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Bullshit. Luck is luck. No one can predict the future, and not everyone gets the same opportunities as everyone else.

Right, of course they have the right to prevent me from connecting to their network. But as I understand the FCC advisory, they do not have the right to stop me from using my own personal cellular hotspot, for example.

I want to know the answer to this question as well; my university purposefully blocks non-authorized networks.

This is an awesome idea, and looks like it is very well executed. I have two suggestions:

- Add some sparse html tags (i.e. a basic doctype/body), which can help with search engine parsing.

- You'll notice that for a few milliseconds on page load, the text is shown before the JS rendering takes over. This can probably be solved via Javascript, just find a way to cache or pre-load the pages.

If they offer a video/audio streaming service, what happens if I upload an mp4 of a copyrighted movie, even if I own it? Do they check files to see if they are copyrighted? If they do, will files be deleted automatically or will notice be given?

What school?

And I just got this email:

Thank you for applying to intern at a YC company. Unfortunately we weren't able to find a position for you this time.

Since it's our first time matching interns with YC companies, we're beta testing the program with just a small number of companies. Based on the high volume of high quality applications (over 1600) we received, we hope to expand this program in the future. We hope you'll apply again.

Rejected again. Unfortunately I don't have the prestige of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, or other top schools to carry my application through.

I will also heartily voice my love of this service. It has totally changed the way I view movies and TV shows.

I'm a technically-inclined person, but I really don't want to spend hours fiddling with torrents. The instant torrent completion is an absolutely killer feature. The UI is easy to use and dead simple. The developers regularly update the site and let us know when there are disruptions.

I'm a "broke" college student, and to be honest, out of all of the online services I pay money for, this is the one I think the least about before purchasing.

Had the same issue. I had to boot to DFU, and only then was I able to hit "Restore" in iTunes to download iOS 7.0.2 (non-beta).

Oh please. Spare us the jealousy insinuations, and stop perpetuating the myth that if entrepreneurs are actually worth anything and work hard, it is guaranteed that they will swiftly become inundated with success.

Sometimes there are no "lessons that can be learned from success stories like this". Believe it or not, for every Instagram, there's a hundred startups with founders that are just as smart and try just as hard, but don't make the cut. Do the founders of Instagram deserve their success? Sure! Should we pat them on the back and "celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit"? Absolutely. But let's not fall over ourselves praying to the success gods while we forget to work on our own products.

> If I could build Instagram and sell it for $1b I sure as hell would

Bullshit. Maybe you could! All you need is hard work, the skills to get there, and yes, a good amount of luck. But let's not pretend you, or the founders of Instagram, are destined for success because you're special or you "knew" your ideas would kick off. Look up hindsight bias in the dictionary.