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here's a rough summary of my track record (personal / professional)

1) my angel investments ($300K portfolio, 2004-2008 vintage): 3 exits (Mint, Mashery, SlideShare) @ $100M+ out of 13 -- roughly 3.5X cash on cash in ~8 years

2) my investments at Founders Fund (~$3M portfolio, 2008-2010): 3 unicorns (Credit Karma, Lyft/ZimRide, Twilio) + 3 large wins (Wildfire, SendGrid, Life360) out of ~40 investments via FF Angel + fbFund -- roughly $50-60M appreciation in value over 7-8 years, >100% Gross IRR

3) 500 Startups main funds: $30M Fund I / 265 companies / 19% Net IRR / 2010-11 vintage, $45M Fund II / 325 companies / 23% Net IRR / 2012-13 vintage -- so far, 2 unicorns (Twilio, Credit Karma), 2 half-unicorns (Ipsy, Udemy), 30+ "centaurs" (>$100M+ value). Fund III is $85M / vintage 2014-15 / 650+ companies -- still pretty early but so far Net IRR trending ~20%

our LPs have been happy with our results so far. my/our track record is likely upper quartile, and at least for my years at Founders Fund top decile. Peter and I may differ in approach & stage, but likely more in agreement than not about the #s, altho he would likely consider or strategy more brute force and inelegant than his. that said, I think made enough money for him at FF & found him 3 unicorns, so hopefully he doesn't think I'm an idiot ;)
Looks awesome. Did you find HIPAA or the need for an extremely low error rate to be burdensome in building the app?
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I've found that well-designed (i.e. open ended) standardised questions help normalise comparison between candidates. Especially helpful if you have many candidates in a pipeline and/or a pool of interviewers that compare notes.

Work samples are my #1 competence filter. They've also formed the basis of great interviews.

As for your second point, sometimes you want to hire a change agent. It takes skill and practice to distinguish toxic personalities from the merely disruptive. Again, standard questions designed from a perspective of empathy and experience have helped me.
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Also note, if anyone is using "reactify" and has used the spread operator in JSX, as 15.0.0 removed React.__spread, your build will break.
(Reactify uses the deprecated react-tools which uses React.__spread.)
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> Tax reassessments during the boom of 2001 to 2007 were on track to price a lot of people out of their houses based on their current economic status. Proposition 13 and other bills passed across the country allowed individuals to avoid being "taxed out" of their house.

Proposition 13 was passed in 1978. The housing boom of 2001-2007 had jack shit to do with its passage.

(Yes there, is a Prop 13 in 2010 that also has to do with property taxes, but only about seismic retrofitting of existing buildings).
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> Prop 13 is a tax issue, not a housing supply problem

If it's a tax issue that impacts the housing supply, isn't it both?
Fair enough - if portability to systems without much more than a C compiler is a project goal, than C is obviously a good (the only?) choice :)
If it were a -human- painting a fake Rembrandt, no matter how perfect an imitation, it would be called "a very very good imitation of Rembrandt" and nobody would claim that they'd in any sense brought Rembrandt back to life. Calling a very good forged Rembrandt a "new Rembrandt" would be pretty silly.

Calling one generated by a computer a "new Rembrandt" seems just as silly. Just because it was composed by an algorithm doesn't make it Rembrandtier than one painted by an expert forger.

Pretty cool as a technical achievement, though.
Does this book mention attention models?
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Reduction in scope and prototyping can help reduce risk in how wrong your estimate is, but I think it is misleading to suggest that these techniques inherently "might make a realistic estimate possible." I don't think I'm alone in that I've had tasks that were supposed to take less than a day take weeks. I'm not saying this is common, but there is no silver bullet, and assuming from the beginning that estimating is basically impossible can help bring everyone into reality.
What do you mean by "asshole"?

During my first engineering job out of college, I had a crazy angry boss whom you could hear yelling at people all the way across the building. I used to dread having to meet with her (at least) once a week. I literally had to remind myself that "no matter what, she cannot take my life". Yes, this was ACTUALLY a recurring thought.

It didn't take long after I had already left that job, that I realized how good she made me. Among my peers, I'm the top engineer, and she's the reason for that.

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Have you seen c nodes[1]? That may be what you're looking for?

[1] http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/cnode.html
You're making two different arguments here and kind of tying them together. First: you're claiming that there actually is some kind of universal "spatial reasoning" skill. Usually people who claim that also believe that this skill is somewhat generic - it applies to lots of different contexts and transfers easily from (say) visualizing rotations in space to finding your way around a 3d environment and so on. There's actually a fair bit of research that questions this supposition (take a look at embodied cognition to challenge the theoretical model, or stereotype threat effects to challenge the assessment model).

Secondly, in this context, the assumption is that not only does this generalized attribute exist in humanity and we can measure it, but this attribute causes success in $job. That's a further assumption that I'd call into question. Sure, plenty of people who do well on $test do well on $job, but those could easily be covariate or epiphenomenological relationships rather than causal ones.

I don't doubt that for some values of $test, there's some discriminatory power predicting the presence of success, especially in more monocultural environments (affluent, often-white, often-male, often-young startups, to caricature). But I do believe that this kind of test would suffer from strong false negatives as many kinds of people who would otherwise be excellent programmers (or whatever other $job) are rejected for not doing well on $test.

That's why I worry about anyone who puts real stock in these kinds of tests - it is (generally) indicative of a kind of science blind spot in the user. People are critical and skeptical of all kinds of other scientific claims, but psychological measures tend to get a pass.

I imagine the fact that a lot of us tend to score well on IQ tests has a lot to contribute here. When I found out how many standard deviations above the mean my IQ score represented, I was pretty excited about how awesome I was. When I realized that the test was probably baloney, I had to figure out more interesting ways to shore up my self-esteem. Personally: I bake bread and fish for compliments on the quality of my sourdough.
Are you fucking joking?

It requires that you install the android app first.

The just say (android only currently) - don't advertise it as a "desktop" app BEFORE disclosing this piece of info.
Care to elaborate on 'streaming market data aggregation'?
Security for what and for whom?
Induced demand is a good thing for anything. It means people are richer.

Yes, for subways that means less cars too. That is an extra (and very big) benefit, but don't think it's bad on other contexts.
I don't know the legal specifics of this, but is that actually true? It is schedule 1 right now, which means it federally has no medical use, yet there are states that successfully empowered themselves to (1) legalize for recreational use, e.g. CO and (2) legalize for medical use from dispensaries, e.g. CA.

How would a reduced federal scheduling level for cannabis also reduce the state's power?
Editing is a core component of a lot of professions, including data scientists:

http://www.john-foreman.com/blog/the-forgotten-job-of-a-data...

> Data science is a young occupation that could stand to take from these older pursuits. Whether it’s writing, cooking, or painting, editing is a core component of becoming a master of the discipline. Knowing when to hold back.
Good catch. I did mean that mixing in the source would apply to the established table if it's constructed in the same way but doesn't do so already (which would surprise me now that I think about it properly).

I don't think that you'd need a separate table for star bound listeners if the IP is mixed in since you could just hash in 0.0.0.0 but you'd need to check both the real IP and the special value too which is a potentially damaging performance hit. It's probably done with just the destination port for a good reason.
50% trashable from a web posting is amazingly good.
You mean like.... AIM. Most people coded and instant messenger in the nineties.
We hardly ever see consideration of the other party in these debates. Tenants cry about high rents. What about supply and demand? There are two main causes of supply problems: (1) tough building permitting, anti-building policy seemingly; (2) shortage of willing landlords.

If I have $5 million dollars to invest, will I invest in San Francisco where (unless I buy post-1979, and 75% of units are rent controlled in SF) -- or will I invest where I can make a return on the investment?

Shortage of willing landlords. Shortage of new construction.

Almost no one talks about the shortage of willing landlords. It's as if people think "owners have their apartment buildings, they HAVE to be landlords."

NO. See here: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/05/because-of-rent-control-...

- If you make it very difficult/nearly impossible for restaurants to make money, SHORTAGE OF WILLING RESTAUARANT OWNERS.

- If you make it very difficult/nearly impossible for dentists to make money, SHORTAGE OF WILLING DENTISTS

And so on.

The reason no one considers how to entice more landlords (ie. to increase the supply of units) is -- everyone probably thinks "landlords have no choice. They MUST rent their units." It's NOT TRUE.

When public policy acknowledges this point -- maybe we can all stop believing "we don't need to entice landlords -- they have units, they MUST rent them out (so we can control and limit their business).
> but so far, Erlang has failed to deliver on most of the promises that its advocates repeatedly make.

Speaking of citations...
I'm interested in how they 3d printed this picture. Also how they colored it.
You opened it in exactly the set of Anglo-Saxon countries (minus New Zealand). You're saying this was a coincidence?
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Since this is your first job out of school, this tip won't help you unfortunately.
In any case, it's good to keep a buffer of 6-months spending handy in savings (outside of retirement accounts, those should preferably NEVER be touched outside of TRUE emergencies). Having a buffer-fund, you will find, will keep your mind at ease and give you options to walk away from very toxic environments.
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Human artist would most likely inject their own take into "imitation" art, but if the computer's art was purely derived from an artist past work, it's only inspired by the artist work; this is in theory, even the code to enable this would most likely have biases that would result in artifacts in the "new" art.
Yes, it's more accurate to say that they have an AI forger.

Maybe some money in that ;)
Thanks for such a detailed advice. Couple of things regarding the example of a regular person trying to connect with say Travis, Mark cuban or trump.
- First of all I think those might be desired but are mostly less frequent cases so designing a platform around that is not ideal IMO
- I like your friends take on it. But like you said there is a problem with it. I think this idea can really solve the problem of introduction through mutual connections though. Because lets say you asked a friend for an introduction to somebody influential. Because the platform knows how your friend initially connected with that influential person( By contact forms or well defined edges), the platform can hint you the quality of your friends connection with that person.

It is a tough but interesting problem.
Not quite -- it's so that the client can know which node is which. (When rendering on the client, it can just store a direct reference to each created node.)
In some of the responses below I mention the design to be something akin to an airbrush printer. A half-cylinder shaped rail guided system that allows for full articulation around facial features.

Addressing makeup: People are unlikely to want to pay for something they can get for free elsewhere is not necessarily true. We know this given that the majority of people will buy an OS instead of using a free one like linux, or using alternative app stores instead of gatekeeping software such as the mac app store or Google play. Makeup artists deliver free tutorials, suggestions and tips. To replicate the look requires purchasing the same products and applying the makeup with the same skill level as the makeup artist. If a look to own is $0.99 and can be instantly applied in less than a minute, we believe this stands to be an attractive option.

We believe we can do this better. Say you want a painting in your room, instead of watching a Bob Ross video on how to paint a particular landscape, he gives you a digital copy you can print at home. In a few minutes you can have an excellent high quality print adorning your wall, or you could go through the process of doing it yourself.

Incubation period for a fully featured product would be long, but for argument's sake, developing an MVP that allows for foundation, eyeshadow, lips, brows, blush would be doable via airbrush alone (as it currently is by hand) in a reasonable period of time. Other motion types with different applicators would require further study and consideration. You raise a good point that different faces would require different amounts of product. This may be adjusted by the end-user or heuristics applied when facial data is scanned in.

Current professional airbrush kits are approximately $100-$500 in range. An initial, albeit lofty goal, would be to deliver a subsidized main device sub $1000 USD, with purchasable makeup refills as main revenue.
Firstly, California property taxes are limited by Prop 13 to being 1% of assessed value, so your $30k tax bill can only happen if your property went to $3 million. A $1 million house cannot have a tax higher than $10,000.

There are well-established solutions to your issue about people being forced out of housing with rising demand. Massachusetts allows tax deferrals up to 50% of a property value. (If you want to get technical, Massachusetts allows towns/cities to allow tax deferrals; if your city does not want to offer it, they do not have to)

So, your $250,000 -> $1 million dollar house allows up to $500,000 in tax deferrals, so you've got a lot of years you can live in that house without paying taxes. When you sell the house, you pay the taxes and also pocket a pretty sum on the appreciation in the value of the house.
For the GP's reasons? I'd be curious what percentage here do drive stick.

I never learned to drive manual. I'm ready to play on my iPhone while my Auto drives me to/from work daily.
Even more likely: whoever wrote that copy isn't the same person as whoever decided on the geo-locking policy.
Trying to prove the impossibility of something that is never going to go away as a requirement isn't very useful.

An alternative would be to describe potential break-points and conditionals in the planning process. For instance, if a third party library can help you with some core functionality, it takes a few hours to investigate and an hour to implement.

But if it's not going to work for whatever reason, then you know you have to make your own, and the initial implementation could range from 4-6 weeks.

If you say "this will take either 4 hours or 4-6 weeks", that's far more useful and acceptable to management than saying "this will take somewhere between 4 hours and 6 weeks.

No one sane is asking for exact estimates, and no one smart is promising a hard deadline based on the assumption that nothing goes wrong. A good engineer will pad their estimate slightly for the same reason that airplanes carry more fuel than the exact amount they need to reach their destination. It's not a deceptive or inefficient practice, it's managing uncertainty.
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Wasn't Quake 3 the first game that had champfered corners that were actually round? I remember that being a technical achievement at the time.
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Too much typing / line noise.
Like atrial fibrillation, which I UST found out I have. I've been capturing my heart rate from a polar h7 chest band to an Android app, then visualising with grafanas stddev. The pattern is strikingly obvious
Jase has done VERY little work on the new app as far as I know. Pretty much all new devs.
Those are fine, I'm referring to the minor gradations on each role, as in Senior Manager Level 5, etc. Those are necessary in large, bureaucratic organizations where working one's way up a predictable ladder is the goal. In a startup, anyone who is more concerned with his/her title than with experience and results is likely better suited for a large, bureaucratic company where those HR-concocted titles are respected.
FYI - Google makes you take a personality test as part of the hiring process now for SDE. Mine was around 3 pages long. Reminded me of Myers-Briggs.
Auto racing is an example of this being the optimal strategy, not just a simple or cheap implementation. Disregarding cases where you have to feather the throttle or brakes to maintain traction, the best racing line is always (I think) where you mash the throttle on a straightaway until the absolute last possible instant, then immediately mash the brakes to slow down just enough to squeak through the turn. It takes some getting used to.
They actually did have a filibuster-proof majority for something like a few months, in between the fight over the Minnesota recount and Senator Kennedy's death. It's pretty much the only time during Obama's Presidency that Congress has been able to get shit done.
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"I see a ton of Show HNs in which I have no idea what the product does (either because the website copy is vague/confusing or because I don't know the market). "

This problem happens to me so much I just ignore most Show HN's. I open a mainstream website to find who they are, what problems they solve, their solutions in a high-level way, and datasheets or whatever giving technical specifics. Many Show HN's here are one page of stuff that I read and read all the way to the bottom before I even begin to grasp what the hell they're doing.

That could just be due to them working in a specialized niche with its jargon. Yet, I have an intuitive feeling that it's often a problem with the presentation because they're usually intending to reach (a) current, jaron-knowing users of specific tech and (b) future users who know the concepts or needs but not that specific tech & jargon yet. So, at least a few sentences or a paragraph for people in (b) might be helpful. And at the top to save time.
Data scienists working with editors on a story makes more sense. While not critical to the point, as far as I'm able to tell, John's never done any journalism.
I think the FAA would have a very big problem with ballistic trajectories crossing populated areas.
Oh hey, sorry, hadn't checked this thread in a while. It's Node, using ImageMagick for the page images and pdftk to assemble the final PDF. All the interesting bits (in my view, because email is mysterious to me) are handled by Mailgun http://www.mailgun.com/ which I've been very happy with so far.
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It depends how titles are used. If an organization has totally transparent comp and strives to link it with well-understood titles, it may make sense.

I'd much prefer a team where everyone's merit is judged by their day-to-day contribution rather than by the title they negotiated during the hiring process.
Not evict them, but reduce their "I was here first" privilege.
I use OsmAnd and am currently evaluating Maps.Me.

One thing OsmAnd can do is to set multiple waypoints before the destination then plan a route that hits the waypoints before the destination. This is good for planning routes from A to B to C, etc.

I don't think Maps.Me can do this yet.
I think we're talking about different things? You seem to be referring to parallelism in the literal, general sense of the word, while I'm referring to computational parallelism. Basically, if Amdahl's Law doesn't apply, then you're looking at concurrency. So this statement

> from the perspective of the programmer, there's no difference between two threads running at the same time or by time sharing

is incorrect when you're talking about computational parallelism (as OP was), because you're not going to realize any speedups with time sharing. In that case, you're using threads as a concurrency mechanism -- not for parallelism.
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Ahh, OK - if you're in a field so small that everybody knows everybody, it's somewhat different to the "Can you spell Javascript? Great, how does $140k and a BMW as a signing bonus sound? We're building Uber-but-for-seahorses!" scenario :-)
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Just trying to get a feel for how many people might be interested in this.
Chiming in as another participant in the Thiel Fellowship who's had a similar experience. Dylan's spot on.