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Speaking as someone who's had to write these kinds of tools internally it's nice to see more offerings in this space.

That said, I think there is a reason all the players in the space gravitate to very expensive enterprise level offerings - it's the only place they can create real value.

Analytics is hard. It either requires a lot of smart code rolling up large amounts of data into manageable pieces, or a very big piece of iron that can deal with somewhat raw data. And in either case, everyone has their data in a different format in a different database on a different OS. The result is that you need a behemoth piece of enterprise software or a custom written solution.

Even if you build a really smart UI that lets you quickly build reports that slice and dice you data, one dimension is too large to quickly process, or the ID's in another set don't quite line up. Something. There is always a problem that comes up that makes those canned demo videos look comical.

The best tool I've used where I felt it was both easy to use and powerful is Tableau. But, the price tag ended up being a little too high to swallow.

Note that one space I see that is under served is outward facing dashboards. If you're an advertising company and you want to show the results of the campaign you ran for a client, you have to send them an excel file or write your own custom dashboard. A server that manages authentication, data versioning, chart presentation, regular email updates, browser compatability, etc. is adding a lot of value. GoodData is working on this problem, and I think they are on to something. The concept has a viral quality, as well, as every client they sign up exposes their technology to all that client's clients.
FYI, the rather reclusive owner of the company, Theo Albrecht, died quite recently. It may surprise you to know he was one of the world's richest men.

TJs has the lowest number of different products in it stores of any major supermarket, plays employees significantly above the industry average ($40-60k; managers can earn 6 figures), gets a far greater $/sq foot return than competitors, and does over $8 billion a year in sales. And pretty much everyone likes them.

Herr Albrecht is a pretty good role model if you ask me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/05/theo-albrecht...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870489500457539...
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Thanks for the feedback. We do have that huge header that says "Build for the Web Faster & Easier!", thus we would hope you immediately conclude it's web based. For most of those points above, the keywords are actually links to more information for each of those points.

Line 3 in particular is meant to emphasize that you can deploy across all browsers and operating systems, this is in fact not what every web page does, as most web pages would normally require tinkering to work in various different browsers versions.

However, I do see your point. We're in the process of adding a functional code sample to an area of the home, however, it's very difficult to strike the balance to appeal to those that make the software decisions and hardcore developers. Something like vows is clearly targeted towards the hardcore, whereas we're attempting to target a broader range, which includes the hardcore developers.

It is difficult and definitely something we're trying to improve. We appreciate your honest feedback and will definitely take your advice into consideration for our next update. Thank You.
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Cool. If you want any pointers let me know. I've basically built this twice before for medium and large enterprises. Unfortunately the company I worked for didn't appreciate fully the general applicability of the product (they thought it only solved project management problems, only 1 of our customers fully understood it solved nearly all of their "first 80%" reporting needs), but it did allow data to be fetched from multiple backends (Excel, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc) and to be fed into one database that added snapshots over time (configurable granularity from 1 day up to anything).

To companies that had trouble getting their data together the sale was always easy as they appreciated the problem. But most didn't appreciate that problem so it's hard to sell on that basis.

The real value and the whizz-bang that sold it to most companies was how I presented the charts. I used SharePoint to create chart blocks, and these could be connected to other charts via a very simple connection framework.

Example: Drag one chart onto the page, configure it to look at some data. Drag another chart onto the page and configure it to look at some other data. Drag a filter onto the page and connect Chart A to Chart B via the filter and specify that Chart B's data is restricted to the selected series in Chart A.

What you then get is a multi-level drill-down and sets of building blocks that allow you to build any dashboard you want and to have pages that show really rich related charts.

Unfortunately the company I worked for only ever considered this as a project management solution even though it worked for all structured data from any source.

My latest toy (in my spare time) is how to do the same thing for semi-structured data and data that may be structured but not consistently. This is just because what I saw as constraints to reporting within larger companies wasn't the lack of data, but the lack of common edges that could power reporting.

Anyhow, I'll open source my work on SharePoint in a month or so, feel free to use whatever you need. It shows how to fetch data from multiple SharePoint systems in an eventual consistent way. And it also allows for storing data from multiple tables in the same few tables whatever the structure whilst being extremely efficient at aggregated reporting queries.
Tableau is an amazing piece of software but we agree about the price tag. We envision ourselves being Tableau on the web and eventually supporting native connections to Data APIs and then Intelligence.

It's a long road but you have to aim high.
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Ask HN: How do I prevent database bottlenecks on my web app? 
I have done web apps before but only in the classroom so I've not dealt with real customers and heavy database loads. Now I am working on my first serious web app for my startup which provides each customer with their own unique subdomain.

I understand that I will have to learn on to go but I would like to avoid the dreaded database bottlenecks I hear about as much as possible. To this end, what guiding principles can I use to design the schema? Will the relational database model I learnt in school be able to scale well or will it make bottlenecks imminent?
Does this site have a backup/export?

I might be interested in using it, but startups fail sometimes, and I would not like all my info to be lost if this happens.
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Nothing that has been discussed on HN lately will, likely, lead to an HIV cure. HIV is notoriously difficult to eradicate due to the fact that it stays dormant inside of immune cells for years. This is why the only cures that you hear about are those that have been induced via bone marrow transplant (which were done for other reasons, not for HIV; BMT is highly dangerous and the risk/benefit is strongly against doing this for cure of HIV alone).

I don't think that your statement about homosexuals is the most useful statement one could make about the HIV epidemic in the United States. There are various groups that suffer more from HIV than others: homosexuals, yes, but also ethnic minorities (blacks have 7x the incidence that whites have). This may just be semantics, but in my opinion HIV isn't really "mostly tied to homosexuals." It is true that a majority of new cases of HIV (57%) are due to male-to-male sexual contact, but that still leaves a vast 43% of the pie for heterosexual contact and IVDU. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/factshe...
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Relational databases handle systems much, much bigger than your app will ever be. You are highly unlikely to have scaling problems. If you do, yay. Concentrate on other sources of risk to your business, such as building someone that no one wants, or targetting a market of people who hate paying money for things.
I use Vim every day and don't remap.

Some keys, such as h,j,k and l are no-brainers - those should be remapped.

Not really. J and K remain side-by-side if you switch. H and L is also largely the same: instead of reaching over for H on QWERTY, you reach up for L on Dvorak; the left-to-right order of H and L is still correct, too. It even unintentionally falls into the Dvorak Way, since up/down is under the left hand, while left/right is under the right.
Suggestion:

Place a demo group on the home page. It's very hard to figure out what this site does from the minimal home page.

Make a single click demo group with full functionality, (but reset it every hour or so to avoid it collecting too much spam). Or even better, set a cookie, and new users will always get a fresh demo, which those with a cookie will be able to keep modifying their private demo for a while.
First Gen MR2s are definitely fun (and cool/quirky looking), but I sure wouldn't call them "fast". The NA cars are 0-60 in the mid/high 8s and standing quarter mile well over 16 seconds.

The average 2010 soul-less imported sedan will easily show its taillights to a 1986 MR2 in a stop-light grand prix (and most will give the MRS2 a good run).
See http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messa..., http://gist.github.com/539516 etc.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628356
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and here too http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1628780.
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But from what little I know, you also aren't allowed to list Southwest prices on other online booking aggregators. Our company travel site makes us open their site separately to check prices for this reason (I think -- it seems highly unlikely to be a technical incompatibility).
Olark is amazing. Because I have customers all over the world, but only an English site, it lets me interact with people who don't fully understand what they are reading.

It really helps with my Japanese customers because we can communicate in their language and I can guide them through the registration process. In the 4 days since launching, I've had dozens of people interact with me on it.
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Any plans to make this an openid server? It would be a good way to validate groups that other applications that require validation could leverage off.
very cool stuff. I'm always interested in hearing about more people in the analytics space
As mentioned already, the domain industry is known to pretty shady. Be careful.

I am working on a web service and iOS App that enables completely private domain name searching. That is, you can search for available domain names without even us knowing what you are searching for (this will all be verifiable and 100% transparent).

To be clear, we are not a registrar. We allow people to search available domain names without fear their domain idea will be stolen (by front running, etc). When ready to register, you can go to the registrar of your choice.

Any interested testers can contact me.
I think the name BrowserScript would be better.
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Ask HN: Choice of (romantic) partner - big impact?
Hi all,
since my question and content is a wee bit personal I've decided to post using a temp.

I am a 28 years old male and, as many here, both interested in and involved with tech and startups.
I am currently working daytime as a coder, and spend rest of the time coding/cofounding.

I have for a while now dated a girl, stunningly beautiful and eternally caring. Very much a dream come true for a mother in law... Except for one thing. One tiny yet life altering thing.
She is uneducated. Very much so.
She never finished elementary school (she's 21).
Now don't take this the wrong way. Most of my friends don't have a higher education - that's not really of importance. I find the character beneath far more important than a piece of document.
In this case though, with the girl - it makes it very difficult to communicate and share ideas.
Basic math, observations about languages, cultures, history and so on - there's nothing there. What breakes my heart and has kept me from loosing interest in her is that she is very interested in learing.
(Reason for her not finishing elementary is not because she couldn't handle it or dropped out. There were other issues. Family issues)

Sure we have fun and all but sometimes I feel the need to be understood. My cofounder does, perhaps that's enough?

My qustion isn't - what do you think I should do. That one I can handle myself.
Rather - maybe you guys could share some thoughts and stories about the relationship between your partner and your startup.

How big of an impact have they had and in what way?
I use Dynadot, I consider them both really good and cheap. ;)

Dynadot is also an actual registrar rather than a reseller. I don't know if they allow this anymore, but last time I ordered an incorrect domain name I was able to delete it for a refund through the control panel of the site. I don't know of any other registrars that allow that.

Otherwise they have the same features of most other sites. Their interface is simple and maybe a little ugly but at least it's not plastered with ads.
Here's a description of a nice experiment that implies dogs do have a "theory of mind":
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06...

In a nutshell, many dogs will vary whether they use their mouth or their paw to perform a task, depending on the circumstances under which they witness another dog perform that same task with either its mouth or paw.

A simple explanation of the difference is that the witnessing dog "explains" the other dog's way of doing things in terms of the decisions the other dog made.

You might look at books by Patricia McConnell, in particular "The Other End of the Leash" and "For the Love of a Dog". Stanley Coren also has some decent books on dog intelligence. These books focus on trying to understand the sorts of experiences you've described. More generally, Temple Grandin's "Animals in Translation" and "Animals Make Us Human" talk about some of these sorts of issues, not just in dogs, but also in cats, horses, pigs, and so on. I think you'll find there's a lot of research going on these topics-- a lot of it very fascinating.
Rivest has the right idea in terms of thinking about this cryptographically... But the Three Ballot system would be an absolute mess :-P Remember hanging chads? Try telling people that to vote against a candidate, they have to mark them on one of three ballots...
It's not really fair since J has a built-in function, but in J the gcd function is +.

15 +. 10

5

The near-canonical example is the mean, which is not built in:

mean =: +/%#
mean 2 3 4 5

3.5

Other code is similarly terse. On http://projecteuler.net/ it's not uncommon to see one-line J solutions to problems where other languages have solutions from 20 to 50 or more lines of code.
Having to listen to people who complain about how many homosexuals there are, and how inconsiderate it is of them to go on living and being homosexual at everyone. Other than that, I can't think of any.
My pitch: Improved speed and security all over the place, a saner mailing solution, lazy queries and first class support for rails engines. (A/B testing whole engines out kind of things are what I find exciting.)

Having said that, this version upgrade is half a paradigm shift. Living through it has cleared up a lot of mvc and good code concepts and ideas for me. I can think of numerous ways my 2.3 rails code could be better thanks to going through the transition. That alone is worth a couple of weeks of dev time, imho.
I saw Moon and thought it was good too. I liked how it seemed to intentionally and quite successfully avoid every cliched direction the story could have taken.

The only confusing bit is whether he was actually ever in the real world at all, or it was all a dream. This is almost the main concept of the film, and not answered when we see the spinning top still spinning at the end.

Yeah, though I didn't really see this as confusing, simply an unknown left open to interpretation.

I was half waiting for some kind of twist like say, it turns out that Cobb was dreaming the whole time and is in reality the heir to the company and is the target of the Incpetion... or something. I didn't really think that one through too deeply though and I'm not sure that a twist like this would have made the movie better in any case. I guess it just comes back again to that expectation that was built up in me of it being a full on "mind fuck" movie. In some ways I was kind of happy walking out of the cinema that my mind had not been fucked, just well entertained.
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Hyperbole :)
I suspect that's a misleading graph. They are trying to show a loss of manufacturing jobs and in order to make the graph more dramatic, they are graphing the percentage of jobs that are manufacturing. But if they graphed the total number of manufacturing jobs, it wouldn't be nearly so dramatic because of the huge increase in total employment over the years.

Quick Google search and look at the graphs here: http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010020825/no-virginia-u...

Comparing the charts based on what the two articles are trying to prove reminds me of "lies, damn lies, and statistics".
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Fun excerpt - "It would have been easier and more natural to just connect the CPU and GPU with a high-bandwidth, low-latency internal connection, but that would have made the new SoC faster in some respects than the older systems, and that's not allowed."
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> Why pay $10's of K per year to go to college and then spend 20 hours/week waiting tables instead of studying?

There's an assumption here that if you're working, it'll cut from your studying time and make you worse off. In reality, the more you fill up your schedule, the better off you'll be. Adding a job, sport, and club will make you better at studying and you'll have as good of a social life because your rare free time will be so precious that you'll want to plan and spend it well instead of sitting around boozing or getting high. My Mom came from nothing - like, nine kids, no money at all - and waited tables through college, kept a solid B average, I was born before her senior year (my Dad was in grad school), and they both finished up and got into good jobs.

I dropped out of high school, got an almost full scholarship to university anyways, and pretty much screwed around with my free time - the only time I was ever locked in academically was when I was also training as a fencer for 20+ hours per week. Before I was a fencer, I screwed around. After I broke my hand, I screwed around some more and dropped out to start a company. A few years later I studied business with my own money, paying cash each semester while working at the same time. Then I studied a lot more seriously.

Working for money is cool. Not working and pretending you're going to study in that time is delusional - the habits built from working and keeping a job is probably better than extra study time anyways at building character and making you successful.
Happy to hear that! I'll wait until we upgrade to the newest version before I start, though. No use complaining about stuff that's already been fixed. :)
The economics of HFCS is the key take away from this article.

The rest of the comparison is probably too reductive. just because two products (e.g. agave and HCFS) have similar fructose/sucrose/glucose proportions does not mean that they are similar once digestion comes into play.

e.g. Honey is ~50% fructose and so is HCFS 55 with the majority of the rest being water, but i bet anyone could tell the difference between these two substances by smell alone.

The article fails to take into account what these differences may be and therefore disrespects the 'science' part of its name by failing to inform us of possible missing pieces in the analysis.
Well you dont need to upgrade to support something, i have a rails 1 app around working without issues for years, though i plan to upgrade it ;)
Props for not having the usual tired glossy design, or as I call it "page frosting". I don't see any drop shadows or gradients, and just slightly rounded corners :)
Indeed. I read the article (the whole thing!) hoping to get some discussion on the biological effects of sugars and all we get is an analysis of how much sugar content is in natural sugars. It doesn't answer the question posed in the first few paragraphs at all.
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I have a feeling the "succeful candidate" already knows and works with many of the interested people.
I recently moved a domain from Godaddy and did not have this experience, so perhaps things have changed. I just unlocked the domain and requested the authorisation code be emailed to me by clicking the relevant link in the control panel. My transfer to namecheap was complete within 3 hours.
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"either don't know, don't care, or are typing on a mobile keyboard" and are therefore, I would contend, less 'geeky' than those of us who consistently apply the capital.

I mean, my username isn't particularly geeky, but enforcing the capitalisation must certainly be somewhere down that end of the spectrum!
It doesn't appear that they simply reinvented what you did. Their approach works well without js, meanwhile NOLOH and the four "powered by" sites are mazes of mostly dead links and missing alt text (one site has nothing more than a blurb blaming the visitor for the author's neglect, which I wouldn't showcase).
You're right—it's more of a "these files are in the way, and I'm sure I'm done with them... so it shouldn't hurt to just type those two little letters and reclaim the storage..."

Actually, that sounds like exactly the cognitive dissonance people had when they first started using Gmail. Perhaps filesystems need an "Archive" folder as well? Not even a Trash folder—because people want to empty a Trash folder—but rather just an enforced (and shell-supported) directory where things go when you don't have any reason to keep them, and therefore have no place to put them?
How about simply giving the watcher the "unblur" button, and keeping blur otherwise? That way the watcher can protect himself more from unpleasant visuals.