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Cancer is the wrong word. These things are addictions not diseases. "coca-cola for the mind" is how I like to put it.

What came to mind when I saw the list was what is might say about the founders that YC is selecting. You could easily conclude from this list that it's rich peoples kids creating s…

Some questions for anyone who happens to have been following this closely: 1. What exactly is being stored? I have seen stories/comments saying it is domain names visited from web …

The new guy publicly throwing the old guy under the bus is actually a a step in a recommended strategy for turning a company around. See this blog post from Marc Andreessen's archi…

This is something I would both love to develop something for but could never allow into my house. I know I could do both but it feels kind of wrong to make anything that might enco…

I accept your correction. In fact, now I think about it, essentially 0% of apple customers would likely be aware of this possibility at the time they make their purchase. I should …

I don't see why people are upset or surprised about this. Apple is a pioneer in making electronics difficult to open up and play with. It has always been their approach to control …

The best way that I could explain it is with the phrase "out of sight, out of mind." Issues have much less of an impact if a person doesn't see and feel the direct consequences in …

That website reminded me of parrotsecrets.com made & written about by cringely [1]. It is designed to slowly increase excitement in the reader as they progress through the page (th…

To send a message to others contemplating doing something similar: "If you do this we'll get you".

Hi, this is my project. Background: I bought my mum one of those customisable calendars for christmas where you can upload your own photos for each month. Since then I’ve been wond…

I think this is a good time to repost a link to pg's "disconnecting distraction": http://paulgraham.com/distraction.html

It's nice that he is setting a good example but what's really impressive about this is that he has managed to get fb into a state where him taking two months off is actually possib…

Would it be possible to have the macro available using the HN ui and accessible from a link in the orange nav bar? (Don't read this as a criticism of your design; I just think it w…

Someone should start a petition to change the name back to startup news. edit: I should have written a more than a single sentence. Obviously I'm joking; hn is what it is now and i…

> Tellingly, Google's security efforts were also a top-down reaction to a major security incident. What was that? All I can think of is when the chinese stole their source code but…

You obviously don't trust the motives of the people posting here. That's fine, but perhaps you could phone whoever is your contact at YC for some friendly advice? Their interests a…

I understand you are under a lot of stress here but your defensive behaviour is making your situation worse rather than better. You are going through the comments on this story and…

I'd guess this sort of thing results from the obsession over growth. They are desperate to make their user aquisition/retention numbers look good so they do scammy things to keep a…

The basic problem here is that business is now global whereas taxation is still at the nation state level. Countries have to compete for business and smaller states with limited re…

I was watching those stanford videos YC made last year recently and in one of them they encourage founders to write down a set of values, principles, beliefs etc that employees sho…