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Thanx - this is my current thinking as well though hoping to get some more feedback from folks who went through the same situation.

I understand that but I believe all of that can be addressed by making it very clear on the outset (things like the feedback is just fyi, we wont respond back to your feedback on feedback) yada yada...I do think that it is a hard choice for yc but it would very worthwhile for the applicants. Any feedback is better than no feedback, IMHO.

First of all, love your site (prettygraph) - kudos for having started and finished something end to end! :) Well done!

I thought of emailing yc alum (Antonio from adgrok came into mind) who has been in the investment industry but could not for some reason. Your comment above spurred me to do just the same and I did that a minute ago - thanx!

I just shot you an email as well!

Thank you for the input. Yes, I understand that we can apply multiple times. What is a bit annoying is that yc does not seem to give any feedback. I understand that it is hard to give feedback on so many applications - but even a one liner feedback (e.g. "liked the idea but single founder is an issue" would be very useful and would perhaps motivate folks like me who are missing one or more "attributes" of successful application.

Lovely post! I love the coined word "micro opportunities"! It is also well aligned with the philosophy of trying and being close to as many opportunities as you can so you increase your chances of being "lucky". Something that I need to constantly working on :)

I am a big fan of both Fooled by Randomness and Black swan. I especially love the fallacies he discusses w.r.t. human brain!

I also recommend Sudhir Venkatesh's "Gang Leader For a Day".

I had an idea that may be more helpful for you (given your automatic summarizing technical knowhow) and just shot you an email. Please respond to my email if interested.

Ah - thank you, I will try my best to apply in this round!:)

Nopes - even though the company I left (Netflix) is rocking now :)

Yes - I already did once (do not regret it one bit) and would probably do it again! I would like to know when I am old that I did at least try to create something of my own!:)

Thanx - sounds very intriguing. Haskell definitely would be in my list now:)

I also started looking at functional languages recently. I started with lisp (the free book) then moved to clojure (since it is lispy and probably may a better future (just a guess - i am no expert on functional languages - so no flames please.)

Just curious what is so nice / difficult about Haskell?

I recently ran into this. Thought of implementing a new project in clojure and quickly defaulted to the language i am used to. One way to mitigate this is to re implement a small project that you have already implemented in your older language. At least you can focus on the language instead of the project nuances.

If art counts, I have sketched many portraits, did some oil paintings (nothing to boast of) and also composed a few songs in an unreleased album:)

Having worked at Netflix for 2 years (a fantastic performance driven culture - at least 2 years back), I can say I am happy for them! Netflix vs BB is one of the more fantastic David Vs Goliath stories of recent times!:)

Done - thanx!

Hi Adrian Just glanced through your profile and was wondering if it is kosher to contact you with a gist of my idea. I think you are overwhelmingly qualified to give some sane advice to me:)

Thanx - yeah - i already looked at the usual suspects including yahoo and google finance.

Hey - I don't see much info about you either on your profile:)

Anyways, I put my linked in info - feel free to contact me. IF you do not mind giving me contact info of folks at HN who are interested, please do so. Thanx!

Please feel free to send me a message (just put my linked in my contact details). Ideally speaking I am looking for someone who has direct experience in financial modeling

i am looking for historical data "easily" digestible by software. As far as I know it is not there (not for free for sure).

I am trying to evaluate an idea based on financial modeling but I am not ready yet to share it (not out of secrecy but out of doing some basic research first:))