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I think it's a great idea ( I've had the same one :-)) The problem, of course, is the legality of it, though perhaps there could be ways around it ( an offshore market? structure it as a mutual fund? ). You'd need a great lawyer ...
That sounds like it is simply indenting the whole line... not reformatting the actual block... i.e. respacing internally within the line. Which is what the elastic tabstops is doing.

It's not simply realigning each line. It's reformatting the entire block, realigning ALL tabstops within the lines, so that blocks of text are all positioned within a grid.
I wonder how he would have split his time if Falcon 1 hadn't had a successful launch?
Silk is a solid set, but it's becoming extremely noticeable when it's used. Now it really seems jarring when I see it on a site: it looks skimpy.

It's great for placeholders, but if you can get professional design work done, do it. Don't skip on expenses if it means looking more unique.
It's not a matter about knowing or not knowing.
Everybody knows what link_to does, still we don't write <a href=...
IMO abandon ship == near-$0 valuation. Although I didn't know about the 1/3 odds of a mediocre return (defined as 1x?) for VCs. The main point of my (admittedly still simplistic) graph was that the VC probability distribution is bi-modal.
I get the reference, but why oh why is is this the top link on Hacker News?
Intrade offers futures contracts on various events. It's not betting per se and they can be used as part of a legitimate investment portfolio.

It's still illegal here though, the US government will find a way to shut down any kind of innovative online market.
Let's flag it to death.
Another approach might be to create a service that helps startups open their books to become financially transparent. With Amazon FPS, not only could you expose sales data in real time but you could split the revenues among individual stakeholders. So the idea is, raise capital by encouraging your visitors to purchase a share of your future sales - and make the algorithm so transparent that they're assured X even if Y happens.
Just curious... why would I want to give Twitter a business model for free? Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for me. If I came up with a good one, why not implement it myself as a competitor, or offer it to sell it to Twitter?
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Right, hence my saying that it will be ficticious in its initial incarnation.
I always thought it was a turkish word.
Did Digg and Stumbleupon just missed a new market?
Joe is gonna get SO much traffic from this.
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http://www.madebysofa.com/ - Cappuccino logo at http://cappuccino.org

http://metalabdesign.com/ - splash page for http://280slides.com and http://280north.com

http://cocoagrove.com/ - 280 Slides logo and some of the graphical elements in 280 Slides
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I think there might be an underlying questions here. They mention the Adwords gold standard. Great. Why is adwords so valuable?

Adwords it is extremely beneficial to the advertisers. People use Google to search for X. There is money to be had for being found. That's a recipe for making a lot. The other elements of how they did it right is a recipe for making a big lot. Everyone focuses on the other elements. The Google ethos. The ad algorithms. The quality interfaces, etc. etc. etc..

Adwords unlocked an underlying value to paying clients. We can't assume that there is an underlying value to unlock every time.

"Help twitter find a revenue model" may be as useful as saying "Help Billy find oil in Germany." it assumes that something is there to be found. Adwords may have been impressive miners, but even they can't milk a lizard.
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"but the economic crisis is contributing to softer growth in the U.S. market, according to Gartner"

This article doesn't point at any correlation between the economic crisis and mini-laptops.

Indeed, all it says is mini-laptop sales take up a slightly larger percent of mobile computing sales than last year, most likely because prices have fallen and publicity has risen.
I was going to ask you who did the icon for cappucino. It looks great. Thanks for sharing.
I think that PHP 5 relatively brought so much more to the table, and there's the security factor of keeping your PHP up to date.
Bid/Ask is a much more efficient system than an auction. Stock markets were all English auctions until people realized there was a better way.
I would assume mediocre meaning something like 5.x-2x or something. I don't remember exactly, but I definitely know that startups that fail are often sold and VCs get some money back. And some that didn't fail but didn't really succeed and don't appear to have much potential sell for not a lot either.
Illegal to run. Not illegal to play at (probably).
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It's not equity, and unlike futures, there's no underlying asset so it's not analogous to stocks, options, futures, or anything the SEC regulates. It's just a different type of gambling.
VCs also can stand the variation because they get paid even if they fail. Were VCs paid only a % of the profits, and had to reimburse for failures at the same rate, you'd see their risk tolerance drop greatly.
Is this the passage that you were referring to?
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My first thought beyond "wow, what total bull" is that there is a serious philosophical battle that needs to be waged, or vacuities like "the dignity of wheat" will persist. Basically we need to get down to things broadly termed qualia - feelings, emotions, "subject experience" like color and so on. Daniel Dennett is a good place to start."Qualia" is a product of the computation power of the brain. So wheat does not have a nervous system, ergo has no computational power, ergo has no "qualia", subjective experience, the feeling of pain and so on. Once we establish all subject experience, all qualia, as a phenomenon of computation then cockamamie like the "dignity of all living things" will go away. Which, by the way, a "living thing" is roughly when you get down to it a molecule that can copy itself, so crystals are "living" too. Shall we now have a discussion on tax payer money about how much pain a crystal feels when we cut it?
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Not only that, it takes talent. I've been doing HTML/CSS for years, and I still have no idea how to design something great, because I can't visualize what I want -- I only know what I like or don't like after I see it.
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I remember reading this several years ago. It's not something that is 100% implemented by configuring emacs or vi properly: read the entire article slowly.

I'm surprised I haven't heard any Python coders piping up. We pick spaces or tabs, and stick with it; otherwise, our code doesn't run. Mixing tabs and spaces is pure evil.

I prefer spaces, because a space is a space and will display as exactly one space in any text editor.
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I tried local colleges (http://www.academyart.edu/) but found the rates the students want to charge as much as the more experienced designers though they had much thinner portfolios.

So far all the designers I've hired have been through recommendations of friends and they've worked out well so far.

For logo design (yes, I realize a bit off topic) I recommend http://www.designoutpost.com
Not to be confused with the oldest _professions_ in the world.
For icons I've been using the Crystal set by Everaldo, released under LGPL.

http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/
because we're innovators not sharks :D

and a business model is not a business, it's not going to make any money without a product. have fun with it, no one's going to make money selling ideas anyways
I agree, the Cappucino logo is hot. (Couldn't resist.)

Seriously, though, the 280 North website looks great.
In other words, don't hold debt.
TextMate already has indentation issues. Why is it that every time I paste something it indents it one more tab?

i.e. if I paste something 3 times I end up with something like this:

Hello world
Hello world
Hello world
I agree, but:

1.) Why does Mark Cuban's blog entry have to look so much like a damn spam scam?

2.) I'd hope that folks investing in the stock market are smart enough not to have credit card debt in the first place. Probably misplaced hope, but seriously...if you're carrying a credit card balance, how/why do you have spare cash on hand anyway?
If it has real value, it should be able to simply charge for using it. If users are unwilling to pay (no matter how little) then it's clearly not that valuable to them. If they move to something like identi.ca, and it manages to maintain a reasonable service level with negligible costs (distributed servers, open source dev modle), then that's a better solution.

"If Twitter fails to find a revenue model and hits the deadpool, it will have a chilling effect on innovation" - please. I believe I recall some innovation in pre-Twitter era and I'm pretty sure there it will continue after it as well.
$21 billion doesn't seem like much when we're talking about $700 billion financial system bailouts...
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Why the future tense? This is already in place!

http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2008/2008101521160...

We need to switch the global namespace from being 'human meaningful' to 'secure' (on Zooko's triangle) and then use something like Petnames to provide human meaningful names to end users.
I should amend that. Not illegal to play at in most states.
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I have on my hands a T42 with a red tinted screen, a battery that won't hold a charge, and a suspicious ticking noise that makes me think the hard drive is going to fail soon. Other than that it seems to work fine. I would give it away to a school or something, but its condition makes me think it would be more appropriate to give it to some hacker.

If you need some of its parts or have a project in mind, let me know and whoever seems like they have the best use can have it. I was thinking about leaving it in a public place to piss off a thief once they try to boot it up, but that seems kinda wasteful to me.

I'm posting this here instead of Craigslist because I think there's a better chance of someone actually using it for something here. BTW, I'm in Palo Alto.
As long as you're not taking in real money or paying out real prizes, you're OK. It is actually illegal in some states to pay out real prizes even if the entry is free due to sweepstakes laws, and there you get into the 'consult your laywer' area. But even then, the odds of anyone ever prosecuting you for giving stuff away are virtually non-existent.
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Picked up a couple. Can a notebook really revolutionize your workflow? Or, is this just going to turn into more productivity porn?
As for success, it was introduced to me by a very successful serial technology entrepreneur, investor & advisor with at least one personal 200M exit, and multiple smaller or similar size.

I guess we will agree to disagree on the ethics. I personally don't find it any different than deceptive advertising that is used in the majority of sales channels worldwide, the many deceptive claims of products overstating the benefits, understating negatives etc.
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typography. it's not the only thing a good designer knows, but it's a basic skill that the good ones respect.

there are 2 schools of design that a savage like me can comprehend: systemic and emotional. i'm sure that many can argue for the many gradations, but these are the important distinctions/extremes to recognize. that said, it's not either or - successful designers evoke (that's an important word- what does your potential designer's portfolio evoke) their ideas in a consistent/lasting manner. this requires both schools of thought - powerful ideas that can be repeated/propagated.

emotional design is provocation. vimeo is better at this than google - compare the persistent vimeo login page with the occasional google holiday logo. that said, there's a much wider range of emotions that neither of these places touch. good emotional graphic designers will understand how to communicate your product evoking a positive emotional response.

systemic graphic design is the ability to maintain an identity, consistently, and create familiarity. most of us feel that if we were hired as a brand manager for google, we'd have a pretty good sense of whether or not a page put in front of us meets their identity's requirements. that's a test to remember. more than any one event in your brand's lifecycle, systemic graphic design will be there to give you a (relatively) easy solution in any situation, once your voice has been defined. best example in a typeface: helvetica. these designers demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of systems design. look at Paul Rand's work & Josef Müller-Brockmann to see evidence of a system that's designed to be familiar, even when it's radical.

ideally, you need both. an easy metric that would hold up against the best ones i know (and no, i won't release their names, they're busy ;) - they love to talk about their art and they will not hesitate to tackle a new challenge, especially if it seems hard. even at the expense of dayjobs & prior commitments. then, give them space. when ideas seem ethereal, be very clear on your business requirements, but let them solve the problem/bring it back to earth.

hope this helps. graphic design is half of how i discovered (social) hacking and i can't stress its importance enough - it's a useful field to learn about, not just depend on.
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My sense is that most of the YC applicants are not just male but under 30. Is this incorrect?

I am one of the mentors in the group and participated in TechStars at the grand old age of 38 and have two young children, and I can say that our group would be happy to work with applicants of any age. I don't believe that Christine's comment is meant to indicate our support of women within a particular age range (or whether they have or plan to have children) -- it's a reference to what we believe the median age of YC applicants are.

Your comment does make me wonder, however: what is that number? Does anyone know?
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What if OpenID became the default option to log in, rather than hidden behind a tab, as it often is?

Good luck with that.
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Microfinance tends to be concerned with micro-loans, which would be more akin to bonds. The topic here is equity, which is partial ownership of companies and other enterprises.
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Yahoo, although weaker than Google in search, boasts a more diverse business, with revenues from the likes of Internet access partnerships, fantasy sports, and "branded" ads that appear outside of the search property, says Susquehanna's Wolk: "We would expect Google would trade at a discount to Yahoo."

Brilliant prediction :)
How much did a logo like that cost you at 99? If you don't mind me asking...
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One of two possibilities:

First possibility: Jbert was arguing that the reason students can get away with this is because classroom grading standards are too mechanical (did you fill at least X pages? Did you have a thesis statement? Did you cite at least Y sources). Furthermore, many teachers are themselves evaluated based "metrics" like standardized tests which don't test writing ability very well. I don't really think that this explains the paper mill business, but you could make the argument.

Second possibility: Jbert is paying a starving blogger a couple of bucks to write his comments for him!
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It's very well documented that rewards diminish both intrinsic motivation and creativity, so this is mostly a moot point. But for the sake of argument:

A) The psychological effect of working for a church/patron is probably not analogous to, say, trying to produce a blog post that makes the front page of Digg. To borrow from Herzberg's two-factor theory, their patronage was more of a hygiene factor than a motivation factor.

B) You're only looking at the best pieces from the best artists. It's likely that the average artist was producing mostly shit in hopes of getting paid. In fact probably even the best artists were producing mostly shit in hopes of getting paid.
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Absolutely agreed! But do any such "great hackers" exist? Examples please.

A countervailing force is if it's easy, let's try something new.
Mathematica has very nice auto-tabbing; not exactly what's shown here but something very similar, and even better as it goes beyond tabs: it also makes changes on the font depending on context.
Lisa is correct - the comment was pragmatic, not didactic. I don't know the actual median age of the YC applicant pool, but in my own anecdotal and unscientific experience (e.g., who have I met in person at events, or heard a pitch from) the median YC participant is around 23, and has yet to develop the familiarity with pitching that comes from years in the industry. Also, if program awareness comes from social networking or from university outreach, I'd expect a dominant concentration of 20-somethings in the pool.
This question makes me giggle.

Who the fuck would care about how many LOC they write a day? I've never even considered this.

Things I care about in my code (thanks Kent):
Runs all the Tests?
Reveals all the intention?
No duplication?
Fewest number of classes or methods?

Although, I kinda of like this question. I'm going to add this my list of questions to ask someone in an interview. Only cause I want to see how many try to answer this with a straight face and how many people giggle.
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"But Google is still largely a one-trick pony. Ads appearing next to search results accounted for about three-quarters of its business last year. Although this has been a red-hot market, it's also starting to mature."

"Eventually, it's quite possible that Google will experiment with image-based ads next to its own search results."

Could have been written yesterday. Just replace $700m with $20b.
Has anyone tried this with large source code files? I suppose, in the long run, if your source has too big of an overhead to implement this, you're probably doing it wrong, especially considering the relative power of computers to the amount of RAM raw text should take up.
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I guess it's more of a "data structure" than an algorithm. Anyway, you need more than a heap, because price, time, size all matter. That's pretty close, though.

Many exchanges are well documented, from internal workings to protocols. Check out XETRA, LSE, etc. NASDAQ too, but it's more complicated.

The problem here is going to be achieving regulatory compliance and then liquidity. Both of these are harder.
My post is about induction. Let me explain in detail:

It's OK for one person to invest in my startup.

It's still OK if I get one more person to invest in my startup. Induct on the number of people.

It's OK to get an infinite number of people to invest in my startup.

Q.E.D.

The reason induction doesn't work is because the law defines that a certain number of people is "public offering of an unregistered security". In math, there is no such restriction.
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IMO to call something Stalinesque implies that it is not out of the ordinary for it to occur, just 'evil' in some way. Stalin was at least honest with his politics and motives.

Orwellian implies something subversive, underhand and state driven.

Much of current politics is driven by double speak. The politicians claim to _need_ this data to fight terrorism but at the same time acknowledge that the same data is already used in 95% of criminal cases. So they already have access to the data they need.

What they _want_ is a database with which they can track everyones movements easily... they just can't bring themselves to say it.

Living in the UK is like being a mouse in the hands of Lennie Small. You know you are cared for but are always on the brink of suffocation.

I think Orwell would have been happy for his name to be used to describe, what he would see as, communist activities.
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