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photorizedon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

1) Data discovery and social analytics:

http://signup.itrendcorporation.com/

Extremely minimal interface, fast (everything is precalculated/precached).

2) tech accelerator: http://www.colodesk.com/

All about rapid prototyping, idea to MVP within weeks.

photorizedon Path Axes 20 Percent Of Staff In A ‘Realigning Of The Company’

Also in meetings all day and all night.

photorizedon Research Finds Outright Grants of Cash are an Effective Form of Aid to the Poor

Use of funds makes all the difference.

Sometimes, a person needs a little push - or some initial help to get off the ground.

What are your views on all the entrepreneurs seeking funding - would you consider them parasites?

photorizedon Full archives of Game Developer magazine

Thank you for this. What's interesting is how dramatically gaming improved between 1994 and 1999, and then it kinda became incremental. I also enjoyed being able to see how the graphic design (page layouts, colors, fonts) of the magazine itself has evolved. I wonder if current trends can be extrapolated.

photorizedon Y Combinator Opens A Satellite Office In SF

Thought they were talking about NYC for a moment.

photorizedon Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease

reading about tumor suppressor genes... fascinating stuff. Those do seem to get worse with aging.

photorizedon Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease

That's interesting - thanks for the explanation. I will check on that research study.

photorizedon Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease

Cancer isn't linked to "aging", but rather to the nature of DNA replication. That process results in gradual accumulation of inaccuracies. Enough mutations -> cancer.

photorizedon There's a .00006% Chance of Building a Billion Dollar Company

Exactly. Unlike lightning, success doesn't just happen to you. So, all these "stats" are meaningless.

photorizedon Delayed aging is better investment than cancer, heart disease

Except delayed aging will increase the occurrences of cancer.

Everyone gets cancer if they live long enough.

photorizedon A Big List of D3 Examples

D3 is awesome. We use it a lot.

photorizedon 'TWTRQ' Up 685% in Clueless Trading

Can't short penny stocks usually.

photorizedon Tesla car on fire [video]

As a shareholder, all I can say - this sucks. Need more detail about this incident.

photorizedon JustFab Raises Another $40M Led By Hong Kong’s Shining Capital

Legal <> Ethical.

photorizedon JustFab Raises Another $40M Led By Hong Kong’s Shining Capital

I would call it a scam.

photorizedon The Faces of Facebook – Visualizing 1.2 billion Facebook profile images

That was my reaction, too. I was expecting something more than a random pixel map.

photorizedon Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?

However, Columbia House was specifically advertised as a "club". It was even part of their name!

This JustFab business is much, much worse.

photorizedon Why can a scam company raise $40 Million Series C + $76 Million Series B?

How can you compare this company with Netflix? Netflix is advertised as a subscription service, and there are no hidden charges.

Your company's business model is based almost entirely by hiding charges.

The fact that you successfully tricked a million people does not make it Okay.

photorizedon Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”

Loose matching = more revenue.

photorizedon Google Recently Made A Silent Shift To A New Search Algorithm, “Hummingbird”

That doesn't always result in strict string matching with Google.

photorizedon Invest in Startups

People invest in OTC BB and pink sheets stocks all the time - no access to books.

It will take a couple of spectacular failures for people to reevaluate current crowd funding model.

photorizedon How to Raise Money

"How not to have to raise money" should have been more useful to startups. Unfortunately, many have been conditioned into thinking that success can't be achieved without fundraising.

photorizedon The Difference Between Funny and LOL

Talk about over analyzing something to death.

photorizedon Battle of the Tech Ecosystems: Boston vs. New York

We are closer to NYC (Stamford CT) - but as far as startups are concerned, I like Boston ecosystem more. More vision.

photorizedon "I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."

Similar effects can be achieved by not getting enough sleep.

photorizedon Help me figure out how I lost this bet to an engineer

That was my immediate reaction, too. Company name is not relevant to any of this.

photorizedon How I got hired at a Y Combinator start-up without the necessary credentials

That was a poorly written response.

"Your clients are important to you", etc.

photorizedon What busy professionals and the working poor have in common

I tend to over-analyze... So, my quick gut decisions are usually better.

photorizedon What busy professionals and the working poor have in common

Re: What they've discovered is that shortages lead people to make poor decisions. That's because the brain can only process so much.

That's a real problem. Interestingly, I've experienced the opposite while working on several things in parallel - not having "enough time" forces you to make decisions instantly.

photorizedon TechCrunch: Journalists Or Startup Shills? You Decide

I'd say 90..95 percent of the companies they profile, had raised money. Occasionally, there would be an unfunded/boothstrapped startup - but those are exceptionally rare (less than 1%). I remember those figures from doing basic keyword analysis of their articles a year ago.

But then again - that's expected. You don't expect to see a natural bodybuilder in Muscle Mag. They are the Jersey Shore of startup coverage, and raising a massive round is the only kind of success they recognize.