It's nice move to fund both junk and solution for the junk... Some people say that antivirus software companies are the ones that make viruses, you know...
Well, I understand that hackers are a bit like scientists - they like to have proved data (by the way, I'm more like a humanitarian who believes his feelings and intuition).
And I understand your reasons and they're quite good. I don't think that it's a bad article to vote up - moreover I like the article too. There's some "pure math" magic in it that I also like (although I'm a humanitarian as I've mentioned before).
Getting karma by post describing how you got karma? Nice move... (guess, I won't get much karma for this comment)
And in fact as I can see there's no much use in HN karma - smart comments are more useful. At least, they can do you good when you apply to YC (that's what PG says at least :)).
Heh. Are people from these universities so smart or do other people think that they are smart because they graduated from these universities? Are YC startups good or does YC make them good? Who knows.
Here's more university statistics though: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/29/study-startups-led-by-stanf...
I think that working outside comfort zone is not necessarily doing the stuff you don't like. You should do the stuff you like and the stuff you're good at - going out of the comfort zone is trying to break working routine and finding new solutions for old problems, it's, in fact, changing the state of mind and constantly learing new things about stuff you like and stuff you're good at.
Of course, there's still need for objective look and understanding of what should be done first. I guess, balanced team of technical and non-technical cofounders should be the way to have it.
Very interesting. I'm not that big fan of healthy habbits (I go to bed late at night and get up in the afternoon, for example), though I do some running occasionally.
But what I liked in the post is that it's not only about habbits in fact. It's about human's psychology that's involved in doing anything. So we can say: "Don't cease working on your startup if you fail at some point - you should be ready to overcome the failure and pivot or start another project".
Being foreign tech enterpreneur myself, I think your idea is the most legit. But that is why it seems harder for it to be brought into life, unfortunately.
Another idea could be giving visas for people who are accepted by accredited accelerators.
If PG, for example, believes in someone's ability to make a business why should government officials worry?
(that's similar to the original Startup Visa idea but with another investor qualification mechanism and without 100 000 dollars barrier)
Site is already removed from "Register" - it received some warnings and had to remove some articles concerning drugs.
But still we are worried about censorship process here.
And, well, maybe it's a coincidence but still I have noticed some problems with internet connection when "Register" started to work. And that also worries me, of course.
I do know about "mess" and problems with reaching fans of the page (wich arouse from the fact that people "like" too many pages in fact) but still Facebook remains more than a site - it's rather a social phenomena.
And that's why I don't see the way any competitor come on its place. Although competiton is always for good, of course.