skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The unfortunate tragedy of this is that BetaPunch is getting attention out of this, for better or for worse. I would err to say they likely got at least a few parties to test them out. It's definitely undeserved attention. Professionalism is everything when it comes to social networks.
It'd be better if you told us why you are using Smarty in the first place. I suspect a lot of places use it simply because they've heard a lot of other places use it.
UPnP is based on SOAP
It's available for iOS but not for Android? I didn't even know you could do that on iOS.
Finally an open source platform for Home automation
I find the page design and voting buttons a bit too distracting. Also considering the number of talks, some kind of tagging/categories would help.
The pricing is based on the length of the term that you want to pre-pay. If you pay monthly it's going to be be €19, if you pay yearly it's €190 - saving you 2 months of fees, if you pay for 2 years its €342 - saving you 6 months of fees. It's a standard pricing paradigm, but I do agree that this specific table doesn't really highlight the fact that it's the same PLAN for each price point. They should lay out this information differently so that you can see it's one plan and make it that there are discounts for pre-paying.
As long as seeing correct color is not important to you. I'm the kind of person who can immediately tell when an LCD is not at native resolution and what temperature the color is set at, so the strong yellow tint of f.lux was unbearable.

If your eyes hurt at night, just alter your brightness contrast, or write a script to do that instead of messing with color!
>> it sets the tone for the rest of the relationship: this is a transient arrangement, and can be discarded

I don't think this has to be the case. If the company treats you well and most of your team has been happily working there for a decade, you're not going to be dwelling on that clause. But if an irresponsible coworker starts dragging down the whole team, you'll be glad that clause is there.
On Linux, you can use Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
A lot of these requests, if fulfilled, would get the person who granted it in trouble with their jobs, and I'm sure a lot of the requests make the target uncomfortable. This is perilously close to "Being an Asshole Therapy."
Yeah, but you get these somewhat popular outdated libraries pop up and people point at them and say "this is shit!". It is.

There are better ways to do PHP... and there is bad PHP code examples and also good PHP code examples like there is in any language.
> It does take a bit of getting used to

Just install it during the day. You'll be inseparable by the evening.
I used f.lux for a few months last year, I did not stick with it because:

• It overrode the brightness settings on my screen, so it was actually much brighter than I would normally have it.

• Whenever I needed to work on anything with colours (most design tasks) I would have to turn it off to get hues correct.

The first one may have been sorted out by this point though.
Then please spread the word and stop clients/managers from choosing it! Let's stop others from falling into the "look, it even has ebay integration!" trap!
Warning, don't miss this line from the story:

"If it doesn’t upset you to see animals being hunted, the video at the end of the story gives you a good idea of how a PGF works in practice."

The video shows animals being shot!
It's only for jailbroken iOS devices.
Me too. I am very sensitive to what's going on my screen. Even though it takes hours to transition, you can tell. And I love it. Flux is brilliant. It's also generally easier to wind down your brain toward the end of the day. It's not easy to sleep soon after staring at high temperatures.
The site uses a CDN which is returning only errors for all the static files.
Don't feel bad. I also have awful memory and despite seeking help for it (and flunking history multiple times!), I simply don't have the capacity to remember certain things.

My memory finally "improved" when I discovered that phone numbers need not be numbers but a pattern on a key pad. I couldn't, and still can't, remember much unless there are logical patterns and derivations. The year 1806 is random integers attached to an event.

Pattern-matching and derived memorization is looked down upon as something inferior to rote or "photographic" memory. I think this is sad state of affairs: regurgitating how-to doesn't help anyone understand anything. Being able to derive concepts and ideas offers a deep understanding and visualization of the world that no one trained into rote memory can ever attain. So, I consider the fact that I had to redefine "memory" in a way my brain can understand it a blessing, not a curse.
Abolishing patents: Too soon or too late?
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I don't get why people would do this ... don't the bank just put their account into a negative balance?

I read about another case in australia where an ATM was issuing $50 notes in place of $20 notes so once word got out a ton of people turned up to withdraw $80 - it came out as 4 x $50s = $200 ... but they were also asked to pay it back to the bank...

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/commonwealth-bank-atm-dis...
I wanted to like bitbucket for the private free repos that they offer.

But I ran into an domain verification issue when I tried to update/push a repository as listed in their docs.

So I did a bit of dig and found this:

~ » dig bitbucket.org

<snipped>

;; ANSWER SECTION:

bitbucket.org. 36584 IN A 207.223.240.182

bitbucket.org. 36584 IN A 207.223.240.181

OK. So two IPs there. I visit those IPs and they show what seems like some usernames that have zero activity and seem suspicious (to my paranoid brain atleast).

Last I remember, which was about a couple of months ago, 182 was fetching the proper bitbucket.org pages. But even that seems to show up some username created in Dec 2012(!)
I tried it for a long time and just found it distracting. I don't work with images these days but perhaps my background in graphics makes me picky. I'm familiar with some of the research but I'd be interested to know if the approach taken by f.lux actually works - real world light wavelengths and colors faked by mixing red, green and blue are subtly different things.
every time i visit webgl page, Xorg goes craz:
(EE) [mi] EQ overflowing. Additional events will be discarded until existing ev
ents are processed.
thanks for your feedback! Code for the site is here https://github.com/djangocon/2013.djangocon.eu , we'll be more than happy to accept any pull request that improves the voting system. As far as the rich layout is concerned.. some people will like it, some not, let's keep it that way
Based on the comments, this sounds like a great article that I'll have to check out later... for the moment, however, all it does is crash Safari on my ipad.
I don't think that's intrinsically bad. Sometimes you want getting a non-existent key to noisily break, sometimes returning null is a-okay. Many languages have maps/dictionaries with a non-throwing get() operation.
xbacklight -set 0 && xcalib -invert -alter
This thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying.

Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues.

The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it screw up my display, then right-click the tray icon and disable it.

Needless to say, I didn't install it on the new box I bought this year. I don't understand why people like it.
> Why do you care? I doesn’t sound like you would ever back anything.

Sure I would, but only if I was convinced that there was a realistic chance that it would actually be completed, that the people involved have the skills and motivation as well as a feasible project plan, and aren't going to dick around for a few months before they realize they promised more than they can deliver and give up.

> I will and enjoy it. No matter the outcome.

That sounds like you treat it like some sort of reality TV show, purely for entertainment value, without actually caring about the products. That's OK for you, but hardly the stated goal of Kickstarter. Besides, you said "I want Double Fine to do well" - if you want that, you should very much care about it meeting its estimated delivery date, because overshooting it a "long, long time" is A) bad for the product even if it is eventually finished, because potential players will lose interest, and B) a huge red flag that the developers don't know what they're doing and may not deliver at all.

> Don’t tell me how I have to feel.

That's funny coming from someone who just said "That’s how you have to see it."
You're both right. Personally I hate it when I go to a restaurant and they ask me if I want some bread already, or when they ask me if I want ketchup with my fries. Yes, yes, yes, of course. Why they ask? Because when you get the bill, you see 50ct for the ketchup.

I don't like such an experience. This is exactly why I don't differentiate in functionality, but only in price based on the commitment. Our target customers are freelancers, our companies with at most two employees.

We only have one plan: THE AWESOME PLAN. Depending on how long you're willing to commit, you get a discount. I agree the table could point that out a little bit better.
Nikto web server scanner moved to GitHub
If you are accepting pickled objects from a remote and using it ... you are an idiot.
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Hey, thanks for your opinion. We try to keep it simple. We know that when someone has a Github account he's probably a programmer.
If you're not a vegetarian, it's important to know where your food comes from :)
Cool toy. I'd love to take it out on the range for a few hundred rounds!
In Denmark, the license is on TVs, any internet-enabled device or smartphone - basically, anyone is covered. It's ridiculous that they haven't had the decency to just make it a plain household-tax instead of this fake-pretend.
Nice analogy with the indie/mainstream pop, and I couldn't agree more with the techno-hipster with their 'cool' underground languages. PHP is still the bread and butter of the web, wether you like it or not.

I can really recommend the Laravel framework, it's quite elegant!
Using GroupOn as his example of a breakout success doesn't exactly help his case.
I'm impressed with the explanations and everything... but what really got my panties in a bunch is the visualization technology. That is one of the prime examples I've seen of actually leveraging current web tech to communicate actual content instead of just doing fancy stuff just because. I was initially annoyed by the 3D header movement effect, but the content, graphs, and animations of the actual content made me completely forget that and allowed me to be bewildered by what we can do this day and age on the web. Congrats to the maker!
I trust that my steak comes from a cow without actually having seen the cow get killed.
It's not relevant, though, because the author himself didn't imply either one. The awkwardness, the otherness, of his situation is the point. He said nothing about bigotry, or about the pest guy being "disturbed", which means the commenter I responded to is the one bringing all the baggage to the conversation.
Yep, but not everyone on HN is familiar with C... this is a community where people should share knowledge. Don't assume that everyone else will just know something that you are familiar with, that would be arrogant. My blog is ad free, and doesn't return a revenue in anyway. If you don't want to learn anything,then don't click the link.

Cheers.
Consumer tech like this scares the crap out of me.
I will pretend that I never saw someone mention this. I had never heard of this movie, and still haven't.
there are multiple ways to achieve transactions. locking on the server is one, but it is not necessary.

Optimistic Concurrency Control is another way of achieving this where transaction is kept on the client and posted to the server when transaction is complete without locks.

The problem with just keeping a debit/credit history is that a session can die or go corrupt at any moment, potentially leaving an incorrect transaction leg on the server. A system to detect such cases and back them out would be more complex than using transactions in the first place.
This guy turned his old Game Boy into a gamepad for his Android phone
Oh, the internet: http://www.donkdown.com/forum/ross-nochumowitz-scammed-bryan...
User for 3 Years here. Some Tips for new users to help smooth the transition.

-Install during the day.

-Use the Slow Transition Method

-Don't go all the way down to 3400k for night time if you think it'll bug you. I personally love it.
In my humble opinion, I put them on par with pagination of articles (not good).

Of course you click through if you're intrigued enough. I'm not sure carousels are meant to create intrigue about a product. I'm not really sure what their purpose is. Every carousel I've seen has been probably better off being displayed all at once rather than one at a time. This is the Internet, many people (barring disabled/elderly users, who shouldn't be ignored) are used to consuming a lot of data simultaneously, most don't want it fed through a tiny straw.

I see them as a design fad that are typically asked for because someone's friend/competitor has one, or "ooh, ahh" 'ed at by clients who didn't know animation on web pages was possible.
The rule about using the TV to watch broadcasts was a court ruling from about 20 years ago IIRC - the original language of the law was that just owning a TV was enough.

I'm not a legal scholar, but I think it was with reference to the fact that when the law was written, the only purpose a TV could reasonably have was to watch the broadcasts of the BBC, and so there was no point in clarifying this in the language of the law. With the advent of VCR's, it became perfectly reasonable to own a TV for other purposes than watching broadcast TV, and the court ruled that the intent of the law was to license watching TV, not owning a TV.
Did you play around with the lighting setting? I have it set for halogen and set the transition to slow (1 hour) and I don't even notice it.
It's a fair point though: if you're going to end a life to eat, perhaps it's fair that you see how it dies. Should slaughterhouses have clear walls? Probably yes.
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We built loggable to monitor our development projects, to see where we were spending most of our time and to use the data to help with quoting future projects.

It worked so well we opened it up to the world and after a bit of user feedback rebuilt it to what it is today.

Early days of development, feedback encouraged!
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Shouldn't you visit a factory then? Food hardly comes from something so graceful as the forest.
I've only just installed it, and found that I need to disable it if I'm doing any serious work. However if I have some free time at night to go over pinned tabs or read some articles I leave it on and find I do get sleepier much faster, to the detriment of my open-tab count.
You know, when I look at what it is and what it does... I'm not sure I believe that's what it's 'intended' for, although that certainly is what they say it's intended for.

But anyway, in the end, it doesn't matter, it exists. Authorial intent is so 20th century.
I get a fairly polite "Are you sure you don't have a TV?" letter roughly once a year and renew my declaration on the website.
If you're an omnivore your meat probably comes from intensively farmed animals kept inside their entire life, before being beheaded on a conveyer belt or shot with a bolt gun. Not by a hunter sporting the latest rifle on the open plains.
If you're on top of Linux I'd suggest as a working alterative without the hackery: http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/book.sem.php
Unicode and your application (5 of 5)
Voice controlled smart home - Run siriproxy on it, install lightwave rf lightswitches and sockets, and voice control lights, appliances, XBMC, etc from my phone.
it is really horrible, just use isset().
Interesting piece of technology.

Sounds a lot like the XM-25 grenade launcher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_CDTE) but without the air burst grenades.

I wonder why this has not been developed by the military / government.
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F.lux is the reason I jailbroke my iPhone. It really is an awesome program. You can feel your eyes adjust if you disable and re-enable it. It definitely helps on the phone because it is usually the last screen I look at before bed...
This article reads like a Microsoft advertisement.

He does a poor job selling the new features of Server 2012, and some of the features like Powershell 3 are available on 2008 R2, heck even Windows 7.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3459...
I think I can hear Richard Stallman ripping out clusters of his neckbeard over the prospect of having Linux powered rifles.
Make sure you don’t know what you’re doing (part of the time)
This doesn't make any sense. You had an issue verifying your own domain... I don't understand what that has to do with bitbucket's DNS. ... so then you loaded the site directly from the IP? And then you were surprised that it gave you a random virtual host?
A look at the D programming language
It turns out PROMPT_COMMAND also has issues... I found out about wrapping in \1 and \2 from the #bash irc channel.

The blog post has been updated.
"I wonder why this has not been developed by the military / government."

They actually outlined this in the article. The reason pretty much boils down to the fact that gear specifically for the military has to adhere to whatever crazy shit the higher ups demand. This makes developing a proof of concept/ fully functioning, marketable device rather difficult as the costs begin to skyrocket.

These guys took the opposite route: develop the tech, bring it to market, then let the military get in on it if they like it.
That's probably just some web route mishap that didn't expect to be accessed without a hostname and probably maps to two (unfortunate) user IDs that match the IP addresses, or something. Try reporting it to @bitbucket on twitter?
I feel like it trends in waves and they do not do any advertising so it's always by word of mouth...
I've been involved with 8-10 medium scale web apps (50-60k visitors/month), and we put analytics on every clickable element. The carousel buttons are maybe only hit by 2-3% of people. We saw conversion rates increase by an average of 4% when we broke that information out into a grid of small screenshots with some basic text for each feature.
Interesting article. It seems to me that the follow-on questino is: Why would anyone choose UCS-2 encoding? None of the advantages of UTF-8, and a lot of extra disadvantages, not even including own-goal type of things like "Byte Order Marks".
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I have not used PHP for a long time. But one major reason to avoid Smarty is that it is damn slow.

I believe Twig is a fast and secure PHP template language.
Hard to take it seriously when they start off by suggesting that the web server, by itself, makes it a good investment. I have nothing against IIS (I think handlers written in C# is a solid feature compared to the alternatives for other servers)...but at best IIS is as good as many free alternatives. Maybe they mean within the context of ASP.NET hosting, but they really should make that clear (and if so, say how, exactly, it's better for ASP.NET).
It's worth jailbreaking for! Www.jailbreakme.com As of now, you can jailbreak iOS 6, but not an iPhone 5
How can you tell if you have been flagged?
I have my lighting at night set to "fluorescent" and use the slow transition. I don't generally notice it turning on, and I use the "disable for an hour" setting if I'm doing anything where I need more color accuracy.
I've got irregular sleep patterns and this didn't help so I didn't bother setting it up again on next OS reinstall.

I work from home, so can get away with working "whenever". For a while I've basically given up trying to "fix" my sleep cycle. I'm awake until I pass out and I wake up when I'm rested. This is of course suboptimal for workouts--you need to rest properly after workout to get max benefit from it. But lying in the bed and trying to get asleep is such a bother. If I'm not sleepy I'd get up and be active until I get sleepy.
Whenever Flux gets mentioned, there's two groups of people:

1: Doesn't understand it, hates the "wrong" colors. Can't get used to it.

2: Appreciates the candle-like colors, says it helps them sleep in the evening or relaxes their eyes.

I wonder if there's some sort of genetic difference? Maybe some people just aren't sensitive to bright light in the evening?
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More of an autofire than an aimbot. Those were used to make it more difficult to spot a cheater in-game while watching from his point of view because the aiming process still looked natural — the crosshair didn't magically jumped to the target. The cheat just chose the best moment to fire.
please, replace the slide 6 pic with this one: http://4.asset.soup.io/asset/0750/2820_15d5_960.jpeg (you can't just pretend Lisp doesn't exist, you know ;) )
To be honest, the highlighted ones may have been a little more interesting if they had been recreated individually.

It wasn't until half way through writing (and hence, deleting and rewriting) this comment that I realised that they were all the same picture with the 'non highlighted' part just greyed out. For example, I thought at first that the 'Python' image was just of the Python 'ecosystem'... not just the original photo greyed out for the non-Python stuff.

Still, pretty :)
> Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?

This happens to me all the time on my MacBook Air. The problem is that Mac OS X wakes up at the previous backlight level, which is often way too bright for a pitch black environment.
Yeah, this is my typical feeling on it. I think they do have a use case (primarily as an image slideshow for something unimportant like a header image), but they are way overused these days. But, I'm not a designer, so they may know something I don't. I am a user though, and they seem like noise on the page to me, so maybe I know something designers don't, too.
Messing with the colour is the whole point! It's that blue-white light right in front of your eyes that is cuing your brain into thinking that it's daytime.