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I'm not associated with the company in the story, but I'm a long-time aquarium hobbyist and had to create an account here just to comment on this.

Jellyfish are not active swimmers--they ride whatever current is in the water. In square tanks, this causes many species to get stuck in the corners where the water is stagnant.

Also, this means that they can't fight the current and generally get sucked into the filter intake. At the same time, they need strong current (see the comment about them getting stuck in stagnant areas) so you need a filter with a strong intake.

Some species, like moon jellies, all you need to do is diffuse the intake. You can see a section in the video where in the background they demonstrate a filter with the intake buried under a layer of marbles.

For other species, you need a specially-shaped tank called a 'kriesel'. (Do an image search for 'kriesel jellyfish' for some examples.) These tanks are shaped like a hockey puck standing on its edge, and move the water in a circle, so that no area is stagnant. Also, a water current blows across the filter intake, so the jellies get pushed aside instead of being sucked in.

Fun fact: The big jellyfish display tanks in Monterey Bay aquarium are actually oval-shaped kriesels with current blowing down both sides, and back up the center. That's why the jellies always seem to be upside-down--they're facing into the current in the center of the tank. :-)

I'd also disagree with the claim that jellies don't need any "exotic care": They're physically very fragile, and you have to be very careful to avoid damaging them when you clean the tank. They also require special food (notice that you're supposed to order special food from this guy) and high water quality, not to mention the special tanks already mentioned.
I never even used catalyst; like I said it's integration into windows meant I never needed it. The majority of the important things were integrated into display settings in XP and anything immediate was accessible through the right-click menu.

My problem with Geforce has always been that its performance is asymmetric, always has been and seems like it always will be. It's, simply put, always average. With Radeon's if you card wasn't performing great, you simply dropped the resolution and it dramatically increased, however with Geforce it only mildly increased. You have to drop from 1920x1200 to 1440x900, while with Radeon you only had to drop to 1680x1050 to get good performance again.

One thing Radeon always performed poorly with is anti-aliasing, however IMO this has always made graphics look like shit. I don't want blur, I want crispness. Yes anti-aliasing was good when watching 480i TV on a big screen. I don't want to be bullshitted with anti-aliasing when I can't actually see pixels to even notice any blocking on rounded shapes.
I understand what you are saying and I see the merit of having more content to a thank you post, but if it is not there is that in and of itself a warrant for a down vote? Sure you want more and more is sometimes great, but there is still a lot of substance in a simply 'Thank you' to be had. While the comment definitely does not merit an up vote, neither does it warrant a down vote. I would almost hazard to say that you no longer appreciate the value of the thanks itself and simply see it as a customary response that after being used so many times, no longer has any meaning. I see that you want "Thanks, (and here's why)" but what exactly are you worried about with having a few thank you posts?
They most certainly do.
Outlook does something similar to this out of the box, notifications in the lower right corner of the window. It is a focus-killer.
I found that my productivity went up when I turned the frequency of my e-mail delivery down. Now, it's set at 30 minutes between checks.

This way, e-mails pile up a little bit and I can easily filter through them rather then feel like I need to respond to every one. Don't get me wrong, I still reply to every e-mail but I've found that a lot of stuff solves itself in 30 minutes.

The best part is that short of phone calls and IM, I'm left alone to focus on what I need to get done and the natural 30 min patterns of focus seem to refresh my train of thought and I think help improve my focus.

Rather then real-time, I say try turning up the delivery time for a while. You might be surprised!
Websolr releases public pricing plans
Setting up a tech consultancy in San Francisco
Re: the market issue, based on my preliminary research (i.e. speaking to a number of designers and design firms) I have found that there is a good amount of people that are interested in a solution of this nature. The size of the market, that we will have to see...but no trial, no failure - right?

This is specifically aimed at designers, and is just a 'coming soon' page. A teaser of sorts. It isn't supposed to fully explain everything. Just collect information from those that might be interested in learning more.

Which squares and circles do you mean? In the screenshots? Those are just screenshots of the UI of the app - still in development and not able to be played with in this launch. Again, just a teaser.

In terms of the 'shipping', I shipped the coming soon page. Perhaps many people might not consider that shipping, and that might be a bit misleading. However, the truth is that I had been sitting on the coming soon page for some time and was hesitating whether or not I should push it out there. Eventually I decided on erring on the side of launching, than not.

Thanks for the feedback though :)
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Personally, I'd have a serious discussion with him. I am a non-technical co-founder, and I can't stop finding things to do.

Some pain now might save you a lot of pain later.
I'm not sure if HN tracks this, currently; it's pretty obvious that clicking on a story doesn't send you through an intermediate redirection page, which is the simplest way to monitor that sort of thing, but there could be some fancy javascript stuff going on to register click-throughs. It's all in the source code, of course; if you want to go hunting for it, then by all means do so.
And it seems to be tanking pretty fast.
Exactly. I was stung at a very early age and then again later on in high school while fishing. It isn't like a bee sting where it is just one spot, and that first one got me all over as I tried to get back to shore. I love the ocean and everything in it, but you never really forget something like that.
You are conflating anonymity with accountability. Accountability can be improved without revealing someone's identity and revealing someone's identity will not necessarily improve their behavior. (There is plenty of bad behavior on Facebook, for example.)

Your (and Schmit's and Zuckerberg's) solution to this social problem will have more negative unintended consequences then I think we realize.

See the following for better reasoning and analysis than I can offer:

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/06/12/for-the...
Generally "leverage" means to apply a little effort/cost to get a relatively large result.

That's exactly what Rob does with VA's -- applies a relatively small cost to save him a ton of time, much more so than alternatives like trying to automate it with code.
1) I went back and forth on that one. The idea behind that, is that it gives a slight tease into how the functionality will be in the full app. As in, you will be able to click the 3-squares, and it changes the view (see the screenshot with 3 images side by side), and the same will happen with the 4-view. I had thought about leaving it out, but figured I would leave it in for some amount of intrigue. Sounds like in your case that turned to frustration though, which was not was intended.

2) I think I should probably reword the copy. The arrow keys don't work yet. In the final version they will though. Clicking the arrow icons are the only thing that works. In terms of the ends, the arrow icons should fade when there are no more images on that side. Perhaps I should make it fade more, to be more obvious that the button has been disabled.

3) Valid point. It is a shade of light-grey, but maybe it will look better as white.

In terms of the shipping, I was hesitating even putting out the 'coming soon' page. Essentially it is just a coming soon page, with a bit of information which acts like a teaser. I decided to give in and just release the coming soon page, because I want to get feedback. Hence, the 'I Shipped' :)

The feedback has been awesome.

Thanks for taking the time :)
story where the authors conclusion does not follow from their premises

If something like this is in the top five, it won't be there long from what I have seen.

I would flag spam, but also anything that you don't think is fit for HN, which is what I would call crap. From the guidelines: If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it
Will Google's Chrome OS Be a Huge Hit?
Interesting article. I took away these two quotes from the article:

"There are no definitive answers to the question of "Why PayPal?"

"I think the biggest value is the brain trust and getting advice from people," Sacks said."

I think that this is true of any businessperson. Are contacts as important as true knowledge? Reading this article and thinking about the "PayPal Mafia", I think they are. Everyone is good at something and if you can ask the advice of your talented friends, you'll have an easier time putting the pieces of the puzzle together.

If you'd like to see an interesting interview with David Sacks, This Week In Startups (Jason Calacanis) interviewed him a few months back: http://robisit.com/9m He talks about PayPal, his movie and his other startup investments. It's not a great interview, but some of what Sacks says is interesting.
Also, the overheads (credit card fees etc) are often lower on $25/year billed yearly then $2/month billed monthly (once you are at Yahoo's scale this might not apply, but for a lot of businesses there is a flat fee for processing credit cards below a certain threshold).
Yes. I think a simple tweak of having two ways to vote could be an interesting new dynamic: agree/disagree and valuable/not valuable. That way you can express that you disagree with a comment but still upvote them for furthering the discussion. And you can hit the "not valuable" button for insults, trolls, fluff comments, etc.
You obviously didn't read the article.

He never said to outsource customer development. You made that up.

In one of the actual examples, he had the VA simply form a list of 100 potential people he could reach out to for market research. Then he did the research himself. This is exactly the opposite of what you think he said.

The other example was doing simple data-entry with a back-end ordering system because it was easier (at first) than automating it.
Note to Google: I know the users of tiling window managers and multiple screens are a small subset of your users, but I happen to be in both. Please don't use pop-ups. I like Arcade Fire too!
Snore.
Personally I think Digg is now in the same bucket as PointCast, if not to the same degree: they should've sold when they had the chance. Now they're basically irrelevant.

I mean just look at the language when Digg talks about your home page.... people still have home pages? Really?
* CIA? Not quite sure I understand that reference. The logo is essentially multiple versions of different images beside each other. Some overlapping, as if you are comparing multiple versions of an image.

* What resolution are you looking at them at? They should equally be about 45% width of your screen. However, I purposely didn't want to make the screenshots too large.

* That image was just an image we used to develop the UI.

* The keyboard was not supposed to work...but given that so many people have had this issue, I definitely need to change the copy.

Thanks for the feedback :)
Computer Chips Seem Poised to Shrink Again
My roommate just bought a Palm Pre. There are very few apps in the market. But guess what, my roommate is very happy with his phone. He said it's the best phone he's ever had.

I'll second the sentiments. I've got a Palm Pre Plus for personal use and an iPhone 4 that I use for work (iPhone dev). I love the Pre. It's a fantastic phone. Looks great, is more open than Android, etc. But, it could use an update in hardware. The cpu is somewhat (affects scrolling) and the screen is really scratched up (despite taking reasonably good care of it and only having it for a few months).

But, the Pre has some drawbacks. There's some fragmentation; Sprint is the only network provider to release the 1.4.5 update -- which is big for games. And the openness might not necessarily be for the best. I had some patches installed that really screwed up performance (iPhone 3G-running-iOS4 bad) and it took me awhile to realize that.
It looks like you were downvoted a lot for this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646903

The karma for that post is actually less than -4, as explained elsewhere, the karma for a post can now be lower than -4.
Do separate iframes have the same characteristics as separate windows?
Now that would be clever.

Though playing the demo with one eye on Task Manager shows only two processes (for the whole duration) - one hovering mostly around 50-60% CPU load, another at 0-5%.

Checking this with my CPU intensive demos, this looks like normal Chrome behavior (two processes, one with high load). New process seems to spawn only for new tabs.

So it doesn't seem like such optimization was used.
Could you point me towards where that was explained? And why would it be less than -4 and only show -4?
This is an interesting point. Also one I struggled with. I could either use an 'example' of this concept, or I could use it to do screenshots.

Based on the way the page is laid out, I didn't want to clutter it with another section of images for the screenshots - if I chose to use an example.

I wanted absolute clarity so viewers could easily grasp the purpose of the app. As a result, I didn't want to clutter the page too much. So I decided to go with one.

But you are right, maybe having an example would make it more obvious...but then I can pretty much guarantee that people would ask for screenshots - at which point, how do I solve that issue without crowding the page?

That was my train of thought where that was concerned.

Good point though.
Reddit has to solve this problem if they want to grow. The fact that "unsubscribe to front page" is the best advice for new users is ridiculous. They would be much stickier if they could figure a way to automatically determine what subreddits would appeal to a person.

I can't believe "beg for money" was higher on their idea list.
What do you mean?

I will eventually get feedback from customers, once the actual app launches - but for now, just wanted some feedback from the wonderful resource I have access to here :)
I think the bigger problem is developing an algorithm that reliably solves this problem (and doesn't introduce collateral damage), rather than the computational complexity of the algorithm.
Before you upgrade may I suggest rooting your phone, you don't have to worry about a brick if you are moving on anyway (though I don't think that happens much with android devices), and then you can have 2.2 through a rom.
The URL shortener was just an example -- just one example. My point is not about bit.ly or anything like it.

My point is: there are apparently a bunch of rules, and I don't have the sense that I understand them. Worse, I have the sense that asking about the rules is frowned upon. I find this a little chilling, and it seems to fly in the face of the quasi-libertarian spirit I generally find on HN.
Ask HN: Digg vs Reddit vs HN
Just left digg, looking for a place to go. Thoughts? Please dont be biased thanks
Hrmm....this comment isn't quite useful.

Can you be a bit more specific?

What about the design do you not like?

I actually did hire a designer...a great one at that (in my opinion).

Perhaps if you expanded some more, your comment would be more useful.
Chinese firewall randomly disrupting Google service?
Some friends and I have noticed that occasionally our Google queries just die and we can't use Google for about 30 seconds, whereas other sites (including Bing and Baidu) still work fine. If we refresh the Google query 30 seconds to a minute later, it goes through without a hitch. I've found no pattern to the disruption - appears random. My suspicion is Google is just having their service degraded so that they are less reliable than their competitors. Does anyone else have information on this?
What he’s really arguing for is a new medium, like SMS that works on more than just cellphones, not faster email.

As anyone could tell you, push email is far too disruptive.

Qmail (quick mail, if you allow me to co-opt the term) would be text-only and as "push" as possible. It would be Bad Manners to qmail someone something that is not as urgent as an SMS, something better sent by email.
No there is not. From the page you link: "Conway and Kochen do not prove that free will does exist."
I'm totally interested in this product concept, to the point where I'd considered building it out as an API.

To be honest, this landing page just isn't doing it for me. I think your offering makes complete sense, but this teaser is going to alienate more than it entices.
What is your definition of a hacker? What others consider hacker stuff may simply boiled down to who they think fit the definition of a hacker.
I don't. That's part of my point. The system needs better feedback.
Elaborate attempt by Google to gather your whereabouts...

They should have shot the video in daylight, Google street view is shot in the day.
Pete,
Thanks for the feedback.

What about it, do you think, will alienate more than it entices?

Some have recommended that instead of putting screenshots of the UI, I should have put an example - which I have readily available to do if more people demand it.

Is that the kind of thing you are talking about? Or is there something specific that you don't like?

By the way, I have A/B tested the landing page, so do you mind telling me which version of the copy you saw, and what your URL was?

Thanks.
Reddit is a great Digg replacement -- higher quality, and more personal/human interest stories. HN is like an even higher quality than reddit, /r/hackers+startups (subreddit).
PG mentioned it today actually:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647322
Making PHP regular expressions fail hard instead of failing silently
The pricing for geolocation and faceting is bad. What's the value there? I feel like I'd be paying for the privilege of paying for more expensive add-ons.
How do you figure? I rarely see anything on the homepage that isn't of interest to hackers.
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Hacker News is a place to share news and discuss the world with technology minded, intellectually curious people.

YCombinator is a seed stage venture capital firm. The founder of YCombinator started and runs Hacker News, but there is no other affiliation.
I try to be a good new person who follows the rules. :)

The rating system is probably the only one I've seen work this well. When I see myself getting downvoted, it tells me pretty clearly that I need to go and reconsider what I posted.

The apparent degradation in quality is probably because the average quality of discussion on the internet has declined as more people entered the melee. It'll probably go back up as new combatants start to get better at expressing their ideas. That, or it'll become so hopelessly unproductive that everyone will collectively decide the internet was a bad idea.
Quantum Hackers Use Lasers to Crack Commercial Quantum Encryption no Trace
I just ordered ....
When ever Facebook changed something what the site was about did not change. Facebook did not go from an open social network to a Linkedin type site where you can only post resumes.

Digg went from all about being user submitted content to an RSS reader where a lot of posts are auto submitted by blogs and ends up on the front page.
what a funny title, like they had stopped shrinking.
Man Eating Giant Squid Devouring Fish Stocks
I'm mostly here for the technology / programming stuff, but I do appreciate the entrepreneurial factor. It seems to bias the content towards ideas that are potentially disruptive, as opposed to press releases and unfocused technophilia.
I would like one story taken from the new section to be randomly inserted in my top 10. This would encourage readers to vote and make it easier for good news to go top.
A reminder from the guidelines:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

And some recent examples of comments here on HN:

"All you have is a pink blouse and a pathological case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder" -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644724

"I'm sorry, but even on HN I feel it is appropriate to reply to this jackass with only two characters: FU" -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1644606

So sometimes HN can feel like a pretty rough place and a reminder is in good order. To HN's credit, though, these comments tend to be few and tend to be downvoted. You can also find comments like this floating around:

"Email me, and we'll figure out a good time for you to come buy and visit; I'll buy you coffee." -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1641763
Depends. What are your interests? Are you looking for tech/startup stories with the occasional 'would be interesting to hackers' story? If yes, HN might be a good place for you.
While it may be a bit spammy, with the frequency you updat your blog, I personally wouldn't see it as such. However, you're tying yourself to HN for discussion (typically a good discussion), but I see it as "setting precedent" for others.

You remember the web rings? It reminds me of that. Perhaps a single platform for managing discussions of articles/posts/blogs similar to news list sites, but specifically for discussion of the posts, not specifically for news. I mean, we could all find a majority of these articles on our own if we wanted (eventually), but the community discussion about the topic/story is what really adds to it.

In short, I personally don't see an issue with YOU submitting each post, but I wouldn't post just to comment and would be disheartened if it became a standard way of providing discussion about your posts.
You have to tell people to use the arrows because it is not obvious. The arrows need to be bigger or a different color perhaps to bring the eye to them.
It's meaningless in terms of providing news - asking random people on the street their opinion of a topic is not newsworthy, and does not add meaning to the story.

It does sound like pretty good PR (which is great thing for Alex and his company), but pretty poor news.

Imagine if they'd interviewed a marine biologist about this species of jellyfish instead? It would have been even better PR (expert confirms they don't sting, are abundant etc), but it didn't happen because it's always easier to ask two people in front of the ABC building what they think.
As others have alluded to, it's hacker in the sense of someone skilled at programming, not someone who hacks into systems to screw things up. It's a definition of the word that the public isn't really familiar with.
Let's not forget the fact that "conservative" is an actual word in the language and that it means "opposed to change". The change here would be not paying 40k for a university education, and arguing for preserving the status quo would by definition be a conservative position to adopt. I did not read anything political in your parent post, though I could be wrong, but in any case, why the knee-jerk reaction?

*I am not from the US and the word "conservative" does not carry political connotations for me.
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