pg

20 ms·

211.
by pg 13y ago
As we say in the guidelines, http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN is a news site, not a forum for people with issues with companies we've funded (even when concealed as Ask HNs). So I'm killing this. If
212.
by pg 13y ago
Would you please not use all caps for emphasis?
213.
Migration of Monarch Butterflies Shrinks Again Under Inhospitable Conditions(nytimes.com)
4 points by pg 13y ago|1 comments
214.
by pg 13y ago
What if you are interviewing a kid from south-side Chicago or kid from third world who against all odds went to college? That is exactly the sort of achievement that impresses us, actually. For example, Qasar Younis started life in a hou
215.
by pg 13y ago
I asked him what happened.
216.
by pg 13y ago
"What single project or task would you consider your most significant accomplishment in your career to date?" If this is the best question you can ask people, we got really lucky, because this is the essential question on all YC&#
217.
by pg 13y ago
We're small enough that we can enforce things easily on our side. We can't control what founders say to investors. But experienced investors wouldn't believe a YC partner had agreed to invest without being able to confirm i
218.
by pg 13y ago
The reactions of investors after Demo Day don't change our opinions much. We've just spent the last 3 months working closely with these companies.
219.
by pg 13y ago
It is in VC funds in the narrower sense, because their LP agreements often forbid any individual investments in startups. VCs' LPs don't want the VC partners siphoning off the best of the firm's deal flow for themselves.
220.
by pg 13y ago
The competitive edge that Svbtle had was its exclusivity Is that true? Does it have no features that some users prefer?
221.
by pg 13y ago
If you pick software based on your opinion of the attitude of the authors, rather than its actual qualities, you're going to make a lot of mistakes. Do you have any opinion about Svbtle itself, incidentally? Have you tried using it?
222.
by pg 13y ago
Maybe software for analyzing and manipulating images. Not because it's a hot topic now. It's just something I've always thought would be interesting.
223.
by pg 13y ago
Why doesn't the article name the brands that cheat? Or at least list some that don't?
224.
by pg 13y ago
Off the top of my head I'd say not.
225.
by pg 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6866938
226.
by pg 13y ago
Whenever a startup we rejected seems to be succeeding, we go back and try to figure out why we rejected them. Occasionally we change the application process as a result. We don't start from the applications though. We hear from news
227.
by pg 13y ago
It's random. We rarely add that for companies more than a year or so old.
228.
by pg 13y ago
"Our goal is to be fair and accurate. The more you share, obviously, the better." We wouldn't want you guys to get hurt. And unless you do what we want, I'm afraid we can't guarantee your safety.
229.
by pg 13y ago
Sam knows Stripe's numbers. So the fact that he was able to see inaccuracies immediately is more meaningful than the fact that you read the entire article and found it useful.
230.
by pg 13y ago
This comment thread is like a micro version of the origins of the hard sciences.
231.
by pg 13y ago
It seems like we should be able to measure whatever effect there was. There must be sources of data about salaries in the Bay Area. Has anyone tried looking to see if there is a depression in tech workers' salaries, relative to people
232.
by pg 13y ago
They haven't all announced we funded them yet, but another one that did today is Zidisha: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/23/zidisha-launches-a-kickstar... Incidentally, Scribd started out as a way to disr
233.
by pg 13y ago
No, as far as I know we get no tax advantage from this beyond what anyone gets from making any charitable donation (the ability to deduct it).
234.
by pg 13y ago
Lest anyone be confused by that headline, there are 6 other nonprofits in the current batch. So there is a 7-way tie for 2nd nonprofit.
235.
by pg 13y ago
As I explained here http://paulgraham.com/wids.html we'd already been planning this event before that article.
236.
by pg 13y ago
He was showing off/joking. If every undergrad who has said something like that is an asshole, then pretty much everyone is.
237.
by pg 13y ago
Unless you know these people personally, you don't really know what they're like. I know Mark isn't though.
238.
by pg 13y ago
This person or group has created lots of accounts, but there are no others like them that we know of.
239.
by pg 13y ago
Bluekitten is just the 100th or so reincarnation of recoiledsnake, which is as far as we can tell a Microsoft astroturfing campaign. Lately their sockpuppets are often female, to give people the impression we're banning women when we
240.
by pg 13y ago
The latter.

More ›