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Interesting, I did not know that. I assumed it was similar to cauterizing a wound.
Did we read the same article? 2D TV doesn't trick the brain into thinking it's 3D. Your brain can clearly see it's 2D. When you view fake 3D, the brain thinks it's 3D. But now that your brain is in 3D mode, it has to turn off processing for a lot of cues it would normally take into account, due to the fake 3D not being a complete simulation of reality.
In the real world - you don't really see 3D very much.

Your eyes are only 0.1m apart so anything more than 3-4m away isn't really in 3d anyway. Everything in the distance is handled by your knowledge of it's relative size and position - which works just as well on a 2d screen anyway.

Try it, cover one eye and look at the scene, you will see a difference on your desk, but no difference for the scene outside your window.

That's why most 3d movies have lots of things flying at you and other gimmicks - it's because otherwise there wouldn't be much 3d-ness
Borges would roll in his grave at yet another desecration of 'Funes the Memorious'; the point was not that a good memory somehow is a curse.

Borges was, yet again, revisiting his favorite theme of 'the map and the territory': that abstraction is useful and fundamentally different from the raw data/reality. A map is good insofar as it is unfaithful and the more faithful the map, the less useful & mappy it is.

This, of course, has nothing to do with the author's thesis, which I regard as being about as sound as the argument that everyone ought to die at 70 years because to live longer or nigh forever would render life meaningless.
We're still a month and a half away from April fools... Talk about jumping the gun
V.C. is suffering because there are not enough companies that have got to a big enough stage for them to fund.

There needs to be more put into early stage companies. I meet endless companies in the U.K. that can't easily even get $20k to get off the ground. Yes, we've got SeedCamp, but it only funds 5 or 6 companies a year. There are 1000s of good potential companies in the U.K. alone that can't get this first step of funding. And that's the U.K. which is fairly developed for this and there are lot of countries that this could apply to.

Basically, I think we need several Y-combinator style companies in every country in every industry. I think as people see the returns come into Y-combinator there will be explosion of these companies as there a lot of people can spend $2m/year on a range of outside bets.
No, not everyone knows this. In fact, nearly every public speaker is initially taught not to do this. (I was in Forensics in high school, and recently joined Toastmasters.) For most people, if you try and memorize a speech, it will look like you've memorized a speech, because you will be fumbling for where you are next.

If you are a professional speaker on a tour, someone with a lot of drama experience, or a salesperson with the same pitch every time, then it might make sense to do Gladwell's approach. For the rest of us, practice extensively but don't memorize start-to-finish.
My mom had a fear of the government putting ideas into her kids heads. When I was 11 some of my older siblings decided that they wanted to go to public school, so one by one we all eventually started following suit. I think my mother just figured she'd let us do what we wanted. My next younger brother (not an electrical engineer) had many of the same problems that I had, although he was two years younger and so wasn't quite as far behind his peers. My older siblings taught themselves to read and write (somehow, I should ask them how they managed that), but I found myself incapable of figuring it out on my own.
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Was it to an associate or partner? If to an associate, it doesn't matter what you do, because it wasn't actually worth anything: meetings with associates almost never lead to deals.

If it's to a partner, I'd ask the partner. Say "we're not raising money yet. Would you like us to come in and have an informal convo, or would you rather wait?" Then most of the pressure's off, but you can still start a conversation that might lead to funding later. Or in the ideal case the partner will say "I love this so much I want to invest now." But don't get your hopes up about that.
This seems like sheer alarmism.

Made-up pseudomedical terminology? Check.

Won't-somebody-please-think-of-the-children plea? Check.

Confident claims of what's likely to happen, right alongside complaints that no one has done any research? Check.

(I originally had a paragraph here about how he links to the Wikipedia article on depth perception and says: here are all the distance cues your brain uses; 3-d movies only provide one of them; oh noes, your brain will get all confused -- whereas in fact almost all the distance cues listed there are available in 3-d movies, and indeed almost all of them are available in plain ol' 2-d movies. But someone else already did that in more detail, so I shan't bother.)

Incidentally, I see that Mark Pesce's own Wikipedia page describes him inter alia as a "hack and shameless self-promoter". I'm about to delete that since it's obviously unencyclopedic and non-NPOV, but this article sure makes it look like it might be true.
I think the fact that this comment keeps getting up-voted is an indicator of the high ratio of Google employees to startup founders on HN this morning.
I always hear this (that public school is better for social development) but there's some evidence to the contrary; i.e. children who go to daycare have more behavioral problems, etc. The idea is that kids learn the proper way to behave from adults. If they're spending too much time with other kids who also have no idea how to behave, they never learn to.

I wonder if cause and effect is reversed. The parents of kids who are homeschooled are more likely to be socially defective to begin with, and the reason for the maladjustment is genetic. To add anecdotal evidence, both my SO and I are socially awkward, found school a living hell, and will probably homeschool. The kids will never be socially adjusted due to genetics, irrespective of whatever "socialization" they go through.
Funny you should mention Goldman Sachs. The startup I work for is founded by a former Goldman guy, and I'm looking out my apartment window at a startup founded by a bunch of Google guys (BloomReach).
A more natural way to achieve the same result would be to wrap the steak in kombu and allow it to rest in the fridge for a while. The Japanese use this technique for some fish preparations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombu
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Can you clarify what you mean by 'get the ducks in a row' please? It's not a term I'm familiar with.
I wear some old leather gloves that have the cloth lining worn off at the fingertips. They work well and are probably warmer than thin mesh gloves. As long as the leather is in direct contact with skin it should work.
I think this is the flip-side of the startup coin that many people forget about. The quote from the article that stuck out most for met was "But most of all: nothing is more motivating and inspiring than the sense of ownership and self-direction only a startup can provide."

Having decided to walk away from the startup I helped to found, I couldn't disagree more. The three things mentioned by larsberg are three things I'd grown to sorely miss. In particular, no-one is around to teach me test-driven design, and when I'm already putting in 120% during the day, I'm deadened to the desire to self-learn through books and scavenging on the internet.
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Your post makes some pretty baseless assumptions. First, even if that 80% number is correct, can you guarantee me that all 80% of pirate copies would have converted into retail sales?

There are other reasons game developers like consoles: They are a closed environment with identical hardware so there is no need to provide technical support. Profits are greater since the games are sold at a higher unit price, and since games need to be released on a console with a UI that is compatible with a console controller anyway, they can just develop a single UI and not have to worry about keyboard/mouse users.

PC gaming has been dying a long and slow death for years now, to the detriment of the entire industry. If it weren't for Blizzard and a handful of other developers, all games would be boring repeats of sports franchises, FPS, and action titles, dumbed down to the point where the entire game can be played with an analog stick and 4 buttons.

Give me a real RTS or RPG any day, and please don't dumb it down for a console. Let me assign any key on my keyboard as the controls and use a mouse for precise targeting and control of my units.

Oh, and get off my lawn...
That is exactly right.

I wish to start up a company. Or devote more time to the companies that I already started. But mostly because I don't feel I fit any more in the corporate bureaucracy and politics that drains my energy every day. Yet it is hard to trade the security of a good paying job for the risk of starting up a company.
Similar situation here. I was born with one eye only having about 10% of the nerves that it was supposed to, and the ones I have are only connected to the peripheral areas of the retina.

I've never been excited about 3D movies or games because they simply do not work for me, which was always a source of disappointment when I was a kid.

Personally I really can't see it catching on... Who wants to have to wear special glasses while sitting in their house watching TV?
The ultimate question is who is responsible for educating their children? Historically it's never been the state. Government run education went hand in hand with the industrial revolution-- it's designed to create a reliable (and pliable) workforce. By this point the public education complex is just one more oppressive power structure motivated primarily by self-preservation.
Updating them in real time is difficult. You need a feature size comparable to the wavelength of the light being used, which would mean somewhat less than 1um. The smallest pixel sizes in LCDs these days are on the order of 5um across or so. Other kinds of imagers (DLP, for instance) are comparable or worse.
No it was very deliberate on the UK's part.

The concerns were that there are a few members of certain Irish cultural organisations happily living in the US and it would wreck the peace process to extradite them, while NOT extraditing them would raise objections from the other side.

And, it's rather easier to bring a private prosecution for say war crimes in the UK - and the government didn't want the embarrassment of having to arrest various senior US politicians. This happened recently with an attempt by a human rights group to prosecute an Israeli gerneral over the west bank 'invasion'. The government couldn't stop the warrant being issued but got round it by the politican not leaving the plane when it landed in London and the police claiming that an El Al plane was Israeli soil and they didn't have jurisdiction.
Actually, I pretty strongly think that there is a limit on the number of startups, if by "startup" you mean "small company in which people create wealth largely through computer programming".

According to the BLS, there are 1.3 million "software engineers" and programmers in the United States (cite: http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos303.htm). This number will go up over the next fifty years, but not by that much; projected growth is 2% annually. One could see this number increasing more rapidly if programmers are in so much demand that their salaries (either in the form of cash or startup equity) go up very fast, but we don't see that happening; programmers nowadays don't get paid that much more, in either dollars or equity, than programmers five or ten years ago.

Now, how many of these programmers have the skills needed to start a successful company? Let's be optimistic and say 10%, which is probably above your estimate ("The top 5% of programmers probably write 99% of the good software", cite: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html).

Now, out of those, how many have the personality and determination needed to start a successful company? In the overall population this number is probably less than 5%, but the traits needed to become a good programmer (high energy, determination, ability to think well) probably correlate significantly with the traits needed to start a successful company, so I'll be optimistic again and say 25%.

Now, what's the viable window for programmers to start companies? At a guess, I'd say probably around age 22-37, so 15 years. I'm going to be optimistic again and assume that all working programmers are within this age range.

Now, how many founder-class programmers do you need to start a successful company? This number could probably range from one to five, but I'm going to be optimistic again and say one.

So, dividing it out, the number of successful startups every year is bounded above by 1,300,000 * 0.1 * 0.25 / 15 = ~2,200, and this is almost certainly an overestimate.
Surprised none of the editors caught this spelling mistake: perverserance. For a second I thought maybe that's the British way of spelling it but, no, it seems like it's just a spelling mistake.
So how do we expect 1 part-time teacher to give adequate attention to 30 kids?
Many ex-googlers I know are now startup founders.
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I get it many times a day. Sometimes it fails to respond at all. Time to add more tubes?
It is easier to apologize then to get permission first, or so many thought leaders say. So I commend google on making a bold move like that.

They can fix it up later on with some more privacy controls, updates to interface. Facebook is doing it twice a year to their their core product.
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If this were the case, wouldn't it be better not to have the treaty in the first place? Then no questions are asked at all.

And what was wrong with the old treaty, apart from the inconvenience of having to produce enough evidence to satisfy a British judge?
That is Alton Brown's recipe (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/pan-seared-ri...).
I agree. I'm finding it more useful than I thought I would. That it's integrated with gmail is a big part of it. Keyboard shortcuts work, and conversations I'm a part of show up in my inbox. I know Wave is about much more, but this may be all I wanted from it.
Research libraries are the only ones that DON'T need books.

Research libraries are about timely access to journal articles. Journals are available, indexed, abstracted etc online. By the time a paper makes it from Arvix to dead tree and then to the annual review abstract it's probably irrelevent to your research.
You probably know this already, but it if you dream of eventually doing a start up make sure to keep your expenses under control now. Your expenses tend to grow along your paycheck. It can be really hard to downsize if you decide to go the start up route.
The article makes some interesting points but I think it fails to take into account the plummeting cost of starting and running a startup.

Because it's so cheap to start/run a company, and only getting cheaper, there's much less need for gov't/VC/university money.
Looks like the secrets of Gladwell's public speaking are also the secrets of any stand-up comedian. And, really, it's not a secret at all.
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Google has balls of steel for pulling a fast one like that. They can fix it up any time I bet.
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I tried to explain to my wife why this story was funny yesterday. It was hopeless. She simply could not get it. Her sympathies were with the FB users, "Oh yeah. Facebook is constantly changing their interface. It drives me nuts too." Huh?

A few weeks ago, she really helped me understand this gap when she said, "I used to use email, now I use Facebook." I desperately wanted to explain the difference between a protocol and a web app, but then thought, why? She does not care. For her, FB is simply email plus.
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I needed something to do some code reviews in my day job and threw this little app together in the evenings over the past month or two. I have held back on releasing it, as I am not really satisfied with it yet, especially the 'website' around the app, but everyone keeps saying release often, so here it is. I would like to develop this into a solid code review app, but I am running short of simple features to add, so I definitely need some users to guide me.

Any good and bad feedback is appreciated, especially around the application more than the home/tour pages, which I basically just threw together last night ... thanks.
One argument is that in order to maintain a free state, quite ironically, you need state indoctrination of the civic ideals of liberty. That is, in order to keep people from voting for despotic leaders you need to convince them that liberty is good. Public compulsory education seems like the best way to do that.

Of course, that's failed (in my opinion). I think compulsory, public education teaches kids both implicitly and explicitly to do what their told by teachers and the state.

So yes, I support the right of people to homeschool their children. There's the inherent danger that they'll teach their kids values you disagree with, but I fear that less then the gov't forcing all kids to learn the same values. The probability that those values will perfectly match mine (or anyone else's, for that matter) are pretty slim.
Well, your future "a long time ago"s start right now.
> First, a bunch of jokers attempt a YC clone with IAccelerator and now another bunch of jokers manage to do it even worse.

So whats the deal with IAccelerator? This is the first I have hear of it. And the two comments I see in this thread are no so positive about it.
Eggshells are actually very porous. Putting eggs in very salty water will see the salt get absorbed through the shell and into the white and yolk.

'Salty eggs' are often used in Chinese food...
there are probably 100 Steve Jobs born every year. The vast majority just never have a chance or give a thought to starting a revolutionary new company.

A Steve Jobs that doesn't give a thought to starting a company is not a Steve Jobs. That's all he thought about from a young age. Just because our "top talent" often goes to big firms doesn't mean our top founders are going to big firms. A startup founder is more than just top talent; it's a very rare breed.
"founding general partner" is what the bio page says.
People don't care about money, as long as you can pay them enough to pay the rent / mortgage and the little extras in life.

With that pitch your best bet is empty-nesters and retired folks itching to get back in the game.

Otherwise, it isn't just the mortgage. It's the mortgage, the car payment, car insurance, a month-long overseas vacations you've planned out a year in advance, kids' dental, your in-laws taking your kids on a skiing vacation (but you're paying), the kids going to tennis/band/nerd camp, time to replace the refrigerator, the couch has a funny smell you can't get rid of.... (I'm paying special attention to my older coworkers so I know why I'm saving my money.)

The college kid is probably sleeping on a couch that an experienced engineer had to throw out because prosperous forty-year-old people aren't allowed to have furniture that smells funny. The college kid doesn't care if the roof leaks, because that's the landlord's problem. (Maybe's he's paying a few hundred a month for a bedroom and his name isn't even on the lease.) The refrigerator needs to be replaced? Lemme check. Nope, the beer's still cold.

Retired people, on the other hand, live like college students except with better hygiene, different recreational choices, and more regular sleep schedules.
Sorry for not making it more clear, but I did not mean to suggest that is merely a binary option.

Yes, firms can co-locate their equipment in other firms DCs but its not a silver bullet either. You still run up heavy costs associated with renting the physical space, and hardware maintenance. If we're talking about a company of significant size that is going to be part of a paradigmatic shift -- the cost/benefit of co-locating doesn't scale well (and that's why you'll see many sizable non pure tech companies that own and operate their own DCs)
As student I joined a startup which has shown me a lot of insight which will definitely useful in case I ever join another one. I can also recommend joining startups which operate in slightly different industries to get a broader understanding of different aspects of a startup.
Right, however most are not.
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You could do this same thing on Twitter. Is the already large install base the only thing Google Buzz has going for it?
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> Part of the problem with regulated markets in the US (and not just power) is that the ingrained distaste for regulation seems to ensure that when it does happen it's done as badly and obstructively as possible.

I think that you've got the causality backwards - the distaste comes from experience.

> If you are willing to let the government do more, they can step in and make as many changes as they need to allow a market to function

Or, they can step in and screw things up.

It's unreasonable for Americans to assume that regulation will become more effective if we stop resisting it. Instead, it's up to those who favor more regulation in the US to make US regulation work so they can point to successes instead of whining "but Europeans can do it".

BTW - I don't think that you understand the scale of the US, how much larger our federal govt is. Ohio, a fairly middling state, is comparable in population to Finland. California has over 36 million people, and it's just over 10% of the total.
The iPad wouldn't have helped these people. They can obviously launch a browser successfully, but having done that they have no clue that there are sites other than Google and Facebook. Unless Apple's next brilliant innovation is to remove Safari's URL bar and have giant buttons mapped to the top 10 sites. And no you can't configure them, only geeks would want to do that...
Did your parents make sure that you had other kids your age to play with? I used to go to a park where homeschoolers would get together. I don't think they were too socially deprived. But I have to wonder how they'll handle all of the public school kids when they get to college.

Some of it also depends on the kid. I know of a family that "unschooled" two brothers. One was some sort of a prodigy who won the Nobel Prize when he was six (slight exaggeration, but you get the point). The other was still illiterate at 8, when they put him in public school.
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> why in the world should a government be in control of the education of children

To maintain a minimum education level. In poorer countries no obligatory prime education will result poor families abondoning education of their kids completely and forcing them for child labour.
In my experience, the opposite is true. Technologically savvy people are used to the idea that stuff is free--they will search for torrents and keygens before paying.

Other people won't.
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