Ask HN: Awesome talks/video available online?

50 pointsby jacobscott18 yıl önce21 comments

I know that the TED talks are up free, I'm familiar with MIT's OpenCourseWare, the free educational material up on iTunes, and that Google puts some tech talks online. Unfortunately, it looks like you have to be a member to see Long Now Foundation video. But I figure I must be missing something. Any suggestions?

19 comments

sidsavara18 yıl önce

Love TED. Another great one was the New Yorker conference: http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/conference/conference20...

Also, if you want you can see all the ones I've bookmarked on my delicious account:

http://delicious.com/sidsavara/video

Some may be off topic, but in general I think it's as good a place to find videos as anything else. I tend to bookmark 1-3 a week, if it is tagged +someday or +todo then all bets are off on quality, as it means I saw it referenced somewhere or tweeted and bookmarked it for future reference.

kalvin18 yıl önce

Stanford has a weekly speaker seminar class called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that has a free podcast. (You can't see the video unless you log in as a student, but hopefully that will change in the near future.)

Not all of them are great, but there's enough that you're bound to find a topic/speaker that you're interested in:

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/podcasts.html

(Past speakers you might be interested in: Marissa Mayer, Reid Hoffman, Mitchell Baker, Mitch Kapor, Ron Conway, Sue Decker, Larry Brilliant, Vinod Khosla, William McDonough, Mark Zuckerberg, et. al)

(Also, I highly recommend David Rothkopf's talk if you're interested in policy/current affairs/the world.)

edit: I guess I should add that I help out with the class, but I'd have posted this either way :)

ciscoriordan18 yıl önce

Also http://see.stanford.edu which is open to everyone, if you're looking for actual class lectures.

jacobscott18 yıl önce

I work near stanford, maybe I will check out the series in person. Thanks!

michael_dorfman18 yıl önce

The SICP videos are awesome.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

ntoshev18 yıl önce

http://videolectures.net/

Supposedly on every topic, but the machine learning selection is especially good.

tlrobinson18 yıl önce

It seems like there's a Google Tech Talk for just about everything.

YUI Theater also has some good web stuff, not just YUI related: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater/

lacker18 yıl önce

Here's some specific suggestions. I was most recently fascinated by this video on head tracking "virtual reality".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Another cool thing if you're into DIY robots (not really educational, but I found it inspiring) is the Yellow Drum Machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RyodnisVvU

Not sure why I got on the robot tangent but here's another good one, a 4-legged robot that's pretty good at navigating hills and obstacles. Especially the recovery from a fall sequence around 1:25.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

And here is hacking the Wii Fit controller and a Roomba to do a sort of vacuum-by-surfing... thing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbprdjTX0w&feature=relat...

chrisbroadfoot18 yıl önce

There are some nice ones on InfoQ. I just watched this one today:

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/gosling-jvm-lang-summit-k...

Gosling talking about how the JVM came about. Great stuff.

narag18 yıl önce

I would very much appreciate talks with written transcription. They're very valuable for us struggling with spoken English.

vrs18 yıl önce

I was looking at the Stanford videos (specifically the David Rothkopf) mentioned above ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=344141 ). I just noticed that the online video has a subtitle option

Edit: and have transcripts too.

riklomas18 yıl önce

The last Future of Web Apps conference in London now has most of the talks available online:

http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2008/london/content

Alex391718 yıl önce

It's becoming pretty standard practice now for authors to put their book talks online. There are a few websites that host them, including CSPAN's book talk. When authors come to talk at Google their talks usually get posted on Google video as well. There are lists of the best free documentaries floating around too.

alex_c18 yıl önce

Also see:

http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=181164

ricree18 yıl önce

I may be a bit biased here, but University of Illinois's ACM chapter puts on a fairly good conference every year, and posts the videos online.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2008/

sjs38218 yıl önce

Not exclusively tech-related, but this is one of my favorites: http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigi...

Glimjaur18 yıl önce

I enjoy listening to the audio podcasts from SXSW and FOWA, they are both available in the iTunes store.

djm18 yıl önce

Have a look at http://videolectures.net/

rami18 yıl önce

http://sciencehack.com/

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adldesigner18 yıl önce

Very nice links, guys! Thanks!

tocomment18 yıl önce

What are the best ones on TED?