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Tell HN: Watch YC Startup School Live

75 points by wyday 17y ago

vyrotek 17y ago
Great! Unfortunately the sound keeps cutting out.
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Major_Grooves 17y ago
I wish they would sort out the speaker's audio. The audience mics are fine.
- klaut 17y ago
  So it is the speaker's mic? I was wondering the same, why the audience audi seems fine but the speakers are always falling out ...
wyday 17y ago
Here's the speaker list (from http://ycombinator.posterous.com/startup-school-final-speaker-list http://ycombinator.posterous.com/startup-school-final-speake...): Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine) Paul Buchheit (Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail) Jason Fried (Founder, 37signals) Paul Graham (Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb) Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos; Founder, LinkExchange) Mitch Kapor (Partner, Kapor Capital; Founder, Lotus) Greg McAdoo (Partner, Sequoia Capital) Mark Pincus (Founder, Zynga, Tribe, SupportSoft, Freeloader) Biz Stone & Evan Williams (Founders, Twitter) Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook)
- rmobin 17y ago
  looks like the order changed, here's a pic of the actual schedule that someone posted: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/756/scheduleyo.jpg http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/756/scheduleyo.jpg
kapitti 17y ago
Hopefully they'll just have video recordings posted online with the slides like previous years.
- peregrine 17y ago
  I agree. The audio kind of fails here...
  - koko775 17y ago
    Pretty sure we will. There's a camera in back, and I think it'll be on webcast.berkeley.edu when it's over.
    - koko775 17y ago
      P.S. I'm the guy whose computer was being used to present, who's been doing tech in the front.
- l0stman 17y ago
  Especially for those who don't have flash installed.
  - cpach 17y ago
    I'm on Linux, and even if I do have Flash installed, I vastly prefer regular video files since the performance of Flash is far from optimal on my slow CPU:s.
reevo 17y ago
I apologize for being harsh, but there has not been one major justin.tv stream that I have seen that has been enjoyable to watch. Seriously. Last year's startup school, this year's startup school, the wolfram alpha launch. It's either the audio cutting out, the video freezing, or both. I appreciate that the service is free and that they're working hard to get it to work, but honestly, this has happened so many times to the point where I'd just rather read people's summaries of the talks than trying to tolerate the choppy videos anymore. It's gotten a bit ridiculous. I get they're a YC company, cool, but in following years, you should give an alternative, like UStream, etc, if the quality there is better. I try to avoid justin.tv as much as possible in general now.
- gbookman 17y ago
  The audio's "cutting out" because the mic level in the room is way too high. Notice how the video remains smooth while the audio stutters.
  - reevo 17y ago
    Honestly, as a user, that's not my problem.
    - gbookman 17y ago
      Course it isn't. I'm just saying it's not Justin.tv you should be blaming, it's whoever set up the mic system.
  - goodkarma 17y ago
    I've been trying to watch and the video has been pretty choppy too. Not trying to hate or anything, but I'm pretty bummed about this. I was really looking forward to watching it.
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    - goodkarma 17y ago
oomkiller 17y ago
Video is really choppy, seems like there is a lack of bandwidth somewhere.
- gord 17y ago
  I got that at one point with the stream during the 37signals talk - rhythmic cutout, so assume its a network issue, on top of bad mic... Talks hosted anywhere else?
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freakwit 17y ago
The chat on that stream is as bad as youtube comments.
- markerdmann 17y ago
  Is there any way to turn it off? For now I'm just using the "ignore" feature to block as many of those people as possible. The fact that it's constantly moving is very distracting, and it adds so little value.
  - freakwit 17y ago
    If you click the options gear-like icon, there's a "Hide Chat" option.
- Maro 17y ago
  The chat widget is horrible. I resized the browser to get rid of it. They're also updating the "x Views ... " text below the video every once in a while, which is annoying.
  - gord 17y ago
    agreed, needs a minimize button. I used click user > ignore but it seemed to need reloading to work. Cant blame justin.tv for the bad audio, of course.
Glimjaur 17y ago
Will recordings of the talk be posted online, preferably with slides attached? It would be wonderful if they were and i am sure that i'm not the only one that would appreciate it. Watching inspiring talks like these are a real godsend for me, especially since i don't have the possibility to attend anything similar to this in real life. We don't have many web or startup related events here in Gothenburg (Sweden) and the availability of them online is as close as i come to meet these incredible people. :)
- keltex 17y ago
  I agree and would love a link to the archive when it's created.
- jrussino 17y ago
  Also agree. I don't have time to watch this live today but would love to watch a recording sometime next week. Slides would be a nice bonus.
- BvS 17y ago
  I miss Omnisio, it was perfect for talks accompanied by slides.
brandnewlow 17y ago
Zuckerberg's talk is tremendous so far. The guy's killing it. His grasp of details at the company is pretty darn impressive.
pavs 17y ago
Off-topic. I love justin.tv, I have been following it since its early days of justin's stunt on lifecasting. I have seen the site morph over time. But the site in its current form is just very ugly UI. The chat widget is horrible and the bar on top is very out of place. They need to look at other live streaming site for decent UI design.
quizbiz 17y ago
Will I / Can I find all the presentations somewhere? (not live)
Scott_MacGregor 17y ago
I see a lot of comments about the video being choppy. I did not have this problem on my end. The video was fine for me in the Austin area. I have a ton of bandwidth in with bursting and had no choppy video whatsoever. The choppy video might be a bandwidth problem caused by your ISP overloading the node with other residential customers. I know from experience that some do this, and on Saturdays it can really slow things down. I did notice the audio cut out but it was coming in as static so it might have been physical mic problem onsite vs. the actual audio delivery from the server to the client. By the way YCombinator--GREAT JOB with this live broadcast, I loved it, it was GREAT! Launch early and iterate!
- quellhorst 17y ago
  I am in Dallas with 50mbps fios and I did notice many more problems with the archive version of the first talks. They improved the feed later in the day.
wensing 17y ago
Why is there only one monolithic video clip which can't be scrubbed to skip ahead or go backwards? http://www.justin.tv/clip/2493eb6f993f6e24 http://www.justin.tv/clip/2493eb6f993f6e24 And why is it only 2 hours long? Is there any place to watch the entirety of the day's talks?

75 points by wyday 17y ago

vyrotek 17y ago

Great! Unfortunately the sound keeps cutting out.

deleted 17y ago
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Major_Grooves 17y ago

I wish they would sort out the speaker's audio. The audience mics are fine.

klaut 17y ago
So it is the speaker's mic? I was wondering the same, why the audience audi seems fine but the speakers are always falling out ...

wyday 17y ago

Here's the speaker list (from http://ycombinator.posterous.com/startup-school-final-speaker-list http://ycombinator.posterous.com/startup-school-final-speake...): Chris Anderson (Editor in Chief, Wired Magazine) Paul Buchheit (Founder, FriendFeed; Creator of GMail) Jason Fried (Founder, 37signals) Paul Graham (Partner, Y Combinator; Founder, Viaweb) Tony Hsieh (CEO, Zappos; Founder, LinkExchange) Mitch Kapor (Partner, Kapor Capital; Founder, Lotus) Greg McAdoo (Partner, Sequoia Capital) Mark Pincus (Founder, Zynga, Tribe, SupportSoft, Freeloader) Biz Stone & Evan Williams (Founders, Twitter) Mark Zuckerberg (Founder, Facebook)

rmobin 17y ago
looks like the order changed, here's a pic of the actual schedule that someone posted: http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/756/scheduleyo.jpg http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/756/scheduleyo.jpg

kapitti 17y ago

Hopefully they'll just have video recordings posted online with the slides like previous years.

peregrine 17y ago
I agree. The audio kind of fails here...
- koko775 17y ago
  Pretty sure we will. There's a camera in back, and I think it'll be on webcast.berkeley.edu when it's over.
  - koko775 17y ago
    P.S. I'm the guy whose computer was being used to present, who's been doing tech in the front.
l0stman 17y ago
Especially for those who don't have flash installed.
- cpach 17y ago
  I'm on Linux, and even if I do have Flash installed, I vastly prefer regular video files since the performance of Flash is far from optimal on my slow CPU:s.

reevo 17y ago

I apologize for being harsh, but there has not been one major justin.tv stream that I have seen that has been enjoyable to watch. Seriously. Last year's startup school, this year's startup school, the wolfram alpha launch. It's either the audio cutting out, the video freezing, or both. I appreciate that the service is free and that they're working hard to get it to work, but honestly, this has happened so many times to the point where I'd just rather read people's summaries of the talks than trying to tolerate the choppy videos anymore. It's gotten a bit ridiculous. I get they're a YC company, cool, but in following years, you should give an alternative, like UStream, etc, if the quality there is better. I try to avoid justin.tv as much as possible in general now.

gbookman 17y ago
The audio's "cutting out" because the mic level in the room is way too high. Notice how the video remains smooth while the audio stutters.
- reevo 17y ago
  Honestly, as a user, that's not my problem.
  - gbookman 17y ago
    Course it isn't. I'm just saying it's not Justin.tv you should be blaming, it's whoever set up the mic system.
- goodkarma 17y ago
  I've been trying to watch and the video has been pretty choppy too. Not trying to hate or anything, but I'm pretty bummed about this. I was really looking forward to watching it.
  - deleted 17y ago
    [deleted]
  - goodkarma 17y ago

oomkiller 17y ago

Video is really choppy, seems like there is a lack of bandwidth somewhere.

gord 17y ago
I got that at one point with the stream during the 37signals talk - rhythmic cutout, so assume its a network issue, on top of bad mic... Talks hosted anywhere else?

deleted 17y ago

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freakwit 17y ago

The chat on that stream is as bad as youtube comments.

markerdmann 17y ago
Is there any way to turn it off? For now I'm just using the "ignore" feature to block as many of those people as possible. The fact that it's constantly moving is very distracting, and it adds so little value.
- freakwit 17y ago
  If you click the options gear-like icon, there's a "Hide Chat" option.
Maro 17y ago
The chat widget is horrible. I resized the browser to get rid of it. They're also updating the "x Views ... " text below the video every once in a while, which is annoying.
- gord 17y ago
  agreed, needs a minimize button. I used click user > ignore but it seemed to need reloading to work. Cant blame justin.tv for the bad audio, of course.

Glimjaur 17y ago

Will recordings of the talk be posted online, preferably with slides attached? It would be wonderful if they were and i am sure that i'm not the only one that would appreciate it. Watching inspiring talks like these are a real godsend for me, especially since i don't have the possibility to attend anything similar to this in real life. We don't have many web or startup related events here in Gothenburg (Sweden) and the availability of them online is as close as i come to meet these incredible people. :)

keltex 17y ago
I agree and would love a link to the archive when it's created.
jrussino 17y ago
Also agree. I don't have time to watch this live today but would love to watch a recording sometime next week. Slides would be a nice bonus.
BvS 17y ago
I miss Omnisio, it was perfect for talks accompanied by slides.

brandnewlow 17y ago

Zuckerberg's talk is tremendous so far. The guy's killing it. His grasp of details at the company is pretty darn impressive.

pavs 17y ago

Off-topic. I love justin.tv, I have been following it since its early days of justin's stunt on lifecasting. I have seen the site morph over time. But the site in its current form is just very ugly UI. The chat widget is horrible and the bar on top is very out of place. They need to look at other live streaming site for decent UI design.

quizbiz 17y ago

Will I / Can I find all the presentations somewhere? (not live)

Scott_MacGregor 17y ago

I see a lot of comments about the video being choppy. I did not have this problem on my end. The video was fine for me in the Austin area. I have a ton of bandwidth in with bursting and had no choppy video whatsoever. The choppy video might be a bandwidth problem caused by your ISP overloading the node with other residential customers. I know from experience that some do this, and on Saturdays it can really slow things down. I did notice the audio cut out but it was coming in as static so it might have been physical mic problem onsite vs. the actual audio delivery from the server to the client. By the way YCombinator--GREAT JOB with this live broadcast, I loved it, it was GREAT! Launch early and iterate!

quellhorst 17y ago
I am in Dallas with 50mbps fios and I did notice many more problems with the archive version of the first talks. They improved the feed later in the day.

wensing 17y ago

Why is there only one monolithic video clip which can't be scrubbed to skip ahead or go backwards? http://www.justin.tv/clip/2493eb6f993f6e24 http://www.justin.tv/clip/2493eb6f993f6e24 And why is it only 2 hours long? Is there any place to watch the entirety of the day's talks?