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by Hupo 14y ago
Looks like a nice little library, and very relevant to my interests. My personal "dream scenario" is to have true multisource P2P video streaming in the browser with no extensions required - with WebRTC, this seems quite feasible as impleme
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Five Years of Censorship on an Internet Blacklist(lapsiporno.info)
2 points by Hupo 14y ago|1 comments
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Don Rosa: Why I Quit(career-end.donrosa.de)
183 points by Hupo 14y ago|48 comments
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by Hupo 14y ago
The fun thing about JavaScript's type coercion and concatenation is that you can use it to create fun brain benders like this: +[[+!+[[]]]+[![]][+[[]+[]]]++] === 10 This evaluates to true. Cookie for anyone who can explain why!
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by Hupo 14y ago
Couldn't get it to find the unicode snowman[1]: http://i.imgur.com/gaIY9Gd.png (my drawing skills are awesome, no?) But that aside, this looks like a neat idea. Not something I have any immediate use for myself, but could certainly be use
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by Hupo 14y ago
>But you know when the data is changing -- when an article has been updated and republished ... or when you've done another load of the government dataset that's powering your visualization. Waiting for a user request to come in and th
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by Hupo 14y ago
>MeGUI profiles MeGUI is hardly necessary - x264 has a good set of presets and tunes built in to begin with. --preset veryslow --tune film/animation/grain will already get you very far, beyond that pretty much the two most important thi
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by Hupo 14y ago
Sent a mail your way with more detailed impressions and thoughts.
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by Hupo 14y ago
The thing that annoys me about both this and Zencoder is that for people who are actually experienced with video encoding, there is absolutely no way to tweak eg. the underlying x264 settings. There's quite a few settings that have no effec
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by Hupo 14y ago
This isn't directly related to the blog post as it's about stuff available on OS X, but if you're on Windows I can very much recommend checking out Construct 2 by Scirra[1]. They have a pretty fantastic HTML5 game engine and an editor (and
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by Hupo 14y ago
One problem is that even if I found that VP8 performed very well at one or two particular clips (out of the 28 HD test clips available), I couldn't say for sure why that is the case. There seems to be no clear information on what clips bene
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by Hupo 14y ago
>If your test was to compare an intraframe between vp8 / baseline h264 / and Theora, you would have concluded Theora was the best by a wide margin. But it wasn't. I was comparing the visual quality of the whole video, and provided the f
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by Hupo 14y ago
>not very representative clip I chose the clip based on what Dark_Shikari (x264 developer) had to say about it[1]: It shouldn't bias too heavily towards any one encoder like many of the other standard test clips will: a. It's relativel
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by Hupo 14y ago
H.264 isn't exactly "closed" per se - the standard itself is freely available[1], which is why we have great free and open source encoders and decoders for it. What you mean by "closed" is most likely just "patent-encumbered", which it most
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by Hupo 14y ago
That he has. My test clip choice was inspired by him[1], and I also link to another blog post of his[2] in the conclusion. That VP8 blog post is almost three years old now, though, and the comment I'm replying to in my article claimed that
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by Hupo 14y ago
Okay then, I'm done with the comparison. You can find it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5122855
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VP8 vs H.264 – Which One is Better?(gist.github.com)
30 points by Hupo 14y ago|60 comments
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by Hupo 14y ago
>VP8 (which is also slightly better than h.264 at this point) I'm sorry, but you have been mislead - VP8 is not better than H.264, and comparison you linked is bad for multiple reasons, like not telling the exact encoder settings us
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by Hupo 14y ago
The way I see it, writing command-line utilities in Node is really no different than writing command-line utilities in Python. Both offer a nice scripting environment, and while Node is more web-oriented, there's still quite a bit of librar
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by Hupo 14y ago
>There'll be plenty of cases when the content is inherently infringing. True, and it seems that Mega's copyright infringement reporting page[1] has an option for that: Takedown Type: Remove all underlying file(s) of the supplied URL(s)
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by Hupo 14y ago
>then serve it to Mega along with a DMCA takedown notice. The thing with copyrighted content, though, is that even if the file you're checking might be infringing on copyrights in certain cases, in other cases it might as well be comple
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by Hupo 14y ago
Based on the other HTML-based weather app submission[1], I decided to submit something more accessible in the same category that I've been using a lot recently. Provided by the Finnish Meteorological Institute. My favorite part is that it i
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HTML-based (mobile) weather app(m.fmi.fi)
1 points by Hupo 14y ago|1 comments
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by Hupo 14y ago
There's lots of great free-for-commercial-usage typefaces out there. If you don't already have Fontsquirrel[1] (who also has a fantastic @font-face generator[2]) bookmarked, you should fix that immediately. Google Web Fonts[3] is also anoth
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by Hupo 14y ago
Nothing against building Chrome extensions here either (hell, I started learning JavaScript with userscripts myself), but Wikipedia has indeed had a "Random article" feature for the longest time, and it's right there in the main navigation
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by Hupo 14y ago
I knew I could also drop the "var ", but I like to operate within the 140bytes challenge rules that say you're not allowed to leak into the global scope. I'll give you the 3 chars from the parens and semicolon, though - I got caught up with
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by Hupo 14y ago
71 characters (129 points) with JavaScript. I actually wrote this quite a while back (and have also posted it on HN before) - code golf is pretty fun every now and then! for(var i=0;i++<100;console.log(((i%3?'':'Fizz')+(i%5?'':'Bu
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by Hupo 14y ago
I have never liked the threaded model, largely for the reasons pointed out in the link. Threaded discussion is nice when you first read something, but becomes a total pain in the ass instantly afterwards if you want to participate in the
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by Hupo 14y ago
While it obviously makes no sense to use client-side crypto for verification, there can still be use for things like MD5 and SHA-1 on the client side. I have a script that does SHA-1 hashing for images fetched via XHR, for example (which is
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by Hupo 14y ago
Congrats! I should probably get around to actually testing Vagrant one of these days too... Also, the website looks absolutely gorgeous. Fantastic work there.

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