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Think of the demographic here. They are not techies.

That's what people said about Dropbox.

You'd have to know their grand vision to decide whether they can become real businesses. And even then, you'd have to buy into it.

I'm confident YC is not investing in any company without a shot at becoming a multi-billion dollar business.

sama said they don't do that but they actually did do exactly that with Quora. I guess they made an exception.

This answer by Adam D'Angelo on Quora blows my mind:

"What was hot in Silicon Valley in March 2013?"

http://www.quora.com/What-was-hot-in-Silicon-Valley-in-March...

Every one of those blew up.

So I ask you the same question:

What is hot in Silicon Valley in March, 2015?

Selection bias. Only the best and brightest get to run companies. Much easier for men to run companies. Which obviously says something bad about our society - but it does not mean that women run companies better than men.

They need on-demand email addresses too, then. Because I don't remember my yahoo email address, either. That's how long it's been since I've signed in.

Maybe every other month for one reason or another I'm prompted to sign-in to Yahoo. I sit there for a frustrated three seconds wanting to punch the screen and then just close the page. Can't remember the email address, know I won't be able to remember the password and no way I'm dealing with creating a new account.

Your age has negative value, not your experience. If that new grad were the same age as you, that wouldn't apply.

hacking and money are not mutually exclusive. just like music doesn't automatically suck once it's mainstream.

Case in point:

The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers. In reality, hacking just means building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done. Like most things, it can be used for good or bad, but the vast majority of hackers I’ve met tend to be idealistic people who want to have a positive impact on the world.

The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.

Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once. To support this, we have built a testing framework that at any given time can try out thousands of versions of Facebook. We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping.

Hacking is also an inherently hands-on and active discipline. Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works. There’s a hacker mantra that you’ll hear a lot around Facebook offices: “Code wins arguments.”

Hacker culture is also extremely open and meritocratic. Hackers believe that the best idea and implementation should always win — not the person who is best at lobbying for an idea or the person who manages the most people.

To encourage this approach, every few months we have a hackathon, where everyone builds prototypes for new ideas they have. At the end, the whole team gets together and looks at everything that has been built. Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.

-Mark Zuckerberg in his letter to investors at the FB IPO.

If they had to choose between you and somebody with no programming experience, who do you think they would hire? If they hired you both, do you think you'd get the same salary?

Answers are obv: (1) you (2) no - so your skills are not valued at $0.

Dude is a politician. Those were really boring answers.

I don't think I've changed a single thing since Snowden first started leaking stuff. That's not intentional and I'm not advocating that, I just haven't. I don't want the government reading my shit but at the end of the day, I guess I don't have anything I care about hiding enough to go to the trouble of hiding it.

Craigslist is pretty effective at stopping those types of evasion. They ban VOIP phone numbers, for instance.

It's not that there is a lot of junk on YouTube. There is a lot of junk on my 900 channels of TV, too. But I have a handful of go-to channels, DVR and a huge schedule showing me what's happening across all of those channels. Problem solved. YouTube has none of those. That's why I use YouTube exactly like they said, I'm linked to it elsewhere. Or I go and search for something specific.

Discovery is the problem. Not a lack of quality content.

I wouldn't just based on the title and a summary. Having read it I would have, but how could you know it was such high quality prior to reading it?

Read it. It's an awesome piece.

pre-launch late-stage capital

#ShitVCsSaidIn1999

I'm confused. Is this the same Mailbox that I've been using on my iPhone for like two years? Why is this news?

What a fluff job. There was one interesting sentence in the whole article:

>Its revenue and EBITDA have consistently climbed in each year since going public, and there is plenty of cash on hand without a single cent of debt.

What about their business? I don't even know what they do today, still daily deals? How is that going, how are the growth prospects? Did they pivot, will they need to?

Asking the writer more than HN. That was crappy 'journalism'.

Canada with 1.6 million is pretty surprising. That's roughly the same per capita as the US.

China with only 1.6 million is downright shocking. You read about new billionaires in that country all the time. I guess the wealth is only flowing into a very small number of hands.

That's what nominee directors are for ;)

Law firms and others specialize in doing this.

HK and Singapore are both good options. Both also really good for offshore banking.

>Another plague is that people will go through your comment history and attempt to use that to discredit you.

I don't know that accountability is a bad thing. If you're so ashamed of what you're saying that you don't want people bringing it up later, don't say it. Or use an alt.

This can balance out the fact that it's an anonymous anything-goes site. Yes, people can say pretty much whatever they want but if they know they will get shamed for it later, it might prevent them sharing the worst stuff.

I suspect you simply haven't found the right subreddits yet.

That's how /r/trees came to be. There are other examples. Yes, that is how it works.

Going to be hard to reproduce that bug since they are totally random long tail questions, but I have it happen a lot too FWIW.

Trust in the brand is negated for me by the fact that if this doesn't go well, I know they'll just shut it down or neglect it in a year or two. You want to know your registrar will be there in 10 years.

The main thing is just clutter. Google Domains has a very simple user interface. It only has the stuff you need. NameCheap and every other registrar has a million links everywhere and all this random crap you never use, making it hard to find the stuff you do need.

NameCheap is better than most, though. The only reason I don't keep a lot of domains with you is price. Your renewal fee's are significantly higher than budget registrars like Dynadot. And when you own a lot of domains, that extra 10% adds up fast.

NameCheap and GoDaddy are two expensive options. There are many registrars where you can get .com's for under $10.

$12 is really expensive...

>I also can't understand how a 21-year-old Stanford graduate who already has experience in the market he's about to launch in could ever feel he "must have just been lucky".

You don't seem to understand how competitive YC is. Guys like that are a dime a dozen when your acceptance rate is less than 3%[1].

[1]http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-portfolio-stats

There are public companies in the industry. All are highly risky/volatile stocks, though. Nothing like a blue chip company yet, which you could trust to steadily rise in tandem with the industry.