skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No kidding, I think we all forget the philanthropic mission of every VC out there. I think the primary problem is the insult of putting the VCs in the same class as the employees.

I will agree that dividends should generally be used when the investors are able to invest the money better than the company can.

eg. If an putting the cash into ops will generate a 6% return and investors are able to earn 8% then a dividend should be issued.

If you can fill out your round, get cash and not have to dilute as a CEO why wouldn't you? That would be like a VC turning down free equity.
No, that money doesn't go directly into the partners' pockets. It also goes to pay the VC firm's rent, travel cost, salaries of associates and support staff, legal/accounting costs associated with the deal, and a bunch of other things.

It is generally accepted that a vast majority of a VC partner's income comes from their share of the fund's return, not from the management fee. It is not unheard of for a VC firm's costs exceed the management fee, such that the partners loose money unless the fund has a positive return.
Yes, that would make sense. The site I got this from (http://the.taoofmac.com) mentions using PyPy on all machines to run it (which is effectively Python 2.7.1 at this point), but then again, you have to match versions very closely when you're using Hadoop and HDFS anyway... Python is actually easier to deploy in matched runtimes across a cluster :)
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VCs are guys handling money, they need entrepreneurs (guys getting things done) and vice-versa. They sign a contract which mainly defines how each gets to profit from the other one and the boundaries of their interactions afterwards. It's well-known and the web is full of articles about preferred stock, liquidation preference, convertible debt and similar topics.

But this article is about something new - a dividend that mainly goes only to the founders. It's about entrepreneurs screwing early-employees, entities that until now I've always considered as been in the same bucket. You can rightfully claim that the messenger sucks (which might be well-known) but that doesn't imply anything on the message itself (or its novelty).
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That the US's implementation of this law is heavily lopsided in favor of the patent trolls doesn't change the fact that patents incentivize innovation. (Whether they're effective or not is another debate.)

And does it need pointing out that without the government's intervention, banks that give out irresponsible loans would simply go out of business?
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A brief recap of your enriching comments:

What a stupid thing to say. Have you ever read about the currency crisis?
This is from a Wikipedia article you could have found in 30 seconds [...]
I don't give a fuck about Argentina for the purposes of this conversation [...]
[...] follow more closely the points being made before following any compulsion to chime in.

Maybe you should spend more than 30 seconds on a topic (and give a fuck about it) before giving in to your compulsion to chime in. In particular if you feel like being arrogant and isulting at the same time, calling others' ideas "stupid". Well done...

Edit: For the record, you have conceded in the points of substance, particularly considering the minutiae you are addressing and all that you are surprisingly leaving out. You stated earlier:

I know what did happen --default, followed by an IMF-imposed austerity program, led to 50% poverty.

And yet poverty went down right after default and devaluation ("currency crisis"), as shown clearly in the two plots given above. Do you get that? If the rate in question (i.e., poverty) goes down after your chosen event (i.e., default), it's plain nonsense to claim said event pushes the rate up! Talk about the complexity of the "mixed yield" of simultaneous default and devaluation if you will, but just don't bring up stats because they will destroy your point, counselor.

This is what you have been in this thread: an arrogant, cocky lawyer who gets his most vital piece of evidence hilariously backwards.
I can't find your email
I don't like this one bit. I was on Youtube and noticed I was logged in. Then when I logged out on a "Video Sharing Site", I was logged out of my "E-Mail Program" that was open in another tab too. I was scared for a second that a public Youtube profile had been made from my gmail-address, so people can view my last log-ins. I also looked, to no avail, at a way to disconnect my personal Gmail-account from Youtube.

I will miss the personalization. But for me this too will mean less browsing while logged into Google services. It is not the same scale like Spotify requiring a Facebook account, but it is close enough to make me cringe and worry about my favorite online services.
The honking is driving me nuts. They're required to hit the horn four times per crossing. Sometimes it's a series of quick blasts. Other times, they'll lay on that thing for -- I swear -- five full seconds per honk. Midnight, 2am, 3am, they don't care. I'm around a mile away from the track, and I can't imagine what life could possibly be like for those who live closer to the track.
Well, and that investors are being asked to "invest" millions of dollars into the founders' personal wealth.
The Internet Isn’t Just Another TV Pipe
Are motorcycles 'greener' than cars?
SHA-1 has a digest size of 160 bits. The first two bytes of these beautified hashes are predetermined, which lowers the size to 144 bits. For a more than 50% chance of a collision, more than 4 sextillion hashes[1] would have to be generated, compared to 1 septillion hashes[2] for the normal digest. A difference of an order of a magnitude, yet absolutely nothing to be worried about. Collisions are vastly more likely to be caused by a stray cosmic ray than actual chance.

[1] 2^(144/2) ~= 7e21

[2] 2^(160/2) ~= 1e24
Also see the mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/raphaeljs/92YU952ohH...
How does one get past slide 10?

The UI of this slide deck is highly frustrating.
This is probably a 'qualified dividend' already taxed at same rate as long-term cap gains.
> A lot of people enjoy driving.

"Distance and antagonism" isn't about driving, it's about the relation to other drivers.
GMail users are the biggest users of "other" Google services around, because of the integrated login. Because of the "contagion" working over time.

Most normal people like that behavior. I had all these Google contacts on my computer, now they're on my phone when I bought it and signed in. Or I made Google checkout for my phone, now I can rent movies on Youtube. Or buy a book I saw in search results. And my phtos from my phone go right to Picasa. Where I can use the Google checkout to buy photo prints of them.

That your Android account is your gmail account is your youtube account is a selling point of Google services to a normal person.

I heard that Android thing is doing pretty well, and it is the single most heavily account integrated thing Google has ever done. The contagion seems to be working so far as "active user" accounts go.
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>It's about entrepreneurs screwing early-employees,

Yes, that surprised me a lot! Especially from founders that are somewhat "famous" and are connected to YC. I expected they don't play these tricks. Greed?

Anyone knows how their employees reacted to this news? If I would have worked 50+ hours for year(s) and then read this... :(
Basically if one of your controller has more than 10 lines of processing and you don't need to present the data to the user immediately, you can put that into a job, for example when a user register, you can add the new record to the database and redirect him, but you can send the welcome email 1-2 minutes late. And for presenting data, yeah, go cache everything, also take a look inside rails partial cache features, for example in a page, even that the results are dynamically generated, you can cache things like categories for example, or the blog post, and retrieve just the comments.
Git v1.7.7
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3060215
I started keeping separate browsers for my gmail,FB accounts and the rest of the web.

I signed up on Gmail to use the email, not for my identity management/profile for other things (say ad targeting). Google should let us choose disconnect our gmail, google+, youtube accounts.
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The problem Chamath is highlighting is not that the founders are cashing out. Or that early employees are not getting cash -- everyone with vested common stock gets a proportional amount of the cash.

The big difference is that since the founders aren't selling stock, they aren't being diluted, so the employees with unvested stock don't get more of the company.

Basically, vested common gets paid, common doesn't get diluted at all, unvested common gets relatively screwed (they'd own more of the company if it were a secondary sale).

Of course, dividend vs secondary also affects the investors' price, but I can't see Chamath making such a stink about a simple matter of price.
That mailing list post seems to be from 7.5 months ago. Is there any list of the changes that actually made it into this release?
Shift-click (via http://twitter.com/#!/DmitryBaranovsk/status/120131811857797...).
Figured it out, shift click.
Forbidden Fruits: Infographic Guide to Illegal Fruit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
In Silicon Valley all the best people aren't in it just for the money. Can't say that about Wall Street.
They apparently have two developer/sysadmins, so the $20K savings is less than a month of their salaries. For the redundancy and growth that affords, it's a no-brainer.
Poll: What's your biggest pain point / frustration with digital photos?
What frustrates you about your digital photos? If you could solve one problem related to them, what would you pick?
Organization: My photos are all over the place and/or unorganized.
Sharing: I can't easily share my photos with the people I want.
Archiving: It's too much work to back up my photos and I'm afraid I'll lose them all.
Social/Community: I want to have a social experience around my photos but don't like any of the options.
Other: Expand in the comments.
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Thanks, now I'm stuck at slide 16. A simple changelog would be better...
What is the best book(s) to read if you want to understand a bit about QED?

(I understand a bit about quantum physics; the book that helped me the most was Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert)

edited to add: I want to emphasize that I understand a tiny tiny bit of qp. I posted this comment hoping that there exists some analogue of Herbert's book for QED; a book which guides the motivated but non-physicist reader through the basics of the theory.
Denmark introduces world's first food fat tax
"100% failure rate at trying to change a company's culture." - Buffett, http://billflagg.blogspot.com/2010/05/berkshire-hathaway-201...
Someone downvoted this? Why?
Separately, when you look at successful tech companies, it seems that dividends are an approach used by cash rich operations to distribute excess earnings — in fact, the most successful, cash rich tech company in the world, Apple, hasn’t issued a dividend and they have more than $75B in cash!

The fact that companies can get away with something like this is absolutely ludicrous. It illustrates just how far the stock market has gone from its original purpose.

Back before companies had the ability to sweet-talk investors with bulging pockets, companies wanting capital had to raise it the good-old-fashioned-way: IPO. IPO used to have the ability to allow a company to access as much capital as it would reasonably need to grow. But with the preponderance of heavily privatized companies milking both the private AND the public side of the investment machine, the value-creating just cannot be accounted for properly. Something in the gears here needs to be tweaked.

A company like Apple with $75B cash (if that's true) should have a legal and an ethical obligation to pay out dividends to its shareholders. Tight-fisting cash doesn't do anything to the wealth-creating mechanism in our capitalistic society.
Full-time, on site. Hiring devs of all sorts.

If you're in the Boston area and interested in a similar mission with a focus on teacher impact - http://betterlesson.com

see also:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/betterlesson-grabs-1-6-mill...
Building my first startup & my first failure
Chamath Palihapitiya's statement on AirBnB email fiasco
One wonders if such a measure would help the increasingly obese american population [1] pay off its national debt...

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[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2010/09...
There was a time, as late as 5 to 10 years ago, where people were needed in the process. Nowadays, the same motions are being repeated because those people don't want to lose their jobs. And they are sufficiently low cost (250K is paltry for a 100M business) that the institutions themselves aren't really incentivized to streamline.
legal/accounting costs associated with the deal

Industry standard practice is that startups pay for costs associated with deals, not capitalists. That one is virtually universal. The grapevine tells me that it is not uncommon to see VCs travelling as board members. Some of them don't exactly fly coach.
I see what he's saying, but don't necessarily agree. I grew up in India and I'm not sure how the culture here is in the US, but most of my friends came from houses that were a maximum of 2 blocks away. Not how much of a difference you'd make by connecting houses that are as far apart as 2.5 miles.

The link is great though, It seems obvious on hindsight, but I didn't realize cities were explicitly planned this way.
The 3 points you make forget the little guy: that early employee, whose employee number has 1 digit, who trusted the founders when he accepted the option grant and put 60 hours of work or more each week in the hope of not being screwed when the founders negotiate confidentially with the investors on how the company will move forward.

There's no SEC for privately-held companies, there is basically no oversight and the confidentiality clauses make it almost impossible for this little guy to find out how he's getting screwed and by whom. Learning and talking about it is the only way to fix it, and I'm a bit concerned that you completely overlooked this aspect in your comment.
Scared the shit out of me as well and I absolutely hate it.

The sad thing is: There would be an easy solution to solve this trickery. Just giving Firefox a right click option. Not "open in new window", not "open in new tab" but "open in clean (aka cookie free) window".

With I had the coding skills to realize that. Or is there already something similar out?
I think Raphaël is a nice idea: it’s great for people who want their stuff to be compatible with old versions of internet explorer, and it makes it very easy to build trivial things.

To be honest though, I found that in trying to build anything more complex or with much user interaction, just working directly with SVG APIs and building up my own abstractions as necessary was easier and much more flexible. People shouldn’t be afraid to learn SVG: it’s pretty easy!

For anything driven by data, I recommend looking at D3, which is designed around some very powerful ideas.
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Definitely a vote for organization. I feel like sharing has been solved. I can take a photo on my phone and share it via Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter, Email, and more in a few seconds.
keep drinking the kool-aid
Chrome has a "Open Link in Incognito Window" option.
My bet is they skip NFC and go straight to Bluetooth 4.0, which includes Bluetooth low energy. They already went that direction with the new airs and minis.
"Aurora" is an homage to an old Netscape codename from the late 1990s:

http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&S...
Google App Engine Python 2.7 trusted tester sign-up form
I'm slightly disappointed. The iPhone 4 is a beautiful and high quality device, but I have never liked the way the square edges feel in my hand. I would love to see a return to the 3G/S curved back design.
what traits are worse than greed for (successful) entrepreneurs? you highlight woz's intervention, but then say greed isn't as bad as...?
Are you suggesting that this VC pattern justifies the actions of founders who take $21M as dividends ?

I don't think that particularly requires moral justification, any more than an engineer saying "That offer is interesting but I would prefer $5,000 more and an extra week of vacation" requires moral justification. Capitalism happens. Sometimes, it even happens to rich people.

Edit for context: "Capitalism happens" is shorthand I frequently use for "Sometimes one party in honest negotiation with another has leverage, perhaps because of how supply and demand for the product being sold shake out, and this is natural and not particularly noteworthy." I usually say it when rich people complain how much money they are paying for things like e.g. engineers or shares in a hot startup.
Yes, for the kind of companies which where part of the sample.

Which where no doubt the kind of companies that Buffett likes to invest in.

Which are not the tech start-ups that people who come here wants to start.

It is possible to change the culture for a small company especially if it is you and your friends. It is properly not possible to deliberately change the culture in MS.
http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Princeton-Science-Library/...

and also

http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8
This kind of sucks for me because my upgrade schedule is synced to the "S" versions.
It actually explodes, but then leaves vacuum and water vapor behind.
Very good point - I actually had just edited my point 3 (first sentence) to add this point, posted the edit, and then saw your post. This definitely fits into the equation in an important way as part of the policy discussion. Thanks for highlighting it.
It seems ironic to use a Google product in order to beat the Google tracking system. I would much more prefer to stay with Firefox in that case.
Then there is a big market for him in the Netherlands.
I honestly don't see what aspect of that post is arrogant? Could you elaborate, because if there is something in there and I don't see it, I don't want to make the same mistake (I'm not be sarcastic!)
Spam, ignore.
That the US's implementation of this law is heavily lopsided in favor of the patent trolls doesn't change the fact that patents incentivize innovation. (Whether they're effective or not is another debate.)

Whether they're effective or not is another debate? The truth or falsity of your preceding "fact" is unimportant?

IP trolling is the patenting of obvious stuff (or buying out the rights to dumb patents) for the purpose of harassing other parties with legal threats. Whether IP law really does encourage innovation in general or not, that activity clearly does not encourage innovation, and it doesn't "produce value." It's called rent-seeking for a reason. They don't want to get paid for producing value, they want to own things. It's a return to the principles of feudalism.

And does it need pointing out that without the government's intervention, banks that give out irresponsible loans would simply go out of business?

Focusing on the banks alone is missing the forest for the trees. The whole mess involved a stack of businesses from mortgage brokers to banks to investment firms to financial services firms. And there was fraud, dereliction of duty, and malfeasance at every level.

Most of those businesses haven't had any "government interference," and are doing well enough, considering how badly home sales have stalled. Some have absolutely made out like bandits.
I've lived on a dead-end street (but not a cul-de-sac), and I've lived on a regular traffic street. I definitely preferred the dead-end with the lack of traffic and noise, and ability for kids to play in the street without fear of a car going 50 down it. And people did socialize with neighbors on the dead-end street (although maybe not as much as the regular street).
> I imagine Google will kill it at some point

This seems fantastically unlikely (one might say FUD-ish) given their numerous public statements to the contrary, e.g. in this article: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/google-revises-google-r...
Once accepted, you will be given a link to the documentation page. [1] The new Python 2.7 runtime will be released by December 1, 2011. [2] See also the original post in the group. [3]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/gaepython27testing/

[2] https://plus.google.com/110401818717224273095/posts/AA3sBWG9...

[3] https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-python/brow...
Old Visualizations Made New Again, with Coffeescript and d3.js
China Launches 'Heavenly Palace-1' Into Space; Takes Step Toward Station
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On, has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race."

Calvin Coolidge