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podman

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Founder, SproutVideo.com
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podman··on GPT Unicorn has drawn a unicorn
This prompt actually works pretty well. I suspect that because you added a step requiring the model to list out what it needs to draw first, it has a much easier time creating a reasonable SVG. https://chat.openai.com/share/be9cea50-d00d-4b05-ab54-b64619...
podman··on Impact to DigitalOcean customers resulting from Mailchimp security incident
I'm pretty happy with Twilio SendGrid.
podman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
SproutVideo • Brooklyn, NY • Onsite/Full-Time • https://sproutvideo.com/

SproutVideo is hiring a Head of Customer Support: https://sproutvideo.com/jobs

Requirements:

  - Able to work full time in our office in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
  - Can quickly master highly technical processes and our video hosting platform
  - Familiarity with live chat and support email platforms; phone experience a plus
  - 3+ years of SAAS customer success experience
  - Must be an excellent multi-tasker with a keen eye for detail and getting things right the first time
  - Ability to maintain a polite, calm, and positive attitude in all interactions with our customers even in stressful situations
  - Excellent writing skills and a strong command of English grammar; able to adopt the SproutVideo voice
Check out our jobs page for information about how to apply.
podman··on Disqus relaunches to turn your comments into a Reddit-like social network
Is anyone else troubled by how they're trying to drive traffic away from the site on which the disqus comments are embedded? It doesn't look like there is any way to disable this functionality.
podman··on SproutVideo Introduces DailyMotion Cloud
SproutVideo founder here. We actually introduced an import tool for DailyMotion Cloud users to easily import their videos into a SproutVideo account. DailyMotion Cloud was a product of DailyMotion. DailyMotion Cloud is shutting down on April 12th. DailyMotion has offered to migrate their users to their main platform but that puts several serious restrictions on content such as:

  *  Distribution of your video catalog on Dailymotion.com
  *  Monetization of your video catalog
  *  Compliance with our content moderation rules
For many users, this is simply not a viable solution. SproutVideo offers a very comparable platform and we've already had several former DailyMotion Cloud users import their content. Companies can have very large video libraries and migrating to a new video hosting platform can be a lot of work. To that end, we created a tool that will allow former DailyMotion Cloud users automatically import their libraries into a SproutVideo account. Hopefully that clears things up a bit! http://sproutvideo.com/dailymotion
podman··on Show HN: A Unified Embed API
Is this just a API front end for oEmebd?
podman··on Static site generators focus on the wrong thing
I think the usefulness of a SSG really depends on your goals. If your goal is simply to publish a blog, perhaps a SSG is not the right solution for you. SSGs are interesting because they have zero external dependences. I can just deploy my blog to Amazon S3, use CloudFront if I so choose, and never have to worry about scalability or how much traffic my blog can handle. To me, that is more important than the perceived friction that it takes to get a post online.
podman··on All the Western companies you’d have to combine to get something like Alibaba
Although Alibaba is a huge company that does a ton of different things, I feel like this article went out of the way to avoid mentioning that companies like Google and Amazon (as well as Microsoft and Apple to a lesser extent) come close to checking all of these boxes. The other thing to point out is that Alibaba owns stakes in many of these companies and doesn't really own them outright.

As others have already pointed out how Google compares, take Amazon for instance:

Online Payments - Amazon Payments

Cloud Services - Amazon Web Services

Mobile Apps - Amazon AppStore

Mobile OS - Amazon FireOS

Maps and Navigation - Amazon Maps API

Retail Outlets - N/A

Group Buying - Amazon Local

Cloud Storage - Amazon CloudDrive / Amazon S3

Mobile Messaging - N/A

Car Service, Ride Sharing - N/A

C2C e-commerice - Amazon Services/Amazon WebStore (not quite the same, but close)

Online Travel Booking - N/A

B2C e-commerce - Amazon.com

E-Learning - http://www.tenmarks.com/ (owned by Amazon)

Microblogging - N/A

Music Streaming - Amazon Cloud Player

Streaming Video - Amazon Prime Instant Streaming

Money-market funds - N/A

12/18 isn't bad.

podman··on Seznam, a Czech search company, previews 3D maps
Google already has done it: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7407861,-73.987388,348a,35y,...
podman··on Amazon Fire TV
You can buy Game Of Thrones on Amazon. It's just not available for streaming through Amazon Prime. http://www.amazon.com/Winter-Is-Coming-HD/dp/B007BVMVDU
podman··on My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do
I dealt with a somewhat similar situation a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4291454

I issued a DMCA takedown notice to their host and it was taken care of in a couple of days. I suggest doing the same.

podman··on [dead]
If chess can make it to the front page with a vague title, why not darts?
podman··on Show HN: Netflix Showdown – because I can't decide what to watch
Seems kind of similar to Max, from Netflix themselves: http://blog.netflix.com/2013/06/let-max-be-your-netflix-guid...

Although I really only watch on my TV and not my computer, I like the concept and it seems well implemented. Cracking the nut of figuring out what to watch is a tough one, that's for sure. Good luck!

podman··on Why Meteor will kill Ruby on Rails
Is this blog also running on Meteor? I can't get it to load so that's not instilling confidence. Maybe it's their host, https://modulus.io/ that's having problems?
podman··on Quick and dirty custom video player using SproutVideo and jQuery
Absolutely. This was just meant as an example to show what is possible with the API for the SproutVideo player and not a definitive guide on how to make a fully formed player. Many things would need to be done differently for this to be a fully-formed UI that works just as well on mobile devices as desktops.
podman··on Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup
I built something simliar to this back in 2009 for college football coaches. I was planning on adding more for other sports as well as for players but there weren't too many using twitter back then: http://web.archive.org/web/20100325212936/http://www.coachtw...

Seems like everyone is tweeting these days and this is a much slicker interface than the one I built. Good job!

podman··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2013)
NYC, Full Time.

SproutVideo, a fast-growing video hosting company, is looking for a Head of Marketing. Are you looking to get in on the ground-floor of a fast-growing startup with tons of potential? Are you looking to shape a marketing strategy from scratch and be handsomely rewarded with significant equity? If so, check out our listing here: http://sproutvideo.com/jobs

podman··on Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance
Broken is pretty subjective here and greatly depends on one's needs as far as the ACID principles are concerned. If durability is your primary concern then maybe MongoDB isn't for you. That doesn't mean it's broken. It might perfectly meet the needs of others. I guess it should also be noted that the author works on HyperDex (a competing data store).
podman··on Win a free year of video hosting
Just to be clear, the prizes are account credit for 12, 6, and 3 months of the Tree Plan on SproutVideo. So, you'd get $600, $300, or $150 worth of account credit, respectively, if you were to win. Overages still apply. I had this in the title originally but it looks like the moderators edited it out.
podman··on Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing
It's relevant as many here are entrepreneurs. There is a very good lesson here about proper social media etiquette for companies. There are an incredible multitude of ways this situation could have been handled better, especially on a forum as public as Twitter.
podman··on Ask HN: SF over NYC?
Awesome. I'm planning on going out to visit friends the first week of September. Should help me get a sense of the city before my lease is up so I can make a slightly more informed decision.
podman··on Ask HN: SF over NYC?
Thanks for this reply. That was sort of the vision I had of the tech scene so I'm glad that I wan't too far from the truth. I'm not a big fan of hyper-competitive people so that's a plus. Hopefully the community out there is more, well, "communal" and tries to help everyone succeed.

Hiring in NYC is also very difficult at least from my experience from working for other startups here. Finding qualified candidates who aren't already happily employed is difficult.

I've actually heard the opposite from some friends about the necessity of a car out there. I guess that will really just come down to how I spend my time and where I need to travel.

My startup isn't unique and has a bunch of competition already so that really doesn't bother me too much. Bring it on! (Ok, maybe I'm a little competitive...)

podman··on Ask HN: SF over NYC?
I think I see the difference being that NYC is very big and tech is a very very small part of what's going on here. SF, on the other hand, is relatively small and tech is a very large part of what's going on there.

Now I could be very wrong about this, but I feel like if you're out in SF and you meet people it's somewhat likely they might be in tech where as in in NYC it's very unlikely. In NYC, you have to go out of your way to find those kinds of people, possibly going to tech events which, in my experience, sometimes feel like you're going on a blind date.

Now it's possible that I just don't know the right people in NYC, but from what I've heard from friends I have in SF, it seems like you're just more likely to run into tech people making it easier to make the right kinds of connections.

My company has business for over two years and is profitable. I'm not just a guy with a laptop and an idea. I'm just not happy with the kinds of connections I'm making in NYC nor the speed at which my company is growing. Both of these could obviously be linked to me and not my city, but I think it's worth finding out.

podman··on Ask HN: SF over NYC?
I like snow. I generally dislike cold if there isn't any snow. I grew up in New York so I'm used to it.
podman··on Ask HN: How should I deal with a clone of my site?
Thanks!
podman··on Ask HN: How should I deal with a clone of my site?
Is this something I can do on my own or would I need to get a lawyer involved?
podman··on Ask HN: How should I deal with a clone of my site?
Clickable links:

http://sproutvideo.com -> http://www.ogle-tm.com

http://sproutvideo.com/features -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Security.aspx

http://sproutvideo.com/contact -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/contactus.aspx

http://blog.sproutvideo.com -> http://www.ogle-tm.com/Pages/Blog.aspx

podman··on Request HN: Somebody please build a Twitter bootstrap for native mobile apps
Apple and Android both provide a ton of pre-built, customizable, components for use in apps. I would argue that no one needs to build a Twitter Bootstrap for mobile because Apple and Google have already done so.
podman··on The API I've been working on for the last 596 days is now live
Better late than never, I guess.
podman··on The API I've been working on for the last 596 days is now live
Sure, I won't deny that it's somewhat link bait-y, but I have commits from before I launched that are related to the API, so it's not entirely untrue either. I just started working on it, in earnest, so that I could release it, 22 days ago.
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