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Thursday is a _HUGE_ night at bars (and restaurants with bars) for college students. A lot of kids will take advantage of happy hour pricing on Thursday night and lax attendance po…

Can you please tell us a little bit about the data/population that served as the basis of this analysis (ex: how big is total population of data set, how big is the subset of users…

To be fair, their marketing spend compared to their competitors was WAY higher than Apple's was compared to MS. Google did spend a lot of dough trying to roll this out.

Can we agree that it (according to the depth of the article) that this decision wasn't made based on statistical analysis, but rather just ratings? "ohhh... a bunch of people judge…

This is why I couldn't handle working in the hard sciences. While there are breakthroughs every day, there is little time for institutions to go through and verify these findings b…

Basic premise: Unless you win the lottery, doing what you love isn't an option. In lieu of that, force yourself to work as hard as possible so that you can be successful at what yo…

Reminds me of the "Human Flesh Search Engines" that form on Chinese BBS's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_flesh_search_engine

A very good point about the disruptive innovator being compared to incremental changes. That being said, Yelp is in a much better position than Netscape was in terms of revenue gen…

"Mr. Bierfeldt, it turns out, was carrying the money because he was returning home from a regional conference of Campaign for Liberty, a group that supports Ron Paul, the former pr…

I'm going to his book signing tonight in Seattle. Any other HN people from Seattle going?

To the above poster, I believe you meant debt is the lower cost way to go, not lower risk.

Am I crazy, or does the subject of this post miss the point completely? Wasn't the whole point of this article the fact that the writer WASN'T an engineer, but that he intimately l…

Video of Kara Swisher's visit to ICHC HQ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090803/kara-visits-lolcats-i-ca...

flowingdata.com FTW. They even have their own data visualization twitter app. Great stuff.