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Your 4 tips are probably true for that particular type of short "testimonial" video but not necessarily true for longer videos.

For me it comes down to context, content and expectations. I expect a short testimonial video on your landing page that gets to the point, not a 4 minute drawn out circle jerk. If I see a runtime of 4 minutes on a testimonial video, I probably won't even click play to begin with. A Mixergy video on the other hand is something I expect to be long and not necessarily pack a punch right up front.

Do you find the viewing data from longer videos to be consistent with your 4 suggestions?
How does it run on lower spec computers or devices like iPad? I'm just wondering where the line should be drawn when considering the website performance/user experience.
Well we do have over 2M people in jail in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
We are using re-targeting using Adroll (though other providers are also there). If you are on http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ they drop a cookie and then identify you as you travel on different sites on web. They bid across ad networks to show you the ad of VWO.

It costs approximately $1 per click and is perhaps the best investment you can make. But you have to be careful not to spook your users. Have a cap on how many times a person can see that ad in a day.

It converts OK but is great from branding point of view. People tend to remember VWO because they have been on site before.
We did this and have not seen the problem you're talking about. If your services team is so unhappy doing services that they're jealous of the people building product, you may be doing the wrong services.
"more authentic pleasures like books, films, music, and jet travel to exotic spots (without T&A frisking at airports)"

Yeah, but... 2011 is a win on every front there except the last. (And that may be debatable; you better like your exotic spots very exotic.) If you do not confine yourself to pre-1970s books, firms, and music right now, it's because you like the stuff that came later better, no matter how nostalgic you think you are. You may think there's more garbage in 2011 but there's a lot more good stuff, too, and a lot more well-populated niches.

I mean, sure, wealthy in 1973 over middle class today in the broad sense, but not for that reason. And I will take middle-class 2011 over rich 1900. I'm not sure where the exact cross-over is, but it's certainly within that bound.
If I recall correctly, last year they said there were no plans to give away devices like the year prior. I didn't believe them and signed up anyway as a student for $100 - best investment ever.
Clearly you don't know WTF you're talking about. But lets end this full retard discussion. Done.
FWIW, you've just pointed to a howto article which describes it as "hard to find" - and they must have thought it was hard enough that people could do with some extra help before they wrote the article. You can't please everyone!

I can't remember how you would change an entry labelled "other" to "home" with that version of the interface. One benefit of the current one is that you change the field label in the in the same way that you set it the first time, so there are less "parts" of the interface.
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great points - I totally know this. it's very helpful to hear. but... we've been growing so fast i haven't yet had a chance yet to raise them, and i'm paying the price of a fixed bid prjoject we took that was underpriced by about 50%. yet i don't regret the fixed bid because it helped us launch and we now have a killer client project to show for it.
Along the lines of cutting the videos short. Cut them down shorter than you feel is warranted. These videos should be product teasers.
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Why is maze generation so interesting to people? I'm trying to read between the links.
Most good private schools have very little time for disruptive pupils - they know that there is nothing like a "problem" kid for upsetting the classroom and they usually have a long queue of parents desperate to get their kids in.
Here's a few review threads in the wild to illustrate:

https://github.com/legalbox/lb_js_scalableApp/pull/1
https://github.com/jnicklas/capybara/pull/271
https://github.com/gem/openquake/pull/25

EDIT: formatting.
YouTube does it on your Subscriptions page (at least with Chrome). If you middle-click on a link to one of the new videos, it just loads that video in the current tab. Right-clicking and clicking Open Link in New Tab works as expected, however.
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I have nothing against security firms or their work, but

> At the heart of the matter, we are scientists investigating the truth.

No, you're not. You're consultants doing analytical work. I'm not arguing that one is intrinsically more worthwhile or valuable than the other, but post-hoc security analysis is not science.

In this particular case, anonymous is implicitly raising the question that if a security firm can't even secure their own web presence, their internal emails, and the data that they've gathered on an FBI contract, then how could their data and conclusions be trusted? Regardless of whether the employees of any particular security firm are sympathetic individuals, and whether being hacked would incur significant financial loss, you'd hope that a security firm would be, you know, secure.
Indeed.

I am speechless because they (started?) monetize going after the 'bad guys', while they have been publishing grey/black hat stuff on Rootkit.com for many years.

The trust is gone.
The title of the article says "Groupon won", but the content says this is only 'if you go by the mantra "any press is good press."'

I'm guessing most people don't go by that mantra. People talking about how offensive Groupon's ads were is not a "win".
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Any interest in an Android Developers meetup group at NoiseBridge.net in SF? (There is an iOS meetup I attended last week - but seems rather unorganized)
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I'd argue you should be able to get a full refund, but no transfers should be allowed, to prevent scalping.
As someone from Kansas City, the alleged ineptitude of the school district in KCMO is widely-known. In fact, I would say the problems with the school district impacted the decision of my wife and I more than any other to buy a house across the state line in Kansas. We both continued to work in KCMO, we just knew we couldn't live there once we have children.
If you're interested in reverse engineering RFID payment systems in public transfer, I can recommend you this talk from 27c3: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4036.en....
Video: http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-4036-en-r...
I agree--especially when you're talking about forcing bad kids to attend school against their will. The bad kids in urban schools wind up not learning jack, even if they don't drop out. I know this because I've taught 12th graders in a failing urban school where the graduation rate < 50%.

Even worse, forcing bad kids to attend school against their will diminishes the quality of good kids' educations. The good kids are the ones whose powerful minds actually stand a chance of improving civilization in big ways.

Not saying I was a great, great student (I was in the top 3% of a huge public HS, but plenty of other kids were smarter than me), but if I had known how badly I was getting screwed over by taking classes with bullies/people who did not want to learn anything in school except that Jesus is God and every non-Christian is going to Hell, I would've tried to switch schools at a very young age. If I only knew then what I know now...
Ah maze generation. I remember doing this back in my Uni days in Java. Its interesting to see some other implementations of the maze generation itself though. I think I only implemented Kruskal’s algorithm... two different ways, one poorly and the other somewhat better. That said my implementation was faster then most of the other ones in the class. I even gave it a nice GUI.

I even got bored one evening and ported it to my J2ME phone which impressed most of the people in my class. For those interested here is the code,

http://www.boyter.org/0/code/maze/Maze.zip
http://www.boyter.org/0/code/phonemaze/Phonemaze.zip
Unless we're discussing actual metrics, it seems like it's a matter of preference.

Keyboard UIs (vim, pentadactyl, etc) should allow the user to do what they want in as few keystrokes as possible. They allow the user to do things fast. For people who want to take the time and effort to master an interface, they're superior to mouse centric UIs. For people who want to be able to sit down and use something right away without having to read a manual, they're horrible. The discovery of such UIs consists of "RTFM".

Mouse centric UIs should be easier for people who haven't used the program before. The functions should be fairly obviously labeled and easy to click on. For those unfamiliar with the program, at least its basic functionality should be immediately obvious. However, without some form of keyboard shortcut, they tend to be slower and more frustrating for more experienced or technical users who want to simply get stuff done.

All of this is just IMHO of course. I tend to prefer UIs that are essentially not there. My Firefox consists of a pentadactyl command line/status bar, and the TreeStyleTab sidebar. The browser UI is completely out of my way, and I know how to do what I want with just the keyboard, mostly. However, when people sit down and try to use my Firefox, they have no idea how the hell to even begin. (Whether this is a bug or a feature is up to you. :)
Some random responses:

- It's Google Wave, this time by ex-Facebookers!

- Software that messes with my email sucks.

- It looks complicated.

- People use text files and whiteboards because you can wipe it and start over and draw and connect stuff and use colors and...

- If their plan is to build something sexy and get acquired, they'll probably succeed just because of their
Facebook past.

- If their plan is to build a product and live off it, they'll probably pull it off because most other software sucks so bad and is limited.

- But, based on the video, they won't fundamentally "solve" the problem they're attacking, their software will just be another context (like text files, stickies, emails, wikies, bug tracking, etc.)

- Investors always ask at the end of your pitch, "How are you different than X?" and "Why will you succeed where X has failed?". I didn't really see the answer in this video.

- Their virality plan sounds interesting in the context of Enterprise Software.

Hopefully I'm wrong!
Ask HN: Any marketing advice for a recently released iPhone game? 
My company Prophetic Sky just released an iPhone game called Spires. Like most of us hackers we are much better at making products then marketing them. Here is what we have so far:

Trailer: http://bit.ly/spirestrailer
iTunes: http://bit.ly/getspires
Website: http://www.propheticsky.com

Any thoughts on the trailer? Any suggestions for next steps?

The game has a pretty involved story with voice acting. Any ideas you have for marketing would be really appreciated!
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I don't disagree with you. I was responding directly to the person...to whom I was responding, who said:

>No matter what year it is it's always better to be on top. That's where most of the human pleasure comes from.

The second half of my comment addressed the 1973 question, and made it clear that it was doing so.
Regardless, it says something about the sentiment this man has created (mostly) outside the U.S.
There's no actual discussion of this at the link; it's just a talk scheduled at PyCon 2011.
The "Real Page Numbers" feature sounds interesting, but I wonder what they'll do for books where different versions have different numbering schemes (paperback/hardcover/large print).
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There is a reason why forum software looks dated compared with commenting system in blogs. Old style forum designs do too much work with the chrome. Heavy, styled, boxes. It makes a design weighty and draws attention from the content.

Ben Hunt called for "Design the content, not the box it comes in". More of that over here http://savethepixel.org/save_the_pixel_ch1.pdf
OK, so then forget your "super secure" server. I would instead focus on compromising one of the admin computers that has the "special user" ssh key and the port knock sequence; or maybe I will hit one of the servers communicating with this "secure" computer and see if you remembered to bounds check all the data coming in; maybe even see if you network stack has any exploits in its tcp/udp implementations while I am at it...
1965ish. This is where, when Hip Hop was born. Probably a lot of you turn your nose down* at this angry crime glorifying inferior 'form of noise'. But look at the conditions of these kids and what they had to work with, is it any surprise that they would be so pissed?

Now look at today, not so many years after and against large odds; those kids have created an international culture with music, dance, stories, poetry - a veritable complex art form that touches the lives of hundreds of millions of people all over the world and gives, gave hope to those who had nothing else. This, at least is something that a community of hackers and entrepreneurs can appreciate. That is the true message of hip hop that has been lost by the bastardizing filteration process of media and people not so intimately connected to its origins - including descendants of the visionaries, who despoil the art and see it as only a means to get rich quick and stack up on some biches. Damned Entropy.

It speaks something of both the human ability to persevere and the unique aspects of the U.S. where people in such adverse coordinates can still go on to create. such great things.

I was a teeny bit hurt (not offended) by the Cr48 warning agains't exposure to rap.

yes i am aware that rap, heck music is a subset of hip hop

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I didn't see a reason why they sent them early last year anyways.
Umm... how are you getting sushi quality fish in Richmond, Indiana in 1900? What's your source of nori and wasabi?
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For me, it is interesting because fairly simple means can produce complex (and to me, beautiful) results. It's intrigues me to explore this and see what can be done with it.

It is also particularly interesting to me as a way to explore the features and syntax of a programming language. Maze algorithms are handy (and entertaining), but any algorithm would do. The idea is to implement the algorithm in the language of your choice (preferably one you are are not experienced in) and see how the language lends itself to the implementation.

Naturally, not everyone will share either of these interests with me. But I'm okay with that. :)
Probably because it looks like magic unless you know the trick. I remember making crappy mazes by using a ruler and erasor in primary school. At the time I was sure there was a better way and once I knew it I felt enlightened.
fyi, TechCrunch is working on the sync issues now...
Gosh, I'm an Apple fanboy with the best of 'em, but I can't help reading Dilger like an autistic kid writing from his parents' basement: yes, much of what he's saying might be true (can't fact-check it all), but the spitefulness, anger and slant is so strong it's almost unreadable.

Why not just present the facts as you see 'em, and, if you're right, people will give you due respect for your vision.
I had the same response, but I realize (having worked there for a while) that there is a strong 'star' culture meme that sort of permeates the place. I wondered if she was feeling out of sorts with all the publicity folks like Marissa or Eric or some of the other 11 SVPs carry around.

Can never know for sure of course. Then again, Google may be setting her up to be COO and pointing out that 96% of all the money they make comes from groups under her would be a good way to start that conversation.
I think it is fair to say that 37s had some impact on this with basecamp, also. Of course, not of the same order of magnitude as email -- but, email took ~20 years to be widely adopted and accepted.
Now, that bird-feeder idea has a market. I know some people with bird feeders and a deep, uncompromising hatred of squirrels.
Still, apparantly it hits the right buzzwords to generate a lot of upvotes...
Well said, this piece is another blah blah blah,

If Android was not worth it, no one would be talking about it as much. When did u hear anyone talk about Window Phone last ?? Except MS of course.
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I'd say yes... Look at all the crazy acquisitions recently. The offer from Google to buy Path, Groupon trying to buy UseHipster... Facebook's $50 billion valuation.

If it's not a small bubble, I don't know what the hell it is. I mean, if it's talent acquisition, then why on earth would you pay $100 million to a company, why not give the person you -really- want, a bonus of $5 million to leave and join you?
a good plan:

1. work with font designers

2. work with OS distributors (ensure the fonts you sell will be visible on mac, windows, linux, etc) just like adobe did with PS/PDF and macromedia did almost by mistake with flash.

3. charge a flat fee from sites that use your font.

That way is infinitely easier to track than pageviews... and add real value for their online clients. And does not show that you're left behind as the world turns.

if any fount foundry uses that market plan, i require 10% of every character used by their clients, counting the ones deleted by pressing backspace before publishing. Paid in gold doubloons. Delivered on the back of a fully brown donkey.
Thanks for the tip, I'll ask ESR to consider this idea!
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Sorry. I missed that.
I would love to see this concept implemented in an urban setting, under the context of a general education school (rather than a magnate, etc.). While I think it would work for some, I suspect many of these disruptive children probably have major family issues that make it difficult or impossible for them to focus on learning. See: Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

It would certainly be a good starting point though. Something must change, and mandatory testing changes nothing.
That's absolutely true, and I do not want to take anything away from him.

I was trying to make the point that among the operating systems doing builds under his new system, Linux was compiling the fastest. I was suggesting an interesting possible explanation for that.
Please see my other post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189846
Don't things ever strike you as potentially very useful before you think of a specific use case?

In this case, it's bound to be useful when you're building interfaces for webapps, to let you do new things.

For instance, an onlline clone of Football Manager where gamers want to examine the stats of the players in the other team, but from a whole lot of different perspectives: graphically in formation, or in a list sorted in differrent ways. The animations may not be essential there but they certainly don't hurt. Games compete for their visual fidelity.
Which competitor should a front-running company be most worried about? The bunch of companies who are having trouble making their product profitable, or the next most profitable company in the industry?

The article purports to explain why Apple has nothing to worry about from Android mfers. Discarding this "outlier" certainly makes that task easier.
Well I would have thought rich in 1973 would have been a no brainer. Not because of affording expensive things yada yada (ok thats a huge bonus too but not for me). But because having the (relative) wealth would mean having the luxury of choosing my job without having to worry about how the bills were being paid. Having the dough to invest in my passions (assuming one had them). Having the dough to invest in technology at the early stages! I mean yeah the internet is great now. But you could just as well ask, would you rather be rich now or middle class in 40 years time?
Thanks! An ancap co-founder would indeed be ideal!

Can I contact you to be a beta tester when we launch the MVP?
Hi Howard, can I contact you to be a beta user when we launch the MVP?

Thanks!
Thanks. I have been using OS X where sudo does not ask admin accounts for a password.
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Standard 2-D representations ala Kyma, Reaktor, Bidule, and the various audio tables (Reactable et al).
I'm not sure that I'd consider keeping your web server properly configured to be "platinum level support"...
This looks really awesome but it apparently only has US airports.
H.264 is scheduled to be broken in Chrome in exactly 6 weeks (given Chrome 9 came out this week)
I was at YC when Milner and Shpilman arrived. It was about 630pm, we'd just had office hours with PG, and I saw the both of them hanging around discreetly in the lobby.

About 5-10 mins passed and eventually I felt bad and walked over and asked if I could help, to which Shpilman replied, in a thick Russian accent, that he was hear to see Harj. Yuri was keeping himself to himself. I walked over and told Harj they were a couple of ppl waiting to meet him, then went and sat with my cofounder at the end of one of the long tables.

I jokingly said to my cofounder that they must be the DST guys, wanting to invest in YC. I had no idea I was correct, they were very low profile.
5000 developers is to big anyways. Once all the scalpers leave with their swag everyone who is left can have a more intimate conference.
How are kids that crumple assignments, throw things at teachers when their backs are turned, yell in the classroom, etc., getting educated?

And what does it mean for something to be in "society's interest," anyway? I'm honestly unsure of what that means.
OK, so then forget your "super secure" server. I would instead focus on compromising one of the admin computers that has the "special user" ssh key and the port knock sequence

Juicy! [making notes to buy a laptop for the express purpose of logging into the server]

maybe I will hit one of the servers communicating with this "secure" computer and see if you remembered to bounds check all the data coming in

All fields are fixed length.
This is the right idea. A feedback loop is critical to hacking. If you take away the feedback loop it becomes nearly impossible.
Can you elaborate on broken rounded corners? They seem to work just fine for me, always have.
I loved ZAMM, and have read it a few times (in college at age 20, then a decade later at age 30, and then once more in my mid-30s).

I tried Lila once in college and found it muddled and self-congratulatory, and gave up on it after just a few chapters.
Maybe buy some self-serve ads on Reddit? They're a relatively cheap form of promotion, and they've got a tech savvy community there.