Engineering blog of Aggregate Knowledge covering probabilistic data structures, hash functions, streaming algorithms, and big data infrastructure.
Commenters praise its HyperLogLog post as a very good explanation and recommend its hash function series and the interactive visualization.
Use wix.com[1], learn to code[2]. In your description you say you have set up an OpenStack install at home, HTML/CSS is a walk in the park compared to that. Use launchrock[3] or mailchimp[4] to collect e-mails.
"big data" really means big - as in millions of dollars big, tera/petabyte scale. Not going to happen with $5k. You will suffer to get anything close to AWS prices[5]. You could brand the service as "fat" servers or something similar until you can really tackle that kind of scale.
And, honestly, you should omit the thing about meeting Calvin Klein and DJs, it doesn't leave a good impression. Tell us what you have to offer as a founder, and get to work on a business plan with real cost figures.
[1] http://wix.com
[2] http://www.codecademy.com/courses/html-one-o-one
[3] http://launchrock.co
[4] http://mailchimp.com
[5] http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2013/05/16/aws-redshift-how-amazon-changed-the-game/
Nice analysis.
Since that post was submitted Murmurhash 3 and a number of other notable hash functions have been released. If you liked the linked post you should go read Aggregate Knowledge's series of posts on hash functions for a look at some newer algorithms: http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/02/02/choosing-a-good-hash-function-part-3/
Found these by coincidence, might be interesting to some of you.. (can't speak to the content)
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2011/12/05/choosing-a-good-hash-function-part-1/
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2011/12/29/choosing-a-good-hash-function-part-2/
http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/02/02/choosing-a-good-hash-function-part-3/
The top answer about HyperLogLog on stackoverflow links to this awesome visualization: http://www.aggregateknowledge.com/science/blog/hll.html
SO Answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13074072/307293
Full blog post: http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/
According to this comment http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/#comment-789 , it's custom made and based on d3.
A very good post helping explain HyperLogLog : http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyperloglog-cornerstone-of-a-big-data-infrastructure/