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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 bet…

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.

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 …

Sometimes I wish HN used these nonsense stories as a gullibility test. Revoke the upvote powers of anyone who upvotes this pure nonsense.

> they really just had 10 x 1 year of experience Brilliantly said.

The whole world is full of founders. Being in the SV area is the rare advantage, not the other way around.

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 …

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 on…

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 exampl…

Retention and NPS seem orthogonal.

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 abou…

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 basicall…

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 …

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 th…

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'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 imp…

You've cut off the part of the sentence that I was replying to.

> 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 …

Do you not believe that's how mature businesses work?

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?