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how about instead of thinking about all the things you have already missed, think about what you could be missing right now.

there is always a new opportunity - better to take part in them than to read about them in retrospect.
Things like this make me think that perhaps the wearable computer is sneaking up on us. Those goofy boxes on the belt, wires down your sleeve, and dorky glasses were just to throw us off the trail. Instead, one tiny elegant step at a time, it will sneak up on us until suddenly a killer app leaps out makes us realize that our iShuffPhoneTouch is it.
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He's the one in the picture with the jellyfish.

User andon11, who posted his startup story here a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466497
There is one in #phx called http://gangplankhq.com. I haven't been yet but it is a fun group of people. I think co-working spaces will begin to take off as more people contract and are in service on demand. This is actually taking off as of late in many states and cities.
i live on the eastside

i'd probably pay up to $100/mo. for a desk, chair, wifi, and (clean) bathroom

let me know if you get something going
Don't say "hey do you have a minute?" Instead say "step into my office."
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I call "West Side" anything west of the Lake Washington including Seatlle downtown as well as North Seattle and West Seattle (Alki). "East Side" is east of the lake: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.621438,-122.218437...

The problem is that bridges and Seattle downtown highways get clogged for hours each day, effectively rendering east and west side distant cities. On the east side only Bellevue downtown gets clogged and even then it's fairly small and easy to avoid.

East side (Redmond, Bellevue, Kirklnad, Woodinville, Sammamish) are better for me and right about anyone else who lives on the east side. Microsoft has its offices in Redmond so you are likely to find a lot of customers. In fact you should become friends with some softies and ask them to hang your posters in the kitchens within the buildings. Nintendo offices are also nearby, fwiw.

The other thing in favor of the East side is that most exisitng shared spaces are on the west side, except I think one which is sort of expensive.

Well, I could be a bit selfish here so you will need to do a bit of your own research too. :-)
That's been done since the early nineties. (on walkmens back then)
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There's also http://thenetworkhub.ca in Vancouver. They provide a workspace but also funding for startups.
I told Google why they should hire me and they did...

Really, isn't it better just to apply and see what happens? Crazy gimmicks rarely work unless you're applying for a job description (eg. advertising) that relies upon crazy gimmicks.
Yeah, I remember that. The most striking thing about this to me is that he appears to be building these and experimenting with the jellyfish food right in the middle of a normal-looking apartment that other roommates ostensibly share.
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I got a new website up since the last post. Hm readers gave me great feedback, would love to get some more:
http://www.jellyfishart.com

I'm building some simple software to go into the site soon to automate a lot of the marketing
Do jelleyfish have much awareness of their environment? Would they care much about the size of the tank? If so, how can you tell if they think the tank is too small?
It's much cheaper than that if I remember correctly.

I think somewhere around $300/month for one person in their Sunnyvale office, but I might be mistaken.
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I've been thinking a lot about angel investing the last few years, and PG's article about it recently rekindled that interest.

But where to start? I'd like to invest with a group of like-minded folks, rather than just on my own, and I'd also like to invest in startups that appeal to me on a personal level (the people, product, or vision). But how to find out who is taking on angel investment and get involved in the process? Any tips, suggestions or stories?
Yeah, that picture showcases a really small tank for a creature that size...
After the first, it gets easier. If it's 3 or more, call it a layoff, which sounds better. Be respectful, but don't get into a debate. I disagree with the article's recommendation to outline all the reasons you're letting someone go. I prefer to say something like "this is a team, and I'm the coach. It's not personal. I need to make sure I have all the right players in all the positions I need. Right now you don't fit into my playbook.". Not that hackneyed, but along those lines. Don't act like you're ashamed or embarrassed (even if you are); this is just business.

Unless they're unstable, offer to write a recommendation. Always make it positive, but not glowing unless they really were good and you let them go for financial reasons.
As someone who has become fairly involved in the monetization of viral, online gaming, I can confidently say that it's not that unlikely for Socialmedia to claim numbers like that.

My real beef with this post is the assertion that Facebook apps are dying because of changes in layout. That's not true. Most of the big-name Facebook apps are growing traffic AND revenues. Check out how well the CPA-based solutions are doing.

The Facebook app realm is dominated by engaging, high-retention games. Think anything of the "Mob Wars" ilk. I can sympathize with the author's position seeing as how his apps were largely based on having something on the user's profile surface. Unfortunately, those apps are dead; it's the games that dominate Facebook now.
The picture on the index page tells an interesting story: the lady is trying to hide her horror as she slowly conceals her escape from the sinister-yet-well-dressed man and his killer jellyfish.

It's an excellent play for the Bond villain market; I hear those guys are loaded!
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I fully agree with the notion that (more) technology is not always a panacea but I think it should at least be given a fair chance. That includes implementing it properly. Given that this was not the case there (at that time) I would still bet on technology going forward. And process.
I agree that polarized topics like marijuana making the front page here tend to make things trend towards reddit.

However, this particular article focuses on the economic effects legalization would have on California. I think it would be a shame if informative articles like this were flagged/removed, because I think the points it raises are relevant and fascinating. If it hadn't been posted here, I'm not sure if I would have heard about it.
So I'm guessing that having the controls on the headphones implies that you can't just swap in any old pair of (likely superior quality) headphones?
"They may not be the worst vetting team"

No, I think it is pretty clear they are. He's already tried to appoint about 5 tax cheats, most of whom were shot down because of that (I think Gheitner had some tax problems but was still confirmed).

This has to be one of the most amusing cabinet appointment periods in history. I forget how many train wrecks it took, but eventually I started laughing out loud over the new ones.
> which happen to be far more harmful to you and society anyway

Are you sure that it's not that they're more harmful precisely because they're legal?
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Related HN thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=515526
Jellyfish are extremely primitive creatures. Words like "awareness", "care" and "think" are probably about as relevant for a plant.
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more work, less circle jerk
There is a separately purchasable dongle that has the controls and lets you plug in any headphones you like.
I can't remember the last time those guys predicted anything right...
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not to mention Apple's own iPhone itself...
Congratulations, aandon!

I'm curious though, and I'd love it if you'd share - did you get this awesome press through PR, contacts or serendipity?
Link to the actual article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/technology/start-ups/14sta...
People who want superior quality shouldn't be buying an iPod shuffle. It's a low-end MP3 player with a very specific set of design limitations.

Apple has an entirely line of MP3 players, some of which aren't perfect for would-be audiophiles.
Not sure I wuold agree. Certainly I think they made a mistake with the design changes.

Before this update I checked my newsfeed fairly often (4 or 5 times an hour) and it was usually updated.

Last night after the change I saw maybe 2 or 3 new additions in arond 2 hours (even though I was hanging out on specific friends profiles and watching their new content from there). A lot of stuff never made it to my feed. :(
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Sounds like what New York has been doing with pseudoephedrine sales for the past year or so, though I don't know whether the limit is daily, weekly, or monthly. I find the whole pseudoephedrine thing eerie, but I'm not opposed.
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...as if it will be convenient to use those controls while walking or running. I can imagine it bobbling in a really annoying fashion.
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I heard the founder of this speak. He said he is turning a much higher profit than typical brick-and-mortar businesses. He rents out some of the space very creatively for non-office things as well, such as birthday parties. He is also very active in the community, for instance he hosts freelancer meetups.

Also, note that the neighbors of BlankSpaces "include FedEx Kinko’s, Wells Fargo, Starbucks and Staples."
Anytime you hear some hack start babbling about some semantic nonsense search engine that will beat Google, you know the guy is a moron.
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Wonderful news! Especially for the jellyfish. (Hungry programmer + tanks full of captive jellyfish + willingness to entertain thought of slightly-more-adventurous-than-usual Asian cuisine to avoid starvation = pass me the soy sauce, please)
> The "initial pixar deal" was all Eisner, which got Toy Story and so on, happened before 95, which was before Disney purchased ABC (which is how Iger got to Disney).

Yes, which resulted in Pixar having to give up 50% of the revenue for the films in exchange for Distribution... which is what caused all the friction in the beginning. Pixar felt like they were getting screwed.

> 2005 Eisner was arguably a disaster. However, 1985 Eisner was a savior and 1995 eisner was a genius.

> Disney animation was on life-support when Eisner arrived

Actually I think you have your people wrong.

You can credit Katzenberg with the success of those various films.

Katzenberg headed up the production of those films in the Late 80's/Early 90's that "saved" Disney animation. Eisner may have been CEO, but he was mostly concerned with operation of the theme parks.

It was around 94/95ish that Katzenberg left Disney (I'm not actually sure of the reason) and that's when you'll notice that shortly after Disney produced animation sucked for the most part.

Katzenberg ended up founding Dreamworks with Spielberg and they're doing quite well for themselves.

Ever noticed that from 94-08 Disney produced mostly poor animation films? Especially when you consider the great run of films that Disney had from 88 (The Little Mermaid) to 94 (The Lion King)... which funnily enough correlates to Katzenberg's time at Disney.

Bolt broke the drought and you can credit that to Lasseter's influence since becoming CCO of Disney Animation in 06 as part of the Pixar/Disney deal

Say what you want, but Eisner was ill-equipped to run Disney Animation. He just didn't "get it"

Bob Iger "gets it" with animation. I'd say this is partially why Dreamworks will now be distributed through one of Disney's subsidiaries in the future (this deal was done very recently)
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You can keep all your data in RAM, replicate it for fault tolerance (still in memory, but on another machine, another rack, another datacenter) and just dump the entire thing on disk once in a while which would be fast.
Those were on windows with about 600 gig music and its painful. Really I have just stopped moving much music because of this reason, plus I only have windows on an older machine I don't use much. Last time I tried to use it under virtual box on ubuntu it didn't work at all because of USB issues.
Please don't let drugs become HackerNews' equivalent of Reddits' Ron Paul.
It's like a race. How many other HN people can get on the front page of the Sultzberger NYT? Only, oh, perhaps 200 or so front pages to come.
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This joke is only (remotely) funny once. And, to the best of my knowledge, the twitter-fan girl was the first one to try this approach.

Still, it would be funny if some start-up created a website named "Sequoia should fund us" or something like that. After all, it's all a marketing stunt, right?
I dont, I like to spend my time actually creating wealth and helping people.

not taking advantage of a system that was just too well meaning from the start to try and screw people out of a few million. how nice would it be if the domain hoarders werent around now.

"this is why we cant have nice things"
I'd much rather be known for doing something vaguely worthwhile, than being the guy who grabbed all the domains.

Grabbing domains, not using them, and trying to sell them is pretty much blackmail. It's certainly not a nice way to behave IMHO.

The issue though is that domain names are pretty much free to register, but obviously have a far higher value to some people - a loophole that people exploit to make a quick buck.

The other funny disconnect is how little traffic some "premium" domains get.

>> "Greetings.com, but Ham grabs it anyway, for $350,000."

Quantcast says it gets 8,100 US visitors a month.
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yosefk isn't buying it:

http://www.yosefk.com/blog/the-high-level-cpu-challenge.html
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Its WTF for me. So confusing. Why Facebook? Its so ugly with its rounded edges and crap. EEEK it makes me want to puke. so roundy and wierd.
People are so confused they are scared of using it. So my stream hasn't updated for hours.
This is the worst thing Facebook has done. I don't like it. buut you know what. Facebook, isn't going to listen. We'll just have to get used to what ever they smash into our face.
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Lol. Cute article. I've never heard of this before. But I will celebrate today :D
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so how does eval_fun evaluate functions, then?
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The problem you describe may exist at the consumer level, but for the high end I don't think it is an issue. I mean think about it - secondary market? It's not like a car where you have "new" and "second hand" - it's a 50,000 year old rock. There's no such thing as a "new" diamond.

Consumers without the necessary knowledge and connections are probably taken for a ride. Dealers would exploit their lack of knowledge and options, just like 2nd hand car dealers offer terrible prices for cars - they know that if you're there at all, you're desperate. In this market, everything is sold at auction. Going to a dealer by yourself is holding a fire sale auction with 1 bidder. Of course you lose.

Between dealers, or high end customers with a dealer acting as their agent, selling for-real quantities, the market is much more stable, consistent, and liquid. Unless you want to be utterly ripped off, you must buy at a proper auction and sell at a proper auction too. You can say the same about pretty much any other store of value in the world, by the way.

But all this is obvious; if diamonds really did lose half their value every time they changed hands, no-one would bother - and yet they obviously do.

By the way, I agree wholeheartedly with that article - which I read years ago. I think I read it in the actual magazine! Anyway, yes, the value of diamonds is almost completely illusory - it's wholly artificial and if if the real supply were ever released to market, value would plummet. However, that hasn't happened, the consensual hallucination that compressed carbon is worth a lot of money stands, and you can buy and sell diamonds for a lot of money. I don't see this market changing anytime soon. It is in no-one's interest to break the spell.

And if you got rid of diamonds, people would just find something else with an agreed value. A lot of people need this kind of currency. Until crypt.kk comes online, of course.
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> > Every new release getting better, faster, more usable; growing market-share faster all the time...

> You could be describing Windows or Mac OS X with that.

Vista was faster than XP?
Not only that, but he does a pretty good job of civilly saying, "Please prove me wrong, I'm seriously interested in how this could work." (Good link, thanks.)
You weren't involved with the movie "Seven Pounds", were you? The jellyfish plays a major role in the movie and the tank looks familiar. I made a picture from the trailer, since Google doesn't find any:

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i disagree... i was a bit skeptical of the last redesign but this one enhances clarity and usability significantly...
Looks awesome!

Maybe try and mention your name on the front page of your website?

The NYT article only mentions your name and jellyfish. Searching for "Alex Andon jellyfish" does not show your webpage in the first result - I think that the NYT article can be a pretty good advertisement.
As a user, however, I am extremely glad about this default.
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A neural network, whether software-based, hardware-based, or wet-ware based (rat in this case, or human for that matter), can only spot patterns in a given set of data which are there. No patterns in the data means no predictability. You can have the coolest, most hyper-intelligent system ever devised, but that cannot see patterns which do not exist. Of course market data has patterns (sell on Friday, for instance), but it is always limited. Generally, I think you could even in principle never get more than 80% accuracy with any kind of neural network, because of the lack of complete patterns in market data, whether we are talking about a rat or a human or a whatever kind of neural network. Which brings me to a second point, since 100% accuracy or anywhere near that is not possible even in principle, applying electric shocks to test subjects when they are wrong is simply cruel and irresponsible.
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I had two of those badge apps. One of those apps was making around $2000/day for a time, then $100/day after the changed profile and lowered CPMs. I sold that app so I can't really know, but I think it would be making even less now. Am I angry / disappointed? Not so much. That would be like winning the lottery twice in a row, and then being upset when you don't win for a third time. The app took almost no effort to create initially, although getting it to scale was an interesting challenge.

Now developers will need to come up with things that are more compelling, and this will bring better experiences to the users. Not that people were somehow coerced or spammed to install my badges. They spread by people noticing the badges on their friends' profiles, and installing them from there. Loyalty in Google Analytics showed a lot of people visiting regularly to tweak the layout of their badge, and I got a lot of nice feedback.

The company that I most look up to with admiration is Playfish. Those guys really know how to create experiences that are genuinely fun, but still viral enough to spread. I wish one day I will be skilled enough to be able to come up with apps that have quality matching what they offer.
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With google and bookmarks, are domain names really that important? A lot of sites I visit regularly, I'm not even sure what the name is exactly, which doesn't matter, since I have them bookmarked, or I can just feel lucky on google.