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Scoring research by reliability in addition to novelty would help fix the incentives in research publications. Replicating research would boost your reliability score and the origi…

I've racked up 3000+ miles riding up and down the hills in SF (530 vertical feet over 3.7 miles). 4 falls, 1 going too fast downhill and overcharging the battery (dislocated should…

I'm working on Retrace, "Graph-oriented communication" for sharing the ups and downs of experiences via a waveform interface. Reach out if you'd like to chat!

Is there a reason this is published under your domain and not YC? Just wondering because it sounds like this is the collective wisdom of all the partners (even if you're the one th…

So in short, "talk what you write" might be better advice than "write like you talk".

I do a lot of hackathons. My record is 4/26 for winning 1st, 16/26 for winning 1 or more prizes, mentored 3 times and judged once. Do it on a weekend, have interesting sponsors wit…

This is why I love my Boosted Board do much (well, among other reasons). I can just pick it up and carry it inside once I reach my destination. http://boostedboards.com

Plans like this sound cool, but I think it would be helpful to make a visualization so people could see how the payouts change for different exits, thresholds and % redistributed. …

Shoutout for Ampersand.js which was mentioned in the article. The modularity is really nice for keeping things flexible so I can swap out parts as our app evolves. http://ampersand…

I haven't had much luck finding the right cofounder despite meeting thousands of people over the past few years so clearly there's a problem. A few months ago I decided that the pr…

Should we try to communicate culture and values in the application? Are those things that YC filters for?

I know a lot of YC alumni, are endorsements about quality or quantity? Are they important?

A strong case can be made because the line is extremely blurry and there can be severe consequences for forcing a category on people that doesn't fit. Sex and gender are shoved in …

I channel some of my motivation into cultivating discipline. I also apply discipline to periodically remotivate myself. In practice this means I'll do a hackathon to build somethin…

Edge cases, I love exploring edge cases and even better, the intersection of edge cases (corner cases?). The more edge cases there are, the more interesting something is and someti…

What are the implications of using a patented feature of an open source project?

There's an opportunity to outsource mental models to software in a similar way to how we've outsourced basic math to calculators and basic facts to search engines. A benefit to a d…

If you like backbone, definitely check out http://ampersandjs.com . They've taken backbone and split it into separate modules with some nice upgrades.

it isn't intended to be used in real-time, let me know what you can infer from that.

neither would i ;)

I absolutely should, but I haven't figured out a system for blogging that doesn't take too much time.

We'll start with YouTube but the original application was TV.

A misguided attempt at rebranding... Probably gonna change it again eventually.

4 years in the company, 10 months on this product. It absolutely looks like a "bad idea", but all its deficiencies can be compensated and its strengths are unmatched.