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by pg 13y ago
There is one main moderator (who is not me) as well as several other people who could do something like that but wouldn't.
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by pg 13y ago
IIRC that name was chosen by the moderator, but it will be easy enough for him to change if he wants.
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by pg 13y ago
Actually I don't think any of the outages have been caused by this. The prospect does add an edge of excitement to programming though. Gamification for programmers!
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by pg 13y ago
You can tell when a comment of your own is pending because the text is preceded by [pending]. You can tell when you can endorse a comment because there is link to do so. The link is currently small and gray, so it should probably be made
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by pg 13y ago
I wrote most of the code the day it launched, and I had to get it done that day because I had to help the startups prepare their Demo Day pitches. Thanks for saying the site is high quality, but if so it's despite (or possibly because
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Pending Comments Update
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by pg 13y ago
Everything appears to be about pre-existing growth now. It would be a disaster if that were true, because in this type of investing as in any other, returns are proportionate to risk. Fortunately it isn't. As I said in another thre
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by pg 13y ago
FWIW the way it happened was that I entered the latest changes to the pending comment code via the repl. So when the server restarted, it had the initial version of the code, which enforced pending comments sitewide instead of per thread.
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by pg 13y ago
Neither; simply a bug.
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by pg 13y ago
Oops, not sure how that happened, but I've turned it off.
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by pg 13y ago
While growth is the most important thing in a startup, it's unreasonable to expect it at the point when companies are applying to YC, so it is not the main thing the partners look for. Neither Dropbox nor Airbnb nor Stripe nor Optimiz
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by pg 13y ago
I just mentioned 3. There are many more. Like I said, we like domain expertise. But when you have that many exceptions there's not much of a rule left.
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by pg 13y ago
We like domain expertise, but empirically it's not critical. The Airbnbs knew zero about the hospitality industry when they started. They just knew they'd had a life-changing experience when they rented out airbeds on their floo
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by pg 13y ago
Most startups fail. Bogus plans and an inability to close deals are probably just the signs that failure is coming for that company. As someone going to work for a startup, you're in much the same position as an investor. It won&#x27
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by pg 13y ago
I wonder if disconnecting people from the Internet is enough to bring down the government. Has that happened anywhere yet?
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by pg 13y ago
I don't remember the details, but IIRC they are Apple proof.
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by pg 13y ago
Here is a classic example of a startup launching an Altair Basic with the potential produce a Microsoft-like giant. Incidentally, I think this is also the first father/son team we've funded.
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by pg 13y ago
There's a startup in the current batch using exactly this approach. In fact I'm pretty sure it's the friend he mentions at the end.
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by pg 13y ago
Among other things that picture contains a very young Patrick Collison, just above the projector.
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by pg 13y ago
Not yet. I'll probably display something when a whole thread is.
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by pg 13y ago
I lived in NYC at one point, and I'd agree that the two cities are fundamentally different, but I think he missed what may be the biggest source of the difference: the proportion of people playing zero-sum games. A lot of the most amb
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by pg 13y ago
Yeah, that might be a good idea.
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by pg 13y ago
It's been like this for several years. It's possible your account is old enough that your memory is correct. I did it to discourage spammers. I wanted to make sure they got zero clicks from their posts.
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by pg 13y ago
This was the original plan.
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by pg 13y ago
Yes.
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by pg 13y ago
Pending comments are now per thread, or more precisely per item tree, rather than sitewide. That was the original plan, and it turned out to be only a little more code. The moderator (who is not me) will turn pending comments on as needed
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by pg 13y ago
I'm turning off pending comments for now, because I'm going to bed and I don't like the idea of something this new running without me being able to watch it. One thing I noticed while it was turned on was that the comments we
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by pg 13y ago
Hrm, yes, I should fix that.
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by pg 13y ago
It's 500 at the moment.
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by pg 13y ago
That is exactly the plan. To prevent the change from being too disruptive I set all the parameters controlling pending comments very loose. I know a lot of people are worried that this will break HN socially. I frankly am relieved it didn

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