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by solve 10y ago
Of all the times I've seen Internet votes made to have a real-world value, the bad parts of this contest were among the mildest of potentially bad outcomes there could be. Went better than expected honestly.
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by solve 10y ago
Really, really like this. Been promising myself I'd build something like this eventually, other projects always got in the way. Glad you did it.
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by solve 10y ago
Question to YC - how representative are these, as a sample of the applications YC typically sees? I've always wondered what YC's raw unfiltered application sets look like. Is this more or less skewed in any atypical ways?
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by solve 10y ago
Sometimes I wish HN used these nonsense stories as a gullibility test. Revoke the upvote powers of anyone who upvotes this pure nonsense.
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by solve 10y ago
> they really just had 10 x 1 year of experience Brilliantly said.
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by solve 10y ago
The whole world is full of founders. Being in the SV area is the rare advantage, not the other way around.
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by solve 11y ago
Yes, the FROM spoofs your name so that the person will believe it's being sent directly from you in most email clients, and the Reply-to goes directly to your email. These are the email headers: From: YOUR_NAME <team@angel.co&
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by solve 11y ago
Edit: Oh cool, Hackernews still has this account rank-banned so the comments always stay at the bottom of the page no matter how many upvotes they get. So happy that I'm not the only one who was extremely surprised and upset about Ange
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by solve 11y ago
Nope. They're literally measuring two different things, return rates vs "would tell a friend" rates. Whether those two happen to coincide is quite product-dependent. Finding examples where they significantly diverge is trivi
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by solve 11y ago
Retention and NPS seem orthogonal.
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by solve 11y ago
How skeptical? How much BTC will you, or anyone, be willing put down on either of these: 1) Just bet me that it's not real, and I'll give you some very strong evidence. 2) How about I write a web-app that exposes HN's rank-ba
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by solve 11y ago
If "goodness", aka entertainment value to the reader is what you're judging based on, then yes, I suppose I agree. HN is good for reader entertainment. In that case, HN is basically the equivalent of a tabloid. Written civill
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by solve 11y ago
Is that really appropriate for things that are just launched? Out of infinite possibilities, the number of things an app doesn't do are practically infinite. Is there really value in always whining about all the things a just launche
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by solve 11y ago
I've got to wonder to what degree this approach is really hiding the "real" language in a higher-level encoding. E.g. you can write english in morse code, but the combination of those dots and dashes is where the "real&q
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by solve 11y ago
Let's be introspective. Was the "be civil" experiment really a success? Is it really the specific words that matter, or how the words make the other person feel that matters most? I'd contrast this approach with e.g. Pro
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by solve 11y ago
I'm genuinely confused as to what experience he's talking about, as it sounds like the complete opposite from what I've experienced. I do know that different companies may have implemented their flat structure in completely d
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by solve 11y ago
You've cut off the part of the sentence that I was replying to.
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by solve 11y ago
> Did somebody hire you? He's your boss. Can somebody fire you? He's your boss. Can they tell you to show up at work at certain times, or prevent you from taking the afternoon off to take your kid to the doctor? He's your
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by solve 11y ago
Do you not believe that's how mature businesses work?
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by solve 11y ago
The people demanding you pay them tens of thousands per year, for them to tell you how to learn, say it is. We can trust them, right?
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by solve 11y ago
Likewise, a cap on a convertible note may be used by investors in the next round as an anchoring point to restrict the valuation in the next round. Both of these effects are what a layman would think "shouldn't be real". From
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by solve 11y ago
Companies valued purely based on revenue streams alone will typically sell for 2x to 5x their yearly revenue. This is a big part of why it's SMART for most consumer startups to avoid earning revenue at all. Doing so will often cap thei
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by solve 11y ago
Just doesn't make sense. Sure, quickly eliminate someone's role, but why immediately fire the person? Why not even try to transition the person to a new role? Was she employed as an independent contractor? Reddit clearly has both
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by solve 11y ago
Extremely inefficient markets. Traditionally, VCs have been able to collude together to prevent startups from increasing in valuation "too fast". Unlike more efficient and less manipulated markets, which tend move in fast disconti
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by solve 11y ago
Strongly disagree. Beautiful design is a failure anti-pattern. It's no coincidence that many of the best tools are ugly. AWS is a set of tools.
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by solve 11y ago
It's really the most fundamental rule for every type of machine learning task -- there should be both a (1) test set and (2) a separate holdout validation set. No matter if the task is classification, sequence prediction, regression, m
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by solve 11y ago
Oh, I'm sure that startups know very well how poor and incomplete that methodology is. They just present this non-forward tested approach to fool the end users who don't know any better.
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by solve 11y ago
Can you show the forward performance, starting from the date when you chose those 4 parameters - 165.12, 172.44, 164.23, 156.02? As you know, backtested results with carefully tuned magic numbers can potentially mean nothing.
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by solve 11y ago
This puzzled me that, for the past few years, YC has wanted so badly to invest in more or less traditional style wealth management companies. It's so extremely hard to outperform existing methods in terms of returns. For user experienc
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by solve 11y ago
Looking at those generated images, I realized that many of those training photos seem to apply: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

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