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Some online ads are just general brand awareness ads, in the way that the big Pepsi sign at a baseball stadium isn't talking about a new product or trying to get you to buy a Pepsi…

Given that it costs less than $20 million to run Wikipedia (cite: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/a/ac/FINAL_... ), that seems completely attainable without needin…

Yeah, I don't really get the big deal either. If the quality is so bad, people will stop crowdsourcing and if the pay is so low for designers, they will stop doing spec work. It se…

IANAL, but depending on state law, running the poker games on your campus might be illegal (not a law I'd agree with, but possibly illegal). In a regulated online poker scene in th…

Disclaimer: I'm a poker player and small time affiliate. The poker related ones seem to venture well into the unethical or illegal category. That doesn't take away from the difficu…

I bet some of them find alternative ways to get visitors and that a decent number of people use the bookmark feature. Now, how valuable a visitor is to a page like that is another …

Well, a lot of those webapps fall in the "feature, not a product category" and were pretty clearly living life on the edge. I await the day I can anagram via the search bar.

Note that the biggest accusation of them all is not addressed: that grouper is a lie, and is just old fashioned human matchmaking. See http://gizmodo.com/5845467/how-i-was-nearly-s…

If you go through the posts in the google link from marco's post, many of the scraped summaries are http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-02/strategy/3001... ) and that would…

Given the permissiveness of fair use laws and the low probability that random bloggers will engage in costly and lengthy lawsuits, I imagine that CC license or not, Marco's stuff w…

FWIW, the language comes from the DOJ attorney, so I don't think you can blame the headline writers.

Affiliates (no longer?) don't get paid based on a straight up deposit, but instead need to have their signups play through to earn a certain amount of FTP points, which are correla…

just to clarify, that would mean triple their revenue compared to if those players played normal poker, not an overall measure. also, for the pros who would normally be 16 tabling,…

Not speaking from personal experience, but the difference between the kids who go to a community college and a school with a respected program is going to be massive. I'd be figuri…

The quality of the article is not the issue. It's just that if everyone behaved the way you did, HN would merely be a contest of who can call in the most favors/have the most accou…

It seems that this post may have been artificially upvoted by the author of this post. The oldest comments are all at the bottom and are short, trivial and grayed out comments. One…

If it is the kind of thing where people vote up stories, you are going to have to fight very hard to avoid the influx of low calorie news (same goes for crappy comments). Unless th…

If I were expedia, orbitz, priceline, travelocity, kayak, hipmunk. etc. I'd be very very afraid. Sure, google won't actually do the sales, but they are linking direct to airline we…

I don't live near SV, but I always read about the philosophy of giving employees freedom and small perks (good food, nice break rooms, pets at work etc.) that make people want to b…

I kind of get that feel too, and I think it might be related to the fact that many spammy/scraper news sites and amateur operations use designs off of themeforest or popular free W…

Just another guy selling hopes and dreams to people who won't achieve them. I'm all for "lifestyle design" and think that it's not unreasonable that some people will be able to wil…

If it's actually a PR plant, being in the top results (or ad I suppose) in Google for related queries might be enough. Unlike the suits example from the essay, people looking for s…

I know the creator acknowledges this, but the news sites aren't even close to (or trying to) fixing the news. Maybe someday down the road they will morph, but in fact there has bee…

That would be fine if someone posted an article about those things, or even a "Did anyone's server crash due to the earthquake?" But the thread is 95% "I felt it in XX" edit: Thing…

Not to spoil the fun, but isn't this the sort of stuff that leads down the slippery slope to reddit's front page? I understand that this affects large numbers of HN users, but so d…