patrickxb

Lisp failed? There are multiple articles about it on the front page of HN.

If someone doesn't want to vaccinate their kids they are risking the lives of many other people in their community with this choice, not just the kids they decide not to vaccinate.

The problem is that infants can't be vaccinated for things like measles until they are 6 months old.

So people who aren't vaccinating their kids and have their kids running around spreading the measles virus in public places are risking the lives of any infants under 6 months of age who haven't even had a chance to be vaccinated.

I think there are a lot more parts of "recycling" that are working besides putting recycling products in a separate trash can.

In Chicago now, you have to pay for bags (plastic or paper) at any major store. It's 7 cents per bag. I have no numbers on how effective it has been, but everywhere I go, I rarely see anyone getting the bags from the stores.

Programs like this and NYC's styrofoam ban seem to be very effective in the "reduce/reuse" portions of reduce, reuse, recycle. Can/bottle deposits are effective too. I doubt very many cans in NYC aren't recycled.

I have this book even though I live in a major city.

It's a great teaching manual and helps build up common sense to learn about what can be treated at home and what is serious.

Also, the article doesn't mention how many users sign up in a regular 24 hour period (say on Wednesday a week ago).

3M in 24h is a lot of sign ups regardless (if they had 200M users a year ago, that's over a 1% jump in total number of users), but it would be interesting to know how many more than usual that is.

JS sprinkles became the stimulus package [1]

[1] https://m.signalvnoise.com/stimulus-1-0-a-modest-javascript-...

I don't find it appealing to use voice as an interface. I'd much rather have a button to press.

I think the new feature in iOS where it guesses what I want to do (send a message to ABC, for example) based on previous patterns is promising. A whole screen of these actions would be great.

I don't understand how they can afford the bandwidth...

If this were on AWS it would be around $0.09 per GB for downloads.

Seems like more work to apply and mentor a technical writer than just writing the docs...

Me too. Seems like https://seatguru.com is the best site for figuring out the type of plane for a flight.

Good catch...definitely updating every 30 minutes exactly.

I think travel between HQ and HQ2 has to be a nonstop flight for it to be viable.

The cities sorted by number of nonstops to Seattle per day:

Los Angeles 23 Denver 18 Chicago 14 Dallas 12 Washington, D.C. 7 Atlanta 6 Newark 6 New York 6 Boston 5 Austin 3 Nashville 2 Philadelphia 2 Raleigh, N.C. 2 Indianapolis 1 Toronto, Canada 1 Miami 1 Columbus 0 Pittsburgh 0 Montgomery County, Md. ? Northern Virginia ?

It would be nice if AWS could write something official about what they are doing.

I've been noticing major performance changes in our instances and have no idea if it is related to Meltdown or something else.

Google released a blog post specifically on performance: https://blog.google/topics/google-cloud/protecting-our-googl...

It would be nice to have similar transparency from AWS.

Is this a Babel fish?

Who keeps flour in a bag like that?

Must be nice if you don't have to pay for it...

Or you could return a pointer...

Yeah. At the very least, I wish 204 had a smaller string at the end like "200 OK" to save some more bytes.

That looks like more than one line, and not technically HTML.

Check out http://chartd.co for one line of actual HTML (no JS required).

Simple?

    Aside from GnuPG the other pre-requisites are:
      A mail server for your domain with the full authority on the user mail addresses for this domain.
      A Unix system where you have an account to receive mails to a dedicated mail address and to send mails via the sendmail tool. An account on the mail server will be the best choice.
      A web server for the same domain to deliver static pages over TLS. Re-direction to a different server is possible
      The ability to install the latest GnuPG version from source.

then the step-by-step instructions go on for several pages.

Just use `go install`.

I rarely use `go build`. `go install` always faster.

`goinstall` predates the entire `go` tool.

theoldreader.com is what I use. Closest to Google Reader...

StatHat is profitable.

The revenue from StatHat supports it.

Hi, I'm the author of chartd.co. Let me know if you have any questions!

Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

http://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/...

There are some good points in here, like making the comment textarea in the cancel form required.

I can't imagine having a 30-45 minute phone call with a service that I just cancelled, though.

Ok, so you could do

CAC = (quarterly business expenses [like salaries, rent, health insurance]) / number of customers acquired in that quarter

?

I've seen these LTV / CAC ratios before, but what about when CAC is zero? That is often the case for startups that don't spend any money on sales/marketing...

I'm excited about sync.Pool:

http://tip.golang.org/pkg/sync/#Pool

There are a lot of cases where people write their own version of this (myself included, but also the connections in database/sql for example). It will be great to have an implementation in the standard library. This technique has been very, very useful in StatHat's production code as we have grown.