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Mixpanel: We're hiring and here's where we're at.
Hi HN,
Mixpanel today is a real-time analytics platform that can do extremely complex data analysis for businesses on the web. Our vision is to help the world learn from its data.

Here's where we're at:

- We're not huge. We're 5 full-time engineers with interns. You don't need to carry the risk of being employee #1 though.

- We mostly write Python, Javascript, and C.

- We have over 200+ servers.

- We handle thousands of requests a second which is up from 10-15 requests a second during Y Combinator

- We wrote our own database in-house that can process 300M events in real-time. Ultimately, nothing fit our needs and we're glad we built this. We have just begun to build products on top of it that push the fold of analytics.

- Our front-end team is top notch. We're building a framework to make building products on the front-end much faster. It's surprisingly more difficult than it seems.

- We care a lot about design. Not every piece of enterprise software has to be ugly.

- The market leaders: Omniture, Unica, Webtrends, and Coremetrics are stagnating under the people that bought them late last year. We really are taking their business.

- We're in San Francisco

- We pay for relocation

- We do benefits

- We pay market

- We think the next 5 engineers will truly be the core engineering team at Mixpanel.

- We're not looking to get acquired. It's go big or go home.

- We're funded by Max Levchin, Sequoia Capital, Michael Birch, and Keith Rabois

If you're interested, please apply: http://mixpanel.com/jobs/

Sincerely,

Suhail (suhail@mixpanel.com), Founder
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Oh, health hacks are nothing new. They actually sold snake oil in the past.
It is astounding how people, WSJ contributors inclusive, only see HP as a pusher of cheap laptops and crappy inkjet printers.

Assuming I'm reading these numbers correctly[1], the PC division posted earnings of $567 million in Q3 2011. Compare that to $1.2 billion in earnings on enterprise services, $699 million from enterprise hardware, and $892 million from printing and imaging. Revenue from commercial printers was twice the revenue gained from consumer printers.

All told, while the consumer business is a respectable chunk of change even to HP, the consumer business has the thinnest margins, is shrinking, and at the end of the day earns much less than the enterprise side of the house.

HP makes a killing on enterprise services already. More than double the earnings of its entire PC business. Buying high margin software products like Autonomy for its services division to push on customers is easy money. The fact that HP's software business only earned $151 million on $790 million in revenue in Q3 2011 is a tremendous lost opportunity.

HP is not a consumer company anymore. It doesn't need a consumer oriented CEO. It's an enterprise company that needs an enterprise CEO.

Yet somehow, even "financial commentators" fail to recognize any of this. A very disappointing article from the WSJ.

[1] http://h30261.www3.hp.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71087&p=irol-n...
If you use Time Warner cable to download it, they comp themselves.
This is always a weak argument, "if you're so anticapitalist, why aren't you completely removed from the grid??" Just because you're opposed to something doesn't mean you don't participate in any part of it. Part of the frustration of people who are anti-establishment is that you have to participate in a corrupt system to exist in society.
It's not dead yet - it was used for NLP in Watson.
I don't think it's anti-capitalist in general, but definitely anti-big-media-companies. Time Warner is an MPAA member, for example, and the MPAA isn't too well liked.
I agree. Not only the real name policy but the stories about shutting down access to other Google services is pretty frightening to a nobody like me. Especially when Google comes out and claims that these anecdotes are not true and that the people were banned for other nebulous reasons. Well they may or may not be. Google puts a lot of faith in their machines.
If there's one thing I've learned about Google: avoid doing anything that might require some sort of intervention by them to fix your account--you won't be able to contact anyone and they just don't care unless you're famous. Someone like me will just languish in the cogs. The only times they care are when someone famous/influential gets inconvenienced or the other case is when a large group of users are affected and they have to dust off the backups. Bottom line: I'm pretty sure that if something strange happened--Google will just say it's my fault. For me as one little user: not worth the risk.
Yeah but not because they are multi-national corporations.
The exemption only applies for Canadian companies, never to American ones.

While it is true that you can use your family members' exemption, anybody who just gives away their exemption for free is a fool in my opinion. That is unless they know for a fact that they will never use it. Usually, such a practice warrants a little reward to the people using up their exemption to your benefit.
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...Not really. The point is not that you can make it harder, as you say both Bcrypt and zero-finding in SHA hashes can be adjusted and made harder. The point is that the constant factor speedups available from specialty hardware are greater for SHA than they are for Bcrypt.
I think the price point is decent, maybe a bit much from a customer stand point. It's hard for me to say really, I've never had a pet pass away as an adult, just when I was a young child so the value isn't quite there for me in a first person sense.

It was hard for me to find the demo's. You should add a 'tour' link at the top, where it's clearly defined for people to see. Might get some conversions from people that don't even reach the pricing page.

Good luck with your project.
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Here is the Wikipedia article, I like the pictures, if anyone is interested; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_Double_Eagle

and more on the trial, which ended this year, here; http://www.coinworld.com/articles/1933-double-eagle-trial-at...
"frankly I'm surprised they even had to raise funding with their current revenue levels and profit margins."

You're probably used to reading about early stage funding, where people NEED to raise money. A lot of growth capital isn't about need. It's about scaling the business... Essentially pumping gasoline thru a working engine faster.

"So your hope for customer acquisition is to find that one marketing professional that doesn't know about SEO."

SEOmoz's business has very little to do with people who don't know about SEO. Have you looked at their tool? What you said is like saying that Google Analytics is for the few marketing professionals who don't know about web traffic.
thats a whole separate problem… between bio-clearance (depending on where you're going), hotels, feeding them, flights, etc.

this is why I discourage friends who consider getting a dog but intend to travel lots. it's kind of an anchor.
"As an aside, the Spark Lines are cute, but if the goal is conveying information it would be nice if they expanded to something more detailed when clicked on"

Point taken. The site is a work in progress. I'm working on some cool data visualization tools and trying to use simple charts and graphs to make a case for trends and their causes.

I think miles driven is a very important consideration, but in the short term I had trouble finding data farther back than then 2005 peak mentioned here a few times.
Just an observation, but the left and the right screen shots appear to show basically the same thing.
He worked for roughly 40 of the 48 available hours.

That's really not good for your health.
I imagine they did, but Lodsys hope to convince a judge that the wording chosen doesn’t say what everyone else on the entire planet thinks it says.

Why else would Lodsys be working so hard to keep Apple out of the lawsuits? They don’t want to have this debate with Apple’s lawyers, they want to have this debate with whomever the small ISVs can afford. If this lawsuit was in “good faith,” they’d welcome Apple to the party. If they had the law on their side, Apple would have no choice other than allow their ISVs to be raped or pay Lodsys a shakedown fee to stop suing the ISVs.
I recently bought a Crucial M4 256GB SSD, and I have been extremely satisfied. Blazingly fast and no issues whatsoever. Even better, on my late 2008 MacBook Pro model, I get SATA II speeds (3Gbps). Most other drives (e.g., OCZ Agility) will only be recognized as SATA I (1.5Gbps) on my Mac. This makes the Crucial drive literally twice as fast in best case scenarios.

As an example of the effects it has had on my computer performance, building my upcoming book (which invokes rake and JRuby) used to take 1m 30s on a 7200 RPM drive. Now it takes 15 seconds. Also, productivity apps like Office open in a split second.
They do. Don't have anything else to show at this point :)
Hey, Raymond.

This is of some immediate interest to me, so I've been digging into it a bit this morning -- I've been reading CRA's internal guide for SR&ED reviewers, and other fun things. Seems like a nice structure, if it works, i.e. if it stands up to audit scrutiny. It seems to me counterintuitive that a CDN consulting firm taking no financial risk when doing SR&ED for a US customer would be eligible.

Many of the CRA guidance docs cite IP ownership as an eligibility condition. They also point to forms T1145 and T1146 as the mechanism to transfer SR&ED costs & credits between non-arms-length parties, but these apply when both parties are Canadian. In your case you've got non-arms-length parties, one US and one CDN. I can't find any specific CRA statement that applies.

But ultimately all those CRA docs are just guidance,and the ITA prevails. Can you point to the section of the ITA that blesses what you're doing here?
But my CapsLock is already mapped to Control ....
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At First Glance Smartphones nowadays seem to be getting a lot smarter and I’m still working my way around Nokia C7, something like an N8 for everybody.
>I can't help but wonder if minimalistic people go around feeling smug and superior all the time.

Selection bias rears its ugly head again -- you never read blog posts by minimalists who don't write blog posts about their lives.
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Using someone else's sans-ssd computer will remove any doubt you have about the purchase. I occasionally have to do the usual family tech support and I find the slow response infuriating.

I ended up getting a 128GB for the OS and apps and installed a macbook optical replacement HD caddy for a 500GB drive for media. If you can deal without an optical drive this config is highly recommended.
I brought the 128GB m4 and have had a similar experience. On a side note, there is a firmware upgrade that just came out that improves performance.

http://www.crucial.com/support/firmware.aspx
Of course it will. It's a bottleneck, and once it's unrestricted and there is no friction to joining they will market it to the non-techies. And regardless even a techie exclusive user-base is far from worthless.
Udo, I think you are onto something here. An important aspect of going minimalist is getting rid of (so called) superficial possessions. That means, to a large extent, only those who have stuff to get rid of can do so as a part of going minimalist.

The second important aspect is taking care of basic needs of daily living: food, clothing, shelter, healthcare (when absolutely needed). For someone engaged in the daily struggle to have such basic needs satisfied, the very idea of getting rid of anything they possess would be an anathema.

Clutter and hoarding are, thus, in (some ways) the unintended results of that struggle. Every item that has been acquired by (very) hard labor, or (minimal) lucky breaks is, from that point on, almost a lifeline. The question: What if I need this again? rings out every time an item is about to be discarded.

However, the other side of the same argument is the definition of needs (as opposed to wants). There are always going to be genuine needs and the point of comfort one feels with their net worth in satisfying those needs is going to define the point at which fear of the unknown ceases to be a driving factor in their decision making process. Including the decision to go minimalist.

That point is, understandably, different for everyone of us. In the end, I feel, it is easier to make the minimalist choice with (a). a solid net-worth (bank balance, property etc.) OR (b). absolute courage when a sense of security is lacking such as when (a) is absent OR (c). a combination of (a) and (b).

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TL;DR : I think, it is easier to be minimalist if you are materially secure; have sufficient support for a minimalist lifestyle from your life-partner or rugged courage and self-confidence if you are single/dependent-free.
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I chose the language in the title intentionally to draw the parallel. I've never heard a single politician in the US even mention it as a problem.
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I don't even think about it, but apparent pivot on my wrist to hit the 'Esc' key (top left of my keyboard) with my middle finger, rather than my pinkie as would be prescribed by a strict "home row" typing style.

I find emacs's ctrl-meta-foo-bang key combinations to be far more stressful (you have to hit multiple keys in one swell foop) than vi/vim's modal just-one-key-at-a-time standard keystrokes.
Poor households are absolutely cluttered.

While I don't disagree with your observation, one contributing factor is that wealthy people can pay for housecleaning, decorating, landscaping, and other services that contribute to a neat, tidy household. Poor people cannot, and especially if the household is a working single parent with kids, there is not a lot of spare time in a day to make sure the windows are polished.
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Interesting. I wonder what team size they were using for this comparison. My personal experience has been quite different, so I wonder if our 'war room' scenario had too many people in it.
> If you're not already on a social network, you really don't want to be on a social network. well..except for very young kids.

Maybe I am different. I'm mid-age, working in Web since birth of Internet, have had no real SNS, and would like to have one, so I can share baby pics. What I don't need is another url and password and contact list, etc. So Google plus is perfect for me. I'm alone in this case?
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Some thoughts about the HP Touchpad
you know HN, after some thoughts, i think the media was behind the failure of the HP touchpad before it got discounted. i don't remember seeing HP market the touchpad as the "iPad Killer", the media did. the public didn't feel like it was an iPad killer.

i now wonder how the story would have turned if they just mentioned it as just another tablet? HP Touchpad would have been another tablet, another choice, like Sony Playstation 3 to Nintendo Wii. Not a single news source would ever say, ok, Nintendo just released console x the Sony console x killer. They know in their right mind that they are just choices.

it's time for the media to put some thought about the message they are sending the wide public.
Circular polarization is the solution I immediately thought of as well, but I'm actually replying to put up this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_polarization It has a nice animation of what it is.

Using some form of symmetry breaking works too but is a much worse solution from an engineering perspective since the circular polarization is so much simpler and more direct. But it would work.
Great list, thanks.
In a more traditional Pyramid app it would be done more like:

from pyramid.view import view_config
from pyramid.response import Response
from paste.httpserver import serve

@view_config(route_name='hello')
def hello_world(request):
return Response('Hello %(person)s' % request.matchdict)

if __name__ == '__main__':
config = Configurator()
config.add_route('hello', '/hello/{person}')
config.scan()
serve(config.make_wsgi_app())

The config.scan() bit causes the @view_config decorators to be picked up. So we do have some decorators, although they don't populate an external registry (by design).

The rationale for putting the route ordering in imperative code instead of using decorator declaration order is in the document I linked. I'm not particularly interested in crippling Pyramid for larger apps to race to the bottom of the LOC count. It's succinct enough and works for truly large apps too.
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I hope to capture this within a previously mentioned metric, "miles driven."
I'm pretty certain that "invitation only" wasn't a ploy to drive up demand; it was just a way to make sure they could scale up the number of users in some sane fashion.
This is ironic beyond words! It brought to mind that the anarchist, underground book that Winston Smith wanted to read so long and finally managed to do so in 1984 was penned by a government agent. Whatever you do, the machinery somehow can get back to you!

What Anonymous should have done is to create their own, unique design, OS'ed, and put it online with an Apache 2.0 license.

P.S. On a different note, Fawkes was a bad guy, if he had succeeded, many people would have died. That's obviously not the way to persuade people.

EDIT: Are the downvoters against OS'ing the mask or using Apache 2.0 license for it. Or maybe they don't agree with the fact that Fawkes was a "bad guy". We'll never know because they don't bother to leave any comments.

If it's the latter: Look, anyone, repeat, anyone who plans to blow up people, for any cause whatsoever is a bad guy in my book. It doesn't matter how many people you kill, or what kind of people they were. If you disagree with this one, there isn't much to discuss, continue the downvoting if you want.

On the other hand, if you think that Anon's use of the mask does not portray the real Fawkes but the movie's depiction of him, that's a different matter. Then we can discuss how V's politics differ, if any, from Fawkes.
Very interesting comment, hadn't heard of Sortition before. However, I see a few practical problems with this.

First, it makes it harder to fix any errors/cheating. You can ask for a reevaluation of exam papers or a recount of the ballot if you felt that something shady happened, but then what about the randomization phase. In the admissions example for instance, if after a re-eval, the composition of students in the >95 percentile changed, do you hold a new randomization to make it fair for the new kids who crossed the threshold? If you do that, is that fair to those who previously got selected in the previous admissions ballot, and weren't second time lucky? Would this lead to all the "losers" in the lottery to ask for re-evals just so that the lottery phase happens again? (given a large number of students, if there is any subjectivity in the evaluation, every re-eval is likely to change the composition, even if by a small amount)

Secondly, the losers in the lottery are going to feel cheated and angry, even if all evaluation was objective, and there was [provably] no cheating. I think most humans prefer an objective, unambiguous way of competing with each other, even when we think that the evaluation metric is flawed. So the unlucky competitors will feel angry post-lottery, even if everything was done in a fair manner.

Finally, it increases the chances of cheating/gaming the system at the randomization phase i.e. the administrator can game the lottery. And if/when the administrators do cheat, it is also easier for them to hide their cheating since the anomaly can be hidden within the random luck factor.
So, you submitted a site with 2 pictures and a notify me button? No text to tell us why you are better than Quicken? No "demo"? Add some more information please.
Another startup of mine - aiming to add yet another solution to the personal finance conundrum. Personally, I'm sick of iBank, Koku and Quicken getting it all wrong (for my preference, anyway).

So this is a web-based money management app similar to what Wesabe was doing a while back.
I believe in general scala programs are roughly a third shorter in LOC than equivalent java programs. That's a rough estimate of course and very depending on the actual program, not sure about android specific though.
It's been argued in the past that Socrates quite deliberately provoked the jury into killing him - it's hard not to read it, see that far from being humble or defending himself he instead told them they should vote him a pension for his services to Athens, and think that this was just a case of suicide by cop.
Took me years to learn that one, too. It may be favorite Vim trick now.

Basically everything that can make your cursor jump can be used as a motion with a command - moving to a mark, undoing/redoing jumps with Ctrl+o and Ctrl+i, and hopping to a matching brace with % are more examples.

Wrote a short intro myself about such revelations: http://nathanmlong.com/vanquish/
I think this is a good time to compete in the finance market but don't forget your competing with a fairly entrenched opponent in Mint. I would try to focus on working in agreements/your own mobile app. Maybe take a look at Back to Black or Saver on iPhone to sync with entries from mobile phones.

If you have auto import from banks then you will need major differentiators from Mint which could be as simple as being able to easily search/manipulate transactions in a clean interface.

Without auto import from banks, you need a way to make entry effortless. I think the idea of entering transactions into a non-mobile facing app will fade. If people want to keep track of transactions manually themselves, they will enter them in a mobile app and then analyze them on their computers.
More info: Quicken is slow, crashes. Koku is nice but no phone integration. iBank is a mess of features that totally broke with the latest version (I'm still on iBank 3).

Smooth is at-its-core a manual checking account manager. Yes, some people still actually prefer to manually add transactions, and I'm one of them.
It is a strength, without a doubt, but it takes a little time to realise this (hence the myriad of blog posts discussing different possibly ways of laying out projects). Django was also my first intro to Python so the simplicity (and elegance) of the module approach was lost on me as I grappled with finding my way across the vast Django landscape.
Does looks counts?
Hmm, what's stopping anyone from just implementing these solutions?
It works, and it's a marvel of engineering, but it's not "artificial intelligence."

Is sound like you don't like complex algorithms written by humans. But you do like a big bucket of "neural network"?

How is "The magical black box works somehow!" better than "We know exactly how this white box we built works."?
Exactly my thinking. I've been doing manual-entry checking account ledgers for 10 years, and I've tried to love Mint several times. The manual entry gives me confidence that I know exactly where my money comes from / goes.

The phone part is really for checking your "safe to spend" balance on the fly. I really miss that with desktop-based programs.
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Anyone tried both Sass/SCSS from the article and LessCSS ( http://lesscss.org/ ) ? What did you end up using?
Does Gallup poll every US citizen? These stats are sufficiently random to mirror trends, especially when there's not many other ways of getting this information.