skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could call it the "large enterprise plan".

Edit: Unless it's not just for large enterprise, of course.

Also, the mouseover text on "Business plan" is "medium plan". Is this intentional?
congrats on the first few paying customers. Feels great, doesn't it?

1) if you have enough "volume" of unique and registrations, analyze you acquisition cost. How is it relative to your margins? Try to account for externalities (your time) and see if it's sustainable. It's ok to be upsidedown on your acquisition cost early in the game if you think you can optimize the acquisition engine.

2) Be willing to talk to partners, but be weary of hollow partnerships. Its easy to fall into the trap of thinking you are making progress because you are "in talks". IMO, this is especially true of hollywood/music industry.

3) Talk to you customers. Both paying and registrants. Learn what their pain points are and their use case for your product. You will learn a crazy amount of stuff you never thought of.
I don't think the graph is supposed to be particularly useful to you, I think this graph is more useful to the actual city workers so they can focus on specific complaints at specific times.

There's no point focusing on streetlight complaints at 6pm, and there's no point focusing on noise at 7am when the garbage trucks are going around.

Deal with the right problems at the right time gets a much better response from your customers (IE the tax payers and voters).

In general you want to deal with the vast majority of complaints. The rising and falling of the line is caused by something else becoming larger.

You don't follow the line itself, but judge its thickness by placement on the X-axis.
The mysterious illness striking down old cars
Hi - Good luck with your business. As a technology marketer & first time visitor (and someone not in your target segment) to your site here are few points of suggestion:

1- Market & Biz Dev:
-You said your target market is education, this is a very broad vertical. I suggest picking a segment from this broad market, for example K-12. You could do one step better by focusing on a sub-segment within this group, for example science teachers/content creators.

2- Look & feel:
- The auto scrolling 1,2,3 steps to getting started is too fast to follow and read. Makes it difficult for users to learn about your service.
- The current page is too busy with too many calls to action (support our campaign, upload, browse, tour, singup, sign-in etc), simplify this for higher conversion.

3- Hollywood or not:
-I think meeting with new folks (Hollywood or not)is always good for business. But don't waste your money flying there - tel calls are cheaper and more effective.

Hope this helps and the very best to you.
Unfortunately, the people hiring the recruiting agencies are not the ones who have to do extra work because of their incompetence. It's a matter of differing incentives between the upper management and personnel.
Excellent breakdown.

This is an important point about Clojure - the culture seems to be leaning towards multiple small libraries, rather than whole frameworks or packages.

Which is actually kind of neat, since a properly written Clojure library is much more composeable than libraries in most other languages.
For at least some things, they're using Oracle Unbreakable Linux, not Mac OS X.

(Oracle Enterprise/Unbreakable Linux is basically just rebranded Red Hat Enterprise.)

I'd be surprised if they were using Xserves at any scale in their datacentres - it's not really what the Xserve was suitable for. By Netcraft, the Apple domains that aren't on Akamai are mostly 'unknown' rather than 'macosx': http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?host=apple.com
I do taijiquan too. It can be brutal if you train it like the yang family did. Low stances, excruciating chin na, jing punches to gut.

Its sad that it sort of evolved into this slow dance. Read up a bit about how Yang Luchan and his sons used to train. They didn't get the nick name "Yang the invincible" for doing ballet.
But is it the browser's job to internally render the files, or pass them on to the appropriate player?

As smart as the Google guys are, PDF is a mess of a format. Why should we think that Google are better than anyone else at implementing one safely?
On an unrelated note, your blog renders broken on the iPad; scrolling down the page does not work.
"When someone asks if you're a god, you say YES"
- RAID 1 mirrored and/or RAID 0 striped

- DVR

- To do mega-project: car install as all-purpose media server/center (though I have read that there are kinks in this sort of setup, especially as concerns audio)

- Home security setup / server for video feed

I should disclose that I own more of these little buggers than is probably warranted or advisable.
Also, remember the old recruiter line: "The more money you make, the more money I make, so I'm going to do my best to get you the best salary possible!"

While it's true: the more you make the more they make (usually, its about 30% of your first years salary, which is huge), what is also true is that they're more determined to get you hired at any amount than the amount you want.

This is why you'll see recruiters offer jobs for $90k+, but then when you get to negotiations, suddenly you're being presented ate $60-$70k.

If you take the job at $90k, the recruiter would get $27,000. If you take the job at $70k, the recruiter would get $21,000. If you don't take the job, the recruiter would get $0.

While an extra $6k is nice, $21k is a lot better than $0. So be sure to watch out for this common misconception. When dealing with recruiters, get them to introduce you to the company, and then do everything on your own. Don't let them negotiate for you, don't let them tell you not to tell the company your salary requirements. It's your job and career, you do all the talking and negotiating.
Talking with Steve Blank About VC, Lean Startups, etc.
If you are time and materials, they pay (AKA you get paid by the hour worked). If you are fixed bid (AKA 100k for this project), you eat it. It is simple as that. It is all about risk, on time and materials, you are basically agreeing to the client taking the risk of cost overruns which usually results in a lower per hour cost. On fixed bid you are agreeing that you are going to take on that risk for the client. It usually comes at a price to the company (I triple my rate). If you are time and materials, ethically it is the clients responsibility to shoulder the risk and pay you for every hour worked.
http://www.primesense.com/?p=487

Looks like the company behind the technology in Kinect sells a reference device and SDK.
For a minute I thought Microsoft was offering the prize and thought about how refreshing this is...Then I read the story.
"Any currency, any payment method"--I think you're overpromising here. Someone is sure to want to pay in something unreasonable, and then your customers will complain that you misled them.
An evening with Steve Blank in NYC
Ask HN: 2D Spread-spectrum signal in an advert?
I can remember a company launching an advertising scheme in the late 90's, which involved overlaying a spread spectrum signal on a standard advert, to be printed in magazines. The idea was that readers would point their webcams at the page, for their browser to be directed to a relevant site in a similar fashion to how QR codes are used today. It was evidently way ahead of its time, and it sank apparently without a trace in the dot-com bloodbath.

To be clear, this was not a separate, black-and-white barcode on its own in a corner, it was a pseudorandom overlay across the entire page which, as I recall, was only slightly visible, and didn't overly affect the image quality.

I'm interested in how this technology was implemented (specifically what trade-offs they made with respect to transformations and distortions), but my usual sources have failed me. Can anyone recall what the company or the technology were called? It wouldn't surprise me if they'd tried for a patent, but whether it would have been granted or not is another matter.
Fed bond move spurs backlash from Asia to Europe
Are you redirecting based on user-agent string? The iPad reports Mobile Safari in its user-agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B367 Safari/531.21.10

You might want to white-list user-agents containing 'iPad' from the redirect.
I've been reading the introduction to this and I'm hooked enough to give Erlang a go!

It's nicely written and light enough as well, nothing too heavy.
the one thing i hate about Boston though is the food scene (apparently getting better) is not as good as you'd think or expect for such a city .. a lot of places are mediocre if you've eaten at good places in NY and SF and Chicago etc. That and lack of good, cheap options for lunch is a downer. That being said, I moved up from NYC 2 years ago and it's been a good stay so far.

By the way, the public transport can be pretty unreliable.
These are all good suggestions, but they are all in addition to, not at the expense of building a great product, which is a necessary, but not sufficient condition.

For example, last night I had a choice between a networking event and some critical work on my software. The work won, as it should.

I look forward to the time when I won't have to make so many tough decisions about how to spend my time. Until that time comes, work on the product comes first.
Eliminating Political Parties
War is their business, they tend to be pretty good at it.

We were talking about incentive programmes here just the other day...
Thanks Noah! Your email is still in my "Stared", sorry I am so busy in these days with this and other projects, but i will reply to you in a few days
My worst experience on Chrome or any browser isn't Flash or a suite of extensions I am using. Most of the pain comes from Acrobat integration that locks up a core at the worst time with all Chrome tabs seizing to function and a Chrome tab process to crash soon after. Any alternative to Acrobat is welcome, especially one by Google that can integrate seamlessly, and will allow me to finally left-click on a link to a PDF instead of downloading and opening the document separately.
Is Java Swing Dead?
History: So that was how the DotCom boom was like (":CueCat", September 2000)
Hacker News has the same topic (Apple discontinuing XServe) 3 times in top 20
Socialsensei.com - the opposite of Awesomenessreminder?
Yesterday I was thinking about prefixes startups use to find unique domain names. Along the lines of basecamphq.com, verifyapp.com etc. Common appendices seem to be: hq, app, web, guru, ninja, panda etc. I was trying combinations of new ones when I came across this rare little gem: www.socialsensei.com.

Don't take it personally. :)
Workaround: use any other PDF reader at all.
You should probably pay somebody to proofread your site, or you're going to lose customers. Your tech could be rock-solid, but a potential customer can't see that, so they look at what they can see. If they see bad English or bad design, they'll assume that the rest of the business is of similar quality.
You don't need a degree to use Haskell. Just because it's a research language doesn't mean it requires a lot of research to understand or use.
Please define "exist" as you've used it in your opening sentence.
> Java is open source too.

I don't think that's correct. AFAIK there's no certified OSS Java. And if it isn't certified, it can't be called Java.

It would be correct to say there's Open Source 'Java compatible' environments.
Ask HN: Why is mobile broadband still getting faster?
Let me explain the question. So for regular internet on the ground, there's a pretty simple reason why we started with dial-up and eventually moved to the broadband we have now- different types of cables carry different throughput, and we needed to put that infrastructure in place.

But mobile broadband is a different story- there are no cables, it's just radio waves and air of which there is a plethora. So what's the difference between 4G and 3G and 2G (why is it faster), and why didn't we have 4G from the very start- what innovation had to be made first?

Similarly, what obstacles must be overcome in the future to push the technology to go even faster?
Since its Friday, I'll point out that Monopoly is a primitive RPG. Monopoly has hit points ($), you quest around the board getting items like more hit points, get out of jail free cards, winning beauty pageants, and buying properties which behave like attacking creatures killing your opponent. These attacking creatures can level up.
The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck. Long past due.

Edit: I'm also reading this book called "Hold Nothing Back" by Mike Jones, it was gift from a good friend of mine.

btw kudos on an awesome question
Thanks, I know how to do it technically. I am just not sure how other video sites do it with iPad. Custom mobile version or redirect to general site?
Of possible interest to people wondering about security of PDFs is that the current Honeynet Project Forensic Challenge requires analysis of a malicious PDF.

Not a direct link with Google, although it looks like the project itself is fairly active with Google Summer of Code.

Edit: link for interested parties

http://project.honeynet.org/node/583
Altering the Economics of Cybersecurity
The main reason we have so many attacks is all the economic incentives currently favor the attackers---attacks are easy, cheap, you can steal billions and your chances of getting caught are slim. If we can increase the cost to the attackers and simultaneously increase the profitability of good cyber defense we believe we can create the sustainable system of cyber security which will make out nation and our economy the envy of the world in the 21st century, just as we were in the 20th century...
Holy Crap why oh why couldn't someone have posted this two weeks ago?! I just upgraded an internal application from Clojure 1.1.0 to Clojure 1.2.0 and had to upgrade my entire web-stack as a result! I was more than a little annoyed to find out that not only had Compojure outsourced nearly all of it's earlier functionality to other libraries, but that I could no longer just download the jars. I'm sure Leiningen solves all of your dependency needs when you are on Linux or a Mac, but I cannot get it to work on Windows and Clojure package maintainers seem to have forgotten that there are people who might want (or need) to install libraries manually without things like Leiningen or Maven. </rant>

I understand that Clojure is still young and that it's ecosystem is still evolving at a fast pace, and I understand why the changes being made are largely improvements, but for my particular circumstances it's a large headache.

EDIT: Here's a hint for people want to get a Clojure environment going but can't use one of the package managers for some reason or other: You can visit clojars.org and download all of the jars that you need. This was, you don't need a build system on you development machine. You still have to figure out what the dependencies are manually, but you aren't stuck if you can't get Leiningen or Maven working.
Can you repeat the acquisition process for 10 more customers?
Getting the initial set of customers is extremely tough. Good luck.
Thanks, great advice. Gonna do this anyways. Just didnt have time yet.
In those games, the plot is either pre-written, or based on fixed branching trees, like the choose-your-own-adventure books. In Storytron, the plot is dynamic, based on the user' actions in a dramatic environment.
I would recommend you to focus on the busines side for a while. Your minimum viable product seems to work, you've already a pricing strategy and a few customers. To validate your pricing and offer you need to get a few more customers. 5-10 at minimum.

Do everything you can to get your first 10 paying customers, you'll learn a lot, and after that focus on your product roadmap. You don't know what your customers need, or want, until you have a bunch of 'em.

So, call people, sell, market your site, try to get some PR and do everything you can come up with to get these 10 customers. When you've done that, you will start to get real feedback from your customers not other entrepreneurs and will a better clue on how the product roadmap should look like. And how your product will fit into the market.

Then, it's time to get 100 customers. Do everything you can to get them.

Then, it's time to get 1000 customers. If you have 1000 customers, you know you have a scalable business. Time to celebrate!
There will probably be some compatibility layer. And it's not like the transition is going to happen this year: you'll have plenty of time to upgrade to another old-and-cheap machine.
Having spent a 3mth contract working on the IT systems for a decent sized IT recruiting company I can tell you that recruiters get rewarded for calling managers and nothing for calling and talking to candidates.
And I find it hard to believe that that a recruiter would actually insist on seeing your references before putting a CV forward so I'd assume that it was a fishing exercise. Another clue is that if the rate is higher than market rate then why would the recruiters not be just taking a bigger cut.
I just want Flash to go away because I find it silly that such a huge portion of the web experience is provided by one company instead of a standard like the rest of it.
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1871521

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440463
if you don't code, don't try to teach yourself and code for your startup. partner with someone who is great at it. programming is an art & science and takes years to get good at.

Completely agree. I dislike reading articles that insist if you have an idea you can just pick up programming, design or development and build it yourself. That may be true in the strict sense of having something simple to explain your idea, but it pales in comparison to the work that can be created by someone who has talent and years of experience. Also, its going to be throw away work. If your idea has is worthwhile and gains traction then you're going to need to have someone rebuild everything you've done anyway. Why waste that time? Partner with someone who can execute the product from day one.
Just found: http://fantom.org/doc/docIntro/WhyFantom.html

Nice language syntax wise, seems pretty nice. Prime unique feature is the ability to run on a JVM or the .NET runtime. It also provides a base layer of objects to replace java.io/util etc.

I'm not to clear if it maintains JVM or .NET interoperability. That would be interesting if it could call both JVM and .NET code.
Isn't an X window manager just another X client too at the moment? Couldn't that system still work on Wayland?

I might be completely wrong about this though, so someone more knowledgeable please explain. :-)
It may seem bold but is well supported by Nokia (and Intel). MeeGo will use Wayland. Qt is being ported to Wayland. Nokia has firmly moved all its dev money squarely in this space. Recent moves show this is not an experiment or a side project for Nokia.
David, thanks for putting it together. That was kind of my goal for sweatteamanifesto.com was this kind of information.

Atlanta is an awesome city. I'm surprised I didn't see anything about Amendment 1 in there especially since you got Lance to comment ;)
Civilians do face lethal threats now and then. If a couple guys intent on raping your girlfriend come at you with knives, you're on a battlefield.
The [scribd] tag itself is a link to the scribd version and does not refer to the whole title being a scribd link.
I have a little experience in this domain: developed a video product/model for a large publishing company that produces a little over 500K rev/annum.

In short: Keep on pushing the product. Do not pay much attention behind any of the hoopla that comes with a product launch - but entertain all opportunities nonetheless, you never know when the contacts might be beneficial.

Where you have positioned yourself makes this a perfect solution for a small business or entrepreneur with a unique content offering. The service is cheaper than Brightcove but more optioned than YouTube. Target coming up with a Wordpress plugin to market directly to that very powerful segment and promote to them. Wordpress + your service would be a 80% solution to a challenging issue related to monetization of video.

Find some way to integrate distribution with YouTube to leverage the power of their network (perhaps set up a site for preview videos).

Target the educational video providers (5min and others), make sure you scan the ENTIRE ecosystem to see what the other competition is doing right / wrong. See what guitar lesson video producers are using, for example.

Once you have some notable customers (even give away a free/discount account to a notable customer just to get their testimonial). Post their VIDEO testimonial on your site.

Even before features, you may want to explain "How it Works" in a brief tab so that users do not have to view the whole 70 sec video to find out how this works.

The word "Alfa" in your header is spelled "Alpha" in common English.

Play the intro video on entry into the page, better yet, create an illustrated video of how things work (not technical, just illustrative) and place it on the homepage.

No offense, but I had a tiny bit of trouble understanding what you were saying in the 70 second video. You may want to replace that with a female voice reading the script.

I'm not sure I see the pricing model set up working for micropayment videos (anything less than $4).

Also, how does the authentication/sessions work? Will a user that's paid for one video automatically be able to buy a another video on the same domain (or within the Videolla domain) without another authentication?

Reach out to me if you have a viable business and want to sell.
This is awesome! I was just planning to do something like that on my own. The new design looks nice, but it's really unpractical given the huge size. This looks like an app designed to be used full screen.
Which of the remaining Apple machines take ECC memory? You really should not be running a serious server without ECC, which allows the hardware to detect and often correct transient errors caused by e.g. background radiation.
More sensible would be to not overload the ++ or +1 operator to do this but provide a different function. Then the capability is there but something unexpected doesn't happen in the presence of type errors.
Barring rms's answer being correct, the same people who do now: the people willing to do a good job for the least money. One likely economic outcome of a successful eugenics effort would be that tedious, mindless jobs would be among the best-paying rather than the worst.
Ask HN: DST file format?
I am trying to create some embroidered shirts for my startup for an upcoming conference in a few days. I need to convert my jpg logo into DST format.

I can't seem to find a straightfoward way to convert JPG to DST? Searching online, it seems that this requires expensive software? Out logo is just text - two fonts.

Can anyone provide any pointers or assistance?

Many many thanks!
While it'd be helpful if you wanted to take total control over the Kinect, it won't get you very far in hacking the consumer device. The main issue would be that their code running on the SoC is most likely primarily custom, to handle encryption and all that fun stuff. Attacking it from the Xbox side would almost definitely be the most effective means, at least insomuch as gaining access to the same data that Xbox apps get.
I don't know how to adequately compare, as I've never used a recruiter in Europe, but I can safely say that recruiters in the US are quite slimy as well. There are good ones, for sure, but as a whole the industry doesn't have a great reputation.
Skype 5 for Mac, but without the whitespace