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"using a small, elegant language called perl" - The Economist.

The mean YC startup about a year ago [1] $22.4 million, let us assume 3 founds on average and 3 years of work, and that they hold 1/3 of the value, and you get an average return we…

The global currency post market turnover is ~1.4 trillion according to the BIS, note this includes many currency pairs that dont involve USD; a trillon a day is an upper bound on t…

It is worth to point out that one is a stock (debt) and one is a flow (GDP), and the right way of comparing them would be by taking the net present value of the flow, or comparing …

Velupillai's book is awesome. An exercise of his that I love is looking at how much of general equilibrium theory one can prove using only constructive math. A nice blog on a simil…

Argh. Got a premium subscription just so I could use this, installed it on an ipod touch, and it crashes as soon as I open it (no user input, just opening the app makes it crash).

So thats your objective function.

94k hits, seems to be about what any 3 random words will bring up, for example: http://www.google.com/search?q=kangaroo+fries+blue

"It's enough of a phenomenon that there are bloggers who've blogged about laptop etiquette." This is a joke, right?

I am not sure the slashdot author understand the paper he read, he says:"the best often rise to the top, the very worst rarely do," yet the paper says: "In general, the 'best' song…

You tell reporters stuff about yourself off the record? Because that, not off the record generally which Dan spends a whole paragraph defending, is the relevant bit.

The book (Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference) to which this is the epilogue is excellent, I cant recommend it strongly enough.

You can just implement a client that does that. No need to wish, there's an api, it's use is encouraged, go hack! http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/...

Are you for real with the "unlimited" part of the pro accounts? I.e. I will definitely get one if I am allowed to interact with my account programatically (ie I am free to write a …

Developing a personalized news service. Id really like to beta test it with news.yc users in the near future, but need to train the algorithm a bit before its worth spending your t…