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> google analytics is not the same as analyzing server logs

This is what most people don’t get with ga.

Google Analytics does the heavy lift by removing incoherent , corrupted or malicious data insertion.

Let’s say I use Puppeteer i can scrap this page a million time with completely wrong headers like « Netscape 8.1 ». GA purify this type of malicious attempts , it will probably look my IP Adress and figure out that it’s actually coming from only one IP and « Netscape » is too rare to be considered as an actual browser so it would probably ignore it.

All others « free google analytics alternatives » that exists today don’t have this type of mechanism to prevent from data corruption.

In general they just get an Http Request and acknowledge it as a legitimate visit.

Logging an Http request from a browser is not even a tenth of the work GA does under the hood.
Ctrl-F "Plasma", "Sharding", "Proof of Stake"... 0 Results. Not trying to be a dick but if you are writing an article on how ethereum will not succeed because it can't scale then I would mention how ethereum is at least trying to scale. I understand this blog is very much an op-ed, but it makes that opinion come off as uneducated if you aren't at least addressing the fact that ethereum is working towards scalability.
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Sounds to me more like they've redefined the words "thought" and "conscious" such that what most people think of as "thoughts" don't count.
I have to disagree with your view of the labor market. This might be true of tech but the vast majority of workers don't have the opportunities we have to work in environments that cater to us. Amazon warehouse type jobs are often the only opportunity to non-special-category (ie programmers) people.
> Number of users? That's not even sure

As far as I can tell, Slack has an order of magnitude more users. They were at 8m DAU back in May: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/slack-hits-8-million-daily...

IRC was in long-term decline even before Slack: https://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/24/irc-is-dead-long-live-i...

So my best guess is that Slack has at least an order of magnitude more users.

But users is not exactly the metric I'm thinking of. It's when people say, "We need some way for us to communicate," Slack is the popular option. Even though I'd rather not use it, I'm in 8 right now. If you look through this thread, you'll find plenty of people concerned about how prominent it is in the open-source world, IRC's home ground.

> IRC runs everywhere and does not need a fat browser or a RAM-and-CPU hungry application to enable "chat".

I get this in theory. But RAM and CPU power are fantastically cheap. Conserving them to get a worse user experience is optimizing for the wrong thing.

> but Slack sucks in many ways

Sure. There are no perfect things. But Slack doesn't have to be perfect. It just had to be better than the competition. And for most people it manifestly is.
The article doesn't even mention the effect of gravity, which is also significant. Ocean water is currently gravitationally attracted to the ice caps, and when an ice cap disappears, all that "bunched up" water will spread around the globe. This effect reduces sea level rise in a large area around the ice cap, and increases it everywhere else.

This other article in The Guardian does mention it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2018/...
Because they were obtuse to set up for 99% of people. Myspace basically made quick and easy personal pages for the masses, and everyone used it because it was quick and easy. If a company is able to do it right for the 99% of people who don't know what FTP is, then its got a shot.
> they end up shipping the vast majority of coal

You may be thinking of the entity that used to be known as Conrail. Amtrak is passenger only.
I visited an AirBnB property that had a Dot in the lounge room. I got strange looks from my fellow guests as I unplugged it.

The best way to avoid this information from leaking out to the whole world is to NOT UPLOAD IT IN THE FIRST DAMN PLACE.

I honestly don't care how many pinky-promises Amazon, Apple or Google make -- until there are business-destroying fines akin to HIPAA on steroids for everything these services hold, I'll wait this tech revolution out, thanks.
You can define a route to be either L7 ("http", "https") or L4 ("tcp", "tls"). For L7 routes you can use the usual routing parameters that were already available in Kong, like routing by host, by paths (prefix or regex-based) and/or by method. For stream routing, you can route by IP source port, IP destination port and/or by SNI in the case of TLS connections.
I won't disagree for a second that Fornite took existing dancing and used them in their game. They absolutely did.

The legal side is interesting however, and you do have to wonder what society will look like if the dancers win. Are we going to wind up with copyright trolls but for different dance moves and styles? As the article says, previously only long or full acts could be protected, if Fornite loses, new short dances will be protected.
I'm not on Zuck's side, and I'm not explicitly saying you're wrong, but this feels like a mix up of the response from Zuckerberg to blocking the Twitter API.

If you have a source for him saying "Yup do it" to an attempt at confusing their users on an agreement... that would be a big news story.
It may also be an attempt to hide a failure they made that would likely be held against them if found out (e.g. if they forgot to load a pallet on to the truck).
Yep, there are various flavours of it doing the rounds, as far as I can tell. We could call this one the semantic approach.
A free-to-host solution that included subscription to other websites via a p2p push protocol would be cool. I thought about building it on top of the standard runtime for Google App Engine (which has a free tier), but never got to it.
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Oh, it mildly offends me because I think it's wrong. And a cop-out.
Several years ago facebook gutted a lot of RSS features. You used to be able to follow your notifications via RSS, but that went away when facebook realized people wouldn't stay on the site as long.
I'm not saying a 6S is 'old technology'. My point is, it's the newest that is available/usable to me, and my path to an upgrade to 'new technology' is non-existent.

I am saying, that the impression OP gave me is they were literally throwing it on the CEO's iPhone X, they felt like it worked there, and didn't bother to even go a couple generations back.

This wouldn't be the first time I've actually seen this kind of business-destroying, frankly elitist behaviour that does not benefit business.
Rather than just posting a link, it would be helpful if you would give a brief explanation of what you find useful or interesting there.
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I was initially not a fan when the initial beta site was posted to HN, but I am a fan of the new site overall now that it's in production, some of the language tweaks seem much more fitting to reach both a developer & management audience

One example would be the original main tagline: "The programming language that empowers _everyone_ to become a systems programmer"

Which is now: "Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software."
B-but that's something the French do! So brutal and uncivilized.
I'm curious why you think your own sense of how workplaces treat people and hiring is tight map into the endless stories about people who can't find jobs, or jobs that don't pay enough to live on.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6335063/Americas-hi...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/magazine/americans-jobs-p...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/10/30/jobs-62-perc...
There’s a good analysis of what seems to be the same chart (and more like it) here: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2016/05/compar...

TL;DR: it is using every trick in the book to mislead.
When a company gets large or important enough it realizes that it has to follow some inconvenient laws.

In the US there's OFAC (https://www.treasury.gov/about/organizational-structure/offi...) which lists individuals and entities that companies cannot do business with. Implementing these rules is a nightmare for companies so they use a 3rd party services which produce a huge number of false positives. Middle eastern names tend result in many false positives.

My guess is that Slack is scrambling to clean house ahead of the IPO and they don't have a user friendly way of dealing with this. In fact most companies don't. This is the same crap that bites people who inadvertently end up on no-fly lists with no way to get off.

Don't like this? Call your representative. Build a better way to implement OFAC and similar laws.
It doesn't need to be that complicated. The Google+ model let you do what you suggest, but also let you assign people to one or more circles, so that you could share with specific subsets of your friends by picking a circle. E.g. "family", "people it's ok to share pics from nights out partying with", "work colleagues" etc., and you can assign people to more than one circle. It provided a decent basis for enough containment, if it wasn't for their lack of willingness to deal with pseudonyms and multiple identities.

As for "most people" wanting something simple: I'd argue that most people have something far more complex today: People sign up to multitudes of sites and create different identities for e.g. dating, different forums, their regular circle of friends. People often go to great lengths to separate them. People even often have multiple accounts on the same sites.

Sites like Facebook stubbornly trying to get people to tie everything to a single name that they're know to by everyone is fundamentally flawed for this reason, and it will always present a barrier, and it's something that's exploitable if someone comes up with the right model to start eating away at them at the fringes.
Thinking about it a bit, I bet one reason package holding isn't more popular in the US is the (very Australia-like) combination of suburbs, and people driving to work.

Assuming your employer allows it, it's convenient to have packages sent to work, AND if you drove a personal car to work, it's easy to drive your own package home. This equation gets flipped if you use transit or live in a multi-unit building where it might get easier to just hold it "downstairs".
I installed Corel Linux on the family computer when I was 13. It was my first Linux distribution. Someone from school got the disc out of a magazine if I remember correctly.

I couldn't get the modem to work and the installer didn't add a boot option for the Windows 98 partition (LILO bootloader), so my family was understandably pretty pissed off.
I ended up figuring out how to restore the Windows MBR, and eventually figured out how to dual boot.

To this day, when I mention Corel Linux was my first Linux distribution people tend to think I'm confused since "Corel makes graphics software, not Linux distributions!"
Doesn't using live data for testing create GDPR issues?
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It will also drop the userbase below a useful threshold. Sure, there will be the technical possibility of still managing to use it illegally and undetected--but there will be no herd immunity, there will be no effects of scale that make the system particularly useful or affordable compared to proprietary, centralized, and more performant alternatives. People can and do still use bittorrent illegally, but it doesn't have even close to enough market share to make centralized streaming services nonexistent or non-competitive. Basically the same idea.

The fact that you can't decentralize legislation and physical governance is not insignificant. You can't block the influence of preexisting powerful actors. Those factors do have the power to destroy the decentralization movement, and most likely will.
So why is it wrong then? Can you provide empirical evidence to back up your claim?
The first question that crossed my mind.
Shopping at Whole Foods is a whole lot worse with Amazon owning it versus before. To get any of the deals, you have to link your purchase with an Amazon account. IIRC, they have a "blue" and "yellow" discount, where you can only get the "yellow" discount in addition if you are also a Prime member. The prices without either discount seemed exceed pre-Amazon Whole Foods.

The whole experience reeked of sucking up data about a person, and really made me never want to go back.
The Magic Keyboard has exhibited the same problems since last year: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2017/12/07/the-magic-keyboard-with-n...

This is a pattern.
Wealthy in my opinion is at least the top 1%. Most experienced tech workers are there.
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Unfortunately the vast majority of Academic Philosophers disagree with you. Thoughts obviously exist but the idea that you are in control of what you think about is patently false. Take a look at modern stances on Free Will if you doubt that.
> You won’t take an expert’s claims at face value

Again this is appeal to authority.

I trust the numbers coming out of the Fed that tell me unemployment and working hours are down

Now another expert tells me people are facing crazy hours and layoffs that. So I choose to believe the Fed.
I would expect them to monetise through advertising and increasing engagement on the site by using linked services to make the whole site experience richer, thus leading to more ad views.

I might also expect Facebook to ask the services for some money to get their faces seen on the platform.

Is that hopelessly naive?
This is just facebook all over again. Why can't people see trouble-tech? I never used facebook and won't ever use an alexa, nor whatever google's thing is.
This isn't about science, this is an interview with a philosopher.
Here are two big reasons I won't use grocery delivery:

1. I can't see the produce/meat/seafood and pick the pieces I want. They aren't all the same, so this matters.

2. I can't get beer or wine delivered, and if I need to go to the grocery store to buy it, I might as well buy all my other groceries while I'm there.

#1 is probably not solvable. #2 is solvable but the US has 50 different state liquor law regimes, so it's a bit of a challenge.

So I'm not really surprised that Amazon isn't doing that much better than the others. Amazon is good at delivering things, but groceries aren't good things to deliver compared to the other stuff Amazon sells. Whole Foods in particular caters to shoppers who care about the quality of their meat and produce and want to examine it before they buy.
if we stop protecting people from mistreatment and racists hiring, what would get better? I don't understand your comment.
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Totally agree. On my first iOS device (XR) since the first Android device arrived. The speech recognition on Android is FAR better....it would get it right 99% of the time. Siri is so bad I've considered starting a Twitter feed of "sh Siri thinks I said..."

Oddly, even speech to text with GBoard on the iPhone is noticeably worse than on Android as well.
Rising temperatures melting glacial/mountain ice more dramatically contributing to river water carry? I'm not saying that's specifically the case, just throwing out a possible hypothesis. Plenty of others exist (bad rainy season, tributary re-routing due to industry, removal of forested areas that would have previously soaked up water, etc).

Could be a global warming thing, could be a seasonal thing, could be anything really.
This is also the future of blind faith in a few companies that control substantial things you depend on personally/professionally. You don't really think about how much damage something like Slack (or god forbid, Google) could do to you by shutting down your account until something like this actually happens.

Add to that the dark side of being "data driven," which is that stories like this one are just part of the 1% of edge cases. These companies also try to move away from actual customer service as much as possible because human labor doesn't scale as well as automation, so you'll fall through the cracks as long as the news that it happened to you doesn't get enough press to make it worth an engineer's or VP's time.

I know that sounds extremely cynical, but having been on the inside in situations like this, I saw how these dynamics converged despite good intentions. Stuff like this is why sending engineers through front-line customer support rotations tends to dramatically motivate engineering teams to make quality of life improvements. Once you lose the detachment that indirection from the user gets you, suddenly those 1% cases feel more important.
I made the mistake of choosing an example involving strictly formal barriers. A self-employed journalist can still feel the incentives offered by governments and huge multinational media conglomerates, if not also less powerful companies and organizations. And then there exist organizations explicitly and singularly devoted to rewarding and training young writers in producing propaganda, like Hasbara Fellowships.
With a name like "smallgovt" I would expect you to be pro-privacy in the real world as well as online. Most people on this forum would likely agree that privacy is a right (just because it's not defined in the constitution doesn't mean we don't have that right. Did people not have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness before the constitution?). Also, it is entirely realistic to expect Facebook to at least do a cursory look-over of the types of data app developers are requesting while running on their platform. No reason every app needs access to every piece of data on its users.
Those are completely different.

One is "Hi my name is XYZ at company ABC. Do you want to talk about our product DEF?" to which you instantly know it's a sales call and how to respond.

The other is specifically emailing employees asking about their use in order to build a case against their employer in the hopes of getting an enterprise agreement or lawsuit out of it. It's far more shady and the actual nature of the communication is not revealed until after the fact. For all the developer knows, it's just a support email from Oracle asking them about how they use their product.
NO, the problem is medical billing was allowed to become too complicated, and it is very hard to unwind that situation.

I'll contend (though of course there is no way to prove this) that if we hadn't had the advantage to company provided insurance the complex billing wouldn't have developed in the first place.
After so many years Siri still doesn’t do “take me to the nearest McDonald’s” like Google Assistant can. And whenever Siri isn’t “confident” it just launches Safari, but it’s often not even the best starting point, and Siri sometimes gives up silently without feedback.

Also for a bit of fun, ask Siri for the population of Buffalo NY. I noticed because Siri also tells you that Buffalo is big, and then goes on to say...
I only get those photos when it was delivered by AMZL (Amazon's own delivery service). I don't get photos when it's delivered by USPS, UPS, Fedex or OnTrac.
The confusing bit for me, and realize I'm not a patent lawyer but have patented a few things, the referenced articles first publication was in 2008. I was told that in the US (but not in Europe) you have one year from public disclosure to file for a patent. (In Europe you give up your patent rights if you disclose first.) So to patent this you'd want to have filed in 2008. Here it is 10 years later. So why hasn't a patent issued? I've seen them take 3 - 5 years but 10 years seems like a stretch.
Calculating what the sea level rise will be if certain amount of ice melts is quite complicated because of gravitational attraction due to the large mass of the ice, changes in ocean circulation due to the temperature and saltfree content of ice meltwaters, change in the earths axis of rotation due to ice melt, change in ocean currents, etc.

When part of the Greenland ice sheet melts the global mean sea level rises, but it is likely to cause sea level drops in some places around the northern Atlantic. How and where is going to be almost impossible to model and we will just have to wait and see how it plays out. Journal articles here [1,2]

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-010-9935-...
[2] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
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I'll write a blog post on it later, it'll take more than a few sentences.
If I'm not in control of what I think, then I am not in control of what I do... In which case, we're all just robots.
> Google Analytics is much faster, responds in a few hundreads milliseconds.

GA stores summary tables for each day for the basic values. If you have a large site and request segments or anything that's not in the summary tables, it can be quite slow.

Also, BigQuery is multi-tenant. GA would have dedicated instances.

> What did you use dataflow for? How did you get data from end points and insert them into bigquery? Using streaming inserts?

cosmie pretty much got it. AppEgnine collected. DataFlow sessionized and some other processing (geoip lookup, filtering, &c). BigQuery stored.

I actually had AppEngine dumping into Cloud Datastore, but I also experimented with PubSub and also using Cloud Storage access logs.
She had friends of the same religion here in Eastern Europe, but they were the kind of people that were staying at after parties at 7 in the morning. The people she now tells me about don’t look like they have shared a drink with a woman late at night anytime during their life. It’s easy to accuse someone of bigotism when you haven’t interacted directly with any of the talked-about people.
>I believe an Author of a creative piece of work should have the right to protect their work and exploit it for profit how they see fit.

Only if it's completely original. In other words, in no case at all.
Notice that all the graphs in the previous charts have that weird step where warming stops for while around 2005 then suddenly shoots up after 2015 to get back to predicted levels? Your graphs end at 2014.
I am an ardent Apple fan, to the extent of sometimes defending them in public or private forums.

This is maybe the most bone-headed, indefensible response I've ever seen from them.

I get that these are really large, thin devices. I get that they are totally different than the iPad 2 someone might wrap in a case and give to a kid. But saying it is a feature, not a bug, is ridiculous.

Their response has immediately made this twice as bad from a PR perspective. Unbelievable.
It's not possible to believe London got better because of all the cameras added the last few years (which accomplish little or nothing). It hasn't gotten safer because of surveillance. Just like in the us, the fact that the border patrol takes people's phones at a high rate hasn't made it any safer. It's just improved spying.
I think it is discontinued (the link to the app is broken). Any idea why?
This really feels like a knee-jerk reaction to the article's headline instead of any sort of argument as to why you think it may be wrong or what pieces of the interview you disagree with.
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