skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Denver, CO - Sympoz/Craftsy

http://www.craftsy.com/careers

We're always looking for good developers + designers - all across the stack as well as native mobile. Shoot me a message if you are interested, email is in profile.

Short version: Venture funded (post series B), high growth online education company with real revenue. Started in niche categories (Sewing, Quilting, Cake Decorating) but expanding quickly to new spaces (Photography, Cooking, Fine Art, etc).
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Long version:
Craftsy was designed to provide the best online learning experience possible. Our courses are taught by renowned, expert instructors who take the complex and make it compelling—all in HD-quality streaming video. Craftsy customers can tap into the knowledge of their instructors and other members of our vibrant, passionate communities as they learn, make and share their projects on Craftsy.com.

Craftsy was started in 2010, is backed by leading investors, and has grown to 150+ employees. Our class portfolio and categories are expanding, as are our social and eCommerce efforts. And the good news is that we believe this is just the beginning. Craftsy leadership is strong, and our team is driven and enthusiastic. We aspire to create communities that inspire and educate and expect our workplace to do the same for our employees. We’re based in Denver, Colorado where you can get a start-up experience with all the lifestyle benefits our city has to offer. We have competitive pay and benefits, and a work environment where you’ll be challenged to grow, learn and achieve in a collaborative and fun environment.
Any promise they make not to sue would be worthless - since they can always just create a shell company (to which such promises would "not apply"[1]) and sue anyway.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/patent-war-goes-n...
This is a great change. I had to learn to add the branch after a couple of bad experiences with bad git pushes. git push <repo> always seemed like it should just push the current branch.
Of course it does. I use the internet to generate money.
Different wifi chipset? Different browser? If you look at the video playback and GL battery tests, the nexus 7 goes from worse to much worse. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7460/apple-ipad-air-review/8
The bounce rate is 60.5%. We do have a lot of international traffic which adds to the monetization challenge.
I use a foot pedal mapped to Ctrl on my Kinesis (in addition to remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl). For casual use, I use the Caps Lock key; for longer typing sessions, I "bother with" the foot pedal.

My biggest problem now is that I look like an absolute clown when typing on a conference room PC (with a standard keyboard)...
Umm, no. That's not what it said.

They went DRM-free on their books, meaning their collection of 16000 books are now DRM-free.

There is some sale for some books selling for 1$ but absolutely nothing about the entire collection being available for 1$.

This is misleading.
<sarcasm>what's with all the Microsoft shills on HN lately?</sarcasm>

I love C#. I have a project right now built in it. Everybody talks async/await--which is certainly great--but there is a lot to love in C# and .NET that have been there for a long time. Real generics. The reflection libraries are outstanding and extent easy to use. Dynamic assembly loading is just downright awesome and also easy to implement. I could go on, but there is a beer in front ooh me getting warm.
It strikes me that this only grows the length of your typed in password by one bit: did they use PwdHash? Y/N. The other components of the salt, namely the site details, are implicit.
64m users likely exposed to identity theft - analysis of Adobe password dump
FWIW, the OP is a professional science writer...that is, she's written books about scientific topics and has also produced for scientific-themed shows like NOVA. Her undergrad was in American Studies.

I'm pointing this out to give her more credit for making the career change (at 42) to become a doctor. It'd be different if she were an engineer who became a science journalist and then later decided to become a doctor...This is assuming that if you didn't do something like o-chem as an undergrad (many engineers do o-chem or an equivalent hard science topic to graduate), doing it at 42 is quite the brave shift.
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
Hunt.Gather.Snack. - Launched
What does Project Gutenberg have to do with anything? They offer free books that are in public domain.

Elsevier is selling books that are copy-righted and also recent. They're more about textbooks that are used in schools.
I'd still be somewhat weary of doing a targetless force push. For example one may get used to the command and cause damage from a system with an older git.
You could create an IRC bot or client script that recognizes times entered in the channel and converts them to UTC plus a couple of common zones.
Github is basically on their own branch of rails at this point. They use the 2.x base, but have pulled in pieces and parts of subsequent releases.
Ballmer and Microsoft has always threatened Linux with patents; and worse, they have refused to name which ones. There really is no reason to risk such contamination. So even if they made a patent grant, you wouldn't really see a lot of adoption.

Actually, they have already given a patent grant for C# and .Net. Nobody cared, except the Ximian guys (now Xamarin, which has always been an awesome team).
Awesome! I have started working on a food subscription service as well! Curious Chocolate: http://curiouschocolate.com. I would suggest maybe building out your site to be more than just a small landing page. Good luck!
brilliant concept, the music is very apt +1
It's broken.

Λ̊1 → ⊻∪ά → Λ̊⋌

𝄞 → 뤔뷾 → 駴點

Edit: anyway, even with correct (a+b)%n it's plain bad idea.

Unicode is not English alphabet. Everything not in basic multilingual plane is broken automatically. And even in BMP there's going to be bag of glitches starting from hanging combining characters and ending to ‘oops someone normalised our string and it's now different’ (for site, not for user / Unicode).
Real generics are almost as addictive as C# templates - i.e. after going back to Java, you feel the pain _every single day_.
Followletter - no more newsletters in your inbox! http://www.followletter.com

It is cool because:

- All your favorite newsletters are in one place and outside your email inbox.

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- You discover new newsletters based on your interest and you get to know are they worth subscribing to! You see their past issues and followers.

- You connect to like-minded people and experts to see what newsletters they read and recommend.

- You will be able to create and send interactive newsletters, whether you are a publisher, content curator or you want to build a base of followers.
I disagree about powershell. It has given my company the ability to automate tons of things, including controlling our Azure instances.
I don't see anything on their website. Looks like a new install of wordpress.
Top 100 using this hack

http://pastebin.com/iDTFARwq
Sounds fun. I would love to read this! I hope you finish your NaNoWrimo. :)
An analysis of C#/dotnet should be much deeper than this to provide an accurate picture. And, because of that fact, one can draw inferences about the platform -- namely, that it's a rather sizable one.

Whether you love it, hate it, or simply have to live with it, the dotnet platform is pretty robust -- you can create a LOT of different things with it. Web, desktop, service, mobile -- it may not be the best in any or all of those scenarios, but it's all very do-able with their toolset.

As with any technical platform, it's really best evaluated for depth in specific scenarios.
I'm sure the CIA operatives posing as vaccination teams didn't help make vaccination any more popular in Pakistan either.
Great idea! Why don't people use Google Web Designer: https://www.google.com/webdesigner/? It's just like Macaw
This is why I really love the Github for Windows client, and recall Torvalds statement that git is not an SCM, but a system to build an SCM.
WP may not pass iOS's market share in the US market by 2015, but it is growing by leaps and bounds in many of the other major markets (e.g., Europe, Russia). A large part of this success is thanks to the lower-end Nokia Lumia models like the 521, which are competitive with lower-end Android phones on price while being generally higher in quality.
Yes, it's still worth a read, the assembly parts have become somewhat historic but it's a nice explanation of the "way of thinking" that's still valid today if you need to optimise in assembly (of course, targeting it for the modern archs).

Apart from that it's a nice read and some of the outdated parts might be skipped.
No you can just download the free isolated/integrated Visual Studio shells - PTVS works just fine. And, imho, it's the best Python IDE I've worked with (I mostly use pandas/numpy/scipy)
I think it speaks more to the motivations of the people involved. They want to imagine themselves untouchable by the law, while simultaneously claiming they have no desire to break it.

"if you've nothing to hide you've nothing to fear" has been used as a scare-phrase about surveillance for far too long without anyone comprehending what it actually is supposed to mean.
Why freelancers should be picky and be paid what they’re worth
I still see no challenge in expert mode. Please make a harder mode :)
I certainly understand needing to support your family. But I understand why investors are so leery. Additional $$$ in the business and a redesign would probably result in more users but probably not a substantial increase in revenue. Your monetization strategy is not working at 6 million(impressive btw) users then why would it work at 12 million users. There is a very small ROI with the current strategy. Properly monetizing 6 million users would result in alot more than just beer money.

what you've done is awesome. With a few tweaks to the business model you could generate real revenue without needing to raise investment capital.
There is also the "dynamic" part of C# and the DLR. Here is a library I worked on to mainly showcase the dynamic features - https://github.com/manojlds/cmd
I understand you weren't offended. It's just that he was putting his pride before the work.

Also, yes, I know this may be more common in Japanese people, still I didn't want to associate it with the stereotype since I've seen it in lots of people (and why not, maybe even with me), with several different backgrounds.
This will be interesting to watch. The guy to keep tabs on is Scott Guthrie -- if C# (dotnet, rather) is going to go anywhere off the Win platform, it will be because Scott pushed it there.

It's a tough sell, though -- even with the underdog situation. Java took the approach of running everywhere, and Sun really didn't manage it well. I'm not sure MS is ready or able to participate in a world where the platform isn't the central ideology.
Below is the one I have and am very satisfied.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00007E7RY/

I'd like to rent one of those air quality testers for a week, anyone know where/if that's possible.
Could you please explain it? Because I don't get it. Git's (current) behavior seems exactly backwards to me. It seems to me that what you want is for push to default to the current branch, but pull to default to all branches. i.e. I want push to mean "push what I'm currently working on" and pull to mean "sync my repo's state to be as close as possible to the remote repo's state".
There are 100 books on sale for $1
each
I think you meant "wary," not "weary." :-)
> The current iteration of God and Satan (or whatever fictional supernatural character you choose) BOTH suddenly go AWOL

Reminds me a little of my favourite series of comics ever, Preacher: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preacher_(comics)
I think one of the quotes in the article resumes it perfectly : "Sometimes, if a student has really good math skills, they can slide through physics, but you can’t do that in orgo". If they would concentrate a little bit more on physics and math, they'd get to realize the "exceptions" based on cold, acid, etc... can be explained instead of just memorized.
Show HN: CoinNotify - Bitcoin price conversor in context
Not sure what you are looking for or mean by 'fully open source'. The .NET Framework libraries are open source, ASP.NET is open source, the C# compiler itself is closed is closed but it is an ECMA standard and there are open source implementations of it.
You may be wondering why I have created CoinNotify

Well, besides the fact I like bitcoins, is that I wanted to keep track of the price, but I'm not constantly looking so CoinNotify puts the current price in context. Right now it shows the last 24-hour trend, but in the future you'll be able to toggle to 12h, 5 days, etc.

Another feature I love, is that it periodically (every 5 minutes, right now) shows a notification for the current price. Unfortunately, this feature is, right now, only available when using Firefox.

Also, I offer an embed for other users to include on their web sites.

Don't worry, this is just the beginning! I'm planning to do interesting things with the bitcoin price information I'm collecting. Let me know what you think! :)
This is also why shouldn't answer "secret questions" about yourself. These can be aggregated and gleaned from other sites.

Exactly how Palin's mail was "hacked", dog's name off of a wikipedia page.
Card replacement - my credit and debit cards as well as RFID cards (college ID, T pass) - is THE killer feature. This is the only feature that would cause me to switch platforms.
I took orgo as an undergrad from a brutal professor. His name is Marcus Tius, and he is legendary at UH Manoa for being hard. He got his Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Harvard from EJ Corey. Most people on here probably don't know who EJ Corey is, but he's widely considered to be the greatest chemist alive. And Corey's lab is insanely intense. A few of his grad students committed suicide in recent years from the pressure. Supposedly, I don't know if this is urban legend, but EJ Corey told several others that Tius was his best student ever at the time.

Anyways, I just wanted to share a few of my orgo stories. Our first exam mean scores were in the 20%'s. Only 10 of us got above 70%. There is NO curve in his class. He talked about this after the first exam, and he said, "Many of you are asking me if there's a curve. I wouldn't hesitate to call 90% and above an A." The first test was so brutal, that after he called the 15 minute left mark, a whole sea of "HOly shit! WTF?!" spread throughout the lecture hall. It was shortly after that, one of the students was escorted out by a grad student proctor because he peed his pants. I was already light headed from the intensity of the exam, but seeing a guy literally pee in his pants almost made me pass out.

In retrospect, orgo isn't that bad. If I had taken it the previous year with another professor who was using the McMurry textbook, I would have even said it was pretty easy. But, no. I was stuck with Tius, and I was stuck with an entry level graduate textbook on organic chemistry--this part is no joke. However, in retrospect, I also realized Tius wasn't bad either. I realized that if I just worked on his assigned problem sets and studied those for the exams, I would have done fine. The exam mostly consisted of the problem set. So, he was very fair. However, all of the urban legend stories made me so scared, I was doing all the problems in the chapter which often took 50-60 hrs a week to complete.

For anyone thinking about taking orgo, it's really not that bad. However, like any other course, the professor and books can make it incredibly hard. Just be wary of that.

BTW, I did get an A in both orgo courses. I majored in math and chemistry, and I have to say, that class with Tius was by FAR the hardest shit I ever had to go through. And that includes a general chemistry course with another brutally hard chem professor in which I stood up three nights in a row to study for the third exam because I was so behind. I got an A in that class too.
I think it's natural to care about people who are closer to you or more similar to you. But that doesn't make it right, because that exact same tendency is what drives racism. And it's hard to say the moral effects are any different when you compare what poverty looks like in China or Bangladesh to what poverty looks like in America. If you start with the premise that all human life has the same value, then the difference between subsistence farming and a sweatshop job in East Asia is a much bigger improvement than you could ever create in the United States.

This kind of selective altruism, where you care about other Americans so much that you'd make comparatively marginal improvements to their lives instead of making drastic improvements to the life of a foreigner, is the moral equivalent of racism.
MS are concentrating on the right things, with introduction of Powershell Desired State Configuration ( read configuration management like Puppet, Chef) - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx
Just a quick comment about the C# community.

I've actually found it to be incredibly strong, but they've centralized around StackOverflow rather than Microsoft's forums. There's not a ton of activity on Github, but it's by no means a small community; and as far as I've seen most of the projects are quite collegial.
Can you show me the last C# ecma spec?
Since this is pretty much a useless conversation thread where most comments are warning you to not waste your time, I want to ask a question to people who buy books from Amazon via this one click purchase. How do I get the book I purchased as a mobi or epub file? I don't really like the cloud reader but cannot find anywhere how to download the mobi or epub file I purchased for a book from them.
This change of the default makes sense, and I kind of wonder why it wasn't the default in the first place. Kudos to making Git even better and easier for new people to get started.
The *New Performance Optimization Tool* for Visual C++ applications
I've been on internet forums for over 14 years now, the complaints the OP has are the same complaints I've heard everywhere else.
I've heard people say the same stuff (maybe slightly different topics, but the same content) numerous times.
I have no intention of sounding like a dick here, but who cares? He is going to find the same thing everywhere he goes. People are the driving force behind his problems...can't fix that unless we end up being owned by skynet.
Wow. Tons of religious suggestions. Here is another one.
I'm going to write my own version of it but feel free to use the concept:

What's it like to live forever?

You are transported to hell because you are an Atheist. Everybody is doing their best to see how they can leave hell because their flesh is on fire, and they aren't dying. Some, think if they beg god that eventually he would let them in heaven. Then you stumble onto a group of scientist who like you are atheist.

They asked you if you have ever heard of the uncertainty principle. You answer yes. Is that where you can't know the position and speed of a particle to arbitrary precision at the same time. They answer something like that, but it also means that a particle has a probability of being in any part of the universe albeit most of those probability are small.
That means you have a probability of being in heaven right now.

Given that we will live forever, that means anything that can happen will happen; one of these days we will magically appear in heaven. It is possible.

Then you realizing this is true and begin to feel hopeful. Then you think what if god instantly sent you back to hell what then? You go back to the scientist and explain why it wouldn't work.

Then they ask, what if god lost his godhood? What if all the particles that made up god suddenly diffused. It is possible.

Well, basis of the story is anything that can happen will happen when you live forever, so play on that.
That's interesting. I think if programmers in the biology realm open sourced all their code, that might be incentive in itself to write good code. Once multiple people start maintaining a project there's inherent incentive to have nice code. In addition, there's a certain level of bragging rights of putting an awesome project on your CV and getting future jobs because of that codebase.

But it took years for your (now typical) OS, server, and Internet open source projects to reach maturity and figure out how they can be monetized.

People in the sciences should start blogging more. People like me find all of these subjects very interesting but very foreign. And I think many of us have grown a bit bored with where most programming efforts are directed (backoffice, ecommerce, and social apps).
Xamarin now also supports writing iOS and Android apps in F#; it's only a "preview" at the moment, but some of the Mono developers have been getting more involved in the F# open-source community and Xamarin recently hired a well-known, very skilled F# contractor to help improve their support for the language.

Xamarin's website has a bit more information: http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/fsharp/fsharp_...
한글 is in basic plane. It's U+D55C U+AE00
It has also been free on Google Play Books for quite some time now.

I have read it. It is very introductory. The author describes the idea behind the creation of Node. Probably interesting for a beginner (either on Node or generally on web developing) who would like to decide which framework he/she wants to learn.
It's funny when you tell hipsters about .NET. They get really shocked at just how good it is. A lot of people dismiss .NET because it's backed by Microsoft. It really sucks that these people can't just look at the technology for what it is rather than dismiss it based upon who created it.

As an aside... whilst C# takes a lot of the public .NET praise, F# is the real hero in the making. When I show F# to some hipsters they get very unsettled very quickly as suddenly they realise all that shitty Ruby and JavaScript they've been writing for years is probably not going to be anywhere near as employable in another 10 years, maybe, hopefully.

Interesting times indeed. And yes, Xamarin is awesome and Microsoft seriously needs to bring that great firm under their wing. Writing your mobile apps per platform is a major violation of DRY principles and is utterly ridiculous.
FireFox 26 Beta Arrives
The Visual C++ Linker best practices: Developer Iteration
Is there really anyone that reads HN that doesn't know what's Node??
I think you just need VS shell, which is free.
Craigslist makes somewhere in the range of $100-150 million a year, they charge $25-75 for job ads in major markets and $10 for broker-listed apartments in NYC.
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I understand people's dislike for ads. But how is it possible for Google to provide a free and robust email service to millions without any revenue model? I am asking out of sincere curiosity.
I've got to agree. Some clients aren't worth their weight in gold. The worst part about these clients is that you come out with nothing to show. they were stubborn and wanted something built their way and not the right way. Too many hours, too little money, and a crap final product.
My data structures course in which I made a B- was much harder than Organic I and II which I made A+'s by never getting any question wrong on any exam. I never figured out why that was and have wondered why I saw one harder than the other. Maybe if labs were not so boring or monotonous Id of been a chemist or maybe programming is much harder.