Not every company is a good fit for every developer. For instance: I probably wouldn't like working at Valve. I do not however extrapolate that no company should be organized like Valve, simply because I wouldn't like it there. I am happy that there are companies like Valve that work well for the kind of people who are compatible with Valve, and companies like Matasano that work well for the sort of people who want to collaborate in person with a small, tight-knit group of peers and across the net with a larger group.
Gingerly, I'm going to go ahead and suggest that "incompatible with HN user 'kethinov" is not quite the dealbreaking deficit you're giving the impression that it is.
If you'd like to do appsec work remote, let me suggest Accuvant, Leviathan, and IOActive as alternatives. All three have remote teams. In fact, I believe everyone on the pentest team at Accuvant is remote. You never have to interact with your coworkers in person there at all.