skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The firm overwhelmingly makes two and twenty.

Two: The firm charges a management fee based on committed capital. The typical rate is 2% per year. So, if they're running a $100 million fund, they transfer $2 million from the limited partners (the investors) to themselves every year. The management fee theoretically pays for salaries and those costs which can't get passed to startups the firm invests in. (I say "theoretically" because there is an inflection point in the hundreds of millions in fund size range where the management fee is so large that one cannot possibly spend it all except by increasing salaries, such that partners no longer need to be successful in investing to do well.)

Twenty: VCs receive a percentage of the "carry", which is the capital gains on the fund's investment. My understanding is this is typically due upon an individual investment's exit or the end of the fund's life, whichever comes first, but don't trust me on the micromechanics of that. If a VC firm invests $20 million in a company and it later sells for $60 million (their share), the gain is $40 million, so $8 million gets taken for the VC firm and then $32 million is split by the limited partners.

This is compensation for firms. Compensation for partners and associates are handled differently. Typically, associates are on straight salary. (Want a ballpark number? "Well-off lawyer.") Partners typically both have a salary (Want a ballpark number? "More than anyone in the Valley who is not CEO of a public company.") and take home a percentage of the carry (the twenty). Which partners get what percentage is a matter highly specific to the firm's internal structure: suffice it to say that it is good to be king in a lot of places.

Much like law firms, the main form of professional advancement at VC firms is to claw one's way from associate to partner, at which point things get radically more financially rewarding. (The alternative is to build up relationships with wealthy people and then go into business for yourself, by convincing 5 to 20 people to stake you with a few million dollars apiece.)

n.b. It is common for senior partners in the VC fund, particularly those who have successfully lead funds before (many VC firms manage multiple funds, each with a 10 year life and, say, 3-4 years between start dates), to have money invested in the fund themselves. This is generally a fairly modest amount of money relative to fund size.
Please note it as such in the release notes until it is finally released, like LLVM and GCC do.
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"...we're going to protect their civil rights and liberties,"

By denying them...
One of the issues with the app store is the "power of free". A number of studies in psychology and behavioural economics have shown that people over-value free stuff. You can read an example here: http://danariely.com/2012/02/05/audience-with-a-dragon-tatto...

Once you allow free apps they become too attractive -- the simplest way to dominate a category full of paid apps is to offer your app for free. Then we see the race to the bottom that currently afflicts the app market. If there was a minimum app cost, say 99c, free-to-play would not be the issue it is today.

BTW, I originally heard this point made by Dan Ariely (linked above.)
I dunno, the comparison to a coal mine at the end seemed a little far-fetched. I get that he's trying to tell a story, but that's a bridge too far for me.

Personally, I'm glad the industry has moved up the valley a bit. It's too damn hot in San Jose.
(Author here) Thanks for the feedback! I originally wrote this in 2007 when I was diving into Javascript to build instacalc.com.

I agree with the examples vs. trying to read in a book. Books often get in their own way, trying to overgeneralize: just show me the code! If I already know how to program, having 5-10 reference examples of every language feature should be enough. You don't need to explain what a conditional is, etc.

I'll put in a link to that object deep dive :).
We have services in Beijing that provide same day or next day deliveries. My wife uses them a lot to great effect.
I stopped reading after the first paragraph, so I don't know what the rest of it says. You're right, he does agree with me. But he presents it with a shroud of mystery. I was turned off by his attempt at demonstrating a paradox (a la alarming title "contra Gödel et. al.) and using word play to trick the reader into believing there is one. But there is no paradox.
I thought the device received power over USB. Do you need a hub to both power the Chromecast and connect the USB flash drive?
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Your assumptions here are - #1 the user won't download an alternate game, and #2 the user won't spend their money elsewhere in the app store
A key difference is that in an arcade game you have to pay to start, and you have no expectations of free play (you have to beat the game to not pay anything more).
The same model for in-app purchass would be good actually.
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The original PS3 jailbreak used a similar trick where the first USB descriptor returned had size A and the second time the descriptor was read it was size B > A. Buffer overrun! =) It required a special device that can act as a USB gadget like a Nokia N900 or AVR-USB micro.
"(There is a very weak theory called Provability Logic
that has been used for self-referential propositions coded as integers, but it is not strong enough for the purposes of computer science.) "

weak theory? not strong enough for computer science, eh? strange ways to talk about mathematical theorems that are either true or not. let's see him define what he means by any of these terms lol
Some more water to add to this side of the debate: In China women were also regarded as reliable agents for spreading Chinese culture and civilisation.

Quote: After Mongol rule had been ended by the Ming Dynasty in 1368, [there was] a violent Chinese backlash against West and Central Asians. In order to contain the violence, the Ming administration instituted a policy where all West and Central Asian males were required to intermarry with native Chinese females, hence assimilating them into the local population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation#China

Please also note that in most other culture, the way to fix ethnic violence is in the "remove them away" to "kill them all" range. In the above example, the solution found was "merge them through our girls", which actually worked not that bad (Hui people still exist, and are relatively well integrated).
Why is LtU even bringing up this abstract? Are they just trying to further embarrass him?
$20 games don't make money on the App Store unless it's a known brand. Just look at the top grossing list. I always see anecdotal evidence in these threads where people claim that they would spend money up front, but all evidence points elsewhere. The App Store has been a race to the bottom since day 1.

Ads in aps don't make money. These days they're mostly used for cross promotion.
You should only need 'do' in the same place where you'd need it in javascript. (You're generating a closure that needs to close over variables that are likely to change, such as within a for loop..)

Otherwise, just name your variables sensibly! The smaller the scope, the terser the name is, the greater the scope the more verbose the name should be.

It's strange to me that anyone would miss block scoping or ever get 'bit' by this -feature-. I found it perfectly understandable after reading the docs.

I really can't imagine why someone would feel compelled to rely on shadowing.. why would you want to name two variables the same thing within a nested context? And why would you ever nest your contexts so deeply that you have literally no recollection of what goes on above?

I really can't imagine how people are structuring their source files if this is a problem. When would a closure every shadow a variable that ISN'T a parameter in the new context?

All the examples I've seen of this being a problem are contrived and brittle-looking.

I appreciate your writing on this stuff raganwald, but.. honestly, I think this a problem for sloppy programmers who don't jive with coffeescript being an opinionated language, and they'll disregard any advice you give them because they want the freedom to "safely" write hard to reason about code.
Not necessarily making a point here btw, just a candid thought that struck me.
The first programmable electronic computer was built by Tommy Flowers in the UK for WWII codebreaking.

The Z3 predates Colossus. [1][2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_%28computer%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
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Yeah, you nailed it. He's in metamathematics and doesn't realize it.

I elucidate it in another comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6119587
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The associated forces are the internet activists probably. That's why they monitor our moves.
What about this: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/07/25/oh-what-a-difference-a...
In Australia this happens. For phone, elec, gas and water, it shows you how much you have paid over the last 6 quarters (or months) as well, so you can compare, and see if there has been a big change.
Time to get rid of more of the 'traditional' roles. There is a lot of so-called 'tradition' which is just religious fundamentalism.

Also there is no need to 'breed above replacement rates'. For thousands of years humans in Europe were living in much smaller numbers. There is no need to add more millions to the 500+ million people we already have here. To get to more sustainable levels of population, we'll some downsizing can be necessary.

We need to see that the religious fundamentalistic views will die out over the next decades, with its proponents. At least in Europe.
Given the variations of already bagged produce, I'm not sure I'd go that route for it.. I'm pretty picky and usually go to get my own. I also find that some chain stores are better than others.
Any leadership on the Intelligence Committee will back these programs to the bitter end---they set it up, it's their judgement under scrutiny, and they have the most to lose politically and historically.
These aren't the sort of in-app purchases that are the problem. I've happily purchased each expansion pack in Galaxy on Fire 2 and similar for loads of games. I don't see a problem with this, or for having to pay to unlock the full version

What I do have a problem with, and have refused to spend a single cent on, are anything going by the name of "coins", "gems", "gold" etc. These are the disease the app store needs a way to remove
Stores tend to keep the new PS3 games locked up these days, so the shopper would have to find an employee to get the item, and then probably ring it up as a separate purchase in the entertainment section in addition to the final checkout—and then might get extra guff for the already-purchased game and have to show the receipt.

I'm not sure what their general policy is, but, for a delivery service with a decent emphasis on speed, it makes sense to me to exclude items that could significantly slow down the shopper with extra employee interaction, especially since they'd probably only have one video game order per trip, tops.
1) I'd like to be able to go through more backgrounds at once using say, thumbnails and/or categories.

2) It would be cool if the app would compile Bootstrap (from SASS) to match the colour scheme of the background.
Assuming those would be beneficial adaptations, which is arguable :). Why binary search when you can pattern-match?
If you want to understand why we hate linkbait, you are going to need to understand the communities definition. We see it as a lie, we don't need a way to trick us into reading an article. We are not that sort of community.

And article with the title "intricacies of x86 branch prediction" is going to be read by us, it doesn't need to be called "how to predict the future".
My biggest issue with these In-App purchases schemes is that I have had apps where I've paid for the non-free version, only to have updates come through maybe 6-12 months later that introduce advertising popups AND in-app to win purchases.

At least dont screw over the ones that supported you at the start. It's a real 'fuck-you' to the ones who took you from nothing to where you are today.
You can try it through early access, here is some free code
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Is this what you are thinking?

I'm thinking murtali just didn't think that far.
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Here is what I want and perhaps someone can code it, since I don't have enough time on my hands right now.

I want a website where I can read about all politicians against PRISM/ deep surveillance systems, and all those scumbags who voted this thing in, and continue to go with it.

Then when it comes around next election, I want to go to this website, connect my mailbox with it just like Facebook or LinkedIn ask me to, and send email to EVERY CONTACT from my mailbox as of WHY they should not vote on those people with link to a nice page with description on each and every one of those scumbags.

Go!
Uh the very first one? "Which is more important, Freedom to pursue one's goals without state interference, or that the state guarantees no one is in need"?

Although there are people like myself who think that the state does a very poor job of guaranteeing no one is in need, and that individuals are better at providing 'socialism' than governments.
Your romantic notion of motherhood in traditional societies totally denies centuries of oppression and abuse, continuing to this very day in those traditional societies you praise so much.
"On a more personal level it also worries me that this is drawing away money from the rest of the eco-system."

This fear is likely completely unfounded on multiple levels.

Firstly, nobody is spending all of their money on iTunes. Generally, most people won't even budget for it. That means that most purchases on the app store are 'spur of the moment' in which a consumer will see something they want and buy it. That's also why cheap purchases work best there. So no matter how many $1 in app purchases someone makes, the chance of them 'running out of money' and stopping purchases of all app store products is somewhere close to 0.

Secondly, once you start charging 19.99, someone is far less likely to just say 'eh, let me try it'. People will still buy this if they can work out that they need/want it, but it will be a longer process involving searching for reviews and/or getting feedback from people around them. The number of in-app purchases that consumer makes is unlikely to affect this process. In effect, large apps and small apps are probably completely different markets.

On a completely unrelated note though: if you try to sell me required items in the game for real money, I'm uninstalling your app on the spot. This seems to be a growing trend among a small share of consumers, so we'll see how it goes.
Damn, you can sell a bootstrap theme for $10 dollars!? Looks pretty simple to me.
These ideas are well overdue. Games like Candy Crush Saga are little more than mini Las Vegas slot machines, requiring only limited skills to play and with no possibility of a payout. The present day is probably going to be recognised in the future as the gold rush for these type of addictive games.
> If you want an example of how intellectual forums die, this thread is it.

Ok, let’s try to apply some intellectual thinking to the article.

Firstly, The Rolling Stone is not a scientific journal, but rather a magazine catering to the general public.

Secondly, I read the article, not as a scientific paper on climate change, but rather an article about a particular climate change scientist, Jason Box.

The article presents Box's opinions on climate change and his latest prediction that black snow could have a big impact on the rate of ice melt.

How is that any different, to say, an article asking Bjarne Stroustrup's his opinions of the C++11 standard?

It's an opinion piece, from someone whose opinion should be worth reading, if only because they have expertise in that field.
Yeah, Travis credits that with the inspiration for some of his work in the presentation.
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Not a government ISP, you can have private routing centers. Just public wire in the dirt, so that one company can't own the only access to ones home and make it impossible to compete.
Thanks. I have a tag search thats pretty much finished. I want to implement sorting as well (date, views, etc).

I hadn't thought about incorporating into bootstrap, but I'll definitely keep it in mind.
youtube-dl (http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) is a nice cross-platform solution. It also works with vimeo and a bunch of other services.
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Simple and Comprehensive? Aren't those opposites in this case?
Carl Hewitt isn't just some random crank, he is the author of PLANNER, a breakthrough programming language in the early AI days, that gave rise to Prolog later on. This is a pretty interesting paper and it doesn't claim any big breakthrough in the sense of invalidating any great mathematical result. I can try to explain what it is about, at least the beginning of the quoted fragment:

In the first paragraph, he shows that if you allow proofs by contradiction, you can use them for every theory claimed to be inconsistent to show it indeed is consistent. This is so, because to prove by contradiction means to infer "not A" if from "A" follows "B" and "not B". So, if from "mathematics is inconsistent" follows "theorem A is true" and "theorem A is false", it follows that "mathematics is consistent". He claims that this shows consistency isn't rigorously proved in classical mathematics but is just assumed, since classical mathematics allows proofs by contradiction.

He then shows that from this consistency proof paradoxically follows the conclusion that mathematics is inconsistent, because this proof contradicts Goedel theorem "if mathematics is consistent, then it cannot infer its own consistency". He resolves the contradiction of Goedels proof by his proof by restricting the logical system in which they are done to exclude self-referential sentences.

Then, and I think this is really the gist of this work of his, he goes on to describe an approach that tries to somehow reduce the bad impact of including inconsistencies in the logical system, instead of trying to completely eliminate inconsistencies, as it was the goal traditionally.
> Asked whether Snowden has shared the information, Feinstein said: “We don’t know.”

Set aside whether you are with or against what Snowden did, this what Feinstein said is exactly the reason why those systems should not exist in the first place. Imagine someone hacking into NSA (if you say its impossible then I have 640 kilobytes memory for you that will least you a lifetime) and downloading all the phonecalls and emails and those in the office right now. Disaster.

The existence of this data IS the biggest terrorist threat to this country, or many other countries in that matter. Unfortunately such a disgusting heretic blob as Feinstein herself will never understand it.
You're looking at this from the wrong perspective. These are a distinct class of games--so-called "pay-to-win" games. The playing field isn't uneven; everyone has to pay to win, and those who pay the most, win the most. It's exactly like a grindy MMO-game, but instead of rewarding the people with the most disposable time, the game rewards people with the most disposable money.

Not to say there aren't games that try to make you think they're skill-based and then reveal their pay-to-win nature later on--but the current trend in the market is against this, and moving toward a more bald-faced "yeah, you win this game using your wallet; want to play?"
Nothing, I'm always happy to yap about things. Do I email you or something?
That sounds complicated. Why not just make an SVG partial that draws circles that accepts the quantity, sizes and positions as parameters?
There's no point to use purely semantic arguments to try to bash these guys. Clearly I wasn't using the term "game dev" with the intention of drawing any comparisons to your livelihood, except for the obvious comparison which is that you both produce interactive applications that most people would call "games."
The list of the usual suspects in 'Round up the usual suspects'. This is not something that they would not like to specify further.

It might have something to do with 'Continuity of governance' plans; those plans may have detailed lists of 'internal enemies'; those are supposed to be round up in times of emergencies (like supposed leaders of 'occupy' or something)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_of_Operations_Plan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84
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I thought this idea was actually quite good, although sometimes the buffering issue is there.
About 50% of videos I've watched, I've tuned of within 1 minute because it wasn't what I expected. The old system would have buffered about 10 minutes worth by then. The new system only buffers about 15 seconds. This is a huge bandwidth saving when you think of it on a mass scale.
These things aren't mutually exclusive. Feel free to hinge your argument on a wildly restrictive definition of "game" that is shared by virtually no one, but I think there are better arguments to be made.
It's Apple's and Yahoo's, not apples and oranges.
There's a similar situation in PC gaming too - traditional upfront paid PC games vs free to download MMO games which require payments for in game features/characters, e.g. League of Legends, Lost Saga. If you don't pay it becomes difficult to impossible to compete.
I don't see that net neutrality has much to do with it. I think that your other reason: monopolies: is the sole reason for these problems.

I have never had any of the problems described in the article. I live in the UK, and use a small ISP that prides itself on giving me a high quality service. And I get it.

Edit: downvoting? Really? If you disagree, then why not provide an actual explanation of why fixing the monopolies won't fix this problem on its own in a reply?
Milpitas/North San Jose is basically one big dump and superfund site. Soon the home of the San Francisco 49ers.

Used to eat at that Peppermill. Toward the end it was a neon colored dump. Then they tore it down and built this new thing called BJs--har-dee-har-har. Now it's one of the three things that's happening in Cupertino past its sleepy bedtime.

I also remember the AMD buildings he's talking about, down the block was the original Fry's. Outside the theme was CPU; inside it was dark, cramped, and a mess. I remember getting a SoundBlaster sound card from there. It was $150.

My old boss at the mothership told me how when she was growing up there used to be a windmill on Stevens Creek and De Anza where people would go to get their grains milled and how back then it was just swaths of orange groves.

I wonder if she feels about the change as I feel about the change now. Hopefully more benevolent and less angry than me because my home kept disappearing, eaten up by these newcomers. Though to her, I'm just as alien.

Should call her.