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The ~2,500 MCP servers out there become composable CLI tools you can script and run in CI without an LLM in the loop

That's pretty cool.

The harder part is getting the various coding agents to run !mtpcli by default + getting cli tool maintainers to add --mtp-describe. Creating a standard is hard, I guess.

Silly question, but how does one get an Anki API Key? I've installed anki-connect and can't quite figure out where to get the key...

Incredibly impressive... Definitely better than Google Translate, and taking the spot for my default machine translation engine. Great job!

Related TED talk for those interested: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_norton_how_to_buy_happiness

You're probably thinking of this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779473

We're the same company, only we've developed a Popcorn Time fork that ships with our learning tools.

Not yet, we don't

done

Thanks jb, awesome work by the vlc team - as always.

Could you maybe share some news on the status of the web plugin for the Mac?

Check out the Google I/O video I mention in the article if you need convincing. As far as not collecting user data fo privacy reasons, I think brandon0's comment says it all.

Yeah, we do that kind of stuff as well. At least you know what your data means. But when you start getting millions of hits a day, you won't necessarily want to spend some time scaling your system... In that case leaving it to the pros and focusing instead on your product may prove the most sensible move.

Custom variables don't let you consolidate on users though? In the visitor count, for instance, I don't think there's a way to tell GA to use a custom var to distinguish between visitors.

Agreed, these are edge cases. They did create a lot of questions for me though, and made the whole thing rather confusing as a user.

As to how much of an issue these edge cases represent, I find it hard to get a real sense of it. I guess it really depends on the situation, what you want to measure and the user experience you offer to your visitors.

Yep, it would seem that KISSMetrics has a better implementation where aliasing can be called several times (as stated here: http://support.kissmetrics.com/apis/common-methods.html).

The fact that it links accounts retro-actively though can be dangerous, in the scenario of publicly-accessed devices. I'll have to admit though, this is not the common case.

I guess my personal gripe with what MP and KM are doing boils down to: if you can't infer stuff about who is visiting my website, be honest about it and don't.

That's fine. Competition is a healthy thing ;-)

I think Alex meant OSX, not iOS here. As for Linux, he's right that it's mostly a matter of packaging - which I think puts the prospect of a Linux release closer than that of an OSX release.

You can check out the streaming part of the site at fleex.tv/Home/Streaming. We have a large selection of videos, from TED talks to web series to web-produced movies.

Just click the 'MY ACCOUNT' link and create an account. Don't tick the 'no newsletter' box to make sure you'll get the news when the player is out. We'll probably post something here as well when it gets out anyway.

Nekopa,

These are all good ideas, that we've of course considered and been pondering for quite a while now. There are various difficulties associated with them, at various degrees. Personally I tend to think that in most cases, ideas are relatively cheap: finding the right way to implement them in a way that's highly scalable really is the hard part.

We can of course chat sometime this week - as a teacher, we'd of course love to hear what you have to say. Could you maybe send us an email (see our contact page) with your availability?

For any of you having some technical issues with the player, and for some willing to upgrade, v1.1.0 is out. Link on our home page!

I get your concerns - this is precisely why we added adaptative subtitles as one of our first features. So people could say: "I'm a beginner, keep 80% of the subtitles in my native language", vs. "I'm a more advanced speaker, let's go ahead and put 100% of the subtitles in English".

You must mean a tap ;-) You seem all set for the future though!

Fleex doesn't work with DVDs yet, but your first scenario is fully covered.

If you click the subtitles settings button, you'll see there's a tab for that. You can also dynamically change your subs selection, in case you're unhappy with the subs fleex auto-selected for you.

Now that's annoying - if you're so inclined, could you maybe reach out to us through our contact page? We'd love to try and understand what's causing the problem.

The player stuff is pretty new for us, so we're still in bug-hunting mode...

Glad to hear that, and thanks for letting us use your awesome work in such a convenient way! WordReference rocks ;-)

Not that we've heard of... Non-English media content is a lot harder to find, I'm afraid.

We've thought about DVDs, but this isn't implemented yet. We're pondering it as DVD doesn't necessarily seem like a platform with much future...

This is indeed part of our secret sauce ;-)

Well.. Have to say, we had it coming posting on HN ;-)

Also, most of the popular tv / movie content in the world is produced in English, which is another reason to start there