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As long as we're talking incentives, your plan gives a huge incentive to fire someone just before the end of their first year of employment. At the end of the year you're faced wit…

The article mentions "arrested for a felony" not "convicted". Obviously these are very different things, and it shouldn't be too hard to see why some people have a problem with peo…

"weeding out the people who aren't smart, driven and dedicated enough to get into and graduate from a top-tier school." Wow. Since the rest of your post seems to equate "top-tier s…

I'd be more excited if they gave me the option to disable the annoying "spin the map when you try to pinch-zoom" feature. I've never wanted my phone to give me a map where north is…

Account created 45 minutes ago, to post a wildly unlikely and almost certainly embellished if not entirely fictitious anecdote. What is it about sexism on HN that brings out every …

How? Because parents, teachers and mass media said to 'do what you love and the money will follow' or some variant, so kids picked majors with no demand in the labor market. Becaus…

To play devil's advocate, the moment the government gets involved, so do politics. Contraception and sexually transmitted diseases - will the religious right / moral majority voter…

Does anyone have experience with cost of living in the bay area vs Austin, TX? According to the cost of living calculator on CNN Money, $120,000 in San Francisco is equivalent to $…

Google says the group of major players colluding together in a joint bid for patents is anti-competitive. Google did not want to join this anti-competitive collusion. How is this i…

There is 'general public' and there is 'tech-savvy android users'. The former you have probably characterized correctly, but I suspect you are underestimating the size of the latte…

I down-modded this comment, but since the user probably made it in good-faith I'm going to explain why. This would be a good comment on reddit - short, opinionated and easy for peo…

I'll reply here though it's more of a general response to all the people who replied. First, I'm not sure why I got so many downvotes, I believe my response was quite civil and app…

As an aside, using "USAians" in your writing is probably not what you want here. Intentionally mangling the name of a group/nationality because you don't like the standard naming c…

The opportunity is that they could have more customers. Many people are canceling their cable subscriptions because the price is too high for the value it offers. If cable companie…

This comment is so absurdly wrong and offensive I had to read it several times fearing I was missing some sarcasm or satire. I'm sure you didn't mean it as such, so here is some in…

As a counter anecdote, there is a CS lecturer at my alma mater who actually did get a job directly due to taking code (a physics simulator I believe) from some company's server. He…

Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how your twitter influence is important to any job except for paid endorsements. If I'm hiring an engineer, a project manager, or a design…

Income for Fight Club fans is interesting, apparently correlating with both very low ( 200k) incomes. I suppose a couple themes make sense with that data, the low income group pres…

I think something must have changed since that post. As displayed to me, I'm at 495 karma as of the writing of this post, but I don't currently have the ability to down-vote commen…

Actually, they don't specify who gets quoted a higher price initially, they just say it was different. Based on the dealer's quote, it seems he starts higher if he expects more neg…

Guys, he's a troll. Stop feeding the troll. His profile claims he's 13 years old, whether that's true or just part of the trolling I don't know or care, just beware you're getting …

"I don't see why being too sensitive is seen as somehow worse in the startup/developer community than being too insensitive." I'll venture a guess: because many of us find it incre…

There was a time when people thought the primary purpose of an mp3 player was to play pirated music, would you claim that an article about a new mp3 player was "advocating piracy"?…

What if you are moving from a low cost area to a high cost area? I just checked out an online cost-of-living calculator and my salary in Austin would have to increase by 2.6x to ha…

Wow, reading this didn't give me any sympathy for her at all. I'm reminded of the episode of South Park where Cartman feels bad only about getting punished, no actual guilt or remo…