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'building' is not optional.

Lovely, downvotes. Guess we don't have too many New Yorkers in the readership here. FYI, you can't shorten the Chrysler Building to 'Chrysler' either. That's a corporation.

The Empire State is New York State: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State

Or did the article headline really mean the empire state BUILDING? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building

http://www.economist.com/node/16636101 ... outside Germany and Switzerland, Europe’s freight rail services are a fragmented, lossmaking mess. Repeated attempts to remove the technical and bureaucratic hurdles at national frontiers have come to nothing.

The article is about a company named Lytro. 'Refocus Imaging' is the previous name of Lytro.

While the car example is decent enough in explaining how preferences can be absurd, "distant food" is a pretty poor example. It is not driven by customer preferences, but by economics.

New York is still full of schemers, compared to SF Bay area. I lived in Mountain View for two years, San Francisco for three, and NYC for two -- I am in the process of moving back to Mountain View. I love NYC as a place to live, but found it frustrating for tech work. The job offers I've had in the SF bay area always seemed reasonable to me. In New York, I've received ridiculous low-ball offers, and have had a few friends have the same experience, but only in New York. They all have moved to San Francisco now.

Google's Dutch auction IPO pricing looks even more appealing after seeing this. Too bad it took a recession for them to get the bargaining power to demand a Dutch auction.

"Classmates.com has agreed to refund nearly $10 million to users who were told that long-lost school chums were looking at their profiles, only to find, once they’d ponied up a subscription fee, that no one they knew was looking for them at all."

http://www.b12partners.net/wp/2010/03/16/classmates-com-sett...

Really? You can plot them together, and it appears 'quorra' spiked about two weeks before 'quora'. Tron released December 17th 2010, according to wikipedia, correlating nicely with 'quorra' searches. What happened January 1st to cause a huge spike in 'quora' searches? http://www.google.com/trends?q=quorra%2C+quora&ctab=0...

Just because people are making a lot of money in finance does not mean they are smart, or would be capable working as an engineer or scientist.

.. open records be damned.

It's just hard to believe and sad that in 2011, a major taxpayer sponsored university releases a statement explaining that an open-records request is totally reasonable, and compliance in no way affects academic freedom.

It is justified in the context of the Stanford Daily. HN is in a totally different context, so this headline, copied verbatim, is misleading.

In fact, 18 universities _applied_ to an invitation by NYC. The HN headline is rather misleading, making it sound like Stanford has independently decided to branch out into New York.

... from 2006

> If I call a local number by only using its seven-digit number, WP7 never, ever figured out to map it to the relevant contact. My old Motorola RAZR phones did that.

What part of the country still allows 7 digit dialing?

Word definitions matter, significantly more than grammar and spelling.

Find yourself covered in slime? You're being thefted.

That's not a mugging. I think you mean robbed:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mugged to assault or menace, especially with the intention of robbery.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rob to take something from (someone) by unlawful force or threat of violence; steal from.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/burglarize to break into and steal from: Thieves burglarized the warehouse.