skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just be sure to test your crushed pngs under all the situations in which they'll be used. I've had a few situations where PNGCrushed files couldn't be opened by certain programs, but the uncrushed files could. In particular the Python image library tends to choke on files that have been run through PNGCrush.
The quickest proxy for AdSense earnings is your incoming search traffic for commercial keywords, not your popularity on HN or wherever that sent you most of that. I am fairly confident that you have little. The same is true for me.

My mother always advised I learn to cook, because cooking is a "friendcatcher". Blogging is also a friendcatcher, sometimes even literally for me. It gets you opportunities you would not have if you did not blog. I am here at a SEO-skeptical company getting paid handsomely to make them scads because I blogged.

Friendcatching also works for getting links to new projects, intros to new jobs, etc. Next to these, $200 is penny ante.
Lol that's cockney rhyming slang for those who are confused. Giraffe rhymes with laugh.
my guess is some lame attempt at copying VEVO/Hulu's success for the newspaper industry. my prediction based on that would be giant fail due to perceived value and life cycle of content plus availability of free alternatives which are most likely better (blogs, wire news, twitter)
There are a few reasons given in the previous thread. In short, my complaints are that language-specific package managers make life hellish for sysadmins and end users, and that making it trivially easy to have more than one version of a gem installed means that authors generally don't bother making it clear when they introduce incompatibilities. This makes needing different versions side-by-side inevitable, and again, that's tough on the sysadmin.

Bundler papers over this by putting each app in its own enclosure such that it's at least possible to package a gem-using app atomically without requiring too much effort on the author's part.
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OP, you have given us only one piece of information (how much you have saved) out of a necessary 20 data points or so and you expect quality advice? Impossible. @nolite said "3 months rent + unemployment" but is that really valid? No, it isn't. His/her advice is predicated on the idea that you will start making enough money within 3 months to cover your expenses. We have no clue what your business is, how much you expect to make, what your model is, etc. There is no way any of us can offer help without knowing that information as well.

Your question is a fine question to ask but, unless you provide more context, there is no way that nearly anyone with experience will want to spend the time working through all the possible data points.
Well, that's 0.03c USD he'll never see.
I had about $300, plus thousands in student debt, a couple of weeks before I took a flight up to Cambridge for the YC interview that sparked my first real entre into starting up. Starting up was a mad, year long scramble of part time jobs, slum apartments, long train commutes, various trial cofounders and ideas, writing, and, finally, one idea that stuck.

It's only something I can recommend to a certain kind of person, but the experience of crawling out of that does give a person a certain kind of strength.
I'm wondering if this news is related to the fact that Amazon launched their own marketplace recently.

Maybe the motivation came from realizing that if they don't do this fast enough, Amazon could eat the revenue from Android in a lot of countries.
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This is a pretty cool tech demo and can be pretty handy in low security areas... The only problem I see with this method is that you can defeat this easily via printing the person's face and showing it to the camera.

The same concept would be pretty interesting if used with mobile phones, specially now that more and more are having front facing cameras.
I've bootstrapped two startups. For both, I and my partners invested a few $10's of thousand in the business and had enough funds in the bank to cover at least 6 months of normal living expenses.

Two lessons I learned: we should have invested more money in the company and had more money in reserve. If I was doing it again, I would not be comfortable without at least 1 year of living expenses.
great ideas, thanks for the feedback :-) The next product i'm working on is a yearbook style book of friends with names underneath photos and (similar to what you mentioned) the ability to choose a few of your friends, and print a poster of the photos you are tagged in together... targeting corporations, or even small businesses seems a bit difficult, but its good to think of this angle.
I don't understand how they can print articles from online publications for resale. That's an outright violation of copyright law isn't it?
Unfortunately, webp claims to have same image quality with smaller file size, but the 'real world analysis' compares images quality at the same file size.

Further, image quality is measured in terms of mean RGB or value difference, which is very technical and does not matter to the human eye (a lot). For example, in the portrait, the last picture, the JPEG artifacts in the person's face really hurt more than the blurring of webp, yet both have about the same statistical mean values.

Last, without the original lossless image (at hand), it is hard to tell which lossy encoder is better. Again with the portrait picture as an example, you have to download the provided lossless image to see that webp blurred the face too much.

Still, better than other quick-and-dirty 'analysis' I've seen so far.
This is a very cryptic comment. Could you please clarify?
We obtain all permission from the authors before reprinting.
Strictly speaking, it is against the rules in the US to collect unemployment if you've started a new business. It does not matter if you have revenues or not. Be aware that filing for incorporation, LLC or DBA may cause your unemployment benefits to be suspended.
The F-Secure Q&A is relatively free from speculation. That's unusual for this particular event.
Url seems to have an error.
It should be : http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/800-7895/800-7895.pdf
It's funny - when they are printing a magazine I'm like wow great because I feel they've added value but when they're charging for the digital PDF (and it's a nothing charge let's face it) I feel like they are almost exploiting other's creativity (who I assume has been donated with permission?).
Yes, but if enough people are using this wiki/forum, then it will remain updated as users experience breakages due to API changes.
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This depends totally on your needs, ability to make money going forward, comfort with risk, etc. My bare minimum personal burn rate is about 1.5k per month, 2k at my usual standard of living. I quit the day job with about 5k in liquid savings, a retirement account rather larger that I haven't touched, and some consulting work lined up to cover the summer months. It was all but certain that sales from September on would cover all my expenses.
I am trying. Can you summarize what you are saying?
Is that another way of saying 'creative'?
It's great, but try reading the one on apostrophe's and see if you can still get it right every single time. We need some sort of academy anglaise to make decisions on the language and exorcise the apostrophe once and for all. Cursed thing it is.
Hm, this is no fun scavenger hunt for hackers. It's serious.

On the other hand, if you solve the puzzle, maybe you can sell your story to Hollywood.
When I started development on scribophile.com I was in college and working part-time. I had maybe $5000 in the bank. My big financial risk was paying a freelance graphic designer $100 for a few FB-like gift illustrations and laying down $500 in Adwords spend for the first month after launch. After a few months it was paying for itself and had returned my small investment, and it's been growing ever since then. Nowadays I have significantly more in the bank, but developing and launching the site was practically free (besides sunk time costs).

If you want to do your own project full-time, make an estimate as to how much it costs for you to live in your area per month. $1000? $2000? It's hard to say because it will depend on where you live. Set aside 12 months worth of cash (6 months for dev time and 6 months to give yourself some time to make money after launch) and maybe a little extra for emergencies, and get to work!

Of course this is assuming you think you can become ramen-profitable in 6 months. Many people haven't become ramen-profitable in years, or ever. It depends on what your living expenses are and how you are monetizing your project.
I think that's actually the point. when evil big company threatens to destroy little guy, it always makes great headlines regardless who is right and before you blink, he will be selling thousands of posters a day.
That may be valuable, but there's value in this too.

I've had a play this morning, and am already most of the way towards having the readline sitting in twisted and the instance feeding a webserver. Which is to say - lisp notation with all the benefit of python's great libraries, and I understand the layers completely.

No kittens were killed.
It's going back a bit but when I co-founded a company my wife and I effectively had no money that wasn't already committed to paying for other things (she was at law school which we were paying for using our own savings).

However, what we did have was a contract from a client giving my co-founder and I a years guaranteed work. In that year we found enough additional work to raise the headcount to four people and be fairly profitable - which we used to support the work required to eventually get VC investment and switch to product development. We got our first round about 2 years after we actually started trading.
Strange artifacts in the first JPG image, looks more like a GIF with reduced colors.
I just registered printingfb.com to save it, just in case. Benjamin, you can go ahead and contact me at the email address in my profile, and I'll transfer the domain over to you free of charge.

BTW, awesome idea.
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Thanks for this post. An uplifting article to start my Friday.
While I know I am romanticizing the story in my mind, the blurb sort of translates into the last line of a Haiku.
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What if it required that you rotate your head?
I was in fact thinking more about a freelancing site, but for special jobs. Not "PHP+MySQL", but more involved stuff. Maybe setting a high minimum rate would already help to filter?

Then again freelancers are usually expected to already know the stuff they are supposed to work on. So it would tend to be "not challenging" by definition :-(
I sometimes see people ask about translating a language like Python to Common Lisp (or another language that can be compiled) as a kind of optimization.

The problem, in general, isn't that Python and languages like it don't have a compiler, it's that the semantics of the language are hostile to good performance by traditional means of compilation. To do what the programmer requests requires doing things at runtime that are hard to make fast. That's why things like tracing JITs are being used for things like JavaScript.

The speedup you get from actually compiling Python programs is because the CPython interpreter is pretty awful, not because compilation is a magic solution to performance problems. The IronPython guy gave a nice explanation of this at OOPSLA 2007's Dynamic Languages Symposium - maybe things have changed in CPython since then.
Google would enhance the long-term shareholder value, to be sure, but what about the short-term value?

Yelp's board is probably mostly composed of top Yelp management and the VC's that put the initial money. If the initial VC's can cash out early for $200,000,000 more, why wouldn't they? Long-term, it wouldn't matter what would happen to Yelp (if it was all cash) - they'd be able to wipe their hands clean and give themselves the biggest exit.

It'd kind of like selling your house. If you were moving from Seattle to SF, you would try to sell your house for the biggest price. Say the best offer comes from someone with a bad history - they want to tear down the house, build a mcMansion, whatever. If this offer was 25% higher then the next competing offer, you wouldn't care - you would just sell it, move on, and then let the neighbors deal with their new problem.

Kudos to the Yelp team that cares about the 5-10 year value of the company, as opposed to the 1-3 month valuation!
Endless lists of features are pointless

It isn't quite that simple. The endless-checklist-of-features sales technique was born for a reason: It comes from corporate sales, incubator of a lot of technology and a place where a lot of salespeople get their experience.

In corporate sales feature lists are useful because your customer is a crowd of disparate people. The accounting department wants Feature X, the factory managers need Y and Z, the facilities folks need Q. Being able to tick off all those checkboxes helps to close the sale.

And, indeed, Apple has traditionally had trouble in the corporate space relative to the consumer space.

What Apple has managed to do is to break free of the paradigm where hardware and software are primarily designed for the business market, then sold to non-business customers as a sideline. With Apple it's the other way around.
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Startups do change the world for the better! I think we can all agree both about iFartMobile apps and Wikipedia. I wonder what caused the rant, he seems to present an overly specific negative point of view.
Unlike others in this thread, did not pretend he would give a crap about 8 books.
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I like the idea. pic5 has red eyes, I'd change that - it's a bit too close to the text about the artist with great attention to detail.
One of the comments makes a request for TeX output, so it wouldn't surprise me if that were to show up at some point, particularly since Mathematica already deals with two way input and output of TeX. See http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/Generating... or just Google 'mathematica tex output'...
What a great post.

Reminds me of this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1314070/Eileen-Nearn...

Imagine being a spy in WW2, dropped into occupied France, captured by the Gestapo, put in prison camps and repeatedly escaping and never mentioning it to anyone!
If it's indeed created by Israeli Intelligence, then at least R&D costs will be close to nothing.
Israeli military has mandatory service. 18-21 years old programmers/hackers work day and night almost for free.
The point I was trying to make (I guess poorly) is that it's impossible to do two 70/hr a week jobs at the same time.
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It's not so cryptic. We were implementing an API based on using Catalyst. My boss asked if there were Catalyst books I could recommend. I recommened jrockway's. After a review of his HN comments, my boss decided to depend on Internet resources.

It's not complicated. Mixing up your profit-making identity with your being-real identity does not always translate to increased profits.
Is Delaware > Nevada for this purpose?
Ask HN: Does a Startup name really matters? can it break a Startup?
After reading following quote " Mint was a better name and had a better design " on Marc Hedlund’s blog ( http://blog.precipice.org/why-wesabe-lost-to-mint ), I'm wondering if a company name really matters, it surely can't make a company but, could it break a company?
Someone should do a surfing game where the waves are generated from the DOM of a site that the user inputs. This would take surfing the web to the next level.
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Record a video and hold an ipad up to the camera?
Posted and "[dead]"ed yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744855
I find it more likely that the certificates were given to them by an employee that also shared the passcode.
CSS of visited links here reminds me that i miss half of the good articles...Not sure if i am on higher side..
Great.. definitely worth it. Makes these articles a lot more fun to read.
I came here to say the same thing. This sort of misogyny is exactly why the tech world has difficulty attracting / retaining women.
"Siemens announced last year that Simatic can now also control alarm systems, access controls and doors. In theory, this could be used to gain access to top secret locations. Think Tom Cruise and Mission Impossible."

I've been reading pretty much everything I can find about Stuxnet so far, but haven't heard this before. If it's true Stuxnet might really be living up to the hype that it's the "first malware of it's kind."
> […] while providing IPv6 routing where necessary.

This is the key point. Right now, and on the short term, IPv6 is not necessary at all. Or at least it isn't perceived to be. Reason: everyone is still compatible with IPv4. I know it's as stupid as racing towards a concrete wall, telling yourself that you can always slam the breaks later, but we seem to race towards that wall anyway.

> People are basically in denial. […] they have seemingly no accountability […]

I completely agree. But I can't think of a way to solve this.
If you're going to make a million dollars blogging, you might have to provide some actual content. Flagged for a wasted click.
It says that, as a general rule, you should use 'use' instead of 'usage'. So I reconstructed the sentence to make it use 'use'.

Also, the :) was intended to make it a bit of a joke.
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I think the point he was trying to make is that the offer from Yahoo only will go through if Yelp brings their team with them. If the management bails, Yahoo won't buy Yelp.

This is pretty common, since it is an easy way to get talent into the company without all the recruiting.
What are some useful tips for tuning programs running on the JVM?
I'm under the (mistaken?) impression it uses the SCADA system to actually modify some of the low-level PLC library code. If so, I'd be looking for code likely to be used (by the actual plant PLC program) to stabilize a very high speed centrifuge (servo routines maybe), and introduce slight instabilities, or even better, excite a resonance.

"Hey, the VFDs are programmed to skip through this frequency band during the accel ramp to 25k RPM, but every once in a while they hickup and then the bearings rub. What's up with that?"
I've created is a desktop timer. I'm not sure what you mean by porting it to Google App Engine. Are you thinking of making it a webapp?
If you build a wooden house in Minecraft be careful where you put the fire...
I thought about that - then wondered if instead of a set movement they could provide some sort of visual "Captcha" routine.

Blink right eye, rotate head left, open mouth.

Or something like that. But of course at that point I'd just rather enter my damn password.
A complete list of JVM options is available online at http://blogs.sun.com/watt/resource/jvm-options-list.html
"They're void of content" - no, they are just a restatement that any technology is only as evil as its use. Think P2P. One can argue it is evil because its predominant use is to distribute pirated content. But it is not. Similarly, nukes were seriously considered for plugging the oil leak - to name one recent example.

If you can't think of any usage of NAT that is not harmful - it does not mean there isn't one. To start, what you mention - the stateful nature of the NATs (one of the reasons why people fight so hard to have them) - is a useful security property and is very frequently sought after by the people who want to put the NATs in IPv6. Check my vid on xtranormal that I mentioned in another message.

What is harmful in NATs is that they destroy the end-to-end referrals (and when they remap the numeric ports to different ones, too).

Another example of NATs that is useful and is widely used is the load balancer. It is exactly NAT, but put inside-out. Sometimes even doing SSL decapsulation. And you can use round-robin destination NAT as a poor man's loadbalancer technique (how useful it is today, is another story).

To summarize: NATs are like recreational drugs. Pleasant in small dozes, lethal when uncontrolled. And people can not control themselves in using them.
I assume you're being satirical here, maybe mocking 37signals etc but I'll indulge you...

A smalltime website I don't maintain any more, and which is basically dead, makes around $30 a day from adsense.

Don't make the silly mistake of thinking that a website is a website. It drastically matters what your website is.

Also, adsense isn't a magical device to monetize websites, it's a tool which should be used, constantly optimized, A/B tested etc to increase revenue. It takes time and effort and knowledge.
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1. How else would you construct an objective test? Creating images of the same quality and then comparing their file sizes seems prohibitively difficult if not impossible. This test, otoh, implies the same information (minus the exact difference in file size), but is pretty easy to set up.

2. Those were the reported numbers, but it's not like that was the only data point discussed in the article. Every single photo had deeper analysis and included subjective evaluation. He even directly made the point that you did about the last photo.

3. Loading megabytes of photo data into folks browsers by default doesn't seem worth the benefit (the page is already sluggish). If you're interested, the originals are available for download.
> It says that, as a general rule, you should use 'use' instead of 'usage'.

Nowhere does it say that. It says that only if both seem appropriate (obviously disallowing modifying the rest of the sentence -- that is clear from the context and the example). In this case, "use" doesn't seem appropriate at all.
See "Wikipedia" for documentation? I think they mean "the wiki".