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Build the best API you know how to build and ask questions later. If your business is doing well, then supporting your API forever is a high quality problem.

I'm a co-founder and chief architect at NewsCred. I'd love to have a chat with your friend. He can email me at asif AT newscred DOT com.

With absolutely no disrespect intended, "you have to try it to get it" isn't a very compelling pitch to get a potential user on board. There are just too many things out there that…

I couldn't figure out from the website exactly what Yobongo is. Can someone help me out?

I wonder if I'd get in trouble if my girlfriend caught me using this...

What would the alternative be? Require all students to pay their own way, thereby disincentivizing parents to work hard and save for their children's college education? On the othe…

I'm at a loss for words. Thinking back about Dan and the three months we spent together in YC, there were so many things this guy did right. Both as an entrepreneur and a human bei…

I agree. I think it is the natural place to have a to-do list. I also don't really like the Remember the Milk add-on. I usually don't think of to-dos as thing that are associated w…

Disagree. There are certain industry where the argument holds true; investment banking for example (you're likely a sucker if the only way an investment bank will give you an inter…

Whatever you guys are making, if it kicks ass, nobody will care about this nonsense. You certainly have the attention of the HN community now, so don't waste it. It's time to stop …

Is it too late to jump on top of the pile?

Holla!

We've been using yahoo for 5 or 6 years now and we're just used to it. I think it costs about $10/season and given how seriously we take this thing, it doesn't feel like a lot of m…

Fantasy football real-time stats on Yahoo!

By that logic, you could justify absolutely anything.

I'm not sure what I would do, but I know what Jack Bauer would do. He would eat the pirates.

Ha. Thanks for pointing that out. Perhaps I instinctively avoid blanket generalizations so as to avoid the criticism that I am currently unleashing on this article.

I concede that HN is not the place to solicit legal advice. The level of trust that I was referring to most likely does not exist between users of this site. Nonetheless, I believe…

I can, without hesitation, proclaim that eating children is categorically wrong.

I can't seem to get this thing to figure out where I'm actually looking. Isn't that the point of "eye-tracking"? It is pretty good at figuring out where my eyes are located on my f…

Black and white statements such as this are almost always wrong. While I would never trust a non-lawyer's legal advice over a lawyer's legal advice, there could certainly exist a p…

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to claim that it was easy to make a truly well-functioning search engine (i.e. Google). More that it's pretty easy to index a bunch of pages and return non…

Perhaps my sarcasm was not communicated properly. In any case, I'll pass on this one.