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If there were some way to assure people it only did what they say it does, and couldn't be modified in the future, I wouldn't really have a problem with it (bars are public places; at the very least, getting person-counts would be good).

Maybe they could skip the gender and individual profiling and do low-resolution IR, which would be a pretty decent way to identify human-shaped blobs. If you monitor entrances, you could assume no one dematerializes inside, so starting from zero, just count people who enter and leave to get a count.
It's at the FB campus, not "in the park".
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As I understand it, I think they're disagreeing like this:

Blank: The valley used to invest in hard problems that made the world a better place. Now that era is gone for good. Because social media makes so much money, no one will ever want to invest in hard problems in comparison.

Grellas: Yes we are no longer investing in hard problems. But that era isn't gone for good. Because the valley is such a good place for innovative startups, eventually, startups will start solving hard problems again.
I like Steve Blank. In fact, he is one of my "mentor idos" (people I would lie to emulate, but no hero worship here). I also think he is wrong.

There is no "true path" of SV that it can fall off of and be over. Instead, there is a continued cycle of very technical people working together to build significant equity that is then recycled for more new tech people to do the same.

When that stops happening, SV will die. In the meantime (like any other time), there are sparkly things drawing people's attention. And I would be willing to wager the crop of people making big exits today aren't going to be happy investing everything in what they just did.
I can tell you that even in the 80's the writing was in the wall that CS was going to be a great field - even though nobody knew exactly what it would be like.
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I think they phrase it like that due to the fact calling it a "camera" implies that it's saving what it captures. Assuming that they're being truthful, this is not the case with their device.
As a PR and communications major I can help you with that. I can recommend these two books:
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine...
And
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Do keep in mind that PR is something different than marketing or advertisement. Those people running around, dropping names and 'generating spin'? That's just a very tiny part of PR. PR is about shaping the public opinion, not just one person's mind.

On a side note, I wrote my thesis on wartime propaganda. I found out that the strongest motivator for people to take action is fear. The fear of losing something, missing out, or a common enemy (think Apple-Android!) is very powerful.

On a second side note, I read another comment about lying. Lying isn't right of course, but there are several degrees of lying. And imagine if know how to sell a lie, how easy it would be to sell righteous truth...

Drop me a line if you need some help or advice. I'm by no means an expert on PR in Silicon Valley, but I know a thing or two about PR.
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Call me cynical, but I wonder if this would have the same number of points if Steve Jobs not namechecked in the title. I imagine a bunch of startups knocking holes in their walls first thing tomorrow morning.
Gall's Law is relevant here.
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As much as like Gruber, hearing him read Piezo’s sponsor message was kind of painful.
>How could they sandbox a custom C++ app? There's no virtual machine to do it.

They could use NaCl [1] or develop a similar SFI technology just for Windows.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
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Thank you for explaining who this guy is; I honestly did not know. I agree that if a person has a record like that, it's reasonable to give them a listen.

But I still disagree with this particular opinion of his. :)
It's been like that for ages - flag them and move on.
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No. This is not why Haskell is cool.

This is nothing but a bunch of cute but stupid little furry things.

And then some wrong things, like laziness being cool, because laziness is definitely not cool.

At least the monad examples can't be blamed for showing how awesome monads are, because monads aren't really that awesome.
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I don't object to the privacy aspect, since this will never take off. I object to the utter unimaginative/douchy aspect of this. Who with half-a-brain hasn't thought of this and immediately rejected it as a stupid kind of frat boy inspired 'where the chicks at' idea?
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they wont get funded, just because their video does not really compete with other's
Thanks for clearing that up. It seemed weird that after making such a big deal about hiring Faith, Dan didn't say anything after she was clearly gone. I thought she added a lot to 5by5.
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People react to things differently when given a reason. Imagine you are out walking around, and someone comes up to you and shoes you as hard as they can. You trip and fall and get mad. The pusher explains, "I hate all white people!" You are probably not going to feel too good about being pushed.

But imagine the pusher had a different reason: "Those bricks were going to fall right on top of you! I saved your life." Chances are, you're going to be pretty happy about being pushed. It's all about the reason.

Going back to the DNA Lounge; people don't mind being recorded and broadcast because they 1) sign up in advance (it's the DNA Lounge's "thing"), and 2) they do it for their own entertainment. They can call a friend and say, "hey, check me out on the webcam", which is fun.

When the cameras are there to increase the bar's profit margins by collecting personal information, though, people are less likely to be happy. They're giving something up but getting nothing in exchange. Most people don't like that. If the deal was, "we record your face, you get the cheapest beer in town", then people would be less upset. But when you use people as currency and don't give them anything in exchange, the value proposition center of their brain tends not to be happy.
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It's a logical idea for successful scene-type bars to use. The guy sounds a little clueless about SF culture, but other than that I expect it to be a reasonably successful project.

He needs to be more aware of what bars he signs up, and probably more upfront with the owners. Pissing off a bunch of owners is not a good start.

If they added an "attractiveness" algorithm (with an artificial boost, of course), I bet it would be even more of a feature for the right bars.

I dunno. It's got potential for misuse, which will almost certainly happen, with them or their competitors, but it also seems like enough of an advantage to certain venues that it seems inevitable in some form.
Agree to all your points.

Especially the pinch to zoom lock is ridiculous: The pure web is still the best UI for tablets and even for smartphones WHEN READING content. In particular the word wrap feature coming with Android's stock browser reformatting text to the the exact screen width is the best feature ever: you can pinch to zoom to you preferred font size and read much longer and better than in front of a any notebook, even with smallest Android smartphones.

Or the optimizing-for-touch-mania leads to these new hybrid websites for desktop and touch where every button or form field is so bloated that the entire UI feels like a children's toy.
a. Facebook != social media

b. Doesn't matter how many social networking sites are built if we run out of room.

c. Mapping, telecoms, climate, nuclear proliferation.
Money, money, money. Valuation. Money. Rich. Money. Kid on dorm got rich. Money. Money.

I don't see much about ethics, changing the world, expanding the frontiers of science, moving people out of poverty, anything like that.

Now please play this right and tell me Mr. Zuck has donated lot of money he got from his business, how that's made the world better, etc.
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This is because that what happens in engineering. Even simple things like shovels have evolved. The blade has been shaped to into the dirt. It's got a squiggly bend so it's balanced holding dirt. Stepping up a bit further we have things like clocks. Sundials don't work in the dark so we made mechanical clocks. Those of course have bits of complexity to make them easier to read and more accurate. Now consider computers, they're blindingly fast. We really can't begin to comprehend how much the state of a CPU changes in the blink of an eye. Same goes for memory. If we had to track that as many items as bits in real life, we fail hopelessly. To compensate for this power, we created management systems. Of course the management systems themselves fast and large so we have management systems for those too. The very power of computers makes them complex. All we've been doing is desperately trying to simplify them. Complaining that those simplifications are complicated, ignores just how complicate they would be if we didn't.
Thanks for the reply :-) Another question if I may: YC funding amounts to $5k - what difference will that drop in the ocean make?
I'm very skeptical it can offer any meaningful information to a halfway decent bar general manager. Someone who's in the place every night anyway.
> I have to admit that my wife and I once used that to figure out whether we want to figure out whether we want to go or not.

Did you get the memo for the pre-meeting meeting planning session?
I don't think the parties have any choice but to present the image of being altruistic. After all, most people would (understandably) rather have their leaders say "We'll give you good things" rather than "We'll give you what you deserve". That is, I believe altruism is what's given lip-service rather than individualism. Anyways, parties have no direct control over the philosophies that people choose to follow; their motive in the matter is simply to run a nation that has high living standards. This is best accomplished by individual incentives and competition, which is why I think they will always fundamentally support independence rather than altruism.
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I should have made my purpose in posting that definition more clear, so it wouldn't sounded so much like just a snarky remark.

I had just been thinking about how we use the word "default" so differently in programming from its traditional meaning. In programming, we think of a "default value" or a "default state", and there's really no negative connotation to the word at all.

But in many other parts of life, at least with these traditional meanings, the word "default" has a much more negative meaning. I know I often forget that.

I'm sorry I didn't say something about this instead of just posting the definition.
this should have launched in the UK.
I've used the X120e keyboard too. You can count me as another enthusiastic supporter of at least its equality with previous Thinkpad keyboards. I type a lot on it. It is definitely not worse. The force curves are disturbingly similar. If you press a key on an X120e and W520 and compare (which I'm doing as I write this post), you'll find the main noticeable difference in the sound the key makes. If you put the X120e force curve on keys that looked and sounded like the W520 keys, none of the Thinkpad keyboard complainers would notice the difference. If you put that keyboard side by side with an actual W520 keyboard and called the new version a "snappier" response to the Thinkpad keyboard (and possibly made some implications that it harkened back to the older Thinkpad keyboards), people would say they liked it and that this is what the Thinkpad is all about.
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>I have yet to see any evidence social media has the same effect.

Have you looked for these studies? Are you an expert on this corner of the literature?

There have been studies and they do show that internet socialization has an effect on a variety of relevant measurements. To summarize, Internet socialization is not equivalent to face-to-face socialization but it does provide some of the benefits and is also able to provide benefits that face-to-face cannot provide.

I find it strange how people such as yourself will make statements about the literature as if your opinion had value. Your opinion about the literature is only valuable if you have studied the literature. If you have not, then you should remain silent if you want to be a valuable contributor.
When I was younger and actually cared about going to bars and clubs, I quickly learned that you're kept entirely in the dark until you get inside. I waited in line and paid too many cover charges to get inside and find out the place was deserted.

So, yeah, I see definite value here.
I suggest starting from the beginning. There is a lot of gold in those first few months of episodes, and they tend to get to the meat faster. These days they've built up quite a thick layer of memes and inside jokes, but they still talk about good stuff. If you don't enjoy the humor it's probably not worth it, but you won't be giving it a fair shot unless you get in from the ground floor. It's also probably the only 5by5 show that ages well.
I tend to look at prices as a joke. An illusion that I'm willing to play a part in.

When I apply that logic to FB's 100bn valuation, it makes sense. Doesn't make us all look any less stupid though.
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i think the point is that when designing clocks we didn't just attach some gears and a timing mechanism and some hands to a sundial, we threw the sundial out. computers are complex because we hardly ever remove anything, and we still bare their cost aeons after they're relevant.
Any piece of software/service/product you are likely to use has clauses that may not fit into what you would like to hear. And people accept those clauses because the net utility of the product is more than what they trade for the clauses.

By the way, this is absolutely not true. The majority of the software I use is licensed with terms that I agree with completely, and does things that I find totally reasonable. You make it sound like behaving counter to users' interests is a prerequisite for creating good software, and that couldn't be further from the truth.
Dan is a smart guy; however, he doesn't have the in-depth tactical knowledge about how Apple works. Some of his questions and assertions about Apple are naive, which can be frustrating to listen to at times.
Define ethics?

If I keep my money to myself, is it unethical?

Frontiers of science?

Ever checked out Facebook's Github repo?

What do you mean to imply? Is it that a person must donate his wealth and distribute it among the poor to to qualify as a successful?

I am not going say that Mr Zuck has donated a lot of money he got from his business because I don't consider that as something he has to do qualify as successful.
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Don't get me wrong, I think this is supercool.

But, what does this make possible that wasn't possible before? How is this truly disruptive?
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Well, that's the problem, isn't it? It's up to Alan Kay, who initially brought us the insights to help us out of this mess. The brightest minds are working at Color and other ways to make cat photo sharing easier. And that's what's getting funded. It's embarrassing. And we have only ourselves and our greed to blame.
Personally I'm only on FB because my family insist on being there. The site is ugly confusing, I do not get any rewards from being there except that I, again, see my family's posts.

If my family was on whatever other social network, I'd be there.

So perhaps we should discuss how FB actually got luck and got people to sign up instead of praising some innovative web services.

Hint: games and cat pictures.
I found it very irritating to read. Even though this article isn't trying to sell me something, it feels like there's a salesman screaming in my face when I'm reading it.
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Startup life expectancy is determined by its financial income (investment not included). This is only loosely linked to the smartness of its members or the energy and effort they put into developping and running the business.

The equation is all about maximizing user interest so that the startup acquires new one, and lowering the barrier to income. Google's business model is a reference example on this.

Regarding the difficulty to induce adoption of a new product, there is a known energy barrier for people to change their habit, even if they know their current habit is not good or optimal. This means the startup needs a strategy to overcome this initial bump. There are many. Once overcome, things get much easier.

One of the strategy is to exploit people's natural tendency to be helpful and the positive perception of generosity (kickstarter). This strategy is used in called calls. Ask for advice or help (beta user program), once in a welcomed helpful and generous mood, they'll more easily open their purse or help spread the word (dropbox).
What's the advantage of doing everything in the same process? Your article said this is nicer but I don't see what the advantages are and there are some disadvantages I listed (ABI issues, security).
Aren't bars more formally referred to as "public houses"?
This looks bad just because they publish the results. If they kept the results for the venue owners, nobody would know, as they do not know or care what the video surveillance installed in all those venues can show. A possible picture while you enter the venue is nothing compared to a video of all you did inside.
This. I'm having serious difficulty imagining that anyone would object this much if the bar simply hired someone to sit in the corner, count the men and women, and post the numbers on a twitter feed.
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The last time, SpaceX had the sexier camera angles (including on-board cameras), so I would say everyone should watch their stream.
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sure, but public in "public house" (or just "pub") means open to the public, it doesn't mean that the public have some sort of right to access, whereas a public street means it's accessible by everyone.

Relating to the usage of the word public, humorously in England we have "public school" which is the American "private school", in America if you go to public school you're considered normal and in England if you go to public school you're considered rich.
Nothing wrong with that. You can easily drive a car with no idea how to put the alternator in place. Not everybody that uses Google understands algorithms.
I like all the wierd switches. Correct, you have to look at the man pages but you know one thing for sure: if you need it, somebody already needed it and it's THERE. And show some love for the complex but powerful.
Finally, computers are much more transparent than most of the machines we use daily (cars, microwaves, etc).