tensafefrogs

iTunes U is an amazing resource for learning these days. So many courses and lectures and homework assignments. And Khan academy has a pretty good CS section as well.

Start with the basics of data structures and algorithms. Get a textbook and read it and implement the structures using whatever language you like, and find problems that are solved by using those data structures (and solve them).

Watch computer science lectures on iTunes U. These days all the top schools put their lectures online. Try to do some of the homework assignments. If it's too hard, figure out what part you don't know and find an online course on it. Then try again.

Created by three of us over the course of about a month (including testing on testflight and waiting on app store approvals, etc.).

Two of us are engineers (ex-YouTube, ex-finance guy) and a designer, two of which did the hackstar program last summer.

The game is similar to Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity. Try it out, let us know what you think!

Would love to see something like the Thermodo[1] but for air quality or pollen sniffing.

The aggregate data could be really interesting.

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robocat/thermodo-the-tin...

The deflation argument is brought up a lot around here, I wonder if you've read this article:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/12/23/fear-not-d...

> Contrary to the central banking and political class insistence that deflation must be prevented at all costs, an economy with a monetary unit that increases in value over time provides significant economic benefits such as near zero interest rates and increasing demand through lower prices. Let’s look at some remarks from leading thinkers on deflation.

Bitcoin is not a bank, and does not replace banks.

There's nothing stopping anyone from setting up a bank that handles your bitcoin transactions, and therefore can reverse transactions between two parties.

Replace "Bitcoin" with "Dollar" and you see how strange your statement is.

To me, this signals a strong need for more secure bitcoin storage options, and since this is hacker news, perhaps some of us should get started on that :)

I applied for one of these positions a few weeks ago. I got a generic "we'll let you know after we look at your stuff!" email in response, then nothing.

So the site looks nice, love the videos and whatnot, but more transparency after submitting your info would be nice.

I also see that the job I applied for is months old, so maybe it's not actually open.

Don't forget the YouTube audio comment preview.

Are you only interested in projects with a single contributor, or are you open to something made by 3 people but as a side project?

And here's a bunch of FAQ + answers about that my_speed page: http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...

Hi, ex-youtube video eng here. (also posted this as a comment on the blog post)

A while ago YouTube put together a speed information page that you could use to check out your download speeds as well as compare to other isps in your area:

http://www.youtube.com/my_speed

I'm also on Time Warner, and my graph shows wild inconsistencies - sometimes it spikes up to much faster than others, sometimes it's way below the average speed, and it also shows that Time Warner is the slowest provider out of all of the NYC area ISPs.

I wish it was easier to switch to another provider out here.

While I agree that these other sites have "ripped you off," I don't think you should spend any more time worrying about it or "fighting" them.

From a quick glance, these sites appear to be tiny "companies" that probably saw a nice site and decided to copy it rather than think up something great for themselves. They are probably not taking away any measurable business from you via their copies sites, so any time you spend "calling them out" or even drawing more attention to them is just a waste of your time.

Go think up the next great design for them to copy and focus on making your own company better instead of putting down the others who decide to take a shortcut.

Bootstrap 3 is switching to glyphicon fonts, which I think look better than the FontAwesome stuff.

http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2012/12/10/bootstrap-3-plans/

You can see the bootstrap 3 branch in the bootstrap github project.

Technical q's or content related?

I used to work at YouTube and wrote a lot of their player embed and API code, so if it's technical I might be able to answer some q's.

The difference is that reddit crams everyone into a category, where Pinterest uses a follow model to curate your stream.

Imagine if the reddit homepage filled up with posts only from categories you explicitly followed and you might get something similar. There's still the problem of hundreds of people trying to have a discussion in one place, though.

Facebook connect is for simplicity during signup, and so you can post shared things to your Facebook timeline.

Yeah. Sharp knees. Would not hit.[1]

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/210-would-not-bang

Google doesn't care if android is a "second-rate" OS. Google makes money from people using google. More smart phones = good for google, regardless of the OS the phone runs. Android has been hugely successful in getting phone carriers away from their antiquated systems (remember life before the iPhone?).

Yes, the iPhone is massively successful, but there's billions of people in the world who will never own one, and that's the market that Android is capturing so well. And to do that, they don't need to be perfect.

How is it better? Rizzoma (wave) is so incredibly complicated I feel very overwhelmed when I visit the site. It's like stepping into a fighter jet cockpit.

> The problem with any commercial website with ratings (Amazon, Yelp, etc., etc.) is that there is HUGE incentive to game the ratings.

While I agree that this is a problem, I think a bigger problem is a simple matter of scale:

Amazon is huge, and many people buy things, but they don't split reviews and ratings by what kind of person is rating them. If they wanted to make an improvement, why not show me only ratings and reviews by people who are similar to me? They have tons of data about me and other people who use the service, so it should be possible for them to say "people like you rated this on average a 4, but everyone in the world rates it an average of 2.5."

That's much easier than having to read all the reviews and decide if the person is in my demographic or whether I agree with their review.

All branches are public, you can link directly to them:

http://branch.com/b/choosing-the-best-technology-for-my-webs...

We just pushed out a fix for this - it was happening to people who were already on our email waitlist.

If you enter your email now it should go away :)

Sorry about that!

You should be happy. It means your idea is somewhat validated in that someone else is willing to put money and effort into making conversation better on the internet ;)

*disclaimer: I work at Branch, and we are indeed focusing on many of the problems you raised in your original post. If you look at the @branch twitter account you'll see many more examples of branches that you'd be interested in reading.

According to the Netflix terms for their affiliate program[1], they won't let you participate in their program if your site includes "illegal activities."

Seems understandable, but maybe if they allowed torrent sites to direct users to them they could help prevent some piracy AND everyone would make some money.

[1] https://signup.netflix.com/Affiliates

YouTube's codebase is largely python, but it was sort of grandfathered in. I'm unsure if it would be used if they were to rewrite it today.

This reminds me of a Radiolab episode where they asked kids to hold furbys upside down (vs. a barbie or other doll) to see if they had feelings for the robot vs. the doll.

http://www.radiolab.org/2011/may/31/furbidden-knowledge/

It's a cool idea (storing user data in their own github accounts), but it sounds like a nightmare when it comes to security and data validation. No longer can you trust what gets into your database and instead you would constantly have to validate the data you import.

I suppose that makes the service more like an API where the service generates the code to run on it rather than the user.

Does anyone provide data on startup acquisitions each year? I know the amounts are usually private, but the numbers always seem to leak out (or at least estimated numbers). It would be interesting to do some data processing to look for trends and averages.

This is really the key here. It doesn't matter where you are from. What matters is what you can do (or, in the case of proving to people that you are competent, what you have done).

Do some small thing well to show that you have a chance at doing something bigger just as well.

This is how life works, not just startups.

Fantastic because just about anything is better than the record labels right now.

Just because Apple already did it doesn't mean there isn't room for something else.