Can a moderator please change the title to the real title? 95% of the content is specific to this one conference, yet the title is about conferences in general.
It doesn't explore the idea that conferences should help hackers get rich at all. It has one sentence that more-or-less states that and then goes on and on about how great this particular conference is.
I love the idea of this particular conference as the people I know that have been to it, including the guys at, for example Rapportive, came back from it with completely different views on the world and have been able to put a lot of what they learned into their businesses.
That is, in my view, a good thing, and something that should be flagged. If you think that is an advert, fair enough but I am honestly not aware of any international class events that focus on the process of creating sustainable businesses for this community. (There are obviously lots of tech events and lots of events about raising venture capital). I would love to be taught otherwise. I thought the idea of this list was to highlight things that the hacking community and entrepreneurs will find useful. Some will, some won't.
I'm fine with it being submitted. I'm not fine with it being submitted under the title "Conferences should help hackers get rich, not hack more", which makes it sound like a general blog post about conferences.
Much more fitting is the real title, "Amazing event (and not one of ours!). Business of Software, Boston, October 4th-6th".
Now, that's not a great title for submitting to HN, so I could see changing that to "Business of Software conference focuses on helping hackers get rich, not hack more" or something. But trying to pass it off as a general article when it's not is clear link-bait.
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Can a moderator please change the title to the real title? 95% of the content is specific to this one conference, yet the title is about conferences in general.
It doesn't explore the idea that conferences should help hackers get rich at all. It has one sentence that more-or-less states that and then goes on and on about how great this particular conference is.
I love the idea of this particular conference as the people I know that have been to it, including the guys at, for example Rapportive, came back from it with completely different views on the world and have been able to put a lot of what they learned into their businesses.
That is, in my view, a good thing, and something that should be flagged. If you think that is an advert, fair enough but I am honestly not aware of any international class events that focus on the process of creating sustainable businesses for this community. (There are obviously lots of tech events and lots of events about raising venture capital). I would love to be taught otherwise. I thought the idea of this list was to highlight things that the hacking community and entrepreneurs will find useful. Some will, some won't.
I'm fine with it being submitted. I'm not fine with it being submitted under the title "Conferences should help hackers get rich, not hack more", which makes it sound like a general blog post about conferences.
Much more fitting is the real title, "Amazing event (and not one of ours!). Business of Software, Boston, October 4th-6th".
Now, that's not a great title for submitting to HN, so I could see changing that to "Business of Software conference focuses on helping hackers get rich, not hack more" or something. But trying to pass it off as a general article when it's not is clear link-bait.