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by pg 13y ago
I investigated and those comments were autokilled. There are handful of phrases that cause comments containing them to be autokilled, and one is "circlejerk." I doubt we have lost any insightful contributions to HN by it.
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by pg 13y ago
Is it the default now for individual entries on blogger.com blogs to be displayed as lightboxes, or is this just an unusual option this one user chose?
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by pg 13y ago
It is, is it?
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by pg 13y ago
If it was also the feature users could use to change their displayed username, it would have to work that way.
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by pg 13y ago
Yeah, I'd be open to replacing the username. One of the biggest things I overlooked when I wrote HN is that I didn't make any provision to let people change their usernames. There are no internal ids underlying usernames; the ac
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by pg 13y ago
There's not just one sense of something being someone's data. The comments people make here are part of public conversations with other people, like in a newsgroup. There's a different sense of something being someone'
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by pg 13y ago
"I've posted some of my projects here hosted on github and have gotten something like 6 comments and 10 upvotes while still on the "New" page." You have posted 3 stories with github urls, and they got 1, 1, and 2, p
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by pg 13y ago
That would be conspicuous and easy to prevent/ignore.
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by pg 13y ago
Except if you do that you risk being banned yourself.
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by pg 13y ago
We don't let users abuse flagging. We have software that identifies users who flag excessive numbers of stories, and we take away their ability to flag.
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by pg 13y ago
It set off the voting ring detector.
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by pg 13y ago
That is an interesting question. I still can't think of one better than math and the hard sciences, which in my experience are roughly tied with SV. The to what end question is easy to answer though. It gets you a lot more attention
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by pg 13y ago
All successful startups are lucky, but they're never just lucky. If they were, we could save ourselves a lot of work reading applications and doing interviews. We could just pick randomly instead. If we did that for one batch, you&
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by pg 13y ago
The same arguments would prove that math isn't a meritocracy. Which it presumably isn't, entirely, but only because nothing is entirely. And if SV is only as much of a meritocracy as math, that's pretty good. Indeed, that&#
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by pg 13y ago
In every field there are dishonest people you want to avoid dealing with. So I'm sure every company more than about a year or two old has encountered reporters they'd never want to talk to again, beyond things like press releases
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Nut consumption reduces risk of death(news.harvard.edu)
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by pg 13y ago
How much money would you have made if you'd bought $1000 worth of bitcoin on that day?
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by pg 13y ago
We essentially gave IK12 our source code. When Tim and Geoff were starting it, we told them everything about how YC works, and even brought them in to watch how we did things.
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by pg 13y ago
Yes. All startups evolve, but most that have evolved slowly could have evolved faster.
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by pg 13y ago
I don't know much about either of them. There are so many of these things now. It seems like every few days I hear about another one I hadn't heard of. And I don't really know what goes on inside of any of them. Except Im
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by pg 13y ago
No, not it's not usually a problem if a company has merely raised some money, unless they've sold so much of the company that we know it will deter post Demo Day investors.
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by pg 13y ago
We have a much higher threshold for startups that have already been through an "accelerator" program. Mainly because we expect them to have thereby been accelerated; if they're not doing well, we worry they might be unacceler
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by pg 13y ago
There is a gradually increasing delay before the reply link appears, depending on the depth of nesting of the thread. It's intended to create drag on flamewars.
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by pg 13y ago
"Update: I've been currently gagged/banned from responding to HN comments. Sorry." For what it's worth, this is false.
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by pg 13y ago
I'm impressed with Jason's posts. He seems to be methodically working through all the misconceptions of inexperienced founders. This is an important and subtle one. Investors assume that if they're hearing about you first
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by pg 13y ago
Actually we go out of our way to avoid killing stories critical of YC cos, to forestall exactly that complaint. Not that it works.
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by pg 13y ago
The mods constantly replace blogspam with the original source. Probably several times a day.
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by pg 13y ago
Your "bluntness" added little except rudeness to the discussion. You could have expressed this point in a much less contentious way.
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by pg 13y ago
You could go beyond inevitably and say reflexively. Which is exactly the problem.
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by pg 13y ago
Ok, guys, time to stop.

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