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Ask HN: Would like feedback on marcademy a new growth hacker school
Me, Michael Staton (Inigral, Learned Capital, DevBootcamp...), Ahmed Siddiqui (University Hacker Olympics, Startup Weekend...), Vivek Bhaskaran (Survey Analytics, QuestionPro...) and others just launched marcademy.com, an immersion school teaching Growth Hacking and Online Marketing. Would like input on the idea. Thanks
The NRA's leadership is dominated by industry: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/new-evid...

The sole purpose of the NRA is to protect corporate profit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/open-letter-to-wa...
I somehow feel that he misses the point, "web app" and
"desktop class app" usually have very different purpose and goal.
It almost sound like to me: fuck these gui app console app are way faster, and see how easy it is to run them on headless server.
My eyes bleed...
I think Adobe have slowly killed Fireworks for years by slowly letting it languish (as opposed to the swift axe that cut Freehand).
A key word is "tend". I've tried to learn from past failures only to realize that the world has changed in a few short span and my lesson no longer applied. In the immortals words of a song "what was once good, now is bad". When one realizes this, life gets a bit harder.
Selling the remaining list is quite a smart idea. it obviously has value even though it would be relatively simple to figure out the remaining free domains on your own.
Are you using track changes?
I wish licensing was emphasized more in this discussion.

Including a license is the #1 reason myself and many other people stray away from code on the internet. I won't touch a project if it's not stated properly.

And to be clear, just writing that your project is MIT licensed or sticking it in a package.json or making a small remark in your README doesn't cut it. You need to follow the terms of the license you wish to use (my comment on the matter: http://blog.nig.gl/post/48848761220/just-saying-something-is...)

(always a good read: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/04/pick-a-license-any-...)
> A while ago you could update a gem and break 3 apps.

You aren't using bundler, are you? You really really should be. It eliminates the vast majority of that class of problem. It's been best practice in Rails, and ruby deployment in general, to use bundler for several years now, it really does make that kind of problem go away.
Silicon Valley has come a long way from 1966: from cutting edge material science http://youtu.be/z47Gv2cdFtA to applying open source sepia filter...

I am afraid that the logical end of this race to the bottom in terms of technology is the end of the Silicon Valley (perhaps something like Hollywood for "new media" replacing technology)
This is the one I was thinking of : http://books.google.com/books?id=raZKAAAAMAAJ but it's not written by Watt, for some reason I thought it was.
> I'm curious about this whole "have to be contrarian deal." Guy writes blog post which is good advice in 99% of the situations and someone just has to bring up that, yeah, somewhere, sometimes more logging is not necessarily better. Why always nitpick on things?

It's just the nature of HN. I've given up on bitching about it.
Did you planed to start a version for Office Mac ?
"But it just doesn't happen at the moment."

(Can't reply to this below).

Want to point out though that once the info is slurped and appears elsewhere you won't be able to put the genie back in the bottle.

I many times pull up old info for domains in search.
While I agree that .io will likely not be seen the same way .com is by your average customer it may not be that much of an issue if Google starts ranking .io domain names highly in search results. Which is how many people choose what sites to visit or buy from.
A poster than can only be fully seen when looked at from a child's point of view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ms#Usage
I don't think it's all that hilarious to waste people's time, especially when the goal is to point out the naïveté of others.
Introducing Swarm: fault-tolerant local and remote communication protocol
Sounds to me more like "throw away most of the initial work, keep 1-3 people that do the best work"
"Romney rich"? Seriously?
You should indeed give a 404 (or a 410, if the fact that a resource used to exist there but doesn't anymore is meaningful information in and of itself, but that depends on your API). That doesn't affect whether or not the application is idempotent: the state of the server matters, not the responses.

Assume for the moment that DELETE on /resource/1 actually removes /resource/1 from the namespace, and doesn't do anything else (other than logging; logs don't count). If DELETE is idempotent in this case, then whether you call it one time or ten times, either way, /resource/1 is not there when you're finished, and nothing else has changed. The client might see an OK response to the first call and error responses to the others, but from the server's perspective, it's the same as if the call had only been made once. That's what makes it idempotent.
They certainly seem to let people upload the same video over and over despite takedowns.
What to customers think these seals mean? I think they're just being used to give the site a feeling of credibility.

> 2) 65% of consumers agree that a website displaying the Norton Secured Seal is safe to browse and won’t give them a virus.
> 3) 55% of consumers agree that a website displaying the Norton Secured Seal means that the website protects their online privacy.

In other words, customers primarily think that the seal means the website is legit and unlikely to intentionally mess up their computer. When browsing an online store you don't know, that kind of assurance is fairly valuable.

But of course, nothing prevents an illegitimate site from putting those logos up, too.
One reason the western world is appearing more indeterminate and becoming less optimistic is because of the diminishing returns of progress. That's the main problem in Europe. A hundred years ago, most people had difficult lives and technical progress offered a clear path to better lives. Now most people there have a pretty good life and understandably don't want it to change.
For those not in the know & looking for context:

Gwern is a popular analyst of the Silk Road, the infamous anonymous marketplace on the Tor network.

http://www.gwern.net/Silk%20Road

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)
Very interesting, but I would say your tradeoffs aren't really accurate. Idempotency should decrease testing and maintenance costs because it is simpler.
In the US at least, teachers are mandated reporters and can be held ciminally and civilly liable for ignoring signs of abuse or neglect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandated_reporter
> bidding wastes your valuable time.

Why does it waste more of my time in this bidding process than any other aspect of the marketplace? It's how you minimize costs, and any smart seller that realizes you're not going through the bidding process jacks up the price to milk you for all you're worth.
I always assumed that the worth of these logos (along with the phrase "military grade encryption" and people who advertise "256bit AES") was that they enabled us to easily identify the projects that we didn't want to trust with our data.
Hehe, nobody? You must be using the crippled Safari I guess.
> One benefit may be that contractors won't be in a race to the bottom

It's obviously of benefit to the contractors, I meant the other side of the transaction.
Indeed this is one in a million.

My story is the total opposite... Where giants squash and step on the little guy innovator.

See thread I posted below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5661273
"1. Write code that you think is almost trivial. That way it is simple enough to debug. If you think your implementation gives you bragging rights down the pub, its waaaaay too complicated"

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." --Brian Kernighan

That said, sometimes cleverness is necessary, or actually serves the goals of making things testable and debuggable.

"2. log everything, write tools to parse the logs. All this turning logging off / on / up / down. It's disk space, its cheap and trust me when you wanted -vvv debugging, the live server was set to -q"

While I tend to agree, it's not (just) disk space - it's IO, which sometimes isn't cheap.
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That program doesn't run forever, you didn't declare that there what had to exist for the (just there exist) and prime isn't declared (is prime? highest prime which is a factor in the argument?).
RobotsConf Announced - Call for Speakers/Workshops Now Open
The sad part of all of this is that there is still no true alternative to Fireworks... anywhere! :\
Have you put any thought into submitting a patch for iTerm?
I strongly doubt he ever used his own rule while doing cross platform development. Or he'd know better.
I've updated the site, thanks for the comments. That lab sounds awesome, I would have loved to have played with those terminals. It's unfortunate that we lost ReGIS support in modern terminals.

The ReGIS support I currently have is pretty basic, mostly just designed to support gnuplot line graphs. If you have any old code that generates ReGIS graphics I'd LOVE to see it.
Design with 300 layers. Trying to select a text layer. Gotta hit juuuust the right pixel.

Or say you have grouped layers, and there's a semitransparent layer in one group, and a background in another group, and 20 groups in between those groups.
Damnit, I just paid $72 three seconds ago, before reading the comments.
U.S. Aims to Force Web Services to Compromise Message Encryption
Yes, it's been a while but I tried that initially. I forget why I didn't like it... maybe I'll give it another shot.
I switched to Sketch because of Adobe's abysmal support and direction with Fireworks. I'm not surprised this is happening, but I'm sad. I still use Fireworks, but figured I had to start getting used to something else in preparation.

They're stupid, Fireworks is awesome. Most people using Photoshop don't know about Fireworks or think they 'should' use Photoshop, so they do. Even tho it's a pain in the ass.
Build the Perfect Resume for a Start Up
Now that's a fair point. Now that you have me thinking about this, maybe I'll make it a point to change it sooner than later after all. :-)

Edit: Done. Thanks for the nudge, larrys.
What I like is that its an honest hands on approach from a founders view with the thus resulting experiences. I work as a VC and I could not explain these observations in the same way and give the feeling of being with you in a bar in a founder to founder relationship.

Look forward to reading more :)
> If you're willing to follow the rabbit hole deep enough, woodworking turns out to be about as deep as computer science. If you think you know everything there is to know about woodworking, you probably don't know much about woodworking.

Every once in awhile, I throw up my hands at my computer and tell myself that I'm going to quit and become a carpenter, instead.

Now I need a new less-ambitious ambition.
Oversimplification due to a lack of actual data.

Also, I think each generation has very interesting histories to tell. But we have lost almost all of them, except for an infinitesimal very last bit.

So we don't know what has happened in hundreds of thousands of generations, from the first cordates to therapsides to primates, that could perfectly explain it all.
You're ignoring that the cost of PV panels has fallen dramatically over the last couple of years. Absent someone inside the industry who can give a detailed explanation to what processes are behind this improvement ("Chinese subsidies" is in itself not a sufficient explanation), it is reasonable to assume that the huge amount of research breakthroughs in solar technology has something to do with it.

So while it may be annoying to read about the 10th PV technology breakthrough of the year, there is no doubt that these breakthroughs have a real effect on the price and efficiency of solar panels. I think it's interesting to read about this.
Internal Microsoft email: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t
That's a pretty good idea, I've tried to write the ReGIS rendering and inline PNG code in such a way that it wouldn't be too hideous to factor them out into their own libraries. If I get any traction with this, I'd love to see terminals generally regain ReGIS support and support some from of support for inline image rendering.
Wouldn't it be nice to always know what's on at your favourite venues?
Hi all, I am co-curator for this event (and JSConf). Happy to answer any questions posted here, just let me know.
Why? This is a miscommunication issue, not a CS issue. Determining whether or not something runs "infinitely" is typically just, "Does it run longer than an acceptable amount of time?" It may not actually run infinitely, but it may run practically infinitely (which is to say, just very long).

You have people responding that are assuming that they're going to test if a process takes too long and bail if it does. Pretty simple, actually, since for all practical purposes, when somebody describes a program as "taking forever," they rarely mean "forever" literally.

If you want to ask it, go ahead, but understanding practical limitations and engineering to those is a perfectly acceptable answer for the context of the rent-a-coder site (and an interview for a coding job). The only time it's not is if you're interviewing for some sort of academic position.
Yeah, I se/used Fireworks for almost everything. Designing in it is the easiest i've ever experienced, and I've been using it for over a decade as well.
This is a special case of the notion that questions about a given computational model can be solved using a more general computational model. See regular expression syntax validation as a context-free grammar, and related notions.
Why give out an error at all? The intention of the API call is fulfilled either way.

The spec regarding this:
"A successful response SHOULD be 200 (OK) if the response includes an entity describing the status, 202 (Accepted) if the action has not yet been enacted, or 204 (No Content) if the action has been enacted but the response does not include an entity."

204 is what I would return for most DELETEs because there is no status (entity) left after a normal delete.
Internet Explorer 0-day attacks on US nuke workers hit 9 other sites
Decoupling ExtJS 4 Views
They do work, sometimes the results can be significant. McAfee does an A/B test as part of the sales process.

http://www.mcafee.com/us/mcafeesecure/resources/results.html

Everything I've seen points to these logos having a noticeable impact, consumers do look for them. It's an important thing to learn for tech people: you are not your customer.
I have an uncle who is a deposed King of Nigeria who will solve this problem for you for a small deposit and your bank account information. :-)
Am I understanding this correctly, that a quantum internet prototype has been in operation with at least the same level of performance as modern networks? This is fantastic!
I'm 29 years old, and only now after watching that combination lock video do I understand how padlocks work.
What are you talking about? Film is 2D. How do you imagine it to suddenly be "encoded in 3D"?
Sure, but please ask from the people who actually did the purchase before writing anything.

http://www.sponsorpay.com
it's not overpriced in the meaning that it will make you go bankrupt but I think you can buy adhesive paper for much less that fits in any printer.
Releasing RIPE Atlas Measurements Source Code
I love the content/curriculum, but I'm in different situation: I'd like to become the growth hacker at the company I currently work for as a web dev.

Do you have a content-only, online learning option that you would make available at a less expensive price?
I feel like the best feature of our our internet is the lack of a central hub like the network described in this article, and that "internet" isn't really an appropriate term here.

edit: super awkward wording.
> From time to time everybody can vote if he prefers to have more iPhones or more Android phones, vanilla ice cream or strawberry to actually produce the desired goods and that's it.

This is the crux of the problem: it's not just final consumer goods that need to be chosen, but every intermediate good up and down the value chain. And each of those choices is subject to differences of opinion, rapidly changing inputs, and shifting technologies.

And even at the consumer-goods level, the complexity of the voting would be astounding. It's not going to be a question of simple two-way elections -- you really need to measure a gigantic matrix of relative preferences for each person, and nobody has enough information about relative inputs costs to even accurately fill out their own matrix.

This is precisely why market pricing is so useful, and why it is unlikely to ever disappear entirely.
Sketch doesn't yet support PSD. PSD format is a little bit of a complex format to support. However they have made it clear that it is a very high priority on their list several times. So it will come eventually.

It's more of a Fireworks or Illustrator replacement then a PS replacement. It doesn't come with all the lovely filters and stuff PS has. It also doesn't have the complexities of Illustrator. But if you are a web developer, it has some of the best tools for that specific development. Icon design, web design, buttons, etc. are all a snap to create.
Preliminary EU ruling finds Google guilty of abuse of standard-essential patents
Ask HN: Do you play in an office lottery pool?
Well, at least the default de facto answer for unknowns in science is "we don't know yet, but here is a good guess". This is also the meaning of Socrates 'I only know that I know nothing'.

Any other default answer is dogmatic and foolish in comparison, and from a Socratic point of view, a sophism.
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> .io will never be as 'accepted' as .com by Billy Customer

It's seemed to me that all the uses of .io so far are precisely for sites only developers will have any reason to visit--software libraries, B2B SaaS, etc.
You don't actually have any specifics of your story posted, just vague comments. Would you perhaps be willing to share details?
It requires something about the way we conduct ourselves to change, at least.

I remember reading about how Japanese advertizers would use Google queries in ads instead of URLs - and we in the West did little to improve on that with QR codes - so it's possible that there's a place for .io somewhere. I just think it'd be a really bad idea to use them interchangeably with .com domains.

I guess the same can be said of .co domains, which look like typos to the average person, when they aren't used as shorturls.
Have you looked into providing compatibility with Terminology for the features that you share? At the moment, that's mostly image display, but if you refactor Regis rendering into a separate library or tool you might be able to share significantly more. http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology

In addition, it looks like you use a plain-ASCII inline sequence to signify the start of image/media data. I think Terminology uses a special escape sequence to begin its media rendering, and that seems like a more robust approach which you might want to consider; echoing ASCII text to a terminal should probably stay as ASCII when rendered, imo.
Maybe i'm crazy, but I really hate PDFs. Why don't people at least provide an HTML or text copy next to their PDF?
The Death of Truth
If you use LaTeX and Git - but mandate that each sentence gets its own individual line, it works quite well for versioning, even if its not transparent to the end user
Google, .im is missing from the list. Should have been treated almost equally to '.me'.. and .me got it's gTLD status right from the start.
Its pretty awesome, I played with one at the Maker Faire in San Mateo and the rhythms of the marbles clicking were fascinating! At some point I am going to need to record that and put it into a music track.
William Gibson On Burroughs, Sterling, Dick, Libraries, The Uncanny, The Web
Not true. Bullets are really controlled.

Varies from state to state and even county to county. In NYC and many other places, if you're caught with bullets for a gun you aren't permitted to possess, you can be charged with felony possession of ammunition. This is particularly used against those with prior arrests and/or convictions on their record.

But, you know... I am not a lawyer.
Which country are you in? I wasn't aware that any non-authoritarian countries had complete bans on all types of ammunition.
If you are no longer selling the list, can you show it on your site? When you say 3 letter domains, are you referring to dictionary words or any random 3 letter?
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Polite form of "can't be arsed" which I see more frequently ^_^
Oddly, I've never thought about these seals in the context of e-commerce -- the only time I really see them is on sites like Download.com.
Ask HN: Have You Made A Firefox Marketplace App?
Just wondering if anybody here has actually created a an app for the Firefox Marketplace.
100% agree with what you said, I use it for all my graphic design, UX design and sometimes I also stretch it to do for print graphics (yeah, for print it ends with and import to PS and export to pdf).

...but it's also buggy as hell! If you're a FW user, take PS or Illustrator for a spin and it will seem wind-fast and rock-solid in comparison. The FW codebase may be in need of a complete rewrite or hardcore refactoring considering how brittle the software feels and maybe Adobe doesn't want to have talented coders working on this, especially since PS is being slowly improved with webdev friendly features. But I really hope they change their mind ...FW is the only design tool with an UI that fits my workflow and bends around my mind instead of requiring my mind to bend around its quirks
Google nears launch of paid YouTube subscriptions
Ease of development for folks who aren't platform-native. Doesn't appeal to me, but then, I've parted ways with web applications.
In defense of &lt;canvas&gt;
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The VC's Prayer
That's a great point. For collaborative blogs, using Jekyll/GH spares you from having to sync permissions between your source control and your web host. That's big part of why we used Jekyll for SeattleHacks[1].

[1]: http://SeattleHacks.com
Because a good boss makes sure you've actually thought about what you're doing, not just blindly parroting "design patterns", "best practices" and "standards".

Don't get me wrong, all of those are generally good things, but if you can't draw up a diagram like that in 30 minutes for any design pattern, best practice or standard you follow, you should take that as a hint that you're doing something wrong.
> Your also assuming an ether or situation if you drive less having a cheaper car seems more reasonable.

Where did I assume that? This isn't about whether you have a $30K car or a Civic, just that you have a car...
Finally some progress in video codecs: trimeshes, textures and OpenGL
It's definitely built-in. You just haven't found it yet. ;)
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I would need it for Powerpoint. Crazily enough, it's what my company uses for reporting. I guess we'd buy a couple thousands licenses of it.
There is no routing involved, it is only transmitting message from A to B on a single fiber. I think the term "Internet" in this context is a bit of an overstatement.
I can't estimate time because the requirements often times change.