skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This technology could be used to cut down on files sizes, to raise video quality and to up resolution. A few thoughts:

1. 1080p streaming video from Apple, Netflix and others looks pretty good, but it suffers from more compression artifacts when compared to Blu-ray. It simply doesn't look as good. With a more efficient compression technology, streaming video could have similar file sizes to today's H.264 video but look more like Blu-ray.

2. I already own a laptop that does above 1080p video. When Apple release a Retina iMac or Thunderbolt display it will be around 5k. Other manufactures will be there too. 4k or so TVs and projectors are on their way. Streaming technology makes a lot more sense than a new physical format for higher resolution video. In order to realistically deliver 4k video (or 5k video like The Hobbit is being shot in) over IP, we would need better compression than H.264

3. Files sizes could be cut down, allowing people to consume more video without going over their caps. This would also allow mobile devices to store more high quality video content for on the go.

The best case scenario would be that we get a combo of all three. 4k-5k video content is still a bit way for home use, but when it does come. H.265 sounds like the way to go.

In the next few years, this technology could be used to cut down on file sizes some, while also upping the quality of video. This is what we saw with Apple's 1080p video which uses high profile H.264 video, whereas Apple's 720p video is main profile H.264. Yes, the 1080p videos are bigger, but not by much.
The deblocking filter is basically overlapping blocks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deblocking_filter
Take a look at Incanter:

http://incanter.org/
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Isn't that an argument in favour of using Facebook? One account for the whole web, rather than one for each individual blog.
I naively wonder if it cannot be generalized to octrees. To embed the inter-frame analysis into a single 3d sliding adaptive octree.
Hopefully it will keep the H.264 license cheap.
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"Popular Nigerian apps are expensive. Very expensive. The two best-selling bible apps among the top five apps on August 10th were each $10"

Very expensive
10$

Choose one please.

I don't know about those particular apps, but an era where any piece of software over 1.99$ is considered expensive is a very sad one.
Have they come around offering everything in html5 now? I tried it about a year ago and it only had a small percentage of the content I watch.
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Well I think that if you pour coffee or beer you would destroy any device, Apple or not.
So glad to see python 3 being adopted more and more by major web frameworks. This might be the wrong place to ask, but have there been any updates on python 3's wsgi or flask support? I've been out of the loop.
It's not that developers don't want flexibility or power. It's that it comes at a cost of collaboration with other developers and tools.
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Cool, I just found out it works for beamer, too. Having instant preview for presentations is great, as I often find myself moving figures around all the time.

Great work!
No, it isn't; that's is precisely the purpose of a function and precisely the wrong way to comment.
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That's not been my experience. One of the local papers recently changed their site to have FB comments. I can't believe the bigoted garbage and trolling I've seen people post on there with their name and picture attached to it.
Initial code for Firefox H.264 hardware decoding works on Nexus S
It's likely MPEG-LA will handle the licensing and I'd expect a similar cost structure. Newer codecs have tended to be cheaper, although at this point I suspect pennies per unit are pretty irrelevant.
This X driven development stuff is getting out of hand. Because I know what my next block of code is going to be once I've written the commit message.
They also say it frees up their staff to do their jobs rather than moderating. Nothing is perfect. They made a tradeoff.
Rest In Peace indeed. I loved these.

Great computer scientists aside, does anyone enjoy as much acclaim from hackers as classic (which can mean whatever you want it to mean) science fiction authors? Society owes a lot to hackers and is starting to reward them with stock options and IPO's, but I wonder if it realizes how much of a debt hackers owe to SF authors.
No, it's an argument for not requiring an acount when it's not necessary. E.g. for simple comments.

I came up with the following: email is optional, and used for notification as well as editing/deleting the comment. Assuming the email is used for only that, I think that's as convenient and fair as it can get.
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I agree, systemd seems to be awesome for embedded computers and servers while just a minor improvement for the desktop. I could care less about simplifying process management for my desktop. I do not manage the processes on my desktop, and do not write my own init scripts there either.

I believe though that systemd is actually targeted at the desktop. :)
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True. Now enjoy spending thousands of dollars making your case in court.
Pillow (https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow) is a fork of PIL. If you look at recent commits, you'll see one that claims to make it more Python 3 friendly, but not quite Python 3 compatible because of differences in the C code. So maybe a good opportunity for someone to jump in and fix that.
Uargs. Who had the idea of having every paragraph leading up to a quote that has a big "Tweet this"-link next to it? It feels like a kid jumping up and down, desperately trying to get more attention.
> Ultimately, having laws most people are guilty of breaking is a valuable tool of social control.

And that is another good benchmark of an oppressive regime. A system that makes sure there are so many laws or they are so ambiguous that anyone is always guilty of something. Then they just record it all. All the times you sped by the speed camera, all the little discrepancies in your tax record, all the times you bought out of state but didn't pay sales tax to your state, all the websites you visited, everything you possibly posted online.

One day you become dissatisfied with something and choose to exercise your freedom to protest. Then someone approaches and invites you to have a a chit chat. They show you all your files and all the laws you broke and suggest that if anyone starts looking into it, it could be years of jail time, stiff penalties, or perpetual court dates and then ask the question "are you sure you want to exercise your freedom?"

With current technologies, and current set of laws, and government disposition towards recording everything (see NSA's new data center) this becomes reality right here right now in US.
I prefer thought driven development.
I do the same thing as the author. If I see that the comment stream is somehow related to my FB account, I skip commenting. I don't know how they're used or how they feed into some other FB stream.

Even if I did have a feel for how those comments currently are integrated with other FB comment streams, none of us has any idea of how FB will change their policies in the future that will totally wreck our personal notions of "separation of concerns".
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Top right of the screen is the cover of the New Order album Power, Corruption & Lies.

I take the joke about the redaction of all mentions of Metro, but why the names as well?
What's with all the blockquotes? Made it a bit difficult to read => Sentence "Blockquote" Sentence "Blockquote".
A CSS only craigslist beautifier better than this[1], I made yesterday.

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This is EXACTLY what an integration test gives you, start there and let it drive your commit message instead, no need for a new mantra.
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Based on Isaacson's official biography, the 'reality distortion field' ascribed to Jobs by Apple employees was more of a euphemism for his capacity of successfully 'bend the truth' / outright lie for the sake of 'placeboing' the world towards his vision.

"To some people, calling it a reality distortion field was just a clever way to say that Jobs tended to lie. But it was in fact a more complex form of dissembling. He would assert something - be it a fact about world history or a recounting of who suggested an idea at a meeting - without even considering the truth. It came from willfully defying reality, not only to others but to himself." (p. 118)

While it's tempting to 'learn' described techniques, particularly for us entrepreneurial types, one shouldn't forget that their 'mastery' necessarily presupposes a flexible attitude towards ethics and to some extent, basic human decency. Jobs, of course, wasn't exactly a master of either.
How might a commit-first Git workflow look? I'm imagining a lot more use of squash/fixup and the like than sounds fun.
Your legal representative need not be local. I just had someone across the country file court docs on my behalf.
i did some simple number crunching some time ago (> 8 months ago) on some clients sites and on a few private and friendly (which gave me access to their data) web-properties. it wasn't a big sample (6 sites all in all) but well, it's the data i had. outcome:

using fb comments - on average over all sites - always increase the valid comments you will get - and compared to old wordpress-standard-installations, decreases spam (the difference was between "a lot of spam" and "nothing")

i did not apply a quality metric, but reading over the (valid, not spam) comments i could not determine a (subjective) trend in either (good / stupid) direction.

yeah, i'm not a big fan of fb comments either, but well, if your blogs goal is to get comments (for whatever reason) then i would advise for the fb comment plugin.

and: it would be cool if you prove me wrong (with data).

i think this is a good time as any to quote Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape: "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine."
There are also a lot of startups that aren't right for those incubators. For YC, if you have a family and don't live in SV then that is a massive sacrifice to move out there, which closes the doors to many. Many others are similar.

Where crowdfunding is most promising (in my mind) is that it removes the SV edge for startups. You don't need to be in the valley to be funded, you just need a compelling product/story/team/etc.

Plus, there are also many other startups that have gone beyond the incubator stage, but are not right or ready for VC. You would traditionally turn to Angels in that stage, but why not turn to your users, or the general public?
> "Bootstrapping a startup when you’re 30 and have a rent to pay is incredibly hard"

I think bootstrapping a startup when you have no capital is incredibly hard. The age you are and whether you're renting or not are merely contributory factors - imagine if you were paying a mortgage rather than rent...this could make bootstrapping even harder (could being the important word here, before someone corrects me!).

(maybe this is a controversial viewpoint, but I feel Twitter is for 140 character insights, and a blog post is for longer ones. Having 24 quote blocks with 'Tweet This' next to it didn't make for a great reading experience)
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I wouldn't object to it quite so much if it wasn't for the "Tweet This" links next to every one.
If you like this, you should check out ZeroRPC, it handles a lot of the boilerplate code you would need to write by hand.

Links:
- http://zerorpc.dotcloud.com
- https://github.com/dotcloud/zerorpc-python
You might not know what it is going to be, but you should know what it will do.
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This is a nice little-p process. I've kind of stumbled into it from time to time when I'm having trouble nailing down what I want to do. Tower.app actually helps, because it leaves your commit message betweens cancels.

I say little-p because I've found it to be a nice tool in certain circumstances, but it's not a very proscriptive process, and it's not always clear that you need it until you already find yourself doing it. So it's nice to identify that it happens, and to give yourself a chance to take advantage by pausing and reflecting before you commit, but honestly that's just good practice regardless.

For me, sometimes I'll write some code, get a commit message ready, then realize as I'm writing my message that there's a better/clearer/more general solution to what I just did, and I use that as an opportunity to improve my commit.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't need more than 1080p resolution for watching a video. I don't recall the exact numbers, but I think you need to be within 5 feet of a typical 42" screen to notice an improvement of 4k over 1080p. That's bit close for my taste! Now if you have some kind of enormous video setup that would benefit, then more power to you.

EDIT: I found an article on the subject: http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/
I would imagine the amount of commits might actually shrink, because there is more focus to each commit.
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Maybe this is really juvenile, but does the logo look like a bladder to anyone else?
if googlebot chooses to render the page, which is - in my experience - not always the case (sometimes the fb stream got indexed, the spage got found for it, the other time nothing, sometimes a page that got found for a comment then lost the comment again, pretty random stuff). but yeah, if you think it's worth it you can still fetch the fb comment stream and put it below the fb plugin.
There's what claims to be a Python 3 version of the codebase on Christoph Gohlke's Python packages for Windows page (http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pil). I haven't tested it.
Well they are using tricks and newer technique to make better quality pictures while still within the official specs.

So it is not exactly outside to the official specs at all.
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>Btw landing pages and mockups don’t create a lot of trust...

Why do you say that?
This is an article about Microsoft's "Metro" design language, so named until a couple of weeks ago, when a large Microsoft retail partner (Metro AG) asked Microsoft to rename it.

It has since been renamed "Windows 8-style UI".

I hoped this post meant it had been renamed "M". "M-style" flows off the tongue far easier than "Windows-8-style-UI"..
Yeah, the universality of certain experiences can tempt people to think they're afflicted with something when they just have a normal human allotment of it. Things like procrastination and anxiety may not be (or may be) distributed according to a perfect bell curve, but they are distributed on a continuous distribution. Advice from one part of the continuum isn't necessarily helpful on to people on other parts.

The most helpful and self-aware non-advice I ever got was in Little League. I asked an older kid how to remain calm when batting in a crucial situation. He said, "Just think of all the home runs you've hit, and how good people think you are. They don't think that for nothing. Think of how nervous the pitcher must be to be pitching to you. If he's scared, why should you be?" He was a wise-ass, but he had a point. Why should I expect him to have answers that were applicable to my (very different) situation?
git-annex keeps track of what file is where, including any duplicate copies you wish to keep on other storage mediums. If I want some file I archived, git-annex will tell me which external disk it's on (and it can do S3 and some other online storage mediums too). rsync keeps track of nothing between runs.

I find it really useful for archiving large files - an entirely different use case than git.
Quite simply, Wozniak has conflated regulation of government (constitutional law) with regulation by government (statutory law) through the use of the ambiguous phrase "government regulation".

The Bill of Rights regulates the actions which government may perform upon individuals, not the actions which individuals may perform upon each other. For instance, no article of the constitution ensures that murder is illegal.

There is a difference between constitutional law, common law, statuatory law, and regulatory law. Wozniak's phrase "congressional regulation" perhaps best describes only the last two categories.
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I'll also know:

- All the TODOs
- Applicable Nota Bene's (you know, "this breaks in X")
- Whether or not I'll be distracted before completing the task with something else that would need a different summary.

Yes, I know what it will do, but a good commit message isn't a generic one-liner that describes it beforehand. What you are looking for is "task driven development".
From DarkShikari's evaluation:

After a full 6 hours, 8 frames had encoded.

Looks like it's not ready to evaluate yet.
"compared to old wordpress-standard-installations"

Well, on my own CMS I had one single spam comment so far, and a few anonymous ones. generally not many comments, but no spam worth speaking of either. The captcha is nothing more complex than 'Please enter "14" in the field below.'. (with a different number between 10 and 99 each time) Keeps bots out, doesn't bother people.
I am using DISQUS (version 2012) for a while on my personal blog and I am very pleased. I get more comments than the times I installed FB Comments, I get more traction and people actually share through DISQUS star button.

Here's a blog post I wrote about switching to DISQUS http://ahmetalpbalkan.com/blog/disqus-addressed-my-concerns-...
Even then, I find the style debatable. I think its overused, with some quotes only separated by a small sentence. But "tweet this" is definitely the thing that kills it all.
Agreed, make it a bulleted list instead.

1. People

2. Like

3. Lists
Playing devil's advocate: "Better to be silent and others think you a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
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That's from over 2 years ago. A version 10x faster (and with half the code stripped out) was available last year and I assume someone has made a sane version since.

Anyways he explains what happened: instead of choosing sane options, that encoder would iterate through every possible encoding and test each of them for PSNR, for a competition. It's not the kind of encoder you would ever use in practice.
I have an adviser that hates TeX and would prefer to provide comments but no edits. I would love to see an environment where I could both collaborate with other students on writing the TeX, but also have the ability to enable peer review with Crocodoc-style [1] commenting and annotation.

[1] https://crocodoc.com/
It all depends on what's on paper and what's been agreed to thus far.

Assuming nothing's on paper, here's what I would do: Set up a corporation (yes, get that lawyer), allocate something to the cofounder (even 50%), but make the total number of shares small, and keep voting rights enough to dilute out the cofounder by issuing additional shares no matter how they vote. Add in for yourself and other hangers-on additional equity based on time worked from this point forward, with industry-standard vesting.

You can also fold in an acquisition: Start new company, all the old company's assets are valued at X and you proportionally issue Y nonvoting shares in the new company to all the old shareholders (where Y is a small percentage of the total). Cofounder must either sign off or be outvoted at old company, or else you're stuck.

Crackpots always think that their work begins and ends before a product gets traction (even many prodigious successful businesspeople lean this way until they learn by succeeding) when the truth of the matter is that the work is much more back-loaded than it seems.

If you hired a general contractor to build a house, and he left it 50% done, lots of times you'd have to pay more to get it completed than if you'd never hired him at all. This is the wicket your cofounder has left you in by leaving when things are just getting interesting.
There are lawyers who take on cases like these just on principle (assuming the facts are as described). They would usually want to get co-council who is licensed in your jurisdiction, but if it really comes down to it they might accept being primary on the claim.
As the person who started the Hacker News Seattle Meetups and just celebrated our 1-year birthday... major props to Ben and Dmitri. I've talked with Dmitri a bunch of times and gotten advice on the Seattle meetup, and you guys really do a great job. :)
PEP 3333.

Armin Ronacher has long been grumpy about Python 3 so don't count on a Flask port any time soon
Thanks for the feedback! Sharelatex is also really cool.

I'll hopefully write a blog post about the infrastructure one day, but it's actually pretty standard: a rails app on Heroku + some render machines. I'm pleased to see that it has (so far) scaled as intended!
Thanks for the elaboration. I might even agree about the typing, even though e.g. `end' requires one keypress more than } for me. But I find that punctuation stands out more. From a practical point of view, I prefer reading Haskell's

\arguments -> body

to Scheme's

(lambda (arguments) (body))

because it stands out more. What gives me as the reader an even better hint without getting in the way, is indentation. That's why I prefer that to e.g. curly braces for reading. (Writing, especially in non-programming editors, like a webform, is easier with explicit markers like `end' or } though.)
Well at least this time it will be much faster then H.264, Hardware decoder are already in the work with many things could be reused fro H.264 HP Decoding. So unless there are any major changes HEVC decoder will be coming much quicker. Some Video Decoder IP has already begin to list HEVC decode as a feature.
Military services was never required for Congress or the President of the US

It was an unwritten requirement because nobody took non-veterans seriously as presidential candidates.
AppFog just expanded their free tier to be able to use 2GB memory and 50GB of transfer.
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I tried to get into Monocle, and while I acknowledge that it's very well designed, the yuppiness was overwhelming.

Imagine Vice turned into an ad for J. Crew.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

- Grace Hopper
Nitpick, but Thunderbolt supports a maximum of 20Gbits/sec which can't drive 5k. It maxes out at 10 megapixels which is about 4k. 5k is nearly 14 megapixels.

http://superuser.com/questions/441395/what-is-the-maximum-re...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Digital_Cinema_Camera_Compa...
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They surely plan to lock the industry into their new closed codec for another long time, since patents on H.264 will eventually expire. Will anyone come out with improved open codecs to counter that for the sake of open Web?
Isn't that an advantage of third-party commenting, like FB or Disqus? You get the advantages of registration but without having to do it everywhere.
Sweet! Half the bandwidth, double the copyright infringement.

I still remember the days when downloading movies was only practical because someone had compressed them down to two 150-megabyte videos. When I got my first 'high quality' 580-megabyte copy of The Matrix, I was thrilled.

Encoding used to be an art form. Now people just use whatever codec they want with default settings to get that 50GB Blu-ray movie down to a couple gigabytes and call it a day.
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