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by pnachbaur 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you weigh the straightforward cost of a service like Algolia vs the full TCO of bringing it in-house?
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by pnachbaur 11y ago
I tend to think of Time Series data as being several orders of magnitude larger than 23 million data points per week (38 per second) but now I can't seem to find a good definition of Time Series data. Anyone have thoughts on the rough
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by pnachbaur 11y ago
Most boarding schools get compared to Hogwarts, and when you add a focus on 'technological wizardry' ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Ask HN: Recommended reading on Diversity, Recruiting, and Culture?
2 points by pnachbaur 12y ago|0 comments
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
We absolutely do not sell any data, and only use it internally to debug issues and optimize the system :)
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
You could use median instead of filtering out outliers explicitly so your averages don't get skewed.
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
If you go that way, be sure to read Jepsen: Elastic Search [1] [1] http://aphyr.com/posts/317-call-me-maybe-elasticsearch
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
Reminded me of Storehaus [1] but taken further. curious to see what K/V drivers they've written so far. https://github.com/twitter/storehaus
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
There is a video under "June 18 | Seattle" on the linked page
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How Median Will Make Your Business Better Than Average (keen.io)
14 points by pnachbaur 12y ago|0 comments
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
If you're interested in push notifications based on analytics data, check out Pushpop [1] (doesn't explicitly support iOS yet) https://github.com/keenlabs/pushpop
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
I actually hadn't been using Cover, but I'm a big fan of Aviate. I greatly prefer it over the stock/Samsung experience.
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Lyft Raises $250 Million, Eyes NYC Expansion(time.com)
1 points by pnachbaur 12y ago|0 comments
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by pnachbaur 12y ago
JSON originated from Javascript alone
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
We emphasize "event data" which goes beyond blanket monitoring. This is "big data" because what you're tracking could still happen at high volume and velocity. We leave the third V, variety, up to you - ultimately y
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
The tutorial that helped me figure out how to use dynamic JSON data was the one on Path Transitions: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/path/
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
Is this entirely an open source project, or are there plans to do something like Keen.io?
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
Sounds like solid advice to companies - what about advice for young engineers?
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
I can certainly relate to the challenges of working on a big data platform intended to immediately satisfy varied customers... But mainly I want to say I'm super impressed with the Google Analytics 'storification'. I can imag
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
I'm still surprised there is no SVM implementation for Mahout ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10482646/recently-svm-imp... ).
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
The article explicitly says "Characters with the same name can exist on different servers, so the mind-boggling 3.8 million unique names found in the dataset was not expected."
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
The comments on the source point out the same mechanism that aims to keep the US from killing him could also been seen as incentivizing the US protecting him from people who want everything released right away.
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
Framework for email marketing campaigns, but with a bunch of features. http://www.exacttarget.com/products (My company recently switched from Blue Hornet and ExactTarget gives us much more control)
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
It sounds like that would fall into the "Updates" category
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Cell-Based Computing Goes Analog(the-scientist.com)
2 points by pnachbaur 13y ago|0 comments
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
Well, except that we don't pay as much attention to every human being.
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
Feels like a filler post to hop on a trend. Also, I just can't agree that MapReduce was a bad idea in the first place. Especially when the author goes on to laud the ecosystem built on top of MR/HDFS.
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by pnachbaur 13y ago
This is well done! An internal project I'm working on will soon need to provide documentation like this.
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by pnachbaur 14y ago
I think you could do something really interesting simply by connecting feed usage data and content data, which (I believe) was zarify's idea of 'Pandora for newsfeeds'. There are companies along this line[1], but I'd prefer a solution with
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by pnachbaur 14y ago
It's a SDK for mobile apps (Android/iOS). There doesn't seem to be a page with every product on it, but the product link at the top leads you to explanations like: http://try.crashlytics.com/reports/

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