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"There are only about 1,500 “medallions” (essentially permits) that allow taxis to operate in San Francisco. To put that in context, NYC has over 13,000."

Wow, intentional abuse of statistics used without context, while claiming to provide context. NYC is 10x the population of SF, so has fewer per capita mediallions than SF.

I don't mind the job postings. I find it annoying that there is no comment thread on them, to sort out the BS.

It varies by state. She has a track record of employment, and her most recent termination was involuntary and not for cause, which is generally enough to qualify.

keep distinct news items, but merge into a parent item that links both, much like the way this polling story work.

The parent item gets the combined vote total of child items, and any summary screen that shows the parent item would then remove all children of that parent item, showing the parent instead.

> The Goldmanite trails off. “What do they do? No, seriously. Do you know?”

So not even Goldman Sachs knows what they do? Goldman is also incredibly secretive, so kind of funny to see one of theirs being surprised by that behavior elsewhere.

Near the end of the article:

"But there’s always the risk of winding up afoul of Arrington’s rules of the road. That’s what GroupMe did last month with news of a major acquisition. Arrington’s response was classic Tony Soprano. Speaking at a CEO summit in New York, he berated a GroupMe executive in the audience. “You fucked me over,” Mike said from the podium. He told everyone GroupMe was now cut off from his site, and threatened to do the same to anyone else who doesn’t let him dictate their press coverage."

You really don't understand _delirium's point, or are you just playing stupid?

This is a repost. The headline is appropriate for the stanford daily, but it becomes misleading when it gets copied verbatim to a site with a much wider audience. NYC is soliciting bids, and Stanford is one of the universities that applied. Stanford is not independently looking to build an NYC campus, as the headline implies.

Why does the author pick 2012, as opposed to 2011 or 2013? There's no explanation on the timeline, which is so prominent in the headline, just two pictures. This is a pretty pointless article to make it onto HN's front page.

> Hundreds of thousands of folks (nationwide) lost their jobs at established companies in the wake of that mess.

False. If you went to the east coast, people were largely unaffected by the dot-bomb in the valley. The most significant impact was seeing various stock market indexes drop, which hit people in the pocketbook, but it did not result in layoffs.

Yes, that's what I recall happening in the valley from 2001-2004. Other startups just swarmed over the hundreds of thousands of developers out of work.

Similar to the Kik story. But it looks like LiveProfile is staying out of AppWorld for now.