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This book might be of interest:

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars

It’s comprehensive and goes into the why and how, which is not to say it’s easy to do.

And health insurance.

My thoughts exactly. Here’s hoping their anti-PWA stance might soften with increased antitrust scrutiny.

Thank you, I’ll email you directly. Your super quick response on a previous HN thread was a key reason we decided to sign up with Mercury in the first place...

We switched to Mercury only to discover you don’t support wiring money to all countries (we need South Africa support). Perhaps this (hopefully temporary) limitation could/should be included in your FAQ? In the interim we’re going to look into Pilot for team payments. Anyone here using Pilot?

This brings back memories... I was the technical half of a two person team who built the very first Thomas Cook website in 1995. Of course, e-commerce was a step too far at the time, but there was much excitement when the spec for HTML frames came out mid-project (don’t judge).

Patrick, the way Stripe continues to engage with Hacker News and remains true to its roots is an inspiration. Congratulations!

Yes, that’s what they were known as in South Africa.

About 65% of his patients are insured by Medicare.

Immad, congratulations on the launch!

1) Do you support international wire transfers? If so, any advantages in terms of fees and exchange rates over a traditional bank such as Wells Fargo?

2) Do you require hardware keys or does 2 factor auth suffice?

This appears to be a case of patriotism vs the Almighty Dollar, albeit with shades of nuance. Is it standard practice for security software vendors to provide enterprise clients with audit rights? And could a restriction in future market opportunity lead technology companies to avoid doing business with the government?

The article above is specifically about VC-funded companies by definition. Nobody is arguing that you can’t be a successful entrepreneur outside of a startup hub. But if you’re going to play the “bubble metrics” game, raise VC, grow rapidly and exit for “bubble metrics” valuations, your odds are way higher if you move. Silicon Valley is generally full of young founders. They move before they have families. They couch-surf, eat ramen noodles and don’t let concern for a safety net impede possible success (however unlikely that is).

The kind of entrepreneurs most likely to succeed (and therefore gain the attention of VCs) figure out how to relocate to startup hubs where they can get the attention of the VC community and network their way into the ecosystem. It’s way easier to move from Florida to San Francisco that it is from Paris, Sydney or Cape Town, and the extra hoops foreign entrepreneurs have to jump through makes them stand out all the more (relatively speaking). Very few American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley grew up there either. It becomes a self-selecting sample.

This has all the makings of a 'KDE vs Gnome'-like battle. For those not around at the time, a quick refresher: KDE was launched to applause and was based on a (then) restrictive Troll Tech license (for its QT library). This restrictive license lead directly to the creation of the Gnome project and so we saw a very promising desktop environment lose momentum and support as community resources were diverted to reinventing the wheel with Gnome (IMHO).

Yes, we have more choice now in the world of Linux desktops, but I still believe hundreds of man years were wasted and the Linux desktop effort set back years, due to Troll Tech's choice of license. Of course, Troll Tech finally realized the error of their ways, but as history clearly shows us, it was too late.

So, does Meteor want to risk being a KDE (or even Svbtle) and have the community praise it for their ideas and invest huge amounts of time reinventing the wheel, or do they want to harness the unstoppable momentum of the developer community?

Agreed AirBnB can't create the expectation of covering the cost of apartments being "trashed" for fear of abuse of the policy. You can be sure that their lawyers are vetting all messages too, for fear of creating a chain of liability, should they start covering the costs.

That said, what about offering a generous bounty? Say $1m in this case for the successful apprehension and prosecution of the guilty party (or parties). This figure would have to be ratcheted down after the initial PR success for fear of people committing such crimes in future with the intent of enriching their friend/relative who turns them in.

You should show your pricing up front. I'd never start a trial if I didn't know what the price was going to be after the 30 day trial was up. I'd be worried I'd like it but would find the price too high.

Great app, btw. Just bought Boxcar. I wonder what a HN mention will do to your stats?

Is support for multiple accounts on the roadmap?

I'm looking forward to seeing if it can answer the question, "When was JFK shot?". Was chatting with someone previously from PowerSet who maintains it won't be able to, but I'm hoping he's wrong...

Yes, but locally hosted, configurable (you have the source, Luke) and optionally private for your team.

I think this is a hugely exciting development and can see numerous ways our startup can use this internally.

Our team is spread between San Francisco, Cape Town and Rio De Janeiro and the real time nature of this makes for an excellent internal dashboard/forum/news/tweet/status mash-up. Matt talks about how it's changed the way they communicate internally and I see this as the biggest win here.

We had started to do some of the above with Campfire, but Wordpress+P2 looks so much more powerful. Imagine tweets, exception reports, business alerts, notes and more, all showing up in one place, tagged, discussable and in real time.

That adds up to a pool of roughly 20% for management. That's the venture-backed world for you. Try taking 3 rounds and see where it leaves your equity!

More telling are the equity stats by founder status (more detail in the post on mean and median, but here's the range):

Non-founder CEO: 3.9%-6.5% Founder CEO: 8.3%-30%

These figures might strike you as low, but if you take a look at the salaries these people pay themselves, it starts to make sense:

Non-founder CEO: $205-$260 Founder CEO: $162-$229

As the CEO of a venture backed company, it seems you're not always in it for the equity... (more details of massive bonuses in the report too).

One of the things Oracle does VERY well is acquire companies. They do it a lot more often than most people realize and have it down to a fine art. That does not mean that everyone fits into their culture, but they'll identify those people as part of their process.

They'll start by putting an Oracle logo on the Sun product and service range and keep selling them to exist Sun customers and then start on existing Oracle customers (where Oracle don't already compete).

Next step is to more clearly position, integrate and possibly rationalize the new offerings.

Step 3: profit.

Fantastic followup! Classy.

To answer my own question: we're both '1' & '2'. We're actively using some of them and figuring out how to deploy more of them.

We're in the enterprise software space and are completely bootstrapped. Having taken the hybrid product/consulting path to get here, we're balancing the need to manage existing paying customers who've helped us get to this point, with a parallel focus on customer development to figure out how to take our product to a much wider audience.

I'm curious to kick off a discussion around this... With regard to 'Lean Startup' principals, are you:

1) actively using them

2) planning on using them

3) only using/planning to use a subset of them

4) confused by all the attention they're getting

fastcgi with Apache will be a waste of your time I think.

Apache+php is solid, but a memory hog. If you want to keep things simple, move to Nginx with php+fastcgi. This is the suggested config for Slicehost.

Or, as previously suggested, offload the client connection to an Nginx server sitting in front of Apache. This will relieve the pressure on the php instances and will also handle static file serving.

I should have mentioned that it's in San Francisco. See here:

http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/7...

I'm in the camp that says 37Signals have a valid point. Let's assume their intention is not about traffic but is to pressure GetSatisfaction into rectifying the situation as quickly as possible (and not just for 37Signals) then as harsh as the post may have been:

1) 37Signals have used their considerable influence to achieve change on behalf of many sites who have far less influence 2) 37Signals used the open model of putting pressure on a company publicly that GetSatisfaction have built their business on 3) They've effected change and created open discussion

Could they have been 'nicer'? Perhaps. But more effective, I'm not so sure...