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Spell check. Its always nice to posts with less mistakes.

Sounds good.

What about posting a link to the original content. Here is an example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43528

From the article it is clear that the original news was broken at: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9761584-7.html?part=rss&...

I am not sure why the submitter decided to post a site that quoted the news instead of the original news source.

I've had this happen to one of my submissions too. It was this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988

I didn't put the authors name in title and it was edited to reflect that.

Yup. I posted it in this thread a while back, but looks like it got buried under earlier posts: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352

Here is some juicy stuff - Tripadvisor says the report is not true: http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9761584-7.html

Of course it does. Read the thread. PG has responded to a lot of requests and fixed a lot of bugs.

There is this link at the bottom of news.yc page where you can request features you want: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

Interestingly I was looking at this chart and then came to news.yc and saw your post. I don't understand your question. Are you asking why there are lows and highs for each day? It is because the its traded just like stocks are traded and have intra day lows and highs.

If you are looking for feedback, I can think of one. Maybe it has to do with comments like these:

"Some idiot just karma bombed me. I lost around 10 points. Coward hiding in the shadows.. Step up"

Calling someone an idiot/coward. Making a fuss about points lost.

I guess this is getting way offtopic now. A book pg highly recommends and that I recently read again is great if you are looking to learn: How to win friends and influence people.

I don't know who is downvoting you, but maybe you need to follow your own advice:

"The best way to get karma is to not care about getting karma"

I am not sure if it was all negative... I am sure the British brought good things to India. I do believe a century long British rule changed the focus and stifled innovation and free thought. How would it have gone had the British never ruled... hard to tell.

If you mean what changed in recent times - imperial rule. It has been only 60 years since India has been independent.

Yes from the write up it seems to be moving from "wisdom of crowds" to "wisdom of AI". The editors will be "training" the system to recognize a good story. PG is probably hoping that one day the system will be able to tell a good story from a bad one without any help from editors.

Hacking and if the site goes down it was probably hacked.

slashdot -> reddit -> programming.reddit -> hacker news -> ???

This is really interesting news. It is sad in a way that so much of the previous efforts have been wasted due to differences in cultures, invasion, wars, disease etc. Imagine Newton studying this math when he was a kid... he would be working on other problems and everyone would be better off. Just amazes how much the ancient civilizations achieved with the resources they had and makes me appreciate them more.

"We're going to have a group of human editors who train the system in what counts as a good story"

A knowledge based system - I am eagerly awaiting the new voting system.

Folks here are getting a little too obsessed with karma points.

I meant to post this as a good thing for web 2.0, but for some reason my comments never showed with the original post. If Dvorak is calling it a bubble it might be a good thing... considering his record.

>Crystal ball into future<

"Hey Paul, I am getting all these requests from YC clones to apply to their program."

"You're right. Someone went on a cloning spree. Now I am going to have to do something to prevent this kind of kind of abuse. Great. As if I didn't have enough to do..."

http://y2combinator.com/

"In fact, the poorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have."

Why would poor people have more stuff Paul? I see rich people living in McMansions have a lot more stuff than poor people and I am pretty sure Bill G has more stuff than me :).

I've been practicing this minimalist form of existence for some time now. For those that have too much stuff, here is how you get rid of stuff:

1. Mark a portion of your basement or apartment for some of your "stuff"

2. After a year or two if you have not had to use something at all from this pile get rid of it - ebay, craigslist, garage sale or donate.

3. You will feel good about less clutter.

4. Repeat till you're left with only stuff you really need.

The only place this hasn't worked for me is electronics "stuff".

Karma for PQ=0. Maybe its time to stop the experiment now.

This will be an interesting experiment to watch. Its taking the reddit/digg style voting to the world of internet ads and hoping that users will tell what kind of ads they want to see. If every user is like me, it'll mean no ads... maybe everyone is not like me.

Get rid of "any" kind of ad from that page coz its annoying the hell out of visitor(s) :).

Its plastered all over paulgraham.com, not just the essays. I personally like the ad free version of paulgraham.com :). I wonder if adpinion is another YC startup.

Good catch Paul! Surprise, surprise Seth Levine is a "mentor" at Techstars: http://www.techstars.org/site/page/pg5883.html

What a shame!

Was this article written in response to Seth Levines comment? What Seth Levine doesn't know or doesn't want to tell is that a lot of YC alums could raise the 5K/founder on their own, so money is NOT the primary reason they are there.

To become a very successful startup that makes tons of money for the founders, employees and investors... :)

You might want to check Manjuls blog about this story. http://munjal.typepad.com/recognizing_deven/2007/04/episode_26_indi.html

He is not making it up. He is talking about the best engineers that he could recruit for his startup in India.