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Your comment paints HN as anti-Tor. That isn't the case. My past communications with dang, under a different identity, led me to believe that they want to acco

• brudgers 11y ago
  My comments were intended to convey my belief that supporting Tor does not make business sense for YC at this time. This is based, in part, on reading dang's comments on the subject. It is also based on my understanding of how business works, though I will be quick to admit that my understanding of that may in fact be a misunderstanding.
  • MichaelCrawford 11y ago
    "how business works" Business isn't always about maximizing shareholder value. Consider that Dave Johnson once shut Working Software down for an afternoon so we could see Malcolm X on the company dime.
    • brudgers 11y ago
      Allowing/Not Allowing Tor is more architectural decision than team-building exercise. By which I mean the proposal draws a dependency on a legitimate/illegitimate user service and then depends on its ongoing instrumentation and adds the overhead of another thing to monitor and something else for users to complain about if Tor is turned off again. So I'm not really talking about "maximizing shareholder value" and anyway, I think YC has partners rather than shareholders as is the case with most organizations optimized for investing [but I'm just speculating and being pedantic]. What I am talking about is market segmentation, and its role on HN. It's not trying to be Facebook and segments out people who want to use it like Facebook...and that's probably why I enjoy it more. Hope all is well.