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In response to a question on YC News ( http://news.ycombinator.com/ ) _
I've computed something similar to the Page Rank algorithm for the _
PaulGrahamEssays I've listed.

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''' 23.02 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html">Beating the Averages</a> 
''' 19.84 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/lwba.html">Lisp for Web-Based Applications</a> 
''' 5.56 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html">What You Can't Say</a> 
''' 3.81 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html">Revenge of the Nerds</a> 
''' 3.72 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/rootsoflisp.html">The Roots of Lisp</a> 
''' 3.66 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html">The Age of the Essay</a> 
''' 3.29 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html">What Made Lisp Different</a> 
''' 3.26 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html">Why Nerds are Unpopular</a> 
''' 2.81 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html">Taste for Makers</a> 
''' 2.77 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html">Great Hackers</a> 
''' 2.33 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html">The Other Road Ahead</a> 
''' 2.12 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html">How to Make Wealth</a> 
''' 1.91 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html">Succinctness is Power</a> 
''' 1.74 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html">A Unified Theory of VC Suckage</a> 
''' 1.73 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html">The Word "Hacker"</a> 
''' 1.67 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html">How to Start a Startup</a> 
''' 1.43 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html">Hiring is Obsolete</a> 
''' 1.39 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html">Why Startups Condense in America</a> 
''' 1.39 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/progbot.html">Programming Bottom-Up</a> 
''' 1.35 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/inequality.html">Inequality and Risk</a> 
''' 1.35 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html">How to Be Silicon Valley</a> 
''' 1.21 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ladder.html">After the Ladder</a> 
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''' 1.04 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html">How to Do What You Love</a> 
''' 1.00 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html">Good and Bad Procrastination</a> 
''' 0.90 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/credentials.html">After Credentials</a> 
''' 0.88 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/equity.html">The Equity Equation</a> 
''' 0.88 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html">How Not to Die</a> 
''' 0.84 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html">What You'll Wish You'd Known</a> 
''' 0.83 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html">A Plan for Spam</a> 
''' 0.80 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html">How to Be an Angel Investor</a> 
''' 0.76 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html">Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy</a> 
''' 0.74 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/highres.html">The High-Res Society</a> 
''' 0.67 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html">The Python Paradox</a> 
''' 0.65 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html">Ideas for Startups</a> 
''' 0.64 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html">Better Bayesian Filtering</a> 
''' 0.64 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html">Filters that Fight Back</a> 
''' 0.61 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html">Relentlessly Resourceful</a> 
''' 0.61 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/webstartups.html">The Future of Web Startups</a> 
''' 0.61 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html">The Hundred-Year Language</a> 
''' 0.60 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/bronze.html">Why Smart People Have Bad Ideas</a> 
''' 0.59 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html">The Submarine</a> 
''' 0.59 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/marginal.html">The Power of the Marginal</a> 
''' 0.59 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html">How to Fund a Startup</a> 
''' 0.56 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/convergence.html">Why TV Lost</a> 
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''' 0.56 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hiresfund.html">High Resolution Fundraising </a> 
''' 0.56 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html">Being Popular</a> 
''' 0.56 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html">Stuff</a> 
''' 0.56 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/trolls.html">Trolls</a> 
''' 0.49 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/googles.html">Why There Aren't More Googles</a> 
''' 0.49 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html">The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups</a> 
''' 0.48 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html">The Top Idea in Your Mind </a> 
''' 0.48 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html">Hackers and Painters</a> 
''' 0.47 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/bubble.html">What the Bubble Got Right</a> 
''' 0.46 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html">Five Questions about Language Design</a> 
''' 0.46 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/vcsqueeze.html">The Venture Capital Squeeze</a> 
''' 0.45 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html">Cities and Ambition</a> 
''' 0.44 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html">Startups in 13 Sentences</a> 
''' 0.44 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html">A Fundraising Survival Guide</a> 
''' 0.44 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/guidetoinvestors.html">The Hacker's Guide to Investors</a> 
''' 0.43 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/desres.html">Design and Research</a> 
''' 0.43 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/judgement.html">Two Kinds of Judgement</a> 
''' 0.40 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/unions.html">An Alternative Theory of Unions</a> 
''' 0.38 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html">Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.</a> 
''' 0.38 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html">Why to Move to a Startup Hub</a> 
''' 0.35 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/control.html">Founder Control</a> 
''' 0.35 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html">Why to Not Not Start a Startup</a> 
''' 0.34 <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html">What Business Can Learn from Open Source</a> 
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''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/5founders.html">Five Founders</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/6631327.html">6,631,372</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html">The Acceleration of Addictiveness</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/airbnb.html">Subject: Airbnb</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html">Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html">Apple's Mistake</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/artistsship.html">The Other Half of "Artists Ship" </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/boss.html">You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/charisma.html">It's Charisma, Stupid</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/college.html">Undergraduation</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html">News from the Front</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/copy.html">Copy What You Like</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html">The Anatomy of Determination </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html">How to Disagree</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/discover.html">Persuade xor Discover </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html">Disconnecting Distraction</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/divergence.html">Could VC be a Casualty of the Recession?</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html">What Languages Fix</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html">What We Look for in Founders</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/foundersatwork.html">Learning from Founders</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html">The Founder Visa</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/future.html">The Future of Startup Funding </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/gap.html">Mind the Gap</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/good.html">Be Good</a> 
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''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html">How Art Can Be Good</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html">What I've Learned from Hacker News</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/head.html">Holding a Program in One's Head</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/heroes.html">Some Heroes</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hubs.html">Why Startup Hubs Work</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html">Keep Your Identity Small </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/iflisp.html">If Lisp is So Great</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/investors.html">How to Present to Investors</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/island.html">The Island Test</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/javacover.html">Java's Cover</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/kate.html">What Kate Saw in Silicon Valley </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/laundry.html">A Version 1.0</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/lies.html">Lies We Tell Kids</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html">Return of the Mac</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html">Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html">Microsoft is Dead</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/mit.html">A Student's Guide to Startups</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/newthings.html">Six Principles for Making New Things</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/noop.html">Why Arc Isn't Especially Object-Oriented</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/nthings.html">The List of N Things</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html">Organic Startup Ideas</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/patentpledge.html">The Patent Pledge</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html">How to Do Philosophy</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/polls.html">Bradley's Ghost</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/prcmc.html">The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company</a> 
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''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/property.html">Defining Property</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html">Post-Medium Publishing</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html">Ramen Profitable</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/randomness.html">See Randomness</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/really.html">What Startups Are Really Like</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/revolution.html">A Local Revolution?</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html">Schlep Blindness</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/seesv.html">Where to See Silicon Valley</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html">The Trouble with the Segway</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/selfindulgence.html">How to Lose Time and Money </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/sfp.html">What I Did this Summer</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html">Are Software Patents Evil?</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/speak.html">Writing and Speaking</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html">The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/superangels.html">The New Funding Landscape</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/tablets.html">Tablets</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/usa.html">Made in USA</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/vw.html">Snapshot: Viaweb, June 1998</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html">Web 2.0</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/whyyc.html">Why YC</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/wisdom.html">Is It Worth Being Wise?</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/word.html">A Word to the Resourceful</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/writing44.html">Writing, Briefly</a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html">What Happened to Yahoo </a> 
''' <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/ycombinator.html">A New Venture Animal</a> 
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