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by Spyckie 19y ago
haha monopoly is great, especially with friends who don't think outside the box. It requires very fine deal negotiation and value assessment skills. My favorite move in monopoly is to come up with some trading deals that would give everyone
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Combine this with the recent article on how terribly wrong math is taught in school and we have quite a grim outlook of our nation's future.
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by Spyckie 19y ago
good read. It's interesting - the author wasn't pressured by external forces (VCs) to grow big - he wanted to grow big as fast as possible. He didn't grow because of demand but because of his dreams, which is the number 1 reason why he fail
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by Spyckie 19y ago
This is a beautiful article. I hated math during high school, but was very good at it. I even skipped a grade of math so I could free up my schedule to do more interesting classes! It's such a shame - I love math puzzles but really hate mat
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Please inspire your 2 year old child to obey your rules. Seriously, though, at least you can understand where it comes from. And discipline is not just smack smack smack and you're done. Discipline involves telling the child what they did w
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by Spyckie 19y ago
For your situation - you are, ultimately, selling yourself not just as an employee but as a package of value contributed to the company. Now, if you are valuable - that means, if you can provide experience, work or code to the company that
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by Spyckie 19y ago
I would be more worried if real estate was boring and stagnant. Real estate looks bad right now, I'll admit, but oftentimes a shakeup is useful for companies entering the market space. (Decouples people from old methods and products, and al
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by Spyckie 19y ago
The biggest problems in healthcare are bureacratic, but something has to be said about the mindset of doctors, too. They seem to hate change, and right now it seems like the only way the healthcare space will change is through the passing o
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Further confirmation that you have not tried to reason with 2 year olds. Hitting children for discipline is a touchy subject because without a proper motivation behind it, it becomes very inhuman. However, sometimes a child doesn't have a l
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by Spyckie 19y ago
add "to save an article for future reading."
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by Spyckie 19y ago
I would disagree with this, not because it isn't very good advice in general, but because its not good advice for entrepreneurs. The fact is that other people with motivation and drive to start something are quite rare to find in non top-ti
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by Spyckie 19y ago
This is a good question and I don't think we should kill the discussion by downplaying his choice of words. I've looked into micropayment models before - Amazon had by far the cheapest fees compared to paypal and google if you were dealing
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by Spyckie 19y ago
yeah, and I was on the second-to-last page too... great story so far.
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by Spyckie 19y ago
You bring up a good point. I don't think anyone had the vision that we would be socializing the way we do now on social sites like Facebook. Even Mark. Z probably didn't see it until it started taking off. The question as I see it is, can w
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Interesting... even though accuracy is generally high, the false positives weigh heavily on the experience. How accurate can we get recommendation systems anyways? I know my friends recommend movies to me all the time and a lot of them aren
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Its just the other side of the same coin...
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Great post, a bit too long. Summary - Ideas do not fall into just good or bad. a) Dating Julia Roberts is a good idea, but its not feasible. b) A free email address that has no password or registration is a good idea. (read the article if y
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Its because you imply (intentionally or no) that everyone who believes that some form of content control should be implemented has intentions similar to the DOD, CIA, KGB, etc. In retrospect, ultimate control of the site belongs to pg and i
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by Spyckie 19y ago
How about also changing the title and url of fluff links that have been taken over by intelligent conversation? For instance, that "programming is like sex" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120816 article had good discussion in the com
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Maybe we should focus on the underlying users that vote up fluff, and kindly inform them of the goals of ycnews community in content rather than focus on dealing with the fluff itself?
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by Spyckie 19y ago
heh, I recently built a naive bayes analyzer that decides whether a text is from reddit or from ycnews. The assumption was that Reddit-like comments/stories were fluff and not worth reading.
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by Spyckie 19y ago
"If certain posts become popular its because people want to read them." Why is reddit's content consistently horrible to the yc community? YC is not serving all people's needs in content - its serving a particular sector of users that expec
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Credibility and visible user activity are the 2 things I think are needed the most as of now. You need to give users more voice other than tipping in order to escalate conflict (which is the driving force of the website, right?)
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Well, these types of threads always exist, but the real problem is that the ycnews community or the technology behind ycnews has failed to hammer it down. I'm all for democracy when the majority brings meaningful and intelligent articles to
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by Spyckie 19y ago
The most useful thing I've learned in CS is to define and keep stringent rules while programming. These can be time/space constraints, programming time constraints, keeping the code modular, readable, or reusable, etc. Define rules that mak
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by Spyckie 19y ago
I bet you Facebook has some statistical models that estimate when their user base will stop growing/start shrinking, so they probably knew at least a month ago that this would happen.
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Thanks for posting this interesting data set, but after thinking about it for some time, I don't think this data offers any insights into yc.news. The leader to user ratio is too high, which skews all the numbers so that nothing really mean
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Creating more selective communities with stricter guidelines seems to be the wrong approach to dealing with trolls, especially based on the scenario pg lays out. As pg says, the larger a community grows, the easier it is for trolls to be ac
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Is there a way to grab a reddit comment corpus (a large set of reddit's comments)? I don't browse reddit but I think it would be a fun thing to play around with.
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by Spyckie 19y ago
Its not Steve Ballmer's fault. Microsoft just has an outdated business model/infrastructure. Their business model is Enterprise software development and sales, which is a problematic model due to many reasons (slow development, piracy, open

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