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811.
by pg 13y ago
Actually responding to the various types of bad behavior is essential to running a web forum. In fact it's probably the single most important thing one has to do. And I call out this type whenever I see it, whether it has to do with YC or
812.
by pg 13y ago
At Viaweb we used to name them after Tintin characters.
813.
by pg 13y ago
No: (a) the t-shirts probably also work without me pointing to them, and (b) me noticing that the shirt has the answer is an instance of the phenomenon I describe.
814.
by pg 13y ago
Wow, even posters get their middlebrow dismissal, with its characteristic signature of uncharitability pushed so far that it crosses over into mistakenness. Even the most formidable people often put "ornaments" in their sight to remind them
815.
by pg 13y ago
What?
816.
by pg 13y ago
Rooted in doesn't mean intrinsically limited to. Apple and Google are also rooted in the Valley in the sense that their original users were here. But anything sufficiently good becomes ubiquitous. And incidentally, Instacart may well be s
817.
by pg 13y ago
Our lawyer wrote that text. I've never read it.
818.
by pg 13y ago
I poked around myself and the earliest use of the term I can find is in an article from 1968: Pupil size and problem solving JL Bradshaw The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1968 Of course when I tried to read the t
819.
by pg 13y ago
I'd be interested to know when/where the term "cognitive load" first appeared, if anyone knows.
820.
Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think(techcrunch.com)
240 points by pg 13y ago|73 comments
821.
by pg 13y ago
No, we've never gotten a DMCA notice. It's less trouble to put a link at the bottom of nearly every page than to think about what pages to put it on.
822.
by pg 13y ago
The striking thing about this prediction if true is that it didn't evolve on the Earth.
823.
by pg 13y ago
"The way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things." I thought that sentence seemed familiar.
824.
Danny Sullivan's Twitter list about Watertown(twitter.com)
47 points by pg 13y ago|20 comments
825.
by pg 13y ago
You're attacking a straw man here. We've funded lots of companies started by people who weren't programmers. In the YC FAQ, we recommend that such people find cofounders who are, if they can. But we don't insist even on that. http://pau
826.
by pg 14y ago
In particular for spammers. A few months ago we really cracked down on spammers. Anyone who looks at /newest with showdead turned on has probably noticed the difference.
827.
by pg 14y ago
Reputation is potential energy.
828.
by pg 14y ago
I'm not sure if you're including that quote because you think it contradicts what I said or reinforces it, but just in case it's the former: A portfolio company means a company that an investor has stock in, i.e. that is part of their portf
829.
by pg 14y ago
Watsi is not a portfolio company. They're a nonprofit we donated money to, not a company we invested in.
830.
by pg 14y ago
I've found that when there is some sort of disaster that hurts people and there's nothing I can do directly to fix things, it makes me feel better to at least go and help someone. I went to Watsi and funded a bunch of treatments after the
831.
by pg 14y ago
Sharing pays for the free parking.
832.
by pg 14y ago
The main appeal for users is actually the free parking. Long term parking at SFO is $18/day.
833.
by pg 14y ago
Yes, the free parking is the big appeal for users, not the money they could make if their car is rented out.
834.
by pg 14y ago
You're right, but I always try to underestimate things. It would be pretty big if ownership turned out to be largely a hack people resorted to before they had the infrastructure to manage sharing properly.
835.
by pg 14y ago
These guys are Airbnb-like in another way too: as with Airbnb, I initially thought this was a bad idea. What changed my mind was when I emailed all the YC alumni to recruit users for the closed beta, and large numbers of them immediately a
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Ask HN: Why would a government have created bitcoin?
457 points by pg 14y ago|294 comments
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Medical Care, Aided by the Crowd(nytimes.com)
9 points by pg 14y ago|0 comments
838.
by pg 14y ago
I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts.
839.
by pg 14y ago
The most significant result of this poll is that HN now seems to be past the point where we can rely on an honor system to prevent users from giving junk answers to polls. A few years ago we could. That's an unfortunate change. However, it
840.
by pg 14y ago
Would you please stop baiting people?

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