skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there's one thing I remember well it's relationships and behaviours(probably the same for most engineers). This is distinct from what I would call knowledge (i.e. when something happened). For me inspiration always seems to come from comparing relationships and behaviours, memorizing information rotely doesn't contribute to this at all.
I can imagine using it for a prototype - the original image could be a photograph of a real object or a sketch rather than something created on the computer. The results won't be great but you'd get something working quickly.
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I agree with a users right to block Ads, I also agree with a web site owners right to block that user.
Be a pedant all you wish, but please don't call this bolt-action rifle an assault rifle, and please don't assume that the majority of hunters use assault rifles.
Well, you can use f.lux too. I prefer redshift because of its CLI nature.
> People who would like to use Clojure
> or Scale aren't fans of Java.

I object to the word "fan", but I understand your meaning. Regardless, I love Clojure and like Java just fine.
I love f.lux and can't recommend it enough for software developers who work with code.

If you're a designer then you probably can't use this. Desginers need colors to display properly.

Set the transition to slow and you won't get blindsided by the temp change when it's dusk; use your machine for an hour or two and by 22:00 turn off f.lux and see how bright your monitor is. It's the sun! That's why I love f.lux.
Isn't accrual accounting the use of an account to log transactions at the time of sale rather than at the time of payment? If so the same technicalities apply, you can log your credits and debits in different accounts, no need for ACID transactions here, unless my experience in this area is flawed.

> Well good luck with selling your "eventually consistent" accounting system.

There's a reason why "eventually consistent" works in accounting, and that's the cut-off time. You don't require from your data to be consistent at every instant, but rather require that your accounting be guaranteed consistent at cut-off time, because that's the data that you base your reporting on. One way to guarantee that is to use only ACID transactions, but it's only one of many ways, and it has flaws (that might or might not be blocking depending on how distributed your architecture is).
So what are the implications here?
I wonder why they haven't started automatically suspending new apps after they start getting an abnormally high percentage of refund requests and one star reviews especially if they have words like "scam", "refund", "money back", etc.

Or make this new rule only apply to apps that are less than X months old.
Ah, I think when I usually make that claim I include the qualifier "high-level".

Obviously, without that qualifier the statement is false.
I actually would get used to the new temperature, but working with Lightroom a lot, it became a hassle to have to constantly disable it.

Also watching videos/flickring etc needed it to be disabled to get the right colors on screen.
The last time I checked, this wasn't open source. I don't like running foreign binaries on my system. This doesn't rule it out completely for me, but puts me off enough that I haven't tried it.
It's probably because the successful technologies are adapted to humans, as opposed to the other way round.

They are also built on top of technology that we are already familiar with. For example, QWERTY keyboards because typewriters used QWERTY.

A technology that humans can't understand, perhaps because it's not yet time, will struggle to gain any real traction outside a select few.
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Thanks to the BitBucket devs for integrating markdown in the wiki. Much appreciated!
I tried it and the only effect is that I get sleepy/tired when it gets darker.

I seem to need my harsh cold 6300K in the night ;)
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Thank you both for this thread, reading it was both enjoyable and educational. Great debate.
Because instead of spending research money into getting cheaper and more accessible healthcare, food and housing it is used to kill more efficiently, maybe?
I agree with you, but I think it's more about the tone. The naming and point does give a bad impression for both sides.
Ha... I should stop scanning and actually read the articles on HN.

Then again, maybe not.
This really depends on the application; but in general FPGAs are a good choice for small to medium volume software defined radio applications, including building correlators and beamformers for radio telescopes (casper.berkeley.edu). CASPER tools used to be a major user of Borph - it made the open hardware and software platforms easy to use to anyone that had experience with Linux; however its use got killed by complexity.

The biggest challenge for FPGAs is tools; the CASPER guys used Matlab Simulink; which works OK for small designs, but becomes challenging as the devices and designs grow. There are also a bunch of C to gates tools, Matlab to gates and Haskell inspired tools like Bluespec, and even some Python tools. In fact for the Berkeley CASPER group, as GPU through put improved (along with processing) and the size of the radio telescopes increased, it made sense to move to a hybrid FPGA+GPU backend processor.

For fun and training we built an ARM Cortex A8 (with or without GPU and vector processor) + FPGA platform called Rhino (http://www.rhinoplatform.org), with a couple of FMC IO slots for attaching ADC/DAC/Control etc then ported Borph and then linked up with the Migen project (https://github.com/milkymist/migen) to "simplify" programming and configuring the FPGA (https://github.com/brandonhamilton/rhino-gateware). We think it works great ;-)

We have used it to build a arb. waveform radar transceiver and a few other things.

Ofcource now one has the Xilinx Zynq 7K family which includes dual core ARM and tightly coupled Xilinx V7 fabric all on a single chip. Plus for a few hundred $$ you get a nice development board (www.zedboard.org) and a frontend wirless digital receiver FMC card - http://goo.gl/qCnJM

Not sure if that helps...
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I would take this a step further and say it happens when any project or software gets mentioned on HN. There are always two groups of people: Those who like it, and those who don't. Those who don't are usually composed of a lot of people who don't actually care, but just thrive on contradicting people.

I'd say it's more of a personality phenomenon, but acknowledge the possibility you present as well.
What is the point, there is no skill in this....oh wait...you get to press a button to select the target, yeah 1337 skills required for this. On the upside, hopefully the animals will suffer less due to better accuracy on kill zone.

Personally hunting is not my thing but I have no problem with others hunting, this rifle, however, just seems a step too far.
Redshift is an open source equivalent for Linux and Windows: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Actually, for civilian (or police) purposes I'd like to see a system that lets you mark targets that you don't want to hit, then automatically prevents you from shooting at or near them when you're aiming at your real target.
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> You will someday stop noticing 48fps.

It took me about half an hour to stop noticing the oddness of it.

> You will someday specifically notice 24 fps and say, wow, how did I ever watch that.

I watched The Hobbit in 24fps a week later and even little initial things like Bilbo sitting on his porch and waving his hands at Gandalf were noticeably flickery and inferior. But after half an hour or so I got used to it ;)

In 24fps, it was noticeable how much of the screen was completely dark or so close to it in indoor and night scenes that it yielded nothing of interest. And the opposite in 48fps: Everything, everywhere had well-lit detail, even when it moved. It was occasionally too much.

I totally agree with the article that the film people haven't yet worked out how to best light indoor 48fps scenes. Too much clarity at 48fps, and not enough at at 24fps. I also totally agree with the article's basic conclusion - this doesn't mean that 48fps is worse, and it isn't. We just don't know how best to make it yet ... or how to see it.
Bordering on group 2 I can't say if it helps or not because I've never had any problems with my eyes. But I have not experienced any hate-issues towards it so I have left it installed on all my computers just in case.
I'm not exactly a Buddhist, but I'm 99% sure that's not it:

Yamaoka Tesshu, as a young student of Zen, visited one master after another. He called upon Dokuon of Shokoku.

Desiring to show his attainment, he said: "The mind, Buddha, and sentient beings, after all, do not exist. The true nature of phenomena is emptiness. There is no realization, no delusion, no sage, no mediocrity. There is no giving and nothing to be received."

Dokuon, who was smoking quietly, said nothing. Suddenly he whacked Yamaoka with his bamboo pipe. This made the youth quite angry.

"If nothing exists," inquired Dokuon, "where did this anger come from?" [0]

[0]: http://www.101zenstories.com/index.php?story=82

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Zen_Stories
For Linux users, redshift has better multi-monitor support.
The conditions in feeding operations are often fairly grim, but cattle operations are often open (i.e., the animals are confined outdoors) and they buy in lots of animals from breeders that feed from pasture for a year or so.

Basically, it would be more expensive to keep them inside for their entire life, so that doesn't happen.
I had a similar reaction to the hunting shown in the video, but if you're shooting for animal control purposes rather than recreation it makes more sense.
I do not read this as a pitch for people currently running nginx to move to Windows. Instead it is targeted, it seems, at people running prior versions of Windows, and who have various reasons to prefer to continue with that platform. I don't quite buy the "this ends the jokes" bit, as the jokes ended long ago (the world was once awash with IIS exploits. It has been a rock-solid, high-performance platform since IIS 6.0, if not before).
Does the military have similar technology?
I like on my desktop but on my laptop it seems to conflict with some Asus energy management program.
Out of the couple dozen of 2010 and 2011 graduates I know (I'm of their parents' generation) 20% or fewer are living with their parents. I would be embarrassed to ask whether they've had to move into the basement. Those who have moved out are not for the most part in STEM fields.
If you're crazy like me and constantly refresh the page to see if your favourite talk will make it to the next round, here is a simple Python script to do it for you:
https://gist.github.com/4502077
"The account" is the amount of money that the bank
attributes to you when it is drawn upon.

Yes. And the scenario I propose is that your bank statement says you withdrew an amount and later regained that amount, while in the intermediate time the actual amount attributed to you by the bank was always the original amount. If a significant other was withdrawing from the same account at the same time, it may have been possible to overdraw beyond the usual limit. As long as that would eventually come to light, due to eventual consistency, that's not a problem (and undoubtedly something you contractually agreed to take as a risk).

Transactional algorithms usually require logging to be able to recover from failures. A conclusion of the recovery process can be that certain actions did not take place. A bank statement is a rather sparse log that underspecifies what actually happened.
Why Passive Voice Gets Writers in Trouble
Yeah, I have a similar "problem": I'm 'rotating' my sleep cycle. I constantly stay up longer and longer so in a few months I'm awake at night and sleeping in the day - and a few months from that I'm awake in the day and sleep at night.

But to be honest that really doesn't bother me that much. It only get's weird when I have to set a wake up alarm to do grocery shopping before the stores close ;)
I've used htmldoc http://www.htmldoc.org/ for this and it has worked well for simple pages.
It should be noted that they weren't being charged for withdrawing more than the maximum: they were being charged with attempting to withdraw more money than was in their accounts (apparently with intent to defraud the bank).

I really don't know what they expected to get from this to be honest: I mean, I'm pretty sure when you open the account you recognise somewhere, somehow, that if you overdraw your account it's your responsibility to pay it back...
I don't think it's being an asshole; the flip side of getting used to hearing 'no' is getting used to saying 'no'. People like the security guard he asked for $100 are probably pretty used to it. Maybe not so much the guy whose house he played soccer at, but he had a 'home field' advantage, in that he was safely in his house. In general it seems like he approached people when they were in a comfortable place, so he was at a disadvantage.

As someone who worked retail for a number of years, unless the store was packed with people I wouldn't have flat-out refused him a weird request, I probably just would've escalated it. Touring warehouses is unlikely, though, because of health and safety restrictions. But the doughnuts one is perfectly reasonable even without asking a manager.

You probably ask people for things every day that make them uncomfortable. Getting used to that sort of repulsed reaction is probably harder than dealing with the actual 'no', so I think it's an important part of the project.
I missed the original HN discussion but did look up your blog and read the post.

I see your frustration, but as someone who has been exploring the digital marketing space (well outside of Silicon Valley in Cleveland, Ohio), I can say that your assumption that marketers "know" about things like A/B testing might be a bit presumptuous. I put "know" in quotes to differentiate between "knowing" as in having heard of it, and "knowing" as in fully understanding it. I recently had a an accomplished and successful traditional marketing person tell me that A/B tests on his website were off-limits, like they were toxic voodoo. I understood the basis of his fears ("we can't afford to lose customers because of an A/B test") but they were totally unreasonable.

I've also seen a sort of clumsy bum-rush into the digital marketing career space. I think lots of people realize the shift to this pace and it's now attracting swarms of people who come from non-technical backgrounds. My personal beliefs (which may be selfish due to my background), is that the winners in this frenzy will be the "growth hackers", as in the people who understand both marketing and hacking. For this purpose, I think hacking means people who look at system and the furthest level back that they can, figure out how the internals of the system work, and then use that information to get what they want out of the system. You don't necessarily have to be able to program (you certainly have to be able to communicate what you want to a programmer though, as you can't do things at scale without some programming help), but programmers typically tend to have the mentality of making systems work in their advantage.
I believe I am also seeing these issues in 3.1.10.
Did you read the article? This isn't government funded. Does every private company that spends money on something other than healthcare/food/housing scare you?
I find that we combine too many things into our word happiness. We combine joy, pleasure, satisfaction, excitement, comfort, etc etc. Happiness to me often loses meaning since the happiness that I strive for, satisfaction at building things is completely different than that of others. Brave new world is very much a happiness of instant gratification as well as contentment in your place in society. I would say that happiness of this sort is very unhealthy for a society that has advancement as one of it's goals.
I came here to post just that. I don't use f.lux because it doesn't ship packages for anything but ubuntu... The beauty of redshift is that you can just stick it in a shell script and start it with every desktop session.

I have been using it with the following parameters:
redshift -l <my latitude>:<my longitude> -t 6500:5200 -g 0.8 -m vidmode

This results in slightly reduced gamma all the time but only a moderate redshift that doesn't offset colours too much. I have it set to autostart and I really don't notice it being there, however I do notice it is missing when switching users or OSes!
It sounds like you've never properly programmed in php a day in your life. Stop spouting nonsense. If you're going to develop in php, you do so in strict mode with all errors turned on. Doing otherwise makes you part of the problem.
My guess is that is the only reason.

Otherwise PHP itself is a template language. That is why you start it with <? tag.

Just keep short tags on [it's off by default on new installations but ON by default on all hosting sites] and you got a better template engine than smarty.
Wow, if online cheaters were not difficult enough to catch already! Without client-side verification (such as PunkBuster) it sounds "even more" impossible to distinguish between really good players and cheaters. I wonder if such libraries are still being developed.
Really enjoying using Bitbucket. If it wasn't for them, I'd have never understood the power of Git since I'm not from a development background.

I also really like their issue tracking features.
In a similar vein, I'm assuming you carried around an SLR with a nice lens, which lends a bit of credibility (it's a substantial barrier to entry). Personally I wouldn't think twice about letting myself be photographed by a guy with a D300 who said it was for a portfolio or a project.
I think of those poor little bacteria that my immune system is hunting down, or the carrot so mercilously ripped from its home.
Will Facebook release it's phone on 15th January?
Is it still completely vulnerable?

http://akibjorklund.com/2009/supergenpass-is-not-that-secure
Utility for faster directory navigation in command-line
Does anyone else here use f.lux on Linux? I installed the Ubuntu version but not only does the "pause/unpause" option sometimes do nothing at all but other times it simply forgets to change the colors.
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as far as I can tell, none what-so-ever. Go ahead and visit the sites yourself.

[1] http://207.223.240.181/
[2] http://207.223.240.182/

For whatever reason, going to those IP addresses, take you to 2 these pages:

[3] http://bitbucket.org/dqvsra
[4] http://bitbucket.org/antonrylov

There isn't anything really of interest on either of the pages. It's not like you're seeing their logged in page. This is just some kind of routing issue with Bitbuckets server configuration.
Thank you, Marek!
The former. This is also why I think my project was substantially easier than what's in the article - when you're doing the same thing everyday you get a lot of feedback as to what works and what doesn't.

There are also a lot of other cues that determine how likely someone is to say yes, and if so, how awkward they will be. After a while you learn to spot people who (due to typical Seattle politeness) will probably say yes, but be uncomfortable in doing so. I ended up avoiding them for the most part.
It makes me sad that software like Linux written in a benevolent co-operative spirit ends up being used for such a purpose.

Makes you wonder if there needs to be a software license with a stipulation along the lines of "must not be used for evil", though I guess that would need defining.
The number of users is not equivalent to quality. It's an indication of quality.

As for quality...

No, Wal-Mart isn't a purveyor of items with the qualities of being expensive, extremely limited, and old.

Quality is a subjective word, defined by different aspects. Just as I can, with justification, define Apple as a purveyor of low-quality hardware, I can say equally it sells high-quality software.
I hunt. 90% of the red meat I consume comes from deer. I like to think that suddenly killing a wild deer with one bullet is more humane than factory farm conditions.
Windows Phone 8 FB edition on HTC platform, mmm? :)
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The decision to raise money from investors is becoming an increasingly complex one. There's angels, funds doing seed rounds, funds doing series A and B, crowdfunding, Kickstarter, bootstrapping and then raising money to scale, et al.

Or simply bootstrapping.

It's fascinating to see UserScape bootstrap itself to the point where it can seed fund its own products. That's an amazing place to be at and something to really aspire too.

But then, with seed money you can quit your job, focus on your product without freelancing as a distraction, and keep your business top of mind without financial pressures. But you better be damn sure that you're hitting high growth rates and get back on the roadshow to raise your series A. So there's that too.
I used it. Didn't really notice much difference for a few days and then saw that it was maxing out one of my cores to I got rid of it. Might try redshift at some point, but I guess I can probably do without as I mostly code 9-5.
Sleeping with someone's spouse is far more of a choice than being gay.
I use http://clipperz.com/ which is zero knowledge http://www.clipperz.com/users/marco/blog/2007/08/24/anatomy_...
Why not mess with colour? I have no need to see the 'correct' colour, if it's less comfortable to me.

I actually leave my LCDs at a redder tint most of the time now, as I find it more comfortable. This is particularly useful as most desktop LCDs won't adjust their brightness down far enough for me. Laptops are better, since they actually bother to adjust the power of their backlight.
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An interesting question that has a very long answer, but I'll try to be brief.

As a starting point, I was raised to think guns are bad. And psychologically I am fearful of even low tech firearms. Whether the two are related is unknown, however the phobia is real.

This goes beyond a phobia of encountering them personally - I am fearful for the results weapons bring upon humanity. And think that the time and energy spent on creating instruments of destruction would be better spent elsewhere.

I understand this is marketed as a hunting rifle. I eat meat. I understand some people like to hunt. Yet I am fearful of the repercussions of technology like this being used outside of the realm of hunting things like deer - for example, being used to hunt things like humans.

I am also fearful of this because it showed up at CES. It costs $17k. Its hooked up to an iPad. I know this specific model is not rigged to fire without manual operation. But someone with enough knowledge to hack something like this, but not build one from scratch, can do nasty things. So in 10 or 15 years, when the price point is down, and remote servos and triggers are off the shelf toys for the iPad8, this thing becomes a toy sentry.

I have a vivid imagination too, and some of it is dystopian future stuff. So that probably explains a lot.

Now I have a question for you: Does this scare you? And if not, then why?
very cool. but remember folks, wiki is where docs go to die.
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I have no problem believing in insectoid domination of earth. Bug-free software, Lisp or otherwise, does strain my credulity.