skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the section on customer acquisition cost really resonates with me.

The corollary, I suppose, is that once you have some customer traction, looking at where those costs are is where you want to spend time with optimization. However, this begs some questions:

If I'm spending $500 for a $5000 customer - should I change anything at all to drive down that $500?

...which leads to: At what CAC:Cusotmer Value ratio should I start trying to drive down that cost relative to other costs in the biz?

Anyone have any real experiences from their biz' they can share on this subject?
Artists care (actually DOING, not claiming) about creating a body of work, and this person cares only about herself. The author is a hedonist, not an artist. Important difference.
I think what’s interesting is that there are people in the Bay who want to live in apartments and take transit to work and there are people who want to live in houses with gardens and stuff. The people in the latter group do not want to allow the people in the former group to have the experience they desire. But that’s because the people in the latter group do not want just to live in houses with gardens. They want to live in houses with gardens where their neighbours also have houses with gardens.

So we have these big fights about property rights and whatnot when it’s just that the two aims are incompatible and the latter group wants the status quo (which is necessarily easier to adhere to)
So what? Should the environment be subsidizing a benefit to the poor? We have better ways to help the poor than to let them trash our planet.
No, we simply wouldn't be using tablets or the market would be much smaller.

In the 90s, MS attempted mobile devices using Windows CE (based on Windows 3.1—long after the release of Windows 95) and that went nowhere. Microsoft has always been the first for the longest time they were incapable of building things people genuinely wanted to buy.

If Apple didn't make the iPhone or iPad, all MS could do is rip off Blackberry. They wouldn't have made anything worthy of spurring the mobile industry we have today.

And Apple didn't really need that $200M from MS. Instead the investment had more symbolic value—signaling that Apple was still a viable company that had software support from the biggest tech company of the day.

Also, before Steve Jobs returned to Apple, Larry Ellison wanted to buy up shares for a hostile takeover and then install Jobs as CEO, but Jobs talked Ellison out of it.
My only experience with Go was around 2012-2013. It was fun, but I did not bother sticking with it. The forced directory structure was a little bit annoying and I found myself writing interfaces for everything. I'm sure people will say it's my fault as a programmer, but it turned me off from the language.
It's pretty nice. You might like Imba too!

http://imba.io/
The title could really be a lot better :p It's not like all the other resources cost.
I think the closet Go equivalent of 'byebug' would be delve[0].

It's got more of a learning curve than a REPL, but very powerful. Editor plugins for Go also tend to have good convenience support for delve, making using it less painful. For example, vim-go[1].

[0]: https://github.com/derekparker/delve/blob/master/Documentati...

[1]: https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/blob/master/doc/vim-go.txt#L...
you dont store any files in the Teams files tab? Just chat and meetings?

If you store word, excel, powerpoint documents elsewhere than SharePoint, and your storage doesnt have versioning, its definitely worth moving your data over.
So crypto didn’t kill venture capital after all
Thanks for sharing. I had a close friend who was in a similar situation, and came to court to support him during the custody decision. It was so emotionally draining for me even as an outsider I can't begin to imagine actually being in that situation while trying to keep a career.
AWS ALB Can Now Invoke Lambda Functions
Part of the downvotes may have been due to this inclusion:

>Taxes gathered this way should found basic income.

...which is going to turn off some people, while others will consider it an unnecessary political tangent.
I can highly recommend Gosha Arinich's articles on working with forms in React:

https://goshakkk.name/on-forms-react/
I get that its super fashionable to hate on the NYC subway system, but its easily the best transit system in the US. No other city is remotely close.
I'm sorry that I'm bad with people, and wrote a "privileged, muddled whinge." I grew up in the countryside and I don't know how to meet people.

Please can you teach me how to get better? If certifications aren't the answer, do you have a better solution? I'll lower my dreams and take anything, anywhere.
US Department of Commerce Proposes Export Controls for AI, Computer Vision [pdf]
At least a decade ago. Maybe two.
> Yet she still refuses to lower her standards, apparently.

How do you know what her standards are?

Heather aka Polly writes advice columns.

The person you quoted is asking Polly for advice.
-Take your email list
-Split it in two equal halfs
-Send each half the same email
-Open and click rates will differ between the two lists
That’s a super deep comment; thanks for wording it so lucidly that I could connect my own thoughts on the matter to it
How to design co-programs
This was the very first thing I thought, about when the "and my cat" line hit.

It's a winning game of cat lady career woman bingo in a single article. The memes are offensive because they're true.
> And there are some things, like travel and careerism, that will not outlive you, like your children will.

Earth is changing rapidly, I don't think it's a bad idea to travel and experience certain facets of life before they're extinct. Places or things you want to see in the future may not exist by then.
Not that I consider the "war on drugs" to be valid in any way, but I haven't seen anything involved with it that is in the same category as the genre of "news" I am talking about:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Fear%20Porn

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=doom+porn
OneDrive (formerly Live Mesh) is also a piece of software, a client windows, mobile, and web app. The mobile and windows apps SYNC data from SharePoint to either File Explorer or store it in the mobile app itself, for offline viewing.
I'd take NYC's dystopia over any other U.S. city's transit options.
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I read an explanation of the quote awhile ago, and IIRC the German word he uses is actually better translated as “outside of time” and not “timeless.”

In other words, the only way to escape the concept of incremental time is to not think of it as increments at all.
I wonder if talent wants transit specifically, or if they just want an employment situation where they don't need to drive their car to work or be limited in where they must live.

Telecommuting fits this as well, if the job allows for it.
New York’s Wealthiest Cut Losses as Manhattan Real Estate Falters
Informing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
I found testcafe (https://github.com/DevExpress/testcafe/) also very enjoyable. Long live E2E tests!
Go look at the company's performance under Ballmer. You may not like him, but the man knew how to make money.
Anyone know if there have been any improvements to cold start times for Lambdas in a VPC? That was the absolute death knell for us. If you're using Lambdas as a service backend for mobile/web apps, it's extremely common those Lambdas will be talking to a DB, and any decent security practice would require that DB to be in a VPC. Cold starts for Lambdas in a VPC could be on the order of 8-10 seconds: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lambda-vpc-cold-starts-a-lat...
While this post is supposed to be about GraphQL, it seems to focus more about the benefits of having a centralized request broker / gateway for your APIs and nothing unique to GraphQL.

Their rule of "AVOID NESTING OBJECTS, JUST RETURN IDS OF RELATED OBJECTS" definitely is missing out one of the core benefits of GraphQL: being able to fetch related resources in a single request. Feels to me like they decided to switch to GraphQL cause it's supposedly better but are still utilizing it exactly like you would a REST API.
The big deal here is that ALB doesn’t cost $3.50 per million requests like the API Gateway does.
The thing that struck me was her age. She's 35. I like to tell people that I went from being young to being old in one birthday. There was something really significant about that birthday for me, that seemed to carry me instantly across the mental threshold from "having all the time in the world" to "you're old now".

Of course, now I'm much older, and think of 35 and even 40 as being young, but I do remember it as being a big deal at the time.

This woman reached that age and freaked out, since she evaluated where she was at in life and decided she was behind. It's definitely an age where you do take stock of your progress. At least it was for me.
What if those who travel and live a nomad life aught not have kids?
Because it makes for the situation where women is comitted to familly and husband seeing her as nagging wife preventing him to do more fun things then boring familly. And she is nagging in truth, because it is not that great as single people without children imagine. It makes for moms who are criticized for living through children and damaging them that way and kids are supposed to leave anyway. Kids are not supposed to stay to make company to parents anymore.
You are onto something with letting kids be bored and struggle to create their own activities.

You taught yourself to use a computer, without taking an expensive "kids learn computers class", right?

Signing kids up for all these classes and structured activities can lead to a sort of passivity where they expect adults to tell them what to do.
> he ruled, "[...] a criminally usurious transaction"

The only proper way to judge the actions of these crooks.
There seems to be a culture of collecting Udemy courses among fledgeling web developers.
I don't understand what you mean, sorry
> probably grad school.

I was an undergrad, which still puts us both above the vast majority in education.
W. T. F.
Show HN: Customers-Contacts App built with online database platform
Have you actually done this? What was your experience?
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

And you might be racing for something you don't really want.

Figure out what you really want before you chase after it. If you're unmarried at 35, do you really want children, or do you think that you're supposed to have children and that doing so will make you feel more fulfilled? Not everyone needs or wants to be a parent and there's nothing wrong with not being one.
Going to the ER is a very common thing for many people. Even for cold and flu. So yes, they aren't getting general exams or long term care. They are getting immediate symptom based care in the most expensive way possible. This goes back to the issue mentioned above. People wait too long, go to the ER when it hurts but, it's too late.
Even if we agree for the sake of argument that today, men and women have reached parity when it comes to career opportunity, that doesn't instantaneously undo the decades/centuries of traditional notion that a woman is not complete without marriage and motherhood. Men face the same pressure, but nowhere near the magnitude, nor the inherent limitations.
Then log4j might be an option since people will probably use it someday anyway.
Cities should take this to heart and really invest in creating seamless public transit experiences or they'll get left behind in attracting large companies that can bring jobs to their areas.
As a human living on Earth, I don't actually care much what you think.

See how that feels?
As a Western European, it really isn't.
It's exciting to see another company looking at making truly open phones, and with a similar chipset and GPU, we're going to see a lot that works between this and the Librem. The real start of an ecosystem.

No mention here of availability, price, or carrier compatibility, so who knows when this will come out and who will be able to use it.
Go modules are available in go 1.11 today. If you're envisioning another new pkg management solution besides that, I don't think that's going to happen.
Not everyone works in an office.
I can't find the source now, but I think it's about 600-700k commuters into the city center (Loop, River North, West Loop) every weekday.
Yeah, context is basically a cancellation token with the same downsides and a bunch of unrelated features piled on (because it came from a bunch of people needing to work around limitations getting together and deciding to put all their hacks in one place, but I digress). But from a certain perspective all functions in go are async by default, so we get to dodge that one.
Show HN: A simple way to browse the most popular products on Amazon
I just moved out of the city and miss my 25 minute walk to work. I'd walk my son to school, which was 1/2 way to my office. Now, it's a 20-35 minute drive + 25-35 minute subway ride. :(
> That letter just screams depression (or maybe bipolar on a downswing),

Um no. It sounds like someone with no people to spend time with, that's living paycheck to paycheck, that is one financial emergency from financial ruin.

That doesn't automatically equate depression. When you're worrying if somethings going to happen tomorrow that leaves you penniless that other people around you wouldn't even notice the cost of, and you don't have another human as an outlet and for reassurance, you get frustrated and angry and cold and distant and apathetic all at once. You have to or you go nuts.

I don't see her as depressed at all, and unless you are licensed to practice mental health you haven't any business armchair diagnosing someone.

See my parent comment in this thread, I'm not depressed. I've got a few hundred dollars to my name, a ged, no degree, have been rejected by multiple companies this year, will most likely contract and die of cancer before I die of old age, don't have anyone I can call to hang out with, don't have anyone to call if I have an emergency and need help, don't have anyone to ring me up and ask how my life is going without wanting something.

I'm not depressed, I'm fucking tired. I imagine she's not depressed either, just tired. Worn out. In need of something to go in her favor for a change.

It's perfectly normal to feel despair and frustration with your life, that doesn't automatically make you depressed.

Try walking in her shoes, or my shoes, are millions of other shoes. We get out of bed in the morning and ranger the fuck up because we have to to survive. Just because we aren't excited to run off to our shitty jobs and come home to our empty lonely lives doesn't make us depressed, it makes us disadvantaged.
The problem with fighting disinformation is that it requires an entity that has the authority to stamp something as true or untrue. This entity will be made of humans and therefore susceptible to disinformation in the same way as the people it is intended to protect and also prone to abuse of its power. If it's between the order of one centralized authority determining truth (China) and the chaos of thousands of competing entities, I'll take the chaos.
For day 3 in 2017, the spiral. Were you just aware of this concept before hand?
Why would AI cause deflation?
Moffet to Vallco Cupertino is a 13 minute morning commute. Cupertino to Moffet is a 27 minute morning commute, if not longer. Cupertino back to Moffet takes me 15 minutes in the evening, the reverse takes 31 minutes.

There is definitely a reverse commute.
From the pricing page: https://aws.amazon.com/msk/pricing/

"You do not pay for Apache Zookeeper nodes that Amazon MSK provisions for you, or data transfer that occurs between brokers and nodes within clusters."
This is a horribly naive statement which disregards the existence many different jobs other than office and retail.
If you want to be completely sure, a really small amount, lets say your baseline is 20% to detect a 2% difference you just need 2 x 6,347 views for each test

Check this tools[0] and this article [1]

[0] https://www.evanmiller.org/ab-testing/sample-size.html#!20;8...

[1] https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-run-an-ab-test.html
He literally said "I know lots of people would find a life with kids in the suburbs stifling."
I'd flip that around: depending on which stack/tools I was working in, that would give me a better idea of whether to pick GraphQL or REST.

If I'm building a backend in JS/TS, GraphQL is getting to be just about a no brainer. The tooling for GraphQL, such as Apollo's server products, in JS is fantastic, and can be often highly productive.

On the flipside, if I'm working on .NET (Core) backend, the GraphQL tools are rather lacking still, but a lot of the REST tools are very well refined and capable.

There's a wide spectrum in between of course, too, such as Python which is growing pretty good tools for GraphQL (Graphene I've heard is really good to work with), but also has great REST tools.

Similarly client stack matters too. Again, JS clients for GraphQL are mostly ahead of most other languages. React is great with GraphQL, but some of the other frameworks don't fit the GraphQL model quite as well.

Beyond that, other judgement calls are useful such as development team familiarity and project needs.
They're doing that largely because governments have forced them to: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/business/germany-facebook...
I haven't yet. I hope a good eco-system develops around them. My biggest gripe is that there are just too many approaches in Golang when it comes to the dependency management.
Mainly dating apps. I live in a very large city and I keep my age filters somewhat appropriate (27-35). If you struggle with dating apps I'd recommend getting decent photos, even if you need to pay a photographer and spend a day taking good Tinder/etc photos. Dating, even from people looking for serious partners, is a very shallow game. The more attractive someone finds you, the more interest they'll show you. This makes conversation much easier.
I really like the humility in this part of the statement:

> After almost 10 years of exposure, we have learned a lot about the language and libraries that we didn’t know in the beginning, and that was only possible through feedback from the Go community.

It's so tempting to hold one's project back until it seems perfect. And then, even worse, to defend it as perfect in the face of real-world feedback. I really appreciate it when smart people do their best, but in full recognition that a lot of things will be learned once real use happens.
The Texas bullet train now looks likely. Here’s what to expect
The stock price remained stagnant, but under Ballmer, both revenue and net income doubled. He may have sucked at the PR game, but he was far from the worst CEO of the 90s.
Because insurance rates for new drivers are perpetually going up, states pass more and more laws with hoops to jump through and the utility it less than it used to be thanks to the internet and smartphones.

They will almost all get licenses when they get to a point in their life where the cost/benefit makes sense.
The linux kernel has got, conservatively, thousands upon thousands of defects. The only reason to read it is in case you really need to know how it actually works, because the documentation for some syscall is wrong or your systems aren't working right in practice, or you need to know how some undocumented hardware works. Otherwise I'd say it's best left unread.
With relationships/friendships/communication getting more and more digital, people are getting lonelier. Loneliness leads to all sort of health problems.
In the realms of gold: exploring Africa’s rich history
Robert Spencer at Horowitz's Restoration Weekend
What answer are you fishing for?
I guess thr issue with this person (and many others) is that they didn’t have a network, experience, etc., to fall back on in order to take steps to get back on track. Basically they would have to start from scratch. Teaching ESL in some far away place doesn’t buy you much either here or even there (unless you wanna continue in a dead-end job). Also, ESL teachers tend to be young. Older ones are rare and kids don’t prefer them-they like hip “older kids” to “teach them” not “dad”.
There Are More Than Two Things [1]. It's a spectrum, not a dualism.

Which is to basically ask that, for example, does it work to have multiple semi-competing Ministries of Truth?

https://twitter.com/_shyextrovert/status/1046004096820539393
> Machine code is linear and executed one instruction at a time.

Only conceptually. In reality, it's executed out of order and branches are run in parallel.
Damn, the lambda layers feature is super cool. By far some big downsides to lambdas besides cold starts were deployment times and dependency management. Super cool to see they are pushing this forward!
I hear you, but this isn't a new conundrum in creative fields/play.

Artists' studios have long worked in a similar way, employing others to continually emulate an original ideal that an artist would ultimately brand.

I understand it's a little different, but we don't regret people admiring da Vinci as much as they do. People haven't stopped painting since the works of masters, and in many cases are inspired to see what is possible— and people still paint as a creative act. With reference to Lego— I covet that Apollo Saturn rocket model, and I'm often in awe of some of the creativity and skill that has gone into many of the models designed in their studios.

I grew up in the age of Lego models, though less sophisticated than they are now— I did start with my mother's early 70's sets.

Maybe the issue lies elsewhere— not that the predesigned models exist at all, but the consumerist motivation to just buy up those [models] for children instead of first exposing them to the basics without any other aspiration and gradually increasing exposure. I mean, that's how we've done painting for a long time— the kids get finger paints, wax crayons and cheap newsprint first. Then later they can see some master works, and maybe get a paint-by-numbers to see that their hands are just as capable of producing the same with the right practice.
Depending on your skills it may stretch you a lot. I did 2016 in rust and it was a battle, I knew relatively little beforehand.

2017 I solved in kotlin and got all the way to the end. I remember closing my laptop on Christmas Day and feeling elated/tired
>I agree that this is bad advice. I'm 35. I've got a wife, two kids, and a weird house with tons of maintenance projects. My parents live five minutes away, and I spend most weekends at Home Depot or hanging out in my parents' living room with the kids. I work too much and don't sleep enough. And I'm blissfully happy.

Something that seems to come out in what you're saying is personal growth. To be a decent spouse, to be a decent parent, to work through home maintenance projects, and find new ways to interact with your parents as you both age, all of these require you to push yourself to learn and grow. It may not seem like it over 3 months, but over years of ups and downs you realize you've changed and grown a lot, hopefully with purpose.

With jobs and moves, it's easy to change jobs and places just because you get bored. But change isn't equal to growth. Sometimes it's just change and it feels meaningless.

I don't mean to say family is better than career or vice versa. But lots of people (me included) can wander through different jobs without feeling there's any thread of continuity or purpose to those changes - it's just a change. Maybe it's easier for people who can actively manage their career and always have their next move/job be another way for them to grow.
Any examples of "awesome stuff" made with a Microsoft product?

If it were just about developers, Linux would be number one.
Awesome. Our "Distributed Monolith" problems are now solved.

We have so many Lambdas that share common Java JAR libs.

Lambda Layers appears to solve our reuse and deployment headaches.