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shackenbergon Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s?

Somebody wrote that OP is in Germany. Here are some notes I compiled for (expat) friends and coworkers on:

How to find how to find a therapist in Berlin (Germany): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YQYTXBkypxc1DaCRWIjk...

shackenbergon 90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC

The packages were laying directly on the street.

shackenbergon 90k Packages Disappear Daily in NYC

Walking through Manhattan this Summer, I once saw several delivery people sorting dozens of Amazon packages directly on the sidewalk. I could not believe my eyes.

shackenbergon Variations on a Name: The -Punks of Our Times

Also check out this neat illustrated "timeline" of "-punks". https://imgur.com/gallery/WkIU2

Only the end I would change. First I would put Cyberpunk into the 1990-2000 years. And then I would add another category for all movies that have this "bright", "plastic" and "clean" look like GATTACA, 2001, Minority Report or Oblivion. And then add another category for all the rough and dirty movies like District nine or Edge of tomorrow that seem to be fashionable now. But I don't have good names for these yet. What do you think?

shackenbergon Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Python

If they are the same thing, why does the parent commenter prefer Functional?

shackenbergon Introduction to Object Oriented Programming in Python

Can you point to any good tutorials for replacing OOP with functional patterns in Python? I often use OOP to semantically group functionality and "manage" state e.g. avoiding methods with multiple variables or cases where I have to pass one (not changing) variable to multiple functions.

shackenbergon Life in the Spanish city that banned cars

This hyperbole is obviously wrong or do you have any facts to show it?

I don't know anyone enjoying taking the car in Berlin and one is often faster with public transport or the bike in the city center.

> rebrand itself as bicycle friendly Shocking! Political parties changing course to adapt to change in popular opinion.

shackenbergon Someone has entered an AI in a Japanese mayoral race

How is this even legal? Doesn't one need to be a natural person to register? Can I enter my toaster?

shackenbergon Someone has entered an AI in a Japanese mayoral race

Are we sure that is not satire?

shackenbergon CometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code

So you would considered the latest committed version as the 'code of the current experiment'? Maybe to rephrase: I start a training with my local code and then I change one variable in the code or comment some processing and start the next training. Would I need to do something for comet to know how the code has changed?

shackenbergon CometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code

I like, that the price is so high. That makes it a least seem to be a sustainable business. And when you pay your ML people 10k a month, the $25 is less than the coffee they will drink in the office.

shackenbergon CometML wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code

Hi, looks great! Love the feature of tracking code changes. But how does this work? Does it upload the code to the servers every time I launch a training?

shackenbergon EyeEm's new app finds your best photos for you

Thanks for the feedback: Here the relevant quote from our TOS:

> All photos reviewed and organized via the App will only be saved temporarily on servers for the duration of the review process. The photos will be deleted immediately upon completion of such process. We will not make your photos available to others and we will not store them. No human will ever see your photos during the review process.

http://roll.eyeem.com/privacy.html

Also note that we are a German company, so German privacy laws apply.

shackenbergon Visual Search at Pinterest [pdf]

For reference, here is the link to the real arxiv page: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07647 and here is the blog post announcing the paper: http://engineering.pinterest.com/post/120111908004/building-...

shackenbergon Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who Is Going Broke

Good point, but you have to admit that the site does not look inviting at all and that a novice has no idea where to start.

shackenbergon Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier

sorry, was only an accident.

shackenbergon Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier

If you were underwhelmed by this blog post have a look at:

Transforming code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python by Raymond Hettinger at PyCon 2013

https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/transforming-code-into-b... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGv2VnC0go&noredirect=1

Topics include: 'looping' with iterators to avoid creating new lists, dictionaries, named tuples and more

shackenbergon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

Berlin, Germany - EyeEm - Computer Vision Engineer or Intern - VISA

Do you want to do Image Retrieval on millions of photos? Join EyeEm as a Computer Vision Engineer or Intern.

Here are the official announcements:

Computer Vision Engineer https://eyeem.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=25

Computer Vision Intern https://eyeem.bamboohr.co.uk/jobs/view.php?id=24

To find out more about how we roll visit https://www.eyeem.com/careers or contact me at ludwig at company domain.