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There are several comments here concerned that CMU might want to keep their startups rooted in Pittsburgh. However, they have a Silicon Valley campus http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ which seems to demonstrate that they have some interest in supporting those who want to be in the valley.

Why don't you move to SF for the summer. You could do something like a summer program at Stanford

http://www.summer.stanford.edu/programs/program/undergraduat...

Maybe you can even swing transferring to something like deanza community college for the spring.

Basically, you'd be taking almost no risk vs staying in school where you are at, plus you can do the startup thing.

I never really understood the point of going into real estate if you're not interested in it. Its not like money falls from the sky right off the bat in that industry.

You make a valid point which I alluded to about how being unique might not be the most likely path to success.

It is really striking the balance between originality and having a pulse on the 'problem space' that is the the hard part.

Finding the right peer group at first can be rough. One point I made in the post that should be underscored is being 'the first follower.' If you scour your town enough, there is probably someone who is looking to get started. I recommend going with their plan first.

People in the doers group I've met through meetup.com, other friends, and other networking groups. If you stick around long enough, you'll find the right people.

Actually, he will be generating co2 and selling it back to one of the other people in the shared production space. The space will be selling power back to the grid in the daytime using solar panels.

If you want to register for the event you can go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220285197987830

I really like the idea of Montessori, and if I have the cash I'd like to send my future kids there someday.

That being said, I see correlation here, not causation.

To be a little bit tongue and cheek, I could write the headline:

"99% of successful people do not attend Montessori schools"

Harvard educates the world, and you'd rather their mission be a way "improve town-gown relations, by convincing locals to not perceive Harvard as "the other"

Seems completely unfounded, and yes, categorically elitist.

The phenomenon that the articles title refers to is caused by something simple.

The tech world got into media, and since then media related technologies get a sizable chunk of the attention.

Not joking here:

Wasn't this the premise of the ending of 'Batman: The Dark Knight?'

Scary, hilarious, and amazing at the same time.

I'm saying this earnestly and with care:

The first priority should be finding out what is right for yourself. Ultimately, no one can tell you what is right for you.

Hacker news is a good place to reflect, but hopefully you can read things without having your whole mental framework being disrupted by one article with a different perspective.

Unfortunately the laser eyes aren't included.

I think math helps here.

If YC funds 400 startups, they've spent somewhere around 8 million dollars. In the late 90s one .com startup probably spent that much on their office chairs.

Granted, there are subsequent rounds of funding, and maybe some less than prudent investments, but while we may be in an 'expansion' cycle of funding, it isn't fair to say that it's 1999 all over again.

Hollywood controls the movie and TV distribution, so if you don't play their game, good luck getting on TV or in the theaters.

In Silicon Valley however, you can still win without playing the insular game, and paradoxically it might end up making you more successful.

I was always interested in startups because it seemed a path to 'doing your own thing' and not being beholden to 'the man.' It's funny that people have now come to think of it in the complete opposite way.

Anybody have an idea on how this was done?

Javascript by hand?

This is a false dichotomy that sidesteps the question, "Are universities a place where the brightest students, regardless of which campus they are attending, are able to actualize real world goals?"

In many cases, for a person who has real conviction and skill about what it is they do, dropping out is merely the path of least resistance.

For the 'regulars,' the ideal should be for universities to offer the resources to students who are passionate about their field, and not saddle them with administrative barriers in the name of 'getting a degree.'

The internet is a continuum beyond physical locality. That was why we (humans) invented it.

It's no so much that the author is right or wrong, but he speaks from a perspective that is not relevant. Good for the companies built outside of Silicon Valley. Who said for Silicon Valley to win, everyone else needs to lose?

Local business is a huge opportunity on the internet.

However, it far from the last 'unconquered' sector of the web. There will never be an end to vast opportunities on the internet, because new solutions create new opportunities that never existed before, ad infinitum.

For example, and idea like grubwith.us would have seemed bizarre before Groupon, but now it seems like a straightforward evolution (and something lots of people would like to do).

We still are working with very basic forms of artificial intelligence, but as it gets better, the whole internet will be reborn.

Carry on inventing everyone!

First time I've heard the "T Shaped Professional."

That is exactly what I've been aiming toward becoming. You're a 'deviner' (developer/designer), maybe I'm a bizdeveloper.

Although its been overexposed in the media, the reality for me is Facebook. Not since Google have we seen a company expand to that magnitude of usage within the wider population.

Facebook was probably the first truly bubble 1.0 company to reach that milestone, and will pave the way for many other companies to do the same.

What framework did you use to create this site?

Things like Wikileaks need to be kept in check as much as the governments they are exposing. However, I don't think it is constructive to joke around about the three things you mentioned as being something to be put on a dating profile.

If you want to argue against his credibility make an objective statement about his acts.

People are missing the point of this deal. Groupon is a scalable way to market Google ads to local business.

Google already sees how much Groupon spends on Google ads.

From that they realized that they can take that expense out of the equation, and Groupon becomes even more profitable.

The opportunity cost for Google of serving some junk ad vs a targeted Groupon is low. There is some risk involved, but there is a huge potential for reward.

The naming convention for these goes back to some research at Xerox PARC http://www.ubiq.com/weiser/testbeddevices.htm

Ubiquitious Computing is upon us, and much like the PC revolution, it will have been invented at Xerox and perfected at Apple.

It's about leverage. If they can build equal or better things than what they built inside of Facebook, it makes it easy and likely for Facebook to acquire them. At best Facebook can copy them, but then they are chasing their own tail. If path doesn't get acquired by FB, they can sell to someone else who wants to get some FB-like magic, or shoot for the moon and become a destination in their own right.

Skype works. Sometimes the sound is hard to deal with. However, consider that there are probably 20 other people in your same situation who will hack out a quick skype video.

Keep it simple don't overthink the stuff.

Money is a commodity like anything else. Talking about wealth in the context of consumption means you've already lost. Better to think about how to produce the most than how to consume the least.

Some good points made here, but I think the gloom and doom is a little overstated.

Facebook went through the same thing for awhile and then created facebook lite, then rolled more simplicity back into their main app.

A company like twitter is going to have a hard time pleasing everybody, and has to figure out the boundaries with its APIs as time goes on. In UI rate limits? They are probably battling spammers gaming the regular frontend like crazy, and are still hammering out the kinks for the real users.

As far as Dick Costollo goes, if there is anyone who I think would be pretty adept about balancing core ideals, while actually making money, he seems like the guy.

One comment I would have on this is that theory is often not framed by many professors in the context of practice or application. The converse is also true.

Math theory is a beautiful thing, but if no context is provided (this can be merely history, or a story of how it was applied, rather than actual applied homework itself) would go a long way with students. Otherwise you're just teaching people the notation and rote plugging and chugging of theory, rather than true understanding of the theory.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, and I would hybridize what you said a bit.

There are always amazing things being studied in computer science, and those are a huge opportunity of things to be monetized.

Just as things like the web browser and pagerank came out of university research, we should be looking in academia for the next massive opportunities in technology.