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I agree that they are not doing Snowden any favors by writing this piece. It makes him look more suspicious. They should just shut up and watch the show.

See the downvotes you are getting!

So what's wrong with this article?

I am a happy user of Digital Ocean. Thumbs up! Wish you all the best!

Snowden and reporters have been saying there will be more leaks over the next few weeks to months.

What about an encrypted form of your true name?

It will not be the same dog even if it has the same DNA. It may not even have the same physical appearance. What you miss is this particular individual. There is no way you can recreate this individual. Either get a dog from the same lineage, or adopt an unfortunate one from a shelter.

This is so true! If someone of no status made a joke, most people would likely said he's stupid. But if the same joke was made by Warren Buffet, the whole world would be 'amazed' by his wit.

Why do you want to do that?

That's no challenge at all!

How about this instead: Get a bunch of investors to pitch to an audience of founders who would then evaluate, select/reject which investors they would take. Now that is true founders power!

I call that inverse-YC.

3 days without a single comment. No one in HN seems to be interested in permanently bootstrapping their startups. They all want to land a big time VC investment as a validation of their business! ;)

What about those 'Financial Engineers' in Wall Street? Are they qualified to be called engineers?

Creating software is as much an engineering activity as any other traditional engineering disciplines. So yes, Software engineer is an appropriate title.

On the other hand, plenty of licensed PE's have never worked in an engineering environment, but they got licensed anyway, simply because they got an engineering degree and worked in a so called related field (such as business, LOL!!). I've seen too many of those. I would not take the PE title seriously.

It's less than a month old. Do you expect overnight success?

The site design is a little boring. I know it's an MVP. Making it prettier and more intuitive may help signups because it's a consumer oriented app. Also the More Information button does not work.

"Lean Analytics"

I have never been able to finish a non-technical/non-fictional book after childhood to be honest! ;) I prefer a movie for that.

One trick from some major media sites (such as CNN). They keep changing the title of the same article to make it look like it's a new one a few times a day.

You may learn what style of title may give the highest click rate, given the same article.

I get:

Ref A: 7e8212dd6f4348a39347e3ee7e617441 Ref B: 373C177A10DC187C4867FCED8213A733 Ref C: Wed Apr 24 21:43:41 2013 PST

It gives me a different string every time I refresh.

How much are you doing more than the other guy? Can you have a co-CEO?

Maybe start a bitcoin bank? No regulation. A bitcoin loan shark.

It seems YC's scalability issue is their pain point. If anyone of you can apply with a startup to solve this pain point, you will be THE startup to rule them all!

So the moral of the story is: if you are a first timer, do it in SV. Once you make enough connections from SV, do it in Canada.

Is that another name for lifestyle business?

Which contradicts this article:

"Y chromosome losing all genes, but men won't become extinct"

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ20...

Isn't it the point? Unless the prospective employer is very open minded, an entrepreneur could be viewed as unwilling to work under a boss, and likely not a long term employee.

So true! People should stop treating their own little circle as representative of the world.

Could it a sign that a startup bubble is forming?

Go for it! Start a bio startup!

Promise us. Even if you become famous and rich one day, you would still keep posting loyally here, not just about your own product tho.

His last submission was nearly 3 year old. His comments and submissions were mostly about his product. His post history has shown that he's substantially cut down his activities on HN. This case shows a negative correlation between success and activities on HN.

Yes he is. But he is the owner of this board.