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If you don't mind, I've a couple questions:

One of the areas that they are least clear on in their FAQs, etc, is how you do the community outreach projects. What are some of the different things you can do to earn these points? Do all of them involve public speaking? (I'd rather meat with 40 chileans who want to do startups one on one than give a presentation in front of all 40 of them at once, for instance.)

How tied are you to Santiago? I've been to Santiago and it's a wonderful city, but I was wondering if locating in Valparaiso, or Vino del mar, or even Punta Arenas was viable? I know they want to support entrepreneurs across chile, so locating elsewhere is seemingly a valued goal, but I'm not sure how much of the program presumes you're in santiago. In fact, is it possible to earn your entrepreneur in residence points outside of santiago?

How difficult did you find the visa situation? What all did you need to do in advance of finding out if you got in? (I've heard that getting FBI's background check can take up to 4 months, but that it is only accepted by the chileans for 3 months after being issued. This means you could apply, not get it back from the FBI until after you should be in Chile... or get it far enough in advance to be sure you got it by the time you needed to be in chile, and have it come quickly and then be out of date....)

Have you learned spanish? It turns out I know a lot more spanish than I thought I did, but my memory is that not many chileans know english.

I see they have a nice new office. We tend to get an apartment and each live/work in a bedroom, and save on office expenses. How much of the program is tied towards being in the office every day, vs, working in the apartment? How are the nice/upscale apartments in santiago in comparison to the stipend you can pay for housing out of the reimbursement money? Is there an apartment building that is popular with startup chile businesses? Is doing a 6 month lease very difficult?

We've not got a lot of connections in latin america, is that really important to getting in, or is it more important to be a quality startup? I think we've got the quality startup thing nailed, hopefully, but our network of entrepreneurs is small, and very lacking south of central america.

Also, we really just started the company a month ago, but we're going to have a MVP out next month, and plan to do a launch in January-February timeframe. Will this make us too developed for Startup Chile? Or do you think that having giving them a product to talk up right off the bat would be good for our chances of being accepted? (Hopefully from our MVP, we'll even have some traction...)

Thanks in advance!
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2) On the site they make clear you can live anywhere in the country you wish. In other articles about this it's mentioned that most live in Santiago, but I do recall reading that some companies are in Valpariso and Vina del Mar:

http://www.startupchile.org/ocean-side-pitching-in-vina-del-...

1) That article also notes that companies are recruiting from DUOC University and Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria.

See also http://www.startupchile.org/regiones/valparaiso/
What's funny is that this matters even less than Facebook.
If I had to guess, the same guys who screwed over netflix, cost them $10M, then posted the smarmy bullshit below:

http://33bits.org/2010/03/15/open-letter-to-netflix/

In particular, note this clause from yelp's agreement:

"5. Restrictions

You agree that you will not, and will not encourage, assist, or enable others to:

A. display, perform, or distribute any of the Data, or use the Data to update or create Your own business listing information;

B. Use the data in any manner or for any purpose that may violate any law or regulation, or any right of any person including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, rights of privacy and/or rights of personality, or which otherwise may be harmful (in Yelp's sole discretion) to Yelp, its providers, its suppliers, end users of this website, or Your end users;"

http://www.yelp.com/html/pdf/Dataset_Agreement.pdf

That said, reading the dataset agreement, I'm not sure I'd care to participate even if I could.

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Which college? Note that category theory is heavily used in topology but homological algebra is used in abstract algebra (group theory). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory
Deliberate practice can bring that number way down.
These are the aliases I have set in my .gitconfig for a similar (same?) purpose:

[alias]
ignore = !git update-index --assume-unchanged
unignore = !git update-index --no-assume-unchanged
ignored = !git ls-files -v | grep "^[[:lower:]]"

Usage: `git ignore foo.rb`, `git unignore foo.rb`; `git ignored` to list all currently ignored files.
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It's not very debatable at all, actually. Plot two curves on the same graph, one showing the rate of fundamental innovations in software and computer science in general and the other showing the number of software patents issued by the USPTO. My guess is that those curves will cross sometime in the 1990s, and never approach each other again.

(The trouble is that the politicians, not knowing any better, will go to the USPTO to get both sets of figures. "See? All of these new software patents must mean that innovation has accelerated at a tremendous rate!"))
", I think I'm pretty much going to brainwash them into thinking stuff "
scares me.
My company (GooseChase Adventures) was selected for this round and we are pretty stoked, but the 6 month commitment is a concern for me on a sales front. Any companies that have already participated have any experiences about selling to North America from Chile? Fortunately it's the same timezone, but it is a long trip if I need to hop on a plane for a meeting.

If anyone has any questions on the application process or wants to discuss this offline, feel free to drop me a line: andrew@goosecha.se.
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Isn't it six letters, or do you not have to type .com anymore? (If I type "get" into Chrome, I get the jquery docs. Heh.)
OT - When I first read this article, the former COO's last name was spelled 3 different ways.

Yes, there are a handful of vowels there, so I can understand how the WSJ still left one misspelling at the end of the article after editing the original.
Did you know that mathematicians refer to Category Theory as "General Abstract Nonsense"? It's true. And they mean it as a compliment!

It is entirely possible that Category Theory is a practical joke that the mathematicians are playing on the rest of us.
It probably helps a lot that free apps are unloaded when idle, then reloaded on demand when someone is actually making a request. Ideally, the cost could approach the disk space of 30k small git repositories.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2606190/why-are-my-basic-...
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See McKinsey's report:

http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/pdfs/MGI_b...
ten hours a day slinging Javascript around in order to query some database appeals to a fairly limited subset of the population, who tend overwhelmingly to be male.

But doing it for a living would alienate the vast majority of people

As I said before these are just unsupported claims. And even if these claims were true, this doesn't mean that there is any genetic predisposition of any sort. In short, there's a lot of data to be gathered and analyzed before one confidently make such claims. In the absence of this data, claims like these are also known by the word prejudice.

I reiterate that I believe that your statements perpetuate cultural stereotypes that discourage women from entering careers in science and engineering.

I'd rather you didn't throw these unsupported claims out that IMHO serve no constructive purpose and simply muddy the water with apparently sexist views.
I think it means, it's faster than managing your own TCP connections for cluster applications.

ZeroMQ's website itself makes no claim that they're faster than TCP: http://www.zeromq.org/area:faq, under:

The graph in the test results shows that ØMQ is slower than TCP/IP. What's the point then?
I've started something similar 1.5 years ago, but with drawing, as painting is not really my thing (maybe it will). It is kind of my concept that to learn any skill/art/job/whatever, you have to want it really really hard, copy/copy/copy/copy the masters, and not judge yourself at all while doing it. I think that's one of the big reasons that kids learn so fast, they want it, they have no apprehension whatsoever about what they are doing, and very importantly too, nobody tells them anything about the quality of the stuff they do, while with adults it's all to easy to get nervous about not being good, or being too good, or whatever.

I didn't capture my output all to regularly, but I filled about 18 notebooks (that's about 3000-4000 pages) + a shitload of drawings. Because I never keep anything I produce, it's hard to measure, but I think I did an additional 500 drawings on different media. My very early stuff is at: http://flipflipflop.tumblr.com/archive/2010/5 , in fact the very first picture I drew when I set out to do this. Please note that a lot of stuff that looks "good" is copied from somewhere on the internet.

I joined a local figure drawing class, but that's about all the "formal" training I got. I read about 80 books from the library though, got a lot from the internet, followed a lot of lectures from TAD, etc...

Here is stuff that I do currently: http://larvecode.tumblr.com/

The journey is super cool, and my ideas kind of seem to come together as well.
Just thought I'd point out that you might want to blur your mailing address / phone number. Probably doesn't matter, but who knows.
It might make more sense to simply remove twitter as an option for authentication. It doesn't provide the information you are looking for and it's confusing to someone that's signing up to be prompted for name, email and a password after authorizing the app.
Hmmm, can't be that great of a system. The guy never made it as a comedian and works in computers or something.
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It depends on the jurisdiction.

If you live where there are, then there shouldn't be
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As evidence of the governments commitment in chile, consider this: They fund Venture Capital programs as well. As I understand it they have an existing program that provide funding to VCs as a forgivable loan. If the VC is successful they payoff the loan with reasonable interest. If the VC folds, the loan is forgiven.

I read they are also working on (or recently created) another program whereby the government provides funding for Venture Capital but participates as a financial partner in the returns, which, if successful, means the government would be able to put the returns into future VC funds without any further cost to the government.

I think the biggest problem is that the VCs don't have enough startups to invest in.
Wow, someone actually modded my parent post down. All I can say is, Haters gonna Hate, Mysql users gonna wait.

That is a reference to waiting for queries to finish.

Mysql is slow.
The things that are advertised with bold claims are the things people want to believe. If cold fusion worked, it would mean free energy. Free energy would mean that we could all drive tanks around and eat animals without feeling bad, which would make us feel good. Hence, "cold fusion discovered! all of the world's problems are solved!!!!"

The speed of neutrinos is less interesting, because I don't get anything out of it right now. A "huh" and some new physics textbooks and all that, at best.

(I'm personally excited, but that's because I am more excited by unlocking the secrets of the universe than by being able to drive an SUV for free. Because I already have a vehicle whose energy source is practically free.)
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Try using a command line utility to download them, e.g. wget or curl:

wget http://thumbnails.cbc.ca/maven_legacy/thumbnails/Ideas_042610_Origins_of_the_Modern_Public_1_940484.mp3
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I have an idea for an OSX app and I want to get started ASAP. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills needed to get an app to market in the time frame i'd like. The initial offering is basic enough that I would be able to wrap my head around the code shortly enough to continue developing other features.

My questions:

Where/How do I find OSX app developers?
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Is an NDA a good idea? Necessary? Any extra info on that?
We are posers. This is how hacking actually works.
He's hoping for more beer related goodies shipped to him :)
When I was learning to program, more than half the people learning with me were women.

Outside that environment, so much of programming is actually arrogant dudes standing around and telling other dudes they're doing it wrong.

It seems patently obvious to me that mainstream software development culture is a turn off to people who don't want to play that game.
Can’t disagree with the consensus that the piece is poorly written, not proofread† and has little moral high ground but:

1. It’s entertaining if you are curious about turf wars in Microsoft

2. He mentions a boss he detested launched http://thetirefire.com/ – timing out for anyone else?

† "Leaking IE9 secrets?" Posted just now, sept. 2011, with IE 10 in public beta.
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Maybe he realized that he didn't want to be a comic. It would be a sad world indeed if we were all measured against goals we created when we were twenty.
You copied it from http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2011/09/security_impact_of_...
So inspiring... and... I want to cry when I look at what I've done with the last nine years. Tagged with "inspiration" in delicious
Who the heck is Jake Gold? (seriously)
I went from 0 knowledge of Python to what I feel is quite a good handle by working on Project Euler nearly every day for just over a year now. Highly recommended!
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The US Patent Office is part of the Executive Branch, so the President certainly does have the authority to issue orders to them.
This reminds me of a few situations I was involved in back Not too many moons ago I acquired a salaried position for helping out members of a company's forum. Turned into years of learning and morphed into what I do today.

Kudos to 37signals for appreciating your contributions :)
This concept has actually been turned into a pretty decent website.

http://dontbreakthechain.com/
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Thank you. At least in the United States, sharecropping has historical associations with racism and Jim Crow. Suggesting that sharecropping is a low risk way to farm is ignoring the cultural implications if the term. As if former slaves and their descendants made a rational economic decision to become oppressed.
I am not worthy. That makes want to weep then die :)
It matches "VLC media player" from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
He's hacking himself... with documentation.
While descriptivists and other such laissez-faire linguists

All linguists are descriptivists.
It'll likely be considerably more in future rounds. The goal is to fund 1000 over three years and we're almost a year in already.

Start-Up Chile is the closest I've seen to anyone trying to implement what you described in: http://paulgraham.com/maybe.html

I was funded in the last round of ~80 startups. Experiencing it first hand I think they're well on way to creating a startup hub. The only thing holding them back is bureaucracy that comes with the government funding. This leaves many teams spending too much time worrying about the process rather than their startup.
I'd be happy with just pseudo-code.
They could have cooperated with the police in Germany.
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reminds me of hot or not, but more psychological!

i love the x-y plot idea. you could also mix in a political philosophy version.
didn't work so well for me but, but still looking forward to watching the progress. I use V-player advanced. Best player I have come across.
Only if he mentioned duckduckgo!
If it's like a store, you've got to let people browse the merchandise before you can make a sale. My PII has value to me, and also to you - so tempt me a bit first, then ask for it.
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the technical MBA term for this is "oops!"
one idea: i'd be cool if you could see pics of who ranked who how.

like if i could see a bunch of tiny pics of who ranked my photo introvert vs extrovert. that way i can see what people who think of me as "smart" look like.
From my standpoint looking at his current work, he's definitely at mastery.
I would like more code simply to prove the things described in the papers. The exploration just feels incomplete to me if I can't run some code and hack on it to test how it changes behavior.
Here is a great "An introduction to Category Theory for
Software Engineers"

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/presentations/cat101.pdf
Success from a few will show how to ship. This is just another (but exciting) form of cultural learning. Looking forward to seeing how many generations it takes to grow a hub. If there's broadband in Patagonia I'll be moving soon!
Very true.

Posterous executed amazingly. They addressed a large market with early adopters who were already primed by email-blog gateways & xmlrpc clients, and they had a great, repeatable message that was embedded in the email address: "oh you want to start a blog? just send your first post to post@posterous.com"
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The problem is that we already have previous measurements of the speed of light (in a vacuum) to high precision and they have all been roughly the same. Now I haven't read the paper but the surprise of this latest experiment is that they are measuring the speed of a particle as faster than previous measurements of the speed of light. If the latest measurements are accurate then that implies that it is possible for particles to move faster than the speed of light, or the speed of light has changed, or previous measurements were worse than expected. The first or the second possibilities would both violate special relativity.

Also, if I recall my college physics correctly, special relativity not only predicts that the speed of light will be the same for all observers but that it will also have a particular value, based on some physical constants related to electromagnetism.
MX Video Player has done very well for me before. It would be lovely to have an open source player, though.
That's a valid point. It could be a good fit for this, but it's not as clear as something like Posterous, which mikeklaas mentions. You still have to go to the website first to figure out what it's all about.
I really don't think that it's easier to understand algorithm by reading its implementation than by reading its description. It's actually opposite -- frequently the idea behind algorithm is really hard to decipher if you only have access to code and not words. If you don't believe me, take an algorithm you don't know, read sample implementation (there are quite a lot on the internet these days) and try to understand how it works. I suggest trying KMP and Boyer-Moore for text matching, or Miller-Rabin and AKS for primality testing, or even RSA -- RSA is terribly simple in theory, but if you don't have a clue how it's supposed to achieve its goal, and you don't have background in number theory, then your chances of understanding it just by reading the code are infinitesimal.
This one has Gary Vaynerchuk's "Thank You Economy" written all over it.
Out of curiosity, I did some search on Category Theory popularity on Google's "books ngrams" and found it peaked around 1990 and started picking up again in 2000

Here is the source:

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=category+theory&#...
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I hope whatever eventually happens does not require me to fill out 49 tax forms up to 4 times a year.
Nice. I knew about the technique, but didn't know there was a website dedicated to it. Has anyone made an app dedicated to this?
It's just my real name, I'm not actually anybody you should know :-)

Actually there is a famous "Jake Gold" now though, a Canadian Idol judge apparently. He's my Michael Bolton.
We're planning to apply in the next round, but whether we get in or not, we're not staying in the USA.

Here's the reasons:
1) Working in other countries is cheaper than working in the USA.
2) I don't really need $40k to fund the startup. We have that in the bank. So, giving up %5-%10 of the company for $15k doesn't seem too attractive. Most programs are targeted at 20 year olds, rather than 40 year olds with 20 years of startup experience. (not to sound arrogant, I just think we're not what they are looking for.)
3) We've been nomadic for a couple years, first in the USA, then in europe. We have learned a lot by interacting with other cultures, and %60 of our current revenue comes from outside the USA. I like meeting potential customers and learning about their needs.
4) Inside wherever we're stating, we're effectively in America- we're on the same websites, etc. But each time we step outside our doors, suddenly we're in a foreign country. Makes our weekends off much more interesting and refreshing than they would be if we'd stayed in the USA.
That's a pretty good summary. It progresses from "things that might seem to be FTL but don't really count" through "things that are kinda sorta FTL in some sense but still don't carry any information" and into "highly speculative things which could potentially be properly FTL but haven't been shown to be possible".
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