Depending on your use-case, you can often just add the value of the largest negative edge weight (pair of vertices, not a vertex) to all weights and use a simple algorithm like Dijkstra
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IMO one of the larges inhibitors of entrepreneurship is a lack of confidence that is instilled by the education system. A thoughtful show about Silicon Valley could show how people from all different walks of life come here to build their dreams. It could inspire kids interested in technology to learn, it could show them that all you really need is an internet connection. Instead it shows that the typical tech entrepreneur is white(-ish), good-looking, outgoing and a party animal.
I'm an entrepreneur from Germany and I can't help but feel slightly offended by your comment. You seem to think either a) I should go back to Germany for some reason or b) it's cool for me to stay here, but only if I jump through a series of ridiculous hoops. If you don't feel that way, you should support a change in legislation.
[1] For example, you can get an EB2 NIW visa as an entrepreneur and I've heard of many cases where O3 was granted even though the person wasn't really "notable"
I got the impression that things were much more close and intimate there than at some other incubators that I've seen. After the game and weekly debriefing, Jason came out with the entire group and we hit up some nice spots in San Antonio. I think it was somebody's birthday as well. The entire class works out of a shared office and there's a strong sense of camaraderie and friendship.
If I had an applicable project right now, I wouldn't hesitate to apply.
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This is something that frightens me. What is a "diagnosable mental disorder"? I'm willing to bet this statement was far from true 50 or a 100 years ago. Not because I think people got more depressed or anxious, but rather because we're looking harder to "diagnose" things.
I think there's a big danger, especially in psychological afflictions, to always "look for" problems with yourself.
This may be a cultural thing as well. Until I came to the US (I'm from Germany), I never asked myself "Am I depressed?", "Is this what depression feels like?" when I was aving a down day. I also never considered that I may have/have had ADD now/as a kid but now people tell me I should "get that checked out" all the time.
There's no way to know for sure, but I'm curious about your reasoning. I'm not sure if I'd even agree with you. A technology and science focused president could do a lot of good, not least of all changing the mindset of people. Of course it'll be hard to get anything done with all the bipartisanism and opposition but that's a separate issue.
1) Doesn't want to speculate on Hyperloop before he's sure it can exist
2) Freely admits he was too shy to talk to anyone in the Netscape lobby when he went there fresh out of college looking for a job
3) Doesn't read a lot of general business books. Instead reads auto-/biographies of scientists and entrepreneurs.
Plus, he likes Burning Man (I love it but it's not for everyone) and casually mentions he had the idea for a "super-sonic vertical takeoff and landing plane" there. In comparison, I just got back from BM and my only work-related idea was that I should really put some more effort into my work.
So far I haven't heard any stories about him being an ass either, which is very reassuring for those of us who don't want to be like Steve Jobs. Even in this interview he seems reluctant to reveal too much information about people he didn't like working with.
I just wish people like him were more attracted to politics. I wonder if it's because nobody would elect people like Elon Musk or because those people avoid politics.
This is very similar to the German city-states that were set up along the baltic and northern sea some 800 years ago. I recall reading a very interesting article about this in some magazine, maybe I can dig it up. This model is a win-win because the settlers get to make their own very liberal rules (that the host state doesn't necessarily agree with) while the host still reaps some of the benefits of wealth and education coming into the area. Excited to see where this goes.
Edit: Found the article. It's called "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty" in The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/the-poli...
As for what to wear, if you're in a startup you should wear your logo as much as possible; asshole or not.
Pro tip for people who have trouble finding matching socks in the morning:
1. Donate all your socks to charity
2. Buy a single pair of socks you really like many times
As these peaks eventually become norms, based on Bitcoin’s upward trend, we’ll see $52.5 billion being moved per year.
Curiosity is a great mission, but I'm still more impressed with the Viking missions.
He thinks it's socially awkward to unfriend some of his several thousand friends? Why did he friend them in the first place? How can he say with a straight face (I'm assuming) that apps like Path and Instagram have shown him that rebuilding his social graph every few years is a "must"? Because of fights with friends? Do adults really fight with their friends and then unfriend them on Facebook? How about just hugging it out afterwards?
These are contributions I'd expect from a mainstream celebrity, but I don't feel like this represents the hacker culture (call it whatever you want) very well.
Sorry for the off-topic. I do like the dynamic, perhaps even implicit, graph idea though.
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OpenAnno is Twitter for Objects.
We want to build a close approximation of the real world "object graph".
OpenAnno stores public annotations (formerly tweets) on unique objects (formerly people). Objects are connected via typed edges (formerly mention, follow, reply), thus establishing the "object graph" (formerly "social graph"). Anybody can add annotations and edges.
Objects can be "followed" (an edge-type; there can be other types with other semantics). Objects can follow objects, too. A vendor can follow product ratings of products and adjust prices. This adjustment is pushed to following objects which might order those items once they are cheap enough. An alarm clock can follow your work schedule and your friends and toaster can follow the alarm clock. Thus, OpenAnno becomes the message bus in a global computational network. The interplay of smart objects reacting to one another is incredibly powerful (brains works like that, too).
Another application is search: the object graph can give you shopping advice that matches your wardrobe, can summarize and add value to complicated news events, can help you learn new languages and cultures, can suggest shops that sell every item in your fridge etc etc..
In certain domains (e.g. shopping) the object graph may be suitable to do analysis/research/simulation.
Possible "early annotators":
- Cars with license plates (a la bump.com)
- Anything with a barcode (a la stickybits.com)
- Real World that can be recognized in images (a la Google Goggles)
- Pictures/Media (comp. tazpic's presentation from yesterday)
- Objects other APIs give you
OpenAnno is a desirable partner for the mentioned companies allowing them to put their data in context. Data from non-partners is pulled in through "API tunneling" (as per yesterdays presentation).
Yesterday's demo is at http://www.justin.tv/jonashuckestein/b/264542955#r=Fs6GQLI~&... and a working prototype of the API at http://openanno.com. It's built to scale but a rewrite will be necessary (current code is public on github). Everything was built in less than 24 hours.
Challenge: We can build the "starting graph" from all the information we can gobble. This is difficult. Getting from there to a close approximation of the "object graph" is even more difficult and interesting.
Social proof: PG first called OpenAnno a "superset of Twitter annotations" and then a "communication channel that is bigger than Twitter".
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sigh You gotta love the "it's built to scale but a rewrite will be necessary" line and the "social proof" section :) Makes me feel like I've come a long way in those two years.
Me and my friends talked to SV Angel for a little but I had already decided to take a different job for immigration reasons. Back then I didn't realize that these people were kind of a big deal and I should somehow capitalize on that. Good times :)
Edit: Formatting
This is somewhat similar to the issue of the Cathedral and the Bazaar in software engineering. Most young people have never even seen a Cathedral and just consider the Bazaar model the default.
Edit: No offense to anyone in that demographic btw. I have great respect for everyone involved in that community, I just don't think it is very interesting for kids that never knew anything else
You also have to wonder about how they select these startups (other than at random)? It's comparing apples to oranges and doesn't even seem to have a consistent metric (expected roi, innovativeness of idea, best pitch, etc).
Why is instacart not on there?
I was trying to find an easy CSS hack to make the layout impervious to long words but it turned out to be a little tricky. Can anyone find a CSS "one-liner" (few-lineser?) that'll fix this?
What I find interesting though is that most notable people in the world's history didn't have any pathological brain conditions. For example, you could reasonably expect the worlds best artists to have a photographic memory.
It seems like you don't need a superpower be successful in what you do.
Edit: typo
The internet desensitizes people in that respect because nothing is ever said, it's just written.