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by alex1 16y ago
> (I thought that this is what you call brokers with heavy flow that could cross much of their traffic internally without going to the exchange.) What you describe here sounds like dark pools[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_p
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by alex1 16y ago
I have also never seen the word derivatives used in this context. Isn't "derivatives" usually used to describe options, futures, warrants, etc? Derivatives in that sense are used to add some leverage on a bet and are known for their high ri
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Will China's 1999 Moment Bail-Out Some Valley VCs?(techcrunch.com)
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by alex1 16y ago
You're not alone; I tried doing the exact same thing when I saw "Reply back with the next packet in the handshake sequence as parameter 'msg'"
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by alex1 16y ago
Just curious, are there any benchmarking results that show this?
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by alex1 16y ago
Not to mention you could now have an entire year of EC2 micro (and a bunch of other services) for free.
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by alex1 16y ago
I wonder why Ping or WhatsApp wasn't able to get this viral. The only viral feature I saw is when I installed it, it went through my contact list (I'm assuming) and found all my friends that already have it installed. Others were able to fi
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by alex1 16y ago
Anyone else notice the Software Reinstall Drive? http://images.apple.com/macbookair/images/specs_flashdrive_2... USB drive with Mac OS X?
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In some ways, Facebook does have a direct impact on real issues. It is much easier now for non-profits to get their message out to people, through Facebook. Applications like Causes makes it easier for organizations that do have an impa
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Amazon RDS: Announcing Read Replicas(aws.typepad.com)
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Am I the only one skeptical about CloudFlare? I, for one, would not be comfortable changing my name servers to them. Shouldn't we actually find and patch security flaws instead of putting it behind some 'firewall in the cloud' (security thr
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by alex1 16y ago
I thought Bill Gates left school to start a company. He hadn't even started a company before dropping out.
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I think that saying something like "dropping out of college increases your chance of success in a startup, just look at the Forbes 'Richest People in America' list" is a huge fallacy. Let's face it, most college dropouts will not become b
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by alex1 16y ago
I like to think of what others think of as "failures" as just temporary obstacles to get to where I want to be. The success of an entrepreneur may depend on what exactly they consider to be a failure, rather than just a temporary obstacle.
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If money is your sole motivator, I don't think you'll get very far, at least in the startup world. You should do what you love. Make peoples' lives easier. Financial gain is just a by-product. Go out and change the world, with a passion to
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by alex1 16y ago
It doesn't seem to be up on the pricing page yet ( http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ ). Are 32-bit and 64-bit the same price?
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But, there is something that I'm willing to bet most of these successful people had in common. And that is a definite purpose[1], the ability to ignore what their friends and skeptics thought about whatever they were doing, and persistenc
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Boxee, Rdio, Roku Respond to Apple TV and Ping(mashable.com)
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by alex1 16y ago
The best money market account rates in the US are actually around 1-1.3% now (Ally, Capital One, Discover, ING, AIG). Definitely not 4%. That was in 2005.
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I'm pretty sure this type of business is considered a "payment aggregator" by merchant account providers and acquiring banks. It's usually difficult for a young startup to get an acquiring bank to underwrite such an account. You can find so
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by alex1 16y ago
In the 9th paragraph: "Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want think about." Should be: "Try to get yourself into situations where the most urgent problems are ones you want to think about." Ri
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Five Lessons to Learn from Web Startups(openforum.com)
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I don't think they're avoiding Cassandra as their tweet store because it's not capable of performing well. It's probably more cause it would be a really long process migrating every tweet into Cassandra. I'm sure if they could, they would g
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by alex1 16y ago
FlockDB isn't a data store itself. They use FlockDB on top of MySQL AFAIK.
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Pretty sure this is her LinkedIn, still up: http://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmananna
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The ironic thing is that you could also use FaceTime while walking on the street if you're walking with a friend that has an Android phone with the ability to make his phone a WiFi hot spot.
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How to fix your iPhone 4 antenna for less than a dollar(marco.org)
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I bet this seller was one of PG's first clients at ViaWeb.
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I'm also from Pasadena. I would definitely be there.
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Not all small businesses dream of getting "big." In fact, very little do. Different people have different definitions of a "startup." To me and (I think) to many others on HN, a "startup" is a business designed to scale dramatically. It's a

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