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- eik3_de 13y agoAny recommendations for well-written books?
- hackerboos 13y agohttp://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=packt+publishing&qid=1393411249&rh=n%3A283155%2Ck%3Apackt+publishing&sort=reviewrank_authority http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st?keywords=packt+publishing&... I got "Building Machine Learning Systems with Python".
- JPKab 13y agoGreat book. I'm one of the suckers who paid for it months ago.
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- arafalov 13y agoYou could try mine: http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book http://www.packtpub.com/apache-solr-for-indexing-data/book . It's quite popular and comes with a GitHub repo for the examples.
- eik3_de 13y agoAs an Packt author, can you opt out of those everything-free discounts? How do you feel that a huge number of potential buyers gets your book today for free?
- arafalov 13y agoI was not given any options at all, for this or other promotions. No do I know if I will get paid for copies they give away for free. I suspect not. As to getting the book for free, please do. I have something even more interesting in the works. I would love for you to read my book, get excited about Solr, get on my mailing list http://www.solr-start.com/ http://www.solr-start.com/ and pay me for my next project eventually. The authors usually do not get rich of the books (though I did cover my tiny advance and more). The rest of the conclusions is left as an exercise for the reader.
- JPKab 13y agoGet Clojure Data Analysis Cookbook. It's a concise, very fast introduction to doing stuff with the Clojure Incanter library. Combined with LightTable, it's very fun.
- veerbahadur 13y agoIt really worked
- rashthedude 13y agoat what point do I see the deductio? I have entered the promo code, checked out and hesitant now to enter my credit details.
- morituri 13y agoIf you do it right (i.e, just have one book in the cart), the button should say Check Out For Free
- rashthedude 13y agooh ok, so it's restricted to only 1 book?
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- imwhimsical 13y agoHi, How does this work? I added a few ebooks to my cart and tried to use the promo code, but it still doesn't show any change. EDIT — Worked like a charm. Thanks much!
- eik3_de 13y agoadd one to cart, apply promo, enter bogus data, checkout. repeat.
- kelmop 13y agoscript anyone?! :D
- herokusaki 13y agoWhy not torrent them instead? I mean it: I assume that collecting bogus data doesn't do them any good and torrenting would save the publisher some server load. A script that buys every book, on the other hand, doesn't even contribute to popularity statistics.
- muyuu 13y agoI'm just going to go ahead and get just 1 the legit way. However I wish they made some sort of volume discount that wouldn't mean paying £300+ for a 10-15 book collection. Honestly most of these books are on topics that would make them obsolete quite soon. The real practical use for these is as references across several topics. I understand it's hard to monetise that kind of thing though.
- hmhrex 13y agoI for one would love to see a script. Haha.
- u02sgb 13y agoWorked for me too, don't even need Mailinator (as you don't need to pickup the email). Address with randomly chosen Post (zip) code.
- nekgrim 13y agoCan I create a 'real' account and centralize all my ebooks, or do I need to create one account per ebook?
- gionn 13y agoFor lazy, to ease copy-paste: DOTDEBOOKFREE :>
- rashthedude 13y agoAdding the promo code in the Checkout section doesn't trigger or reset the price and it's still asking me to continue checking out using either credit or paypal. What am I doing wrong here?
- joniels 13y agoThanks!
- daw___ 13y agoNo email confirmation and plain text captcha. They got to be kidding.
- eik3_de 13y agothey don't even check if the email looks right. abc@abc.invalid works..
- smoyer 13y agoIt looks like you can get a second e-book for free if you allow them to send seven days worth of daily deals (I unsubscribed from everything before noticing the message).
- thehodge 13y agothe search functionality on the site is really inaccurate, I searched for ruby and the first book recommended is Raspberry Pi Media Centre, nothing on the first two pages had ruby in the title.
- arafalov 13y agoYeah, I find it funny given that they published like 10 books on Solr and Elastic Search combined. I guess they don't have time to eat their own dogfood. The problem with breadth publishing approach!
- eik3_de 13y agocan't confirm: http://www.packtpub.com/search?keys=Ruby&sort=0&types=0&forthcoming=1&available=1&count=20 http://www.packtpub.com/search?keys=Ruby&sort=0&types=0&fort... seems to work
- cotsog 13y agoClickable: http://www.packtpub.com http://www.packtpub.com
- angry_octet 13y agoIt's a pity they don't have akamai/cloudfront or something, it seems they are getting crushed. So whomever is running 27 simultaneous downloads, please stop. You'll never read all those books.
- wut42 13y agoYou're right, I'll never read them. However I'm collecting a shitload of pdfs, I convert them to HTML, put them in an ElasticSearch database, so I can search their content when I need it. It's more like a complementary documentation database.
- ScottWhigham 13y agoThat sounds fun - I'd like to hear more about that.
- arafalov 13y agoSounds like too many steps. Why not use ePub directly. It's just a Zip with funny HTML inside. Index that and you may even get page numbers. Contact me if interested in collaborating (it's one of my todo projects).
- inkongruent 13y agothx
- TeamMCS 13y agoCheers mate. great stuff
- obiobi 13y agoaaaand.. the site is down for maintenance. got a few books though.
- pranavkpr 13y agoDamn, now getting a status 503.
- Pitarou 13y ago"Down for maintenance." I guess it's the Hacker News effect.
- eik3_de 13y agothe Varnish "Guru Meditation"[1] page never fails to give me a little smile, reducing the anger about unavailable pages [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Meditation
- Pitarou 13y agoI wondered about that. I thought "Guru Meditation" was an AmigaOS only thing.
- Pitarou 13y agoOh! They're back up again. I'm grabbing _Nginx HTTP Server Second Edition_ now. :-)
- angry_octet 13y ago"Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid." Move along folks, move along now.
- hmhrex 13y agoDOWN FOR MAINTENANCE... great.
- djeps 13y agoNow promo code invalid
- prattbhatt 13y agoIs it still working for anyone? I see "Sorry, that promotion code is no longer valid".
- hmhrex 13y agoMe too... That really sucks.
- bcraun 13y agoSadly, the code is, evidently, no longer valid.
- ErolStaveley 13y agoToday, one of our discount codes escaped into the wild! If you were lucky enough to download a free ebook today we hope you enjoy it - we'd also like to thank the HN community in particular for highlighting some legitimate issues on our end. We'll definitely be looking into addressing these. However, nothing that good can last for ever, and the discount code itself should no longer be active. We're happy to talk to any of our authors about the impact this might have had on individual titles on a case by case basis - you should always feel free to get in touch with your primary editorial contact even after publication (alternatively, you can email me directly regarding this particular discount at erols@packtpub.com). We're here to help and support you not only through the publication process, but also beyond. We apologize for any inconvenience caused to customers who tried using a code that we emailed out directly. Please contact us at customercare@packtpub.com if you have experienced any problems as a result.