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Location: South Texas Remote: Yes, preferred Willing to relocate: Only in Texas (San Antonio, Austin, Houston) Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Android, Java, iO…

If I understand this correctly, Brightwork is essentially acting as a middleman between APIs and the developer. Are you creating new API auth tokens on behalf of each user or are y…

Advertisements (specifically online advertisements) are used by companies looking to reach their target market. For example, fantasy sports sites advertise on ESPN.com because a lo…

Do distributors currently have software that you can tie into to get up-to-date stock and prices? Are there any legal hurdles with scaling this across state lines?

Phrasing matters. If someone applies with a project management app you can say "Seriously? Another project management app? How is this different than X, Y, or Z?" or you can say "H…

I think a mini application with a few questions from the normal YC app as a comment would be helpful. I see a ton of Show HNs in which I have no idea what the product does (either …

Will there be a Startup School this year?

What's YC's valuation?

This is awesome for YC. Will he be reviewing applications?

Logistic differential equations with a focus on population growth.

This is interesting, but dangerous. Smokers make up 90% of lung cancer deaths [1]. At some point you have to acknowledge that smoking definitely does something to influence lung ca…

I've been told I have white coat hypertension. My bp readings are 130-140/85 in doctor offices and usually 110-120/75 outside. High bp runs in my family so I've been considering mo…

> And by the way, except for two elections, voter turnout in the U.S. has hovered between 70% and 80% since the 60s. Where are you getting this from? I was under the impression it'…

Sure, what's your email? You can email it to me if you prefer. Email is in my profile.

I really like Google Domains. All domains come with free privacy guard which is nice. If anyone needs an invite let me know.

For those that don't know about the Phil Ivey "hack," here's basically what he is accused of: A certain card manufacturer had a defect in which there were tiny deviations in the de…

If reddit figures out how to get past the legal and technical hurdles this brings, I'm very excited to see what comes of it and if other online communities will do something simila…

When was the last time you used Android?

That's what I figured. That seems like it would be incredibly clunky to use. Turn the dial, scroll up, turn the dial some more, scroll left.

I'm skeptical about a few things - mostly regarding the dial. They are trying to replace pinch-to-zoom, but how does it know where to zoom? Also, the main UI screen with all of the…

Parse is a Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS). A BaaS is a great solution to connect your app to a backend server without having to build the backend yourself. Why would you want your app…

It's important to keep in mind YC was judging these companies based on their long term goals, whereas we can only judge them based on their version 1.0.

Kickstarter and Indiegogo provide so many advantages to indie entrepreneurs. Network effects, a large number of people with credit cards on file, free marketing and indexing. Also,…