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What's the idea behind that "Submit a Story" uncollapsible floating tab on the left side of the page? Seems like you're obstructing a pretty important, content-dense part of the sc…

Great post - really brilliant tactical thinking, and it's always a delight to see smart moves pay off. I feel like it should be noted that it's quite dangerous to threaten a move l…

Assuming you're referring to Marie's scolding of Megan, I think the quote is closer to "Not every little girl gets to do what she wants - the world could not support that many ball…

This rings painfully true.

No sarcasm; just a lot of regret and self-loathing. It seems like the root of our disagreement is our differeing expectations for the cognitive and decisionmaking abilities of teen…

I think the OP's characterization of the decisionmaking process that leads to crippling educational debt is somewhat unfair. It's definitely driven by the parents and children who …

I'll add to the chorus of voices requesting the ability to add a price constraint.

To generalize from this very good point - perhaps a future iteration should include a fully-blinged-out "Advanced" settings menu that lets you add constraints for a wide variety of…

Kind of a derail, but would you care to share the rationale behind the 60/20/20 macro ratio?

Whoops, my mistake - thanks for the correction. Still baffled by how answers.com expects to get $270M of financing to buy about.com. To anyone who has ever clicked a link to either…

Unreal. How can such an awful website have $270 million on hand, and how can they be willing to spend it on another awful website?

I remember having this same thought when I learned about the existence of "Islamic finance." Apparently, Islam has a strong doctrinal prohibition against charging interest, and the…

I am so fascinated by the idea that these people exist. I would love to read an interview with one of them.

Seems consistent with what we're seeing in this case. Very hard to imagine any VC greenlighting this sort of "it's the principle" litigation; very easy to imagine a founder doing s…

I didn't look at the claim construction order so I don't know if anything particularly remarkable happened at that stage, but based solely on the SJ order, it looks like they did g…

I think a good trial lawyer would probably be able to get a jury to a level of at least rudimentary understanding of the technology over the course of a multi-day trial. But I agre…

It's very expensive. Kaspersky almost certainly paid its lawyers much, much more to take this case through summary judgment and trial prep than Microsoft paid the Troll to go away.…

The public documents in this case are heavily redacted, because the relevant underlying facts involve confidential or sensitive information about licensing agreements. That, plus m…

The Order indicates that Kaspersky won summary judgment on noninfringement grounds, not invalidity grounds. e: Not sure about this, but the Order also suggests that some of the Tro…

Plaintiff can definitely appeal a dismissal with prejudice. In fact, Plaintiff would probably have more trouble appealing a dismissal without prejudice, since the implication in a …

I don't know, man - I'm no ally of the Plaintiffs in this case, but I don't think I buy that argument. What Comcast characterizes as "shakedowns" are really just negotiated settlem…

The fact that Comcast is carrying this banner almost makes me want to switch to Comcast in support. I say "almost" because I quickly remember their frequent random connection drops…

Yuuup. I'm always amused at the predictable trajectory of the comments on any sort of HN posting about Asperger's. In almost all cases, a disproportionate number of the people who …

Not sure why you're getting downvoted here. Isn't this the same effect Buffett is talking about in the letter when he describes the local paper's advantage in coverage of "local sp…

What sorts of policies and practices, if any, do you have in place to prevent your company or clients from engaging in the kind of behavior that you yourself found so personally ob…