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Some book merchant now operates half the worlds computing infrastructure. Who would have known? etc etc

Vegetarian alternative possible?

What is law if not the ability to arrest controversy?

You're not holding much water to be honest. Pick one: a) animals are incapable of suffering b) we shouldn't care if animals suffer c) we should care and pass laws

"Convict food" in penal Australia.

That's your perspective, but consider what was also said about the Women's rights movement in Victorian times: "Give them the right to own property? What next? The right to vote?!".

Some considered those laws equally absurd.

No. Our intelligence and capacity for empathy obliges us to rise above the level of primitive instincts.

Seeing as rape and incest exists in the natural world, by your argument should it also be considered fair game for humans?

Ingredient list for the top selling brand of bread in the US:

Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Honey, Sugar, Wheat Gluten, Whole Wheat Flour, Rye Flour, Wheat Bran, Contains 2% or Less of Each of the Following: Yeast, Soy Flour, Salt, Soybean Oil, Dough Conditioners (Contains One or More of the Following: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Calcium Stearoyl Lactylate, Monoglycerides, Mono- and Diglycerides, Distilled Monoglycerides, Calcium Peroxide, Calcium Iodate, DATEM, Ethoxylated Mono- and Diglycerides, Enzymes, Ascorbic Acid), Cultured Wheat Flour, Vinegar, Calcium Sulfate, Yeast Food (Ammonium Sulfate), Monocalcium Phosphate, Soy Lecithin, Calcium Carbonate.

Mobitix cameras have a high level of customisability in regards to motion detection. High end but worth it.

I guess some people like companies that produce great products?

I don't think I've done a very good job of explaining this.

The people within these organisations also browse the web: what I'm proposing is that we publish the details of what they're browsing. For example, if a site such as torrentfreak decided to embed the tracking gif, I for one would find it very interesting to see what gov departments are reading which articles on that site.

The idea is to expose the browsing habits of the watchers. e.g. Oh look, someone in the judicial branch just visited a page on cross-dressing.

Top 20 when I remove the StumbleUpon metric:

    [lifx.co] => 97.942429714246
    [kickfolio.com] => 89.598662998513
    [shebusiness.com] => 84.413930181291
    [netcomber.com] => 83.758506325309
    [readershop.com.au] => 71.445369888231
    [nameterrific.com] => 71.375673413085
    [bugcrowd.com] => 71.328010040444
    [shop2.com] => 71.228983543186
    [serviceseeking.com.au] => 68.308687033257
    [righttoknow.org.au] => 67.654116949018
    [theiconic.com.au] => 67.28062258823
    [kogan.com] => 67.173702738231
    [retailmenot.com] => 65.963267045507
    [startlocal.com.au] => 65.922497275844
    [social-medicine.org] => 65.833298346458
    [kaggle.com] => 65.616138632997
    [manageflitter.com] => 65.551656760889
    [freelancer.com] => 65.455719109403
    [harris.com] => 65.150296026706
    [freelanceswitch.com] => 64.742373047548

Doesn't feel like a substantial shift (good).

Ha- sorry you mean you guys haven't handed Xero over to the American gov yet!? ;)

(I've removed xero from the db)

"better then hype alone" was my philosophy. Yes I'm involved in the current #1 (and others on that page). I disclosed this on twitter, published the algorithm and made the metrics visible.

Snip from someone who is smarter then me at these things...

Assuming that the first measurement is x likes, the second is y likes,

Then the estimate of the natural logarithm of the growth is given by

log(y / x) with an error estimate of sqrt(1 / x + 1 / y)

But since you are interested in the conservative estimate of the growth, you should use something like ~ 5% confidence interval. So I would recommend ranking your dataset using the folllowing function. log(y / x) - 2 * sqrt(1 / x + 1 / y)

For example:

growth from 1 to 10 will get the score of 0.2

growth from 100 to 400 will get the score of 1.16

growth from 10000 to 15000 will get the score of 0.38

One of the important properties of this estimator will be that the growth from say 10000 to 100000 will be ranked higher than the grown from 1000 to 10000, which in turn will be ranked higher than the grown from 100 to 1000 etc...

Fair point- I've tried not to make any arbitrary decisions on how the data is used but I'll take a look at what the results look like sans stumbleupon.

I'm the creator...

Fast growth: Given the last 14 days, score = log(day_14_sum_of_metrics / day_1_sum_of_metrics) - 2 * sqrt(1 / day_1_sum_of_metrics + 1 / day_14_sum_of_metrics)

Big growth: Given the last 30 days, score = day_30_sum_of_metrics - day_1_sum_of_metrics

10w RGB COB LED + enclosure with heat sink + control board.

The LiFX lead engineer had started answering questions here: http://tech.lifx.co/

UK: http://thewall.co.uk AU: http://thewall.com.au

^ latest project from our team (we also built trendsmap.com, cushycms.com, retailmenot.com, bugmenot.com, etc)

The Wall provides an automatic, real-time view of what's newsworthy by monitoring, analysing and publishing the most discussed topics on social networks as they occur.

The advantage of this approach is that our sites are always current, diverse, cheap to operate and free from all forms of commercial and political bias.

Each topic on The Wall features links to the most shared and debated media, commentary and opinions at any particular moment in time.

Currently we're processing over 7 million tweets per day to generate this content.

Hope you like it- much blood, sweat and tears has gone into it.

I think the first point to realise is that there's a huge scope as far as potential CMS functionality is concerned.

At one end of the market are the big enterprise level CMSs complete with workflow, permission groups, asset management, etc.

At our end we've created a hosted solution (http://www.cushycms.com) that takes 2 minutes to install and no training, etc.

Personally it always amaze me how difficult most CMSs are to use. The fundamental point of them is to allow non-technical people to edit content.

The other problem we've tried to tackle is that it can often take days for a developer to implement/customize a CMS.

Sure we've sacrificed some functionality (editors can't add pages) but we felt it made sense to start with base of easy/fast and build from there.

Look, I appreciate your candor and all but I can't help but think if I was your coworker then I'd be pissed at having to carry your sorry arse.

Shit or get off the pot.

Sorry, way to busy for outside work. We'll definately take the compliment though! ;)

You can easily hide ebay listings (or any other merchant)- hover over the merchant name ("EBAY.COM") beneath the product title and you'll see what I mean.

Assure you it does work, just the database does not reflect user submitted prices in real time.

We've considered the potential for abuse- the same concerns were voiced for retailmenot.com when we launched that too.

Thanks for your feedback.

Thanks for the feedback- sounds like we have some work to do around communicating the concept.

I'd suggest a use case where you find a product online somewhere and fill in the three large fields on the home page with its details. This is really key to the whole "beat my price" concept.

The tags are really just an overview of current popular search terms and aren't meant to be the focus of the functionality.

In your "wii" example if you adjust the 'target price' slider you should see different results depending on the price of the item you're after. E.g. accessories versus an actual Wii console.

Anyway, appreciate your feedback- definately take it to the team.

+1 bugmenot.com are hosted with these guys

Moderation.

If you let any one thing consume all of your time then you're missing out on all the beauty and diversity the world and life can offer.

Feed your brain new experiences and it will reward you.

For cushycms.com we offer a choice between PayPal and AlertPay when paying for plans.

They both do subscriptions. PayPal for quick and easy. AlertPay for a more traditional credit card style gateway.

Being based in Australia really limits our options though.