skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! We appreciate the feedback. Yes, Pick-and-Pack is a term, but it might be too industry wonkish -- we are experimenting with other headers.

This might be hard to believe, but it's just two very experienced developers / SaaS people working on this plus a contractor or two as needed. But just 2 for now. We'll need to expand soon when this takes off (notice I didn't say if).
There's no way this will catch on; the slight image quality per bit improvement is not nearly enough to counteract the huge momentum of existing JPEG use. Certainly JPEG isn't the best possible image codec or even all that good, but it's good enough, and it works everywhere.
That's great! I don't think that happens here in California. Apparently these tickets are issued to the registered owner of the vehicle, not the driver, and they are considered administrative violations, not moving violations. So if a Los Angeles city vehicle got a ticket, the city would be liable for the fine.
Some variation of the phrase is standard for the fulfillment industry.

Though I just thought this, OP -- It may sound better if you changed "Pick & Pack, and Ship" to "Pick, Pack, and Ship" or "Pack, Pick, and Ship".
"At this point, I'll need to invest to keep the company going in its current form."

I don't get that... You aren't the only investor in the world... Why not pitch to these people: various VCs, angels, or CIOs told him "would really make this sell."
Thanks for the extensive list.

Email newsletter is not really working for me since I only have a handful of customers at the moment. I do not want to go ahead and buy a list and spam people either since I find that rather unethical (I hate spam as much as the guy next door).

One thing I have not yet tried is the Forums. In terms of B2B Forums, is there a starting point that would let me do a more directed path or is Google my best friend in your opinion?

As per the SEO I am seriously considering doing that. Although most small businesses would not directly search for the service (since most of them are not aware of the need) I still think it would help greatly to rank on the first page. So I will definitely consider the Press Release.

Again, thanks for the input, I appreciate it.
Soft / "art" sites focus much more on stills, and headline pixel counts, e.g. met-art etc. I would expect them to prefer large file sizes, to aggravate people who like to scrape content.
Maybe I don't get it, but this seems like a truly horrible name. I didn't have an idea of what the site was for from the name and even reading Joel's post left it a little vague. Once I was there, I got a feel for what was going on, but I still don't think I will remember the place.

For a site aimed at users, why use a name referring to webapp distribution?
Veni, Vidi, Verba Verti [translation]
Does Google drive a significant amount of organic traffic to Stack Overflow for short term searches?

I permanently disabled Instant after a few searches, so I have no opinion one way or another as to the effects of it on search. However, it seemed like it was designed to be useful for short queries. Stack Overflow, on the other hand, is extremely useful for long tail searches. To be honest, since I typically use SO to solve a specific problem, I don't know what short terms I'd use to land on a page of interest.
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I don't think those are important enough to risk browser compatibility issues, I don't see a reason why the porn industry would throw its weight in the ring because of this.

And that's if this new format would actually have advantages at these sizes. The factor doesn't need to remain constant in different resolutions. (And even if, we're talking about small pictures anyway, so if you save 1kb per preview pic, would this matter compared to the video stream bandwidth?)
Many years back before this NoSQL madness took off, I was building my own "NoSQL" database. It was fast, refreshing and it seemed like common sense. Then as I was adding more and more features, I realized my neat "NoSQL" (I didn't call it this though) database is turning into relational one. I've come full circle back to relational stores. Only then I fully understood why relational aspect is mathematically superior to any other paradigm out there and why it's only SQL that really sucks. Perhaps this will happen again to mainstream NoSQL movement. It certainly wouldn't surprise me.

So instead of making surveys why enterprises don't jump on NoSQL bandwagon, I would be more interested to know how many of NoSQL adopters ever heard of Codd's theorem or how many of them can differentiate between SQL and relational model. Relational model is a good thing, throwing it out and start from scratch feels like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. That's how I feel about NoSQL movement.
Angels or demons?
The phrase, "Your tax dollars at work" is a common joke to make fun of any government programs which seem silly. It doesn't necessary imply that the speaker is making a political statement.
You're right to avoid email spam -- not only is it frowned upon, but it could fall afoul of the FTC CAN-SPAM rules. I was referring more to getting included in established email newsletters (not dedicated email blasts). For example, your industry might have a weekly newsletter targeting the things you are interested in. See if you can get included in that (for free, optimally), or take out a low-cost text or other ad in the newsletter. They usually go out to already qualified, opt-in audiences and have a better response rate than other forms of advertising.
Not to take anything away from the problem but if your machine got so hot it melted because it was on that sounds more like a hardware problem.
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I'm very intrigued! Have you contacted any local MP's to pilot the app? I'm curious how open they are to innovation in the space.

You have picked a great market to build products for. Congrats! $$$
The Market is expanding to 18 other countries in the next 2 weeks, which means this is probably the last chance for interested researchers to nail down before and after piracy figures. Results will be really interesting.
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YES! I can't tell you how expensive it is to have to change your name or fight a trademark suit after the fact. Trademarks can cost as low as $750 all-in. they are easy to file, take about 6-9 months to work through the process, and when you're done, you're guaranteed that you won't have to change your brand.

I've been on the receiving end of trademark objections and it's not pretty... and the cost of defense FAR outweighs the cost of trademark... even if you win.
I fidget a lot, too. I suppose I've just gotten used to it, though.

I would recommend "bone support." You shouldn't be holding the book up, but resting it somehow. Angle your arm so you don't have to use muscle, or it'll become painful.

I don't know if that's a good term for it, but that's what they called it when we were learning to shoot in the Marine Corps. Same idea. :-)
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The niche are 1-2 people service firms that work with clients on a schedule. So this is more of an infrastructure utility for a specific type of company rather than an entire vertical. For cold calling did you use a firm to do this?
By the way, I wasn't completely explicit. I supposed that in both cases all incoming ports are closed, except for the ones you explicitly open. That way, the only difference between the NAT and the firewall is the address translation.

My scenario is narrow, but I expect it to be a common one: IPv6 internet boxes will likely include such a firewall by default.
Ask HN: New Yorker Bill of Rights. What do you think?
I wanted to ask your opinion about this project. http://nybillofrights.wordpress.com/ I know it is a Quixotic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quixotism endeavor at this point, but I am very interested to hear what you have to say.

The idea is to draft a "New Yorker Bill of Rights" and make it legally binding; so that any New Yorker who feels that his or her rights are violated can take legal action.

The New Yorker Bill of Rights will protect the individual from harassment by bureaucracies in power.

The premise is that New York City is a workers' town; and the sole mission of the government is to make it as easy as possible for people to work in a stress free, safe and clean environment; other than that, the government's presence should not be visible to the individual.

Totally Quixotic; I know; but what would we lose by trying?

In fact, other New Yorkers may have different ideas and they may be happy with the way things are. I don't know. I'd like to find out.

Thanks for your comments and any resources that you may suggest.
http://nybillofrights.wordpress.com/
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Australians can now sell apps! My motivation for creating them just went up a bit.
Yay finally. I have to say I trust google more than bit.ly (how do they make money?)

Here is a shortened link to the article http://goo.gl/BHTx - stats page: http://goo.gl/info/BHTx
I think you want this: http://vimeo.com/13485916
Yep, totally agreed. I will look into different email newsletters. In the mean time like I replied on another comment, the service is not for a specific vertical. It's more of a shared IT kind of service that targets very small businesses (low-cost service).

Do you have any pointers for me to take a look into specific newsletters?
I could have sworn I read something similar to this a year ago.
Correct me if I'm wrong. I thought some of the "enterprises" have already using NoSQL as part of their data warehousing strategy?

To my knowledge (which might be wrong), there are companies out there such as Greenplum, Teradata, Netteza, Oracle Exadata that specialize in data-warehousing solution, have built their own DBMS based on column-oriented.
Durian blender movie got released today
Here is the page to see the movie:
http://www.sintel.org/

It doesn't use fancy renderers like yafaray (otherwise it would look even better).
But what I saw from movie is that blender gives us set of tools that are suitable to make great advertisments and presentation movies with very complex 3d graphics and compositing.
It's funny Joe and I BOTH stopped out of college independently at the same time. I saw him in Palo Alto and asked him what he was doing here. He said: Oh, I dropped out of college, joined a startup early on. I said: Oh, me too. We originally met in Miami.

Joe is probably a textbook play on how to go through this. When I saw him again, it was on spring break where he had gone back to college after failing. It was in Miami. He asked me: What are you doing here? I said: I failed, came back to college. He had done the same.
Sniffing the open Internet. Yes, that's feasible to a point (where there isn't more data sniffed than can be reasonably mined, or more data than can be reasonably sniffed).

Putting backdoors into products is commercial suicide for any crypto company to publicly acknowledge. If this goes through, then the simple way to view it is that any product supported by the US for export cannot be assured against having a backdoor.

In the UK, for the advanced crypto stuff, a government agency gives you key material. They have the keys, that way if anything sensitive goes missing they have the ability to attribute while recovering, but the crypto isn't exposed. For everyone in the commercial world well, you're on your own. There's more than one way to skin a cat.
Grand Theft Auto Creator: Creating his 'Living World in a Box'
About the proliferation of NoSQL, check out this Changelog episode where "things got a bit rowdy when the panel debated features of Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB and Amazon SimpleDB and started throwing dirt at everybody else’s favorite NoSQL databases." http://thechangelog.com/post/457259567/episode-0-1-8-nosql-s...

This is 6 months old btw.
So if his rules are "point out what went wrong, describe what he wanted, work with the employee to alter things so it wont happen again", where does "punishment" and "distance" come into it at all? Why is it good that for several days his employee feels unable to talk to him about anything? Who does that benefit?

So his expected and desired situation outcome was different from the actual outcome and he's disappointed, or angry, or whatever. Why does that give him the right to 'punish' someone else? His inaccurate mental model (based on a poor understanding of his employee) -> his problem.

What if his 'punishment' doesn't work because the employee isn't "crushed", what if the employee is indifferent to being shouted at or distanced?

The only thing which matters is how to alter things so it's better next time That's it. That might mean process changes, or not giving that responsibility to that employee, or replacing that employee. Anything else is railing against the unchangable past.

(Also, how to deal with children is not a good framework for how to deal with adults).
WebP, a Google alternative to JPEG
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Chrome and Safari both use WebKit. If Google releases an implementation, it shouldn't be hard for Apple to adopt it. That just leaves Opera.
I'm not an enterprise guy at all, but here's another thing worth considering: if even I, web 2.0 dude, am a bit confused by the array of things out there, and think that waiting until they battle it out and only a few are left at the top might not be a bad strategy, what is some corporate IT guy going to think?
Can Twitter Lead People to the Streets?
I don't believe wanting to make money at something equates to greed for money, necessarily. You can pursue science for monetary gain, and no (reasonable) person will hold that against you. Scientists have to eat too, y'know?

That said, there is such a thing as going too far, and to sabotage the work of others, literally tamper with, damage, and/or destroy it, definitely crosses that line.
It's not cross-browser.
On the contrary the post explicitly goes into the reasons why current nosql solutions may not be appropriate for enterprise oltp systems. Seems to me that the post didn't say nosql solutions are bad for all enterprise apps just that rdbmses may be the better solution for the bulk of them. So that's not an argument to choose the right tool for the right job? I think it is...
but a major part of the appeal for developers is that they can have a great desktop they love without non-geeks thinking they must be a little weird to love it.

Most developers (and sysadmins) I know positively delight in their reputation of being a little weird. I know that given two options I like as well otherwise, I'll usually pick the less common one. I still use OS X, though, having switched from Gentoo in 2003, and having tried Ubuntu and Arch for 6-7 months within the last year.
I think a lot of the comments here (not all) display a relative naivete about what is meant by ACID and why the physical / logical separation of SQL is vital to the point about ad hoc queries.

It's ironic because some of those comments complain about enterprise types not knowing about NoSQL while, at the same time, the comment makers seem to not (really) know about SQL RDBMS systems.
In my experience, suspend/resume breaks because of device drivers failing to put their components to sleep properly. The biggest culprit is wireless drivers.

It may be that as they improve wireless support by including more drivers and making it easier to use proprietary ones, they're making the suspend/resume problem harder and harder.

I've fixed several problems like this on a per-machine basis, but the fixes are specific to each piece of hardware (read: "this obviously would break something for someone else if included in the distro").
Makes me wonder about Wietse Venema's hairdo.
On the shelf-life of conclusions ("Food for Thought")
The site is a Q/A forum for web apps.
Developers have been asking for this for a long time. Hopefully soon we will also see

1. Better app discoverability

2. In app purchases

3. More carrier billing

4. Coupons and discounts
I get your point. You need actual dollars coming in to be profitable. But, my point is that in some markets a lot of people not paying is worth more than a few people paying.

Whether I pay you, or make your product more valuable so other people will pay you is irrelevant. Whether you call me a customer or not is irrelevant. You should treat me well if you want to stay in business.

I don't see how the B&N example fits. Browsers aren't making the bookstore more valuable to people who actually pay. Plus they take up seats. Get rid of browsers and B&N makes more money. Get rid of Facebook users and there is no Facebook.
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great landing page. video is very well done. I think there might be a small css bug, the "Join us on facebook" link is on a new line http://i.imgur.com/MG6Y7.png
edit: i'm on chrome (mac)
Safer for cars maybe, but more dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists and slower for busses. The last thing we need is more incentive to drive and worse facilities for sustainable transportation.
Thanks for your polite response. I said the wrong thing, small pox is what I was thinking of.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744736 (I supposed that going from NAT to clean firewall would open any incoming ports.)
In addition, the push down of the "fold" only exists as long as the user is doing the "instant" part. As soon as the user decides the search is what he wants and either hits <ENTER> or clicks on it with the mouse, the drop-down box disappears and the results that were "below" the "fold" go back to the original place.

The 25% statistic is also tenuous: if you have a bigger screen than the illustration in the blog, you will have more results shown (i.e. Google will "steal" less than 25% of the results). If you want to be more dramatic, do an instant search with a really small window and OMG!!! Google will "steal" 100% of your results.
I have contacted a few campaigns, but no real bites yet. I know the market is there, I just need to figure out how to get the word out. Working on it.
For both forums and email newsletters, Google (or Bing if you must) are your friends -- just do search "[industry] newsletter" and "[industry] forum". Yes, it takes some time to do the research, but you'll end up with a good pile of resources that will be helpful.

Subscribe to the newsletters you find and read the forums -- it's another great way of finding out where you should market, hang out, and who to talk to.
But there is a loss in quality! The dithering is noticeably worse. Notice the light outline on that red-ish thing in the top middle of the image. I bet I could've gotten the 10kb decrease by just lowering the JPG quality.
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I know there's a plethora of URL shorteners these days, and most platform providers (eg: Twitter) are introducing their own so they can harvest analytics themselves. For whatever reason though, I keep trusting Google with all of my most personal information. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I have a feeling this will become my standard URL shortener just as Google Apps has become my standard for email, invoicing customers, document management and scheduling. Not to mention Google Reader for having information on all the RSS feeds I visit and Google's search knowing what links I am visiting daily, and probably thirty other products I'm using that stores my information on their servers.
Rain doesn't depress me and actually does make me happy.

That said, I think poetry is typically thematic enough that you could still incorporate some cool weather-based "mood matching" if you used some sort of tagging system.

Quick example: you have a color spectrum below each poem, each user can associate the poem with a color after they read it, and then you link each color to a weather type. On sunny days you would show "yellow" poems, on rainy days you would show "blue" poems, on snowy days you would show "white" poems, etc.

You could even have a color spectrum on your home page as your main entry point into browsing the poetry collection. For whatever color you click on, you get the poem for which the average color tag is the closest match to your selection.

Wackiness!
Thanks. I do think I need to make a video that shows how it all works. I just haven't had the time yet.
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Why is the electric car a hoax? (@ 28 minute mark)
The article is quite light so far. I am sure it brings other improvements than just a reduced file size. I would hope that at least some features of JPEG2000 would make it in this format. Maybe also a convenient way to pack several images in a single file without resorting to css clipping tricks.
pgsql has a badly nonstandard type system (lots of SQL queries that work in Oracle & mysql don't work in pgsql.) I've still got a long list of queries that run 100x faster in mysql than pgsql
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Show HN: sexy ubuntu notifications for alpine mail
Please ignore the current need to manually download a bunch of my own personal library code for no good reason, and the current big fat bug, and my total inability to package perl code for CPAN.

That said, if you run alpine on ubuntu, enjoy.
Nice simple public stats: http://goo.gl/info/Jvhu#two_hours

Not a huge fan of the flash chart though.

http://goo.gl/Jvhu

http://goo.gl/Jvhu.qr

EDIT: Better graph
As a past member of Met-Art and current member of Digital Desire, I would think that this has the potential to save lots of bandwidth for those types of services. And even the services that do specialize in videos usually offer photos sets of shoots, so it would still benefit them as well.

The trick will be to build enough mass to make it common enough for all the browsers to support WebP. I can see Firefox and Webkit adding it fairly quickly, so the real question is, if and when will Microsoft support it?
Interesting that all click analytics are public...
This article is a better put "Service Temporarily Unavailable" message. Way to make news when you're too busy to do real journalism :-)
The idea that the world will be cleaner place if everyone drives a EV is BS. The electricity to power such cars will still come from coal fired power plants. If you want to make the world a cleaner place, support clean technologies like wind or solar. EV is not the solution.
I've deleted my submission as it was a dupe. It was a link directly to the source code page.

http://code.google.com/p/liquid-galaxy/
#4 is not wrong. It's a rule of thumb. It's not 100% correct all the time, but it's the best estimating approach we have. If you have a better one I am all ears.

>> What about related or synonymous keywords?

This post does not go into detail on the full approach for measuring a market. That's detailed in my book and way too long to include in a blog post.

This post simply talks about the 4 most common mistakes people make when doing this kind of research. Nowhere did I indicate your entire market research depends on this single keyword. That would be stupid.

>>What about other traffic sources like banner ad media buys?

There are at least 50 other traffic sources: Twitter, blogging, podcasting, other search engines, magazine ads, TV ads, radio ads, cold calls, direct mail, Facebook pages, Facebook ads...I could go on and on.

None of them offer data that allows you to easily perform market research. Also, unless you are funded many of them are completely out of reach.

Again, Google is not the only source of traffic but it's an easy way to measure market demand.
(extra notes)

Please ignore the current need to manually download a bunch of my own personal library code for no good reason, and the current big fat bug, and my total inability to package perl code for CPAN.

That said, if you run alpine on ubuntu, enjoy.