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Seems like your comment got downvoted, which is a shame because it was one of the few comments that spoke to the heart of the matter. Ignore all the other real injustices around th…

Actually OpenTable is loathed and I have worked at many restaurants that hated the fees, the crap software, and feeling they are forced to use it otherwise they would see a major d…

Well, not really. There are plenty of equality movements that have been quite successful. But the real point is that if we believe that jobs will be more technical in nature and th…

Truly unfortunate all around. PG getting slammed from every direction. Jessica Lessin's new venture gets a black eye for shoddy journalistic standards. Lots of invective going arou…

The guy has an issue with the name Nokogiri? Anyway, not to be "that guy", but this same article was posted over a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3577590 and the pos…

Probably got his knowledge from watching a TED talk on the subject...

Plenty of "products" also do not have a business model. So code posted on Github that gets comments would be a product? Really sounds like you are quibbling. The statement about "e…

And no successful VC's blog...oh wait. Obviously most "people" do not blog regularly. Whether it is CEO's of startups or chefs at top tier restaurants or whatever else you can thin…

I once had a stellar wind, about near blew the doors out my house... So you see, probably does not work so well.

I see what you did there...

Dear "That Guy", spot on.

Problems may arise when you send out a direct link to an article. When friends go directly to that article from the URL you provided, that could possible be setting off triggers. B…

Good point, though I just read it on mobile where is automatically shows as one page, something I find to be a smoother reading experience.

I think you misunderstand the state of VC nowadays. They are not about funding "innovation", they are about scaling already proven concepts. For example, look at all the dollars th…

I think you misunderstand the state of VC nowadays. They are not about funding "innovation", they are about scaling already proven concepts. For example, look at all the dollars th…

Wow, lazy parents...care to provide any metrics to back up that ludicrous assumption? The lazy parent excuse is what come out of the mouths of teachers to justify themselves and th…

And the irony is that a public school system that should be egalitarian is in fact ripe for many of the same abuses as a free market system. Yes, the farmer could move to Palo Alto…

In specific terms, for 2010: The mean Critical Reading score was 501. Education majors scored 481. The mean Mathematics score was 516. Education majors scored 486. The mean Writing…

No, it is absolutely a reflection of the person. If you cannot purport yourself in a manner reflective of your education, maybe you should not be educating anyone. What the teachin…

"The problem with education politics is that people like you love to totally distort the issues. Ya, there are problems on both sides, but we aren't even having honest debates yet.…

"most urban school districts are staffed with a high percentage of people that have no business anywhere close to a classroom, let alone actually teaching in it." It is even more d…

LOL, Hacker News roulette... Nice article though and a change from the usual bashing of PayPal that generally masquerades as cogent discussion here. It is clear that PayPal is fina…