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ahamino··on Ask HN: Best email client for a Mac?
mail works fine for me with a large inbox (GMAIL).
ahamino··on Phil Schiller Says iPad Pro Can Both Supplement and Replace the Mac
I agree with Phil .. I’ve actually fallen into a pattern where i use a Mac Pro for work, but use the iPad Pro as my personal computer .. for tasks such as reading, surfing, reserving tickets, listening to music and writing
ahamino··on Smart pointers and move semantics in modern C++
Applications that employ computer vision, machine learning or even deep learning, especially if they are trying to run models on mobile devices have to write their codebases on an efficient high-performance language otherwise, their apps will be just too computationally expensive (too slow).

At my company, three quarters of our codebase is written in C++ because performance is very critical for us, in addition portability! i.e we can compile to run the same code on different platforms without added layers of translation.

ahamino··on Software “detects CEO emotions, predicts financial performance”
I would be interested to know how he trained a fear detector. There are a lot of companies that develop software that track facial expressions.

It is conceivable to use Affectiva's SDKs to automatically annotate data for facial expressions and then use that data to develop models that correlate facial expressions or facial expressions of emotions into things like performance prediction ...

http://developer.affectiva.com/metrics/#facial-expressions

ahamino··on Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
Try that app ..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.affectiva....

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/affdexme/id971529011?mt=8

ahamino··on Google Cloud Vision API enters Beta
Affectiva offers SDKs for facial expression and emotion analysis from images that work in realtime and offline without having to send images to the cloud.

http://developer.affectiva.com

disclamer: I work for them.

ahamino··on OnHub
Google is taking over the worrrrld
ahamino··on Ask HN: What data visualisation tools do data scientists and developers use?
We use python a lot, so matplotlib is our tool of choice, combined with NumPy or Panda!
ahamino··on Oculus Rift hack transfers your facial expressions onto your virtual avatar
There are a lot of players who are trying to commercialize facial expression tracking. Notably, http://affectiva.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbO0Po8Mgis

disclaimer: I work for them.

ahamino··on The Wolfram Language Image Identification Project
It couldn't identify smoke https://t.co/jlK6yswXGT
ahamino··on Microsoft Launches Its .NET Distribution for Linux and Mac
It's a bit too late?
ahamino··on Instakart.com redirects to AmazonFresh
instacart should have bought that domain!
ahamino··on The Middle East Friendship Chart
As a middleastern, I find this very incorrect and stereotypical.
ahamino··on Poll HN: What is your personality type?
INFJ