skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I admit I only now followed the link to the article, that is how biased I am. Turns out it is an article that basically says "we have no idea how to get out of the mess we created". How much content is in that? I stand by my statement...

Is it not a valid opinion to sometimes say it is time for a thing to die? Why keep investing in hopeless tech?
I saw the 2D-only version and there wasn't anything particularly jittery about it. It had the usual special effects issues with physics of unrealistic things looking, well, unrealistic (especially apparent in the dragon attack and the long shots when everyone is trying to run out of the troll mountain), but I didn't notice anything amiss that I could attribute to the 48fps->24fps down-conversion.

Either the 3D/24-fps combo makes things weird or JungleGymSam saw the movie in a place with a janky projector.
Nothing is forcing them to offer it, but I'm expressing my opinion and saying something should force them not to, because my employer should have nothing to do with my health
Google needs a policy against doing evil.
CDs sounded cold because converters were bad and engineers didn't have much experience mastering for it, not because they sounded too perfect.

Early CDs still sound bad, and I would take the respective vinyl over the CD any day still. Modern CDs sound amazing, if we leave the loudness wars aside for a moment.

I suppose there are two reasons why people use Instagram filters. Firstly, because most phone cameras aren't very good and the filters distract from the bad picture quality. Secondly, because it's in fashion, and people just do it because the cool people do.

I don't even understand where you were trying to go with the Facebook/Twitter/Youtube thing. It's a trivial statement and provides no illumination.

24 frames per second with a 180° shutter will always be more engaging than 48 frames per second with a 240° shutter or whatever they use, unless they manage to make the last one look more like the first one and add to it in some way. Like with modern CDs and vinyl.
> People like the hiss and compression of records and tapes.

I'd argue that they don't. People like what they know, and a different reproduction creates an annoying cognitive dissonance, like hearing a new interpretation of your favorite piece after having listened to the original for decades.

It's pretty much the source of the Uncanny Valley issue
+1, does UVA do any kind of OpenCourseWare[0]?

[0] http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
Apparently PS3 and some other devices have already been able to do 1080p [1]
Maybe there is also a change in compression algorithm involved, which improves the quality at the same resolution?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Netflix&oldid=...
> due to the fact that 48FPS made it very apparent there was lots of makeup being used

How does better temporal resolution (higher frame rate) enable better spacial resolution (see makeup detail)? In no or low motion, there can be no difference.
I don't know anything I have not read here on these pages, but if those usernames have a history of upvoting your submissions, it might be that you have run afoul of the voting-ring detector.

If all of your submissions end up with a score of 1 or 2, I'd take that as a sign to stop posting them regardless of the reason they are ending up at 1 or 2.

Administration of HN is far from a completely open and public process. (In my humble opinion, that is big part of the reason the quality of the site is so high.)
And shoot every indoor scene twice?
Just man-up and get married.
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If you like this stuff, I can't recommend Thinking Fast and Slow enough
CDs sounded terrible when they first came out, because hardly anyone knew how to master for digital and the recordings/mixes were demonstrably inferior. Tape is a lot more forgiving when you overdrive it it sounds quite nice because it distorts in linear fashion. Overdriving a digital recorder results in clipping, which sounds hideous.
If it costs more, then charge more.

"Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem" - Gabe Newell
Why would 48FPS have any particular effect on lighting or any other detail other than movement? Why would makeup stand out more?

[I've only seen the Hobbit in 24FPS (unfortunately the 48FPS is only available in conjuction with 3D which I won't watch).]
Big data happened to Netflix. They moneyball their movies and only pick the ones that result in the most retention in an aggregate sense.
The opengl bindings don't really need documentation, as they're automatically generated to mirror the C API. Really, if you want to know how to use `cl-opengl`, you memorize a simple naming convention and the rest is a matter of "how do I use OpenGL," not "how do I use cl-opengl?"
> The text-book reason filmmakers add makeup to actors and then light them brightly is that film is not as sensitive as the human eye, so these aids compensated for the film's deficiencies of being insensitive to low light and needing the extra contrast provided by makeup. These fakeries were added to "correct" film so it seemed more like we saw. But now that 48HFR and hi-definition video mimic our eyes better, it's like we are standing on the set, and we suddenly notice the artifice of the previously needed aids. When we view the video in "standard" format, the lighting correctly compensates, but when we see it in high frame rate, we see the artifice of the lighting as if we were standing there on the set.

This sounds entirely wrong to me, regardless of his appeal to experts.

There was no "film" versus "high definition". So far as I know, the Hobbit was not filmed in both 48 and 24, nor both in film and in digital: I think it was filmed on RED in 48fps HD digital and converted to 24 HD digital in post, by adding motion blur. Thus there was only one sensor type, aperture, shutter speed (likely 1/96), and ISO setting for both film versions. The blogger's description above seems to make assumptions which are simply not true.

If this guy saw some difference in lighting, this difference must be solely due to the 24fps motion blur conversion.
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It is better as a tool for self-introspection than a tool of accusation. Thinking in terms of probabilities is good for the not verified stuff.
My wife and I saw the HFR version and we were both put off by it. We're not exactly movie snobs or hard to please either...we've been to a theatre like 5 times since we had our first child 10 years ago.

I was completely unimpressed. It was painfully obvious that we were on a set instead of in some fantasy world. If this really is the future, then I hope that Knoll is correct that it will be solved by improved sets, props and lighting.
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I got curious, too. The last comment you made before this one was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5008026

Very constructive :-)
Off-topic, but I'm getting a 404 on one of your fonts:

GET http://hypirion.com/fonts/Inconsolata.woff 404 (Not Found)
Even things that were at 1080p tended to be real low bitrate. Ever notice that 1080p movies bought from iTunes are like 10% bigger than the 720p copy of the same movie?
Just wanted to add to the insightful comment, so what if another person uses a function in that .js code to solve their problem, your ideas stay yours.
Also you can close down your IP into the server programming environment and call that from your .js
I personally think that the proper balance between close ideas and open solutions is what spurred the web world beyond any other programming environment.
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I came to the same realization as you did, and stopped my Netflix subscription a few months ago.

I figured that as far as watching a movie goes, I'd rather rent 3 latest releases a month on iTunes for $3 each than pay $8 for a sub-par catalog on Netflix.
Netflix does have a bunch of shows that I enjoy re-watching everyonce in a while, but buying the physical copy used for cheap on Amazon is again a better option.

I might resume my subscription for a month when they release the Arrested Development exclusive season, but that's the only interesting they'd offer that I can think of.
I think the naked board aspect of the Pi is another relevant attribute.
I wouldn't bet on Facebook/Twitter/Social - its honestly a very hard business to be in for a megacorp. Slippery customers, monetization destroys product quality - there are lots of statements people like to make such as "but what if FB just does X" (charges a dollar, muscles into search, etc) - those what ifs in actuality are very difficult pivots. Additionally its telling that the number 2 social network (in terms of popularity) cant figure out how to consistently make money. Social networking in general is a graveyard of small rockstar companies that have generated more hype than dollars.

Apple is a behemoth - they may be at the top of their game but they have a looong looong way to fall if they start to. They may be the most valuable just by how large they are today. I think generally they will smartly stay at what they are good at (consumer devices/software).

Amazon is my vote - they are amazing at scale in almost every way. Im not too keen on seeing this happen but I think they are going to slowly eat almost all of retail. On top of it, it seems as if they are successfully trying to replicate their model for retail across other segments (AWS/digital/etc) - Amazon seems to want to be a provider for everything and the scary part is that they are doing it quite well and quickly.

Google I think has some good things ahead but in a lot of ways I think they have stagnated from a business perspective. Its a bit hard to see this perspective in that they deservedly uphold an amazing reputation amongst the tech community. They have great ideas but they are still 100% in the ad business after all these years and many years of trying diversification. They have great side projects that live great lives today but from a business perspective they are always still side projects. I think Google will see some moderate growth but am not too bullish on their version of glass or auto-cars ever being true business drivers for them.

Dropbox, Square - great services - will remain blips on the radar of history compared to the others.
The best book on cognitive biases that I have read is Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland.
Hostile content providers also happened to Netflix.

I got a peek into how the studios feel about Netflix while at a previous job and they all see it as a snot-nosed punk that is acting to ruin the value of their precious content. They are firmly against the all-you-can-eat model that essentially defines Netflix.

When Netflix was the only game in town they could change the minds of the content people by pulling up in fleets of money trucks, but now that there are viable alternatives that push rentals and digital ownership (via UltraViolet, etc), the content people are mostly just cutting Netflix off and hoping they die.

Of course, Netflix is aware of this which is why they've started to get into the business of funding their own content.
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Shaving with a DE razor is also empirically more badass than cartridges.
Did you know a lot of contemporary music is still recorded onto tape in the studio because engineers and musicians like the character it adds to the signal? Consumer tapes sound hissy partly because the tape is so narrow that they have a low signal:noise ratio. Recording onto larger-size tape reels eliminates that issue, but the distortion/compression from deliberate overdriving of the inputs still sounds pleasing.
after my eyes were actually adapting to the 48 frames/s i really liked the experience. what i found strange though was, that when displaying landscapes there was actually a depth-of-field in the movie - which did not make it a fully "real" visual experience. i guess this is rather a technical limit of the cameras the movie was shot with than intended. anyone got some details on this?
The HFR camera uses a notably different lens, I believe as a result of the faster shutter rate. When you double the fps, you halve the exposure time, which calls for a different lens.
Reminds me of Eliezer Yudkowsky's comment that "I've seen people severely messed up by their own knowledge of biases. They have more ammunition with which to argue against anything they don't like."
> If this guy saw some difference in lighting, this difference must be solely due to the 24fps motion blur conversion.

And to the fact that you are seeing half as many frames in the same time span.
When Gilly Hicks launched (subsidiary of A&F), one of their main selling points for the stores was having all of their bra sizes and styles available in the dressing rooms. Thus, you could go into the dressing room to figure out what fits, then pick out the ones you liked from the store floor.

I'm not sure if this is still the case, since I no longer work at A&F and don't go to Gilly Hicks, but my coworkers at the time were pretty excited, since finding well fitting bras can be very difficult.
Almost everyone I know (even those who loved the movie) thought it looked a bit odd in HFR. None of them are "film insiders".
>Starting with The New World, Malick has instituted “rules” in his filmmaking, including using only natural light, no cranes, no big rigs, and handheld cameras only [1].

You might want to checkout New World if natural lighting interests you. Malick is known as the "director's director" and has done a lot of very interesting work. He loves trying to capture "unrepeatable moments", like how he used a clip of an in-costume Christian Bale taking a break smoking a corn cob pipe in New World when Bale didn't even realize he was on camera.

[1]http://stillsearching.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/39-facts-abou...
To me the OO features of PHP have always felt 'bolted on', yet Java is OO from-head-to-toes. It only emphasizes my point: unlike a startup, a programming language cannot pick/change vision when it is a grown-up.
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I think it's the opposite - people don't like flaws. The higher accuracy of the CD and hi-res photos makes the flaws in data capture more obvious because there is less distraction. Adding hiss, pops, blur, or other distractions reduces our focus on the flaws.
Now replace your entire wall with an OLED 8K display.

One of the things I've been playing around with have been the Phillip's "Hue" lights (see the Apple store) which you can control via the Zigbee light protocol. Taking the colors from the screen and doing accent lighting of similar shades. Its kind of amazing how that makes your screen seem bigger.
People continue to love netflix.
Ironically, I saw the 48FPS 3d and that made it far worse. Any scene with motion was literally unwatchable with both eyes open - and this was true for every one of my friends that went that night. We suspect it was something wrong with the projector itself, as the 3d previews at 24fps looked fine. I'd really like to see it again properly if the operators get things straightened out, as the low-motion scenes looked incredible.

Contrast that to Avatar, for example, which was an awful 3d experience for me as well, but mostly because I was stuck in the front row (I arrived "only" an hour early)
is this a good cover letter?
Link: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html

Posted April 2001, and revised April 2003.
> Between Hulu Plus, Amazon, Crackle, iTunes, Verizon On-Demand, regular and paid cable channels,

This is a bit of an unfair comparison. You listed sources that, together, have available tons of content, yet individually most of those services are missing things that the others have.

Netflix still has a lot of great content, but it's going to depend on your taste. If you are looking for new TV shows and lots of blockbuster type files, Netflix will come up empty handed. If you are looking for a content library with lots of different kinds of shows and films in many different genres and production levels, Netflix is still a very good value.
> Why keep investing in hopeless tech?

Because your codebase relies on it.

Death will be hard for any mainstream language (proof: COBOL), especially open source ones.

It might find not many new projects are started in it.
> People who pickup Python will always stay and never move on completely.

To be blunt, that's not universally true. I've moved on to Go, with an eye for more functional languages this year.

Python is great, but it's not the last language.
I believe that knowledge of cognitive biases is useful for identifying flaws in one's own thinking, but I can't say I've seen it used very productively in argument. Especially for the type who is more of the "learn it and sling it" fact-thrower with more knowledge than understanding. It becomes harder to talk to those people because they're convinced they have your psyche all figured out, no matter what logic you employ.
So how do you differentiate your service from Least Authority [0]?

[0] https://leastauthority.com/
My understanding, perhaps incorrect, is that even after trying them on, most women still buy the wrong sizes (80-85%. Wikipedia has 4 citations to this stat, i haven't bothered to read them all, but here is one study: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2275741/).

That makes this even more fascinating to me, because while women apparently want to try them on so they can test "fit", whatever they are trusting to determine that fit is apparently causing them to buy the wrong bras most of the time.

Of course, it's also not clear if this is intentional (IE they uy the wrong bra size thinking it makes them look better or whatever), or accidental.

Interestingly, reading the results of that study, it could be they don't care. The study finds that various forms of pain are not correlated with improper bra size, so it could be women just wear what they think makes them look good, and since it doesn't cause any pain, they don't realize it's not the right size.
FWIW, EPB in Chattanooga, TN is a part of it.
There's also an IMAX 3D version. IMAX used to be filmed on 4x larger film stock, but now that everything is digital, I'm not sure if the IMAX version is different than the standard 24FPS version.
> I would love to see cinematographers experiment with natural lighting for shots.

What are you talking about? Many films are made with natural light. Kubrick wasn't alone.
A small bit of evidence to the contrary:

http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee: 35,566 subscribers
http://www.reddit.com/r/Wicked_edge: 26,612 subscribers
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Imagine the following scenario.

Netflix: Okay, everyone can have HD movies now, but they cost more. Also, only if your ISP supports it because hey these require 5Mbps from edge locations. So it's the same as before just more expensive.

w1ntermute: What the fuck? They want to charge extra money for movies that my ISP is capable of delivering for free? This is why piracy exists.
They also lost a major partnership with Starz which bolstered their catalog for a long time with newer releases and movies from the major studios.
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A quick demo of how to add event handlers to Bukkit using Javascript.
There is some value in comments like yours. It brings to light just how many of these PHP bashing statements are biased and uninformed knee-jerk reactions, and therefore, should not be taken seriously by any rational person.
There is never no motion, unless you're in hard vacuum or a clean room. If you doubt this, shoot some video of a static scene, then take on frame out of it and repeat it for the same length of time. People's pulse makes the color of their skin change subtly. Lights flicker in phase with alternating current. Outside, the air moves and the color temperature of the sun changes subtly with it, even if the sky is perfectly clear.
From now on, frame rate will be just like aspect ratio: another choice for the filmmaker. Some movies will still be in 24fps, some will be 48fps (or some other value), and eventually some will probably be variable from scene to scene.

As for the Hobbit, I think HFR could certainly have used a better "ambassador" film. Maybe James Cameron (who has also talked about 48fps from time to time) will do a better job of it in his next movie.
Should've been fixed now, thanks for mentioning.
Can I ask whom that would be? No one else here on HN (myself, on Comcast, included) seems to be on a "ready" ISP.
...and after seeing that Lionsgate is abusing my country's legal system like this, I will be sure not to give them a single cent of my money. If these companies want to know what it really means to "lose sales," we should show them by boycotting.
Fork a recipe, pun intended? ;)

Edit: call it gitmeafork.com! (sorry for the bad joke!)
It wasn't so much that engineers didn't know how to master, but that the analog-to-digital sampling was done at the CD bit rate (44.1Khz). That meant that the analogue signal needed to be brick-wall filtered to remove any information above 20KHz, and analogue brick-wall (hi-Q) filtering does really, really bad things to time and phase. Since the late '80s, the sampling rate on conversion has been much higher and the removal of high-frequency information (possible aliasing) is done in the digital domain. (And it really didn't help that early players did no dithering on playback either. Early CDs still sound horrible, but you really need to play them on early players to get the full dentistry-without-anaesthetics effect.)
Whoa, hopefully I'm not the only one who missed that. I thought it was just animated text, not a link.
More updates per second to each pixel means each pixel is more faithfully tracking the real-life image, which in turn allows the eye to more accurately interpolate spatial details in the displayed picture.

As you say, for a truly static scene there is no difference. In practise there is always noise in the picture, so even in static scenes a higher frame rate will tend to reduce noise by averaging.
Is there any way to import Delicious tags as Kippt lists (and not hashtags, as it's done now)?

Alternatively, is there anywhere in Kippt I can see a list of all my hashtags?

I want to switch over entirely from Delicious, but being unable to see all of my tags at once is really frustrating.
how many people actually use those features though? i never did in 4 1/2 years getting a Bs of IT. a chromebook is not going to work for everyone. but for the vast majority of library work it will do just fine. would i want to write my Senior Capstone project on it? No. but English 1101, 1102 essays and term papers sure.
Eric Schmidt looking at things
I saw it in HFR 3D and it looked great. No idea what the fuss is about.
To be fair: net neutrality as a policy is intended to protect the content providers from unfair pseudo-extortion and competition from the (literally entrenched, and in some cases monopolistic) consumer ISPs. The point was to prevent Comcast from making a deal with Microsoft for fast Bing searches and then squeezing Google, etc...

What's happening here is the opposite: 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. It no less onerous to the consumer, but it doesn't fit the policy goals that net neutrality is designed to enforce.

That said, your last point is dead on. Netflix has invented yet another way of making their service harder and more annoying to use for the poor consumer then The Pirate Bay.
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Yeah I think the lighting in the scenes that take place in Bilbo's home tends to look bad even in the 2D standard-def 24fps trailers you can find online. It really doesn't have anything to do with HFR.
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> HN, I expect better.

I don't really see why you have any basis for that expectation...