carlsednaoui

This is awesome, thanks for sharing. Ditto what Nekopa said, curious to hear why you like each of these resources.

Just saw this as one of the summer reading reco's from YC :) http://themacro.com/articles/2016/07/yc-summer-reading/

Thanks so much for the recommendation, will check it out!

Thanks for the input. How would you go about diversifying?

E.g. Hold savings in different currencies? Mix of stocks, bonds, REITs? Let me know what you think.

Thank you for the recommendation — will check it out

Nice, how have you been liking Wealthfront? I do have an account with Betterment (I think they're both practically the same).

Nice work on shipping! Gonna give this a go :)

Thanks for the note! This looks like a good place to start: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/probability/probability-and...

Would you agree?

Thanks so much for the recommendations, hevelvarik.

Just to confirm, are these the right books?

- http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Trigonometry-Sheldon-Axler/dp/...

- https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=10 / http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/Strang/Edited/Calculus/...

I'm looking to gain the math foundation needed do inch my way towards data science. Could anyone on HN recommend a good path to take? For simplicity's sake, imagine my math level is 0.

Also, curious to know if anyone has good book suggestions or places with practice problems.

Edit: This is the best list I've been able to find so far http://datasciencemasters.org/#math

Neat!

On a related note, I recently helped write a "Color Theory Basics" guide for Thinkful (my current employer). Some of you might enjoy this: http://www.thinkful.com/learn/color-theory-basics/

This guide is more applicable towards branding and marketing.

Agreed. I would definitely not pay for this on a monthly basis. That being said, if you stick to the free plan, it does just what you'd expect.

You may also be interested in checking out iubenda (http://www.iubenda.com/en).

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this company other that I use it for MailCharts (http://www.mailcharts.com/).

Edit: Your first license with iubenda is free: https://www.iubenda.com/en/pricing

This is great — I was actually thinking about making an open-sourced version of this.

Do you have any plans of opening up the code?

tl;dr: You may have noticed a huge spike in traffic in Google Analytics coming from IE7.

Here's the backstory: http://www.seroundtable.com/direct-traffic-ie7-analytics-188...

And here's the conversation on Moz: http://moz.com/community/q/huge-spike-in-direct-traffic-from...

I love this idea!

Here's the code on GH: https://github.com/dataarts/webgl-globe

And here's some info about the project: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/globe

You can also see a population graph: http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/globe/

Thanks for the support axs89, I totally agree with you!

Glad to know that Ouibounce was helpful for your client work :)

It'd be hard to build a reputable business with spam.

Author of the plugin here.

There's a few points I'd like to address/ clarify since I'm likely to have a different perspective than most HN users on this.

1) Pop-ups are terribly annoying and provide a bad user experience. I agree, they're not the best. The question then remains "If they're so bad, then why do websites have them". Short answer: "Because it works. They drive sales. They drive engagement." I would pick a pop-up that fires when I'm about to leave the site v.s. one that shows on pageload or after X seconds any day of the week.

2) Your marketing message is spammy and nobody likes spam. Very true too. It's extremely easy to abuse something like Ouibouce. I tried covering this in the readme: https://github.com/carlsednaoui/ouibounce#the-philosophy-beh....

> Please use Ouibounce to provide value to your visitors. With tools like these it's very easy to create something spammy-looking. Not sure what I mean by provide value? Here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing: Free ebook, Upcoming webinar invite, Exclusive access to XYZ, A full educational course, Valuable content.

3) This may increase revenue in the short term but will likely decrease goodwill in the long run. This one is so tricky and hard to measure. There's definitely a fine line that can be (very) easily crossed. My belief is that, so long as you add value to your visitors, you should be fine.

If you want to continue the convo off HN, feel free to reach out @carlsednaoui

Hey plam, funny that you mention this — I'm currently building something slightly similar (platform-wise).

Background: I help run CoderDojo NYC and we're always looking for technical volunteers to help at our events. After speaking with a few other teach-kids-to-code organizations, we realized that they had the same problem.

Our solution: https://github.com/carlsednaoui/nycio (it's a work in progress). It will look like this: http://www.nyc.io/ Everything is open-sourced — we're also looking for more contributors if anybody wants to help.

How to get volunteers? We're partnering up with NYTM to build the tech volunteer pool and help them connect with organizations. You could imagine doing the same on your end but with different schools and organizations (happy to send intros where relevant).

Let me know what you think. If you want to chat more we can connect via email <username>@gmail...com

Hi HN, this is something I helped create at Thinkful. Let me know if you have any questions, feedback or suggestions.

On a related note, if you're interested in joining a bootcamp (or know somebody that might be interested) I helped create this Bootcamp portal at Thinkful: http://www.thinkful.com/bootcamps/all

@glaugh, maybe your friend will find this tool useful (in addition to all the great feedback we've already seen in the thread).

Let me know if you have any questions or feedback!

Yes, there's an option called "Enable origin chip in Omnibox" which you can set to disabled.

This option is available via the Chrome flags: chrome://flags/

You can still access the full URL by clicking on the domain name. Here's an example: http://imgur.com/eOLruTn,9VvjbEJ#1

"Keep in mind we built GitBook in our spare time over the past 3 days."

That's impressive!

This is incredible! Here is the repo if anyone wants to star it: https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook

I will definitely use this for the CoderDojoNYC curriculum I'm building.

Same from NYC.

Interesting, I'll give this a go with my personal to-do (for that one I currently use a gdoc).

Thanks for sharing!

Hi Zikes, author here: This is the best to-do list for me —given my current workflow. I'm in front of my browser with GitHub open 90% of the day and this option fits nicely with my day-to-day activities.

That being said, I definitely think that the best to-do list depends on each person's workflow (the gist approach would be terrible for a real estate person that's always on the run, for example).

Do you use http://todotxt.com/? I hadn't heard of it before, maybe it's worth giving it a shot :)