probdist
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Comment · 6 years 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...).
Lots of users on HN are actively contributing for years after sign up. This to me is a good sign of health. The counter point is of course, the rapid drop off in engagement after the initial month. Where a large number of users each month never return to the site.
The average comment on Hacker News last month was written by a user with 5 years of tenure on the site. Depending on your perspective you could argue this is a good or a bad thing (new users aren't contributing as much as old users, or old users are continuing to contribute!).
Comment · 6 years 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`
Comment · 6 years 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.
Comment · 7 years ago
This appears to be an open sourcing of the Databricks Delta technology which is fairly mature and I personally think very valuable.
Comment · 7 years 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.
Comment · 7 years 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 as the alternative to sharepoint for new projects/working groups.
Team's live editing functionality of excel files is really really valuable for team collaboration. Slack closing the gap on O365 integration is important for enterprise sales.
Comment · 8 years 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 things with. Time series is one of the core use-cases for it also but it has less marketing around it.
Comment · 8 years 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 tested product or a me-too offering.
Comment · 8 years ago
I've seen a broken link from this url parameter already.
Comment · 8 years 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.
Comment · 9 years ago
Azure has already had a great spark experience available with HDInsight.
Comment · 9 years 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) in crafting things beyond an internal purchasing/procurement/IT mashup. You need to make sure you help the customer and the consultant to get the sale.