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Show HN: Reorganize pixels of a painting into a smooth color palette using PCA
README.mdTo installpip install -r requirements.txtIf that doesn't work you will have to manually track down and install these pip packages.To usepython palette.py /path/to/input_file.jpgOutput will be...
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Show HN: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, Backblaze via a Single API
The Enterprise CloudRail Cloud Storage API lets you integrate Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace and Backblaze via the same API. This means for example the function download() works exactly the same...
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Alibaba Posts $1B in Sales in 5 Minutes on Singles’ Day
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. posted $1 billion (6.81 billion yuan) of sales within the first five minutes of its Singles’ Day shopathon, a 24-hour event that may offer clues on the health of the Chinese...
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New Populism and Silicon Valley on a Collision Course
Updated Nov. 10, 2016 7:39 p.m. ETTuesday’s election was an expression of voter angst that heralded a new type of populism. For Silicon Valley, it also marked the ascension of a vision starkly at odds...
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Docker in Production for 18 Months
There is a wave of Docker retrospectives out there right now. A couple are negative:And one is positive:I’d like to add my positive perspective…I’m sitting here at Convox looking over thousands of...
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The Fallacy of Recruiting Star Talent
Question: You have advised managers to “Let Your Best Talent Go.” That’s not my company’s problem. The VP I report to wants us managers to hire stars to fill key jobs. I’ve got good up-and-comers who’d...
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Go, Swift, Rust, Java, C++ – Active GitHub repositories, per month since 2014
README.mdPer language and per monthAn active repository is a repository which has been created or udated.Here are the current results from 2014 to 2016 (until october)2014...
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Running Docker in production for 6 months
Managing a dev team at a full stack development company can be hard. You have to always keep the over-enthusiastic developers focussed at the right task. More often than not, you to have to remind them...
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Winds – An Open Source Personalized RSS Reader
We've built an RSS Feed Reader that goes beyond simply providing a list view of your subscriptions. With machine learning, you’ll get a highly personalized feed tailored to you. The machine learning...
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FBI operated 23 Tor-hidden child porn sites, deployed malware from them
As Ars has reported, federal investigators temporarily seized a Tor-hidden site known as Playpen in 2015 and operated it for 13 days before shutting it down. The agency then used a “network...
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Chipotle Says Sales Have Been ‘Strong’ at New Burger Restaurant
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. says its foray into burgers is going well.Its new offshoot restaurant called Tasty Made, which opened in Lancaster, Ohio, on Oct. 27, is seeing “strong” sales, according to...
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Microsoft Kills off ISVs by Foisting Its Own Products That Are No Better
Hi Folks!Meet David, the magnificent masterpiece sculpted by Michelangelo at the start of the 16th century. A photo of his face with that curious furrowed brow featured on our very first...
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Leonard Cohen Has Died
Leonard Cohen, the hugely influential singer and songwriter whose work spanned nearly 50 years, died Monday at the age of 82. Cohen's label, Sony Music Canada, confirmed his death on the singer's...
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Python Versions Used in Commercial Projects, 2016 Edition
In October we shared data on which versions ofRuby and Node.js developers use to get the job done. Next up is a report on Python, for which the main question is binary — is it Python 2 or 3 that...
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Panorama Education's (YC S13) Git Workflow
As happy git users, we love learning how other people use our favorite version control system. So, we thought we’d add to the discussion and share how we use git and other tools to drive our...
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Is Model-View-Controller dead on the front end?
More and more front-end developers are adopting unidirectional architectures. So what’s the future for the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach?In order to understand how we got to this point,...
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Breakthrough in the quantum transfer of information between matter and light
A paper titled “High-Fidelity and Ultrafast Initialization of a Hole-Spin Bound to a Te Isoelectronic Centre in ZnSe” was recently published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters. The...
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Embed, encode, attend, predict: the new deep learning formula for NLP models
Over the last six months, a powerful new neural network playbook has come together for Natural Language Processing. The new approach can be summarised as a simple four-step formula: embed, encode,...
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Qt binding for Go with support for all major operating systems
README.mdOverviewQt is a cross-platform application framework.Go (often referred to as golang) is a free and open source programming language created at Google.This binding aims to make it as simple...
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A Very Simple Genetic Algorithm Written in Swift 3
#!/usr/bin/env xcrun swift/*gen.swift is a direct port of cfdrake's helloevolve.py from Python 2.7 to Swift 3-------------------- https://gist.github.com/cfdrake/973505 ---------------------gen.swift...
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