Killah911

In my very few interactyeith him, he can be quite blunt. But it's refreshing to see his commitment to a No BS approach to life go further than his comments on startups and investors only. It takes a strong person to make introspection such as his very public. But kudos, for coming clean.

Stayed at a place that's similar in Silicon Valley, but not quite the same thing. Wonder if a YC type hostel might work well...

It's missing a key point: Get into YC or have similar types of connection/funding strategies set up.

All the points made are great, but you may still be up shit creek if you happen to be bootstrapping in the wing part of the country

I got hit with this too. TeamViewer showed incoming connections from Taipei & Guangzou. What I'm interested in figuring out is how sophisticated the attackers were. I immediately took the breached machine offline & plan on scanning it for negligees etc. I called TeamViewer & their response neither acknowledged or denied the hack. They simply asked me to report to local authorities & promised that they'd be cooperative with lots/etc.

Maybe getting a little more traction. Just spoke with a few VCs who seem super excited about what we're building. Funny thing is that I met these SV VCs & PE folks in LA & subsequently over here. They promised to line up intros to Google Ventures and other in the Bay Area.

That, combined with targeting angels via AngelList seems like a good combo. But it's still weird that there isn't a more obvious path. (Of course there's the YC lottery)

Amen, I've been suffering from l HN withdrawal symptoms due to this. I have only been able to read comments and submission headlines on the iPhone.

Updtae: this is likely due to third party apps (in my case Booking.com). But uninstalling doesn't seem to help. Also I couldn't read the article since safari can only visit URLs that I explicitly type in

How about just burying the body, no embalming fluid, no casket etc & letting it decompose. Is that harmful to the environment?

There's something busted with the algorithm then, unless some people are secretly stalking me. Even my friends don't know my HN handle.

That's why I posted it here. I think it's more of an intentional negative piece on Uber.

I was quite dumbfounded when the whole "craigslist killer" suddenly painted craigslist as a shady place for "weird" people online. I suspect the reality was animosity against craigslist for being disruptive to print media.

There aren't much details available, but it seems that the driver appeared to be a pretty "normal" family man. If the criminal background/etc didn't turn anything up, then why would there be a significantly higher bar for Uber compared to a typical cab company.

I'm no über fanboy, but this certainly looks like a piece trying to stick it to Uber and generating negative PR which could scare future users from using uber. Bring out the pitchforks!

Is it me or is Uber being dragged into this the same way craigslist was dragged into somehow being a breeding ground for serial killers who were trolling the "adult services" section, which ultimately resulted incraigslist shutting it down.

Ah! That makes it much better. At least I'm not to blame. (Sarcasm)

I think "we"(humans) need to take more responsibility as a whole. If one of the people in your life boat is drilling a whole in the bottom in the middle of the sea, being able to place blame doesn't matter so much. "We" are all going down if "we" can't do something about it.

We wanted to use a platform that could implement things like PCI, HIPAA & similar compliance issue we may run into. To be honest, as our startup is getting bigger, we just wanted to start going with a "big boy" solution. Don't have an IT team yet, but after talking to a few potential IT folks, it seemed like AWS was the gold standard.

Thanks for the pointer. I was really freaking out about the crazy bill for checking the wrong box.

You forgot the bit about configuring a million options before launching an EC2 instance, the persistence (hard drive) supposedly disappearing if you shut down the matchine, not to mention, the SSH key that you MUST set up in order to access the server. DO is significantly more intuitive and faster.

There's a fundamental flaw in that thinking. Greed is far from the only motivating factor in humanity. As a matter of fact, I'd argue that it's precisely the belief in this status quo, that causes sociopathic a-holes to run sociopathic companies. The solution is not necessarily to make everything government run, but perhaps to simply not accept such behavior/thinking as having any place in our society.

Mailbox helped me get control of an otherwise unmanageable email problem. Brad Feld recently recommended outlook. Which is funny because an old version of outlook was the thing that created my email monster & subsequent search for a better email client.