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by pg 13y ago
That article was not flagged off the frontpage. It set off the flamewar detector. As for recoiledsnake, that is one of many accounts created by a group or individual who is either an astroturfer or indistinguishable from one. Part of his&
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by pg 13y ago
That wasn't a reference. ( https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apaulgraham.com+dismis... )
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Chemical 'clock' tracks ageing more precisely than ever before(nature.com)
5 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
I've been updating it manually occasionally.
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by pg 13y ago
I doubt it, precisely because of the volume.
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by pg 13y ago
We only see the latest revision. There is no queue and thus not really any concept of a date.
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by pg 13y ago
You had me there for about 1.5 seconds. I've seen too many real graphs that look like that.
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by pg 13y ago
This is total applications submitted (scaled to fit the graph).
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by pg 13y ago
Just in case anyone else thinks the deadline is midnight, it's 8 pm Pacific Time. And yes, I think the rate will probably continue to accelerate till the deadline.
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by pg 13y ago
I've always meant to check if that's a predictor, but anecdotal evidence suggests not. I.e. I know some of the most successful startups applied at the last minute, but not all did.
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by pg 13y ago
I knew a lot of people applied on the last day but I've always been curious about the shape of the curve, so I finally wrote something to track it. The current rate is about 1.3 applications per minute. I'm guessing that will incr
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by pg 13y ago
You don't have to work in a field to be familiar with its problems. You can also be a user. But one way or another, you should understand the problems well.
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by pg 13y ago
You keep setting off the voting ring detector.
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by pg 13y ago
Ok, I found 4 more by doing a text search for "Urbanski." 2 of them I'd read myself, incidentally. Why did you ditch mcu? Did you forget the password? I can reset it for you if you like.
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by pg 13y ago
Were your previous applications under other HN usernames? I only found one rejection for this username.
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by pg 13y ago
Incidentally, the most important question (at least to me) has become: Why did you pick this idea to work on? Do you have domain expertise in this area? How do you know people need what you're making? and that one should
467.
by pg 13y ago
That's how you dismiss a food as a toy.
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by pg 13y ago
Incidentally, Soylent is a perfect example of something that some people really love and others dismiss as a toy. Not that that is a perfect predictor of success. If only. But it is at least a positive sign. (Come to think of it, maybe I
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by pg 13y ago
Because it's much cleaner and more powerful if the thing that generates the next page is a closure rather than just an index. Among other things it lets you show each user a different set of items (depending on whether they have showd
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by pg 13y ago
Ok, I unsubmitted it. If you change your mind just go to /apply and resubmit before the deadline.
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by pg 13y ago
I can do it manually if you want. Just let me know.
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by pg 13y ago
That's caused by using closures to create dynamically generated "callbacks" on the server, not keeping data structures in RAM. If you ask for some old item not in memory, it just gets lazily loaded.
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Stephen King’s Family Business(nytimes.com)
63 points by pg 13y ago|12 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, don't worry, we'll post videos of each talk.
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by pg 13y ago
Talks start at 11 am, with Phil Libin from Evernote.
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by pg 13y ago
That's a good idea.
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Why we revert to original titles
438 points by pg 13y ago|220 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Or making mistakes. A significant number of rewritten titles are false.
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Stay Put, Young Man(washingtonmonthly.com)
125 points by pg 13y ago|94 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Mostly a). The people who apply at the last minute don't usually have the idea at the last minute. They apply with something they've already started working on, or at least thinking about.

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