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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 (login passwords for different servers, email passwords, etc...), and if so, how do you keep track of all of them?

Thanks

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 js properly to display the hourly, daily, and weekly metrics. I can get everything else to work fine (in index.html). Thanks!

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 poker or something at the casino...

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 the real use of the $150,000?

What other expenses do they spend good money on?

Another way to look at this question: If you were a new startup in YC, what would you spend the 150,000 on?

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 description by the author in the post is complicated)

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 Diego.

They should make the size of the bubble smaller to only cover the area of the city like you are saying.

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 to 200k, but that is the poorest area of both cities and not what should be used to compare. The green bubble on the point for San Diego should be much much smaller in radius(like miniscule), otherwise you think the 200k number refers to the entire city!

People should not be using this to make informed decisions (obviously).

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 gmail users agree to try it.

It seems that each large internet company has its own deals site now: Google with Google Offers, Amazon with LivingSocial, eBay with Groupon, and Facebook seems to be developing its own type of daily-deals advertising.

I wonder what Apple and Microsoft will do. Both of them probably have something in the works....

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 saying that they are not eligible because they ordered more than 1 gift certificate.

There's simply too much money at stake for LivingSocial not to make sure that people only get 1 gift certificate each.

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 start interrupting the other person (even though you don't realize it and think you started talking when there was a lull in the conversation).

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 share from Heroku.

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 makes more per search than Bing or Yahoo.

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 Joomla for example?

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

How exactly do you get into this network? Is his network closely connected to the PG/YC network?

I don't understand. Why is this any different than most jquery upload plugins?

Also, I tried the demo and didn't want to use Google Gears. After I didn't allow Gears permission, the uploader stopped working. This is a problem.

Just wondering, how much control do you have over configuration settings for Heroku?

I imagine you could save a lot of money by optimizing apache/mysql rather than using the default configuration Heroku sets.

At least this was done after the holidays (unlike Yahoo which gave it's employees an early christmas present).

If the author is here, could you comment on how often people use your app? Are these statistics commonly measured for iOS apps?