I am really glad the community worries about these things. We had a great discussion[1] about it a few months ago when Ronnie launched the database[1] of all c

I am really glad the community worries about these things. We had a great discussion[1] about it a few months ago when Ronnie launched the database[1] of all comments/posts of hacker news, as a subproduct of the unnofficial API[3] he created. Don't think we had reached a conclusion though... [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881543 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881543 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1881262 (long thread, more than one page) [3] http://api.ihackernews.com http://api.ihackernews.com