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Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds(theatlanticwire.com)
428 points by pg 13y ago|215 comments
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by pg 13y ago
Yes, it worked quite well.
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by pg 13y ago
To foil spammers. But we have other, better methods now. So maybe we can bring back a signup link.
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by pg 13y ago
If you put your email in your profile I'll intro you to someone who might be able to give you advice.
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by pg 13y ago
"Zero tolerance" is essentially a legitimate sounding way to reject "Let the punishment fit the crime."
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Hearing brainwaves - epilepsy EEG sonified(sydney.edu.au)
7 points by pg 13y ago|1 comments
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by pg 13y ago
The first time we used DoorDash, Jessica said "This has changed my life." If you have small children you understand.
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by pg 13y ago
It's only the initial product that should be for oneself. E.g. Microsoft started out making Basic interpreters for hackers, but eventually they made software for everyone.
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by pg 13y ago
These founders merely did what I advise every startup to do, build something for which they are initial market. So essentially you're complaining that the founders are members of the demographic group that they are. But that seems un
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by pg 13y ago
Most good ideas have precedents. The iPad was not the first tablet by a long shot. Nor was Dropbox the first service to offer syncing and backup. The difference, as here, was in subtle implementation details. But, as here, a small differ
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by pg 13y ago
I don't know whether finance companies pay or whether they have less problem hiring people. But what difference would it make it that were the case? We're talking about the same pool of people. The specific companies where the
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by pg 13y ago
The finance companies competing for programmers are also American. So even assuming that SV companies could draw star programmers away from Goldman Sachs by paying them more, there would still be exactly the same net shortage of them in th
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by pg 13y ago
http://hackerschool.com
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by pg 13y ago
It's not bogus. Many if not most of the big high tech companies have open positions they can't find people for. If anyone is curious where the mistake is in this article's reasoning, it's in the assumption that people a
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by pg 13y ago
He used swearwords, but that's a superficial test. The provocation was worse-- the casual assumption of lack of integrity, after this whole useless subthread started with someone deliberately misinterpreting his use of "ambivalen
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by pg 13y ago
I wasn't angry. I was resigned. That's why I phrased what I said the way I did. After so many cycles of doing YC, I know a certain percentage of the startups in each batch are doomed. Some people just aren't meant to star
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by pg 13y ago
Are these patents really holding up the industry so much? Who holds them, and what kind of royalties do they demand?
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by pg 13y ago
As someone who knows them well, I can tell you that you're so mistaken that it makes me wince. The Airbnbs are among the most earnest and dedicated founders we've funded.
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by pg 13y ago
You'll be happy to hear then that their growth continues to be excellent. (And no, unfortunately, I can't give the numbers. But it's the sort of growth you can get only from some underlying wave of change.)
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by pg 13y ago
I think women's fashion could benefit from something like this There's a startup in the current batch doing Netflix for women's fashion: http://letote.com . It's quite popular among the women who work for Y
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Welcome to the ‘Sharing Economy’(nytimes.com)
166 points by pg 13y ago|120 comments
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The curious case of the fall in crime(economist.com)
54 points by pg 13y ago|47 comments
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by pg 13y ago
And this sort of comment is exactly what's wrong with HN. You could have made these same points more effectively without baiting the person you're replying to.
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by pg 13y ago
As I said 4 weeks ago, the reason you see good comments from banned accounts is that people who behave abusively don't do it 100% of the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5926081 If my proposed plan for a new
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by pg 13y ago
Hmm, yes, that could be.
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by pg 13y ago
There usually aren't significant remaining funds, and I've never heard of investors keeping IP (there are usually multiple investors, and IP would be hard to split). And a 2x return is unusually rich for an HR acquisition. If yo
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by pg 13y ago
Please stop.
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by pg 13y ago
Definitely not. For some reason there is a persistent myth that investors make money from HR acquisitions, but they don't. Even we don't, and we invest at much lower valuations than VC funds.
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by pg 13y ago
That's a complicated question, because the nature of series A rounds has changed in the last couple years. A lot of so-called series A rounds now are de facto series B rounds, huge "seed" rounds having taken the place of ser
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by pg 13y ago
We haven't seen a decrease in the valuations/valuation caps at which YC companies have raised money after Demo Day. Valuations are high by historical standards, which means at some point they'll probably fall, but we're

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