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by aandon 9y ago
I've been using them in SF and it's a nice perk to not have to worry about filling up. The bigger perk is just having someone more diligent than myself checking all the stuff I let get too far: wipers, tire treads, headlights, etc
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by aandon 10y ago
aaaaaaand it's not on the App Store
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by aandon 10y ago
My guess is sellers absorb this as a cost of doing business. As long as fraud rates remain in low single digit percentage, it's probably not worth it for the seller or Amazon to fight it. It is always fun to dissect these scams. There&
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Google alums rollout Simility fraud-detection platform(networkworld.com)
2 points by aandon 10y ago|0 comments
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by aandon 10y ago
Great Snowden interview (by Neil deGrasse Tyson) where he explains why collecting "only metadata" is no excuse: https://soundcloud.com/startalk/a-conversation-with-edward-s...
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by aandon 10y ago
Agreed, the best thing you can do is Google "_____ product review" and look for credible reviewers, someone with a reputation to protect. I worked with a product company where v1 had some product flaws and started receiving nega
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by aandon 10y ago
Indeed I know it's a close-knit community. Most of our 20-person team came from anti-fraud teams at Google. I'm guessing the "silliness" you're referring to is the talk of Facebook not being incentivized to block sp
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by aandon 10y ago
> The incentive to make fake accounts on Facebook is orders of magnitude greater than almost any other social network. Not true. In the article, the writer pays Russell $15 for 1,000 likes. Being generous and assuming each of Russell&#x2
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by aandon 10y ago
Product manager at fraud detection company Simility here. I'm very surprised Facebook hasn't put more effort into curbing fake accounts, makes me think it's very low priority for them. We have social network customers who are
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by aandon 10y ago
Normally an order on your back-end is linked to our device ID with a session ID. However our device ID can also accept user-generated data within fields on your website/mobile app. So if your customers enter their email address during
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by aandon 10y ago
PM from a fraud detection company here. One thing I didn't see mentioned on this thread is Device ID, which is very common on fraud detection platforms. When a user comes to your website or mobile app, you have access to hundreds of si
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by aandon 11y ago
Google Sketchup is an unsophisticated but good quick-and-dirty modeling app. It wouldn't be a huge leap to see it built in a CSS framework like this.
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by aandon 11y ago
The professionalization of the peer-to-peer space is getting incredibly interesting. Hotels must be realizing that hosts are starting to offer places that are essentially like hotels... only with much more diversity, many more locations, m
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Veteran Crowd funder: Why I chose Tilt for my new crowdfunding campaign(blog.tilt.com)
3 points by aandon 12y ago|0 comments
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by aandon 13y ago
Interesting idea, this is the first virtual hackathon I've ever seen. Wonder if this is the first time someone's ever tried this. Could be huge
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by aandon 13y ago
I'm really sorry to hear about your disappointing experience with the tank. We can set you up with some suppliers in Europe that you might not have tried yet. The jellies definitely should not die within a few days! If you want to email us
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by aandon 13y ago
We started the company on volusion but have since switched to Get Fwd ( http://getfwd.com/ ) because we had to customize order and fulfillment logic due to the time sensitive nature of our live animal shipments.
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by aandon 13y ago
I'm a big environmentalist and supporter of animal rights. I originally wanted to be a marine biologist when I graduated college. But I don't think keeping jellyfish in captivity is unethical. They're somewhere between a goldfish and a hous
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by aandon 13y ago
Hey guys, I'm a big fan of AutoMicroFarm. I hope it's going well. Indeed it's a small business, but all our development effort is going towards breeding jellies in a scalable manner. Unfortunately there are inherent lead times because we're
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The Jellyfish Entrepreneur(blog.priceonomics.com)
277 points by aandon 13y ago|40 comments
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by aandon 13y ago
Thanks for bringing the concept of velocity to attention. I'd been looking for a metric just like this to compare Bitcoin to other currencies. It would be interesting now to compare the market cap of Bitcoin to currencies with similar veloc
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by aandon 14y ago
I just finished living the van life while running a company for two months. My goal was to wake up with a new view (and sunrise if I was ambitious) every morning and there are some fantastic ones in the SF Bay Area. (Little secret: the park
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Ecommerce Developer Wanted for YC Company
1 points by aandon 15y ago
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Kickstarter funds pet jellyfish company(nbcbayarea.com)
4 points by aandon 15y ago|0 comments
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Slow Money: Pairing Investors With Food Businesses(m.npr.org)
1 points by aandon 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Gadget/service recommendations to make an office mobile
1 points by aandon 16y ago|0 comments
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by aandon 16y ago
We've had all kinds of press for our site, radio, tv, newspaper, etc. We get bigger spikes in traffic being featured on blogs nobody's ever heard of with a link to our site than being featured in national outlets like NPR and LA Times wher
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by aandon 16y ago
Good advice. I use SkipJack and they rarely hassle me, even when I authorize very large sums or rebill. They've never held my funds. I also allow customers to use PayPal if they want and many of them choose to pay with PayPal.
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SF man selling jellyfish as household pets(abclocal.go.com)
41 points by aandon 16y ago|26 comments
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by aandon 16y ago
I run an ecommerce business that sells jellyfish aquariums: http://www.jellyfishart.com I know, weird. But jellyfish are a hot new trend in personal aquariums. We just started an affiliate program that is doing really well. Our affilia

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