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by solve 11y ago
If ideas were worth nothing, YCombinator would be happy to tell us the ideas of all their latest startups. Would someone buy this information for money? Yes, I would.
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by solve 11y ago
Sounds like? Is it or is it not?
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by solve 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value If your strategy involves doing something that eliminates your upside potential, while leaving downside potential, then the strategy has negative expected value and is a bad
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by solve 11y ago
Not all places are equal for raising money. Competition has not not suddenly equalized the markets for capital across the whole world. Why's this? Exactly one reason: 1) Physical Proximity - nearly all investors will only consider you
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by solve 11y ago
The lows of startups are far more terrible than you probably think.
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by solve 11y ago
Good, but not good enough. Ask some successful founders if there was ever a time when they felt like all hope was lost. Very few will say never.
187.
by solve 11y ago
Reality is that many founders / writers / actors / band members / famous mathematicians and scientists have lived off of their spouses / girlfriends / family / side jobs / benefactors for a long time
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by solve 11y ago
I'm a bit confused by the reasoning too. We worked 18 months and put in 10s of thousands of our own money in the early stages prior to our first funding - a hefty negative salary. I think the only logical way to view it is that the fou
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by solve 11y ago
You sure? The ones I'm personally familiar with are investment banks that have hundreds of thousands of computers doing machine learning modeling. They ran the costs, and found GPUs to be far more cost effective.
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by solve 11y ago
But ASIC is 100x better than FPGA for energy per computation. Know of any mobile devices that have FPGAs on them now?
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by solve 11y ago
But are they the most efficient in cost-per-computation? For all the major data crunchers I'm familiar with, doing either finance or scientific calculations, that's the only metric they cared about. Only place I can see the cost-p
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by solve 11y ago
The reason is because GPUs gained more general-purpose capabilities. GPUs are the new FPGA, for all practical purposes.
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by solve 11y ago
Shouldn't be that surprising. Military has been blowing up missiles and detonating bombs on land at military testing sites for decades.
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by solve 11y ago
Seems that the control system only tries to guide it on the X & Y axis, but if I was controlling it and saw it coming in at that steep angle, I'd fire hard on the Z axis to try to raise it up, fix the angle, and then lower it down
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by solve 11y ago
> It’s relatively easy to pick up on someone’s personality in their application. From the written application that's supposed to be as terse as possible? I think I could get a feel for someone in person since I could dig into partic
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by solve 11y ago
Is it investors that attracts startups to a city, or startups that attract investors to a city, or something else? Everyone I've heard talking about transforming cities into startup hubs, always frames it as "make some good startu
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by solve 11y ago
How important do you feel it is for a startup to move to, or at least fundraise in SV?
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by solve 11y ago
Being positive? You're putting words in my mouth. I'm talking about less whining and insulting toward other people's companies and projects. No need to be positive. Honesty about predictions is bullshit. You can't be hon
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by solve 11y ago
I wish that HN would actually enforce the new guidelines against people "honestly" insulting each other's companies and projects. HN mods: were those just empty promises? Were there actually any changes in enforcement all? At
200.
by solve 12y ago
Would be nice to see some examples of each extreme, for each dimension.
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by solve 12y ago
Alternatively - the votes aren't being manipulated, the rankings are. HN has the most manipulated rankings of any reddit clone. The rankings are changed for all kinds of reasons other than just points and spam flags.
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by solve 12y ago
Had a similar idea this morning, when I realized that I've likely been wasting my time on trying to pitch YC and a few other investors on a non-B2B app. Looking at their portfolios now, that's clearly not where their interests lie
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by solve 12y ago
Clickable link: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies Scroll down past the header section and you'll see the lists.
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Anyone noticed that almost no YC companies are purely B2C software anymore?
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by solve 12y ago
I can see what you mean about the scaling problems.
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by solve 12y ago
Interesting choice of metrics. I'll just point out this community culture difference: - Mods on sites like PH tend to measure quality by the results of how the comments are likely to affect the post's creator. E.g. Could a comment
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by solve 12y ago
Ok, sorry my reply was too brief. What I was trying to say is: What would be the most useful single metric that a journalist could use for his audience? Z-score certainly wouldn't be that. I think that "percent change" captur
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by solve 12y ago
Dang, what's the percentage of active / new users who visit the guidelines page? Can you measure this in the website analytics? > Rules don't communicate themselves, but culture does. At this point, you should really just
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by solve 12y ago
Wrong. Percentage change is exactly what you look at, if you were to pick just one simple metric.
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by solve 12y ago
If only journalists would include these long-term, y-axis at 0, price graphs when they're writing about price movements. This would kill their articles though.

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