ShinyCyril

This has been fixed: http://hackaday.com/2015/02/08/unbricking-a-counterfeit-ftdi....

> Crowfounding would be a nice idea but I imagine that the technology for good screens is only in the hands of, precisely, the ones that are trying to make TV a platform.

I wonder how hard it is to acquire TV panels. They're made by mostly the same manufacturers as panels for laptops and tablets etc., however they don't have the same sort of foothold in these markets as they do in the TV market (take LG for example).

TVs benefit greatly from enormous economies of scale. Costs would certainly pose an issue for a crowdfunded project.

I was fairly adamant that I wanted to stay in London, however I recently visited a friend in Bristol and really enjoyed the city.

What would you say is different about working at a consultancy?

Thanks – I'll check those out!

That particular image is a GIF with a reduced palette of 8 bits per pixel, whereas the rest seem to be full-colour PNGs.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fanders.unix....

Contributions welcome :)

Some Dell business laptops and HP's older EliteBooks have touch pointers - though I seem to remember they're concave instead of convex (perhaps due to patents?).

I have never owned one myself, but potential buyers should be aware that these are Clevo rebrands, and there has been a lot of backlash about customer service, quality control, and just overall quality in general.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1xhtrj/what_are_your...

It depends on your definition of easily accessible. For example, on my TP-Link W8961N you can use Python's Requests library, Beautiful Soup and HTTP Basic Auth to retrieve and parse the client list.

I think the point being, why even use the Raspberry Pi in the first place given that most routers (even a lot of consumer ones) maintain a list of currently connected users.

Only getting an empty page with a 'WIP' watermark. The wmutils project on GitHub seems to give some more information - it looks like a nice project! https://github.com/wmutils/core.

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9690846.

I actually started a Tumbler account to this extent (mainly for the easy user-submission aspect).

http://workspacial.tumblr.com/

It's since been completely inactive - but I'd certainly like to redo it if there was some interest. Perhaps a Subreddit would be better suited.

Literally any photo you see will be 'impure'; as soon as the image is captured from the sensor, the raw data goes through many, many transformations before it arrives at the final image (white balance, exposure adjustment etc. etc.). I guess we could draw the line at how much post-processing is applied. Having said that, photography is very much an art form, and post-processing is just one of the many steps which goes into creating the intended image.

Film photography also has many variables such as film type and development process - fascinating stuff!

That's interesting that Transferwise are making a loss given that they are charging a commission. What is their monetisation strategy?

I would highly recommend trying Wwoofing (World-wide Work on Organic Farms) sometime. The premise is that in return for your help on the farm, the host family provides you with food and accommodation for the duration of your visit. My girlfriend and I spent just shy of a month in a little co-op in Goolawah, Australia, and almost two months on a little farm owned by a spritely old woman and her husband, just outside of Princeton. Waking up at 5AM to milk cows as the sun rises is a very liberating experience.

This one breaks navigation gestures on OSX - I really dislike websites which over-ride scrolling behaviour.

Thanks!

I would really like to sign up for this course - is there a way to do so without using Twitter or Facebook?

I'm a relative newcomer to the NoSQL scene and have been using RethinkDB for a couple of sideprojects. The IRC channel (#rethinkdb on FreeNode) is really second-to-none - the people on there are incredibly friendly and patient when answering what are probably obvious questions.

Brew integration would be nice. There used to be a couple of non-Apple app stores, but most of them were killed off when the actual App Store came along.

MacUpdate is still running one though: http://www.macupdate.com/desktop/

I highly recommend a read through of Barbara London's Photography book [1]. Apparently this book is still commonly used for photography classes even these days.

I have the 3rd edition which is pretty old, but all of the information is still applicable - film and digital cameras share the same basic principles.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Photography-11th-Edition-Barbara-Londo...

This has bitten me more times than I'd care to admit.

I wonder what caused the massive spike in failures for the 3TB Seagate drives in 2014?

No bashing intended. I started off writing bad applications in plain PHP that were full of security holes, and moved on to writing better applications in Python with the help of frameworks - at the time I didn't realise there were helper frameworks for PHP too and thought Python was infallible.

I use Python myself and had this problem until I discovered WTForms.

I can't speak for him, but the RSS reader I am working on at the moment is similarly split into multiple parts:

* Crawler - retrieves RSS feeds and parses articles

* Database server

* Analyser - performs semantic analysis and various other statistical processing on posts

* Propagator - pushes new posts to everyone's feed

* Cacher - serves a cached copy of the user's feed

* Web server

Based on loads I would just add more nodes depending on what was needed.

This looks like a really slick app - congratulations! I'm actually working on an RSS reader at the moment with a few similar philosophies (respecting privacy, lightweight design etc.). There's a lot of competition in the RSS reader space since the sad demise of Google Reader - how did you market the site and get your first users?

> Rails should take care of most of this for you

I often found myself falling into the "I'm not using PHP, so I don't have to worry about any security holes" trap. CSRF is something you really need to watch out for if you are constructing forms manually!

My favorite excerpt from the reviews:

"As everyone knows, Ethernet cables are for transmitting digital data and that any basic cable with the right rating will successfully transmit any signal thrown at it. However, what people don't know is that -- given the right product -- you can transmit more than digital information through the cable. In addition to the digital information, this cable lets you transmit analog signals such as love, tea, the color green, and the feeling that you get when you first step into a warm bath.

After experiencing this, I'm never going back to the cheap $5 Ethernet cables that only transmit digital data."