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Stanford Tech Entrepreneurship Class separated from Coursera
I just got this e-mail from the class:

Dear Technology Entrepreneurship enrollee,

Thank you for your patience as we've been preparing and updating the course. We are excited to announce that since technology entrepreneurship is a team-based activity, we've built a team-building tool to help enable team formation.

When you sign in at http://venture-lab.org, we're asking that you enter some basic information such as location, age, and industry so that we can suggest teammates for the course project. If you have your own team already of 3-4 people, that's great, you'll be able to enter those teammates into the site. For those who do not have a team or are looking to add teammates, we can assist you with finding others who are in a similar geographic location and interested in a similar industry sector. We are asking that you sign in (preferably using your Google gmail) and complete this before the end of the day March 18th, midnight PST. The course will launch soon, so we wanted to get started in the next few weeks to help you build teams and brainstorm initial ideas for your startup projects.

Later on, you can use venture-lab.org to post your ideas for the class startup project, your interim reports, and the final project. You will be also able to see and comment on other teams work. We will ask a group of area experts and experienced entrepreneurs to help and mentor a select group of projects.

This gives a chance for thousands of people around the world to form groups, come up with new ideas, and collaborate to implement it. We are very excited about the possibilities for a model of online education that provides tools for students to collaborate and learn from one another as well as the instructor.

The course overview video can be seen here: http://eesley.blogspot.com/2012/02/course-overview.html

Chuck Eesley
Amin Saberi
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It used to be part of Coursera.com, but looks like it's independent now. Anyone know what's the story with this class?
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The whole reason I end up commenting on HN, just like I am doing right now, is because I'm drifting from my intended research path and start thinking that maybe someone has posted some interesting story related to what I'm supposed to be looking at.

Most recently, my intent to look into writing a compiler frontend for LLVM led me to install a dozen new modes in emacs, explore OCaml and Go, download the source code for several major projects with the intent of examining their garbage collection strategies and roughly 60 new papers in my "To Read" folder.

:(
That's why you need a system for recording all the things you can do, what context you should do them in, and keep working on your main task. Once the time is right, you go back to the things you wanted to do.

I can't claim to be an expert at this but I recently watched these vids thesecretweapon.org and coupled with what I already know from GTD and the Pomodoro technique its going well.
Reminds me of an Econmist article from a while back [1]. The theme being shared with the two being: systems we set up to punish _criminals_ rarely do just that.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/14165460?story_id=14165460
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There are some great points in there, particularly the quote from Ira Glass.

It's frustrating to have the taste to recognize what great looks like but not the talent to produce that result yourself. But that demarcation line, not giving up, saying to yourself, "Ok, that didn't work as well as I wanted, it's not great but it wants to be, what's the next thing to change that could make it better?" That seems to make a big difference.
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Why the downvoting?
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Wow this is pretty incredible - I guess it's about finding that perfect balance between hard working and serendipity. So where does social media and television fall in this equation?
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But the Linux community does a pretty good job of describing how to submit good patches. The kernel sources include README files for SubmittingPatches and CodingStyle (and scripts for checking patch style).
>Why don't these same people complain about third party browsers being completely banned on the iPad which has a huge share in the tablet market?

There are many third party browsers available on the App Store for iPad. I'm not sure where you got the idea that they're "banned"?
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This is especially true with consumer gaming hardware blogs (apart from the obvious good ones like tom's hardware etc).

There is so much stuff written by COD/WoW obsessed teenagers that basically just regurgitates marketing points along with weird theories about how things actually work.

Luckily a rudimentary CS education does help sort the wheat from the chaff here.
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I admire your balanced temper in your response (as my earlier was a bit charged), but I can't say I'm swayed.

Overall, I think pg was just thrown off-guard by the question and could probably come up with a more adequate answer off-stage, particularly because he has a background in philosophy. I was using him, wrongly, as an example of the technocratic tendency to not consider morality in decision-making. However, I'll continue here with a response to your objections pretending he really is a less well-rounded VC:

I think your responses are emblematic of a current societal tendency to be easy on leadership and powerful people, because they're "just human." I don't agree with that tendency to not hold leaders accountable to a higher standard, and I don't think it's right for a person with that much power to not have a clear moral position on who he or she does business with. We can all disagree on what we think is right, but I think there are many who have been led to believe that they simply can't expect more out of certain people because it's not "fair." I'm merely providing a counter-opinion to that.

About the humanities, that was said out of frustration that you/others may not have been exposed to moral frameworks outside of the traditional religious and political tie-ins. It was an incorrect sweeping generalization, but regardless, it doesn't hurt anyone to be reminded of these subjects now and again :)
Like I said, rationally speaking, you're right, but mind-sets don't matter when you can analyze something rationally and follow your decision without difficulty. A mind-set comes into play when a problem is rationally intractable or emotionally vexed.
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Avichal,

When you say start something on the side. Do you mean trying to get the web application up and running, possibly even, accepting payments from users , then look for a seed round ?
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On the other hand, everyone's definition of "boring" is different, and we should each be true to our own, regardless of anyone else's opinion.
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I have been debating whether or not to say anything because I know by saying something you may have hurt feelings. And I have no obligation to tell you everything I know or think. But on reflection I have found it more honest -- honest in the older sense of "straightforward" or "direct" -- to share with you that I found the talk enjoyable and interesting. I think there are many benefits in starting small.
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Perhaps the (formerly) regular release cakes that they exchanged: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Response_from_Microsoft
I don't consider them the same at all. Yak Shaving is a social phenomenon where a group of people get bogged down by minutia and irrelevant decisions. The Rabbit Hole is private, caused by becoming easily and repeatedly engrossed in tangential topics.
This definitely isn't constrained to just smart people or curious people. I'd conjecture the vast majority of people are subjected to tangential distraction - youtube, facebook, wikipedia, reddit, hackernews, tumbler, twitter, whatever your poison.

The question is merely the quality of the distraction - if there is something such as 'distract better', perhaps we should be exploring that. Sadly, my general experience has been that the vast majority of distracted time yields negligible gain compared to concentrated pursuit of a field.

Serendipity, yes, but I find I'm far more prone to serendipity when I'm concentrated than when I'm not. Firm believer that you always find what you're looking for - and the more concretely you know what you're looking for, the faster you'll find it.
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Education reform is important too. Obama is pushing reform to get states to increase the age of required education to 18 [2].

Imagine if you had spent 6 hours a day 5 days a week for 12 years being forced to play sports. If the idea provokes violent horror in you you now have some idea how the people you would be forcing to stay in school would feel about it. And make no mistake; compulsory attendance at allegedly educational institutions is forced. Whether the superior outcomes for those thus compelled outweighs the poorer outcomes and massively less pleasant experience of those forced to share classrooms and teacher attention with sullen youth there under pain of imprisonment is aquestion to be dealt with in ones own head.
I'm honestly not sure how to detect which version of Apple's adaptive live streaming protocol thingamabob is being received. It's probably possible, but no, we don't have it at the moment.

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Yes, you do have a similar writing style. From my list of Steve Yegge bookmarks, I was actually thinking of this one, http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptab..., where he says this:

"Problem 1: Which Lisp? Sorry, folks, but you can't trivialize this one. Let's say I'm a new would-be Lisper, just finished walking down that long damn Road, and now that I'm here, I'm ready to start using it. Which "it" should I use? The answer is "it depends", and that's pretty unfortunate, because right there you've just lost users. With Python or Ruby or Java, you've only got one language to choose from. Or at least you can be comfortable that there's a single canonical version, and the rest (e.g. Jython) are highly experimental territory.

Pick Scheme, and you have to pick a Scheme. Pick Common Lisp, and you have to pick a Common Lisp. Heck, there are even two or three flavors of Emacs-Lisp out there.

Most newcomers eventually (and independently) decide the same thing: Scheme is a better language, but Common Lisp is the right choice for production work. CL has more libraries, and the implementations are somewhat more compatible than Scheme implementations, particularly with respect to macros. "

Since the full rant is tough on Lisp (and I like Lisp), and since you'd quoted most of the above, I was quick to pull the trigger on which to quote. Thanks for pointing it out.
Poorly correlated then. Lots of people are incarcerated for things most people consider inappropriate because the criminal justice system is so awash in perverse incentives.
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Compare and contrast: rabbit holes vs. yak shaving.

Rabbit holes are basically unproductive-on-current-task lines of research (working on something, seeing something shiny on wikipedia, ...). Yak shaving is setting up a really long critical path for the current task (wanting to install a package, it not being available, building a new physical machine to host a virtualization environment to install a new OS to install the packages...)
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Having a major logistics route run through an area does not make that area prosperous. It does, however, make the owner of said trade route prosperous. What your arguing is an extension of the status quo for Africa and many other areas of the world with extensive natural wealth. Nothing gets locally produced if someone elsewhere can produce it cheaper in a free market.
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"anyone building something on the side while employed full-time." -- but if your on a H1-B you will always be working full-time, atleast in my case.

if you are working full-time and building something that is not even remotely related to your current full-time job, do those contract issues still apply ?
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> “I was Pinterest’s first investor.” That’s a sentence I bet you wish you could say.

I don't think I wish that. By what metric is Pinterest successful? Are they profitable? I don't get it otherwise.

Edit: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinterest#Business they aren't profitable, and don't seem to have even a remote path towards becoming profitable as it stands. What here is a success?
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"America is in all eras notorious for endemic crime."

In 1894 Philadelphia, a city of a million people at the time (2/3rds the current population) recorded 22 murders. By 1990 the murder count peaked at 535 before falling a bit back to around ~300 the past few years. Overall that's a 1000%+ increase between 1894 and now. So even by historical American standards, crime now is much worse. Part of the change in Philadelphia is due to the great migration and the changing composition of the population rather than change in law enforcement. But even adjusting for demographics the crime rate is 2-4X that of the 1890's http://books.google.com/books?id=8CVNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13...

I'm still trying to figure out what precisely changed about law enforcement between the 1890's and the 1980's. Many books mention in passing that the Warren court and more liberal policing policy in the 1960's played a role (the books "Slaughter of the Cities" and "Unheavenly City" mention this a bit, among others). But I still haven't found a good treatment that details how these policies made their way from the courts and the mayors to the beat cops on the ground, and how the day to day job of policing and sentencing actually changed.

BTW, mencius, do you ever worry that policing in Europe or Japan is too stringent? That it will lead over time to a domestication of the population, a winnowing out of the masculine and risk taking character in the population?

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Being a "worthless thug" is not a crime in itself. Running down a street while firing a gun and endangering bystanders is (or, at the very least, should be).
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"laws are often injust ... the war on drugs"

Look up the statistics. Even if every person in the U.S. incarcerated for drug possession was released tomorrow, the U.S. would still have the highest incareration rate in the world. If every drug trafficker was released, the U.S. would still have an incarceration rate triple that of every Western European country. If every non-violent offender was released, the inceration rate would stll be double that of every western European country.

Also, note that many drug offenders have a violent history, but the police were only able to make the drug charges stick. Also note that in many cases the drug offenders were selling on street corners, playgrounds, and such, and residents were begging the police to move in and arrest the gang members.

America first and foremost has a crime problem. And it has a crime problem due to terrible law enforcement. The incarceration rate is actually at a point that is analogous to the famous Laffer curve in tax policy. If you have really good law enforcement, and predictably catch and punish felons, you have very low incarceration rates because so few people commit crime (see for instance Japan and Singapore). If your country catches nobody, obviously its incarceration rate is 0%. But if law enforcement is mostly lax, but is inconsistently and randomly harsh, then you get high crime and a very high total incarcerated population.
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If you believe the autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, it is the police that are responsible. Fukuzawa lived in Japan during the mid to late 1800's, before and after the time of the Meiji restoration. At that time Japan had quite a lot of crime, the roads were not safe, and if you passed another person along the roads you would both clutch your sword and maintain a wary eye. His description sounds a lot like walking in certain neighborhoods of Philadelphia. But later in his life, that was no longer the case, and he credits the creation of a professional police force.

Read this article about the police and law enforcement in Japan: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2011/0... Notice how very, very different it is than the policing of say, Baltimore.
It's a bit more complicated than that - when someone works under unjust conditions to make ends meet because of a law perceived to be unjust, the commitment towards respecting other laws is lessened.
How does that fact make parent's point untrue? He never said the workers stood to benefit 'more' than Wackenhut; it's not clear what that would even mean. Clearly both the unions and the contractors both are in favor of increased incarceration, that's not very surprising.
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