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So, if traffic numbers are EXACTLY the same (as noted) but less people click on a single button, you've "lost those users"? Doesn't make any sense to me. You've lost interaction with a button from your unchanged user base. Like you said yourself, click conversion from your users changed. Users changing interaction ≠ losing users

If you had lost 50% of your users, you would have half of the overall site traffic that you had last time.

The title of this post is clickbait. It should be titled something closer to "How we lost user interaction after our redesign".

They specifically mention that they did not lose any traffic/visitor numbers: "Important: our overall traffic didn’t change. The same amount of people came to this feature’s page."

It appears as though the "lost users" were really lost interactions with the vote button: "our voting numbers decreased by ~50%."

It's fascinating to me how far people are willing to go when skewing the information to pique interest. I'll bet a lot less people would read it without "lost users" in the title.

To remove the icon from your cmd+tab: open the preferences/settings for the application and under "Application Options" use the multi-select field from "Both" to "Only Menu Bar", then restart the app. The icon won't be in your dock or cmd+tab anymore, but lives in the menu bar :)

Yes, agreed - this is perfectly fine with me. If I wanted the "always listening" feature I'd grab an "official" Alexa device :)

I have had reservations about the Echo line because of the whole "always listening" thing, regardless of what anyone's said about how it's not recording, how I can unplug it, etc. The whole "always listening" thing isn't what interests me about playing with Alexa.

As someone who's spent a fair amount of time with hardware, I think this is what will make me tinker with the Alexa service - I am interested to see what it can do and I like keeping up with Amazon's hardware projects. I've got all the parts lying around to throw this together without spending anything, so it's a neat way for them to grab some interest from a different user demographic. This also should be fairly easy to get running on a BeagleBone too, which I tend to lean towards (more I/O, PRU can be useful)

This has previously appeared on HN in July 2014 :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8103240

The main reason I don't do this is because I'm often installing the OS to a brand new (blank) drive that has absolutely no recovery on it.

The whole "old installer" and "bootable disk" has been a pain-point since 10.8 for me. I have done 4 or 5 clean installs for friends in the last 6 months, and I tried to make a 10.10 or 10.11 bootable USB... no go - each time, a new issue.

I have ended up every time using my older 10.8 (ML) install USB every time, then just firing off the free App Store upgrade to 10.11.

So this looks like HR or someone from inside snapchat got a phishing email and happily obliged and sent off a bunch of sensitive information without confirming that it should all be shipped over (unsecure) email.

I do work for some higher ed institutions, and almost every year without fail we have seen (and dealt with) successful phish attempts of various staff members... it's usually something small like a credit card number, but it still amazes me how an email that may look "very suspicious" to me doesn't set of a flag for someone else who isn't really thinking about this type of attack.

I'd love to see some performance benchmarks for Nginx's caching vs Varnish (memory, reqs). Even if Nginx can do the same thing, if I need more RAM to do it, or it handles less requests - I'd rather keep Varnish.

Yeah, the copy kind of indicated to me that there was some pricing scheme coming, but there is no indication (or info) about that on your site. Just something to remember if you're going to take a little time to add the Pricing details :)

First impression: after looking over the homepage, the 9 "Get Started - It's FREE" buttons made me hunt in the footer for "Pricing" or more information before signing up, because usually that tactic says "free trial, but then you want my money" to me.

Second impression is that it seems like a Swagger Editor tool combined with a REST Explorer (like Postman or Advanced REST Client). Testing now and will update with some more thoughts :)

I clicked this mainly because I had skimmed the other piece from Sandberg saying that FB didn't need the MBA to be seriously considered.

This article (title included) appears to primarily be "clickbait." I didn't find any part of the piece particularly insightful. There are links advertising their own services/pages to help people with MBAs trying to get jobs, which leads me to believe this was primarily done for traffic

Agreed. Initially, I canceled the OAuth request because I thought I had missed other options, but really Twitter is the only option. I don't love that it wants to read all of my tweets. Would love to see more integrations (and I'm sure they're coming) :)

There is an unfinished Browser plugin (Chrome) for Signal that has seen quite a bit of activity recently. I am excited at the prospect of being able to use Signal from a desktop, and am hoping that it gets an actual release date in the next year or so. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop

This happened to me a number of times over the last few days. The first time it happened I shrugged and rebooted the computer. When it came back up, it asked me to authentcate with the MAS and those few apps worked. Then, later that night, the same issue happened with a different app. I actually uninstalled and reinstalled the app and that worked.

Hopefully they've actually fixed this now but I was pretty confused about what could be going on. The only other time I've gotten messages like that is when I'm opening an unsigned application Apple doesn't think is good, and the Security settings say to only allow trusted software.

I made an account to see how their system worked after thinking about doing a stream myself a few months ago. After I signed up and poked around their platform, I was none too pleased with the features or way their application worked. They emailed me too many times (almost every day) in the first week and I just marked them as spam and went along with my life.

Glad to hear about what's going on here, I will be sure to never stream or give a website with this type of management my business :)

I'm running 10.9.5 and was planning on rebooting my machine, replicating once more, and filing an issue tonight :)

I always find database & "data helper" tools fun to experiment with. After playing with this with a MySQL database for 10 minutes on my Mac I have 2 initial reactions:

1. The GUI is quite nice, and very simple. It is a glorified query tool that knows your tables and helps you make queries with visualizations and gives the results. It still allows for raw queries if you're into that and just want their GUI for queries.

2. The tool (or the Mac app, at least) still has plenty of bugs to iron out:

- I tried creating a "Dashboard" and it wouldn't actually create or close the modal window. Then I refreshed the application and it had created 10 of the same Dashboard.

- I tried deleting the database and the button just doesn't work.

- Many of the queries I ran on my own tiny sample db seemed to just not run. Closing & reopening the app didn't help.

I feel like the bugs could largely be to do with the OSX binary in specific, and not the actual platform. Quite interested to see how this develops, and am going to put a bigger database in to play later when I have more time.

Came here to say the same thing about load time - I'm on a fast connection using Chrome and this thing will hardly load for me. I thought it was my ad blocker at first, but nope, just the site. Also tested it with Firefox and Safari and got the same thing.

EDIT: someone below said the CDN might be on the fritz, so that likely has something to do with this. it may be fixed by the time some people see these comments.

Thanks - wow - there's a link "documentation" right at the top of the page that I completely missed... long morning.

This looks beautifully designed, and I would love to test out how it profiles an existing app or two. Beyond the landing page, are there any types of docs that are accessible for leveraging your software? Hopefully it should be pretty self explanatory, but I'd love to see a set of docs as well.

I have been evaluating writing some new applications in Angular at work and was quickly turned away from it because before today the actual migration path seemed very unclear. Without a migration path, picking v1 for a new application at this point would be silly, and 2 is completely unready for production.

Hearing that they are really planning on making it more or less "backwards compatible" is definitely a smart move from the Angular team, and makes me more comfortable potentially suggesting Angular as a framework.

I've tried Virtual Machines like this before and found that while they work great they're clunky, take up precious space, and I need to test with many versions. I've tested a few paid solutions (Ghostlab, Browserstack, Cross Browser Testing) and so far am sticking with Browserstack. I have absolutely no association with any of these websites, only clients who demand their websites work in archaic versions of Internet Explorer :P

I do still use the IE VMs for testing, and I even use a real PC for further testing once the website is "ready". Just lately been preferring to quickly test while developing in my browser without worrying about spinning up a VM or anything.

Sounds to me like he may not actually understand how git works, or he's following bizarre conventions that I've seen before from overseas devs I've worked with to just overwrite the entire project every commit

There's a heading that reads:

> Developers, Developers, Developers

I've always cracked up whenever I see Ballmer's developers video, so I was pretty happy that Microsoft's IoT team has a sense of humor and was able to get that approved (if they had to)

reference if you haven't seen the original Ballmer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

> in fact Privacy Badger is based on the ABP code!

This makes me sad. They should have based it on uBlock. ABP is very bloated, and really caused issues for my browsing experience. Not sure if I want to try it after reading that.

Yeah, that was my first guess, that the creators aren't in the US, and $50/hr is a good rate for a lot of developers that live in areas with a lower cost of living, etc.

Yeah, I do a fair amount of small Python gigs in my free time and $50 seems a bit low to me as well. Just talked to a head hunter the other week, and was told their Python devs are commanding much more than $50/hr. Makes me wonder what was going on behind the curtains here as well.

I particularly like that he faked the tweet from Life at Google (tried to find it, couldn't), that gave me a good chuckle. I enjoyed the Readme overall, thought that it had a good tone to it. Not too sarcastic but not too serious. Just enough to make me get it's just a silly fun thing he did in some free time.