skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider using some tools like google analyticsz they actually have bindings for apps like .Net

https://github.com/maartenba/GoogleAnalyticsTracker

You can also detect the uninstall event and try to launch a browser to a quick optional survey

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.configura...

I’d say try to treat the desktop app as much like a We app as possible from a metrics perspective. Unlike web people have a general disdain for tracking so with all of the info above I’d consider making it opt-in only.

Finally as mentioned above. Post on LinkedIn for some honest reviews of the app, offer some money for their time. At low volume this is easy to manage manually. At scale consider something like https://www.giftbit.com/

Good luck!
> The homeless aren't prosecuted for sleeping outside.

They most certainly are [1]. The people suffering from homelessness that you see in places like the Tenderloin or the Mission in San Francisco only make up a small percentage of the total number of people on the streets; what you see there are the worst cases of addiction and chronic homelessness, not the total picture. In fact, the largest percentage of homeless people are households [2].

[1] https://sanfranciscopolice.org/civil-sidewalks-ordinance
[2] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
> "Keep enough spare capacity around to handle losing one of the biggest datacenters in the world" is pretty unreasonable.

Err what?

It's entirely reasonable to expect Azure to handle the loss of a single DC and not have a 14+ hour global outage. I don't care how big the DC is, losing one should not take out the world, especially not for the length of time this one has been going on.
You are right. Another detail is to find a metric which is meaningful in long term, e.g., the one which is in line with long-term happiness of your customers.
I'm someone who appreciates technology, so I appreciate the technology that has been produced by Elon Musk's companies.

I would flag a story like this because it has nothing to do with technology. I'm not particularly interested in "famous person does drugs and goes crazy", because that's a boring story.
This reads like some Orwellian doublespeak.

INCARCERATION IS GOOD OK!
Yeah, those stupid "society's rules" that give us the freedom to not be afraid to walk around without being armed, or worry about your house getting broken into. Such pesky laws that are so arbitrary and infringing on people's demographics.
If you are indigent, there are no soup kitchens on BLM land.

I spent nearly 6 years homeless. I spent a lot of time looking for free, legal camp grounds with access to internet and access to places to buy food, etc. I never found a single one.

If you can afford to camp for fun as a middle class activity, that works. If you are indigent and trying to figure out how to earn an income, resolve your problems and get your life back, BLM land does you no good.

I wished I could have made that work. But I had no car.
An arrest means it's that much harder to get a job in the future. It means they have court fees and whatever else the local town tacks on to pay. Jail time means they can't look for work (or might lose whatever job they do have) or socialize, or get treatment. Getting arrested means being hassled and possibly assaulted by police who are empowered to use deadly force.
> Why the stagnation for so long?

Because it tooks us a long time to understand and harness energy. To go from primarily human energy only to external energy. For example, the ability to turn a barrel of oil into work changed the game. People say the industrial revolution was the game changer. It wasn't. It was oil.

Human civilization and progress seems to be directly related to energy use. What separated the US from britain and europe was our endless supply of oil. It isn't an accident that the wealthiest man and the most valuable company of the 19th century was Rockefeller of Standard Oil.

Oil unleashed an enormous amount of energy that facilitated pretty much all of modern civilization - including the stupendous rise in population.
I mostly agree on science, but technology is a different story. There where real advancements in farming technology resulting in higher crop yields for example. Warfare saw the most obvious improvements but it was not alone.
we really love katacoda! we're a bit more oriented on trying to visually explain what's happening (not there yet) and we're trying to give you a very high level of interactivity
> You disagree with the notion, that people that produce content should be paid for it?

Nobody disagrees with that.

The fact is copyright exists to create artificial scarcity. "Content", once produced, is not scarce in any way; that's why the scarcity is artificial. These laws exist to force everybody to pretend that isn't how things work. It's fundamentally dishonest. It is trivial to copy and distribute "content". People have been doing it since computers were a thing and ironically they do it better than the copyright owners themselves.

It's up to the industry to find some other way to pay people. I don't really care how they're going to do it, and frankly it's nobody else's problem but their own. Instead of concentrating on a new business model, they keep embarrassing themselves with endless anti-piracy measures that do nothing but make the DRM-free copy look better than the original.
I haven't found good alternatives for my use cases, but depending on your needs, you can host Paperworks[1] on Sandstorm[2].

Synology also has a DSM app "Note Station".[3]

[1] - http://paperwork.rocks/
[2] - https://sandstorm.io/apps/index
[3] - https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/note_station
I think we're in the last decade of "buying" and owning a car individually. Seems natural that once self driving is competent enough to get unmanned cars from A to B, you'll just subscribe to your provider of choice and beckon a car when you need it, like Uber. It's basically public cloud for transportation. Our average utilization of our cars is terrible. Parking lots and garages are minimally required in this reality.
Can't recommend notion.so enough as a modern replacement for Evernote.
> You still have to have some type of evidence specifically linking you to a crime. The midwives never gave names of specific people.

Which is why they ultimately get their passports after the government has conducted their investigation. For the people who weren't actually born here the government should be able to find evidence of that, e.g. the mother is not a US citizen and her passport wasn't stamped into the US before the child was born.

> We aren’t talking about any random White person. We are talking about a President of the United States who specifically helped “radical Muslims” and a President who was accused of being a “secret Muslim” before he was ever elected.

But what does that have to do with racism? People falsely accuse political candidates of things constantly.

> Actually most don’t.

Which is why there aren't enough socialist-leaning immigrants from Norway to affect election outcomes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaeresis_(diacritic)#English:

> The use of [diaeresis], however, is considered to be largely archaic.

My experience has it pretty much only moderately commonly used now in “naïve”, and by people that read and enjoy The New Yorker (though possibly only to be different and not for any good reason).
There's no reason to get tires changed at a dealership location: dedicated tire stores will generally be cheaper (absent some incentive coupons or so). Unlike general vehicle servicing or bodyshops, tire shops don't need any OEM-controlled parts, training or service instructions.
Not sure what you mean? It gets implemented by using a touch-friendly Window Manager, touch-friendly apps, with apps for all the phone features you'd expect?

It's all open source BTW. Look at https://gitlab.gnome.org/Community/Purism
> Arranged marriage doesn't mean forced marriage. It's unfortunate people have this perception. Even in arranged marriage, men and women agree for marriage only if they are ok.

I don't understand this indignation followed by a generalization. For the record, I'm Indian and have lived for decades here. What you say may probably be true in urban India, depending on the family, education levels of the woman and the parents, economic class, religion, caste and several other factors. But even in urban India, adult women don't have much say in refusing to marry a man whom their parents have decided is the best match. If you look at rural India, it's likely a lot worse.

A woman agreeing to marry a man doesn't mean that she's voluntarily choosing to do so after doing her own "due diligence" and checking if this match would support the kind of life she desires or dreams to lead.

Most of the time, the man and woman get to talk to each other for a very short while, almost like a job interview, after which they're expected to decide on the "yes" or "no", if such a choice is even available. The fact that divorce is looked at as a disgusting matter combined with this decision making process is a big bummer. But I will give credit to the social support structure to keeping things running (though sometimes to the detriment of individuals).

The same matter is a lot different for the men involved. As with many other instances and places around the world, the men do have more freedom and choice.

P.S.: For a funny take on marriages in India, watch this movie from 1998 called "Hyderabad Blues". [1] Most of it still holds true now.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad_Blues
Doesn't this statement:

>I have a high churn rate (install/uninstall ratio) of about 70-80%

Contradict this statement:

>I know its an app with a viable market, and has potential.

Other suggestions:

>I am getting 3-5 free 3 day trial signups

You are giving it away for free, charge people up front, then you will know if it really solves a problem they are willing to pay for. That is when you will know you have product / market fit.

>I use google analytics to track events but they are more of a way to report how much activity my app gets rather than reports on how people feel about my app.

Use Mixpanel or something similar (idk what the Mixpanel equivalent for apps is) to get a more detailed view of what people are doing.
If that facility is a jail, then possibly yes.
Yes, it is in San Antonio.
And by the way, congratulations to the commenters voting down my opinion above because it expresses conservative views. You really are living up to the liberal ideal of censorship when you disagree with an opinion.
Indeed. This article by AWS VP James Hamilton gives a unique insight into how Amazon approaches the problem of sizing data centers for redundancy:

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2017/04/how-many-data-cent...
> I want to push back on arranged marriage = forced marriage. That's just false.

As someone in India, I responded to a similar comment above explaining why such indignation and generalization would be inappropriate and incorrect. Please see

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913844
Yeah, that's a terrible idea. You should have at least three separate communication channels, and the most critical should be as isolated as possible from the others.

Critical (e.g. brakes, steering, engine control) important (AC, heat, dashboard) and then everything non-essential.

The people that design cars need to be software engineers but instead they're behaving like mechanical engineers.
I'd say the reason is closer to parochialism and/or intraparty rivalry in primaries. The beginning of every campaign is buying information and the end is selling it.

Ever donate to a candidate? Notice an increase in emails from same-party candidates afterwards?
This is full of holes.

Self-reference? If so, agreed. The biggest hole in your comment is that in America, at least, it's possible for a law to be declared invalid in some contexts (e.g. sleeping on the street) but not others (e.g. urinating on it). You dance around this somewhat in your comment, so it's curious you take such a binary view.
I feel like the linked article on ABC has a much more detailed and balanced description of the bill [1].

The Government says that "systemic" weaknesses cannot be demanded. That said, the third part of the demands that can be made, the "technical capability notice", seems ripe for abuse.

At the very least, the acceptance of a bill like this will erode trust in app stores. I would expect to see some sort of checksum verification by users becoming commonplace as people become wary of potential targeted attacks.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-08-20/tech-surveilla...
Neat thanks.

>We consider whether the eighth Ammendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bars a city from prosecuting people criminally for sleeping outside on public property when those people have no home or other shelter to go to. We conclude that it does.

Still, it seems unrelated to cruel and unusual punishment. Putting people in jail is standard punishment for many crimes. It seems like the problem is in the prosecution itself before any sort of punishment is decided.
The headline is a little misleading. It's much more terrifying than that. It isn't just Australia. It is the US, Australia, Canada, UK, and New Zealand all together (known as the "Five Eyes")[1]. Australia is just the country that put the memo together.

> The "Five Eyes", often abbreviated as "FVEY", refer to an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Or stocks just level off and bring mediocre returns for several years.
PGP is so easy to use that the first day I attempted to configure it, I accidentally emailed my friends my private, rather than public, key.

I await the day that a great PGP client for everyone might emerge, but I'm not sure that it is possible, nor am I certain that people will want it. There is substantial utility involved in letting Google read all of my email for spam/malware filtering and more.
To me, it's surprising that a hybrid vehicle would be the most reliable given it couples an entire ICE drivetrain (inherently unreliable in its own right) with an electric system. I'm assuming Toyota appreciated the risks and put effort into using higher-reliability components into their hybrid cars - especially as the Prius brand could be devalued quickly if it ever developed a reputation for poor reliability.
As a former public defender, I've actually visited every jail and prison in California. They're not shitholes. Some, like Chino, or even downright luxurious compared to living in a trailer park like the kinds you would find in Appalachia or on a reservation.

I agree that non-incarceration facilities would be preferable. But as a person who has actually represented the homeless I am 100% certain that a large number of the homeless would refuse to live in a homeless shelter if it meant giving up booze and drugs.
Perhaps I am seeing patterns where there are none, but I've seen that articles with the wrong kind of controversial potential sometimes get bumped back. I'm having difficulty putting it to words, though, and can't produce any evidence to back it up.

It's a real shame, sometimes. I feel there is a lot that can be learned from Terry Davis and TempleOS.
You could recommend it more by linking to the thing: https://www.notion.so
Now you're changing words. The root post describes Sarah Jeong perfectly:

> caustic tweeters on the other side of the isle can often be found with blue verification checkmarks (and unchecked aggressive tweets).

She copied everything except the race/ethnicity the tweets were attacking.

And the number of left-wing media outlets that rose to defend her makes me think it's fair to describe this as an issue of bias based on side of the political spectrum, as the root comment said:

> What happens is one side of the political spectrum gets their worst actors banned while caustic tweeters on the other side of the isle can often be found with blue verification checkmarks (and unchecked aggressive tweets).

In short, much of the left-wing defends anti-white racism and Twitter allows it.
Last year I was simulating epidemics on my desktop and thought it'd be cool to do on a real neighborhood and share it with people.

It turned out that wasn't possible!

So for the last few months I've been working on AgentMaps to solve the problem of making accessible, map-based agent simulations.

I hope you like it, thanks for looking!
Yes, changing the status page required updating a S3 bucket that was located in us-east-1 which is where it went down so they couldn't change it.
Hmm, something nice about this change log solution is that merge is built in by design. You could very happily default to all new collection items start with a UUID despite things like user definable item names.

Normally this might be annoying but with merge as a first class citizen its easy to add a "merge these items" feature. Not only is there no hidden data loss, but it also adds the nifty feature of being able to merge totally unique item.
The problem is, that particular direct line of communication is lately somewhat of a one way line to propaganda, misinformation, libel, etc etc. Now we are at the popularity stage where money can be made from lawsuits too.

This development was inevitable.
I rented a 10 EUR VPS from Hetzner and put Dokku on it. It currently runs ~10 side-projects and I couldn't be happier.
I think the issue is deeper than just 'no viable alternative'. should you not receive a parking ticket because you couldn't find a parking spot?

Should homeless people be able to sleep in your yard? if so, do they need to provide proof there was no viable alternative? its inhumane to force them to sleep outside, shouldnt you be forced to let them into your house? does being homeless give them a special right to violate your private property? why cant anyone sleep in your yard?

the issue is complex, but I do not agree with "Society's rules do not mean as much when there is no viable alternative."
I'm a happy DevonThink user (but not a super fanboy, so I won't lose sleep if you don't like it as much as I do). What did you think was archaic about its UI? It has several different layouts to choose from. Do you think they're all bad? I won't disagree, but maybe because I've been using it for so long I don't really notice it. Also, what does it do to the Evernote imports? I've never used that so I haven't seen that before.

That said, it's really good at filing and searching. I'd highly recommend trying it long enough to look past the UI to its capabilities. I'd hate to be without it now.
You can't really blame them for the second point, that's an Apple limitation.

I use OpsGenie on Android and I have a specific sound set for the new alert notification. It will also audibly alert me at max volume regardless of my ringer volume or DND setting.

I do agree about the multiple source numbers of SMS alerts but they're hardly the only person who does this.

Can't say I have had many issues with their UI. It's fairly straightforward. The only annoyance for me is ack'ing or closing a number of alerts at once and getting a bit of lag.
Per https://www.tesla.com/Support/Maintenance-plans-ms-mx, Tesla vehicles require no traditional oil changes, fuel filter, spark plug replacements, or emission checks. As an electric vehicle, even brake pad replacements are rare because regenerative braking returns energy to the battery, significantly reducing wear on brakes.

That's a lot of regular maintenance that just went away.

Per https://cleantechnica.com/2018/04/16/tesla-batteries-have-90... real world data suggests that Tesla batteries are operating at better than 90% efficiency after 100,000 miles, and are projected to be operating at around 80% efficiency after 500,000 miles. The often repeated claim that batteries will wear out faster than engines is contradicted by the evidence.

There isn't enough real world experience to prove it, but electric motors are physically simpler than internal combustion ones and it is believed that few electric motors will need repair before hundreds of thousands of miles. That gets rid of more big repair bills that car owners face.

Consider that as https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/the-most-and-least-expe... points out, the per year maintenance on a used car is generally $1-2K per year.
I don't know about resources, but I've been working on a JS interpreter/stepper for it: https://defseg.io/joyjs/

It isn't done yet (see https://defseg.io/joyjs/test/all.html), but most of the recursive combinators are there.
Wouldn't providing shelters be cheaper than prison? Prison adds a lot of security overhead you don't need for homeless people.
No, we're talking about Boise, Idaho.

Also, suggesting it's fine to just imprison people because they'd have it better in prison anyway... I'm speechless.
Amazing that the article contained not one word about Hillary Clinton's private email server.

I'd have thought that would deserve at least a little coverage.
Have you seen how these smartphone manufacturers handle software development? The majority of them bring up the hardware just barely enough to make it look like all of the peripherals work, then they ship it.

They're not even going to bother configuring the iommu, because there won't be a perceivable difference in behavior to their boss or to the average user. It has nothing to do with how long the feature has been around, their priorities are just fucked.
Yup. And also one of the IPv4 IPs isn't doing TCP.

I'm not sure nothing else is wrong, but the IPv6 issue is likely why 1.1.1.1 is having trouble resolving it.
Sometimes it is external feedback, but bad researchers.

Customer testing: “what feature you do use every day”

“Stories.”

We should put stories in.
Since support for APP seems to be limited to specific browsers/hardware, why not at least do TFA with a one-time passcode app? That seems to be much more widely supported, and it considerably better than whatever they may/may not be doing today..
Why Don’t Women Want to Code?
SF does not actually enforce these ordinances. The individuals must be committing a separate crime (like drug use, or public indecency). This charge, in the rare instances when it is imposed, is a tag-along charge which is frequently used to bump a crime up to a felony so that they can send the individual to a mental health facility.
what's better about it?
> Professors - just as the competitive moat provided by libraries was largely destroyed by the internet, so too is professor access. You can talk shop with many big-name academics on Twitter; you can watch their lectures on Youtube; they will email you their papers if you email them to ask; etc. Is a Twitter argument the same as visiting someone during their office hours? No, but it's a big improvement on the previous status quo.

I spent a lot of time chatting with professors in college, to the point where they would recognize me and we could have long, multi-session discussions we could intermittently return to.

Having a smaller number of "big-name academics" (as judged by what, popularity among their students?) teaching over the internet can't reproduce that, purely because they will be stretched too thin. It can be a different experience, perhaps a better experience in terms of the lecture itself, but the student-professor relationship would definitely be harmed.
Which manufacturers are you referring to? When I said "flagship phones", I meant the iPhone and the Pixel.
That's a text editor.
Are you familiar with the term 'beating a dead horse'? There's absolutely no chance of having a productive discussion around that topic. Everyone knows that what she did was bad, it's now illegal, the ship has sailed, move on.
Wow. What are the downsides?
Just want to point out that once Azure launches their submersible datacenter units Azure Functions may literally become dead in the water.