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Ask HN: Question about Google Tracking Disparities
Hi HN,

Hopefully someone will have the knowledge and insight I lack to answer this. I'm also frustrated that there's no clear way to ask Google this question.

I've recently started to create hubpages to hopefully bring in some more revenue streams on the side - I'm not deluded into thinking I'll make a million bucks mind you, but the articles are high quality and informative, so I feel I'm providing a valuable service.

But the visitor metric tracking disparities between Hubpages, Google analytics, and google adsense are terrible!

On one particular hub, I see from the past seven days:

Hubpage visitor count: 82 page views

Google analytics: 50 visitors/65 page views

Google Adsense: 25 pageviews. (wtf!?!?)

Tracking codes and everything seem to be installed right (Hubpages does not make this hard). It would seem like Google's trying to game me. What's with the disparity? Is this because of ad-blockers?

Note: I've also seen this disparity in Google's own tracking with my own self-hosted sites in the past. So does anyone have any insight in to what's going on?
Yes of course I'm concerned about out of date packages. For example, my Fedora machine at work only has packages for Firefox 3.5. I tried using the tarball from firefox's home page, but for whatever reason it was really unstable.

I don't think it is unreasonable to expect to be able to install the latest version of such a major open source product as Firefox without hassle.

I don't know what you mean by the Windows/OSX update hell. Perhaps you mean the lack of a centralized place to look for updates. Here I agree that the situation is less than ideal, but I wouldn't call it hell. I'm sure the situation can be solved without relying on a centralized repository of all software.

The way Chrome does it may be the best option. Too bad it's not used by more projects.

The main thing I want is a clear separation between the core platform and the applications. Then the platform vendor can focus on the platform and the application developers can focus on their applications.
I disagree with that analogy. It's true that some people just aren't ever going to be programmers, and no number of books will help that. On the other hand, some people have all of the correct mental attitudes, they just haven't been introduced to programming before.

I think a much more reasonable analogy is something like playing the harp. Most people see little point in learning, and many of those that try it won't have the aptitude/interest to actually become adept, but there are a few that will become masters.
Curious to know what other profession you might be considering going into where you can use your programming skills as your secret weapon.
5000-7000mg of sodium per day

or, per food product: anything that has more than 1.5x as much sodium as it does calories
Dating is rough at the transport layer
SYN ... ACK?
I guess the margarita would be an example of prior art?
Was there a corresponding 25% decrease in chlorine as well? Cuz, uh, more free chloride ions seems... not good.
Google for "dendritic salt"... it's been around for years. It also soaks up flavors into its little pores and holds them really well. I've seen micrographs in advertisements in food industry publications that are really beautiful, fractal-looking crystals. They key is to add a touch of things like sodium ferrocyanide to hinder the usual crystallization so that the crystals only grow at the corners.
there is a gridview inside cloudkick, this is just an alternative view on the data, for example this is the dashboard:
https://www.cloudkick.com/site_media/images/home_tour/dashbo...

There is also the /monitoring/ page (which i don't have a screenshot of handy), which is a grid view similar to what you are talking about.
The ideal time comprises 3 ninjas, 2 rockstars, and a level 10 archmage.
Games can be a good way to learn a lot of things, and so can simulation for the more complex situations. There is a push for using sim and serious games in medical education these days (went to a great conference a few months ago about it - IMSH 2010). It's funny you mentioned the "pathogen" video game - I made one a couple of years ago in residency called Bacteria Tower Defense (flash game). And it's designed so it can be easily updated by changing the data "file" to reflect changes in antimicrobial therapy. I'm actually working with several academic centers now on integrating that and my current project, SimCode ACLS, a web-delivered real-time simulator to improve the quality of teaching healthcare providers how to resuscitate people, while decreasing the cost of training and competency tracking. Will be presenting it at a national medical conference (SGIM) this week.
Distrustful, perhaps, because I've seen a bunch of other people try to pretend on HN to be something they're not, and because your site offers little evidence to support its claims.

If I see some proof that I am wrong, that you have indeed founded several million-dollar websites, then I will personally write you a public letter of apology and donate $100 to a charity of your choice.
You are much better off using code as your secret weapon in another profession

In what fields is this true? What is the metric of "better off?" More money? More "respect?"
"Lunokhod 1, by virtue of its location, would provide the best leverage for understanding the liquid lunar core..."

The moon has a liquid core?! Why was I not informed?
Nokia N900 vs Nokia E71
Nexus One soon available with Vodaphone and Verizon
Or modafinil - which seems to have attracted a bit of interest in posts around here recently :-)
Sometimes I'm not sure if Zed is a prima donna or just misunderstood. But, one thing is for certain. Zed definitely contributes to his respective communities. He contributes a lot. Probably more than most of us ever will.

Thank you Zed for your hard work and contributions.
A wiki to document obsolete skills
>Furthermore, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appellate court for California and the surrounding states) in its 2009 opinion in United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing Inc., 579 F.3d 989 (9th Cir. 2009), identified a series of guildelines meant to ensure that even otherwise lawful warrants authorizing the search and seizure of computers do not give officers too much access to private data that might be intermingled with evidence of a crime.

They seized what probably amounts to all of the personal and professional records stored in his home, which seems excessive given the nature of this investigation.

Also:

>First, California Penal Code Section 1524(g) provides that "[n]o warrant shall issue for any item or items described in Section 1070 of the Evidence Code." Section 1070 is California's reporter's shield provision (which has since been elevated to Article I, § 2(b) of the California Constitution). The items covered by the reporter's shield protections include unpublished information, such as "all notes, outtakes, photographs, tapes or other data of whatever sort," if that information was "obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for communication to the public."
it's for the crisps/chips they make (as mentioned elsewhere, pepsi owns frito-lay)
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It's a good idea - and will definitely help.

However it's very hard to hide everything simply because your operating systems and programs love to store stuff.

One solution might be to use a vm stored inside an encrypted partition. So all that "meta" information is also encrypted - and the host is just clean.
If they haven't shown up already, they are unlikely to any time soon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox
We do pretty exactly what you described on the monitoring overview -- except for the filter in #1. Great feedback, however, and we will look at including that!

This is a very different take on visualizing your infrastructure. I encourage you to setup your servers and post on the big screen at your office. After watching it for awhile, you will start to be able to see when something is an anomaly just with a glance.
Glad it's working for you. As I work on the book, let me know if any exercise isn't making sense. Many times if that's happening there's something you're missing I need to include.
TRIZ the theory of inventor's problem
According to Orin Kerr's analysis on The Volokh Conspiracy
(http://volokh.com/2010/04/27/thoughts-on-the-legality-of-the...), while the US Federal law has this exception it's missing from the California state law.
Damn, it's not in the top 50 anymore? That sucks. I haven't checked it in a while.

I didn't expect this thread to turn into a big investigation.

I suppose I can reveal a closed site of mine (one of my first success's) I was the sole founder of MovieForumz.com which reached a best rank of around 480ish (global) and had profits in the millions.

I'm a top ClickBank affiliate and part of the APEX program. If you are also part of APEX, you can can confirm my e-mail address in the leaked e-mail from them last year (they used CC instead of BCC).
I was reminded of http://www.fudgie.org/ when I saw this.
Chicago Public Radio (WBEZ et al.) has a daily hour-long world news show, "Worldview". It specialized in interviewing experts and specialists on topics both big and small. The listener receives MUCH more information, both in detail and in expertise, than is available through much of the (U.S.) mainstream media.

Today, the second "half" (more or less) of the show discussed the situation in Rwanda. Much of the information appears to be similar to what I heard the other month and described in my parent comment, above.

Worldview archive page for the program:

http://www.wbez.org/Program_WV.aspx?episode=41595

Worldview page for the particular segment:

http://www.wbez.org/Program_WV_Segment.aspx?segmentID=41596

Worldview podcast page (note that MP3's that have fallen off the podcast listing due to age are still available through the site's archive pages)

http://podcasts.chicagopublicradio.org/cprworldviewpodcast

I wasn't monitoring the clock exactly, but I think the segment will begin somewhere between minutes 20 and 25 of the podcast (probably around minute 23). If the podcast includes the lead in BBC news summary, add 6 or 7 minutes to my guestimate start time for the segment.
"Khan said PepsiCo researchers collaborated with scientists from around the world and found ways of changing the crystal size and structure to make the salt crystal dissolve more quickly, effectively putting the sodium on your tongue, not in your digestive system."

What? What happens to the salt that dissolves on your tongue? Doesn't it travel into your system as you swallow your saliva? Or do little salt beaches form in your mouth?
Yeah, I do too. I gave the feedback because the author is reading the thread.
Apparently it takes only 3 up-votes to get an article on the front page. Can we please hear less about this company for like a day even? It's as though Hacker News must examine every single element of this case. I can see certain articles or topics being defended on the grounds that it is of tertiary interest to hackers+entrepreneurs, but this has nothing to do with any of that.
Decreasing the supply of parents willing to adopt increases the number of children who will never have parents. It's common sense.
Trade secret and top secret are two very different things.

In any case, while it is possible that the loss of such a prototype could have devastating implications for a company, it seems pretty clear that this publication was not a serious problem for Apple.
"Google ad service sees more traffic on Google device." AdMob wasn't always Google but they are now. "iAd traffic surges on iPhone OS devices! Android left in the dust!"
no one (not even the EFF) is saying that shield law protects you from committing a crime.

If you read the EFF's post (linked above), there is a argument that the warrant runs a-fowl of the law. Not that they are immune to the law.
Hubpage visitor count will be higher because it counts requests on the server side, including page views where the user had Javascript disabled, or left the page before the Google trackpageview event fired.

Google Analytics should accurately count visitors who have Javascript enabled, which is a subset of all users. Even then, sometimes Analytics loads, but the trackpageview event might not fire before the visitor leaves the page (sometimes this results in a 0:00 time on site, if the pageview is counted, but the timer event doesn't fire).

Adsense pageviews are usually equal to the number of Analytics pageviews times the number of ad units on the page. So if you have 50 Analytics pageviews, and one ad per page, you will get 50 Adsense page views. In your case, Hubpages randomly selects to show either your Adsense code or theirs, so you have 25 Adsense pageviews (and Hubpages has the other 25). That's Hubpages' revenue sharing model, as described here:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Does-hubpages-take-a-percentage-of-m...
Our analytics data has US iPhone visits at 5x Android, so there is quite a way to go. I think as long as iPhone remains exclusively at AT&T it will happen eventually.
Looks like they heard you... there's note up there now.
Why, exactly, is it "clear" to you that this publication isn't an ongoing serious problem for Apple? As you can tell, I'm a bit baffled by how blase people are about what's happened here. Just because it happened on the Internet, and the sky didn't immediately erupt with lightning and fireballs, doesn't mean that something momentously bad didn't happen.
The metric in the sentence quoted is "interesting", and that the money is not the issue (as it is comparable to running a fast food joint.)
No they do not. Not at all.

If I'm looking at a computer I may keep an eye out for overtly illegal stuff, but you cannot go fishing. It's probably inadmissable for a start.
Almost every profession, actually.
Apple Buys a Chip Maker Behind the iPad Brain
Second quote first: that citation is circular. The reporters shield law doesn't protect reporters who themselves commit crimes.

First quote second: how do you know what is or isn't excessive? Nobody besides the authorities know what they're investigating.
Still interested in examples.
Heh, I'm not suggesting institutional anything. Precisely the opposite. I'm saying that in the bigger picture, welfare and subsidies and coercive interference in general hurt more than they help. E.g., aid to North Korea might keep impoverished North Koreans alive longer, but it will do nothing for their long term prosperity. It just gives them a chance to give birth to more impoverished North Koreans. Farm subsidies, etc, are arrogant, over-simplistic meddling with extremely complex natural systems that will have -- as the article in question was pointing out -- any number of unpredictable consequences.

I just don't buy the idea that the short-sighted whims of politics can make the world a better place.

[edit: adding for clarity: "stop encouraging" DOES NOT translate as "start discouraging"]
Perhaps you are implying the Dragon Book is not needed for people who will use tools like lex and yacc to generate it.

While that is true, the Dragon Book gives real insight into how a compiler really works and how to code one from scratch. If someone is only interested in getting a very basic compiler up and running quickly and not interested in understanding how to really make one, a simple tutorial for yacc should suffice.
Business consulting. They look at you like a wizard.
Like running a fast food restaurant? Or being a surgeon? Or a lawyer?
on a related note, has anyone read through Thinking in Python?
Pure capitalist libertarianism is a society where government is willing to stand back and let people die. Not society. There's a difference.

In time of trouble, you can turn for help to family, friends, neighbors, private charity, or government. In roughly descending order of efficiency and humanity.

Including government at the end of that chain is a noble attempt to make sure no one falls through the cracks--like the federal reserve as a "lender of last resort". The problem is that, like the federal reserve, the guarantee at the end of the chain changes the dynamics at the front.

We respond to a government guarantee to care for the old and infirm by not doing it ourselves. Why plan to care for your mother when the government will do it? Why support private orphanages when you pay taxes to support institutionalizing them?

The result is emaciated expectations of family, friends and neighbors, and sickly private charity. Government may be inefficient and inhumane, but it's cheap--spending someone else's money--and it's guaranteed. So it dominates the space. And when the other options die away through disuse, it looks like there are no other options. And all that's left is dependence on the state.

The idea that it's government care or no care is an illusion created by a couple generations of government dependence. I am convinced that our way -- institutions, beaurocrats -- is really the inhumane way to care for the poor. I want to get rid of it, not because I don't care, but because I do.
Whoops, you're right. I mixed him up with Oppenheimer.
For those who want to know:

http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

P.S. I assume that is the Fossil in question
Whoops, you're right :/
Ingredients: Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt. No Preservatives.

There are similarly simple ingredients in most plain potato chips. But corn chips and potato chips are usually FRIED!!
I think the ZSMFA thing was hilarious, but it went over most people's heads (sadly.)

Watching your vim-fu at the first RoR conf (which I don't expect you to remember,) I still long for a series of vim screencasts from you, going into things like custom vim scripts and how you integrate it into your workflow.
RIM unveils BlackBerry OS 6 with iPhone-like multitouch
Wait are you sure? You're "restructuring" salt. That raises flags for me, as much as HFCS does anyway. I guess I'd have to see exactly what they do. More chloride?
I guess we're going to find out how good Jason Chen's back up strategy is. I doubt he'll write anything for Gizmodo for a little while, but I wonder how long it will take him to get back up and running with all of his systems seized.
I don't see a reason for news journalists to act as proxies for Apple etc.'s PR departments. News is news because it's new; there's nothing much new about the dominant platform being targeted by malware, and it's not because Windows is intrinsically flawed, but because it's the big target.

Also, the article's site is an amazingly shrill opponent of anything relating to MS or Bill Gates. "Author Calls for Action to Stop Bill Gates' Abduction of US Education", "Microsoft Exploits the Poor", "Gates Foundation (and Microsoft) Take the Libraries Takeover Global", etc. It reads like the author(s) puppies got squished by MS early in life, or something. Definitely personal, not rational.
>If he hadn't been gay, would he have been murdered?

He committed suicide.
I'm getting more and more convinced that the best way frameworks can work is to be like scaffolding when building a house etc. By the time the structure is built, you don't need the scaffolding any more so you tear it down. By the time you've built your web app it should stand on its own and you shouldn't see the framework any more.

CSS frameworks are flexible in this way if you use them in such a way that you butcher the css rather than your html, but server side web frameworks don't seem to work that way. It'd be closer to 1st pass code generation than it would be to an app server that you run inside of. If anyone knows of a good server side framework like this, esp in python, sing out. (thanks)
Soft lock in? I don't know... I guess I'm being a bit literal with the term "lock." It's not binary (literally handcuffed or not), but more of a continuum taking into account the cost of moving away. So sure, I guess I missed that.

And though I realize others may feel differently, I'm of the mindset that the costs are relatively low in walking away from facebook without my data. I have all my pictures anyway. Other peoples' pictures of me? Na... I don't own them. Statuses, messages, connections, likes, events? Sayonara without qualms.
In finance you would be ahead if you could tweak your models, in accounting you would be better off if you could write tools to automate your daily trivial accounting tasks, in marketing you would be able to impress your clients with a website that automatically shows live updates and spending from their campaigns. The list is endless if you have a little imagination.

And better off would either be more free time, more money or more status (however you define that). Pick one.
Read the last page of the book, he enumerates many.
"The reporters shield law doesn't protect reporters who themselves commit crimes."

According to Orin Kerr's analysis on The Volokh Conspiracy
(http://volokh.com/2010/04/27/thoughts-on-the-legality-of-the...), while the US Federal law has this exception it's missing from the California state law.
Regarding the second, the article says (regarding the PPA's protections for journalists):

The PPA includes an exception for searches targeting criminal suspects (which Chen may or may not be), but that exception does not apply "if the offense to which the materials relate consists of the receipt, possession, communication, or withholding of such materials or the information contained therein."
Is that supposed to be a yes-or-no question?
Lenovo T410s come standard with matte, LED-backlit screens.
Web will win.

No one wants to make an app for the iPhone, Android, Palm, Blackberry, and WinMobil when then can just make 1 for the web which all of them can access.

1 Company will never and should never control the way people access information. App stores allow this while the web does not making it the only likely future.
Disclaimer: I work at Cloudkick.

Imagine looking at a list of 500 servers and trying to determine how their aggregate memory usage was trending in real-time.

To quickly address your concerns:

1. Servers that are critical turn red and blink - there's no need to filter anything since your eyes have already done it.

2. This tool isn't really designed to be a gateway to arbitrary servers; it's showing you anomalies, problems, and aggregate trending.

3. I think this could be a fair point, but with only 3 (clearly labeled) axes, I think it's hard to suggest that the learning curve for digestion the information is incredibly steep. If you actually think how it's set up at the moment is too confusing, I'd love to hear suggestions.

We leave this up on the big screen at the office and it makes it very easy to tell when something untoward is happening with our servers, without really having to devote direct attention to the visualization. We designed it so problems stand out and make themselves known to you.

One of our guiding principles is to move quickly and take user feedback though, so if you've got any constructive criticism, let's keep the discussion going!!!
That's not similar, because we are not representatives of HN. Government employees using their authority do represent the government.
That ASCII art CAPTCHA looks geeky, but it should be trivial to crack and is thus worthless if very many sites use it.
Unreported is the process used to achieve the result. What enzymes are used? Are there trace amounts left in the finished salt?
Hated this. Distorted statistics mixed with cliched sound bites and fermented in rhetoric.

For starters, sugar and starch have more calories than lettuce and fruit not just for each dollar, but also for every pound.

The author took a couple of well known symptoms(run-off! animal cruelty! resistant bacteria!), tossed it together in a salad bowl, and chucked it in the general direction of the nebulous "food industry".

He doesn't offer deeper reasons of why the system is how it is, doesn't suggest methods of fixing the situation, and goes no further than regurgitating one sided talking points.