skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try this:

mplayer mms://a323.v235432.c23543.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/323/23543/v0001/citrixvar.download.akamai.com/23543/www/630/099/7858717095955630099/2-7858717095955630099-12da5740387.wmv

Or, if you prefer, try this shorter URL:

mplayer http://tinyurl.com/46wsq3d

Here's the process I used to get that mms URL:

Using Opera, follow the link from the Franz site to the GotoMeeting site. Then, set Opera to "Mask as Internet Explorer" in the "Edit Site Preferences" dialog that you can access by right-clicking on the background of the site you want to edit preferences for. After that, you may need to reload the GotoMeeting site (or maybe even clear your cookies and reload).

The above procedure should hopefully keep GotoMeeting from noticing that you're not using Internet Explorer. The same procedure can be used on other sites that complain about your using an "incompatible" browser.

Anyway, next you should be able to fill out the registration form and then you should see a button called "View Recorded Webinar". When you click that button in Opera, you should be prompted to save a certain long-named ".asx" file. Save it as any name you like. Let's say you saved it as "foo.asx".

Then you should be able to play that file directly in mplayer by typing:

mplayer -playlist foo.asx

Or, if you look inside that file (using cat or less) you should see the mms URL that I mentioned above.

That's it!

If any content providers happen to be reading this, please make your videos directly and simply downloadable as .mp4 or .avi or .wmv or .ogv videos, instead of making users jump through ridiculous hoops like this when they can't or don't want to use your streaming technology.
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it actually increases the number of chars.

inner $=[] will be overwritten by outer $=[$], which is the same as $=[[]]

or am i missing something?
I'm not sure writing is a great analogy to the discovery, unless you're describing a writing process where you can immediately destroy the medium used to fixate the information and have it spontaneously reassemble itself somehow in N years time.
Romans fashions,romans clothing,catalog,fashion, clothes,romans clothing,
romans fashions,romans clothing,catalog,fashion, clothes,romans clothing,ladies plus size.Fashions of Romans did not change much over the time & centuries, but they did changed regionally.for example, children wear small types of adult clothing.Toga was the basic garments for the male citizens, originally worn alone but later donned draped over a tunic. It was an highly expensive, fine piece of fabric of good white wool. It required periodic cleaning. It was approximately 16 feet broad and 8 feet deep. It was worn in a complicated manner over a body
Are people happy with their choice of reader? I am sort of disappointed that google reader is so basic and would like a reader with more advanced features like organize post from oldest to newest (not just for the past 30 days) and be able to customize the text.
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I've found that Tesseract's accuracy was much improved when I converted my grayscale images to bitmaps with GIMP's Threshold tool.

(Those pictures were not-very-hight quality snaps of a few pages of a book taken with a 3.2 Mpix digital camera.)
A heck of a lot of people on HN voted up Engadget's article. Are they all poorly informed consumers?
The perfect gag gift for a new dev team member.
"this is an example of our coding style"
I'm not the original poster, but I've found that most 300 page business books contain 10-20 pages of useful info and 280-290 pages of fluff and filler. I generally skim through the average business book in an hour or 2, including the time to make notes of all the potentially useful advice I find. It's rare to find a business book worth carefully reading cover to cover.
I don't prefer it all. I find the current digg UI to be most appealing.
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In theory it shouldn't matter whether my security expertise is in-house or I pay some external party to provide it, right?

You are not paying an external party to come by and secure all your servers/applications — you are paying for a service which require you to share a lot of your data with a third party.

The usual argument for economies of scale also applies

But the bigger the third party you outsource to is, the more people will try to hack it.
Gmail has nice single-key shortcuts. "A" is for "archive".
"""But you pay someone to indoctrinate you with exactly the same methods and formulae that all of your competitors are using. Then you expect to come to not just a different conclusion, but a market-beating conclusion? That just sounds dumb."""

Counter argument: Creativity entails not only novelty (that outside the box stuff) but also utility, and in order to be useful, it has to go above-and-beyond what is already known (that inside the box stuff). It's about embracing what's been done before, because it's practice that gives us the capacity to build on the old ideas to make the new.

If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid.
We still argue about color names today--- no longer about the basic 7 or 8, but over what to call the ones we can easily display on the screen. Even if we limit it to say 256, it is hard to find universal agreement on what to call them. If we expand that to what is possible to display on a high end device we are essentially shit out luck with the taxonomy. And it is not just the web. I can visualize the difference between Hooker's Green and Viridian Green and so can most art directors I might run into. Can the average user? No--- unless they've taken a class or to in water color or oils at the local art college.
One of my favourite all time talks was this: http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/71/

Always a fan of learning new AI techniques with Python.
Khan academy, while great, doesn't really go beyond advanced high school-simple first year university level. There is nothing there which is even close to Masters level.
Ask HN: Hacker to Hobbyist to Entrepreneur? 
Background: For a long time, I've been hacking around with code and design; starting a bunch of tiny projects but never finishing them. Recently, having discovered the beauty of persistence, I've started taking one project to completion and I'm getting there slowly but surely.

From my perspective, I see two classes of problems to solve: 'technical' (know-how to write, debug, deploy and secure a webapp) and 'business' (learn how to understand customer needs, acquire them and solve their problems)

Question: Is there an established or 'well worn' path for going from a Hacker to an Entrepreneur? I have sort of assumed that its 'hack with code' -> 'finish and ship a couple of simple web apps for free' -> 'understand a market, acquire customers and then build a real product'.
Would any HN'ers be willing to share their stories?
More like "build a real product, acquire customers, and then understand a market"
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Your question tells me you have as good an understanding of the process as you need. Also, I think a good entrepreneur has a sense of what they can't do, ie. marketing, etc. That understanding comes with some failures as far as I can tell.
Now I just need something to open up the mail, scan it, and forward it to me as an attachment.

Talk about etherealization[1].

[1] http://paulgraham.com/tablets.html
Wadda ya mean thousands of years ago? I thought as recently as the 1930's everything was black and white and colour was discovered sometime during WWII.

Interesting article, I had never thought about early societies having limited colour descriptors. I found the last part to be intriguing as the colour progression somewhat follows the importance of environmental elements. White/Black... day/night. Red: sun/fire. Green/Yellow: foliage/plants/food Blue: sky Brown: earth. As stated in the article the definitions increase with the ability to describe their environment and those items would be top of the list.
Damn Vulnerable Web App - CSRF with OWASP CSRFTester.
> Ed’s big claim is that if copyrighted code is unit tests and is not compiled as part of the program then it does not matter. That’s just plain wrong.

No, it's not plain wrong, a unit test is not an invention, if you create a unit test that doesn't stop me from using the same test. It can't be used as a basis of billion dollar lawsuits, it's simply not worth that much.

The author seems to see everything in black and white, which I feel is not the case.
"When I was young, people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations grew, I became known as a speculator. Now, they call me a banker. I have been doing the same thing all along." -Sir Ernest Cassel
I'm reminded about how Mark Twain put an embargo on parts of his autobiography, not to be released for 100 years after his death.
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it _depends_ on the course material, the teacher and past experiences
I got B and C on physics, so nothing for that.
I don't learn every little fact, I usually learn what I think is most likely to be on the exam and focus on it.
I go through the process of figuring out the key material by paying attention to teacher when it is announced what will be on the exam. During the class, the teacher would spend more time on certain concepts than others because they are likely to be the key concepts.

I tend to go over the course's lecture notes and write a condensed version for myself. I tend to write in my own words because then I can better understand it. When you have to summarize the content well, you have to be able to understand it. If you try to half-ass it, you will pay for it later, so I am assuming that you are willing to spend the time to study and do it right. Once you understand the concept, then it comes down to memorization. If you have the time, doing some application would help. That is why there are physics lab. For CS, we have our computers to write out the needleman-wunsch algorithm and try it out, if hand-simulation is not enough to learn the concept.
For math, you will need to solve the equations, right the proof, draw the graph and trace out the algorithm.
For english, you would go through examples in the book.

The best situation is when the teacher provides a sample exam, which has same problems as the final exam, but the variables are different. Then you would just try to re-do sample exam.

I also like to go over the homeworks and make sure I understnad why I was made to do them and what I learned from them.
Kinect didn't win best device? How disappointing, since it was the only actually novel thing on there.
There isn't a handbook: There are thousands. All of them written by people who made it, academics who understand it or people who were on the sidelines when it happened.

The tricky part is: You just have to do it. The handbooks won't help you with that, unfortunately.

Ship it and see what happens.
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That's exactly what I do, only I've practiced enough to cut the time per book to 10-20 minutes, depending on complexity. Reading for information extraction vs. word-for-word is much more efficient, and if you practice, your comprehension and retention is just as high.

It's not uncommon for me to go to the library or B&N and read a stack of 20-30 books in a few hours. I've been reading business books for six years, and easily read 200-400 books a year.

Here's a post I wrote on effective non-fiction reading techniques, for more info on the approach: http://personalmba.com/10-days-to-faster-reading/
Is this really a surprise? Everyone is using Facebook, which means many eyes that can see advertisements. The open source equivalents pretty much have nobody using them except hobbyists.
True. However keep in mind who uses debian stable... people who won't jump on squeeze the moment it gets stable. It will still take months before the situation really changes. But yeah - I agree that 2.6 is pretty much safe for new stuff.
This is definitely a good place to start reading: http://www.kalzumeus.com/start-here-if-youre-new/
CEO Transitions
Microsoft announces new California store, obviously next to Apple
Nothing beats Reddit's header.

Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
Free Wordpress themes coming with a price
They currently are compatible back to 2.4. They want to drop one Python release per Django release (1.3 will support 2.5 and up, 1.4 will support 2.6 and up). 2.6 is the cutoff when syntax will work everywhere.
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I found a good partner that complimented my skills so I could focus on the business part while my genius hacker partner could focus on the technical problems. Don't go it alone, find a great partner, someone will challenge you, encourage you, and inspire you. Together, you both get excited and the business will be born.
Basically, studies (and the progress of certain sciences) flow thusly:

1) A scientist has a outlandish idea, but is able to convince someone to fund him, albeit limitedly.

2) Scientist from the previous step publishes results of his study. If results seem worth following up on, continue to step 3. Otherwise, go back to step 1.

3) Another scientist looks at the previous scientist's results and attempts to get funding for an even more ambitious study, building upon previous scientist's work. This scientist may be trying to refute or support the previous scientist's findings.

4) This new scientist publishes. If his results support the results of the previous scientist, go back to step 3. If the results refute the results of the previous scientist, go back to step 1.

This process applies to any studies that are sufficiently "costly", thus mitigating risk. This is relevant, of course, because similar studies often elicit comments about why the study is insufficient. And, for a certain class of them, they always will be.
Hmm, ok. I just assumed that the Google Apps for Domains that I use for my personal domain could be used by for-profits too.
The 'fact' that ancient Greeks may not have included blues in their work does not surprise me a whole lot. As I understand it, blue has always been one of the most difficult and expensive dyes to make out of natural substances.
Lasers are really hard to aim at long range. Simple trigonometry means you basically need to set up a computer and a telescope to get anywhere near your target.

If you want to cause damage there are plenty of ways of doing it. An iron bar sitting on a thin layer of electric insulation then sitting on the third rail of a subway will produce a shit ton of casualties once a subway car runs over it.
Your to-do list, what sort of items they contain?
If it is about when the certain homeworks and when the finals are, then the best for you is to use a calendar system.
I use Mozilla Sunbird.
Here is image of what my calendar looked like last semester: http://peri.me/albums/aDemoUzer/1/original/Calendar-F10.png
- I color-code all of my items, so I can visually tell when homeworks due, the midterms are and so on.
- On the left, you can see what various colors mean.
- In the task panel, I usually add in items to plan out what I should be doing for this and next week. This gives me some idea as to what I should work on now and next. If I get bored of working on what I am doing right now, I start on something else I need to do.

During the final's week, I added in to-do things like what I would be studying and when in order to prepare for all of those exams: http://peri.me/albums/aDemoUzer/1/original/FIanl%20week-F10....
Actually, I tried it and ctrl+tab is on by default in Safari as well.

However, thanks for letting me know it exists in FF.
"This competition can be viewed as an AI contest. But it can also be viewed as a programming contest. And it was a question of speed: how quick your development is; how much your tools drag you down. This is where I see that Lisp is just great. It allows me to iterate extremely quickly over ideas."
Meditation does have an upside though. It's even harder to truly focus completely on just about anything else for 30 minutes.
The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (15 years ago)
Go here for info on the additional symbols like the sergeants stripes--- http://www.w3.org/html/logo/
In need of an impossible device
Wow, incredible reviews, just picked up a copy ;)
I've been coding Python in Vim for a while but hadn't heard of a lot of these. Nice find.
Or, if you are like me, include #3: Plenty of time to build side-projects and experiment with products that you hope will grow into something substantial by graduation.
It doesn't get overwritten until the rest of the expression has been evaluated, thus $ == [] for all the uses of $ within the expression.
Ask HackerNews: What information should a stealth startup put on their website?
My partner and I are just starting off and we don't have a website yet. It's been a task that we've put on the back burner so that we could focus on building a prototype (not a web app), raising seed money, and talking to potential clients. We don't want to put too much information about our product online yet as we're in a very competitive industry and we want to make sure that when we bring our product to market there is nothing else like it.

So, my question is, what info should we put up on our website? All I can think of now would be to have a page for the founder bios and a "contact us" link.

Thanks!
Can't say I have. I'm a FOSS fanatic but I don't hate anybody I know enough to suggest they use OpenOffice/LibreOffice.

Seriously, the name should be the last of that project's worries...
Oh ok, sorry, I try to fix my reputation (or karma) ASAP :)
Indeed,

If you never get inside the box, you won't even know what the box means or what "outside the box" means.
That article has been there for years. Is there any particular reason why you think its worth posting on HN now? There are thousands of really cool wikipedia articles but HN will be a mess if people just start randomly linking to them.
They are giving away the open-source version, but for technical support you have to buy a license.
You forgot the many people that write handbooks full of made up shit. So you have to keep the following two rules in mind:

Be careful of whose advice you buy.

Free advice is not always free.
You only just swallowed us, I know, but please cough us back up.
If you've decided on stealth, why would you have a website?
Why doesn't Google just count 'original' as whoever published the corpus first...
So what about cave paintings? They have color. Take a look at the paintings in the Acacus Mountains (southern Libya) at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadrart_Acacus.

and

http://www.ewpnet.com/libya/acacus/index.htm
Ask HN: Good tutorial/presentation search engine or aggregator
A while back someone posted an app they had made that aggregated tutorial/presentation/talks from various sites. Is it offline or am I just not finding it?
Been meaning to get one of these now that they're only a few hundred dollars. Guess I'll have to do it soon before they're banned...
I thought the Greeks were painting in very vivid colors?
http://io9.com/5616498/ultraviolet-light-reveals-how-ancient...
The reason is simple; a recorded video of a lecture is very different than a "college course". You typically don't have access to the instructor, class discussion, assignments, and evaluation of your work.

This kind of namespace pollution is a significant problem in online education; it's hindering adoption of online learning because students don't understand what's meant by "online class". Most people think it's something like MIT OpenCourseWare or iTunes U, which have interesting content, but aren't what any reasonable person would characterize as a "class".
Ruby for functional programming ... I realize lots of people don't swing that way. Thoughts?
Boardwalk Empire Visual Effects Breakdowns
Aren't the computation complexity of STL data structures defined by the spec?
I'm deciding between MFE/MS programs and starting independently at the moment. Here's what I've sort of cobbled together.

My understanding is that your value to a firm is directly proportional to your ability to generate alpha. Credentials would be useful for securing an entry-level position, but eventually, it is your ability to develop profitable strategies that will secure your position in this industry.

This is such a secretive business, that I doubt academia will be teaching anything other than the fundamentals/theory . As pointed out in the article, MFE employment stats are murky at best. I haven't had much luck getting confident stats. There's only a few of programs that staff actual practitioners, people who, you know, actually made/make money doing this stuff.

One of my concerns with the credential-path is future career growth. Many of the firms that hire from schools place candidates in specific roles that need to be filled. You might get stuck in an area thats not as profitable as other areas of the market. You will also not be exposed to the firm's intellectual property until they've worked you hard and for many years.

Contrast this with the option to start independently. I've spoken with quite a few people who've started out this way. Some have parlayed their experience and performance into jobs/partnerships at the big firms. Others continued to scale and build out their own fund. They all say the same thing, if you can develop profitable strategies, you will find people more than willing to invest in your strategies.

As far as networking, I think the internet is helping that immensely. Quite a few fundamental investors have received job offers or started their own hedge funds from blogging/posting on forums when it became apparent they had an edge. There's always a few headhunters and fund managers hanging around nuclearphynance, and other forums.

There is a higher risk, perhaps, of getting nowhere. But you also have the freedom, and less dogmatic structure to think independently, and the time to learn things thoroughly (vs. in a degree program).

I'd like to hear other's thoughts on this.
A parable through a former co-worker who went to SVA for design and got a few AIGA awards:

I asked him, what made SVA special, since you could get everything you needed to train online. All of his professors wrote blogs and published books on the subject. Were the people there just better?

No, he said, it was the fact that the professors there took the time to teach a course that was timely and relevant, and worked with each individual student to further their goals, while also recognizing their individual talents. They wouldn’t lead someone down the wrong path. Furthermore, in this atmosphere of work, everyone strove harder.

So, I’d say these materials are just the base building blocks you could find anywhere. Sure, they’re top shelf, but the real benefit of MIT is the campus itself. An auto-diadect would have no problem parsing any materials, but somebody with that type of intellectual tenacity probably doesn’t need a degree except for professional licensing. Everybody else still needs the professor, which this doesn’t provide. It’s like Apple open-sourcing Darwin, WebKit and LLVM, but keeping all the important UI stuff proprietary.
If you buy a premium account and/or change some settings in Vimeo, they'll allow you.
If they partnered with Facebook, it wouldn't be too difficult.
I don't think they like you chief.
May the next level will be steganography.