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Those who subscribe to the "startup CEOs shouldn't debate with or mentor others" mantra will miss out on working with some of the greatest CEOs in the world.

Josh, you're right - that's why it isn't possible right now. I put that we need a simpler, cheaper way to invalidate patents before a patent-killing x-prize is possible in the post…

I like the use / active-pursue requirement except it seems nearly impossible to enforce. A patent troll could easily spend money to look like they're trying to use a patent.

Interesting! Granted patents aren't re-reviewed, so someone would have to cough up a few tens of thousands of dollars to do anything with submissions on granted patents. Is the con…

Ask Patents is for stopping patents from being granted. I'm suggesting a way to kill patents that are already granted + monetary incentives for the worst / most expensive offenders…

My argument is based on the premise that most software patents are bad for our economy. Amazon's One-Click patent is a perfect example. Amazon would have developed one-click whethe…

The problem with this - at least as I understand it - is that patent trolls make a lot from patents on a one-by-one basis - much more than companies want to pay or feel is affordab…

Well said: I too would rather do that than the usual marketing driven thing of wearing a ribbon.

I don't think curing cancer makes much sense in the Kickstarter sense: 1. It is enormously expensive - curing a form of cancer costs well into the millions. So it wouldn't get fund…

The EFF is probably the closest to doing something like this, but they picked the patents and there isn't a way to support killing just one: https://www.eff.org/patent-busting

We have an engineer whose name is "john; drop table users." Man does he wreak havoc.

"Google just launched an Evernote killer" is a particularly inflammatory title for Hacker News. Almost all "killers" end up being competitors and more often than not "killers" neve…

"Mystery Meat Navigation" is a very good description of what makes Windows 8 a frustrating first time experience, is the synopsis of all the complaints about it, and is why Windows…

Looks interesting. Doing anything beyond a "give feedback" email link means a bunch of integration headaches for app developers.

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I view this as proof no one on Hacker News has a sense of humor.

Here's the thing with this: It's easy to find new unproductive sites and an outright ban from distractions is difficult to live with - humans crave distraction. What if instead of …

There is nothing absurd about this. Twitter is a company that is in the business of making money. They are nominal value for themselves when they let third parties import their ent…

I don't buy the complaint about CPU or RAM - featuring specs is not the way things are done anymore.

No way should you have to pay 10k+ to setup a corporation in Delaware. That's way too much.

The legal benefits go even deeper than that: Delaware has great, extremely well tested laws around corporations (no surprises) and a judicial system that is highly familiar with co…