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Cubic Literals
Cubic Literals is a platform where talented students & recent graduates find temporary, part-time freelance work online.

For students:
Get to know about a business before actually going into it. Earn money while gaining experience as well. Enjoy the benefits of employment from the seat of your own room, with flexible timings, and a vast array of opportunities!

For employers:
Get easy access to skilled & ambitious students to outsource your work. Hire a freelance student that suits your work and get your project done at optimum cost.

Cublic Literals is set to launch 1st Feb, so keep an eye on it! If you wish to be notified about their launch, visit their website and submit your e-mail.
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The Simulation Argument: Maybe You're Already Either Immortal, Doomed, or Dead
A marketmaker is someone who stands ready to both buy and sell at some published price.

They're aggregating a deal which they are then reselling. That's more like a broker-dealer, I guess. Taking principal risk in what might eventually IPO is more of an underwriter.

Actual marketmakers tend to try to go home with no risk on the books, because they have no interest in exposing themselves to gap risk.

I think lots of people have casual understandings of what financial terms mean and then just sort of guess the rest of it (much like people think SecondMarket is the secondary market; it's not.)
Nice, but wouldn't fool anybody...now if you made it show a fixed-width font with some fake syntax highlighting...
Is it me or does Marissa look visibly annoyed/uncomfortable (at around 3:59) when asked about startup worrying that their vision might be watered down upon being acquired by google?
We're still working that out. Our existing clients are generally production sites requiring a dedicated stack. It will take longer to work out what our pricing on the lower-end will be.
What does a marketmaker do?
It's ironic that YC membership might become exactly the kind of credential to investors that a college degree is to employers, given PG's distaste for such things. Makes me a little sad, actually.
My Cell Phone Has a Line to the Past
is there a way to sign up for a mailing list of jobs? I see the rss feed. I love this site idea.
it is definitely full of complicated issues, but we have already found solutions for some of them (not all yet). please join our mailing list and help think about the remaining ones. it will at least be interesting to have a place where people talk about these things. i can also recommend the p2p-hackers mailinglist to you in that respect.
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This is simply not true. Unsigned code came before piracy. OtherOS kept people wanting to run code on their console happy, removing it was a severe mistake.

And don't put words into the mouth of the PSJailbreak authors. The PSJailbreak allows unsigned code to run, that is why they made it first and foremost (they need unsigned code for piracy), they saw that they can get piracy and went for it. Anything to drive the sales, right? And we still don't know who's behind PSJailbreak, and if they are or aren't in the 'homebrew scene'.

What 'pirate method'?

'DVD/HDDVD/BluRay scene' we're comparing consoles to media now? Get your act together.
Actually Id have thought geography (combined with family and work) would have been one of them, but I think I am just not ballsy enough to pack up and move across the ocean!
I'd like to see its opposite: http://dysfunctionaljobs.com/
I think so.

I am not HTTP expert, but my understanding is that a 301 is a RESPONSE not a REQUEST.

What is most certainly happening is that Twitter is making a HEAD request to URLs to see if a redirect is happening. The http redirect is a RESPONSE of type 301 (permanent) or 302 (temporary).

And yes, I suspect this is happening somewhere that can be cached. It would be easy to tell by setting up a 301 redirect, posting it to twitter, and watching the server logs.
Google's Chrome climbs its way to 10% of the browser market
Paul Kedrosky: This Isn't a Post About Facebook
Ask HN: How to write great PHP code?
I've been able to hack together a few websites with PHP. But I still have no idea how to write good MVC, object-oriented code.

How/where can I learn this?

(Please don't say that I should pick another language. I'm fine with using PHP.)
It would only be the same if you then were convinced you had assets in the form of outstanding loans, of $60. As a bank would do such accounting.
But they also did that with MySpace and look how that is turning out.
That's because the devs are mainly interested right now in hacking the text parser and the associated low level stuff that makes an app really good in the long run. This is what makes me so hopeful.
The Asymmetrical Relationship: Climbing the Pyramid
HandBrake 0.9.5 released
Would like feedback on content and writing style! Thanks!
The trick to post-2008 Reddit is to be very, very judicious about which sub-reddits you subscribe to. There are still quite a few gems. I've flirted with abandoning ship since the early 2009 hockey stick growth, but found peace by continuously weeding out sub-reddits that had gone bad. It's kind of like pruning a bonzai tree.
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Using Quora to fact-check Quora user milestone
yes, that's a good point. in cloud services there are at least 3 options, and no monopoly (yet). also, we understand the big value that SaaS if offering people. that's exactly why we want to offer free software alternatives in that area. if MS Windows would not have been valuable to people, then there wouldn't have been a need to develop linux as a free software alternative to it. As I sometimes say about Google, "it wouldn't be so bad, if it weren't so good". while pleading guilty on the count of sensationalism ;) that line was more about monopolies like facebook, youtube, google docs, where there is only one provider.
bumping up with the hope that someone will have good suggestions.
reat others with respect. The golden rule, "Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you", always holds true. If you cannot respect other people, do not expect them to esteem you. You harvest whatever you planted and this is a universal law.
Goldman Deal Helps Facebook Remain Private
Interview: How Bitcoin Created a Decentralized Crypto-Currency
Given that I have finite time and money, I need good heuristics for deciding who to talk to. YC is one very good signal, but obviously not the only one.
Well I know why people don't like it, but look at any socialist economic alternative and you'll find the opposite: better for those at the bottom. It's kind of like having a job that pays you for performance (sales, executive, etc) vs those that pay straight salary.

I'd rather err on the upside.

What excites me, as an American, is seeing the large amount of immigrant entrepreneurs making major bank...though I'm not in their ranks yet (major bank), I do like seeing it.
Did someone miss the memo?

The future is wireless.
I'd suggest choosing one of the many MVC frameworks for PHP (http://www.phpframeworks.com/) and reading that framework's tutorials and guides then getting to work on a real project.
For example, there's a series of tutorials for Yii (http://www.larryullman.com/series/learning-the-yii-framework...) as well as an intro to the concepts behind the MVC pattern (http://www.larryullman.com/2009/10/08/understanding-mvc/)
Might want to check this web app that's doing roughly the same thing:
http://www.mercuryapp.com/
Google Shared Spaces: Why We Made It
Terry Jones also made a BBC TV miniseries with the same name: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/feb/08/highereducat...

He also has an excellent article on how overrated the Renaissance was! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/...
you would need decentralized search algorithms. i haven't looked at that much myself, but there are some projects out there that seem interesting. to give an idea: when my friend is logged in, his browser could run algorithms that send me recommendations. think about how you receive information on twitter: not through centralized algorithms, it works through peer-to-peer retweeting. at least as a research topic, it is very interesting :) but you are right, there is stuff that's hard to do. i think the most challenging one would be google search.
> I've been learning q/kdb over the past month and keep asking myself "what am I going to do with this?"

Q/KDB+ programmers are constantly in demand, and the jobs are some of the highest paying jobs out there. Random headhunters harass me to this day about Q jobs. If this is what you want to do go on LinkedIn and join some KDB groups/contact a recruiter. They will place you. Recruiters make it a very easy process. Be prepared to relocate to New York/Chicago/London.

It's a small market, admittedly, so I wouldn't recommend everyone to go out and learn Q. The shops that do use Q can't find enough programmers because the barriers to entry are high, and so they tend to pay a lot of money for the ones they do get.
That's not true. Let's see:

PS3: OtherOS allowed unsigned code, way before piracy.
Wii: Team Twiizers, who are strongly anti-piracy, were the first to run unsigned code. This was later abused for piracy, but only after Nintendo refused to work with them to fix the issue.
Xbox 360: Don't know much about this. You might be right here.

Drivechips aren't "hacking" in any way comparable to what fail0verflow, Team Twiizers, or any other group accomplished.
Valuations of individual companies in emerging industries can be tricky. Better questions to explore would be

Q(a) "What is the value of the mobile payments sphere?"
Q(b) "Is the industry growing, or on the decline?" and
Q(c) "Are there any current industry leaders? If so, what percent of the market have they captured?"

My take:

A(a) Completely speculative; because the valuation of the industry depends upon the adoption of a specific kind of hardware in this case, the valuation of one startup in an untapped sphere is basically irrelevant.

A(b) Mobile payments, just like "mobile" everything else, is an industry that is on the incline. Ergo: probably a good industry to play with risk.

A(c) Not yet. There will be a "first-mover advantage" for the first company that attains modest adoption (Square seems to be headed there). But there is also a LOT of room for competitors to build a better revenue model that diverges from the traditional one. Square's current business strategy seems to echo the very old-fashioned credit card machine model of making revenue per transaction (which is something that most business owners detest).

And an Extra Credit Q: . . .

ECQ(d) Is the future headed toward having more buyers or more sellers of the kinds of transactions that a "mobile payments" system would help grow?

Some interesting things to think about. ;)
this is a great idea. The video on your home page is very well done. One suggestion would be to play with the copy in your one-line pitch. It doesn't really explain what your product is, the video nailed it though.
From my experience, the software:

* Has a lot of bugs, inconsistencies and crashes. (poor technical design) * Doesn't truly solve the problems it is marketed to. (inadequate research) * Is hard to adapt and extend for custom business processes. * In some cases adds additional work for people with very little benefit. (poor integration)

Some goals for good enterprise software:

* Observe what people are trying to accomplish with their workflows, design the software to save time.
* Use modern software engineering practices, have UX designers, do automated testing, do automated crash reporting and updates, crashes are really frustrating to end-users
* Make it easy for IT to maintain, these people are already busy and you don't want them to get a bad impression of your software because its complex or fragile, again save time
Please help me to learn and grow. Oh, and don't tell me the best way to learn and grow because, well, because. You want advice but you already don't like the answer?
I guess this all depends on how you measure inflation.

If the S&P 500 is compared against something more stable than paper money like gold, similar things emerge:

http://steadfastfinances.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Historical-SP-500-to-Price-of-Gold-Ratio-1900-to-2010-credits-Zero-Hedge.jpg

The declines on this graph map to the red areas on the nytimes graphic.
Satire: Secret Bank of America memo details WikiLeaks counter-strategy
Most of the apps in the lower reaches of the multitasking tray are already terminated for you, because the system kills apps in the background as foreground ones request more resources. You don't need to be as concerned about the tray as you do about top or Task Manager. As parasubvert said, it's an MRU apps list. It's not an 'open windows' list. If you want to switch to an app you used a long time ago, frequently it's faster to find it in the main interface.

Deleting apps from the tray is a sort of 'power user' feature that lets you effectively force quit an app if it's in a bad state.
The Reserve Requirements (or Cash Reserve Ratio) is a Central bank regulation that sets the minimum reserves each Commercial bank must hold to customer deposits and notes i.e the amount that the bank surrenders with the central bank. ... As of 2006 the required reserve ratio in the United States was 10% on transaction deposits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement
I think it has less to do with density than with willingness to invest in upgrades.
Why not just use NameCheap? They have free DNS hosting even for domains that aren't registered with them and I have been using them for several of my domains that are still "stuck" with GoDaddy.

I once had a support question about one of such domains during Thanksgiving break and they got back to me within minutes. That's customer service.

(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with them, YMMV)
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About Goldman Sachs's investing in Facebook (comment #4)
i can see your point, but there are some differences. the main one is that freenet is anonymous, and unhosted is not. i think unhosted is, if anything, most similar to SMTP: a protocol with which an application, that is inherently 'hosted' (uses persistence on online servers), can be 100% decentralized (bar its dependence on DNS). Instead of centralized, as is the default these days for internet apps. All its weaknesses apart, we should thank SMTP for being an alternative to a centralized facebook-messages. ;) Unhosted wants to create a decentralization layer for web apps to run on.
One does not simply walk into...
The APA research paper outline is as important as the essay itself.
The APA research paper format is a common one. As the research paper needs to be organized and logical to receive a good grade, students are recommended that they use an APA research paper outline which will help them to write the entire paper well.
As a photographer and Photoshop user, I'd recommend getting the word out by targeting teachers of Photoshop / design / photography classes. I know the last photography class I took, the teacher probably inspired alot of the students to purchase denoising plugins (Noise Ninja or Topaz DeNoise), and he only talked about them for maybe 5 minutes. Probably not worth "I'll do it if you send me $500 first", but worth giving out some free copies. If not teachers, good idea to find out who the influencers are in your niche and target them. (Influencers =/= Google AdWords.)
For those interested in more background on the microfluidic technology used, here is the original paper published in Nature in 2007: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7173/abs/nature06...
You ever read What The Doormouse Said? It's all about how LSD influenced the birth of the Internet. Basically the Stolaroffs introduced all the most important technologists in silicon valley (e.g. Doug Engelbart) to LSD. These folks picked up on the mystical ideas that 'everything is one' and 'we're all connected', and set out to recreate this metaphysical vision using computer hardware. And now YC is building software that runs on this platform. Just goes to show that reality is not only stranger than we suppose, it's stranger than we can suppose.
Interesting. Given what you learned about bundles, and your need for exposure, I wonder if there is a graphic designer equivalent to MacHeist? If not, why not start one - you could bundle your layer styles with brushes, fonts, other similar things for digital artists, offer them at a great price together to garner the exposure. You're probably not the only person in the game that needs help gaining exposure.
Interview: Shigeru Miyamoto
That's exactly what I said, not what he said. You keep 10% and loan 90%. He said they deposit $100 and then the bank loans out $900 (9x the deposit).
...Mordor?

Fortunately, this ain't Mordor.
it is impressive but I saw one similar to it a while back
here : http://sachleen.com/iPad/
he also has a few other simulations
This might also impact sales to more novice Photoshop users; being able to see how to get great results from the product you're selling could be a big draw.
I proactively bought gift copies...

Seriously, it is amazing how way ahead of the curve he was. ISMM was originally published when Tim Ferriss was only 1 year old, but the only real difference between it and 4 Hour Work Week is the scale that the Internet makes available. Every time some hungry hacker blogs about supplementing his income by selling photos on some stock photography site--man, it's deja vu all over again.
Think People Are Too Negative Online? Welcome to the Internet
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What % of stocks do you take aprox?
When I decided I wanted to learn coding, this is the first book I purchased, and I can't recommend it enough:

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-MySQL-JavaScript-Step-Step/dp...

It goes through a good amount of material while still being a beginner's book, assuming only that you know a little html. It's very thorough in what it does cover, and should give you enough confidence to decide what you want to learn next, ie, more in-depth PHP, another language, etc.
I've been learning it mainly because I really like APL but realize those jobs are even more scarce. Thanks for the advice about linked in etc.
I found that having certain rituals, like ingestion of certain substances (caffeine for programming, e.g.) or listening to certain music, or visiting certain forums before doing an activity pretty much removed procrastination from my life. With substances, I found (by accident) that placebo works just as well.

Of course, now I have to battle different drug addictions but that's a completely different story :)
A 6.4% bump only buys you back the 6% of equity that you lost if you're selling the entire company during the Series A.
Yeah, all 4 of them (quality varying by location), oh boy!
That's actually quite good. You and Paul are both ahead of the game, and it seems to be the case that there are quite a few exits. It _seems_ like if you're in there long enough you eventually hit a Groupon, Facebook, Google, or happen to be in during a big boom. At worst you're out $1M.

Not bad odds, although I think you and Paul have opportunities that most of us would never see (and rightfully so).
I have bipolar disorder and I definitely identify with his "the flake" story. I wouldn't just not show up like the guy in the story but I do have depressive cycles where I'm not sure I'm doing any good by showing up; I come in anyway. After a while the cycle swings the other way and I get heroic coding done at a (excuse the pun) manic pace. I like to think it comes out more productive on balance. For instance most recently I spent two months studying legacy code but didn't have the right frame of mind to make changes to it. Close to the deadline I had an upswing in mood and completed a total rewrite of the software in three days during which everything I touched turned to gold. Two key points: one, this was (embedded system) code a senior engineer struggled on for 2 years. So even averaging the month during which I did nothing with the week I did everything, I was still more productive by a huge margin. The second key point is I used both halves of my cycle to advantage. I knew I couldn't handle the rewrite while depressed, but what I COULD do was use that fugue state to plod through his old code like a zombie. Even though I didn't feel like I was making progress (and my boss was beginning to worry!) what I was doing was priming my brain with knowledge of what the legacy code did. That way, when the upswing did come, I didn't waste a single second of it.
Only if PG becomes as perfunctory as colleges.
Can you give me an example? Not that I don't believe you, I'm just curious about what's available with premium.

According to the site the main difference with premium is that you get access to programs older than two weeks. But there are lots of older programs available both via the web site and via iTunes.

I kind of assumed the premium program was donationware.
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If 1 out of 4 Web Visits Are To Facebook, How Are They Only Worth 1/4 Of Google?
The program is actually named GraphClick. I am a happy user. One nice feature is the ability to adjust the coordinate frame to work with graph images that are distorted.
This is exactly the opposite of DDoS attacks: the real hot women are way too overloaded. The guy just did load balancing by offloading 60+% traffic to more fake backends.

[edit]: maybe should be titled “Solve Dating Denial of Service attacks”.
"A few companies (such as ScanScout) were acquired by other private companies, so I include those in the "still alive and doing well" category, since it was not an exit from the investor perspective (no liquidity)"

How common is it for investors not to get liquidity in this situation?
Can someone explain how banksimple is different than everything else? From my understanding it's just got a backing bank and puts a pretty face out for a webui... is that really all?
First, make sure you understand some of the higher level OO concepts of PHP like variable scope, inheritance, polymorphism, and visibility. You can easily do this in the php docs and stackoverflow, or other such Google searches.

Then take a look at Codeigniter, http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/ it's organized, explains the how and why of MVC, is very very well documented and has a lot of great libraries for getting started, then once you get familiar with how everything works you can begin to look under the hood and start figuring out why it works the way it does and continue learning from there.
What software are you using to power this job board? Custom built or pre-packaged app?
Fortunately we have powerful forces keeping us in line. If we make a bad decision, we tend to have that fact thrust in our faces within a year, if not sooner. Whereas college admissions officers do not, as far as I know, look at applicants' later careers to determine whether they chose well. Even if they did, they'd have to wait 5-10 years.
Obliquely appropriate username? :)

Just curious, is your boss aware of your cycles, and does he/she plan for them? If not, what effect do you think trying to explain would have?
Awesome promotional/marketting angle. Smart way to compete against Google.
I think this maxim should be qualified as applying only to startup investing, and YCombinator investing in particular.

If you're otherwise getting 20% returns, investing 20% more money annually in losing investments will trash those returns. And 20% would be pretty good for the VC industry nowadays, or a hedge fund, or even Berkshire Hathaway.

With investments like Heroku, YC is probably doing better than 20% and can afford a winner-based strategy - but this will rarely be a viable mode of thinking in finance generally.