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They seem to be separate statistics. One is how many words we read every day, another is how many GB of information.

You might want to display some kind of prompt to the user, when they change a setting, to tell them they should create an account. Probably would also help your conversion rates too.

Not mentioned in the Show HN, but they're YC S11. And aside from Dropbox they are probably the one YC product I come into contact with the most often.

It's terrific how they got funded in spite of the difficulty of the difficulty of monetizing this (at least, in the short term).

Aside from the fact that nobody knows how to value BTC?

A large number of early adopters probably have no experience trading large volumes of any security, and the of Bitcoin is likely to look very different from any existing currency/commodity.

For anyone looking for an open source alternative to this: http://sharejs.org/

Similar to the Realtime API but without Google or the social integrations.

After reading tptacek's comment, I'm curious:

Has this never happened before? Has there never been an exploit of this significance that has made it to Metasploit, and why not?

It was great to click through and learn that the funding was a grant. With that kind of a number, I thought they had raised a VC round - not that companies working on open source projects is bad, but it is always nice that they don't have to worry about a business model.

Hey, I'm a class of '10 high school student hopefully not too far away. Wouldn't mind talking about sometime (email is on my profile).

Developing this space as a college undergrad means you should be able to do some things really well. Event planning, for one, seems like something people in their mid or early-twenties could disrupt. It'll be interesting to see how your perspective translates to older users. Especially because you can't dogfood a dating site (even OkCupid's founders never used it).

Good luck!

I'm reading the article as validation for viral marketing, as targeted towards the big link-sharing sites. I don't remember the last time a startup hit the front page of Reddit. Surely it's happened, but I thought it would happen more than it has, since that site is about sharing links to things on the Web.

Not about GMail, but does anyone else find Google's new blog templates to be annoying?

Chrome and Firefox optimized away much of the 500msec or less it takes for the page to render, and I don't want to have to spend that time watching the loading logo instead. Plus there are unavoidable animations for every page I try to access, but they're slow and make my netbook lag. I like being able to access the alternative views, but some of them seem clearly oriented towards photo blogs and turn into a pastiche of menus and grids, defeating the point of making the blog more usable for the reader (I have to try click on each one to see what it does?). /complain

You actually write very little code for AP Computer Science. If I recall correctly, the test tries to bring OO abstractions into the standards using Java's classes and wrappers, which should be a pretty good filter for dumb unpatterns like 'Car inherits from Garage'. So there are questions like 'How do you design this class hierarchy?' or 'Trace this code, what are the values of x...'

I don't think there was ever any of the boilerplate required to make a Java program actually run. When I took the exam, I'd never compiled a single line of Java in my life (yep, there are far better ways to get things done).