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I'm not sure if vocabulary size matters once you reach around 25,000 words. The words I didn't know were in part because I've never had any need to know them; if I had run into any…

Windsoc uses App Engine for our Unified Social API, and while it has many benefits, we've always had our minds on how to move off of it someday. SSL is a big issue for us, and anot…

Jason's point is valid no matter your opinion of Mahalo. Reputation may soon be the most important determinant of the value of content, as opposed to social indicators and in tande…

Please elaborate. His arguments are related to interstellar travel as an endeavour that is undertaken as a gravity well to gravity well transit. My argument is that planetary colon…

I agree with the notion that no human society will purposely invest money in a trek to another solar system, but I strongly disagree with the notion that humanity is stuck in this …

One big issue for me is that I only have one name. I think it's asking too much of people trying to connect with me to have to choose between four Twitter accounts or 2-3 Facebook …

I think the first generation don't need to be as technically sophisticated as most people think. Get users in quickly (social logins), and let them pop out just as easily, even to …

I was earning approximately $10-15k annually from affiliate marketing from 2002-2006 (formerly giftsforaguy.com), but I didn't spend the time I needed to stay up-to-date with my se…

I think this explains very well why in my situation with my co-founder, I don't feel like anything but 50/50 would work, but yet I still agree that such a split is inherently risky…

I'm surprised by the negative reaction that this post has received. I thought the actions were more "cheeky" than overstepping. But maybe that's more an indication that I am afflic…

Maybe it's because I'm Canadian, but I've never been checked on my way out of the US. My first thought on this was to enter Canada and go home from there (detouring around the US o…

I've noticed a few times (most recently with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2464228) that articles that seem on a trajectory towards the front page sometimes drop unexpectedly…

Have you spent any time at places like http://www.fanfiction.net/ ? My wife is always saying that there are many authors on there that ought to focus on getting non-derivative work…

We actually have that very tool developed (alpha-ish, I guess you'd say), but we found that no one seemed to pay much attention when we talked about it. That, plus the difficulty i…

I may just be over-sensitive, but this post seems a little too cavalier about the Libyan crisis to me. In addition, I had the impression that this piece might be about some kind of…

The Montessori Mafia article had me wondering about HNers and preschool. My wife always talks about the first five years being the most important; since HN readers are generally co…