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patrickxbon Improve developer habits by showing time cost of DB queries

How about starting with a blog that doesn't need a database so it can survive HN front page? jekyll + s3 works.

patrickxbon Heartbleed Alexa top 10000

Exactly.

patrickxbon Heartbleed Alexa top 10000

Side question: Alexa still exists? People install that extension in their browser???

patrickxbon Google Now for Chrome

I had the same problem. Go here and disable it:

chrome://flags/#enable-google-now

patrickxbon Truecar.com is going public

TrueCar sounds like a great idea (the dealership system is horrible).

But we just used TrueCar when shopping for a new car and instantly got spammy, sleazy emails and phone calls from dealers before even completing the process (which we never did).

It wasn't fun. I really wish we didn't give them any information. So I don't have high hopes for this business succeeding.

What really needs to happen is that people need to be able to just buy a car like they buy everything else without salespeople in the middle. Why can't I buy a new car from the manufacturer straight from their website? Seeing all the trouble Tesla is having fighting the dealership model is discouraging...hopefully it will improve, I'm just not sure TrueCar is the answer.

patrickxbon 32 bit version of KDB+ is now free for commercial use

Are there any open source projects or blog posts with examples of this?

patrickxbon OkCupid/IAC Employees Donated Thousands to Anti-Gay Marriage Politicians

Where are the OkCupid employees on that list?

Perhaps you should change the title to IAC Employees... It's fine to point out that employees at their parent company made donations to these politicians, but I don't see any work done here to link the data with OkCupid employees.

The dates of many of those contributions are way before IAC bought OkCupid.

patrickxbon [dead]

Their servers must be having trouble...can't start the trial period.

patrickxbon Amazon S3 Pricing Changes Effective April 1, 2014

I wish the cost for PUT requests would drop.

patrickxbon Apple and Google’s wage-fixing involved dozens more companies, over 1M employees

All the law firms in NYC (perhaps other cities) pay the same salary to all associates. It's agreed upon between them.

That being said, it's not exactly a suppression of the salary as I believe it is quite reasonable, but more like an equal playing field. You wouldn't go to another firm based on salary.

patrickxbon ObjClean

go fmt

patrickxbon StatHat iPhone App Released

Push alerts, for one. And we think the user experience is better native.

patrickxbon StatHat iPhone App Released

StatHat gives you 10 stats for free...

patrickxbon Google: Multiplex Multiple Works Loads to Increase Utilization and Save Money

Great screencast....thanks!

patrickxbon Go 1.2 Release Candidate 1 released

This is great: "Finally, an HTTP server will now serve HEAD requests transparently, without the need for special casing in handler code. While serving a HEAD request, writes to a Handler's ResponseWriter are absorbed by the Server and the client receives an empty body as required by the HTTP specification."

Been waiting for this forever...

patrickxbon Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene

I never knew Nebraska was considered the midwest...

patrickxbon How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

does anyone have experience with cloudflare? good service?

patrickxbon Building StatHat with Go

Regarding concurrency in Go, this is a good place to start: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency

And, yes, the chart drawing library was written by us. It uses cairo for drawing primitives.

patrickxbon Building StatHat with Go

Node performed well, but we prefer writing async code in Go, and we like compiled languages.

We'd love to experiment with Erlang at some point, at the very least to write an Erlang StatHat library.

patrickxbon Building StatHat with Go

You can see a few of the packages we wrote ourselves as we open sourced them: http://www.stathat.com/src

Basically what I was referring to as missing were the Amazon SES package and braintree. We haven't released the package for braintree yet, but we will.

patrickxbon Building StatHat with Go

There's also a standard JSON rpc package that you can use to interact with non-Go servers.

patrickxbon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (June 2011)

Chicago, IL

StatHat is hiring a Lead Designer:

http://www.stathat.com/jobs/chicago/lead_designer

patrickxbon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (April 2011)

Chicago - Software Engineer @ StatHat

See the full listing: http://www.stathat.com/jobs

You're going to be working on all aspects of StatHat: the front end web application, the design and display of quantitative information, the back end distributed system, database storage, configuring servers, optimizing code, writing iOS and Android apps, and continuing to design the evolving architecture of our system.

We use whatever language or technology is best to solve the problem. We are open to trying out new technologies, languages, and ideas. This job will be full of learning opportunities and you'll never be bored.

patrickxbon Idea: Random purchases, every week, on Amazon.

There's a lot of junk on amazon that I wouldn't want...maybe it should be a smaller site like thinkgeek or something.

Kind of sounds like the woot bag of crap...

patrickxbon Riak 0.14 is out

Doesn't Cassandra require a lot of RAM?

http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CassandraHardware

I can't find any numbers for riak RAM requirements...