skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Watching a 16+ wheeler go down a winding driveway backwards when its only got about 1 foot of space on each side is far more entertaining and impressive than half the events at the Olympics. I could watch this all day.
I'd imagine speed would mostly be dictated by ffmpeg as that's what everyone is using.

I haven't checked with this version of VLC, but can it do hardware h264 inside an MKV container ? That's where some players have put in a lot of work to hardware decode MKV (when it's h264) as iOS requires some crazy workarounds in that area. So if VLC is doing MKV in software, it's still going to appear slower to the user.

Also, I'd say Open Source isn't really a relevant feature on the app store.
"why would you follow people if you were not interested in what they tweet?"

Well, yeah. Who are these people that you want to silence but don't want to unfollow? What would unfollowing do, which you don't want, which silencing would not do?
I tend to agree with this. I rarely, if ever, click on ads because they seem interesting. I mostly see an ad and say "oh that is interesting, I was searching for cars before and now I'm being advertised cars on a music site, how completely useless".

The truth is I think Google's adsense business has never had any real true value to customers (except for perhaps their 'first page at the top' paid ads, I use them a lot, mostly because I figure companies willing to pay for ads usually are a likely 'proper solid business').

Most of the adsense these days is 'trick next buttons', where people put them at the bottom of a page that appears to be the 'next page' button, and it's not.

I spend absolute craptonnes of money of stuff I don't need. Internet advertisements I am exposed to contribute almost zero impact to my purchasing habits.

Except for Belroy wallets. I have no idea how they figured to target me ('hipster' programmer?), but I did end up buying a wallet from them when their ads followed me around for a while. And their products are nice :) But that is it!

I couldn't care less if they are giving backdoors to the NSA to all my email including all company crap that is confidential and all. If they put ads into my email I will look elsewhere unless there is a paid option.
If they ever did, they would have to admit that the "free" service is actually just an sale where the user pays for the service with data and ad-watching. Doing that, it would both be bad PR, and would catch the rage of tax officers as only "free" services are tax-free when given to customers.
I first noticed this during the election in 2012. The best coverage I could find on third-party candidates was from RT. I've since then noticed RT show up on HN a few times, mostly covering the NSA controversy.
Yeah, I'll definately start searching for a good alternative. This is just unacceptable.
Online courses may not actively discourage collaboration, but they certainly do not force it in the same way that is possible in a traditional classroom. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge supporter of online courses. But a teacher staring you down, asking you a question, or encouraging you to work on a project in a small group is much more attention-grabbing than many online teaching mechanisms available.
You can't wait for perfection. This is the classic Maslow's hierarchy of needs fallacy. If you wait until the "more fundamental" layers are perfect you will wait too long or wait forever. And in many cases you will miss out on opportunities which feedback to "lower" layers from higher ones. It's important to spend an appropriate amount on different sorts of activities, but the appropriate amount is never to spend nothing on "higher level" stuff.

Consider science, for example. A lot of money was effectively invested into very esoteric sciences in the 18th through 19th centuries while the world was generally very poor, struggling to feed itself, struggling with disease, and so on. The seemingly logical, and compassionate, thing to do in those eras would have been to ignore esoteric pursuits and concentrate on dumping as much time, effort, and money into making everyone's lives better.

But that would have been disastrous. It would have meant that science would have lacked an understanding of genetics, of micro-biology, of chemistry, of electromagnetism, of physics, and so on. And that would have stunted the development of the industrial age (steam engines, and later electric motors), it would have stunted the development of new food crops, of fertilizers, of sanitation systems, of vaccines, of radio/television/networking, etc. Without which the entire world would be essentially as poor as it was in the 18th century, instead of with billions of people having access to stable food supplies, clean water, etc. and over a billion people living in wealth with a few billion more on the way to that level of wealth in the next few decades.
We can not survive in outer space in our current form. Human body requires too much resources, is sensitive to radiation and needs gravity. But this may change in near future :-)
That's a big if. The owner of the footage can be ambivalent, malevolent or benevolent. If I was ambivalent over an incident, I wouldn't be motivated to get involved and hand over my footage.
It'd be interesting to know how many passes they got per $ spent vs a traditional course.
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> “They thought this was the Pentagon’s most top secret meeting room, and the entire Pentagon was a large fortress built around this hot dog stand.”

I like this story. It neatly captures strangely symbolic, even poetic, meaning. What does Pentagon and its entire defense edifice ultimately protect? The American way of life, which is mostly hot dog stands and burger bars.
I follow just a little under 100 people. A lot of those tweets are just some comments about current affairs, tech or random funny tweets. While I use no particular client to filter my tweets, but when I skim through my timeline I usually look for links.

If the tweet doesn't have a link, it is basically 140 characters of someone commenting on something and can be ignored. If it has a link, maybe it could be a tweet pointing to something interesting.
Given that this is avoidable by using any POP or IMAP client, I wonder how soon they'll close them down.
I'm pretty sure it's a matter of "when".
> The only problem i really see, is making deliveries in snow (can't detect the road).

Surely they can use sonar/radar to see the road through the snow?
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Seriously. I usually end up grabbing my iPhone and doing a search there instead of via the web interface. So, so bad.
What's next, Android not turning on unless you click an ad? Google has jumped the shark.
$50 per year per person.

As I run a Google Apps domain for my family, that would be several hundred dollars per year.
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IMO people get slightly offended/feel bad if you unfollow them.

But as a gesture of politeness, you might want to follow someone who has followed you and is close to you, but at the same time you would not want to listen to all his tweets, in that case, silence might work, and not unfollowing.
Are all organisations lately competing in some limbo tournament? How low can you set the bar and still move below it?

There is no point of saving the face if it makes you look like an ass ...
Can we all collectively come up with something like zero inbox in the context of tweets?
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It works quite simply.
I, on the other hand, am happy. It is the same thing as the NSA working as my email backup provider.

Changes like these give growth to new/alternative businesses.
Much like email, Twitter becomes noisier than it is useful if if it has too great a presence in your life. The root of the problem is the volume of people that you're following, so I'd start there.
>It's estimated the the 28-square-mile island (slightly larger than Manhattan) is capable of supporting as many as 400 hunter-gatherers

Assuming this is accurate, I'm amazed that so much land is required to support a single individual. More so given it's an island with access to marine food sources.
> The Pentagon was declared a national historic landmark in 1992, and because the courtyard is one of the five historically protected features of the building, the hot dog stand must be replaced by a building of roughly the same size, and exactly the same shape as the Pentagon, Eaton said.

> “In general, the design will kind of replicate what we have here right now, but it’s going to be much more modern and a lot bigger. It will really give us an efficient food service delivery system for the Pentagon,” said David Gabel, the renovation program manager for Pentagon renovation and construction.

Really? Apparently in the US preserving a landmark means making it "much more modern and a lot bigger"? I don't understand you guys sometimes.
Make a private list "My real timeline", with the people you really want to read.
I wonder, will this be how they start to push ads into IMAP clients ?
> they wanted to "help us" sort out our inbox?

As long as it stays in "promotions" tab, I could care less, as this is where they belong. If that's the case that's actually a smart move to introduce in-maillist ads without polluting the "real" inbox.

As soon as they flow out of that bucket, we're entering Twitter's dickbar levels of dorkiness.
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Fastmail is pretty great.
This would make for a very short The Straight Story
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166896/
There are basically three kinds of people I follow: people from the Smalltalk world (or closely related tech guys), people from my musical background, and friends and acquaintances from my town.

From the Smalltalk world, I'm pretty much interested in every single tweet. Besides, people in this group don't tweet that much.

As for musicians and bands, we usually follow each other in order to stay aware of gigs, recordings, etc. But following is also an act of befriending, so there are bands and individuals who tweet way too much but to whom I still want to show interest, so I can't unfollow them.

Friends and acquaintances from my town, however, you've got to follow them... and some of them are really annoying. I don't want to unfollow them because, as OP said, «few of them might get offended and then your relations might ruin or something like that». If you live in a small enough town, you'll know what I mean :)
Alpine ;)
For Linux news, http://lwn.net/ is great, specially if you get a paid subscription (or wait one week to read their featured articles), but their target is probably different.
We can simulate gravity in space with centripetal force. The other problems are definitely present. The ISS is a good testbed for developing solutions to these problems, and I'm optimistic about our future deep-space travel capability.
Happened to me. I made an SQL update without specifying the conditions on a live database (project running, surprise surprise, late). Our team has sent some flowers and chocolates too. I am going to do the same thing next time I screw up, and I will.

These days it is too much about the electronic and not enough of the "physical" in my mind.
By offering to pay you've identified as someone who pays for things making you more valuable to google, thereby increasing what you should pay to Google if you want to go ad free. Then google could offer a bidding war to advertisers to pay more than what your paying to get ads back. Then you have to pay more than that. Until an equilibrium is reached.
Google "brendan eich javascript scheme". Result #1 is from Brendan Eich's website:

I was recruited to Netscape with the promise of “doing Scheme” in the browser...

I’m happy that I chose Scheme-ish first-class functions and Self-ish (albeit singular) prototypes as the main ingredients.

https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

So "JS=Scheme" is not very crazy. Maybe it oversimplifies. But it's not baseless. And it's short.
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"I find it really hard to imagine our society going back to a dark age though..."

Why? It nearly happened on at least two occasions over the last fifty years through nuclear war.

Disease, volcanism, asteroid/comet impact, warfare, general econonmic collapse.... seems like quite a long list. Of course, none of these are terribly likely but I wouldn't rule them out entirely.
On leaving / not leaving them alone:

"... They make it clear they want to be left alone."

"But could this be because they don’t see the benefits of ‘our’ way of life? If they knew, might they want to join us?"

"They won’t get the chance. In reality, the future offered by the settler society is to ‘join’ at the lowest possible level – often as beggars and prostitutes. History proves that tribal peoples end up in a far worse state after contact, often dead."

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/articles/3109-questions-and...
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I'm going to play devil's advocate for a little bit and say that the email-like-ads are in your promotions tab. A tab that is meant for ads. I turned off the tabs and I don't get the email ads.
I filter out most of the noise with a Greasemonkey app I wrote a while ago: https://github.com/cakebaker/lessnoise
Incorrect. Steve was CEO of Pixar and Apple at the same time. He found it to be exhausting. In Isaacson's book Steve believe this weaken his immune system which led to his cancer, which Isaacson discredited.
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It's hard to get it to work with optimus-like systems, where the external video ports are not wired to the integrated gpu, and you want to use it by default (which is something you want if you care about battery life at all). Otherwise, yeah it should work out of the box.
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Holy smoke...

I started posting on Usenet ~1989. I've seen a number of flame fests that I considered epic but this moved the bar exponentially.
I don't know… suppose some highly advanced aliens with for the most part benign intent found us. Would you really like them to "stay the fuck away"? I, for one, would love for our technology to leapfrog ahead centuries, even though it would completely change our culture.

The disease part can be handled today. We could go visit them in hazmat suits. And I know I'm being really generous when I'm comparing the modern world to benign aliens, but properly managed (as access to the island already appears to be) surely we can approach them in a decent way?

That they violently defend themselves is of course a highly complicating factor.

I guess all I'm saying is that not establishing contact is also a choice that we're making on their behalf. Is deciding that they can't parttake in modern society any more OK than deciding they must? Can we not contact them in a way where they get to choose?

Edit: I certainly agree that we as humans have an absolutely horrible track record on these kinds of things. But it's been a while now, hasn't it? Can't we pull this off by now? These guys are our brothers and sisters - should we at least not have a chat with them to see if they really want to be left the fuck alone, or if they might want to not die whenever they get an infected wound, or half the time they have kids, or whenever they break a leg? Hell, it might well be that some of them want to be left the fuck alone, while some would like to see the world. How come those latter ones have to stay on that island just because we say so?
The clip is absolutely fascinating. It's sad that the person who uploaded it also threw up a bunch of BS about garden of eden and Abrahamic religions. Come on, this contact with people unlike us. One of the downsides of greater contact and communication is the homogenization (somewhat) of civilizations around the world. These are people who have escaped much of that except a few contacts.

We really do need to fight the urge to put nike's on them, although I must admit to being interested the number of things we might learn about ourselves from studying these people. But then again, I understand the Schrodinger's "People" analogy.
Maybe it depends whether you look at it from a collective or individual point of view? Individually we are probably healthier, but as a population they well may be healthier since infirmity is naturally eliminated by death. That sounds pretty bad, but it might not be bad if they have a different, more accepting, view of death than us.
This happened more than a month ago, it would appear.
>Changes like these give growth to new/alternative businesses.

I totally dig this perspective. From now on, my opinion is that Google makes this changes to promote entrepreneurship. Love it.
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I would like to see how many students represent the 44 to 24 percent.

If it's a couple hundred I wouldn't consider it failure.

Plus has anybody considered the fact that some people (like me) consider exams just way for professors/everybody to keep stats on how the class is doing and me taking the exam doesn't help me at all with learning what i wanted to learn from the course.

I have taken a lot of online courses because i was interested in the subject did the small tests sprinkled in because i found the vaguely useful never took the exams.

I like the small details/intricacies being pointed out to me in the tests but I'm not going to bother remembering it all just the knowledge of it being there is enough I'll look up the details when i need it.
except a lot of the tribes were further reduced to paltry sizes after the tsunami. If I remember correctly from my last visit in 1996/97, the census numbers for some of the tribes were already around ~100. Since Port Blair is on the middle island of the Andaman land mass, it has affected all the other tribes on that island. Especially the Jarwa.

North andaman (Jarwa) tribes at the time were hostile, which I believe since the construction of the Andaman grand trunk road have become more subdued.

Compared to Jarwa, the sentilese have it better, they dont share their island.
It's sad that a serious site like this gets shut down. I kinda see why online news papers often are shit; it's the only way to make money.

Why don't we as users make sites like these able to monetize? In a weird way, most sites are the way we don't like them, because in some weird way that's what we "like" and that's what pays off.
I follow about 80 people, and I tend to read my timeline in its entirety. I look at most links that people post, and any articles that seem interesting I mail to myself to read properly later, or favourite the tweet so I can take a closer look at it at some stage in the future.

I make extensive use of lists, divided into about ten categories, each with over 150 members. I add people to lists without compunction, whereas users I follow are subject to much more stringent examination.

The alternative, which I've been thinking about doing, is just following everybody and treating the timeline as a river.
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> Fourth way is via lists, I do not like going to twitter.com/<my_user_name>/lists/xyz // the url does not look good.

This seems like a ridiculous reason to me, but to each their own.
I don't know. I can't stand to be with someone that isn't on par with me when it comes to intellect/emotions (and that is not that difficult to achieve). To commit to such a serious relationship with someone that doesn't and can't understand my position seems almost impossible for me.

Also the wife in question is a theoretical construct, not an actual human being, that was for purpose of mental experiment made 'extremely dumb'. He isn't saying his or any other wife/parter was dumb, he made a thought experiment to demonstrate his point. Try to not be so obtuse.
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> NSA working as my email backup provider

Backups are only useful if you are able to restore from them.
No problem for me, I just turned the feature off.

But maybe it will become mandatory in due time?
As long as Gmail's spam filter catches Google's own spam as well everything is fine ;-)
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Seems like someone at HN is reading TodayILearned subreddit diligently...

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1il1fm/til_du...
He's talking about accepting people's money to run Discourse for them.

The software is open-source, so obviously anybody can set it up and use it themselves.
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i have been waiting for this on youtube for years- i do not want to see the same video pre-roll i have already clicked skip on 30 or 40 times.

Being a technology company who are seen as leaders in personalised adverts you think they would over come this terrible user experience
Really looking forward to see fun spam closing the loop
It's not an obvious position. They need users for feedback, but don't want to claim their software is fully production-ready.

On http://www.discourse.org/faq/ you get both what just quoted, at the top, and below:

Should I switch to Discourse right now?

Probably not.
In fact, all non-toy Lisp implementation provide TCO - http://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html because, it seems, it's a natural feature of a Lisp system (Scheme just requires it).

Again, Lisp could be defined as a limited set of conventions/features. As long as some other features, such as CLOS added there is no problem, but if some features are broken, then it is not Lisp anymore. It is just doesn't walk like a duck.

Let's say that Clojure was developed with a "put everything useful together" or Ruby-approach, if you wish, which is very popular for scripting languages, while development of Scheme and other Lisp dialects was founded on "put only what is absolutely essential, and done right".

The first approach "stuff anything in" you could see almost everywhere. The second approach "research first, and do the best" is unpopular for the obvious reasons and could be rarely seen only in masterpieces, such as Gambit-C, nginx, old-school marvels such as Informix.

So, in my opinion, Clojure is much closer to Ruby than to Lisp (let's not be deceived by parentheses) - it is a scripting language (to quickly put everything together with variety of clever special syntax and fancy data-structures without much thinking about implementation details). This is, of course, most productive approach to coding - this is why people love scripting languages so much.
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Yahoo fails again. Yahoo science news writer outs herself as a creationist.
Well, ever since the Intergalactic foundation created a no-fly zone around our solar-system in order to let us remain uncontacted, we are in a similar boat. People outside there look fondly at our antiquated technology as the good old days.
If you read the article, in the first line:

>I do not think I fall into the "eidetic memory" category, although I have a superb photographic memory.
My son is 2 and recently found to be deaf. One usage case I imagined (while we are going through the process of learning sign-language and learning about the forthcoming Cochlea Implant he will receive) is exactly this, so it's gratifying to see some development in that sphere.

Sign-language is different to English in the same way German is different to English.. you can translate, but it's not quite the same.

Regardless, I did wonder - given how cretinous most Human / Computer Interfaces still are - if learning signing would be a better way of interacting with a machine. It would certainly have the side-benefit that users could talk to deaf people more easily (and possibly would help reduce the stigma that being deaf seems to still have, even today).
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