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Neat. Would be interesting to see a more detailed syllabus of what is covered when. Also is the 25% rake net or gross? It is two years full time (well 1.5 if you consider internshi…

My guess is price discrimination. They are feeling the heat from Xiaomi et al. Price the S6 more reasonably and place the S6 Edge to capture the higher end market where their premi…

Javascript is ~2x more popular at the start but is ~8x more popular now. The absolute decline looks similar but given javascript's higher starting value the relative decline is muc…

What happens if it does not get confirmed. Do you debit the account by an equivalent amount or eat it?

If you are in Canada that isn't really true. It is extremely easy to open a USD denominated bank account and credit card. Couple banks have Euro accounts as well.

Unless you're buying large amounts you're probably going to pay 2+% just to get the bitcoins.

At least they are paying. Check out this one for "volunteers" http://letscreateapp.com/LCA%20careers.html

Its worth noting that with lead acid most people target a ~50% depth of discharge as batteries start getting damaged when they are cycled deep. (Yes even deep cycle batteries.) Now…

~30kwh is the national average for daily use. 120 is crazy high unless your blasting an AC or heat all day. At 12 cents a kilowatt hour that's a $438 monthly bill. Even 30 is prett…

Have ear buds from Xiaomi and been very impressed with quality for price. I'm somewhat sceptical they are going to put a $400 dollar cpu and 16gb of ram into a laptop that costs un…

Discrete Math is on youtube along with a few others (maybe all?). Here is a playlist for it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuiNgIIMOY3d1b92udRuo...

There is a FAQ if you go through to the 5th wave link that covers it: https://www.kernel.com/movies/the-5th-wave Looks like its being built as a platform to upsell/preorder for mov…

You would think if you're using the live secret code server side it would reject charge tokens coming from the public test code. edit: To be clear I haven't tested this and don't h…

.min.map files are only requested when you have the dev console open. http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...

Scott Hanselman had a really interesting talk that covered .net/Azure on Hack Summit earlier this month. You can view the recorded video on: https://hacksummit.org/

You may want to consider condensing/minifiying your JS/CSS and using a CDN for images. After 10 minutes the website still isn't loaded and there are a huge number of blocking image…

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bpa-free-plastic-c... Seems BPA got replaced with chemicals that just haven't been tested as much as BPA but have similar effects. Glass i…

Hi HN, As a warning mobile support is 0. Don't really have anything in yet to catch mobile users and redirect. Sorry! Little project I've been working on to learn web development. …

I'm surprised one of the smaller ride share companies hasn't pivoted into licensing/partnering with municipal governments. Share revenue and let them control the processes for acce…

The NPR has a good explanation of how it works in their video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px3oVGXr4mo

Knight Landing, the second version, is supposed to be coming out in early 2015. If you want to get one be warned you might need a special motherboard as well if you were thinking o…

There is a link in the comments to a 7 dollar phone that looks way more polished. Crazy really, a fast food meal will cost you more than that here in Canada. http://wiki.hacdc.org/…