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we believe we are performing far above average, actually... both in IRR, exits, black swans, and other areas. that said, we are less than 5 years old and most VC funds don't have much measurable results until 4-8 years in.

our first fund is performing at 18% Net IRR (which includes fees; I think the WSJ #s were actually Gross IRR, which would be higher for our fund as well, and likely considerably above mean).

regardless, our second fund is performing at 27% Net IRR, which is performing considerably higher than median 6% IRR as reported by WSJ / Cambridge.

our third fund is still very early (just over 1 year old), however it seems we are performing over 30-40% IRR (44% currently).

so overall:
- our funds are performing substantially above median
- our performance appears to be increasing over the past 3 funds
- I doubt that most LPs have turned us down because occasionally I use some 4-letter words...

thanks,

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> Stimulates the Brain to Produce Serotonin

except that the serotonin model of depression has been disproven without a shadow of a doubt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISptt3CRAqc

the device may have some effect as placebo but if that's what you're going for, there are many other cheaper alternatives
You missed the part about why not.
>But what's keeping out competition is, e.g., Baltimore forcing companies to build fiber service to the 25% of the city that's below the poverty line as a pre-condition for building anywhere in the city.

Why is that pre-condition supposedly preventing companies from building infrastructure? It's not as though the City has also demanded that they operate at it a loss, merely that they build out service to the entire city as opposed to building service out to the choicest bits. And, isn't that exactly what a city government ought to do?
We are doing it differently. We don't think a tech driven business can be run by non tech leadership. We also don't think it can be run without business leadership. So we have two CEOs, on from tech and one from the business sector we are in. It works really well.
Thanks wmf - I do recall reading that. If you notice the stats he has, if the block header verification process was done in parallel, there's a theoretical speed up from that "original best case 12s" block chain copy time to a potential 2-3s (possibly), and an actual time of 5s.

But ultimately, and correct me if I'm wrong, the very nature of the "copy all blocks to everyone" nature of the blockchain will make it close to impossible to reduce it down to the order of millisecond transactions?
> Formerly obscure genres like roguelikes are seeing mainstream success thanks to high quality "roguelike-like" games like FTL.

I actually trace this to Diablo II and Torchlight. Yes, they aren't strictly rogue-likes—among other things they're realtime—but they raised excitement for the genre just the same.
I did this for the 6809 version of Microsoft Basic as used in the Dragon 32 (color computer clone made in the UK). It took the better part of a year before I fully understood how it worked. Reverse engineering is hard work, not as much as writing something but still quite a bit of effort went into it.

I learned a lot from that, on a high level how a language implementation works, on a lower level how things like arrays, tokenization, memory management, strings and statement dispatch worked. The hardest part to get my head wrapped around by far was the expression evaluator.

But once understood you could do all kinds of nifty things such as extend the language and call bits and pieces of the interpreter from assembly to perform some task, it instantly became like a library accessible from any machine language program (no such thing as upgrading your ROM).
I think this 'please hold the baton in order to speak' thing will benefit nerds and other quiet people, not only women.
Your argument has a couple of false dichotomies. A, the person you're calling insane isn't necessarily picking from your first two options. And B, for each X, they may be choosing a different heuristic based on a sense of risk that has finer discrimination than your draw-a-line dichotomy.

The people I know who self-experiment certainly do better than running with, as your section option suggests, fads and hearsay. That's true both when they're using things that are legal but have mysterious health impacts and things that are sold by prescription but have reasonably well understood health impacts.

That you are ignorant of what they're up to isn't license to call them insane.
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> If people don't have the potential to get rich creating a New Thing or Efficient Method, what's to encourage them to even consider Something Better

Let me give an example. In academics, as pointed out here before, smart young people have to survive for a long time on relatively low pay, and without a real prospect of making a lot of money in the long term. In other words, they do this work because they like to do it, and/or for idealistic reasons.

If we can (somehow) change the system such that smart and idealistic people get in charge instead of greedy people, that could be a step forward.

Again, I'm just giving an example, to show you my line of thinking. I don't claim that this is the correct approach.
If you are talking about VPNGate, the public VPN gateways, VPNGate can be a mixed bag. As far as I know, those connections are maintained by varying network environments; some are probably better than others.

I use SoftEther server/client for LAN access for work and home, and it works decently well. (Only thing is things like compression and certificate based authentication only works over SoftEther client, although support for certificate auth for other protocols are on its roadmap.)
I mentioned the same thing the other day [1]. I don't quite get why telecoms providers who are running ISP services over their lines are not already regulated by the same standard. A phone call is an analogue audio message sent over phone lines - guaranteed transit. An early modem was also an analogue audio message sent over phone lines - guaranteed transit. Nowadays, we simplify a few phases and have pure digital IP telephony and internet access - not so guaranteed. But it's still the same thing...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8857793
Do you make it yourself? I'm lactose intolerant and I was trying to find ways to get calcium, apparently broth is a good way.
The cooperative technique is useful for achieving lock freedom. This technique can be leveraged to build Software transactional memory: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s004460050028
I think that there is a semantic issue here. What you seem to be calling "true tolerance" seems to be what is frequently called "acceptance" by people that argue that tolerance is not all that is deserved by certain groups.

And I agree that in many cases it is appropriate to go beyond tolerance to acceptance, but tolerance is more broadly warranted, even in some cases where acceptance is not.
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There are many patents around. Some of them are already expired though.

For instance the arithmetic coding patents needed for jpeg are expired, yet almost no browser supports it:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680385
A proof of work based system does not scale. One needs something else to make this ideas viable.
Are many there asking for relocation? I wonder if 37S is aware of that--after all, that was the whole point of shutting down their older board. (And the new one doesn't seem to have the same volume as the old.)
The article suggests that many/most native bee species are in trouble. An almond orchard is a great source of food, but it will only bloom once or twice a year - during the rest of the year it's famine for native pollinators since industrial farming has replaced/removed native flowers that might provide food in the interim.
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection."
— ibid
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DNS gets cached at multiple levels (browser, OS, router, upstream DNS servers). The higher you set your TTL the longer it'll be cached.
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This is seriously one of the best comments I have read on HN. Thank you! What I think is important is very often no one tells you these things, and programmers are often systematizer types - if they're not explicitly told "this is how things work" they are slow on the uptake or conjecture reasons why you're not supposed to do them.
Quite a few brain (and cpu) cycles have been spent on 'author identification' software that allows to tie together pieces of text at various points in time to a single author.
Is there any evidence that the solitary bees are faring any better than the honeybees? They're subject to most of the same pressures due to insecticides and loss of habitat. Others here have linked to problems with the bumblebee populations.

I suspect that hives are the only way to get sufficient population density for efficient agricultural use, and the drop in agricultural output would be permanent.
> The indie dev scene is thriving on PC

Arguably this market is becoming over-saturated as well.

http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-i...
That's a really depressing piece of industrial design for $699
Make demands if you still have power/clout left. My story was pretty much just like yours -- I was engineer #2 (after the CTO), I pretty much built the company along with the CTO. I have patents with me as the inventor on them through the company.

Early on I was promised equity in the company, but never got anything in writing (I knew nothing about startups when taking this job).

I was actually treated pretty well as an employee, given good raises, position upgraded to Director level.. but that equity thing was always out of reach, and they kept pushing it off with various excuses. I trusted the CTO, but the CEO was a greedy type.

By the time I put my foot down, it was too late, and they had no problem letting me go. If I had made demands about 6 months earlier they would have been forced to do something or end up REALLY hurting. But I had knew that I had waited too long, so I secured a job before I tried anything. I learned a lot at the company, so I'm grateful for that, and I'm working at a much better and more interesting place now :)
> Where did I fail to claim my part when the company was growing?

One problem I had in my youth was that I really wanted to be recognized for what I did without a lot of blowing my own horn. If I self-promoted, my victories felt hollow: was I getting kudos for my work, or for my self promotion? So I energetically avoided calling attention to my accomplishments.

Eventually I came to realize that this was a little crazy. I can't expect managers and clients and investors to automatically appreciate all the stuff that it has taken me years to learn to do well. I've discovered that there is a reasonable level of taking credit that is neither sleazy nor slighting of my colleagues. Being modest and self-effacing is good, but it can be taken too far.

So let me answer your question with some more questions: Do the executives know that you did these things well? Have you told them you wanted a position other than as a line developer? Do they know that you're unhappy? Are you regularly discussing your career plans with them?

If you, like I once did, find that stuff revolting, then I'd encourage you to find someone to help you practice those conversations. You shouldn't let your ego speak all the time, but it is ok to let it out of the cage once in a while.
Actually, just as Warcraft allowed for modding which led to Dota, Starcraft 2 supports modding. So that spirit is still alive in some form at Blizzard.
I agree - but the way to achieve less waste in government is not to pass more laws and regulations that feed the beast.
A keyword search for "relocation" will work on Indeed, if not for those you mentioned, but I wonder in your case if you'd also need to add "visa" (depending on your situation).
DEFINE BCCA(Q),< BCC Q> ;BRANCHES THAT ALWAYS BRANCH
DEFINE BCSA(Q),< BCS Q> ;THESE ARE USED ON THE 6502 BECAUSE
DEFINE BEQA(Q),< BEQ Q> ;THERE IS NO UNCONDITIONAL BRANCH

Huh? The 6502 totally does have a regular unconditional branch instruction, as JMP. http://e-tradition.net/bytes/6502/6502_instruction_set.html
Trying to explain the results gives me a headache. "Programmers" indicates shyness makes sense but "In n' Out" burgers means calm and relaxed?
My friend Altay started a software developer agency. Altay is a great guy and YC alum. You might want to check it out, http://www.10xmanagement.com/
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The most fascinating part: it seems people here are more excited about this toy than about having actual real-life sex :)
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Yes, but JMP uses 3 bytes (absolute addressing) and BXX uses only 2 (it's relative).
I've noticed a drastic difference in Monarch populations from just 10 years ago. I try to keep some wild Milkweeds in the back yard, but it seems to be too little too late - there aren't enough Monarchs left to utilize them.
It's a sample implementation of WebRTC, a technology that will be very useful to have integrated into the browsing experience.
I quibble with your stating that you can be a manager without some critical skills. I think the skills defined under the (now defunct) concept of emotional intelligence are vital to being a successful manger. Without empathic skills you can't get anyone, but the most committed employees to perform well. It seems self-evident, but many people I've met including very poor supervisors lack the ability to really put themselves in others' shoes.
> the Russian military is currently making a spectacle of itself all over Scandinavia and the Baltic, not to mention the little issue of Crimea)

Whatever the Russian military is making of itself, it's nowhere near as bad as what the "Coalition of the Willing" has been up to in <insert_any_corner_of_the_globe>
I understand that. The sentence is still not true. For example in world economy if you buy oil from ISIS for half the price they believe they have gained, you believe you have gained and people they are going to kill with newly acquired weapons believe they have lost.
There is overall loss from this transaction even measured by what people believe they have.

That's why it's valid to consider questions as if should drug trade be allowed and to what extent as ethical questions even if you believe that you shouldn't force any value system on parties making those transactions.
Fantastic concept and execution.

I would note that by the time this sensitive code hits Github, its already too late. Criminals who mine PII/secrets use the Github event firehose to analyze code pushes in near-realtime.

It would be great to integrate this code as a pre-commit hook, so that code doesn't even get into the tree if its sensitive.
Things are still rosy because most players are not tired of the genres (MOBA / CS) that grew from the last generation of being friendly to modders.

It may take a while but I forsee people getting tired of getting milked for DLCs and skins, and the major studios won't have another genre like Dota or CS to copy because they screwed over modders.
Did you file an 83b for your equity?
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KIMROM=1

Hehe, that's been a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1
I think it's more "What's wrong with this country? Can't a man walk down the street without someone trying to get him to give up something of value for less than it's worth?" The issue's not with being offered a job, it's the "here's a smart person making money for themselves, let's see if we can get them to make money for us instead!" attitude.
Does it make me paranoid that a red flag for me is that this site seems to be trying extremely hard to look legitimate?

* BBB seal
* "FDA cleared"
* Harvard and NYU name drops
* CBS, Fox, Wall Street journal
I love the idea of including measurement tools in smartphones. It would be a great way to gather metrics on all sorts of things. I just wish we had a better kind of purpose-based security model.
> No modding in Blizzard's new games.

What about Starcraft Arcade, which makes use of Blizzard-provided tools to heavily mod the game?

http://us.battle.net/arcade/en/

> No modding in Dota2.

Valve announced workshop tools that would allow users "to create, play, and share custom maps and game modes for Dota 2."

http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/discussions/-1/3522031560...
In n' Out Burgers correlates with California, which correlates with NOT being from the Northeast, which correlates with being, relatively, calm and relaxed.
Starcraft 2 came out about 4.5 years ago. Hearthstone and Diablo 3 don't support modding, and all indications show that Heroes of the Storm and Overwatch won't either.
What is wrong with leaving everyone high and dry? The CEO has no qualms about doing that to devs.

If an engineer leaving puts the company in a bad spot, then they are understaffed and need better management that can foresee and handle those transitions before they happen.

It's all part of proper engineering culture.
Sure, I’m not suggesting that getting Google/Amazon investment by itself is a bad thing. The problem is if the bulk of your investment thesis revolves around filling in niches in the Google/Apple ecosystem. The linked article talks about how investing in proven markets doesn’t lead to great returns.

More broadly though, the universe of markets that can be created is much larger than what Google/Amazon/Apple are interested in. Just because they have too much money (though as I mentioned the cash pales in comparison to global capital) doesn’t mean they will invest willy-nilly. So, the goal should be broader not just on what already exists and of interest to these guys.
pretty sure that's a stud detector
In the article ,he mentions that great VC returns basically come from large market risk. Is it possible that we have improved in estimating market risk(the web is a great tool for pondering into the mind of people) ,That there are much less of such opportunities ?
I like how this has "photographer" and "graphic designer" but not "artist". Never mind "cartoonist". Apparently my profession doesn't exist.
> except that the serotonin model of depression has been disproven without a shadow of a doubt

Serious? Man, that would probably piss a lot of people off. Is this like air quotes "disproven" or a pretty solid actual seal of peer-reviewed disproval?
You're correct. I was wondering what we could deduce from that 10m number since Google felt it necessary to mention it on the landing page. It would tell us who they intend to market this to. It is a bit weird to restrict DNS requests like that. Or maybe they don't want people to abuse their service to create URL forwarders or some such. I suppose unlike startups, for a company like Google, anti-abuse mechanisms need to be baked into the design/feature set.
I suggest http://wiki.xxiivv.com/Oquonie ... Strange noneuclidian maps and very distinct art style - takes a while to understand the logic behind it.
Exceptions are values too but they're more than values. "Errors are values" means "errors are values so just deal with them like you do other values".
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>>(1) the assumptions of the rational actor model, (2) the definition that "uncoerced" means "no person not actively consenting experiences any negative utility as a result of the transaction".

You forgot: (3) the assumption that two actors deciding on transaction are alone in the universe.

>>real transactions very often do have negative externalities somewhere, so few completely meet the definition of "uncoerced".

Well, here it is almost. Still the two actors gain, they are not coerced. The problem is other people lose and there might overall loss in the system. You would need to redefine coercion to pretty big extent to cover for what is actually the problem.
Arduino?

Wouldn't it make more sense to use the BeagleBone? :I
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Having zero directed interaction might be a problem, but seeing only 5 thoughts for 24 hours makes you think about those thoughts a lot more and gives you a lot of time to process and answer them. Maybe there are interesting answers to your thoughts and questions you will never know of.
Recruiting a founder of a startup also serves to nip (or at least slow down or delay) a potential rival employers (actually convert him/her to attracting people for your team).
It should be safe to look at from an archaeological perspective. You're not going to get any competitive advantage out of this or achieve anything by publishing a derived work unless you have access to a time machine.
Don't journalists get a course in basic statistics? Would solve a lot of these types of "reviews".
I've always wondered - why don't smartphones come with FM radios ??
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Thanks, I tried to search for more info but couldn't find it. I can't read this right now since it seems that Terathon.com is down, but will check it out.
As a long-time Google Voice user, I've been pretty happy with Hangouts integration. Texts, VoIP, cross-platform use... could still use invisibility and a (much) better set of "stickers," but I'm otherwise pretty happy with it and Google ecosystem integration. Admittedly, I'm on a Galaxy Note right now and can't attest to the iPhone experience.

GVoice used to have ATROCIOUS call quality that seems to have been ameliorated by Hangouts. Calls within the US and Canada are still free, voicemail service is second to none, and I'm extremely happy with the texting integration with Hangouts. What else do we want?
There's a whole pile of references to the "MACRO-10 assembler" such as this:

"Paul Allen wrote the macro package for the MACRO-10 assembler"

In the part below it.
I think Diablo and Torchlight were inspired by early roguelikes, but I wouldn't say the current wave of roguelikes were inspired by these games except maybe in terms of style (e.g. Binding of Isaac). FTL and Diablo 2 for example are quite different games.
I'll quibble with this. There are plenty of managers that wield authoritarianism and plenty of subordinates that yield to it.

I'd agree that managers with soft skills perform better, but even the old-school ass-kicking types can still eek out a performance. And even be rewarded by the higher-ups for that attitude.
In case anyone isn't aware of Dasher:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/

As a keyboard on your Android device:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dasher.android
You're suggesting he owes them something, and it really sounds like he doesn't - they've passed him over for career advancement, so he needs to find somewhere he'll be appreciated
As long as this doesn't become a playground of spam, I could see it as being a great place to get inspiration for... just about anything. For example, I shared my recipe for eggnog just now. That could be useful for someone, right?
I'll stick with NameCheap. All else being equal, I prefer the vendor whose core business is the service I'm seeking. They can neither drop the service nor quintuple the price (a la Google AppEngine). Same reason I use DropBox.
According to the article, the reason for the massively increased use of herbicides is that it's less labor-intensive than other ways of getting rid of weeds.

When we can find ways to produce a given quantity of food with less land, water, fertilizer and fossil fuel, this, as far as it goes, is an un-alloyed good.

But less labor is not as clearly so. Of course for a time it was necessary: we needed to move on from the situation where agriculture required ninety percent of the workforce. But nowadays we are finding the economy provides too few jobs, and in particular too few jobs that don't require specialized skills or markers of political status. Maybe there is some optimum of labor efficiency in agriculture, and we've overshot that optimum?