skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using a mix of Google Analytics and Mint but am keen to try Piwik, which is open source. Anyone using it?

http://piwik.org/
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It's not as accessible as BASIC on a TI calculator, where many kids are introduced to programming. I don't think it's a coincidence that the situation was similar on Commodores/Ataris.

Deciding that you need a programming language installed and then picking one and installing it is a very big step. It was a fluke that many of the people posting in this thread discovered programming. They stumbled upon the editor, tapped out a couple lines, and something happened. Cool!

Python is certainly accessible to an experienced developer, but a 10-year-old's curiosity is superficial. They need to tinker and receive instant gratification without the barriers of setting up an environment. Programming isn't integrated and exposed in a dead-simple way to foster experimentation these days.
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They're an implementation of the untyped lambda calculus. What you're thinking of are better named tags, not types.
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im sticking to google analytics as for now, gonna try getclicky soon, seems interesting, plus after checking out "who uses it", i have to give it a shot.
Forget medical records. What about an online health care expenses manager like Quicken. If you've ever dealt with many doctors, or more than one insurance, or just the US health care insurance system in general it's a nightmare to keep track of what's been claimed, billed, paid back, written off, reduced, etc.
I'm using Clicky and Google. I did a Vs post a few weeks back on the two: http://www.reynoldsftw.com/2009/01/web-stats-clicky-vs-googl...
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I think your numbers sound about right. If you assume each user subscribes to 15 sites, that's 30c per site per month after transaction costs, so a special interest blog with a thousand visitors nets $1,080 a year. Semi-pro mommybloggers and the like get $20,000. BoingBoing at a couple of million unique impressions, $2.2 million.

That seems lower than one might hope for as a content producer but maybe higher than an average consumer might want to pay as per month - about the right number? It makes sense that as the market approaches perfect competition (no barriers to entry, no information inequalities, no transport costs) it gets pretty hard to make abnormal returns - supply just ramps up until there is less per head.

This could be a nice channel for incentivising content that doesn't work well with an advertising model, for example RSS feeds. It'll be interesting to see whether they can market this well enough though.
Is that you, Sho Fukamachi? The Guyver? If so, fancy running into you here! :) How have you been?

I'm working on my first Rails project at the moment and, as an exercise more than anything else, have been trying to keep things RESTful as much as possible. I am finding it quite difficult in some more complex situations to keep so strictly to the RESTful ideal and find that I must sometimes stray in deference to the way I want the UI to behave. Do you find that you need to stray out of the strict 7 actions when things like complex model relationships, user access control and AJAX come into the equation?

But yeah, I've also made my choice, for the foreseeable future, Ruby is for me, so Rails it is.
Check this thread out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=470128
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Ask HN: help me find something Alan Kay said
A couple weeks ago there was a link doing the rounds wherein Alan Kay was seen stating that the important thing about Smalltalk was message passing, as opposed to OO in itself. I've been Googling high and low and can't find it again -- does anybody know where it is? Thanks in advance.
It's been a while since I've developed PHP on Windows, but way back in the day there was a popular package that would install PHP, MySQL, and a smattering of other things (like a GUI DB manager) in a single click. It got me started on PHP very, very quickly, and in a lot of ways I owe a lot of my coding experience to it.

Macs also now ship with PHP and Ruby, though they are sometimes broken.
Grails !!
Works with java (and uses professional java tech) but has the dev speed of rails or django.

Check the case studie of Wired : http://www.springsource.com/files/Wired.com%20Case%20study.....
Good luck...just promise not to use the word "dead" tagline.
I sometimes wonder if people who think of minutiae like this ever consider losing weight because they'll use less gas by not toting the extra pounds around...
Well, that posts at Reynolds didn't have a TIME, but within an hour that it was posted at HN Twitter was back up. Sounds like pretty fast recovery, even if the error message could have been done better. And... at least the outage was in wee hours of morning (MST).
I think he is trying to say that "Be more aware about the shit that has happened in the not-too-distant-past but not recently."

Also, the parallel he draws with Perceived Risk of Economic Crash based on past data does in fact coincide with times of major shifts in our perception of risk.
"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I'm not aware of them"

Source: email [1]

[1] http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
You're making an attack on religion. I was explaining ID.

I understand that religious creation-type people use ID as a shield from which to launch their anti-science attacks. I got that. What I'm trying to explain to you is that ID, as a way of knowing something, is a separate thing. In my opinion, people who mix up ID and creationism, from either side, look like morons. They're two different things.

It's like attacking people from the American South as being KKK rednecks. Yes, there is that part. But to mix it all up is to display a lack of understanding and a willingness not to think. Not thinking is bad. Better to understand ID and then attack creationists than just lump it all together. Ignorance is one thing, but stupidity -- the willful continuation of not learning -- is another. That's bad on any side of a discussion. When the science guys start acting stupid, you know the discussion is in trouble.
I'm using Google Analytics primarily.

getclicky is fine below 100,000 page views per day, but I've passed that milestone.

woopra was my favourite for tracking user activity, but 10,000 views per day is barely an hour in the day so not a large enough window.

If you're above 100,000 page views then I think Google Analytics still rocks.

The only issue I've had with Google Analytics is the lack of an API to publish the stats back to the site or elsewhere. But you can get around this by having an email subscription to receive Xml, then deliver that to a public Google Groups set up for announce, and use Yahoo Pipes to parse the attached Xml and re-publish it as JSON... if anyone cares I've published a pipe for this here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=f633ec8e5eabfe3c3...
Not the exact link I was looking for, but useful nonetheless - cheers.
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...

From here :
http://learningevolves.wikispaces.com/alanKay+talk

Alan Kay regrets the terminology, object orientated,
thinking later that message orientated would have
expressed it better.

This seems the most definitive:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-...

Just a gentle reminder that I took some pains at the
last OOPSLA to try to remind everyone that Smalltalk
is not only NOT its syntax or the class library, it
is not even about classes. I'm sorry that I long ago
coined the term "objects" for this topic because it
gets many people to focus on the lesser idea.

The big idea is "messaging" -- that is what the kernal
of Smalltalk/Squeak is all about ...
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Balls Predicts Worst Downturn For 100 Years
The schools minister said that the recession could be worse than that of the 1930s.
This could be the worst recession for a century, a close political ally of Gordon Brown has said.
Yes I use Woopra and it is excellent.

The realtime stuff is incredibly useful.
Ask HN: I want to build a simple but good website, what do I need to do?
Hello everybody,
I have a small business and would like to create a brochure for the stuff and services I sell online, I don't want to spend more than $500 for now, and I have no problem learning to do anything on my own. What do you suggest guys? Should I forget about it and hand the project for somebody? Or It is possible for me to create a simple attractive website for my business alone?
I use:
- clicky
- GA
- Woopra
- Mint

Across my variety of sites. Usually a combination of 2 or 3 of them: the reason being that the variance between the stats the all collect means that it's helpful to have more than one stats collator to double check your info :D
Well, I guess Amazon will have to remove that feature from the Kindle then.
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There's a limit as to how much I rely on baseball/political prognosticators for macroeconomic analysis. That said...

I think he's aiming our attention at the irrational processes by which we as a society direct our attention. Long-term possibilities are the headlined item. He also mentions our tendency to neglect low-probability (but high-impact) concerns. And of course that means "perceived as low-probability."

Those responsible for the reliability of less-macro systems like hard drives, servers, and networks have learned to have backup plans B, C, D... in place. Political and social processes, however, tend to be funded only for the best-publicized (usually the most recent) scares. Would you allow your IT department be as fault-tolerant as the SEC or other federal oversight agencies?
Where are you located? Do you need a local hacker?

I'd like to know more send me a message: collintmiller@gmail.com
Wordpress and/or PHP.

or drop me an email and I'll make it you :)
You know, funnily, that's one of the things I enjoyed about Ruby most from the get-go: there's a very low incidence of "WTF?"

In Ruby, most concepts that you haven't met before are still intuitive enough to be able to grasp them without being told what they are explicitly. Of course, there are exceptions (inject takes a little getting used to, as do some edge cases with code blocks and lambdas), but take the following example:

puts Project.find_all_by_created_at(1.month.ago..Time.now).collect(&:name).join(", ")

This uses a few "medium-advanced" ruby concepts, like ORM, ranges of dates, and iterating through a collection and mapping the results of the iteration, and yet even someone who knows zero programming has a chance of figuring out what it does.

Or:

recent_joiners = project.all_users.select { |user| user.joined_at(project) > 1.month.ago }

All very obvious. I like obvious code. As they say, code should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. Whatever other flaws it may have, Ruby is written for clear, easy reading.

On the other hand, after the Erlang 'discussion' ("Why OO Sucks") Dale Harvey pointed me to this erlang file: http://github.com/daleharvey/erlang_util/blob/e9057208f88ba5...

The density of WTF's in this file is huge. Who can make sense of the following lines without any explanation?

format([$M|T], {{_,M,_},_}=Dt, Acc) ->
format(T, Dt, [smonth(M)|Acc]);

Beyond "It's something to do with formatting a date of some sort", it's hard to tell what it does or how. And yet, this piece of code is probably trivial when compared to the ruby code I pasted above.

Personally, I really prefer languages with a low WTF/minute rate right from the start. Then I can measure progress in that language based on what I achieve with it, rather than based on how many hurdles I've jumped to get to square one.
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Why isn't it free to deploy to your Xbox and then $99 for the ability to sell your game?
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Here’s where something magical happens. When you fix a Cycle Eater, you don’t just get back the time you were losing to the Cycle Eater. There are often unpredictable emergent properties from this type of waste reduction. When you have free sandboxes, marketing starts using the same development tools that engineering uses. Marketing suddenly doesn’t need to pull an engineer out of flow to get promotional material deployed.

It's worth adding that this is not just the case for waste, but also for intrinsic slowness due to personal ability (or lack thereof).

In my opinion, the reason why great programmers are so much better than bad programmers is because of those emergent benefits, like being able to write code that is much shorter and clearer and so takes less time to write and maintain.
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Instead of synthesizing speech, Amazon will have to employ it's mechanical turk to have actual humans read the text ;-)

Now everything falls into place - brilliant strategy...
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Both "Try Ruby" and "The little coder predicament" have been written byt the same person, namely why the lucky stiff or _why.

His main programming progress for the last two years has been Hackety Hack, a programming environment for kids, based on Ruby.

The first iteration of HH was built on top of Mozilla, but abandonned because of cross platform issues.

The next version, due this march, runs on Shoes, a GUI toolkit he developed with HH in mind.

http://hacketyhack.net/
http://shoooes.net/
* Deploying to your Xbox 360 costs $99/year which includes the rights to sell your games on Xbox Live.*

What if I don't want to sell anything? Do I still need to pay in order to write programs for a console that I own?
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The good part of encapsulation is separating interface from implementation: you can publish a data type without giving access to its innards.

And you can do that in a good module system, too. Look at OCaml's. (http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/manual004.html)

Also, look at the functors - modules are first class, so you can write functions that take a module and return a (usually more specific or generated) module.
We're based in London, there's a well documented funding gap in Europe. No Y-Combinator, etc. The money exists we just want to create a mechanism to get the best ideas to the money.

This idea fills a gap in the US too, it's a different approach to helping people get start up funding.

I'm not sure about the location thing. I can see how it would be really helpful to be able to sit down together, is it essential in the experience of you guys?
I applied for beta status with them after hearing good things, but they took so long to respond that I never put it in. I'm using Mint and AWStats.

Is there one that groups events by visitor (ip address)? I'd like to see a "trail" of use, so I can see what is catching their interest, and in what order.
My wife teaches at a small private school similar to this. It mostly works well for them, but the kids who don't want to work can fall behind. I think this problem would be exaggerated in public schools because of the larger classrooms, but hopefully it will work out in Denver.
See this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=475313 Want to help build it?
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Felt great to watch that mother scrolling!

But the first thing that kids of today will do when they get hold of a new pc, is get on internet to search for pron.
Ask HN: Value of comments in regards to applying for YC?
So I am getting ready to apply for the summer 2009 ycombinator program and I was wondering about the importance of actually writing comments. I consider myself fairly smart, I do lurk and read lots of the material on the site, but I don't really comment much on ycombinator. Is it really important for me to comment? I realize that pg and the team need to get a better picture of the applicants, but I would think that people who are writing more comments on yc are spending less time on writing actual code for their projects. What kind of disadvantage am I at if I don't comment often? Should I be spending more time commenting for my preparation to apply to yc?
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Happy memories :) Discovering that what you see on the screen is just bytes in memory, and you can access them directly.
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China has already had its own Silicon Valley for many years in Beijing called Zhong Guan Cun (中关村) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongguancun .
Nokia phones do it, at least the N95.
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We use a mix of Google Analytics, awstats, and webalizer. Awstats and Webalizer are post process your weblogs so they don't really effect the performance of your website.
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"yes, it asks for your user name and password and no, we won't do anything wrong with it"

But you'll store it right? And that means if someone breaks into your database they've got my password for Twitter.

This sites that ask for a password are dangerous. Suppose the Twitter does a really great job of salted hashing of passwords so that it wouldn't matter if someone broke into the Twitter database.

Then along comes a third-party service that needs to integrate with Twitter and so asks for my password. All the good work done by Twitter on password security is gone.

But from the public's perspective there's no difference between the two. Both seem to need to know the password, one creates security risk, the other doesn't.

The only solution to this problem is that Twitter provide an authentication service for its users.
Hey linux does ;-> Lots of device drivers still need to be written.
>> that's what Universities are for. <<

Your point makes no sense. If there is no difference between the activities it hardly matters where someone does it.
btw, I am in Guangdong currently, I'm pretty sure it is nothing like Silicon Valley. There are lots of computer component factories here, but not really any web companies.
Wee small hours of the morning in the US, but not in Europe. Twitter is global now.
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Yes I'm using it secondary to google analytics. Since the API is open it allows us to pull basic stats into the homepage of our site control panels which is cool.

IMO it still needs a lot of work, especially with the UI but it seems to do basic stuff well.
I was studying business/project management full-time while running a couple companies. My biggest beef was that the grading scale rewards consistent mediocrity over inconsistent excellence - basically the opposite of the real world.

Out in the wild, let's say you run three advertising campaigns. Each costs $1,000. Two return almost nothing - utter failures. The third returns $9,000. In the real world, you've got +$6,000 and you've tripled your money. In academia, you've got an average of 33% and you've failed the course.

The problem is, once an assignment is "near perfect" and gets an A, there's nothing to separate "excellent" (an "A") and the "best paper ever put together in this topic" (...also an "A"). In the real world, you can do excellent work and make $100,000 in a year, or do the best work ever done in a field and make millions. Academia has a mild learning component and a significant credentialing component (it is a major plus, and I do look at degree/grades when hiring), but the atmosphere is not conducive to experimentation and prioritization - two crucial skills for making it big in the real world.

Passing heavy homework-laden courses shows you can take orders and execute on them sufficiently well and consistently, which has some value for people who want to be employees, but considerably less value for people who want to do great things. A mix of real world learning from experiences, and accumulating some credentials in other ways is more and more becoming a viable option.
Update: I wrote a simulation program, my algorithm appears to perform better compared to the majority-finding algorithm of Yale's university described in the american scientist article even if the algorithm I proposed is O(1) and the Yale's is O(M) (where M is the number of top-items to track). I'll post an article with more details and the source code on YN today.
In the past, PG has talked about comments here from the perspective of the YC crew"recognizing names". Based on this and my past experience with selection processes, I imagine comments here will influence how carefully an application is reviewed, but not necessarily the outcome of that review -- rather like any resume which says "Linus Torvalds" at the top will be looked at closely, but Linus would nevertheless probably not be offered a job as a web designer (if, for some odd reason, he ever applied for one).

Should I be spending more time commenting for my preparation to apply to yc?

Please don't. There is an influx of new people posting here every 6 months, and it does nothing to improve the level of discourse. I rather doubt that it helps the YC applicant much either, since (a) the only reputation which you have time to develop between now and the YC deadline is a bad one, and (b) people who are writing comments just for the sake of writing comments rarely end up saying anything interesting anyway.
But they say they take password security "extremely seriously".

What could possibly go wrong?
I'm currently using a combination of GA and StatCounter. I use SC to see what's going on in real-time and use GA for long-term trend analysis.

As someone else mentioned, the downside of real-time is that you have to constantly sit and refresh to see what's going on.

I'd like to see a package that notifies me when a significant action happens on my site. Like if I were to start getting hits from a new referrer, or see a statistically significant spike in page views for a certain page. Does anyone know of a solution that does something like this?