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Having made a video that was sold on DVD and been a TA for a university course, I'm pessimistic that any university lecturer would bother with the extra work to make the videos good. I had no idea before I did it, but video editing is hugely time consuming. I'm guessing to make a really good video lecture you'd have to spend about 10-20 hours per lecture. Hours prepping the slides, the room, coordinating 2 camera guys, syncing audio after the fact, editing the video, etc.

sketerpot's comments are great, but I'm a pessimist. With current tools it would take too much work from the lecturer to make truly good videos. My point was that at a bare minimum if you somehow could make what's appearing on the board visible in the video, you'd at least make the experience as useful as being in the class. As it stands now, you're better off just listening to the audio.

However, there's a lot of room for technical innovation. Software to help automate the production work needed to make good lecture videos would be a cool startup idea.
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=css has a hilariously mismatched picture also. Look at the "centricle" article.
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I respect points he made but it was Media Metrix or something like that has reported that hours watched has reached a new all time high.

Another contradictory point is there is IPTV. TV stations can deliver customized programmes with this.
how is this related to map-reduce besides method names? it has a single point of failure (server), nodes do not have logic to split the job further, and on top of that painfully slow javascript engine...
Why are they still in business ?
Cuil-bomb, perhaps? People exploiting however Cuil does the rankings to make mismatches intentionally.
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And, scholar.google.com is as good of a free, full text search tool as there is. Most journal sites give the googlebot open access to index their content, so it is a great way to find things instead of pubmed, which only searches abstracts.

That's called web spamming or spamdexing via cloaking. I find it incredibly frustrating because they point you to what you want, but then you're often stuck. Do you really want to pay $30-$50 for a paper that may or may not have what you want? And Google is complicit in this, it's not just the publishers. They know it's advertising, so they charge them for it, but the results are not presented as paid ads.

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

http://www.webreference.com/authoring/search_engines/cloakin...
The problem to be solved was "it was in the interest of the lender to keep mortgage holders owing as much as possible for as long as possible".

The broker solved that by having his customers pay him a one time fee, which aligns their interests: now they both want the loan to be paid off as soon as possible. It saves the customer money and the broker time.

And then Cringely changes the one time fee to a monthly payment, which seems to me like going back to square one. Home-Account is motivated to improve your situation just enough to keep you a happy customer, but also to keep you as a customer for as long as possible.
The majority of cost of any TV/Film project goes into equipment and salary realistically.

The way I figure it, the minimum number of people you need in any traditional production is essentially the cast and base operators (which could also be cast members if multi-skilled)

However if you go into 3D animation, this number can actually go down - to the point where you have a content production team around the size of a small startup.

The model I'm looking at could be described as a digital aniation studio, a "mini pixar" if you will, that uses open source software (Blender, Cinelerra) and homebrew motion capture (both facial and performance) to get performance across in a quick manner and using a significantly smaller team. I'm also looking at leveraging EC2 for rendering instead of investing in purchasing multiple servers for a render farm.

The model isn't scalable across the entire film/tv industry of course, but I figure it could work for a couple studios and this is what I'm working on trying to prove right now.
Now if only we could make software companies do something similar...
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Hey Matt, Sorry I was out all day but I gave a very rough outline of what I'm proposing above just now.
What state should I incorporate in?
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Awesome, hope you guys are applying to Y Combinator.
Did you read the whole post?
but the great majority of Muslims do not feel an image of Muhammad is worth a riot.
In fact the great majority of Muslims feel an image of Muhammed is worth a riot, and even a war!
Because Muhammed is not a normal person... he is a prophet.

And yeah... most Muslims don't really take their religion as seriously the intellectual framework commands... although we suppose to take Islam as a framework for our lives!
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It's a ridiculous layout IMHO, Seems to be a fixed width thing, which results in vast expanses of white unused space to the right of the results.
Mostly not worth reading.
I knew you were going to say that!...
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Ask HN: Impact of press coverage
I run a small website (250k PVs/month) for non-techies. Its been growing steadily for last few months giving me the confidence that we've got the product offering right and we just need to scale and reach out to more people with similar pain point.

Last few weeks I've been trying to get some press coverage in mainstream (financial) newspapers. Its been a lot of effort (since I never did this before) and I am getting good response from the journalists.

Copule of days back I was quoted in an article in a national paper, along with the name of my website. The article was in a prominent position - back cover page.

When I look back at the stats for that particular day, I see no spike in traffic. This makes me wonder if it is worth all the effort that got into getting it.

What type of and how much press exposure is required before one starts seeing results, in terms of traffic growth?

Would appreciate if you could share your experiences.

Thanks
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Great article - bad title. Saying that time might be an illusion is saying that time might not be "real". But a different model of time doesn't affect its realness.

Is temperature an illusion? Certainly not. And yet, as the article says, it's merely a model of the interaction between molecules.

Some models explain more than other models. Models that explain more are better. Thinking in terms of real/illusion is not helpful at all.
Yes, but until it reaches the famed Hacker News its nothing!
I think there's pressure, which amounts to a rule. Multiple postings have a high correlation with traffic growth. Short posts fit the format. And even if you were to write a longer post, you still wouldn't have the system that a NYT journalist has
Have fun making sure clients don't send you invalid data. You'll have to have some sort of voting system where several clients compute the same piece, and make sure they all match up. Even then, you can't be 100% sure of the results.
He's saying, in effect, that he doesn't trust you. But he's then forcing you to trust him. You might be able to save the situation by agreeing on some definite milestone that you could reach in, say, a month, and which if you reach it the IP goes to the company. Then your risk is capped at a month's work, and his is decreased by a month's data about your performance.
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Yes, this sounds interesting.
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I use this regularly. Fits much better than an NDA in most cases where people ask me to sign an NDA.
And there is newer version..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEnFwiqdx8
Thank you, pg. He is a pragmatic person. Hopefully, we should move forward with an arrangement such as this.
Amazing.. I can do console.log(). And if there's an error (which the link provided conveniently has), I get to see the entire file which gave the error. So helpful... I now know which file to sprinkle console.log()s in. Furthermore, it doesn't work at all for dynamically loaded JS.

But, then again, there apparently were several Google results.
I did. Any chance you'll honour me with a helpful reply?
You don't learn to pitch at TC50. You learn to pitch by having done it 500 times before you're on that stage. What's being talked about here are some of the first dozen of that 500. Recording your pitches for yourself is a good idea. Trying to draw public attention to them is not.
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Agreed. To each their own. I'd personally rather have more people be able to use it :)
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Well sorry, it simply isn't. It's a very basic logical flaw, a fallacy of extension (it's extremely common, oft referred to as the straw man argument) - instead of arguing against the issue, namely the right of the user to alter their perception of received content to better suit their person, you are suggesting that the poster (and their argument) inherently supports the redistribution of that altered content to third parties without the content producer's permission - nowhere in the the post was that assertion made - you made it up all by yourself and then attacked that. So Yes, your logic is flawed, awfully sorry, I know, it's so annoying when that truth thing gets in the way.
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They didn't want to let January's "YOU ARE A HOLOGRAM" outpace the fine month February.
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Also, don't think 47 programmers would be enough for this project. We need atleast a hundred.
That seems like a reason to just use something else, rather than hate them :/
In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with being second place. Even if Facebook "conquers" MySpace... so what? What's wrong with being ranked, oh, about #8, of all websites?
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I would make sure Newco has an ironclad right to use, sell, relicense, etc. all relevant IP from Oldco for a specific low fee or other immediate consideration. Otherwise there's lots of risk that customers, investors, acquirers, etc. could get spooked about unclear IP ownership at important moments.

Also, there's a risk that your partner (or others with influence in his company) holds you over a barrel at some key point. Is your partner a lawyer giving legal advice for the whole Newco? If so, you may need to consult, even if just informally, another equally seasoned professional who can consider your interests and the Newco's interests without the mixed loyalties inherent in your partner and his company.

(If I sound wary, it's because I've seen a business partnership between one legally-savvy friend and another trusting friend degenerate into acrimony and lawsuits.)
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>> "The point is to get you to talk about them & remember their brand."

Right. I'm going to remember how unprofessional/stupid they were, and not use them.
If time is an illusion, it's a very persistent one.
Touch-sensitive black/whiteboard and Twiddla replay?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=496331
The results are seriously bad. Anti aliasing people. What rendering engine are they using - ie6?
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I guess it's not so much about competing with other ebook readers but to attract iPhone users to buy a Kindle.
in any situation it is your responsibility, using your best judgement, to do what you think is in the best interests of the company.

Including firing your numpty colleagues and terrible customers:
http://www.christopherhawkins.com/06-13-2005.htm#78

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I've always been more personally inclined to the social sciences - how people work and interact with each other. It always seemed to me that there's less red tape and formal background necessary to do interesting and practical work in social sciences.

But the more I think about it, the more I realize that damn near everything we do of value relies on hard science. If you had me pick one post-agriculture profession to be my only formal profession in the world, it'd have to be engineering. Engineering creates tools that greatly expand the ability of everyone else to do what they're doing. And yet, without physics and chemistry, we're not engineering damn near anything of value. Behavioral and social sciences have made such huge leaps due to increased communication, mobility, and processing and storing of information. All that can be credited to some damn amazing engineers, who all needed math and hard science to build what they did. It makes me remember from time to time, that though I'm not a hard scientist and will likely never more than dabble in it, it's pretty damn amazing stuff, and ought to be regularly given a nod of appreciation to its amazingness.
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Why not just have the gear for recording available and let the pitchers decide when they're there if they're ready to do a public pitch/presentation?

If you're going to have people come back for a second or third time with updated presentations you could use it as a sort of graduation ceremony to have the thing published.
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You have to admit it makes slightly less sense than google results layout :)
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Hackers like to laugh, but, in this case, the joke is not very funny ;-)
You can also implement something like this yourself with wkhtmltopdf:

http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
Yeah, I'm sure glad these people were buying subprime mortgages instead of taking a vacation.
but the world is not ideal, and if money is a strength that can be abused, should you allow anything, without restriction, to be done with it?
I believe totaly free economies lead to abuses. It happened in the past.
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I agree - specially if your product is lucrative and #1 is surviving on VC money...

(not implying that's the case here - just think that being lucrative is better than 'being the biggest')
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why would someone use Cuil?
I mean, besides hating google (and yahoo and microsoft and all the other search engines out there)...?
I've obviously been hiding under a rock; last I heard they were closing down.

Ahh yes, the 'goodbye' speech is now subtitled "(The following article is not real. The words you are about to read are part of the "great prank" of Feb 2009)"
A few years ago I had an office at an incubator, and my neighbour company made a better spreadsheet. He had worked in the financial sector before, and had conducted research that showed that around 90% (Don't remember the exact number) of excel files in the financial sector had mistakes in them. Scary stuff..
Hard to make a blanket statement, especially without knowing more about your specific niche (are your users newspaper readers? Would they read the paper you were mentioned in?).

A lot of your PR activities are about building up mindshare. Hardly anybody remembers a site or company the first time (or two!) they read about it. But after 6 or 8 mentions of your site/company in various places, the name starts to stick.

I have personally done product demos and interviews for articles for the WSJ, Boston Globe, dozen of trade mags, and TV spots (8 hours of filming for a 5 minute segment that didn't end up airing). Keep doing what you're doing and someone will run across one of your spots and think "I've been hearing a lot about this site, I guess I should maybe pay attention now". Eventually you'll find your efforts have paid off, even though it's a frog boil and you won't be able to define the precise inflection point.

It's a marathon, not a sprint.

Also, as soon as you can afford the ~$10K/mo, hire a PR firm. They're way better at this than you and already have the connections and know the ins and outs. Yes, you can do it on your own, but this is an example, IMO, of an activity prime for outsourcing.
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Well, don't forget that the dynamics of social networks as such that they lose value exponentially if people start to leave. A social network that's not growing fast enough is probably dying. So the long term prospects are not to be number 2, but to be out of the race.
Inertia. It takes a lot to stop a business once it's achieved a certain size. They have enough money not to go bankrupt, and I guess their VCs haven't decided to pull the plug yet.
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comparing the leaders in both monetization methods is easy - what about the results in general?

I'd guess the answer would be 'none work': you rarely break even with ad-based businesses (since as the traffic grows, there's a tendency of getting more maintenance cost than revenue per user) nor with paid services (since it's hard to attract paying users when you have so many people offering the same stuff for free)...
There is a theory that we only do exist because there is an entity outside of time which 'thinks' us continuously.
This is called "Python" ;-)
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Never mind, I hate Haskell. And since I'm too lazy to learn it, I'll hate it maybe forever...
this is hard to follow. i can't tell who is saying what: is it jwz, the question's author, or somebody else who contributed.
"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."

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The consequence of being #2 on users, uniques or pageviews is not neccessarily being #2 in revenues. I think loosing money is what puts you out of business sooner or later.
I had that thought too. The book is Positioning: The Battle for your Mind - http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&...

The concept used here is repositioning the competition, to create a clear position for yourself. (It's Chapter 8 in my copy of the book) By focussing on Why People Hate Quickbooks (and using Twitter to create genuine, user content to back them up) Less Accounting are saying "We're just like Quickbooks, only easier to use". They don't have to explain their product at all, but I still get (sort of) what they do.

Or at least, that's the theory. Can backlash if it comes across as too harsh, or if you paint a strawman of the competition.
You should work on the website's design, there is a lack of unicity.

The screencast is too short, you should describe to us what you're doing, why you're doing it and the result.
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Just to clarify: the problem here is wave collapse. Wave collapse happens at an instant of time, and therefore picks a frame of reference. The wavefunction changes instantaneously over all space when "measurement" occurs, and does not obey the Schrodinger equation (or relativistic equivalent).

The "intriguing development" by Rovelli is that he used decoherence to explain measurement probabilities in some relativistic model. Time still exists in this model (which lives over R^{3+1}), but nothing happens instantaneously. Basically, he showed that the relativistic schrodinger equation gives the same experimental predictions as wave collapse.