skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Price mark is a bit too high IMHO for a recorded course.
I would consider 50$ without a blink, but 195$ without even a preview is way too high in my opinion.

You should have a loss leader free course if you ask me... e.g. same as codeschool did with try ruby etc.

Also the homepage carousel is confusing, at first I thought this is only for entrepreneurs / start your own business, but only after digging in I found a course that might interest a friend (Get Your Dream Job Now)

One last comment, the "Coming Soon Live!" button is also confusing, I didn't press it as I read it as "this feature is not working, but we put here a button to let you know it's coming soon" I had to re-read it to understand the meaning is actually "Upcoming Live Courses"

It's nice to have a site dedicated to career education, I know we have udemy for that, but it's still nice to have a niche.
(coursera / edx / udacity will teach you anything, but I don't think they are likely to teach you how to write a resume or actual steps to open an LLC)

Add a video preview or a free course and I think your conversion rates will soar

Good luck!
Very true. Especially since m00t from 4chan won and they hacked the whole polling system before.
Virtually every minimum income proposal I've read about involves it being clawed back through taxation when you're earning more money. A key difference is it isn't means tested - you don't have to prove that you deserve a living - instead, at the end of the year at tax time, the income you report determines whether the government decides to basically claw back the basic income in the form of tax.

In practice I don't think that would be any different for the middle and upper classes in the US than it is now - you sort out your withholding in advance and pay it during the year, and then you don't owe much at the end of the year. You'd just be withholding your basic income because you're not poor.
E-mails are hosted on American servers and likely this affects other Americans (assuming you're one too).

You cannot waltz into an account that is not your own and make changes. It doesn't matter if the user is in Brazil or not, the United States and them have an extradition treaty signed back in the 1960s. If an American agency thinks that a Brazilian is involved in a serious breach, they'll make use of that treaty to the best of their ability. Don't forget about about the efforts made to try and get Gary McKinnon.

I don't care what altruistic goal you have here, you do not go and do this sort of thing. It's far from appropriate and you shouldn't go around trying to excuse it because they're of some nationality. You should not assume you have not compromised an investigation here.
That's a great site, with all the stats you might want about the subject :) . Thanks for sharing.

For book readership:

"22% who told us they had not read a book in the previous 12 months"

"72% of Americans age 16 and older read at least one book in the past year in print; 16% read at least one e-book; 11% listened to at least one audiobook."

That's a surprisingly high number for audiobooks, didn't know it was that big a market.

"Among those who had read a book in the past 12 months:

8% said they had read 1 book

17% had read 2-3 books

16% had read 4-5 books

19% had read 6-10 books

18% had read 11-20 books

22% had read more than 20 books"

Actually, I think that study is more interesting that the submitted article :) (less catchy headline and less processed data)

"In June 2010, 95% of the book readers “yesterday” were reading print books and 4% were reading e-books.

By December 2011 in our survey, 84% of the “yesterday” readers were reading print books and 15% were reading e-books.

The shift toward e-book reading on a typical day is being driven by those who are college educated, those living in higher-income households, and those ages 30-49.

Those groups disproportionately report they were reading e-books yesterday."
Yes it was a relaxed noodley experiment. More video is on http://algorave.com/ around the artist pages
Using your clients' plaintext passwords to log into their other accounts?

Remind me to never, ever use your service.

What if those credentials had been phished ones, too? You'd have been in some hapless victim's personal email, nosing around and deleting things(!).
Asm.js is not Javascript. It's native code!

It's not a VM bytecode. It's assembly language, and the target machine is your native CPU. It is sandboxed by the browser. It is present on any computer with a browser and Javascript, which is more computers than have a browser and Java plugin, or any other plugin for that matter. Asm.js is less mature that Java, but it will grow up. It is currently supported by more browsers than Java, so even if it's crappier right now, it will eventually surpass and replace Java in the browser.

If you are thinking that asm.js is Javascript or is interpreted, you're thinking about it wrong. Think about it this way: Take an arbitrary executable. If you dissassemble it, you have some sort of assembly code. There are several different assembly language syntaxes, but they're all basically the same. Asm.js is basically just another assembly language, with two key differences.

The first difference between asm.js and any other assembly languages is that the only existing asm.js assemblers happen to assemble executables that are sandboxed by your browser. You can't do syscalls to use sockets or files or the Windows registry. You can't fork() or run non-asm.js executables. Still, if you can live with the "syscalls" that the browser gives you, you can run native code in any browser. The browser is your operating system.

The second difference between asm.js and other assembly languages is the really clever part! It is not just assembly. It is both valid assembly language that can be assembled to native machine code and also valid Javascript that can be executed by a Javascript VM -- and both ways of looking at it are semantically equivalent!

It's like being able to write a novel where the text is both valid English and valid Spanish at the same time, and the plot is the same no matter which language you speak.

So I lied. It is Javascript. But you shouldn't think of it that way. You write Javascript. Your compiler writes assembly language. Asm.js is assembly. The Javascript aspect is just a clever backwards compatibility hack. It could have been specified to have a more traditional and readable assembly language syntax, but then you'd need plugins and nobody reads assembly anyway. As is, it's machine code that happens to be able to run on any Javascript VM. This means you can deploy native machine code to any browser without a plugin. In the event that your browser is old and doesn't contain an asm.js assembler, that's ok! Your unmodified native code will still run, albeit more slowly, in a plain old Javascript VM such as everybody has had for years. Except lynx users.

The browser as an operating system is currently worse than a Java runtime plugin in that the browser has less functionality. However, browsers are currently better in that they have more penetration and a higher velocity of improvement. Long term, the browser as a full-featured operating system makes more sense than as a mere scriptable document viewer slash plugin container.
Also, the income boots aggregate demand in the economy by that much which benefits the wealthy as that income is used to pay rent and buy goods and services from entities that wealth people own; some folks may call this trickle up economics.
Agreed with most points, largely it is timing (as with Flash's original stronghold and the re-up when it solved a huge video on the web problem with Flash video i.e. Youtube rush).

However Snap.svg (snapsvg.io) made by the Raphael creator and backed by Adobe seems to be the best vector animation replacement yet. It is really a mashup of Flash vector and Silverlight declarative style, almost an iteration (you still lose the compiled nature of it and very good compression by default though as it isn't swf -- just like Silverlight). Still nothing has all the features of flash except maybe Unity, minus the vector part, but plugins are looked at in a worse light now.

So we are in this transitionary stage where the new stuff is better but it takes much more work to get it to do the same across all platforms. WebGL, hardware accelerated <canvas> and <svg> and libs that glue those nicely like Three.js or 2D EaselJS and vector libs like Snapsvg will see it through, or further iterations of those. Once WebGL takes hold across all browsers and a couple years we will be in new, more capable hardware accelerated lands. Flash was a big software rendering, CPU hogging bummer at the end.
I was beginning to like the Kindle when Amazon decided that they wanted to focus on producing full-fledged Android tablets instead. They still make e-ink Kindles, but the cheaper ones have annoying ads, and the entire e-ink lineup feels like they've been neglected for the last couple of years.

I don't like LCD/LED screens for reading books, especially at night when my eyes are tired. Even e-ink is inferior to good ol' paper books, with their crappy contrast, crappy resolution, and ugly fonts that make every book look like just another blog using the same WordPress theme. E-books have a long way to go before they can match the beauty, natural feeling, and personality of a physical book. After all, physical books have been around for centuries. They are a mature technology.

Do you know how much time a good publisher spends trying to find the perfect paper, color, layout, and typography for a book? Do you ever notice the small paragraph at the end of a book where the typographer explains his or her choice of typeface and gives you a brief history of it? The cover is not the only part of a book that needs a designer. I sorely miss that touch of humanity when I read an e-book.

Another commenter says that novels are suitable for digital delivery. I disagree. An e-book might give me the same content, but it certainly doesn't give me the same experience, and a work of literature is really about the experience as a whole, not just the literal content.
You mean society's money you've been granted a temporary license to, under a set of rules. It's never your money or my money.
Alchemy didn't compile to ActionScript, it compiled to the underlying VM bytecode and it relied on special bytecodes added to the runtime specifically for Alchemy.

A more direct comparison in this case is NaCL - Alchemy-compiled outputs would not work on an old ActionScript VM, while one of asm.js's benefits is that the generated code will work on any javascript runtime, because it's just JS.
>> Exactly wrong: People who have earned money ARE the productive economy.

Not when they're getting richer just by sitting on cash they are not. That's not producing anything, any/all productive work they did was in the past.

>> The current system puts money in the hands of those who run the printing presses.

We're not talking about the current system, we're talking about Bitcoin.

>> (and as I explained, the fact that coins are being "sit on" is irrelevant)

Except it's not irrelevant, for the reason I've just mentioned. You can dismiss or ignore it all you like but simply saying "You're wrong" doesn't cut it.

If the amount of currency in circulation goes down because people sit on it, then yes the rest may well increase in value to cover the activity in the economy, but the hoarder gains economic power on the backs of everyone else's work.

No thanks.
Do DevOps pertain to QA departments?
Sure, but they don't typically accuse the person who posted the job of being scum, which a lot of people seem to be doing with this Penny Arcade listing.
I'm asking if first class functions also can be closures. Does it use lexical binding?
Yes, he's not really clear that 'I am quitting so I can get a better-paying job to save up for becoming a teacher', but if you parse the paragraph carefully and pay attention to the 'but's, it's what he's saying:

> I am leaving because I have always wanted to teach. Doing so comfortably requires that before then, I need to put away a lot of money to support myself when I’m getting paid a truly ludicrous wage. It is true that I am paid below market value, but not so significantly as folks on the internet assume. I live quite comfortably on this salary, and while it’s less than I could make elsewhere, it’s not out of the bounds of reasonable expectation. But I want to accelerate my plans for teaching. So here we are. I love this company, but I have goals that won't be fulfilled by working there, so it's time to move on.

'I live comfortably... but I want to accelerate my plans for teaching'; he's not quitting to teach, he's quitting to 'accelerate my plans' ie. save up a bunch of money, which implies getting a better-paying job which is not itself teaching.
Oh Dear—It's Now Possible to Make a Grenade in an Airport Terminal
In the context of full web pages how I've seen this done is by embedding a Javascript call that occurs after the page is loaded to your site. I suspect you could do something similar with this resource.

Alternatively you can look at what CDNs are hosting the resources and then just use the existing tools to compare the expected performance of each CDN. Of course this comes with a few caveats:

1/ Performance may be different on a given CDN depending on which "package" the customer has purchased. I know was the case ~1-2 years ago for Akamai.

2/ A CDN may perform well for small objects but not for larger objects, make sure you look at representative benchmarks.

3/ JS CDNs using CDN load balancing services like Cedexis mean more work to find all the CDNs that are being load balanced across (jsDelivr uses Cedexis)

(edit: formatting)
Protip: You can only argue something was a bubble if the current price is lower than the price at which you said it was a bubble.
The lending thing IS an annoyance although many Kindle books have a limited loaning ability these days.

Like others, I do often find myself flipping between books on a trip depending upon my mood and level of energy: serious lit, brain candy, non-fiction, etc. It's nice to have the choice on a device (tablet) that I would tend to carry with me in any case. I also like having an illuminated screen. The lighting is often terrible in hotels and other locations.

That said--if I didn't travel a lot--I'd probably be relatively ambivalent about e-books. I like the de-cluttering aspect but I'm probably not going to re-read most books anyway and I find e-books generally a suboptimal format for things like cookbooks that I do keep around.
In other news, tulip bulbs can be had for $9.99 for a dozen,[1] a decline (for some varieties) from the historic high price.[2] The history of commodity prices provides some interesting insights into human behavior.[3]

[1] http://www.brecks.com/category/Tulip_Flower_Bulbs

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Charle...
Ask the Zimbabweans about the insignificance of 14 zeros in your currency. History is littered with far more examples of currency revaluation than long-term stable measures of wealth (in fact precious metals are, possibly, the only example).
If we don't understand the context or audience it's the fault of the site not the people confused by it.
Labor laws? Holy crap, you are deluded. We're talking about a cushy white-collar job here. Yes, the expectations sound pretty bad, relatively speaking. But it's a far cry from exploitative labor.
My favorite quote from the article:

"Howells stopped mining after a week because his girlfriend complained that the laptop was getting too noisy and hot while it ran the programs to solve the complex mathematical problems needed to create new Bitcoins."

He should definitely have found another way...
The Mythical 49%
Service lets you "certify" a document using the Bitcoin blockchain
I like your idea of letting buyers express interest in things that aren't actually for sale yet, which helps sellers gauge what demand there is. But you do need to follow up quickly with sellers or the buyers will end up going elsewhere. Perhaps you could add something unique e.g. paying with Bitcoin?
When I got my ipad, I went crazy buying ebooks ... first epubs until then I realized that I really hated how those didn't match the actual book layout, fonts, etc ... then I started buying pdf versions of the books. I liked those a lot better because they looked exactly like the book and the page numbers matched. But after the excitement wore off, I realized that I wasn't finishing any of the books, I'd start reading one, get distracted, and never come back to finish it.

So now I'm back to buying the physical book, if I need to travel and want the books with me, the night before I leave, I just go online and purchase them, then load them on my ipad. I do the same thing with magazines (Amazon's newstand will usually give you access to the digital and physical copies of the magazine).

I've come to realize that ebooks in their current form will complement but not replace physical books, until they find a better way to imitate the ui physical version much better than they do now
This. I am an engineer and work hard because I enjoy the feeling of success as well as the wealth, but for many people (I believe most) this is not the case. On both sides of my family most heavily use government aid when they can and don't care about being successful but simply about getting by. My brother is obsessed with WoW and doesn't care about his future and my mother is perfectly content to just watch TV all day every day while my dad takes care of them both. Enjoying hard work is something you learn and is a feeling that the HN community seems to believe everyone has when really we are in the minority.
I truly loathe physical books and have done so since before ebooks were practical. Not having spines is amazing, I can read with my hands relaxed, in any position I wish at any time. Not having to carry a book is great, especially since I can read on my phone for short periods too.
mine bitcoin in trash
Jürg Lehni
Well if Bitcoin really takes off, then someday it might be wise to go buy the landfill and go search for the "Treasure of Newport".

I could imagine the headline: "Retired computer tech regrets telling everyone of the Bitcoin treasure trove".

Talk about bad financial decisions.
asm.js doesn't have support for reference types. You can access threads via the HTML5 'Web Worker' feature.
I'm curious about this too. Miners who maintain the blockchain will have to do more work for less bitcoins. If miners are earning less bitcoins, the value will have to continue increasing in order to encourage the miners to maintain the blockchain. At what point is this unsustainable?
Hmm... Or a great practical joke.
Hmm. I'm tempted to create a Canadian clone of this (since you only work with Amazon.com at the moment).
My comment may also have been a little rushed :) Making fun of someone using 'r' for "are" by harping on a relationship problem that obviously still hurts is kinda out of line though.
Iconmelon - svg icons library for the web
Better ideas than this:

* Offered paid, private registry that doesn't cost an insane amount of money. Somehow host it on the same metal as the public repo.

* Decentralize. Make it easier to setup mirrors or proxy/cache layers. If I had a simple to deploy npm caching proxy that didn't need to replicate every upstream package, only the ones that I use, it would reduce load upstream and protect me when upstream fails. ++ if I can host private packages there as well.
Then just don't press on the name for it (or click on the link, whatever). Problem solved. Just because you have self-control issues doesn't mean that this (extremely) useful feature should be denied to others.
How I protect my family from financial risk while being self employed
I'd go even farther than you are.

By claiming "if you're a nerd", they're creating a class distinction where one group can and does ascertain truth, while the "others" cannot and will not.

So not only is it the future of dance music, but you'll only know if your privilege and knowledge can allow you to. A modern day hermetics of sorts.

But you know, thats just, my opinion man...
There are some novels (Gravity's Rainbow comes to mind) where I frequently had to look up various events and people that were mentioned in the text. I can see this being helpful, but I'd probably prefer an "annotated edition" where you could view notes written specifically for the book you were reading instead of generic Wikipedia links.

Unfortunately I haven't encountered any ebooks that handle annotations in a pleasant way that takes advantage of the technology. The few I've seen that had annotations just had hyperlinks to a different page in the ebook, which makes you lose the context. With ebooks, endnotes like these seem absurd to me; the annotation should be viewable inline on the original page.
The stated figure of less than 5% DNA commonality implies a really extensive divergence.

Your reasoning is correct, but in case you'd like to edit, I'll point out that the article wrote, "The scientists determined that T. phoenicis shares less than 95 percent of its genetic sequence with its closest bacterial relative." The figures "less than 95 percent" and "less than 5%" imply very different degrees of similarity.
The recipient receives knowing the charity is out of goodness, and is coupled to an expectation that the recipient will make a respectable effort to overcome poverty.

This seems to imply that it's entirely within the recipients power. Do you truly believe that all it takes is hard work and perseverance to escape poverty? That there is no randomness inherent in success?
Your reading list for Eco is perfect, I can recommend his essays as well, his intellectual range is amazing.
BUT, as you said, above all of this stand Foucoults pendulum. A book about being human and fearing, history, human believe system and and and. A masterpiece.
I, and many of the people I follow don't use hash tags in that way. Many never use them at all. For me, hash tags are useless as metadata. They are often solely used as jokes.
I really wish we could edit submission titles to be more informative.
Well, assuming Bitpay can afford to meet the USD payments. Behind the scenes they can't actually convert Bitcoin to USD instantly, so they're basically eating any change in the Bitcoin-USD rate between the transaction happening and them cashing out. If there's a big enough crash or they receive so many payments that the market cannot absorb the Bitcoin sales, they could easily find themselves unable to meet their obligations. (Things actually looked a bit hairy when BFL used them for payments just because of the sheer amount of Bitcoin they had to convert in a short period.)
Yes, that's exactly what I'm running into also.
Amazon really hasn't abandoned the e-ink Kindles. They continue to release a new one every single year, and the Paperwhites are solid improvements. It is only $139 for the no ad version (the first Kindle launched at $399). There is only so much visible change they can make until there is some leap in the e-ink technology so the yearly changes may seem smaller, but they are definitely committed and improving the kindle!