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121.
by pg 13y ago
A comment only needs a handful of people to endorse it, out of the large number who could, so that doesn't seem a big danger.
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by pg 13y ago
Pending comments won't be visible, except to the submitter and to potential endorsers. That's the whole point of pending comments.
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by pg 13y ago
We already have pretty good protections against that from years of spammers and voting rings trying it.
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by pg 13y ago
Not currently.
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by pg 13y ago
It's impossible to predict the future perfectly, but I hope to leave completely. The only YC thing I'm going to do is office hours with the startups.
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by pg 13y ago
Hmm, trust cperciva to find the thing I'd overlooked. I'll add a pending page that collects pending comments. Maybe that will solve the problem.
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by pg 13y ago
With the current settings, a comment has a day to make it out of pending. If you delete a pending comment, it's no longer pending.
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by pg 13y ago
I picked that number pretty arbitrarily, but it's just a variable and HN has a repl.
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by pg 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7445761
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Coming Soon to Hacker News: Pending Comments
661 points by pg 13y ago|805 comments
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by pg 13y ago
If it makes you feel any better, it seems unlikely to me that attitudes have changed for the worse. I think there were always people who thought these things, and what's changed is that the anonymity of online commenting makes it easi
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by pg 13y ago
You can't fund people who don't apply, and people can't apply if they don't decide to start startups. The goal of the Female Founders Conference was to encourage more women to do both, and as Sam points out, there is mo
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by pg 13y ago
It's not 24% female founders btw. 24% of the companies have one or more female founders.
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by pg 13y ago
Once they are forced to play on a level playing field, their rates won't be as competitive and their service not as popular. This is a common misconception on HN. People with technical backgrounds love structural explanations for th
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by pg 13y ago
By not starting with spaceships, but instead with something that can evolve into spaceships. Here's the first product of Boeing, which built the bottom stage of the Saturn V: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/history&#x
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by pg 13y ago
Bingo.
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by pg 13y ago
We'd fund anything that had big potential and effective founders. It might be harder to raise money after YC for something that was going to take a long time, but there are certainly some VCs who'd like an idea that was going to
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by pg 13y ago
http://boostedboards.com
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by pg 13y ago
You can't build part of an engine in three months and then show it off on demo day. You can't build a database in three months and show it off on Demo Day either, but we've funded many database companies. You don't nee
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by pg 13y ago
We switched to bcrypt several years ago.
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This is the driest year in California history(twitter.com)
7 points by pg 13y ago|0 comments
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by pg 13y ago
We all know people we wouldn't want to fund, but there is not currently any software for it.
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by pg 13y ago
We haven't noticed any difference in results between batches. The only difference we've seen is that summer batches get more applicants, presumably because graduations mean more people are free to do something new June 1 than Jan
144.
by pg 13y ago
Please don't use all caps for emphasis.
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by pg 13y ago
They can. There's a startup in the current YC batch working on self-driving cars.
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by pg 13y ago
"I think he broke the law, so I certainly wouldn’t characterize him as a hero." That seems strange reasoning. Many heroes break laws. Plus the NSA broke the law worse.
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by pg 13y ago
Sorry, you're right. I replaced the url with that of the original.
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How Airbnb used predictive pricing to improve user experience(fastcompany.com)
56 points by pg 13y ago|9 comments
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by pg 13y ago
It's hard to predict the future, but it seems grids are very basic and powerful.
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by pg 13y ago
Neither of them are. Grid ( http://www.binarythumb.com ) is the closest thing to it.

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