skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to the clarification, both DVD and Blu-ray content is basically always sampled as YUV 4:2:0, and basically no transcode ever changes that. Masters generally have higher chroma sampling (eg. 4:2:2) but this is reduced to 4:2:0 when the content is put on DVD/BD, not by encoders further down the chain. Masters can also have a higher bit depth (eg. 10-bit) per channel which is then converted to 8-bit for DVD/BD.

Also, multi-channel is rarely downmixed to stereo in case of HD content - for Blu-ray rips, however, only the core from Dolby TrueHD (640kbps AC3) or DTS-MA (1536kbps DTS) is generally used (at least in case of western content) instead of the full lossless audio (and in cases where lossless audio is used it is generally converted to FLAC because it compresses better).

Just because rips have drastically smaller filesizes doesn't mean that they're going to have drastically lower quality, though - Blu-ray has limitations in the amount of H.264 features that can be used, and encoding applications also matter. x264, which is a FOSS H.264 encoder, is generally recognized as the best H.264 encoder in the world. If you use x264 and go above Blu-ray limits, hell even H.264 level 4.1 limits, or even encode in 10-bit, it's not uncommon that you'll be able to shave off over 50% of the file's original size or more (compared to the original .m2ts file on the BD) with no discernible loss in video or audio quality. In case of western content, people tend to mostly stick to level 4.1 8-bit H.264, though, because of hardware compatibility. 5.1 DTS/AC3 core is used instead of say, 5.1 AAC is used for compatibility reasons as well - because S/PDIF can't do 24-bit 5.1 LPCM.

There is one scene that cares very little about hardware compatibility, though: the anime scene. You can find pretty much the most advanced video, audio and subtitle formats in use there, with 10-bit H.264 video going up to level 5.1, AAC/FLAC audio, very complex ASS subtitles, Matroska ordered chapters... it's quite fascinating, really.
Wow. You developed a programming language for handling network connections; that is actually really neat. It's way past my bedtime, so I might've missed it, but is there any way in NCD to detect, say, a new wired connection, and then a timeout waiting for dhcp, and then as a fallback, configure the interface with a static ip?

I'm not sure what I think about having to edit a file every time I want to connect to a new network, but on the other hand, it would be super nice not to have to reboot every N times I switch network connections.
I love paper prototyping, so we make an app called "POP - Prototyping on Paper" that turn paper into interactive prototype. Take a look :) http://popapp.in
I don't get what the Raspberry Pi is for. The Transformer is a lot faster and already runs Linux, you could just install Ubuntu/Debian in a chroot and use that instead of sshing to the Raspberry Pi.
> Quora should not be underestimated

I don't have much of an opinion on Quora and want it to succeed, but your claims seem rather... grandiose. From what I've seen Quora fairs well in very specific situations (where it has a large userbase of people knowledgeable in that specific niche) and then it's mediocre everywhere else. I've never thought "this is the future" while using Quora.

Do you have any examples of Quora that show the potential you talk about? I guess it can be argued "If Quora has a large userbase that are knowledgable in every niche then it will take over the world!" but that sort of argument can extend to almost any service. I see Stackexchange as the biggest competitor to Quora and in my experience Stackexchange is fairing much better (both in users and interfaces, I'd much rather ask a question on a SE site vs. Quora, for example).
It's a long and rather sad story, but since systemd started to do its own logging (using a binary format), it can optionally now link to a micro HTTP server so that you can connect to the journal on localhost in order to read these logs (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/configure.a...).

I won't offer any opinions on whether this is good or bad, simply state that's what happened.
Blocking Facebook Web Trackers At The Firewall For Extra Privacy
Nice article. I like these kinds of explanations that go into all of the difficulties of a task that aren't obvious from the outside.
Will we ever really have invisibility cloaks?
Setting basic NTFS permissions in Windows Server 2012
Google Chrome 24 Disables Support for Web Intents
First thing I noticed too!

For anyone missing it, "mega.co.nz" -> Mega Conz -> Mega Cons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
I've been thinking about getting this kind of setup too, without the Pi(Also, I'm in Brazil, it's probably hard to get one around here)

What I was thinking of was getting an Asus Transformer and running Ubuntu on it, I've read that's possible(maybe without touchscreen, but I just need a long battery, keyboard, command-line, vim, browser)

could somebody tell me what's wrong with this?(I see browser could be an issue if touchscreen doesn't work there, but I already use Vimium and I guess I could circumvent this, I'm more worried about general malfunction or higher battery consumption)

I'd also like to know if it's possible to get this(vim, terminal, ruby, etc) directly in a Android JellyBean(since Android runs a fork of linux...)
But even if no-one's using desktop BSD, the interesting code in it won't disappear, and neither will the people who write that code. Perhaps I'm being short sighted, but I don't see much danger to the Linux ecosystem from BSD's userbase dwindling.
Some support for your thesis:

Alice[2] is a graphical environment to teach programming. They did a study of it for high risk CS1 students and found that high risk students who used Alice achieved a much higher retention rate[2].

[1]http://www.alice.org/publications/EvaluatingTheEffectiveness...

[2]http://www.alice.org
Show HN: Selling Code on a Pay What You Want Basis
UCLA's new transparent solar film could be game-changer
History and culture, it's a symbolic touchstone for the Swiss railway. It could of course be ripped out and replaced with a digital one, but would it be as well loved? Possibly, possibly not.
Due to the potential for shutdown even outside of the U.S., will people feel safe hosting important files on the site?
I'll check this out. I use python at home but have to use PHP at work. Thanks :)
It's not just that, for a popular title if you have a decent network connection, it takes less time to download than to rip.
I imagine if they've just licensed it they'll be considering getting their money worth so to speak.
The title misleading, the linked site is called 'Google's Acitivy on Google+' with 'Just how active are Google employees & Google's own profiles on Google+?' as subtitle.

And 'their' in 'You wouldn't trust a cook who never eats their own food, would you?' is probably a typo.
You're right, it is cloaking. Is Google invested in Quora in any way that might compromise their judgement?
http://notifo.com/hackernews
looks like another option
Either the BSDs are going to end up relegated for a long time to server-only OSs (arguably they already have been), or they are going to somehow commit massive resources to catch up

Actually, with all the disdain for GNOME 3 and Unity (that I can't fully understand), I think the BSDs actually have a window of opportunity. Make or take a desktop environment that those clamoring for GNOME 2 or KDE 3 love, integrate it very well with your base system, and make a very predictable ABI, ABI, and development schedule. Now that almost everyone seems to be involved in crazy desktop experiments, such an oasis of quiet would probably attract lots of UNIX hackers.

If the support for BSD dwindles down below a certain point,

It doesn't exactly help that there are four major BSDs (if we don't count Mac OS X).
I think its a common mistake to write off companies which have a physical aspect as "not software companies".

The company I work for delivers food to people, but we're very much a software company in that we couldn't possibly compete with the huge players in this market without smart software which lets us run it with the minimum of people. I'm fairly sure ZipCar are the same - there are many car hire organisations, but not that many which can get by without having to rent premises and huge numbers of people to look after car keys and signing in and out.
The question is really: Why an RPi, specifically, instead of, e.g., your macbook or any other desktop-class hardware you have at home? When thinking of a development machine, the first thing that comes to mind is pretty much NOT an RPi. In fact, for my own RPi development, it is more efficient to develop under Linux (possibly run in a VM), and cross-compile to ARM than it is to compile on the RPi directly.
Vague warnings about higher taxes do not constitute a complete thought or a compelling argument.
Curiosity: First of all, let's get something straight: there's no joystick
Microsoft's Skydrive sends two million NULL characters
Typemock Isolator 7.1.6 is live
Absolutely. There are fewer harder things in software development than taking criticism over code you've lovingly crafted, but ultimately it's this criticism that makes you understand the code better.

Additionally, if you're posting code on the Internet then you're there for everybody to shoot at. It sucks sometimes, but that's how things go.
Hey, the dev of this project here,

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I didn't knew that VLC has advanced so much in such functionality like loudness normalization and dynamic range compression. How does it analyze the loudness? Does it also use the ReplayGain spec? What about album-loudness?

It sounds like besides gapless playback and a database, VLC already has everything what a music player needs to have - or what you need that VLC becomes great to play music.

Or is anything missing on the list?

For me, the intelligent automatic queue is, besides the audio quality, a very important element (because it is the way I listen to my music).
StackExchange still has the pseudonym problem. It is also about 10x as harsh and severely limits itself, by well, limiting the actions of their participating clientele. Stack Exchange has relegated itself with it's strict standards to little more than a technical help resource - for the vast majority of use cases.

You don't go to StackExchange to hang out - you go there to ask answer/ask questions. It's like Wikipedia.

On extrapolations:

All large future extrapolations appear, by definition, to be grandiose. If they weren't - well then it would be bloody well bleeding obvious what was about to happen then wouldn't it :D - and it would go without me having to say so.

> Quora fairs well in very specific situations (where it has a large userbase of people knowledgeable in that specific niche) and then it's mediocre everywhere else.

Same with anything else. This is a truism.

The only thing I can say to people is this:

Whenever people tell you to look into something that appears curious - try it for 2 weeks and make your own judgement.
Beautiful design. But I'm getting an error when I try to sign up to be an API partner. Anyone else?
I really expected that the demos would properly work in the browsers that Bonsai is advertised to be compatible with.

(I tried "Blob" and "Pong", both don't work in Opera 12.10)

Of course I understand that a framework supporting certain browsers doesn't mean that any other program (demo) will work automatically, but for the purposes of demonstration, you probably should make sure that they do.

After all, browser support is just as much a feature that should be demo-ed as pretty graphics are.

(And I really don't understand, what is this thing people do in their JS code that Opera chokes on? I write JS code all the time and it generally works on Opera/Firefox/Chrome with no tweaks. The very rare inconsistency is usually when one browser is more lenient than the other wrt ECMAscript, so even when it "works in Firefox", it was code that could use cleaning)
Valve was working on the Half-Life 2 engine as soon as the original was released.

"The Counter-Strike developer has previously bragged its engine is "considered the most flexible, comprehensive".
I hope it was a reference to the new engine and not the existing one which is fairly painful to work with. Hello map compilation which takes hours.
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i am familiar with erlangs ports. why shouldn't the same work for node?

(and btw: cryptography might take a big computational chunk. it's hard to write cpu-intensive stuff in node's callback style. but i guess the person(s) doing it will sort this out.)
How I cracked Troyis (the online flash game) using R
If we're going by page views then I'm sure many unsavory sites have many more. Still not mainstream - or not in the way that you think.

My point with mainstream was not views. My point with mainstream was that it will become something normal people could potentially use.

I like to think of reddit/StackExchange as the mid point between the completely disparate forums and a Facebook like interest based real-name social network.

They are like IRC.
Sn0wBreeze 2.9.7 Released Brings A4 Devices Jailbreak on iOS 6.0.1/6.0
If you produce content, you should have a mobile app
Oh, it seems that many things aren't that obvious as I thought they would be... Maybe they become a bit more obvious when you use the player, though.

To answer some of the questions: The current song is always the blue entry. All the grey entries above it are the recently played songs. Everything below is what comes next. In addition, the artist and title of the current song is displayed at the head. Those aren't input boxes (although they might look as such). The clear button clears the queue. The volume is the slider on the right.

But I agree: The GUI needs much improvement...
A company which actively develops software has the ability to snapshot a stable development tree and call it a "New Engine"? Shock horror.

Fans of these games blatantly don't know what an engine is; the difference between a graphics library and a suite of tools and code to create a game.

Perhaps they are excited because the Valve developer wiki and Source Filmmaker have been teasing newer versions of the tools like Hammer, built with Qt.

Valve have never been one for pushing the limits of GPU's, like Blizzard, so they don't limit their audience. id tech, unreal, and crydev are the ones showing off what they can do with OpenGL/DirectX, not Valve.
Elixir, Erlang and the dining philosophers
Am I the only here who's seeing "Domain Parked with Instra"?
The perils of country-specific TLDs. Spare a thought for the poor Cook Islanders.
"having dependencies that have to be compiled increases the risk of something going wrong".

come on. reimplementing crypto is way worse.

re .ssh/config: application level libraries might need it as well. one of the many grieves i have about mysql-workbench (or any other java tool that does ssh), is that i have to configure keys and hostnames in it another time. multihop does not even work in them. both is easy in .ssh/config.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

How many people didn't get accepted something like App Academy? One problem with self-taught education is the lack of metrics; it's hard to tell if teach-yourself is a viable path for everyone, or just a small percentage.
In the intelligent queue algorithm, you could easily add such a criterium to make that more likely. Maybe I'll add that as an option later.

Code is here: https://github.com/albertz/music-player/blob/master/queue.py

Esp. `MainQueue.calcScore` is what you would want to modify.
Reasons why Netscape sucks
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> wilfully ignore what i asked

I answered what I knew the answer for. I have no idea about kde and its apps, never used it, as I said, I use Xfce. And on my laptop I use Openbox. On both of them I too switch between desktops/windows with my keyboard. I tried AwesomeWM once for a moment (very hyped recently), but pure tile seems too crazy for me and by their nature those wms are very raw out of the box (read: nothing there. DIY).

> i'm sorry, but that doesn't explain why you'd want to use one, unless you have a really slow machine.

It's one of those things where there isn't one true answer, it's just a matter of preference - good looking 'desktop metaphor' or highly script-customizable tiles. There should probably be some religious battles about it in the deep meanders of the interwebs. The most flagship usage of decent tilers is those sysadmin dudes with 40 terminals on 5 monitors rotating them all around between a dozen of workspaces like mad. I use 4 to 7 workspaces tops on a single monitor in xfce and openbox, while f.ex. awesomewm sets default workspaces to 9, I think that says pretty much about the workflow of the tiling userbase.

tldr: idk, whatever floats your boat.
I nearly cried of joy when I heard they would do an open world Skyrim like Half Life 3. I would have paid $500 on Kickstarter for that.

Better engine? Nice, but the HL2 engine would be good enough for me. HL is about atmosphere and story, not GFX - for me.
On the Decline and (Maybe) Fall of Venture Capital
NSA Outs Top-Secret Report That Missed the Future of Supercomputing
More or less.

http://dnscheck.pingdom.com/?domain=mega.co.nz
I pick up hitchhikers whenever I can. If it's a big inconvenience (a hippie with a huge dog) or if I think something is sketchy, I won't do it. Ive never had any real trouble.
A company which actively develops software has the ability to snapshot a stable development tree and call it a "New Engine"? Shock horror.

There does come a point where the architectural decisions made in the past no longer make any sense & core rewrite is in order. Valve are a quality company & know to avoid the second system effect. At some point you may as well label what you've written as a 'new system' even if you can trace its development path in an evolutionary fashion from the old to the new.
Oh do not mind that...

I was just asking a noobish question

1: What will be the primary clojure platform in the future?

It will be JVM.

2: Do clojurescript and clojure compete?

No. :)
DOS worked just fine. You're trying to tell me it was unusable because it could crash. Computers had reset buttons.

SparrowOS identity-maps all memory all the time. It will fragment.

All of your concerns? It's bad in theory but good in practice just like DOS.

Do this -- only report problems that actually happen. I'm smarter than you, India Nigger.

Tell me? How does invalidaterectangle help a full-screen flight simulator? Doesn't. Renders everthing 60Hz.

master/Slave multicore. Most activity happens on core 0. It can request helpers on other cores. This is better than SMP because you don't want tasks shifting around. You're gonna argue, brainwashed Indianigger, monkey. I want to run one app twice as fast, not two.

Should we focus on two video games at once or one video game at once as a primary usage?

I'm not targeting mobile. Thermostat uses 90% of nontransportation energy.
I'd argue that Valve was pushing the limits when Source first came out in 2004 - Half Life 2 still looks good today.
This is kind of a newbie question... but how does one develop java code through SSH?

I thought SSH was run through terminal command line. ie. all text. I can understand coding in vim with python or ruby through the command line. I'm not sure how its done with languages that need an IDE? like java
As someone who lives in New Zealand, I think that its only a matter of time before the domain name is seized. This whole MegaUpload affair has shown that the US government has quite a lot of sway over the NZ government and in my opinion I don't think they will stop until he's extradited to the US and put behind bars.
Machines will eventually be able to do everything you mentioned including improving its own code.
>> people should use open tools, running on devices they own, storing things on some storage they own and control.

I agree with your sentiment that "we shouldn't let others control our stuff." However, that doesn't mean you have to completely forego the advantages of cloud services.

For example, you can encrypt your data before backing it up to a storage providers. You haven't lost any freedom there; the worst case scenario is that they don't provide the reliability you paid them to provide. You can mitigate that risk by using more than one provider.
But SE has a business and make revenue + profit no?
Umbrella 2.0: Rain Shield
I don't think that "not caring about stuff" and "relying on serendipity" necessarily go together.

Not caring about stuff that doesn't matter and being good at things go hand in hand.
I'm all for incremental improvements vs big rewrites. However, there are times where incremental improvement is not viable because the basic premises of the new system is conflicting with the basic premises of the old system.

Take systemd, for instance. One of its stated goals is to remove shell scripts. This is not something which can be achieved by incrementally modifying sysvinit.
Yeah, as Charlie Stross pointed out on his blog some time ago, the publishers effectively demanded that Amazon have a monopoly on the eBook reading public & only now are they (slowly) realising that this might not have been a great idea. Bezos must have been laughing all the way home from those meetings...
Elasticsearch cluster setup on amazon ec2
Can anyone explain what FreeMyApps (http://freemyapps.com/) is doing differently to avoid getting shut down?
So does ExpertsExchange - what's your point?

If profit were the only things that mattered then Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google could never have gotten off the ground. Those things hemorrhaged cash for years.

It's how startups work. They are risky. They are unlikely to succeed. They often look like complete jokes.

And that's why you have to watch them carefully. Because it's the stuff you don't notice that really gets you.
I don't understand why this is important in the bigger scheme of things.

Social proof is important where social proof is important. But there are plenty of areas where it has very little meaning or value.