skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Uses free product from a company thats only profit comes from advertisements and selling user data

and yet you're surprised and upset when they use that free product to show you ads… please don't tell me you actually fell for that "Don't be evil" BS
A. Yeah, except we never tell them the down side. We arrogantly assume our oh so clever technical ways are better. Sadly we are still not mature enough to decently make contact with such people.
I meant the Korean KMPlayer [1], not KDE's KMPlayer [2]. The former does not use MPlayer.

[1] http://www.kmpmedia.net/

[2] http://kmplayer.kde.org/
> I'd imagine speed would mostly be dictated by ffmpeg as that's what everyone is using.

No. A significant issue of speed is in the video output.

> Also, I'd say Open Source isn't really a relevant feature on the app store.

I'd disagree...
Haha, I didn't know VLC alpha wasn't available outside of Europe(France?) on Play Store ! I'm happy to know it can work both ways =)

Seriously though, I understand the constraints, especially since VLC is trying to use hardware acceleration when available, then not testing on real devices can really affect quality (crashing alpha? 1-star on play store!)
Please do a feature request on our trac
I can't find anything on the inbreeding.
From what I've read somewhere an animal species need at very least 200, or so, specimen to survive.
There are guessed to be between 40 and 400.
Same here. I can't see any way to see all mail either, apart from turning off the tabs. Which I did.

The tabs were pretty much useless anyway, because the sorting is so bad. I have one important category of mail that's already tagged with a label, and Gmail had examples under three different tabs. That's so incompetent it's almost malign.
It seems they raise tens of millions from donations each year.[1] Given the calibre, and number, of speakers at Aaron Swartz's public eulogy who made some very pointed comments about the political dimensions of the case beyond their praise for Aaron's life I imagine there is potential for the issue to affect donations.

[1] http://alum.mit.edu/pages/sliceofmit/2013/03/08/mit-ranks-11...
>I guess I don’t “believe” that the world was created in a few days, but what do I know? Seems as plausible (to me) as theoretical astrophysics

Seriously?
Not so bad. I wonder if we'll still have Solaris customers when this compiler is ready for use.

Are they planning on shipping this runtime with the OS eventually?
"The Origin of Species has an enchantingly arid English tone to it; this somber tone was part of a deliberate effort to mark it as science and not science fiction the Star Trek of its time."

I am baffled by this. Does the writer think that Star Trek isn't science fiction?
Judging by her article history, she seems like more a tech columnist and not a science news writer.
Something doesn't add up here. The article says:

> For each mile saved, per driver, per year, UPS saves $30 million.

Then at the end it says:

> As for UPS, Santilli notes that a driver in Gettysburg, Pa. is now driving nearly 25 miles less per day, from an original route of more than 150 miles down to 126 miles—with the same number of stops.

So they are saving $30 million * 25 * 365 = $274 billion per year. However, UPS' revenue is only $53 billion. What gives? Is this driver in Gettysburg saving a very atypical number of miles, and the average number of miles saved with this system per driver per day is way less? It's a bit disappointing that they left the actual savings out of the article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

Britain has been doing the same thing for 80 years or so with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_World_Service
Close Encounters of the Turd Kind in NASA's Apollo 10 Transcripts
Oh dear, Quora is leaking out.
1. I used Tweetdeck with lists to manage my timeline in the past, but I just end up reading the main feed anyway. Now I simply follow/unfollow based on what content I want.

2. These days, after streamie stopped working, I have my own streaming twitter client. Easier to get exactly what you want when you are your own customer.

I find that getting a near-real time flow of messages is more engaging than twitter.com telling me I can now press a button to get tweets from 1-5 minutes ago, but maybe thats just me.
The Templeton Foundation also funds a fair bit of fundamental research in theoretical physics and maths. I wouldn't write them off entirely!
I think it's unfair to say "Yahoo!" failed, based solely on an opinion piece by one author.
Tell HN: I'm giving away hackerbooks.com (domain name + source code)
I agree. Like most other typical creationists she only knows caricatures of the scientific theories she doesn't "believe" in. A scientific theory is not something one believes in, it's something you either accept or don't accept. If you don't accept it, then you should have a good reason for doing so. And no, a lack of characters and narrative in a scientific theory is not a reason to reject it because IT ISN'T A FUCKING NOVEL.
No, she implies that the tone of the Origin of Species masks it as science when it is, according to her, actually comparable to Star Trek.
Office was the only reason to buy one, and MS screwed that up completely by not making a tablet version of Office. Instead the Surface team bent over for the Office team and included the desktop mode as a crutch to purely run Office.
> the idea of having Apache/PHP invoking Postfix directly as an executable (i.e., not via SMTP/ whatever) makes me feel nervous.

I don't know much about roundcube, but afaik it works by talking to your SMTP/IMAP servers.
The shop that can repair any bike, however old or esoteric
http://cdn.arstechnica.net//wp-content/uploads/2012/07/touch...

lol
Everyone I know who says they don't like Fox News, says so because of the politics. This is about a fast lawn mower. The only thing that I can see in the article that might make people mad is how loud it is. Considering they are not making it for consumers, that it's just a "one-off" project, I can't imagine why the average person would be mad at how loud it is. It's like complaining about how loud race cars are, and you don't even live near a race car track.

So, exactly what is it about the article that you don't like and thus others who might have different beliefs shouldn't link to it?

Disclaimer: I do NOT watch Fox News, nor any other 24-hour news station.
Evolution and creationism can co-exist. In fact that's the position of the Catholic Church. Wikipedia has an explanation [0] and the positions of former Popes.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_evolution
Hi folks,

you may remember a little site I launched a couple of years back (now offline); hackerbooks.com aggregated books mentioned on HN and SO, with links to the quotes here.

Since I'm now focusing on https://www.wisecashhq.com (my first SaaS product), I'm willing to give the domain name and the code (as-is) away if someone wants to take over and bring it back online (or do anything useful with it).

Any taker?

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-- Thibaut
Elvis[1] does this too with water, great fun! (they do near misses and only over water obviously)

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_(helicopter)
Old photos of Budapest spliced into the present day
Let's not get all up in arms about it, it's a person who says "evolution didn't sound like as good a story as the bible, plus everything looks like an evolutionary nail to the evolutionary psychologists' evolutionary hammer, so I'm sticking with the bible for now."

She's answering the question "what sounds better to you as a story of where life came from", not "where did life actually come from". Let's not get our panties in a bunch.

EDIT: I know it's about evolution and not the origin of life, it was just a convenient way for me to phrase it.
Ambiguity does exist in natural languages, and it is obviously no big problem.[1]

Unfortunately, technically inclined people like to apply their domain specific "knowledge" (compiler cosntruction?) to everything and come to incredibly bad conclusions. Ex falso quodlibet.

It gets especially bad when technical guys talk about law and juristic methodology. Demonstrated daily here on HN.

[1] BTW, linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. You immediately disqualify yourself from any linguistic discussion when you claim that native speakers are in error.
The representatives of these people are hardly in a situation where they can make an informed decision. Even if they were, they have no right of condemning their children to such life.
maybe people don't use thinkpads as a reference because they have the best support, but because they like/own them?
GNU Linux-libre 3.10-gnu disabled non-Free firmware loading of newly-added blobs
Why everybody loves Tesla
Exactly, it's not that bizarre. PHP assumes when you're using && you're going to have a boolean outcome.

The odd bit is that casting a boolean to a string[0] with echo coerces the result to (string) "1" for true and (string) "" for false.

[0]: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#langu...
If you ignore facts, they surely can.
First, in "The Truman Show" the protagonist was not participating with his own volition. He did not wanted to restrain himself inside. These people had a lot of contact with the outside world and still want to be left alone. The parallel is not quite valid. Second, this is natural. The island is natural, the people with their ancestry and isolationist policy are as natural as possible. Even if we'd put cameras, we'd record (just) reality, as we do in a lot of other instances among ourselves.
It's not possible for software to misbehave on iOS. The system is ridiculously strict and "background processes" are basically faked and can only run for 10 minutes before they're killed.

Clearly the poster has a faulty battery.
means.
Well, Perl is on a level not many languages dare touch. If I'm not mistaken, you can execute arbitrary code during compilation and generate arbitrary source. Which in turn might be executed to generate more stuff...
Sorry, I got the stories mixed up. In any case, it seems it suffers from the same problem - or at least it did in 2011:

https://adium.im/pipermail/devel_adium.im/2011-January/00797...
Pro Tip: if you don't use iTunes (ever) then you can use this.

The next time Software Update asks you to update iTunes:

1. uncheck iTunes from the list of updates

2. click the help menu, search for "ignore update" and click on one of the options. (I don't remember exactly what it's called.)

It's a hidden way to tell Software Update to never bother you with iTunes updates again.

Warning: This will leave you exposed to any security issues in iTunes, so don't run iTunes after you've shut off its updates.
This was the best part:

"when an Indian Navy helicopter tried to recover them from the beach, the Sentinelese fought it off with bows and arrows"

Indian Navy should feel ashamed! :D
iOS doesn't even have background processes.

if you run an app and switch out then it can perform a network operation or a few other very specific tasks but they're all killed after 10 minutes anyway.

The whole multitasking part of iOS is basically smoke and mirrors. Manually quitting tasks is pretty much voodoo at this point
I didn't realise that creationists still existed until I was about 15. Someone told me Chuck Norris was a creationist and I googled it in disbelief.
Signup doesn't have SSL.
> Star Trek's

We could send William Shatner to fool around with their women...
I wonder how the Open University has dealt with that problem, after all they have been running distance learning courses for large number of students for over 40 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_University

http://www.open.ac.uk/
> For each mile saved, per driver, per year, UPS saves $30 million.

Err, there's no way a single mile per year costs them $30 million. Looks like the $30m figure is the total savings, unless they're using gold, single-use robots that burn gold to push the gold trucks.
nothing loads for me in Chrome either that or it is taking an age.
This and many of her articles are filed under "Arts and Entertainment"
When you say "raising" - I hope you mean mentoring rather than other options...
"Cures cancer" might as well be a red flag when reading press releases.

I've recently won a hackathon (http://hack4ac.com) with an idea to cut the middlemen out of the science news cycle with only a single link remaining: from the scientist to the general public. It was built to prevent this sort of misinformation, intentional or not. I believe it usually is unintentional and is just a side product of all of the players in the science news cycle playing their part in the game of 'telephone', and information just gets mangled. The project (ScienceGist) puts scientists into the driver's seat of their own communication with the public.

ScienceGist is a < 2 weeks old open source project https://github.com/jure/sciencegist http://www.sciencegist.com looking for contributors who think scientific communication is a crucial problem to solve.
They used to have a huge markup some 15 years ago. No longer. It's hard to determine price of a crewed Soyuz mission, but an unmanned Proton rocket, when ordered to launch Russian military satellites (which obviously can't bear much markup because it is the parts of the same system buying from each other, large markup only means increasing taxes) is 1.5x the price of a Falcon 9 launch, with a low orbit payload about 1.5x Falcon's and GEO orbit payload about 1.1x Falcon's. So any and all price advantage Russian rockets used to have over American is now eroded due to increased salaries (an aerospace engineer got about $500-$1000 a year 15 years ago and about $10K a year now) and lower SpaceX prices.
The general public ARE stupid
MSFT Spent a Wopping $10.41B on R&D in FY 2013, But Does it Help?
So you have to use Facebook ? Besides, why are there so many new users (karma 0 accounts) on this thread ? Self-promotion through multiple accounts ? It's fairly obvious if you do that on HN.
You're close, but think about incentives rather than offense. Think about it more from the perspective of the lecturer. What are your incentives here? An easy class will net you a high pass rate, good reviews from your students, easier office hours, less to prepare for lectures. A hard class will net you a low pass rate, bad reviews, irate students (and maybe parents) beating down your door, and takes a long time to prepare.

The incentive structure for lecturers is weighed very heavily towards easy classes. The only way to counteract this is for the entire institution to take pride in being difficult and create a culture where students value that difficulty as much as the institution does. That takes a heck of a lot of effort and prestige: Harvard, Oxbridge, Stanford, these are the sort of schools that can make such things happen. SJSU? Not so much. This is not to say SJSU isn't a good school. It actually is a good school with good staff. It's just very hard to stop things going out of alignment.
hrrm, ok, i'm watching it -- everything is loading fine for me
Why not batch process billing every hour or 30 minutes? That way you can run simple checks to look for anomalies.
She does say "I am a creationist."

The reason everything looks like an evolutionary nail is because it's true. Every psychological behavior is there because it evolved and can be explained if we know how it evolved.
You can't be serious. How many children are you willing to condemn to extremely premature death because of your noble savage illusion?

Yes, our 'oh so clever technical ways' are not perfect. But they are so much better. Perhaps these people are just as happy as we are. Even so, their stillborn children are still dead. They almost certainly see more murder and rape. How can you condemn people to living like that, even if they want to because they don't know any better?
Those are clearly "special" emails, so I don't think it can be safely assumed they would be processed the same way as normal emails - it would have to be tested.

Personally, I think Google added the Promotions tab exactly because they knew they would get a major backlash against putting ads in the normal inbox.
Looks interesting, nice to see last.fm support out of the box. Could anyone quickly clarify what the difference between "adding" a song and "liking" it is?

EDIT: if you start playing a new song in a new tab it doesn't stop the old one.
They believe evolution just like you. They also believe it everything had to start somewhere and for them that's God. What facts would they be ignoring?
I'm thinking more of math and science. I suppose if the island's leaders are aware of the outside world and all it can and can't do, then I'd be less concerned about the "oppressed" minds of the island's inhabitants. I feel similarly about ultra-sheltered children in cultish societies.
I was wondering that myself. HN usually frowns upon one word replies as well.

Bottom three are all created within a minute of their first post...
Here's my input on the subject: http://www.michaelraven.me/nasas-new-fusion-driven-rocket-co...
I agree. If you forget about gaming, I think that Office (and possibly Photoshop) are Windows' killer apps.
Although for those of us that don't pirate movies, a Bluray movie player app would also help...
I wouldn't know - I run my own server (exim + dovecot + alpine) on a VPS.
Well it's either that or throw my morals end ethics out of the window instead.
How successful people talk
Flat UI Pro Version 1.1.3 Available Now.
Today have been updated Flat UI Pro to version 1.1.3. Fixed a few bugs, and was taken into account all suggestions on how to improve the framework.
I just bought a prepaid phone and service for about $10 a month.

I can't see how people afford data plans that cost $100+ a month.
Not sure why we're getting so worked up over this right now. If you read the article(kind of depressing), you'll see how her belief stems from her lack of actual understanding of the science she talks about in this article. "Yahoo fails again" is kind of a harsh response to the opinion of one person.

Edit: I agree that someone who thinks the world being created in six days is just as plausible as theoretical astrophysics shouldn't be doing science columns, but a quick glance at her history shows that she's more of a tech writer.
Pull the source and get to work? :)
Apple purchases Canadian mapping company Locationary
Email sent... :-)
Yes, absolutely, I'm not sure what other options are there, but yes, mentoring was what I meant.
>I don't know about "generally agreed"

Fair point. Perhaps "often agreed" would be better.
Oh come on, surely many things are social? There are societies who don't even play (what we believed to be) fundamental games like the ultimatum game the same way we do. Many of the evolutionary psychology theories are post hoc rationalizations.
The problem with this point of view is that X classes are taken in parallel. So you start getting competition among the managers/teachers for your time, as each one understands that "spend all your time on just my class, my suggested resources, and as much time with just me as you need" will lead to the optimal amount of help they can give. They can't do any more as ultimately it's the student's job to learn and the transfer of tacit knowledge is incredibly difficult -- you can lead a horse to water etc. Some teachers give up on doing anything important around the crunch times, knowing they can't win (typically humanities teachers at a primarily technical or engineering or project-based school), some teachers just lessen the load as much as they're comfortable with, others take an "I'm the most important and difficult" attitude and the only one who will get an A will be the one who got an F in at least one other class.

I wish schools would restructure to be serial with context-dependent branching, much like learning on the job tends to be, that way you can spend Y weeks focusing intently on a small spectrum of topics, then move on. Some classes are 3 hours every week for 12ish weeks, if you serialized that you could be done in 12 days. Plus the student and the professor would be in harmony, each having the other's undivided attention.
Self-replicating alien probes could already be here
Twitter ads look like tweets, Facebook ads look like Facebook posts, and of course search ads look like search results, at least in Gmail they have their own designated area.

They replace the webclip ads when the "promotions" tab is enabled: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/ads-in-gmails-promo...
Scott Thomas: Designing the Obama Campaign
It says "Create an account using my e-mail address" right there in the middle of the page, in big letters.

I agree that the new accounts heaping praise is pretty blatant though.
Like other people, I use the 'dipping in the stream' approach. Still, vocal people drown some of the other people. I am experimenting a bit with machine learning methods to rank tweets based on how interesting I find them. Does anyone know of similar solutions?
Can kinda confirm. Took 1 min to load background color (!) at first, then nothing else loaded. On a second attempt it seems to work.
> They've never invented oars, without which they cannot leave the island.

Hmm so how did they get there?
Considering the state of our affairs, I think we are doing them best by not interfering in their way of life.
Never oversell

This is a delicate art. Suggest-selling can enrich the customer's experience. My mother ran a bookstore and I didn't like doing sales and suggesting additional books. I was never pressed to, but I noticed that other employees could suggest an appropriate related book without pushing the sale.

It wasn't often that the customer would take it, but because it was appropriately related, they wouldn't lose out on the experience, and if they did like it, it was higly positive and a win-win situation. A skilled salesperson is interesting to observe.
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Show HN: jQuery panelSnap, sexy Calendar.app like screen snapping.
Just released a new version of jQuery panelSnap:
http://guidobouman.github.io/jquery-panelsnap/
They're adverts presented in the same place you see your e-mails but as they haven't been sent the the way an e-mail is, they won't have used any e-mail protocol, you won't be able to reply to them as e-mails and so on so they aren't e-mails so won't be covered by this.
Thank you. I really enjoyed the concept and was playing around with Floobits last month, but found it quite testing at times using the vim integration.

My colleague was using the ST integration, and found that sometimes he would be locked out of a file completely after I'd done some visual block changes. I'll give it another whirl some time and provide proper feedback if it still exists.
I think suggest-selling is not part of oversell - and therefore totally ok.

Oversell in retail means in my thoughts: talking somebody into buying stuff he really don't need. Like the 6th shoe cleaning spray for your new leather shoes.
Most of them. Evolution and Creationism present two diametrically opposed explanations for how the current state of life on the Earth came to be. To suggest that they can happily coexist is disingenuous.

Certainly it's possible for religion and evolution to be reconciled. If and where the specific religion has views on how the conditions for evolution came to be and who "designed" the physical laws etc. But Catholicism certainly doesn't qualify in this regard.
<<These people had a lot of contact with the outside world and still want to be left alone>>

I'd argue that their attitude to the outside world can only be based on very little information most of which is probably no longer relevant
Cloudera acquisition: It's a Myrrix(cle)