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Ask HN: How should a startup handle a security breach?
Imagine you have a startup. You are working few last months incredibly hard every day. Things are going well. The press noticed you and they love your startup. Your user acquisition is crazy high and they love you.

First scenario:
In one very nice day you will receive an email that someone downloaded all your users data and he will publish everything if you will not pay.

What would you do? Will you pay? Will you call authorities? If he will share this information with the press they will eat you alive.

Second scenario:
You just noticed something weird in your system. Someone else was logging on your servers as a root. You are freaking out. Asking everybody in your company, if they know the IP address. Unfortunately, nobody was loggin in from Washington, because everybody lives in California.

What would you do? Should you inform users? What will you tell them?

I'm just curious, because almost nobody talks about security in startups and what to do if something really bad will happen.
You didn't actually answer the question about why a book on biology sells for $152. So, what does scientific progress have to do with the cost of a book written by a publisher who had nothing to do with the scientific advances?
Sure, Van Nuys. That would also be much less convenient than SM ;)
Sure, it provides information, but if you find a username you have 7 more tries left before you get kicked out... so the chance of you actually getting a password that works is tiny.
If you had Boeing field in Seattle, to Palo Alto, then I would probably use this to live in the Bay Area (which my wife would prefer) and work in Redmond - it would take a lifestyle adjustment, but not a huge one.
To each their own, ambient is the last thing I want when coding.
My personal theory on this is that spanish speakers have been in California longer than English speakers (thereby having feelings of relative native status), while various Asian language speakers feel the obligation to include non-speakers in their discussions when said non-speakers are around because asians and anglos have been in the bay for roughly the same amount of time (since the gold rush).

Although ... Asian language speakers never feel the need for linguistic inclusion when hispanics are around. Not sure about the dynamics on that one. Might just be good ol' fashioned racism.
Thanks. Theres plenty of evidence that these are popular. Reddit's Ask me Anything, poll apps (real-time) and the rest are ripe for a market leader to emerge.
Some users have their home IP's never change, BUT they will forget their password after a month of not having used it. So now they will get their negative count, AND 10 tries to get it right.

It has saved the support staff some grief in the past. I've seen a couple of them get to 15 tries and then log in successfully.
"with expanded service to Las Vegas, San Diego, Lake Tahoe and other destinations following soon."
Signature forging has been an ignored issue for ages.

In the US, most banks will subsidize the $15-ish for a box of checks out of the interest earned from the money in your account. Likewise, paying the payee is also subsidized by the interest you don't receive. So Americans see checks as a way to move money without fees.

Check fraud is still a big issue, and I'm very surprised that no other payment processing company has figured out how to hide fees from customers in unpaid interest.
I'm very curious as to what happens when things go south with your company & you've got a Convertible Note that has not yet been converted.
@jot's a friend of mine, we (http://strongsteam.com/) followed out in January in Round 2.5. His notes match my experiences and those of others here in Round 2.5.

A group of us have just started a weekly self-mentorship group, frankly I should have started such a group 2 months back (I've been here 10 weeks now). Get on with this quickly when you arrive (and expect to iterate, experiment and change all the time)

Definitely come with spare cash - $10k is probably about right. Better yet - have a client lined up before you come who pays you as you hit your deadlines whilst here. It kept us on our toes, we delivered, we had cash-flow.
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Santiago is not cheap. Prices are comparable to many North American cities. Sure, it's cheaper than NYC or SF. I'm from Whistler, Canada, which many people say is an expensive place to live, and Santiago is probably less than 10% cheaper.
It reeks of ad-hom, it's a bad explanation. It has no more explanatory power than "because you're a bad person". It's nothing more than a way to feel smug with sciencey sounding buzzwords.

If you want to read a book, just get off the computer and read a book.

Really? I guess I'll "just" stop all my bad habits and replace them with good habits as well, shall I? And I'll "just" stop playing wrong notes on the piano too.
Because, y'know, there's no reason I'm playing wrong notes, is there? There's no reason I have bad habits continuing year on year, there's no reason he's spending too much time on the internet, no complex interplay of a lifetime of biological, neurological and psychological drives and feedbacks, right? Humans are simple. That's why there are no problems in the world and everyone "just" is the ideal person they want to be.
I guess it depends on the nature of the data ... if it can be used against me / my users then I'd call the FBI and start sending apologies.

I wouldn't bother emailing the bad person in any case.
let's bring some context to this.

the age of the microtransistor has ushered in an era where any businessmale or woman can conduct business or find entertainment anywhere in the world with a delay measured not in hours but in milliseconds, at a cost measured not in the thousands of dollars per month but in the dozens. With unlimited transmission capacity for documents, moving pictures, radio and television broadcasts and recodings, gramophones, and telefacsimiles, equivalent to a Boeing 747's carrying capacity as measured in typewritten pages every fraction of a second, and truly unlimited. All for a modest monthly sum.

Sounds too good to be true? Well...thee is one thing. In this age 'truly unlimited' doesn't mean anything anymore, so as to how much you're actually getting or paying, you'll have to see.

I guess I'm saying, nice marketing Surf Air - nick it from a telco?
Those comments reminded me of an episode in The Soul of a New Machine. An engineering manager went on a sailing trip in a thunderstorm. His companions were flabbergasted that he was relaxed and happy. They couldn't imagine what kind of job he had that sailing into a storm was a relief.
Why don't you recommend it? What particularly did you miss and what didn't you miss?

What do you regret having now, but you put up with because it's worth the trade-off?
> Your logic thus presumes that it's perfectly reasonable for the law to allow a bank robber to transfer the still bound packets of stolen bills to their attorney.

Great! So all a cop has to do is get someone forge a withdrawal of someone's funds, wrap the bills, pull the person over for an invented traffic violation, and claim that he found the bills in plain-view during the stop.
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What is it exactly...?
kind of... It was 'with contract' in that you had to bring it home and activate it with ATT. There were no other options. As far as I know, Apple wasn't paying any subsidies to ATT at that time. That was part of how they could drop the price a few months later.

I believe it was only after the next model came out that they started paying subsidies to ATT. That was how they got the price to 299 and 199.
Small print runs and changing content each year.

Textbooks also have better quality paper than pulp best sellers.
There doesn't appear to be anything but a vague blurb. Am I missing something?
The social aspect can't be underestimated. It can be a little frustrating when people assume you're unemployed (and lazy/irresponsible) as opposed to working on a startup - that might actually create a valuable product and employment for others. On a related note, I've realised that one of the reasons the USA grew to be what it is, is people's healthy attitude towards risk and reward.
Every new website/application these days needs some level of gamification to attract and retain users and grow fast. Best if it is inherently built into the actual product. Anybody disagree?
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I think I have a weird perspective on this, but here goes..

I keep meaning to write about "why I refuse to move to the valley", and transportation and the negative impact it has on housing, is one of them. They are solving a real problem, but if you've lived abroad (or in a few NA cities like NY), you know that it isn't an efficient solution. It also isn't accessible to most.

Some of the comments in this thread have, for the first time, made this capitalist associate himself with the 99% movement.
Probably OK. People often see weird things when they are in sensory deprivation chambers. When you have no sensory input, your brain makes some up so that it has something to do. Not harmful.

(Unfortunately, I never get hallucinations from sensory deprivation. Sigh.)
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Oh. But if it were webfont embedded it would look better?
> you can't just turn up and fly

I bet a lot of people (mostly business(wo)men) would be willing to pay through the nose for a subscription service where:

a) You can just turn up and fly

b) You get true first-class service and food (à la Pan Am in its heyday), not what they pass off as first-class these days

c) Comfortable chairs with lots of legroom (they're most of the way there on this right now with first-class)

d) "Volume" subscriptions (just like with software) available for large companies

e) Relaxed luggage size/weight requirements

f) Good wifi and cell phone service (support for all major carriers) on-board

g) No children allowed

h) Frequent departures, using small planes

i) You don't have to go through all the TSA crap, both the screening as well as restrictions on what you can bring on-board

j) No silly restrictions on electronic device usage, including during takeoff and landing

The last two would obviously be near impossible thanks to the government, but the others are definitely doable.
It's actually sad PC makers decided to rebrand them "ultrabooks" in order to be able to collectively raise prices...
As @jot's friend, member of Round 2.5 and Emily's other half I'll add: reimbursements took 2 days for us the first time and 1 day the second time. The first time it took about 20 days for the money to come back, the second time about 10 days.

The stories from Round 1 (e.g. @jot) scared the bejeezus out of us, we spent a solid Sunday getting every scrap of paper to prove our expenses (from invoice to credit card to bank account to our names on a bank statement proving ownership). They're more on top of the process now than in Round 1, we did have to get some extra docs but it just involved a few phone calls back home.

I believe for Round 3 it is a bit easier and I'd expect it to keep improving. Assume 1-2 days admin on this every month regardless (just with less follow-up stress after you submit your docs).
Many higher-education open source software utilize a Java / XSLT stack (e.g. JA-SIG uPortal, Sakai) and I agree that XSL can be quite tedious and verbose. It's definitely the type of language that, if you work with it just "once in while", is very frustrating. If an XSL file it's not broken down into manageable templates it becomes very hard to follow. If you're not so lucky and have to deal with extremely large XSL files, it's easier to just give in and purchase one of the available XML/XSL IDE's. There are a few good ones and they do save a lot of time. No need to struggle through it with a plain text editor.
Not certain, but it seems they charge you the full amount for the procedure and then pass the money down, with an exception of a small fee. That's why with 500K in revenue, their profit #s are lower.
LA -> Palo Alto is a route I have to make 2-3 times a month (4-6 flights including both legs.) Not a bad MVP to start with for a service like this IMHO.
I suspect the author decided to emulate Steve Jobs and create some sort theatrical aura-of-mystery kind of thing to generate hype. People seem think that, for example, Apple products succeed because of their hype and secrecy, instead of realizing that making an amazing product is about a billion times more important.
Our padrino has been ace - we drink with him every week and he drove me to the FIDAE air show last Saturday. We seem to be an exception, many others only meet their padrino(/madrina) once or twice. As ever if you put time into a new relationship with a stranger there's a chance it'll pay off, you have to work at it (and accept it might not work out).
In addition, here are 3 blog posts which might help:

http://ianozsvald.com/2012/02/20/startupchile-pycon-strongst...

http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/24/this-week-in-startups-stron...

http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/30/2nd-dataai-meetup-official-...

The third is about the AI/data meet we setup - over 100 folk turned up to hear 4 of us speak at the just-opened hackerspace, a founder of Skype also spoke and a local entrepreneur brought local beers. It was a darned fine evening.
How about the old Casio PB-700 up to the PB-2000 that were programmable in Basic, C and Prolog?
"So, will this model work? That’s a big question. They had originally planned to launch it on the East Coast but quickly realized, with the train service there, it wasn’t a great market."

Kind of funny. We don't even have high-speed rail in this country yet. The distance between LA and San Francisco is less than 400 miles. Someday it'll be a 2 hour train trip, but it's looking like it'll be another 100 years at this point.
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Why do you say the HP-50g is so much better? I own one, but because I also own a copy of Mathematica, I end up using the HP only for in-class exams and such. The hardest work it gets is a few tricky integrals.
Nice. I've been using http://simplynoise.com at work for a long time. (Brown noise) :)
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted. Maybe for the final 99% thing you threw in?

I agree 100% with your sentiments about transportation in the West. I get that the weather is great and world-class outdoor activities are only a few hours drive away.

...But your groceries are also a drive away. And your friends. And your job. And your restaurant.

I live in Cambridge, MA and walk everywhere: to the lab, to the store, to friend's houses, to eat. For people used to it, walkability of a place is a huge, huge living quality factor.
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D.C. to Philly is 140 miles. Philly to NYC is 90 miles. NYC to Boston is 220 miles. Is it really necessary to spend $1000-$1500 a month to go that short of a distance? There's 50 year old technology that went into commercial use before man stepped foot on the moon. This is insane.

At some point America is going to realize that it needs a 21st century infrastructure. It's going to cost a lot more in 20-30 years, of course.
It's an interesting experiment, but I don't see how you avoid using your iPhone to waste time in the same way as you would on your laptop. (unless you cancel your data plan as well)
And another thing. You people who think oranges make great programming languages, let me tell you now, you're crazy. It lacks first class functions, too. Just like this guy is complaining about. Want an example? Just write me. Oranges make great juice but would I want to program with one? No.
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Congrats to the team. I have been on some planning calls and they are truly disrupting the airline space!
no worries, good point though...
I'm vaguely sympathetic to that viewpoint, but also do think changing your environment matters. Humans are weird creatures, and not really made up of completely disembodied rational minds. Even simple things like choosing to read in one location versus another seem to make significant differences, so I can see not having internet at home making differences too (some positive, some negative).

I had no internet in my apt for a few months, and it was also right after I had moved to a new city (it was semi-accidental, due to bullshit with a "pre-wired for ethernet" apartment that I took way longer to give up on than I should have). The mixture of having no internet and not much else in the apt was interesting. It was easier to unwind at the end of the day; go home, cook, read a magazine or book, go to bed. There just wasn't enough in the house to keep me up.

It's true that when you have the internet, with all the information and possibilities, it's like I have both an entire library and an entire workshop always available to me. And how am I going to go to sleep in the middle of all that? But I think it was also important I didn't have much else in my apartment at the time; if I had had a bunch of dead-tree encyclopedias, novels, magazines, etc., I would've just read those.
Can someone PLEASE make an open-source calculator? It's disgusting that TI continues to sell 20 year old hardware at a 1000% markup.
Apparently we're supposed to believe Silicon Valley is the only city privy to such little-known entrepreneurial know-how like "dream big" or "if you fail, try again" or "try and open doors and listen to people" - wow, seriously? Did they teach you that at Harvard?

Honestly, shit like this is beyond insulting - it's ignorant, elitest, and arrogant at best.

According to him, Silicon Valley became what it did NOT because of the historic semiconductor and electronics industries that were born there, NOT because of the world-class universities that reside there, NOT because of the major geographic significance of being a historic port city... no, no, no... none of that - it's because (now pull your notepads out you land-locked hillbillies in the midwest)... it's because Silicon Valley is a "trusting community" filled with "tribes of trust"...

Oh, well FUCK ME dude, you're right - places like Oklahoma just have the wrong fucking tribes! Too many Cherokees and Apaches, not enough "trust tribes"...

(sorry, this really pissed me off...)
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"The business of startups is a sketchy subject, and I don’t intend to associate myself with it."

That's an unusual sentiment around here.
One thing that wasn't clear to me was how much in advance you will need to book your flights. Was that explained somewhere? It's really a question of how many members they allow per plane. The ability to reserve more spaces seems to indicate that you have to plan in advance.
Why did I read that as expert-sex-change?
> Groupthink and being penalized for speaking your mind, both common problems for high-IQ communities.

That's what I like about HN. Groupthink is indeed present (especially when it comes to technical topics such as programming languages or OSes - we all have a strong incentive to promote what we use), but not nearly as much as any other online community I'm aware of. There's a recurring pattern that I like here: usually, when a submission argues X, the top comment in the comment thread criticizes/refutes X. By hearing the two sides of an argument, one can better form an opinion.
If you have an Android device, HandyCalc is free-beer and very, very good.

If you need serious calculating, there are all sorts of open source packages for Linux, and a number of devices of varying capabilities to run it on.
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I just spent $21,600 on three implants and four crowns. And that was with insurance.
Once you add up the cost of satisfying all those requirements simultaneously, aren't we basically into the corporate-jet-rental price range? You've got stuff like NetJets serving that market.
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My Wife is a Dentist with a specialty in prosthodontics. One of the more complicated cases you can do in Dentistry is a full mouth reconstruction where you basically are fixing all the teeth and likely fixing the bite. These treatment plans can easily cost $30K or greater. Sure, you can go overseas and get this kind of treatment. However, if they are doing implants the only way to do it in a timely basis is immediate placement (stick the implant in the bone and put a crown on) instead of installing the implant and waiting for the bone to heal. Additionally, good luck in getting a stateside dentist to support foreign dental work. The statement that dentistry has been around since Roman times is laughable; certainly not modern dentistry and definitely not implant dentistry.

Here's a brief overview of the economics:

230K student loans, 6K / month business loan for office, 2K / month rent (fairly cheap IMO), salaries for staff, malpractice, lab fees, etc. So there is clearly a lot of shit to pay for. We aren't driving a Bentley yet.

One of the big issues driving cost is the same thing as medical costs: fee for service payment. The nature of the beast forces Dentist to optimize specific procedures or more of the expensive procedures. Additonally, armies of consultants out there train dentists (and their staff) to optimize "coding" against Dental insurance rules to optimize the payouts from the insurance companies.
Probably because those are the six methods that cover 99+% of the kids. Picking the one best method, which may only cover 30%, isn't enough.

Or did you think everyone learns best the same way?
Of course, I'm just contemplating whether or not they would get many customers who would fly so much as to lose the company money.
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Still, it's interesting to see they copied nothing but what's included in the official textbook (which is needed to cover what the student will have to learn). Once a given textbook is selected and becomes a requirement, it's publisher is given an effective monopoly on supplying a given course.

Shouldn't they be more regulated then?
>I've seen $80 specials to fly Bay Area to LA, so you'd have to be making something like 5 round trips a month.

The people willing to pay 1k/month for this are probably not in the group of people looking for $80 specials.
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Amtrak Acela, Boston - NYC is $173 one-way and takes 3 hours and 30 minutes. That quickly adds up.
I'm from Uruguay as well :) .

I agree that the OLPC was a good equalizer and brought opportunities to our children, and I support the project.

However, I don't think it has been a good tool in the classroom. I've talked to some teachers, and they feel they weren't prepared to deal with it or to utilize it, it has actually disrupted classes in some cases.
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