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I think they're onto one of the next big models: democratizing knowledge that's been traditionally gatekept, hard to reach, understand, or make decisions with. I'm fascinated to se…

We're in the early stages of planning a hackathon with Heavybit (http://www.heavybit.com/) but haven't had much experience running an event like this. What do you think makes a suc…

The blog posts might get a little long if we prefaced all of them with a description of Light Table, but hopefully lighttable.com can provide you with all the information you're lo…

You are definitely correct that some of the aversion is a knee jerk reaction and misunderstanding, but that aside, the MIT license is very end user friendly, more understood than t…

We were hearing concerns that the CA was worded in our favor and was one-way, in that people could contribute and we could take their work and commercialize it down the road withou…

I know Chris already responded to some of your concerns, but I'd like to weigh in briefly as well. > By bringing investors on board, and promising Hacker News they're going to chan…

This is absolutely spot-on correct. Your life is so far from set in stone at age 21 that you won't believe how different 21 is from even age 25, just a few years down the road. The…

Manpower is an issue, but we've gotten a lot of requests for Ruby in the future. When and where Ruby support will come is still unknown, but do know that we hear you! :)

Not to be that guy, but on the Overview page for Patients & Caregivers, in the picture with the two women, it says "treatment regime" - I believe it should be "treatment regimen".

Tastefully borrowed from it :). It happens to be a pretty darn good question - it's a good place to talk about an accomplishment, and provides some insight into the intelligence, c…

Amusing, that this thread pops up the day after the "Why I hate HN"/"How to Fix HN" discussion. The 50% of this thread about sexism is a bit off-topic, and about another 25% is cla…

The talk begins at 1:40 PDT, by the way.

We will :)

I agree with the funnel analogy, but I would like to point out that this release was an upgrade of the existing playground. Our purpose here was certainly not to feel exclusive or …