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No. VCs always get preemption rights, and always refuse to give up their board seats once they get them. Replying to the OP a few threads up: > I assume events (key hires, acquisitions, investments) are brought to the board for a vote,
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Strange article. Is this meant primarily for YC companies, or generally? Sounds like advice that's only applicable if you're dealing with very reputable top-tear investors. My experience: Giving investors substantial control doesn
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> Being kind is fundamentally about taking responsibility for your impact on the people around you. Totally agree, especially in regard to when people share their projects on HN. The HN community moderation always seemed to be based on
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Those first two American workplace traits won't work well unless you include a third American workplace trait: They're far less subservient to their bosses, if they have bosses at all. Not like how the project is being done? You&#
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Journalists jealous.
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If you ask the "why do they need investors if they already have enough revenue at the moment to survive for now" question, then you really don't understand the basics of startup investment. The situation where you obviously n
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The biggest disservice that YCombinator and other famous top-tier investors have done for entrepreneurs is to somehow convince us that the typical investor is a good person who will support you through good and bad. They're not. Typica
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I have no hesitation in arguing that our textual understanding is currently far worse. E.g. modern deep-learning classifiers can get high 90s F1-score on identifying entities in images, but what's our capability for recognizing e.g. pr
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You're in the US, so don't call this type of work IT. In US, IT means support / help desk staff, very low-level :)
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The role of computers is to get rid of human culpability, which is what 95% of law ultimately comes down to. Seems to be working quite well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforcement_learning Yes, easily.
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> “Now That’s A Beautiful Pitch Deck” Reminds me of this quote: "As a designer, this is hard to admit: Extremely beautiful design is a negative warning signal for startup success. (70%+ accuracy.)" https://twitter.co
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If I were running a social network like this, I'd post questions with definitive answers like this one, see who voted up / wrote the wrong answers, and then block those people from voting / commenting again for a long time pe
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You should have talked to Google, instead of numerous people. http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_li... Summary: Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, so also d
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Zoom way out to the national level. Looks like the empty towns in the middle of nowhere do the best -- because they force you to move out to get a job. Also, no one there is having decent jobs just appear locally in front of them, so you ha
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What's become very clear in the past ~5 years is that we're seeing the emergence of a new field, very distinct from statistics. The closest equivalent of the new machine learning field is electrical engineering, which has now heav
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My theory on that is because Manhattan is so great, and the immediate surroundings are relatively so much worse in many ways (opinions vary but it's generally accepted). So, they get the idea that this trend just continues indefinitely
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"it would be a miserable place to live" Different people, vastly different tastes, dude. Every small town around the world spreads this weird rumor among themselves that cities are so terrible. Apparently caused by the small perce
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I meant that purely relatively, versus Rare<->Rare pairs.
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The real A/B test is: custom translation versus automatic in-browser translation. Huge percentage of people use the latter now. Edit: I haven't done careful analysis, but I run a large site with global appeal and 50%/50% US v
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Acting like a p*ssy does not lead to reproductive success. I'd expect it to be more selected for, over time. Best relationship ever was with a ADHD risk-taking person. Would do again.
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And what's with the kernel_task that's suddenly taking up most of the RAM on older Macbook Airs?
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Looks like more of an advertisement against Clojure than anything else.
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> I would rather prefer seeing the thing I am interested in at the very top You've hit on the exact point. If you've ever watched a heavy pinterest user browse pinterest or other pinterest-styled shopping sites -- they look at
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Pinterest? Spreadsheets? Business apps? Not applicable everywhere, but for certain applications (near-) infinite scrolling is extremely popular with the target users.
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"Hard mode" is raising outside money. Easier (and often better!) mode, is to delay raising outside money. Your current employer is usually a far better investor to (unknowingly) fund your projects anyway.
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Not at all. This is probably the one thing they've gotten the most right so far. It's not unique to tech stocks - it's very deep part of investor psychology. E.g. in a romantic relationship, people being far more enthusiastic
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You're looking at the wrong page. They've moved the personal questions to a separate "Founder Profile" form, which each founder gets a special email link to access and fill out.
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I'll take the opposite side - pastel colors are horrible and disgusting. I can't imagine why anyone would like pastel colors.
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From my experience, I'm absolutely sure that large NYC companies are far more cautious about it. Both cities are full of young people, but CA doesn't even try. E.g. the YC application always has directly asked for age. Try that in

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