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Ok. I'll bite: What problem do you feel Twitter solved?

If you have a programmatic way of determining the best match for an arbitrary long tail query, then haven't you already solved your search problem? I suppose if you had a large eno…

> Well 'Violet Blue' is my girlfriend, I guess that may have been a little predictable from TFA, but I'm regularly surprised by the folks who crop up at HN. I've been reading both …

Here's how I'd look at it: Is the kind of processing you are doing more like the kind of thing you'd do in a text editor (where you need to move around a lot in the source file) or…

Regarding #1, in my experience this isn't a phenomenon limited to middle-aged women. That's pretty much how "normals" use the Internet (as much as I dislike that term). This is wha…

"The right to make limited use of the work" is different from publishing rights. This technology wasn't in common use when I went to school, but it seems really easy for the school…

This is an excellent point. I agree that visitors-to-conversions are is the core underlying metric. But these bounces are a subset, and large one, of the visitors that don't conver…

Wait, maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you've found that having people explicitly searching for you increases your bounce rate? Wouldn't those people be less likely to bounce? Y…

> That's a 6,000x return on his capital in 5 years. > I'll put it this way--if you made a $250 IRA contribution in 2005, it would have to be worth $1,500,000 today to match that re…

I have a straightforward niche e-commerce site selling multiple products. As the number of visitors I get from search engines has increased, so has my bounce rate. I've worked for …

I'm not a big fan of this business but I take issue with the "Teachable Moment" image seemingly created for this post. How does what TurnItIn is doing constitute an "IP Rights" vio…

You make this general point (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think your argument is that feminists care more about equality at the top end of the scale than the bottom) a couple of …

> a woman can wear almost whatever she likes in a situation where a man can't I'm not sure that's true. There's a lot more diversity in women's clothing. I think that probably make…

> women haven't really been discriminated against in any serious, society wide way for a very long time Wow, really? Upvotes even? I'm honestly surprised no one has pushed back on …

That's the saddest thing I've read in a while: a depressing combination of the mundane, touching and tragic. It's like Hemingway's 6 word story, there's so much drama packed into s…