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Ask HN: What are some sources that show a given app's number of active users?
Currently in the process of finding competitor research tools and so far I've used Similar Web's tools through their trial version.

Are there any other services/sources like this that allow users to search for an app in the Play/iOS stores and show a selected app's daily/monthly active users? Preferably (if there are any), those that do not require payment or at least provide a trial version, and that do not require "booking a demo"?

Thank you in advance for your suggestions
If you search YouTube for “Trevor Jacob” there is several pilot folks who have spent tons of time going through every little detail of the video. They’ve reconstructed the flight path, where it landed, you name it. It was one of those “hive mind” kind of deals and it was fun to follow during the month or so after the original video was posted.
The Naturalization Oath is "Renounce and abjure absolutely and entirely all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom or which the applicant was before a subject or citizen".

Makes no mention of giving up citizenship or passport-holding, just allegiance.
You need to have a significant following for this to have any relevance. If you have a significant following, you have a strong incentive not to post the most grotesque things.
There’s a process for that. I think it’s far more likely that on whatever date the US ceases to exist that the Senate is still in place.
Banks are supposed to do MFA. Some, apparently, are crap and require you to login while doing a payment, but most ask for a confirmation with an SMS code or the banks app, both of which contain who the payment is towards, and the amount.
> - If I keep the stock, and borrow against it, I pay no taxes, but I do pay finance fees (e.g. interest). The finance fees work out to less than taxes.

I'm not following the whole lifecycle. You borrow against your stock, spend that money, and then repay the loan using stock? Without having technically sold the stock?
China’s most chaotic social network survived Beijing’s censors – until now
Both countries allow it
https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=356...

https://www.immigrationhelp.org/learning-center/is-u-s-dual-...
Love this stuff, great read.

Also if you have not seen Hook Theory yet, worth checking out:
https://www.hooktheory.com/about
Yes, taxing unrealized gains as if they were income would be silly.

Most proposals to tax giant piles of wealth in the market look nothing like what you've described. A wealth tax is more like: pay 1% per year on the current market value of your portfolio, if that amount is over $100 million.

Money attracts money. Wealth taxes are an attempt for reverse that effect and force some of that money to trickle down.

That said, any attempt to implement a wealth tax will probably be struck down as unconstitutional because moneyed interests want it to be declared so.
It would be a reason. Whether it is a valid one is up to debate. Nothing is black and white in geopolitics and people can always dig up an older historical reason for things
Taking for granted that this would be possible, from an economic and political standpoint, I would consider equity in the US Treasury to be about as potential valuable as equity in a randomly selected tech startup - which is to say, almost certainly worthless.
I don’t know, this argument seems to be losing validity. Couldn’t it be that industries that need lots of design for some other reason hire designers? That would be cause going the other way.

> There is a fundamental form to daily objects that does not change or otherwise changes in leap steps often by completely depricating the old object.

And this just doesn’t seem true at all. Should I hold these papers together with paper clips or binder clips? Maybe a staple. How about one of those new air staplers?
Makes you wonder if the linked pdf itself incorporates this method and there's a secret message hidden in it.
I'm saying that if a bank calls you and they already suspect that a transaction is fraudulent, you don't have to answer the phone right away.
Thanks, that all makes a lot of sense!
Yep, this is the way I've always seen it too. You need to avoid the eat/crash/eat/crash cycle. For me the best fit is to eat breakfast, then don't eat anything until dinner. For others it's skipping a day. For others it's only eating in a 6 hour window.

It really does look like an addiction and it is helpful to frame it that way. The key element in all of these is that you need to force your body off of blood-sugar, and the only way to do so is to be off of it for a long enough time that half-life diminishes to nothing. This needs to be normal and your body needs to be used to this.
So for each of the affected projects, there may be wallets that forged an arbitrary amount of currency using the exploit, which cannot be confirmed by an audit of the blockchain due to its private nature?

Or am I missing anything?
Eng Org Leadership Talk with Plaid CTO and Fmr. Segment CPO – May 2nd
A long time ago I thought about a similar method but applied to music.
What if you injected in every sold or streamed version of a song some kind of slightly different version of an instrument? Maybe if the piece has a cowbell it could ring at imperceptibly different times and frequencies, thus generating a unique fingerprint.
> who the hell would want to work for the US government when they can work for spacex?

Can a SpaceX employee comment here? Work at SpaceX looks stressful. Elon Musk looks like a workaholic asshole expecting all their employees to do the same, but without getting rich. Maybe government work is boring by comparison, but you get a personal life.
While I sympathize with people for whom this matters, I still find it weird that other people care/are concerned about/want to control my experience.

I don’t want you to control my experience: Maybe I like having weird colors; maybe I’m color blind and need alternative colors; maybe I don’t want color at all and want a web experience that is text centric.

The model of the web is backwards and it makes browsers ridiculously over-complicated because they’re software designed to tel other people control my experience navigating and consuming information.

Give me the information and keep your colors and layout and scripts and ads and …
That was a bummer. There was that point in time that ending up on SourceForge felt like ending up on one of those shady download pages. GitHub by comparison was a delight.
Since it's on a card issued by the FSA provider (I also don't know the correct word), they see the transactions in real time. Data that accompanies the transaction lets them know that it's reimbursable medical care.
Yes, that's a good point in the case of six keys (I think my point holds for just learning three), but it is not the one made that the article seemed to make.
Yeah, that's probably the case. I guess that's part of their DNA - do the design first, without really thinking about what's already out there. (But with a firm view on what's possible to custom make.)
I think somebody calculated that at most he earned a few thousand dollars off that video. Assuming it didn’t already get demonetized.
>by streaming data from a physical DVD in their collection

Someone tried that a few years ago, using the position that they were renting out a DVD player and a very long cable. Courts didn't accept that argument and they got shut down.
I wear a mask when I'm out and about as well, but where I'm at only a minority are still wearing masks. With vaccination rates in the US so low and funding ending for shots and antiviral treatments, I do wonder and worry what the future holds. Stay safe.
No, it wasn't.

> The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government. It was approved after much debate (between July 1776 and November 1777) by the Second Continental Congress on November 15, 1777, and sent to the states for ratification. The Articles of Confederation came into force on March 1, 1781, after ratification by all the states.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation

Edit: I think you're thinking of the Constitution of the Confederate States: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_Confeder...
We let developers bring their own KYC providers. There are so many great solutions out there I don't think the world needs another one :)

In general our approach is to focus on building things that 'only a bank can do' and if there are great existing solutions (ie: fraud, kyc, issuing processors) we let developers bring those solutions. We play nicely with all of them.
>ccam's Razor has nothing to do with this, and its improper invocation is fallacious.

My mistake. Maybe I can't think of the one I'm trying to think of. I don't need a name or rule really.

Philosophically speaking, if you have a few competing ideas and no way to come to a conclusion. The simplest explanation is the best one to go with.

> Positing a connection between Twitter and the US government, without supporting evidence but just because it "makes sense" - is anything but parsimonious. That remains true even if such a connection does eventually turn out to exist. "Do not attribute to malice that which is explained by incompetence" is likely to be the more applicable principle here.

I did provide evidence in my original post. Perhaps you dont accept my evidences for some reason?

I believe I should consider a rebuttal to my evidences. Are the other S&P500 companies so tremendously undefended from takeover?

WBD recently joined S&P and they are pretty undefended, not as bad as twitter.

CPT is worse than WBD.

MOH is worse than CPT.

NDSN is about WBD.

CEG is worse than all of them.

Woah. I kind of disproved myself? I haven't considered this. Tesla is like the only defended stock I can find? I haven't checked them all.

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

Haven't checked on this in awhile. It's high but is trending down post covid recession.

The S&P500 is full of zombies? Is this seriously happening? wow. I haven't seen anyone talking about this. What the hell happened?

Just checked TSX60 for Canada. AEM, AQN, ATD, BCE, BMO, BNS, ABX, and they are all good. BHC is the first one that looks maybe questionable but nowhere near problematic.

Just checked a random selection of FTSE 100. BP, BATS, BLND. All healthy.

I feel like disproving myself wasn't a good thing though. I need to go spend some time on questrade.
> why don’t these “unfairly” censored people build their own platform?

Don't you recognize that this is exactly what happens?

They do end up going to their own corners of the web, and idealogical-activists refuse to leave them alone and try and shut them down wherever they go. Look at how many times Gab, Parler, and other more free speech sites have been shut down.
Sorry, that should have been:

return !(left.a <=> right.a >= 0 && left.b <=> right.b >= 0);
I've had this happen twice. In fact, I avoid network. Most of the time my mom has no interest in it but will pretend to care. Or the opposite, they'll criticize it without being the targnt market. It messes up horribly with the data too.

One success used a little guerilla marketing. We made a fake review site with only one article and shared it to a targnt market Facebook. 3000 downloads in a day, with too many orders to handle myself. I built the shopping "cart" to handle maybe 5 orders a day, but IIRC we got around 90. People were excited to have an app for it and shared to their buddies doing the same thing.

Another one ranked well on search engines, but it took years. I did mention it on some places and sites: Reddit, HN, a forum I visit. It got a traffic increase of 1100% from 2020 to 2021 from 8/day to about 90/day, but only a 9% increase from 2021 to 2022 after I neglected the site. It's not exactly viral, but there was almost no marketing effort. If people like it, they share it. It's being covered by at least an instagrammer and a YouTuber, no major ones, but word catches on.
EU to unveil landmark law to force Big Tech to police illegal content
Banks are dumb, really dumb, and they don't align. I have personally called the number on the card, and been asked to verify the phone by repeating a number they would send, which came with the standard "nobody will ask for this number".

I presume because I initiated the call they think it's ok, but it's still silly.
Spring4Shell is entirely a flaw in Spring, however is somewhat understandable because it was only exploitable due to a new feature in Java (modules) that added new methods to java.lang.Class, which is a very significant change. You could argue the very existence and nature of Java object serialization deserves blame as well, but that gets nuanced quickly.

Modules are also part of the reason why so many folks got "stuck" on java 8.

It is definitely an interesting study in the challenges of trying to make advances in a platform when a lot of the ecosystem is very much in maintenance mode and may not have a lot of eyes on the combination of existing libraries vs new versions of Java.
> I don't know if you can compare sourceforge with github because the former was also used by many to get ready-to-use binaries where github is more exclusive to developers and peers.

Some projects use the gist page for their web page, and some use the release downloads as the download binary they link to. Sometimes, just as was often the case with sourceforge, the main project repo page was the main page for the project. If you think github is more exclusive to developers and peers, I think that's just your own bias in how you use it coming though, as many non-developer people I mention it to know what it is if it comes up in conversation.

I see them as extremely similar, to the point that on the relevant point of how it's used by the public I'm having a hard time coming up with differences.
It's not really about that alone.

Musk have a case against him by the SEC (tweeting about taking tesla private), it seems like they can win it, and he might be forced to stop using twitter.

Now I can imagine it hard for the SEC to enforce such a role if it's his private company.

So in a sense he's using that money to secure his best tool to marketing / growth which is definitely worth 50Bn$ for tesla alone (then add all his other ventures now and in the future)
A Deep Dive into Corporate Surveillance
The technology you're looking for goes by many names, "submit queue", "merge queue", "merge train", etc.

In a nutshell, the idea is to keep track of currently running jobs, then any time a new commit enters the queue, you merge all the running commits into that and test that as a bundle. If merging fails, bail out. If that bundle job fails, bail out. If one of the previously running commits fail, you bail out of the bundle job and run another speculative bundle job without the failed commit. When a bundle succeeds, land all of its commits and abort any remaining redundant jobs.

Such systems will sometimes have heuristics to bundle commits together in some smarter way than a naive queue (e.g. preferring to bundle of commits without overlapping changes, or not bundling small commits with huge ones to prevent infecting speculative builds with the slowness of the big commit, using AI to come up with heuristics to detect "likely to fail" commits and preemptively starting speculative builds without them, etc)
M1 iPad Pro turns one, but patience for pro experience hits zero
He ignores songs with key changes in this analysis but he also does a lot of simplifications. If we simplify this song it's mostly just a ii-V-I across 3 different keys. It is the most common chord progression in jazz music.
I hear you, but as soon as anyone "siezed control" they would be summarily thrown out in the mud and made a laughing stock by the entirety of the nation.

Don't let the tiny vocal minority of fools chanting election fraud trick you into thinking regular folks would go along with some half-baked coup attempt - they'd be met with laughter and scorn. I've discussed this at length with friends and family, some of whom have pretty strong political views.
Similarly, I remember McCartney saying he started to realize there was some musical control you could have in a song, not just having to play "root of the chord" bass notes.

"Yeah, as time went on, definitely bass, I started to think, Wow, you know? Once I realized that you didn’t have to just play the root notes. If it was C, F, G, then it was normally C, F, G that I played. But I started to realize that you could be pulling on that G, or just staying on the C when it went into F. And then I took it beyond that..... Once you realized the control you had over the band, as we talked about earlier, you were in control. They can’t go anywhere, man. Ha! Power!"

(source: https://reverb.com/news/interview-paul-mccartney-on-his-life...)
A tremendous amount of coping going on in here from presumably frail men. Somehow I doubt the same overwhelming skepticism would be observed about a trait they related more to than muscularity.
yes, but you can use non-adjascent ports with standard 3.5mm audio cables - if you are that bothered, assume it's a 3 channel board with an option to upgrade to 6 if you buy the special cables.
It looks interesting, but for me it hasn't got the same "want!" factor their other products have.

The T1 10L ITX case just launched, waiting for its arrival: https://formdworks.com/
I guess color theory hasn't been given much love in web development because it's hard and murky. Once you do a dive into it, you realize there's no correct answers, only tradeoffs. It's a lot harder to be zealous about some color model being the ultimate color model because you'll encounter reality soon enough.

I suppose the original author is a zealot for linear SRGB, but that might change once he encounters a black and white gradient interpolated in linear.
Central Banking 101 by Joseph Wang is incredible.
Ask HN: how to looking for people eval my idea
I'm looking for people trying my prototype website.

What I am trying to solve is that when we go throghhiking / multiday hiking, we will carry a lot of stuff in backpack(around 12kg ~15kg). If not pack properly, the backpack will pull back, even worse the muscle will get hurt. Some even have hip bruise.

There are several problem I encounter:
1. lots of forums have policy on banning self promotion, so you can't just post it.
2. even you found someone has similiar problem, ask him nicely and send him the link, he just ignore you and buy a new backpack.
3. for SNS network like twitter / Instgram, the search function seems broken? I found very few posts on it, which I thought should be quite common.

Not sure how to solve this. I can do code but this is not what I am good at.
Anyway, its just a prototype, I can throw away and work on something else.

prototype:
https://johnnycabin.xyz/

BE WARNED: its a prototype, so its going to be ugly.
> Implemented poll(2), select(2), ppoll(2) and pselect(2) on top of kqueue.
Does anyone have more information on this? OpenBSD must be the only one to implement this way?
Yeah it is insane how many USB chargers I have coming out of my ears.

I just cleaned out my backpack and found five.
SourceForge was originally developer focused so I wouldn't be so quick to assume the two aren't comparable. Github Releases produces download links, Github Actions can be used to compile assets and Github Pages can host the website. Thus a lot of developers do use Github as a one stop shop. Also worth remembering that most end users don't really care who hosts the EXE they want to download, whether that's Github or elsewhere.

The only things that will stop Github going the way of SourceForge is that:

1. It's owned by Microsoft. They'd be damaging their own reputation twofold. Once because of the malware on the Github and a second time because of their OS, Windows, running like crap after that malware is installed.

2. There's a general movement away from [edit: manually] downloading binaries (as there should be!) -- even on Windows package managers are becoming more commonly used.
this is a beautiful webapp with lots of interesting data, very nice!!

i'd like a couple more screens on fundamentals, see https://hypercharts.co/tsla for inspiration

but still, super impressive (esp the transcript formatting) and i wish you got more upvotes from the HN crowd!
Not only is the title a deliberate Marx reference, the article itself is about an elitist government banning lower-class entertainment.

"This title is misleading because this article is about something I don't understand. I assumed that since the source was a literary magazine, this must have been about radical open source software, which has nothing to do with class tensions."
Why wouldn't existing shareholders buy heavily discounted stock, knowing that there's a good chance Musk will go all in and pay a premium for it?
I don't know for sure, but I suspect, that the reason that ApplePay is being targeted is because other means of credit card fraud at point of sale have become much more difficult with chip cards. ApplePay itself is also quite secure, but the process of enrolling a card in ApplePay is probably the weakest link. The card chip does not provide any added security in the process. I think that most banks use PAN and card security code combined with one time password by email or mobile to verify the cardholder. If a fraudster can crack this nut, and get a card fraudulently enrolled into ApplePay on a phone, they can use the card at point of sale, and point of sale is the ideal fraud target since the fraudster can remain mostly anonymous, and walk out of the shop with the stollen goods.
The "broken" thing is (and always has been) the existence of low cost, low barrier-to-entry competitors to monopoly power.
Thinking what would Buffett do in this situation is relevant misunderstands (tho perhaps just tongue-in-cheek) both Buffett's managerial and investing approach as well as Musk's.
Which, by the way, is another incongruity. The dude had a highly maneuverable parachute and yet somehow lands in a bunch of prickly bushes. He had ample time to find a much better landing site that would ensure a speedy recovery.
You see this over and over again in the crypto space; scammers are very good at imitation the "group" and using that to their advantage.
> No. They are not Windows executables. They won’t run under Windows at all for multiple reasons. They are PE executables.

Starting with the fact they have a dedicated set of "subsystem" values: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-form... - the win32 loader won't load anything that isn't the CUI or the GUI Windows one, although the kernel also knows about the native one. You'll just get the "this is not a Windows application" messagebox.

With NASM, you can also override that linker stub. For example save this to a file:

org 100h

start:
mov dx, msg
mov ah, 9
int 21h
mov ah, 4Ch
int 21h

msg db 'Are you still running DOS in 2022? Wow! 640K enough for you!',13,10,'$'

nasm -fbin -o stub.com stub.asm

then if you are using Microsoft's tools you can use LINK.EXE <usual args> /STUB:stub.com and voila, if anyone _happens_ to (try to) your code under DOS, they'll get an amusing message.

If you want it to take up minimum space, use this one:

org 100h

start:
mov ah,4Ch
int 21h

which will just exit that program if run under dos.

Apparently the header is hardcoded in mingw, but you could easily binary patch it in the resulting executable.

I think I read somewhere you can also remove the stub completely, but I've never tried it.

Edit: for my last comment, yes, you can definitely drop it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9659538.