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by nmb 15y ago
Worth noting that Google Chrome also uses K-Means to select the color of the stripe below a website thumbnail: http://www.quora.com/Google-Chrome/How-does-Chrome-pick-the-...
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by nmb 15y ago
Awesome. Looking forward to seeing more of you guys in the future!
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by nmb 15y ago
Second michaels' reply. I encountered the term in my compilers class in college, so I don't think it's that new.
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by nmb 15y ago
San Francisco - Lookout Mobile Security Full-time or intern Lookout is the leader in consumer mobile security. We're a small, well-funded team tackling big problems on small devices. We're hiring across the board; go here to get a sense of
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by nmb 15y ago
by working day jobs. =)
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by nmb 15y ago
Ah, should have looked into that myself. Thanks.
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by nmb 15y ago
the favicon ( http://www.webputty.net/favicon.ico ) looks awfully similar to the notepad++ logo: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
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by nmb 15y ago
Whenever I read HN on my laptop and was about to switch to my desktop computer at home, I found there was no easy way to send the tabs I had open over to my desktop machine easily. So I made this extension to solve that problem. Here's a 14
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Show HN: Tabulous for Google Chrome(chrome.google.com)
2 points by nmb 15y ago|1 comments
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by nmb 15y ago
Tipfy is nice, but its documentation is horribly out-of-date. The last time I tried using it, I had to dive into the source code several times to figure out what was going on. Eventually I ended up moving off of app engine. (I considered co
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by nmb 15y ago
Localtunnel was around first, it seems: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468324 (thread from the same post). also it is free.
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by nmb 15y ago
Yeah, DotCloud is all about hosting apps on their platform. ;) They have support for background processes, redis, postgres, and wsgi, so they were basically perfect for my use case. The best place to get started is DotCloud's own docs, as w
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by nmb 15y ago
thanks :)
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by nmb 15y ago
Also, thanks for reporting the issue with the example link. It's still working for me, though (it's supposed to fill in the URL field with a URL to a text file). What browser are you using?
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by nmb 15y ago
People might use it for different things, but I made it so that I'd have a convenient way to download a file to my desktop from my phone. Using the native Dropbox client, I'd have to download the file to my phone first, then upload it.
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by nmb 15y ago
The app is completely run and hosted on DotCloud, so bandwidth is limited by their capacity. Right now when you submit a URL it's added to a global queue, and a separate python process goes through that queue and uploads them asynchronously
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by nmb 15y ago
2-day project of mine. Hope someone finds it useful!
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Send a file to your Dropbox from its URL.(web2db.ssl.dotcloud.com)
25 points by nmb 15y ago|10 comments
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by nmb 15y ago
Thanks for the tips. My recent projects have been in Python or JS, but I've been looking into things like PyDev or PyCharm so I can do stuff like this. Thus far I haven't been using anything much more heavyweight than a text editor. When I
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Ask HN: How do you learn your way around a new codebase?
12 points by nmb 15y ago|11 comments
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by nmb 15y ago
Mine. :) But more seriously, if it's not by yours, then does it matter?
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by nmb 16y ago
For the evens_only implementation, is there a reason to use map/filter vs a generator? eg: evens_only = lambda nums: [n/2 for n in nums if n%2==0] seems to work just as well.
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by nmb 16y ago
Sorry guys, we've exceeded our app engine quota. Check back in three hours!
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by nmb 16y ago
Our server load is already pretty high right now as it is, so we can't really afford to provide the service without this slight barrier.
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by nmb 16y ago
Hm, not sure that I would use this personally, but I can't deny that it is a creative use of the new layout. Thanks for the link, it's interesting to see what others are doing with this!
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by nmb 16y ago
Yep. There are actually a few cases in which our cropping algorithm will fail, but few people have complained about those cases so far. When we have more time we plan to make the algorithm more robust.
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by nmb 16y ago
Thanks for the info! There are many many usability things that we didn't get around to implementing due to restrictions in App Engine's and Facebook's python APIs, but we plan to make the flow more pleasant in future iterations.
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by nmb 16y ago
Oh yeah, I definitely agree with you. However, we only spent two days on it and didn't have time to come up with more creative uses. Thanks for the kind words and the feedback!
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by nmb 16y ago
Looks awesome! =) It's so fulfilling to see my procrastination going to good use!
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by nmb 16y ago
I'm pretty sure this is exactly the mental process I went through. After this round of comments I really should get back to studying!

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