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It's possible Google and Amazon have a peering arrangement so they may have paid little to nothing for the traffic.
Yes, I opened that link a few weeks ago (out of curiosity). Every single browser on Mac (all of them were either latest beta or stable) crashed.
If Riak was available as an on-demand service on any cloud provider other than Joyent then I would have jumped on it a while ago. If I ever had anything large enough to warrant it then I'd build my own cluster, but it's just not worth the effort/cost on a smaller build.
I think some of this is a result of the startup rhetoric about all the companies trying "change the world".

If that were actually true, that all the effort and money going into startups was actually focused on changing the world, then wouldn't it naturally be better to reinvest the money into that system?

Of course the reality, as we all know, is that it's only sometimes about changing the world, and sometimes it's a game to see if you can do it and win.

And since that's the case, it probably is better to channel some of the money to people actually trying to change the world, assuming those organizations are as carefully selected as the startups that generated the money are.
"sad to see so much misplaced cynicism here"

Seems that over the last several years or so there has been an uptick in wealthy people using peer pressure to get other wealthy people to give away their money according to some rule of thumb that one groups thinks is right or fair. Wealthy people always gave away money and pressured others at charity events of course. But I don't remember it ever being so public.

I have an objection to this type of peer pressure. Just like I have an objection to Warren Buffet and his "Buffet Rule".

It seems that one of the most downvoted comments below is one where "PR" was mentioned. Was this done for PR reasons. No not entirely. But it also wasn't done anonymously either.
> I am now of the opinion that the C++ compilation model is broken, or more charitably, has been shown to not have learned from the compilation models of the following languages:

I think that both are correct. But it should be noted that what you call a lack of learning, is really quite deliberate. Since it began, one of the design constraints of C++ has been almost total backward compatibility with C. That means that C++ is permanently stuck with a 40-year-old compilation model.
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As someone who has done some work in the Alumni area, there is research (sorry, I don't have a reference at the moment) which stated something like: If an alumni doesn't make a donation (even $1) in the first 3 years of leaving their organisation, the chance they will ever make a donation is a small percentage. If they donate something (no matter how small) in the first three years, the chance they will donate again is 80%. (I can't remember the exact figures).

ie Donators donate - no matter what their circumstance. Everyone else just promises to 'in the future' and never do.

So kudos to them for committing to donate and not just waiting to do it sometime in the future.
My job is helping people start business, and I do it in large part because I think it's good for the world, so you don't need to preach to me on the benefits of business.

The mistake being made by many here is concluding that since business can be good for the world, therefore everything that isn't a for-profit business must be a waste. Not all good things are profitable.
the money they make for their LPs goes to pension funds, universities, businesses, etc. which in turn creates more jobs, start-ups, investments, donations to charities, etc.

If you're going to donate to charity, do it personally and without all the media hype.
You have to understand though that "charity" is a word just like "education", "religion", "race", "child molester" that is a third rail. People will rarely speak out against the first 4 and nobody, with the exception of a defense attorney or possibly family will ever take the side of a person accused of the latter.
Would you rather that they compete over who has the largest yacht or the most jets? Think of it as a positive form of conspicuous consumption. Just as a business can be good for both the owner and the customer, charity can be beneficial for both the givers and the recipients.
Now usually I don't do this, but: Who are you, jimmyvanhalen, to tell Paul Buchheit about "the most efficient way to spend capital", and how Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz should do their jobs? Since you apparently know so much about it, surely you top Paul's worth easily?
Yes, the idea of the analogy is that these concepts "make sense" near our current space-time location, but break down near the edges of our universe.

Our brains think that "North" and "earlier" are directions which can be extended infinitely, but they are wrong.
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Some changes are best made via a for-profit venture, and some aren't. I'm interested in both kinds of change, and that means that I'm involved in both worlds.
Isn't employee salary the #1 expense for most tech companies? And isn't the rule of thumb about $160,000 per year per employee on average, and that's assuming high-end engineer types? By that metric they'd need $16 million per year just to pay salaries. $45 million income is 2.8 times what's needed for salaries, which leaves plenty for profit.
Wonder if that's adjusted for timezones. Would be nice to have a checkbox to either align by UTC or the commit's timezone (if that's even available).
I'm wondering if the best option for them isn't to create a partnership with a existing manufactures. It will be easier for them to get in the market.
appeal to accomplishment, appeal to poverty, appeal to wealth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies
For what it's worth - that link looks really spammy. It reads as if you posted it and then got a bunch of friends to astroturf. Probably got flagged a lot. (the comments on HN, not the article).
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Can't find a business co-founder? That's pretty unusual it seems. What kind of work do you expect your business co-founder to do?
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There has been research done (by Alumni organisations) that show that the people who 'wait till they get rich' never donate. The 'wait till I get rich', despite the best of intentions, is just an excuse. The other related excuse is that 'I'll wait until I can make a sizeable and therefore meaningful donation'.

The research (and I don't have a link sorry) showed that if an Alumni made a donation, even $1, within 3 years of leaving, there was an 80% chance of them donating again. If they didn't make a donation within three years, the chance of them donating again in the future was very very small.

ie donators donate now. Everyone just makes excuses.

The fact is, you're always 'rich' enough to donate. Give up that coffee or muffin you were about to buy and donate a couple of bucks a week, or a month, every six months or whatever. If you can't do that, donate some time/your expertise to help out at a charity. If people are serious about donating money to charity, there is zero reason they can't start right now.
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The anonymity of the .onion sites scares me.

The content of a lot of .onion sites scares me. Definitely a higher concentration of crazy than I'm used to on the internet.
it was a good read, I +1 you.

what literally gives me a headache if I think about it for longer than 45 seconds is this question how come something could exist before anything existed. It had to exist, otherwise what existed after that wouldn't be created. But it was, and our universe and we are a prove of it. It feels like an almost perfect crime that we are a result of, if you can follow my thought here. I dont care how many billion of years in past I have to dig into. I dont care how many billions of lightyears I need to travel. At the end, at some point, there must be an end. Whats after it? Just think of it, for a moment. It exists right now in this second. Sure you wont see it in your lifetime, or experience it, but taken out time and distance from this equation, you would be there and experience it. Awesome stuff...
1. Amazon S3 would be a good way to host them, or you can write them directly to a directory on your web server either will do, Amazon will probably be faster and more resilient than your webserver. Dollar for dollar, you just can't scale and provide services like Amazon and the other do, at the price point that they are competing at. I always advice people that don't have infrastructure yet, to not get in that game. It has been turned into a commodity that few small companies can do at anywhere near the quality or speed per dollar that the providers can. If you want deep control of your systems go with Amazon and set your server up as an image on EC2 while using S3 for cheap storage. If you are not so concerned with having control of every little detail, go with StackMob or Heruko, just remember that these services have their own API's and platform, it can be a pain to port the back end away from them should you choose to.

2. Some apps are probably storing them on a flat file structure while others may be databasing them, the latter can cause performance degradation. If you need to store them in a searchable or index-able datastore it is better to store the attributes you need in a datastore with the filename and then return the path to the file in the filesystem. Also some are probably prefetching while others are not, you are going to have to look at your application requirements and see if you can reliability predict what images the user is going to access, if you can and the likelihood that they will look at the image is high, you should prefetch them.

3. Why an IOS developer? Why not find someone good with jQuery mobile. Most of the mobile web toolkits can provide 90% of the ondevice features and all you have to do to make them a native app that can be provided in app stores is create an application with a web view type controller in it, and point it to the HTML file. By doing this, you just have to have a small launcher application build for iOS, Android and whatever else comes along.
It depends who puts it in the store. The author still has all the rights to the software no matter if he puts it under GPL, but puttng it under GPL doesn't give anyone else the right to sell it in the app store.

Edit: Also, the app in question is under MIT and the used libraries under various permissive licences (https://github.com/mtigas/iOS-OnionBrowser/blob/master/LICEN...).
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I do this with album covers, book titles, and faces. Having a visual memory, the name of something is less memorable than the look, and colors of the thing itself.

So when I see something I want to remember later, I just hit the "Take Screenshot" bookmarklet in my bookmark toolbar, and know it will be on Folindux when I look for it later.
According to the Talmud, "The highest form of charity is helping people earn a livelihood."

So, regardless of motivation, these guys are good folks.
That's not value for the average Facebook user (for advertisers? sure, very much).

Google still makes bulk of its money from advertising. As you admit yourself, facebook has precious data for advertisers that Google doesn't. Facebook is pretty directly competing with google already and getting ad dollars that would have otherwise gone to Google. This is not easily noticeable right now because advertising is still growing pretty rapidly so everyone(including google) can show growth but over time, it will begin to show that Google has lost a specific type of ad market.

As long as people stay with FB...

So I have been on facebook since 2005. For over 5 years now, I have heard the argument that facebook is going to be another friendster and then myspace. I think it is time to put this argument to rest. Sure, facebook will die some day but I don't think its death is imminent.
The half they are giving away is money they would have otherwise taken as personal income, so it is in fact their own personal money.

The other thing you should understand is that top VC firms such as AH (or YC) are not capital constrained. Dumping in twice as much money won't produce twice as much innovation or profits.
You could also see it as a magnificent $0.65 per page.

Well...no. Not at all. It isn't semantics at all, anymore than saying that The McClatchy Company operates 30 newspapers.

Further the other comment opines that they're focused on growth. That seems incredible given that the blogging industry is on decline.
I hope you are sitting down. In fact, I will allow you to go and grab a cold one from the fridge before starting.

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My first foray into business ( I was 14): being an Amway distributor. It taught me the value of salesmanship. I lacked it, and made me focus on it for years.

Then it was the idea of selling bottled water at a local political event. It failed because me and my partner arrived there too late!
It also taught me about funding, because we borrowed some money for that. Money that we had to pay afterwards. I did, however, drink lots of refreshing water that week.

My first auto repair business. I took out a loan to buy equipment before even having one customer. Taught me the importance of getting customers before buying anything. Lost 5K in that one (at age 21).

My second auto repair business. I focused on doing on-site auto repair (like yourmechanic.com (the Y-combinator funded startup)). It failed because I lacked the marketing resources. Also, that business model has razor thin profit margins.

The shrink wrap business that almost was. It failed when I ordered $2K worth of product for my first client ( a family member, no less), and had to eat the cost (still have the prodcut!). He (his company) backed off, and left me broke.
Taught me to put everything in writing and to get deposits.

My first tech startup, which was about selling websites to doctors. I did not believe in the idea and it led me to waste time cold-calling doctors (well, their staff). Taught me to not do anything unless I really believe in the idea.

A mobile carwash service that I had for a couple of months (still have the equipment...). This one was an eye opener. First, it taught me the importance of pricing. I was asking for $5 per car wash and it drove customers away. Second, it was a business I wanted to operate but I did not want to do. I hate washing cars.

I'm missing a few, but all of my failures have led me to really sit back and negatively judge every idea I get. Innovafy was only born after I thought about it for months. Even though it has not launched, most of the focus has been on getting the marketing and customers, and the other on getting the software done. For me, getting the customers are first, then comes the software. Forget the MVP, get me the a bunch of people who will pay to have the MVP developed before even a line of code is written. This is what I cal MOP (Money Oriented Programming). Innovafy is at that stage right now, getting people to pay before they even see the service. How so? Turns out that being an avid student of marketing for more than 20 years has proven itself very worthy.

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I could publish an ebook if the interest is there.
Even when Googlebot becomes Chrome, I don't know how it will make sense of the Ajax content fragments and component-based UIs. I think in the short term most people are simply going to build their sites twice: once as a JS-heavy interactive app and again as a bare bones HTML app that will index well.
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Chrome and Flash are installing services, but they also create tasks in Task Scheduler. Will Firefox do this as well? Can one delete the services and have only the tasks running?
On the plus side for Google: just about anybody who would want a (creepy) Facebook account now has one. Many of those who do will find out what a liability putting your life, and too many of your conversations, in public is over the next few years. I don't want to be owned by Facebook.

I think Facebook has hit its high water mark. I have little doubt Google will invent something unexpected and useful.
a16z isn't short on LP money. This is basically money which would traditionally be spent on consumption by GPs (since they can't invest outside the fund, and 50% of crazy upside is more than enough to buy their stakes in the next fund).

Even if you view this as pure consumption, I respect Ben Horowitz more for a $100mm charity contribution than adding an extra $100mm extension to his house.

Due to how the funds are structured, it is different for a VC to donate carry/management fees vs. someone like Warren Buffet to liquidate equity to donate to charity.
How about just tweeting about it?

Pick a known local place and tweet it.
As far as I can tell that's actually what they did say:

"We are delighted to announce that the six General Partners of Andreessen Horowitz, with our families, are all committing to donate at least half of all income from our venture capital careers to philanthropic causes during our lifetimes."

http://bhorowitz.com/2012/04/25/our-philanthropic-commitment...

I think it's an extremely positive statement for them to make.
I don't think your analogy relies on this, but I should point out that spherical (or ellipsoidal, if you please) geometry is notable for being a non-Euclidean geometry.
The president could threaten to veto any bill that bundled unrelated issues unless it was split and passed as independent bills.
> It's unbelievable how much genius is wasted in poverty.

Examples of genius that didn't thrive because of poverty? The example you gave is about kids learning to sell vegetables. Are their studies about geniuses that didn't achieve their best work because they were poor?
It's the sun, I think.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_symbols#Sun
Capitalism is a system for transferring money from those who are bad at allocating capital to those who are good at allocating capital. That's the magic of it. It also implies that people like Andreessen most likely have an above average understanding of how to allocate capital :)
Well said. Might we see a similar pledge made by YC soon?
It's not about whether we force companies to pay out all their profits as dividends. It's about whether a publicly-traded stock should carry any dividend, or no dividend.

If it's no dividend, then the stock is only valuable as a flip-asset. If it's got any dividend at all, then the stock has real value as an income stream.
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I agree the evolution of mobile will be basically a console. In fact, I said in my original post that the next popular consoles will run iOS/Android. And these tablets without the screen already exist. They're called Google TV and Apple TV (tho Apple TV would still need app store). Put more power, a controller, a game friendly UI and you got a real console competitor. Expect that to happen, at most by 2013.

Mobile does have big advantages over console, just as these had over arcade. A) The ecosystem lock is huge. Having all your existing apps, games and settings, instantly transfer seamlessly to your living room is something current consoles cannot reproduce (yet, tho msft is working on it). B) they're mobile after all. Playing an AAA game on your living room is nice, but what about when you're out? You can bring your tablet with you.

I agree with you that the real issue for steam is whether current stores are gonna need them. Unfortunately for them, I don't think they got much leverage in this negotiation. They don't have any games that work on iOS, Android or WP. Even if they partner with MS (whose got a week ecosystem right now). The combination of both of them would still be weak compared to iOS and Android. I honestly don't know what they could do. They'd have to pull off something brilliant. But choosing to work on linux this late in the game, gives me a hint they might be out of brilliant ideas.
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Git reminds me of the Churchill quote on democracy. It's the worst form of version control system except all the others that have been tried.

Despite putting up with arcane incantations, I'm not going back.
That sounds nice in theory, but in practice the legislative process is so slow and backlogged that even just the threat of a veto (where Congress knows it doesn't have the votes to override the veto) is simply enough of a threat to get them to move.
It's interesting to note that Sequoia's LPs are themselves largely charities, so money Sequoia makes goes to charitable causes, too. (and I find it unlikely GPs at other top-tier VCs, like Sequoia, don't donate a lot of wealth already...probably not 50% of income, but a lot of famous investors have endowed huge foundations).
great list of questions, i'm totally stealing some of those for my own project :)
This is why wealthy individuals are better for society than shareholder-owned corporations. If the latter made a move like this, the entire board would be fired immediately.
The money they give to charity goes to researchers, consumers, and so on. That money gets spent, moving back into the economy, which creates more jobs, start-ups, investments, donations to charities, etc. It's hard to say which route generates more benefit down the line; I have yet to see a robust economic model that handles even second-order effects well.

Media hype can be a good thing or a bad thing. If it's about your own ego, I agree, STFU and give privately. But hype can also convince others to change their behavior. Consider the use of "matching funds" as an incentive to increase charitable giving. Various publicity techniques (such as somebody famous emphasizing philanthropy) can increase giving or help direct it to where it can do the most good.
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I get the point, but the title is obnoxious. At its heart the word "ghetto" has an ineradicable association with discrimination and restriction. Jews in 17th century Venice did not choose to live in the ghetto, they were restricted to it. All current uses of the word still carry that connotation even at several removes.

Find a better word, the English language has many to choose from.
i think you need to define "bad country" -- the term is a bit ambiguous. any nation can be a "bad country" if you look for a specific issue -- however that may be different than a government that is outside international law (for example north korea would come to mind)
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Quick question. I do want the ability to have users to upgrade to a "pro" version which would get rid of ads and give them access to more photos. Would that be possible with jQuery mobile?
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