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Sure, I'm not saying YC is bad, it's immensely helpful in many ways. I'm just sharing some lessons that were very expensive and painful to learn.

The products were already useful, there just wasn't a viable enough market for them. It's hard to know that this is a problem when you have 5% growth for a few months and think you…

As a 3 time early employee of a YC funded startup I'm going to go ahead and say that the first customers benefit is as much a problem as a benefit because it presents the illusion …

On HN every day brings some new event that completely changes everything forever and deserves all our attention and capacity for outrage. Don't you ever find this exhausting?

Doesn't seem to work on enterprise github yet. :(

It's analogous to building a 30+ person company around MS Office clip art circa 1995 or Print Shop banner designs circa 1985, only now the company is valued at $300m with $50m fund…

Would it be possible to create a nuclear power plant detector by trying to detect neutrinos?

It's not insignficant. For one, the app icon looks completely different now. I had thought for a moment that I had uninstalled uber inadvertently before remembering their brand red…

> we couldn’t be happier to announce The tone of the announcement is in bad taste given the bad news for their customers.

Good recruiters are essential for building a good team. I have been happy to know many of the great recruiters I have had the pleasure to be on the same team on. Hiring is a comple…

I like "black swan"

Given how hard hiring has been, I doubt it. The current talent shortage could absorb a huge number of engineers. A lot of startups are well funded for many years anyway. People are…

Any kind of JavaScript, iOS or Android engineer getting laid of will get a job within a month if they want. Competent backend developers, devops, ML engineers also will have no pro…

Eyes don't process information, they're a sensor. In an animal its brain, a multi-celled organ, processes the information.

Oh I misread. That's a really good point and it's too late to edit my comment. Thank you.

Makes a point of Meteor's age and then proceeds to say that they're using 0.10 node with a bit about not upgrading anytime soon. Seems legit.

> The underlying question is: When we say in general relativity that particles can't travel faster than light, what is that speed measured relative to? It's based on the observatio…

This didn't mention the expansion of space at all. The universe may be infinite in size but we'll never see the light of stars that exist so far from us that they are beyond the di…

SAT testing takes place while in high school, so test taking starts at age 15, but it's probably mostly 16 and 17 year olds who take the test I'd think.

> which is intended for their Mars project Space X is a for profit company right? What's the profit incentive of going to Mars? A marketing ploy? Does SpaceX not have any investors…

> 1. Modify the license for django to stipulate that companies using the software must display a highly visible 'powered by the free version of Django' badge on their website. 2. A…

Reality is a lagging indicator. All this schadenfreude on HN, so much eager anticipation for bad things, why do you people read this site? There is real malicious intent among a lo…

A monolithic PNG wouldn't have annoying animated ads or videos that push down content, they wouldn't pop over. They wouldn't be serving malware since it would come from wired. I wo…

How are they going to detect ad blocking? They're going to have to spend a long time fighting anti-ad block detection. You can't trust the client. Ads are displayed in the client. …

> because it's just not worth encrypting That seems unlikely to be the reason but I don't know much about how satellites are programmed. On the terrestrial plane a $5 raspberry pi …