skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct. Given the information deluge and the typical tl;dr response, none of this is surprising. The nice thing about Coursera is that there is no downside. Paying close to $50K/year for a first tier university is another matter. Sadly, in that case, too many students take the easy credit and end up with a boat load of debt and no degree.
They didn't understood many other form of credentials either (like OpenID), but sites educated them and now they do.
Sure... US $58.566 billion (2011) is not enough profits
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I really like your point (1). It actually coincides with the same idea that I have had but you've described in a good way, the "Google for Learning and Development".

I am wondering why this can't be an actual web application? Have different topics, (ie. Learn Web Development, Python, Javascript) and actually have a listing/review of all the credible sources on the internet that one can use to do the learning. It would just be a listing but have others who learned the material, describe how they did it and have them review the resources.

It's come to a point where this is really needed. Just typing "learn javascript" on Google is just not good enough.

Is there something like this out there already?
Meh. Strictly speaking you are correct, but deconstructing it, it means that we can never say anything is easy (N lines of codes for small N's being synonymous with 'easy'). Yes, it's actually bloody easy to serve a website, and that's a good thing, and if someone didn't know it was possible, it's been helpful to write that 'tutorial'.

All members of the "Do X in N lines or M minutes" meme are examples of stringing together one or more powerful libraries.
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I think it looking more appealing is the key. Sure you can fit less, but if people don't want to use it, it doesn't really matter does it? People are usually more willing to make subconscious tradeoffs when it looks, feels, and works awesomely.
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Definitely. Having grown up poor and rural, but with a kid that attends a private school in a city, I am amazed at the opportunities he will have that we didn't at his age.

Sure, we were all told we could be doctors or lawyers or industry titans... But we didn't actually know anybody that WAS those things.

Compared to my kid, who sits next to kids that have dads and moms that are district attorneys, nationally known surgeons, oil company owners, etc...

Kids at his school showed up for kindergarten and all but a few could already read. They spend their afternoons doing "enrichment" activities... Compared to the local public school where a sizable number of kids receive remedial tutoring and show up hungry.
not exactly new news.
So it's like zero-day on-disk DLC. There's no way customers might get angry about that.
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Dude. Seriously? Lighten the fuck up.

It's April Fucking Fools.
The design is great but it's really slow. Which I'll forgive because it's new, and this post is probably giving you new traffic, but to be a replacement for GReader, I want it to be as close to instantaneous as possible.

This is also why I don't use Feedly. It's slow!
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I know it's 1 April, but I'm now quite convinced that Nielsen is just having a glorious laugh at our expense, constructing possibly the most elaborate troll in Internet history...

His early work was very interesting, drawing attention to the fact that sometimes what "looks good" or "works well" according to someone's intuition doesn't actually produce the best measured results. He was a pioneer, at least in Web terms, of promoting the kind of data-based decision making that many successful Internet businesses take for granted today. Anyone who designs web sites but hasn't read early Nielsen is missing out, IMHO.

However, as time passed, his articles became increasingly self-referential and self-promotional, and seemed to include less and less substantial, original content. By his own arguments his material was becoming worse.

His old site famously wasn't a shining beacon of graphic design, and he always seemed rather proud of that -- ironically, really, with the body of research we now have that shows how much influence a good visual design can have on readability. With the redesign used since the move to the NN Group site, he seems to have completely jumped the shark. Even famous Nielsen material on the F-shaped reading pattern and the use of underlining for hyperlinks seems to have been discarded. The text is set in a small size and with a font stack that will render unpleasantly on a significant number of visitors' computers (because Helvetica is often installed on Windows PCs, but only as a cheap and nasty screen version of a printer font). And what happened to not making real content look like an advert?!

It really is a shame, because every now and then he does still write a great article. I wonder what the Nielsen of 15 years ago would make of his site today.
Looks like stock photography. I assume it's meant to show a happy project team using their software.
I understand all your points. But that is why I like to see some mobile specific Case Studies, just to help and give some basic rules of thumbs. Otherwise all you have is opinions.
At the end you obviously have to test your different designs / approaches. But some basic and well tested rules would help to start up the design a lot.
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Do you mind telling me what country you live in? I selected every possible country in the dev console so I'm not sure why it would say that.
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Only testing specific examples is not enough. Without testing against a theory you gain little knowledge from these experiments. I would like to see reports of people testing their beliefs about how web design decisions affect user behaviour instead of finding out which design works better for a given site. Of course this is more time consuming but it will also yield more valuable insight.

Also I think it is important to include feedback from actual users in your test results. How did they feel using the different sites? What are the users feelings about your own concerns (invisible content below the fold, ridiculous big buttons, etc)?

Without these considerations you are just poking around the mud with a stick.
I wonder if you can upgrade to the 60kwh battery while driving. "You need to recharge now. Or click here to unlock the rest of your battery." I bet most ppl will upgrade. ;)
this is in a somewhat rural area, so I'm really surprised the roads were even paved.
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If you have to zoom, your mobile site is broken.
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It is. While the pricing model makes sense from a rational perspective, it just doesn't fit well with most people's emotions about fairness.

When you get to the end of the charge on your 40kwh model, you know that the car is capable of 50% more - but you are not allowed to because you haven't paid Tesla an extra $10k.

It's similar to airline pricing. It makes rational sense to sell early seats at lower cost, and increase prices as the plane gets closer to selling out, effectively auctioning off seats. But people hate it. The guy sitting next to you is getting the exact same service as you, but might have paid 3x less.
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Working with HTML5 Web Storage
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>I just don't see the utility of pre-processors for JS or CSS.

I'm not sure how CSS comes into the discussion, it isn't executed, and thus isn't debugged. And things like SASS and LESS are fairly simple, straightforward pre-processors.

>I know I'm in the minority here, are developers really working without debugging?

I don't think so. You couldn't pay me enough to write javascript. But I have to end up with some javascript because browsers don't support anything reasonable. So I use a haskell -> javascript compiler. I still have to read javascript to debug what is going wrong, but at least I don't have to write it.
off topic, but you could use autotax.me to help deal with the freelancer tax stuff like W9s, security and 1099s (free) without having to fill out the same tax docs a million times.
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Ireland was also a traditional 2007 housing bubble ;-) The way the Cyprus debt was taken care of makes smart people of other indebted country's think twice about their savings.

Yahoo News:
Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue package to save the country from bankruptcy, officials said Saturday.

Deposits of more than 100,000 euros ($128,000) at the Bank of Cyprus will lose 37.5 percent in money that will be converted into bank shares, according to a central bank statement. In a second raid on these accounts, depositors also could lose up to 22.5 percent more, depending on what experts determine is needed to prop up the bank's reserves. The experts will have 90 days to figure that out.

The remaining 40 percent of big deposits at the Bank of Cyprus will be "temporarily frozen for liquidity reasons," but continue to accrue existing levels of interest plus another 10 percent, the central bank said.
http://news.yahoo.com/bank-cyprus-big-savers-lose-60-percent...

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how much confidence is it possible to have in the single currency and the sacrosanct guarantee of bank deposits when customers of a European bank can wake up to find that part of their savings has disappeared overnight?
http://mondediplo.com/2013/04/01nicosia

I'd say (the loss of) confidence is one of the main reasons there is so much talk about gold.
I would like to discuss this claim that it takes a lot of money to bring a drug to market, and this is why drugs are currently so expensive.

This seems to be common wisdom in this thread, but I note an extreme lack of actually cited sources, so I decided to go dig some up.

I remember reading a book in 2004 discussing what percentage of medical industry profits went towards research and development, verses what percentage went towards marketing. While I cannot recall the title (I have read thousands of books since then), the idea did stick with me, and a bit of quick Googling produced some results:

First, and perhaps most shocking: http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e4348

Here is a copy of this research without the paywall: http://www.pharmamyths.net/files/BMJ-Innova_ARTICLE_8-11-12....

According to the pop-sci summary of this article in the HufPo, what these numbers translate to is that Pharma companies spend 19 times as much on self-promotion as they do basic research:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/09/pharmaceutical-comp...

If you assert that drugs are so expensive because of the cost to develop them, and yet I have demonstrated that the R&D budget is a small percentage of the money which the drug companies are spending, do you withdraw your assertion? Given the aforementioned lack of sources in this thread I somehow doubt it.

Ah: I found a review/summary of the book which originally sparked this comment. It's The Truth About the Drug Companies, and is by Marcia Angell, the first female editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. The review is available at: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2004/jul/15/the-tru...

More: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_customer/2011/03/...
But they only have that profit because they have patents. You can't use it to justify the claim that patents are unnecessary.
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I must say the entry level training is also fantastic and the internships good fun, whilst (of course) challenging.
One of these things I didn't even want to know.
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Including such knots as the "Mama bear went dancing so her cubs play naughty games near the riverbend and eat sweet honey" knot.

Also,

"You must have access to a tub or pool to take this course. If you are enrolled in Signature Track, you will need an underwater webcam. Students who successfully complete this course will receive a Statement of Accomplishment signed by the instructor and a 1500-watt professional hair dryer"

Oh, and it starts on 1st April. Obviously.
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I agree. Tomorrow, we might very well get an article arguing the opposite, so it'd be great with some more statistics on the table.
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