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Comment by dexwiz | Hacker News Reader

Analytics shouldn't break applications. If anything npm should provide a way to opt into analytics and provide them to all publishers.

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This isn't npm doing analytics. It's the package manager abusing a dependency declaration and a preinstall script to do their own private analytics.

Even worse, they’re doing analytics without opt-in, or providing a way to use the package without analytics.

This is clearly inacceptable.

Unacceptable

See, this is why I don’t like english. in- and un- both should mean the same, why I can’t I use them synonymously?

All languages have their own idiosyncrasies, not just English. I'm a native speaker of 2 different languages and I find that there is still more to learn about them via small mistakes that I make.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

I'm not sure what country you are talking about. Inflammable means the same in every english-speaking country.

The commenter was making a comical reference to Yakov Smirnoff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Country!

Specifically, the Simpsons' reference to Yakov Smirnoff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ

I'm aware this is a reference, but for people who didn't know this already, inflammable is like the word inflamed, which doesn't mean "not in flames".

Infamous means famous! More than famous!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGtHhAfe8w

Or, just provide anonymized public analytics.

https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-day/express

I had no idea this existed.

...this basically invalidates any sort of use Strongloop has for tracking its users via optionalDependencies.

Thanks for that.

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