mickdarling

This may sound silly, but it seems like there could be a MythBusters episode specifically on this to prove or disprove how likely these no-knock raids are needed to prevent an effective coverup of evidence.

They could actually make some actionable data for public good.

An eraser to remove lines and segments would be useful too.

I saw a reference recently that summed up why I dislike The Big Gang Theory: "Nerd Black Face." It is treating the nerds and geeks on the show as unself-aware fools for "real" society to laugh at.

The total number of hours watching video is still increasing through. You also have to consider that the cost of production is dropping, and the number of big players in the TV market is still tiny. The huge players are (Disney/ABC, NBCU/Comcast, Time Warner, Fox/Newscorp, CBS/Viacom) and they own an enormous percentage of TV Networks and TV production, both domestically and internationally.

So individual shows rating may be dropping and rating for networks may be going down, but they are spreading their revenues across a lot of the more niche properties. They also make a huge amount from Cable licenses for the whole package of networks to ensure they have as many channels available to viewers as possible.

They are now learning to monetize their properties across digital media, and you will see that growth into online media and consolidation there soon.

I work with major media groups helping them with social media and the growing time-shifted audience, so I've heard a lot of the plans for the future. They see the writing on the wall, and while broadcast and cable might be shrinking, the content creation and advertising around video entertainment will keep growing, of that I am certain.

It is all about vision. What is their vision of the future?

1) Make a cool buck, and chill out in Costa Rica.

2) Make cool companies forever.

3) Make Snapchat HUGE and somehow remake the world with it or something else.

4) Asteroid mining.

If (1) is good enough, and guaranteed, then all options are still on the table.

Only if (4) scale projects are the goal should they sell now. If any other vision is really what they have in mind, they are set.

I personally would aim for (4) or (5) :-)

There is still evidence that those particular wavelengths can cause genetic damage, and as someone who already has a propensity for sub-dermal tumors, I will still opt out.

Ref: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/416066/how-terahertz-wa...

But they should work over water too. ;-)

Sadly, it is highly compressible, so air pressure would just crush the mylar ballon around it. If you could make this material rigid, so the balloon would be able to displace the proper volume of air, then you could make party balloons and airships without wasting helium.

Unfortunately my site works directly with embedded Hulu videos and it doesn't seem like this process can replay those videos from the cache.

I JUST dealt with bad data speeds at SXSW while demoing for @scobleizer so this would have been great for the future.

For outside services that try to parse and group content, if they implement searching via the API well it could be very useful. Related content is the thing that this would be quite useful for.

I am on app.net mainly to see how it evolves. My startup (http://tomorrowish.com) relies heavily on twitter and facebook. The network effect that made those networks chock full of pop culture and marketing hasn't happened yet with app.net, and if it does, I want to see how that happens.

For instance there was social media heavy marketing conference this week called Inbound(http://inboundconference.com) that was eating up my twitter feed, but not a single tApp was posted.

Articles like this are important to keep my mind actively thinking about how I do management. It is really easy to fallback to a "natural" management style when things are crazy busy, and it feels like you are struggling just to keep your head above water.

I like these, because they let me take a moment and step back and think about how I am doing and what parts I can change.

I do try to do the 1-on-1 meetings pretty often, and we do the team wide meetings more often, than he suggests. We've had big swings in positive and negative news over the course of a week, and having meetings that regularly keeps everyone in the loop.

I read halfway through point number 1 and I thought "robotize the studio." Think of a new studio that is infinitely configurable with lights and cameras, and all controlled by software. Kind of a Holodeck but in reverse, or a blackbox theatre where the point is to record everything that goes on in the studio and configure that recording, maybe even something similar to a 3D scanner but with full motion cameras. 3D Models and location overlays could be inserted more easily because all the details of the original shots are already recorded, and can be adjusted after shooting.

What this is would be a standardized studio room, that would only require the director and actors on set. Every other specialty could be done in post, and thus allow them to work on more projects at once. Better skilled people, doing more work, drives quality up and lower costs. Win:Win

Once augmented reality apps become more common I can imagine this becoming more popular. If you are a tourist and want to find stuff, or just see the ads you would be able to load up the ads layer and maybe even get discounts for your trouble.

If you want to just see the architectural facades as they were meant to be seen, then no tech required. I would love to see Vegas or New York, for instance, with the ads scrubbed and then be able to pull up dynamic ads with a phone or heads up display.

I have been told over and over, "The thing you are ACTUALLY making money on IS the startup." Everything else is a side project. Good luck to you guys, and hopefully the startup you WANT to pay the bills starts to do that.

I pretty much do this now without thinking of it as a retention policy. The more revenue and funding we get the better everyone does, just seems fair to me.

Ah ha! Yes, I knew it must have been a residual memory and not my own idea.

I am guessing this is a nice little joke, BUT...

If the sensitivity was just right, and it only measured a shake like smacking the monitor on the side, it might actually make a nice UX.

Think of typing away at this message and then deciding, "never-mind", and reaching up with your right hand and smacking the screen on the edge. Could be a very natural feeling undo.

It is great for talking through deductive reasoning with children. My 7 year old niece responds great to it. She has the base knowledge to think through the questions, and provide a possible answers. And, it is a lot of fun because she is clever enough to catch me and make me think through things more carefully.

Now, her 5 year old sister still doesn't seem to have enough everyday background knowledge, and focus to respond as well to it yet.

Every hackathon or startup weekend I do I make sure people know about http://namechk.com so they can check all the possible places you may want to use a name. I am not connected with them at all, I just find it makes the discussion on naming things go so much faster and smoother.

The Tweets are sent out to twitter for anyone to read. These are public timeline tweets. We are just a twitter client that shows those tweets like any other twitter client, but delayed and using search to figure out what the best tweets to show would be.

When someone Tweets within Tweeplayer during when they are watching it on their DVR at home we are still just sending those tweets out regardless of content, and linking the moment they tweet with the moment they are watching.

We only plan on incorporating public domain or licensed media directly on the site for any full conversation.

PG, sorry, but I am a little confused by your answer.

Is your "yes" in response to "do you still feel comfortable with the suggestion to build companies on top of it?" Or, to the fact that you would now recommend other companies and startups be "cautious about building anything on Twitter after" the new Twitter TOS and other policy changes there?

Are you removing http://ycombinator.com/rfs3.html from the Y-C suggestions?

My team and I were hacking on our site to launch http://tweeplayer.com at SXSW exactly at the moment the new TOS came out, and it freaked us out at the time. But, the gist I got from people in the know was that as long as you are helping Twitter get content they wouldn't get on their own, they will likely be happy with you.

I pretty much knew what it would be, but then again disappointment is rarely unexpected.

This will work for all the puzzles too. :-)

Well now they are asking for Prime duplicates, and if they keep it going fo the next week, you could end up with some complex puzzles.

I love it, and I didn't even need to tell it the session I was speaking at, it just knew and told me I was speaking at that session once I logged in. The 'official' SXSW event calendar has always been clunky even as they upgrade every year.

P.S self plug: http://lanyrd.com/2011/sxsw/sctmq/ In one of the new venues at the Hyatt across the river.

This is a big deal. They are making it harder to feel safe developing an app that will work with Twitter's API. They just removed any further access to whitelisting of the use of the API too as announced here but I doubt on any public blogs.

http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_t...

I want to build great things to make this communication system better, but they are scaring me and starting to sound like the old jokes about the old communication system, "We're The Phone Company... We Don't Care.. We Don't Have To."

I posted earlier on this and submitted it here a few days ago. Apple is taking myopia into the realm of an artform.

As the app developers find out they can't get to there customers in the "approved" way through the AppStore, they can either give up all or most of their profit to Apple, give up on iOS devices, or start selling in the Cydia AppStore for jailbroken devices and go back to providing their users products they want to use and making money. More "mainstream" apps in Cydia legitimizes it, and more apps and users will follow.

My Earlier Post Links: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228804 http://mickdarling.posterous.com/apple-just-made-jailbreakin...

I believe the temperature reference is in regards to the object's temperature.

I'm going. I have my own full time project, that I am trying to spend every minute I have on right now. But, I want to work with some clever people on something that I can see really working over the weekend. It doesn't take TOO much time and the mental exercise, and fun to see some cool quick projects happen will be a great energizer to keep me going on my main project and see it through.

The idea I am taking to the hack day is a mobile to mobile one-time-pad twitter encryption tool so people like those organizing the protests in Egypt can communicate and organize in the open with those they trust.