bryang

I was just on LinkedIn and was quite shocked when I saw a suggestion to connect with someone I haven't heard from in about 9-10 years.

- This person was a friend from a community college course I took in high school and have not seen or spoken to since. - My LinkedIn email has no correlation or correspondence with either the community college or with him. I know LinkedIn has a history of pilfering contacts, but I use a business email that wasn't even created at that time. - I don't even mention on the site that I took a random robotics course at a community college or was even enrolled there. - There are no mutual connections.

So how in the world would LinkedIn think I know him?

This seems like something random that you all would have some, er, knowledge about...

I'm trying to improve the web presence of a business and want to get one of those fancy boxes on the side of the search results. The business has a website with decent traffic, all the social media channels (including a verified G+ account), a wikipedia article and a relatively specific name so that it won't be confused with anything else.

I've tried to find some sort of specific guide to help but alas, it's Google and I haven't had luck.

Can anyone help? Thanks!

I'm currently in the development phase of my new venture and looking to compare services. My site revolves around text tables and a very limited amount of images (none uploaded by users). I do NOT expect to have 50k users within 6 months of launch, but there is a possibility it may happen. Within a couple years however, I do hope to be in that 100k+ range.

So, what do you fine folks recommend?

Looking forward to hear your thoughts, thanks!!!

I know it's a big big fat ginormous juicy rumor, but if Whats App sold for $16B, how much do you think Apple would pay for Tesla? Or Tesla theoretically get from let says, Google? Personally, I think the value-add is greater than Whats App for Facebook.

So.... - What's your valuation of Tesla? - What's the value proposition for a giant tech company: New Market? New Product? Product infrastructure? Leadership and Innovation?

Chime in with your opinions. I'm very curious to see what your thoughts are.

Building a freemium e-commerce site and am looking to have monthly recurring payments... Is there some platform that manages this? I'm new to e-commerce, so thanks!

I currently have a 5C and it works great. But before, I had a 4S and I found that the text messages would never be received unless I opened the messages app or unlocked my phone or waited an hour. This caused a bit of frustration as I rarely got texts on time. I figured it was just poor service.

But now, after I've spoken to a few friends and heard from others, it seems my delayed text message problem is something that seems to be a fairly common issue is in Pre-5 models.

I know this sounds a like a conspiracy theory, but might there be a legitimate reason for this happening? I don't have the technical knowledge to find out myself. Enlighten me!

With the gossipy 3 Billion acquisition talk going around, I'm curious to learn what the HN readers believe to be a proper or more logical valuation for SnapChat (which does not have any immediate or pending revenue sources)