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alphast0rmon Ask HN: Are you alone in San Francisco on Thanksgiving?

Fake ID's are extremely prevalent in US colleges for getting into bars and clubs. People usually acquire them from older friends who look similar, or order them from fake ID sites similar to idchief.com (a Chinese company that was recently closed after scrutiny from a group of U.S. senators).

alphast0rmon Ask HN: I'm building a startup, should I do LLC or C-corp? Why?

Here's an answer from YC partner Gary Tan:

"If you ever want to take outside investment, you'll want to be a Delaware C corp. It's just standard and investors know how to deal with it. Even Facebook started as something else, but had to reincorporate.

It's not too difficult to fix, but might as well the avoid the problem in the first place." [1]

[1] http://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Why-does-Y-Combinator-reco...

alphast0rmon Why does Apple habitually mistreat developers?

Well, technically speaking there are other iOS appstores, like Cydia, but that doesn't change your point:

http://cydia.saurik.com/store/

alphast0rmon Ask HN: Can you fix the page expired nuisance

This has been a known issue for a long time. See PG's responses in this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3098756

Additional threads about the same topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3623268

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2760187

alphast0rmon Ask HN: Alternatives to Crunchbase.

A quick search turns up a few promising sites:

http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard

http://www.chubbybrain.com

http://www.linksv.com/

from: http://www.quora.com/CrunchBase/Are-there-any-other-sites-li...

They also list Mashable's Blippr but that appears to be dead. Hope this helps!

alphast0rmon Ask HN: Starting university, a few questions about HFT

I'm majoring in CS and Finance too and if you haven't checked these HFT articles out yet, they are 100% worth the read and are very interesting:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html

alphast0rmon Propose HN: "Who Is Hiring" became too crowded. Set Karma Threshold.

I think this is a better idea. I've been lurking HN for a year or two but only made an account around 4 months ago and to date only have one post (this is my 2nd!). I'm willing to bet there are many other individuals hiring who browse HN like I do :)

alphast0rmon Ask PG: What percent of YC S2012 class are teams without an idea

This is already true:

Graham tends not to pay too much attention to a candidate or team’s business plan—it’s likely to change during the course of the program anyway. Instead, he zeros in on the character and intelligence of the applicants. After one team’s presentation, Buchheit says that he would use the product. But Graham is skeptical. “Are these guys winners?” he asks. “It’s all about the guys.” The group is not accepted.

from: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/05/ff_ycombinator/all/1&#...