The title is taken from this quote in the article and feels like a legitimate summary of the tone of the article, which is upbeat.
There are 8 paragraphs in the article. The concept of startups or starting a company is not introduced until the fifth paragraph. Since the focus of the article is not startups, the title of this HN post is a poor summary to me - it feels worded just to get modded up.
If you look at the last two dozen articles matstc has submitted over the last nine months (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=matstc ) none of them substantially modify the original title, and in fact this title is taken from a subtitle in the article. If it was "worded just to get modded up" it would be unusual behaviour on matstc's part. The subtitle starts the section of the article that HN readers would be interested in.
Sorry if this is misleading. I read the article on paper and that was the pull-quote. I decided to use it because the real title 'The upside of a downturn' was not descriptive enough to me.
There are 8 paragraphs in the article. The concept of startups or starting a company is not introduced until the fifth paragraph. Since the focus of the article is not startups, the title of this HN post is a poor summary to me - it feels worded just to get modded up.