skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you simplify your second option it becomes actually pretty easy: count the number of people who logged in sometime in the last 30 days and subtract from that the number of people who were signing up during that period. It should give you some sense how people are using your app at least 30 days into it.
That would be the most basic MAU (monthly active users).

I guess it boils down to what your goal is. Stickiness (repeatable action) is something very important to understand what really drives interaction. So, going in with some hypothesis on what you want users to do and then figure out if that actually holds true is a vital part at all stages.
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How the Cognitive Social Web can foster an Internet of better contents
My experience has been that a lot of people don't realize that the email field in their profile is hidden except to pg and admins. People who probably DO want to be able to be contacted by other HN'ers, fail to put their contact info in their "about" box because they don't know they need to.
A valiant attempt. I hope it really does contribute to this and all software patents being struck down for the foolishness that they are.

I kind of doubt it though. Even if the law says mathematics isn't patentable, and all programs on Turing equivalent systems are provably reducible to pure mathematics, it won't matter. Those who run the legal industry will just invent whatever bad laws and rulings they need to enable it to continue sucking the life out of those who are actually trying to produce things of value.
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"The university needs to be more forthcoming about the arrangements behind this donation so we can get a clear picture of what’s going on."

Dripping with entitlement...
> If they'd just let this guy talk to people and post his video or photos online, maybe a a couple hundred readers of his blog would have seen the story and it would have been a real "non-issue" as you say.

Most of the indignant comments on this story are about the faux-racism/classism, not about his getting fired. Slacktivism on reddit and even HN loves stories about purported injustice. Those flames have plenty of fuel whether or not "the man" is involved in shutting down the messenger.
Why not play a recording that actually said, "CPU fan failing, call tech support".
Right, because only bad people get assassinated.
The title first made me think this was an account of how someone constructed a “Chinese room” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room), a room which as a system performs calculations like a computer, appearing to think. That might have interested me more than this article did.
> I read sensitive as an euphemism of "please don't let anyone know how much you make or the benefits you don't have".

Well, the author went and asked them, where are his answers? He carefully worded their isolation a social arrangement. On what grounds?

Everything he reported simply pointed to the fact that these ScanOps workers are carefully prevented to mingle, they start at 4am, finish at 2:15pm. If you ask them questions they call a supervisor. They have yellow badges that restrict their access.

Yes, maybe the official position is that the work is classified because there is sensitive material. At least it is an official position. You don't refute it with speculations, you need to bring some data.
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Great! I had the same idea only with GAE integration and option to download locally. Any plans on expanding that interface?
You shouldn't worry about some random person on the internet believing you or not, but sharing experiences is good anyway.

The woman part was the interesting part to me because thats something recurrent, the presence of a woman (maybe not a woman, but a femenine entity)

I get the pressure while on the effect, and most of the people I have seen smoking extract here at home do too (some just getting pulled to a specific direction, others feel a rotating force).
Not everyone gets the same physical effects but a lot of it is common.
Something that happens to me that so far only one friend has shared is being split in two (we feel it on the tongue, the nose, the chest, the whole body, left is separated from right).

But the physical aspects of the experience are not what I find problematic for trying to do something like scribbling, it is the mental aspect. Do you even know that you are under the effects before they are already fading out? do you remember that you wanted to scribble? do you know who are the people there with you? mm.. do you even know that there are people there?

How did you guys (in your experiment) consume it? smoked extract? smoked leaves? chewing leaves?

After such positive results, did you ever try the experiment again? if not, why not? (if I had such experience I would like to try more and more)
I sit next to them at the Pivotal Labs offices. I know their still pounding away, but not sure what they're doing specifically. I'll mention this post to them on Monday.
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As far as most people see it whether these people are contractors, subcontractors, part-time employees doesn't matter. This story is becoming an issue because most people don't care. This is how it looks and this is how people react.

<sarcasm> For some reason, some have an aversion to situations where a group of different race ends up having to wear a different color badge and start work at 4am and get less benefits than those of another race ... </sarcasm>

They way Google reacted and the way it looks is what makes the story interesting. Classification based on badges, surprisingly matches well with a race-based classification as well. Isn't that interesting? These employees work in a separate building, get to work at 4am! Isn't that interesting to at least talk to them? Mention it to your friend? At least I found it interesting even without any class or culture overtones mixed in. Even with a class critique attached onto this, one can at least make another tired comment on the lack of education and job prospects for minorities in California and Google is just one example.

I think the author wanted to do just that. The way Google reacted to it, they pretty much guaranteed for this to become an issue. It is akin to someone who does something that is slightly shameful and a little wrong, and then there is an ambiguous reference made to whatever they are doing, but then they start overreacting, thus betraying that they know they are doing something that not quite right. They could have just acted cool and got away with it. But it is the reaction that in this case betrays the guilty corporate conscience.
You may also want to check out Game Crafter
https://www.thegamecrafter.com/

Game Crafter has a cost estimator that rings up $7.63 to manufacture on demand a deck of 54 cards. Then they will provide a store front and print on demand for 50% of the profit. If you sold your cards for $14.99, that would be 7.36 profit. So $3.68 goes to you and $3.68 goes to Game Crafter.

You can also buy your own decks at cost ($7.63) to sell on your own. Maybe you should buy 10 and send them to Amazon to be sold through Amazon Fulfillment. You reach a larger market and keep more of the profit with very little risk to get started. Link to your Amazon item from your blog and maybe get affiliate money, too.

As for your marketing deficiencies, you should outsource your weaknesses. Not saying you need to pay a lot of money. Maybe you already know someone and you could buy them dinner for rewriting your description or working with you on your video.

Honestly it seems like you have a novel poker deck design and you are taking it a little too seriously. There are lots of novelty poker decks out there for every subject matter. Start small, like with Game Crafter and Amazon, and if it takes off then great. If it doesn't you can always keep it going with little overhead.

EDIT: A mobile app can be a good inexpensive companion product if done right. You can easily make an app to flip though images of cards and work offline. Use something like PhoneGap and you'll be done by Monday. Add ads, a link buy the physical cards, and give it away for free at least initially. Add an offline logbook in version 2. Maybe start charging $0.99 for it after that.
What's in a wine label?
Based on your comment here, and your comments on other posts, I think you're among the target audience of this post.
From the article: "If the shares truly can’t be sold so that there is some restriction on the university’s ability to transfer stock, then it would suggest it is a contribution of partial interest only, which would not be deductible as a charitable contribution," which is why this may be of interest to federal tax authorities. On the other hand, if Professor Bose never intended to declare the gift as a tax-deductible gift to a public charity (which MIT, as an educational institution, plainly is) then this issue doesn't arise.

From further in the article: "In 2003, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations looked into such transactions and found that in some cases, they were an elaborate way of using a charity’s tax-exempt status to erase tax liabilities for the other shareholders of the company involved." That's why this latest gift prompts interest and speculation from onlookers.
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Wait a second... there is something wrong with that One-Two.

One: Be self-deprecating!? Show you are weak and clueless? In short, a false image?

Two: Be brilliant, and prove you were being a dick with the first step.

Giving a false image, be it over valuing yourself or the opposite, knowingly, belong to the same category in my belief. It is the silent, humble, but brilliant opponent/partner that has my highest regards.
I like to think that if things were explained in simple enough terms, judges would understand and it would have to go forward. This feels like a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' quantity of optimism. Still, a guy can dream.

Surely the FSF has tried to argue this in court.. right?
"Fait accompli"
Yeah, it looks great. Thank you for taking the time and interest to do something like that. I emailed you, but in case it hit your spam (probably), it's from info@opencombinator.com
While this is great news for Python, there are quite a few dynamic languages now beyond LuaJIT showing that it's possible to get stellar perf - JavaScript, Racket, Clojure.
Why You Should Jailbreak Your iPhone?
Some good soundbites there, but you don't really need 38. I would only add this:

"0. Brevity is the soul of wit."
Because the music was in MIDI format, I guess.
Agreed. Flowcharts also assume that there is some sort of decision hierarchy that will be followed. Who's to say that derivative works are the most important thing here? Maybe some company/person needs to cover their ass in another way first.

This list is less a description and more a taxonomy, which means that it's not valuable to anyone new to these licenses. When starting a project, it's best to convey the benefits of each license in a straightforward manner to whoever the decision maker is. A tree like this will only confuse and ensure that an ill-fitting license is chosen from the onset.

Simple, written definitions are therefore best, and are similar to the article here: http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL
I would also recommend that you gzip any static assets and use http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGzipStaticModule to serve these pre-gzipped files.

No point in re-compressing the same files over and over again. I normally gzip all static assets as part of the deployment process.
https://www.owasp.org to learn about web application security
I've written or co-written ten books, seven of them tech books and three novels. I've edited several others. I own and manage a publishing company, so perhaps that makes me part of the traditional process, but we deliberately avoid the (dying) traditional business model:

http://onyxneon.com/
For a different perspective, "What colour are your bits?" ( http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 ) is an excellent read.

It could be argued that programs and ideas built up through the machinery of mathematics are unpatentable, whereas programs and ideas built through the machinery of engineering are.

The law may ignore the actual content in favor of looking at the mechanism of discovery and/or usage.
How did he put his neck on the line?
"think of the bounties on someone like Kim Jong-Il"

Did you ever think of the bounties on anyone inconvenient to governments or big businesses? The founders of The Pirate Bay, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning, BP whistleblowers, environmental activists and climate scientists – would society be better off with them all dead?
Not the gift, but the way the gift is structured. MIT can't sell it another entity, and even if they could, non-voting shares mean they can't be used to strongarm Bose.

In otherwords, protecting Bose from MIT.
herp-derp. Title should had rather been: Apple's profit is higher than Microsoft's for the first time in 20 years.
Done leave common lisp out - sbcl is no slouch and hasnt been for quite some time.
Being a Better Game Designer
It's because I'm cursed, and I always get the slowest line during checkout. It's okay, though. I make up for it by always switching to the faster lane while I'm driving.

Kidding aside, I like his way of presenting. I have an appreciation for good presentation skills, especially coming from techies/engineer types.
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It's very easy to game the system. You need roughly 30% of the network's total computing power and you can "steal" bitcoins from others.

The creator of bitcoin outlines a strategy for stealing bitcoins in the FAQ. In it, he claims that 50% of the computing power is necessary to do this. Later improvements to the technique (and simulations by various people) have shown that you can do it in much less, possibly as low as 15% of the computing power.

Bitcoin is highly vulnerable to a nation state or intelligence agency that wants to own it. It is also highly vulnerable to rich entrepreneurs who want to make a profit by cornering the market.

The NSA could destroy bitcoin in the blink of an eye with only a tiny fraction of their supercomputer power. Likewise for botnet operators and other professional extortionists who no doubt have their eye on bitcoin. The fact that bitcoin hasn't been destroyed yet is just a demonstration that the currency is not really worth anything right now.
Yes, there should be a warning that this REMOVES ALL YOUR EXISTING PACKAGES. Make a list of what is already installed before installing this version of npm.
I notice most comments broadly support this message.
Well, I think you are all stupid and wrong ;P
(kidding!)

But I do believe there is a big difference between being humble, and being falsely humble.

I believe in being humble, to a point, but typically not in being falsely humble.

Being humble is generally good. Maybe you are better at maths than someone, or better at arguing logically.
It is good to be humble, and to realise that even if you are smarter than someone in one dimension, they may still have plenty to teach you, and that there may still be a lot of worth to what they say. As a result, its a mistake to write off their beliefs, or to come out and perhaps tell them you are smarter 'overall'!

But I think its ethically problematic when you decide to 'one-two' other people, by deliberately downplaying your abilities.

The author is effectively saying "You know you are smarter - but you should hide that, so you can effectively manipulate others."
I don't think this is a good attitude.

For one, I think it shows the very social cluelessness that the author is accusing others of.

Your human relationships should not be treated as if you were a spy behind enemy lines. If you think this is an appropriate framework with which to reason about your human relationships, you are doing something /very wrong/.

I think the attitude expressed in the blog post, is, frankly, condescending, manipulative, and very patronising to the people the author chooses to mislead.

If someone did that to me, I'd lose respect for them.

Now, I must make two things clear:
While I think its good to strive for honesty in human relationships, obviously you have to take care for other peoples feelings. It is, of course, necessary, to give gentle feedback, or to sometimes leave things unsaid, for the greater good. But this should ideally be done with their interests in mind - not yours.

And sometimes - perhaps you are in a critical business context, where some one who genuinely is a moron in the ways that matter, and not a nice person, and is going to cause your company a lot of damage, unless you massage their ego - or perhaps you are, indeed, a spy; in which case it is necessary to use techniques like the authors 'one-two'.

But this should be used only when its unavoidable.

Its not a desirable state of affairs, and its not what we should aspire to in our interpersonal relationships.

If you build this culture in your startup, for example, you'll have a situation where people won't know they can trust each others opinions.

The author writes:
>"Even after you know it was a lie, the false-humility still gives you warm feelings. Now when this guy later turns around and says "Aw, naw, not really; well, I guess kind of I dabble in the Ultimate Truth", I'll probably listen."

Well, I'd instantly be suspicious that whatever he was telling me about the ultimate truth, was to serve his own ends.

Be nice to people, definitely - but strive for honesty, and don't set out to manipulate.
http://mppr.me - I'm not ready for HN-like traffic that's why I didn't list it originally ;)
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Totally forgot, Common Lisp's performance w/o sacrificing dynamism is what got me excited about Lisp in the first place.
The article talks about the importance of being a spy, as it calls it, as a social skill. Another important facet of that is to realize that other people often act as spies, but don't mean any harm by it.

They'll say super nice things and say them over and over again and often not add any new useful facts or say anything outright. Throw in polite excuses and white lies where they won't actually say what is wrong or why they won't do something or where they'll say obvious lies that you aren't supposed to question. This makes it very difficult for someone who just wants all the facts on the table, feelings be dammed, so they can make a decision.

It can seem like the spies are lying manipulators, but their intention is often just to be friendly and get along with others. They consider being friendly more important than being factually correct.
Thanks for the suggestion!

Not sure Noah would want to do it, considering there is no way he can make money from promoting my little widget app & it's currently free.
Thanks for posting this, it looks fantastic, and as if it will actually hit the market.
Awesome. Submitted. Thanks!
I'd like to hear more. How is Zigzag like Excel? What sort of work did you do on it? What were the principal challenges of the project?
And to take it one step furter: Being intolerant idots seems to be unrelated to religious beliefs.

Earlier on, when more people had religious beliefs, most intolerant people of course were religious. Now, not so much.
Good find. Thanks a ton!
Illusionary Freedom created by our society
Then kill the GPA. Most grad schools (far as I know) and virtually every corporation give GPA about 50% of the weight.

Then undergrad doesn't matter.
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At least it's distinctive. Pretty hard to Google "my computer beeped at me" and expect to find much.
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http://bgyc.blogspot.com/2011/05/workers-eid.html
http://Sparkfun.com for electronics - best tuts I've ever seen
Panic's "Graduate from iTunes" banner ad campaign for Audion is a great example of trying for the pro/hardcore market when Apple has entered your space. Specifically, it's a great example of how it is very very hard to make it work out for you, but still, they tried.
The video doesn't explicitly mention this, but if you want to minimise your (perceived) relative waiting time you should choose one of the two end aisles to queue in.
You could start logging the IP of every client and do some analysis based off of that. Should paint a fairly accurate picture.
Between earthquakes (and tsunami) and Ranier, the rating for Seattle and environs is quite wrong.
> the best

That's a testable statement. It would be difficult to ABX headphones to prove it, but do you have any objective quality comparisons?
Oh the horror if the government doesn't get its cut and perhaps we have to end one of the wars early.
Twisted or Node.JS, What should we "Menoovr" to?
In Amazon's suit, this filing suggests that it is the route cache and possible something with flow tracking.

http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/texas/t...
Is this ironic? The article is about not calling people idiots and treating them with respect. Is what you said respectful of people who need to be "spoon-fed" these ideas?
Hella, Sleigh Bells, Food for Animals, lots of other weird, glitchy, technical rock
Look at the RSA algorithm for example. As pure a mathematical beast as there ever was. Many folks wanted that formula opened up, but I don't know how many even got a fair hearing to argue about it. It held until it expired.
Wow, I've been retyping the results of some simple addition every time I pay my bills for years now. Just assumed Command-C didn't work there, especially because it gives no feedback that it did. Thanks!
Seems like a silly idea anyways. There is a good reason why Paypal doesn't allow it. There is also a good reason why most other exchangers don't allow credit cards. In both cases there are too many people running charge backs.
... and who is Ted?

EDIT: I see that a sibling poster named him.
Exactly. I prefer legal reform too, but something is better than nothing.
>> 17. There are few joys that equal a good book, a good walk, a good hug, or a good friend. All are free.

> True. Let me add to the list decimating an opponent @ Starcraft2.

Nice! Especially if it's a cannon rushing Protoss and you scout and beat it, it's an amazing feeling.
What's an argument by symmetry?

This, "if I X, then Y would happen," setup is dependent upon accepting various preconditions, which go conveniently unmentioned.
Neurons grow into semiconductor tubes: future intelligent chips?
The dilemma of defining smart as "can figure out what to do" is that it puts no limitations on intelligence.

Some of these skills are not mastered for multiple reasons: emotional ones like fear and apprehension or lack of familiarity with cultural differences, expectations, etc...

Smart people still have limits.
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I wrote a book on optimizing corporate portfolio management (publisher: Wiley). In English, portfolio mgmt means how large organizations handle resource allocation, i.e., whether to spend that next dollar on a marketing or IT or operations investment.

In terms of money from book sales, it is no Harry Potter but it's done well for a book with a very specific demographic of corporate types. From a larger business perspective, it's brought me opportunities for paid speaking engagements with the likes of the World Bank and companies/conferences throughout the US and Europe. And resulted in consulting opportunities and opened the door as being a "published author" does have some cache at times.

We actually created a training simulation/game (facilitated in-person) based on principles in the book which has done very well.

Book link - http://amzn.to/jp0Xf8
Portfolio Management Game - http://www.portfoliomanagementgame.com/