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First of all, WELCOME! I don't profess to know a perfect path for you, but the basics for HN are fairly simple, and they also apply to learning lingo and the areas in which they ar…

Paul, I noticed some of the people posting edits/fixes (spelling, line break) got down-voted, and others wanted to argue/disagree about it. Silly. Personally, I like having others …

This is not a complaint, but simply a bug report. With javascript disabled, if you type something in the provided text box and hit enter, you end up with an error message: Not Foun…

I still prefer the hem line indicator. ;)

cperciva, there are actually two common scams involving charities and paypal. The first is the risk of people donating to fake charities as you mentioned. The second is the risk of…

The article wasn't very useful compared to blog posts by google itself, but the discussions on what google can "understand" always reminds me of this: http://www.fun-images.com/thu…

I wish it wasn't such an unpleasant shock for so many people, but very few people even think about how something actually works and the risk models being used. In the case of paypa…

Ahhh, though you said "corporate account," I'm betting you actually mean a "Merchant Services" account. There are actually a number of different types of paypal accounts, each with…

> unfortunately paypal would not authorize any > payments (from my credit cards!) until they > had a confirmed (and thus accessible) bank > account. Please elaborate. I'm not sure …

jacquesm, There are two potential solutions. The first is having a separate bank account specifically for use with paypal. This gives your "real" bank accounts some degree of separ…

Some of this was covered by Dan Ariely in his TED talk on the "Predictably Irrational." http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_o...

I realize English is not your first language, but on this particular topic, one must be VERY careful with the terms you use. In classic rhetoric, the ability to control and define …

I don't know why you were down-voted, but I agree with what you seem to _mean_ even though your use of strong rhetoric distracts from your point. The trouble is one can define "ins…

Votes, either up or down, are an expression of perceived value to the user. If I write something and you extend the time and effort to read it, then you will have an opinion of its…

> Does it bother anyone else that piracy would force > an arbitrary low price point for books? > ... > Piracy is preventing the market from establishing a real > clearing price for…

Seems like you were starved for attention and couldn't answer your own questions, so you decided to waive your female bait, twice, to see if you can sucker any of the dorks into he…

If you want device specs for the Verizon Apple iPhone: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2548&c=verizon... The database at pdadb.net has specs on a number of "known but unrelea…

uggh! The term "permanent" means "timeless," so a "timeless work" is the same as a work with "permanent impact." As for me, I can do genus quality work, and occasionally I can even…

Beautiful. Absolutely Beautiful. It would be wonderful if it was implemented here on HN. Instead of having a page full of "Angel-Gate" stories, there would be only one, and it woul…

If even if reitzensteinm was talking about capacity-per-watt, he's still wrong. The specific drive he mentioned was the "Raptor" model but that's an old, slow, small (150G) and pow…

>In terms of online gigabytes per watt, SSDs will >lose out badly to traditional hard drives. Incorrect. You forgot time. Think about it this way (with very rough numbers); The tra…

> And the "hackers as founders" thing is kinda > what Y Combinator is all about, yes? The only person qualified to answer this question is Paul Graham himself. If you read his essa…

It seems you misunderstood my statement. I never called your post irrelevant. In fact, it is relevant for this site. --I should have made it a bit more clear. On this site, "hacker…