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Search Text in Cells with Regular Expressions, Embed OLE in OOXML File
The long awaited version of Aspose.Cells for Java 7.2.2 has been released. This month’s release added a new feature to search text in the cells with Regular Expressions. We have added some other useful enhancements around conditional formatting and OLE embedded in OOXML files. The ExportObjectListener for saving HTML files has been made available in the latest version. We have also fixed a few issues regarding Pivot Tables, data validation and charts. This release includes plenty of improved features and bug fixes as listed below

•	RegEx Text Search for Cells.Find() method
•	Make Aspose.Cells compatible with older version of Woodstox jars
•	OLE embedded OOXML files in XLS are coming out as OLE packaged files instead of unpacked files
•	Support ExportObjectListener for saving HTML files
•	Copy Conditional Formatting when copying rows
•	Cells.importCustomObjects() with specified DateTime format now working
•	Wrong ChartType of Scatter chart is fixed
•	Double value lose precision when reading from CSV template file is now fixed
•	Chart Series flipped upside down is now fixed when converting it to an image
•	Re-saved XLSX file causes "Excel found unreadable content…" error is fixed
And there's always someone there to appreciate the pretentiousness.
The survey should allow users to submit it without entering their email address. I didn't enter mine, because I'm not interested in using closed-source software for my internal note-taking system (because my notes are too valuable to me to rely on potentially here-today-gone-tomorrow software).
News Corporation's Rumored Split Isn't a Surprise
If you were going to build a note taking system, it would be like a folder of text files -- that is synced everywhere I go [1].

"But what about advanced tags and formatting, and folders...". No, shut up. It would be a folder, of text files. You can search it.

"But you could easily allow file attachments and embedded images, and pdf's...". No, shut up. You have dropbox for that. It would be a folder -- with text files -- that you can search through really fast. And that's what Simplenote is.

[1]: http://www.quora.com/Dropbox/Why-is-Dropbox-more-popular-tha...
The question is to help gauge how important it is to people to have access to their ideas online. Indeed, the product will be primarily a desktop application. With the option to 'selectively sync' SOME of your notes online. Knowing how many people prefer everything online will help establish a priority for these online features early on.
You still need entities for reserved characters like & and <
I tried to build a concept prototype on iPad. Now I am giving away the idea to those who can better execute since I can't seem to get it done. Hell, it probably already exists anyway...

Essentially a audio recording app that allows you to take notes at the same time while recording. You can then playback recorded sessions and view the notes you made being played back as well.
Deflating the SOCCKET Ball
If you really want to speed it up let users enter the year or use separate drop downs for decade and year.
Looks great. What's up with the scroll bar dancing around (chrome) as you mouse over the chart?
You can init Sublime (and open/edit files) from the command line relatively easily[1] and there's a plugin that will allow you run shell commands from within Sublime Text[2].

1: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/osx_command_line.html
2: https://github.com/misfo/Shell-Turtlestein (or from Package Control)

EDIT: Ahh I see you edited, nevermind! But you can split the windows easily too!
Is your goal to run this as a business? If it is you're asking the wrong question.

"What kind of note taking software would you build?" is a question a developer/engineer asks.

When you put your business hat on you need to start asking questions such as "What kid of note taking software would you pay for?" & "How much would you pay for note taking software that does X?"

If your goal is a business & not a hobby (which I assume it is since most people don't borrow 50k for a hobby) you need start asking questions related to generating revenue. You can build the best note taking software ever but if no one is willing to pay for it it will not be a profitable business.
I've even bought it, then went back to Vim. It looked so promising and I still think it's second best editor around.

EDIT: There can be only one!
I think it's much better to quit 6 weeks in than 6 months in. When I'm looking at resumes, a very short stay tells me it just didn't work out. It happens.

I think it's also ok to just leave something like that off the resume. Especially after you've had some other job.

But if you're there for a substantial amount of time (say, 3 months or more) that's harder to explain, and I think you need to keep it on your resume for a lot longer.
How to Create a Vector Scene in Photoshop
This is a step-by-step walkthrough of my artwork "Artificial Intelligence". This artwork took months tocreate and I almost went nutts creating it as it contains severe amount of detail. Please keep in mind that all my artwork is created the same way as this one. The following imagesare self-explanatory, I used Photoshop CS3, a mouse and my brain in order to create this artwork aswell as all my other art pieces. Please keep in mind this walkthrough assumes the reader has basicphotoshop skills, It does not however aim at teaching but rather expose how I create my art.
Web design customer behavior ported to other businesses
This is one of my concerns. Java clearly suffers from having generics bolted on much later and the underlying type system would be different if generics were contemplated from the start. Will Go have similar problems when they eventually add generics?
If you want to play with this new version but also have code running on older versions that hasn't been completely ported yet, I recommend using nave to manage your node versions. After you `npm install -g nave` you can just `nave install 0.8.0` to get node 0.8 then type `nave use 0.8.0` to start using it!

https://github.com/isaacs/nave
How to Rotate Randomly Located Objects at a Certain Angle in Adobe Illustrator 
Surely almost every vector artist faced the situation when he needs to rotate a randomly located object at a certain angle. A famous designer, the creator of the Free Mesh Tormentor plug-in Iaroslav Tabachkovsky will help us to solve this problem. He developed the script RotateAsTop for Adobe Illustrator which possesses all selected objects at the same angle.
I'm one of them. The crummy job I left? The "universe" wasn't "taking care of me" there either. The deficits were vaguer and harder to see than the financial deficits, but they were just as real, maybe more important, and certainly more confusing.

Leaving was recognition that the universe was indifferent to the whole matter and I had best figure out how to take myself. I'm a lot closer to that then I ever would have been there. And I've wasted a lot less time on anxiety and resentment over things I couldn't control or understand.
New Site Republishes Facebook Updates About Drugs, Phone Numbers and Bosses
I don't see how this is survivorship bias.

Other people quit jobs they hated, got worse jobs. Quit those, perhaps worse or perhaps better. But eventually they found a job they liked. And they stayed there.

Good for him. It's a good story.
I agree with the narrative that quitting a job, starting a job/business may seem harder than we initially think (because of some irrational fears) but, survivorship bias is exactly right. The universe only takes care of you if the right parameters are in place – and chances are, those parameters took a bit of work.

I cringed at the "universe took care of me" bit because I find that those who are most vulnerable to hardship or uncertainty tend to have this take on life. The author made an educated decision. The universe didn't even know the decision was being made.
My go-to editor all grown up. Feel a tear coming.
Not sure how well this will work when someone wraps their old hard drive based iPod (or brand new iPod classic) and wipes some bits on the drive...
What about the quality of the headphones?

For me that's the main problem of Apple headphones: they are utter crap in terms of sound quality.

Another problem I could see: you add weight to the chord which will make the headphones more likely to fall from the ear, that's a big deal if you do sports with it.
If you find the CSS live preview stuff cool, check out http://cssrefresh.frebsite.nl/
It's awesome. Even with complicated, nested templates and CSS stuff.
If you want to build a RESTful website, it's really hard to get around it. Consider logging out. You want to send a DELETE to /Session. So you can just do this:

<form action="/Session" method="post">
<input name="X-HTTP-Method-Override" type="hidden" value="DELETE" />
<input type="submit" value="Log off" />
</form>
As a die-hard Vim'er I like this more every time I look at it.

What I'm still missing in vintage-mode is search/replace (mostly ':s' and ':%s') and block visual mode (^V in vim). The latter habit I could probably break, but the search/replace stuff gets me all the time.

Is there perhaps a plugin/workaround already to get Vim-style search/replace or do I have to hold out for another version?
The Perils Of Automation In Vulnerability Assessment
I was on PPI conference in Prague few months ago and I have to agree

yes, there are internal issues, some of them are purely bureaucratic, some of them are caused by inbalance of (relatively) strong pirate parties in continental Europe and weak rest, some of them are ideological.

But in the end, we are all on the same boat and that's what counts.
I don't know many people who wake up at 5am. Is that necessary to get the job done or just your preferred wake up time?
Backbone.js Application Walkthrough Part 1: HTML and Models - Video Tutorial
This just isn't a big enough issue for me to move away from high quality sound.

ps: it's pretty sweet how this problem belongs to Apple. If headphones are Apple's biggest product problem, it's because their headphones suck, not because the cords get tangled.
http://evernote.com/evernote/
Sublime Text is really awesome! It's remarkable work, especially since there is just one developer working on it: ST2 works very well on all 3 platforms, it's very fast and has a lot of cool features. :)

I just hope that it keeps getting new features, the thing I'm really really missing is a terminal that runs in a ST2 tab.
I'm an avid user of Sublime Text 2, and I was really hoping that they would clean up their API before they made a stable release: http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/112486-api-better-use-... http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/112485-api-better-use-...

With the need to maintain backwards compatibility with a stable version 2.0, that's not going to happen now. :(
Not the OP, but here's an idea:

A math-centric piece of software that allows you to write in equations via a stylus, then converts these to working equations. So, you write down the quadratic equation and can define in the software what a and b are, then solve for x.

There has to be something similar to this already.
The weight issue is a good point. It's also an issue if you have them hanging from your ears for hours. I would think it'll begin to hurt sooner.
Worst post on HN ever.
You're right, but why dive head first into something that is doomed for failure right from the get go? Sounds so very wrong to me.
> Anything described as ultra-rightwing are fascist in sheep's clothing.

I wouldn't agree. For example ultra-right libertarian party doesn't seem like fascist to me. They are all about personal freedom, and nazism/fascism is all about uniting society with one goal againist common enemy.
Facebook tries to do whatever maximizes engagement. Technical correctness only matters when it serves that primary goal.
Maybe take a look at VintageEx: https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx I'm not sure if search/replace is included but if not you could open an issue and maybe someone adds it. :)
I use http://www.ihackernews.com on my phone. it works great.
"Now, with years worth of feature planning and a solid product design already..."

Do you realize how fast this market changes? Anything you conceived years ago is most likely irrelevant, or at the very least, far less impressive than you may have thought at the time.

It really sounds like you're overly attached to a single idea which you've spent years internally conceptualizing and now refuse to share (you've spent years on design but don't have so much as a mock-up to show?).

I would focus more on getting a very basic demo together and coming back and doing a show HN thread, and then asking for comments.
Tuts+ Premium Account Security Compromised
I disagree strongly. The boss was taking advantage of an information asymmetry and/or a naive negotiator.

When I set pay, I'm strongly committed to rewarding people based on the work they do and how well they do it, not how resistant they are to me screwing around with them in negotiations.

It was reasonable to ask for the raise; it could be that the boss (or some other part of Amazon) had made a mistake. By asking, the guy discovered that the boss had no interest in being fair to his employees. That's certainly something worth quitting over.
Cleartext!
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Microsoft is trying to do something about that. They launched a program a little while back (the Microsoft signature program) but I don't think it's getting much support from the OEMs because they realize more revenue with the crapware :(
Doesn't seem to support Chrome in Linux (21.0.1180.4 dev). I get redirected to the "download Chrome" page when I try to view 3D.
The 'OMG Scary Nazis, lets put everything under the control of a single unified state' idea doesn't appear to make any sense.

Surely if you're worried about Nazis taking over, you should be encouraging the existence of small independent nations, so that when they take over in one place, the damage is limited in scope.

Creating a federal European state is like giving the Nazis all the apparatus they need when they become strong enough.

Remember that in real life both Hitler and Mussolini came to power in countries that had been formed some 60 - 70 years ago from unifying smaller states into one.
Very nice, I'll be definitely looking into it closer.

[1] seems to have a bug. When you disable a particular line by clicking it on the graph legend, if you attempt to disable another line you end up re-enabling the first one.

http://novus.github.com/nvd3/ghpages/line.html
>> We've already got browser-conditional comments in HTML

You mean the `conditional statements` introduced and only used by IE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_comment
The 2012 GTR. Killer Wasabi?
If somebody makes a statement of fact saying a certain person sent him an email and gives exact strings from that email, merely saying "That was not in the text of my email" will hardly be a legal problem.

I would have agreed with you if the statement was a subjective one such as "The CEO of the company was being racist or was biased because of my gender". Refuting such a thing is hard and you may inadvertently say something that hurts you later but this is not such a case.

Also, she hasn't quite been silent. She clarified the amount due on this thread (unless you want me to believe that was a part of some grand conspiracy). A similar clarification on the content of the emails could have been made if that guy made those lines up.
A good indication that you probably shouldn't be using their tutorials.
Sure. And even if you could, you couldn't really know whether they like cheap hotels based on it. The question is whether you can get a signal that's statistically well correlated enough to be useful.
Does Github's support for Jekyll mean that Github automatically "publishes" a blog post? I'm using something similar(Pelican), and I know I can't publish a post using Prose only, is that different for Jekyll sites?
Research on Spanking Might Need a Time Out
That's right. Totally forgot about those.
Scientist finds evidence of machine learning
Tutsplus hacked
This is great news. Truly staggering amount of effort for a small gap in build numbers (if you were using the last beta). Love the release and the editor. Worth every penny.

The only additional package I use is the Dark Soda Theme, is there any others that people would recommend for Rails development? The default editor seems to provide a lot. I tried SublimeCodeIntel but it kept crashing.
"Spanking has been around forever and has never had life threatening or civilization threatening implications."

Thanks for making the point better than I did. The movement against spanking as being bad in such an absolute way is fairly recent. And, afaik, science has not backed this up.

I'm going to open a new thread with this old post on a spanking research by Carl "the numbers guy" Bialik in the WSJ a few years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4161784
For anyone wondering, ST2 has split panes. Look in menu View -> Layout.
This is ridiculous. In the email I received from Envato it says the following:

"-- What To Do

(1) Update passwords on ANY service you use that uses the same password as you had on Tuts+ Premium.

(2) In particular you should consider your own email account, PayPal, Moneybookers, and other payment services. These are the most sensitive targets, and if you had the same password, you should consider this an urgent priority. If you can’t remember what your Tuts+ Premium password was, we encourage you to change passwords on all services you use.

(3) If you use the same password on any other Envato service such as the Envato Marketplaces, you should change your password there too."

You have to be kidding me? Do I really need to start using unique passwords on every site that I use? This just blows me away that one site messes up and then I have to spend hours of my time figuring out which passwords to change, update, etc. This just frustrates me so much. I'm also very surprised they put this in the blog post:

"As a company that teaches and preaches best practices, it’s deeply disappointing to me to not only have been the victim of a security attack, but to be running software that doesn’t follow those same best practices. This is a situation we will be working to address."

...Based on what has happened to LinkedIn and others, aren't they easily setting themselves up for a lawsuit by blatantly saying they did not follow best practices?

Ugh. I'm just very sick of this crap happening. /rant
I had the same until I forced Chrome to allow webGL.
OK, that was disconcerting to click.
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Am I the only one that feels Ryan's blog is mostly hacker news link bait, every article is pretty fluffy stuff that gets a lot of upvotes. I'm not sure how much actual value you get from knowing his schedule
>@ryancarson can you blog about how you spend your day running your biz? What biz activities do you focus on now that the product is up?

The person on Twitter clearly asks about the business. The author then proceeds to write 18 points about his day, only five of which are actually about the business, including some gems like, "Crank through todos".

Does this guy think he's a celebrity or something? Why am I interested in his personal life whatsoever? He's the "CEO" of a small company most people have never heard of.

Someone in the comments asks him why he calls his phone an iPhone, rather than just a phone, to which he replies that he wants us to know the all the details and specifics. Oh, so you go into detail about how eating right away boosts your metabolism, but 3 hours of the day is "meetings"? Thanks for being specific.
Very detailed: except for what sort of things the "todos" actually are - and that's a significant portion of the time.
CERN to release Higgs search status, July 4th
I'll never visit an envato site again, let alone pay for any of their services. I can understand everyone gets hacked, but cleartext! wtf.
Very useful -- I will take this analysis into account when it's time to upgrade my current personal machine or configure the next one! Thank you for posting this here.

The only thing I would have wanted to see but didn't in this analysis is how failure rates vary for different types of disk subsystem -- specifically, traditional hard drives versus the newer solid-state devices. I suspect, but don't know for sure, that the latter have much, much lower real-world failure rates in the first 30 days of total accumulated CPU time (TACT).

The authors openly suggest that the sharp difference in failure rates between desktop and laptop machines may be due in part to their disk subsystems: "Laptops are between 25% and 60% less likely than desktop machines to crash from a hardware fault over the first 30 days of observed TACT. We hypothesize that the durability features built into laptops (such as motion-robust hard drives) make these machines more robust to failures in general." Alas, the authors don't delve any further into it.

I'd like to see hard data comparing the real-world failure rates of both desktops and laptops using traditional versus solid-state disk subsystems.
When you examine the history of 'strong' governments, you will see that a 'weak' government is the lesser evil. So, while this criticism of proportional representation is factually true, it is not a bad thing.

What if small parties' votes are inconvenient to every budding dictator? Why should a large party have even more representation and power than its fair share of votes? Isn't that deeply undemocratic, in principle?
12 Things I Learned By Being A Forex Trader
Agreements = Expectations
Neither party is ever going to go for this. You would have an easier time getting file-sharing recognized as a religion.
By protecting their "private" data, that is, hiding their email address. For public profiles that is.
He said he'll ignore what citizens of EU, and their elected representatives want, because according to law he technically can.

I have no problem with abusing the law to get rid of him ASAP.
Right, but my point was that no one had bought those tickets--because there were so few seats it was apparent it was the same flight with the same seats available.

The hotel also increased by a significant amount.
As a Textmate'r, I have to say using ST for the last few months has been a pleasure.

There is one thing that ST doesn't do as well though: pasting blocks of code while retaining the formatting/indentation. i.e. if I copy a loop and try and paste it into another function/whatever and the cursor isn't on the same column, the indentation gets messed up.

It's a minor quibble and far from a deal-breaker, but it is a bit of a shock when it happens.
>You have to be kidding me? Do I really need to start using unique passwords on every site that I use?

Errr, ...yes!
Mac Users May See Pricier Options on Orbitz
Do you have any links about what is going on in Hungary? I am in europe and haven't heard much about it.
Ask HN: What is the best way to promote your startup?
I think that customers/users are the key for making a successful startup. But firstly, you have to provide a way to let them reach you and figure about it.

What are the solutions, tricks, and methods you are using to generate a high traffic to your startup?