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Ask HN: Thinking of dumping my DVD collection
I've been collecting DVDs for a very long time. Ever since the format came out.

Looking at my collection? It looks like it's gotten out of hand. Two entire walls of my living room.

But I hate to go to NetFlix or some other abysmal streaming service.
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So here's the thing: Is there a program like Calibre, only for my movies? A service where I can put all of my DVDs and BluRays, stick them on the cloud, and watch them wherever I am?

ADD: Including keeping all the extra stuff if possible
> I don't think consumer interest in VR was oversold.

Some companies and people had very unrealistic expectations about VR when they entered the space. 5-10 years seems like a realistic timeline for potential mass adoption.

> Only a few people had plasma/lcd screens when they first launched

Only a few people had 3D TVs and Segways when they first launched. Unlike the iPhone, only a few people ever had the EyePhone [1]. It remains a question whether a critical mass of people will want VR. I've witnessed many people experiencing VR where it's like "Wow, this is totally amazing" for the first five minutes, followed by complete disinterest after 15 minutes. I think that suggests that there's something there, but there are also some barriers that haven't been identified and addressed yet.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VPL_Research#The_EyePhone
Absolutely wonderful gallery, first one on the web from a major organization that made the experience enjoyable!

Also try adding scroll-behavior: smooth; to the body or :root
Are we as a community learning anything noteworthy about the particular composition of those approaches, e.g. the list of stuff at the bottom of your comment, from the contest winners?

If yes, then why don't many, many participants snap to doing things exactly like past winners did them (not just same model architectures, but same cross-validation strategies, same inclusion of good outside data sets, etc.) -- thus making the differences between entries almost indistinguishable very fast, and meaning that winning vs. losing would probably just come down to random noise, thus contest performance probably shouldn't be related to whether someone is good in that field or would be good for a certain job?

If no, then what purpose do the contests serve? Perhaps just having fun, which is fine, but clearly not advancing knowledge of how to design good general model pipelines -- thus contest performance really shouldn't be related to whether someone is good in the field (that is, the researchers or whomever is figuring out general new knowledge about the best model pipelines would be, but not necessarily contest winners), and contest performance again wouldn't be very related to, say, whether someone would be good at a job in this area.

I don't point this out to suggest the contests aren't valuable. On the contrary, I think they are fun, interesting, and very valuable.

But I have always been skeptical that, even from first principles, contests like this cannot be useful for finding "the best" engineers to hire. Either (a) everyone snap-copies what the winners do, so either everyone's a good employee or none of them are, or (b) you don't learn anything over time from the general types of things that winners repeatedly do differently or better than losers, and so being with the "winner" category is not systematically different than being in the "loser" category.

The only third option I see is that we do steadily learn new systematic principles that emerge from what winner groups happen to do, but for someone reason, none of the other contestants choose to copy or recycle those ideas. Then, whatever property it is that makes winners winners would be related to discovering new effective ways of doing this, and not just luck-of-the-noise.
Wait, I can run typescript directly via cscript/wscript?
There is no killer app in VR so far that would lead to mass adoption. Software is clearly missing. It may bd solved later on but it will take time.
The case of importing from Ali, holding inventory, then reselling in the US is still not arbitrage. Arbitrage is by definition riskless simultaneous buying and selling of the same product in different venues.

Since the Ali importer is buying and selling at different times, the importer is assuming the risk that the market clearing price in the US will change before their inventory can be sold.
Personally, I'm more interested in the perception than in the sorts of defensiveness that I'm seeing in response.

Sure, statistically, most visitors aren't going to have any problem with our screwed up police.

But remember that, statistically, your average voter is more likely to drown in a bucket[1] than be a victim of terrorism, and look at what has been done since 2001 "to keep us safe".

Fear is not rational, and "you're wrong" or "I have this issue with your rhetorical technique" is not going to change any minds.

[1] Picked statistically unlikely event at random; did not look up actual statistics. You get the point and I'm not going to respond to pedantry.
Your comment shows the level of misinformation and reputation damage done by media and various social movements. America is safe for all law-abiding persons. Not only do I disagree with your comment, but I find it offensive that you would propagate the myth. It's damaging and unsubstantiated.
Are you being serious here?
This is fairly readable (high-level) post on word embeddings: http://colah.github.io/posts/2014-07-NLP-RNNs-Representation...
Look Dubai is all for the biggest and largest, so if they are getting serious about surveillance, you can bet they ll want to boast about it.

Also of note is that dubai is ~85% immigrants, which i think it the object of their surveillance.
no didn't see it.

Just not so easy to be sure that the feedback the reader gives will help me get my script purchased. It says that you will option the script if recommended by reader, but how can you buy all the scripts that get recommended?
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Good work! The idea of dropping extern crate is worrying, however. Most of the ways that that would be done would add more irregularity, complexity, and implied environment to the language (Rust Platform is always there, whether or not you want it), all of which are opportunities for bugs to creep into code.
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Not only did you completely miss the point, you changed your whole argument when the facts didn't suit your views anymore. Phone look like they do because of the state of technology. I don't know why this is hard to understand?

"Of those only the Prada is close"

No, the P900 was a smart phone and therefor a rectangular phone like the iPhone, but with a hardware keyboard in addition to the virtual one since touch technology wasn't very good. The Neonode had a touch interface because they had developed their own touch technology. The Sony PDA has a very similar design since it was made for using applications similar to what would later become common with phones when larger screen and faster processors became available. The LG Prada was also a premium phone, which is why it could look similar to an iPhone.

"they were merely historical curiosities that nobody ever copied."

Except Apple then I guess.

"There was incredible variety in the phone space prior to the iPhone"

Not really. Most phones looked largely the same with a keypad and maybe a joystick, because that was the state of technology at the time. Just like most phones look the same today, because of the state of technology today. Even if you wanted to make a different phone today there wouldn't be much point. Because you would have to create your own parts, your own operating system and your own application ecosystem just to be 99% similar to everyone else since you're using the same technology. Look how things went for Google Glass, which isn't surprising since the technology isn't ready.

"Today we're seeing the same ridiculous convergence with keyboards where everyone plus dog is using the Apple layout."

Do you mean the Sony layout? Because that's where the chiclet design was copied from.

http://www.cnet.com/products/sony-vaio-x505/

"as in all the bargain-priced knock-off phones"

Those are novelty phones, you literally have to search them out to find them. They have about zero percent of the market.
Few object to fascism when it was _their_ fascism. When you use it as a catch-all euphemism for evil, sure it sounds bad. But more often than not, fascism is a trope held up to make otherwise totalitarian ideas seem moderate.

I have no love for people who identify as fascists, as to me they are just morbid personalities fixated on a nostalgia for ugliness. Same type of people who like slasher/torture films.

But, some alt-right'ists (trigger warning) have put some recent thought into the topic: http://www.jack-donovan.com/axis/2013/03/anarcho-fascism/

It is fairly well considered. These days, Eco is an old hack doomed to the museum/prison of being a national treasure. He has become too precious to edit, and his books are mainly didactic posturing for middle brow book clubs. His criticisms provide a kind of hall of mirrors for people who already believe in them, and don't provide actual illumination.
I don't have any solid answers, but...

* You might have some luck browsing http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ to try to match up the hardware. B&H has a lot of Pro-sumer and straight up Pro products, in addition to all their consumer stuff.

* In radio parlance, devices/software that lets you store and play various clips is called a "soundboard". Or at least it was last time I knew anything about radio... might have newer terms now that everything's definitely digital.

Like I said, nothing solid, but this might help you look into it a bit more.
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> It may not have hand tracked controllers yet

This is a huge technical difference. "VR" without being able to reach out and touch the thing in front of you is barely VR at all. The difference between roomscale + motion controls and just having a ~180* tracked HMD and a gamepad is almost as wide as the gap between VR and flat monitors themselves. Once Touch comes out the only substantial difference will be that Oculus doesn't encourage devs to use games that depend on 360* tracking over multiple square meters of space while Valve does, which is a little more grey, but at launch I'd very much agree that the Vive solidly beat out the Rift technically. It's not disingenuous to say it at all. You can artificially constrain your comparison to just the HMDs and then find basically no difference, but if you compare the entire Vive VR system to the entire Rift VR system at launch, the Vive is clearly technically superior.

Disclaimer: own a Vive, love it. I have tried both motion controlled/roomscale/seated/gamepad experiences pretty extensively on it, every time my reaction circles back to this.
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Windows is closer to irrelevant now than ever before. Many people use non windows tablets and phones far more than desktops. Some websites see far more non desktop users than desktop users so arguably their market share is under 50%.
Has anyone read 'Dream Machine' by Mitchel Waldrop.

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co...

I have heard Patrick collision talking about this book quite a few times.
How do you go about targeting B2B clients via Facebook? We have good success with consumer since that's a pretty broad audience and affordable for certain products but never managed to target busineses effectively within a reasonable cost.
To expand upon your last sentence, " That our differences are there, but that they don't ultimately matter." I thik that we can in fact, we can celebrate our differences as they make us unique. However, with regards love towards our fellow person, as you said, the differences shouldn't hinder that.
What worries you about dropping extern crate? A lot of people feel like it's duplicating what's in your Cargo.toml anyway.
the company started back in 2012 and raised most of that money then, the market probably looked more attractive at that point to VC's (Dropbox valuation was shooting up) but they took awhile to release anything as it's now 2016. While at the same time, the market outlook has soured in general for file storage companies is the narrative at the moment, Dropbox has now shifted most of it's focus it seems to it's enterprise offerings as the consumer side isn't a sustainable revenue model to get to an IPO.
So this basically throws the whole premise of QubesOS out the window, it seems.

Virtualization is hard.
eBay doesn't generally help shoppers make a good decision. Beyond the fact that the web site is a mess, they don't seem to care at all about listings which seem to attempt to match searches with results that aren't what people are looking for. For example: listings only selling the original box an item came in and not the item, listings for a part or manual - both of which make "price: low to high" searches useless.

Looking for certain used electronics (recently music synth stuff, in the past vintage test equipment), I tend to have to select a lot of filtering options: "North american sellers only", "Condition: Used", etc.
Given the sheer volume of WSJ paywall links posted here, combined with the significance of YC, surely someone at YC could call someone at WSJ and get them to bypass the paywall when the referrer is HN. This is getting ridiculous. I'm familiar with the "web" link but even that gets old when every 4th or 5th link goes to WSJ.
Did you click the link? I was poking fun at our fearless leader.
Tangentially: Google also hasn't upped their compensation to compensate for the quality and variety of their meals and snacks going off a cliff over the last few years. Their vegan options in particular have become abysmal. They pressure employees to work on the periphery of Mountain View where there are no other options within a reasonable distance, so if you're vegan you really need to prepare your own food at this point. The value of this benefit is approaching zero.
IMO the root problem is that the Haskell Platform is both a set of curated packages and a bandaid for the fact that so many things Haskell are hard to build/install for no-good reason.

On the first front I guess it's alright (but stackage is better) and on the second front it's totally inadequate—maybe even harmful in that it probably made the problem just less painful enough to spur procrastination.

I think most of this lesson doesn't apply to rust, but still good to be aware. It certainly gave me a strong eversion to course-grained dependency management as a bandaid.
I'd just like to point out that in addition to his radio show he had a very unique and entertaining sketch comedy/variety show. Known to many fans as the "Channel 9 Howard Stern Show" (as not to be mistaken for the "Howard Stern Show"). It ran from 1990-1992 on Saturday nights and contained all original content and skits (as opposed to video of his radio show like the E! show that came later). Extremely entertaining and original, definitely worth checking out for anyone who has an interest in the evolution or career of Howard Stern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Howard_Stern_Show_(WWOR)
The ones that came with my luggage didn't even need a bolt cutter. The interior dull cutting edge on a pair of needlenose pliers worked on them :\
Sure, I'll give some of my thoughts about it when I first fired up the trial.

The installer gave me an option to create desktop icon, but gave me no option to start the program when it was finished installing. It was odd having to go find and run the program once it was done installing, it is typical for most installers to give me an option to run after install. Not a big deal, but I thought it was worth a mention.

When I opened up 1Password I clicked "I am new to 1Password", and noticed that the prompt to select a location to store my keychain is under the program itself. This is annoying as I have to move it around to properly use the file explorer. Seems like a bug. Here is an image of what I am talking about: http://i.imgur.com/0Z6xTTq.png . Clicking on the file dialogue does not bring it above the 1Password application, it is stuck hiding behind it.

Entering the master password makes me enter my password twice, which makes sense, however it is odd that there is one password strength bar for both the "new" password and "re-enter" password section. The passwords should be identical, why tell me the same thing twice? http://i.imgur.com/ySXxT8g.png

I am quite confused with how I can import Keepass data into 1Password. Some googling shows I may need to use some perl scripts someone made to import them properly. I tried exporting my keepass database to csv and importing that but there were many problems. I used a lot of specific Keepass things like folders, as well as having a duplicate record that makes reference to another password entry.

Scrolling through the list of passwords is quite choppy and not smooth at all.

The search is slower than Keepass.

For the use cases you gave of sharing passwords I'd just print them out on a sheet of paper to be honest. It actually seems easier to me than sharing passwords via a program.

And on the top of micro managing and backups. I just use dropbox which by default keeps version history so managing backups is not really a thing for me.

So in my honest opinion for now I will likely be sticking with Keepass, for the reasons above, as well as because it does not support all of the platforms I use, which in my opinion is quite a critical feature as I want my passwords on every device.
>So it sounds like this would be a non-issue here.

In the sense of being a sucking chest wound driving new people away, I agree.

>just include both

makes my guts wrench a bit though. I understand how you're (currently) getting away with it but yikes.
Maybe Kodi
http://kodi.tv/
Silly business? This startup makes $25k/m selling custom messages on potatoes
Here's my iPhone 3 that my family checks the weather on every morning on the way out the door: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jx1uyob87ticj2i/IMG_2315.jpg?dl=0
It is really funny the article, you say you use signal to communicate which is totally interceptable nowadays, you register using your real phone, so i could trace you and intercept your real phone!. If you are a real top goverment security guy NEVER use signal my friend. Seems you are newbie on the security scene.
A non-paywalled article about this incident has been posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12177230
I'm a bit worried when a language develops a "platform" and an "ecosystem". This usually means you need to bring in a large amount of vaguely relevant stuff to do anything. It adds another layer of cruft, and more dependencies.

Write standalone tools, but don't create a "platform". Don't make the use of the language dependent on your tools.

C++ does not have a "platform". Nor does it need one.
A billion "mobile phones" sold doesn't seem very anti consumer to me.
>so many things Haskell are hard to build/install for no-good reason.

Were. Were hard. It's quite fine now with Stack. I know users of all kinds of languages that all miss Stack when they're working on their non-Haskell projects.
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If you start asking him too many questions he does eventually just throw the book at you (albeit a free autographed copy).
I'm not really sure who you're talking to ... they asked me to use Signal, honestly I didn't really care ...
Why would it drive people away? I read your thesis as "it's broken all the time so people don't like it", but I'm saying that it wouldn't be broken.

EDIT: Apparently coolsunglasses was referring to the Platform, not Cargo, with this comment.
Sirius did a huge audio production called "The History of Howard Stern" which they'd play when Howard went on vacation or filming America's Got Talent. It's absolutely massive. Must be 60+ hours.

It goes into incredible detail of every point of his career and plays all the old key moments. It's an amazing listen. Really interesting watching his personality evolve from a geeky Weird Al type guy into what he's become.

I loved it so much I converted it into a podcast feed for myself to listen to whenever I have free time. I think I'm only like 75% through and I've been listening to it for over a year.
Unfortunately I am discovering lots of those in tech VC are complicit with the political power elite. Many are pushing the Russia meme on twitter/FB , despite the flimsy evidence and obvious push as a political strategy. I do not think many of them actually believe what they are saying. Terrifying.
Or a correct read of reality. Facebook is here to stay because theres not a single social network that could compete with it right now.
"Web". It's literally right next to the article link. Don't think biz-dev is needed here.
I don't just disagree with your post: in light of what evilsocket just stated, your claims are downright ludocrious.
They have a history of trying to explain away their security problems as not really their fault. That alone should give any LastPass user pause.
If it works, this will be a win-win for Panasonic and Tesla. Panasonic gets to vastly increase its battery sales, and Tesla gets all the batteries it needs and at a much lower price. So it is not surprising they have gotten together in this venture.
I won't make any bones about it, Win32 is an awful, outdated API. Something better without having to fight with all the awkward legacy C-isms, WPARAMs, LPARAMs, awful Hungarian notation and "overloaded" functions would be nice.

But I've mostly learned to take a wait and see attitude with new silver bullet APIs from Microsoft. Sometimes they take off and really do became the way forward, but far, far too often, after some initial hype, there is a lack of uptake, they wither on the vine, and then are abandoned for the new shiny, leaving behind the developers that did invest in them.

Meanwhile, Win32, like the Dude, abides.
It's not unchecked. The Republican congress has had plenty of opportunities to stop it and has declined. The National Defense Authorization Act is passed every year. The 2001 AUMF that authorized the "war on terror" was passed bypartisanly without any sunset provision, nobody of either party has proposed repealing it.
Looks like Balmuda (original designer of the air purifier) is claiming the same:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2858592/xiaomi-faces-copycat-...
A shim might work too.
The open sourcing of .NET core is incredibly significant. As much as people here like to pretend no one uses C#, it's a massive and profitable ecosystem.

The license you're buying for VS is a support seat with some special integrations. It's not like IntelliJ doesn't do that too. The community edition is entirely serviceable and free.
I get the feeling that you didn't really read the post. Nothing in the platform is required to use Rust, and you can trivially write Rust packages that don't use the platform. The point of the platform is for convenience. In most cases it will make sense to use it because it provides a convenient set of libraries that are known to work well together, but you could also choose to just ignore the Rust platform entirely and continue to use Rust the same way we've been using it up to now.
It's "literally right next to the article link" after clicking over to the comments page, which I don't normally do at first. So the process is click on article -> get annoyed by paywall -> hit back button -> click comments page -> click web link -> click to article - for a significant percentage of the links on the front page. Not awesome.

Perhaps the default link on all WSJ articles should be converted to the web link. That would solve the problem too. The volume is high enough that special treatment of these links is warranted.
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