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This is already happening in China. Because of the nature of shipping companies here it's not unusual to buy a product (typically off of http://taobao.com) and get it later that day or the next day. Many of these businesses are based in Shanghai and if you live there delivery happens nearly instantly. One online shop, http://cheers-in.com/ delivers cold beer in Shanghai in 1 - 2 hours from an order. Stuff like this is absolutely fantastic and it would be amazing to see it come to the US.
There was another high scoring post on Reddit less than a week ago with a similar premise: guy posts a coded note he claims to have seen placed in a dead drop [1]. This post definitely smells funny.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/w2231/reddit_i_th...
I am a YouTube/Google fan with great reason - they provide 2 critical infrastructure services (instantaneous global video distribution/search) at little to no cost for the vast majority of the world.

VEVO is a middle-man who is only as strong as his grip over the conduit between 2 parties.

The artists require exposure and YouTube requires the content. However, as YouTube now has a daily standing audience (network effects/sticky subscribers), the artists want YouTube more than YouTube will want any one artist (for channelling views towards live concerts/creating new fans/selling merchandise offsite). It is to any one artist's detriment if they reduce their YouTube exposure - as their artistic competition will be happy to take their views for themselves (time per person per day is the limiting resource).

VEVO's strength is their subscriber funnel that pushes massive numbers of views towards new/existing artistic content. This is thanks to Metacalf's law and a strength that will be lost if they drop off YouTube.

If VEVO falls off YouTube someone else will take the mantle - and YouTube will extract their pound of flesh.

YouTube used to be weak. They aren't any more. They are the 800 pound gorilla now.
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Gotta say, I expected more square brackets for Objective-C.
Ask HN: Negotiating equity. Is 10% enough?
I plan on quitting my engineering job to join a 2 person startup. Currently the startup doesnt make product - it generates $100,000 per year in software consulting and is growing at a rate of 15%. Eventually we hope to package and ship products from our consulting ventures.I will be quitting a 9 to 5 to work days/nights/weekends (basically full time, all the time), loosing dental/health insurance and 401k benefits.

Since I do not expect to get paid more than $33K per year, I need to figure out what equity compensation is reasonable. How should I go about figuring out what equity to negotiate?

I could estimate stock value using price to earnings, 10% equity for year one would then correspond to an additional $10,000 if my shares were to be bought out.Is this how I should go about thinking about this?
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In order to be FUD I would need to be spreading false information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt

As I have pointed out everything in my post was factually accurate. I had no intention of spreading misinformation.
They show the seller, kind of, but say the seller is rightguard. Is it the deodorant brand or is someone camping the name?
Well I suppose users got 2 weeks notice of the closure - though for many who are on holiday as it is summer(apparently in some countries), then this will be moot.

Not sure what there doing next and advertising a advertisng company on the back of a demise of a project that has failed is not entirely inspiring, though in this day and age I doubt it will be held against them.

If they open source the old system then I'm sure even more will forgive them. Though I'm sure alot of investors will not be too happy, but thats how investing works.

I wish them well, if only for the aspect they explained how to get your old data, even if only a two week window of opertunity, could of been worse.
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Then I'm definetly a exception for a man. I buy most of my clothes because they look good. And if they aren't really comfortable or break down after a year than be it. Exceptions are sports and outdoor equipment, but again if the don't look good for me, no way I will ever wear them.

I still have to try them on so in order to judge all that.

As far as Amazon's same-day delivery is concerned, i guess it is as much warehouse / picking speed and efficiency as it is to have the right transportation partner. In germany they are aoing with DHL, now a post susidiery. And the german postal service always had over-night next day delivery for letters within germany.

But if they can really pull it off, it would be amazing!
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Global instantaneous video hosting infrastructure is a very tough nut to crack and is subject to economies of scale.

My experience with Facebook video has been disappointing (improper caching/not enough resources) and at no fault of their own. Pushing Tbits of video each second around the world is much - much harder than hosting pictures and comments (which is what Fb does admirably).

If Fb cracks video infrastructure - perhaps. But YouTube remains the king of video and anyone who wants to run content needs to be on YouTube (at least for the time being - subject to change at any time).
Here's the discussion I want to have:

Intel has spent at least $500M to date on their Ultrabook concept, while only selling an estimated 500,000 units across all Ultrabook vendors globally. This implies that a $1,000 per-unit subsidy is failing to move sub-$1,000 products off shelves.

What is going wrong here?
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Doesn't Yahoo have an entire team called "The Paranoids" to deal with security? Were they not involved in setting up this service?
The takeaway ...

"We might hit a million [ultrabooks] this year. The future really lies in 2013 and how well it jells with Windows 8," Chou added.

I believe that Windows 8 will face obstacles running on ordinary ultrabooks because this convergent OS is designed primarily for touch screens. People who can afford what ultrabooks cost are very likely the same people who favor Apple products!
There is a software-only USB stack for AVR microcontrollers, and it has a example section with LED and Display projects:

http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/prjdisplay.html

Especially this project is almost identical, but has a different form-factor:

http://www.vandenbrande.com/wp/converting-a-led-cube-into-an...

(look at the schematics, and keep in mind that the ULN2003 is not needed for driving lower-power LEDs, and there are microcontrollers running the VUSB stack that can use their tunable internal RC oscillator, so the XTAL can go away, too...)

For the cost, it's difficult to say what's a reasonable amount: I like the idea to retrofit a general purpose notification LEDs to computers, but have no immediate personal use. For one-off projects every "maker"/hacker/tinkerer/electronics-enthusiast I know has maybe 10 unused boards of various kinds laying around where one could retrofit such an indicator (in a ugly way, I admit) in 10 minutes.

The only way this could be made accessible to the normal non-savy home-user would be to have an assortment of ready-made plugins for all major email-clients, instant-messaging, twitter, skype or long-running PC tasks (has this upload already finished?)... Maybe Outlook notifications? And creating all those will be a pain in the...
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What looks strange to me is that semicolon is is not one of the most common in C-derived languages.
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Not really, the Russians and Chinese were both communist but were rivals rather than allies through most of the cold war.
I wonder what a programming language designed to minimize shifting would look like. Python does a pretty good job because it uses few curly brackets and no semicolons.
And that would be some kind of revolution, or evolution. Given amazon's logistics can keep the pace.
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Almost definitely laid off / working elsewhere at this point in time.
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Great for consumers like us, but terrible for all of the people who work ridiculous hours under constant stress on warehouse floors or do deliveries day in and day out. I try to buy from brick & mortar shops purely because running a shop is a job that has a shred of dignity left in it.
> Gosh, I don't recall saying that he was my bitch. Really. Can you point out where I did?

Sure, here you go:

> has shown not only not-shame, but active antipathy to those who have the temerity to call him out on his irresponsibility.
Probably not a boon for Bing, which I characterize as a black hole whose event horizon is strongly attracting Microsoft's cash hoard.
There's actually a subreddit designated for this kind of post, a sort of best-of in-depth comments: http://reddit.com/r/depthhub
Despite of the state Yahoo! is in I find it very hard to believe that a company like Yahoo! would store it's passwords in plain-text. In addition, doesn't yahoo voice uses the Yahoo single sign on, that would mean that there is a very good chance that the central authentication server and not yahoo voice is authenticating the user and the password doesn't even touch yahoo voice. Of course, there is a possibility that Yahoo uses a simple API based authentication for own apps and the architect took the easy way out and just stored the plain-text password.

If it wasn't in such credible news source I would have found the entire thing very hard to believe.
I am so sick of hearing Americans tell the rest of the planet that "not wanting to work yourself to death" equals a "sense of entitlement".

Can we please take this tired, idiotic old meme out back and put a few rounds in it?
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Without looking I'd be nearly certain that Amazon isn't going to take the hit for chargebacks on the marketplace. Appart from costing a heap it would just be inviting fraud.
File this under things that should have worked in the first place.
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I like it because it is simple, fast, and straightforward. It also has nice additional features like benchmarks and mocks.

It's a step up from test unit and less "magical" than rspec.
Is it just me, but threatining to pull all "Justin Bieber" video's from youtube as a threat is perhaps not the strongest point to win a argument. I'd pay Google to do that.

Also reading the article, Vevo in effect created this situation and to complain publicly does seem in bad taste as I see it as Vevo stole a opertunity from Universal, created a new monoply with the help of Googles youtube and then now that has been established are trying to bully more money from them. This is ontop of the aspect that Vevo said they would control/do the adverts and in that they are perhaps at fault for there own shortcommings and blaming Google for it in a way that is mearly showboating.

But again a youtube without Justin Bieber is one I realy have no issues with at all, were do I sign?
I don't think it'll be the undoing of youtube - not at all. Youtube offers much to their audience, this certainly won't dramatically change their business.
It does however give any competitor a much better standing to compete against youtube, giving the competitor relevance and a bucket load of traffic from consumers seeking desirable content. (The top 10 searches every year involve one or more music celebrities.)

It'll be interesting how it plays out anyway, now that google has announced it will discontinue video search altogether (in favour of youtube only.)
Awesome. I see your point, and am excited to see the results for this one.
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Google Books supports that kind of browsing pretty well showing selected chunks of a lot of books.
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I was once under the impression that selling web-enabled software was a stupid decision as a solo founder, because it would tether one to a server and uptime problems. I have since found that this is not the actual nature of the world, and that there are many, many reasons why web apps or similar server-dependent software are probably the sweet spot for solo software-product-writing entrepreneurs.

If you're thinking "That sounds like an ideal gig but the technical support burden / server maintenance / etc will crush me", as me for specific elaboration, but in general this is much easier than you think it is.
You can't leave us hanging like that. 3 million users? We need deets (please)!
If amazon decides to built its own transportation organisation, yes. But such a thing would make most sense in metropolitan areas, in rural ones I'm not sure. Maybe here it's better to use the existing specialist. But then amazon built it's own top-notch distribution and warehousing infrastrucrure, so maybe I'm wrong.
The server hosting it is a bit slow now, so here's the file compressed with bzip2: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?769gk65ix183vbd
I thought the quality of the content outweighed the cliche type face selection (but my initial reaction was to the type face as well).
sadly, highly dependent on keyword layout, e.g. my keyboard has square brackets and the equals sign only accessible via a key combination, while the US keyboard does not.

It seems the only safe character across many countries are 0-9a-z.,-\ plus space/tab/return.
Not a lot to work with :)
Every year there is some new gadget at CES that charges wirelessly in some new, innovative way, but is never heard from again. I guess I'll be a believer when I see it for the first time as a consumer somewhere.
Unless you know where the warehouses are... But surviving the zombie apocalypse in a wal-mart store or a huge mall has much more style then doing in a damp worehouse in the middle of nowhere. That is unless amazon is changing that bit about zombie outbreaks, too!
It wouldn't even be that hard to have an extension scan the dom and offer the signed assertion automatically as Firefox would/could.
I suspect that means that you don't plug it into a docking station.

I also suspect that the only thing it'll disrupt is your genome :)
Wireless charging/power is something that has been around since Tesla and still not fully taken off.

Maybe the Tesla patent expired or they have managed to patent the crystal radio!

"uBeam has “several patents” filed regarding its technology for wirelessly charging gadgets such as laptops and smartphones without plugging them into wall outlets or other energy sources, and she is being aided by a team of other people"

So they have applied for patents, not been awarded them. Though even if there are prior art/products that already do what they plan on doing they may still get awarded the patents for something that IMHO is in the public domain with the prior work by Tesla and cystal radio's. Not sure how they can expand upon that. But without a product to scrutinise, then there is nothing too see here.
Do people want to print photos?

Ask a simple question, get a simple answer: yes. Many of my (female, older) relatives use synthetic pigment attached to plant matter with animal proteins as both their primary transfer mechanism and storage media for photos. Ruriko's mother and my mother got virtually instant Dropboxed/Facebooked photos from the wedding, cooed a bit, and then went head over heels when they got the "real" photos. (Not the professional photos, which will be delivered in data and print -- just the same friends' cameraphone/point-n-click candid shots printed out at Walgreen's for $6.23.)
Why do you think you'd only get paid $33k? If that's the case, that's suggesting the compensation and ownership is:

Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity
Co-Founder: $33k Salary, 45% Equity
You: $33k Salary, 10% Equity

I'm hoping the problem is self-evident.
> I didn't join gmail with the idea of giving them the keys to my life.

Nor did I, but as you acknowledged, that sort of control has entered the status quo. Anyone who can break into your email account can trivially reset your password on many sites, at which point, per-site passwords just become another liability. We get rid of those, and empower you to independently decide who to trust with your identity.

> Does this mean that 'Relying Parties' need to whitelist all the secondaries they are willing to trust? How can that possibly fly?

The idea of a secondary (or fallback) isn't central to the BrowserID protocol; it's just a convenience so that we can actually bootstrap a fully decentralized system. In practice, all libraries trust Mozilla's fallback Identity Provider by default. As email providers add native support for the BrowserID protocol less and less traffic passes through our fallback until it simply and automatically drops out of existence.

> If the browser can decrypt the keyring, so can malware.

Yep, that's true. Same with your password manager, though we are trying to mitigate this by making the certificate itself relatively short-lived. To wit, each client has its own ephemeral keypair with certificates that expire regularly, requiring a silent renewal with the Identity Provider. This creates an opportunity for the Identity Provider to refuse to renew a certificate, should one of your machines become compromised.

> Is there a password prompt when you first sit down at the native BrowserID implementation? Or does it just assume that your browser means its you sitting there?!

If you have a valid, unexpired certificate available, you'll be able to log in to things straight away. If not, you'll need to authenticate with your identity provider to get a fresh cert. Native clients are, of course, free to implement additional security measures before allowing access to the keystore.
thank you this is awesome.
Thank you for your opinion on my conduct.

However you should note that I did not make the argument that all "google fans" were of this type of illogical character, rather that some do and have already begun filing responses of this kind in this thread, making it futile to reply to each, especially when this kind of fanboyism is immune to any contradicting realities presented to them.

Finally my "potshot" makes up a relevant piece of my argument, more specifically the argument that "being a fan of google doesn't invalidate vevos importance or clout".
> What if we had an "enterprise" version like GitHub which you could run on your infrastructure?

You might want to look into how c9 ( http://c9.io/ ) does it. They have a similar stack to yours. The core of their product is open source. They accept contributions, which lowers their cost to develop. They keep a few choice features (integration with github, etc) for their hosted/paid version.

If you open sourced your core product and kept a few features for your paid solution (versioning, saved output, etc.), you may gain the momentum you need.
The TrustedSec blog post that ArsTechnica links to gave the link for the password dump, so if you want to check for a compromised account:
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Then I concluded, "nope, religious nut"
joel spolsky answered a similar question on quora here, http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/forming-a-new-s...
You seem to think you're the first employee. If you're not making market and going home at 5/6 PM, you should be the third co-founder.
Delver of Secrets is a popular Magic card, so you're going to find plenty of people across the Internet with that username who like Magic...
Nope. Most of the originals have fled; the few who remain have been renamed something lame. (I forget the exact name but I'm sure it contains some or all of the Standard Yahoo Corporate Buzzwords, which are: Global, Platform, Initiative, Strategy, and Partnership.)
"nil" "if" and "elsif"

EDIT: though looking at my sources, where it seems to also be popular, it mostly seems to match inside non-syntax (field, nickname, to_i, strip, index, client).
Vevo would certainly take a hit, but it won't be their end.

I think a competitor could do more with vevo than the commoditising approach of youtube.

Imagine if vevo were incorporated into facebook for example. It would be a larger audience with highly targeted ad & opportunity to sell network.
I think that's a general feature of encrypted, no location customizations. (I'd have to double-check to make sure though)
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I've wondered before if Vevo does some sort of CDN style hosting outside of Youtube. Their videos seem to load at a different speed from the rest of the stuff on Youtube.

I've got no evidence other than my own sketchy observation, but the though has crossed my mind several times.
A disclaimer of - no code was hurt in the production of this article would of been nice.

That all said nice read and more so from a time managment perspective. Come in - do email - that in itself is a good way to warm up for the day and when you see that the real work gets done after lunch, like so many others then you appreciete coffee even more :).

I will say I was somewhat disapointed that no tie-tuseday pictures were included and can't help feel that they were pushed back for the chance of a free coffee down the line, but hey, priorities so fair play.
> I'm not complaining about DirectTV charging customers, I'm complaining about Viacom charging DirectTV. If anything, DirectTV should be charging Viacom!

But isn't it that DirectTV, cable companies, etc. have expensive infrastructure that is completely worthless without content to put through it? Whereas networks can always go somewhere else, find other ways to deliver their content? It would seem to me that DirectTV is more dependent on Viacom than the other way around - thus comes the direction of money flow.
Awesome response from Spolsky but that's not Quora. You can tell because it has users and content :)
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