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Half of Github's success is because Git was so successful and easy to use. People started using Git first, and then Github came along and made things more social. There is no funda…

Great advice! You sound like you have a lot of experience in server security. What is your recommendation on strong passwords? Also, should all passwords on a system be different (…

What if you can't disable root login (i.e. it's a cloud server)?

Thanks for creating this and open-sourcing this great app! One question: Does aggregates.html work? I can see that metrics are being recorded in mongodb, but it does not load the j…

Is there any way to gain practice on negotiation? As an entrepreneur, are there any resources on the internet where you can "practice"? The only thing I can think of is playing pok…

What do you mean by runway?

Could someone help me run the numbers? What will $150,000 be used for on an average YC startup? $150,000 will allow the startup to hire 1 or 2 engineers in the short-term. Is that …

It looks really cool!, but I don't understand how it is a 24 hour shot. It just looks like a tiny planet with a house on top. Could somebody please explain the image? (The descript…

There are many cities in the county of San Diego. The city of San Diego (where you are suggesting that the 200k number came from) is about 10-20% of the size of the county of San D…

The statistics on this infographic are misleading. It does not cost 200,000 to buy a house in San Diego or San Jose! Maybe the average for downtown San Jose and San Diego are close…

I agree. Generally, "desperate" means taking any (reasonable) job offer you can get.

I wish there were more people like Mister Rogers. You can't help but feel better about the world after listening to this video.

With the 200+ million gmail email addresses that Google has access to, Google can instantly become a major competitor to Groupon & LivingSocial assuming a certain percentage of gma…

Don't get too excited. LivingSocial disabled this already (the trick doesn't work any more), and all people who tried this trick earlier today will simply get an email tomorrow say…

Does anybody here also notice a lag during Google voice calls? Sometimes the lag is up to half a second or one second, and it can really make conversations difficult because you st…

Amazon's execution with EC2 over the past few years has been excellent. If Amazon makes a Rails version of Beanstalk, Heroku should be worried as Beanstalk could take some market s…

Just to be clear, this is only for Java apps right? This does not include PHP or Python?

What would also be interesting to know is what the average CPM of the Google Search Engine is, and compare this with Bing or Yahoo. I would think (but cannot confirm) that Google m…

Just wondering, how many people here have used Airbnb? I would think a large number of HN people would use it.

Are you looking for full-time engineers?

At what size for a consumer app do you start getting "noticed"? I would very interested to hear what kind of product you made.

Excellent graphic describing wordpress theme file structure. It would be very interesting to know if other CMS's share a similar file structure. How does this compare to Drupal or …

Congratulations! $100k in 4 months is definitely a success. Also, thanks for sharing your numbers and crafting an excellent writeup.