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You are not reading and are just angry for no good reason.

And what you are saying is total nonsense.

For the venture capital asset class, average returns over the past 10 years have been poor, including on Sand Hill Road. For the returns, there are many good sources; one of these I mentioned here is an old post of Mark Suster.

Some of Suster's data shows that in the last ten years roughly half of venture partners are no longer.

Common statements are that limited partners are disappointed in the returns and that many are stopping investing in venture funds.

A few venture funds have done well and have been able to raise funds recently. The total number of venture funds able to raise a round easily now may be under 20.

For information technology venture returns, "sucks" is a fully appropriate word. But if you are a venture partner, then you and your LPs know these facts of life very well already. Also there is enough data so that most entrepreneurs know the truth, also.

The DoD evidence is rock solid and right on target: If you suppress your anger and actually read and pay attention, as I have now explained in this thread in overwhelming clarity at the level of about the fourth grade over and over and over, my point is that the DoD shows that research can yield powerful solutions to practical problems. Apparently this very simple, rock solid, overwhelmingly well supported point is just too difficult for you to understand.

To hell with this HN user ID. Mods: Vote it down to zero. Your site and your mod work SUCK. To hell with you. Use your HELL BAN tricks, etc.

Your down voting mods are chicken sh!ts who won't engage in rational discussion but just sit back, silently, and attack carefully written, helpful posts with down voting. HN is arrogant and just SUCKS.

Hell, just go ahead and delete the UID.

Users be warned: HN is run by nasty people.
But there are also some ways to make money, and I gave some rock solid ideas for how, based on research.

There has been nothing concrete out of your posts in improving evaluation of ideas / founders / research.
You seem to be new here. Let me give you a tip: you will be hellbanned very shortly if you continue commenting on the site the way that you have been doing so far. Please read the guidelines:

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Indeed, I may have read the code wrong. But look at line 188.

m_prevLink->m_nextNode = m_nextNode;

I don't see where m_prevLink is changed. If the previous link has gone away, and you call RemoveFromList on this node a second time, it's going to chase that pointer.
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If I had money to invest, I would invest in the impact.

The biggest wins have been to invest in advertising and walled-gardens. I much prefer the thought of investing in people though, that which can make the greatest difference to individuals.

I don't have money, but I do have time and skill. And my money is where my mouth is, the idea I'm working on does need to be profitable to self-sustain, but the goal I have is to change lives of individuals.

To me it doesn't matter that others don't define this as winning. I think their definition is faulty.
> For further normal development, babies need to develop a bond with their mother. This gives them a fundamental sense of security. It is one of human baby's primary needs which is also observed in most mammals.

All due respect, but you're talking garbage. Please stop with this sexist drivel.
On Android, you can install updated browsers like Firefox and Chrome.

Not sure about how well their mobile counter-parts actually support HTML5, but at least you have a choice for a non-system-supplied browser.

On iOS you are, as you say, SOL because Apple has literally crippled the options you have down to one: The one they supply and update, once a year.
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What is a Kindle with ads worth to you? I assumed you meant it was worth $0 which is not the case.
First of all, the C code will return wrong answers because of integer overflow for sufficiently large inputs. But since this is only for the sake of an explanation on Python performance, I'm willing to take that.

What disturbs me much more is that the article basically concludes, that if Python performance isn't good enough for you, write it in C? How is that Python performance? If speeding up Python is what you want I'd suggest having a look at PyPy, which is a JIT python runtime. It doesn't work with some libraries (for reasons I didn't look into yet) but works wonders on performance!

Oh yeah and if anyone ever sums up large amounts of continous integers using a linear time algorithm: Please use n*(n+1)/2. This is obvious, but since the article ommited it I though I'd say it here.
This has been out for a while now, I used it for a platform integration, really easy to use
No worries Needle, check out these links.

http://engineering.linkedin.com/testing/continuous-integrati...

http://engineering.linkedin.com/nodejs/blazing-fast-nodejs-1...

The first link is the one I referenced in my comment RE: Node.JS and heavy HTML5 optimisation. Other people who haven't seen them might find them interesting as well.
or even apt-cache search jquery
Yeah. Python has an awful lot of warts, considering the way so many people fawn over it.

Really the main strength of Python is not the language at all, but the huge number of libraries written for it, and the wealth of tools and "community." Fair enough, it was in the right place, at the right time, but if history is going to throw its weight behind something, it is a little annoying when that thing is rather mediocre...
I suppose with Node installed, and HTML used for the interface, these speed issues will be resolved. But perhaps (I do not know) iOS prevents installing this tool.
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Paypal will take $29.30 if someone pays you $1000 and it isnt anywhere as easy to integrate (the pro non hosted version) and use as stripe.

Try and open a merchant account at any big bank and you wont get much better fees unless you are moving huge amounts of money.
Some further reading for the curious [1][2]. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the structural unemployment issue is indeed due to rapidly advancing automation technologies.

Note that the current 58% labour force participation rate is startlingly low when compared to the past two decades.

1. http://econfuture.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/china-robotsautom...

2. http://raceagainstthemachine.com/2012/01/05/the-rebound-that...
I like HN best, some of the subreddits second.

I just can't come to like Quora, which is odd because it seems exactly the sort of thing I'd like. The interface is either confusing to me, or I think of it in a way that conflicts with its reality.
the author doesn't think about the fact that small companies simply can't "go native". there isn't only facebook and google, out there.
I agree, although I have never had a performance bottleneck related to std::list that required a move to std::vector. Do you know at what point std::set becomes more optimal (in some dimension) than std::vector?
I dont think there are any apps that use this atm but there are tons of potential uses where the alternative was getting people to give you their paypal api keys. Not the most secure thing but usually one of the only options if you were building something where the revenue has to go directly to a users account.
Ah, your age of majority isn't 16?

Only five countries in the world have the age of majority at 16. The vast majority set it at 18 or older. From a cursory look at the lists, most countries set their age of consent lower than their age of majority.

Whilst it would be consistent to change both laws that doesn't make it any the less inconsistent to specifically alter your laws to allow for relay of erotic images for those considered to be under the age of sexual maturity. Or do you disagree?

I think your framing of the question is misleading. Laws don't actually allow or disallow anything; they create incentives do perform certain behaviors. Since law or no law, kids will send pictures of themselves, I don't see exactly who are we helping by branding them as criminals.

Furthermore, I find the very idea of criminalizing such behavior to be obscene, and an insult to free speech.
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"Not clear why you think 76% for female labour participation is infeasible. They have to work."

How is this coherent? If they have to work then why isn't the rate 100%? If you agree that 24% are not working, then you admit that there might be forces at work that could keep 20% or 30% or 40% or 50% from not working. The sentence "They have to work" could only be justified if the participation rate was 100%
I'm assuming your question is genuine rather than rhetorical.

If a person believes that their personal outcomes are largely or totally created by circumstances out of their control, they will have difficulties becoming self-reliant. Blaming other people and other things for personal failings and problems seldom leads to better outcomes.
No; they're webapps embedded in web browser aka WebView. Refer http://phonegap.com/2012/05/02/phonegap-explained-visually/
Saying HTML5 won't be 'production ready' for a while, and saying that HTML5 will never be production ready are two very different things, but I feel people conflate the arguments all the time.

If you do believe that HTML5 will eventually be production ready, even if not for another 2 years, ask yourself this: when that time comes, do you want to be the guy with 2 years experience or the guy with none? When the industry is ready, 'HTML5 developers' are going to be all anybody wants and they'll want them all right now. If you want to jump on a moving train carriage then you have to start running towards it very early...
Why are we agile?
I graduated in 2010 and have worked in some "agile" environments in the short time since. That's in quotes, because it seems everyone has their own definition of agile. One of the things that's consistent is the idea of "long project bad", that any unit of work that takes more than a week or so to finish is too big. The result is a constant stream of 2-3 day (maximum) tasks. Let's call this the "firehose" process so we don't get into semantic wars over what agile means.

Personally, I find constant context-switching between little bite-sized tasks to be exhausting after a while. I've also seen it contribute to company-wide ADD, where any low-hanging fruit must be immediately grabbed at the expense of overall focus. Pivotal Tracker says there's room for it in the sprint! Perhaps this has more to do with startup culture in general (worse is better?), to go hard, take what you can get, and fail fast.

pg's latest post (re: Black Swans) got me thinking - if the vast majority of startups are going to fail anyway, and the VCs are pretty much taking a shotgun approach, it means the effects of choosing any of our various processes are statistically insignificant. There is nothing about the way Reddit (or Instagram, or Twitter, or...) was run that is accurate enough to help make investment decisions. So why do we feel beholden to a psychologically stressful process (firehose), if it hasn't been proven to be any more economically viable? We're just burning ourselves out. Perhaps while we're working on customer satisfaction, we should take a look at employee life too. And not through expensive and questionably useful perks like massages and free lunch, but meaningful issues like the nature and value of our work.
> I'd be leery of joining a company with such high turnover.

But how do you find out if turnover is high? Just ask, I suppose, but a manager is going to try to downplay it, since he's selling the company to you. Hit or miss whether workers will be truthful about it, between wanting to be team players and not telling tales out of school.

I'm leaving a place with high turnover now. I had no idea. Although I could have entertained some suspicion when my agency told me how much they love this place; churn is lucrative for some people.
Well done guys, great achievement for a 24hr project! Even has Evernote integration, neat.
Which comes first - "going agile" or "building trust"?
> there is a temporal component that seems to be confusing you.

I am not confused. Confusing correlation with causation is a very common logical error -- you are not alone.
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Startup investing seems counter-intuitive only from a traditional business point of view, it makes a lot more sense if you perceive it as the business firm equivalent of the mass-media model: a few 'hits' that make up for all the rest, rising exponentially then falling precipitously, producing a (very) few classics on the way, just like the pop charts gambles taken by record companies (where sometimes the seemingly silliest song lyrics might unexpectedly draw millions of listeners).
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You responded to my post about the law of large numbers and utility functions?

That is actually a good and appropriate observation.

Of course, some mods came along and down voted it. I doubt that they understand either the law of large number or utility functions. Of course, the law of large numbers is a crown jewel of 20th century probability theory, and utility functions are one of the better contributions of von Neumann.

For being HELL BANNED, sure, that is the shame of HN. I no longer care about HN. I've had it.

I long ago read the 'guidelines', and I've done nothing wrong. But HN is run by some arrogant, nasty people. To HELL with HN.
> This is not hugely different ...

You're missing the crucial distinction between describing and explaining. A correlation is a description, and descriptions aren't science. Only by proposing an explanation, then testing it, do we enter the domain of science. We also have the chance to turn a correlation into something more than a coincidence.
Related HN discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4153599

This presentation from LinkedIn's Director of Engineering is worth watching too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMd45Ij2DYQ

Also see this piece from Venturebeat: http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/16/linkedin-node/
My guess is that it will still resemble a power law curve.

If we just examine YC exits to date, Heroku and OMGPOP are around $200M each, $400M in total, which is likely over 50% of the rest. If we remove those too, there are a few exits in $30-60M range (Loopt, CloudKick etc.) which are quite likely to be over 50% of the rest. At the lower end of exit price curve, the power law might not hold, as acqui-hires typically have a rather standard price ($1-2M per an engineer)
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What about analysing the other way around: Objectively look at the companies that made it (not just YC companies) and the ones that didn't make it and try to see if there are clues that distinguish them. Were the founders really big dreamers for instance, or was the traction immediatelly high from the start, or was tracction high + no interest from investors?
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But they have plenty of power in deciding which zoning board governs the land in which they plan to settle. The community regulations are part of choosing a community in which to reside. If they don't like the regulations that govern Palo Alto, they can suggest that Palo Alto change its regulations, and otherwise are perfectly free to settle in, well, anywhere but Palo Alto.

> If you don't want to live around high rises, buy up the land around your house

How does this scale? Here's a scenario: 100 people who don't want to live next to high rises but are perfectly fine living next to other single-family dwellings buy up 100 acres of land in LibertarianUtopiaLand and chop it up. They then sign a contract amongst themselves requiring community consent if any of them are going to drastically change their property, and require that any transfer of the land be accompanied by the same provision. Sounds quite familiar.

There's no national regulation saying that every community must use the same planning methods. It just so happens that there's a pretty good model for how the process works so implementing it requires less lawyers.
Google Glass are the least conspicous item in the outfits! Seriously, they've done a really nice job of slimming them down. I walked by Sergey in Palo Alto last week and barely even noticed that he was wearing them.
In think two factor authentication is becoming increasingly important as more and more information is going to the cloud, I'm sure you're in the right way but you'll have to make it work really good if you want to be at the top
A part of any investing activity requires risk taking (truer now than ever as sovereign debts are defaulting or on verge of that), the other part is making profit based on risk. In case of startup seed funding the risk are much higher but profits are high too (like 1000x). Now an investor can make profit by selling their share to other (future) investors. The point to note here is: the first investor sells thinking that the venture’s value has reached a reasonable price which was expected or it’s now overpriced.

The point is, profit has to be booked to be realized.My question to PG is how does YC decide when to sell?
Drug prohibition is a different issue.

Yes, there are cases of things which are not child porn in spirit, however its important to remember that there are things that are actual child porn. There are pictures of young children and toddlers and babies being raped. We don't see them in the mass media, because they are disgusting, but they exist. Don't forget that creating this pictures is probably one of the most horrific and harmful crimes in modern society.
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Is it really that counter-intuitive, though? A sample of two "rock stars" doesn't seem to be enough to draw conclusions from it.

For instance, whereas Airbnb can admittedly be seen as a questionable idea (but not outright bad), Dropbox (the idea, before implementation) sounds like a very good idea. Maybe not a $7b idea, but still very good.

Of course, among the YC funded startups, there may be a lot of ideas that sounded bad at first; but if all those startups are in fact financially irrelevant, should they be used to try to build a theory of success?

- - -

It's interesting to learn that if YC funded 10x more startups they would be just as successful (and maybe more, since there could be a big success in the startups that are left out) -- it means that if the selection process rate is around 10%, YC could do without it entirely, with no significant effect to its bottom line.

Also, I took this picture this summer
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I can't find anything to support that. There was a native Google Voice app that was rejected (well, perma-delayed) but no native Google Talk app as far as I can tell.
What? When you say "child porn" do you mean a 17 year old in a bikini? Or a 3 year old being raped? There is a massive difference between the 2.
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It is almost the same idea as of scientific revolution - to make a paradigm shift one must discover something which is orthogonal, incompatible with a main-stream view, with current scientific consensus. There are lots of readings for students about how to become a new Darwin or Einstein.

To make a paradigm shift one should pick up a special kind of person (let's call him focused, disciplined introvert) place this person in a good environment (or just help the person to make one for himself) and it must be done in a right moment - create a wave others will try to catch and ride. Luck could be summoned by avoiding being too narrow focused and self-centered, by being awake.

There is a small essay which, I think, is related to the subject - http://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/Hiring
Words like "Slow" and "Performance" are very relative. Yes python (well at least cPython) is a very slow language (on par with the likes of ruby, lua, perl, php etc.) and yes if you really need performance you really need C (again, not that different from the above mentioned language) and yes most non-trivial python code relies on C/C++ in at least some point.

However very few python coders find themselves actually writing C code when working in Python. Most rely on existing libraries that put a nice python wrapper around highly tuned C code, and in many cases most python programmers are only vaguely aware of which libraries are pure python and which are wrappers.

I think that any language that REQUIRES you to drop down to a lower level for performance.

Again without defining "performance" this statement means nothing. All languages (even C) have cases where you are required to drop down to a lower level to get the fastest possible performance.

That's why I wanted to know how common this was.

Depends very much on what you're doing. If you're doing web development, it's very uncommon. If you're doing fairly performance critical numerical work over very large data sets, then it's much more common (but even in that case the kind folks over at numpy and friends have done 98% of the hard work for you).
I suspect one reason why thats illegal is because it would be an easy way for Aaron pedophile to use it as an excuse. More bad guys would use that excuse to avoid justice than good guys.
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