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by jrkelly 13y ago
I think the model of taking a piece of alumni future income (via ownership in their startups) is a competitive advantage of YC relative to places like MIT. It's a forced donation policy. Going to a non-profit doesn't stop this. NPs obviou
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by jrkelly 13y ago
From the outside admissions seems great, no complaints about the people they accept and alumni they create. I just think the organization right now is fragile. YC is unlikely to be around in 100 years while top tier universities are very
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by jrkelly 13y ago
Yeah, I agree with you - I think YC is one of the first new organization types that actually has a shot at creating an equivalently prestigious alternative to top tier schools. Wasn't suggesting to convert to a university, but I do think Y
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Ask HN: Should YC become a non-profit?
5 points by jrkelly 13y ago|8 comments
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by jrkelly 13y ago
Snapjoy seemed to be taking the right approach to dealing with this issue. Dropbox bought them, so maybe this will end up a solved problem - though the last thing I want is to be able to 'sync' photos out of existence which is why Dropbox
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Awesome, thanks.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
> but there was a scandal not too long ago where anyone who bothers to fill out paperwork could order anthrax and smallpox for research purposes from a lab. There's lots of problems in this post. But the idea that anyone could "order s
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by jrkelly 14y ago
> So I set up an RSS feed that takes the top n items over a certain period Oh, I really like that idea. how do you set up that feed?
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Could not agree more, this is the exact use case for the 'power users' of RSS. And he is right that without RSS I don't know how these low-posting-frequency sites would keep their readership. If I had to give up one, I'd give up twitter o
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by jrkelly 14y ago
I held onto my 3:2 thinkpad until it died for exactly this reason. You literally couldn't buy a new 3:2 laptop. Especially on small screens it is so much better.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
The 920 is really a beautiful device -- if you haven't gotten your hands on one you should try it out. It's the first phone I can't stop fiddling with since the original iPhone.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Well no tech really goes extinct. Kevin Kelly has a great piece on it: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2011/04/technologies_... It just moves to hobbyists / fringe. Mainline agriculture hasn't saved seeds for a long time (coming
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Maybe the industrialized farms aren't saving their old seed (because they're likely all using GMO seed), but the small (family) farms still are (especially organic ones). Why wouldn't you use this method? Because it's much less efficient
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by jrkelly 14y ago
However, if someone were to use the same process they used for gene insertion (which is more likely to be an invention than a gene they simply discovered), they may have grounds to sue. The process for gene insertion for insulin was the H
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by jrkelly 14y ago
You can patent things other than methods. For example, If you invent a novel chemical you can patent it - that's the basis of the pharma industry business model. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_matter
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by jrkelly 14y ago
mass insulin production is a great feat, but how much of that is used to fix diabetes caused by overconsumption of bad food? wow, this is a stretch. You realize that there is also Type I (juvenile) diabetes that is an auto-immune/genetic
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by jrkelly 14y ago
The argument is (partially) that you can't plant your iPad and have it grow into 1 million new iPads that you then sell to undercut Apple. Monsanto is arguing that the law needs to be considered specifically (differently?) for the case of
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by jrkelly 14y ago
A theory that states "women cannot be exceptional" is disparaging to women.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Fine, to be more specific -- he was referring to lack of women "in tenured positions in science and engineering at top universities and research institutions". IMO, people assume those positions are held by people that score well on tradit
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by jrkelly 14y ago
It's a much less mature engineering field than any of the others, so it's still a lot of R&D to get anything done. PhD is a big help in teaching you to do that well. I still recommend it, though at some point in the future it won't be
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by jrkelly 14y ago
How is the theory not disparaging to women? Society is run by people at the edge of the bell curve, if you say that there are less women at the edges than you are saying that it's no big deal we have less women in high-ranking positions.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
FWIW, I think AngelList is already planning to do that bundling via SecondMarket with their crowd-funding offering: https://angel.co/help/invest#invest-3 Q: Do startups have to deal with a million new investors? No. The overhead is the sa
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by jrkelly 14y ago
I'd get a PhD first or hook up with a PhD-trained co-founder.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
I can show what it takes to be "hellbanned" so you can decide if you might miss out on good posts by turning off show dead. I created an account for work to post open jobs on monthly "Who's Hiring" post. I literally made 2 comments that we
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Is soap better than Amazon in your experience? I'm a heavy user of amzn for a lot of this stuff, but hadn't heard of soap.com.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Boston, MA - 1 year paid internship for programmers to learn to hack biology. Ginkgo BioWorks is a well-funded MIT spinout that genetically engineers organisms that make the world better. Stop building apps and work on something that matter
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Have been using the Lumia 920 for 2 weeks now. It's the first phone since the original iPhone that I can't stop playing with -- details are just right across the board. It's light on apps but I don't use anything other than email, twitter
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Ever since google killed sharing within google reader itself (they meshed it into Google+) there is no way for 1st tier content junkies (i.e. people who have a ton of RSS feeds) to share good reads with each other. Twitter has horrible S/N
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Bonobos does this already at about that price point. Just buy all your clothes from there and you will be good.
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by jrkelly 14y ago
Vannevar Bush is an absolutely incredible guy. If you want to understand the origins of the modern academic research complex and Bush's role in building it definitely check out 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' by Richard Rhodes.

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