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by sskates 14y ago
As much as people are snarky about them, it's good to see that some petitions actually result in action!
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Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research [pdf](whitehouse.gov)
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by sskates 14y ago
He is not explaining how things ought to be, he is explaining how things are. I think you guys agree.
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by sskates 14y ago
The only validation that matters for the success of your startup is validation from your customers. And the list of things customers want is endless. Reporters, investors, bloggers, commenters on HN are second order at best, and most of the
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by sskates 14y ago
Not sure if you're still reading this thread, but in case you are, there's a YC startup that aims to help people get out of debt: https://www.readyforzero.com/ . You may find it useful.
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by sskates 14y ago
As funny as you think it might be to charge $50 a month for guaranteed quick delivery, this is exactly what he actually wants. Large random delays in delivery are costing him way more, so he's willing to pay to fix the pain. Instant deliver
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by sskates 14y ago
If someone claims that "you should always do X" and then proceeds to do Y, isn't the fact that they did Y evidence that "always do X" isn't a good rule?
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by sskates 14y ago
I think people are reacting negatively to your post because it comes off as a criticism of the people who work on the problems you described. If this was not the intended effect, perhaps you should clarify on your blog post, because most re
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by sskates 14y ago
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing, we might be, we might not be. You are talking about renting apartments to unchecked strangers for days and I am talking about people renting out their apartment on AirBnB. There's some rel
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by sskates 14y ago
I'm asking about evidence for the higher rates of crime and abuse to non-tenants that tptacek claimed, not about deceptive listings on AirBnB or damage to tenants.
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by sskates 14y ago
Is there any evidence that apartments rented out with AirBnB are more prone to crime and abuse of non-tenants than apartments not rented out with AirBnB?
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by sskates 14y ago
I am curious- what was the atmosphere at the finals like when you were a contestant? I remember when I first went in 2008, it felt like the superbowl for nerds. Competitors would get up on stage and provide commentary while their swarms of
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by sskates 14y ago
Working on Battlecode was the same way for me, most intense time I've ever spent at MIT. Lots of teams were really into it which made it all the more competitive and fun. In 2009 one of our rivals was a solo coder who was in the top 8 of th
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by sskates 14y ago
http://www.battlecode.org/
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by sskates 14y ago
IIRC our bot was about 5k LOC.
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by sskates 14y ago
6.270 was a lego robot building competition during IAP. Is it not still around?
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by sskates 14y ago
I highly, highly recommend any current MIT undergrad who is serious about starting a company to compete to win in Battlecode during IAP. It's as close to starting a company as you can get. Watching your bots win and lose while trying to pri
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by sskates 14y ago
Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired- not that much effort to impact 30 million people. You might dismiss Instagram's innovations, but dismissing the importance of an interface is like dismissing a new programming language becaus
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by sskates 14y ago
Alright, I'll bite. I intensely care about maximizing my positive impact. After looking at a lot of things in college, including academic research, finance, consulting, nonprofits, and engineering at a big company, I concluded starting a co
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by sskates 14y ago
It's more important to focus on whether a company will be successful than its valuation. Nowhere did I say valuation did not have an impact. Focusing on valuation and ignoring whether a company will be successful is a mistake. I, and any ot
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by sskates 14y ago
Yes, you can quit and work somewhere else. Also you can read about what Sony does on Hacker News and decide not to apply there for a job in the first place. I really hope you are not actually against customized employment contracts- there a
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by sskates 14y ago
Log base 2 of 100 is 6.6. That means you need 6.6 effects the size of valuation in Chris' case in order to have the same impact on your outcome as picking a winner. Can you explain why using valuation to drive your decision is preferable to
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by sskates 14y ago
Thank you! The bottom up vs top down comparison really crystallized the meaning of the post for me.
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by sskates 14y ago
I don't read any adversarial tone in your quotes, merely a set of comparisons.
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by sskates 14y ago
What? Did we read the same post? I thought the post was about how the Developer CEO's approach was to get data points and the Sales Guy CEO's approach was to get a read on the other person. Where did you read that he thought Developer CEO's
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by sskates 14y ago
You would expect that investors would help your startup more if they had more equity from a lower valuation and were rationally trying to maximize the expected value of their holdings. However, in seed stage investing in startups, investors
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by sskates 14y ago
I'm now curious if there are a segment of investors who use valuation to drive their decisions, even if its irrational to do so (valuation in Chris' case was a 2x factor, whereas success vs non success is a 100x one). If they exist, it may
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by sskates 14y ago
What's way worse is losing the trust of their advertisers over the long term. I'm not going to buy views on Youtube if I don't trust the platform, so steps like this make me more willing to spend.
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by sskates 14y ago
The distinction is between independent identically distributed random variables, where it's possible to not get the item after 1/p tries, and what you described, which the events are not identically distributed. In the case you describe, th
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by sskates 14y ago
I'm really excited for the Grooveshark integration- been waiting almost six months for this. Great job guys! Look forward to an SDK sometime down the road too so we can hook it up to our own apps.

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