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I really don't like the idea of the Playlist-driven interface forcing itself in front. I have no use for Playlist, why do I have to see it, ever?

Even when I launch a file from Finder, I get a split-second blink of the Playlist. And when the clip stops, I see Playlist instead of the starting screen and can't drag and drop to play files to it anymore.

When I disable the Playlist by pressing its button on the interface, the expanding transition of the window when opening a file is oddly jumpy — hopefully an easy fix in future releases (I'm on OSX 10.8.5). Playlist still appears at times.

The standalone Controller module from the interface… I miss it, any chance of it ever returning?

Back to the two years old VLC 1.1.12 for me, it was much better thought-out interface-wise (Playlist is just a functionality, not the driving feature and Controller is still there) — and it still plays every file I need it to.

I will of course keep checking for updates.
Can you elaborate on the difference between using icon and glyphicon? What motivated that change?
Who are those "top-end OpenGL developers on Twitter"? Maybe some blogs you can recommend?
I like this comment :

It’s because women don’t like to obsess over abstract concepts the way men do. Men are bent that way, women aren’t. Call it biology.

To say such offends some people, but that’s only because modern society holds scientists in such high esteem. In another age they will say “thank God it’s only men that were so afflicted”.

It’s a useful insanity. Not really healthy.
Everybody believes that its necessary to bend the law, that is universal.

Another thing is that rich folk will not admit to being upper-class, it must be considered bad form to do so. The rich consistently categorize themselves as "upper-middle" class (because they are always comparing themselves to the ultra-rich rather than the middle-class). If they were to ever read a study like this, it would never be about them, only about the folks richer than them.
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Not really. The show had 1000 episodes [1], and the Martha Stewart brand covers a number of businesses. It'd be unusual if no one who'd ever been on the show had a business conflict with any of those businesses.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_(TV_series)
Check out Titan, if you get time. You are spot on about it changes how you think about data stores.
Well, I am currently shopping for some used ThinkPad T60's and T61's because I cannot stand the shite keyboards (and also, not infrequently, displays) that have taken over current designs.

This doesn't really speak to market trends, I guess, but making your products physically unpleasant to use probably isn't helping your cause.

I should delete this comment as a pointless rant... but, I'm shopping for 7 year old laptops, dammit. I want to type quickly and pain-free, and also have some vertical context without eyestrain.
That lady's done time - you don't mess with a lady that's done time...
I didn't think this video would be needed again, but...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQnxnYEVp4U
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Russia and the huge number of states worldwide - including much of the west, and definitely the US - that take political prisoners for systematized abuse and human rights deprivation out of public view urgently need to be dismantled and reconstructed.

More broadly, higher security prisons in general need to be shut down. They're usually barbaric. Very little good comes of them that couldn't be achieved in some other, more humane and lower cost way.
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Intel should care if Apple wins. Apple is in the best position to change architectures. Again. Ubuntu is probably in good shape. But Linux by nature can't really switch primary architecture in an afternoon quite the way Apple did.
Haha, yeah, in the app industry this is referred to as the welcome package. Most people aren't allowed to talk about it due to the terms. Good to see someone actually try to fight it.
H.R.2818 - Surveillance State Repeal Act
I think both Start8 and Classic Start Menu have that, and CSM is free.
Cartman Takes On The NSA
Are you using the reliable queue or circular list pattern?
Bootstrap doesn't care about your environment, can be abstracted easily into automated Grunt->Assemble generation (amongst other flows) using JSON data as the informer, works with an immense amount of different use cases, has highly active forks with SASS rather than LESS (if that's your flavor), and doesn't care about your development model regarding JavaScript. In effect, it's neutrally-opinionated on a high level.

Gumby might have its merits, but if I'm working with a set of fairly green developers new to the industry, I'm not throwing a highly-opinionated system at them to back them into a corner.
GPUs (which are useful for both 3D graphics and number crunching) are actually a bunch of slow cores.
I am including those people in my "low hundreds of rich people" guess. Lets say for the sake of discussion that Oil Barons are responsible for Iraq... how many of those are there actually? How many rich oil barons are responsible for Iraq?

The point of being rich and powerful enough to start wars is that there aren't many other people like you. Being unusually powerful and being common are mutually exclusive.
How about rather than religious trolling you bring some sources for your stats that show causation between Islam and Slavery?

So far you've cherry picked weak correlation ignoring all other factors, and stated it like it's the obvious truth.
Google Signs Agreement with NYC to Replace Taxis With Driverless Google Cabs
The palm vx, did not have a capacitive touch screen with an interface designed for touch. Adding pen support to the iPad does not affect the interface. I'm not sure how your comment is relevant to the conversation?
My money's on the environmental lead theory. I think the rise of ecstacy is too marginal to account for the scale of the change. But that's just a hunch.
The importance of values in building a lasting company
Great, I absolutely despised "Recent Documents".
Sick of this nihilist attitude.

> the USA just did a bad job hiding the fact that you had none.

Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit - I'm not a US citizen and I don't like it in principle. I did have a pretty good expectation of privacy until they started doing that, because no-one else has the resources to do a similar whole-take surveillance effort.

Anyway, I signed up for Fastmail because I thought it was foreign to the USA (though later found out the servers are hosted in NYC - doh).

But seriously, I'd love to see an end to the "oh well" attitude. The stance I do take is "you're spying on and profiling me? Fuck you I'm leaving". And that helps me sleep at night, for better or worse.
Real-life XKCD 149
Referring to http://xkcd.com/149/
You should not paint all countries in the Middle East with the same brush.

How many Middle Eastern countries (besides Israel) have anything resembling democracy, or equal rights for women, or any rights for gay people?
I think iBeacon is Apples response to NFC. NFC was poorly executed from the beginning. Google didn't push it hard, and Samsung implemented it wholeheartedly with gimmicky features like file transfer. No major retailer was ever involved that I or anyone I know care about. The most I saw NFC being used for was Samsung bus stop ads. What Apple has in it's hand and what Google is trying so hard to get is 500 million user accounts with CC information already entered via its app and music stores. The payment information is what the companies have a hard time getting. Wallet and Checkout never blossomed and all those reasons are why NFC is so anemic right now.

Also, NFC technology is a little clunky with 'turning on yet another protocol, setting up incoming connections, "it didn't work try again.", etc, etc'. The iPhone is the phone of the masses because they simplified or removed protocols like removable Li-ion, SD, USB, and NFC. The only protocols that remain are the most branded, and the most functional. (They are still working to perfect Siri :)

Developing well established existing technologies that people and phones are already used to (bluetooth) is key to Apple's strategy. NFC was DOA simply because Samsung has a hard time with implementation [ie: eye tracking, tv voice commands, and hand commands].
Brazil? haha. Iceland or Germany for sure. Finland, Eastern Europe, maybe?

Simply out of USA/UK jurisdiction would be good, as they're now demonstrably the worst in the West (at least it would certainly seem so based on recent news trends). So, anywhere else.
Now you know why OWS had no chance of succeeding.

This is how you kill justice, free speech and any other democratic movement. The thing is, this works up to a certain point, and then it blows up. If we're not going to correct the issue now, we (or maybe later generations, if we're "lucky") pay the price.
Computer snags delay parts of Obamacare in some US states
Your best bet doesn't even have 1080p display for a 14" screen!

It has (1600x900)..but the new 5" phones have full HD screens for some time.
I didn't see anything about Mac support. http://mystonline.com/en/play/ Am I missing anything??
Kakonomics, or the strange preference for Low-quality outcomes
I have no idea from where you got your claims.

> Islam encourages freeing slaves, but only in one circumstance : after they have completed a successful military campaign, to celebrate

> Note that islam is also unique in that it actually says that it's OK for owners to just kill slaves

Absolutely false on both accounts. Please provide your sources.
No they don't brush of the subsidies. Or at least they claim they don't.

Quote: "For most people, subsidies won’t counteract rate shock
...

If you click on the “Your Decision” tab on our interactive map, you will now find the results, as assembled by Yevgeniy, for the 13 states plus D.C. in our original database. Here’s the bottom line: most people with average incomes will pay more under Obamacare for individually-purchased insurance than they did before."
> she and most othe rreligious still advocate over population and against several sane health treatments. not to mention education

What you talkin' 'bout Willis?
Congrats! Sounds like quite a ride. :)

Can you believe that when I started, barely anyone used source control? That's what jumped out at me about your story, oddly enough. When I started the Web hadn't been invented, and the only version control packages were CVS and commercial options. CVS sucks, in case you're wondering. So did most of the commercial options.

In my own case I'd been programming and writing games for fun since I was 14, so by the time I took my first job at 22, I'd already been coding pretty regularly for 8 years. Some of that was actually for-pay, though only a few months worth. So between the experience I did have and my oversized ego, I pretty much expected the "Senior" label.
What Does It Mean To Change An Object?
Branching factor 32 is great for lookups, but isn't it slower for modification? At least, one has to create more array cells in total (31 copies in each node), no?
How can we all own a robotic workforce?
RADIACIONES WIFI, DOLORES DE CABEZA ¿DONDE ESTÁ EL PROBLEMA?
The allegation of the link between Lodsys and IV has not yet been conclusively proven as far as I can tell.

However, I did do some research into Lodsys and found this interesting fact:

http://www.plainsite.org/articles/article.html?id=3

Also, lawsuit docket here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2531707
Any bet that the PC (i.e. the laptop) is going away, always needs to ask on which platform the comments on the website it's posted to are being written.

I'm willing to bet some hear are typing out on a tablet, but I'm sitting here in the kitchen with my laptop.
Mind blowing tweets
Who are some people to follow on twitter who only pump out mind blowing tweets? The subjects I'm interested in include
- coding
- startup scene
- entrepreneurship
- science
- design and type
- solar, bio and health tech
- spirituality

My experience has been that many people tweet out mind blowing stuff once in a while, but also pump out lots of drek (e.g. one has to be a bystander to their conversations with people). I want to avoid this. I'm looking for people who only pump out one-way traffic of mind blowing stuff. The closest I've found anyone to this ideal is @levie.
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To my downvoter:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4772100/martha-stewart-fil...

Countersuit. I'm guessing you are in your 20's and have no idea who the fuck she is.

She will probably make flaming bags of dogshit in ornate bags with pretty ribbons on the front porches of the Lodsys executives if she hasn't already. Don't fuck with her.

She made jail look like a cakewalk and if she went to hell, it would be featured on HGTV within a few months saying how she redid the place.
Not necessarily. It could also mean fewer wars and warrantless surveillance programs. How many FOIA requests could be satisfied with just e.g. $10MM more in the department's budget?
What do you think of the new Kindle Fire?
@impact4change
@carlfischer101
Oracle shakes 7-point deficits to win America's Cup
Sarcasm aside, a FIFO is probably more efficient than what is occurring now.
April Fools, 2012.
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It's not an "oh well" attitude. In fact, I'm advocating that if you actually want your data private and secure, you shouldn't be hosting on someone else's computer at all! You shouldn't be practicing security through good-will (good will assurances by a party that they aren't snooping).

I send most of emails through gmail because I don't care if the NSA reads them. For my cross-border drug deals, I use carrier pigeons with encrypted handwritten messages.
I'm very curious about where s/he's pulling all that from too. First time I ever hear that killing slaves is OK in Islam! Or that freeing slaves is only allowed after they served in a military campaign.
The interesting bit is at the end:

the threat to good collective outcomes doesn't come only from free riders and predators, as mainstream social sciences teach us, but also from well-organized norms of Kakonomics that regulate exchanges for the worse
Something tells me this won't pass.
Stunningly interesting exceptions and, if I'm reading this right, not necessarily an improvement:

"Repeals the USA PATRIOT Act ... except with respect to ... the acquisition of intelligence information concerning an entity not substantially composed of U.S. persons that is engaged in the international proliferation of weapons of mass destruction."

"Requires orders ... to direct ... any person or entity must
furnish all information, facilities, or technical assistance necessary to accomplish such surveillance

- in a manner to protect its secrecy and produce a minimum of interference with the services

- that such carrier, landlord, custodian, or other person is providing the target of such surveillance

- (thereby retaining the ability to conduct surveillance on such targets regardless of the type of communications methods or devices being used by the subject of the surveillance)."
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Repeals the USA PATRIOT Act

Okay, so there's effectively zero chance that this bill will ever pass.

The PATRIOT act was a power grab, and governments don't willingly give up power. The only way this would pass is if the members of congress were in danger of not getting reelected if it didn't.
I think you have to realize that nobody wants to me "desktop computers" because the margins you have to make in order for that to work aren't available at the moment.

What I have seen is that it started out being computers (look at the Altair for god's sake with its switch panel!) and then it became a computer and some 'office applications' , then 'office applications' and you could develop on it, and now 'applications.' The best way to develop for a Tablet or Win/RT system is on a workstation with some development tools.

What is interesting to me is that the "PC" overtook the "Workstation" (Which was very much a dedicated development device) and killed it. Now as the "PC" market moves to more turnkey solutions, nothing has yet backfilled the void being left behind.

I see that many folks believe that the workstation of the future runs a virtual instance on the other side of a network connection, your "terminal" is a couple of specialized applications running on your application running device. I can easily see Google taking the Pixel and making it work sort of like 'spaces' used to work on the Mac, except when you zoom into your 'Workstation' space with your xterm windows, your debugger, and documentation browser its really hosted by some RDP or VNC like protocol to a service back in the cloud somewhere. It isn't a diskless workstation it's a terminal with a really rich serial protocol that runs at 10 megabaud.

You claim "But for now, the desktop should re-assert its rightful role as a chief computing environment, making all other devices mobile views."

And I suspect it will, if the price of doing that is better than the price of doing it "in the cloud" (or remoted to the network).
Doesn't the length of the coastline depend on the scale you measure at?
This bill was introduced by Rep. Rush Holt, a Democrat from New Jersey (12th District). Here's a statement from him on surveillance issues:

http://holt.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view...
no, he's actually extending credit - 'fronting' the product. he would loan someone an amount worth $300 in small end-user sales, for which the person would owe him $100 that they could pay back after selling it.

freemium would be letting people sample small amounts of the stuff and/or for a limited time, then making them pay when they want a larger amount or to keep doing it. my DARE class in elementary school told us that drug dealers would try and hook us like this, but i'm 29 and i'm still waiting for my free samples.
Humans sense 10 basic types of smell, scientists say
You can now see the total playlist time and the startup time seems to have been almost eliminated.

It's great to see significant improvements to the software you use everyday.
I dunno its fun. I find writn a long essay to be zen. It req you to challnge ur own thinkn, is both interestn and lil bit scary #ImAnOutlier

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I'm a massive LESS fan, but I'll admit one of the biggest failings in the tooling is the lack of upstream saving/compilation. Compiling on save is one thing, but if it doesn't recompile the manifest, it's useless.
I didn't like the interface since 2.x came out, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

In the time since,

* I have never used the playlist on purpose once

* I kept wanting to put the video always on top in a tiny window while I do something else, and always visible controls/strange resize limit make it worse than before. Compare: http://imgur.com/c4V9k12

So I wish the VLC guys the best, but I have moved on to MplayerX and only keep VLC.app around for some hypothetical case in which the other player won't work.

I'll keep hoping for 3.x interface changes.
They are separate listings because one has the USB receiver needed to connect to a PC.

I have a wireless receiver that came with a 'for Windows' controller, and it works perfectly with the controller that came with my Xbox.
Coincidentally, I know some people who emit flammable gas after eating too much Pakistani food.
Big Data: How to count a billion distinct objects using only 1.5KB of Memory
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Show HN: Introducing Future Timeline on Wishberg
What about Webcrawler and Alta Vista, Lycos and HotBot etc. Did you even use Webcrawler? I'm sure that everyone remembers at least Alta Vista.
Very much related. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars...
If CIA wanted Qatar's Royal family gone, they'd ship 50,000 AKs, pick a few leaders from each ethnic group and Viva La Revolucion! Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of folks
Two clarifications:
- Opera never switched to Webkit. Opera had switched to Chromium, which initially used Webkit. So, it's no surprise that Opera adopted Blink.

- Opera has publicly commented it was aware of Google's plans for Blink, and that information was a factor in the decision to switch to the Chromium engine.
Citation please.

No but Seriously. This is just a series of platitudes: decisions are influenced negatively by poverty? Yes, and some are influenced positively by poverty, as in "this sucks and I don't want to be hungry anymore".

I know it motivated me to see my parents struggle, to eat government cheese, and to move all the time because of the need for new work for my dad. Experience is a great teacher, and it motivated me to not make the same mistakes my parents made.

Its not a zero sum game. Even being poor isn't poor anymore. When I was little, and we were poor, dirt poor in the backwoods of Tenessee we didn't have a phone, we had one kerosene heater, we lived on a dirt road, no health care, and we got our milk from the neighbors cow ( real milk kids is gross ). Compare that with the average "poor" person today, cell phone, government health insurance, clean safe water to drink, a government provided debit card to go shopping ( no govt cheese for them), paved roads!

Yep, life's tough. They'll never get out of poverty. Maybe you're right. If it's too nice, why bother. I definitely didn't want to be backwoods poor, it positively influenced my decisions. I ain't poor no more.
PostParty (Real life application of TSP in iOS) is now free
Except with external analytics you are letting your doctor to finger other people's asses. See the difference?
Webcrawler was my favorite back then.
Groundbreaker helps aspiring real estate moguls get projects off the ground
Interesting that Martha Stewart is suing Lodsys in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin:

"On information and belief, Mr. Small [CEO of Lodsys] conducts Lodsys’s business from an office located in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, within this jurisdictional district. Accordingly, on information and belief, Lodsys’s primary place of business and/or headquarters is located within this judicial district."

Maybe that court will be more reasonable than the one in Texas where the patent trolls like to file their suits?
I mentioned specific example of how very low probability events still caused accidents, you asked for links and I provided them.

If you want links to examples of PED interference, I've posted them elsewhere on this thread. All anecdotal of course, but there are enough examples that to say there's no chance if interference would imply a secret conspiracy amongst pilots to file false reports.

And again, you are misunderstanding the concern. It's not whether a cell phone can stop the airplane from working and make it fall out if the sky. It's whether, at a critical time such as during landing and takeoff, it may cause interference that can increase the pilots workload and contribute to an accident.
All the negative waves [1] :-) This is primarily a bill where some folks can vote for it, feeling confident it won't pass, and get re-elected by "trying to shut down those rogue intelligence agencies." But it can also get people elected, just like the tea partiers got elected on the fear of government over spending, liberals can get elected on the fear of government oversight. Mixing up the opinions in congress is always a good thing in my opinion.

[1] Yes a Kelly's Heroes reference.
Have you tried to buy one and see how much time it takes t unlock ?

That would answer your bruteforce question :)
My point (and I am being serious) is that these worker abuses seem to be the result of a complete lack of government regulations surrounding the labor force.

However you do raise a good point, in this situation the workers are not free to pick up and leave, which invalidates it as an argument against free market advocation. I concede the discussion to you good sir.
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