leeb's comments

I think mnw21cam's point still stands - if working at your current position is "seriously affects the quality of [your] life", you need to prioritize that over making money for your boyfriend's startup, or you'll hold it against both him and the company for making you do something you don't want to.

Take care of yourself first, even if it means a slower launch for the startup! And it sounds like you have good coding practices and are well-regarded at your current position, so hopefully you could find another job that is more aligned with your values. Best of luck!

I have to thank whoever posted the first article about Anil Potti/Retraction Watch - I've found the site to be fascinating.

Will also point out that Anil contacted the owner of the site, Ivan, and claimed that he had no involvement in the original retraction request. http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/anil-potti-t...

I think jbattle might have meant that you're exposed to a lot of articles about promoting gender diversity in CS since you follow CS/startup sites (such as HN). If you followed sites or news aggregators for fields where the gender distribution is reversed (nursing or psychology both come to mind), you might see some of the same concerns raised about the lack of male participants.

ETA: Just saw jbattle's post - guess that's not what he meant! Sorry to have spoken for you :)

It mentions that he posted that picture in the spring - I think it's a bit dated. Though the Vice article cited in the Kickstarter makes it seem that the 99%/Occupy references were serendipitous - he would have been trying to publicize what happened regardless (http://www.vice.com/read/screwed-over-by-the-music-industry-...)

Just came to comment on the lack of accessibility for this page - thank you for pointing it out to the author.

If you insist on using images instead of actual text, at LEAST add alt-text of the content to the images! Then the page would be screen-reader accessible.

Even with these new additions, Paul Graham is still the only YC partner without a set of double letters in his name :) Congrats to Kirsty and Carolynn!

Initially, she did start her blog to change the program - and it worked! The school started allowing students to come back for seconds of veggies and sides. (You can read more about it in the original article, which was posted to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4009404)

Impressed by all the new accessibility features! Guided Access seems like it will be hugely useful for both parents and professionals working with children with autism - in addition to the example from the keynote of administering tests on the iPad.

I wish my grad school advisor had asked "How do you behave when you get mad?" What an important thing to figure out ahead of time :)

Best of luck to you two!

I guess I see a few major differences between this and friend-of-friends. Most important is accountability - a friend-of-a-friend isn't likely to send me a creepy/sexual messages, since there would probably be social consequences for them from mutual friends. There's no such social barrier for people I don't know at all, so the only consequence would be me blocking/reporting them (and you can easily make a new Facebook account if that happens).

For members of groups who I might not know - yes, people in groups I'm in know my full name, but probably don't know enough about my life to make it worth behaving creepily towards me - and if they did, any actions would likely remain virtual. However, your service is telling people my full name, and states that it will "sort by location" - so now someone knows my name, knows around where I live, AND knows that I am single (so it's more likely that I'm not living with a male)? That's not information that I'd feel comfortable broadcasting to people who have no accountability.

I know I'm focusing on the creeper/stalking issue, and I'm sure that's frustrating feedback when the majority of your users will be using this service with honorable intentions. I'm just trying to explain why I and most of my female friends would be instantly turned off by a service that shares this information - and from what I've read, attracting female members is a huge issue in the online dating space. It's really something you should try talking to female friends/family members/a focus group of potential online daters, because I don't think it would be an uncommon point of view and you don't want it to keep people from joining your site.

> You see real names

This would be a complete dealbreaker for me, even without all the other things that this service would share from my profile. I would never want there to be an easy way for people from the dating site to be able to find me on another site - you can shut down a dating profile or discontinuing using the service if someone's bothering you, but with this it sounds like complete strangers would be able to find/message me on Facebook outside of the site's control, and I wouldn't want to stop using Facebook because of some creeper. And if it's using publicly available Facebook data, it means I need to make a ton of my information public and accessible for the service to be useful.

That's not really worth the risk of using the service to me, and is probably why you don't frequently see dating sites that reveal full names/near-exact locations as you're suggesting. If you can find a way to display Facebook profile details without revealing the person's full name, you'd probably have more luck recruiting people.

I think this looks great, and hopefully will encourage a ton of people to join the registry! My only feedback is - I think the slideshow on the homepage moves a little fast. When I went to the page and started reading, it moved on to "Joining the Registry" before I finished reading. I'd recommend either slowing down the progression, or making it all manual (only change when the user rolls over a section).