skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You would think so, but not really. Most lay people can't differentiate between an entry-level DSLR (like the D5100 or a Rebel) and a pro DSLR like a D800 or 5D. What they do know is that just about anyone has a DSLR these days, so the mere act of having a DSLR lends generally little credibility.

The camera is capable of lending credibility though, you just have to step way outside of what people normally see on the streets. In my case the project was done with the Yashica Mat 124G and later the Hasselblad 500C/M. I do believe this has led to a lot more "yeses" than I would've gotten with a DSLR, especially since most images are shot around downtown Seattle where there is no shortage of DSLR-toting tourists.
Very basic and, on Android, not all the resolutions are provided. For android this one is miles away from the one provided here

(well maybe it doesn't have the fancy animation):

http://android-ui-utils.googlecode.com/hg/asset-studio/dist/...

An addition, this one is to actually be able to draw something :)
You will be happy to know that with Chrome and clicking the translate button, your site translates well.
Next step: quadcopter based delivery of a gun like this (presumably one with a shorter or retractable barrel). Imagine: from the comfort of your office 1000's of kilometers away, you can have a gun fly out of a container, fly to the mark's backyard, wait until he gets home, shoot him in the head, and fly off before the cops or anyone else has a chance to even realize what happened! I've thought about the idea several times over the last few years, way cool that at least part of it is working. Or way scary, depending on how you look at it.
I don't know why. When I came to the project, it was already there - the company has its own framework.

My guess is that whoever wrote the framework just heard about Smarty while in university, long time ago.
"must not be used for evil"

But what's evil? If you eat the deer, is hunting it evil?
This isn't really consumer technology. It's privatized military research marketed as a hunting weapon.

This is a gun built for the military so virtually anyone can be a deadly sniper, amateurs include. It's 10x more accurate from nearly 2x the distance, more secure and safer (friendly fire protection), cheaper and SIGNIFICANTLY lighter than most guns used in this type of scenario.

If you were to disrupt the 'sniping industry', this would be a gun that does it. It's way more effective than the overhyped and unpractical .50 cal rifle, a weapon most often left behind (and in the hands of an enemy) if a unit needs to flee.

PS. This company is based in Austin, TX.
It's not about what features are and aren't included.

You offer different plans to make one sound like a bargain, you offer an expensive one to make the others look relatively cheap and you offer a cheap one too. No-one chooses the cheapest wine.

It's a human psychology thing, nothing to do with features. If you aren't using this trick, you probably shouldn't present it like that as it's confusing.

You can use support levels instead or something to make an expensive premium plan if you want to take advantage of this marketing 'trick' that everyone else uses.
Linux is just used for embedded stuff now, what's the difference if they use Linux or some custon Ada realtime OS?

The valley wouldn't exist without the cold war, there is always two sides of the coin.
In some places in the US, deer are pests, and state conservation agents actually shoot them to thin their numbers. Otherwise, lacking a sufficient number of natural predators in the area, the population would explode to a number greater than the land could handle. This would cause a significant portion of the deer population to die of famine and disease, and cause local flora and crops to be eaten bare.
I've been using for a couple of years and it's great :)
Although this one just had a camera on it, it comes pretty close: http://boingboing.net/2013/01/08/what-the-moose-was-thinking...
My very own daily WTF
I was just recently evaluating Twig for a project.

I'm used to Jinja2 in Python which is almost identical to Twig.

Has anyone used Twig who would share their experience?
I am a PHP developer (amongst other things), and incase you hadn't noticed we are frequently regarded by developers of other languages as being at the comedy/clown end of the development spectrum too often. I didn't say all PHP developers are crap (although I think there are lots that are beyond dire), i said we are observed as being crap, to paraphrase. I would happily make comments about any group based upon observation or information I felt to be true.
Furthermore - there is no discrimination in my post that I'm aware of. Even if there was, discrimination by itself is not a 'good' or 'evil' thing, it is what that discrimination is then applied to or for that introduces any ethical/moral dimension.
hnsearch.com (or the "search" box at the bottom of most HN pages) is more convenient, since it lets you filter by stories or comments, and sort by date or points.
This looks awesome. Thanks! I will definitely be following along.
How could the answer possibly be no?
Where I grew up in WI, I had a neighbor whom his entire family were vegetarians unless he killed the animal himself.
They are working on better stuff : https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/bullet... - steerable laser-guided bullets will soon be common for calibers of 12.7 and above.
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good stuff. :)
sounds about right. I don't think anyone would choose Smarty for actual technical reasons at this point. I personally think plain PHP makes a far superior templating system. Smarty is slow, doesn't "protect" designers from any complexity because it's complex itself and is yet another thing to learn.
Yes, some of us regard the unnecessary killing of other sentient creatures as evil.
Yeah, it's a tough call. Once you get on the funding train you kinda have to stay on it. They expect you to spend the money which means you're going to have high expenses which means you're probably going to need more money than your business will generate early on.
I was put off signing up because there are 5 whole fields that I have to write something in... that and I'm not really looking for anything like this, but still... 5!
> You had an issue verifying your own domain.

No. There was an issue verifying bitbucket.org. A git push could never be done because of some cert issue. That is when I dug a little further to look at the IPs directly.

FWIW, the cert issue seems to be resolved now. I just checked with two VMs.
Your posts were probably bounced down because HN bounces nearly every post down.

I believe an "Ask HN" makes the top of the front page with just a few upvotes. But most questions are uninteresting. Including this one.
Isn't that completely the point of f.lux??
The first paragraph alone hurts my brain.

process switching =/= parallel execution
multi-threading =/= multi-tasking

Only certain single core processors can execute in parallel, so to say that it's possible to execute in parallel on a single core without specifying that not ALL single core CPUs can do it is bad form.
What's preventing you from print debugging in Scheme?
For convenience, I almost always define something like this:

(define (println . args)
(for-each (lambda (arg)
(display arg)
(display " "))
args)
(newline))
If you want something more 'top shelf', Active Portfolio [1] Management by Grinold & Kahn is considered the bible, though you'll need an understanding of undergrad maths.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Active-Portfolio-Management-Quantitati...
It is unclear if you are working with this assumption or not, but I don't think the rifle can be fired from the iPad/iPhone, it's just a spotters tool.

(I could be wrong though.)
why… have you been thinking so long about 'remote murders'?
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Thanks for taking the time to respond. No, it doesn't scare me.

Guns in general don't scare me, because I see them as tools that generally have a lot more positive effect than negative effect. There will always be bad people who would do others harm, whether with guns or with something else.

If guns didn't exist in America, the next crazy person who wants to go out in a blaze of ignominy will just drive his car into a crowd, or make homemade explosives, or something else. Guns give the good guys a fighting chance, leveling the playing field. And by "good guy" here I mean both the unassuming guy who carries a concealed handgun every day (me, for example) as well as the 90-pound girl who protects herself from a home invasion. (To say nothing of the whole defense-against-tyranny thing.)

Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox about all that. This gun in particular doesn't scare me because there are already far more practical and cheaper ways to do bad things. If you want to throw servos and a camera on a rifle, you can do that today. It doesnt need to be something that compensates for wind speed, and you won't use a bolt-action rifle if your goal is to kill a bunch of people remotely. Or you just build a bomb or something, like I said above.
I use EngimaPass[1], which, as an extension, renders outside the DOM, so it's not.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/enigmapass/bgkipgf...
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I'm not the target audience, but I can read it. Love the anchor names!
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There are many companies that use SOAP for historical reasons or because "it's business-ready as it uses XML" (I've really heard this one, trust me).
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PHP does not support HTML escaping and is therefor not secure by default. At least twig escapes HTML by default (I am not up to date with PHP so the others might too).

You do not want to type <?php echo htmlspecialchars($var, ENT_QUOTES) ?> every time you want to output data. (Yes, I know it could probably be written shorter but my PHP is rusty. My point still remains though, you have to remember to type it every time.)
I'd just like to point out something that nobody has addressed so far, which is that this setup triples the accurate range of the rifle compared to a human operator. That is absolutely astonishing. If the accurate range increase would apply to larger caliber rifles, this means that with a .50 sniper rifle, it could be used to snipe targets almost a mile away. It wouldn't even take a human sniper being in position.

...In fact, the $17,000 price tag is probably cheaper than training a human sniper. I'm sure we'll see this in military use in the next 20 years.
IFRS and GAAP require real-time consistency? Because that's what I meant with edge cases, entries that are split between two accounting periods. You deal with them in eventually consistent systems just as you would in an ACID system: wait and interpret it when the data is complete.
I'm still a fan of bitbucket. While I like Github if I wanted to open source some software, I like bitbucket for hosting my private repos. I can use this for backup for any project I'm working on and not worry about it. This could be for backing up config files (/etc/) on my linux box, or some project I'm wipping up that I don't really want to share with the world.

While Github is nice for its social and discovery aspect, if I just want code hosting, Bitbucket are a great solution.

Also, for those large companies that want to run their software internally, Bitbucket's solution is quite a bit cheaper than Github. I haven't had to setup either (or use either), but the pricing for Bitbucket makes it very appealing.

[1] http://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/pricing

[2] https://enterprise.github.com/pricing
There are all sorts of US government incentives to own. For one the mortgage interest is federally tax deductible which amounts to effectively a ~30% discount on the beginning years of the mortgage (depending on your income, etc).

It's also a predictability thing. In lots of metro areas rents can fluctuate pretty substantially, even if you're getting a good return on the money you're investing instead of buying moving is still a pain in the ass.
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If methods were first-class functions, this would work — > method_a would return method_b, which would then execute when x() was called. This doesn't work because Ruby methods aren't objects.
```

Seems the OP is just confused by syntax? we use obj.method(:method_a) instead of obj.method_a, i dont see why requiring a different syntax changes the semantics on this point.
Does it keep a ledger, i.e. double entry? As far as I can tell no, how would one generate a balance and profit-and-loss statement from this?
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Thanks :) I would never have thought anyone would actually notice the silly language joke at all... If you happen to know Dutch freelancers who still do their accounting in Excel, you know where to send them to ;)
Incidentally, IBM have permission from Crockford to be evil or to have evil sublicensees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764024
I completely agree with you, and think it's awesome that you're able to. It's just important to remember that traditional hunting is not where most food comes from, nor could it be.
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Thanks for looking - we appreciate it!

Never considered this as an issue, perhaps we would merge first/last name and remove the password confirmation.

We'll think it over - thanks for bringing up something we hadn't seen!
Downside: You can never change your SuperGenPass password, even if a site requires you to.
>Really? You must be living in a different world than I am. Just skim this thread, or any thread on Reddit...

Yes, I am. And I hope you do realize that neither of those two are even remotely representative for the vast masses of average folks out there.
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I just looked on eBay, acquiring a medium-format body is pretty affordable. To hijack the thread a bit, do you have any insights about the TCO of shooting with one? It seems like lenses are still pretty expensive ( double the price of the body, at least ), and I'm guessing film and processing is not cheap.
Yeah. I'd like to get one for this reason too, but I'm also eyeing the new arm devices that are starting to show up.
Actually, wildlife bounties are more common than you think and are often offered to the general public. This isn't a complete listing (as I know some Maine counties offer bounties on coyotes and yet it isn't listed), but gives you a general idea: http://www.bornfreeusa.org/b4a2_bounty.php
His point about Powershell was this:

"Every element of the operating system and virtually every other companion server, such as SQL, Exchange or Lync, are completely manageable through PowerShell. This is so ingrained that the GUIs are just buttons that call PowerShell scripts underneath."

Which sounds exclusive to Server 2012.
Financial transactions are different from database transactions despite using the same word; hackers shocked at the discrepancy. Film at 11.
16 bit is good enough for human ears.
... and logic like this is why I'm glad I live in Europe. Please examine recent events in your country to see how ridiculous your opinions are.
Using GitHub seems like a pretty good way to try and filter out fraudulent votes (almost impossible with email address logins) - and it isn't really that much of a imposition given the nature of the conference - if you want to contribute pull requests to Django you need a GitHub account these days anyway.
Maybe the government should consider banning Linux. I know you guys hate this idea but if it can be used to make weapons ...
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Well, it actually does. Where classical accountancy software (Unit4, Exact, etc.) focusses on the ledger aspect, making it hardly impossible for human beings to use the software, we take a different approach.

We thought: what is accounting about? It is about registering financial facts. That's what we actually do. We optimized the user interface for normal human beings registering financial facts. We are then able to derive the entire accountancy fundament with double entries, ledgers, etc.

Suppose one transfers 100 euro from their bank book to the cash book. This should be registered using a cross post (don't know if this is the correct term). No human being (freelancer) understands this. But if they can select: oh, this was a cash withdrawal, Money Monk knows how to register the financial facts.
I believe you misread parent. The size of the codebase has little to do with the resources needed by the software.
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Note that Stash isn't the same product as Bitbucket; and doesn't include a bug tracker or wiki.
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I'll accept this argument when PHP starts shipping with sane defaults. It's only quite recently that register globals got turned off in the default config.
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And that clause is (widely considered) a bad idea, because "evil" is relative (e.g. some people think abortions are evil, others don't).

http://www.sonatype.com/people/2012/03/use-json-well-youd-be...
http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license
http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Criticism
So you're vegan and don't use any animal products?
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I also use Nocturne for mac (http://www.blacktree.com) at night when I am reading something in bed. It turns the screen basically red and black, and is useless for anything besides text. Watching videos is impossible, so I just finish what I'm reading.
That was due to bad wording on my part, my bad.

I meant that one should accept that at any random moment the data might be inconsistent with the reality, but after the cut-off time the data for the previous period is guaranteed to be consistent.
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The expense of the weapon system and ammunition probably outweigh any gain in efficiency when eradicating varmints. The .300 ammunition capable of accuracy at 900m is overkill for shooting coyotes.

Let's be clear, for someone stalking a mountain goat there are plausible reasons for the weapon, but the main target market is gun collectors.
I really like BitBucket but I don't love markdown, afaik it lacks key features and power. It's also bit annoying to add trailing spaces etc, even if I code in Python and am used to meaningful whitespace.
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I think that's the wrong way of looking at what happened, at least with CDs. When CDs first came out, the music industry had decades of experience mastering for LPs and cassettes, and no experience at all mastering for CDs. It took some time to figure out how to best use the format, and in the meantime thousands (millions?) of crappy-sounding CDs were released.

A record player naturally adds a certain amount of reverb to the music when it is playing -- that's the warmth. Recordings were engineered to take advantage of that. Then the same recordings were dumped to CD without compensating for the missing reverb. The CD would more accurately produce the sound on the master tapes, but those sounds were never intended to be heard that way. Frequently the digital recording levels were all messed up too.

From the article, it sounds like the exact same sort of thing is happening with 48fps. Right now the movie world is still learning how to use it. I kind of wish they'd practiced on films I don't want to see, but that's life.
... assuming it works as well as this PR piece suggests. But even if it doesn't, the tech will certainly evolve to something incredible in the next 20 years.
RedShift is pretty nice, easily configurable and you can just add it to your wm's startup. Pretty stable too, been using it for an year now.
You can drill into the assembly code generated.
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Has anyone done a rigorous experiment, even on just themselves, with f.lux or redshift?

Sleep-monitoring wristband data + "did I see a screen, a red-shifted screen, or no screen" would be really interesting to me.
Haters gonna hate, I guess?

Mine is set to 4500K nighttime and I hardly notice it changing 4-5pm when the sun goes down. If I'm working on something that requires color accuracy, I use "disable for an hour" or I quit it.

So: When it (rarely) gets in the way, it's easy to swat away
The Pebble smartwatch keeps it simple (hands-on)
That sounds like a wonderfully natural way to live. We eat a lot of chicken, and I'm trying to convince my wife to let me raise our own chickens when we have a house. So far she's not too keen on the idea.
My sister's set top box had an antenna output, so I'm sure they're around.
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I've installed the ubuntu version into my kubuntu. After launching it does nothing. Which isn't strange because the /usr/bin/xflux is a 32-bit binary and the package didn't request the required libraries. I have to consider it doesn't support 64-bit linux.

Come on. Linux is not Windows. Everybody and their dog already run 64-bit version. It makes no sense not to. All the software is built for 64-bit too. It's just a fact of life. Nobody uses 32-bit anymore except for netbooks and like.
I'm not sure it's a genetic difference. I used to be in camp 1, despite trying Flux many times, but now I'm firmly in camp 2. The change for me was due to a change in working environment, and I imagine that's the difference for a lot of people: if you're in a brightly lit room anyway, then the colours becoming weird is just going to be irritating. If you're in a room with a lot of natural lighting, or trying to work on a plane or a bus, it might be different. Of course, either way, it's not suitable if you're doing colour-sensitive work or if you just want to watch a movie, but for reading or text-editing there's no real downside other than taste.

I think I speak for a lot of Flux users when I say that the point you really notice is when you're working late at night, and you turn off Flux after your eyes have acclimatised and all of a sudden you feel like you're in a tanning booth.
My main issue with f.lux (and the reason I don't use it) is that you can't configure it to wait until a certain time to start with the transition. When I go to bed at 11 pm, I would like f.lux to start its one hour transition at 9 pm so that I don't see that much cold light the last two hours before sleep. And in the morning it should start directly with the settings for the day, without any transition.

Tying it to sunrise/sunset is what makes it useless. In winter it starts the transition at 4 pm while I'm still working. The amount of daylight I get in winter is already low enough, using f.lux would make the winter depression even worse. I could of course trick it by settings the location to place in the Southern hemisphere, but that won't help me during spring and fall...
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