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For you, what is the best way to discover new videos and live videos on web?
the idea is discuss how you found your videos, what is the best solution for discover new videos. You can talk about new tools that maybe you would like to see in a social video platform even if they not exist yet
My co-founder used to run his own web development firm, he has since shut it down to join us full time. We have two part time developers, one from Yahoo and one from Level. But the team is stretched thin and there are still a lot of critical features to develop to hit our milestones, I need another full time person to join.

thx for the tip, I'll check it out.
Disclaimer: I work for a IPTV provider currently although my job doesn't relate to it directly... my past departments however saw me developing IPTV applications and working to "enhance the viewer experience" so I feel I have a good understanding of what this article is reaching for.

Essentially the problem is that people want TV...
(A) Now.
(B) As frequently as they want and
(C) at a low cost.

Its the issue that providers CAN'T offer all these things because of massive hardware/delivery demands that it would require as well as the fun of dealing with copyright and licensing issues from content providers (tl;dr - They suck at negotiation because they essentially hold all the cards).

What IPTV providers are starting to realize is that they wont win the game with Breaking Bad or Workaholics. Those things are provided over the top regardless of whether they want it to be or not. The focus is towards "Live" TV with an enhanced experience. When a viewer can watch the game live on their TV with an app overlay providing realtime statistic updates for whichever player the viewer has selected as their "favorite" the IPTV provider wins. You can't get that online as easily. (Think fantasy league + TV)

TV is a losing game for many providers because they're playing the middle man where its no longer needed. The providers need to provide a unique service that the rival over-the-top content providers cannot in order to stay relevant.
Well Windows is just the OS but we don't lecture people for saying "I use Windows" when they really mean "I use MS Word" or "I play HALO".
If it’s so valuable to them they can buy the new phone. It’s quite simple, actually.
Have to disagree with the VB6 analogy. There was a huge investment by customers in VB6. It had more developer seats than any other Microsoft development environment. There were simply too many LOC to be re-written. Silverlight has not achieved that market penetration. If Microsoft stops backing it the drop off from all radars (bus., dev., game) will be very quick.
"So I’m not sure that compensation plans that work for most other industries will work for finance."

Conclusion B doesn't really follow from point A in your post. Sure, finance is different in many fundamental ways from other industries. But it doesn't have to be as risk-seeking as it is. It wasn't always that way, and in fact, it worked much better when it wasn't.

If a banker had personal "skin in the game," as it were, he'd work much more rigorously on ensuring that his vehicle doesn't blow up in year 10. He'd also have no incentive to hide any leaks in his model, and cross his fingers that they never bust open.

Furthermore, and far worse, we've seen instruments that were so amazingly outlandish as to seem specifically designed to fail, i.e., CDOs on subprime mortgages. In your Apple analogy, this would be the equivalent of Apple's intentionally designing a dud iPhone with a critical safety flaw.
Noisy data labeling presents an additional problem, yes, but I was under the impression that there existed techniques for mitigating that problem.
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Uh, no. Read up on counterparty risk, credit default swaps, and the crazy interdependencies of financial institutions.

If bank A goes bad, institution B might have sold lots of CDS on bank A, requiring it to pay out more than it is able, so it goes under. Institutions C and D might have sold CDS on institution B, etc.
For this type of thing I've had much better results with LDA in the python package gensim. It is less prone to mis-matches based on similar keywords (since it is context based) the problem with LDA is that for it to be most effective you need to have a taxonomy available for the documents, but you might be able to build a corpus or two out of sites like stack overflow.
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> The Fire strikes me as being almost totally dedicated to media consumption

Many people said the same thing about the iPad when it first came out. Some still do.
simple modulo the 670 euros to spend for the base model, plus the fact you already spent the same amount of money a few months ago. I hope you have a lot of apple stocks at least.
Incorrect. Silverlight runs out of browser.
really it's 1 life lesson from girt talk:

3. Be Passionate and Love What You Do

and it has to be genuine. otherwise you'll need top 10 lists to help you figure out what to do.
Well that was partly my point.

Another thing I forgot to mention ... Adobe already has an AS3 to Javascript compiler that produces Google Closure compliant code (or this is the plan anyway) and they are using it internally for their own projects.
A tangent but why is "TheVerge" getting so much play on Techmeme's front page if it produces articles like this one?
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What about accounting tricks which seem to move risks off an institution's books, but don't actually do so, and nobody notices until it's too late?
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I've always believed those tools must exist, but sorting out the SEO crap and advertising copy that gloms up search results for them is painful. Can you name any Linux/Mac tools like that?
Its a VERY VERY early april fools. Frownyface. Would have been a good one.
As a professional Java developer, my advice is to stop caring why people bash Java. Java is still one of the most used language on the web and it will continue to be for some time.

As a hobbyist programmer, my advice is that you should not limit yourself to one language. If you are a Java guy, you can still learn a very different language like Python, Lisp, or CoffeeScript. I believe that once you feel competent with a few different languages, you will begin to see through the language war BS and understand the roles of Java in the world.
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> Ergen noted that a $7.99 subscription to Netflix might not be as attractive if the cost of broadband increases. If broadband goes up $20, that’s the equivalent of a $27.99 service, he argued, which is something streaming video providers can’t control.

This is silly. Everyone is going to have a broadband internet connection, regardless of whether they get Netflix, Cable, or no TV.
According to Wikipedia they use FileI/O, a Mozilla API for accessing the filesystem, which from what I can tell it's more directed at Addons than webpages.
Have you compared the results of your computer vision approach to the velocity data provided by the NWS?
> Every time they try some new law, tech works around it.

> Can't stop the signal.

No, they can't. But they can make life worse for the vast majority of the population, possibly with a minor profit, at little or no cost to them. So they do.
Please, show me your best HTML UI components and we will compare them to the native ones or even the Silverlight ones that are available (from Telerik, DevExpress, Infragistics, ComponentOne, etc)

Can you even get a data grid that is half as powerful or has as robust an API as something like this? http://www.telerik.com/products/wpf/gridview.aspx
st-ericsson's novathor seems to be stealing a good bit of market share from Qualcomm in upcoming phones.
Not just the millionaires but many people want to too.
Hopefully. Unfortunately, any time anyone talks about cool new innovations in the browser, we have to use the word "hopefully".
That's why almost no one makes 'glitzy' apps in HTML5 - and this is, actually, a good thing. However, I expect it to change once Adobe tools for HTML5 will mature and gain traction. As was the case with Flash, these will be more popular among designers than among developers and - with all due respect to our fellow artists - we all know how it ends. Hopefully better hardware, GPU acceleration and WebGL support will be widely adopted by then, making performance issues less significant.
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Nice, lightweight framework, but the template system (Plates) seems weak. It only binds to DOM elements. This means two things: a) You always have to use HTML for all of your templates; b) You have to create a new DOM element for each variable. Example <div id="greet">Hello <div id="name">Batman</div></div> instead of <div id="greet">Hello <%= name %></div>
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Can someone enlighten me on how so many (or so few) people got so rich off of property?
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Why is charlierose.com so terrible?
Link: http://www.charlierose.com/

There are plenty of posts, blogs, books, etc. about successful, engaging websites/apps/businesses. However, I think, unexpected failure should be at least as instructive as success stories.

So, why is http://www.charlierose.com/ so terrible? The website looks bad. Half the time I can't get the videos to work. It is difficult to navigate the website to looks at a large number of recent videos, or to find old videos.

On the other hand, Charlie Rose's show (brand) is fantastic. I believe it has a very large following, including many in the tech world. His show itself has had discussions of technology companies, what technology means, even the phenomenon of people taking existing videos and "mashing" them up to create new works.

Given the quality of the guests, discussions and topics, the host and his staff must be absolutely at the top of their game. How, then, can the same organization produce something like http://www.charlierose.com/?
Regardless if its billionaires in yuan or dollars, if there is a sentiment in China that the wealthy are being killed, it could fuel the desire to leave.
This lets you embed programs in other languages (DSLs) within your program that are parsed and compiled at compile time instead of run-time. This has the following benefits over run-time DSLs / languages embedded inside of strings:

1. The embedded language will be type checked at compile time. For example a regular expression macro could enforce that your regular expression has balanced parentheses in capture groups. This potentially lets you shift a class of errors from run-time to compile time.

2. The language will be parsed at compile time saving run-time cycles.

3. The host language can be extended and experimented with without adding new syntax. Features like this actually limit the growth of the "dog pile", since many language experiments features can be tested as macros first.

Some common DSL examples are regular expressions, parser generators, SQL / ORM generators and LINQ
This is the end of flash. Mobile is the future of computing and if Adobe is giving up on flash for the mobile web, then they're giving up on flash for the entire web. The statement that they're shifting focus to air apps is to save face. The only reason people want to build AIR apps is because they already know flash from working with it on the web.

And you know what? That's awesome. What the interactive web needs, flash, canvas or HTML5, is creative tools that people like adobe used to be really good at producing.
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If it’s not worth the 670€ you don’t have to buy it. That’s how it works. You evaluate. Apple has no monopoly on voice control so you can also easily switch to – for example – Android.

The old iOS devices work just as well as they ever have. If you want Siri you have to buy the new phone. Apple has taken away nothing whatsoever from you.

This all seems completely fair to me. Can we please stop pretending that consumers are mindless zombies and companies are accordingly treating them unfairly when they don’t give them everything they want?

(Edit: I would appreciate if someone could tell me what is wrong – to the degree that it deserves to be downvoted – with what I said.)
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This is kinda impressive.
From parent's link:

If you're calling requestFileSystem() for the first time, new storage is created for your app. It's important to remember that this file system is sandboxed, meaning one web app cannot access another app's files. This also means you cannot read/write files to an arbitrary folder on the user's hard drive (for example My Pictures, My Documents, etc.).
I'm not a java programmer, but there is obviously a lot of FUD in those answers. My favorite: "Most times I have ever caught a virus has been from infected Java code."
Looks like this was the case.

> Aha! The IP is assigned to my phone’s GSM interface, so it looks like it’s benign after all.
> That did the tip, Amatus!
I wasn't saying that Silverlight reached the same market penetration as VB6. What I said was that Microsoft isn't going to take it away and make it not work. Like VB6, you'll still be able to run it if you want.
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I work with large databases every day. I cannot tell you the amount of people I've interviewed that weren't able to solve a left join question. Let's leave right and full outer joins out of the discussion--a left join is as advanced as I dare get off the bat in an interview.

I've once had a guy I worked with ask for help when he was with a new company. I told him to look at the query plan. He replied, "Yeah, but that doesn't tell you much."

Relational databases are oft-misunderstood and underestimated time and time again. Where are the Codds of yesteryear?
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Maybe there's a market for these kinds of appliances?
As I understand it, CDOs on subprime mortgages would have been a reasonable investment vehicle if the odds of mortgage defaults and the correlation among default rates in different regions had stayed at historically low levels.

The problem was that because investors were pumping money into these CDOs, real-estate bubbles inflated simultaneously in a bunch of markets across the country, and then popped simultaneously.
> wait till they eventually come to their senses and offer it for $19

If they eventually offer it for $19, it could be they’ve come to their senses. Another possibility is that it’s good old-fashioned price discrimination: You offer it for $49, and sell as many as you can to those who can afford it.

When $49 sales dry up, drop the price and now a whole new group of customers—like you—buy it. If you had offered it at $19 to begin with, you’d have left money on the table from all the people who would have paid $49 but got it for $19.
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Sorry, I call BS.

I might have just been lucky enough to always work at professional companies and startups where this kind of stuff can never happen.

But something tells me there is no reasonable way an SQL query can grow to these proportions.
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Sadly, the development environment matters quite a bit.

- I will miss being able to declare classes using a sane syntax (Coffeescript helps in this regard)

- I will miss the optional type annotations, which caught many a bug for me (you can use JSDoc annotations + closure compiler, but only if you like placing a verbose comment in front of every single variable declaration)

- I will miss having an IDE that can actually do code completion (this not possible without type annotations, so it's not coming to Javascript any time soon)

- I will miss interfaces

- I will miss namespaces (there are various ways to hack namespaces into Javascript. They are all letdowns.)

- I will miss color transform filters, drop shadow filters, and blur filters (might become part of CSS if Adobe's proposal gets approval)

- I will miss the (mostly excellent) API documentation (MDN tries its best, but is not even close)

- I will miss masks (of any arbitrary shape)

- I will miss being able to create and dispatch my own events without having to use someone else's event framework

- I will miss having all my resources compiled into one blob and loaded together, rather than having to worry about preloading all of my UI images

- But most of all, I will miss performance. Yeah, Flash is buggy/slow/memory hog blahblahblahblah. But have you tried doing anything graphically complex in HTML5? Holy shit, your processor will scream. Things that Flash used to laugh at will bring Chrome to its knees. Don't get me started with IE.

So no, Flash is not great. It has a ton of warts. But HTML5 is not ready. Not even close. So we're going to have to spend the next ~2-3 years in techno limbo while it catches up. And that makes me sad.

HTML5 is particularly not ready on mobile. For example...don't use gradients, since they kill performance. Oh, and don't use opacity either, since that also kills performance. Seriously? I need to build a UI that doesn't use opacity animations? FFFfffuuuu--

Apologies for sounding like a grumpy old man, but promises of "someone will come and fix it with a standard...at some point" don't really get me excited. I worry that in vilifying all the things that Flash did wrong, the web world is going to ignore all the things it did right, and refuse to integrate those things into HTML.
The exact match domain 'trick' died in early 2011 updates. Prior to that I had done exactly what the article suggested - Exact Match Domain, 3-5 page site with optimized keywords, and boom the site would be on page 1 with no backlinks in 2-5 weeks.

Today this does not work if there is any competition at all for a word. (I've still seen it work for long tail terms with no competition).

Long story short - you need good content to rank well :-)
and what would that subset be in your opinion?
While this is a real issue worthy of intelligent discussion especially among developers. This article is inflammatory, incredibly non-technical, and poorly written.
This seems incredibly idealistic. Patrick is providing relevant and valuable products to people. If this $110 investment in a halloween-themed variant to his site brought thousands in sales, then clearly not everyone was "finding it" where it was seasonal bingo content.
Fantastic, can't wait to get the app! I've always wondered about taking weather radar over time and creating a "heat map" of rainfall to prove that during the summer the t-storms seem to split in half, pass us by and rejoin, leaving me to go out and have to water the lawn while ALL the adjoining towns get inches of rain!
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"There's a difference between an iPad and tablets. That difference is something you just can't define."

There's the same difference between iPhone and Android, no? Last quarter, Android surged from 40 to 43% market share. iPhone held at 28% (still healthy growth, mind you-- the whole market is growing).

The ~$200 price point is a huge differentiator. Before this, non-iPads really didn't have any differentiator (prices were comparable and, as you say, iPads were just better). The Fire is going to be a big deal.
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Unfortunately, I work at a place where most of the programmers here use naming conventions like these. I'm pretty sure it's to cover up their lack of ability or maybe they are suffering from dunning-kruger.
You're looking at only the launch date, whereas there are still people who are locked into carrier contracts after having bought it. AT&T stopped selling it only in June 2010 which is not even a year and half back.

http://www.bgr.com/2010/06/04/att-officially-stops-selling-i...
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James Bridle's "Robot Flâneur" is technically similar: http://robotflaneur.com , http://booktwo.org/notebook/robot-flaneur
Making this into a game was the first thing I thought. It could be as simple as having a game mode that puts a small country map in the corner; you click where you think the view is and receive a score based on how close you are. This could be surprisingly fun and addictive.
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If you agree with Austrian economics,

Big if.
“One reason our premium business is down is… when someone can buy Netflix for $7.99, do they really want to pay $14.99 for HBO? And so when people look at their pocketbooks, obviously, every time somebody subscribes to Netflix, it’s probably 1/2 of a customer that our industry loses from a premium perspective,” Ergen said.

Those aren't even competing services. Every time someone signs up for cable, they ask themselves, "Do I want to pay $14.99 for HBO?" It's an add-on for cable, and it'd be an add-on for online viewing, too. IF they offered it, that is. If they don't offer it, it's not the viewers' fault for not choosing it.
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Definitely do this, unless you have an extremely critical must-have application that requires iOS 4.

The perf "gains" from going back to 3.1.3 make the phone non-irritating again.
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Yes, but what we have is a batshit, crazy legislative branch and a Newspeak executive branch. Compared to the other 2 the courts have the dubious distinction of being the least likely to ride roughshod over the Bill of Rights.
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You cut bread with a non-serrated knife? :)

Ceramic knives have a bunch of downsides; they're even more high-maintenance than $500 custom steel knives.
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While I tend to agree with everything - we should expect Apple to support the 3GS currently - they're still selling it! How much support will it get 6 months after it's not currently sold anymore?
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Same here, and many times they complain if you give a properly simple name. Oh my.
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What does Netflix use for their iOS app? That's not based on Silverlight is it?
Why not? It's probably computer-generated. You can actually see the first page, and if you look at it, it uses nested SELECT statements. No one said it was smart, but it certainly is reasonable.
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I really hope the persistent sync bugs get worked out soon. I'm told that the final, and big, fix was in alpha, which makes me think that it's not in 8.0. Soon, soon.