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...
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 :)).
I voted the article up not because of its subject matter, but rather for the thorough way in which he analyzed and presented it. It was a notable amount of effort to collect the data, and it takes some skill to put it together in a way which one can derive meaning from.
He then proceeds to do exactly that, and give us all a good tactic for increasing our karma: Post Consistently Interesting Stuff over a Long Time. Sure, we all read that and think, "_duh_, of course that's how to get it", but it's nice to see that there's data backing it.
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).
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...
