skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's mostly to penalize ISPs that don't play ball, but I'm sure there is some cost aspect.

I get the impression that PS3 networking is really slow, even wired. Trying to DLNA any video over 8 Mbps seems to cause stuttering and HD content from PSN downloads slower than real time.
I did this as well - watched both 48fps and 24fps, both in 3d and the former in imax. I didnt talk to Knoll, of course, but some notes follow -

1. The imax hfr 3d was on the whole awesome and I got a glimpse of where cinetech is heading. I was surprised by how good it was 'cos I expected it to be visually a lot more "soap opera"ish, iykwim. Peter Jackson has done some really good compromises so the film would look good in either format. It could've been a lot worse!

2. I was left with a craving to watch the 48fps again after I saw the 24fps. The craving was not for the outdoor scenes, but the indoor scenes which felt a lot more intimate in imax hfr 3d.

3. The outdoor scenes felt a bit bland compared to the 24fps! However, i think it was not the lighting that made it feel bland, but a feeling like i was moving through vacuum along with the camera. There is air out there in the scene and i was not breathing it or feeling the wind as the camera moves. These scenes worked in 24fps. Perhaps adding some sound indicating the air and wind might help during the sweeping outdoor shots.

4. Some cinematic techniques felt "old". The "zoom in on character and fly around" effect (on oakenshield) didnt work for me at all in hfr, but was spectacular in 24fps.

5. Slow motion needs to be reinvented. The slomo battle scenes between orcs and dwarves (iirc) had feeling to them in 24fps, but I thought "why are they moving so slowly? .... oh its slow motion!" during the hfr. It really needs something more to indicate that it is for emotional effect.

6. High resolution hfr 3d graphics totally rocks! The trolls were real and alive for me, as were the orcs and goblins. I think the digital team might've broken some new ground here rgd compositing scenes that's in some way different from what you see in games at 60fps. (Or maybe not!) At least, i cant wait to see Cars or WallE in imax hfr 3d!

7. Some 3d oddities (parallax) were disorienting in both. Ex as the camera pans to the young Bilbo letting off smoke rings, it looked like someone was pushing the bush behind him into place. But overall, 3d rocked in hfr for me compared to 24fps.

8. Traditional background score didnt work as well for me i hfr compared to 24fps. The scenes being more intimate and lively, i continuously had a feeling that the orchestra felt out of place. I'd much rather just have the sounds necessary for just the scene. Also the 3d placement of the sounds need to be more faithful to the geometry in the expansive shots. Some sounds just felt too loud for the distance.

Edit: minor bugfixes and clarifications plus new point on sound.
Awesome! Thanks for posting about this. I just started Erik Meijer's 13-lecture video series on Channel 9, and look forward to bolster my learning with your course.

Every slide has a secret note

Any idea how to show that on something like an iPad? Once per day to see the alt text on xkcd is already too much to bear.
"Netflix can't afford the data at the price they're charging, so they cut a deal with Comcast where they (presumably) pay them for the right to cache static content locally."

Ironically, my 105mbps cable connection with Comcast. The SuperHD service tells me to "Ask my ISP to join the Open Connect Network", helpfully.
Funny tidbit: on firefox especially, forEach and Map functions have a big performance hit compared to doing a native for loop when you're handling a lot of data!
I was working on something like that called Shipyard. I got a bit stuck with it technically and am not sure how to proceed.

URL is Shipyard.me - Unfortunately it has mostly become a home to spam at the minute.

I was planning on hiring freelancers to help with the development tasks that were beyond my skill set but then my contract ended which put a stop to my budget for my side-projects.

It was meant to be a place for side-projects to get their early adopters and for the founders to discuss and share & get feedback. Then on the front end would be a blog that documented the latest sucesses and a discover page with side project logos and a quick description. The monetisation side was going to be a low cost payment to get a project logo on the discover page. Nothing major, just enough to cover costs.

I had got 20+ teams/founders with side projects waiting to become members and I'd had a lot of positive feedback.

If anyone would want to join me on working on it to get it usable, it would be great to share it.
There's also the films of the Dogme 95 group (ie, Lars von Trier) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95

Notable rules for them being avoiding music that doesn't exist in the environment, shooting only handheld, only the barest of lighting.
Apparently, this is a difficult question to answer.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauty/
A dual-sided tablet even better.

I want to make a tablet belt holster too.
It is god awful.

I have a sibling who seems to have, somehow, adjusted. Probably out of bias: He just dropped $1600 on that fancy 240hz TV. This is just the new new thing. I HATE watching movies at his house. It ruins them.
I don't understand the Ruby as seen by PHP square
I'm guessing you'll only see 48Khz employed for recordings of real events, like musical performances, that Cirque de Soleil film they're pushing just now, and lavish documentaries in exotic locations such as nature films.
Some of the statements there such as this really disappoint me.

"PHP is what people use to get their first site
off the ground. PHP is what a web designer learns when he/she wants to
go into programming. PHP is what a random Joe uses when he needs to whip
up a page and he's in "do it yourself" mind."

PHP is a great language in that its very flexible and quick to get going with, the sad thing is people don't want it to grow up...after all, so many massive companies (FB?) use PHP for core components. Why can't those internally have a slightly larger vision...
I don't know, choosing the middle option seems like a good thing - get the best possible product for the least possible amount of money...
You can't merge two Skype accounts though, and can only be signed into one at a time
I think it is interior shots filmed using only candlelight, as described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon#Cinematography

This was/is unusual.
I can't upvote this as much as it deserves. The comments posted before this one point out the delicate issue in learning about biases in human thinking: it's a lot easier to notice the other guy's biases than my own. I'm glad that quite a few Hacker News participants like to share articles about systematic flaws in human thinking. Over time, with practice, that can help us disagree

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

more constructively in comment threads here, and avoid the "worst argument in the world"

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ee7/cleaning_up_the_worst_argument_e...

as we argue with one another.
Your life&rsquo;s work
Hi, Dave here.

For banner ads we're using iAd and Admob as a fallback. For interstitial (full-screen ads) we're using Chartboost, Revmob, and Greystripe primarily.

GameCenter has a _very_ small payload, but more importantly, we wanted to be able to do polling (for "live" play), maintain custom stats, have stat thresholds (after "n" date, resigning will count as a loss), maintain whether people are online (actively playing), have custom push notifications that were more than just "you've been challenged" or "it's your turn", have chat, be able to make "random matching" parameterized (based on game variant, player ability, etc.), have Facebook and email-based auth, store invitations and player preferences on-server instead of on-device, have player nudging, player blocking, and more.

That's a pretty long but incomplete list. Most importantly, we can do whatever we want, whenever we want, without shoehorning it in to GameCenter. Take a look at the biggest deficiency of Letterpress - even Loren admits that it's GameCenter. I'm not knocking it - creating something that is universally usable is hard...

Mostly, we just have all of the control at our fingertips, and can do so much more :)
I have a 3D TV and would probably watch some TV in 3D if it was available (I'd certainly give it a try, at least), but my content provider doesn't offer any 3D channels. I'm curious how many of the audience you mention could watch it if they had a 3D TV.
No, that's not fair either. Her philosophy is that schools must maximize student achievement, and I agree with her about this. The point of education is not to provide jobs for educators.
>Now replace your entire wall with an OLED 8K display.

That would be the only thing from sci-fi movies that could come true.

I guess silver jumpsuits are possible too but isn't that an unspoken rule that such a thing is a big no?
-$200 million in a 161 MW wind farm in Oldham County, Texas

-$75 million in a 50 MW wind farm in Rippey, Iowa

-$94 million in a portfolio of four solar photovoltaic (PV) projects being built by Recurrent Energy near Sacramento, California

-$75 million to create a fund with Clean Power Finance that will help up to 3,000 homeowners go solar

-$280 million in SolarCity for residential solar

-$168 million into Brightsource's solar project, Ivanpah, in California’s Mojave Desert

-37.5% equity stake in the early-stage development of the Atlantic Wind Connection backbone, a project to build a superhighway transmission infrastructure for clean, reliable energy off the Mid-Atlantic coast

-$157 million in two projects totaling 270 MW at the Alta Wind Energy Center

-$100 million into Shepherd’s Flat, the world’s largest wind farm at 845 MW

-$38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota that generate 169.5 MW of power

-€3.5 million (approximately $5 million for a 49 percent equity stake in the project) in a recently completed solar facility in Brandenburg, Germany

http://www.google.com/green/energy/investments/
Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
I am having trouble coming up with the attack that dumps the password token table but doesn't give up the whole app. Sorry.
Apple Now Locking Screenshots for Apps, Shutting Down Scam Tactic
Am I wrong in thinking this is absolutely awesome? I've watched the video several times now, and all I can think is that I want it, now.

It's an incredibly 'simple' concept, and yet the perfect next step in immersive display.
Comcast happened. http://www.internap.com/2010/12/02/peering-disputes-comcast-... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/peers-or-not-comc...
Because it's a good opportunity to ride the Go bandwagon and get some free traffic with a list of five software projects, of course...
Learning Mistakes from Doom Masters - Examining Strafe 40 and Strafe 50
I don't have much to add to the discussion except to say that I don't think the cd vs vinyl debate that we had in the 90s is a good comparison for the current controversy with 48FPS. Even if you accept that the first cds really did sound more accurate than their vinyl counterparts -- and some posters are contesting this -- the underlying points of contention are different for 48FPS vs 24FPS. Cds, in theory, brought you closer to the ideal situation which would be listening to the music in its purest form, unadulterated (perhaps, live?). But this is not what 48FPS does. Although 48FPS brings you closer to reality, it is the wrong reality. As pointed out in the article and by others, 48FPS makes you more aware of the artificial contrivances of the set -- the extra makeup, harsh lighting and the fake props. This is not what movies are supposed to do! The thing to strive for in movies is the fantasy realm that you're trying to depict. 48FPS puts a much greater burden on the filmmaker to live up to this fantasy expectation and when he or she falls short, as many are claiming PJ did, you have people complaining.
How does that interact poorly with Go? I'm just curious.
It is surprisingly fun to play around with the filters and see correlations unfold. If you restrict only a narrow band for number of downloads and leave everything else open, you'll see ratings go up, down, and then up again.
I read that, and am still not fully convinced; the Register's comment was normative rather than descriptive, and while I think that's how things should be in law you have to deal with things as they are.
While its certainly fun to toss marketing under the bus, that's not really fair or reflective of reality. An engineers work only has value as long as it has customers. Marketing definitely has a real and important role to play, and really is worthy of the attention of smart, hard working young people.

I think the problem is that marketing was overdone. Too much of a good thing so to say.
It is an interesting thought about the voting ring because 37S so consistently gets onto the front page. Yet, I've seen big tech news stories that make headlines across the web somehow slip by the 'new' page on HN and then have a hard time getting on the front page. But as far as I can tell you only really need a handful of votes in the 'new' section to push a story onto the front page where it gets more of a chance to sink or swim. I assume pg does have some anti-vote ring countermeasures, and knowing of pg's love of bayesian algos I assume they are smart and adaptive, it would be fascinating to know how it works.
Networking is seriously important. It will be valuable now and for the far off future. It's the worst thing holding back my buddies at our small town back home. They don't know anyone who is successful and wouldn't have anything to offer a successful person anyways. So, they are stuck in their small ecosystem of the local pub and trading tips on low paying low skilled jobs.

Combine skills, networking and the leverage of reach (through the internet) and you might find yourself in a position where you are wondering what all the fuss is about. There is a ton of work which needs to be done out there, but too few people who have figured out how to change with the times.

Edit: In other words, things may change so much to be unrecognizable in ten years. So, networking is the only thing that you can really count on to always be important.
College costs a lot more than just tuition. You have room and board, fees and 'service charges' galore, textbooks, living expenses, etc.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Hobbit at its frames per second.
This article is surprisingly information-free with respect to what they are actually doing. It mostly says that clinical trials are lengthy and costly...
C is still faster at common tasks and back then, code from readily available C and Pascal compilers was much faster than CMUCL or ELISP (both had a bytecode interpreter only AFAIR). My point is that in the 80s and 90s, computers were much slower and a factor of 2 was a big deal then, especially for professional developers who had to write well-performing applications, though nowdays a good language is "fast enough" if it's only half as fast as C.
That's really interesting. Have you gone to watch both versions? I did just to make the comparison for myself. I don't usually get headaches from 3D, but I definitely found the HFR 3D do be much more attractive than the 24FPS version. I mean, no, it's not as mind-blowing as Peter Jackson might lead one to imagine, but I found (for example) a lot of the "geography porn" shots look nicer in the HFR version.

> Regarding what you said about the "old guard" effect: It would be interesting to see some polls of audiences who have seen both versions. Unlike you, my non-film friends didn't have polarized reactions, they just thought it seemed different.

I may not have expressed that well if that's the impression you got. They didn't all love it. Some loved it, some expressed mild approval along the lines of, "Huh, it was weird, but I think I like it." I was just saying that I didn't get a single "Ugh, I saw makeup!" or anything along those lines.
It was labeled as HFR and cost me a few extra bucks at that. Thinking back more I do remember a few scenes where I felt like things were smoother. Perhaps my expectations were too high or other people are simply way more sensitive to the effect?

I'd like to see it at 4K, 48fps, and without 3D.
LOL, I made up the word Netflixed over ten years ago to describe this situation ;)
> Once per day to see the alt text on xkcd is already too much to bear.

Try the mobile site, m.xkcd.com; it has a clickable "alt-text" link to reveal the alt text in-page.
PHP is for webdev. That's it. Go outside the bounds of that and it loses its magic. On its own it's great for spitting out a webpage. It's a scripting and templating language in one, which is kind of cool.

That said, outside of that to make PHP work on bigger projects you end up with a lot of structure and ceremony that make PHP suck, not quite as much as Java, but it's not amazing.

Thiings like testing and testability aren't much fun in PHP. For a long time package management was a joke.

PHP is for webdev. That's it.
Here's a great piece on that lens[1]. Also, it's on view at LACMA through June 30[2].

[1] http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/sk/ac/len/page1.htm

[2] http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/stanley-kubrick
I don't know. The security policy in BGP isn't all that agile and decentralized to begin with; it's mostly just a mess, isn't it? Different providers with different systems for truing up filters, many of which themselves rely on centralized databases? Can it get much worse than it already is?
Easy Backup of MongoLab Databases for Heroku
We're getting fairly good at detecting asteroids though. Discovery from 1980 - 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_d-gs0WoUw
And how is Verisign not also a government contractor?
Offices are cheaper in SF than transit accessible (and thus highly desirable) parts of pa/mv, by a factor of 2x or more.

I'd rather just get a light industrial or detached R&D type building outside the immediate transit areas, though, where rents are more like $1-2 vs. $4-7 on Castro or University or 3 in SF. Parking solves my transit needs.
SparkleShare (http://sparkleshare.org/) uses Github to replicate Dropbox functionality; could you use the SparkleShare client on your designer's workstation so that when assets are created/updated/saved, they are automatically committed to your repo?
See me other comment. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5034625
Montreal (or REMOTE)

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There is a lot of focus on programmers , which is absolutely fine: they are usually the "makers". However I wonder why admins get overlooked. Just like the plumber or the electrician, sys/net admins are the handyman/tradesmen of the computing world, and as software deployments grow, so will their demand.
You can turn on Safari's awful console in the Settings app, I think under "advanced".
You are saying dating in SF is better than Seattle?
It must be solved by improved set, props, lighting, makeup... HFR is but one aspect of ability of technology to destroy the illusion of film. Improved sensor resolution affects this, too. As time goes on and Things Get Better, it's easier to notice the flaws beneath the makeup used for coverup. That is, until techniques catch up.
You've just voluntarily lumped yourself in with Yahoo Answers folk.
Excuse me, what?

CISPA is the opposite -- it is a tell that supporters support governmental oversight of private data in the name of 'cybersecurity'. There are a lot of loud people on the internet that cheered in its opposition, but there was a majority support before that fact -- something that Wyden is using to distinguish himself: he was against before the backlash.
I am aware. I've got one in college, one recently graduated, and one entering next year. And many of my kid's peers are currently in college. All of the room and board costs in every college we've looked at, or sent someone too, could be paid with a part time job taken at the same time as attending classes.

The idea that getting a STEM degree is outside the reach of kids today without going into lifelong debt is a myth.
Bra sales are only high-touch at the high-end, and even then only partially. Buying undergarments with a service model is socially awkward whatever gender you are.

I'm 100% certain that online bra sales have a future.

Why ? - the largest lingerie retailer in the US is Victoria's Secret. I'm guessing your brain automatically inserts the word "catalog" after their name. The biggest lingerie retailer built their business around a mail order catalog (although they obviously have stores now too).

The women who buy bras online are the same as women who buy other clothes online.
Colleges lose pricing power
What are you actually asking for? Employment in the US is at will by default, unless the employer and employee sign a contract explicitly agreeing to change something about that relationship. What do you actually want in that contract to give you? A guaranteed huge severance package that incentivizes them to keep you? Something that fully makes them unable to fire you without demonstrated cause? Do you also want to lose some of the freedom you have to walk away if they sell and massively change company culture, start hiring worse people, change what they work on or what technologies they use in a way that moves away from your interests, etc?

Also, remember that if you want a company's default employment contract to be different, it will also be different for all of your coworkers. Eventually, the company will make a hiring mistake; no process is perfect. In that event, you want the company to fire the person as quickly as it becomes clear that a mistake was made, not hang onto them until they have unquestionably demonstrated incompetence. Do you want to work at a company that will dilly dally about firing bad people?

Talk to anyone who has worked at various government agencies, which basically can't fire anyone after two years, and you will gain respect for at-will employment.
Not especially weird.

Boxers go against your asshole. Bras, not so much. Women's swimwear – very fit dependent – includes a protective, throwaway panel for this purpose.

Tons of women's clothes are highly fit-dependent. Boxers mostly aren't.
Take a chill pill, then read https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect to inform yourself what it's about. Hint: cost savings for Netflix and the ISP. The ISP can even get free storage appliance hardware from Netflix to cut their out-of-network costs for streaming Nextflix content to next to nothing (only needing to cache new content, presumably).

It's equivalent to you complaining about road neutrality should a company only deliver their products via Fedex trucks. The fact that the company chooses to only deliver their goods via Fedex doesn't affect your right to drive whatever street legal vehicle you want on the highway.
Even the white or Asian parts of SF have kind of shitty schools compared to the peninsula.