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Previous discussion (same company, different article) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2984021

Like others here, I think Nokia/RIM ceo's are worse. I liked this article about tech CEO's in general: http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/why-tech-ceos-seem-so-dumb

In case anyone is missing what has happened here, this is why people hate on private equity/VC. As far as I can tell, Loopt wasn't doing very well. http://www.google.com/insights/s…

Yes - Michael Chertoff (Head of the department of homeland security 05-09) consults (TAKES MONEY FROM) the same companies that make the scanners: http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-m…

Judging by the 200+ up votes, yes. Plus, the aforementioned hacker news guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I do this in reverse quite frequently. I'm on OKCupid and when I want to find out more about someone I'm interested in, I use Google Images reverse image search ( http://www.google…

That is totally true, but a very large percentage of those 1 million are people who simply have no chance of getting the job. Google is seen as a hot company and place to work for …

How about we start to act on this by not posting and/or flagging every post from pandodaily, techcrunch, and uncrunched? I think we'd have a better HN experience all around.

If you tell us what site it is there is a chance that the right acquirer might be on this forum who wants to buy it, invest a little and use it as a lifestyle business. Between the…

In case you don't know who she is (I didn't) - http://unicornfree.com/ and the product: http://letsfreckle.com/

Square seems to do ok ($2Bn valuation) not owning square.com (their domain is http://squareup.com )

I asked them about this - they don't handle marketplace businesses (Taking money on behalf of another customer), for the same regulatory issues previously stated. PoundPay (also YC…

Seems like it might be a pretty complicated thing to add... No other marketplaces that I know of have their own processing capabilities... Third party aggregation (taking payments …

Much better tips in this previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2973404

Too bad you didn't buy the Pizza.com domain name instead of an actual pizza, because it sold for $2.6 million! http://www.newser.com/story/23394/pizzacom-name-sells-for-26... incid…

Someone absolutely should do this... there is definitely a business opportunity in publishing information gathered from foias