skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stats for my site are similar too. Again, only a small sample, but interesting:

United States - 47
Australia - 13
United Kingdom - 8
Canada - 6
New Zealand, Romania - 2
India, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, China - 1
Interesting, but a bit dated.
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Home sales fell 41% year over year in February, but press didn't understand numbers, said they went up.
They're saying engineers are the "talent" and the others are something you outsource. Or that engineers do the "real work". Or that "At least they are firing sales and marketing people and not engineers.".

Doesn't sound like you describe.
It seems to me to add up, in the second chart a used game would have to be bought twice, because there are two infusions of 40$ through "selling a used game on Dwadle".

Naturally, if you manage to sell your games for a better price, you are left with more money to spend. I don't see anything inherently interesting in that, just two stores with different margins and different kinds of services. Why is one considered bad and the other isn't?
Here is the breakdown on our site, 10,400 visits over the last 9 months:

United States - 6,634

Canada - 722

United Kingdom - 643

Australia - 241

Germany - 231

India - 186

Netherlands - 120

France - 107

Sweden - 96

Ireland - 73
"Clicking illegal hyperlinks". Just the term alone makes me want to weep.

Now that the site and possible URLs are made public, who wants to bet this will the new, popular 4chan bait for random bypassers?
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Late 2011 is a long time from now. Two and a half years is a lot of time to get behind schedule, especially for Tesla. I sincerely hope it comes out awesome but am highly skeptical.
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I was troubled, but read the article. It was a little breathless, but seemed okay.

Though I didn't like clicking through a link on HN and seeing, essentially, "Garden of Eden located!" I was suspicious enough that I googled Gobekli Tepe and found this Smithsonian article:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-te...

So at least I knew the subject was valid before reading further on the submitted link. Definitely seems like a weird source though.
> My biggest gripe with traditional time management method is that you lose sight of the big picture and only concentrate on the small urgencies.

The Stephen Covey's method ("7 habits" fame) specifically deals with this issue. I highly recommend you to read the book "First Things First", but basically it's about scheduling the big stuff first (literally blocking chunks of time in the calendar), and only deal with the today/soon/whenever tasks on the remaining time. It's not as simple as that, you need to read the book to actually apply it effectively, but I can tell you that I've been following it at least for the past 5 years and it has been extremely effective for me.
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So having a goal and being a helpful person makes you a douchebag?

Or maybe you mean that helping other people is fine, as long as you are not aware of the fact that it is likely to help you, too?

Read the memoirs of any successful business person. They all say that treating people nicely earns their loyalty, and is an essential part of success.

Is that "douche-y"?

Heaven forbid some asshole douchebag treats me well and helps me fulfill my goals, just to make himself better off, too!

>Less facetiously

This whole conversation is facetious. That's the only reason why the (juvenile) parent comment is getting upvoted. Moreover, I don't think he's ever tried to see how far he could get in business by being a douchebag. In practice (outside of Michael Douglas movies), nobody wants to work with them.
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I'd just point out that it depends in part on the time scale you apply. If things get "dumber" for a while, a compensating circumstance is likely to arise. Whether you view it as positive or negative is subjective; it will occur.

I don't take that on faith. Rather, it's my prediction based on all the historical and scientific data and analysis we've accumulated.

What gives me some hope for our current circumstances and our own species, is that so far, as education and affluence rise, birth rates drop. If we can use this to mitigate the pressure of increasing population against dwindling resources (including the health of ecosystems), perhaps we can reach a sustainable existence with regard to the earth and its ecosystems. Our species' evolution will continue, but hopefully in a sustainable fashion.

Life has shown itself to be very pervasive, at least on this planet. If we fill the world up with radiation, heavy metals, organic toxins, and whatnot, some forms of life will adapt to cope. But I'd prefer that there not be such a large set back. Not another "great extinction". Life on the planet has reached an interesting level of complexity. I'd rather see that continue on without interruption. But then again, that is merely my subjective preference.
Perhaps it's an inherent problem with HN? Disposable accounts for when you want to say something that may/will be voted into the negatives.

Even so, I don't think purging poor comments is the correct idea. I myself have been learning what is/is not acceptable here by reading said poor comments.
Much more impressive, to me at least: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/getdropbox.com+mozy.com/?me...
There does seem to be a high correlation between people who cannot get stuff done but love talking about it, and those having an MBA.

I also get the impression that universities regard MBAs as an easy way to make money - ie. a repackaged and remarketed grab bag of bachelor degree subjects.

Am I being overly cynical?
might be a troll, but i wouldn't 100 percent count on it. if you're new to a site and want to get attention quickly, what better way than to make a trolly-sounding comment that everybody will pile on immediately.

it takes some people awhile to realize that it doesn't work that way around here.
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For one, it's really hard to understand that guy.

>Can you kindly ask all the idiots that engineer php if they would be willing
To do that work for free or if they will pay for programmers to do it in
Compensation for their utter stupidity and arrogance and the contempt they
Show to their users?

What does that mean? do work for free? Meaning port everyone's sites forward?

As for the substance that I eventually figured out, one has to ask why he people don't just not update their apps if they hate the lack of backward compatibility.

Making every release of software 100% backward compatibility is very hard and is a good way to get infrequent releases that do little.

And I have no idea how the thinks anyone has ground to sue.
Hope you didn't have prefetch on before reading the article!
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Depends on who your target audience is. As of last year, DEMO had the most traditional press walking the floor (NYT, Businessweek, etc). That gets you customer penetration outside of the Valley echo-chamber. If your audience is just early adopters, TC might be the way to go.
You bet! In fact, they are in the hands of pretty much any modern high schooler: the TI-83 and TI-84 graphing calculators both use Z80 chips :)
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What a fool. If he doesn't want to change his code then why install a new release? It's not like the second a new version comes out the old ones suddenly disappear from the Internets or from the servers they're installed on.
(As seen on Slashdot; posted better link here.)
Flagged for idiocy. There must be more worthy stories out there on the net.
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Treating 1 out of 10.000 customers badly is hard to avoid.
More pics:

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I've tried a to implement GTD a few times but am never able to stick with it - Its an interesting system and the only one that I ever tried to implement.

I called David Allen's company to see how much the 'coach' would cost so that a couple of my colleagues and I could get started, but it was way too high for me to consider.

I always revert back to moleskine & 3x5 notecards.
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When I was working on my product full-time, I always said I was "self-unemployed."
It looks like this item is a duplicate of a previous one

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280852

The other post gives a nice example of where the problem actually occurs. Note that contrary to what the other item says, the issue isn't actually "code" tags per se, but "pre" tags.
> the "experienced executive team" that replaced them seemed to go out of their way to run the company into the ground

I've seen this, as well as seing the -same- executive run two different companies into the ground.
A 45 min. fast charge sounds impressive. I would think that would require much more current than a typical household outlet is able to supply. Does anyone know if the current Tesla roadster come with a charging station? And how is that connected to the household mains?

[update: I found some forums mentioning that charging the current roadster in 3.5 hours requires the installation of a 240V/70A charging station in your garage/home]

[update 2: Here's the High Power Connector: http://shop.teslamotors.com/products/high-power-connector. It's connected directly to the breaker panel in the home]
So why didn't you link us to it then?

http://www.youtube.com/edu
code_devil,

I'm going to Startup Weekend but I'm also a backend developer. There should only be 1 backend developer per team right?
I'm quite surprised that this was modded up. Market research is indeed a component of marketing.

I would suggest that those who modded it up sign up for some business courses / read a book on general business management or marketing. Just as you respect business guys who take the trouble to understand technical details / are ex hackers, so too an understanding of business lingo will gain you respect in their eyes. And allows you to have more meaningful discussions.

Or just read Wikipedia if in doubt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing
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Configuring only the code you need can bring the actual kernel size down to very small images. Configuring a kernel for a small embedded application takes time, but its well worth it. And fast.
I'm sorry, as far as I'm aware, developers see no money from the sale of a second hand game.

If you are not going to reward a developer for their hard work, or contribute to their next game, why would you pay anything at all?
> who wants to bet this will the new, popular 4chan bait for random bypassers?

Wouldn't that be a "good thing"? If the signal-to-noise ratio for this honeypot goes down and they end up investigating a bunch of innocent people, that should be enough for the practice to stop.
Good point. I'll make sure to do that next time.
have you considered using google analytics?
I've heard negative reactions from game developers before and think they should pay more for popular used games, so I'm not surprised by this. On the Dawdle blog there is this post which links to a Penny Arcade comic which shows this seems to be an on-going thing.
http://blog.dawdle.com/2009/03/why-penny-arcade-is-wrong-abo...

I found this post from Dave Perry which I think sums up why the developer feel slighted by Game Stop. I sympathise with them. If Perry is right they'll begin pushing things like Steam and sharing profits directly with MS and Sony for downloads. I prefer hard copies though.

http://www.dperry.com/archives/news/dp_blog/used_game_night/

It's a short post so I won't excerpt.
That's how we kicked their (and Yahoo's, and MSN's) ass in Latin America for search advertising. We spoke the languages, answered the phone, answered emails, dealt with icky non-US forms of payment, walked people through their first ad campaigns, etc.
Or I hope you weren't building a search engine and running spiders from your home pc.
Shrug, all I know is the market researcher I dated was quite clear that marketing and market research are very different things and are not subsets of each other.

Then again, the wikipedia article you linked to says "The marketing literature is also infamous for re-inventing itself and its vocabulary according to the times and the culture". So who knows?
I think it might be useful to generalize that even more. Google are good with aggregate. When problems are granular they are not.
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Facebook seems to be doing a remarkably poor job (in my opinion) of drawing in users who post interesting content for all that investment in hardware infrastructure. That looks like a dangerous business model.
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In an internet company, the people responsible for the product (engineers) are the talent.

In my experience, marketing people at big companies only know how to spend money. Many sales people just have expensive dinners and long-winded biz dev meetings.

Give me the sales guy who sold insurance door to door and is passionate about the product. Or someone who can excite Eskimos about snow to be marketing. The rest don't belong in startups (or any company trying to maintain a startup ethic)
I understand everything he is saying, but I do think its still important to know when home sales start to go up month over month. Though he argues this data does not yield a statistically significant indication of either direction, month over month home sales would be a factor in determining whether or not our economy was beginning to recover. Therefore it is important, arguably more important than year over year statistics, at least for the popular media.
unfortunately, just clicking on the link means you are no longer innocent. If you click, you can get jailed for the act.
So basically the exact opposite of the picture of the couple on the site.
It has a terrible name considering you can't access it through http://YouTube.EDU.
Google is losing its luster for employeer of choice
I must admit that I don't understand the issue. Why is it OK if users sell games, but not OK if shops sell used games (as dperry writes). I don't get it.
Yet you also use it to denote people who seek status or money.

I use "douchebag" for those for whom status and money are top-tier goals, and those who are willing to make ethical sacrifices in order to further their career and material well-being. People who fit this profile tend, in addition to being shallow, to be relatively useless because their only skills are political play.

My investment banking peers were some of the most outstanding people I've ever met.

I've met some great people at all levels of investment banks, but there's no denying that (except outside of a few ivory-tower quant groups) investment banking has a douchebag culture. Face time, moronic machismo, authoritarianism, and professional hazing all play into that. Most of the well-adjusted bankers have an almost heroic ability to keep themselves centered in spite of their insane environment.

"Douchebags" seldom get anywhere in business unless they're related to someone important [...]

This is generally true in technology, but not as true in business as a whole. What underlines a douchebag-friendly environment is one crucial element: opacity of contribution. Douchebags generally spend too much time playing politics to contribute under their own power, and usually get ahead by taking credit for others' work, assigning themselves (and people whom they know will let them take credit) easy but important-seeming projects, and playing politics. In technology, it's harder to pull this off than in most other businesses.

You're also confusing "asshole" and "douchebag"-- two related but distinct concepts. An asshole is a mean, obnoxious, and tactless person. A douchebag is a socially successful and smooth, but mean-spirited and worthless person. Assholes are assholes to everyone and generally reviled for this, but douchebags aren't douchebags to anyone important, and will only be mean if it improves their social standing. So you don't necessarily know, in all circumstances, who the douchebags are. Douchebags climb corporate ladders easily, due to the opacity of douchebaggery. Assholes, on the other hand, almost never rise; if no one else takes them out, a douchebag will, because the reviled asshole is an easy target.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this entrapment?

As I understand it, it's legal for the authorities to go buy marijuana, and then arrest the dealer. But it is not legal for them to sell marijuana, and then bust the people who buy it.
I've seen this as well.

This seems to happen more prevalently in newer industries and software based businesses, where the team coming in may be extensively briefed, but still does not really 'get' it. It may be a disconnect with customers wishes, with the market, competitors, or even with the existing employees/staff.

It seems much better to hire awesome advisers than to replace founders. Good founders also know when it is time to give up the reins as well.
No talk at all about dwindling fish stocks, high mercury content, and Japan's obvious global destruction of marine ecosystems. I wish people would get real, and try to realize that we're basically raping the ocean. No different than hunting wild Animals in Africa and airlifting them directly to $400 plates...
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This ought not be a problem. It's an up-front cost. The algae reproduces on its own after you seed it in your grow ponds, yes? The whole concept is centered around harvesting the said algae after that.
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You nailed it: "It seems much better to hire awesome advisers than to replace founders. Good founders also know when it is time to give up the reins as well."
Sorry, when a headline says "home sales fell 41% in February" I do not assume year over year, I assume month over month. This post's headline is needlessly provocative and misleading. Take it to reddit.
read the article, it's discussed there at length.
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Personally, I'd hate to be referred to as "the blogger". "The author" seems a bit less dismissive.
Entrapment and all the related legal discussions aside: there's a purely technical problem with the data used as evidence: no referrer data was collected.

In other words, the IP logs that the FBI is using only really indicate that someone followed a link. No information about link body text, alt text, title attributes can be inferred from these logs without any indication of context. The URL's themselves look pretty bad as well, but the evidence data doesn't really indicate what the user saw when they clicked the URL.

On top of this a whole host of issues around prefetching and content crawling could be raised, but I'm not even going there. But then it seems that probable cause is a pretty low barrier, so maybe you don't need much incriminating evidence anyway.

From the article:
"When anyone visited the upload.sytes.net site, the FBI recorded the Internet Protocol address of the remote computer. There's no evidence the referring site was recorded as well, meaning the FBI couldn't tell if the visitor found the links through Ranchi or another source such as an e-mail message."
Then leave. From the sound of it, you've already proven that you can wear all the necessary hats anyway, so you should feel pretty confident about it.
No. They do not prosecute people based on clicking the link. They merely obtain a search warrant. They will prosecute people if they found any CP based on the search warrant.
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I've used CafePress, Zazzle, and Moo in the past when I want to order something custom like a t-shirt, stickers, or whatever.

Are there any other services like this out there? Ideally ones that have an API.
You try taking an entrapment argument to trial...