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If I were designing html5 I would have removed a bunch of redundant tags instead of adding new ones.

I like Pandora a lot but a couple of months ago I switched to last.fm because it gave me more variety. Maybe it's time to check out Pandora again -- though last.fm is still 100% fr…

I'm cool with both.

I think you just summarized the theory of blub, but with more compassion to the blub.

I worry about people using the work 'hacker' so broadly that it becomes meaningless. Is a football player a hacker because he's 'hacking' his body to optimize the actions that woul…

You can't ignore growth though. In many cases it's much more important than current active users. A product with 1mil active users and a 10x growth rate is much more valuable than …

Can you recommend any sources for learning CAD modeling?

I have an idea for a product I want to prototype. It's a physical object, sort of like a plastic toy. It doesn't have a microprocessor or any electronics for that matter. Unfortuna…

He didn't say that criticism of Israel is anti-semitism. He just said 'No Politics. No anti-semitism.' I agree with him that HN should have no politics and no anti semitism or any …

All new business plans are risky. Dependencies on 3rd parties add risk, but if the potential rewards are big enough the risk is worth taking.

I agree with Paul's point, but it seems like the flip side of the equation is that most startups these days don't have the kind of big exits that internet giants like Amazon, Ebay,…

How so? I fail to see your reasoning. Are you suggesting Facebook is going to die in the foreseeable future?

Smart money seems to be in great scarcity these days. Those so called smart Wall St firms are the first to line up for tax dollar handouts. Those firms that should be in chapter 11…

I don't get your reasoning. He and his cofounders built a product that people wanted. The product spread mostly virally by word of mouth. This is the classic definition of succeedi…

Are you suggesting that Facebook isn't successful?

This observation is childish at best, and it smells of jealousy.

The incubator is the new meta-startup. Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket, you spread them over multiple startups to maximize the probability of scoring big. And you do…

This essay is just silly. It makes it sound as if our generation is the first to invent entrepreneurship. Millions of our parents' generation own their own businesses. Entrepreneur…

And I thought the democrats were the good guys... Now I really don't know whom to vote for. Wall St will get rich, but the political system has gone bankrupt.

Buffet mentions a crisis of confidence in the markets as a reason for the bailout. But what is the cost to society of the loss of confidence in the government? What will happen to …

I'm a fan of YC and I don't need convincing that YC provides great value to a young startup -- more than the 6% equity it takes. However, I just don't believe that PG & co are capa…