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I don't think this is the greatest advice. That said, it can be exactly like this and worse. You really need to evaluate who you're receiving money from. Are they the right person …

(If this is the wrong place for this, apologies. I'd hoped the HN crowd was cool with serendipity among its members) I'm in NYC tonight through Saturday and would like to sit down …

When I was a musician we had a saying: "Playing and performing are like food and water. Writing is breathing." - You play, you promote. You maintain, you sustain. - You write, you …

There's the rub. All due respect to Leo and the guys at Buffer. It's a wonderful product. And he's sharing his learning process. I'm not dogging on them. However The email exchange…

Happy to see this name in the news again, and excited to see them blossom out of YC. Good luck guys. Any metrics on total users? Are you guys monetizing yet? Would love to talk re:…

This is one of those "wow, so perfectly obvious no one has never done it." This could (and probably should) the hiring process at many retail and service jobs. In my teens I would …

vladd, while I completely agree that "HN is mainly goodwill for YC," I think potentially your subsequent parenthetical statement shows misunderstanding of a different business mode…

Agree with other commenters, re: more important things to spend your time on than this list, but WHOA. I'm borderline offended that this article would claim that getting social med…

“We started at the very top with these outliers like Facebook and Twitter, but the aim is to work our way down to much less high profile companies.” I don't see how SecondMarket is…

There's been a great service to do this for a few years. Awesome group out of Oklahoma City. Basically a news aggregator that incorporates text-to-speech - the love child of Siri a…

Thoughts: I dig it, but don't know why I should use this more than just testing it out. Rating: Meh. I'll play around for a bit but probably won't stick around. The good: - Homepag…

After watching the first season of "Game of Thrones" I wanted to read the book and see how it compared. I was amazed and enthralled. Then I read the rest of them and couldn't reall…

And there have been dozens of cases of wild polio in China and the Philippines this year, and a current outbreak of 84 cases in Pakistan, according to the WHO. http://www.who.int/c…

The quote on the cover of the notebook in the picture reminds me of possibly my favorite quote of all time: "...and for those who dare to dream of, dare to do." - Alfred Lloyd Tenn…

CW, there's nothing wrong with an app that collects and tracks diet, activity, or other information (until you get into data from instrumentation devices and more complex data inpu…

From someone working at a tiny venture-backed biopharma startup focused on developing treatments for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD = UC + Crohn's), amazing to see something like …

I agree that there are long-term safety and efficacy studies that are fraudulently suppressed by some larger players in industry. It is an insidious problem that has horrible effec…

First, I think this is a closed view of the issue. Second, I think publication bias has more effect on basic research and translational research (read: early animal pharmacology st…

This is interesting, and might be possible. The worry is that even if you have bullet-proof skin, your bones would break and internal organs be turned to mush. but would it? The na…

That depends on the cancer and depends on the approach (structural, genetic, or immunological). The difficulty in cancer treatment is that you're dealing with a natural biological …