jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Contributors are important for open source startups, but they were barely measured (usually — only # total contributors). Why not use MAU, retention, LTV and other classic user metrics for them?

The article introduces this fresh approach and applies to all open-source databases (350+) in the world, revealing the top-20 by new/active contributors, retention, engagement, etc.
Yeah except that the $14 contract price I quoted was per share, so a single contract in that scenario would be $1400 premium.

So:

If you think it's going to go up to $100, your $1400 turns into $3.4k

If you think it's going to go up to $400, your $1400 turns into $~33.4k
>To be clear, ADA doesn't have a smart contract platform yet.

Yes, as I said it is planned to come in early Q2. What comes tomorrow is a necessary step in that direction - the introduction of tokens on the ADA network. For what is worth, I see little reason to doubt that their smart launch will go well - I used their playground and looked at the activity in the testnet and it all seems to be going as planned.

The bigger question is whether enough projects will move/launch there.
I think your first line nails it - there is no alternative, so we just keep on with the same terrible idea.

The alternative _should_ be that we put you to work doing something you are interested in. I have 3 children and all of them were capable of working in their field of interest at around 13. But they will spend another 5 years in school waiting, and then maybe another 4 in university buying access.

It's just....really, really broken and that's obvious to children. The adults know it too, but it's easier to look away.
They do include price increase of Housing in owner equivalent rent but there are other issues with this adjustment. Also once again basket allocation is lower than it should be for rent.
How is flying first class to your cruise ship where you have to most expensive cabin (complete with a full size grand piano) a higher quality of life than a week camping in a nearby state park? The first vacation will set you back at least $20,000, the second $300.

If you are asking about the difference between $10k and $20k that is a big difference. If you are asking about $60k vs $600k, the difference is not nearly as big even though the first is double, with the second is 10x.
There is a ton of cyclone iv boards on aliexpress
I wouldn't want my messages cluttered with this side mission. Currently iMessages do one thing and do it well; if Apple added this feature I would view it as the beginning of a distracting feature creep that was ruining iMessages.

Most of the time I seek to dine, it has nothing to do with messaging anyone. When I do, they have iMessages about 1/2 the time. I have no problem firing up the Yelp or Google Maps apps. They're dedicated to specific purposes and do what they do well.
I suspect that "responsiveness" is a post-hoc justification for:

> But I like single-page applications
because you can host locally the javascript file
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032389?hl=en-GB
Isn't the "all prices are pennies" approach the way USD is handled in practice, like "$399.99"? Certainly no one does irrational divisions like "$24 1/3rd". There might be a small paradigm shift that USD or EUR users might feel if they are used to think of supplementary units genuinely as divisions of full units, but I think most systems do consider the main unit as a sum of smallest denomination and not the or any other ways around.
Take your point, though given it's all E2E, the server logic doesn't need to be that complicated, or changed with new features, since every new feature can be implemented as a message. Server just needs message queues and routing?

I'm aware they're looking at backup features and such, wondering if they'd be part of the server, or a different system.

I'd expect some improvements to performance and such, esp. as they grow, so good catch on the 10 month wait, but it's an orange flag rather than red flag to me.
Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't it be free to just hand over the wallet?
Given most of the complaints about signal are UI/UX, it wouldn’t surprise me if most of that time has been spent client side (and that’s naturally going to have the larger code base too). Plus many of the backend stability problems might just have been solved by “let’s throw another server in” (not a philosophy I 100% support but given dev resource is finite and people usually judge software by the client side experience, I couldn’t blame Signal if that’s how they’ve been operating).

Also let’s not forget that Signal was founded 6 years ago so they’ve already had some time to work on their backend code already (and in a sector that isn’t exactly lacking of research papers and prior art for solutions).
I feel like here needs to point out the fact that gambling (including making -EV bets) isn’t necessarily bad and can be a lot of fun.

You don’t always have to make smart decisions and maximize EV. YOLO!

Plus like Nick the Greek said, “The next best thing in life to gambling and winning is gambling and losing.”
It is relevant because I don't think the rest of the projects will end up absorbing all of Ethereum's hashrate. First of all, some of the current miners will sell their hardware and stake ETH instead, becoming validators.

Secondly, I tend to think there'll be a mass extinction event, where most useless projects will eventually die off. You can mine all you want, but if there's no real utility in yet another PoW project (and there isn't), you won't be able to sell the coins at a price that justifies running the operation.
> With immutable objects, forward references aren't possible.

This aligns well with a tree of backup objects (immutable append-only acyclic graph data structure) but this approach wouldn't work for general programming, right?

My understanding is that LISP's letrec and the equivalent in other functional languages, means that even seemingly immutable abstractions aren't really immutable from the point of view of the GC, and cycles are a possibility. I don't think it would be possible to properly implement Haskell using ordinary reference-counting, for instance. The purity of the language wouldn't save you from reference-cycles.

See also: https://stackoverflow.com/q/791437/
Noted; thank you for sharing!
This is cool but it's hard to see how using a fork of BTC, even if it's optimized for les fees currently, is the best option for pure transactions. It still uses Proof of Work, no matter how you stuff the blocks and better (to my eyes) alternatives already exist like Nano which is feeless, even faster and doesn't waste energy.
Specifically I am talking about advanced features for my AMD GPU in the context of SteamVR. I was also under the impression that Windows 7 still got intel microcode updates.

Also, an RX 580 8GB is massive overkill for VR. An RX 480 8GB goes for about $80 on ebay and will have 90% of the performance of the 580
It's more complicated than that if you want to decode multiple instructions per cycles, which you have to for high-end designs. I still agree with monocasa that it's almost certainly going to be worth it for the reduced I$ pressure.
It's easy to get Japanese citizenship if you can qualify for a visa in the first place. I'm not sure why this falsehood is constantly repeated. Citizenship = 5 years, PR = 10 years
The average user, by Google's own studies, wants a faster experience.

By far.

Is there any evidence that web apps of today are faster in achieving what equivalent non appy web pages of the past managed? Despite the fact that those older "apps" were running on computers which were orders of magnitude slower than our cell phones today.

I've worked with 2 companies now where their users (and both these companies have users who pay 4 digit annual fees per user) have refused to migrate to the new Web 2.0 apps these companies have tried to foist on them.

The difference in these cases is that the users, by virtue of paying, actually have a say and so have required the companies to provide parity with the older and newer applications, and usage continues to not just be higher, but grow faster on the older versions (despite having a larger base).

Regular users have no such option. Google changes GMail, but its users still insist on using the older versions of the app, which is why they provide HTML mode, etc. However, it's users do not pay Google, and are forced to go with whatever Google wants to do, which is constantly hiding the older version and making it progressively worse to use.

It's not evident to me at all that regular users "want" to use these new web 2.0 apps, as much as they don't have a choice.
We (reddit) were blocked by AWS on this until 2017 or so. Since then it's mostly been an issue of reworking internal tooling and storage. There are a huge number of places we'd need to futz with to support IPv6, and to be honest we've had basically zero pressure to do so.

When pressure is zero and effort is high, things will go unchanged. I'm sure once pressure exists then some movement will occur. It seems most of the industry is doing everything they can to put off incurring pressure, though.
I was at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference session that functioned as (what I remember to have been) the Pipes launch party. Everyone involved with the project seemed young and full of optimism, and while they didn't know exactly how Pipes would make money, I remember being as impressed with the UI as I was the forward-thinking ideas that motivated the project. Keep in mind that in 2006, IE 6 was still omnipresent so the fact that they had a usable drag and drop interface running put it in rarified air along with other UX trailblazers like Flickr and DabbleDB.

To this day, I am still bewildered and not just a little angry about how Yahoo's entire M&A machine was really just a catch-and-kill trap for taking the most promising ideas out of the ecosystem and slowly resource starving them into irrelevance.
I don't think that's universally true. Being attractive certainly can help make good impressions easier (and I've known insufferable people coast by on good looks too) but I don't think it's the be-all or end-all of romance.

I've known women that have broken up with or turned down attractive men because they didn't enjoy talking with them, or had different political views, or wanted to have/not have children. Conversely, I've known men that didn't exactly look like movie stars end up in relationships with nice-looking women too. That's not even considering same-sex attraction either. Heck, I've turned people down to date less physically-attractive people in the past too.
Nerd Fonts is a terrific resource. The project does more than just aggregate, all Nerd Font variants are patched with extra glyphs and icons allowing for much more expressive and informative (and fun) terminal prompts. It's also a great source for text editor fonts. All fonts are offered in multiple formats making it easy to match your workspace across platforms.
Lynx is not a screen reader. (In fact, it's considerably less accessible to blind users than a typical desktop browser -- as a console application, it has no way to provide accessibility data to a screen reader.)

A screen reader is a tool like JAWS or VoiceOver which interacts with desktop software (including web browsers like Chrome or Safari) to provide information about what the user is interacting with.
Getting the name wrong does not make your article seem well researched.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_L...

On 29 June 2014, the group renamed itself the Islamic State (IS)
I mean coastal areas have always been dangerous, and people seem to be bad at imagining Florida disappearing.

I do wonder tho, like … the Netherlands exist. Is it not possible to do that in Florida (in theory?)

People always say “well Florida is under sea level you doofuses” but loads of cities build stuff below sea level or just raise the ground outright.
Yes — that's after a ton of Rust-centric optimisation. About 25% of the runtime is currently consumed with deallocating memory (there are a lot of heavily-nested data structures getting cleaned up), so there's definitely some more work to be done to reduce cloning.
Reality overcame the Onion when somebody actually built and shipped a seven blade razor. I wish I were making this up.
A buyout is all or nothing. Many current shareholders (a majority?) think the offer is low. The board is representing their interests.
I can easily write a shell script by following the 1997 Single Unix Specification Issue 2:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/

put it into a #!/bin/sh file and have it work everywhere.

Good luck with #!/usr/bin/env python followed by code written to 1997 specs.
Because Elon's been pushing the topic of Twitter and freedom of speech (or the lack thereof) for... a quite a while now.

He even ran the (now famous) poll: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1507259709224632344
AutoCad sells for many thousands of dollars a seat as do its commercial competitors. There is no passable open source alternative for professional work in many industries particularly AEC. AutoDesk's business model is based on selling products that are used to manually translate requirements tossed over the transom into designs.

The developer of a $50,000,000 project is going to pay several million dollars in design fees. There's a lot of value proposition in an easy button. However a lot of domain knowledge is necessary to produce something reliable.

Either way - developing a product to compete with PhotoShop or AutoCad - is a big dollar proposition. There's more capital investment that winds up requiring AutoCad than PhotoShop. A lot of what PhotoShop does is a nice-to-have. Building departments require building plans. Paving contractors require road plans. A billion dollars in those industries isn't even news.
I think that making it about 'censorship' immediately betrays a kind of knee-jerk status quo defending.

There are some folks who would want to see censorship of this kind of material, I'm sure. But I've not met them. And it certainly isn't what the vast, vast majority of feminists and social justice campaigners are interested in.

I don't want censorship for anything. I think people should be perfectly entitled to produce comics with toxic representations of blacks, Jews, Christians, LGBT+ folks, whoever. But I want to agitate and educate for a culture in which such representations are rightly considered unpleasant and unwelcome to most people. I want to change the culture so that those kind of facile objectifications are seen for what they are, and where most people reject them accordingly.

The idea that this is about censorship, is a strawman, as far as I can see. Remember Voltaire.

Unfortunately, it is common for some people to confuse organisation against something with censorship of it.
That's actually a pretty good summary of the difference between Upstart and systemd, with systemd your services declare what they depend on and your runlevel is now a "target" that declares that it depends on certain services. It does dependency resolution just like a package manager does.
Is it common for engineers to even be able to influence the UX decisions? I thought that was generally left to designers.
I'm emailing you now to find out more about the company.
No clean SQL layer like FoundationDB though.
Yeah, I might put together a browser plugin that does that to the current page URL when I hit a button!
I didn't know it was non-fiction! To be honest, I've not read the book for probably 15 years, but that adds a really interesting spin on it. Thanks for pointing that out!
Perhaps there is no business case for having a good, CSS/HTML based website when your business is turning over tables?

That's a serious question. Has anyone here been involved with a restaurant or food-service related start-up that isn't an aggregator or social networking play? Maybe someone can shed some light on the roadblock?
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2042981
Location will also make it easy for criminals to find out where we are and are not.
Mozilla developer center? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Guide

They even changed their design. I'm surprised nobody talked about it.
Just a quick note that I made an update to version 0.5.1:

http://radiapp.com/news

Thank you all so much for the encouraging comments!
true, but it makes it hard for those of us working on local search sites to crawl their sites too :/
I've been thinking about developing a custom cms/site builder of sorts, pitch it to one restaurant and make both the customer and owner experience really smooth. On one side, I would have a restaurant directory with all the info, recommendations and what not, but the owner would get a site with no 3rd party branding and their own domain, charge a monthly fee and get free dinners on a bunch of places.

But then I imagine explaining my idea to other people and having them ask "so, uhhm, like geocities?"
From the explanation you just gave I sovled it in 7 minutes but i guess thats no challenge since you did all the thinking and I just had to code it. But I see what you mean; i feel like I should have known that and will definitely go look into the things you suggested.

--Thanks
This boycott and these comments are being orchestrated by Liz Fong-Jones. Liz Fong-Jones is a transexual activist, and an offender in sexual harassment themselves. I'm posting this on a throwaway for obvious reasons.

I worked at Google from 2010-2014. Over the summer of 2012 or 2013, I joined an Eve Online "Corporation" (guild) with Liz, and another one of my coworkers. It was a crazy place. Liz had a fanatical hatred of "Rape Jokes". Rape was not a joke to Liz. Rape was a fantasy that Liz was all too happy to describe in great detail. The corporation was "Kink Friendly". I'm embarrassed to say that that was part of the appeal to me - I'm happy to tie my girlfriends up as part of roleplay. Liz's fantasies were a great deal more detailed and a great deal less fantasy oriented than I would like. I left that corporation after a while, though not as quickly as I should have. I was young, I was confused, and based on the success of her "Real Names Considered Harmful" letter, I believed that Liz was a credible, accredited leader.

The same coworker who introduced me to Liz would, several times, invite me to join them for lunch at "Club Z". I declined - Partially because something seemed off, mostly because I was satisfied with the lunches at Google. I would only later find out that "Club Z" is not a lunch place - It's a (rather infamous) Gay Bathhouse here in Seattle.

While I was in that corp, though, I was sexually assaulted by a former friend. About a year I knew and had considered a friend had some out as bi, and had "Confessed their love" to me... by forcefully kissing me at a party. I was embarrassed, I was not interested, and I made it pretty politely clear, to which they reacted badly. Now they had come out as "trans", and received an outpouring of support from mutual friends. Said friends convinced me to give them another chance. At their urging, I agreed to hang out with this friend, at a "Movie Night". A movie night which no-one else showed to. Said former friend pressured me to try weed, which I had never done before. Okay. Red flag. I was dumb, and I regret it. Said friend offered to show me his "Uncle's" stash of Child Pornography. I already suspected they were a pedo, but, yeah. Should have run right then, was drunk. Said "friend" then tried to force himself on me. I am not bigger, but I am strong, and I forced them off. I was also drunk, and spent several uncomfortable hours waiting to sober up, repeatedly fending off unwanted advances.

Anyway: Being dumb, having listened to too much of the bullshit excuses, I went to the only Trans* person I knew to talk about it. Liz. They told me how much I was in the wrong, how important it was for Trans* people to explore their sexuality, and called me a monster for not having responded positively. "What if a biological woman had hit on you?" - The tired old canard was trotted out.

I do not have any direct evidence of wrongdoing by Liz Fong-Jones. I only know that they hang out with, and are supported by, people who were long overdue for censure. People who were repeatedly able to convince others that they were the victims despite their clear aggression.
nice. however a more scalable approach would be a metabug site where people could post "it doesn't work" freeform text, and volunteers could accept a bug and resolve it when they had refiled it with the correct project.
the next version will allow you to pay to keep three copies of your app loaded and ready to go at all times. that should eliminate the insanely slow load times for apps that don't get constant traffic (at a price yet to be determined).

google is also adding sql database capabilities to the platform soon.

and google apps for business will eventually let you talk https on your own domain (at a price yet to be determined).

i suspect they're about 6 or 8 months from becoming a solid solution to many problems.
Thank you so much. Means a lot to hear.

Acorns are currency.
They already have nuclear weapons. And ICBMs.

The big problem is not how many American troops would die in a conflict with North Korea (such a conflict could be "won" with zero American losses, in theory), but how many South Korean and North Korean civilians would die. Unfortunately, nobody has figured out a way to remove the North Korean regime that doesn't result in hundreds of thousands of South Korean civilian deaths.
Recently i discover Chrome's Click-to-Play flash builtin feature (you can reach it in Preferences/Under the Hood/Content Settings/Plugins). It's similar to the ClickToFlash plugins for Safari: http://clicktoflash.com, but it's integrated in Chrome, you don't have to install anything to use it. Disable flash really enhanced my browsing experience: pages load faster, cpu usage down, more battery time ... If you want to see a specific flash object just click on it.

Too bad they removed the feature in Chromium 9 :( Instead you must block all sites and use a white list for site-wide exceptions.
One thing I really like about the ML option is how simple it is to get other people to use it. I got a friend to install it and use it in just a few of minutes because I was tired of listening to his MX Blue keyboard.

For actual audio recordings I would never use something like this, but for voice chat it's perfect because it allows a person to have a good enough level of audio quality with minimal effort.
In that scenario I’d be a lot more hesitant to do true “microservices” because IME it’s a good way to complicate interactions and development without achieving much.
> I think it's fairly clear that if being a modern Western democracy like Denmark was what they wanted, then they failed to achieve it.

In 20 years? How on earth would they have pulled that off? Denmark, Sweden, West Germany, The Netherlands etc stand on hundreds of years of relative wealth and industrialization. Sure, the world wars didn't leave them untouched either, but it's much, much easier to rebuild an industry than to build it in the first place. And then they had the Marshall Plan, 50 years of peace, 30-40 of which were a giant seemingly never-ending economic power boost.

Comparing that to a country that only emerged from Soviet occupation in 1990, joined the EU in 2004, and didn't have a long history of self-determination more of less in its current form is like comparing a 12yo to a professional athlete and saying "well, if he wanted to, he could run a 5-minute mile, the other guy can do it as well, clearly he just doesn't want to".
You can use a 3rd party client (I use Tweetbot) to go back to a chronologically ordered list of tweets, with no promoted tweets, no sidebar, you have to explicitly click to find trending topics.

You can also keywords (which I think you can do with the Twitter app as well) for more granular curation.

I think solutions like this allow one to benefit from Twitter without paying the heavy price that their shitty engagement tactics demand.