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I think this was derived from Ed Catmull's talk at Stanford. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc

So why require Facebook to register on Canvas?

What does this mean for the PayPal Adaptive Payments API and marketplaces that rely on it such as tinypay.me?

1) Provide an api (or release a dataset) and let people experiment with new ranking schemes. 2) The influence of your votes on ranking could be correlated to your relative importan…

Ebay is a deceptive example; auctions inherently have powerful network effects. I think Amazon might be a slightly better example: tons of competition but still a lot of money to b…

As your first sentence indicates, in this scenario you have specific, attainable goals. Just getting to that point goes a long way towards beating procrastination.

Bill Gates (44.2%) , Pierre Omidyar (32.5%), and Larry Ellison (30.6%) are the top three in terms of Pre-IPO ownership. I wonder how they managed that. Also, Microsoft only had 5.4…

If you live in California there's an annual minimum franchise tax of $800, plus whatever annual fees are charged by the state you incorporate your LLC in.

This may be a bit of a tangent, but I want to see the results of the VC system survey.

Groupon, because they found a simple multi-billion dollar business hiding in plain sight.

In terms of actual solutions, I think programs like KIPP are promising. If someone can demonstrate the right way to run a school system on a small scale, we can learn from it and e…

Sarah specifically notes "This is not a zero-sum game. Both waves will find funding," so she agrees with you (despite the headline). I think this is worth talking about though, sin…

Ah, I should've been clearer: I meant putting your email in the "about" field for others to see.

I have my email listed in my profile

Other

I don't want to communicate with other HN users

I'd rather stay anonymous/pseudonymous

I haven't gotten around to it

I'm avoiding spam

Reason for poll: I am just curious as to how people think about email in a pseudonymous environment.