skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Growthhacking help
We're moving from our beta to launch. I think we have a pretty good strategy for email and website visits, which I'll share below. I'm searching for new ways to get people to our site and grow. I would love to hear your ideas!

We are using a combination integrated drip email (Drip) and chat (Drift) to engage and drive a prospect to a web demo. I'm also using good ol' fashioned calls, which honestly is the most effective. I used to run the business we're addressing at Scantron, so I know the targets and sales channel very well.

So, calls and email drive traffic with a single objective of getting to a demo. In B-2-B, don't think you'll be moving to a sale right away. So stay focused.

We integrate our email contacts with chat, so when an identified prospect arrives on our site, we get pinged and help the prospect with questions. That way, we turn a visit into engagement. Drift helps us with appointments, etc. We're just upgrading our plan.

Feel free to reach out if you want to learn more about what we're doing at GradeHub (gradehub.com). Some of the things I'm looking at on the content side are:
- BetaList
- Hackernews (I'm here)
- Blogs (but I run out of steam)
- Social communities (but don't know how)
Which coins though? Can't imagine bitcoin is still possible to mine with a two card setup
no. stop.
A system referenced in the article

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/scone/
> The distinction is that product development, sales and marketing can act as multipliers in a way that engineering seldom does.

Engineering is the key multiplier.

> For example, what would happen if magically Twitter's tech became 50% better overnight?

What if twitter only needed 50-100 engineers?

What if twitter had an ad platform that was as good as facebooks or googles?

If the world had 50% better tech we could automate tens of millions of jobs.
I think you mean, plus an electricity bill.
Machines are defined by their utility, and their value comes from their ability to do work, but children shouldn't be taught that the same applies to them.
I'm specifically not arguing for the DMCA provisions which legally protect physical objects based on the copyright on data encoded in them. That is not the whole of what is being argued for, though.

Repair is not a right, ownership is. The problem here is that the DMCA allows something that you consider your property to be ultimately owned by somebody else even after you purchase it.

The problem with smartphones is entirely separate, it's a question of convenience and practicality for third-party repair shops and people who can afford repair tooling for their own devices.

I object to the idea that manufacturers should have a duty to package and sell separately replacement parts for their goods on the open market.
Ask HN: How to learn Computer Networking for everyday computing?
The question is focussed towards day to day networking concepts that developers encounter on a daily basis. I find myself at a loss when we discuss concepts like encryption, DNS, LDAP, SSL, setting up digital certificates, etc.
I am not sure if some more devs feel that way. Maybe it's because I did not focus during my networking classes in college? I don't know.

Note that I am definitely aware of basic principles like LAN, IPs, etc. It's just that sometimes networking talk eludes me when it comes to advanced or even medium level concepts.

About my job profile -> I am a big data engineer working regularly with AWS, Spark, etc. but this is much recent, earlier I had been a .net engineer. So, you could say my interaction with the linux world is much recent. Note sure if the context helped :)

I would really appreciate to be pointed to helpful(but practical) resources or share if someone felt like this and did something about it. Thanks again!
Agreed, and there are a few other TV shows that I really like for my kids for many of the same reasons: Curious George, Tumbleleaf (Amazon original), and maybe Backyardigans.
Argh. This talk reinforced my existing view of Linux tracing: it's really fragmented.

Five years ago I tried to make some sense of this by researching all of the existing technologies. In the kernel I found:

- ftrace (https://lwn.net/Articles/290277/)
- tracepoints (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/tracepoints.txt)
- kprobes (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kprobes.txt)
- events (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/trace/events.txt)

Now apparently we can add:

- BPF, a packet filter that grew into a tracing framework
(https://lwn.net/Articles/599755/)

In user-space we have:

- perf
- systemtap
- lttng
- other, random, fragmented things

This talk seems to add a bunch of other fragmented user-space tools.

I don't mean to put down anybody's work, but this stuff will never be user-friendly as long as it remains so fragmented, IMHO.
You're assuming he doesn't have permission, or that the coins aren't going to the company itself.
Ahh, that's fairly straightforward. Join a rapidly growing organization and stand out as an IC. You'll inevitably be asked to take on a bigger role as the org struggles with leadership gaps as they expand.
I wonder if that's connected to gender-marking languages like French randomly gendering most nouns? It seems like that could weaken the significance of a words' grammatical gender...
Why not just buy ETFs?
Asus ZenBook Flip S review
Why stop there. What if we implemented aws lambda calculus.
The Bay Area will never solve this on their own. The only solution is to repeal the cap on property taxes at the state level to force current owners to pay based on assessed value. And that's one hard sell.
Ask HN: If you started a website today, what framework?
If you started from scratch today, what web framework would you use?

There's just so many out-there that's it's difficult to decide..

Phoenix / Elixir has gotten my interest, but I don't know about authentication..

Ideas?
Amazon's Echo Spot is a sneaky way to get a camera into your bedroom 81
Actually, lots of stores are removing self-checkouts nowadays.

They tend to be a lot slower than cashiers, lead to more theft, and few people like to use them anyway.
Consul supports this out of the box.
> That may have been true, but the city’s own analysis shows it isn’t true anymore

Alright, this is three times you've said and been called out on the same exact lie. You're going to need to provide some sources, or at the very least some references to sources, to back up your extremely bold and most likely false claims. What specific housing is being targeted for being knocked down for which projects?
Uber’s new ‘Sign Language’ campaign is a step in the right direction
That seems like somewhat of a weak ending, because there's no reason digital clocks and plastic gear levers can't also last for decades.

Also I'll link a sort of inverse to that tale: http://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/shay.html#line01
You can always use it things that are not critical for the game to work; and a good coder would make it in a separate class/container so most possible bugs are isolated as well.

In the chess example the most importan thing its not for the machine to win (or lose); is so the user feels its not the same game they already played; or -dare I say- think that the enemy is "learning"
Ethereum, Zcash, etc [0]. Bitcoin definitely would not be.

[0] https://whattomine.com
> N+X affordable units + M luxury units in the new structure

How does that work in a way that someone that really needs the affordable unit gets it, versus, say, a thrifty young (well paid) engineer?

Are they held back only for people with HUD vouchers or something? Or is "affordable" just a relative term?

Asking because I've never lived somewhere like SFO.
> Their growth over the past decade has been driven by expanding their physical retail presence on the one-giant-store-per-city model.

One? Hamburg (1.5mio ppl) alone has 3, plus several more within of 1h driving distance.
Unless this gets prepackaged in major distros by default ala `nano` then I honestly don't see the utility in investing in learning how to use this.

Installing Vim will be as easy as installing this, despite the "it's just a binary" blurb. I never install text editors without a package manager, or any program for that matter, so why would this 'feature' make a noticeable difference?

If the answer is then "good defaults built-in' such as col;or schemes, etc. I could see some utility there... especially to pop open a quick editor on my girlfriends or family members machine when I'm asked to fix something.

But then I already install (the wonderful) SpaceVim [1] on all my machines which solves this problem far more powerfully, with great defaults.

Note: I don't mean to be harsh or dismissive like many HN comments, these are honest questions from a real world use-case perspective. It's possible in the long-term it could overtake nano, I'm merely questioning it from a short term viewpoint.

[1] http://spacevim.org/
Do you have a source for that info? Every chip manufacturer (3 of top 4) and carrier (every US carrier) I’ve talked to said different.
Yeah, that's just a bit too much $ for what I need. I've been looking at Linode, Scaleway, Vultr, Digital Ocean but they are a bit too pricey. This isn't a mission critical DB and doesn't have to be SSD speeds.
then the Chinese gov. should have forced NK to give up its nukes in the first place. It can, but didn't, so US and Korea have the reason to deploy THAAD.

Chinese gov. should explain why it let NK have nukes before blaming 'power balance'
The problem probably isn't with you, it's with your environment.

It's likely you're at the wrong company (see my comment above). If you work directly for the CTO my guess is that there aren't a lot of management opportunities at your current employer, period.
Vanguard sells the very best ETFs (that are simply additional share classes of their mutual funds) exactly because they are so focused on indexing.
Perception. Big money tend to be conservative. Crypto is the very definition of volatile in their eyes.

So yes, fidelity may not mix the two, but Fidelity is "losing focus" in their eyes.
I like that the post mentions she's mined 200,000 Satoshis. Is this some kind of Bitcoin Shibboleth? I had to google it. It's about $8.
Think there's plenty of missing tooling around postgres. But what are you lacking in backup with http://www.pgbackrest.org/ ? Or is it just that it's a separate package?
If North Korea Fires an ICBM, the US Might Have to Shoot It Down Over Russia
> my hearts not in arguing the point.

Mine neither. I wasn’t basing the 30’ on sources I’d read, just what you said combined with what I knew the thickness to be. 10’ is pretty serious (big chunk of Manhattan / South Florida would be underwater), do you happen to have a link for that handy? If not, I’ll try to find in Google.
There are a few options for that particular case - typically PyInstaller and cx_freeze. But I agree that the EXE story on Windows is still suboptimal; hopefully now that wheels are becoming mainstream, better solutions will appear.

My gripe is not with that sort of deployment, but rather the web-related stuff. Lack of boilerplate is a big part of what makes Python attractive for web development, if they start ramming EARs down my throat I'll be very sad.
Maybe they're following Cuban's advice which is to invest heavily into anything China bans.
> a hodge-podge of insecure, half baked solutions?

That's exactly what the commercial market of Internet of Things devices is so far. You couldn't really make it worse by putting a replaceable ESP8266 or BeagleBone at the heart of each of these gadgets.
> In 2009, the show went completely C.G.I.

As much as I love the New Yorker, my fondest hope is that one day the N.Y.C. media will free themselves from whatever repressive authoritarian soul compels them to put those dots in every single acronym and initialism, when the rest of the country abandoned the dots long ago.

They even put them in names that once were initialisms but now are genuine names on their own: they insist on I.B.M. even though the official company name is simply IBM. And F.B.I. even though the FBI's own website calls it the FBI.

As an old ham radio operator, the one that really got me was when they wrote about S.O.S. - when in fact SOS never was an initialism at all! No experienced radio operator would ever have sent "S O S" as three separate letters in Morse code:

dit dit dit (pause) dah dah dah (pause) dit dit dit

("S" is dit dit dit in Morse, and "O" is "dah dah dah".)

SOS has always been a "prosign", that is, a single Morse code unit with no pauses in the middle:

dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit

In fact, SOS is properly written with an overscore above the letters to indicate that it is sent as a single unit. Of course that is not always possible given the limitations of modern typography, but it is never transmitted as if it were the three separate letters "S O S".

Why does the N.Y.C. media follow such an authoritarian rule even when it is factually wrong? It is a mystery to me.
"Removed", or simply floated downward via normal attrition?

It exhibits no obvious signs of tampering (not "dead" or "flagged").

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15354995
Yes, entitlement is the problem:

You aren't entitled to having a loan repaid if the interest rate is too high.

...or if you loan too much money to someone who won't be able to afford it.

...or if you expect someone in a lower income bracket to pay more than X% of their income.

Common-sense laws that loosened bankruptcy and regulations on repayment amounts would fix student loans, credit cards, bad mortgages, and payday lending. Why do we always blame the person taking out the loan? The lender should have the expertise to know if a person is capable of repayment and should bear the burden of making predatory loans.
Ask HN: What do you not like about your job?
You can get a spinny storage node at vult for like 10 or 20 bones a month. Be warned the node has almost no ram.

I ran this for about a year. Queries took a good 5 minutes but was a very cheap way to archive data.

No durability though if the disk bites it you lose.
> As one commenter writes, “What moral lesson are kids supposed to learn from this? Do as you’re told or you will be entombed forever in the darkness to die?”

Geez, don't let that commentator see a Warner Bros cartoon...
I think the parent comment was referring to how IKEA operates in the US.
> Not since Mr. Rogers has there been a better kids TV show.

I'm too young to have watched this show. Just googled it and it really does look like a lovely, wholesome show.

Personally my gold standard is the original Looney Toons (Mel Blanc era). I could watch that irreverent, slapstick all day. I'd rather my kid take a leaf from Bugs Bunny's F-you style than Thomas' meek, obey, do what you're told and stay on the rails message.
1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 BTC (10^-8 BTC)

It represents the smallest fraction of 1 bitcoin you can use as an amount in a transaction, so they are the smallest (indivisible) units.
For a more modern yet still dystopian talking-train kids program, check out Chuggington. It's also British, but instead of the Fat Controller, there's "Vee", a disembodied GlaDOS-like female voice who orders the trains around via loudspeaker and chastises them when they're naughty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuggington
John Deere drives into San Francisco looking for farm-tech engineers
Yes, we did live in a corporate-totalitarian dystopia in the 40s to 70s.

And you are being lazy for assuming things that I did not say. I'm not implying that it's propaganda. I'm saying that media reflects the world we live in, as that is the context that we are familiar with, and we tell stories set in our own world.
Even cellphones can run chess programs powerful enough to beat any human. The normal way to tone them down is to make them more random which prevents games from repeating in the first place. Making this a non issue.

Even ignoring that and assuming you wanted to do a lookup vs all games played with someone that's a tiny dataset so looking it up has no real downside.
"Affordable housing" is a very specific term - it means city-subsidized housing that is restricted to tenants within a certain income bracket (and usually applicants are selected by lottery). There are sometimes requirements that new developments must set aside a certain % of units as affordable housing.
Yeah but people are moving out of less desirable and housing to move there, opening up new housing down market.
With all due respect, you are mistaken. Simply associating behaviors with sex is no more sexism than associating adjectives with nouns is English. It's whether those constructions have meaning that makes the difference. In a world with a perfectly even balance of social power, it would be equally & symmetrically sexist to say "all men are X" or "all women are X." We do not live in such a world! The outcomes from those two statements are not evenly distributed, and we may find it useful to describe the factors contributing to that disparity of outcomes predominately driven by sex as "sexist."

Let's look at this another way. Some how, we have managed to collectively convince ourselves that "sexism" is bad without accurately identifying what sexism is. This causes an interesting cognitive dissonance wherein the beneficiaries of sexism, who categorically do not think of themselves as bad people, must find a way to justify how they are not sexist. One particularly facile way to do so is to simply redefine the term "sexism" to something vacuous that implies no particular weight to the underlying distribution, ergo no individual bears any particular responsibility for the ongoing structural inequity.

Unfortunately, while this neatly resolves the mental tension, it reinforces the cycle of "sexism is bad, but we don't actually know what sexism is -> we redefine the term to have no descriptive or predictive power".
I almost feel that math ought to be learned through physics. At least, I remember my physics instructor explaining math concepts in a mich more terse and understandable way than my math professors.
Toshiba Signs Deal to Sell Memory Business
I am the proud owner of a Laptop, that I can enjoy for years to come, since I can upgrade and replace disks, RAM and battery (hint: it's the last Macbook Pro that allowed this).

Recently my smartphone battery died and I could order a new one for less than $10 and replace it in 20 seconds.

Both devices are more that four years old but I am not going to replace them with something, that does not have at least this amount of repairability.

Smartphones and laptops with soldered batteries, RAM or SSD? Come on, these things are not throwaway devices - even if this is what marketing wants you to believe.
Regardless of the story, I find it weird when kids shows split the story across episodes. As an adult I watch series in the right order. As a kid, I didn't know there was any timeline behind the shows. I watched every episode as a separate story, would miss a few, would watch the repeats of what I already saw on different channels, etc. Maybe that doesn't apply to everyone, but I wouldn't expect young kids to connect episodes unless explicitly prompted about it. Was my experience unusual?
I am converting my proto to typescript with https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web and until recently also used their go server library. That meant my grpc servers were listening on 2 ports, gRPC and gRPC-web. I since replaced the gRPC-web part with envoy. Works fine together with the gRPC-web typescript.
The gist should give you an idea how to set up a small example.
https://gist.github.com/codesuki/f0514368a30b483058007f5fe38...
That won't be as high as their debts.
+1 for Netlify. I've had 2 complicated customer service questions, and they resolved them brilliantly. I am using the free tier.

I use Hugo for my static sites:

- https://scripter.co
- https://ox-hugo.netlify.com
- https://ox-hugo.netlify.com/test (yes, that's a different Hugo site than above)
Or just use tmux with whatever non-windowed terminal editor you already use.
Class time should be a great time of interaction between students and teacher. The advantage of a good lecture over printed material is the lecturer can adjust to the needs of the class. This requires much more than asking for questions at the end. Indeed, I think the middle ages were even better than some lectures today because you could watch disputations and see how arguments were made and countered.
That's Vanguard's main product.
It might be a very specific term clearly defined that way by certain government programs or NGOs, but most people using it just mean housing that people with low incomes can afford as a reasonable portion of their income.
Purely anecdotal but I have several friends who have told me they don't worry about paying their student loans on time due to the fact that they feel like they'll never go away. They feel like they'll never pay them off, and they can never get them discharged. So there's no motivation for them to pay them off.
I don't agree.

I'm always in an engineering role.

Yet at multiple companies I've implemented A/B testing, come up with ideas for features, implemented them, tested them, and have seen growth of the bottom line in the 10-40% range.

I've heard much from product and marketing at the same companies about the amazing things that they are coming up with and how they will grow the company. I've tested those. Most of the wins don't reach the same range.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying you don't need product and marketing. You absolutely do. But if you listen to the engineers who know what you can do, rather than treat them as cogs in the wheel, you'd be amazed at what can happen.
Can confirm, "fat controlla" is alive and well in UK. I personally hate the character and agree with Ms. Tolentino, the whole setup is very regressive. What angers me most is that it exploits British pride in their early railway industry (which is basically dead now, ok, but is still venerated, especially outside of London) to peddle a worldview completely based around hierarchies and the duty of subordinates.
Purchasing power is based on a basket of goods for the average consumer. It takes into account expenses like phones and cars - as you say, iPhones are still expensive but the basket would take that into account and purchasing power would be lowered accordingly.
Using the article's "window" analogy: denormals are in the smallest "window", so the sort order between the "windows" (exponents) is kept. Their special property is that they don't have the implicit one to the left of the point (it's an implicit zero instead); the order within the mantissa is still kept.

That is:

0 000000 0100010101010111
± exp. mantissa

Here, the value is 0.0100010101010111₂ × 2^-30 (I hope I calculated the exponent correctly)

As a bonus, the zero value comes naturally in this approach: it's a denormal with a mantissa of zero. Without denormals, the implicit one would get in the way.
ROI of creating an investment portfolio 1 year ago, and selling today:

- All Bitcoin: ~500%

- Mix of top market: ~2800%

- All Strat: ~13500%

Meanwhile, stock investors call 12% a good year.
And how does MS do it? SRV records, that’s right.