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901.
by pg 14y ago
It happens. There are investors who are notorious for offering lower caps to startups that have already started raising money. The solution is essentially to route around them. We advise startups to approach such investors last, when the
902.
by pg 14y ago
There are cases where that would make sense, e.g. if the second investor was some famous domain expert. That said, it doesn't happen often. The more common case is where the cap rises for later investors. Later investors gripe about that
903.
The Handshake Deal Protocol(ycombinator.com)
519 points by pg 14y ago|219 comments
904.
by pg 14y ago
"Poor people don’t have clutter because they’re too dumb to see the virtue of living simply; they have it to reduce risk." Close but not quite. In my case at least it's true that when I was poor I accumulated stuff largely out of fear of s
905.
by pg 14y ago
Thanks! The trend is not exactly conspicuous.
906.
by pg 14y ago
More like I wasted a lot of time spelling out something that was already obvious. This is a bug in forums, not a feature, and one that has bitten me many times. You can't be concise on forums, because if you leave any possible room for mi
907.
by pg 14y ago
We considered that, but it seemed too heavy handed.
908.
by pg 14y ago
Like I said, the original comment is really more confused than dismissive. And I do feel kind of bad for making fun of the guy. I should have known that saying I wished it was the top comment might make it so. You're mistaken about the de
909.
by pg 14y ago
I can't believe the paper has no scatterplot. Maybe the Internet can help. Anyone want to make one?
910.
by pg 14y ago
Complicated question. Dismissive comments about new things bother me partly because there's an asymmetry that seems unfair. It's so risky to create something new, and so easy to dismiss it. At their worst, the people making such comments a
911.
by pg 14y ago
I feel like I'm trapped in an HN parody. It's precisely because I want HN to be a site where people engage in meaningful discussion that I try to discourage people from upvoting the first dismissive comment they come across. Even discourag
912.
by pg 14y ago
I kind of wish this were the top comment. It would be humorously appropriate if the top comment on the thread about the official HN t-shirt were the traditional nitpicking/point-missing type that is so commonly the top comment when people l
913.
by pg 14y ago
It seemed particularly appropriate for the HN t-shirt to raise money for Watsi, since you guys in a sense discovered Watsi. They'd had some publicity before, but it was after their highly upvoted post on HN that their growth really took of
914.
by pg 14y ago
We organized this.
915.
Official Hacker News T-Shirt(teespring.com)
471 points by pg 14y ago|313 comments
916.
by pg 14y ago
That was an abuse of flagging. It's fine (though boring after a while) to complain about links to sites whose policies you disagree with, but not to flag them as offtopic.
917.
by pg 14y ago
The appeal of these articles is that they speak our unspoken thoughts. That is exactly the problem. Nothing is less the product of systematic analysis than what you call an "unspoken thought." "Speak our unspoken thoughts" is a nicer way
918.
by pg 14y ago
These articles are easy to write (and upvote) but such conclusions are pretty meaningless till you have a definition of what counts as innovation. That's a very interesting question, and yet just about everyone who talks about this topic d
919.
by pg 14y ago
Interestingly, someone tried to spam a bunch of comment threads with this a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=herokulawsuit
920.
by pg 14y ago
Better detection and banning of abusive crawlers.
921.
by pg 14y ago
Actually I added one about an hour ago. This is an interesting suggestion but it would not be on our top 100 things to fix.
922.
by pg 14y ago
This post is brief, but not fluffy. I wish he had dug more into the forces at work here. But it is an important point nonetheless. And we on HN could do better than merely dismiss it. We could try to dig into the underlying forces oursel
923.
by pg 14y ago
We don't do it to look cool. We know low contrast is less readable, and we use it to discourage self-posts.
924.
by pg 14y ago
I didn't mean "smart" in a way different than it's ordinarily used.
925.
by pg 14y ago
"If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
926.
by pg 14y ago
Yes, I think so, though that is harder to judge from a conversation.
927.
by pg 14y ago
FWIW, Andrew is one of the smartest founders I've met (and I've met a lot).
928.
by pg 14y ago
Not as cheap as dismissive comments on forums.
929.
by pg 14y ago
I keep a tab open with this image http://media.tumblr.com/c8a33a98917d46ca8d3220183dfd6e5e/tum... because I know I'll click on it accidentally a few times a day. I do it to remind me that there are more important things than whatever fire
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The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient(blog.watsi.org)
283 points by pg 14y ago|63 comments

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