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Close, if you use our analytics service mixpanel.com you only need to ping us data with a single line of code in which we graph, trend, and store all the data. We try to make life even easier =)
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Cool, taken! Good luck.
And that bugs me.

Check out Engadget.com on and off. See the churn of shite products. See how they "maximise market capture" and "shareholder value" by choosing "everyone" as their target market. See how much missed opportunity to make groundbreaking standout devices or cult niche items there is in the dreary ongoing clone wars.
Why are there default options selected for the radio boxes? This could taint the results.

<3 years encapsulates the other results for that question as well.
Real time world statistics
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It would appear that the ethics board was based in Uganda (although there was probably also ethical review by the United States university with which several of the researchers are affiliated). The study was conducted in that country.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/13/1298
Statistics published by people working in real estate are always positive. It's as if their math education stopped in second grade and they cannot comprehend negative numbers. The general algorithm of realtors and writers in the field is

- Find a statistic, _any_ statistic, that goes up this month,

- Publish that statistic in as positive a light as possible. Ignore other statistics, even the one you used last month.

Under no circumstance will they publish pessimistic statistics. Just something peculiar about the field. Try talking to a realtor: the deal they are presenting you is always a great one, one that you should take _now_.
if we entirely remove the penis the infection rates will be 0

I think that is a factually incorrect statement, although there would certainly be a risk reduction greater than that from circumcision. Public health decisions frequently involve trade-offs.
For a tiny business immediate profitably might be an absolute requirement for the survival of a company. For a company that's prepared to spend money to have significant long term success it's a different story.

It may very well be wise to aim for $10 million in revenue with $500k losses rather than a more conservative $1 million revenue with $50k profit.
Taken but don't know what you mean by online investment platform... like Etrade or like Kiva?
Very excited that a startup incubator is coming up in Austin, as my self and our team is just getting our startup off the ground in College Station (very close to Austin) finishing up their application right now actually. I have been following them closely over the past few weeks and they seem to have quite a strong backing from lot of tech companies. Our startup isn't certain where we will end up, but certainly looking forward to their success.
When you see a misspelling and really want to correct it, but restrain yourself because it will sound snobby and you'll get downvoted.

(Your use of effect is off; 'to effect' means something more like 'to cause', the verb you're looking for is 'to affect', I think.)
Ask HN: Review My Web App - OnMyMission.com - LDS Missionary Profiles
While our target audience wont necessarily be found here on HN, we would appreciate any feedback!

Is the purpose clear? Usability? Design?
How much would you be looking to borrow to launch your
business? >$50,000 $25,000-$50,000 <$10,000, $10,000-$25,000

the order is pretty wrong here...and you should either add "none" option or rephrase the question to something like "How much would it cost you to launch your business"

also:

If you were to receive this loan, in how many years would you expect to pay it back? *1 Year 2 Years 3 Years <3 Years

it should be >3 years.

Its like noone even read this thing
Clickable Link - http://www.OnMyMission.com
Most Requested Feature: Map Legend - Work Complete
The term 'Seasonally Adjusted' means they even these seasonal tendencies out- thus giving meaning to month-over-month % changes. So it is not the same as your Pumpkin Sales example.
Is this in the U.S.? If I were a school administrator and half my graduating students were moving back in with their parents after graduation, I would consider my school to be failing terribly. I would expect even a community college to be better than that.

Alternatively, by "top private" do you mean very expensive, so most of the students were independently wealthy and were getting degrees in things not intended/needed to provide jobs after graduation? I just can't fathom going to / sending my child to a school where that was normal.
i went on to fill the form and at the end I face this question: What features would you want in an online investment platform?

you give me a blank textarea to fill in a survey? i wouldn't sit to fill in an empty box and for what in return?
instead you should at least give some options to tick
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Sort of like Kiva, but for small businesses and startups in the U.S.
As we have been iterating our site, and talking with users, the most requested feature recently has been a legend for the map, which makes sense because we show a lot of little meaningless icons (well meaningless to anyone but the founders).

We've heard this request from friends, family, random users, and also the last time we posted a release to Hacker News. So here it is :)

I'm going to make at least one improvement to this, which is to give you an explanation of each thing when you hover over it. The data will come from here:
http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/featureCodes.txt
Objects in Ocaml exist outside the normal type system, and can be introspected at runtime (no type erasure).

Of course, nobody uses objects in Ocaml, so it doesn't matter!
All most of these products didn't just snatch a part of history, but each one also has it's own failure lesson along with it. Nice read.

If computer games are considered in this category of '25 legendary products', then a lot of them would have been there. Dave, Prince, Doom and Wolfenstein for sure. And people haven't stopped loving them, a lot still play it. Wolfenstein is now on iPhone also. Anyone's got any idea abt it's sales?
But why would anyone invest in stocks under the scenario he describes? The idea that if I invest $1 in the wrong company may mean that I lose my home and everything else I own simply means that I won't be investing in the market. Period.
I have to disagree, with the disclaimer that I'm a Mac user.

While I don't really expect top notch punditry from TechCrunch, this short, well-worn jab at Apple is unhelpful, if not simply linkbait.

"[Microsoft's] got a point on the cost to feature ratio of Macs v. Windows machines..."

I'm not arguing that Macs are commodity priced, but I think the cost to feature ratio of most products is extremely difficult to define, especially for something as complicated as a personal computer. The fact that TechCrunch just trots it out as truth irks me.

In my personal opinion, the intangibles that come with a mac more that compensate for the relative difference in price between Macs and PCs with comparable specs. Simply saying that macs have a lower cost to feature ratio than Windows machines because there are cheaper PCs than Macs isn't unlike saying that BMWs have a lower cost to feature ratio because they can only go 50MPH faster than Toyotas and cost twice as much (not to mention the fact that PCs are far from uniform in their pricing and options).

Flame wars aren't beneficial to anyone. At some point we must accept that we each have a different definition of value, and discuss things based on their relative merits.
At a bare minimum you should have Google Analytics integrated into your site before beta starts. Its simply too powerful to avoid doing. (If you hate the idea of the borg having your data, I suggest getclicky.com , but it is grossly inferior for tracking conversions currently.)

I'd suggest everyone read the Startup Metrics for Pirates presentation, which is a work of awe-inspiring genius. Seriously. Read it, make money. It took me probably 18 months to learn as much doing thing the long way as this presentation will teach you.

http://www.slideshare.net/Startonomics/startup-metrics-for-p...

Anyhow:

Identify your key conversions early. Track the heck out of them. Hint: does money change hands? If yes, its a key conversion.

Then build backwards to things which are necessary prerequisites for your money conversions. In my case, I sell software. The majority of sales happen as a result of free trials. Accordingly, I track the free trials. I also track successful installs of the free trials. Those numbers should be roughly proportional and periodically increasing or I'm doing it wrong.

Incidentally, the problem with data is that there is too much of it. Analytics will drown you in data if you let it. Get in the habit of not looking at anything that doesn't have the prospect of an actionable decision you can use to increase business value from it. For example, I could tell you what percentage of German users use Firefox, but knowing that doesn't help me sell software, so I don't slice data that way.
From an information design standpoint, very well done.
Every investor would immediately pull out all of their money if this was implemented.
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Whatever your opinion of the software, you have to admit this is a really good ad. It hits Apple where it hurts, and given the timing, it hurts more than ever.
No one would associate with an investment, that, if gone awry, would ruin them financially.

One thing we've learned in this crisis is that leverage causes companies that appear healthy to go under very very quickly. So you're saying that people would steer clear of investments that might ruin them financially? Fine. You've just killed off our entire financial industry, our real estate industry, and a good portion of other industries that rely on leverage to do business.
I try to do this, but when I go to buy socks, they never have the kind I bought last time. Instead they'll have pointlessly changed the design, or the color will be slightly darker or lighter, or they'll have changed from sizes of 6-8, 9-11, 12+ to new improved sizes of 7-12 or something, meaning I have to either have socks that fit less well or change brands, which means they don't match any longer... it's all pretty annoying. Lots of cheap, interchangeable goods are like this: if you don't buy them every week, every time you go to the store all the options are different.
Perhaps it was an experiment. Hire people to do a bunch of things, then get rid of the ones that don't work. Science! Maybe!
Agreed. However, whatever your political leaning, you'll note that what is proposed in that proposal is a thin veil over the policies of the past 8 years, and we've already proven that deregulation just allows greed to run more rampant and reduced taxes really means loopholes for the rich.
Think it through before quitting. You're getting paid to be a startup CEO-in-training. I did this for 4 years for somebody and it gave me the practical experience I needed to launch my own startup. My situation had the added bonus of the founder being a gifted salesman, and I learned how to sell from watching him.
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Isn't the ad just pointing out that you can't really get a sub-$1000 Mac, a market Apple consciously abandoned?

Considering her first choice was an Apple store, and she eventually settled for an HP (abet happily, it was free), it isn't exactly a winning endorsement.
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No matter how good the add is Microsoft completely missed the point. No one buys Macs because they are cheaper than windows machines. People buy macs because having a mac is cool.
"The little guy with the big knife is Tsunenori Iida. He speaks not as an individual but as an emanation, the present voice, of the generations whose blood flows in him and who held the long knife in lifetimes before him, just as he speaks of Masahisa as if he were the same Masahisa who wrought the first samurai sword, in the days of dark mist. Thus it is that he tells me he's been here since 1861, during the Tokugawa shogunate, when this city, Tokyo, was still called Edo."

Reminds me of the metaphor Clay Shirky uses in his "Love, Internet Style" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1TZaElTAs) speech. He talks about the Ise Shinto shrine, which the Japanese claim to be 1300 years old even though the building itself is rebuilt periodically. The Japanese think it is 1300 years old because the function of the shrine has existed for 1300 years, just like the function of this man has been around since 1861, even if he, the mere physical manifestation of this function, has not. Interesting way to think and define oneself.
Of course, what Microsoft wouldn't like to point out is that a $400 netbook running Windows XP will make a lot of people happier than a $700 Windows laptop full of HP crapplications will.
Really good niche to target, especially for missionaries in places with bad mail service. I think the design fits the target audience well and it should be interesting to see how well it takes off for you.
The article lists several lessons learned from this, but really there's only one huge issue: stop using GET to modify state that the user cares about! Use POST! It's not hard! Or rather, it's less hard than dealing with the subtle problems that crop up when you use GET when you should have used POST.
also because of the macs vs pc ads.
Yep! No offense taken. :-)

It's not just programmers, FYI. I got that from the dank world of creative writing. Spending a month working on a sonnet = not-totally-fun times.
Is there some way we can downvote this so far that it doesn't break the layout on this page and render almost every other comment illegible?

Seriously. PLEASE quit that crap with the nowrap <pre>.
That textarea is not required. We are looking for rather subjective answers there. Could not have made a list.
This is the way I do it. Will this make problems?

/usr for stuff installed by apt-get.

/usr/local for stuff I install with "./configure && make && make install" or similar commands.

/opt for self-contained application bundles.
It is a good tool. Why don't you rename it to be a trip sharing app?

More general will give you larger market and you will get more feedback. :-)
the problem that the republicans face is one of branding. The Bush era pretty much ruined the Republican brand. They can nominate zombie Reagan(the person republicans believe Reagan was, instead of the actual man) and still lose.

Whats actually concerning, is that unlike Democrats who came out of the 2004 loss by organizing towards the future, the Republicans seem to be digging in.

I mean, instead of spending the effort to attack Obama on his fiscal policy, they are attacking him on everything. I mean seriously, what exactly is the GOP hoping to gain, by making fun of Obama using a teleprompter?
Imagine the case of someone with all their money in index funds, I would now be liable for EVERY SINGLE PUBLIC COMPANY. People would flee the stock market so fast it WOULD go to near 0.
I find it amusing that the Republicans are critiquing our new President when their former party leader raised our national debt substantially (and brought back massive deficits).

I also find it interesting that they discuss ending bailouts when Bush gave the first bailout before leaving office (but no one actually monitored where the money was going).
Does Microsoft really want to position Windows as the 'affordable' OS? I mean, have they thought this one through?
Customers think in benefits not features.

Even though I develop apps I can't think of features off the top of my head for a generic application category that I've never used before.
...and some people were giving us grief because TinyArro.ws is configured by default to show previews for all URLs that it shrinks/redirects.

It seems scary to me that people could be rickrolled with an FBI URL via a tiny url service.

If you have your own tiny URL service, I recommend making URL redirects preview by default. Or at least take a moment to consider the idea. It always seemed strange to me that we'd expect average web users to remember some special preview URL or have a special cookie pre-enabled before they get goatse ambushed.
Obama opposes abstinence-only sex ed. He has said so repeatedly, and worked it into his policies. Also, your link leads to a "no hotlinking" image. So, omnifail.
If you're looking for a country ruled by engineers, one of the closest examples you'll find is... China.

Jiang Zemin? Electrical Engineer. Hu Jintao? Hydraulic Engineer. Wen Jiabao? Geomechanical Engineer. Zhu Rongji? Electrical Engineer.

You have to go back to the time of Deng Xiaoping to find leaders who weren't engineers. China's current party doctrine? "Scientific Development Concept," a seemingly engineering-inspired strategy, the concepts of which have Mao rolling in his grave.

One can see the results of this sort of engineering-driven government in projects like the Three Gorges Dam; the Party leaders did an engineering-style cost/benefit analysis, measuring the cost of displacing millions of people versus the benefit of the dam, and decided in favor of the dam.

For better or for worse, China has become the closest thing there is to a country run by engineers.
Tesla's biggest problem will be mass production. (They have made about 300 cars) Large companies like Chevy can have significantly greater production capacity.
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"you have to admit this is a really good ad"

I don't. It not only refers to the competition by name, it clearly says that when given the opportunity to buy any computer, a person's first reaction is to visit the competition's store. It refers to the competition's computers as cool. It argues the only reason to buy a PC is if you don't have enough money to buy a Mac. Apple would agree whole heartedly with this ad. It essentially does their job for them.

"It hits Apple where it hurts"

How? By preaching to a market segment Apple doesn't even compete in? I don't think they'll be loosing any sleep (or sales).

"given the timing, it hurts more than ever"

What timing? Why would it hurt more? Your vague cliches have befuddled me.
Apple is doing well in the mobile market. If it wants to sell more Macs, then maybe it might consider requiring people to buy Macs to use its mobile products.
Yes, but the question is meant to be open-ended. We've done the brainstorming to come up with useful, beneficial features; Now we want to hear from our potential userbase.

We believe features should benefit you, so your input only helps.
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Not always.

My uncle's real estate page for Wake County in North Carolina shows similar figures:
http://kengramley.com/city.php

That's calculated directly from the county's tax data. It's a bit out of date; from February, I think. I'll see if I can get some new data up soon.

Some people are actually interested in telling the truth, not misleading you. It's rare though, I'll grant you that.

Btw, he was an engineer before he became a realtor, and if you must know I am the "webmaster". Yes, it could be construed as shameless promotion, but it is relevant.

Edit: I don't know if it's clear enough - the data is year over year.
I'm currently using Dropbox to sync my todo list (ActionGear on Mac) with my other Macs, as well as my Adium preferences and chat history. So useful.
Agreed - I use it nearly daily. I can honestly say it is one of the few apps that has proven so invaluable to me that I have been inspired to tell countless friends, associates and customers about it...
I'm incredibly curious so I love these resources but it's getting overwhelming.
- YouTube EDU
- iTunes U
- http://ted.com
- http://fora.tv/
- http://www.biggerthinking.com
Like Kiva for small businesses in the US... as in, kind of like Prosper, Lending Club, Zopa, etc?
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Clojure uses {} for maps, #{} for sets, and [] for vectors, and vectors are used in function definitions, let statements, etc. This slight decrease in regularity makes a lot of functionality more visible. For example:

SBCL:

(defun f (x y) (let ((z (gethash x :a))) (+ z y))

Clojure

(defn f [x y] (let [z (get x :a)] (+ x y)))

Having syntax for maps is a huge win. Like ML's pattern matching, it's one of those things that changes your coding style entirely for the better, in a way that you wouldn't predict just by looking at the feature.

The only think I miss from CL when I work in Clojure is keyword arguments to functions. There, the Clojure way is a bit worse:

(defun f (x &key y z) (list x y z))
(f 2 :z 3) => (2 nil 3)

(defn f [x {y :y z :z}] (list x y z))
(f 2 {:z 3}) => (2 nil 3)
I use both OS X and Windows. I use Windows during the day because I do .Net; and occasionally at home when I want to play a video game.

But when I work at home, it's Mac all the way. It's just easier to write software on a mac than on a PC.
With humor.

If I can't, I just tell myself: Wow, the world is an amazing place. All these different people. I just hope that we can co-exist peacefully.

Once I was drinking beer with a philosophist and two writers, plus a history student (my friend). Another philosophist, friend of the first philosophist, came to join us, and he was an asshole. He made stupid jokes, and one of the writers started arguing with him.

After the second philosophist left, the first one and the writer started talking about if the way the writer treated the second philosophist was acceptable.

They went on this discussion for, I kid you not, 90 minutes. Then they turned to me and asked me to be the judge, and I said:

- I think you're both right. You (the writer), was right because the philosophist what joined us was a jerk. But you (the philosophist) is complaining how your friend (the writer) treated your other friend, so I think what you're really saying matters more, because you're telling your friend that he did something that you don't like, and he's just not listening. So you're the winner.

Everyone on the table said "that's an interesting angle on the discussion", and the two went back to argue who was right.

My friend (the history student) said that I didn't "get" the contend, because they were arguing for/with Reason (with capital R), and so they were expecting me to say who was right logically.

Now, what everyone didn't know is that, while I know a little bit of Kant and Nietzsche, I simply wasn't playing their game. With me was my (then recent) girlfriend. So I didn't said what I said for them, I said so my girl could listen.

I was trying to impress her. I was trying to show how I understand relationships and how we should see things through this point of view. Women like that, you know? :p

Anyway.

The two weren't really "arguing". They were philosophying (sp?). That's how they have fun. By endlessly trying to desconstruct the opponent's argument, by going into schools of thought, that's what they do on a Friday night at a bar's table.

It's so fucking boring.

But it made my day. I was really glad to learn how philosophists spend their weekend nights. It was just like me! Improving their skills, while having fun.

Moral of the history? There's none.
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Digg's design is not horrible. C'mon. They've won design awards with it and have millions of users. Hacker News has no design, which appeals to an audience that would love to think that code (a.k.a. content) is the only thing that matters in a business' success and that everything else is superfluous.

Digg's audience is more into fashion/style/cool stuff. So they should get some colors and a few gradients here and there.

I actually think Digg's design is very low-key.
Are Genius and Madness Related?