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> Do we really know where Sequoia's money comes from? Does it matter?

Yes. One type of LP are execs in companies that do acquisitions. When the acquisition is done, the LPs do not disclose their involvement or profit.

This will continue until some shareholder lawsuit slams them for it, and even then it will probably continue.

Edit: I should note that John Chambers has disclosed his profit in some acquisitions, and stated that he would donate his proceeds. He did not state that he would also donate the sizable tax deduction that he incurs from such a donation.
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If you're offering $50 in cash to answer some questions and flip some coins, sure you'd get people to answer loads of them. But you're not offering an incentive to answer the questions.
You probably know this already, but AT&T relies on most customers using nowhere near their data cap each month; allowing tethering would significantly decrease their profitability.

They can make a profit from someone who uses 5gb and pays $55 in a month, but I suspect they make more from someone who uses 400mb and pays $25.
It's more of a trademark, isn't it? Like how you wouldn't want your company's logo plastered over a competitor's product, you don't want your competitor to copy its design and sell it right beside yours. It's a lesser evil, but by how much? It feels like they're just trying to confuse consumers.

I think the Apple vs Samsung case is silly (Both companies are releasing high quality products, it's not like the consumer is buying a junk knockoff) but there's validity in trademarking design.
Huh?

There's 125 billion friendships and 900 million monthly active.

125 billion / 900 million = 139 friendship pairs / user

A pair = 2 friends so you double it to get 278 friends/users.

This is of course an overestimate as people are friends with people who use fb < once a month. Not sure what total user count is though.
Previous submission with 230 comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3878522
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tbh, I actually like the new design better than the old one.

Given this side-by-side

http://cdn.androidpolice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/not-...

I would choose the design on the right in a heartbeat. The only problem I have with the right-side phone is the busy/light wallpaper makes the icons and text a bit hard to read, but give that phone a black wallpaper like the one on the left has (and this is an easy user-tunable parameter) and problem solved.
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Just in case you are serious, or people believe you're serious:

1) Quantum mechanics operates on the quantum level. Macro objects, while composed of countless quantum systems, and thus are the result of the quantum systems of probabilistic particles and waves collapsing and such, are just that: the result of the quantum systems. This isn't subjective experience; it's an underlying behavior baring forth a different level of behavior. Just as it's possible, but doesn't make sense to describe Tetris in terms of electrons flowing through copper and semiconductors, one can describe the quantum behavior of what the TV is constructed of, but that wouldn't relate a bit to the meaningful object you watch shows on.

2) Probability on the quantum scale has nothing to do with the brain making choices; even if understanding quantum mechanics turns out to be essential to understanding consciousness, the brain can't change the laws of physics; it can't decide that certain waveforms will collapse in a way that appeals to it. By the same token, if you're a rational thinker, you'd understand that yes, if one develops an accurate enough model of the universe, the base stuff it's made of, you can predict the future. That's literally what science is; developing models which will predict how certain systems behave in a given condition. However going back to bullet 1, the concept of "free will" has nothing to do meaningfully with the base stuff of the universe. It's technically possible to be described in such terms, but that's not where decisions happen.

3) Again, going back to rationality; humans are part of the same deterministic system, operating under the same deterministic rules as everything else that exists. Sure subjectivity feels different than what we imagine a computer's (non)experience to be, but that's just a result of the conscious process (and the fact that most people don't empathize with machines).

4) I honestly don't even understand what you're trying to say here :\

5) This has nothing to do with anything at all but... you aren't the atoms that comprise you. You aren't even the -cells- that comprise you. "Seven years from now your body will be made of entirely different cells than it is now" and all that.
i think the General was making a joke here (which is actually quite funny). The joke is based on a double entendre of Phantom--one meaning is of course imaginary and the other refers to the nickname of the famous USMC and USN fighter plane, the F-4, in service from circa 1975 to about 1990.

In other words, the General is saying "jeff was an imaginary pilot" and "i was an F-4 Phantom pilot"--which he (Gen. Wilkerson) actually was.
He didn't just point out "a negative characteristic or belief of the person". He did talk about what they seem to do, but he pointed out substantial issues with the argument itself. Not much ad hominem argumentation there!
I kind of agree. While I wouldn't purchase this particular phone, seeing how they were forced into certain non-Apple design decisions is refreshing.
Not really.

Functional programming for me has a feeling of a mathematically sound foundation: This means a statically typed language with a powerful type-system and type inference. Immutability/effect system are a big plus. Broad range of data-structures and a decent object system are nice, too.
eLance and oDesk are usually good bets.

The first few replies will probably be spam, but quality bids appear shortly thereafter. Make sure your ad is clear, and consider including a test phrase such as "purple mangoes" or some other nonsense to filter out applicants who don't bother to read the ad.
I agree with other posters, 60% is a pretty good rate for businesses to succeed. I develop some as a hobby developer and two of my apps - Toy Cash Register -- and Kids Writing Pad have made over $6,000 each -- I develop myself and sometimes outsource design (which could use a lot of improvement) -- as for marketing, it's a waste of money. You need to find the right company to provide the right marketing, and to be honest-- it doesn't exist. There are companies to mass market, but you aren't going to win in the mass market -- it took Rovio years to get a success like Angry Birds--and in the niche markets there isn't enough experts--you need to make it your own way and not lose money on people trying to market you. I wrote apps because I needed them-- and it pays for my Apple device addiction.
You're correct, but the article makes exactly the same point as you. There's no reason to correct it.
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I agree; I feel rather disappointed by this move. The layout feels cookie-cutter to me. If anything, it just looks like an effort to "sell" the project to businesses, especially with the list of projects/companies at the bottom. The no-js default of Mac for the download is also a poor choice, regardless of its popularity, especially considering that Git was created by the author of the kernel Linux.

The previous theme was cute, fun and different. This site does, however, do an excellent job of laying out the information (minus the fact that it needs JS when stylesheets are enabled).
I don't believe the author truly considers the design ugly. The animosity in the article really appears to be pointed towards Apple. The ugly design comments seem to me like a bulwark against those who might claim the author is an Apple hater for criticizing Apple's exclusive rights to symmetrical black rectangles.
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You're not understanding what tnash said at all. Each of the utilities you list is a "dumb pipe". The utility company doesn't dictate what you do with the utility, and they don't charge you a different price for running a lightbulb vs. a washing machine. It's all about how much, not what's done with it.

The telcos want to be exactly the opposite. They want to control what you do, how you do it, and how much you pay for doing it, not based on the bandwidth used, but the nature of the use. This is the antithesis of a dumb pipe.
A hackerspace is a place where people hack on things including space, Origami, microprocessors, 3d printers, ect...

Here is a video of the space
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Sign me up.

Oh, wait, they have that now, in the form of torrent sites. I think their prospectus would have some statement of existential risk.
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Agreed - but making too-clever solutions for the easy 99% parts is a disease.

I'm sure you've met arsonist developers that light buildings on fire just to see if they can escape them.
I grew up as a kid programming and playing video games. I developed the same immunities I think.

The idea of giving up basic human relationships and intimacy for technology is nuts.
Thanks for the data point (and for the purchase!). I hope you have a chance to learn Rails. Python is great, but Ruby is better (IMHO) at making DSLs, which is a big win in web development (among other places). Please let me know how it goes.
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I never saw the first link, that's odd. Sounds like there is a slight bug in the news tool.
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I used to work for a company that had a similar problem (hundreds of millions or billions of 'potential' work items).

We ended up hacking up a well-tuned MySQL table into behaving as a work queue that would distribute batches of work via an update query that also acted as an atomic lock on the "in-flight" work items.

Not really the way you're supposed to do it, but hey, it was a helluva lot easier than trying to make a RabbitMQ instance, or cluster for that matter, retain the state of a billion rows. Ludicrous.

Message queues are really designed for just that, low-latency message dispatch. Long-standing work to be done just isn't feasible with the design of most MQs.

I'd love to see some shake-n-bake scalable database -> worker libraries crop up so that I don't have to hack up something like that godawful MySQL table again.

And before you ask, no, MapReduce isn't appropriate for this. The tricky part is the race conditions and the retention of state long term, not the distribution/parallelization of work.

Another aspect that proved interesting was keeping the MySQL instance from getting eaten alive by workers asking for jobs to perform.

EDIT: Re: 'shake-n-bake libraries', I'm considering hacking up what I have in mind, if nothing else but to inspire some better talented coders to create a framework or library that serves this need.
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I'm not sure.

Async-by-default doesn't seem like a great model for programming the server-side part of most things that are done over HTTP. Three use cases jump out at me:

1. Javascript doesn't have threads, but you want to write a usable HTTP server in it.

2. Threads are scary.

3. You want to make certain actions asynchronous over HTTP (i.e. client says "start", then server maybe says "done" later).

Now consider Clojure:

1. Clojure has threads (on the JVM, at least) and one typically uses an existing Java web server when a web server is called for. Unlike Javascript when node.js came out, Clojure isn't lacking options for running or writing a web server.

2. Clojure makes a lot of threaded operations pretty non-scary. Its native data structures are all immutable and it has constructs for concurrent state. These are not any harder to work with than the async/callback model. I find it more natural, but I'm used to Clojure so that could be bias.

3. Async-when-desired is already easy in Clojure. Futures provide a very easy way to do stuff in a thread pool without blocking. Agents provide the same thing for state changes. It really is as easy as (future do-blocking-thing) and (send-off an-agent do-blocking-thing some-args).

I can imagine why I might want this sort of thing in certain languages in addition to Javascript, but why would I want it in Clojure?
I'm not proposing a virtual machine or a new language; C++ and the Source engine seems to be working fine for LFD2 and Portal 2 and other AAA titles.

I'm proposing liberal licensing for the engine and adding a simplified API for 2D games. You are correct that you can't optimize for every platform at once, but that's what #ifdef is for. Extra work is still required on each platform... if you need the extra performance.

Mostly I can't imagine Valve putting the effort into Linux if they don't have a plan for getting more games onto Linux. I was just trying to guess at that plan.
Sequoia is always ahead of the curve. This is good for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are told well in advance about money coming from Sequoia. Even that article mentions that fact.

They have always been an early stage investor. They invested in Apple when it was run by two scruffy kids and nobody believed their "personal computer" story. Even the ones who believed were scared of IBM crushing them. They believed Yahoo guys and their Internet story when it was still part time project for PhD students. They believed in YouTube even though there were bigger players in video sharing market. They invested in YC company (sama's company) when people were mocking YC as place where "feature based" companies are crated to be acquired. They invested in YC itself when YC didn't have hits like Dropbox, AirBnB or Heroku. They never invested later stage at pricy valuations like some of the recent funds. Be it that "hot" startup that comes around the corner like Netscape, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and number of other dot com companies.

VC's are figuring out how to combat things like YC and number of micro funds. And here you have Sequoia, who is quietly doing things without any ruckus. That too for last 3 years. They saw the threat of incubators/micro funds before anyone else. And they acted upon it before anyone else.

PS. I don't work for Sequoia. Nor I'm their "scout"
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What's the ninth amendment for?

From the Wikipedia article:

In 1789, while introducing to the House of Representatives nineteen draft Amendments, James Madison addressed what would become the Ninth Amendment as follows:

> It has been objected also against a Bill of Rights, that, by enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution.

Like Alexander Hamilton, Madison was concerned that enumerating various rights could "enlarge the powers delegated by the constitution." To attempt to solve this problem, Madison submitted this draft to Congress:

> The exceptions here or elsewhere in the constitution, made in favor of particular rights, shall not be so construed as to diminish the just importance of other rights retained by the people; or as to enlarge the powers delegated by the constitution; but either as actual limitations of such powers, or as inserted merely for greater caution.

Maybe the constitution doesn't cover enough. Let's amend it.
if you want to change configuration data remotely without a restart, and don't want to use jmx. you'd still need to persist the change or else it wouldn't when the service restarts.
>It will be interesting to see if foreign domain names start getting seized by US officials. //

Or it could go down like in the UK and the ISPs could be ordered not to route traffic to/from the website - eg http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2172223/virgin-medi...
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Interesting piece.. Calculating LTV and user acquisition costs reminds of the Harvard Business Case Study that examines how Virgin Mobile was able to compete in the US with existing mobile companies by reducing their customer acquisition costs. Here's the case study, feel free to apply info from this post towards coming up with the numbers and solution.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/24724434/Virgin-mobile-USA---pri...
Can you run Netty with Aleph (https://github.com/ztellman/aleph) on Clojure/Heroku, or only Jetty?
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That's the Galaxy S, not Galaxy S2.

http://gadgetmania.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Samsung-Ga...

I still find their design way too iterative. Galaxy S, Nexus S, Galaxy S2, Galaxy Nexus, and now Galaxy S3 - they aren't that different from one another, and they should be. I was disappointed the Nexus S was a rehash of the Galaxy S in hardware, and again I was disappointed the Galaxy Nexus seemed like an iteration of Galaxy S2. I really hope Google doesn't let Samsung design their Nexus phone next time.
Sure, if an executive of an acquiror has an LP interest in a VC fund that owns shares in the acquired company (as in the CSCO example you mention), then the executive should disclose that to public investors and/or recuse himself from the consideration of the deal.

But that's a protection for public shareholders of the acquiring corp, not a protection for the startup being acquired. (Public shareholders have a host of principal-agent problems to contend with, this among them; worse still is share repurchases to avoid option dilution, but that's another subject.) To the extent such disclosure makes an acquisition by CSCO less likely (as Chambers is reluctant to disclose his LP interest), then it's a potential concern for the startup. I'm not aware of that ever happening, however.
For me at least, the "fail early, fail often" philosophy builds up the emotional scars to get over being emotionally vulnerable.

Secondly: so what if that guy doesn't like the bunch of words I typed into an IDE. If he's not going to help me make software he likes, he's wasting my time.
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Have you used an Android phone with 4.0 (hardware acceleration)? At least on my tablet with 3.1 (which also has opt-in hardware acceleration), the UI moves very smoothly.
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Being able to patent something like "the top shouldn't be equal to the bottom, and only we can do that" is ridiculous. The patent system is a mess.
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Even Apple's lawyers design great phones!

(I'm an android owner but couldn't resist)
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It looks really nice, I kind of miss the old carefree attitude the site used to have but, it's definitely an improvement.
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You'd think a book store's manager wouldn't judge a book by its cover.
but in the end, the main question for the court will be whether or not Samsung has used all of these elements in a way that's likely to confuse consumers about what they're buying.

How can consumers be confused about what they're buying? Even if their software appears similar, one device has a large Apple logo on the back and is sold almost entirely through a different retail chain.
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Much better than just a video, especially where it shows what to look at in the app.
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I thought about making a site to allow designers to offer to design things for open source project as a way of giving back.
wow, kudos to Samsung design team -- they had really think this one through to comply with all the rules AND come up with a good looking product.

Whats really is interesting here is that I read somewhere that each single iPhone is made of up to 60% Samsung components, solutions, patents, etc. How come then APPL is so bold with all those lawsuits? I know its a lot of money, but at some point Samsung could simply say "no more" and stop selling its technology to Apple, making it at least hard for them to keep up with the world demand.
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That's why you can't patent something just like that.

If you aren't going to actually learn and understand design patents then of course you are going to think it is ridiculous.
> Because really, if DRM doesn't protect against piracy, and it doesn't, then what's its purpose, other than lock-in of legitimate customers?

To give technology partners something (broken) to sell to publishers so they'll agree, in exchange, to publish their catalogue in a digital format. It's like giving someone a (broken) gun so they'll agree to let you go on a date with their daughter. You know it's broken, and they might even know it's broken--but it's the act of doing a "good-faith effort" to protect the publisher's content that matters, not the consequence of whether it gets cracked or not.
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