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nice work! I'm liking the naming of the colors :)

I'm slowly building something similar in my spare time. It's a multi-color search engine for street wear (and perhaps other stuff)

http://www.inthatstyle.com/

my current "scheme" for creating new passwords is to simply write a long, unique passphrase with the idea that I will only remember it for the short time needed to log in after registration.

If I need to log in sometime in the future, I simply reset the password.

Sabbatical is a great idea.

Try and do it cheaply as well. The places you end up staying as a result puts you on an interesting path where you can meet some very interesting folks.

I try and do a 1-3 month long snowboarding trip each year. Buy a season pass, find a room in a hostel and hang out with the other seasonairres. The total cost is only slightly more than a 1-2 week holiday in a hotel. I've meet some awesome, crazy, fun, random and right-down good folks from all around the world.

The imagination gets fired and after some time, I actually really look forward to coming back home and working on something.

I'd love to know how to do this too.

On a sort-of related note. You might find this interesting. Record video from drone and overlay it on mapbox maps

https://www.mapbox.com/blog/mapbox-gl-video-drone/

A multi-color image search engine for streetwear in my spare time.

http://www.inthatstyle.com/

awesome stuff :D Thanks for this. Will definitely look into some of that in more detail.

Another tricky part of skin detection is false positives. ie, what if the actual product is that color?

Some things I've noticed and will be taking into account are: Skin areas tend to clump around the same locations in photos. The product is usually the focus and skin is near the edges. Product types also tend to share similar photo layouts. So with that, skin color in those zones score higher.

Nice.

I'm building something similar in my spare time.

It performs multi-color image searching on street wear. You can select a bunch of colors and adjust the ratios.

Here's a very early in-development version. http://www.inthatstyle.com/womens?colors=73a1d3,e84b34&ratio...

(I'm a little worried about posting that on HN since it's unoptimized and will probably crash.)

I'm currently working on skin detection & exclusion during the color detection phase and am looking at using basic machine learning techniques. The key challenge I'm facing is differences in skin tones.

Google approached Nestle. No money changed hands according to this article

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938

As a customer it can definitely be annoying to experience at times. My tolerance seems to vary depending on the wait times and food expectations.

A perceived upshot is that the restaurant must put an emphasis on quality at reasonable prices, otherwise they won't draw those crowds and I'm definitely not going to wait for a crappy meal.

However, the "no reservation" method itself seems to help draw crowds too. Kind of like the lines outside a night club seem to draw people. Throw in a bit of edgy branding with some cool marketing and it pulls well - having an "image" works.

Queuing is a bit of a cultural thing/expectation over here. Having someone cut in line can be a huge no no. If someone bought their way into the queue, I could very well see it causing some highly vocal responses. But I'm sure there are people out there trying it out.

In London, a "no reservations" system seems to be happening more and more with popular trendy/hip establishments.

And it seems to work.

Places like Burger & Lobster or Meat Liquor usually have very long queues at prime times.

Oh wow, I'm actually trying to make that decision right now too. Thanks for posting this.

I've been building something in my spare time and between freelance gigs. It's at a good working prototype stage. I just want to spend a solid month polishing, plugging in minimally required data, release it and see what happens from there.

At the same time, I've just been offered a new contract which will put my project on the slow track for a good half year but it's money coming in.

Being able to focus on something that I'm interested in is amazing. My creativity flows and I see results occur at a pace that keeps motivated even more.

Yet, I don't know what decision to make - Financially sound status quo or happy pipe-dream.

but... I'm reading everyone's comments with great interest.

NZ seems to have a pretty large and active MS developer scene.

Teachers like to use Comic Sans because of the little 'a'. It's the same as the one you learn to write.

All the other fonts use the weird typewriter 'a.

It seems like a smart idea for another player step in and maybe build another NZ-AUS only cable.

I must admit, the pacific was seemed hugely ambitious and I was wondering if something would come in and derail it. I never thought that espionage reasons would be one.

This is pretty sad news.

In the 90's, I heard that ihug internet used to get their bandwidth via a satellite to the USA.

Do options like this still exist? Would they even be feasible for todays bandwidth requirements?

It would be interesting to know what kind of options exist that could provide some much needed competition against the Southern Cross cable

can you migrate boxes between zones?

in case you are travelling...

"How is GitHub worth less than Pintrest?"

Markets aren't rational.

have you heard of affiliate links? you can make a good deal of money from them

It feels like this was written out of frustation.

I understand the problems and points you have raised however, this post is probably not a very good idea if you value your reputation.

When people google your name they might interpret this post as coming from someone rather arrogant.

Just sayin' :)

Would be interesting to try this about 5 years after the first batch of users lead the charge.

If it has any effect then the side effects would be my first major concern.

I really hope they dont make this an Origin only release

Just curious. What happens if the phone rings and you rip it out of the dock?

I don't suppose anyone can shed some more light into what is actually happening with this treaty?

This opinion piece feels rather inflammatory

Awesome news :D

Best of luck for the new role and thanks for your posts. They provided a great insight into a world we techies are so close to but never really see

how about completely ignoring Hollywood and instead, focus on creating a better production/marketing/distribution chain for film makers?

also, since this is HN, what did you use to build it?

You also have competition from the big guns with access to stuff like machine readable news feeds:

http://thomsonreuters.com/products_services/financial/financ...

Would be great to learn more about it without having to log in.

More screenshots too plz

without giving out hard numbers (unless you want to), what is the average comparative rate that a startup pays compared to a larger company?

Are they on the same pay scale or do they pay less since it's a "startup" a money can be tight

Is it hard finding staff that have sufficient technical knowledge?

It feels like the recruitment industry in general is very cut throat and has high turnover.

And in an industry that has a shortage of skilled people to begin with, that's probably not a good thing.