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So, if this is Hacker News shouldn't there be a category for jobs open to any company?

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I would like to see jobs opened up as well. A lot more people would check the section if there were more jobs in it. It would help the YC companies and they could still be highlighted in some way to make them stand out as "special".

(The question as written is stated with a sense of entitlement that seems distasteful to me.)

what is exactly distasteful about the question? I didn't ask or entitled that YC's jobs section should be devoted for anyone, but instead provoked the subject for discussion for openinng maybe a new open category, assuming this is not about YC news anymore.

not my fault if you want to look YC friendly and pitch with anything that doesn't look like so.

When you go into someone else's house do you say: "So, this is a house with a kitchen right? Shouldn't anyone who comes here have a glass of water?" or do you just plainly ask "Can I have a glass of water?"

It's not my problem if you're a prick, I was just pointing it out in case you cared.

I would avoid answering cause I don't really have time for these, but I couldn't skip emphasizing your choice of your words, which really just shows your attitude on everything, including when reading a simple headline!

negative energy is bad dood! it doesn't help!

p.s. I suppose Hacker News is a community and not the house of one individual!

I reserve the privilege to be in a grumpy mood and get modded down appropriately.

Hey, I've said much dumber things on the internet.

Well said. Do not ever respond to someone who calls you names. It is also ok to add "panache" to your headline. Everyone else does it, but I would specify in the subject section what I really mean. We do not want to hurt anyone feelings, and historically people have gotten more by asking rather than forcing someone to give it to them.

Calling someone a prick probably counts as an ad hominem...

And using the phrase 'ad hominem' probably counts as making people heads hurt... ========================================

"An ad hominem argument, also known as argumentum ad hominem (Latin: "argument to the person", "argument against the man") consists of replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking or appealing to the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim. It is most commonly used to refer specifically to the ad hominem abusive, or argumentum ad personam, which consists of criticizing or personally attacking an argument's proponent in an attempt to discredit that argument."

There are people who say that name-calling is not an ad hominem unless is it explicitly claims causal connection between one's character and one's argument, with words like "because" (eg "you're wrong BECAUSE you're an idiot"). Here is one such view:

http://tinyurl.com/2fg8fu

But forum posts are not mathematical proofs, and nobody explicitly shows causal connection when it can be inferred from the context. When you read a disagreeing reply, it's reasonable to assume that what you are reading is a counter-argument (as opposed to, say, an attempt to make someone cry), and so everything in it should be treated as a premise of that counter-argument.

I think you miss PG's point. He is saying that you should have a civil discussion .

Your statements are wrong because your head hurts.

Even the most obscure words (which this is not) probably warrant a silent google.

Agreed... something simple to match up people to hack together (for fun or for $) would be neat...

Nothing is preventing you from submitting a job; it just won't show up in the jobs tab.

I don't think so. I think Hacker News should only allow job postings from companies that hackers would be happy working for, which probably includes most companies funded by YC. Filtering companies outside of that seems like a hard problem.

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