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How to stream video for a demo day?
Does anyone know the best way to stream video for a Demo Day? Anyone have a recommendation for a site which can be used to share the video stream?
Celebrities are much more mobile than ordinary users. There aren't very many of them, they have social media teams/services who can post their content across multiple sites at no meaningful cost to themselves, and they have a large financial interest in the whole enterprise.
>Most of the startups who've encountered specific regulations (Uber, AirBnB, Square, among them) tend to be much more skeptical of their wisdom than the public at large.

What a surprise, the people whom the regulations prevent from making more money are less convinced about their wisdom than the people whom those regulations are ostensibly designed to protect.

>you want to force them to comply with certain cultural mores that you consider the basics of civilized society.

I would imagine that there are certain cultural mores you consider to be the basics of civilized society that you're okay with forcing people to comply with. Like, say, the illegality of stealing.

>I don't want to live in a place where other people aren't content with making their own places wheelchair-accessible, but want to impose their own ethical code on me as well, via fines and DOJ sweeps, among other mechanisms.

What if I were to say, "I don't want to live in a place where other people aren't content with allowing black people in their restaurant, but want to impose their own ethical code on me as well." It's certainly a bit of an exaggeration, since it doesn't cost you anything to allow black people in your restaurant whereas a wheelchair accessible bathroom does, but quite obviously this isn't as black and white (no pun intended) as you make it out to be.
I didn't notice the date on the answer. Someone with StackOverflow edit powers really ought to go back and update the response. It's nice to see that Mercurial is integrating these things into the core. My experience with Hg was over 3 years ago, before this answer was written.

RE: acl -- I understand it. I just don't really see a need for it because I prefer pull-requests and decentralized decision making. I truly dislike the "commit bit" culture that accompanies centralized repositories and acls seems to import some of that culture. I'm a big believer in better to beg for forgiveness than to ask for permission, and therefore I'd much rather say "Hey, I changed these files, you should pull from me" and if I fucked up, you can call me an idiot and I'll have learned something. Maybe put a README in the special directories! Then again, I feel similarly about method access control in C++ & Java vs Python. Python's underscore prefix for private bits is enough to stop me from screwing up, even though I can dig in and fiddle with private stuff if I actually know what I'm doing and no compiler is going to stop me.

> most users shouldn't be touching them

Mercurial is clearly designed for easy of learning. That's a worthwhile goal, and I think that it's great at that. As I mentioned, I started with Mercurial. It's a great offramp from SVN and onramp to DVCS.

However, my version control system gets more use than any software on my system, minus my text editor! It's worth learning. It's worth investing in. And it's worth having a sub-par beginner experience to optimize for the experts.... for me. I'd recommend Hg to any team looking to get started with DVCS where there is a mix of stronger and weaker devs and you're sure to have people who are going to have difficulty understanding Git. Hg is easy enough for beginners and flexible enough for experts. Git, however, is tuned for experts. I know quite a few people who have worked with both, and they all prefer Git... in time.
The universe started with a "big freeze"
I was stumped by disbelief. Well, now I know that Stripe isn't lazy.
Great job on this. Thanks for asking me to be a part of it. Very interesting thoughts from a lot of great devs.
thanks for being a part of it :) hopefully more good stuff coming soon after mobi/epub, stay tuned.
Are you talking about the same Nintendo that reported their first annual loss a few months ago?
As far as I know they subcontract to local manufacturers, so quality may depend on where you live or buy.
On level 7 now. Man this is fun.
FUCK NO! Games are amazing. I think play is one of the most fundamentally beautiful ideas in human society, and an art form really ripe and ready for disruption, innovation, and well... play.

I think games have incredible (and untapped!) value, but I don't think Zynga makes games. I think Zynga exploits game mechanics to make products out of people.
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But only 11% of them required help to calm down, and of the 96 subjects that were followed after 8 months, they showed very little residual effect to being subjected to entrapment in refrigerators.

Come on, that has to be good enough to test on children!
Quirky's method of generating price information for a proposed product is to say: "At what price would you consider this product a bit pricey but still worth buying?"

Example here: http://www.quirky.com/products/327-The-Milkmaid-smart-milk-j... (though that product might be out of price survey mode by the time you click through)
Wii has outsold PS3 and 360 by about 50% each, but not combined. But based on shelf space devoted to games in stores, you'd probably guess Wii was losing. Their dominance is somewhat less than dominant.
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Japanese keyboard user here.. I'm sure that ( is above the 8 :)
"I make Apps for android, iPhone"
good points. I guess Michael Phelps would have to tailor his advice to his knowledge of where I am as a swimmer, and that might be too far removed from his own current experience to do. He might ask me to warm up with 100 laps.
The ^F for focus doesn't seem to work - but the rest are really nice and helpful. Thanks very much.
If Your Job Sucks, It Might Be Your Fault; Let’s Fix That
extremely awesome. just what i like
Apps now key to small-business savings
There is nothing absurd about this.

Twitter is a company that is in the business of making money.
They are nominal value for themselves when they let third parties import their entire graph and providing incredible value for the importers.

This is a 100% rational business decision. If Twitter didn't offer friend finding on 3rd party networks before, it would be a bad business decision if they up and did it today.

No one will stop using Twitter because they can't use it to connect with their friends on another service.
Wasn't Amazon already doing this with their amazon lockers?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044354550457756...
When it said 23% girls I knew that they based their information on crappy data that isn't representative.
Isn't it MM/DD, not mm.dd in US? E.g. 8/23, not 8.23. My point is that it is more or less insane to start inventing new date format with zero regard to formats in other countries.
Http://www.writelonger.com/show/MkFOc
I've found that the cheaper items at Ikea are just that -- cheap, and often not very durable. Once you move up to their higher-priced choices, however, things are a lot more solid in my experience. My parents recently retired a full set of tall bookshelves that was probably 25+ years old and still in very good shape. My computer desk here is still going strong after 10 years or so, and our extendable dining table, while basic, has taken some abuse over the years and is holding up well.
Rich Hickey's response (first comment) is the most interesting part of this
Android development company India offers innovative android apps at low cost
On the other hand, it is not as if data from doubleclick is without biases - especially on a site with the kind of people that visits HN.
Due to the Nintendo 3DS, not their core Wii product. Sony and Microsoft have bled billions year after year while Nintendo raked it in, a single year's loss is nothing in comparison.
Take notes and share them right away with minutes.io
I'm not sure you are correct, I began teaching my little sister the most basic forms of programming a few months ago, she's 9 and now she can easily form and use arrays, functions, database loops and simple OOP.

She isn't anywhere near what I would consider a "good" programmer, but she is capable and for her age her intelligence level is phenomenal.
Who's Behind That Political Ad? This App Tells You
Possible that there is a mapping conflict with some of your scripts. (see https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim/issues/2)
Just gave it a try but everything is too segmented. This feels like pinterest meets basecamp... and i find both very distracting, personally. Appreciate the suggestion though.
> Isn't it MM/DD, not mm.dd in US? E.g. 8/23, not 8.23.

Eh, people will use anything, I've also seen 8-23. 8.23 certainly isn't a stretch.

> My point is that it is more or less insane to start inventing new date format with zero regard to formats in other countries.

You haven't been dealing with the U.S. much, have you? To be fair, most of the fun comes from their use of ancient standards rather than new ones, but they aren't exactly known for consulting with other countries. Then again, at 300 million people it's a little difficult to blame them.
it's a different thing. the book advertised by OP just happen to have 37 "study cases".
The mouse?? But what for?
Energy companies 'overcharge customers by £600m'
The Unofficial Windows 8 Developer FAQ
Anti-hackers to fight local int’l e-threats
Hard to believe it. Younger than MySpace? And there are so many old people on Facebook?
Support petition for work permit of h1-b spouses
THIS:

So my message to Samsung is: If you can't do this correctly, stop skinning Android. You've been trying and failing for so many years and nothing good has come of it, so just stop. Even when you have a good idea, like split screen and floating apps, you don't control the right parts of Android to make it work. So just accept it and leave the OS development to the professionals. You can't add any worthwhile functionality at the layer you normally change, and you have no taste for design. Stock Android is so good now, messing with it is like getting a fully-cooked meal from a famous, 5 star chef, and then smothering it with ketchup. So stop.
> short term vision investors which oblige them to monetize everywhere in all possible short term strategies.

That's actually the public stock market. Private equity investors can vary anywhere from extremely patient, to being as impatient as public share holders. In Twitter's case, it's a 6-year old service that is peaking in valuation ($10 billion) unless it can find some new source of revenue growth, so I'd imagine the investors are getting a little ancy.
The Government believes companies have been “profiting
unfairly at the expense of [the] consumer” by overloading
the national grid with electricity.

Does anyone know any more about this? It seems the companies were exploiting compensation payments made for having to reduce the output of their wind farms near Scotland.
iTerm 2 and Homebrew really make OS X a lot more bearable for me

Switching to zsh and oh-my-zsh has helped a lot too
What I mean is that there aren't many 60+ year old people that think "Hey, you know what, I'm going to develop an Android application." It just doesn't come up.

The adoption rate of technology is always slower in older age groups. The way technology is used between 20-40 and 40-60 is enormous. Between 40-60 and 60-80 is even more dramatic.
The argument is that Amazon controls 30% currently, so 70% is "fair game".

It's a pretty weak argument considering that Amazon has the infrastructure muscle out someone like Bufferbox, if there is no distinct competitive advantage for the startup.
Anonymous' story is fantastic fun to follow. This book 'We Are Anonymous' by Parmy Olson feels like the good fiction book, though it's a non-fiction.
Don't forget the multitasking!
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I've met many too, but like I said, most are former developers, or have been developers for some time. They're the ones with war stories about having to load their apps in on paper tape and they're not exaggerating.
Well, as I said, it always starts with things like fire codes and then goes from there to spending tens of thousands on traffic studies. $15,000 for fire alarms might be ok. $150,000 for wheelchair accessible bathrooms is, in my view, overkill. They charge $100/month; that would mean at least 125 memberships just to pay for the bathrooms.

But, just taking your specific example for a second, that actually seems to argue in favor of my point that these regulations are safety theater...because the Cromanon people received a permit!

www.nytimes.com/2011/04/21/world/americas/21briefs-7MEMBERSOFBA_BRF.html?_r=1

...evidence showed that the club was given a permit
although it lacked basic measures like fire extinguishers.

A permit was issued, but the place wasn't safe. So that argues in favor of the concept that it was safety theater. Just like how the TSA doesn't actually protect against terrorism, it just tries to appear like it does.

As for the next move, this is a Rorschach test. One response is to increase the stringency of the regulation, indirectly fining all other businesses for the Cromanon incident. An alternative response is to penalize the regulators involved, in the same way that Arthur Andersen paid a penalty for giving a thumbs up on Enron.

The key difference is whether there is one government regulator or many distributed and competing reviewers. If there is only one regulator, the inevitable result of any terrible incident will be to monotonically ratchet up regulations on everyone, TSA style, with the only concern being PR and no heed for costs. Alternatively, if there is competition among reviewers, then that organically leads to an ongoing assessment of whether a particular rule is worth the costs or not.
Amazon lockers offer a solution for Amazon only products. This is an open platform all carriers to use, in addition to the other 70% of eCommerce sales in Canada.
> If the town of Mountain View doesn't enforce their codes here, and if something like the fire in the video posted here were to occur, they'd get their keesters sued out of their pants and rightly so.

No, MV wouldn't get sued. Or rather, if someone did sue, said someone would be at risk for sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

US govts have no obligation to enforce their laws. They certainly have no liability for failure to do so.
When I read a review like this, I'm amazed Apple is bothering to sue Samsung. How could they be scared of this? But then I wonder if part of the motive is more like "you are sooo bad, you embarrass the entire world of tablets, and we are going to shut you down as a public service".
It appears to me that most commenters missed the point of the article, which (to me) is more on the lines of Arthur C. Clarke's third law: " Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Replace magic by religion.)

We have all these scientists trying to explain how sub-atomic particles have mass, and in course of that explanation, talk about the spin of a particle, color charge, Higgs field, et al. Thing is, I can really understand their explanation only if I know what these terms mean. And for me to know what those terms really mean, I might have to spend years (or maybe decades, depending on my mental capacity) studying theoretical physics. But I believe them because science if all about repeatable experiments. While I'm ill-equipped to check the results, I guess other domain-experts can.

Now, let's take a look at Hindu spirituality. A yogi might try to explain, say, why we exist, and in course of doing that, talk about Brahman, karma, cosmic cycle, et al. To really understand what he means, I would need to really understand what the terms mean, and doing that might take years or decades.

See the parallels? That's what the article is trying to emphasize.
> What if the quadratic formula was patented? In fact, why not?

Because it's math, and math isn't patentable.

And no, software patents aren't patenting math. They're patenting specific mechanisms used to perform specific tasks.

Here's another way to think of it. You can't patent physical phenomena. However, you can patent a process that uses heat to cure rubber.
there is a vanishingly small percentage of establishments for which is makes economic sense to be accessible to various forms of handicapped people. the federal ada laws are a way of spreading the cost of catering to the disabled across all of society, rather than concentrating it on the heads of the disabled themselves.
Ravenheat Spares
iOS does not appear to have suffered from its lack of dynamic library support. It's funny people bring this up, because iOS Cocoa is crippled in exactly the same way.
Sennheiser HD595 with fiio e11 portable amplifier
"They save money where they can by selling you disposable furniture."

Done. That's why most people go to Ikea. They aren't looking for bulletproof furniture. They're making stuff for people that want to have some furniture for a while and feel no guilt when they chuck it after a year or so.
This is rent-seeking, plain and simple. As municipalities slide ever closer toward insolvency, expect to see these spurious regulations enforced and enacted, ostensibly fronted by bleeding-heart do-gooders, but with the express intent to extort as much money as possible from productive individuals.
I guess to each their own, but I like the default behavior of when a split buffers is closed that the other buffers resize to fill the void. I'd prefer to see the space available used rather than trying to find something to fill the empty buffer with.

Unrelated, but I also enjoy being able to Ctrl+w,Shift+[hjkl] to move splits around relative to the other splits.
This has been changed to ^h (https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim/issues/2)
You still need to download from github at this stage. Will push a new version today. Thanks!
Yahoo Japan thinks you're a typical Yahoo Japan user.
The whole world is on the verge of a diabetes epidemic. And there is hardly anything stopping it.

The issue is we evolved over several thousands of years to do physical work and suddenly we are all doing none of it.
I wonder if you see the implicit racism in your first sentence.

Also: the issue for any network is that your 5k people will likely differ significantly from my 5k (or whatever the right number is). Extend that over an entire user population and now Metcalfe's Law takes hold, but in reverse.
Does not support other keyboard layouts than US I think. Good idea though.
Buying Their Way to Twitter Fame
Presuming it is the same as Google Ads:

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/onweb/
Yet another linux distro (TasOS 12.07)
TasOS 12.07 build release is out
with decent amount of application and 3 different desktop environment.
TasOS is great distro as portable linux on flash drive or memory card to live boot.
forked from the latest ubuntu 12.04
just enough application not overloaded
preserve native gnome look with out any alteration
stable and popular application pre installed

grab a free copy and post feature request on the website

<a href="www.tasos.in">www.TasOS.in</a>
or tent.io
That is a depressing statistic.
Emotional? I have absolutely nothing invested in this, and I can objectively observe that Twitter are being dicks.

Also, the apologist's response "it makes business sense" doesn't offset the fact that it is a dick move.

I find it odd and somewhat worrying that so many people seem adhere to the logic "if there's a business reason for it, it's okay". The way Twitter treats the ecosystem around Twitter is quite definitely not okay, no matter what the rationale behind it is.
>>They still provide sustenance.

People who have luxury don't really worry about sustenance.
Yep, that's a good point. I'll file an issue on that (https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim/issues/5)
Regarding chronology, FWIW, this is a final year project for a group in a class of 2011. The concept would have been developed in summer and fall of 2010 and a prototype implemented in winter of 2011. First mentions of Amazon lockers are from late summer/early fall of 2011.
I wonder how much revenue radio stations make from devices that could implement this ad-replacement technology compared to the revenue they make from dedicated radios. If it's a sizable fraction of radio station ad revenue, then it does have a chance of killing commercial radio. If the majority of the audience is listening on dedicated radios, then it won't kill commercial radio.
> The need for flatness etc. might become irrelevant with smart enough automation

Automation doesn't address the sorts of problems that "not flatness" causes.

Consider irrigation vs pruning, weeding, or harvesting.

Heck, even "hand watering" (which doesn't make much sense)isn't made appreciably harder by reasonable "not flatness".

> variability in land form could be an excellent risk mitigation strategy against disease and harsh weather conditions or variability in fertilizer prices and so on.

What have you grown?
Ubisoft CEO: Piracy rate "93-95%"
This is absolutely Awesome, but the UDP part is kind of scary for any system that handles static data (not games, or stuff)
Why UDP? And Why create one implementation for each language?? Why not a local server?
Although I sometimes am left feeling shallow--after reading one of the shorter blog posts like this one from the front page of HN--I am usually thankful more words were not used on the same topic.
i think the survey result are amazing
more and more young people getting interested in tech oriented website.

more older people moving towards social networking
What can't ducksboard do that you need? Everything you listed can be added as long as it has an API.
One vertical split and two horizontal splits. Vim already does that. What does this add?
Why Email Marketing is King
It happened to Microsoft. Then more recently to Apple. Now we're even questioning Google's policies.

Who ever wrote that line is a genius.
I'm staying there right now. (ChezJJ SF) The "captain" here is a very knowledgeable and charming young woman who is also a brilliant cook. The salad she usually makes for brunch is just amazing. (Don't tell my mom, but it's better than even her salads, and my mom puts most chefs to shame as it is.)

Culturally, Chez JJ is an autocracy, but a mellow one. Usually, everyone just does what's needed to be done, but there is someone who will give orders if needed, and you can even be fired in extreme cases.

I'm enjoying my time here immensely.
I also had problems with the fist line in the rails example:
require 'active_support/core_ext/object/blank'

I have a swiss german keyboard and I can't get past the first _'_ character.
I'm using XP and Firefox. Otherwise a really neat idea.
During the holiday season 2011/2012, the most sold record in the most popular record store in Croatia (4+ million people) sold 52 copies. And that was a land slide against the second most popular record - 16 copies sold.

I was flabbergasted with that info, thought the numbers would be MUCH higher.
One more reason to use plastic. It is not fragile and absorbs shocks from impact just fine.