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Who would you expect to receive a message from? Presumably this happens more often than you think, and the company protocol is to get legal to deal with it. I think you've misinter…

Hey guys. We've just launched a pay-what-you-want ebook bundle of full-length fiction about "the way we live now": stories about startups, apps, geekdom, and the weird side of the …

Google has employees. Some of them are gay. If 15.4% of the San Francisco population identifies as GLB ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_United... ), we could…

I'm not sure "honest mistake" is really acceptable. This is a multi-million-dollar Triple A game. I think it's reasonable to expect their legal team should have double- and triple-…

I explored the possibility of using a bank safe as a replacement symbol in the original piece. A bank safe is very difficult to represent symbolically, particularly at the scale of…

I'd agree with that. But why couldn't the abstraction for "save" be the floppy disk symbol? Just pretend the floppy disk never existed, and that the floppy-save symbol is just a co…

Hi HNers. I'm working on a tool called Subscribbly (subscribbly.com) to help creators set up subscription programs. I'm interested in opening up beta access to these with interesti…

I'd argue that "better designed" is subjective here. Hacker News is optimised for high content density. Designer News has lower content density, but there's more space between post…

This seems to have a huge chicken-or-the-egg problem: the site is only valuable to consumers if they know their requests could have some influence, but companies will only listen t…

From the stats Kickstarter have released previously, situations like this (in which a project just barely doesn't reach its target) seem extremely rare. Kickstarter works because t…

Agreed in general, though I'd dispute your point that hacking can't do permanent good. Sure, in fifty years, you likely won't care about the web app you built, but maybe that app h…

I can see your point, but, taking a longer-term view, what happens when we hit hard limits to global growth? In a world in which every country is developed and wealthy... where in …

I find it hard to get from, "Food, water, and energy shortages, exacerbated by climate change, could lead to instability and violence and the forced migration of hundreds of millio…

37 Signals generally create web apps for small businesses, so I suspect an email client/service would be a little too general for them. Jason Fried also says, "This new product eli…

Though this doesn't totally solve your issue, the design is responsive, so if you're on your Mac, you could narrow your browser window to make the body text a little easier to scan…

Would there be any reason to use this over, say, a Mailchimp auto-responder? I don't mean that at all in a snarky way, just curious. I'd be interested to give this a go, but can't …

Could it be worth including a few stories or "case studies"? For example, "John has just moved to Melbourne and he'd like to know what hidden gems exist on the way to his new job, …

I think this is an interesting concept. I have a few questions, though, which I suspect could be commonly asked: - What's the incentive for me to use this? Why not simply switch my…

I presume one reason (as suggested in the video) is that Maily wants to promote "kid-friendly" email replies. I imagine kids (particularly the very young) would find it more fun to…

Well, yeah, noreply emails are useful for the business, and I understand that. They're not very useful for the customer, though. Customers want to feel as though there's a real per…