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This is great. I manually monitor usage quite regularly at my meter (unfortunately not easy to get a smart meter in my country yet...) but it's just a number and you need to work o…

Amazing what putting a flashy UI around an outwardly boring piece of software can achieve. LIBOTS has been around since 2003 I think... Mint and Yodlee, Hipmunk and Orbitz - I wond…

They even used the same stock photos.

Elon Musk left SA when he was 17.

I think it would be a good idea to be able to flag articles on HN with a distinction of being either spam or linkbait. I personally feel this article lacks sufficient specific insi…

Well done on launching! What sort of software powers this? Could you tell us more about the technical side of how your system works.

I agree with what you write re: bargaining with the leasing agent - a couple of my friends have got really good deals recently by simply saying "I'll take it now if you include 3 p…

I think this is something that is highly variable - based on personal requirements, cost of living in your country and your acceptable minimum standards of comfort. I think techniq…

Google says "...we think there is room for more competition..." - but now they own both how most people find tickets and the service that provides the link between the airlines and…

Allowing such easy changing of the homepage is a great idea - it helps contextualise what the app does into something that might be useful to a user really fast. Good luck!

I agree that many gamers are keen for StarCraft II - but I think that the OP was describing StarCraft as a "disaster" in the context of how Activision usually approaches marketing …

It will be interesting to see whether use of these stations declines over the next few decades. Surely global adoption of the internet has made it the easiest place to hide clandes…

This is really amazing considering that Atlas took 13 launches before it reached orbit successfully. Edit: It's also good for Obama's space plan - putting a new rocket into orbit o…

Someone should do a speech like this on the life of the travelling salesman...

This is definitely my approach as well. I have a BMW and take exceptionally good care of it - and feel that this is the best way to deal with the fact that cars depreciate. Get a r…

Only if the value you are getting from using the asset is not more than the amount by which it is depreciating.

Owning an expensive car is actually not as bad as the author suggests. Once you get beyond around $80K cars depreciate at a much slower rate than other cheaper cars. One reason for…

You have to be pretty confident about the inevitability of your success to do this to Sequoia! One of the crew's edgiest pranks in those days was a presentation made to the blue-ch…