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> the stock jumped about $1.50 or about 0.75 percent Sounds like the market handled the joke incredibly well if it didn't even budge 1%.
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I found it interesting that PG said in one of his interviews that when he's considering a pitch, he tries to visualize how a journalist could write an article about the pitch in a compelling way. Same idea.
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Except search engines have sole control over the systems doing the calculations. It's easy to see how they could just go ahead and use the patented methods on their private servers, and no one on the outside would be able to legally pr
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PageRank as a secret sauce that solves search -- this was actually always an overblown myth created in the early days of Google for PR purposes. It fits their PR mission perfectly because they want everyone to think that super smart algorit
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Chatroulette 2.0?
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> The ugly truth that U.S. tech media The ugly truth that U.S. tech media doesn't make any effort to investigate startup launches, they copy and paste articles that are handed to them :)
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You're vastly underestimating the uniqueness of search queries these days. Various sources within Google have said that 25% to 50% of queries entered into Google have never been seen before at all.
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Other than the index data, there's something even bigger. Google's biggest PR success is convincing everyone that the quality of web rankings depends almost purely on algorithms. It does not. What allows Google to hold their mono
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Watch out for inexperienced investors.
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Careful believing whenever HN / Reddit tells you something is bad. It's a similar group behavior to how towns can form a hate for the opposing town's soccer team. In that case, it can get so carried away as to lead to physica
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Thanks... Was just about to send out an application today that mentions me quickly winning a contest. Probably there's lots of dumb stuff I'm putting on my applications that I think makes me look good, but is seen as very bad. Wis
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More: https://research.facebook.com/researchers/1543934539189348 http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05698 http://www.thespermwhale.com/jaseweston/babi/tasks_1-20_v1-1... So, anyo
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Would be nice if every new VC was forced to use this and share their results with their partners, to learn some humility.
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> I'd say the HN community has a higher than average grasp of statistics No, just no. From my experience as an engineer that's transitioned into finance, I assure you that engineers and developers have the WORST pre-conceptions
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Been using this exact UX testing approach for years. Has served me well, no joke.
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Wow, sounds like enterprise Gentoo, in a good way.
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Relative to the .NET stack, Python's toolchain has always been no-cost for anyone to use, and the language is so fun that there are many people who enjoy just coding in it for free. I can almost see these guys' angle, of why they
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Most of these streets are one-way.
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(Most) accelerators are the problem here. They stack all the incentives on adding a cofounder no matter what, and none of those that I've closely known would stand behind the idea of "A bad cofounder is far, far worse than no cofo
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Bad mouthing and spreading rumors creates real business problems.
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> “bad-mouth other consultants to help myself get work” jerks Those guys... Second time I ran into one of those, I decided to quit freelancing forever. The whole perception of freelance consulting being liberating from office politics in
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It's so strange that people often lump US & UK into the same group. They're vastly culturally different in many ways, opposite even.
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If you're just saying that they're not perfectly identical, then that's obvious, you've said nothing. What I'm replying to is your implication that they're vastly different. Science shows that they're not
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I spent 9 years of my teenage life trying to learn languages in US schools. It was a complete waste and I remember none of it. The approach was ineffective.
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I strongly disagree, and the education system approach is provably a massive failure in this regard. That's all I'll say for now.
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That babies can learn multiple languages with ease is a surprise to no one in the world. Only surprise is that education systems around the world continue to waste so many years of people's lives trying to teach them additional languag
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Take away the bus-style seats, and it's now more like a tram/trolly/subway/european busses, from the rider's perspective. This open layout is vastly better than the traditional US bus layout. Feels safer, less trapp
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My theory - people in this age group entered college at a very low point in the software development market. This was both because of the dot-com bubble crash, and because outsourcing had just begun and quality outsourcing was far cheaper t
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The median age has been pinned to the '84 - '85 age group since the start.
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Good, world needs more consumer internet startups. All the B2B has been getting depressing.

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