skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Patrick, that video is far too long and does a lot to damage your perceived value. At a number of points you wander off into "includes material on...", rather than "solve X problem using some means" language.

You repeatedly drum into people that they shouldn't be just rails programmers who know skills foo, bar and baz, but rather people who solve business problems. You forgot that lesson in the video.

I'm not at the stage with my business that this'll be useful - but will be soon enough and email will be my primary sales channel. Otherwise this does look like excellent material.

Note, my criticism comes from a place of love. It's your first attempt and feedback will help you improve. Best of luck.
Notice I didn't respond to that guy, I responded to the guy saying you'd find prior art at a park. I wasn't denying prior art existed, just NOT AT A PARK.

How dense can you be?
Apple Has a New Cook
Does the long sales copy letter (on the web) have a place when you're selling a SASS app? Say an appointment reminder system? I've been convinced it works for info products -- but haven't seen good examples for applications.

(or is the long for content done only in emails and not on the site itself)
The Ribbon interface was a massive upgrade in usability for the office division, that I'm _still_ not sure how they pulled off as well as they did - I can easily imagine 20% of that $100mm went into the Ribbon interface.

For those of us who hop between Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point - it's been a godsend. I don't know of a single users who puts more than 10 hours / week that (after a month or two of grousing over how the new was crappier than the old) - didn't consider it a major upgrade - particularly as for keyboard jockeys - the old keyboard shortcuts are still there.

The transition to the old crufty Menu Interface to the Ribbon interface, in my mind, was as big a difference for my productivity as the transition from the "Different-Menu's-per-application" of the Legacy era to the "Standard-Menu's-per-app" of the Macintosh era.
If you get going fast enough it looks like the collision detection skips over bubbles.. Pretty fun game tho
Brown is a California resident.
It's less common but hardly unprecedented.

1. Charles Stross (one of the four examples above) used to point readers to BitTorrent for his free book downloads: http://web.archive.org/web/20090514034859/http://www.antipop... (And he complains about automated scanners flagging legit files as copyright violations: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbecile... )

2. Unni Drougge use The Pirate bay to post a torrent of an audio version of her best-selling novel: http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1029.html

3. Larry Lessig releases his book "Free Culture" as a torrent: http://lessig.org/blog/2004/03/free_culture_is.html (And of course, a USC student had his network account disabled for downloading this completely legal torrent: http://boingboing.net/2006/08/25/universities-put-hol.html )

4. Dan Morrill posts a torrent link to his book about selling e-books: http://torrentfreak.com/my-book-please-081017/

5. Megan Lisa Jones self-publishes a novel through BitTorrent: http://ibla.us/2011/content/thoughts-on-the-bittorrent-promo...

6. Caris O'Malley posts a pirate torrent link of his own novel and encourages readers to download it: http://hipsterlibrarian.com/2011/08/04/illegally-download-th...

7. Wired editor Chris Anderson links to a torrent search for his book "The Long Tail": http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/02/books_want_to_...
Actually, pull quotes almost always precede the quoted text in the article. They're entry points for readers to jump into the article, consequently it makes no sense to place them after the quoted passage. Moreover, they're secondarily used as a spacing device, namely, to expand an article so that it ends at the bottom of a hard-copy page, rather than being followed by empty white space. On web pages, of course, this is rarely necessary and so almost never done.
http://students.ucsd.edu/finances/financial-aid/budgeting/un...
I get the impression these "courses" are less textbook, than implementation forcing.

You do the SEO, gather 1000 email addresses, drip feed and ab test the list till ten people pony up. Then they are incentivised to actually put the common sense into action, follow up with Skype calls and hey presto ten people who have actually put into practise whT the rest just talk about. And make great sales references for the remaining. 9990.

Not trying to be disparaging here but this stuff is more coaching than book selling. You are paying to get someone to prod you not action.

I hope that patio11 forgives the comment but I doubt very much there will be ,uch in the course common sense and a bit of reading won't get you. But for 250 why not get patio11 to summarise it for you and push you into actually using it.
Thank you, we are glad to hear this and are hoping to continue working with stripe as there is other products we are developing which will utilize stripe
Read the post again. Your case works because you have exactly the right number of digits.
Being on a visa allows you to switch jobs. The new company has to pay a small fee to do it, but any medium-to-large company will do it.
Detroit's gleaming startup tower
Perl Regex Removed From Grep in Mountain Lion
So true. I didn't even know why I used snooze until now. I actually password-protected my tablet with a very long password so I wouldn't use snooze, but I still did; I had to get to it!
Can someone explain exactly how WinRAR uses this VM to improve compression?
It's interesting that they both left at the same time. There must have been an internal disagreement about their role in relation to Bootstrap--or perhaps Twitter is just a really sad place to work these days.
Re: "Dropbox, because they do not warn you that a shared folder will ruin your quota. Someone shared 50GB of photos, it started syncing, maxed the quota, and resulted in some important documents never making it to the cloud."

Yeah, Dropbox rolled out "Dropbox for teams" - not perfect. I think Pay Users should only be charged once for files shared among people - Dropbox only has one copy of it.

DropboxForTeams: "If everyone invited to the shared folder is on the same Dropbox for Teams account, the size of the shared folder will be counted against the Team's shared quota once."
Make HTTP requests over ZeroMQ with Zurl
It will be interesting to see who sends stripe requests.

This announcement would be so much more interesting if the CE search worked:(
The screenshot at the bottom is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
If you think Git or Subversion are broken, you're free to fix them and publish a patch (or a fork). I don't see it a possibility with either NTFS or SkyDrive.

And, BTW, I don't think either Git or Subversion would refuse to function on case-insensitive filesystems as does SkyDrive.

Finally, the suffering Windows programmers can impose on themselves by using version control systems does not invalidate the claim Microsoft obviously doesn't test their software on Macs with default OSX installs.
They didn't. I believe Jacob left few weeks ago.
Off topic - Does anyone here remember the post someone wrote awhile here about how they got a boat load of hits by basically paying attention to what was popular here and then writing about it? Thanks in advance...
> I suspect MS just didn't want to deal with this complexity

Case-sensitive filesystems are probably much simpler than case-insensitive ones that have to preserve case when a file is saved or renamed but ignore it when the file is opened.
"Sugar"?
Another big issue is a broken javascript profiler. I've been using this quite a bit to optimize code on a project I've been working on and noticed after I updated that you can no longer expand nodes. Pretty bummed.
It'd be one thing if the left between a few years of each other, but to only be separated by a few weeks? The proximity of the events cannot be ignored.
After fast uptake, Apple Maps use plunges to 1 in 25 iOS owners
> How do I pick 9-11 in bash?

Like so:

file.{9..11}

I think that you mean for the files to be numbered like:

file.009
file.010
file.011

Bash would try to expand:

file.{9..11} => file.9 file.10. file.11
file.0{9..11} => file.09 file.010 file.011
file.00{9..11} => file.009 file.0010 file.0011

Neither would match all files.
I think the author should have visited Detroit four or five years ago to have some perspective. The City has made amazing progress in that time.

Where boarded up buildings once existed there are now clusters downtown with lots of activity. The Madison has been nothing short of a miracle. What he hasn't reported is that it is becoming a magnet with companies from all over the city moving nearby.

Sure you can walk a few short blocks and it's a desolate wasteland. Detroit didn't go downhill in a couple of years and it is going to take time to recover but you don't have to look too far to see progress.

Five short years ago no one wanted to live downtown. Now there's a boom in new apartments downtown and despite the construction there's still a 97% occupancy rate.

http://www.freep.com/article/20120926/BUSINESS06/309260037/T...
have you noticed much of a change with htcp as the congestion control algo?
"Known Bugs
There are several known bugs in the RarVM.

[redacted as some have security consequences]"

I wonder if torrent seeders have exploited this to spread malware/bots....
Stay Focused and Keep Executing
Interesting way to do market research; Not.
Why isn't it linked anywhere?
Steve jobs did let Ping and Mobile Me go out the doors.

Oh yes, and the Apple Cube.
If those are U.S. numbers it's pretty comparable. Android had been out almost a year by August '09 while WebOS only a few months. Verizon was originally planning to launch the Pre as its premiere smartphone but then got in bed with Google, launched the Droid, and the rest is history. I don't think WebOS would be in Android's position if things had gone differently; the ability to customize Android was always its biggest selling factor... but maybe, just maybe, Verizon customers would have loved their WebOS phones enough to give it a longer life than it had. It was a much better OS than Android at the time. As someone who owned Android 1.0, 1.5, and 1.6 devices I can definitely say that.
Just a data point. I'm not saying I was right, but I learned to use jQuery first, which then lead me to learn vanilla JavaScript. Basic jQuery implementation (carousel, slider, slideshow, etc) was like following a recipe. It got me early gains. I eventually needed more custom work so I then dove (and continue to dive) into JavaScript.

I can see the same path for an HTML/CSS beginner.
I have dealt with Hakin9 a few years ago and was extremely disappointed by how they handle themselves. After publishing my article (a piece about overwriting system calls by rewriting pointers in the system_table and practical uses) it took them close to 10 months to be paid and only did so after harassing them for months.

Its hilarious, albeit not too surprising, that they published this without even bothering to read it (they crowdsource their proof reading and expect beta readers to report if they are about to publish something inaccurate or outright stupid).
If you're interested in working with data (especially with python) you should come to this conference. Several of the authors of the major libraries in this space (numpy, scipy, pandas, pytables) will be there giving tutorials.
Slackware 14 released
Slack is also sporting a new documentation site at http://docs.slackware.com/.
"sites that host infringing content"

Since when does Piratebay host any infringing content? There's only links to infringing content. Google also links to infringing content.
Amateur shitfuck does dumb thing, experiences consequences and subsequently cries about it on his blog.

Film at 11.
When you are forced to spend 30+ minutes/day 120+days/year over the course of 8+years around a set of limited devices you tend to think of a lot of interesting ways to use them because otherwise it can get boring fast.
Quite an old tool, but SciGen ( http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ ) is great for generating this style of satirical paper using choice buzzwords.

SciGen has famously been used to get falsified publications into several "real" journals - citations are available on the SciGen page linked above and worth checking out.
If not for jQuery, I'd have probably never learned Javascript, because I would have gotten frustrated with dealing with weird cross-browser gotchas too much to ever get anything done.

As I learned I wrote a lot of code I'm not too proud of, looking back on it. But I grew to learn and love Javascript and I honestly have jQuery to thank for that.
Same here. Had no idea why English grammar worked until I studied German. Then I suddenly had solid mechanics backing up my knowledge of English, not just immersion-driven intuition (which is inscrutable, deep-down-- "cuz 'to whom' sounds better, I guess, maybe.").
I think when you're at that level you're actually competing with humans. If I'm upper management and have too much incoming mail, I can hire a human to help me sift/prioritise/ignore as well as all the other things a human can help me with.
"I would just like to make a completely speculative, and probably erroneous assersion as fact about your speculation."

FTFY.
Can you define "here on HN"? Are you suggesting that the submitter is a shill for patio11? Or that a community member can't sell anything? Or if it a product makes it onto the HN front page, the seller needs to remove the price?
18-40 Year olds - the Government is Stealing Your Money
If you read the linked blog post you will see one example. For instance, calls to a foobar function are encoded with relative addresses. The preprocessor can detect this, calculate the absolute address, encode that, and calculate the original relative address at decompression time. I like the idea apart from the security concerns! I was excited to find an unknown aspect of such a prolific program!
> Ugh... Did you actually try this?

Your point is correct -- Bash is treating these as strings. I didn't have your file names so I tried a similar example, and I just realized I have to correct my example. I have a directory of graphic files with embedded numbers with leading zeros, for example 001 to 031. I was able to say:

$ ls geographic_harbor_2012_06_02_*{1..31}.JPG

And get all the members. But it's not the same as your example.
This just made my day!
How durable is a fingerprint?
Another Flask hacker here. Use it for all internal projects at work. 4 so far in 2012.
I liked SkyDrive, but its Windows bias is pretty apparent. It won't sync Unix files that would be illegal on Windows (due to e.g. the filename) and the sync algorithm is pretty bad on OSX (frequently running my CPU up to 100%). These are some of the reasons why people distrust the Microsoft brand.
The price is negligible, first off (in the context of a business training course, even an online self-directed one). It's priced so low that I would consider buying it myself, personally, if I thought it would make me better at my job but my employer wouldn't fork out for it. That's an aggressive price point.

Secondly, there's nothing wrong with getting paid for your hard work. If people don't want to pay, and other people want to give advice for free, that can and will still happen - the two models can coexist, they aren't mutually exclusive. I think some geeks are a little wary of paid products and would do well to try selling something they make that has value for users.
> So basically you linked to your squeeze page at HN.

Note that patio11 didn't link to anything--this was submitted by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_pius
Make it only work on paid accounts. Problem solved.

The current situation sucks.
Is this article implying that their is the possibility of including a malicious application inside of a .rar format that would run upon uncompression? That is crazy if true. Also makes me think using 7zip might be a safer option than WinRAR if they handle the decompression differently.
Nice to see more FOSS tools trying to dissect the RAR format.

Now if only a decompressor existed for current versions of RAR. A FOSS unrar tool exists that decompresses RAR 1, RAR 2, and some RAR 3 archives, but not current RAR 3 archives.
Keep in mind that patio11 didn't submit this, http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_pius did.
And it's not a one-time payment, they want a subscription payment every year, which is incredibly obnoxious for a desktop app.
I don't read them cover to cover, but I need info on specific subjects quite often, and some tools just don't have it.
I thought the Cube was cool. The Blue Dalmatian and Flower Power iMacs on the other hand? ugh. http://daysofourlife.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/crazy-imac-des...
Yes, competition drives innovation.

This will not go away, so I wouldn't worry about it.
If I were you, I'd take part time college classes and keep my current foot in the industry. Yes you will take longer to finish your degree but you don't have to worry about that if you are already employed. Besides, employers will respond better to somebody who is in the process of finishing their degree as opposed to somebody who never started in the first place. Finally worst that could happen is that you get fired and you don't find other employment. In that case you can enroll for full time study.
This contradicts a clear historical trend in which Perl regex syntax and POSIX regex syntax (not the same) are being more widely adopted as time passes. It's a definite step backward.
It means that if you have connections, a staggering initial capital, technical skills and education, a brilliant idea and a group of very talented friends you don't need to finish your degree.

Most people don't fall under that category.
Man, I could write pages about how badly Google executes on AdSense customer service.

You'd think that for all of the smart people who work there they'd figure something out that makes sense and is fair for all involved.

I mean, without thinking too hard, things like:

- Probation periods starting at zero revenue and ramping-up based on various criteria

- No account cancellation but rather revenue throttling WITH good feedback for site/content owner to fix problems

- Paid account verification. I'm sure most of us would not mind paying a one time or annual $1,000 fee to be verified and have real customer service. If you have a real business this is nothing.

Think about the revenue throttling idea. You do something they don't approve of and your revenue is throttled down. Some feedback is provided. You make some changes. If they are adequate, revenue throttles back up. Conceptually simple.

One argument against this is that you could be teaching scammers how to work around the rules. Not so. You are teaching scammers to work within the rules. If Google is smart enough in guidance and feedback they stand to turn questionable sites into "law abiding" sites. Those who don't play by the rules get to host ads and make no revenue or nearly nothing. I think this would be a far better approach.

They also need a learning mode. I worked with someone who implemented AdSense and didn't really understand it all. He didn't really do anything violently bad. I don't remember the details, but the account got shut-down within a week. This was a case of an honest business person who probably doesn't have a single molecule of malice in his body that got treated like crap by Google for not knowing what they want. The problem is that you can't know what they want, not all of it.

There needs to be a "learning mode". Maybe the throttling period is exactly that. Make it a smoothly rising function that is driven by quality criteria that is communicated clearly and effectively. As long as you develop your site you get flags to guide you into compliance. This, to me at least, makes too much sense.
I like bootstrap, but only for bootstrapping my project...or using it for backend/admin styling. Bootstrap is really just a style guide (with some good styles for layout), however if you've got design comps to work from, it's probably better to make your own style guide. I mean, if they could somehow accomplish making this process easier, then that'd be a game changer: basically less like a framework and more like a library.

EDIT
a good example: If you wanted to rebuild hacker news, would you start with bootstrap? I wouldn't
Probably just a typo, I posted after reading this: https://twitter.com/mdo/status/251806421715390464
Wolfram Alpha landing page redesign
> ... an unmitigated nightmare of epic proportions

It's entertaining to live in a time of relative peace and prosperity, to discover what people think constitutes a crisis "of epic proportions". :)
Watch out, the linked post [1] is blocked by my TrendMicro.

[1] http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-progr...
Neither Ping nor Mobile Me replaced previous crucial functionality.
"Yes, some may raise the argument that the reason why Jobs was rarely in situations to apologize, was because, for the most part (minus Siri), he pushed excellent and complete product"

Please, macosx releases have an history of being bug ridden. So much that one upgrade was free (the first one, if I recall correctly).

The man built his own legend by rewriting history and bullying press.
And selling computers, phones and walkmans, too.
Throw ratbox and charybdis into the mix, too - very solid pieces of software!

It is very easy to get any of these running and if you read the docs (or the comments in the config files) there aren't many gotchas either. I wouldn't say they're zero maintenance, but they are fairly low - the majority of the maintenance you'd still have with a hosted server, as it's getting things working exactly how you like, and dealing with troublesome users!

One other point that springs to mind: if people want a free alternative to running their own server or using grove, there are lots of good IRC networks to choose from that will host your channel for free.
Loved the ending about "behind the scenes" and "take care of everyone". Mafia reading of this was that overseas distributors of cases got unhappy and put out the videos. Apple says so solly, and now "everybody" is happy again.
Rest In Peace, Charles Alfred Eldon: A Role Model For This New Generation
Statement 1: "Mosh is a replacement for SSH."

Statement 2: "The mosh client logs in to the server via SSH, and users present the same credentials (e.g., password, public key) as before."

Statement 2 contradicts statement 1.

Statement 3: "Mosh is a command-line program, like ssh."

SSH is not a command-line program.
It doesn't have to be binary. Part of being a good marketer is knowing your target market. If you create something and, through smoke and mirrors, sell it to people who won't like it or don't need it, you're setting yourself up for a lot of complaint letters and angry blog posts. I guess that's fine if you're just a pump & dump con artist who's catching the next train out of town, but there are alternatives.