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by aneesh 18y ago
PG made an interesting analogy to the college admissions process. How long until we see an "Common App" for seed firms, and a common decision timeline?
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yep, that's pretty useful, but it only shows replies to your comments, and not other comments on the same article.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm not qualified to comment on how reasonable this is, but it's author has a good bit of credibility -- he's the "R" in the RSA algorithm for public-key cryptography). Note also that this piece is over 10 years old.
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by aneesh 18y ago
and a much-criticized, fairly annoying "viral" growth strategy.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Is there a way to subscribe to a convo via email or RSS, or do you just constantly have to come back to check for replies? There's not really a good way. You just check back every so often, and even then, there's not a good way to view t
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://apple.com works for me. Check your hosts file.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Today, right now, your contribution is worth 5% of the company and my creation of the company is worth 5%. The other 90% is based on what each of us does over the next 18 months. Here's a list of what has to get done, and what we ag
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by aneesh 18y ago
"In comparison, California is the worst. Unless of course, you’re in technology and/or looking to raise venture capital — when it comes to those two categories, the Golden State tops the charts."
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by aneesh 18y ago
For proper reading width, check out http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by aneesh 18y ago
> The cure for "Enumerating Badness" is, of course, "Enumerating Goodness." Amazingly, there is virtually no support in operating systems for such software-level controls The closest an OS has come to "enumerating goodness" is the Use
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by aneesh 18y ago
The hardest part of that is actually finding all the relevant historical data & getting it into a good form. Anyway, I'm not about to spend hours on picking a bracket, so I'll leave that to someone else.
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Y Combinator Demo Day Spring 2009(techcrunch.com)
57 points by aneesh 18y ago|25 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
That's probably the best strategy without putting much effort, but I bet some enterprising HN user will come up with a more complex strategy that has a higher expected value.
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Finnish programmer wears prosthetic finger with USB drive attached(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
I don't think his time (or really, all 4 YC founders' time) was the reason YC started small. YC is an experiment, and you don't want to fund 100 startups at once if you're not quite sure what you're getting into. Now that they've learned
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by aneesh 18y ago
You're being very frequentist ( http://www.statisticalengineering.com/frequentists_and_bayes... ). You don't have to have a random sample to estimate a probability. In the Bayesian interpretation, you can have a reasonable prior that you
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by aneesh 18y ago
One thing that surprised me was that so many of these uses are tagging living beings, rather than inanimate objects.
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10 Uses of RFID Tags(wired.com)
5 points by aneesh 18y ago|10 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
Cool. What are you using to draw the graph?
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by aneesh 18y ago
"Researchers have found that peoples' mental abilities peak at 22 before beginning to deteriorate just five years later." The 5-year gap doesn't make sense. If you're at your peak at age 22, wouldn't you, by definition, begin to decline
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by aneesh 18y ago
Short answer: There's no free lunch here. Whoever processes credit cards for you will take a small cut. Long answer: See the following discussions http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470128 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=389692 h
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by aneesh 18y ago
I agree, that knowledge workers usually work until the work is done. But 16 lost minutes from DST, or half-an-hour on YouTube, has a cost. It may not affect whether the work is done, but it probably does affect the quality of the work
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by aneesh 18y ago
Good point. They also don't mention the standard error on their estimate. The difference of 3 points could easily be swallowed by the standard error.
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by aneesh 18y ago
While I'm sure it's more useful with multiple numbers, I've gotten a lot out of it having just one number. It gives me a second number that I can give out to folks who I don't want to give out my primary number to. It gives you much more f
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by aneesh 18y ago
Check out http://stackoverflow.com . Hacker News isn't a tech support site.
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by aneesh 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=426786
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by aneesh 18y ago
One advantage of, say, a hash function over (pseudo)random numbers is that the same input guarantees the same output. It doesn't seem that important in the case of gift cards, though.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Doubtful. If there was truly money to be made that way, Apple marketing would have already thought of it and be giving away iTunes gift certificates.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Suppose you're running the team at Apple that works on the iTunes gift codes. What do you do here to cut your losses? Obviously change the algorithm used to generate the codes for a start. And even though the codes themselves are indistin
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "metastasis ... is known to be responsible for 90% of cancer-related deaths." It's important not to misinterpret that fact and conclude that preventing metastasis will reduce cancer deaths by 90%.

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