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Hello everyone, this is Alessio Signorini (@a_signorini), CTO and co-founder of Immersive Labs, which was one of the companies on the show.

At our final interviews to get into the program, they told us that we were accepted before telling us about the show. They actually asked us "would you mind being part of a documentary on your experience filmed by Bloomberg?". We didn't mind. I did not feel it was forced on us. They asked politely, and we agreed enthusiastically. We really wanted to be in TechStars.

TechStars was a great experience for me. I lived/worked for 4 months, 20 hours a day, shoulder-to-shoulder with 40 among the brightest people you can find in the US which now become my closest friend. It did not matter what we were doing or where, we were all helping each other succeed, sharing experiences, contacts, reviewing pitches, etc. And even now, 6 months later, we still speak often and have tons of fun every time we see each other. It's a family.

But that's not all, TechStars allowed us to meet and bond with dozens of the greatest and smartest investors and CEOs of the United States. They helped us, coached us, and pushed us to the our best at all time. And even now that the show is over, they are reaching out, helping out, and creating connections for us. It is great. Simply great.

We really all feel part of a big group which I am sure will last forever.

Having the cameras around during the program was actually fun, at least for me. The crews became friends and it was normal to have them around. They did not change a bit what we were doing and how: they did not tell us what to say, they did not create drama, they did not ask gotcha-questions. Of course, compressing 5000 hours of video in less than 2 hours of show forced them to do some liberal editing. And I am sure that lots of things changed at Bloomberg between January and last Tuesday. They had to focus on 6 companies instead of 11, pick some characters instead of the teams, and reduce hours of meetings into a few seconds.

Melanie is great and is already running with a new idea. The show did not portray her that way. Too bad. Same thing for the meeting with my co-founder, they should have skipped the money troubles of Jason, it did not help anybody. But that's show-business I guess, and since everything during the program went so smooth and it was so positive, they probably had to focus on those two moments to create a bit of drama, which, given the amount of "reality" on TV nowadays, seem to be necessary.

I highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly, highly... :) recommend submitting your application to TechStars and do your best to be accepted into the program. It may just be the best thing you do after coming up with the idea for your company.
I really don't care about any social features in Google Reader. The only thing that matters to me is I can continue easily subscribe and read RSS feeds. And with a "brand new design that we hope you love", I sincerely hope they don't fuck that up.
> You can also consider Dropbox a simple, automatic backup system. After all, anything that sits on multiple computers simultaneously is, by definition, backed up.

Well, it's a backup system, but the author's reasoning is wrong here, right? If you make a mistaken change to a file (like deleting it) and don't notice it before Dropbox is able to sync with your other computers, then all the copies are changed. The real backup lies on Dropbox's servers, where they store previous versions, not your computer.
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Interesting, glad I read it.

I don't like to nit-pick, but I am always a bit uncomfortable when there is an implication that wealth is a "zero-sum game"

And that does seem to be implied here.

Wealth creation is complex. Be aware of oversimplification.
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Well, the places where it's super hard to find a house at 500k, and somewhat easy at 100k, are the border states... New Mexico, Arizona, Texas (and Nevada). In these places, the 500k house is going to be the cream of the crop... the top 1%. Southern California is a different issue, but this isn't going to help the places where the housing market really took a shit, like Nevada and Arizona, because the market there is saturated with foreclosures of homes that might have originally sold for 500k but are probably worth half that much in the current market. The poisonous idea is that these homes were actually worth that much money, but they never were. The artificial demand of the sub-prime mortgage crisis pushed prices up where they should never had been. The 500k limit would try to, again, artificially inflate the worth of the house by stimulated demand in the highest priced homes, homes which should probably sell closer to 350, because the 150k premium might be worth it for some families to get a visa. The second problem with this thinking is that anyone who qualifies for a 500k house would likely be rich enough to get a visa in the US anyways as an investor.

A lower limit of 150k would be reasonable for boosting the middle class, and actually helping the housing market, but that's obviously not the goal.
I wonder if someone should me punished accordantly when launching someone's country an atomic bomb.

No punishment, just history...

Everything a bliss.
I don't think that's what's going on here. Steve Yegge is notorious for his overly-long blog posts. I got a chuckle at the comment, and I think that kind of offhand joke is what Brin intended.

This looks like an inside joke pulled out of context by the reporter. Maybe Brin made an error in speaking to his audience, but I don't think this comment was as damaging as you're making it out to be.
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Any chance of releasing the videos somewhere that doesn't require Flash?
we've both contributed equal time to it, using our different skills. he's written more of the code, but the designs are mostly mine, and i've done all the research into advertising, CTR, managed our intern, and done the biz admin.
If these Google insights into the undesirability of anonymity are so hidden, can they even be said to exist? As the poster asserts?
You're assuming that the people will live in the homes that they buy. They could just as easily spend $50,000 on a shack in Detroit, let it continue to decay, and just live in an apartment in Palo Alto.

Of course, I guess that loophole could be closed in the legislation, but every patch I can think of for closing it has its own loopholes.
I hope yours is the correct explanation. Nevertheless, I get the feeling that many Americans for some reason sympathize with anti-Americanist foreign leaders, even if their own people consider them ruthless dictators.
(I'm not American, btw.)
I would rather that he had been brought to trial, but I think he was punished accordingly.
I've tweaked the proposal at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6865174/backbone-js-corre... to do just what you describe.
It's not entirely clear to me whether this tool transloads the video straight from YouTube to DropBox, or whether it travels (even temporarily) through your machine to do so?

I fear it's the latter, and that would basically mean you're using your bandwidth twice.

Can DropBox transload files from arbitrary URLs? Because then it should totally be possible.
> To me, it's unsurprisingly that google dropped their "don't be evil" motto a few years back.

Wait, when did this happen? They appear to still have it, at least on their investor's code of conduct page[1].

[1]: http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html
I'm sure Google considered this but I hope that by default, my feed subscriptions are shared with nobody in my Google+ circles and that I have to opt those people in. Doing otherwise would be the equivalent of dumping the contents of your browser bookmarks for all your friends to see. There may be some things people subscribe to that they'd prefer others didn't know about.
Well since you like criticism:

1. Your post was common sense material and provided me with no further necessary info to even see it in context (of your launch) Which link did you post to HN?

2. You disabled the standard scroll bar, I can't use middle click to scroll on your page.
Summary: It's easy to find out the IP address of an arbitrary Skype user from their username, which can be found in the Skype global directory. This is done by calling the user, but without the UI notifying user. Nor able is the user able to block this and it can be done by someone not in your contact list. And it works even if the target user is off-line. So it's super easy to track someones movements.
I bet you will never attract the best, only those how are desperate will spend an hour with your tedious real bug solving interview. I'm pretty sure you are happy that this thing of yours is working out but let me tell you are not getting the best.
You want to win in a way that doesn't diminish you as a person. Corporations are not just beholden to their shareholders, they are beholden to their sense of values and to the values of their leaders and employees. Google, of all companies, are powerful enough and have clever enough employees to find a way to not only stay competitive but to beat the competition in a way that is demonstrably non-evil. That they don't seem to be doing this is in fact quite a shame.
It seems to me that Kurzweil is on rather strong grounds when he argues in effect that 25Mbytes is a safe conservative upper bound on the information needed to specify a human infant brain. The relevant information content of the epigenetic stuff is unlikely to be tens of megabytes, and extremely unlikely to be hundreds of megabytes. Otherwise, it's hard to see how we could've overlooked such a high proportion of non-DNA design information being passed around in all the work being done on genetics. It's also hard to see how so much extra information would stay stable against mutation-ish pressures unless its copy error rate was much lower than DNA, and hard to see how we'd've overlooked all the machinery that would accomplish that.

Moreover, I think 25M bytes is probably a very conservative upper bound, so that the relevant uncompressable complexity of what computer scientists need to design for general AI is likely no more than 1M bytes. A lot of actual brain stuff is likely to be description of the physical layer that silicon engineers won't care about, because they do the physical layer in a completely different way (silicon and masks and resists and hardest of hard UV and two low digital voltages, not wet tendrils groping toward each other in the dark and washing each other with neurotransmitters). A significant amount of actual brain stuff is likely to be application layer stuff that we don't need (e.g., the Bearnaise sauce effect, and fear of heights and snakes) and optimizations that we don't strictly need (all sorts of shortcuts for visual processing and language grammar and so forth, when more general-purpose mechanisms would still suffice to pass a Turing test). A lot of brain stuff is likely to be stuff in common with a fish, much of which we already know how to implement from scratch. And all brain stuff seems pretty likely to be encoded rather inefficiently: lots of twisty little protein substructures and nucleic acid binding sites are unlikely to be nearly as concise as the kind of mathematical or programming language notation that describes what's going on.

When Kurzweil writes "do not appreciably add" I understand him to be willing to stand by roughly the quantitative information theoretical claims I made at first (25Mbytes, tens of Mbytes, hundreds of Mbytes). When you write "profoundly wrong ... add hugely" I am unable to tell what you are claiming. How many uncompressable bits of design information you are talking about? Perhaps you believe that natural selection pounded out and mitosis reliably propagates 200M uncompressable bytes of brain design information? or 1G bytes? As above, I think that is probably false. Or perhaps I should read "hugely" as "vitally" and understand that you merely mean that the epigenetic information might be less than a million uncompressable bytes but still if you corrupt it badly you have a dead or hopelessly moronic infant. If that's what you mean, I think you are factually correct, but also don't think that that fact contradicts Kurzweil's argument.
Have a look at the 'controversy' section here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pogue It's a good idea to question David's objectivity when he 'loves' a product.
Think of it this way: Schumer is (partially) owned by the finance industry.
I'm pretty sure that they can (or will) buy a house... Maybe not on the coasts, but as a grad student, I could buy a house in Indiana.
The slide where this comes up (~15:45) is about debugging. I think the point Rich is trying to make on that slide is that a bug in production passed the type checker and all the tests. Therefore, tests are not solving the problem of building high quality systems.

Rather, tests (and type safety) are "guardrails" that warn when you when you are doing something wrong (they are reactive). As Rich said on Twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/richhickey/status/116490495500357633), "I have nothing against guard rails, but let's recognize their limited utility in trip planning and navigation."

I believe that linking back to the greater context, Rich is saying that simplicity and doing more to think about your problem at the beginning (proactive steps) provide value in building systems that are high quality and easy to maintain. I think he is at least implicitly challenging whether the value you get from simplicity is greater than the value you get from an extensive test suite.

I do not hear his comments as anti-testing, but rather more as pro-thinking and pro-simplicity. Personally, I find tests useful. I write them when writing Clojure code. However, I also get tremendous value from focusing on abstraction and composability and simplicity in design.
Well, to be fair: there are lots of reasons for releasing and using free software. Google's (as opposed to Android's) interests aren't necessarily served by someone else rebranding it. And a project generally is hurt by a fork. Having Amazon's even more walled-off fork of Android exist does nothing to help users of smartphones.

But your broad point is exactly right: we're all better served by working together on software instead of racing for parochial advantage by building on top of it without contributing to the whole. Open Source has lots of big advantages, but to do it "right", there are costs to be borne as well. The Linux community has on the whole found a pretty good balance between these concerns. The Android community has had some pretty bad missteps.
At least it wasn't given a valid, malicious, response
>when you want a government-sanctioned wage increase for not doing anything more.

Outside of unionized public servants, this really doesn't describe anyone.

>I feel like people that are successful are being attacked here. I've seen it time and time again with the protesters. They try to silence anyone that even has a hint of success.

Bullshit. Nobody's blaming the rich for being rich, they're blaming the rich for using their influence to secure ever sweeter deals from the government, privatizing the profits and socializing the losses, while everyone else suffers. Nobody's calling out Warren Buffett for being a billionaire, they're calling out the greed of those who use their wealth and influence to gain more wealth and influence without regard for the people they hurt in the process.
He would've never been brought to the ICC. The NTC made it clear that they were planning on trying him in Libya if he was captured. And that would almost certainly have ended with an execution anyway.
The problem is that the focus is on the Download and social sharing buttons. I would just remove all that completely.
This is really cool. So simple and yet it looks really complicated.
You are coming from the position that you would like to share articles on Google plus. Is it so inconceivable to you that any other position exists? I have no desire to share articles on G+, and in fact many of the people I share with do not have G+ accounts, nor do they want them.
Simple yet poignant. I feel like we are getting to a point that if you don't have this embedded into your startup culture, you are already failing.
Dropbox has built-in version control and undelete functionality: http://www.dropbox.com/help/11
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Incidentally, you can blend thorium with uranium for use in conventional reactors, and with some cleverness in the fuel handling, pebble bed reactors can run on thorium. It doesn't require big breakthroughs; they're just nice, is all.
Great presentation, but it got me thinking. Am I wasting my time trying to get software just right? Is it worth my time to learn Clojure or Haskell, when I don't even know what I'll use it for?

How many programmers do you know that are learning all kinds of languages and technologies and methodologies and other things to improve the quality of the software they write and yet will probably sit at a desk writing code for the next 30 years? As opposed to starting a business, getting financial free, etc.

Take the guy from Duck Duck Go. He wrote all of that in Perl; talk about easy, but not always so simple (to maintain). What if he spent his time learning Lisp and Monads instead of writing an app that lots of people use?
I'm reminded of the excellent Mitchell and Webb Look skit about Gordon Ramsay being much better at cooking than the restaurants that he helps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCU3K6l95Xw
Insightful article.

My own experience working in restaurants teaches that one should never go work at a restaurant you love - it might ruin their food and ambiance for you permanently.
I agree with you adamantly, but the two aren't mutually exclusive.
I agree, it would be difficult to find a house in Indiana for 500K... Perhaps the metric should be based on median home prices..
I can't wait for those huge margins to waste my screen space.
Is there a neat collection of all these javascript libraries out there?

I'm sure there are tons of awesome libraries I don't know about.
I did miss that link in the article, thanks for the reply and answer.
I have never really encountered anyone in the west who sympathizes with Qaddafi. I think his ruthlessness is pretty much consensus.
I don't think AdWords coupons are the end-all answer to advertising...
Adwords coupons are only for new accounts, and most people have already created AdWords accounts or linked their gmail account to AdWords.
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Was the US unprepared to launch a cyberwar against Libya?
I didn't go to Occupy Vancouver because, after seeing the same people shouting for the same things at a variety of different protests, I figured it would be a waste of time. I think that's probably an artifact of Vancouver's political climate, however, and not a reflection of the Occupy movement as a whole. The economy in Vancouver never realyl took a hit (except for a couple lean years in construction), property is just as expensive as ever, and most people are doing reasonably well. That just leaves the perpetual malcontents with the energy and desire to go protest.

I don't think the same is true of other cities and protests.
The proposed law specifies that the house must cost at least $500,000. This is way outside the price range of most grad students, unfortunately.
You have that backwards, it should be: "I'm an isolationist, which is why I think the Middle East is uncivilized."

Also, politicians pandering to various religious communities happens all the time in America. Let's not pretend it is different because the people are brown and the word "God" is pronounced differently.

Shame on you.
This. Times one thousand.
This is a horrible idea, the problem is not that houses are too cheap it's that they're too expensive.

A better idea would be to relax visa standards for starting a business that hires x number of americans. Those employees would have a far bigger impact on the economy as a whole as the majority of their income would be pumped right back in for basic necessities.

Once they start a business here, guess what? They'll need somewhere to live and since they're rich they can still buy that $500k+ house.
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Open Source gets me excited, but then I compare the updates in NewsBlur and GReader and I see that my feeds are arriving earlier in GReader than NewsBlur (just because I'm not a paying customer?), I loose hope.
[I am not a lawyer, you should always consult a trained legal professional when working with legal matters.]

Don't let corporations bully you. Find lawyers who are willing to work on the case and pursue it. I would hope money isn't your only motivation, but if they have committed a crime, at the very least your local District Attorney or the FBI should review and begin pursuing any criminal charges.

Assuming any criminal complaints "stick" it will make a civil suit much easier on you down the road.
>then also clearly shows him being a dick

And, except that you are hiding behind pseudonymity, your post shows you being an even bigger dick. Maybe you ought to think about what you are writing before you post it.
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I find I can't learn a language very well without having a real project to use it on anyway.
Except that's not a downvoted comment or an old version as far as I can tell; it's the text of a Ask HN/Show HN thing. I never really understood why those are colored gray, either.

Edit: Ok, apparently it's supposed to discourage using HN as a blog (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807183). I still think it's odd.
I find it fascinating that every time a group of people does X, someone else is sure to come up with a wildly tangential topic Y and blame those X people for not supporting or somehow messing up Y even though it's certainly the case that most of the X people probably had nothing to do with Y and don't have any particular position (any different than the average person on the street). How dare you oppose animal cruelty when children in the world are starving! Good grief. Nobody's attacking successful people because they're successful. They're attacking the lawmakers and their corporate cronies that have engineered the tax laws to the extreme benefit of the filthy rich AND showered them with generous bailouts and bonuses as a reward for devastating the economy all while hollowing out the social safety net. That's the issue.
Pattern? This civil war wouldn’t have been won by the revolutionaries without support from NATO but there still would have been a civil war. This civil war was not faked by NATO, it was very real – and all things considered the right side won.
"Downloading happens at the fastest possible speed, but without interfering with your Internet usage, so if you have a slow connection you'll be able to download Youtube videos and still use the Internet at optimal speed."

That can only be true if it's not using your connection (twice!) to do the download.
If I were the author of such legislation I would do everything I could to require that the person actually live in the house. Possibly even including (as a condition of the program) unscheduled visits to the house to see if they're really living there. But it could be that the authors' intent is different than mine. I'd like to slow down (or better yet reverse) urban blight, first and foremost.

Given the 500k/250k amount, one might suspect that propping up home prices in the mid to upper part of the market is the intent.
I totally agree that Vancouver is not a reflection of the occupy movement as a whole, and that's the part that angers me the most. We could be helping out the people in our neighbouring country by showing our support of what they are doing, but instead we are prancing around saying how terribly oppressed we are, and how we live in a facist nation.