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721.
The music industry: On-demand touring(economist.com)
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722.
by pg 13y ago
Yes, such bans only last a few days.
723.
by pg 13y ago
Someone wrote an abusive distributed crawler that got a lot of Tor IP addresses banned.
724.
by pg 13y ago
See the last section of http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html .
725.
by pg 13y ago
Cipolla's Before the Industrial Revolution (again).
726.
by pg 13y ago
If it's happening, it's a bug.
727.
A Conversation with Jane Jacobs(brickmag.com)
6 points by pg 13y ago|1 comments
728.
by pg 13y ago
No, it's just a bug.
729.
by pg 13y ago
Probably because we restrict their crawlers. But this is an excellent side effect, because the last thing I want is traffic from Google searches.
730.
by pg 13y ago
That's true. Companies, and startups in particular, have increasingly realized that they want really good programmers.
731.
by pg 13y ago
It is about what it was before the spike that preceded the crash though.
732.
by pg 13y ago
No one is claiming there is a shortage of programmers. The shortage is of really good programmers. These tend to be people who have an innate love of and aptitude for programming. It's orthogonal whether they happen to major in CS in col
733.
American NGO tries for transparency in rural Nepal work(csmonitor.com)
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734.
by pg 13y ago
Sorry, everyone, it was a bug I introduced. I wrote some code that looked at the ratio between two hash table entries, and I forgot to specify that I wanted the first hash table reference to return 0 rather than nil if it was empty.
735.
by pg 13y ago
If he means formula in that narrow a sense, then his larger point is mistaken. Most of being a good doctor is not reducible to formulas either, but that doesn't prevent medical schools from working. Only a small fraction of what humans lea
736.
by pg 13y ago
"Yet, there is no enduring formula for creativity and rebellion." This is a fine sounding statement, but it's false. We've been accumulating and refining techniques for having new ideas for centuries, at least. Leonardo da Vinci mentioned
737.
by pg 13y ago
A valuation cap is merely an upper bound on a valuation. I'd rather be conservative and wait till there is a valuation.
738.
by pg 13y ago
The difference between me and the other partners is mostly that I got to be publicly known by writing. On most topics there are other partners who can give better advice than me. PB gives better advice about hacking. Geoff gives better ad
739.
by pg 13y ago
That's an estimate of what will happen eventually in the biggest companies, based on industry norms. But we don't know how much we've been diluted so far in individual companies.
740.
by pg 13y ago
They're nice guys. It's mostly a gimmick.
741.
by pg 13y ago
If this were a startup that was trying to grow as fast as possible, it would be a good idea to own the domain. It would make the site easier to find. But we're not trying to grow, so we don't want to make HN easier to find.
742.
by pg 13y ago
That is interesting. The reason it hasn't changed is convertible notes. Now most of the fundraising immediately after Demo Day is on notes. Since a note doesn't establish a valuation, we add zero to the total valuation for those companie
743.
by pg 13y ago
After dilution it will be more like 3%.
744.
by pg 13y ago
The total valuation of those 511 is currently about $11.5 billion. We ourselves don't know the percentage owned by founders. But considering that investors continually complain that YC companies are overpriced, it may be higher than the in
745.
by pg 13y ago
My enthusiasm as a user hasn't waned. I use it increasingly often. But I'm not so enthusiastic about funding companies based on it. There are probably still opportunities for companies to grow by using Twitter initially, but it would be
746.
by pg 13y ago
Aha, that must be why I never published it. I turned it into an RFS instead.
747.
by pg 13y ago
I can't say for sure this never happens, but I've never seen an instance of it. A startup is composed of its people. For an acquiring company to take on people they didn't want would be the ultimate sacrifice.
748.
by pg 13y ago
Back in the 90s, most of those would have been among the more earnest, nerdy startups being funded.
749.
by pg 13y ago
Actually the trend among VCs lately is to hire people with operating experience as partners: Alfred Lin, Chris Dixon, Keith Rabois.
750.
by pg 13y ago
This would be accurate if time were going backwards. The world it describes is how things were in the 90s. For the last two decades, at least, the power of hackers/makers relative to MBAs/smooth talkers has consistently increased, and that

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