vbrendel

So what email address should I get that will most reduce my risk of crashing my car?

The point here is not what the advantage of phone support is but to provide the service personally. You can outsource anything, but if you read the article, the learnings you get from doing it yourself are invaluably useful.

The article is clearly written by someone who has a vested interest in the incumbents who are now up against Uber and Amazon.

Uber burns cash like pretty much any funded startup but there's nothing in the article suggesting their unit economics are flawed. Is the author really suggesting that competition law should force companies like Uber to set their price higher than the competition?

It's called disruption for a reason.

Me and my co-founder refined our pitching skills somewhat. Overall I wouldn't say it's worth it.

Not generally a good idea, but please post a link to the product to get more specific feedback. A product is not a business yet. Before you sink money into a launch you'd want to go from "I think I have a good product" to "I know I have a good product" (some people refer to this as product-market fit).

Work out which company you would actually want to work with (ask questions) and just do do their friggin puzzles if that's what gets you in the door.

Does orthodontics really fall under cranial deformation? ;-)

This is more than ironic: statuspage.io was affected last week by the Amazon DNS outage! That doesn't seem to get a mention.

According to that article, the 40 comment penalty is applied to all posts. Putting "Show HN" in your post probably didn't change that.

The algorithm for the front page favours newer things and attempts to generate traction for discussions. I'm speculating here but once something hits 40 comments, not only can it be deemed 'controversial' it could also just mean the article may be able to sustain itself better without more eyeballs, and the front page can 'move on' to other newer things.

Ultimately the Hackernews algorithm should prevent anyone using it as a cheap referral source. 40 comments should have given you some valuable feedback, which is what Hackernews is good for, primarily.

The .html 'exception' shouldn't really be that surprising. How many web servers do you know that run on MS-DOS?

No need for status symbols anymore. If you want people to know you are rich, just post it on Facebook.