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You may not even read this because I have a negative rating.
The people who are making big money on the Internet read their stats all the time. Some daily.
I find on bigger sites that the reports they give are not enough.
I want to segragate traffic by affiliate, ppc and organic. Then drill down from there. In organic I want to filter by bounce and country. Then I can sort and see what I want.
I use Clicky analytics. http://getclicky.com/69398 . I use their API to retrieve everything I need then load it into a Mysql database. Their API is fantastic. It contains so much information. Then I can slice it an dice it how ever I want. Clicky is one of the few that can accurately measure bounce rate. This is very important to me. You can also sort by page the most bounces. Once you have the data in your own database, its very powerful.
We own this (Phil W. here from mems)... not supposed to be out on the web yet.. leak?

1. "Web doesn't show much" - logjam -> Thank you for the compliment. We aim to make make the news experience as de-cluttered and clean as possible. Right now we find you the top news across the board and summarize it for you. We will expand as the tech is perfected.

2. "Hastily Written words" - logjam -> Appreciate the honesty. Journalists aim to create these "Hastily written buzz word" and Winston has proven again + again to model the human method. But not perfect yet!

3. "Where do you provide ...a user to upload text" -logjam ->As many hackers are all about creating tech like this and giving it to everyone for exploration etc. We are forming a company around this with many applications to it (one is news/media but that's just the niche we found scalable and appealing). Call us selfish but we would like to make a few pennies off of our 40+ hour work sprints :)

Thanks for the question and I tried to follow the guidelines.
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Have any of these customer-generation people actually run a brick-and-mortar business themselves? How does anyone expect a business model to be sustainable in the long term when it relies on companies selling their goods at a quarter of their typical price?

A business wants a reliable stream of customers, with predictable peaks in activity. When a startup addresses that at a price that businesses can actually bear, then I'll believe the company is going somewhere.
I still prefer binary IDL over json/bson/xml.

Keep the schema off the wire and out of storage. People tend to not get as crazy when they stick to lists.
It's Amazon S3, but without the outrageous per query costs.
I have worked my arse off in my 20's. 10 hour workdays on average, and when I left my first employer, after 9.5 years, I got paid out 260 unused leave days (we had time-off-in-lieu for weekends).

On the plus side: this set me up financially for the rest of my life; I developed high skills and a good reputation; and the work was interesting in itself.

On the minus side: I lost touch with most of my school/university friends; had trouble maintaining relationships with girls.

Funny thing is: I am not sure whether I'd do it all again, or not... so I don't know what to recommend... sorry.
Was he assigned to write this piece?

Being a journalist is much more than being a reporter.
Etsy.com unveiled a new gallery list system, the Treasury last year and published a couple of articles about their use of Mongo. Apparently they had some problems and rewrote the backend recently... haven't heard what yet. Hopefully they'll publish their experiences in their dev blog after the dust settles.
FWIW, I used js2coffee on a 400-line JS file powering an app today and the compiled version of the code (js->coffee->js) was noticeably faster than the straight JS version. The for-in efficiency is probably part of that.

A quick way to port once: http://ricostacruz.com/js2coffee/
Ed Vaizey is also against net neutrality. It's like the Con-Dem coalition brought in their very own Mandy.

(Edit: This is odd, because Vaizey is usually one of the more moderate, liberally-inclined Tories, and has stated in Parliament that he supports an open Internet and recognises the lack of regulation thus far as part of the reason for its success. It's hard to figure out exactly where he stands on these issues: either he's saying one thing but actually thinks another, or he genuinely does believe in the openness principle but doesn't think regulation or statute is the way to enforce it and hasn't been clear enough about what he means. Certainly some of his public statements on the subject appear to be contradictory, or at least ill at ease with one another.)
No need to guess folks. The Nielson report from last year has plenty of data on app usage on smartphone. Games are indeed on top.

EDIT: url to report: http://www.slideshare.net/zebs/nielsen-mobile-apps-whitepape...
Guess it depends on what your product is. Evernote and Dropbox are both fairly successful and have premium products. The distinction is that they are marketed as free so as to attract and retain users, and the power users are the ones who actually buy the premium product. I would take a look at them to compare their numbers, product and target market (are you a consumer product? are you a b2b product?) to yours.
For the record: we (MongoDB) have a policy of not posting official Benchmarks. I'm not sure what benchmarks you are referring to that were posted and misleading.

The only benchmarks we have ever done have been for internal testing comparisons between different versions.

What information hiding are you referring to?

[edit] The "Benchmarks" page on our site clarifies this policy: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Benchmarks

Previously there were several third party benchmarks on this page; but if you examine the page history we have always clarified them as unaffiliated third party sourced.
For starters, the Criterion Collection is on Hulu. They moved from Netflix because Netflix doesn't support "extra features" from DVDs. (The Criterion Collection basically invented DVD extras, so it's a big deal to them.)
Speaking of Databases - Has anyone here @ HN got a first/second hand experience migrating from Oracle 10G to PostgreSQL?

Let's say migrating a multi node 10G RAC instance - what would I lose in terms of functionality - Distributed transactions, limitations on # of replicated nodes, RAT etc.

Just curious how far it has come in terms of replacing Oracle.
You're getting jumped on, but you have a good point. It's often easier to just stringify a dictionary and read it back as the object instead of handling the database creation/insertion/selection if all you need is to store and access a few values.
Thanks for your comment. Our website basically shows the proof of concept. We are still building, testing and creating Winston which will be available for commercial applications, not public usage.
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That because schemas are complicated, no matter which way you encode the data.

JSON is so nice and easy and simple until it needs all those things that made it into XML to get the job done.

I whole heartedly agree, there is nothing sweeter than giving another vendor our WSDL with schema when they ask how to work with our system. It eliminates huge effort and ambiguity in system interaction.
Sounds like a GUI just isn't really your thing anyway; that isn't a bad thing as the command line interface is very good.

I think overall this is a very nice product, even though some of the loading is a wee bit slow (even on an i7 iMac). It adds a very nicely done, easy to navigate interface for the times I want to visually manage stuff.

9/10 times I'll use the command line to do stuff, but this makes other aspects of code management go much quicker for me.

Solid 7/10 from me.
It was intentional. There are differences between the 32- and 64-bit ABIs that make life easier for us to go 64-bit only.
Can you give me an example of what that would look like? Or a description of the flow you'd want to achieve?
The article mentions SAX parsers and then kinda just moves on and talks a bit about loading JSON with eval. I realize there are other ways of doing things and a fair bit between his two data processing points. My experience with JSON is mostly limited to simple APIs.

Is there a way to handle streaming JSON? I guess it'd be doable in a language like JavaScript where you build up the prototype. Others would probably vary substantially. But I can't say I've tried it yet.
We use Mongo.
Hmm. Well I suppose you'd have to live together in order to pass that kind of exam, but you should be able to answer most of those questions after a few weeks. Odd though that a lot of those questions assume quite a bit of time has gone by.
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Thank you for clarifying it here, but that's not exactly what I understood when you wrote it. You may want to adapt/addendum your article to clarify that
"outsource to the midwest"... Lotta brilliant people live out here where the cost of living is a lot cheaper.
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I just graduated from College and have been connected to the matrix (aka corporate america) for the past year. I can say that working and having a stable job will definitely tell you if you want to do your own thing. I discovered quickly that I am way to motivated to stay in a 8 to 5 job and that I want to do my own thing or join a supportive corporation.

I would recommend doing some corporate gig if you are unsure about starting your own company, but realize that it is very hard to cut the pay check. It is difficult to leave a stable well paying job.

I am pretty firmly in the camp of entrepreneurship and it is still difficult for me to remove myself from the matrix.
It's not employers that prevent doctors and engineers from working -- it's provincial licensing organizations that base their certification at least in part on Canadian education. Some provinces have programs that allow foreign-trained professionals to quickly shore up their qualifications, but it takes time.

Personally, I'd take this approach over letting anyone who claims to have an engineering or medical degree practice obtain certification and practice accordingly.
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There does not seem to be a way to use Google SSL + NCR. E.g.

https://encrypted.google.com/ncr/search?q=test&qscrl=1

does not seem to be a valid option. Is there a way to pass NCR in a param like ncr=1? Or the fact that Google SSL is used implies use of NCR?

EDIT: It looks like &ncr=1 does work but I'm not sure if this is equivalent to no country redirect.

Right now, this is what I have set up (which also disables personalization)

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=test&qscrl=1&n...
Yes, there is support for stream parsing of JSON. I haven't tried it myself, https://github.com/lloyd/yajl is one example, which has various bindings in other languages.
Are you guys watching the new Kona project? I'm excited about it.
Twitter has a Mac app because Loren Brichter wrote a fantastic one and Twitter bought it (and Loren too). I'm not particularly aware of the state of Twitter on Windows, but I find it plausible that there is no single excellent Twitter app that Twitter wants to buy (or if there is an excellent one, maybe they don't want to sell).
Rumor has it they're working on an Android tablet, which would probably involve some sort of content production.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/23/amazons-android-tablet-co...
Ok, addressing a few points here :)

1. Floating inspectors: Inspectors in general are getting better and I definitely prefer when it is well integrated into the view without interrupting my flow. They have a good start; further work is needed (not sure what though)

2. I think even tabs are a mistake now. We learned a lot from iOS about how to well integrate multiple views into a seamless interface. Tabs are kind of unnecessary imho now; we need something better.

3. Full screen isn't what I think the best aspect is - we do want to be able to view different apps at the same time. Case in point:
- I have this chrome tab open on the right hand side of my iMac monitor
- 3 terminal windows on the left hand side
- My vc pitch in PPT on my second monitor's right hand
- My PPC ad management software open on the second monitor's left side.

Restricting to one screen for an app isn't the right way I think, but an in-between method is. Funnily enough, I think Windows 8 almost nailed it.

As for in-app file management: YES. iCloud, Dropbox and a myriad of other systems all working together have such potential. I can't wait.
Some GPL projects sue for copyright infringement others don't. Does that make GPL violations a grey area?
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This is super minor and stupid, but Chrome has a super stupid crossed-out https protocol warning thing and it looks like it's due to your having pulled down the un-SSL'ed jquery from google. It's an easy fix to pull down the SSL'ed version instead [1]

[1] it affects caching and stuff, iirc, but I also think that cache hits are pretty low as it stands (citation missing, but needed, obviously)
I completely agree with your advice to build a ton of things while still in college. I graduated college one year ago and have been working for a large consulting firm since graduation. The firm I work for has extremely strict Intellectual Property portions of my contract and it discourages me from building things on the side. My one regret in college was not spending more time building cool things (websites, mobile apps, games, etc) and playing with the latest "greatest" tech.

I also agree with your goal of working for yourself and making less money than working for a large firm. I am hoping to work for a start-up/start my own business eventually, but I have student loans to pay off so I went with a high salaried job right out of college to pay them off quickly.
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Ever been accused of sounding too technical? Maybe people just don't care
More like (afraid (very (are (we))))

or clojurish: (-> we are very afraid)
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Consider that Haskell does its compilation step once; the types and their parameters are discarded and machine code is generated up front. (More correctly, LLVM IR is generated and combined with the Run Time System into a binary.) In Scala, and Java before it, compilation happens during program execution: you cannot discard types because the compilation step is never over. Ordersky's previous work on Pizza ensured that, however, that type parameters _were_ lost; rather than modify the JVM to support generics it proved to be more expedient with regard to backward compatibility just to strip them out. Pre-generics binary code could co-exist with post-generics because they compiled down to the same bytecode. Hence the complaint that in Java Array[Int] and Array[String] generates two special purpose, 'parameterized' Array structures in memory. Mostly the Java compiler can be clever and produce relatively only what is needed during execution, but the PermGem exception happens because, well, it's a hack.

Now, consider the difficulty of Scala wherein it's possible to represent a compound type. Erasure ensures that only the first parameter in the chain is generated in the type-erasure step, destroying the meaning of the union. There are kludgy ways around this--wrapping, bundling up manifests--but in the end the JVM does not allow the transmission of necessary information efficiently. Manifests serve the purpose of maintaining parameter information at runtime, but do so at the expense of code cache space and stress system resources. PermGem exceptions are much more common, in my experience, when doing Scala work as compared to Java.

The shorter answer to your question is the JIT nature of Java combined with a byte-code designed not to maintain the information needed to generate all possibilities of machine code on demand. LLVM IR maintains such information for Haskell--when targeting machine code directly I believe this is achieved by static polymorphic compilation, but I could be wrong; Stack Overflow time?--and the CLR does the same for C# and friends. It's a JVM problem entirely. The JVM promises to perform any and all compilation but is unable to accept all the information needed to do so effectively.
I think some kind of Ken Burn effect with transitions between the different planes would make a good screensaver.
> So how did 1/12 of the value in this ecosystem wind up in one account at Mt Gox?

The two leading theories are that it was the account that trading fees go into, or it was an account that didn't really have that many bitcoins, but had its balance altered by SQL injection.
Ahh, silly me. I never realized YAJL handled that. It should be a good place to learn from. The YAJL code base is pretty tight IIRC.
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Wait, the US excludes people from residency for their political beliefs?
Since you mentioned SSL for free on *.dotcloud.com, maybe it would be a good idea to force SSL for everyone on your main site: http://i.imgur.com/f1X7n.png steal a cookie get an API key...
JSON-schema, if you really need it

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03
Facebook uses MySQL as it's primary data store, with some hbase, cassandra, and other more minor usage storage solutions in various places.
Agreed. Getting paid $65k and higher right out of college (where one is likely making zero) from a stable job is hard to give up. It can be helpful in the short term to pay off college loans and the like, but some people fall into the "one more year of my giant paycheck and then I'll do something I enjoy" trap. Before they realize it, many years have gone by...
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To be clear, the parent post is referring to the invention of LISP.

As a side note, for those who don't know, JavaScript shares a number of features with LISP/Scheme. JSON has the trappings of the very LISPy idea of "Data = Code". It doesn't quite live up to it though. Now, if we only had a parenthesized syntax for JavaScript...
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So does Chrome
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So does Chrome. Actually, this comes in handy: http://sqlite.org/famous.html
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I click on them and they disappear, do they have a purpose?
Isn't that going to be mathematically more likely when there's more income disparity to begin with?
> Are you saying documentation doesn't benefit the assignee directly and coding does?

Yes, in our current culture of software development. Perhaps less so in academic culture, and certainly not in literary culture. But in software development documentation is not seen as a glamorous task, even though we all know that good documentation makes for a better product.

>Asking others that it gets done, provided you have the authority to do so, isn't actually initiative

Sure, I agree with you.

>I will ask the other two to get the documentation done, even though we are peers.

What if this was an open source project? Or a school project, or any project where you weren't reimbursed somehow. I like to look to these examples to see how a 'natural' system would develop, because it's too easy to place false systems on a business structure where you use payment to get people do what you want. If you can use a naturally-occuring system, it would seem that any project model would then thrive naturally. Hope I am making sense here.

>if you are working on a regular programming project, and a module requires more work than the others, who was more likely to pick it?

Well, that depends on the project goals, and I'd be making too many (more) assumptions here if I were to give examples of what I thought might happen in theory. Ultimately it's up to the individual.
Poll: What are your plans for mobile support?
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native iOS app
both native iOS + android app
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wrapped mobile web app (phonegap or hand-rolled)
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Doesn't the fact that the talented engineer picked a lame-duck company cause him/her to lose points? A good engineer should be equally good at making big bets, especially when it comes to picking a company he/she wants to work for.
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Because other kids who might have liked to live in the US and go to a top university didn't get to.

And some are lucky enough to simply be born in the US, and squander those opportunities anyway. I think its a bit funny to be citing "the law" as a grounds for which to argue this. It really has to go above and beyond what current laws are, into a moral and philosophical discussion of how people should treat each other. After all, in a time where there were no "laws", the settlers who landed in America pretty much raped the native population and took what they wanted. Where's their (the natives') justice? The entire south west coast (texas, arizona, california) was taken in wars from ACTUAL native mexicans. And now, a mexican can't walk across his ancestral land because of "immigration law". That seems kind of funny and wrong to me.

I would love if everyone could look up the Rawlsian "Veil of Ignorance" - its something similar to the concept of the "golden rule".

We're all human beings, this isn't just "ours", "theirs, and "yours".
They are to rank the comments and give the users karma points. So yes they have a purpose.
That makes me want to claw my eyes out, set fire to my keyboard and immigrate to China, where I will start a new life as a blind monk.

Most of the worst experiences of my career as a developer involve some enterprise SOAP API or another.
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Does anyone know of a good online catalog where libraries like this are curated? Or are folks just bookmarking these as they find them?
From my experience I would certainly say there's an aspect to that (me, as a woman, wanting to impress the intelligent men in the group).