mryan

> This hasn't been covered in tv compared to Clock boy which made it to the front page of HN a couple of times.

That might be taking the rules too literally. The point is, if this is a story you would expect to see on the evening news, it is unlikely to be suitable material for HN.

> The gender imbalance with more males with exciting cultural baggage will make for interesting times in Europe.

I'm sure it will - but it's still not a relevant submission, IMHO. Posting stories like this will eventually cause HN to become just another news aggregator without any particular focus.

> What to Submit

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

> If you see a designed object in a movie the brand owner will have paid to put it there.

While paid product placement does exist and is widespread, this statement isn't correct. There are many examples of organic product placement, where the set/costume designer uses a particular product without any financial incentive.

Do you think there might be a reason that Facebook invested time and money in to producing this design, rather than buying from acmemicro?

> The only way to deal with any form of mass shooting is to have systems in public places that can automatically detect and disable the shooter within milliseconds of their first shot.

You are proposing that public spaces be fitted with some kind of system that can reliably detect bullets based on their "speed, size, and shape" profile.

How do you propose to do this without using a bunch of sensors?

> and much more to do with governments wanting as much surveillance and control over their populations as possible

Outfitting all public spaces with sound and vision recording/analysis devices seems like the very definition of mass surveillance and control.

> Anyway, generally you're referring to technical challenges, all of which could be readily solved.

Of course, we should not get bogged down in the technical implementation detail, but you can't just brush away these - very valid - technical criticisms of your idea.

This reminds me of a sketch by Mitchell and Webb (a pair of British comedy actors). It is a satirical news broadcast, in which Mitchell points out that the fact that there was not a single death from drowning in the local region proves that too much money is being spent on anti-drowning measures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqYyxvM85zU

That sounds horribly inefficient and expensive, and doesn't really solve the problem. Standardised battery packs would be a much better solution than making each manufacturer operate a national/global network of recharging stations.

There are ways to express your uncertainty about a business model without appearing to denigrate the effort the creator has put in to it. You could have asked the OP if he is concerned about people sharing his content after they have purchased it, and asking what steps he is taking to prevent that. If it's an area you are familiar with, you might even offer tips on how to, for example, include identifying watermarks to help identify the source of any leaks.

What is your goal with this comment? I'm genuinely curious - so many ShowHNs result in a vapid comment such as this, and I always wonder what the person was hoping to achieve.

vasylslobodian - congrats on shipping, good luck with it!

Indeed, the title is misleading.

While shykes does have a track record of making some, let's say, inadvisable posts here on HN, he didn't tell anyone to "fuck off", and I don't think it is fair for the title to imply that.

Agreed - at the end of the day, the decision to divorce comes from within the marriage. I'm not casting blame here - just curious about whether any scenario would lead him to feel culpable about spreading leaked information. IMHO it's a philosophically interesting topic with lots of gray areas.

If "some wacko" killed his family and himself as a result of your disclosure, would you feel any culpability at all? Of course, you didn't force them to join the site, but you did make the decision to disclose the information.

What if someone joined the site before they were married, but never contacted anyone? Their spouse receives your email, and confronts them. They are unable to convince their spouse that they never cheated, and the marriage comes to an end. Do you feel culpability in this case?

> This isn't about pulling one out at a time, spending another few seconds inspecting it, and then putting it in a box;

Actually, it is. Many of the manuals are duplicated and they are only interested in keeping one unique copy of each. The duplicates will be immediately discarded. Obviously they will want to keep the highest quality copy of each manual for digitisation, so the process involves taking the manual from the shelves, checking to see if it is a duplicate, finding the highest quality version among the duplicates, and keeping the best one.

They can't just run through the shelves, grabbing 25 manuals at a time and throwing them in to a box.

Seconded. My (non-backlit) Kindle really doesn't feel like I'm reading from a screen. It's a totally different experience from reading on my phone or laptop.

Thanks for elaborating, I appreciate it. I don't think my installation is getting enough load to see these tmp issues yet, but good to know what I might have to deal with in future. I agree that with so many dependencies, Thumbor is a great candidate for deploying with Docker.

Btw, I didn't realise you were the searchcode.com guy, great site!

If passwords are synced between devices, they are presumably being stored on MS servers.

Would you mind sharing some detail about the issues you had with tmp dirs and availability? I deployed Thumbor a few months ago and it's been pretty much install and forget. I'm curious about what issues I might have in future as it scales.

You don't see any value in a marketplace that matches drone pilots with those needing drone pilots?

Drones aren't just toys any more. There are good business cases for using video shot from a drone.

Should be back to normal now. The latest update is:

3:46 AM PDT Between 12:08 AM and 3:40 AM PDT, Amazon S3 experienced elevated error rates and latencies. We identified the root cause and pursued multiple paths to recovery. The error has been corrected and the service is operating normally.

Cory Doctorow's When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth touches on this - what happens to the internet activity during a global crisis?

http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...

Thanks. I was mostly interesting in seeing a source for maaku's statement of "Now ask yourself how decisions are made regarding new infrastructure deployments", as it seemed pretty condescending to me.

EC2 is not down.

Who is using deep learning for packet routing and QoS decisions?

In the coming years we will see a lot more applications powered by deep learning. If someone releases a chip that provides 10x performance compared to the current GPU-based method, they will sell a lot of chips.

One way to do this is to look at the "awsc-login-display-name-account" div, which contains your account ID. You can then alter the look of the page (perhaps making the top header bright red) depending on which account ID is in use.

Could make a nice Chrome extension...

I think this approach dilutes the meaning of the term keylogger.

For example, Google sends your keystrokes as soon as you start typing in the search box, and uses this for autocomplete. Presumably you didn't read the full T&Cs before you started typing your search query, so by your logic this is a keylogger. But I think most people would make a distinction between this and a "traditional" keylogger.

Just for the record - I'm not condoning this behaviour or arguing that it is desirable.

Python's parsedatetime module can do some level of language parsing.

https://github.com/bear/parsedatetime

Examples:

next thursday at 4pm

at 4pm

2 hours before noon

2 days from tomorrow

Yes. Google bypass: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hackers+take+control+of+a+Te...

Did you know IKEA's catalogue was 75% CGI before reading that article? I knew some was, but I had no idea it was that high of a percentage.

I guess this could be rephrased to "No obviously fake/CGI product photos". The CGI images on the OP's site are very clearly CGI, and the lack of quality is definitely off-putting.

It reminds me of a story I read via Joel on Software:

> In one of Gerald Weinberg's books, probably The Secrets of Consulting, there's the apocryphal story of the giant multinational hamburger chain where some bright MBA figured out that eliminating just three sesame seeds from a sesame-seed bun would be completely unnoticeable by anyone yet would save the company $126,000 per year.

> So they do it, and time passes, and another bushy-tailed MBA comes along, and does another study, and concludes that removing another five sesame seeds wouldn't hurt either, and would save even more money, and so on and so forth, every year or two, the new management trainee looking for ways to save money proposes removing a sesame seed or two, until eventually, they're shipping hamburger buns with exactly three sesame seeds artfully arranged in a triangle, and nobody buys their hamburgers any more.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/11.html

Short-term goals with little or no consequences are the problem.