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I couldn't really understand this comment, but if the question is, have I, the cold-hearted asshole who made the parent comment, ever actually founded a company, taken money, and poured my life into it: yeah. Have. With VC and everything!

As the article points out, there can be sensible reasons for letting the founders cash out. The conflict between early exit (that sets the founders up for life) and risky home-run (that meets the numbers the VC needs) is classic. I saw it firsthand in the last startup I worked for. It caused a palace coup that replaced the management team. I understand the issue.

But what does that have to do with the question I responded to? Sorry, it's not despicable for investors to focus on their investment and not the personal problems of founders.

(If I'm wrong about what you meant, let me know and I'll delete this comment; I'm not trying to be antagonistic.)
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A government by definition is a monopoly on violence, which leads to the next question - why would any goods or service require a monopoly on violence?

I would argue a coercive monopoly on any market is counter-productive and unnecessary (they even claim to protect us from such monopolies, thanks SEC). Even if we're talking about delivering mail, UPS, FedEx and DHL are evidence that an involuntary service CAN be provided voluntarily. Voluntary is always better than involuntary.

Does laying tar on the ground need a monopoly on violence? What about delivering packages? Collecting taxes actually DOES require such monopoly. Markets work because humans have preference. Even a democratic government cannot account for the preference of it's territory without disenfranchising a large population! If you don't like blockbuster, you can use netflix. Don't like UPS? Use fedex. Don't like Homeland Security? Well that's too damn bad.
I would have thought it (in general) impossible to store more than 2^15/log2(10000)~2500 integers between 1 and 10000 in 4kB, but I look forward to hearing more.

Yeah, I was thinking about that, too. Something theoretically screams 'No' to me. You have 2^15 bits of storage available, and each number takes log2(10,000) bits, I can't see storing more than the one divided by the other, if each number is equally likely and random.

But! Since we have flexibility in the order in which the integers are stored in the array, could we store a couple "meta integers"? e.g. Could we put our 2,500 integers in the array in such a way that the bits in log2(10,000) locations spell out a 2,501st integer between 1 and 10,000?

I feel like it can't always work: maybe our 2500 integers are just such that there's no way to put them in to spell out the meta integer. OTOH, that's just one scheme I thought of, and perhaps there is a way I'm not thinking of that we can leverage the order in which we put the integers in the array. There might be some free "information" that way that is not being counted by the simple number of bits of storage.

Another thought: Maybe the default ordering of the integers is ascending, and we can break that known ordering in certain places to convey information about the 2501 integer. But then -- what if all the integers given are the same? Sigh.
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Ask HN: Why help, or protect WikiLeaks? 
I find my self really pissed off at the general lack of support for freedom of information, and can see my self getting involved somehow, but before I do anything I want to make sure that I am informed.

I imagine there has been a line of discourse over the years about the idea of leaking state secrets when there is a believed greater good. Does someone know a way to get a primer on this line of discourse.

What are the preeminent arguments in this space, books, papers, people?
"Release gccgo in gcc is going to introduce a difficulty for Go programmers who use it. The Go language continues to evolve, but gcc 4.6 will not. That means that people using gcc 4.6 will be using a language which will be increasingly out of date. I don’t think there is any way to avoid that problem at this stage. The language will become more stable over time."
Kelly’s overarching philosophy owes to business texts, most directly,
the writings of Jim Collins (“Good to Great” and “Built to Last,” among others),
who argues that successful organizations coalesce around a concise, easily
communicated core mission. Kelly said: “If someone says to me,
‘What do you stand for?’ I should be able to invite them to practice and in
five minutes, they’d say: ‘I see it. I get it.’
They stand for playing hard and playing fast.”

This could be applied to your product's home page. The difference is that you'll be lucky to get 60 seconds.
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Totally - then again DB9s are a poor choice for a daily driver - at least a Porsche can survive the grind - try driving anything British or Italian daily - won't end well!
We'll likely be able to see this showdown in a few more weeks (Oregon vs. Auburn).
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The founder's personal problems have everything to do with the business. If a founder's life falls apart, then it's the business that will suffer. Keeping founders poor is a great way to make an investment more risky.
Well, I gave some examples, like providing a basic safety net, and policing. Hayek makes a good argument for why these can't, or at least are unlikely to, be provided voluntarily, which is one reason he's a free-market advocate but not an anarcho-capitalist.
I'm not even talking about a plugin, but just distribute the whole browser as a NF app for linux. Some of the OSS purist are still against any closed source apps, but that doesn't stop closed source game binaries or other enterprise software like Oracle from releasing app that run on linux.
"See how being hurt can be subjective?"

Oh yes, that completely destroys my claim that being hurt is not subjective. I'd best go back and edit that out.

Oh, wait a second. It seems that I made no such claim and you've delivered a total non sequitur that has nothing at all to do with the topic at hand. I'm as astounded as you are, which is why I doubled-checked, but it came out the same; it seems that rather than read other people's comments, you're just guessing what they might have said.
Individual streams aren't parallelizable, but if you have many streams open at once you could hypothetically process them together in parallel instead of separately in parallel as it is with a CPU.

Also, there are block modes that are seekable and thus could be parallelized if you had a big enough backlog, CTR mode in particular, but parallelizing individual streams is not likely to reap big enough rewards to justify the complexity.
I remember hearing from a coach (albeit soccer) constantly: "Size hurts, speed kills." It can definitely be applied to the business/start-up arena. Agility and speed of innovation are often crippled as a company grows, leaving others to out-innovate, respond more quickly to market demands and capitalize on new opportunities.
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That list primarily covers B2C. There is a whole set of options in the B2B market it never touches.
~15 seconds, but I'm halfway around the world (India)
It seems as if the good programmers are finally waking up to the actual value they bring to the table, as opposed to just taking a job getting paid about the same as the not superstars. This would explain why companies aren't happy with the level of applicants, and why most people have trouble getting a job.
Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. Friendster was DOA.

Not bad overall, but I think he's wrong about friendster. They did have scaling problems, but what I remember most is Jonathan Abrams actually going to war against his users because he wanted friendster to be a dating service.

And this bit of epic fail:

After a few flashes of what appears to have been a trademark grimace, Abrams took the strongest position of the evening, declaring that Friendster is not a social networking business and observing that "When I started Friendster, I never imagined that it would part of a 'space'".

In fact, Abrams deried the idea that there was any sort of space here at all, perhaps astutely adding that this buzz seemed to him like 'push' or 'web servives' — not just in being areas which ended up overinvested, but in that they were not real 'areas' to begin with, just loosely associated businesses (or pseudo-businesses) grouped around a hot topic. Abrams came away with the nice line "When I hear entrepreneurs and VCs talking about a space, it means there is trouble ahead."

-- http://many.corante.com/archives/2003/09/17/social_networkin...

I remember at the time thinking "either the rest of us have succumbed to some sort of groupthink mass delusion and only he can see clearly, or he's an idiot who got lucky by accident and is now making the mistake of the decade."
also...

normalized for the number of iOS devices out there (vs. the # of WP7 devices), WP7 probably "won" here.

(although I agree that this is sort of a non-story)
It doesn't matter how many users you have or how much information you have if you can't monetize it, especially when you have to categorically rule out all the obvious options (charge people money to use the service, sell people's private information) and other feasible options (sell devices designed to integrate with Facebook) are instantly shot down by the company's own efforts (free iPhone and Android apps).

Maybe Facebook will find a way to make tons of money, rather than merely tons of hype. As it stands, I bet the number of users they have represents high cost rather than high revenue potential. It's definitely too big to go away, but unlike Groupon, it also hasn't found a way to make tons of money yet, and no method to do that seems forthcoming.
It sounds like one way to make money working there would be for debt-free employees to assume some debt at less than 5% interest so that the higher real wage and 5% top-up payments kick in. There are some interesting ideas here with the exception of section 4 which sounds like a cult. Not everyone wants their workplace to function like a commune.
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Let's not veer off into crazytown here. I'm not saying the founders are irrelevant to the business. I see why you think I might have been. I'm saying that it's not despicable for venture capitalists not to care about the founders wedding. They are making an investment. Do I care about the well being of the guy who manages VFINX?

What percentage of the founder/investor drama you read about on HN comes from misunderstandings about that basic fact? 90%?

You can imagine a better world in which everyone worked together as a team to the betterment of all involved, but the reality is that you are in business, and there are going to be times when business doesn't give a sh#t about your problems.

I think this gets overlooked because we read a lot about a very specific investor who seems unusually attuned to the well-being of its investments. But they do that because it makes very good business sense, and because they've rigged their model so that the success or failure of any one investment is much less impactful than it would be at Battery Ventures; they have less incentive to be ruthless.
This article finally adds detail about how the Google hacks were carried out - something I've been waiting for since the first day of cablegate, when it was mentioned that there were cables discussing the event.
One of my surprisingly life lessons from 2010: "revenue makes money less attractive" is true at numbers much, much smaller than 6 billion, too.
There seems to be a theme here. "Jason is a jerk because he's overly confident and brags and expects people to work hard." So? That's the exact type of person who should be running a startup. When you're facing long odds against you, only someone who's completely confident in themselves and their idea will get over the hurdle. Frankly there's almost nothing worse than working for a meek, type-b manager who doesn't have a clear vision. Believe me, I've done it. As a side note: I'd work for Jason in a heartbeat, work as many hours as necessary and do whatever I could to help his company succeed. And I'd relocate to LA tomorrow if there was a spot for me. Because working there is worth more than the money you'd make. After you invest your time with him he'll invest with you. He said as much in the video. Will your boss do that?
I'm a YC Winter 2011 startup looking for a(nother) technical co-founder
I'm a YC Winter 2011 batch startup. I have a single founder. He's called pclark.

But he's technical and a pretty nice guy so I don't feel like him flying solo will spook awesome people too much. He's spent the past 2.5 years on a previous startup that sadly ran out of capital and has closed down (after various pivots and other fancy verbs.)

pclark has a computer science degree but doesn't think of himself of a developer as much as a generalist. He loves talking and selling. Building stuff. He's kind of "the other half" to the guy that builds a product and then wonders how to get users; except pclark can help you build it and especially loves shooting shit over IDE vs text editor over tea (or starcraft.)

Startups win by a) never giving up and b) having brilliant contrarian people. We want someone that is the software hacker to pclarks' business hacking.

I'm a startup. I haven't launched. Hell, I don't even have a name. So I guess we're looking for a founder that likes helping name what they've built as well as building it.

You should know how to build websites quickly. Your #1 skill should be building stuff. Any technology, pclark is a comp sci and fast learner - as long as it isn't something lame like haskell - seriously, rails, python, whatever you use.
You have the skill set - and passion - to be CTO as we scale.

I want to be licked. This is a product that needs to be lick-able, pclark will hire a designer, but you have to care about details.

I'm helping companies connect with brilliant people. Job boards are dinosaurs. It probably isn't what you think, but it's pretty awesome. Happy to talk about it via email.

I should warn you that as of today i have no serious comp sci problems to solve. You should be flexible in that you want to run a company; rather than want to build a specific product.

I'm going to be huge. I want to be one of those companies that returns the entire Sequoia fund when I IPO. I don't believe people should be embarrassed for aiming at the stars, having an awesome vision that impacts millions of people. Selling your company for $50M is cool, but you know whats cooler? A billio-- never mind. This is a company that wants to scale with venture capital financing in the future.

I want to be profitable within 3 months. 2 months really. I think we'll manage that with a lot of hard work, a lot of learning, and a lot of fun.

So here's the deal: email pclark [peterclark@me.com] with:

* what you've built in your own time [and launched]

* the longest time you were hyper focussed on something

[development, startup, hobby, video game, degree, etc]

* what you do when you're not working on a friday evening

* what kind of animal you are

* why you're great

join pclark. move to mountain view. be funded by yc. be an equal equity founder. learn. have a riot for the next 5 years as we crush it. technologic.

Happy to provide references from YC alumni, friends, investors, family about what pclark is like. He's a nice enough guy, elaborate sense of humour, but serious business when it calls.
yeah if you have a real a business, making real revenue, then selling really isn't a huge priority, and you can work on making something really huge.

However, I do think that Groupon is an exception to this. You can't build a long lasting business, when your business model relies on tricking people into throwing a ton of money down the drain. Once the whole hype ends, and all business owners realize what a bad business proposition Groupon is, they'll lose their market...and will regret not taking the offer.
You can say something snarky by downvoting :)
While not related to the content of the article, the title reminded of Eagle Computer. Its CEO, Dennis Barnhart, bought a Ferrari and accidentally drove over a cliff and was killed on the day of their IPO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Computer
Check out DRYML from the Hobo project (hobocentral.net). You build taglibs that can be used and overridden however you like.
1 (authority). Sure :)

1 (eval). eval() is different in Python and Lisp. I was talking about Python eval(), which requires an interpreter.

2. Lisp "strings" aren't really strings in the way they are in python, which is what I was trying to say by "structured".

3. They may shun eval, but they don't shun import, which is the same thing.

What I'm saying is that the techniques Lisp compilers use do not apply to Python (or at least, no-one has ever shown how they do apply). I don't know enough Lisp to be confident as to why that is, but I believe it's because they don't do such massively dynamic things at run-time (that is, they can, but don't). Or perhaps they do, in which case their programs can't really be statically compiled in a gcc-like manner, which brings us back to our original point.
Let me rephrase that: App has very significantly larger marketshare on windows 7 phones than iPhone.
WikiLeaks is violating the terms of service of most of the companies they are trying to use, so their accounts get shut down.

This has nothing to do with censorship nor giving in to political pressure, stop seeing conspiracies everywhere.
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wepay and paypal would face the same issues of false positive on fraud. The only thing that could help would be the day all banks implements OpenTransact which is basically OAuth for payment http://www.opentransact.org/ with no intermediary between banks, maybe one day... I know Banksimple said they would implement it.
WikiLeaks. They stole documents and they are publishing them without the consent of the owners. The fact that this owner is the government is irrelevant.

How would you feel if it were your personal emails that were published on a public web site like this?
Well, an A+ is worth 4.3, so if you're some kind of superhuman I suppose you could get a 4.3 overall, though it's not really practical when you're taking 3 classes a quarter and being a TA or RA. I managed to get three of those, and honestly I think I earned them - I worked extremely hard throughout my MS and that occasionally resulted in very strong results. There are some classes with inflation-compatible grading schemes (Pat Hanrahan's 148 comes to mind, in which, when I took it, 7/8 projects offered 25% extra credit each, and each project was 10% of one's grade, meaning the maximum grade for the course was 117.5%...though I didn't get an A+ in that course, since I didn't do well on the exams), but they're the minority.
Interesting. Google uses gcc for all its C++ code internally, and I would say that it has way more gcc expertise internally than LLVM. I heard some figures once that each extra percent of performance they get out of gcc is worth $1m dollars per product, for each of their 10 most important products. I think that's per year. (eg a 4% improvement in the speed of gcc-compiled code would save them $40m a year).
Since I was one of the downvoters, I'll explain: he did not break the law, I don't think anyone has committed treason in these little kerfluffles, and furthermore, I don't think "he broke a law" is a good argument to not show support. Legality != morality.
And a great one at that.
I think it would be nice if this were a co-founder meetup/founders networking & drinks.

Broaden the horizon a little and include founders who are not looking for co-founders among the networking time.

Try it as an iteration and see if it improves the quality of entire evenings experience for everyone.
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I think it would've made more sense if "services" was combined with "support" as a sub-bubble of "sell stuff."

so you either (1) sell something, (2) give something a way and monetize indirectly or (3) do something illegal.
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>France and United States, which always criticized China and other regimes due their policies on freedom of expression, are doing the same now

This is a terrible comparison. In China, if you publish something like Wikileaks, the government will order your webhost to take it down and then send goons out to take you away. In the US, one senator basically sent letters or publicly asked companies not to cooperate. No evidence of any threat to harm people.

Sure it is a curtailing of freedom of speech, much like prohibiting yelling fire in a theater is, but its not on the order of China.
First, an 8-figure exit is a outlying success for an A-round funded company. It is the king-high straight of startup outcomes. Twitter drew quad jacks; Facebook got a straight flush. You aren't going to draw a straight flush. Don't benchmark outcomes that way. A $900,000 dollar (gasp!) payday would be enormously tempting to most startup founders.

Second, you can't settle for a crappy exit your VC doesn't believe in. You sold them board seats. They will stop you, and then they will fire you. Are there companies with terms that make this less likely? Yes; they also got dealt pocket aces. Did you?

My point? Why would VC's include cash-out terms for their typical investment? The whole investment is predicated on the idea that you're going to make their numbers.
Certainly there are more opportunities for brilliant and talented folks with every passing day. You can apply to an incubator like YC, TechStars or The Founders Institute (all great in their own ways). You can hit up www.OpenAngelForum.com or Angel List (angel.co).You can hit up the new crop of angel investors directly (assuming they keep investing!).

Or you can sharpen your skills working for a killer entrepreneur like myself for 30 to 48 months (my minimum recommend length). All of these are amazing possibilities. Coming to work for me and lasting three years or more means I will: a) Give you a Calacanis MBA in statups! b) Angel invest in your company, join your board and introduce you to other angels--provided it's a quality product. c) mentor you for all time d) get coffee with you any time e) introduce you to anyone i know--for all time. f) give you a recommendation on the phone--for all time g) blog/tweet/etc your latest victory to my legions of follers/the www.JasonNation.com!!! These things, I'm told, provide great value. it's up to the individual to decide their path... I provide but three: Open Angel Forum, angel investing, the launch conference (www.launch.is) and mentoring/hiring. rock on Jcal
I just closed my account, sent them and email, and retweeted the link. Thanks for putting it there?