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No, it's not Apple's servers! The bandwidth for the app itself is small in comparison to the bandwidth for the content (streaming music or movies) which Apple does NOT host or help with at all.

And if you'd go back to the actual case law in the Microsoft case instead of linking to dictionaries and wikipedia, then maybe you'd realize the case law is more applicable than expected. The market can be defined much more narrowly than "smartphones" for the purpose of anti-trust.
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My simple response is, "Denial is a river in Egypt." Paul Graham is not an impartial observer in this debate. YC (and by extension him) are some of the loudest advocates for the current startup generation. Should a bubble burst around them, YC would stand to loose tremendously in money and prestige regardless of the merits of their individual investments.
Ooof, you're right. Good catch! Keep em' coming, making a list.
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If I remember the answer correctly, it went something like this. Dump all sugar into the tea at once and wait for the temperature to settle. Now split sugar in two halves, dissolve first half, wait for the temperature to stabilize, dissolve second half. Through math it worked out that the second method cooled the tea more. So the answer was to go with the infinitely small pieces of sugar :)
I have not noticed any issues with Chrome on my pro. Am I missing out on performance?
Calling this a bubble would make the word bubble meaningless. Alan Greenspan said "irrational exuberance" in December 1996. He may have been right, and we may be in a similar period now. But when most people talk about the bubble they mean the period of total insanity from around 1998-2000. I think "rational exuberance" better describes today.

Two things:

1. The key distinction: when investors invest they think "I'm gambling and I hope I win, but there's a chance I won't." When bubble people buy assets they think "I'm buying something that is guaranteed to go up in value. Free money!" If bubble people aren't buying then it isn't a bubble.

2. When sophisticated investors make wild bets in first rate companies (amazon, ebay, facebook, twitter) and those bets payoff in a big way it might lead to less sophisticated investors making wild bets in more mediocre companies. That would be "irrational exuberance" and we're (maybe) not even there yet. THEN when those bets payoff in a big way then non-investors might start buying to get some of the free money. That's the bubble.

tldr: Valuations are irrelevant. All that matters (for bubbleness) is the psychology of the buyers.

The original bubble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
Startup valuations will go up and down in the future as they have in the past. So they could go down. But it seems very unlikely that anything so dramatic is happening now that people will be calling this "the bubble of 2011" in the future.

Mark Zuckerberg is not a smooth talker who can code. The reason investors are interested in Facebook is their growth.

It makes sense for Twitter's valuation to grow proportionately with its traffic, whatever that is.
umm, hate to point this out but assuming Cuban's point is true (which is obviously highly debatable), the people with the most to gain are the founders (from being at the tip of the pyramid) aka most people on this thread hence there is probably a strong bias towards not recognizing the issue
It's not really a fair objection. AOP isn't part of Java, it is an ugly hack that someone bolted onto the outsides of it.

Seriously. You write your Java code, you compile it, and then in the night the evil AOP pixies sneak in and slip chunks of bytecode into your compiled classes.
If you're going to make a comparative list of anything (programming languages, spoken languages, cultures, phones, whatever), for crying out loud limit it to things you know about! Padding the list out with things you've only read of in youtube comments does nobody any favors.

Based on the descriptions, I'd guess the author only has experience with C++, Python, Prolog, and possibly Java. That's a bit like someone who's only ever eaten frozen waffles, frozen pizza, and canned soup trying to write a comparative list of world cuisine.
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That's because the tech world is a giant parabola.
Is there a reason you didn't just handcode a recursive descent parser?
Are you making it clear on your resume that they are volunteer positions? If you do that then I think you're fine. I have a two volunteer/unpaid work experience items on my resume, and I haven't had any negative feedback.
How much gas and wheat do you consume regularly as a proportion of your income? What about gold?
call it what is, "Current Work", and no it's not dishonest. You're smart to keep working, even if not gainfully employed.
Hilarious video.

Ben Coe is a great guy, definitely the right guy for the job. Knowing him personally makes it hard to take the plunge into using the service, but for someone worried about them misusing the data, know that he was a solid dev over at FreshBooks where he was entrusted with millions of users financial data. He's trustworthy and they already have a number of users, so there won't be any human eyes on it.

Disclaimer: I went for lunch with Coe today, we're good friends.
I presume that those without jobs are significantly more likely to accept a job offer than those who are comparing it against their current job given that all other factors are the same. Given this, I wonder whether HR department's disinterest in the unemployed is rational. Let's formulate the problem:

Presume the following:

1. The cost of assessing the qualifications of both the employed and the unemployed is identical and that the company can do this with perfect precision. Calls this cost I.

2. The position is unique in the organization, so only one job offer may be extended at any given time.

3. There is a known, positive cost C for each day the position goes un-filled.

4. An unemployed person takes N days to evaluate a job offer letter and an employed person takes M. I would presume that M > N given that the opportunity loss of an employed person is greater.

5. The probability that a candidate accepts an offer is X if unemployed and Y if employed. Obviously, I would presume that X > Y

6. The probability that a candidate is found to be qualified after the interview process is A for the unemployed and B for the employed. For the sake of argument, presume A < B.

7. It is known with certainty and at the start whether any given candidate is currently employed.

So, for some set of costs I and C and probabilities (N,M), (X,Y), and (A,B) I think one could compute whether it is more rational to prefer the employed or the unemployed. Of course, I am ignoring all goodwill-esque costs (bad reputation as an employer, etc.). After writing this I realize that (1) I don't even know the proper nomenclature for expressing this and (2) I can't do the math anymore to solve this (there's a dynamic programming aspect, right?).
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I can see the usefulness of such services like 4Square but wish it was a little more anonymous, personally. The fact that on Facebook's product one can check their friends into a place is kinda scary. The example in the article with one checking for popular places if the one you're in is dead, is something useful that could be used in a variety of ways. It also doesn't depend on one identifying themselves to the masses unless one wants to.
Also, remember this good observation in the OP:

"Apple has the tablet component market sewn up. An entrepreneur I talked to in China described the difficulty he still has buying touchscreens that are worth a darn. The real reason most of the current tablets are 7 inches? Because Apple bought up all of the 10-inch capacitive touchscreen stock and if they didn’t then they drove the price too high for smaller orders. There is no way to dabble in the market without paying a premium."
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You don't need to be experienced, just passionate and excited by coding and building stuff. Our team gets excited about creating beautiful architectures, using meta-programming techniques and pushing the boundaries of augmented reality. I figured Hacker News was a perfect place to find other people like this.

You will be developing iOS applications for some of the world's leading brands as well as our internal IP such as the award winning AR game Hidden Park. You will also have an opportunity to work with Python and Django.

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Yeah, it probably doesn't count on them. But every last bit helps and remember that when the bubble pops even innocent tech companies will be affected, not only those with crazy valuations.
The following are my thoughts, and contains my advice.

Always be honest. If you are caught out in a lie people will forever wonder if they can trust you. That's not a good place to be.

Secondly, if the people in your office really do read HN then they already know who they are, and now probably know who you are.

Thirdly, you should fulfil your obligations. If you are expected to do the demo then you should either bring someone else up to speed to stand in for you, or you should stay and do the demo.

Explain to the guys in SF. Explain that it's important to you to be honest and to meet your obligations. Say that you are already obliged to do the demo, but you would be very pleased to come out as soon as it's done.

What reputation do you want? If you tell the SF guys that you are meeting an obligation, and that to do so is your style and your ethic, that can hardly make them want you less.

And in my book - always be honest.

Finally, one of my programmers once came to tell me he needed some time off for an interview. I made space for him, covered for him, and made it clear that I'd be sorry to see him go. I chatted with him to find out why he was unhappy, and eventually we agreed that he wasn't really a good fit for his job with us. We couldn't find anything that would fit better, so I helped him get a position he wanted more. I could honestly tell the other company that I respected his honesty and integrity, and was genuinely sorry to see him more on, but it was best for him.

No bridges burned, good karma all round.

What ever you do, make sure it matches the image you want to have of yourself.
Nice, time to start me some Tootsie initiative ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084805/ )
Your comment is funny but true. People will always find rational reasons to explain away sky high valuations. Even the first time around, Pets.com had a very high market potential if it capitalized successfully on projected internal sales growth rates and expanded to the size of the pet care market.

I take all these comments very very lightly. In my experience, the surest sign of a bubble is when the non-savvy bench investors in your life start talking about "great investment opportunities". When 9/10 people in your office are buying a house as an investment opportunity, there is probably a bubble. When 9/10 of your office is investing in the secondary facebook market (or something similar) chances are there is a bubble.
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forgive my pedantry, but I'm not sure that having illegal property seized in a civil proceeding counts as punishment.

Well, when talking of doubtful distinction in argument, some may pedantry, others might say sophistry. If I say "I never touched him!" (but rubber hose did a fine job on his kidney), which am I engaging in?

More seriously, how the frickin heck can taking someone's stuff not be punishment? Moreover, given that this is a broad power, the existence of some instance where one can argue isn't punishment doesn't mean that there aren't many, many other instances where it is.

But some things are illegal to possess and thus subject to forfeit in the first place.

Note that civil forfeiture was not historically created or used for taking drugs themselves or other "illegal property". If someone has drugs, you can arrest them for possession and take the drugs as evidence. If you drop the charges, they could come to collect, except they won't since they'll be arrested for possession so you can dispose of the stuff (not that I'm particular in favor of drug laws but that's a different story). Civil forfeiture is for taking money and "instrumentalities".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture

"Asset forfeiture is confiscation, by the State, of assets which are either (a) the alleged proceeds of crime or (b) the alleged instrumentalities of crime..."

IE, it's not used for "illegal property" as such.
And the addresses in this discussion certainly aren't "illegal property".
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Great article. If I'm starting a new ice cream sandwich delivery service for example, it would be great to know how much influence my facebook and twitter accounts have over my revenue. On the other end, hopefully influence ratings will help services suggest places online to market new brands based on similar industry case studies.
Nice! There's some hardcore talent on that team (Michael Carter created Orbited for example).
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I saw a demo recently, and it's quite impressive, well done guys!
Only in America are people so shallow that a fortune can be made with little to no talent. Personally I'm tired of hearing about this clan and have never watched the show. Saw the one Kardashian on 'Dancing with the Stars' and that girl doesn't have any charm or musical talent in her body.
Using this idiotic logic, then we should only marry people who are already married since unmarried people probably don't have prospects and on and on and on.
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That's interesting. Did you know that apple's original logo depicts Isaac Newton under an apple tree?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fa/Apple_fir...
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Beyond being an expert I have some intuition, may be the money moving around is smaller but the craziness is high and probably will be higher than 90s because it's easier to get some small money and die in a shorter cycle. Just looking at AngelList I am impressed.

But what really changed is the level of dependency on Internet services around the world and this is where it's different than the 90s. In the 90s the major sites had some more specific purpose (buy books), now we have Internet completely engaged in our life workflow and even our microtasks (e.g.: copywriting, having a form) can be "outsourced" to some site and this is the opportunity. In the past I feel stupid if I didn't set up my own SMTP/POP3 server for my domain (it's free, open source, blah), now I realize that it's cheaper to pay for a lot of more things, even if it takes just a few hours of my day.
Wow, this sounds very similar to an idea I started working on last year (http://playrelay.io) right before my daughter was born. Someday I will get back to it. Good luck!
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Yes. It's a waste of time. Why should I hand-code a parser for C when it's a solved problem? Note that the source code I linked to calls into an already existing Spirit grammar for C (which I made some modifications to, mainly so I could get more information back from the parse tree).

Hand coding a parser is generally not a good use of your time. There are many tools available to generate a parser based on a BNF grammar. I used my project as an opportunity to learn one of them.
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Even if there is a bubble, who cares (in these parts at least)? Back in 2001, you needed money to build a product. The bubble bursting meant no money, and thus no product. These days a downturn won't prevent you from building something.
It's perfectly sound logic: being already married is social proof that you were a good enough mate for at least one person to marry you. If you had to pick mates blindly, that wouldn't be a bad way to do it.

There is a special reason that we don't apply that heuristic to marriage candidates in real life. We typically value loyalty very highly in a mate, so married candidates who would leave their mates for us destroy their own value.

The same is not true of employees. Loyalty is a nice-to-have, but competence is essential.
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Ze Frank did an almost identical project a while ago:
http://www.zefrank.com/youngmenowme/
I'm not sure what you mean by "property." The 1709 Statute of Anne, which provided for a limited term of copyright, specifically used the words "property" and "proprietor" in regards to it. There are different kinds of property and limited-term monopolies are one kind of property.
Well, I'm probably not a typical case, because I'm European and have an economics degree so I see the core problem with IT today as being the constant chasing after network effects and monopolies. How many times do we need to see ignorant people lured into these roach motels before we as an industry or a society do something about it?

On the other hand, I think Android has already earned its place as the next Windows, which I'm glad of, because it's open source which avoids the possibility of it being abused too much.

But monopolies are about power rather than simple numbers. One good test would be if Apple can single-handedly dictate a price rise across the industry, which is one possible outcome of this latest announcement. Though, I actually think the interlocking demands are specifically intended to remove certain competitors from iOS without explicitly naming and kicking them out, much like they blocked Flash apps via over-broad limitations on programming language choice.
It is ashame too because the article started out nicely but I drew the same conclusion as you mid-way through.
It may be specific to my MBP model (17" Core i7) which has the weirdo combination of Intel and Nvidia GPUs that are switched flakily in software at OSX's whim and Chrome has been known to trip the GPU switching - http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8... .

Scrolling was very jittery in general and page rendering/painting was also slower. Not like molasses slow but definitely not acceptable for a Core i7 machine.

With Win 7 which uses only one GPU, the Nvidia one, it is very smooth and fast as I said - definitely wouldn't want to go back.
Hope someone with experience in this area of law can help you out. Very unfair!
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Cool idea, I'd be interested in something like that too, although not out of any implied association with YC (the VC firm). More because I'm a student in a PL group :).

However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too!
Hmm. So, just to clarify,

"After the 1 year cliff, if you decide to leave you can exercise any options that you've vested up to that point"

If the options are not cash-convertable, is that because they haven't vested, or because they've vested and aren't preferred stock?
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I'd trust Stephen Colbert over a dozen of the "best" tech pundits any day: Creative people are always much more in tune with what's really going on than money people.
17 firms paid out bonuses, IIRC AIG was the only one that had that binding contract and for good reason, they where built to implode. I don't know if all of the firms had a similar structure, but the bonuses while Rome burned where by no means a one off case.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2010/07/25/2003...
when the bubble pops even innocent tech companies will be affected

How so? How will the "bubble" pop? None of the companies in question (Groupon, Facebook, and Zynga) are public. How would a loss of investor confidence in those private companies take down all technology companies?

If you're referring to the Goldman investment in Facebook: even at $50 billion, Facebook's valuation is peanuts in contrast to the technology economy. You may someday see ex-Facebook employees out on the streets with resumes, and some angry investors, but certainly this does not at all resemble 2000, when nearly every mutual fund and private investor had a stake in profitless dot-com companies that imploded.
But a computer's detection and response to a signal is probably faster than a human's reaction time.
As harsh as this sounds, it's perfectly rational behaviour on the part of companies.

Job applications are a perfect example of an adverse selection
problem. Bad candidates are more likely to laid off, so they enter the job market more often. Bad candidates stay on the market longer than good ones, because they have trouble getting hired. Because they're on the market longer, bad candidates apply for more jobs than good ones.

These ugly truths guarantee that 99% of your applications are from bad candidates: people you would never, ever employ, under any circumstance. The sooner you can sort out the remaining 1%, the better. It's expensive to evaluate candidates, and each stage of evaluation is more expensive than the last. (keyword scan, human reading a resume, HR screen, phone screen, interview...)

If you use crude, ugly heuristics that flag false positives on half of your target population, but you save labor by not evaluating 85% or 90% of the applicants, you come out way ahead. Rational companies are bound to throw out a few babies with millions of gallons of bathwater. Cruel, but unavoidable.
What about:

Groupon valued at 15B

Instagram: 7.5M raised, 0 revenue

Foodspotting: 3.7M raised, 0 revenue

Path: 100M offered, 0 revenue

about.me: acquired while in beta

Hipster: not yet launched, rumored to be acquired by Groupon.
I agree. It's certainly funnier when you have people ranting and joking about things they know about.