skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great read! The "Churn rates" section was super interesting. Our SaaS has hovered around 4-5% churn rate. Glad to see that's doing pretty OK!

Interestingly enough in December we increased our prices by quite a lot (percentage wise, $2/month to $6/month). That month we saw an 8% churn rate, and January 6%, and this month looking like a bit less. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens in the future.

The jury is not in yet, but it feels that the voluntary churn is a lot less for the customers paying more, compared to the lower price point.
Officially, founders typically only hold common shares (often with further restrictions). Common shareholders should get $0 when selling for less than money raised because of liquidation preferences.

However, the acquiring company usually wants to retain some of the team. The founders often receive an employment offer, and that offer can contain anything negotiated, including signing or performance bonuses.

There can be some conflict of interest and negotiation ugliness if the investors view the employment offers as too generous at the expense of shareholders. In practice, most decent investors would prefer to spend their energy on their big winners rather than optimize a small loss into break-even.

http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html#f12n
Yes, I tend to be one of those people and know many. The difference is they have very little political power. When both the "elites" and suburban America is against you - you likely are not going to have a good time.
Using Airbnb’s knowledge repo to scale your organization’s knowledge management
Sexy stewardesses were exploited to sell more tickets – until women fought back
Flat conversions aside, what he's describing is a common practice amongst builders of new-build homes, which I assume is the experience he's most familiar with.

Developers will allow the freehold to be purchased, although restrictive covenants can be attached - in effect, binding the homeowner to similar restrictions as if they were still leaseholders.

The Government recently announced that it would be banning the practice of charging ground rent for properties on leaseholds longer than 21 years.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/crackdown-on-unfair-lease...
There is a very real risk of kidney damage, if not supervised by a medical professional.
> Nobody was calling for bans on cell phones in the early 2000s because they might cause brain cancer

Actually, plenty of people were and even now there are studies being done in order to 'prove the negative'.
Look up one of the Singapore cycling clubs. There are plenty (with lots of Australian and French members as well as locals).

There are some oddities to riding in Singapore, but once understood I found it a very enjoyable place to bike.
Lots of universities have Data Science Master's Programs, which may ultimately fall under the Computer Science, Mathematics or Stats department. So, it depends on the university.
Meanwhile the war on the war on cash is also real.
Impact of GMO maize on agronomic, environmental and toxicological traits
EconTalk Episode with Jordan Peterson
Outstanding summary Patrick, was prepared for a piece of dry content marketing but many gold nuggets as usual!

I would add a couple of supplementals unique to 2018 for those of us raising capital in a SAAS or looking to liquidate:

1) The "SAAS Napkin" for 2018, a survey of ~50 Series A / Series B funded companies that have shared with regard to growth / churn / etc. Links here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/saas-funding-napkin-3 and explanation here https://medium.com/point-nine-news/what-does-it-take-to-rais...

2) The fascinating rise of Private Equity companies as a liquidity / funding option outside of larger co Acquisition / VC money as observed by the founder of Pardot (~$100m exit to SalesForce) - https://davidcummings.org/2017/10/03/private-equity-as-the-s...
Apple releases iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS updates with Telugu character fix
As a counterbalance to all the positivity, I cycle to work and don't enjoy it or feel much benefit from it. In comparison, driving is so much more comfortable (especially in bad weather) and a bit quicker.
I think that Better Angels makes a stronger case from a qualitative point of view than it does from the quantitative point of view. Taleb and others have criticized Pinker’s statistical analysis quite convincingly, but the historical narrative still stands: looking at the human cruelty throughout history, it’s hard to deny that there are many violent practices that are now taboo, and that we seem to have broken out of the hobbesian trap.
Wanting to Preserve Your Way of Life Does Not Make You Racist or Fascist
The reason async/await is implemented as a language extension in JS/C#/Kotlin/etc. is not because they're not powerful enough for a promise library, but because the language extension version composes with imperative control flow.

Haskell has exactly the same problem- do-notation is nice, but not very different from just any of the sibling comments' tricks with things like arrays of closures. It doesn't let you write things like this:

while some_condition() {
let result = await some_async_operation()
await something_else_async(result)
}

Instead you just use recursion and (lifted) higher order functions like elsewhere in Haskell. This is not very unusual there but it would be a pain in JS/C#/Kotlin/etc. which do use imperative control flow in idiomatic code.
Does it mean something that the page is now 404
Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972)
I used the beta of Juypterlab and I was really impressed. Congrats on the Juypter team for releasing this! I was at Juypter Day at 2016 and they were talking about the roadmap to this feature. Its really exciting for this to come out!
How do I get hired as a product manager?
Can you give some info on your SaaS? Any tips/hints/tricks? I'm always looking to hear stories from people who have shipped a product. Keen to make this year the year I create something small.
what a strangely worded response :)

all i can get from your response is a 'yes' to my earlier affirmation
that luajit is compatible with Lua 5.1 honestly, responding to gp's
comment, i also found lua's embedding in this application quite
interesting.

imho, for something which might be living for a long time, considering
using lua-jit might not be a good idea.
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It was from a video where Don Knuth recreated one of his first lectures.

https://youtu.be/jmcSzzN1gkc

At one point around 20 or 30 minutes in, he says something like, “We’re going to start easy and slow and then work harder later on.” He exhaustively writes out a large number of different combinations of possible runtimes of an algorithm. It seems quite tedious, but eventually some cool results emerge related to Sterling Numbers :)

At first, I thought it was somewhat annoying that the lecture was methodically going through so many examples. Since then, I’ve realized that methodically going through small sub-problems patiently is often the way you eventually get to a giant leap.
You can definitely automatically filter email into different folders as it comes in, and they support complex rules. You are specifically asking for weird nonstandard behaviors which cause more problems than they fix.

(For example, when I used Gmail, the "multiple inboxes" feature didn't work well with third party mail apps, because it isn't really multiple inboxes, it's just Gmail sorting the inbox on the fly. I ended up disabling them and adding custom rules into Gmail to sort them into proper folders.)

As the case is FastMail does actually have that feature, I just prefer to use actual rules and folders. ;)

Snooze is, from my understanding, an Inbox feature, not a Gmail feature, and I still fail to see any value. (But maybe as a non-Inbox user I just don't know?) You have read, unread, and pinned/starred functionality, how and why one would hide one's emails from oneself until a later point, I have no idea.

Extracting data from emails automatically is an antifeature, since it's privacy-invasive. I specifically pay FastMail for it not to do things like that to my mail!

But on the opposite end:

* FastMail's interface is faster and cleaner than Gmail's and contains no advertising.

* FastMail's email/calendar service is fully standards compliant, unlike the number of hacks required to interoperate with Gmail's proprietary nonsense. Just yesterday I was reading about this: http://blog.fruux.com/2014/10/16/google-carddav/

* FastMail gives me incredibly fine-grained control over how my mail is handled, including it's spam filtering.

* When I have an issue with FastMail, I can ask for help, and a real human (and one random time, literally the CEO) will respond, and assist me with my problem.

----

FWIW, Outlook.com has a pretty nice email client too, and their account management is a lot more mature than Google's (I can change my Microsoft account's email address, something Google remains incapable of to this day, somehow).

Gmail has been around for over a decade, it's the least common denominator now, most email services are at least as good as Gmail.
It is NOT OK to go through red lights, whether in a car, on a bike or on foot. The rules are the rules and we should all abide them.

It happens all the time in London where bikes go through red lights and weave through pedestrians (sometimes at speed) who are crossing the road. Pedestrians are even worse - and often walk or run across red lights and almost get hit from a bus, car or bike. It’s madness!
He likely means that a healthy level of inequality is necessary otherwise productive individuals won't have incentives to be productive. There are real differences in output between different individuals and trying to normalize this difference means that society loses. With this in mind you can easily say things like "inequality is not a moral abomination and reducing it is not progress".
Your doctor was right. Meat is the healthiest stuff you can eat. Throw some liver in there as well and you are covered.
Is that the entire chapter? Seems a little... "thin", I suppose.
Coming from somebody who doesn't really know anything about business or how to make SaaS work (despite working as an IC for a SaaS company) this article is very enlightening. In particular I never really grokked how to think about "churn rates" until reading this. It's actually pretty simple when it's explained well!

It's also written very clearly and candidly (although admittedly it's a bit of a self-congratulatory pitch for Stripe).
This is a bit like saying "writing your own embedded mini-language and interpreter is better since you can make it do arbitrary things".

The question is whether you want people on a large project spending time on custom tools? There's benefit in simplicity and standardization. Using Rust (to pick a nicer example than JavaScript) and the community's standard language tools does have its advantages.

I say this as someone who likes to work on language tools. It's fun, but I wouldn't call it productive, unless you work on tools with a large userbase.
Hmm, really? What is it about a Tesla that doesn't look as premium. On the outside I think they look comparably luxurious to a Mercedes a class of BMW 7. The inside amenities is where they fall short in my opinion.
Its designed to quickly weed out people who don't know the underlying math, just as FizzBuzz is designed to quickly weed out people who don't know programming.
I like the Tidyverse. My only complaint is that it presents another headache when moving from one language (R) to another (usually Python/SQL). Using the base R functions while integrating loops and functions lessens the fatigue of moving between R and Python.
Packaging still seems cumbersome to me although to be fair I don't think any language/community has sorted this yet.
That wasn't done from a moral perspective. That was done because of charge backs.
I think the problem is if you set even the low bar and convict that guy, there will be legitimate questions as to why you aren't going after all of the CEOs and many of the people under them. Basically, everybody was guilty and you can't prosecute them all. Someone has to be left to run the banks.
Myths About Legends About Integer Overflow in Rust
In university I was obsessed with Haskell and being clever and writing code that was an unholy stack of lambda functions and fancy constructs like monads and monad lifting. I used the typical intellectual supremacy argument inherent to many fields of study where you reason that something isn't used in industry because industry people are stupid and cannot possibly grasp all these advanced abstract concepts.

Eventually I realized that Haskell code is slow to write, hard to reason about efficiency, lazy evaluation sucks for most things, and most importantly Haskell is hard to read by others. Going on Hoogle to look up some package and seeing some abandoned doctoral thesis used by nobody where the only documentation is types becomes exhausting after a while.

Go is now my favorite language.
I've been using "Google Search Link Fix" with Firefox (for a long time) to get the direct links on search results. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix
You cannot ever know for sure that your software is bug free, because no finite system of logic is both true and complete.

At least, that’s my understanding of it.
Only thing keeping me from commuting year round is lack of studded tires. I'll have to fix that until next year, because as I'm standing here, hoping for a train that's not jam packed, I really miss cycling.
The article makes it sound like an amazing cycle of selling drugs, money laundering, loan sharking, and profiting from the real estate rise.
Pocket Removes Hacker News, Reddit 'Save to Pocket' Browser Integrations
The integrations beloved by power-users have been removed from the Chrome and Safari Pocket extensions, though Pocket has stated that the integrations will be returned given sufficient public request.

Pocket support can be reached at https://help.getpocket.com/contact or via Twitter at @PocketSupport
I would argue that it's more a factor of cost than size. Each segment contains vehicles of a variety of sizes, in the Oberklasse you have everything from 2 door supercar up to large SUVs.

The guidelines for the Fahrzeugsegment by the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt are really kind of crap. If you gave different people the Abgrenzungskriterien to classify all the cars, you'd end up with different results unless because there's an unspoken weight to the criteria.

If I had to hazard a guess, probably 90% of the weight is on base price and another 9% is on "is this vehicle expensive because it's a Camper or Work Truck".
I can't quite put my finger on when - but sometime about 5 years ago we stopped arguing the merits and started allowing guilt by association as a valid argument.
The New York times is participating in a campaign against Americas top tech companies. I don't know what their goal is, but no good will come off it. Google is one of our strengths, not one of our weaknesses.
Show HN: Txr – Transfer files/directories to others with WebSocket streams
I'm personally MUCH more worried about facebook and twitter than Google. Our current political discourse has gone off the rails in the U.S., and I think a large part of it is due to those two entities. Google I think is only a mild player in that space, which, in its extremes, is a threat to democratic society.
I agree, I always get w3schools at the top of html/js results. I actually installed a Chrome extension to allow me to manually block google results from certain domains, to prevent me ever clicking on a w3schools link. It just hides the result as soon as the page loads.

Another annoying one is Postgres ('postgres add primary key'), which always has an ancient version as the first result, sometimes as far back as 7.x.
The Wells Fargo scandal does not represent the banking industry as a whole. Believe it or not, but the products sold by the banking industry in general have an investment return greater than 0%.

Investing human capital in providing those products results in a net increase in overall human productivity.
When you are shopping for a legal adviser do you go with the one who lost his biggest case?

The premise is the same: he lost so he can teach quite a few lessons that he learned while losing.

How about this? Would you hire a football player that made it to the national team but performed horrible (and was fired by the manager) on that stage as a coach for your team - the one with the aspiration for Champions league?

How about a doctor? Would you go to the one whose patients died vs. the one whose have not?

Why is it different for VC partners?
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All of these claims are well-trod and have mountains of evidence. It's not necessary to cite references every time you say something on the internet, and it's not a meaningful rebuttal to point out the lack thereof.
It's in the class of those vehicles in cost and performance, but it is not in terms of build quality.
We, humans, are susceptible to group delusions, probably because we are such social animals and have a strong "run with the heard" reflex. We see this in many mammals and other animals (e.g., birds, fish, ...).

This was either a conspiracy, or a group delusion -- or even both. Either way, we now know the truth about sugar. We now get to fix things. It won't be easy.
Bynder: Create, find and use your content when you need it
Yeah that's a good point, although, that involves the threat of violence.

The threat of losing your job, or effectively being "un-personed" in your career isn't so great. That's basically the level of coercion which Harvey Weinstein stooped to.

What the article says SJWs do is threaten moral condemnation

It's moral condemnation in bad faith. If there were principles at stake, then there would be room for discourse. This isn't that. It's coercion in the interest of power.

So the conservatives and libertarians that are supposedly being oppressed by SJWs are being suppressed by a system they support.

By actors in bad faith. It's much like democracies that elect governments that end up being totalitarian or theocratic. Short circuiting free speech itself is fundamentally the ultimate form of bad faith in a democracy. That one side thinks such a thing is in reach is a sign that they wish to shut down dissent and act as authoritarians. It was true of the right in the 60's. It's true now of the left in the 20-teens.
Oh come on, the panel gaps and production issues on a Tesla would get a Mercedes manager killed!

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-teardown-video-revie...

Edit: Sorry that was a Model 3, here’s the S

https://insideevs.com/teardown-expert-test-drives-tesla-mode...
I commuted by bike for years in NYC and frankly I do not recommend it. The traffic has always been bad but it’s now significantly worse, and the bike lanes that exist make riding even more dangerous. You are always within reach of parked cars doors, and the lack of a physical barrier on most lanes means they are often driven over by cars.

Perhaps worst of all, even faulty bike lanes give cyclists a sense of entitlement and false security. The fact remains the roads were not built for cycling and cars always win in a battle for space.

I’d love to see bike-only roads, routes, or such. But until there is both proper segregation and consequences when cars kill cyclists (there are currently none) it’s a death wish.

Every day I see eager young cyclists riding with no helmet, no lights, and not infrequently without brakes (on fixies) and I am compelled to yell out my advice on working harder at staying alive.
'One (!) slice of white bread is easier on the body than one slice of full corn bread...'.

A. By what metrics are you measuring 'easier on the body'.

B. What corn bread and what white bread?

I'm somewhat skeptical of this as a generic claim, though since it will very much depend on the recipe used (for both kinds of bread), it's certainly probable in many cases.
Truthfully about everything. Health problems caused money and relationship/family/people problems caused everything else problems and I have reached a point where hope isn't even something I can fool myself with anymore. I have a draft of a post I wanted to make outlining things and will try to clean it up in the next days.

In order of what I would prefer:

1. New body and a time machine to avoid surgery.

2. Robust social care/access to reliable doctors I know and trust etc for the long term if I have to live in this body so I have peace and time to work forward.

3. Some means to earn that is physically and mentally sustainable that won't bury me even further so I can buy "at least survivable for me" conditions.

#1 is impossible...#2 is possible but not here (USA)...#3 is the only one I see being MAYBE a real option which could help lead back to #2 somewhat but it all requires a lot of things to fall into place, lots of kindness, and lots of luck. All 3 things that have been in very short supply in my years of dealing with this. Still trying though...depending on the day.
> Fats and proteins, like all food, is slowly killing you, in the same way that life is killing you via aging.

That's a terrible comparison. Gas is the fuel for your car, which will at some point break down to a point where you will trash it. By no definition is the gas destroying that car in the way that gas mixed with sawdust will.

> Thus, the fats and proteins are likewise, in the best of circumstances, only "less bad" than sugar.

You will die in a week without food. Some food will keep you alive longer than others. Fats and protein will do that better than sugar and protein, on aggregate. We can discuss more narrow categories within those, but it's moving goal posts from what I responded to.
Sure, but can they reliably make it look like an accident, over and over and over?
Revolutionary self-fertilizing corn enables better agriculture productivity
> DDG results are great

No, it's still far inferior to Google search.

Try "D without garbage collection" in both, and get back to me.
There is a new study out from The Journal of the American Medical Association that backs up the notion that people who want to lose weight need to cut the sugar from their diet.

>people who cut back on added sugar, refined grains and highly processed foods while concentrating on eating plenty of vegetables and whole foods — without worrying about counting calories or limiting portion sizes — lost significant amounts of weight over the course of a year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/well/eat/counting-calorie...

Interestingly, this held true on two separate diets.

One diet accomplished the above while also reducing other carbs and another that did the above while reducing fats.
So this was a server side thing.

Most of the discussion I've seen around trying to hack Tesla vehicles is that they are impressively secure, although persevering white-hats have found ways in here and there, which Tesla have quickly patched.

Its true that we're in a brave new world of hackable cars though. Tesla imho have a better software pedigree than the other automakers so that will hopefully keep them ahead.
Phi calculator in golang
JS has language level support for that now, too!

async function getThings() {
const user = await fetchUser(url)
const address = await fetchAddress(user.address)
return address.zipcode
}

// in some code
getThings().then(zip => document.write(zip))
Dude, go find your own studies. The OP content is now at the level of "Sun is bright and hot" level of having been studied.

At some point, it stops becoming on us to link to studies for well-documented stuff, and on you to show the intellectual curiosity to find it on your own (and intellectual honesty to accept it).
The wipers are needed for when a human needs to take control and if a human needs to suddenly take control they need to have the wipers already working recently.