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I believe he means that he needs to discuss this issue in person and will need a physical meeting, not that he invested without meeting them.
Either way, strikes me as a dubious and reputationally dangerous model for YCombinator to get involved with.
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Ironically enough, IIRC PG was one of pioneers of spam filtering.
And Peter Detkin coined the term patent troll and now runs a company that's one of the worlds biggest patent trolls. Irony? Or just people being willing to do anything for money. There are worse motivations.
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I took a look at your image and started a search for Babylon Browser. Autofill added stuff like "hijack" and "took over my browser". Sounds like very bad news: https://www.google.com/search?q=babylon+browser
I can confirm that it is tenacious. I don't know how since I always check for crapware, but I ended up with babylon having taken over my firefox browser. I removed it, but - just checking - oh look, there it is again. Luckily, chrome is my go-to browser, (which explains why I haven't tried more brutal removals), but it is definitely not as simple as uninstalling. It seems to be worse than I thought. http://support.mo…
So when earlier it was mentioned, I assumed "They have to have a different angle on this; they're a YC company." And seeing a strong thread title and no evidence for it other than "The industry they're in is ridiculously seedy", I thought maybe HN was in rush to judgement mode. So I thought I'd try, you know, installing something. Make your own call: http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/its-not-a...
Things like it and Conduit (another toolbar/malware company) are probably the biggest "botnets" out there, all "legal".
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"You don't like popups? I'll bet they know that." Knowing is not caring.
Offtopic: I'm sorry to tell but due to HN clumsiness your post in another topic has been declared nonpost, in the Orwellian manner: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5061390 This one, [dead] My response would have been, that's exactly what we were discussing: having children to "choose" between pleasure now and maybe pleasure in distant future. Doesn't have anything to do with me.
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Offtopic: I'm sorry to tell but due to HN clumsiness your post in another topic has been declared nonpost, in the Orwellian manner: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5061390 This one, [dead] My response would have been, that's exactly what we were discussing: having children to "choose" between pleasure now and maybe pleasure in distant future. Doesn't have anything to do with me.
It was meant more as a joke more than as a beratement, anyway. Thanks!
Would be interesting to get a statement from PG on that one, at least to explain what's so great about this company.
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May be the case on iOS but with Android I've had apps that stick extra shortcuts on my homescreen and spam notifications every few hours. This makes battery life and usability a lot worse throughout the phone until you can find and kill the offending app.
If that happens again, use one or more of these apps to find the offender: Ad Network Detector Addons Detector AirPush Detector
It's great to bring it to his attention, but these dudes are the ones building the spam engine, PG was just one of many investors in the company. We can't know how much of this he knew beforehand, but he says he's investigating, which isn't even the point. I'm sure PG was keen on investigating this without everyone pointing fingers at him like he made the decision to create this spamware.
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If Linux on the desktop were to get popular, I'd hate to imagine what might happen to the open source Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu repositories. Nothing. In case you haven't been paying attention, Debian repositories were "app stores" before there were app stores. The software goes through extensive vetting and rigorous testing; no, I'm not saying every line of code is inspected, but to claim that a Debian maintainer wou…
...through extensive vetting and rigorous testing... I wanted to upvote your comment, but then I almost died laughing when I read that. Most Linux distributions are better about it now than they were many years ago, but I still remember being absolutely floored when RedHat had packaged a Perl module with a syntax error some years ago. Same goes for Debian; some of the more "fringe packages" (those of upstream project…