skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting issue with invisible fonts that hasn't been pointed out in the comments thus far.

In a job interview last year, I was asked to name some ways to hide an element on a page. I think I came up with seven or eight ways and listed upsides and downsides of each.

Besides obvious ones like opacity, visibility, display: none, z-index, moving the elements off-screen, setting font-size to 0, etc., one idea I came up with on the spot was to design a font with blank characters in case the div was simply text. The text would be visible to search engines but not to users.

(Since I was interviewing at a large search company, I also raised the point that they might want to start analyzing custom fonts to make sure they're not simply empty characters, if they're not already.)
I would pay for in-person tutorials or workshops too.
Why the Web Is Ready for Responsive Web Design
Makes a huge amount of sense for Amazon, but honestly I can only see this as a bad thing for Goodreads. Amazon has huge issues with reviews of the fulfilling company getting blended in with reviews of the actual product, and there's another layer added with media - quality of the content, completely separate from the build (pages falling out, horrible OCR, etc).

Goodreads has reviews of content quality. Amazon will muddy that immensely with reviews of every other part of a sale if they do any integration into Amazon (unless they plan an overhaul of their reviewing architecture - I'd love it, but I doubt it).
Source, on the whole, is http://bitcoincharts.com/ You can break down all the numbers yourself. You can also get a giant history table of all buy/sells with times from either bitcoinity or bitcoin charts, I forget which.
We have deployed ZFS for the last few years on some large backup servers (Solaris and FreeBSD) and our experience has been pretty rotten - the command line is slow at managing a few hundred volumes, it becomes unusable during a rebuild, and it has / had a rotten bug where if you fill a volume up to 100%, you need to allocate more space before you can delete it.

It's been a multi-year mistake for us and we're busy changing these servers back to nice simple XFS volumes.
Shark Tank has a nice standard set of questions they ask nearly every pitch.

What is the product? Do you have sales? What would you do with my money? ... http://liftdevelopment.com/2012/05/fifteen-valuable-question...
G should have put the gmail UI resources on Reader instead...
On the surface, interesting. Under the surface, it makes me want to be sure to avoid your apps in case I show up somewhere "interesting" enough for you to post on Twitter. :-(
I thought my mention of the bullet point 'Market knowledge' addressed that, but I didn't mention research specifically. Most geeks should have that instinct to seek more data, regardless of what kind of data they get from friends.

I never have seen BATNA before, interesting. I'd lump that in with negotiation. If you have multiple irons in the fire, that should be part of your negotiation tactic. If you know what you are worth and you have value above what you are being paid, you should make that clear and negotiate based on those facts.

A recruiter negotiating on your behalf mainly serves as a buffer - to prevent either side from souring a deal that should happen. If my client tells me they are going to offer 80K as a first pass to someone making 100K, I'll encourage them to make a better offer for fear of ruining their chances to present a higher offer later. If a candidate tells me to ask for 150K even though they will accept 100K, I'll educate the candidate that this tactic may prevent an offer from ever being made.
Just a caution: people who "would buy" generally greatly outnumber people who buy. You might want to try advertising your product like it exists and tally up serious inquiries. It's easy to rattle off things you "would do," a bit more effort to actually do them.
The mini-crash yesterday was interesting. The 5k dump itself only moved the price down a couple of dollars, but there was a mass movement of smaller transactions that followed it and caused the price to really drop.

My personal (amateur) theory is that people were hovering over their "sell" buttons, looking to cash out as we approach the landmark $100 point. Once they thought someone with a lot of coins was bailing, they took that as a sign to head for the exit.

I also think that MtGox's horrible lag factors into the dips. Their trading engine was running as much as 8 minutes behind during this event, which causes people to not be able to modify or place orders. Along with not being able to see actual "current" trading info, this causes a certain segment of the trading population to go into full panic mode.

Placing market sell orders in an engine that's showing you ancient data during a crash seems suicidal, but for some reason people do it.

I'd love to see Gox upgrade its engine. I honestly think it would make a notable difference in price stability.

Even better, I'd like to see the market grow strong enough to support 3 or 4 primary trading sites. There are a number of others now, but the rest have such low volume that you should only use them to pursue specific opportunities (arbitrage).
I could never afford a real NAS, and I've used many DIY setups (linux boxes, mac boxes, with software raid) but I've settled on a WD MyBook for its pure simplicity. If you just need a file server and don't need tons of space (2TB is plenty for me) I'd definitely recommend it.
> is directly in the hands of the people who have the most interest in using it well

That has no relation to whether or not they know how to use it well.

Improving someone's well being involves improving their well being through hands-on, interactive problem solving.

Throwing a fist full of dollar bills at someone does not directly improve their well being.

If you have, by some measure, 'low well being', there is a reason for that that is likely to be outside your direct control, otherwise you would change it. If it is inside your control, you need help to discover how - application of cash is useless without direction. If it is outside your control the help needs to be applied at a higher level, community, town, borough.. country.

It is demonstrably not the case that cash solves problems unless it is applied in meaningful, sustainable ways, which are not known or understood by many people in difficult situations, unless you are talking about people who are about to starve to death and who will buy food.
That low levels of pesticides are bad for bees is entirely believable.

That beekeepers are good enough at and persistent enough about shopping for the relative quality of the syrup they are buying to be relevant is entirely unbelievable.

If pesticide contamination of feed syrup does end up being a big factor, that's great, other types of sugar or not robbing the honey are easy ways to have pollinators.
I should have been more specific. I didn't mean that the probability of a marriage surviving some fixed time interval decreases linearly with the duration of the marriage. Everyone knows that marriages that have lasted longer are less likely to end than newer marriages. What I meant is that the cumulative probability of a marriage surviving decreases roughly linearly from the 5 year point onward, as Tables 5 & 6 show (and Fig. 4 shows graphically).

As an unmarried person, it's the latter that is of concern to me. If I had been married for 15-20 years already, the probability you cite would be more pertinent.
I switched from screen to tmux to screen back again.

tmux seemed slower while switching windows, plus I like the simplicity of screen.
A simple `tar -xvf` can replace the separate `gunzip` and `tar` processes.
He's both pragmatic and radical. He feels that using free software is morally superior to using proprietary software -- and is unwilling to concede that point. But it's not a binary distinction between the righteousness of free software and the sin and damnation of proprietary software. There are gradients of freedom that can be climbed; so Stallman will defend the use of non-GPL or proprietary software in situations where there are no other options, and said use gets more people to use free software. For example, a port of a widely-used proprietary CAD system to (GNU/)Linux would be viewed as a good move by him, but only as a precursor to the development of just-as-good free CAD systems.
Although if you ever paid for English lessons, somebody owes you a refund :)
That's about to be a total non-factor once all the ASICs online. http://launch.avalon-asics.com/ and http://www.butterflylabs.com/

The hash rates are order of magnitude faster than what's currently out there for the price, and most importantly they'll drive up the difficulty quite a bit.
Yes he did. I lumped those in my mind with 'similarly skilled', thinking of both hard and soft skills. But I certainly could have parsed that out.
it's amazing. I got tipped a few month ago something like $2 and it is now $6.
Local businesses unite to support Newry 'Buy Local' Campaign
No I read it in a book years ago. (Perhaps "Hackers", by Steven Levy.) The story, as I recall, was that Ken Thompson was working at Bell Labs, bored, and had an old PDP-7 (?) that had no software. He was bored and wanted something to run space war on, but to get there he needed an OS, compiler, etc.
Tmux + Vim = Pure Awesome.

I use vim-slime[1] to send strings to other panes in tmux. I never type anything directly into a REPL. I just send my code from Vim to it. It's amazing with lisp or python. (A little less amazing with php, as the php repl IS AWEFUL)

[1] https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime
Research into Forensic Acquisition Performance
Personally I would just fabricate a very intelligent-sounding report where I claim to have found a serious, exploitable flaw in Bitcoin's encryption. I don't think it would be too hard to convince people, because many people expect that something like this might happen. And if the fabrication is good enough then it'll take days or weeks for researchers to fully evaluate the claim. In the meantime the uninformed panic causes a price dip and I buy a bunch of cheap coins.
> If you pay them even a tiny amount each month the bill never goes to a collection agency, which means it never hurts your credit score.

This doesn't follow - I am pretty sure that institutions can report things without a collection agency being involved. Which isn't to say it might not be a good strategy nonetheless - an institution like a hospital might be less inclined to report things if they are still receiving checks from you, whereas I don't see a collection agency giving the same leniency.
Titan 0.3.0 Released: Geo, full-text, edge indexing on billion edge graphs
Patent troll Uniloc takes a hit
Indeed - the last part about performance is the complete opposite of typical code beauty - it's why I listed it separately yet still called it very important when considering code beauty. I disagree that it is bad advice - I have seen code that matches the first 6 standard points yet was bad code because it performed terribly. Simply making pretty and understandable code is not good enough if it's actively harming the users of the system.

The key issue here is that you can have code that does perform within an order of magnitude that still fully follows the first 6 points. I'd argue that this code is inherently more beautiful than code that completely throws performance out the window - it is grounded in the reality of the physical universe.

For example, pretty code that loops through a large array multiple times when it could be changed to loop only once is, in my opinion, fairly 'ugly'. It's throwing out the user's experience (he might have to wait 0.1 of a second more on that button press - annoying!) for slightly easier to read code.

Obviously this is a line in the sand and you could argue either way, but whenever discussing code beauty I always bring up performance as they are often two sides to a coin and both are important. I agree with you that throwing out code beauty and optimizing everything is very bad - but you need a balance here. 'We will fix it later when performance becomes a problem' nearly always ends up as 'We will rewrite the performance critical parts of the code - customers are complaining!' - and now all of your pretty code is lost.

EDIT: Slow performance is also one of the prime indicators of code quality that a user can see. If code performs poorly, a user is likely to perceive that code as being badly written (and I think he is correct). Perception is reality, and when that user is deciding between two systems, he will be biased towards the faster one as he now believes that system to be of higher quality (even though the code on that system is a buggy mess that he just hasn't tripped yet).
In-person, or one-on-one via Skype or e-mail - yes. Just online materials or newsletters - no.
> NAM is a 115 country strong organization

Thus not India.
Thank you for telling your story.
Tutorial: Google Analytics Core Reporting API using Magic Script
You should check out The Skool (http://theskoolrocks.com/) with Jose Caballer. He's the host of the This Week in Web Design podcast and former creator of The Groop design agency in LA. He has conferences as well as weekly group calls and one-on-one help, along with all the tutorials. You might be able to get some background on the pricing, although he caters more towards professionals looking to improve their career rather than strict tutorials of how to design better. But it's a good starting point. Also, you need to see how much value you can add compared to a DIY subscription to something like Treehouse or Lynda.
an inflating currency ?
Why would I ever get into it if my government wasn't to force me like they did in the states before it was backed by gold ?
Awesome. I think I tried one of their products in the early days -- have you had good luck with these?

Are you talking about this one specifically:
http://www.uistencils.com/collections/frontpage/products/bro...
Shouldn't you be using checkinstall instead of 'make install' to make removal of the package easier in the future?
- Too many clicks to have the same results. (Canned responses are +60% of the work and have no shortcut !?!)

- Copying the email of the sender requires too many actions (you can no more <ctrl>+c it simply. We often need that to do some checks in an other application)

- Bugs

- The size of the Windows is way too small (We often send detailed procedures which are long. Shorter = user lost or more questions)

- ...
This was certainly the case for Open Exchange Rates [0] – it was a successful open source project for a year before life and commitments forced me to either shut it down or business it up.

I took the latter path, and now it allows me to keep working on it full-time... but I did have to forcibly sacrifice (I say scupper) some other projects, which I have no doubt would have been equally successful.

[0] https://openexchangerates.org
Why I Chose to Learn C
With that .NET experience, outside a startup hub to drive a lot of Rails demand, it seems like you will earn more with .NET than with Rails, doesn't it?
FWIW, I get the same type backlash (although in less volume) from people I beat online in Street Fighter III.
Law doesn't work like that.
Doesn't a 30% performance improvement (I'm just talking dart vs. JavaScript, not dart2js generated code vs JavaScript) seem like a pretty weak result given that they've created a new language? Sure, performance isn't the _only_ argument for Dart, but still.

It seems to me that if we're going to migrate away from JavaScript, let's get a serious performance boost while we're at it.
Why not just set up a skillshare class and find out exactly what people want directly? They would take care of the distribution for you, and so you can just figure out the content of the experiment.
The documentary Colony [1] is worth watching.
It doesn't offer any answers but does offer a good insight into the way the bee pollination business works, and the rather scary impact of CCD.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480655/
I already do:

http://nathanbarry.com/webapps/
https://peepcode.com/products/design-bundle
3D Print an Ouya Game Console Enclosure
"memory consumption is ginormous"

Yes, it will use whatever memory you allow it to, but this is purely dynamic just as caching is in Linux. If you're not talking about the ARC, but about deduplication, of course it uses more memory - how would it not?

"IO performance is generally not great (lower than with "simpler" FS)"

This is sounding troll-ish, as that statement equates to: A filesystem that checksums all data and metadata and performs copy-on-write to protect the integrity of the on-disk state at all times is slower than a filesystem that does neither.

Well, of course.

But do those "simpler FS" have the ability to massively negate that effect by use of an SSD for the ZIL and L2ARC? There have been many articles showing higher throughput with large, slow 5400RPM drives combined with an SSD ZIL & L2ARC massively outperforming much faster enterprise drives.

"managing your pools isn't that easy once you get serious about it"

I'm fairly stunned by this statement, as I've yet to see an easier, more elegant solution for such a task. Before ZFS, I liked VXVM with VXFS, but I now consider it obsolete. Linux's LVM is downright painful in comparison. I've yet to play with btrfs, so I'll bite my tongue on what I've read so far on it.

The deep integration of volume and pool management directly with the filesystem, essentially making them one and the same, is simply beautiful. Having these things separate (md, LVM, fs) after years of using ZFS seems so archaic and awkward to me.

Disclosure: 100% of my ZFS experience has been on Solaris (10-11.1) and OpenSolaris/Nevada. I've not tried it on Linux, yet.
I (a web developer) wouldn't. There's so much free info online I couldn't imagine paying for it.

Also, I'm not convinced good UI/UX can be taught.
Goodreads now on Kindle – Being acquired by Amazon
Huge price disparity in cloud video encoding
well there are more and more ways to spend them. in the usa soon you'll be able to pay for city services and you can already top up your phone worldwide as well as pay electricity in southafrica. You can buy stuff over amazon or with bitspend anywhere else.
Inflation is not a general rise in the prices of goods; prices going up is merely one symptom of inflation. Inflation is the expansion of the monetary base. Printing dollars, for example, is inflation. The increase in prices is a result of inflation, and there are numerous effects other than prices going up.

It's critical in economics to separate supply & demand of goods causing increases or decreases in prices, from monetary changes. Free market forces are not the same as central bank forces.

There's about 200 years of modern economic evidence for how exactly inflation works and how central banks create it.

I'll ignore the fact that the Fed has openly admitted it has devalued the dollar by 97% since its founding. I'll also ignore the fact that Bernanke recently said it was the goal of the Fed to generate asset inflation via QE aka debasing the dollar (see real estate skyrocketing 10% again, or 22% in Phoenix (a disaster market recently), see stocks at all time highs again ala 2007).

I'll also ignore the fact that Greenspan openly admitted the Fed has the direct ability to increase or decrease inflation, and can cause bubbles or pop them. He of all people should know.

It's not an assertion, it's a fact supported by extreme amounts of data.

If you increase the monetary base and money supply by hundreds of percent over a relatively short period of time, you're going to see a substantial increase in the price of goods in the currency in question.

If you 'print' dollars to buy trillions in mortgages and remove them from the market, you're going to limit supply of housing and cause approximately $3 to $4 trillion worth of inflation in just one year (what's happening right now). Not to mention simultaneously holding down mortgage rates via the government dominated mortgage market, by holding short term and long term interest rates artificially low by buying the paper that influences that. Then when consumers sell their homes, or take home equity loans, and then spend in any manner or buy anything else or loan their money to banks - the inflation gets discharged directly into the economy. This is one simple example, there are countless.

If today you have one trillion dollars, and tomorrow the Fed prints another trillion dollars, it's obvious what happens.

So not only do I have vast empirical economic proof not only do I have historical evidence for how it all works, not only do I have obvious math theory that is as simple as addition and subtraction, but I have the Fed openly admitting the scale of the inflation it has caused.

How many proof articles would you like on the topic?
Glad you're doing so much better now! I can relate to a lot of what you're writing about here, though my situation is slightly less horrific. Still trying to work myself out of poverty and im hopeful. Its slightly easier as a girl, because you can almost always have a free place to stay, as long as you're willing to sleep with someone. People are stingy as shit with food though, regardless of how much money they have. "Oh, you ate that takeout i had left in the fridge forever and had almost gone bad? I was planning on eating that! I guess instead ill have to eat out for the 8th time this week because i don't like to cook; its not a problem money-wise but im still mad at you."
Good idea to look at the CPU usage. To be complete I should show CPU/Memory usage under load but I've already spent enough time on this ;).
I love web pages like this. The top of it reads:

"tmux is a terminal multiplexer"

"What is a terminal multiplexer? It lets you switch easily between several programs in one terminal, detach them (they keep running in the background) and reattach them to a different terminal. And do a lot more. See the manual."

That's awesome. So many times someone posts on HN "CaffBook.ly.errr 0.98 now released" and I have no idea what it is or why I would want it.
Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) recently did a short podcast about this topic, and they wrote up the results here: http://www.tested.com/art/makers/454389-still-untitled-suppl...
Ask HN: Do social/digital media experts exist?
Is there such a thing? Do you need someone dedicated to that in your startup?
Facebook's Mobile Failure - A compare/contrast with LINE
Thought of another possibility. Rose-Hulman (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/) is more or less a science/engineering version of a small liberal arts college. Has the same setup as a liberal arts college (small classes, small total size, no graduate school, faculty focused on undergraduate education), but for science/engineering majors instead. Quite a different experience from a large engineering school, though whether in a good or bad way depends on the person. I went to a vaguely similar school in California myself (http://www.hmc.edu/) and enjoyed it. As far as degree prestige, these smaller schools tend not to be well known by the general public, but in my experience have been well-regarded by people in the field.
I am cheap and so are many other consumers of your product. That said, I have probably spent a few hundred bucks last year on online education (mainly codeschool and peepcode). The stuff I've paid for has the following feature ... some part of the education is given away for free. For other parts of more advanced parts, there is a fee. I guess this is a variant on the fremium model. This is how you get my hard earned cash :)

Regarding a price point ... I don't have a huge hesitation dropping $5 or 10 for a 1 hour screencast. More than that makes me think.