skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda surprised that the grandparent (asked an honest question) is getting downvoted while this post (made a baseless claim) isn't.

>The only "nerd circle" I know that is fixated on MPC are otakus, for no meaningful reasons except to make themselves feel superior.

VLC is built largely around the cross-platform ffmpeg libraries and does not seem to have the ability to use native Windows DirectShow filters, in the interest of being portable and removing a source of configuration errors. Like it or not, a number of high quality open-source "audio/videophile" (for lack of a better term) media player plugins exist solely as Windows DirectShow filters. The most important that springs to mind is MadVR, a video renderer with support for high-quality GPU-accelerated upscaling filters, and the ability to set separate upscaling filters for the chroma and luma channels. That's more than enough for me, but there's also ReClock (similar to the RetroArch emulator, perfectly syncs the video to the display and slightly shifts the pitch of the audio to compensate), various vendor-specific hardware-accelerated video decoders, xy-VSFilter, the LAV filter suite (which support, amongst other things, bitstreaming, the ability to pass compressed audio streams through to a digital receiver), and others I'm probably forgetting.

These plugins can be used in any media playing software for Windows that supports DirectShow filters, such as the official Windows Media Player. MPC just happens to be a really lightweight, stable, and customizable DirectShow-based media player.

VLC is good software and probably the best solution for people who just want to watch some videos without configuring anything. I haven't looked at a stock MPC install in a while, but it's possible that stock VLC works better than that. However, for those that actually want to put some effort into tweaking their AV-setup, and want to make use of Windows-specific software, MPC is a great media player, one of the few programs (including Foobar) that I sorely miss on Linux. The people that look down on VLC users are silly, but it's not like the only reason to use MPC is elitism.
> Contrast to the iPhone, yet again (the original). It showed both incredible potential and was an excellent actual product.

Which was over twice the price at launch, and then fell off the face of the Earth once the iPhone 3G was announced, and dropped from support a year later or so. (The 3G was SOLD longer than the original was even supported) I think the original iPhone is exactly what he wants to avoid, since no one thinks Google will give him a retroactive refund like Apple did.
Yea, this is a good illustration.

For example, for an intersection of two planes going through origin, the plane equation coefficients are (a multiple of) the of the normal vector coefficients. Now, the intersection vector must be perpendicular to both planes normals, so if you take the cross product of the two vectors, you get the intersection vector.

This in this case I would just look at it and instantly do a cross product of the coefficients, whereas you would eventually do precisely the same, but reasoning algebraically, perhaps just as fast.

In this case, thinking algebraically doesn't seem to yield the intimate relationship with your object of study required for creativity, just because of the geometric nature of it.

But this reasoning wouldn't be much use in -- for instance -- fiddling with discrete mathematics, where you may get more intimate precisely by reasoning algebraically!
Bradley Manning's treatment to date is essentially torture. The message that the US is trying to send is 'If you cross us, we'll torture you until the end of your days.'

Death is an easy out. Become a martyr? Not so bad. Live for the rest of your life, naked, in solitary confinement? I'd rather be dead than lose my grip on sanity in those kinds of conditions.
For heartwarming tales of childish behaviour...
I think that's a phat cop-out. The media can steer the public narrative, but it cannot create predispositions out of whole cloth. I think Americans, especially those raised in the shadow of the cold war, have a predisposition towards wanting a militarily aggressive government. And Carter argued against that, and was reviled for it and seen as weak. I think the media steered that narrative and maybe made Carter less popular than he would otherwise be, but I don't think they created that visceral reaction in people: that his actions showed weakness on the part of America and the gut aversion to showing weakness. I think that was always there and the media just took advantage of it.
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This is really cool. I only wish we knew the name of the "colleague of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Walton", so he can get credit for this.
Yep, cool. Good article and neat site, either way!
Thank you for using Draft to post this too! :)
First thought was: "10 trillion heartbeats?"
Why would I "trust you" when you have made no substantiative argument and are

I use the Mac not because "it has no options", but because there are no other options on other platforms that are better for my needs.
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#5 would have probably been better stated as "Learn how to listen, already."
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I was really hoping to see this guy explaining loom:

http://i.imgur.com/SgBgK.png
Rackspace Press Release Screams Butthurt by Amazon
This seems like nonsense to me - any sound waves will be massively disrupted by the bloody great vehicle ploughing through the air, no?
Lots of valuable one liners in there. I think being at google though he missed a few that are too obvious to mention there.

#43 Start with something that works and then iterate often to improve.

#44 If your project involves engineering then involve the engineers in the product specifications, don't trust marketing or MBAs to do it alone.

#45 Simplify as much as possible.
What do you think about an embedded video? Personally, I love being able to see a video of how it works (with minimal marketing speak of course), but maybe it turns away some users?
I'm great at backend, frontend, and design, though design is harder for me. I'm also great at marketing and am often called a liar because of it (my vision of the future seems so far-fetched that people have problems believing that I'm very close to making it happen and that with a little help (for now I'm working on becoming even more self-reliant) it'll all happen).

My training in the CS fundamentals are solid, but I have a Computer Engineering degree, so there are some gaps (weakness when it comes to graph theory), but those are made up for by a wide range of experiences in Electrical Engineering whose applications overlap Software Engineering in a very real way (if you can see it). For example, I use the Kalman Filter in my head ALL the time, and it seems like thinking about things as being in a black box that you feed input and get output is very useful for debugging and getting started quickly. I naturally like drawing connections between disparate things, and learning a wide variety of things which can then in turn be applied to a wide variety of things, so a Computer Engineering degree was the correct one. I can easily brush up on the gaps, which is what I'm doing now, and then all that exists is a Computer Scientist with all this extra knowledge that he's waiting to apply in clever or unique ways.

I not only know backend and frontend, but I'm good at both. Though I'm good, I'm often unconventional, so those that are sticklers for convention and the specs won't be able to appreciate the work that I do. I spit in the face of minutiae like code formatting and spending a lot of time breaking things down in favor of getting something working, then when it's working to my satisfaction I can dive into all the details. I would previously get overwhelmed, because when starting a new project I would see the entire system and how it all came together and would get stuck on all the details, but after learning how to wait and how to let things marinate for a while, I see this as a good thing. I see everything connected together, and design a system that's holistically sound. And the better I get across the board, the better wired together the system is.

If you are a backend engineer, then learn javascript and that will get you a long way toward being a full-stack developer. It seems as though picking up language is not that difficult for many engineers, so you can just think of javascript as another language. Then learn HTML and CSS. Even if you don't become full-stack, it's good to know the other side of the fence, so you have an idea what's going on. All you have to avoid is to try forcing baby-understood conventions, as though you know what you're doing, on those front-end people trying to do something different, or that all of a sudden seem to not know that much. Things are rarely as simple as these management-fueled blanket rules (which are often sh*t).
In the summer of 2007 I was doing a bunch of research as to whether or not to buy a few shares of $100-$130 Apple stock. I knew the iPhone was coming, and I thought it was going to be big. The reason I eventually decided the iPhone was going to be a loss? Rumors of a Google phone, which I thought would be the end-all.

Heh.
A few years later working at Google, my boss discussed with me about how Google is just not a very good products company. Big consumer products require a polished launch, with products that speak to the consumer. Google on the other hand, rolls things out slowly, iteratively, and rarely takes them to a polished, user-friendly state. If this ever happens, it's usually over a very long period of time, and quietly. And that's just with software products - you could say this is even more the case with hardware.

I don't think glass will be the silver bullet of wearable computing. It will be the concept definer, the 'what', but the 'it' will come from somewhere else.
Plex is almost this, if you're looking for something that has this feature now.
Mainstream as in "hyped on HN"?
I'll let someone else handle VLC, but fb2k is good because:

* Extremely fast startup and snappy interface

* Supports a wide variety of formats

* Uses existing ID3 tags & Vorbis comments and doesn't try creating its own

* Mature plugin interface

* Reasonably simple

Downsides are that you have to be willing to spend a little extra time organizing your music and it's weak with playlists and device synchronization.
I've been to UAE and Oman, both for xmas/ny, I wouldn't call it moderate. when I had to put up long pants in mid-day to enter the mosque and sadly they happenned to be jeans (you make this mistake only once), I thought I'd die on my way from the parking lot. cold nights are typical for desert in the sense of no civilization open area desert, not cities located on the coastline near a desert. maybe KSA's Riyadh is different because it's located inland, but still cities usually hold temperature pretty well, hence 'summer in the city' tends to be a painful experience during peaks even here in Central Europe.
I think you read half of the parent comment before replying, and missed the point of that.
Because unless I am mistaken, you had not mentioned it being public data. Private surveillance is not really much use to him. I've worked in places where the surveillance tapes were wiped or mislaid when it wasn't in the interest of the footage owner to have its existence known.
Making it all public data would be totally different. That opens another can of worms: Would it then be a crime to delete the data if you were the owner of the footage?
Top venture firms put out call-to-arms for open source innovators
If Anon was able to get these passwords, I'd bet foreign spy agencies and black hats can as well. Plus with passwords as bad as these, it would have been trivial for someone to have guessed them in the first place.
Yeah that would be awesome. Even like a hackathon or collaborative game jam would be a lot of fun.
>Contrast to the iPhone, yet again (the original). It showed both incredible potential and was an excellent actual product.

Or as someone else mentioned, contrast this to a console devkit. Imagine someone making a blogpost about how they are returning their Xbox One devkit because there aren't any good games for it.
It took vary little effort to understand that eve wormholes are mass limited the popup even tells you when they are about to destabilize due to traffic. On the other hand figuring out the cap recharge equation was significantly harder and far more useful.

If anything the difference was fewer players cared about wormholes and people where far less interested in sharing info about them.
SnapChat being used for insider trading?
http://www.newser.com/story/171132/jim-cramer-hints-snapchat-helps-insider-trading.html
Jim Cramer tells the Feds about Snapchat:
“My daughter and I Snapchat. OK, it disappears in three seconds,” Cramer said. “Can the bad guys Snapchat, ‘Go buy Leap Wireless’ at 3:45 on Friday and get away with it, because you don’t have the technology to stop it?”
Mind if I ask what made you think we were affiliated?
Yeah I tried to keep domain-specific terminology to a minimum, most people don't know their sense of hearing comes from sensitive hairs in their ears. Good catch though, and sorry if it made you cringe.
Common, F# is like 1% of their customers. Even Microsoft does not support F# as much as C#. JetBrains ignore it as well. I keep coming back to this language but I see no enthusiasm in Microsoft for it.
You said: "This has ramifications all the way up the system, including an achievement gap which starts early and only grows with each milestone."

And I say, I do not understand how this achievement gap, as you call it, actually matters or is holding men back when men hold most of the advanced degrees, and wealth in this society. I don't think you need a throwaway account to discuss this stuff so long as everyone stays calm.

Meanwhile, you're spot on in my opinion about the role of class as well as gender. This is very true. It's also why the "right" way of doing many things is so often a "male" way of doing things, accepted as the default. They are absolutely interconnected and probably inseparable. Most feminists will absolutely agree that rigid gender roles hurt men and women, and we want everyone to fulfill their potential, and not be stuck in those roles.
Grief, the passwords are so lame. Do these people not realize how important strong passwords are. Corker06. lol. Senate09.
This is the truth. I use to live in Louisiana outside of New Orleans for 4 years and it was very humid all of the time. But the past 5 years I have been living in Harlem and the humidity and heat feel a lot worse in NY even though as far as the thermometer says the heat is no where near as bad as it used to get down south.
This device wasn't in a battery enclosure. The ELT is a stand-alone device installed in the crown of the aircraft. According to the article, it was produced by Honeywell and there are 6,000 currently installed in aircraft of various types.

ELTs used to use NiCd batteries. I know there have been fire problems with ELT batteries on Cessnas and other GA aircraft in recent years. It sounds like the 787 was just doubly unlucky to be the commercial frame to get an ELT fire.
Errr that is from one year ago ?

2012 ?
How is this different than what Muckrock is doing?

http://www.muckrock.com/

"MuckRock is an open government tool powered by state and federal Freedom of Information laws, a generous grant from the Sunlight Foundation, and you: Requests are based on your questions, concerns and passions, and you are free to embed, share and write about any of the verified government documents hosted here. Want to learn more? Check out our about page."
I think it's great, but it's tough for people who are pre-launch. Animated videos are expensive, and actual screenshot-backed videos become outdated quickly due to changing screens/product vision.

I think a bit of jQuery and a clever explanation can achieve much more in the early stages.
The flip side of severance is the two week notice. Quitting is often the moral equivalent of "firing your employer". Giving another two weeks to an employer who drives you out the door with their own poor performance is frustrating, but again necessary for your reputation.
The plans' pricing looks competitive. Free plan looks a bit nicer.
Can someone explain how Clipper (SF-Bay Area) can suck so hard?
Madeye.io is fun and allows "swarm programming".
this is my favorite

Eric.Slocum@mail.house.gov: Fuckface^1
That 20 million viewers part confounds me. Where exactly did that number come from? It just seems to be "our best guess" kind of data. Second quarter ratings for this year seem to average at 1.3 million nightly primetime viewers. You could say the number of uniques varies because people only watch the sports seasons they're interested in, but then they also assume that people would pay a monthly fee for ESPN during seasons they have no interest in. Never mind the fact their ratings have been dropping.

Plus, ESPN makes revenue in more ways that just cable TV subscriptions. Does this data reflect that in some way? It mentions ad revenue for instance but I have to believe that ESPN has more than two channels of revenue. I can easily see ESPN expanding into areas outside of cable TV and I would say that they started this years ago.

The article doesn't mention other avenues of viewing AMC content that's available today. Older seasons on Netflix and current seasons on Amazon.

The article also doesn't explore the third option that I currently employ: not paying for either. I don't have cable TV, therefore ESPN gets none of my money and AMC gets a bit through Amazon/Netflix. I'm quite happy with that arrangement. Why is these type of articles always assume there's only two choices; bundling and a la carte of cable TV subscriptions?

The cable TV subscription model isn't dead yet, but its future is limited and the cable companies know it.
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I think GP means "Cracking".
The touch pad on the side of the glass is multi-touch-capable, so it can detect pinch and zoom. You can't use this function via the Mirror API, but you could do it by side-loading an APK.
In January 2010, the unemployment rate in San Francisco was 10.1%. By April 2013, the rate had plummeted almost in half to 5.4%. In just the first four months of 2013, the San Francisco unemployment rate fell 22%.

Considering those rent prices (location location location!), if you don't have a good-paying job you're not going to stay there long. No unemployment entitlement is going to cover three years of renting a one-bedroom apartment renting at twice the mortgage on a four-bedroom one-acre-lot house conveniently outside Atlanta. Of course the unemployment rate plummeted: surely sky-high rent drove out anyone not able to keep or get a high-salary job.

Author focuses on availability of new units, and marvels at the low vacancy rate, without addressing the turnover of old units. It's a limited supply of high-desirability housing; either pay a high price or get out, there's a line of people waiting for openings and willing to pay premium prices to get in. Of course unemployment is low and prices high there.
Great writeup on your showing-not-telling approach to designing a landing page.

But after reading it, here is what I really want to know: what does "a few tweets" mean? I know many people (myself included) who have tried to "kick out a few tweets" and did not get 1000 email signups quickly. My belief is you are writing it because it makes a better story, and puts emphasis on your design. But is it true?

How did the tweets get out to that many people in your target audience? Do you have many followers? Did an influential person retweet it? If so, was it a friend or an unplanned retweet? I'd love to hear more about this side of the story.
Highly dangerous and unintended collateral damage are hallmarks of terorrism, especially considering random violence is a staple of terror tactics. Anon are playing with fire, and the Obama administration is definitely going to be stepping up the cyber-security rhetoric to garner support for the spying programs.
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This is an intriguing proposal, but one that I think it ultimately flawed. Once a wave is strong enough for there be to appreciable density differences (NOT the usual case for sound waves), the usual wave equation for sound does not apply [1]. In the case of such "Very Strong Sound Waves", you have a non-linear wave equation and thus the shape of your wave is no longer fixed as it moves. Eventually, you end up with shock wave, where the front of your wave is a discontinuity.

Why is this problematic? Well, once you have a shock wave (e.g., a wave crashing on the beach), the physics gets a lot more complicated. You are basically riding an explosion in a tube.

At this point, it no longer safe to me to neglect factors like dissipation. Your shock wave is going to heat up the air and eventually fizzle out. If you want to keep it going, you'll need to be continually supplying tremendous amounts of energy at exactly the right time along your tube. You'll also have to be continually cooling or cycling the air to relieve the waste energy.

To me, it seems a lot simpler and more reliable (not to mention safer) to simply evacuate your tube, which, I believe, is the original hyperloop idea.

[1] http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/waves/soundwav.htm#H
>> "In the spirit of executing, we will also soon be launching a book detailing the show-not-tell process much further, making it easier for you to implement in your own products."

Good post but I'm curious about this. You are already working on two products which haven't launched - why did you decide to add a third task of writing a book? Would it not have been better to launch the products, see if those signups converted to users, and then write the book?
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