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by sskates 14y ago
You're missing the negative effects on innovation in your analysis of #7. It's estimated that the existence of patent trolls costs the economy $29 billion/year: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/new-study-same-au...
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by sskates 14y ago
Honestly the much more powerful effect to check that an entrepreneur is acting in an investor's interest is the entrepreneur's reputation. It counts for a lot here in Silicon Valley. The compliance requirements are effectively a tax on acqu
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by sskates 14y ago
Care to at least share your experience instead of only attacking Thiel?
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by sskates 14y ago
I found two, DataDog and Loggly. Anyone have any experience with them?
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Ask HN: Log file monitoring tool
11 points by sskates 14y ago|5 comments
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by sskates 14y ago
The statistics you present do not show that you are worse off for having a college degree.
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by sskates 14y ago
Are there any good examples of someone "hacking" the YCombinator application? The only one that comes to mind is where the founder of Instacart demonstrated that his service worked by ordering a beer for Garry. And that's not even close to
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by sskates 14y ago
Ah, so now we uncover the real problem- our legal system. I have to admit that that's a real shame. I hope cheap diagnostics become common place over the next twenty years so at least some countries can start taking advantage of more inform
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by sskates 14y ago
Congrats on your release! I love the camera effects, definitely adds a lot to the atmosphere.
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by sskates 14y ago
So then it's a problem with the rule set- you shouldn't automatically biopsy every tumor. It's doesn't make sense that there's a rule in place (you must biopsy every tumor) such that people are afraid of getting more information because it
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by sskates 14y ago
I'm surprised there are three responses to this comment, all starting with the word "no". I'm not arguing for scanning irrespective of the cost. I'm saying that if the cost were 0 then you should always scan. More information should always
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by sskates 14y ago
The main one is how customers are going to react to your product. Spending a few hours on XML sitemaps and a build process for minification might seem like a good idea if you are a perfectionist, but if you end up spending time on these thi
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by sskates 14y ago
Careful of spending too much time on this, it reeks of premature optimization. You'll have much more knowledge of what's important to spend time on after you launch the site than before.
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by sskates 14y ago
One way to make the transition easier- get a job offer from a tech firm out here. Then if you're still unsure about moving out here to start a company, you can use that as a stepping stone to make the transition more comfortable. If you can
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by sskates 14y ago
A prototype and customers willing to use the product are forms of traction that YC looks for. There is no harm in applying now and then applying again later if you get rejected, other than your time.
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by sskates 14y ago
I know within my own batch (W12) the highest a startup pitched itself at demo day was about a 2.5- creating a company substantially bigger than Apple. I wouldn't be surprised if you could find a 4 or 5 somewhere in in all of YC with somethi
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by sskates 14y ago
Instead of arguing about things in the abstract, it's possible to find actual data. Corn prices are actually expected to hold steady until July of next year and then go down: http://www.cmegroup.com/trading/agricultural/grain-and-oilse...
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by sskates 14y ago
A left skew would imply that the median is to the right of the mean.
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by sskates 14y ago
I can't speak for your situation, but the internet has provided a huge amount of wealth to people who use it. For example, take just search engines. If think about how much I'd be willing to pay for a search engine over not having a search
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by sskates 14y ago
This is what the "learn programming in X weeks and we'll hook you up with a job at the end of it" programs are about (ex http://devbootcamp.com/ ). Definitely a huge opportunity there, as companies are desperate for programmers but don't h
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by sskates 14y ago
All I can think of after reading this thread is "don't go into the business of selling software to consumers for $5-10".
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by sskates 14y ago
Can someone explain this mindset to me? That there is somehow a fixed amount of mathematical talent in the world and if there are people whose preferences make taking a job in HFT optimal then society is necessarily worse off.
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by sskates 14y ago
Modern browsers are fast relative to their historical counterparts.
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by sskates 14y ago
For everyone talking about a bubble, 1.5B might actually be low. If you agree that Facebook is worth about 100B, according to Alexa, Pinterest is about 1/20th of the size by uniques (by pageviews it's about 1/30th). 1/20th means that Pinter
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by sskates 14y ago
Is there any evidence that high-level businessmen and politicians are more likely to be psychopaths than the general population?
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by sskates 14y ago
Glad you're already getting it, but for everyone else reading: It's not a self help book in the sense of helping out awkward people fake being less awkward. It's a classic on how to build relationships and should be part of every good busin
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by sskates 14y ago
I don't know why you feel the need to hate on his success because he doesn't have any employees. It's as if whatever he built counts for nothing. Whatever you did while you were a sophomore in college it probably wasn't anything close to wh
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Socialcam added 4 million users in one weekend(thenextweb.com)
3 points by sskates 14y ago|0 comments
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by sskates 14y ago
Is there anyone who's actually used it and can comment on how good it is?
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by sskates 14y ago
Yes, their A/B testing likely shows it's effective over not showing a popup for harvesting email addresses.

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