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).

Thanks rayk!

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?

Yes, many many times. It's just new to startupland.

On the scale of Internet exploit significance, this is actually quite low compared to many of the exploits in MSF.

Metasploit releases significant exploits pretty frequently. HD (the author of the blog post) is featured for one of his more interesting exploits in this NYTimes article from last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/technology/flaws-in-videoc...

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!

Thanks for the comment! We're gathering a lot of different events that cover a variety of interests, so we're hoping that we will have something to offer for everyone.

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.

Minus hit frontpage of Reddit recently but the typical front page content isn't very much startup focused on Reddit