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If you're interested in this guy - Phillip M. Parker - check out his list on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_nr_i_0?rh=k%3APhilip+...), currently standing at 111k+ "books" published.

From a skim of his titles, it seems like there are different series of his books - from the "The Official Patient's Sourcebook on $disease" series ($28.95) to the "The 2007-2012 World Outlook for $niche-industrial-product" ($795.00) series.
That's just wrong. Overcraking (running the film through the camera faster than normal) slows motion down. Undercranking speeds it up.

Stop-motion doesn't slow things down; it's a technique where you expose one frame of film, move something (usually a model) slightly, and expose the next frame.

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

Stop-motion animation examples include the original King Kong, Sinbad and all those other Ray Harryhausen films, the AT-ATs in Empire Strikes Back. (And there was also a technique called "Go motion" animation where the puppet was moved during the frame exposure, thus causing motion blur, and making for a much more realistic animation, which was used for the dragon in DragonSlayer and I think some of Return of the Jedi.)

If you want to get really pedantic, probably the best term for this jellybean video is "pixilation". I know we use that word differently nowadays, but before computer graphics were common, "pixilation" was the term for stop-motion animated real-world objects.

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

Thank you for letting my nearly pointless film degree not go entirely to waste.
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How long until they have to start selling it via their site at a discount?
This was also Color's pitch:

"The company has six patents pending and sees itself as "much more of a research company and a data mining company than a photo sharing site.""

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/color_ceo_the_tech_just...
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Maybe comfort is a better word for it.

It would be interesting to see an A/B test of the leather UI and a standard iOS UI — something that looks exactly like Google Maps with Latitude on top of it, for instance.

I'd be willing to bet that the leather UI is better received by users. The app is divulging a core aspect of privacy but it certainly manages to look friendly doing it.
All these specialised tags seem so completely redundant. Why do we need a sanctioned header and footer and time tag? Why wouldn't you just make tag names open ended and control the presentation with CSS? Why on earth can't we use arbitrary attribute names, instead we have to use this clunky data attribute. It's truly ridiculous.

This is how I hear W3C announcements on such things:

"A specialist committee of 500 have reviewed a sample of so-called 'internet sites' as found on the so-called 'internet'. We have noticed that often times people like to have so-called 'headers' and 'footers' in their website. We have decided then that in your best interests that we have officially sanctioned a <header> and <footer> tag. Thank you, thank you. We also have noticed that occasionally people put times and dates in their web pages. Therefore we have sanctioned a <date> tag for your convenience. We are glad to contribute to the evolution of the web."

It is so arbitrary and detached from real world web development. This isn't 'bringing the web forward' in any sense. I don't know what the answer is but it certainly isn't this.
That was my read too (due to what "crowd funding" brings to mind, e.g., Kickstarter). However, this does not seem to be the case. In fact, it only changes the rules about general solicitation.

"the prohibition against general solicitation or general advertising contained in section 230.502(c) of such title shall not apply to offers and sales of securities made pursuant to section 230.506, provided that all purchasers of the securities are accredited investors"

http://democrats.rules.house.gov/112/text/112_hr2940_txt.pdf
Aren't there also jurisdictions were the losers pays the winner's costs by default?
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Would love to see some of the examples if you have them. Try here if you have search history on: https://www.google.com/history/
We have two separate business ideas. She is an artist. I'm a computer nerd. She lives in a different country now then I do. But we want guide ourselves. Share problems and help out. The thing is that I advise her to execute her idea within a corporation since it can minimize the risk somehow. That's how I want to execute my idea. Although, before I do that I want to understand what is the benefit of a company startup versus a department startup. Maybe my sister is right. Maybe some ideas are good for spinning new department while other for spinning new companies.

This is naive but if there was someone at IBM that would see great value in Steve Jobs's idea wouldn't it make sense to execute it there? Isn't that a win-win situation?
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Nice. Seems similar in functionality to http://ge.tt/ and others.

Does anyone know of a service that allows for easy upload and management (search, tags etc) of files stored in different cloud providers (S3, dropbox, Google etc, not stored in the service)?
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Just wrote my first Chrome extension - it sets webmail as the default handler for email links (rewrites mailto links to link to webmail).

I had the opportunity recently to assist someone who was trying to set their AT&T webmail as the default email application, and I was unable to find any Chrome extension to make that work (there's an extension from Google, for Gmail only, that does this). Thus, this extension was created.

So, this extension supports several webmail providers, including Gmail, Yahoo!, AT&T, Hotmail, etc. It also supports custom links, so for those of you running custom webmail installs, you can customize the rewriting with your own domain name and printf-style placeholders.

Let me know what you think!
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I'm thinking this is what he has: http://www.networksolutions.com/web-design-services/index.js...
They're not going to build a custom web app for you, it will just be static HTML or a basic CMS.
Better to get a high end VPS and install Drupal or WordPress, considering this costs $94 a month.
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IPO or not, we still won't be talking about them in 5 years.
A very real threat of termination: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369188,00.asp
Hi Tadfisher. That puts it in more perspective. NS really has no incentive to make my site shine and, even worse, if the site blows up they might, as you say, take it hostage. I think I'm going to cancel the service before they begin the website. Honestly what really sucked me in was this sales guy on the phone telling me that the best idea for me at my stage while seeking funds is to get the site up so that venture capitalists and angels can find it easier. He made it sound like if I used their service, they would help me find investors. After talking with the consultant, I think that sales guy was just full of shit (as most sales guys are) and was just telling me what he knew I wanted to hear in order to sell his service.

I myself am not a developer, though I'm not entirely ignorant of the technical side. I have developed my idea single-handedly through much trial and error and just want to steer my idea to fruition. I already have the entire blueprint for my site, but I just can't build it myself. What I really need is a service that will build the site, even if they take a stake in the company, like Y Combinator.

And no, I'm not the type of person Ashton Kutcher hates (Mark Zuckerberg wannabes). I seriously have a fully-baked idea that began with the question, what does the world really need. Is Y Combinator my only viable option in your opinion?
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In fact there is. You have to click on one of the other date options before it shows up. For instance, http://www.google.com/webhp?&ie=UTF-8#q=occupy+oakland&#... shows results from the last three days, sorted by date.
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My experiences with the press are the following: the producer has a story they want to tell. They will tell this story cutting the film of what you happened to say to support that story. If it's counter or the truth, misleading, bad for your reputation, etc, they'll still do it anyhow.

I don't know exactly what MA said, but I doubt it made him look anywhere as bad as the editing did.
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I recently set up an email account for my daughter, who is 9, so she could use it to email friends and family (we have family that lives several thousand miles away).

When she wants to check it, the rule is we check it first. She doesn't even know the password at the moment. I don't read her private emails from her friends - I think even a 9yr old deserves some privacy and she's a responsible kid, but I do go through and delete spam (which she only gets very rarely since she's not allowed to sign up for things without permission and can only give it to friends at school). That way I can also make sure she's not getting email from MrCreepy47 or something.

The main thing, though, is that when we go through it, we talk about it. "This is spam. They're probably just trying to sell you junk and a lot of it isn't appropriate for kids. If you get email from someone you don't know, right now you should just delete it and not even look at it. If something doesn't seem right, tell us so we can look into it."

The Internet is a big place that can be dangerous for kids and I think they need some measure of protection, but I also think they need controlled exposure to it so they can be taught how to deal with it - even, and perhaps especially, the bad stuff.

Her email is (her nickname)@(her name.com) which she thinks is awesome, so I'm hopeful that by setting it up early and keeping an open dialog about its usage,it will prevent the sneaking around to do things behind our back in the teen years - or at least keep her safer when she does.

She's a great kid and generally very responsible, but I'm under no delusions that she's perfect or that she won't make a bad judgement call at some point. I'm just trying to give her the tools and skills to minimize that.
What always amuses me is the tendency of some people to "censor" out profanity (f* vs fuck and s* vs shit), as if by not actually typing the word, the writer could write about profanity and yet not be "sullied" by it, or something to that effect.

Seriously, loosen up. This almost puritanical aversion to profanity is unhealthy.
That's exactly what it is. They offered a free 30 day trial and I figured it couldn't hurt to try it out, but now I think that they're more for small businesses who don't need much more than a static HTML page.

Drupal and/or Wordpress wouldn't be able to do what I need. My site is relatively complicated and I already have a pretty substantial amount written in PHP.
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MongoLab (https://mongolab.com/about/pricing/) offers 240mb for free. I've used MongoLab and MongoHQ, and both are super easy to set up.
Sign of the times: three secretary/receptionists for a 20 person company. I suspect they were the only female employees, too.
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If everything were arbitrary then there would be no agreed upon standards and semantics.

By having an agreed upon structure you allow the internet to get smarter. Data mining, search engines, usability, etc...

E.g <phone> tag that is always expected to have a phone number. That way when it's rendered on certain devices it will always have a phone number that can be interacted with.

Sure you can achieve that now with text parsing but there's better ways to evolve the web and that's what standards are for and the introduction to new elements that are semantically accurate.
One advantage I can think of is accessibility. For example, a text-only browser could certainly handle header and footer tags, whereas pure CSS layouts probably couldn't be handled well.
Know your target audience. Sometimes it's appropriate to take an tone with the audience to get a point across or make that impact. A blog has a pretty wide audience.

My opposition nature now wants to start a conference with swearing as a central theme.
NS's offer to build your site is just a gimmick. If you want a couple of html pages of about us, contact us, homepage, etc. it would be fine. But I can't see any startup that can use that type of service to build anything meaningful. I would definitely stop talking to NS immediately.

As for your programmers, NDA would have helped. But also don't lose sleep over it. I am a programmer and have worked with many other programmers. So far, I have not seen one person stealing an idea from a client due to the lack of a NDA. Maybe I just hang with those with moral integrity.
Of all the naysayers, the Hacker News community seemed to be one of the most consistent. I'm curious why that is? Is it because Groupon doesn't look ostensibly too technical? Is it a general disdain for commercial success? Is it for perceived arrogance? Is it a lack of business acumen?
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I'm not questioning the good sense of this arrangement, but I find it an interesting glimpse at the balance of power at the company.
I don't know why the "per share" price is the headline number here -- what matters is the total valuation, which is $12.65 billion.

Dunno about you, but I'm not gonna be buying at that price.
In addition to being easier for a human to solve than a computer, a CAPTCHA should also be cheaper for the person creating it than the spammer. It is far, far cheaper for the spammer to classify one picture than it is for you to obtain it, validate it, and classify it. Counterintuitively, with every source picture you add to the system you're actually giving the spammer incrementally more advantage over you. (Trying to mangle the picture on the way out just adds a constant, and you'll start having trouble with humans; is a color-rotated-to-puke-green wave-distorted kitten still "cute"?)

We commonly phrase the CAPTCHA requirement as being easier for humans than computers, but if you're really set on designing a system you need to think in terms of costs, not ease, and you really ought to think of them like security algorithms, where we simply stipulate that an attacker is assumed to have everything constant about your system, its algorithm and its data sources, in hand. You need to create a system where you have a huge cost advantage over the spammers even in that case. And not make the mistake of assuming the spammers are dumb or lack resources.
Wow, thanks!

Mission Control is pretty fricking awesome.
I created a gmail account to sign my son up for Khan Academy at age 5. He doesn't really know what email is; though he first 'wrote' his name in an email when he was 2 IIRC.

It never crossed my mind to check the age restrictions on gmail. KA appears to be pretty safe so I jumped the hoop for him.
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I predict that much like Demand Media [DMD], Groupon [GRPN] will be at less than half its IPO price within one year.
If your idea is good, you can find developers who will work for a stake. They may not be full-time, because everyone needs to pay the bills, but they are out there. By having this "keep my idea secret so no one can steal it" rule at the forefront, you'll never find those developers.

That doesn't mean you should make a HN post with your entire idea diagrammed and annotated. All you need is a gist; "a social bookmarking service" or "text-message notification system" is enough to start correspondence.

Any service that will develop your product for you is not going to be worth it, period. This needs to be a collaborative effort under your wing. The developers actually working on the idea need to have their own stake in the product, moreso than a paycheck from a service that might build 1,000 dynamic websites in a year.
I'm not sure what industry Scott actually works in? I can look at our code-base here at work, and there are plenty of swear words through out. The classic foobar as an extension on fubar, as in fucked up beyond all recognition.

Then there was that article a few years ago (which I can't even remember the actual argument, but I think it was about censorship) that the linux kernel source code would be black listed because it had 7000+ counts of the word fuck in it.

Swearing almost goes with the territory of being a programmer.. Oh wait, we're not supposed to call our selves programmers any more. Colour me confused! Ok, so I add value to my organisation, I remove obstacles, and if I happen to swear while doing it, oh well!
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Most times for me this is a habit due to e-mail profanity filters.
The ROI is name recognition and differentiation, with the goal of a recording contract.
Ad-hoc techniques work great until your site (or the software you're using) is popular. Most web spam is done on a large-scale basis; as soon as a particular type of CAPTCHA is popular enough, or appears on an important enough site, web spam software will start including heuristics to defeat it.
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This is why I don't have any interest in buying an Android phone: everyone I know who has one, all the excitement I hear about is their fancy keyboard replacement, or the aftermarket launcher they found to replace the sluggish stock one. Now, I do understand the appeal, if that's what you want to tinker with. I tinker with Volkswagens — I know they're not the finest car I could get my hands on. But when it comes to a smartphone, I'd rather buy the best thing in the store. Even if you're excited that your platform gives you the "freedom" to replace its crappy stock components, that doesn't negate the fact that it's just the freedom to do shit work. So, y'know, flame away.
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It seems to be a large leap to go from "sends lots of emails" to "automates finding people to recruit." There is a similar leap from "automates finding people to recruit" to "uses private messages as signal."
Hi Frank, That gives me more piece of mind. I've only given three programmers FTP access, though I've since restricted them. I've also explained to them that I'll be willing to rehire them once I can afford it, so that should give them more of an incentive to wait, rather than try to build their own versions. Also, I interviewed the programmers first and felt that they were trustworthy (though you never know for sure). I'm glad to hear that you've never encountered programmers stealing ideas.

Being of high moral integrity myself (in my opinion), I wouldn't expect someone even closely like-minded to steal my idea, but I feel like my site has such high potential that it may be one of those things that even someone with moral integrity can't resist stealing.

By the way, is there anywhere that I can find developers to build my site who would accept a stake in the company rather than cash?
Wow, now there's a loaded question. Why don't you just ask us whether we're gonna stop beating our wives?

The reasons to be skeptical of Groupon are well documented. Not that it's a bad business, by any means, it's just that it's an industry with low barriers to entry and many competitors, and Groupon's early success is unsustainable since it was built on persuading businesses to offer ridiculously good deals which are likely to lose them money; businesses are wising up to this, deals are getting worse, people are getting less interested, and in general the whole social-coupon industry seems to be settling into a new equilibrium in which a $10^10 valuation for Groupon seems excessive.
Reader used to be a great way to link share, not it is largely only unidirectional (sharing out to google+).

Perhaps the google '+1' extension is going to be the way they drive that same information into the google+ ecosystem.
Very impressive video.

The grammar nerd in me is also impressed how, for two years, no one managed to notice that the repeated phrase "we'll lay," although it rhymes in context, uses completely the wrong verb. (It should be "we'll lie.")
I've been leaning more and more toward Zepto for mobile. It's still lacking a fair bit of jQuery's functionality, but the basics are there and the syntax is compatible. You lose a lot of IE/older browser support, but if you do some device sniffing and serve jQuery to desktops and Zepto to mobile devices, that's not really an issue.
"Why do we need a sanctioned header and footer and time tag? Why wouldn't you just make tag names open ended and control the presentation with CSS?"

I feel the same way. Tags have always been, until recently, only added when a new behavior was to be implemented (ex: canvas, video, etc).
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Putting aside the questionable nature of Groupon's IPO discussed ad nauseum here, this trick of only selling a very small part of the company in the IPO to keep price high by restricting supply seems, for lack of a better word, strange. So, I buy some stock at a price inflated by the lack of supply as the company puts 5% of itself out there. For the supply-restricted price to make sense, though, I have to believe that either the supply is never going to be expanded by the company putting more pieces of itself out there on the market, or that I'll get mine in dividends before that happens. (Or that I can unload it on another sucker, but for the sake of analysis I'm trying to discuss the real value in terms of dividends and percentage of company owned rather than the gambling side.)

Well, obviously I'm not seeing any dividends any time soon for something like Groupon. What happens when more of the stock trickles on to the market? (How much of the company will become available as employee stock options?) Or if Groupon puts another 5% out there? What happens when the supply expands?

It seems like this is the sort of trick that's only going to work for a little while.
I'll be very interested to see what use cases come up here. VMWare does a lot of interesting stuff, excited to see what happens on mobile.