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Trailer for Bravo's Start-Ups: Silicon Valley
- Mistone 14y agoduh - every character is white. fail. one of the women is slightly Indian looking but still.
- tptacek 14y agoYes. THAT'S the fail.
- andrewljohnson 14y agoIt's not TV, it's Silicon Valley in truth. Discrimination by start-ups is enshrined in law. If you are a racist, you don't like old people, or you don't like Jews - no problem until you have 15 employees. Fire your pregnant employees at will, crack down on sodomy - the start-up world is your discriminatory oyster: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage_private.cfm http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/coverage_private.cfm California does have a law that tightens things up a bit, called FEHA. You only need 5 employees in California before you need to start treating people as you should: http://mccabeconsultants.com/forms/ADA%20Chart.pdf http://mccabeconsultants.com/forms/ADA%20Chart.pdf I kid a bit in this post, but the limits on these laws are a two-edged sword. I think small companies can be crippled by pregnancies, and having the threat of a lawsuit about age discrimination can mess with your mind on hiring the right people. You can also imagine that a Hacedic markets should be run by Hacedic Jews. But there is certainly some amount of bad consequences from the limits on these laws, and a few too many white people running start-ups.
- krakensden 14y agoIt's 2012, not 1970. CS majors from Berkeley and Stanford don't have lily white friends or peer groups. Although as far as I can tell, white guys in boatshoes only know other white guys in boatshoes.
- Evbn 14y agoWhat's a Haced?
- krakensden 14y agoHe means Hasid and Hasidic Judaism. They're a more conservative branch, and are known for their traditional clothing.
- larrys 14y agoIt's 2012 not 1970, I'm always amazed when people won't google something before asking a question.
- krakensden 14y agoThey're also too thin, with a confusingly even gender ratio.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoAnd all good looking. It's almost like it's a TV show.
- krakensden 14y agoI feel like everyone would be willing to tune in to watch neckbeards and turtlenecks shout at each other about whitespace conventions.
- tptacek 14y agoA model, an up-and-coming film impresario, 4 social media marketers, and (I think) this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dw5ight http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dw5ight One assumes he's the one shouting "Negative cycles? Bellmans algorithm or Dyson's?!" Dwight cofounded Carsabi, which acqui-failed into Facebook presumably after getting zorched with C&Ds from Craigslist. So you have Craigslist to blame for this show too; if Carsabi hadn't taken off, who'd be writing the code on this show? DAMN YOU AGAIN, CRAIG NEWMARK!!!1!1!
- jhuckestein 14y agoTo Dwight's (I've met him a few times, too. He actually seems like a clever guy) credit, it sounds like he said Dijkstra ;) Just goes to show how little the producers of the show care about the "techy stuff".
- GuiA 14y agoWell if you're going to have negatively weighted vertices, Dijkstra's algorithm is out of the picture from the start :)
- jhuckestein 14y agoDepending 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
- GuiA 14y agoInteresting- thanks! In what cases can't we do that? (ie. why did Ford and Bellman bother at all?)
- Evbn 14y agoIn a use case where you don't actually need a shortest path? Or if you know the path will be a constant numbers of edges, I guess, otherwise adding weights would bias the algorithm toward fewer hops.
- jhuckestein 14y agoThis show had some potential but instead it's just another reality tv junk show--except this time it's about "us". Now I know what people in Jersey feel like. 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.
- michaelochurch 14y agoIMO one of the larges inhibitors of entrepreneurship is a lack of confidence that is instilled by the education system. No, I think it's that most people can't afford to work for free for months at a time, and very few people are born into the kind of VC connections that make that a positive-expectancy move. For people who don't have EIR gigs to go back into, startup failure is really unpleasant and can take a long time to recover (career and savings-wise) from.
- tptacek 14y agoNone of these people have real-seeming connections either (check out the sfist story on the cast and look at their previous "startups"). Moments later edit And who are these people with the "EIR" backup plans that you're thinking of? The "EIR's" I've met have all been former successful founders who are simply being effectively pre-funded. That's not some class privilege; it's an additional perk of having won in the past, and it's not one of the bigger perks.
- michaelochurch 14y agoTrue. I'm guessing they value their time less than we do. They don't strike me as "real" anything. Just overprivileged wankers playing around.
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- confluence 14y agoRelevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3U7C0xLW4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh3U7C0xLW4, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmwSxv7XJI More seriously I wonder why random signals that appear to be noise but if noticed are actually quite pertinent to predicting trends have such a great effect on people. Example follows: Kennedy later claimed he knew the rampant stock speculation of the late 1920s would lead to a crash. It is said that he knew it was time to get out of the market when he received stock tips from a shoe-shine boy Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr. For example if my mom came to me with an investment decision my response would be a big fat no - might even go out and look at it for a short. If my hairdresser recommended a stock to me - I'd feel immediately like selling. These are by definition low signal events that should be classified as pure noise - but they seem to be a rather useful thought model. So party like it's 1997 - get in and get out.
- austenallred 14y agoI fully plan on avoiding this until it goes away. Considering the fact that they'll completely miss both the uneducated reality TV audience (too much nerdiness) and the nerd audience (no need for explanation), I don't plan on that taking too long.
- larrys 14y ago"uneducated reality TV audience " Why do you feel that the audience for reality TV is "uneducated"? I know of people who went to Ivy League schools, have medical degrees, are professors, teachers, professionals who watch and enjoy reality tv. What about people who watch sports? Do you want to lump the beer drinking tailgaters (who may be educated actually) with others who may enjoy watching sports? Is there anything intellectual about that? Is there anything intellectual about watching anything that is purely entertainment on TV?
- waterlesscloud 14y agoA lot of people who deny watching this stuff watch it. Big Brother US just finished its 14th season. Jersey Shore is in season 6. Real Housewives Of Orange County going into season 7. Somebody's out there watching it. Having said that, this does look particularly light weight. The appeal of Silicon Valley in the tv sense is the money, but these will be people without money. The promo makes it look like a show about wannabes on the party circuit. I guess that might work, but if I were doing that kinda show I'd aim at Hollywood or maybe NY.
- Evbn 14y agoYou can have no viewers with IQ over 100, and still have 100 million people in your addressable market.
- austenallred 14y agoI never said that was the whole audience, that's just the part of the audience they'll miss.
- untog 14y agoFantastic: everything I hate about TV, combined with everything I hate about the industry I work in. I've met one of the people in the show and I think it's fair to say that this is about the tech industry in the same way that a show featuring publishing PR agents is a show about writing books- which is to say, not at all. Should the situation arise, I will actively avoid working with anyone 'starring' in this show.
- seanconaty 14y agoThis show is the air that inflates tech bubbles.
- moocow01 14y agoOr the pin that pops it.
- zensavona 14y agoI think I threw up in my mouth a little.
- sutterbomb 14y ago> There's the bloggers, the engineers, then the investors. None of it would work if there wasn't each part. One of these things is not like the others.
- sounders 14y agoI'm confused by that statement in the video. From my experience bloggers don't have the same level of importance as investors and engineers do. Can anyone explain how bloggers are so necessary that "none of it would work if there wasn't each part?"
- zalew 14y ago> While trying to find balance amidst their complicated social network they discover that in the fast paced world of Silicon Valley success and failure can come and go with just a simple keystroke. oh the drama
- barclay 14y agoI was squatting in the office hermine and her crew were in while some of this was filming, and it was absolutely fascinating to peer over the shoulder of the director and P/A's, and see just how much of this was scripted and the various re-takes and whatnot. You always have this feeling about "reality TV" that it's fake, but it was rather eye opening to see it firsthand.
- waterlesscloud 14y agoYeah, they pretty much all have some degree of scripting. The best shows sort of create the situations they want and then make the show in the editing room. The worst just write the whole thing out.
- RileyJames 14y agoVideo overloaded? or region locked? "This content is currently unavailable" - Australia
- tzm 14y agoPunch me in the mother fucking face.
- the_cat_kittles 14y agoI hate this trailer too, but I bet some of that is because it makes my illusion of individuality shrink.