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HouseTripon Ask HN: P=NP, what do you do?

If you've got a good solution, there are plenty of systems you can make more efficient (not only salesmen and UPS :-) I would make a list, create a consultancy and propose my services to the industries with the highest remunerative potential :-)

HouseTripon Ask HN: Please review my new project: almost.at

Love the interface and the real-time aggregation thing. However I think it would be even better if one could submit the topic to be searched and aggregated for --> not limited to events chosen by you. For instance I'd like to find mention of my company at specific times (during a viral campaign, etc.)

HouseTripon Poll: Should we ban TechCrunch?

Let's get crazy and ban comments that suggests we ban comments suggesting we ban polls about banning TechCrunch. -> not funny anymore I guess :-)

HouseTripon Ask YC/HN: What Should I Ask Dr. Wolfram?

Ask him why claims on his website that they have 5.4M unique visitors (http://tinyurl.com/pwobdf) when Compete shows they have 70'000 :)

HouseTripon Ask YC: How do sites like Compete, Alexa collect traffic estimates?

A good way of understanding the popularity of a website is google trend. This article on Techcrunch shows an example of obvious bad data with Hitwise (which can be applied to Alexa and Compete as well): http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/20/new-hitwise-stats-show-...

At the end of the day, everyone who owns a blog or a website (myself included) has been able to experience first hand how flawed the data from such companies are by simply comparing them with their own google analytics data :-)