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Agree on this, and not just in tech. I work for a large financial co in NL (~50k employees) and 36-hour contracts are the standard for all full-time employees. 32 is considered par…

A lot of the arguments here, whether for or against the idea that this achievement 'belongs' to the U.S., miss an important point. Not everyone working on past, current and future …

The original NYT article was posted to HN almost two years ago. The comments from that post are worth a read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1743513

Instead of debating the merits of reading due to the fact that you can't remember what you read, why not improve how you read to drastically increase how much you remember. Why not…

This is an incredibly ridiculous story. This student is exactly the type of person Hollywood should be nurturing: a creative student with vision, perusing his creative 'dream' and …

I would like to hear the other side of this story, though. From what I understand, sellers are the ones that get stiffed in almost all PayPal disputes. As a buyer, I'm not surprise…

Given the timing of this poll (and it's European-bias as of 10:30 UTC) I would have been interested in a breakout between the European subregions (Eastern/Western/etc.). (Although …

No, it's not Parenting Magazine. It's also not bodegajed Magazine. Like many have said before—to others who stress a dislike over an article that made it to HN's front page—if you …

There's also another way of making money from advertising: flat rate. While I'm opposed to the idea of ads on HN, if it were to be implemented I can't imagine PG looking at CPI/CPC…

I just read that the Bletchley Park Trust needs to raise a further £1.7m on their own in order to 'unlock' the £4.6m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.[1] Time to get that bank …

Neat. Remind me of the feedback integration on Google+ -- is this where you got your inspiration? Love it...

No, I don't think this is taking pedantry a bit too far. As other replies to the parent comment show, people seem to feel that this sort of abuse (meaning the registering of absurd…

…clearly EMI should not have been awarded a trademark on the term "entrepreneur" in the first place. They didn't get awarded the trademark in the first place. As the article says, …

Not yet, although I'm just starting the process for a non-fiction topic I find fascinating: the intersection of wine and psychology. I'll soon be starting to blog on the topic at h…

Laugh all the way to the bank? It'll be the bank laughing at me if I turn up saying "Look, I saved $9.99 on an ebook by pirating it."