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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-grayi…

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`

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 …

This appears to be an open sourcing of the Databricks Delta technology which is fairly mature and I personally think very valuable.

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.

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…

Recently, I've been very frustrated with the quality of teleconferences I've been on. I've had calls in the last year on Skype/MSFT Teams/Webex/Zoom/Bluejeans/Gotomeeting/Various W…

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 manageme…

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 Kust…

I've seen a broken link from this url parameter already.

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 even…

Azure has already had a great spark experience available with HDInsight.

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 …

Looks pretty neat. Reminds me a bit of Linqpad, https://www.linqpad.net/ which I've also never used.

Why does this support JIT but not AOT for NVIDIA GPUs?

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.

There are many of the substantive tweets preserved in the legal record of the case.

Previous (short) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954709

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?

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…