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I see that Vidyard has also increased their pricing.

Three months back, Vidyard was offering unlimited videos on their Venti plan (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2913255). Today, they're only offering 100 videos and the price has gone up from $50/mo to $249/mo. If this is a tool mostly to be used for short videos, it seems a tad on the expensive side now. If one assumes a file size of 100MB and 100 videos, that's only 10GB costing a couple dollars in storage each month. Even the 101GB of transfer is only around $15.

I understand how it would be difficult to offer unlimited video hosting (as I brought up three months ago). As a curiosity (if someone from the team is here), what changed?

Assuming the same 100MB file size, that means that Vimeo Pro is offering about 2TB of transfer per month and 50GB of storage (enough for 500 videos) for under $20/mo. In case you're wondering about the math: Vimeo offers 250,000 plays per year which comes out to over 20,000 per month and with 100MB per play you get 2TB in transfer per month. Are you finding that the average video is larger than 100MB? Of course, if the file size is larger, the extra bandwidth used would mean Vidyard would be offering fewer viewings of it. If the video is 500MB, the 101GB of transfer Vidyard offers would only allow 202 people to watch it in that month while Vimeo Pro would allow 20,000 people to watch without overage charges - plus, even at the 500MB file size, the 50GB of storage would still offer space for 100 videos like Vidyard.

If I sound critical, I'm sorry. If Vidyard isn't about storing and serving videos as much as it is about real-time analytics and integration with services like YouTube, that's just what I need to hear. I'm genuinely curious.
As a hiring manager, why would I hire people who advertise themselves to be poached?
In a couple of months, I'm not really sure if they will still be interested, or if they are already on the site again.

I guess that depends if you can keep them interested first.
Have you tried watching videos from other websites? How about using it to read HN or blogs?

I tried going in store and testing web browsing and video playback, but for some reason the display has its browser locked.
It was in fact the idea, but never has effectively been the reality.
In the words of Michael Clayton, "you need a trial lawyer".
Sure, but you're an edge case: most people don't buy tablets so they can develop for them. From a consumer perspective, its very much more a comparison to existing tablets, and especially the iPad (being the leading tablet).

There are arguments in favor of the Fire over the iPad--price comes to mind--but I very much think a comparison is appropriate.
My knowledge of physics is only very basic but it's still fun to ponder these things. Do they need to factor in that the endpoints are rotating with the earth and the neutrinos are not?
I don't think its over-served at all. We like to build tools; tools for regular users, and tools for power users. Tools for power users make it easier to build tools for regular users. So Blimp is a tool for your regular user, and -M is a tool to make it easier for us to keep working on Blimp.
I went to sign up as an employer, but stopped since I didn't want to fork over $50 before even seeing what quality of engineers you have. I'll bet you'd get a lot more employer interest if you let people inspect the goods before entering a credit card number.
I like the idea. Two implementation critiques:

1) Let recruiters see the value before making them pay (e.g. wait until people want to reach out to somebody).

2) Come up with payment terms that don't discourage use. You want people to pay you and then use your service religiously. Per-use pricing forces people to ration the extent that they use your service which gets in the way of maximizing the value you provide them.
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Seriously? You can't tell?
To be fair, the history search is a big selling point, and is fairly difficult to set up. Or perhaps that is and out of the box feature of modern ircd implementations now? It's been a while since I've run an irc server myself.

It is certainly true that running your own XMPP server doesn't get you searchable history out of the box.
I think it would have been better if they had created all the Stanford Classes under single domain rather to have different for each one of them.
See Mule's http://unsuck-it.com/ for more.
Steve Jobs iTribute Rap
Listen for all of the mac references in the music
10 years later, and gapless playback is still a thing. Heh.
Holy flicker. I went to scroll down and OMG FLASH FLASH FLASH. Tab closed. Ouch!
That's very interesting! We've been discussing a couple of ways "curating" those commit messages. One way I've thought of doing is to take the commit messages with the highest impact(according to Github: Impact is lines added + lines deleted), still not sure about it.

Thanks for the feedback!
Too bad. I wasn't going to get one anyways (ipad and a nook color rooted) but competition is good and I love Amazon (love my eink kindle gen 2). Oh and welcome to Android. It's just not ready for primetime, but getting there.
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It's cheap but I rather splash cash on an item that I actually use and feel pleasant.
Nancy Pelosi, Ron Paul join SOPA opposition
I'm pretty sure I remember that being on the list of things that were double-checked.

The sense I've gotten is that the most likely culprit is some sort of systemic error in the software somewhere, as that stuff is the most labor-intensive part of the experimental setup to analyze for errors.
His indictment of the tablet category is a bit silly. They way he describes the category is fairly accurate, but his conclusion (that this makes the category less useful) is incorrect. I don't take my iPad 2 anywhere: it sits by my bed, and I only use it in bed before going to sleep. That's an extremely limited (and not even mobile!) usage, and yet, I find that it fully justifies the purchasing price of the iPad.
Sites like Monster charge employers quite a bit. Even LinkedIn has services for employers that are more expensive.
Ask HN: Stuck in support role
Is there any way out of a support role? Long story short, I started working at a company part-time in college supporting a CMS (slicing, integrating cms, troubleshooting, etc). I did it for over 3 years. Recently I transitioned into full time, but it seems like I've terribly outgrown the job. Even though there are other positions for UI/UX, programming, the company pretty much only wants me doing support. The company hires totally new people for these positions all the time, and it really hurts. This is the case for pretty much everyone at this company that started on support, there seems to be no way out. I worked really hard for this company in college since I thought I was working for something more (long hours, less pay for more responsibility, harder or equal work as full timers).

Should I be grateful to even have a job? Am I asking for too much? I figured I should have been given some semblance of a chance by now to do anything else. High tail it out of this company, or what? I didn't go to a well known college, and only have one significant project I can point to outside of work, so I'm finding it difficult building a solid resume. I feel really gimped, but a lot of the blame must obviously fall on me.
Only since January. I only lived in small towns, not even metropolitan areas, up until then.
I work at LinkedIn, so I think I'm reasonably qualified to provide my opinion. I'm certain that this won't work well. Charging $5 per profile view ($50 per 10) is simply outrageous. Most profiles will be junk or irrelevant - recruiters work very hard to sift through the chaff. Even of those that ARE relevant, there's a small chance they'll wind up working at your company. You'd have to have an unprecedented algorithm here. It's unlikely that you do, given we've had engineers working on optimizing search for recruiters for years.

That said, LinkedIn doesn't do the best job of allowing employees to anonymously signal that they are looking for a job. I think there's space for you to make an impact, but I think your payment model will hold you back.
I think that point was addressed: Tablets are a hard sell. It’s not like anyone really needs them like PCs or phones. If they are not fun you might as well not buy them.

It’s nevertheless going to be extremely interesting to see how well they will sell. The Kindles are well loved so I think there are going to be a lot of people who blindly buy this tablet for Christmas. How the Fire will sell beyond that is anyone’s guess.
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Or they see requests to pleasepoach.me in their network logs, which depending on their resolution can nail you to a wall pretty easily.
In my opinion it is also about values, I can totally understand why they favor these laws, but I want to work for a company that has the same values as I have.

Its like the zinga incident in which they forced employees to give back their unvested stock. I can totally understand it from a business view, but its a "bad smell". If I worked for Microsoft now,I would really feel bad
As someone who would consider signing up to be poached, I would really want to know more about these "high quality job offers" before giving you my personal information.
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It was deadpan. I had to re-read it to see the humor. "Real time", lol.

I had a friend that used to do ironic yelp reviews. His review of the hot dogs at the 7-11 by his house were priceless.
I heard you like Google products so we put G+ in your fav ones so you can..um..
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Very cool: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1111.3328

Not sure if I understand all the assumptions. Here is the gist of it. The debate is about the interpretation of quantum states |φ> (L2 norm unit vectors in a complex vector space). Is |φ> something physical or is it simply a outcome-probability-calculating method for predicting the quantum evolutions and measurement outcomes.

View 1: |φ> is real.

View 2: |φ> is just a model of our knowledge of what is real + rules for calculating prob outcomes.

Define the λ = { the physical state of a system }, i.e., that which //really// exists in the world. The question is whether:

λ = {|φ> and other stuff} (1)
or
λ = {other stuff not including |φ> } (2)

If you have (2) then |φ> was really just some mathematical track-keeping and calculation device -- it is not real: it is just something we use for calculation.
If (1) is true then the quantum state is part of the real world,
and in particular if quantum theory is complete, then λ = |φ>.

Point of view (2) says that the |φ> is not necessary to obtain the complete physical
state of the system.

The paper shows that point of view (2) is untenable.

Suppose only λs mattered for physics and (2) is true.
Suppose further that a single λ could correspond to two different quantum states
|φ0> and |φ+>.
Then an apparatus that only knows λ would get "confused" sometimes and say that impossible outcomes occurred. If you knew |φ>, you wouldn't get confused about these outcomes. Therefore, they conclude that |φ> is a necessary part of the physical description of the system.

|φ> is real.
I have a simple question - Since it is mobile, why not do away with the animations and transitions? So why prefer jQuery mobile at all. What alternatives if I am targeting Blackberry, Windows, Palm, Kindle, etc?
The problem is that the "collapse" (from wave to
particle) occurs as a result of somebody measuring. Google the double-slit experiment: when not measuring individual photons, you get wave-like interference. When measuring individual photons, you get particle behavior.

The conundrum is what is it about measuring that collapses the waveform? It is quite a mystery, and, honestly, very exciting.

(btw, IANAP, but I love reading about it)
We got one for my tween daughter. All things considered, it's one of the nicer cheap Android tablets. The screen has great viewing angles. The lack of hardware volume controls is a pain. I didn't notice any video quality problems from Netflix or Amazon Prime but I wasn't expecting killer HD video from it, just something watchable. The reader seems servicable. I've been reading mobile ebooks since I had a Palm III, so I'm not real picky on the display, but to my eyes the text looks as good as it does on my better laptops.

The lack of the full app catalog is kind of a pain and would be a bigger problem if I bought one expecting to use it as a laptop replacement tablet, but I would never expect it to be that. It's a device for consuming media (books, movies, music, and I guess casual games) and isn't the top of the class device for that.

I could almost see adding one to my already full bag of gadgets, but I don't need to carry another wifi-only device unless I finally get a mobile hotspot device. It's the same complaint I have about the very nice looking ASUS Transformer tablet. I want those devices but with the iPad's contract-free AT&T deal.

It could be a great device for teens, tweens and even younger kids, but a lot of parents won't like the lack of parental controls. I keep saying there's room in the market for a decent kid-oriented tablet with parental controls. (There's also still a great opportunity for easy-to-configure wifi access point or other network device that can apply parental controls.)
One way -M could automate user-visible and non-user-visible improvements is to have separate branches for each type of improvement. -M would email only commits in the UVIs branch. (And the master branch would just merge commits from those two separate branches, and contain no original commits.)

This would allow UVIs to be chosen at commit-time, rather than manually right before sending the email. (It would be possible but harder to choose UVIs manually right before sending the email, by editing history so those commits were in the right branch.)
I'm not trying to crush your startup dreams but you should stop right now and immediately talk to 20+ recruiters or hiring managers about your app before you invest any more time or money.

I built a prototype for a similar idea about 18 months ago - it imported your linked in profile, your network could write skill specific references which back-linked and allowed recruiters/employers to search for skills/experience/geography/salary range they wanted to generate an anonymous short list of candidates in seconds; they could browse shortlisted CVs, read references and they only paid when a candidate agreed to release their details to the recruiter. Great idea eh?

The problem was, just about all the recruiters & employers I talked to about it (in Australia) weren't that positive. Their reasons were:
* network effects - it only becomes useful once plenty of candidates were in it.
* many recruiters already had their own database of candidates that they didn't want to share or duplicate.
* many recruiters needed near immediate response (they had 48hrs to fill a role). Waiting for candidates to respond to a request was a negative for them.
* some recruiters saw it as a threat and didn't want to support that kind of system.
* Companies often wanted a full service solution so while this could generate a quality shortlist for them, many wanted hand holding.

HR is ripe for disruption but execution is everything. What does your app do that paid access to searchable linkedin profiles doesn't?
Accounting profit is not generally a great test of the long-term profitability of a business, because much depends on how revenue from customers comes in, how costs are timed, etc.

Generally, if you have a business where there is a significant growth opportunity / market opportunity, the right strategy is to run at an accounting loss to grow faster. What matters is the cash situation, not the accrual accounting situation (and they are not that closely tied to each other.) Growing slower so that you show an accounting profit would be the wrong thing to do and the market would not consider it a positive indicator for a company coming to IPO.
Apple's free streaming video is pretty much all educational - but I've lost countless hours watching Stanford's series on Energy - in particular, I highly recommend Their Global Climate and Energy Project. Start with Solar Energy 101 - and see if you can avoid being hooked.

Obviously - there is also all of the podcasts from NPR, 5by5.tv, etc...

I've been happy with the free content I get from Apple - I probably spend, on average, 6-8 hours a week listening/watching it.
I seriously cannot wait for the MINOS experiment :)
I have read HN, worked about as expected. The arrows are hard to touch accurately, but I have the same complaint with any mobile device (it's HN's fault--doubly so that votes can be changed).

I just went to nytimes.com and played some video on their homepage. Worked as expected. It's tricky to do direct comparisons because many sites show different versions for the iPad (the Fire seems to get a fair amount of general "mobile" sites, but is obviously too new for dedicated "Fire" sites). ESPN falls in this category, it works better on the iPad but is also specially made for it.
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I think that’s pretty useful. I don’t much care for final verdicts that try to summarize everything for me. The author usually doesn’t share my opinion about what’s important and what’s not.

If there is a list of negatives I can check whether or not a particular negative matters to me or not. If I, for example, don’t read any magazines I can just ignore all that talk about magazines.
This was probably the best tl;dr I've read.
"My bet? Swartz is forcing the issue". My bet is that the Justice Department is still pissed at him for his role in liberating PACER (see http://gnat.me/sJAdUm). They'd been obstinately keeping judicial information under paywall lock and key, and were grumpy when he helped release that information (read the link for more). The FBI staked him out, and this set of indictments (where MIT and JSTOR have both made their peace with Swartz) reeks of vindictiveness. Anyone else, they'd have let it go by now.
> spidering the .bit sites, but indexing them by numeric IP rather than DNS names.

And as soon as the site operator moves to a different VPS host, all links get broken.
Just created a new app and found the performance was both fast and sluggish at times. Anyone else with me on this? What are you doing about it?
See the list of top 50 (linked from Tyler Cowen's post):

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/page/260753_The_network_of_g...

Note that "ruling the world" here amounts to "having nominal ownership of stocks in public companies". Consequently, practically all of the top 50 companies are asset management companies (such as Vanguard or Fidelity), financial conglomerates that also do asset management, or insurance companies. The only apparent exception is China Petrochemical at 50th. Not a very interesting "finding", really.
Many people don't want to work for an employer who has no principles. In this case, hobbling the internet is pretty clearly a large net negative for society, and pretty much the only reasons you would try to do that is for reasons of pure self-interest.
They chose to invest it in payroll, actually, which is why accounting profit did grop. Investment in infrastructure would be capitalized over multiple years and have much less impact on the current quarter, I believe.
You have somewhat proved my point in that some how 'pixel density' is often used as the go-to stat.

It makes no sense to hold this in higher standing than the actual pixel count-- nobody is asking for smaller screens with the same resolution. Simply holding your phone further away would have the same effect as a smaller, more pixel-dense screen. Increased pixel density naturally comes with increased resolution, it is great but not the end in of itself.

The subpixel count is about the same as the iP4 and the pixel count is quite a bit higher. Pentile isn't ideal, but I'd take a 1280x720 pentile display over a 960x480 RGB. every, single. time. Higher resolution has tangible benefits (like better viewing of desktop websites).
I'd have to be being actively picky to have any issue with the screen on my SGS, and it should be much less noticeable on the G Nexus.
id doesn't hold the patent in question.
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This is connected to an employee's LinkedIn profile, so why wouldn't an employee just change their contact settings to "I am open to career opportunities"? I know a lot of people that have that setting on, even if they are very happy with their job, and I don't know of a single person who has gotten flak for it from their employer.
Sure, I don't think anyone has suggested otherwise. However, the OPERA collaboration has done a heroic job checking everything they could think of. Thus the continued interest.

Physics, as I'm sure you know, has undergone many revolutions in its understanding of the world. This could be the start of a new one, or it could fizzle and be a quirky measurement error. In either case, highly worth following to see what happens.
> This doesn't affirm that the neutrinos actually exceeded light-speed.

You might be thinking of "confirm". This certainly is an example of the OPERA group affirming their results.

> Affirm. v. 1. State as a fact; assert strongly and publicly. 2. Declare one's support for; uphold or defend.
The REALLY long term game is helping your country be prosperous so that you have an educated workforce to draw from and people and people and companies wealthy enough to pay high prices for your products. That requires a pretty pervasive altruistic/moral attitude to make it work, though... tragedy of the commons and all that, otherwise.
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I don't think there was any doubt that Ron Paul would oppose SOPA. Nancy Pelosi's opposition, on the other hand, is somewhat surprising, but also quite promising.
I totally agree. As a competitor to to the iPad, I find myself entirely underwhelmed by the Kindle Fire. The UI is not as intuitive, responsive, or smooth. For me, given the choice between the iPad and Kindle Fire, I would take the iPad every time.

However, the Kindle Fire is not a direct competitor to the iPad. It's less than half the price. And if you're not willing to pony up $500 for an iPad, the Kindle Fire is good enough. Which is why they're going to sell millions of units this holiday season. And which is why I, as a developer of a fairly popular iPad app, will be developing a Kindle Fire version too.
Oh I see, sorry for misunderstanding you. You're probably right. It can be hard to make a strictly factual video have the same emotional impact, though.
As a small business, we have never been extorted directly (noone has said 'we will bring your private reviews public'), but the percentage of filtered reviews across different small businesses is RIDICULOUS.

For example, our salon has 89 total reviews. 18 are public, 71 are 'filtered' (hidden):
http://www.yelp.com/biz/bloom-beauty-lounge-new-york

A competitor in our area has 81 total reviews. 71 are public, 10 are filtered:
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kiwa-salon-new-york

All of our reviews are from legitimate customers and we've reached out to Yelp to try to understand their algorithm. They assure us that everything is 'proprietary' and they 'cannot divulge secret information.'

We previously showed up to 36 positive reviews at one time, at which point we were seeing huge foot-traffic from yelp. Since then it has more or less dropped off.