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Anyone interested in the actual slides?

The whole Stanford vs. Berkeley... Honestly, if you make anything more of it than the joke it's intended to be, you're wasting time. To be fair, he did joke earlier this quarter about how Stanford is outscoring Berkeley in terms of the value of companies started at each school every year. However, those are jokes. I'm a Stanford student, but I think Berkeley has made incredible contributions outside the field of making-VCs-rich. Fundamental science, counter-culture, and engineering (including tech). I'm sure Thiel thinks so too.

BRAVO!

Here's to the crazy ones.

As a scientist, I am so thrilled about this idea.

Software is indeed eating the world. What's going to devour it?

HARDWARE + SOFTWARE.

think nest, tesla (yes, it's a huge software play), and the like.

Plausible. No code is secure and anything, given enough time can be cracked open.

what about Jeff Bezos (ok, he's EE [yay, EE!]), or Richard Brandson (or it's really Rutan's brainchild)? OK, Virgin Galatic is child-play next to SpaceX, but it still demonstrate that billionaires can invest in AA.

My Palo Alto rent is too high, so 4 million people in 20 years isn't enough.

sigh, recurring email of a cs student at a major university that offers an MBA program.

Hi [tango],

I'm [zebra] and I am a student at the [bravo] business school. I found you through [school-directory] and I am contacting you because I have a promising opportunity in the [social|shopping|vanity-business] space, already receiving attention from potential investors. Not being technical myself, I could use some help from an [awesome|master-hacker|wizard] technical guy in order to build a [platform|app|buzz-word-flavor-of-the-week]. I was wondering if you'd be interested to chat over coffee sometime this week.

best, [zebra]

Unfortunately, the class is not recorded :(

Surplus of capital is a huge factor. Got numbers?

When Peter Thiel started his class at Stanford, he spent the first couple of lectures reviewing the 90's. One of his argument to explain the dot com bubble was the influx of capital from around the world to the U.S., and ultimately to the valley. Could be the same here. not sure.

You are a random billionaire (i.e. not Mark Zuckerberg) with a billion dollars.

You could: A. Buy Instagram. B. Build SpaceX from scratch.

Most of them would probably buy instagram. :(

This guy = Hacker all of fame.

todo: pay him a visit.

I am graduating this spring with a materials science degree from Stanford. Materials science has the absolute most boring set of classes (seriously, it's really bad). However, Material science also has what I think is some of the most ground-breaking, fascinating, and magical scientific research topics out there, from nanotech, biotech, and energy, to novel electronic form-factors, batteries & fuel cell, and much more.

therefore:

Degree Classes != Actuality.

While Zuckerberg is busy buying vanity smartphone photo-filters for a billion bucks, Elon Musk is busy putting America back in space.

Impact. Matters.

I'm in that class. The stories about his awesomeness are all true.

"I extolled the virtues of Vista" #FacePalm.

I got a preview of this project from Square's CTO 3 weeks ago at Stanford. The fast-filtering is MIND-BLOWING.

For Elon:

"Here's to the Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who DO!"

As a hard-science researcher, I've long thought that scientists should fight for the right to publish their findings (report, data...etc) to an open source github-like service, in addition to the scientific publications they already submit their work to.

By open-sourcing knowledge, humanity benefits. However, publishers prestige currently has everyone locked in a vicious cycle of publishing under-any-circumstance for the sake of career recognition. Is that really the end goal of scientific discovery?

true, but that still doesn't make up for the weather difference :)

Plus, who said we were sleeping.

Pinterest #FTW : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3541317

A unit test is a way to automate the diagnosis of your website. For example, let's say your website allows people to create a user profile. You could (A), verify that you can successfully create a profile by opening your web browser, navigating to your site, creating a profile, and making sure you get a successful response. That's fine and relatively quick to do. However, as your code base grows in size, you don't want to have to redo this test manually every time you add a new feature that could potentially break your user-profile feature. Thus, and (B), comes in unit testing (or integration tests, or simply tests), that automates the process for you. Every time you add a new feature, you can run tests to verify that this new feature didn't break something else in your code base.

She said unit test, and I'm pretty sure she meant they have no tests what so ever.

Yeah the Pinterest engineer (Tracy Chou) said they were in the process of reviewing their approach to unit testing.