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VCs are playing with OPM, so as long as they can continue to raise new funds, they always make money.

But one shouldn't assume that the angels that have flooded the market are all making real money. Even many of the minority who have seemingly enviable portfolios are primarily sitting on unrealized gains, and many of those have a very sizable portion of those unrealized gains concentrated in a very small portion of their portfolios.

Additionally, there are a lot of barriers to success as an angel even if you are good at picking winners. From position sizes (small) to pro rata rights (ignored or too expensive to exercise), a lot of things can conspire against optimal returns even when you invest in good companies.

My sense is that a good deal of angel capital in the Bay Area, particularly that which is frequently invested in party rounds for the most attractive early-stage startups, is recycled from folks who have done well at a previous company (or two or three) and are having fun with their monopoly money.
How long ago was that? The undergrads I know make 100k+ base salary alone
I think people don't grasp the enormous influence publishers of news have, and thus the signifance to everyone of who owns them, their politics, integrity, and whether they will insist on journalistic integrity or compromise it. I see many, many people repeating what is effectively propaganda from News Corp publications (Fox and the Wall St Journal), competely unwittingly. The public seems surprisingly easy to manipulate, and few seem to care for accountability from their news sources.

> The Economist, whose editorial independence is absolute and is fiercely guarded by four independent trustees

Everyone says things like that. I hope it's true for them; there are few publications that are there equal and millions take them at their work.
No one is out of touch for wanting a higher salary, and that's not what I said or implied. Quite the contrary, I think good engineers should be paid loads more than they are nowadays. However, the implication that making 250k a year is barely scraping is so ridiculous that it's perfect fodder for an Onion article.
$1.63 per transaction rules out the possibility of microtransactions. I personally don't think that anyone has the moral authority to deem a use-case "wrong" for a currency. You need to support transactions involving pocket change just as well as you support transactions in benjamins to see wide acceptance.

Such high transaction fees effectively make the currency indivisible to a substantial degree. Sure you can send someone a penny, but if it costs $1.63 most people won't. So that sets a very high minimum floor before people will consider using it in a transaction. Note that this is different from transaction service fees - yes, some places have minimums for CCs, but it doesn't cost me anything to hand you a penny, or even to send you a check for a penny.

The answer to blockchain size is - sidechains, actually. What I have a problem with is meta-currency - the idea that you must necessarily transfer to a separate currency or trust a third party to perform day-to-day transactions. That creates independent currencies with their own security risks, and divides the hashrate into individual pools which are more easily attacked.

Instead what I want are sidechains that compress a series of transactions. You never actually trade on a sidechain, but at some trigger event or time interval a series of transactions is brought onto a sidechain and reduced to a net-sum of inputs and outputs, then instantly reattached to the main blockchain as a single net transaction. You can call this checkpointing or whatever you like, but it doesn't need to be (and shouldn't be) all of the transactions on the blockchain, or even the most recent transactions that are sidechained. In fact I think it makes the most sense for it to be the oldest, say the oldest week of transactions (targeted) within a rolling 28 day window. Long enough to make attacks difficult, short enough it's not too large on disk.

You essentially rebase the blockchain onto a new squashed changeset. This transaction also includes the original hash of the transaction that used to be there, so the chain still validates properly, and the hash of the last confirmed regular block, so it can be strictly sequenced. Everyone validates the squashblock to be sure that it tallies properly and hashes correctly, and if it doesn't reach consensus it's not accepted. If accepted, the next regular/squashblock must include the hash of the squashblock to indicate acceptance.

Still doesn't solve the problem of dust taking up space, but it solves most of the problem. Or maybe sweeping dust is part of the reward for the squashblock somehow. I do like the idea that if you don't sweep your ha'pennies they fall into the couch cushion. Maybe you'd implement that like "any dust that hasn't moved in a block before the squashblock is confirmed may be arbitrarily moved", so dust older than a month (average) is swept.
Yup. 9 miles each way, over the last ten years that's varied with different jobs, but I've managed to do it year round in Chicago. It's funny, when suggested, the gut reaction from a lot of people is to say why it won't work for them, instead of considering ways it might, even if used supplementally and not replacing alternatives completely.
Chinese Army trains students to control machines with their minds
That was both scary and sad. As a fellow who is starting out to make a game too.
I think the government should improve how productivity is measure

---- see here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8411.00002/a...

The article, stated, " The major objective of the paper is to show that in the end the importance of technological change in economic growth depends largely on how TFP is defined and measured. T"
Yes, we are working on ways to provide predictive lead scoring to vendors, telling them which developers are most valuable and when.

We have some promising results we'll be talking about more in the near future.
You're talking about technical work, not biology. The same applies to any number of other domains. Sounds to me like you just have a chip on your shoulder.
I tried out using x86_64 Linux assembly by writing a simple TCP echo server [1] after reading about the modern HTTP server in 64bit assembly [2]. Turned out to be not too much more involved than writing the equivalent in C, though very much at the cost of readability and development time.

There appeared to be relatively few examples of modern (well, 64 bit) Linux assembly out there, though quite a few relatively out of date documents like the one posted; documentation like the 64bit Linux System Call table were exceptionally useful [3].

[1] https://gist.github.com/bobbo/e1e980262f2ddc8db3b8

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9948749

[3] http://blog.rchapman.org/post/36801038863/linux-system-call-...
" Brain power and productivity arrive instantly where they’re needed with zero transmission cost."

Except, it doesn't, because achieving productivity usually requires remote workers to be able to collaborate effectively, and whether they can or not varies wildly.

The author doesn't seem to get this - if remote workers were so amazing, and had been so amazing in practice, companies would use them more.

Companies do not want the expense of real estate, amenities, etc

Maybe the author should stop to wonder about "hmmm, i'm clearly not the only one to think of this idea, maybe this hasn't happened because there aren't a lot of huge success stories".
I guess the pitch is that you do not need the extra battery capacity?

Are you sitting in parking lots listening music these days? That did sound cool when you were kid, but majority will never do that (or take their car camping).
You cant have people drive 2.5 hours to work however that does not make the parent comment incorrect. Working together is the better option and we need better tools for remote workers.
Worker Classification and Secure Work in the “Sharing Economy”
What claims do you find dubious? I'd be more than happy to try to provide some support for them.
Nice, wrote up one for OSX toolchain: http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2014/04/18/lets-write-...
There are significant exceptions, though. The old Bell Labs and Xerox PARC stuff was a great example of funding basic but directed research that had long term payoffs.
> Is that to own, or rent?

To own. Apartments in central areas of Helsinki typically sell between 4000€/m2 to 8000/m2. So the cost of just constructing the building would be something between 20% to 40-50% of the total price. It is the land price, not the construction, that dominates apartment prices in any city.
Game on ethereum: Find low hashes, get Ethers
You rent for a few years longer. I live in Southern California, and rented a 1BR apartment 2 blocks from work for $1000/mo (increased to $1150 by the time I moved out 5 years later). I started at high five-figures salary and was a bachelor, so I had way more than a 20% down-payment by the time I started looking at buying.

One of my coworkers who started at the same time as me lived in a 3BR with two roommates for the same period of time, so he was paying half what I was in rent. He still lives modestly (2BR, working wife, no kids) and probably could retire anytime he wants now.
For startups and new business, assuming you can draw talent, I can see this approach working... You also hear about this happening in Google Fiber cities, etc. Relocating people is a lot harder than relocating/decentralizing place-of-work, and making people go "rural" or "suburban" might not sell well for folks who are already city dwellers (i.e. the majority of the talent pool).
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I guess that depends on what you think the value-add is of offices versus remote working.

In our organization, the value-add is forcing everyone to be on the same work schedule, promulgating organizational culture, giving managers an idea of peoples' workload so they can load-balance, and meeting the need of people to socialize. We cross-staff on a per-matter basis, and we'll generally conduct inter-team communication over email and phone whether even when the team is within a few doors of each other. Email is efficient and asynchronous. We get together in person at milestone events, where, e.g., the whole team will fly in and take over a conference room for a day or two to prepare for a big upcoming event.

If you think the value-add of offices is facilitating informal, day-to-day inter-team communication, than obviously having people in different offices makes reorganization harder. And admittedly, its been years since I was on a software team. That said, even at that time, I found people dropping by my cube, instead of emailing, to ask a question about an API I restructured to be annoying rather than productive. It's PIO instead of DMA--a waste of clock cycles.

YMMV.
The only point I will make is favor a short name for the people that do type it into the address bar... I'd much rather see foo.club or foo.io than have to type in some-kind-of-foo.com just to get a .com address.

Depending on your business, you may be doing offline marketting. Flyers, cards, etc... you really don't want people to have to type in things like http://www.foo-bar-baz-biz.com/pub/8588277760 to get what you want them to see... http://goto.biz.io/ (with a form taking the number) is much better UX.

It always made me laugh when I'd see a URL more than about 15 characters beyond the http:// because people just aren't likely to do that. I'd say, if your primary url for an offline marketing drive will be more than 12-15 characters (not including prot), find a shorter name.
Today it doesn't matter. As long as money remains cheap (and the Fed keeps insisting on it), it will fuel property prices in SF and other desirable places. If you buy a place in San Francisco in 2 years, THEN maybe you'll go negative for a bit.

After the last bubble "burst", you think you could scoop up some cheap property in SF? Nope. Maybe prices dropped 10-15%, and now they're higher than they ever were.

People are flocking to cities, which means the suburbs are the ones that get hammered when prices drop.
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I'm with you. This is a regression.

A unified-ish platform might be a benefit to their developers, but this has also been a net loss for Netflix's end-users. :/
In general - plutonium breeder reactors don't move our civilization forward. Nobody would be allowed to have them except the already nuke having countries, and for them it is just a minor improvement, if any, in nuclear energy production.

Specifically for Russia - i'm Russian and i know how inherently careless Russian mentality is. Any of such objects is just a disaster waiting to happen (people outside don't understand that Chernobyl wasn't really "accidental accident", instead it was just like Russian roulette accident ; for illustration of current Russian technological degradation look at the recent space launches history). Additional issue - in particular with Russian corruption (and rise of Islamic powers, specifically Chechnya, inside Russia) it is just a matter of time before somebody will sell 10kg of plutonium to somebody else :)
Or if you already failed (and we all fail to various degrees all the time) then fear of looking bad can prevent you from doing the right things to manage the consequences of failure. It is a double-edged sword.
>my computer use induced Blepharitis.

Do you have evidence that computer use was a factor in your development of Blepharitis, or do you think that because of the correlation between the two?
Google maps is not very good at plotting bike routes or at knowing which streets are truly bike-appropriate. I frequently have to adjust any bicycle travel directions I get from them because they list a lot of busy 45 MPH roads with sidewalks as "bicycle friendly." This is in contrast to the multitude of slow residential streets that run to either side of the selected road. In fact, I've had Google Maps recommend that I bicycle downhill on a 50 MPH road because there was a sidewalk on one side. I was able to find a much slower, shallower grade about a mile south of where they wanted to take me.

It's awesome if you're in a car though.
Don't Hate the Phone Call, Hate the Phone
I agree completely. I take the shuttle from SF to Mountain View every day (I work at Google). It's about 70m door to door each way. For the first 6 months of work I was miserable, 70 minutes is way more time than I wanted to check my RSS and Email so I was bored. Boredom kept my mind on the commute, and thinking about the time made me angry.

I decided to use the time to read books as a new years resolution. Having at least 2h a day, 5 days a week to read books has made me fly through books faster than any other time in my life. I've already read 21 books since January and I actually look forward to my reading time now! I think if I had this time at home I would not be using it so peacefully/productively, I'd probably waste it on Netflix.

That said, 70m each way is more than I need. I think 30m each way would be the ideal balance of forced mind-clearing and reasonable work-life balance.
alphabet.xyz is way better than alphabet.com and I don't understand it when people say it's a problem. .xyz makes me think of the alphabet, .com makes me think of the 1990's
I see that you are only targeting the big companies. This is really smart, since those companies tend to pay better and their employees will have a bunch more cash to throw at their house, leading to a bigger commission.

What are your plans for adding new companies? Are you going to branch out into firms that might not pay as well? Stick with the "top 1%" companies but in different cities?

Real estate service that focuses on tech people seems lucrative. Good idea all around.
I leave my lights on and kill my battery once every few months, so this is easily worth it for me, but I'm probably an outlier[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivit...
Yes. Seasoning leaves a baked-on coating of oil/fat. That doesn't mean that the coating is carcinogenic.

IIRC (and I might not RC, I'm no food chemist) the coating is polymerized oil/fat and completely harmless.
From the perspective of someone who's only done C2C payments outside the U.S. with PayPal on forums years ago...

Did you build this because Venmo / Google Wallet / Square Cash, etc. aren't available in Southeast Asia yet (ever?), or is Xfers different?
It might not have 24/7 subway (i think it's 24h on the weekend and 20h during the week), but I've been living in Berlin for 2 years and have yet to chance upon the situation where I didn't have transit available to get back home (neither me not my wife have a driver's license).

Having good transit is really really important. But it doesn't have to be 24/7 for the vast majority of people. In the maybe once per year that I need to go somewhere in 3am on a weekday I can take the night bus or even a taxi.
> don't want it to become a city of sky scrapers

Paris is, mostly, not a city of skyscrapers. Depends on how you define a skyscraper, but for example Paris has less over 400ft tall buildings than San Francisco.
Yeah this is just the professors being lazy... The grief of having to write more tests and be accountable!
Periscope's one metric that matters: time watched per day
Mark Maunder is being generous with his statistics... With his average 50 min/day commute time, and assuming a 16 hour waking day, you're actually losing a full 2 weeks of waking days each year to commuting.

And I think that average belies the large number of people in tech working in dense cities like San Francisco or Seattle where the commute is much worse... We're talking 1-2 hours/day in the Seattle area if you have to cross the bridges.

Commuting is truly costly for time, health, and lifestyle in ways that neither the employers nor the employees usually account for. It's a serious externality that I wish we had a better mechanism for capturing, since people more or less take it for granted that they'll be locked in their cars for a large part of their day.
Imho, the biggest problem (especially in the Bay Area) is that there's such a ridiculous ratio of cash buyers to available properties that even folks who have a typical 20% down payment are still having a hard time buying starter homes in desirable ("close to work") areas. For example, I have $200k equity in my current home (NC) and if I move to the San Jose area that would still require me to put in another $100-200k of savings to "compete" for a mediocre 1500-2000sqft place near work. At that point, I'd be going from a $2k/mo mortgage to a $4k/mo mortgage, plus a 3x in annual property taxes because the home is so much more expensive. I disagree with your "only" incremental additional income requirement in this case, because if the alternative to buying a "cheap" home is paying $4000+/mo rent (I have two kids and need at least a 2BR apt), that just delays home buying even further while I throw away potential DP/mortgage on rent.

Perhaps I am being unreasonable because I'm coming from a low CoL state, but I think the 1/3 your salary rule is a very good, smart target (unless you can easily get a HELOC or equity loan in case of emergency because you put so much down when you bought the place).
true - they're probably aware of the streisand effect
the biggest trade off is maintainability

Are you getting code which any john developer can pick up and develop on, or is it something which requires knowing a special purpose programming language and corresponding frameworks?

From my point of view, I want to see a big company build a Canvas or WebGL UI that goes to thousands of people. We can speculate, but someone actually trying what you mention is the only way to find out if it works in the industry.
I was about to say the same thing. I've had a lithium iron battery in my motorcycle for years. I personally love it (it allows me to leave the bike sitting for longer without putting it on a battery tender), and it's much lighter. Just comes at a higher cost.
It works really well in low temperatures. Supercapacitors don't store energy using a chemical reaction, which makes them a lot less finicky over a temperature range. We can also react to lower temperatures by increasing the voltage on the capacitors to a higher, but still safe, level to help compensate for the increased difficulty of cranking engines at low temperatures.
Whatever the default was, I believe it was looking for stuff within a 20 minute drive. I'm currently in a studio in San Mateo for $2.3k, but that's only because I stayed in the same unit I was in last year, so they only raised rent by 10%. If I were a new resident, my studio is around $2.7k.
I know this probably sounds crazy to folks from the Bay Area, but I would gladly move offices if my company had remote offices in Boise, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, or Denver. I would even take a small pay-cut as long as I came out ahead when you adjust for cost of living. I don't know why no companies seem to offer this.
Knowing how it compares in terms of physical durability would be useful. Not interested in your battery matching the optima, but more to see how it compares. Do you plan to offer an off road version (for cars not street legal)?
This is very cool work! Some years ago, I was interested in text mining. I ended up playing with latent semantic analysis using Lucene etc. But that was a largely random choice, driven by the availability of open-source software and online discussion.

However, as cool as stylistic analysis is, I'm concerned about implications for online anonymity (which I consider valuable). But maybe the risk is limited by typical text length and false positive rate. I welcome suggestions for further reading.
You have no idea what you're talking about. A public garage in a cheap part of SF will run you $200-$300 a month, per space. A small non-luxury one-bedroom is about $3500 a month right now, maybe closer to $4,000. A week of groceries at Trader Joes will set you back about $80 a person, if you're frugal and you know how to cook, and you eat nearly every meal at home, and you like leftovers.

Eating out at a restaurant that isn't a taqueria or in-n-out is about $20-$30 a person at the low end. A drink at a bar will set you back at least $6, and probably more like $12-$15. Getting your one-bedroom apartment cleaned once a month will cost you about $100-$150.

I don't have children, but not-rich friends who do have told me that unless you live in a "good" neighborhood and/or your kid can be bussed long distances, you really have to consider paying for private schools, and that's something like 20k a year, per child.

So one-bedroom, one car of parking (not counting maintenance or the cost of the car), eating out at a modest place once a week: $3500 + $200 + $320 + $120 = $4140/mo. That's frugal. Want a kid? Dramatically more.
> But changing gameplay from 2D to 3D had a major impact on overall development cost

Really? Did anyone not think that would be huge?
And what he said above is also true of fossil fuel industry facilities operating normally. He doesn't consider pollution due to spills, oil well fires, or refinery explosions. If wells or refineries failed at the rate you're implying nuclear plants do, our entire planet would be an inch deep in crude. And, yes, I understand that there physically isn't enough oil on earth to do that. That's part of my point. The alternatives to nuclear are strictly worse. There are no tradeoffs. They are just worse in every way, whether they're operating as designed or not.