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by probdist 6y ago
Hacker News has incredibly good long term retention of active users (commenters/submitters). I just published a blog post on the subject ( https://probdist.com/2020/03/28/the-graying-of-hacker-news-u... ).
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by probdist 6y ago
OP here: I'll keep checking in on the comments from time to time. If you are after the raw data in BigQuery it is available here: `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
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The Graying of Hacker News Users(probdist.com)
9 points by probdist 6y ago|1 comments
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by probdist 7y ago
This is how RStudio and certain other great open source tools get bigcos to pay for licenses. They are allergic to AGPL and therefore will happily pay for alternative licenses for tools their employees demand.
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by probdist 7y ago
This appears to be an open sourcing of the Databricks Delta technology which is fairly mature and I personally think very valuable.
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by probdist 7y ago
I'm a former early employee at a KP backed start up. Nothing but respect and good vibes from the folks I met with or presented to from KP.
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by probdist 7y ago
This is a good move from Slack. Microsoft teams is an extremely high quality product already. Slack has to be wary of this competitive force nipping at their heels. I've seen teams make good penetration into large companies by starting
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Ask HN: How do you manage teleconferencing and what do you use?
7 points by probdist 8y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 8y ago
Azure Data Explorer/ Kusto is more of a database that is optimized for the log use case than a service. There is a front end tool and a lot of the use-cases are around log management, but it is database you can do general SQL or KQL th
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by probdist 8y ago
Seems positioned to compete with Azure Data Explorer (MSFT's log/time series optimized service). I know Azure runs a lot of services on top of Data Explorer (previously called Kusto) I wonder if this is a true internal battle test
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Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware(code.fb.com)
152 points by probdist 8y ago|32 comments
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by probdist 8y ago
I've seen a broken link from this url parameter already.
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by probdist 8y ago
Went to a similar event at Harvard some years ago. Was interesting but if you are a HN regular you probably get as much out of blog posts following happenings online as at the event. YMMV if you are a better net-worker than I am.
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by probdist 9y ago
Azure has already had a great spark experience available with HDInsight.
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by probdist 9y ago
I've help sell software-as-a-service to large businesses for a few years and this is a good read. An interesting additional nugget is that when the stakes get big enough customers often are being guided by a consultant (Accenture etc)
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by probdist 9y ago
Looks pretty neat. Reminds me a bit of Linqpad, https://www.linqpad.net/ which I've also never used.
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by probdist 10y ago
Why does this support JIT but not AOT for NVIDIA GPUs?
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by probdist 10y ago
They could have asked for George's middle name and the cost of compliance would be burdensome. It is not the rap but the ride that you can't beat.
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Twitter Has Stopped Showing Ads to Some of Its Most Valuable Users(recode.net)
4 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
There are many of the substantive tweets preserved in the legal record of the case.
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by probdist 11y ago
Previous (short) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954709
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The game of the name (1994)(articles.baltimoresun.com)
1 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
How'd you decide what groups you wanted to focus on? Vets, Women, URM, International. Any other demographic categories you think are important to especially reach out to?
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by probdist 11y ago
Wow the complaint has some bombshells: In particular I'd highlight this as pretty crazy: (screenshot from scribd because I don't have a plaintext copy) http://imgur.com/kaFSSzl One of the Customer Support Staff Me
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What the Hell Just Happened on MSNBC and CNN?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
Oh I thought that these were all going to be street level data from toll booth type things.
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by probdist 11y ago
I'm missing where these records are present. I basically see plate numbers timestamps and coordinates no other columns on these datasets.
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by probdist 11y ago
I'm interested in thinking through several examples on this subject. One example that comes to mind with me is the campaign by many university student groups across the country to encourage endowments to divest from fossil fuel compani
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by probdist 11y ago
This is really nicely produced. Can someone provide some background for the scene where Mission residents are opposing new luxury condo development? What has been the state of new high density development in SF? Last time I was in SF I didn
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by probdist 11y ago
I assume the CMU folks didn't break into any one elses nodes. It seems like one of the principles of Tor node operation is that you can run your nodes however you want. I don't think there is any binding agreement or even strong i

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