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Ask HN: Dealing with Low Quality .gmail, .yandex, .qq etc. Trial Subscribers
Hi,

I'm a bootstrapped SaaS owner and get a ton of trial users with email domains like gmail, qq, yandex.ru etc. They all have one thing in common: they log in, click around and never come back. Zero conversions up to now.

The obvious thing would be to block them, but I do see a valid use case for "personal users" that later convert or evangelize their companies.

I'm pretty early stage, so the problem is a bit of a balance between "learning from as many users as possible" & "not wasting time & resources"

My SaaS is a tech B2B service in the developer / devops market.

Any tips or experiences to share from SaaS owners?
I am resigning my position after 10 years. I like my manager personally but they are 100% in the tell you how camp. This summed it up perfectly.
"assuredly draw much less power."

The Macbook uses a 14nm 4.5W m3 with 1.5 billion transistors.

The iPad uses a 7nm 12W A12X with 10 billion transistors.
Is this it? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
I personally know that Glassdoor magically vanished my not so critical review of my past employer (I said nice things about the company and employees, but called out how they mislead/screwed me in immigration matters)
Start my own company and become the boss. ;-)

(29 years ago. I guess Em Software is a "lifestyle" company (just 4 of us working out of our homes, so you can discount the anecdata...).)
Chief Strategy Officer of Human Rights Foundation on Bitcoin
I’ve always admired Wolfram. As he said in the article he could have made his company much bigger but he has a great thing going and gets to do what he loves most every day. Do really cool stuff, mostly stay out of the rat race and make a few bucks.
Ask HN: Why Is NY Times on the Front Page Constantly?
Well, X was lightyears better than my aging 6s. Is there a major leap year to year to justify the cost? Of course not. Is everyone upgrading year to year? Of course not. I'm not trying to justify a $1000 phone, but Apple hardware has always been more expensive than the sum of its parts.
It's curious though, that the thread narrows it down to "X11; Linux", with that specific casing (update: nope, not case sensitive). Changing or removing any single char in that string stops the error.
> NYC has really never recovered from the 2008 crash when ~500,000 well paying finance jobs were compressed/reduced/automated.

Can you expand on that, or provide a citation/link? It doesn’t ring true to me (a New Yorker who worked in finance in 2008), but I’d love to learn more.
They definitely didn't need to bribe Amazon. There was a time to argue against that. True leadership would have been to have these protests when the incentives package was put together, not later when we already bagged the win and would lose everything.
Indeed! I was in the same boat - also started writing a client, but wasted too much time on the stupid XML stream idea.

Basically, chatting is message oriented, but the XMPP inventors thought it would be neat to start the connection with a tag like <beginconversation> which would then be dangling for the whole connection, preventing the use of a simple DOM XML parser (remember this is many years ago) for each message.
Linus' point is literally that the pains associated with cross developing/compilation are what brought x86 to power and keeps it there.
The corollary of what Linus says may be true for newcomers as well.

If you're selling ARM/RISC-V laptops, developers will not care because their prod apps are deployed on x86....
Alan Kay (and others) developed a 3D collaborative world in Smalltalk called Croquet [1]. Definitely one of the most interesting virtual worlds I've come across.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croquet_Project
Vampire*: First-Order Theorem Proving [pdf]
It is dramatically easier to live on a budget in the NYC metro area than anywhere in the Bay Area...
You must be new to Stephen Wolfram.I figured this out from other people's experience around him and reading "A New Kind of Science." He's brilliant, he lets everyone know he's brilliant. All you can do is go along with it.
Amazon didn’t withdraw from NYC. They still have around 5k employees here. Meanwhile Google is significantly expanding their NYC offices and nobody had to bribe them to do it.
Likely the WAF (web application firewall) responding to malicious use that happened to use that user agent.
They dont allow it on copyrighted music.
I thought I was going to find this unknown but great bullet-hell game here:
https://www.crazygames.com/game/10-bullets-html-5
Is this sandboxed to the device? I can't see a way to get existing projects in - github integration or similar would be nice
They most likely had a reason to threat those people differently and a bug came up under that special case ;) Watch them fix it.
Implying Silicon Valley is affordable compared to NYC is silly.

The Californian "Try It" attitude is basically the equivalent of throwing shit against the wall while using other people's money. It works sometimes, but it's a terrible strategy that only works because VCs hit a unicorn that wipes out all the mistakes every so often.
I'm the creator of Ruma, and so I can confirm this. :}

For anyone interested, a detailed list of what is blocking or slowing progress can be found here: https://github.com/ruma/ruma/issues/189

Up until very recently we'd been postponing work due to immaturity of both Rust and the Matrix spec. Now that all the Matrix specs have had stable releases, the main blocker is the maturity of async/await and support for it in the library ecosystem. Since Ruma uses nightly Rust currently, we don't need async/await to be stabilized to proceed, but it does need to be far enough along that it has been adopted by all the major components of the Rust HTTP ecosystem. I'm guessing we've got about six months left until this happens.
Lean Startup Lessons for Founders with Eric Ries and Ben Casnocha
Not sure about your jurisdiction, but political affiliation is also a protected class.

Together with religion there isn't possible to have rule or requirement which isn't against someone political or religious view. Anti-discimination laws must therefor limit themselves, often down specific scenarios or looking at the reason why a requirement exist rather than the requirement itself.

For example, if I hold the political view that working more than four days a week is inhumane, that carries just as much as protected class status than if I believed Sundays are declared by god as the day of worship and rest. If a company fired someone for not showing up on the fifth day, they have just as much right to do so as fire someone for not showing up on Sunday if that is what the employment contract says. Local employment laws naturally applies.
Please don't attribute Facebook's lack of values to all other startups, that's a gross generalization.

A company's values reflects the values of its people, especially the founding people. Facebook's immoral behavior can be traced all the way back to its start and ultimately its maker.

Privacy is not a principle Facebook is willing to act on.
Well, then Firefox will need to emulate Chrome, except that it still protects users.
> I work in HFT, and I'll be contrary and suggest that if you want the most value from your time, focus on learning as much maths and probability as possible.

Why not go even further and just not bother with algotrading, dumping money into index funds like VTI instead? It certainly gives a lot more value for your time.
Yeah, I'd wager the firewall has a rule to check against bot traffic, which tend to come from Linux instances.

Probably overzealous, sure. Malicious? Doubtful.
Most legacy software needs an emulator anyway. X86-64 and OS libraries are not sufficiently similar.

Try running a Windows 95 era application on Windows 10. You can even have problems with Windows XP era stuff.

And server space in general does not do legacy without keeping everything intact. The only real issue is lack of ARM developer PCs.
The majority of those could be encountered when you go on holiday.
Ah, yes, I concur with that. I thought you meant some generic parsing error related to the user agent string.
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LocalLink – Find and Join Local Groups to Socialize and Learn New Things
I applaud his work ethic, but can you imagine how many people it takes to support this work style? Programmers building custom interfaces, around the clock monitoring people for his streaming whims (mentioned in the article), system admin's keeping his home cloud running, his personal dev cloud at the office, and the syncing between them. It seems pretty personnel intense
> but the minimum score is -4 points.

Is that true? I may misremember, but I thought I had comments in the minus a dozen or so.
For me, the number one indicator is what did you do on the last snow day. If you put in an incredibly productive day and wrapped up a bunch of bugs and stories, let’s talk.
LocalLink is an application that allows people to find other people who share their interests and collaborate with them. LocalLink allows them to search for groups in their city and/or locality, join them, and communicate with them with ease. LocalLink is partially community - driven, and has several safety features as well.
I saw a cool presentation by wolfram’s son last year. He seemed early twenties.

It was a neat demo of using population data and quickly running it through Mathematica for nice chloropleth maps, charts, etc.

He was pretty cool and answered questions afterwards.

He was showing how the tool is useful for social science, but it’s so expensive.

I hope that if Wolfram ever retires, he will open source it because it’s so useful beyond the current customer base who values it enough to pay.
One of the biggest lessons I've taken from New York's approach is not to try and be the next Silicon Valley (as every community is trying to be). You can't beat the Valley at its own game. That's foolish.

Instead, look to what industries your community has long been successful in, and develop the tech to disrupt those industries before the Valley does.

NYC's example was to focus tech on advertising, finance, and media -- the industries it has long dominated.

I'm from a small mining city in Canada (Sudbury, Ontario). I see the same desperate hope to become a tech center. But the best startups are the ones focused on areas where our community has traditionally held a significant leadership position: mining.

One such startup, and arguable our most successful one, is Minalytix. They develop software for analyzing mining and exploration data.

Another is Symboticware, which creates hardware and software to gather real-time data from machines on the ground and analyzing it back at the office.

Jannatec is focused on solving the challenges of getting quality wireless data in and out of complex underground mines (those many kilometers of hardrock don't exactly make it easy).

TesMan is focused on mine safety. Dura21 works on better pipes. Hard-Line is tackling robotics. ClickMox does lidar. There are many others.

These are small but thriving startups. They're not sexy. They're not likely to be the next Facebook or Google. But they're solving problems our community has long established itself as being experts at solving. It's also transforming our economy from one being tied to a dwindling resource (easily accessible ore), to one that leads in mining operations around the world.

A lot of towns want to be the next SV. It's not going to happen. Trying to be SV is to live in denial about what made SV successful in the first place.

But tackling a smaller niche in the wider tech space? Building on the resources, expertise, and reputation you already have? That's a very doable approach and the field is wide open.
What is this “real reward”? Housing is cheaper in NY (though certainly not inexpensive). Last I checked, we still have theaters, museums, clubs, etc too. Ok weather is a problem.
If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to where you are now? what route did you take to get there? i have also updated my profile with an email if you would prefer to communicate that way
The Tightrope of Writing for Love and Pay
Not necessarily. Pretty much any company that is spread out should have no problem dealing with remote workers. Once you have people reporting to people who are not local it doesn't really matter who's where because you're either in the same building or you're not. Once you're not in the same building doesn't really matter if people are working in a house in Ohio or from an office in Bangalore.

People routinely work from all sorts of places do so in a manner that causes problems for others it doesn't really matter. Most managers don't care so long as they know what timezone you are in and when you can be expected to be available on chat/phone/whatever.
> I seem HN geeks (saying that in a good way) say how they want to use Firefox vs Chrome because Firefox is somehow less evil.

> But where does Firefox get its money from? Google. Google gets its money from ads.

> If you track down the source of all the OSS we're using there's some root source that most HN people would not be too happy about.

I use Konqueror, most of whose money comes from EU grants. I consider that a better source, and (not coincidentally IMO) it seems to result in a higher-quality codebase and a nicer program.

Who do you think pays for Debian? More generally it seems like while most US projects are corporate-funded, this isn't true for European OSS. A lot of OSS originates in (usually publicly-funded) academic projects and/or direct volunteering. Of course, those projects don't have the advertising budgets of corporation-in-all-but-name style OSS.
> Kubernetes is hard because its trying to solve a hard problem.

Yeah, and for most of us it's a problem we don't actually have.

Use of these technologies seems aspirational to me. It's a kind of cargo-culting: as if using the methods of the software giants, will make your company into a software giant.
Dive into Deep Learning (Berkeley Lecture Videos)
On the level of Linux it might be hard, but thousands of iOS developers do it all of the time. On the application level if you are just doing C, my experience with writing cross platform C, if it works on one platform and breaks on the other, there is probably a bug in your software that is only surfacing on one platform usually around depending on undefined behavior or relying implementation defined behavior.

But my “experience” with native cross platform programming is two decades old - x86 and whatever the old DEC VAX and Stratus VOS platforms were running.
And it works in the terminal (there’s GUI too)

(%i48) integrate(2^x,x);
x
2
(%o48) ------
log(2)
Then why would someone pay money for the channel if they can’t make money off it?

The social followers and steady traffic means nothing (unless we are talking about millions of visitors a month).
I do something similar and thought it was a cool reference to find another does it as well.

I don’t throw the second pail away and just put it in a storage bin, forever (so far). About once a year, I fish out a document. To me, it seems cheaper than the time I spent trying to think about how to sort or keep stuff.
I'm Jewish and I didn't know what that phrase references, and I've also been to many Holocaust museums.
IMHO short is OK as long as the name makes sense and is easy to connect to the real meaning. For instance "msg" is perfectly valid name for a message var, and even "m" in some short snippet of code is obvious, but calling it "a" or "x" or something completely unrelated like that is a bad idea. In matter of fact calling it something too neutral like "data" can also be as bad if it's not clear which data you mean. Context is everything in making it easy to understand.
By that argument, the White House is 90% of the size of the Empire State Building.
It's a feature and you are using it wrong.
but it would be, by far, the most expensive mining operation in the history of mining operations
That was one reason for the backlash, but it wasn't "mostly" about that. I guarantee that people like AOC would have been against Amazon HQ2, subsidy or not.

Edit to explain further: much of the backlash was about concerns like gentrification, or the inability of local infrastructure to handle 25k new residents.
The other day my friend lost his iPhone. He tried to use my Android to find it, but Apple's site just says it's unsupported. Really thoughtful of Apple to make that feature unavailable right when users need it the most.
There are other ways you can monetize things. Sell merch, shoutouts built into the video. Other things like that.
I'm not sure what you mean here by algotrading, but HFT at least can achieve much better returns than index funds, like 2-5x more at least.
There are 672 different avatar combinations.

This is a neat idea but that is not enough combinations to make this a useful public service.
When "mobile" and "PC" gets merged

I don't see this happening. PCs are tools for getting real work done. Mobiles are mostly communication and entertainment devices.

I like to fall back on this Steve Jobs quote, employing a car/truck metaphor for computers:

When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks, because that's what you needed on the farm. But as vehicles started to be used in the urban centers, cars got more popular … PCs are going to be like trucks. They're still going to be around, they're still going to have a lot of value, but they're going to be used by one out of X people.
I don't think any leadership in the world could have made it so that Corey Johnson didn't try to prove a point to Blasio and Cuomo. I went to both council hearings and it didn't seem to me like any incentives or tax breaks would be acceptable for big business, even the very same current tax breaks any company of that scale could apply for and get in new york state.
There's a great Bloom County from way back that summed this up. https://www.gocomics.com/bloomcounty/1982/11/14/
By showing them an offer to go work remotely somewhere else. But it backfired because being the only remote engineer while the rest of the team is collaborating in person is hard. The company needs to support remotees. So I again found a new job with a boss who was remote friendly, and a company with remote-first culture.
> It's like pretending "that's all, folks!" doesn't immediately evoke Looney Tunes

It doesn't for people who haven't grown up with Looney Tunes. You're on a fairly international site here. Similarly, you can't expect everyone's education about the Holocaust to have covered this specific thing in a way they'd reliably remember and avoid an embarrassing mistake like that.
Also: https://sivers.org/dbt
That's a good point, but looking at the other way, if a remote worker employed by a company in San Francisco moves from, say, Pecos, Texas to Manhattan, should he or she expect a significant salary increase?

(edit: moving for reasons unrelated to employment with the San Francisco company)
Completely unqualified thought, but I think it has to do with how you organize information in your brain. Are you spatially oriented or do you think in lists?

I'm a chemist, and I definitely think spatially. Creating images of physical objects in my head and reorienting them is a major part of my job, and the "memory palace" has been the most valuable memory tool I've found.

I can't think if there's an extra set of papers on my desk. I tend to organize my tasks using the physical space on my desk, so the most urgent item is about 3 inches from my keyboard at any time. I start to get anxious if too many things pile onto my desk without intentionally organizing them into priorities.
git commit --amend -CHEAD -a
With no atmosphere you could use ground-based accelerators
It is in Maluku Utara (North Moluccas) Island.

Source:
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21/696626918/worlds-largest-bee-...
but... why? :)
Unlocking the Power of the Query in Google Sheets
More like a policy of avoiding drive-by commentary on businesses with which one has little knowledge or investment.
Maybe a bit of a stretch, but what if you hit up avenues where actual classic concerts take place, or agencies that aggregate those (I have no clue about any of this), and display upcoming live events near the super rough user location (e.g. the nearest bigger town), with a referral link to buy tickets. If they buy tickets, you get a cut. I have no idea if this is feasible or if it would be profitable (versus the effort to get event data and all that), but in my mind, that's both ethical and useful.

Or hey, have you considered just adding an option somewhere to donate somehow, and seeing if something happens?

For what it's worth, your site looks great, I'm not affiliated at all but it's really worth a click: https://classicalmusiconly.com/
Well if you don't like him just ignore him, that's the biggest weapon in today's world.

There are so many more interesting things to discuss than the author's personal traits.

As Eric Weinstein put it, we are standing on shoulders of jerks[1] (I wouldn't put Stephen in this particular category). We do need people like Wolfram and we need them to be themselves.

1. https://youtu.be/TKeMIWVOnbo?t=553
>a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationalism
Some people have kids
OK but has the OP done those things? If not he should start doing them, document the earnings and then he might have something to show potential buyers after a year.

Right now, its all a question mark and either a risk, or time waster for potential buyers.
Are you sure about that? Giving tax breaks to large employers is pretty standard practice. What was unusual about the Amazon debacle was how public it was.
I agree that at the low-end , at least in low-end ip-cores, RISC-V could do well.

But in microcontrollers ?

To be meaningful there, they will have to convince one of the big western guys to bet on them.

But why would any of them care , enough to hurt their future relationship with ARM ,a significant risk ?
Wow. Compare this with the tweets of POTUS. There's a world of difference. If only modern politicians thought with such due consideration for the future.
No doubt. It'd be incredibly expensive and risky, but with a huge potential pay-off.
I'm not quite clear on why "the obvious thing would be to block them". Do you incur costs for each user that signs up? Otherwise: what's the harm?
It is pretty big for smartphones and tablets. And embedded devices.

Games on smartphones are perfectly viable - RPi is not good enough but oDroid or Google Pixel is.

The only problem is developing on same machine as you use. For that, you need a full fledged, quite powerful ARM laptop. Hacked Chromebook for example.
Otherwise, the emulator is way too slow.
Yeah, this is what Kinesis Firehose is for. Send all of your messages there and it will batch them to S3.
When it comes to "educational workspace videos" nothing will ever beat Staplerfahrer Klaus.
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