they couldn't, because other parts of their ToS explicitly let you retain control over your copyright. You'd sue them, and win. Also, they'd lose all their customers and probably shut down the Google Drive program entirely.

Maybe we should just try and find a lawyer to interpret this impartially (something you should do anyway if you're trying to pick a ToS that's "compatible" with your needs -- you really don't want to get burned by a tricky ToS, do you?), but as far as I understand the whole point of this passage is to allow Google to use your data to test their products, e.g. facial recognition, translation, etc., in an automated fashion.

Exactly like Gmail, I am guessing the contents of individual user's drive accounts are probably scraped at regular intervals by machines for all sorts of purposes. This passage is a CYA for that activity. They're not looking for sneaky ways to get your book into their store.

I'm not saying "use Google Drive over Dropbox!", because I don't give a hoot. But the Drive ToS isn't why you shouldn't use Google Drive.
Boojum (superfluidity)
I'm not sure about your statistics.

Yes, many drivers won't ever drive them to a track; however, when you look at general attendance at public road courses, 911s (and less-so M3s) appear to be grossly overrepresented in proportion to their street popularity.

I wish we had better data to work with here.
Out of pure curiosity, what are the common use cases for a fast in-memory database? Are they exclusive to server-side applications (e.g. caching)?
There is no excuse for not offering this to Canadian Prime subscribers. We get absolutely nothing out of that subscription, but faster shipping. I will cancel my Prime membership out of principle if they don't give us this one.
My biggest question on Docker / k8s: How does one control where persistent data lives and the required performance characteristics? Example: I need SSD + a certain level of availability? Is there a good strategy for managing this?
> You can't compare the Model S with gas-powered engines that had many decades to be refined.

Well, there's nothing in a Model S that is earth shattering in terms of technology.

The batteries are used in laptops and model airplanes. That technology has been around for ages and continues to improve well outside of the automotive industry.

We've known how to make super high efficiency electric motors for, well, I am only guessing, a century [1]. Large electric motors that are over 90% efficient were built decades ago. With the shift to brushless Cobalt and Neodymium based motors we've been able to shrink them and increase their output power. Again, I'll use the example of the early pioneers in model airplane electric flight who were building high efficiency 2KW motors that fit in the palm of your hand decades ago. Switched reluctance drives have also been around for decades, they can deliver insane amounts of power in a very small volume with no magnets and really good efficiency. Control is more difficult.

If I had to guess I would suggest that the advances brought forth by Tesla have been in control and safety. Building a huge battery pack that is safe in a crash requires careful engineering. They had to figure that out. Of course, they build their own motors and have developed their own advanced control electronics for these motors. The rest is, if I dare say, standard automotive engineering work.

Again, not diminishing Tesla in any way. I am just countering the "walking on water" aura that seems to orbit around anything Tesla. They should be praised for what seems like flawless execution and laser-like market focus. They are building a fantastic world-class high-end electric car. And it is fantastic. Supernatural? No. A work of engineering art? Absolutely.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_motor
And how is this different from what every major tech company attempts to do?
Set up two different accounts and log out/in between them.

Set the various programs you need to start automatically (from dock, options -> open on login)

Fast user switching: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6BNJS4W...
I was doing an internship at a big semiconductor company the summer announced iBeacon. They had something very similar in the works (presumably started about the same time as Apple), and called them beacons - they certainly worked by exactly the same method.
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Totally expected to see this story: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/144dcp/what_is_th...
> No one shopping for an M3, 911, or AMG product who actually intends to use them for their performance

Yeah, but how many of those folks exist? I can't count the number of times I'm stuck behind an M3, 911, or AMG on the uphill chicane entrance ramp I frequent in my Nissan Leaf wishing Mr. SlowPoke in his $80K car would give it some stick. Oh, they're trying as evidenced by them gunning it up the straight part, but as soon as that ramp goes anywhere but straight they're testing the throttle-lift oversteer. (The ramp goes to the Microsoft campus, so I get to test this theory frequently.)

People more often than not buy a car because of the badge on the back end, not because they're doing track days. They'll punch it in a straight line from a stoplight and that's about the extent of their performance testing. For that use case, the Tesla does just fine.
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How many comments were received/payed?

There's an undated article https://www.schneier.com/twofish-contest.html pointing to a dead link
Ubuntu Images on Google Compute Engine
"publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content"

Well that's terrifying given that my phone uploads every picture I take to Google's services.
Take a look at what happened to Titan's stock, and shareholders, after that deal.

For background on what Goldman Sachs has become, read "Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story", by Greg Smith. This was recommended to me by an angry former Goldman Sachs customer after they tried to put him into a sketchy deal.
See the discussion below between Telegram and the author of the post. A lot of good information there.
Very cool. What if the frequency could be drastically increased somehow? Maybe it could become a more versatile display technology.
They pretty much have an API for everything now.
Well:

...this time contestants can not only monitor traffic, but also act as the Telegram server and use active attacks
9860 is publicly available though, at least the client version.
http://www.LearnSwift.tips

Disclosure: My site
Prime is reaching a primarily-digital-services point that I half-expect them to split-off the free-shipping 'benefit' into another package, or quietly drop it.

Actually I wish they would, so that I could check-out physical orders twice as fast without the tedium of deselecting the defaulted 'Yes give me the 30-day Prime trial!' checkboxes. It is quite odious how much upselling they now load into the checkout process.
Building sales software is hard
I made a site just for this :)

http://www.LearnSwift.tips
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What comes to mind is a generic "upload profile photo" for websites, where the system can automatically crop your uploaded photo. Or even just to check that it is a "valid" photo.

Not sure how the gender/age info would be useful.

That's the best I can come up with. My brain actually works best in the opposite direction (problem->solution) :)
I just watched this today - I've studied physics at Uni - I've done many experiments and known this result for a long-long time. However, this was actually the first time I've seen it myself.

It is awesome to see something so un-intuitive but so well known actually occurring - like if you could actually see quantum tunnelling happening. If you don't find the world awesome then doing physics has got to be a pretty hard slog.

But then I'm over-awed just about every time I use a mobile [aka cell-phone] or computer at the physics and engineering that's happening, the maths being applied, ...

A computing equivalent might be seeing Babbage's Difference Engine[1] or a valve based computer at work for the first time - you know the maths, the algos work, you know the science well enough (certainly in the mechanical computers) but seeing it all chug away and produce the result has a certain enthralling beauty. Maybe it's more like seeing a visual emulator [2] working on assembly code? You know it works, you know why it works (at some level at least) but it's doing it, it's awesome!

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiRgdaknJCg

[2] http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html
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This is an interesting move from Microsoft.

It will create some competition for OneDrive. But Office 365 subscribers now get unlimited OneDrive space as part of the subscription.

My bet is Dropbox integration might get some Dropbox users to buy Office 365. When they realize they get unlimited OneDrive space they might switch to OneDrive.

Seems like a good move to be honest.
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Do you see this being useful for analytical workloads (ie i need a bunch of cores for a short time to run a parallel job) or more focused on scaling web apps and services?
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It is not usually the employee who sets the deadline on the offer, so I don't believe this moral equivalence is real. If a company does not want this situation to come up, it is at liberty to give a deadline that's long enough for the employee to consider other offers and make an informed decision. A company that attempts to rush an employee to accept an offer before others come in is attempting to exploit the employee's feelings of responsibility to the company's advantage. I do not think people are obligated to allow themselves to be exploited in this way.
Unfortunately, those are not real alternatives to Telegram. Telegram is meant to be a WhatsApp replacement.

WhatsApp thrives because in many places, SMS costs are prohibitive (so TextSecure is not an option). In addition, it requires no registration and doesn't rely on external services (so ChatSecure is also out of the question).
No. Download the iOS app for instance. It is very very old to what is available in the app store. So thee is no way to really verify the client either today.
Thanks for sharing that. I jumped the gun before commenting.
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I agree. However, there is a lot of fear among developers in my area with regards to learning new languages. Many developers I know would rather learn 20 new frameworks than a single new language. Managers feel even more strongly along those lines. I don't share their views, but I think I am in a minority.
It's interesting. I signed up for Prime just for shipping. Now, I'm getting all these services "free". Granted, Prime's price increases here and there. But, because it's "free", it's easy for me to want to use it.

Eventually I'm going to be using so many Prime services that I'll never want to cancel it.
As an Office customer and a Dropbox customer, I can't help but have mixed feelings. Office already has "direct" OneDrive integration and it's pretty useless, how could it be any better on Dropbox?

The whole thing about Dropbox is that just works. Files are files, folders are folders, if I move them about they move, etc. The only problem with Dropbox and Office is how Office locks the files so they're only synced after I close the Office program, not after every Ctrl+S. Fix that, and it's integrated.

The whole "save in the cloud" nonsense that desktop Office programs have these days feels like a mistake. I can understand how with iOS's "no files" design, this is the only way forward, but on desktop? Please let it stop.
Right now, it isn't plumbed in but it is on the roadmap.

Either (a) you have network based block device and the master/manager maps that to a machine dynamically as the container get scheduled or (b) you constrain the containers to machines that have the hardware/data you need.

(b) is less than ideal but sometimes necessary.

Some discussion: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/issues/598
I'm kind of confused. I get that they run on the Google VMs (which need a base OS, yes?) so does this manage all of that? Can I:

pick my vm size/
pick my docker image/
and go?

AKA does this bring me one step closer to docker-oku-aaS?
It can be used as both. As we build out better resource isolation and QoS, you'll be able to run mixed workload on the same hardware/VMs and use "every part of the animal".
mean stack really needed the documentation
@wmf, with respect, it's not garbage and actually works well for many cases. At the same time, it is quite possible to see ways to integrate weave with kernel features! We welcome your input and help on that -- why not get in touch? weave@zett.io
Given the speed difference I’m less bothered by a little bit of user shunning.
This may get to be a cycle, like the cycle of consumer electronics through beige, black, white, gray, and back to beige again. That used to be coordinated by the Color Association of the United States. Here's a 2005 report for HP, announcing that green was out and white was coming in:

http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/assets/bus-solutions/color-trend...
Don't :). [1][2][3]

[1] https://medium.com/@jmathai/hello-2014-goodbye-consumer-phot...

[2] https://github.com/photo

[3] https://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/jaisen-mathai...