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It's so powerful, isn't it.
> A website which does not get at least 70% traffic via organic search seriously under-performs (and for good search engine optimized sites the truth is more in the 90% plus area).

I really don't agree with this. If you depend on organic search to bring you users then:

a) you're at the will of the search engine's algorithm which can change at any time (like Google just did)

b) it means your users aren't the loyal type, and they will easily forget you

Take Reddit for example; If tommorow Google removes them from their index, I doubt much will change in terms of visitors since they have loyal users who know them by name.
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It does not, but from what I understand the 'break up notifier' only alerts you when somebody switches the status to single. Not when they hide it.
I don't think any other cloud provider has as many employees as them. They have over 300+ job openings at the moment, but not sure as how to many AWS related jobs are currently filled.

Looks like their two-pizza team rule keeps them nimble enough.
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2261389
From what I've seen, it shouldn't matter what color you are. Correlation is not causation.
> [...]

Well, that's just a random collection of business book platitudes. Have principles, flexibility, embrace risk? Seriously?
Regardless of whether you are trying to sell someone on your services, I feel that this is a very good piece of advice:

The majority will thank your asserted approach, and are looking forward to your conversation.

At a professional conference, oftentimes people are very happy to learn about what you do and to tell you about their own work and interests, but are too shy to initiate a conversation. Being proactive in this regard can be a very good way to make new contacts and to learn about what is going on in the field, even if you are not trying to eventually profit by signing them up as customers.
.....er sure
There's a lot of ignorance going on in the articles out there. I know nothing of the internals of the project but it was commissioned to replace a system that has frequent outages (including a major one last week). Teething issues, while not desirable, are inevitable at such an early stage of the project. It's bound to be an incredibly complicated system.

I feel for the devs working on it. Bet they didn't have a fun morning....
I guess it really depends on why you go to conferences, and which event you go to. I wouldn't pay the $1000+ price tag of some conferences just to "talk to people in the community". Free meetups achieve that just fine.
To be more specific, to be born Jewish American (or to be born in India and move to the US):

http://awesome.good.is/transparency/web/1002/almighty-dollar...
To be fair, he didn't write that. But by copy+pasting someone else's advice, he is advocating it which is a bit irresponsible. In any case, he makes up for it with his other zen habit advice.
This result looks the same to me as it always has - I see two eHow articles above the State Department's passport site (one on how to renew an expired passport, and one on how to renew an expired US passport in person.) While I'd agree that they are decent as far as eHow content goes, I think the Dept of State site really is a fantastic and authoritative resource that deserves to be ranked higher.
The DOS isn't doing themselves any favor with that crummy title ("Passports"), but I'd have to say that this is a case of relevancy winning out over authority in a nonsensical way.
Take Stackoverflow.com as an example http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/01/trouble-in-the-hous... (88.2% Google referred traffic)
Cool, but you still sound like an advert. I've read the FAW, and I still have a few questions. I'm sure most readers of HN would be interested in these:

What did you use to build it? How are you marketing it? What are you doing to try to get users? How has your usage been growing? What problems did you have? Are you doing A/B testing on your landing page? What's your conversion rate?

When do you expect to start charging? How will you decide your price points? Will you have multiple account types? What have you left out? And why? Can you make available your analysis of the market? Why do you think you've hit the sweet spot?

Can I get my data back out again? In what formats? Is it encrypted when it's stored?

These are the sorts of things that I, as a reader of HN, want to know. In the interests of full disclosure I am unlikely to use the service, although if my circumstances change then I might.

Regardless, I wish you the best of luck.
> $100k isn't successful

While I don't disagree with the sentiment, I think you miss a couple things. First, the question wasn't geared toward defining success; rather, what was the key to your success in obtaining $100k+. Sure, the person's perception of success is defined by an arbitrary number, but that's beside the point, and meaningless in context.

Granted, strictly defining success based on income is silly (which I'm not saying you are). As you said, it depends on your lifestyle and chosen profession. Outside the context of the original discussion, successful people aren't strictly defined by just their job. For example, numerous people mentioned other professions where the standard pay is lower. Take 5th grade teachers for example. Basing success strictly on their salary as a teacher is ignorant (same for anyone, really). Successful teachers will achieve more than their base salary.

Basically, success is more than just salary, but salary usually follows success.

> It's quite typical of HN when this topic comes up for someone to be downvoted by people who make very little money

Leave the karma discussion on reddit.
Never thought I'd see living in Croydon discussed on HN. (I currently live in Croydon, very close to the station, for commuting into London)
That's because it's a static error message page that others redirect to.
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I guess that's the page you get redirected to when using an incompatible web browser, so you can view it in any browser.
Agree. While it's great to have a demo available if it pops up in a conversation, power pitching can be annoying. Especially if it's done by somebody who exhibits the traits of poor salesmen.
I would argue that results 1-4 are more confusing than 'good'. Most users in that situation are just going to open each one of those 4 in tabs.

Compare to DDG[1]:

1. An extract from a StackOverflow answer showing how to split a string into a list in python. It uses tokenize and isn't exactly what was being asked, but good.

2. python.org - A single result

3. Stackoverflow answer (a better answer)

4. java2s (urgh)

5. A shitty mailing list archive page from the dev group[2]

6. Another mailing list archive

7. A good tutorial, should be second result

8. A forum thread that is outdated

9. Wikibooks - a good answer, should be further up

Not one result in any search engine links directly to the str split() entry in the official docs.

[1] http://duckduckgo.com/?q=split+string+python

[2] Pages like this should be purged from all search engines, I hate finding them: http://bytes.com/topic/python/answers/473717-string-split
If you have a site triggering a false positive, maybe you need to go back and look at your content, where it originates from and how.
Carbs are the only macro-nutrient your body doesn't need. It's true though that a very low carb diet is detrimental to the health insofar, that it forbids certain nutrient-dense foods (which grains absolutely aren't). Repeating wrong convential wisdom doesn't make it correct.

Seriously, Marks knows his stuff and you'd do good to yourself to listen to him (or any other of the primal/paleo folk) without prejudices.
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Yes, because "being into open source" means never have to worry about getting sued your house off by your employer...

Really, who writes these comments?
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It's probably not a slight against Chrome. These sorts of edge-case error pages are typically some of the least up-to-date for a website. You need to use a browser they don't test with to see it, so naturally they won't see the page during testing.

Alternately, Chrome might be legitimately untested but functionally equivalent enough to Safari that everything works. In that scenario leaving Chrome off the list of supported browsers is just a CYA in case something doesn't work.
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For a 1000 usd conference sure, but it's happening to the grassroots conferences and it's pretty annoying. My suspicion is that it's tied to the current funding craze.
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Thx for the specific example. Presumably http://duckduckgo.com/?q=split+python is more what you were after with the 0-click function reference?

We've been trying a lot harder to get those into 0-click, but it doesn't show up yet when you put string in the middle.
I don't think enough sophisticated investors hold Demand stock for this change, which Demand did a good job of spinning the news of, to have a great impact on the price.

It is mostly pension and mutual funds that make up the shareholding. There aren't even any dedicated analysts on DMD atm.

It helps them that Google didn't mention any companies by name when referring to low-quality content and farms.
They weren't to know - I might have bought a bed and shipped it to someone in another state as a gift. After I told them it wasn't my purchase, however, they should have given me the info, but they didn't. Police didn't seem to care, bank didn't seem to care. Odd...
Exactly, which is why "Me Too!" comments often get hammered. They add no value, information or insight.

The question that's becoming more relevant is "Value to whom?" With the increase in participants, the HN focus is diluting and widening. It seems to some that the topics on the front page are no longer as niche as they once were. It's claimed that they used to be more tightly focussed on topics of interest to hackers more than non-hackers, and that now the emphasis on being targetted at hackers is dying.

But still, "I can't define it but I know it when I see it." I still upvote strongly technical, hackerish articles, or articles that I think wouldn't appeal to a general audience, if they "add value."
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I like the status bar as well. Also, it is annoying that you have to have folder icons display on the bookmarks toolbars. I like to see all my bookmark grouping but unless I make my FF super large, I cannot.
Fair enough, thanks for the info. I just generally found that I couldn't simply make it work on a standard debian install and assumed it was permissions.

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If you're only presenting something and don't care about code maintainability, this approach will work. Otherwise it's just stupid... you would never want to maintain some code that didn't go through a design process. It would be hell even if you wrote it yourself.
Thanks for the feedback, and I agree that if we ever create more problems it'd be a good idea to help people learn along the way.

Re the spammy comments, our entire team are longtime HN users so we all know those hurt way more than they help, but think one of our "fans" wanted to "help" a little too much. Love their enthusiasm though.
Old idealist geek alert.

I realize that 192% of everyone who ever lived uses Facebook for every possible task 27 hours per day, but every time I read "Facebook", I can't help thinking about AOL in the late 90's..."This is not the way is was meant to be."

We got away from the pseudo-monopolistic controls of AT&T, IBM, the US government, and finally AOL to enjoy the golden days of the world wide web from 2000 to 2005. Oh how glorious it almost was. Then, like self-mutilating OCD addicts on Xanex, we couldn't stand the freedom and quickly jumped to the next most promising walled garden.

FWIW, I used Chrome for the first time yesterday and I love it! No going back to ie or Firefox for me. Can't access Facebook? No problem for me; all I ever wanted was a simple browser and access to the open world.

No, yahoo, I won't use my Facebook id to get my email. No, <insert Website 2.whatever name>, I don't use Facebook. And no Facebook, Twitter, itunes, and the rest of you guys who want to wall us off, I will not use you. (And don't think I'm not starting to worry about you too, Google.)

I know, I know, I still use my Giant Eagle/GetGo frequent buyer card, so everyone on the internets probably knows that I bought aspirin last night, but I'm still clinging to my last little bit of freedom.

Respectfully yours,

The last free hacker standing, clinging tightly to my mouse and keyboard
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i cannot imagine chrome being untested by facebook.
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I suppose the 'Any Browser Campaign' (http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/) is not their cup of tea.

""Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
It probably wasn't updated. Chrome appears on the list of recommended browser in the FAQ (http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=19339)
Borderline spammy.
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Just to clarify, I realised this was closed when I submitted it, but I feel it's worth discussion, and the more people who say they don't want it the more likely it is to get removed at some point in the future, even if it's not right now.
I really want to disagree that Monopoly = Monotony, but then I realised how long it has been since I played this socially. My beautiful wife and I are equally competitive and have played it maybe 6 times in eight years; I do like playing 8-player Monopoly with myself (you have to ignore the auction rule, lest you compartmentalise your brain too much), but I would never suggest it as a dinner party game.

As for Monopoly = Ubiquity, it's probably the first game that comes to mind. But in the past 3 years I've played plenty of others (Cranium, Risk, Balderdash, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble) in social settings and had lots of fun. Batteries not required.
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Simplest explanation is probably the most likely: this page was created 3-4 years ago before Chrome was launched or before it was stable and nobody has updated it.
> Not much substance in the article

That's because it's a followup to half a dozen Ars articles on the spat (see the "The HBGary Saga" insert halfway down the page), 3 of which were 3 pages long and one reached 5 pages ("Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government").
I'm using Judo (https://github.com/heroku/judo) to do 'launch-to-running-services-on-devices'. Great tool for what I'm doing, though it looks like CloudFormation has a whole lot of overlap.
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> 88.2% Google-referred traffic.

I don't think that's a "pure" statistic. Perhaps StackOverflow users rely on Google returning StackOverflow answers? I know I do; for example, I often append stackoverflow to my programming queries because I know Google will give me StackOverflow answers. Although the referral is Google, I am forcibly limiting results to include only StackOverflow.
Co-signed - fellow free hacker.

You're not alone. I realised that Facebook makes it possible for completely non-computery people to share pictures, write notes, have on-line conversations, have a sort-of blog, all in a one-stop shop. When my older niece started to use it I realised that there were half a dozen other facilities that would serve her better, but it's the 80/20 rule. For essentially zero effort she got more than she otherwise could have.

I sigh, but it's the way it is. It's the way it was with AOL, and maybe something will kill it eventually, but it's the way it is now.

I look forward to seeing where it will go, and I hope it's better than anything we can currently imagine.

It probably will.

ADDED IN EDIT:

When I clicked the link I got:

You are using an incompatible web browser.
Sorry, we're not able to support your browser.
Please use one of the following browsers:

* Mozilla Firefox
* Safari
* Microsoft Internet Explorer

I'm using a very old Firefox.
One obvious way to implement that would be the MagSafe connector. Indeed, Apple has some patents relating to data-enabled MagSafe connectors.
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Questions: What's Stack Overflow's valuation, who valued it, and what are the terms?
I used to live in Warlingham so Croydon often comes to mind :-) You think that's weird though.. you try bumping into people from Lincolnshire on here (where I live now). It happens!
This is cool and all, but its part of an overall trend about aws/ec2 thats starting to get on my nerves. They're spending their time and resources working their way up the stack instead of improving the lower layers of the stack for which you use them in the first place. Right now ~2+ms inter-node latencies, arbitrary 200+ms hangups on EBS, and the general lack of an SSD option make AWS a non-starter for things that need to scale without being architecture-astronaut computer science projects. For many workloads I have to colo instead of use AWS because of the age old "spend 10K on hardware or hire an FTE developer" tradeoff.
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What did you use to create this ebook? Interested in publishing on the Kindle? I'm testing out a system of my own if you are... get in touch.
ye thats it, it's just that the phrasing of the original example was a bit different. are you guys able to go through search logs to see different permutations of how visitors search for such terms?

ie. "python how to split", "split string python", "str split python" should all = "split python"

Did you see the wikibooks result? That was excellent, I didn't even know about it. Would it be possible to highlight that in the same way stackexchange is?

Those mailing list archive results are a real pain, they only have the answer <1% of the time and are hard to read.

DDG is awesome - it has been my default browser for a little while now. Can I just add one suggestion - put the 'make default browser search' somewhere on your homepage after detecting the user browser? I remember it took me 10+ clicks and links to work out how to make DDG default in Chrome.
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Thanks - will consider this.
Monopoly is a great game if you play by the rules. Nobody does, however, and then they complain that it's boring and takes too long.

It's not, unless you ruin the game with the $500 every time you land on Free Parking rule.

A great way to speed things up is to use calculators. Instead of paper money changing hands, we'll typically give each player a pocket calculator to add and subtract from their cash total.
This is taken completely out of context. He was referring to a fake stock market for conference attendees at http://secondmarket.com where Stack Overflow "closed" at something ridiculous like $365/share
Exactly, if you are going to write an article about a shocking valuation, you might want to include said valuation.
Thanks for that in depth reply... I get ya in the abstract... but yeah I guess I have to go through it myself to really see it.
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I'm not sure I want to spent $20 on a eBook that is only 20 pages long. If it were print - I probably would. Since it is not however, I'd much rather pay 9.99 or 4.99 or even less.

Money-back guarantees are great and all that, but if you're anything like me, it isn't worth the trouble to try to get your money back in a case like this.

Any chance this price will go down, or there will be a promotion for HN users?
As far as I know, only one of those questions has been answered publicly-- the middle one, and the answer is: "a group of investors lead by Union Square Ventures and including Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Naval Ravikant, Nirav Tolia, Joshua Schachter, Micah Siegel, and Bob Pasker."

(Cf http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/announcing-our-series-...)

As you can see from the linked article, SO raised $6MM, but the terms and valuation have not been made public (as far as I know.)
even if they would clean it up (add every query with a brand term to a separate segment) i would be very very very surprised if it would be below 70%
"Sure, there are some folks who really love Monopoly—but personally I’ve only known a few that have actually completed an entire game of it." --- WTF? Is this guy from a mathematically inept family or something? I've played Monopoly hundreds of times in my life with dozens of different people, we always completed the games, sometimes with free parking rules sometimes without. I never even imagined that somebody would stop playing without finishing a game, what would the point of that be? What's next, claim that people don't finish games of Risk also?
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Although I am a normally shy person, I find that at academic gatherings such as conferences and workshops, I can very easily talk to people. "What do you work on? / What is your topic area?" is such an easy question and they are guaranteed to have a long interesting answer. Its rare to be in a spot to have so many people around you with common interests, it should be easy to get people talking.
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Awesome, yeah, that's what we're trying to do now (wrt to the permutations), but we don't have a lot of data so it's a bit difficult.

Noted on the other results and thx for analyzing it so deeply. That realy helps.

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