skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sell products rather than a subscription service, so it's harder to measure when I've lost a customer.

I'm certain I've lost customers because I haven't had enough frequent updates / new products, and wasn't consistent with my email newsletter. I use a niche toolkit that wasn't ready when 64-bit went mainstream, so I missed being in the first wave of 64-bit ready products and got stuck with a lot of rewrites & retooling. So, just getting the basics right is important!

I did include an optional survey whenever someone uninstalls the trial version of my software. 90% of the feedback was useless (ie "id dint like it"), but occasionally a customer would take the time to write about a bug they'd encountered, or a compatibility problem, so I think it's still worthwhile to include.

Some of the uninstall feedback was a huge red herring - customers kept saying they didn't understand how to configure Photoshop to use my software, or had problems using Photoshop itself, or didn't even have Photoshop, so I thought I'd fix it by developing & including a stripped-back simple photo editor that was preconfigured to work with my software. Some customers loved it & said I'd knocked it out of the park... but it did not move the needle at all and was a colossal waste of time. If I'd looked more closely, I would've noticed those uninstall survey requests had mostly come from Brazil & India, countries I wouldn't have been able to monetize anyway.

I also tag incoming support requests so I can see which areas customers keep having trouble with, so I can measure what might be the biggest holes. For me, customers losing their unlocking serial code was the #1 issue & I solved that almost entirely with an online lost-my-code lookup.
Traffic lights are not there for safety, they are there to make cars go faster, while being dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists. People are often killed by cars turning right at traffic lights.
This isn't unique to startups, let alone SV startups. I know from personal experience that work environments like this exist in finance and advertising, too.
Same guy who complained about entering root password to set up printer? Yeah. Linux fans are fast to go "lol m$ UAC", but their shitty UX with entering root password every 10 minutes is "securiteh!!!". :))
I'm pretty sure Uber is responsible for global warming too. I mean yes, that's very sad, but let's be reasonable about it, uber is probably not the only intensive work place, and the guy was not the only one under pressure.
http://www.nkhome.com/rowing-sports/empower-oarlock

This comes from a manufacturer of standard rowing equipment and is priced at a level suitable for small programs or individuals.

2 others that are currently under development:

http://www.sweetzpot.com/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1605381989/the-rowing-a...

Both of these use smartphone apps for the UI.
Went through the 'find out how much your car is worth' forms (which offers only wrong model options) only for it to ask for an email address at the end, which I'm not gonna give. Especially when on AutoTrader it's a two field form and an instant result.
Did you use those new drivers nVidia just released for 10xx GPUs? I'll be building my first hackintosh soon and that's got me worried.
Pulseaudio in Linux has the same role, as Core Audio in macOS.

Systemd in Linux has the same role, as Launchd in macOS. Some aspects of systemd were inspired by launchd and SMF.

Interestingly, it is a good, useful thing that contributes to polished experience when it comes to macOS, but for some reason, when someone does equivalent for Linux, it is suddenly a bad thing, just because it is different than in the past and moves the polish and experience with Linux to a higher level?
Their latest update (4/25/17):

Based on impact and reach, none of the vulnerabilities in in the second section scored higher than 'medium'... It’s important to note that updates based on issues scored as ‘medium’ are no longer provided to our last-generation open source Community Edition (CE), so the bloggers post no longer aligns with our current commercial products and solutions.

So, I just replied to their blog post with this comment (awaiting moderation, so will probably never be published):

Hi Rich, I'd like to know more about your latest update, the one with regards to the second section of my post: you're saying you rated all of the vulnerabilities I reported with a "medium" CVSS score (which version btw? v3.0?). However, I reported two SQL injection vulnerabilities and according to your security advisories (https://www.sugarcrm.com/security/sugarcrm-sa-2016-003 and https://www.sugarcrm.com/security/sugarcrm-sa-2017-001), in the past you rated SQL injection vulnerabilities in SugarCRM with 'High' or 'Important' risk level... May I know why now they're considered of 'Medium' risk level? They same applies to the remaining vulnerabilities, which might allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary PHP code, and so far in your security advisories this kind of issues has been rated with 'Critical' risk level (like this: https://www.sugarcrm.com/security/sugarcrm-sa-2016-001)... The numbers don't add up!
> This is true, but don't you also think that once extraordinary claims have this much publicity they warrant extraordinary investigation? If for no other purpose than to prove it wrong?

Absolutely, I'd be surprised if it wasn't happening already, within nasa and around the world. I'm guessing they're being a lot more thorough though, controlling for more variables and trying more permutations (different engine sizes, different materials, etc) to try to either isolate the cause or to rule some out. I'd suspect anything less would risk the experimenters being labeled as cranks, that's why we're not seeing direct replication efforts.
It uses the wrong system glob :)
It either calls out on VMS or Windows to a perlglob executable, or uses BSD glob from a shared lib.
So whenever perl makes a choice it makes the wrong one.
cool name, sadly copyrighted http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Tardis:Copyrights
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Even better was Windows (Live) Photo Gallery. Sadly it's dead since Feb 2017, you can't even install it anymore, as only a now broken WebInstaller exists.

Slightly OT: is there any good photo organizer for windows? I would be happy with sth at the level of shotwell even https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell
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That's true! And the system has 4 Noctua fans and a Corsair H80i water cooler, which will all make more noise than the PSU anyway.
The decision to commit suicide is rarely made in a rational state of mind. Unlike most decisions, however, this one is permanent.
We have a car in Australia called the Pajero and no one cares. I doubt this will be an issue for this UK company.
Mint, in turn, is based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Isn’t part of the reason for using Mailgun, Sendgrid etc that you get to send via IP addresses with good reputation?
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>If for the sake of example

This is a terrible example and you have no idea what you're talking about.
Anyone notice how quickly this got removed from the front page?
Yep, it wasn't sarcasm.

http://reducing-suffering.org/do-bugs-feel-pain/
It actually makes more sense for the already successful and wealthy to not be interested in outward appearance. They have no one to impress and nothing to gain by showing off.

Your up and coming business man, however, may have some logical reasons to signal wealth. Either for networking purposes or convincing potential customers or partners that you are the type of successful person they might want to work with, conspicuous consumption can have its merits.
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Thanks for sharing your story. Unbelievable how they treated you. Which company was it?
This is the only solace we have....
I don't see how trade secrets are analogous to a non-compete clause. California doesn't like non-competes, but most certainly does respect trade secrets. And Waymo isn't claiming that Levandowski is wrongly using skills or experience he picked up there; it's claiming he literally downloaded a bunch of internal documents on his way out the door, and handed them over to a competitor.
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A single line on the submit page could filter this out way more efficiently.
And for recent apps consistently rename the file in place from that same title bar.

And the far decried HFS+ file system had a feature I hope they will maintain in APFS. When you moved or renamed a file around, most of the time even third party app managed to figure out the new location of the file when seeking for it instead of just displaying a broken path dialog.

And this replacement only occurred if the resource was not present at the search path. Meaning that moving and replacing by a similarly named file result in similar file being used, while moving result in suggesting new location.

Don't know what's the behavior is as of today, and maybe by now Linux also provide this reliably, but first time I've seen this was even pre OSX I believe. And maybe there is a simple trick, but it looked like black magic for the 20 years me.
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You didn't say what this has to do with American Football.
I use macOS for, wait for it, MS Office.

Yes, LibreOffice in Ubuntu or Fedora are good enough technically, and there are same problems when exchanging documents with Office for Mac as there are with LibreOffice.

However, deflecting blame works. When exchanging files with someone and something is broken in LO, it is automatically fault of LO. When something is broken in Office for Mac, it is an uh-oh moment, as obviously it is the latest product from the same company, so the effort to resolve the issue is much more constructive.

Another reason is, that both Mail.app and Outlook are usable as Exchange clients (yes, I'm stuck with that, with IMAP disabled there :(). Evolution is a trainwreck. There is a plugin for Thunderbird, but it is a no-go, as it is a yearly subscription. One time price would be fine, but no way I'm going to pay yearly for using Exchange mail in Thunderbird.
I agree with you 100%, this is the primary reason why we haven't deployed caddy for at least internal services where I work. I don't want to have to upgrade "everything and caddy" every time the update window rolls up.
He's saying he may upgrade to GTX 1080ti - that's extra 250W.

It's the first time I can hear that oversized PSU leads to more power consumption - how come?
In fact beyond virtualization, it was emulation. I remember trying to install Windows 95 on my iMac G5 under QEMU and having it barely usable. Trying to debug issues with my setup using a very buggy PPC build of Firefox.
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>I don't need ECC

We all need ECC. It should be a standard feature by now.
Don't know if they exist in the US, but I specifically look for juice bottles that say "NOT FROM CONCENTRATE". I can usually find a few even in smaller grocery stores.
Exactly. These services do not get blocked by spam filters due to their credibility scores. That is the most important feature, not the UX.
I'm only confused why i had to click so many times to find the piece i needed to read what linkerd actually does or is. I should have read your post at first..
It seems a license will be added in a few hours - https://github.com/atech/postal/issues/6
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A boilerplate project to create react-sketchapps

https://github.com/brijeshb42/react-sketchapp-boilerplate
It's true that in many areas of modern work life higher and higher productivity is demanded in order to save costs and that in many regions of the world people determine social status and even self-esteem to a large extent on the basis of how high the salary is, but one might question whether these trends are really commendable.

So I have no trouble with your advice, except that it seems to reinforce some already wrong priorities. Many if not most people work too much anyway, not by their own choice, but because they are underpaid and the capital tends to move to places where it already has been accumulated (and wealth is mostly inherited). Giving those people tips to become more productive and increase their chances of 'professional success' is a bit pervert.
> Ticket them and make money for the municipality.

That is a bad idea, because then the traffic arrangements will drift to be optimized for revenue generation, not safety nor fluent traffic.
I have two siblings who are autistic. One is currently studying Artificial Intelligence and the other writes software for media environments (mainly TV). Both struggle with communication skills (empathy... they take EVERYTHING literally... they don't know when someone is disinterested...). One is 24 the other 31. Both are 'aware' of their Autism.

As both write software as part of their pursuits, I asked them what got them into software.

They referred to one single experience that started them on their paths. Funny as they have a large generation gap and went to different schools.

They told me about this robot they had in school. You would program steps (move forward 1 step... turn left 90 degrees.. move forward 10 steps.. etc.) and it would action them. They both became obsessed with it because in their eyes they were communicating with something and it was responding in a predictable and literal way. Both stated they found the predictability of software comforting.

I asked about software, and they said they would still recommend physical toys. Their reasoning was, even though they struggle with social skills, learning from apps would have further forced them to remain indoors.. reclusive.. Having a physical toy meant they were forced to interact with other people and learn from it.

You have Autistic son, so you'll understand his personality better than me. But if he shares the same traits as my siblings, then perhaps getting one of those toys will help.

Lastly, it warms my heart that you're taking his situation into account. It's controversial, but Autism can become a disability. But it can also become a trait which benefits someone in a way non-autistic people could ever attain. Apologies if this is patronising, but having an autistic child can be difficult, but it sounds like you're on a better than worse path. :)
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dont their phones have thermometers and barometers? If they dont they should add them and use all the phones as tiny little weather stations.
> constant war with other tribes

AFAIK most aboriginal tribes are quite peaceful. Rivalry with other tribes around territory and food sources lead to fights that look closer sparring and rarely lead to any wounded.
That's the whole treadmill concept.
Thank you for the video. I haven't seen this video series before, but it seems interesting!
I'm not sure if this is a joke against kickstarter, but if you're looking to throw your money out the window, I'll gladly give you my paypal address.

Moving planets around is a bad idea on so many levels I don't even know where to begin.

Sticking only to the basics, the author of this video just assumes that terraforming the planet will be easier if it's closer to us, but attempts to provide no explanation of why the planet needs to be closer, or what advantage that really gives.

The core of Mars is dead / inactive, which is by far the biggest hurdle in order to make mars habitable in any comparable sense to Earth.

I honestly don't even know how videos like this get made without people understanding or attempting to explain anything regarding what they are talking about.
Sure: http://www.themarker.com/technation/1.4049196
Not to be too pedantic but I'm pretty sure he's never actually referred to it as "Jai" and everyone's only been inferring that because of the source file extensions.
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> You are literally picking on the last org on the internet that needs to get picked on.

True but at the same time I do understand those who generally want others to abide by their Robots.txt. INAL, but ideally I would love to see the IA having the right to ignore Robots.txt (however, if some one wants to opt out of the IA they should be given the option) while others shouldn't be allowed to do so.
I suppose this is more like a open source alternative to PowerMTA? How would you compare them?
Hi, I’m David Moreno, main developer of Serverboards. Ask me anything.

Serverboards is a control panel to monitorize, manage and automate cloud services. It's very easy to develop new plugins and give access to external services. We have support for Google Analytics, Drive, Facebook Ads, web site, SSH server.. and more[1].

Technically it is developed using Elixir for the backend and React.js for the frontend. It uses JSON-RPC to communicate with each of the plugin helpers, developed in any programming language (even bash), and uses a CQRS architecture.

Currently we are oriented to IT management (SPICE, SSH, Prometheus monitoring…) but I think this idea can be used on many other niches.

[1] https://www.serverboards.io/downloads/plugins
I tried it once, it was called m4bf[0] and it abused the C preprocessor.

[0] https://github.com/federicoculloca/m4bf
maybe we could detect space "chemtrails" to know if other species have developed faster than light travel.
You seem to assume that a big power supply somehow draws more power than a small power supply give the same workload. That is not the case.
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As someone that once upon a time was at SCEE SOHO office, maybe I do know one or two things.
On the utility of filing bugs
This project fails to answer the question 'Why?'.
This library is great! My team uses it extensively to generate types for both our server and client from our Api definitions (in RAML).
this tech will render invalid the whole pro-life/pro-choice argument.
This sits right at the intersection of insane and awesome.

Note the WASD controls are replaced by the throttle, brakes and steering wheel. The horn is for shooting the gun, and the gearbox controls the currently selected gun.
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Interesting, I was just looking for something like this the other day, thanks HN! The software looks quite polished. Hopefully there'll be a dockerzied version to play with it.
Wouldn't variations in atmospheric drag negate any possibility of detecting the actual thrust component in leo? The trusts are small, as is the device, but any variation would be extremely hard to detect and measure. Please correct me if my line of thinking is wrong though, I'm not an aerospace engineer.
I think reputation is counted towards your DKIM these days, which also makes the reputation somewhat portable by moving your private key to with you to a new server/ip.
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We sent a lot of emails which makes services like Postmark or Mandrill very expensive. Since switching to Amazon SES, the cost has been much lower but the lack of individual email tracking has been a pain (in case a recipient claims they haven't received it or we need to track opens, etc).

This UI with an Amazon SES backend would be ideal.
The US net neutrality system is a fast track to government regulation of the Internet. If you want to keep the Internet free, oppose it.
Yet it is the first thing I tried and it worked. The color feedback on the currently selected number is a good hint.
I'm going through something similar right now. We could open a Telegram support group :)
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You may want to read Arafat Mazhar's excellent series of articles in DAWN on how exactly 295C came to carry only the death penalty. This is now way beyond some trophy to dull the masses into compliance. (The article is technically incorrect, by the way, the option of life imprisonment which existed under Zia was removed in 1990 during Nawaz' first term, entirely democratically)
Exactly. I actually switched off from Mac to Windows last year and I do miss Sketch App and Xcode. I image in Linux also Adobe tools would be something that many would miss.
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The beta version is GPL3; the new version 2.0 apparently is not.
It's a great PSU having over 90% efficiency at just 20% load. plus being completely silent at that load. The GPU alone needs more power than GTX 1080. At 90% CPU TDP utilization, the setup will pull more than 450W. Add some overclocking, the total power consumption goes easily over 500W. How is that being oversized?
The police (local, not university) were on the scene egging the crowd on, according to some reports from those university staff on the scene who weren't involved. The university security chief started it all with a threat to kill him at a staff meeting called to discuss his case.
Ex-Lyft driver sues Uber over “Hell,” its alleged “spyware”
Irrelevant. Ubuntu, which the other people here are discussing, used upstart before it switched to systemd. For about a decade.

You've just made one of the errors discussed in http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ .
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I do not agree that drunken people share responsibilities for being killed by drivers. That's like saying everyone who go outside needs to be at full mental capacity unless they want to be killed by drivers. There is so much wrong with that.
For me, it's more the support you get from using third party APIs. It's nice to break away from companies to a certain extent, but if you need help/support you only have yourself to fix the issue. If you go with a third party and something happens, you can go to them for a solution.
Power supply longevity is already extremely high compared to any other component, if you're looking mostly at high-quality brands like Seasonic. Their top tier product line (with 650W models and up) has a 12-year warranty, and the next tier down (with 550W models and up) has a 10-year warranty. If you want a long-lasting power supply, you can just buy one directly.
Nevertheless, the question of whether any given act of blasphemy is automatically deserving of a hadd punishment is by no means an open and shut case.
It's a self-hosted alternative to transactional email PaaS providers. Literally the second sentence in the README:

> Think Sendgrid, Mailgun or Postmark but open source and ready for you to run on your own servers.

Your comment fails to answer the question: "Did this HN user even RTFT(itle)?"
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How about the disaster that is FTPS, or even more confusing FTPES. What were they thinking.
Assuming it has an API, I would prefer to use this over a service such as Mailgun. We used to have our own mail server, but without an easy API to get deliverability details per mail, we ended up switching to Mailgun. Since the switch, our deliverability has nosedived (we're currently not paying for a dedicated IP though) and mails are constantly bouncing due to the low reputation of Mailgun's shared IPs.

Mailgun's 30-day retention period is also a bit absurd, since most of our clients require mail audit trails in the region of 6-12 months.
Not many. The OP's build can't run two R280X in CF mode, not even if everything else is at stock speeds.
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