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by pg 13y ago
Yes, that's a great example.
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'World's oldest calendar' discovered in Scottish field(bbc.co.uk)
58 points by pg 13y ago|32 comments
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by pg 13y ago
See the section labelled "Compass" here: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
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by pg 13y ago
One of the reasons I wrote "there may be a handful that just grew by themselves" is that every time I learn the story behind one of these apparent instant successes, it turns out it wasn't so instant. I don't know the s
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by pg 13y ago
We've funded several startups doing components of that. It's hard to do in the general case. Essentially, every startup is a user-acquisition startup in its own domain, and it's hard to beat the good ones at their specialty.
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by pg 13y ago
Please stop.
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by pg 13y ago
Yeah, I should do that.
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by pg 13y ago
This post switches subjects between the first and second sentences. Startup founders are a proper subset of entrepreneurs.
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by pg 13y ago
If people promote a lot of bad comments, we'll take away their ability to promote them.
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by pg 13y ago
Probably I'd make them visible to users with showdead turned on.
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by pg 13y ago
There are several possible solutions there, and it may take some experimenting to figure out which is best. I may not display pending comments in the threads where they live, but only on a page like /newest. Or I might give the peopl
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by pg 13y ago
Actually very few startups are fake. Companies look fake in retrospect if they make something that flops and then get HR acquired, but very few founders I encounter are deliberately aiming for that path. What I suggested in "Hiring is
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by pg 13y ago
Yeah, I realized as soon as I posted that that I'd have to explain. I'm going to define a state for comments between living and dead called pending, and I'll give everyone over a certain threshold of karma and/or age the
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by pg 13y ago
It's fine for people who aren't officially credentialled experts in something to talk about it. The best insights often come from outsiders. The problem comes when people express their ideas intemperately, either by making extre
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by pg 13y ago
If by "viable long-term businesses" you mean ordinary slow-growing ones, people already do start lots of those in the UK. But if you're talking about startups, meaning super fast growing companies like Google, Facebook, etc,
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by pg 13y ago
That is a common misconception, but it's usually founders who are eager to sell, not VCs. There is a power law distribution of outcomes in startups. The big successes are so big that that's where all the returns are for investor
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by pg 13y ago
You know, guys, I don't think you're likely to reach any sort of consensus or learn anything from one another. So you may as well stop now.
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by pg 13y ago
Originally. The first version took about a week IIRC.
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by pg 13y ago
http://ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
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Latest Vision for Las Vegas - A Downtown Vibe(nytimes.com)
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by pg 13y ago
I'm sure it's just automatic. Their sw thinks HN is dead because it stops giving their crawlers pages after a while.
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by pg 13y ago
This thread has descended into self-parody. I encourage you guys to go do something else.
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by pg 13y ago
Please stop.
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by pg 13y ago
I have to admit, I didn't realize before this how explicitly the Bill of Rights forbids fishing expeditions. If I were working at the NSA I'd be worried about that. It may be inconvenient to be restrained by the constitution, bu
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge(atlasobscura.com)
5 points by pg 13y ago|1 comments
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An Open Letter to Craig Newmark(krrb.com)
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Oh, My Hand: Complaints Medieval Monks Scribbled in the Margins of Manuscripts(brainpickings.org)
219 points by pg 13y ago|82 comments
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by pg 13y ago
It was flagged to death by users.
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by pg 13y ago
Please stop.
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by pg 13y ago
It's not a version. My site is actually made with Yahoo Store.

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