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As a the co-founder of an NYC startup I would like to share my insight. NYC is a great place to do business if your startup is consumer facing with a marketing skew. If you are an engineering company you do not belong here. I also truly believe it is extremely hard to raise funding here, much more so than in the Valley. NY Seed is the biggest joke in the world. Most of the VC firms are run by ex-finance guys that are not willing to take chances on ideas. Obviously this is changing (think Betaworks and USV.)

I also think the Startup scene here is especially small, and full of the kind of people you should avoid. If you really want to meet the kind of people that will help you and are doing innovative things you need to head to Brooklyn or hunt them down. They are not at New York Tech MeetUp or any of the other startup events. Most people doing interesting things (I am only doing somewhat interesting things) are doing them off the radar. The people you hear about are kind of like the football players from High school - everyone knows about them, but they don't really amount to anything.

If your doing a startup in NYC, you should surround yourself with other interesting people outside the tech community. Meet people from Fashion, Music, Art, Advertising, PR, Marketing, ect. NY has so much to offer - the key is not to get stuck in the tech community. NY is all about expanding your horizons, and that is truly the benefit of starting a business here.
Yes--thankfully, my identity doesn't hinge on whether or not I'm looking at the camera or smiling, so there's nothing "pretend" about me composing my self-portraits one way or the other in respect to those.
Well in my case I've read a couple books about KIPP looking for evidence that I was wrong, but I didn't find any. The problem is that while KIPP is probably the fastest way to improve kids performance on Things That Can Be Measured, there's a lot of research showing how this approach is really bad for kids. And the pro-KIPP literature doesn't take any of this into account. My problem with Gates specifically is that not only does he not know what these problems are, but even when told about them he has no interest in learning about them despite the fact that they are extremely serious.
Having worked at a startup in London, I would claim that Zed's post applies to London, too.

Life is too short to swim against the current. Whoever wants to start a company should go where like-minded people exist in large numbers, and neither NYC or London are such places. Starting a company is already hard, the least one could do is to be immersed in the right culture, where the right values are cherished.
as a former New Yorker I agree.
So tired of all this constant iWhatever speculation.
My guess is anything that has a lot to do with reading, since that is where the screen is actually an advantage, not just a tolerable disadvantage.

Interactive books are an obvious thought. Interactive maps might also be useful.
When you signed up for Facebook though you signed up under the assumption that your data was private.
Rarely used in practice??? Dude, are you being facetious?? SVD is the sledgehammer that cracks any problem you come up against...
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That site reminds me of reading a Lyndon LaRouche pamphlet once in college...
I had a similar experience. I'm also 26. Are you in the Bay Area? It doesn't matter, though I'd love to meet in person.

Drop me an email at M8R-c9rbgg@mailinator.com and let's talk.
We've caused multiple revolutions in Iran, fueled a war between Iran and Iraq, and continue to meddle in Iran's business.

I have no such confidence.
I'm excited to see what come of this. Although most of my 'connected' needs are filled by my iPhone, having a comparable substitute on the big, battery-sipping, easy-on-the-eyes screen seems like a good idea.

Now if only they would come down in price just a bit...
It is most likely that Zed didn't work with some of the most interesting startups in New York because he was too busy stroking his own ego and thinking he was too good for them. ;-) (this is mostly a joke, Zed is a great guy but he loves pissing people off.)

So I'll take the bait and present:

Exhibit A: A list of the most well-known startups in NYC seems to completely disagree with what Zed is saying (Edit: that you need to be in banking, marketing, government or publishing to do a startup in NYC.)

1. Meetup

2. DoubleClick

3. Vimeo

4. Etsy

5. Gilt Groupe

6. Boxee

7. FourSquare

8. Tumblr

9. Bit.ly/Betaworks

10. Blip.tv

11. Drop.io

12. Hunch

13. omgpop

I've been here 6 years now, and think New York is about as great a place to build a startup than anywhere else in the country. Sure, there's a lot of hype around NYC and starutps and finance is still a huge part of the scene but if you want to build your startup here, don't let these silly posts get you down!
> Really? There are no unbiased media sources. Bill Gates of all people should recognize that [...]

I read that conversation as:

Q: Which sources are unbiased?
A: Well, these are the sources I go to...
You better hope that you don't typo that while your boss is in the room. ;-)
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I chose Vancouver over moving back to the Valley. While I concede that it's no Silicon Valley, I enjoy my life outside of work so much more here than I did in Palo Alto. I'm also a Canadian citizen, so coming from Waterloo it was a lot easier to come to BC given no Visa and same banking system. It may have a rainy winter, but it's preferable to anyplace else in Canada, and the summers are to die for.

I think it's easy to convince people to move here, but the tech scene really isn't as developed as TO aside from the video game industry. Other local successes include Crystal Decisions (which was bought by business objects, and then SAP), Metrolyrics, and Plenty of Fish(take that one in what sense thou wilt).
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I messed around with analyzing US senate votes using a SVD several years ago: http://saweis.net/svd/
it is getting a little old, isn't it?

seems fairly inevitable, though. with the release of the iphone, apple shook the mobile phone business down to its very core. it's hard not to wonder if they are about to do it again.
Hopefully it's better-documented than Amazon FPS Subscriptions. :P
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What do you want to do? You can definitely go to one of the bigger companies - which is a great way to network till your next startup idea hits, and there's also the EIR gig that's been talked about here a little bit slightly better than being an associate.
As I'm reading it, they're going to charge 15 cents per megabyte to deliver the app itself to the device. That cost will be deducted from the app price, and the remainder is what will be split 70/30 with developers. They cap over-the-air delivery at 10 meg. Anything over that is downloaded to user's computer, then to kindle via usb. Cumbersome.

So you could have up to $1.50 of the app price deducted for delivery fees.

Probably not going to settle in on a 99 cent price point...
After getting one for Christmas, I've started doing almost all of my reading on an iPod Touch.

I think the form factor is perfect--you can read in any position (I've always struggled to read books while lying in bed on my side), and the short lines of text make for easy reading (notice that the screen is almost exactly as wide as a newspaper column). I'm sure e-ink is nice, but reading from an LCD all day has never bothered me and still doesn't (probably because I still have young eyes).

Along with Kindle books, I read online materials using the ReaditLater app after saving links to ReaditLater when I find them (often on a desktop). The app will both format pages nicely for the Touch as well as download them for offline reading.
So are the really bad things you mention things like obliterating intellectual curiosity, fostering dependence on authority, crushing children's self-esteem and so on?

Because it seems like there are some people for whom those results define cruelty and failure and others for whom those kinds of critiques ring hollow and self-serving.

This looks like a debate of preconceptions, the most intractable of arguments.
MUDs! :)

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Go back to school and finish what you started. It will be harder later, and you don't want to spend your life justifying why you don't have a degree.
>The white apologist thing is just neo-trendy but true history does not support your conclusion.

History doesn't support my conclusion? We invaded some else's land and nearly wiped them out. Now what remains are spread out on reservations, little crops of land that had no value to us. You assertion that "Both where right and both were wrong" is nonsense. If some other country invaded the US today and started having that kind of "success" would you feel the same? American citizens would just be the losers in a bitter battle between two cultures? Somehow I don't think so.

>The grandparent post is right, society has congealed into functional and dysfunctional land masses.

No, you and the GGP both confuse what we have now for success. We don't have "functional and dysfunctional land masses", we have the land of the empires who were always conquering and the land of those who weren't as aggressive. As is usually the case; the first one to strike wins. That doesn't mean he is better or has more potential, just that he won. We can't know what would have happened otherwise. Perhaps we've ended up in the best situation we could have, or perhaps we could have reached a much higher level of enlightenment.

There is no way to know, but I find the framing of what happened as the best possible outcome (and by extension, everything that was done was correct) arrogant.
It's a good idea but it doesn't consider transaction costs. That's the main problem.

Imaging you're a reader with US$ 1000 per year to spend on books: how do spend it if there's a large supply of book offers like these?
> ...can I go to the big guys (Microsoft, Google, etc?). Can I go become an associate at a VC firm?

If you're interested in these kind of jobs then why not try and get one. If you want to work at Google, apply to Google. If you want to work at a VC company, get in contact with some of them and discuss it with them.

In my experience (of both being an interviewee and an interviewer) a degree helps get you in the door, but it's your ability and experience that decides whether you get the job or not.

Good luck!
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Not sure on Google, but I know first hand that Microsoft will hire without a college degree. All depends on what your skill set is and how well you can sell yourself to them.

On the other hand, I would recommend going back to finish your degree if you can afford to. While getting a technology job without a degree is not all that difficult, the degree will only help you in the long run and can be the make or break difference between two candidates with some companies. It is also can be seen as a sign that you follow through and complete tasks at hand.

Trust me though, going from a startup environment to "corporate" America can be a bit daunting. While you say you want a slower pace, when confronted with that slower pace you will probably start to pull your hair out. I would recommend going to a startup, if you are not in a founder/cofounder role you will find it to be a lot slower while at the same time the enjoyable fast pace of a startup environment.

My best recommendation would be to complete your degree part-time while working for a startup.
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Thanks!

For what it's worth, I'm still winding down the startup (and will be for a while ...). I've just started to think about what to do next.

When I know a little more about when I'm leaving, etc, I'm sure I'll start pushing more aggressively on things I'm interested in. I just don't really know what's available/feasible since I don't have many precedents to work off of.
Although it's very tempting to build highly integrated hardware extensions for the very sexy devices that apple makes there is a better way to go about building specialty hardware.

Build for the wireless LAN.

Adding a webserver and wifi interface to even a modestly sized hardware device is cheap and getting cheaper. Open Protocols win in the long term.

Note that this means you should be able to reach most of the app phones on the market, and not be stuck with Vendor A's weird policy bugs.
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honestly, there are twice as many startups in the 1/2 mile stretch between elcamino st and caltrain castro st/ in mountain view. I know as I drive it everyday. And that's one town in the valley.
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"The problem is that while KIPP is probably the fastest way to improve kids performance on Things That Can Be Measured, there's a lot of research showing how this approach is really bad for kids."

I don't understand this point here. If you cannot measure something, how can you determine what is an improvement and what is not?
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"This looks like a debate of preconceptions, the most intractable of arguments."

The issue is that this debate isn't even taking place, and people don't know about the research on what happens to kids' intrinsic motivation and such under these programs. Now if the parents knew this and thought it was an acceptable tradeoff then that would legitimately be an intractable debate, but for Obama and Gates to force this onto inner city minorities without informed consent seems extremely wrong.
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I think you're understating the difficulty.

No amount of math can tease apart the indiscernibly complex.

We observe correlations naturally. Assumed relationships. The sort which suggested God wanted us to dance to bring on rain. But without controls, and without repeatable experimentation, we can not have a true scientific method. The scientific method requires hypothesis, predictions, and repeatable experimentations. One successful dance is an anecdote, many is a theory, decades of them is a law, still questionable. But how can you repeat an experiment which takes place over a whole society of people, millions strong, with life constantly intervening?

This isn't only about soundbites, it's about having no means to achieve anything more definitive than soundbites.
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Why not try it?

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(It's fewer keystrokes than asking, and the answer can't possibly be wrong or snarky!)
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Wow, and from just that you were able to determine that he only reads books that reinforces his existing beliefs? Holy assumptions, Batman!
While I agree with the idea that democracy will not work properly on an uneducated population, I think that's no longer true in China, and instead of relaxing it's controls, China's increasing them.

I think perhaps the arrogance is from the Chinese side in not wanting to be told what to do, and not from the rest of the developed world. If they really do not want to learn and borrow from the developed world, they should stop pirating western films and music and stop stealing western technological advancements as well as rejecting developed political advancements like freedom of information that conveniently happens to weaken the grip of the CCP.

They clearly admit they are developing, then what other reason would they have to reject the advice of developed nations except to push away the specific advancements that could potentially disturb the balance of power.

The Chinese is stance is highly arrogant and hypocritical.
Your point being? I was responding to Zed's point that you need to be in banking, marketing, government or publishing if you want to do a startup in NYC.

It is obvious that the valley's startup scene is bigger, what I'm saying is that it is silly to write nyc off and make generalizations about what works here.

Also, there's a ton of startups that don't get techcrunch'd all the time in NYC as well, that are doing cool stuff. Bug Labs being one of them.
Wow, this is really great. The data seems to to support the claim that politics has gotten more divisive over the past 2 decades. (I get unreasonably happy when data actually supports a broad claim). Very creative way to show this.

Have you thought about going further back? I'd be curious to see this on voting records as far back as possible, just to see what trends might have happened.
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It seems like 'analysts' are pulling this shit out of a hat or making shit up as they go along. Obviously they have no idea of what's going on and you can't make money without saying something.

Must be wonderful to have a job where you can phone it in.
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"Several days before Google declared that it planned to withdraw from China, the U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton held a small evening dinner party. The guests she invited were just the leaders of the powerful information enterprises such as the Microsoft, Twitter and Google. The two affairs were so close that people would unavoidably think they were connected. After this political affliction, Google has already made itself in an awkward situation. If it withdraws from China, it will lose a market consisting of 360 million netizens; if it does not, it will be hijacked by the U.S. government."

So the People's Daily is accusing a US corporation of being a tool of the US government.

Don't I fucking wish.
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Good lord, did the The Atlantic have to lay off its editors?

I agree with the last paragraph, but that's really all you want to read, unless you're looking for verbose ranting and raving about other people's politics.
"Is that statistically significant? I rather doubt it."

Well do the maths then? Since you read the Zed Shaw essay, you are now an expert on statistics, no?

Sorry to be cynical, but not ALL statistics out there has to be bad. I am too lazy to do the maths right now, but since you seem concerned, it seems fair to ask you to do it before complaining. For one thing, I think they have a fairly large sample, so maybe the 0.2 difference is significant after all (as I said I am too lazy to do the maths myself atm).
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Why isn't this being trumpeted everywhere?

This is amazing news for natural language processing! Often tasks are encountered that are hampered by the size and nature of available corpora.
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Might be better to separate by language? At first sight I was put off because I saw Spanish and whatnot. Only by chance I also discovered a question about English.
>(well, except you ;-)

Don't get me wrong; I love my mac book pro, my smart phone, playing silly RPG games, watching movies and so on.

I'm simply not prepared to claim that having these things makes me superior to other ways of life. It's different, but it's hard to say superior when a pie chart of how my life is spent would be made up mostly of work and sleep.

>It's based largely on personal memory of a lot of the things said during the lead-up to the invasion. "Beacon of democracy" was used several times in his press releases to drum up support for the war. The "domino theory" of liberalization was discussed in my International Relations course. In both the Bush and Kerry campaigns, there were widespread discussions about how to "win the peace".

I would recommend to you the BBC film "The power of nightmares". I do believe actual terrorists are responsible for 9/11, but I think nearly everything else we've seen or heard (Al Quieda and so on) is very much exaggerated or lied about (I don't buy this "we need a beacon of freedom" at all). As far as I can tell, the biggest thing that has actually happened from the Iraq war is a lot of tax payer money being transfered into the pockets of companies owned by people in Bush's staff.
What an embarrassment that they spend so much effort on fighting over a foreigner instead of ceasing the religious oppression of their own people and spending on their own educational and physical infrastructure.
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Ironic, as that was probably the truest that cliché has ever been.
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I think this is fantastic. The layout immediately reminded me of looking at the elaborate covers and inserts in my dad's vinyl collection while listening. Essentially, feels like a more intimate way to engage music.

Definitely still some UI bugs, but I really like the direction.

The biggest UI bugs I noticed:

1) When the next song came on by auto play, the background/info didn't update. I went into "info" then exited and it updated.

2) Once I clicked for more info on a song, I couldn't immediately figure out how to get back to the bare, initial layout.

3) Next/Prev buttons disappeared when the info about the artist was up, which I couldn't close. Annoying not to be able to go to the next song when I didn't like the current one.

Anyway, congrats, I really like this.