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I said the parallels were curious. If you read it correctly - I didn't state either way. I can't be logically incorrect because I didn't make a conclusion.

Secondly: http://sgforums.com/forums/2092/topics/154210

EDIT: Not necessarily. The relative percentage of CEOs, traders and investors who are psychopaths are much higher than the general population. We normally label such people as mentally damaged. Musk is both a CEO and an investor who doesn't think like normal people and fits into this group.

This does not mean he is part of the group though. It is merely interesting.
You have your scientific history wrong. I'm fairly certain that you confused Mercury with the bending of light by the Sun, and you are confusing general public recognition with the attention paid by scientists. Here is a timeline.

- 1859: Mercury's precession is recognized as not fitting Newtonian predictions.

- 1887: The Michelson-Morley experiment shows the speed of light not varying as expected with motion.

- 1905: Einstein publishes several groundbreaking papers, including his special theory of relativity, and an explanation of the photo-voltaic effect (which he eventually received the Nobel for)

- 1908: Einstein becomes a professor, is widely recognized in scientific circles.

- 1911: Einstein comes up with his general theory, explains the precession of Mercury, and predicts gravitational lensing.

- 1916: Einstein appointed president of the German Physical Society.

- 1919: An Englishman, Eddington, confirms the gravitational lensing prediction during an eclipse, the press seizes on this sign of international cooperation in the aftermath of WW I, Einstein soon becomes a household name.

- 1921: Einstein receives the Nobel award in physics.
Know I'll never win this, and it's not absolute but there is a bias.
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There are teams where everyone is over 30, and at least a few where the founders include people older than pg.
...I think the hardest part is deciding whether to continue, or cut your losses.
> see everywhere

I am going to have to start using that citation format in legal briefs when a proposition seems uncontroversial.
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This has made me give up google groups unless I absolutely can't find what I'm looking for and it only seems to be spreading across their products.
I'm quite sure Apple used this defence.
You should also be aware of what is happening behind the talkers. For example, look at Singularity Institute: while they are all talk as a foundation, the scientists and entrepreneurs who speak at the Singularity Summit (run by SI) are often at the forefront of the fields (or preceding fields) of the "all talkers" futurists.

Just look at genetic engineering: this is what the futurists used to talk about. Now in popular culture genetic engineering has a negative connotation due to Gattaca and eugenics and people talk often about bioethics and socioeconomics in this context. However, even now we can do in vitro fertilization while selecting against fertilized eggs that contain a specific gene (such as for Wilson's or Huntington's disease). The beginnings of genetic engineering are already here but it has snuck up on the public, just like technologies will sneak up from behind the futurists.
Well, put another way, it might mean that your application wasn't really, really good. It could have been good, or, in fact, it might have been really good - but, I suspect the YC approach is to start with the very, very good applications. They then try and eliminate some percentage of those through some further due-diligence, bring a smaller group in for interviews, and then finally select a very small percentage of the original group.

Because YC hires primarily based on team/commitment/skill/fortitude/enthusiasm and potential, I'm guessing that reviewing the demo is done after there is some belief that the first properties are present.

[edit: I checked your site - the first two questions that come to my mind are, "What is the potential for this growing into $10B enterprise" and "What is their unfair competitive advantage in building this interface system?

PS - with a bit of work, this would be the start of an awesome Kickstarter. Then you don't have to give any equity away, which, if you really believe in your prospects, should also be attractive)
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I saw those as I spelunked the docs, but I'd like to see something more full fat and playable.
To be fair, they recommend that you do not do any editing in the form itself and save your application somewhere else.
So when were Einstein's theories empirically supported. Was it 1919 or 1905 or 1908?
Why can't we explain why it hurts so much?

We can describe the entirety of an operating system down to its individual ones and zeroes. Do you posit that some irreducible "Tuxness" state exists that computer scientists just refuse to acknowledge?
> The speculation by many is that Google didn't allow Apple to have certain features.

Or that Google would have required Apple to make unacceptable concessions in order to get access to newer features. My personal guess (no strong basis, just a gut feeling) is that Google would have required Apple to include location-based ads in the updated Maps, as well as integrating with other Google location-based services (e.g, Latitude), even where that conflicted with Apple services (e.g, Find My Friends [1]).

[1]: https://www.apple.com/icloud/features/find-my-friends.html
Android holy war is the popular theory.
I saw no cats, politics, or memes in the article. What are you talking about?
Amazon sells a lot of Kindle books on the iOS application I am sure. This is a similar strategy.
We only got one view from California (Nov 6) and one from Germany (Nov 4).
Granted, but fairly certain PG never looked at our company. This isn't the early days.
I can see two problems with disabling communications city-wide with such an approach. First - any cell phone, not in the line-of-sight with the jammer is not going to be disabled. And second - FCC and network ops would locate the jammer and disable it.

To make this attack successful, one need to put the transmitter sufficiently high, and make it mobile. Flying it on a conventional airplane wouldn't work, because air force, FAA and police would be on such high profile case in no time. Flying it on the UAV RC helicopter could be a solution, but given the weight of the transmitter, antenna and fuel, that makes the resulting setup rather heavy and expensive to make and operate - well above 10k. A large tethered balloon also wouldn't work, because it would be spotted in no time.

All and all, this attack just wouldn't work city-wide.
Great idea but, even on half speed on the Super Mario example, the thing is so jerky that the numbers on the tabs just blend together, I can't read a single one of them.

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Well, I got a reject as well. Last time a few years ago, I'd actually got a call for interview and personally, if I've to judge the two ideas on merit, the current one was way more superior than the one that got an interview call(eventually we didn't get funding but we were very very under-prepared back then).

My key takeaway is - there's no 'right or wrong' here, it's kind of random. It's got a lot to do with your luck.

So what YC says in their rejection letter is actually right, we can always cook up reasons, why one got rejecte. The only way to make sure (well not really, just making it highly probable) that you make it to YC is be extremely well prepared, but then you are probably beyond a point where you need to go to YC.
x-post from the other thread - relevant if you got a rejection email tonight.

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What is this ultimate mystery?

If you posit "why anything exists instead of nothing", then I will have to ask whether "why" even makes sense in this context.

From what we now know of quantum physics, "nothingness" itself might be either less likely than having anything or perhaps nothing but a fiction born of our mental heuristics.
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What does "essence" mean in this context?

Once we dive deep enough into the functioning of the brain, and its heuristics in particular, the very idea of "essences" looks more and more like mental JPEG compression artifacts and less and less like pyramids on Mars.
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A scoreboard in the form of continually updated, and often publicized, kill counts is actually a pretty traditional part of warfare. Dispatches throughout WW2 announced how many Germans were killed vs. how many Americans in a particular engagement, and those were compiled to produce incrementally updated per-battle tallies. Newspapers and newsreels republished that kind of information regularly as well. Sort of the wartime version of baseball box scores.
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Depends on which theory.

In 1905 the theories published then all fit experiment.

1919 was special because it was the confirmation of a prediction that contradicted widely accepted theory. It was made more special because it came at an extremely fortuitous time for the news cycle.
That's an awesome application you have. The demos are really quite amazing, but I am like dpcan, it would be nice to see a demo of a simpler song (say - Rush - Limelight or something similar).

The guitar playing is amazing though and the application has a nice layout to it and good use of HTML5. Well done.
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Their map data is useless here in Vietnam. Even in downtown Saigon there's hardly any detail.
Like IPv4, Bitcoin is an experiment that got out of hand before its flaws could be found and fixed.
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Don't do that, but do consider going to Silicon Valley and talking with other startup founders, users, etc. and I'd recommend startup school in the spring, and applying to s2013.

Showing up uninvited during interview days will probably just get you escorted out, and won't help your chances to get in in the future -- you'd be "that crazy stalker guy from last year, should we call the cops?"
The Iraq war alone has resulted in at least 100 thousand total deaths (including civilians) according to the most conservative estimates. How is the 5k figure relevant? That's like AlQaeda claiming 9/11 wasn't very violent, since they lost only a dozen combatants.
i have been playing guitar for 10+ years, learned most of what i know via tabs (but took some lessons). if this app takes off it would change the way people learn guitar. i think it is awesome, but i might be hard to get people to spend time annotating the songs.
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Well, here we have an interesting demonstration of a quirk in the human mind. I guess you could call it a misattribution of word memory.

Your description of "FOXPRO2" interested me enough that I searched wikipedia for it after reading your comment,
then found out FoxPro2 is a programming language and database management system, ha, a fitting misattribution for this crowd.

Then using google's implementation of a collective phrase memory(search suggestions) I determined you likely meant -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2
Because Google wants you to use their services (and see their ads).

Sure, but they also want to increase Android's share of the high end of the market and they could also have just let the inferior maps in iOS6 continue to drive prospective iPhone 5 buyers to Android.

But obviously they've weighed their options here and decided that having a presence on iOS is worth more than letting Apple continue to piss off users by hobbling along on its own.
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Clayton Christensen's theory has never applied all that well to Apple, and he admits this. Rather than say "Oh well, I guess this counterexample proves I was wrong!" his latest articles tend to view Apple as a weird outlier, one that pursues excellence (and gets profit as a side-product of this) rather than pursuing profit.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/08/29/jobs-made-a...

It's true that Apple has occasionally pioneered entire new markets, but it's also done pretty well with many of its existing markets.
That was pretty much the way I understood it to work, I didn't get to see 'behind the curtain' sadly. Two bits of the 'secret sauce' were keying sequencing / syncing and basically a frequency agile transceiver that operated at really high frequencies across a very wide chunk of spectrum.

The claim was that the only "known" way to jam the system was to raise the noise floor to the point where the pulses could not be distinguished, and they showed a number of scenarios that didn't work.
Man that's really cool - nice job!
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The goverment invented ARPANET in 1969.

IBM and ATT had major labs and were vitally interested in computers talking to one another as early as the late 1950s and early 1960s. Bell Labs invented UNIX in 1969; it made the internet possible. IBM invented FORTRAN and hard drives in 1956. Bell transmitted packet data over lines in 1958. Texas Instruments invented integrated circuits in 1958. In 1961 Leonard Kleinrock published a paper on packet switching networks. Bell Labs made the first modem in 1961. Digital Equipment Corporation produced the first minicomputer in 1964. In 1965 time sharing at MIT and mail command started. Intel began in 1968. The year 1966 saw the first use of fiber optics to carry telephone signals.

Yes, the RAND corporation came up with a design for a decentralized network that could continue to communicate in case of a nuclear attack. However, they did not invent all of the technology that makes the internet possible.

Also, this is an example of the broken window fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

We can't see what type of internet the market would have made because the resources taken out of private market and given to the defense department.
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Another recent news is stunning for Bitcoin, but somehow got unnoticed:

A company pouring $1M+ to develop a 65nm Bitcoin mining chip: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=69
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That's not what I said. I suggested that trying to maintain a fixed gold standard while inflating the money is going to cause a collapse.

I should add that many countries have tried to do something similar - pegging their currency to another, and then inflating their own currency. It always leads to a collapse.
I'd really like to see that comparison as well. And wouldn't Pandora and Spotify, like radio, be a channel to expose people to new music that they then might buy? Personally, Pandora has worked this way for me multiple times--they'll play a track that I haven't heard before and like, and I'll go to Amazon and buy the track or sometimes the whole album.

In the days when a few radio stations were the only free mass distribution channel, this exposure was so valuable that bands or their labels would actually pay the radio stations substantial sums to have their songs played. This was known as "payola," and was viewed as a crime, for reasons that are still a bit unclear to me.
Hmm, still seems kinda messy to rely on CSS.

Next thought, maybe you can override Google's open method with something like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/Z3Ysq/

They may have been able to prevent this with a closure, but I think you could workaround everything. Watch out for scope issues, but I think there's a way to make this completely generalizable.

That being said, I agree that at some point, it might get too messy figuring this all out that your existing solution is best. Kudos for the clever concept.
For companies which got an interview, I'd strongly recommend not listing yourself on this list.

Do you really want TechCrunch/etc looking through this list and writing your fundraising articles without your involvement?
> Where I live the life expectancy has increased by 20 years over the last 50.

But maximum life expectancy has been stuck at 130 or so for as long as there have been people.

The fact that more people live longer does not mean that suddenly we'll all live forever.

Forever is a long long time, besides having to define forever (presumably as something > 130), the whole rapture of the nerds thing is more driven by a fear of death. The various religious have been selling that particular snake oil for thousands of years, it is not surprising that those outside religion would yearn for a pseudo-scientific version of it.

It makes for some interesting science fiction but I think it is a fairly safe bet to say that you'll die a regular death.
I'm no expert on sales/marketing/distribution either, but... given that you run a paid service, each customer has a tangible lifetime value. So you can offer a referral commission to existing users every time they get a new customer to sign up.
Groupon, Dropbox, and tons of others do this.
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For anyone who wants to build their own device, albeit with much smaller radius, adafruit has detailed instructions.

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I love this part: "Google built the largest pattern recognizer of them all, a system running on sixteen thousand processor cores that analyzed ten million YouTube videos and managed to learn, all by itself, to recognize cats and faces" with 15.8 percent accuracy.
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Read that page more closely.

Your Like can still be used in a sponsored story.

His objection is to the "so and so liked this company" in the timeline. That's a sponsored (by that company) story, and not blocked by this setting.

You have to unlike the company.
Two of Braintree's core values are transparency and simplicity. Due to the complexities of pricing in the Australian market, those two things aren't compatible in this case. So we decided to err on the side of simplicity and didn't publish our Australian pricing.

One thing we learned on our very first day in the Australian market is that Aussies aren't shy about sharing their opinions. We've heard loud and clear that you expect nothing less than complete transparency from the very beginning, even if that means getting into the messy details. We're grateful for that feedback.

So we're adding pricing to our website, and expect to publish it in the next few days (we're taking a bit of time to design it to be as clear and understandable as possible). In the meantime, feel free to shoot us an email and we'll be happy to send you pricing.

International expansion is new for Braintree - we're not a giant company with thousands of employees spread around the globe. We're really excited to be working with Australian companies, and we know we still have a lot to learn about you. However, I think you'll find that we are fast learners, and that we continually improve Braintree's service based on what we learn.
Thanks for the tips. As for enterprise, we want to eat ni.com's lunch since a lot of threir lower end systems require a computer to operate. We're thinking of doing a kick starter to get 50 to 100 prototypes built and the case design finalized. The hardware is solid and the firmware/server side features are pretty much done.

Feel free (anyone else too) to contact me if interested in a demo. We're in Mountain View.
Guys, please. Can we please, please stop using the word "hack" for everything?

It actually implies something totally false - these aren't hacks, you should be doing them anyway!
This is a specific niche, so have you thought about ads in industry specific places? Like Infoworld, sites like that.

P.S. Thanks for posting about your experience.
They use BitPay, which automatically converts them to USD.
I've removed all my likes to try and clean up my news feed, though my facebook profile still says I still have 110 'likes' , I'm guessing those are websites without a facebook page and I've no idea how to remove those.
Maybe if one day we wind up with a unified processor that is built to run HTML/CSS/JS? The arduino of tomorrow, perhaps?

Probably as likely as world peace, but it's fun to dream :)

EDIT: The suggestion alone could be enough to incite some creative out there to give it a go! The power of ideas and all that :D
I would be more excited about a Lytro that would record a second or so of full high speed video (1000fps would be ideal, but it'd probably still be useful with much less), so that you could adjust both the focus and the exposure after the fact. Eliminating the need to take a bunch of photos in a row to get a "good one" would be a legit improvement.

That and fitting it into a phone. :)
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Really neat. Something's weird with the shortcut links. I get http://qsview.com/7pd0rz6j7bdz-y4zokz1ap from the share icon but it 404s.
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huh? post-process them with something like Jammit. Or just `cat file file file file > final.js` and shove it through a minifier.
We're trying to get better at this...

Such clinical sincerity. I would have preferred a simple no, than something so transparently calculated.
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Agree. To me the problem with most/all online worlds is exactly that they are all passive: Worlds Chat, The Palace, Second Life, now Glitch. They all stayed in their weird limbo between MMORPG and objective-less platform game. Some better than others, but all share the same (lack of) purpose.

Sadly, we still far from a true Snow Crash experience. A decade ago Second Life was our best bet, but they simply ignored all the Lessons from Habitat. Not dead, but not much different than vzones.

I guess it'll take a several more years for someone to put money and years of hard work to try their chances on something like this again.
No. they shouldn't have IPO'd, their products are mind draining, they shouldn't even be a company. This whole thing is a big mess.
Nice! I can see this being very useful. Thanks!

Another feature which would be cool to have would be the ability to change the element the pattern is applied to. Do you have a Github page for this?