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The number of kids featured in such articles is really a drop in the ocean. So, coming to the conclusion that 'having a gift is not synonymous with being successful' is not entirel…

This Rand study looks at impact of lives saved and recommends that "Results Suggest That More Lives Will Be Saved the Sooner HAVs Are Deployed". Any mishap, while most unfortunate …

Why can't Intel acquire Qualcomm instead of Broadcom?

The lynchpin of this "logical argument" appears to be a Business Standard article that references a Morgan Stanley report that says FK is 4 times as big as AMZN in GMV. While neith…

On the subject of happiness, Prof Raj Raghunathan's "A Life of Happiness and Fulfillment" is also something I would highly recommend. The learner stands to gain a lot of insights o…

IIRC, this novel idea has been filed multiple times (and may have been granted as well) at the USPTO at different times. I believe that this is because the USPTO sometimes leaves i…

Is there any data file to show what comment has been marked as positive or negative? For example, if you look at the Quora thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197146 ), …

Isn't it better for any individual/employee to have been a whistleblower under the False Claims Act - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act ? According to the Wikipedia pa…

Well, one threat for Google's search business is possibly Apple. By controlling the device, browser and the platform - they have an option to integrate their own search offering in…

What a few big name companies (e.g. Microsoft) are getting rid of is the "forced bell curve fit" rankings. The core issue supposedly that team members are loathe to help anyone els…

Six weeks for closing a seed/angel investment from introduction to term sheet sign-off is not "too long". From my reading, it seems there was a firm commitment on both sides and he…

From a company's perspective, just because one person gets a market rate that is higher than the rest of the team, the entire team can't simply be given a raise. While this sort of…

Although slightly more nuanced than a blanket YES/NO, it would have been more helpful if there were more concrete suggestions on acceptable process mechanisms for 'limited free Int…

On your earlier point about the domain name, if you had the money and had an option to buy your brandname.com (especially "housing" for the business they are in), $1 million is a g…

Have put up my apartment for rent on Housing and all the other major realty sites. In my experience, Housing has: a) The best UI and UX b) The best customer service in terms of tel…

Maybe if you used your Kindle more instead of making snarky posts you would get a clue.

> Don't even get me started on founders vesting their shares. As an average Joe angel (not blessed with any inherited wealth), I personally think it's fair ask to ask founders to v…

While it may be the case that kids these days demand and get the kind of toys they want, it is also the case (at least in certain cultures) that parents obsess a lot on what kind o…

BTW, journalists are reporting that the driver did indeed get a clean certificate by the local police station in May this year. Link: https://twitter.com/KarnHT/status/541875208844…

I am making a claim that "police verification" is hogwash and the government itself knows its futility. Regarding "non-disableable GPS" - please share details of such "non-disablea…

What happened in Delhi is tragic -- and no one would want such a dreadful thing to happen to anyone, anywhere. Yes, Uber did not vet the driver enough. But "police verification" in…

To be more precise, these are first world YCombinator problems :). Unless there is something great cooking behind the scenes, raising $3MM in seed is not really a piece of cake.

Liked how the interviewer was posing tough questions around the failures of previous product launches and around any resentment towards folks who had deemed him incapable of runnin…