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I briefly taught at a bootcamp, but no longer have any affiliation with them, and I don't have any incentive to be dishonest one way or another.

They aren't perfect. There are cheaper ways to learn. Instructor quality is uneven, and the tendency to hire their best students as instructors means that many instructors never see real-world applications.

But the cynicism about their intentions is misplaced. The people who run bootcamps are generally passionate about changing students' lives.

The students I know all said the bootcamp was a great educational experience.

Rather than pump up the employment numbers with fluff, our bootcamp was careful not to inflate numbers (for instance, not counting the people we hired internally towards the placement rate).

That's just my experience with one bootcamp, and I'm not saying it would have been right for you.

But that level of cynicism is totally off-base.
Yeah, that was kind of my line of thinking. I wanted to originally call it a static site generator but then got a lot of backlash because it was really "static" because of the Javascript.
How do you plan on preventing the existence of governments? Do you intend to restrict the freedom of me and my friends and business partners to form a government for our mutual aid? And if you do, with arms, aren't you a government?
new and unique ... its addictive, fun and engaging at all levels. Really dig the layout and intuitive design ... Novel idea. Highly recommended.
The next set of seemingly random passwords will be anything sequential on qwerty keyboard.

Like: 1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6hn7ujm8ik,9ol.0p;/

Or variants in reverse.
Isn't continuing education in most fields sort of a laugh, such as it is in the legal profession? Is this the case in medicine as well?
Disagree. For me the proof is in the pudding. There are already so many shitty developers crowding the ranks of the tech world I fail to see regulation making it better.
For your ordering purposes it might be, but it sure as hell is not good enough for me on a regular basis.
I've been working with UE4 for 2 years now and its been the 2 most exciting years of my life. The tools are great but the community is even greater. I've never felt more empowered to create.

UE4 has won this generation of game engines in my eye, I think crytek should take a step back and re-evaluate everything. Maybe they learn from UE4 and compete with UE5 in a few more years or maybe they boldly fork UE4 and add their value as a 3rd party fork/plugin.

I think the sunk costs are too large but I'd love to see Valve fork UE4 and put their engineering might next to Epic's. Would love to hear why this thought of mine is naive/misguided.
Regarding the "Annoyance" bullet point, you might have a better time if you put an Apache or nginx in the front (on ports 80/443), have it serve the acme-challenges statically and proxy_pass everything else to Node running on a high port. TLS handling would then happen in the frontend server only.

Regarding the "please use sudo" issue, it's very much possible to run the letsencrypt client as a non-root user if you set your filesystem permissions carefully. Here's the letsencrypt configuration for a private webserver of mine: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/blob/master...
how many bad engineers have you worked with that knew they were bad? The mental tricks probably aren't that difficult, they are simply getting paid to get educated about some new life saving wonder drug.

How about buying technology? You've never been treated to lunch or drinks or something by a vendor? "You aren't buying a product, we are forming a relationship, you'll be a partner in the future of <widget>". Did you guys buy it?

Most doctors are reasonably intelligent on paper, they all have advanced degrees and all their friends think and tell them they are smart... But why would the ratio of great to bad be different than in tech? I'd think that you could "hide" more easily in medicine, there are all sorts of ways to make a big pay check without doctoring, like selling medical marijuana cards or simply selling prescriptions for big pharma, people will actually come in and ask for certain drugs because they saw an ad. Fact is, most sicknesses are defeated by your immune system, not some pills. Cultivate the right practice and they can simply be legal drug dealers, get paid and their customers will be happy. And nobody wants to think their doctor is bad, but before anything substantial or chronic treatment (like you need this drug forever) you should always seek some additional opinions.
Some do, but the bodies of guitars (with the exception of archtops) are built differently from violins. Namely, the top and bottom of a violin are carved (the thickness ranges between 3 and 8mm), whereas the guitar has a mostly uniform thin (0.5 - 1mm) sheet of hardwood with support bars.

One of the big reasons for the different style of top is that a bowed violin string produces much stronger vibrations than a plucked guitar string, so the body of a guitar must amplify the sound much more than the body of a violin.
The Roku compares favorably. It has universal search for the apps that support it which are mostly the big players. It also supports just about every big streaming provider except iTunes and only plays favorites a little bit with M-Go. It supports 4k and is stable for months at a time. I would hear complaints if it had to be rebooted every few days. Unfortunately the game selection is limited. The miracast support was good enough to get through a season of True Detective before HBO Now support was added, but it's not a polished experience.
Except for Clojure's data model. You'll still need to understand what apostrophe ("'") does and what keyword (":foo") is.
That's great in theory, but utterly impracticable on the phone etc.

And the "limited number of platforms" includes everything 98% of people are using.

I do sympathize with your views, but I value convenience more, in this case.
And google has a new list: (see end of page)

https://www.google.com/search?q=1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6yhn7ujm...
At least in Urban Planning, and certainly in software engineering it's definitely not a joke.
Audi adds Q2 and Q4 to its crossover lineup
From the article: "The current implementation of JPADS relies on GPS tracking to guide unmanned drops to the correct coordinates, but any deviation from the drop target, which can be caused by wind or other environment factors, can result in the necessity for troops to venture into frontline territory to retrieve the delivery."

The image shows a parachute drop. I'm not sure how image recognition will help reduce the impact of wind or other environment factors. It seems like military GPS now in the sub-meter accuracy would be - by far - the best guidance system. Anyone have any insight as to how image recognition is better than GPS or even helps (although article implies replacement)?
NGINX Plus R8, Out Now, Fully Supports HTTP/2, Field Tests OAuth2
Yeah that was kind of my line of thinking. This is definitely not ready for enterprise level blogs yet...more along the lines of personal sites/small blogs you want to get up and running quickly.
This not an uncommon belief. Bootcamps are designed so that people can become employable without having to go to college. Anyone who went to college will understandably dislike that premise.

Most bootcamps are 10-14 weeks, not 6. Most bootcamps are taught by or founded by people from successful tech companies. Most bootcamps work with real companies to design curriculum that teach the equivalent of what the company would have to teach their new hires anyway.

It's healthy to be sceptical, but the reality is that the hiring statisics that most bootcamps put out are Real. Most people get hired. Most people get competitive salaries.

Bootcamps only exist because thousands of bootcamp graduates have been getting jobs at real companies for the past 5 years. There are some that are bad (poor curriculum, poor teaching, poor outcomes), but that's why you can check their statistics and reviews, and make the decision for yourself whether they seem reputable or not.
A serious Linux kernel vulnerability has been fixed
Word to the wise: fix those bugs. Digging into that old code will teach you a ton about coding and your product. Yeah, it can be painful at first but you may find it to be just as rewarding as writing new code in time.
Great analysis, but why "per machine"?

I back up data, not machines. I would prefer that third party backup software not have access to the unencrypted files on my machines.

The pricing you mention is compelling. Which service is that? Does your model work if the data is on multiple external drives?

Getting down to a specific example, say I have one laptop and three external drives. Do the backup services you have in mind work with this setup? How would they charge?
Distributed Ledger Technology: beyond block chain (UK Government report)
>If you bellow at a stranger because you don't understand something, you're an idiot, sorry.

To be fair, the email included in the OP is not really bellowing. She's politely explaining that she found his contact information inside the documentation distributed with the app, and providing screenshots as proof. I think a simple explanation that the name is included only due to technicalities of copyright law and that there is no direct involvement whatsoever is sufficient. After that reply, there is no need to respond further, and almost all lawyers will immediately understand and refuse to proceed with a case.

It should also be noted that hosting an ecommerce platform is a lot different from being one of the many low-level libraries employed by the application. It's not necessarily unreasonable to expect an ecommerce processor or host to have reasonable fraud detection schemes in place, and it's certainly plausible that some lawyers would consider suing the ecommerce vendor (especially if the company makes money).
Over the past year, OneNote has become my go-to notetaking app and the app I use the most out of the office suite. Sharesheet integration with iOS makes it incredibly easy to save links from my phone, and it's whiteboard scanning tools are unmatched.
If you're interested in finance, we're (OptionsCity) hiring a Core Java developer in Chicago. This job wouldn't be web related; rather, it would involve working on our Metro suite of trading and risk software.

More information: http://optionscity.atsondemand.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=5124...
Too many people still use terrible passwords
$30k is the median individual income in the U.S., and just below the average starting salary for fresh college graduates. So it's probably on the low side for someone with a B.S. in an in-demand field.

Cost of living varies a lot, but overall Americans are pretty rich in comparison to most Europeans (in the sense of being able to afford more imported Apple products made with child labor). Our median income is 35% higher than Germany and 50% higher than Finland. The flip side of that is that there is less of a safety net and having less money here is a lot harder. For example, our cheap urban neighborhoods are far more dangerous than comparable neighborhoods in most European countries.
Authentic Drugs Tagged with Plant DNA Could Help Snare Fake Meds
> Yes, I can complement anyone I like. I don't need to have a pre-existing relationship to do so.

What if the other person doesn't want to hear your opinion or complements regarding a personal quality of his/her, would you stop and keep it to yourself or just keep embarrassing yourself till someone puts you in your right place?
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Your name and number are already in all major databases if you have any friends with smartphones.

I am just annoyed that I cannot choose and control my 'identity' but instead am bound to the provider's number.
It's less snake oil as it is an inheritance from a long, lost relation. Stock isn't something you can bank on, unless the company is knocking on the door of an IPO and then you are probably looking at RSUs anyway.

I'm gonna do some math that probably doesn't apply to a new grad, but certainly could apply to an experienced SE/SWE/etc.

Look at it this way, if you are making $175k, with a 15% bonus and $55k of vesting stock at Google ("Alphabet"). Let's just assume the stock doesn't fluctuate over the course of the year. We'll call your total comp $255k real money (forgoing 401k and other benefits for simplicity).

Now, you join a well-funded seed startup. They pay you $150 (even in these crazy times this is a high startup figure). Congratulations! You just became an investor. I'll save you the spiel about paying for a better environment, accelerated learning, purpose, etc...You have invested 105k a year, in exchange for .1-.25 percent of the company, if it's still a pretty small startup. Oh yeah, and year one's money gets paid mostly towards your stock cliff; you paid to accrue the first years stock until the end of the year (if you make it to the end of the year). If you leave in month 11 you get nothing. However, at month 12 you get the stock from year one, then each month you earn 1/48 of your total equity stake.

A few more simplifying assumptions. Let's say your annual adjustments at BigCo and your annual adjustments at startup are equal, which they won't be. Also, there's no opportunity cost.

Next year you pay that $105k again. Then, the company raises a few rounds of capital, over the next 5 years. All in all you've been at the company for 7 years and paid $735k for (let's call it) .1% of a company that was worth $5 million post at the time. But, you've been diluted 30%, 20%, 15% and 7% in subsequent rounds, and then maybe re-upped a little along the way. You have 3 times your initial grant worth of stock, because you were really good at your job, so now you own .000189 % of the company.

If the company has a $500 million dollar exit, with no preferences, you get $94,500. But, with all the rounds you raised, $500 million is probably gonna trigger a liquidation preferences. Let's say it took $150 million VC money to get your exit. Well, you get $66,150. Damnit...

Well, that doesn't seem worth it. How big does the company have to get to make it worth it? Well, I haven't heard of any $10,000,000,000 acquisitions. So, let's say you IPO and after your lockup period, you leave the company and sell all your stock. You'll have a tax advantageous $1.89 million. Off all the startups you hear about, and many you don't, how many $10,000,000,000 exits have you heard about? And what is that risk factor worth?

Now, why do people do startups? Well, let's say your startup is Facebook. After your lockup period, you had a market cap of ~$100,000,000,000. Your .1% is now worth $18.9 million. Or if you had an original .25%, $47.25.

I hope you get the point.
The Largest Vocabulary (in Hip Hop)
Not that hard. It's pretty easy to social engineer a typical not-HN user to install an arbitrary root cert to the trusted store.

Another commenter mentioned certificate pinning, and it Peach does this, and refuses non-secure API requests, I'd agree it's overblown. It is a vulnerability, yes, but where's the exploit?

An honest query to add on: wouldn't a nonce-style expiration digest be sufficient to prevent this hypothetical reply attack from being effective once the nonce expired?
Thanks.

Still, for me, if the text produced with the Cardan grille wouldn't have such statistics, that would be a proof for me that the "language" is real. That's what I hoped to find. If the Cardan grille generated text would pass the statistics too, I'd still more believe the text to be a kind of hoax.

The game isn't "lets find which statistics Voynich passes" but "let's disprove the hypothesis it is a hoax" by finding a test which all claimed hoaxes schemes obviously fail.
We rejected Riemann as well because there was just too much overlap with other tools and the user interface was not very good.

I actually think Clojure is a huge selling point.. seriously you should see the crap that Rackspace has https://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/alarm-lan... which I'm ashamed to say we use it (the lua monitors though are cool and its free monitoring infrastructure).. and yes its not the same as Riemann as Riemann is not exactly just an alerting tool.

And that is sort of the problem.. Riemann is a tool that does one thing really well but has not that good of a UI.. sadly we want prettier graphs and less granular tool.. a better nagios.
SAY NO TO DIDDYMO
A Java version of Ganglia?
>In C, the memory abstraction the language gives you has that leak, so it's really hard to build a container on top of it that doesn't have that leak.

>In safer languages, the memory abstraction doesn't have that leak, because bounds are checked, and new byte buffers are initialised to zero.

Most of the implementations of these safer languages are in C, so clearly there's a way to do this correctly in C.
That's excellent news, and thanks for responding! Can you share how you determine this threshold?
I get how all of these are common easily remembered passwords that people would use, except for this one:

1qaz2wsx

Where did that come from as a "most common" password? Hah! Nevermind. I just looked at it on the keyboard. Posting anyway for fun.

I used to think "come up with a pattern on the keyboard" was a good plan, but apparently it is fairly common. Glad I use a password manager now (passpack).
You don't actually need absolute time for distributed systems to work, only independently verifiable order. Independent venerability can be achieved through Merkle structures and Merkle proofs. In a way, through the proofs you can communicate anybody you're "perspective" on the order of events. If you get several "perspectives" you can therefore independently infer the absolute order of events.

You would still be left with race conditions between the communicating nodes, but that is something you can't get around anyway.
It is harder to spoof image recognition guidance, but spoofing is not mentioned as an issue in the article.
This whole topic is unproductive. We are "having an argument on the internet" :-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Wobegon
One that did catch my eye was 1qaz2wsx

Take a look at your keyboard to see that one. While it has potential, it could be a little longer. It is still the strongest one from the list though.

How so? It could be a 100-character string of seemingly random symbols; if it's at the top of the list, it's not a strong password.
Siri just wanted to share with you the awesomeness that is Labyrinth.
Also account for the enormous cost of healthcare which is not paid for by taxes.
I find the Office-style complexity of OneNote off-putting. Every note-taking app competes directly with the physical notebook in my pocket, which is a pretty straightforward product UX-wise, while OneNote doesn't even try to imitate a sense of simplicity.
Multiple File Upload in Node.js
/disclaimer: I work at Apiary/

A hosted mock server is part of Apiary suite of tools for the entire API design lifecycle. Others would include interactive documentation, traffic inspector, backend testing and style guide validation. We hope to encourage collaboration and bring the design-first, documentation-oriented approach to the world of API development.
"it may be that he was sexually attracted to her and she may not have shown enough rejection signs"

The problem is that the onus should not be on her to show rejection signs.

'I'm sorry for mugging you, I thought you were just giving me that $50 - you didn't show enough rejection signs'
Oh, it actually worked? I waited a couple seconds and closed it, assuming it was broken.
I'm intrigued by the downvote. I've seen lots of misogynism in less technical industries and much less in some large mature technology organizations. Does the downvoter disagree that the behavior in Silicon Valley gets more attention? I haven't been in Silicon Valley myself in over ten years, so I don't know what it's like there. I just see lots of bad behavior in other regions and industries that's not blogged about.
Telling people that a 6 week bootcamp is the same as a 4 year CS degree is absurd and offensive.

Having met and interviewed many CS graduates I've found that a lot of them simply can't write code. The ones that can tend to be the ones who've learned in their own time, often being able to write software before they even went to university.

If a 6 week course can get someone to be even 50% as good as a 4 year degree then the degree is the thing that has a problem.
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> I see no need to sugar-coat calling out poor decision making in any sphere.

You can't help someone who consistently acts against their own best interests. At least, not the way you want to help them. All you can do is try to be understanding and work to keep the worst outcomes from happening.

We want a policy solution? We could fund more soup kitchens. We help the poor with government programs because the poor are desperate enough to actually use the programs. What are you going to do for the middle class? They're entirely too proud for handouts, but that's really the only thing government can do.

They won't even go to church, the quintessential middle-class charity.
Ask HN: How to find good financial/tax advice person after liquidity event
Hey, posting this under a throwaway for obvious reasons. Had a liquidity event happen recently which netted me a few hundred K. I'm excited about it but have no idea what to do with it! I mean, I have some ideas, but don't want to mess this up either from a tax/future standpoint.

I'm fairly young and have literally no friends that this has happened to, so I don't even know who to ask for advice or recommendations.

If you had to find a financial adviser, tax adviser, or basically someone to give advice on all of this from scratch, what would you do? Also what kind of questions would you ask candidates?

If it helps, I'm based out of New York.
1. The point is that she must have felt very uncomfortable, despite hiding her discomfort behind a tough attitude. The fact that she was able to cope with the way she was treated doesn't mean she didn't suffer and was not a victim of sexual harassment.

2. They are the examples provided by the dictionary to get the point across. Notice how they are inside the quotation marks.
Well, if it is about me then I can take a hint. I don't need to step on the same landmine twice.

Others might need an assist.

The point being is that I don't need permission to tell someone something that I think is innocuous, such as a complement.
this is probably not the right forum to express this on, but it's what's in front of me right now and it's topical, so here it goes:

I have seen the feature of being able to customize the login screen come up in discussions about gitlab come up so many times, in so many places, and I usually see it met with "EE feature" or a community member saying something like "gitlab is open source just change the files on your server".

This seems like such a basic thing for an open source software like gitlab to just provide out of the box, i can't believe it isn't listed under your " ... an EE feature that is would come up frequently in these conversations ... " that you "would not hesitate to open source". Especially since at least several of the people you're replying to in this thread have mentioned it specifically.

Is gitlab really making enough income from enterprises who decide that this is the killer feature that they need to pay for EE to get?

It seems like a simple matter of moving the gitlab branding on the login page to the footer with a "powered by gitlab" type of thing and a logo.

Please don't take my meaning as a hateful rant, I love gitlab and personally manage 2 seperate deployments of gitlab CE, but i am not ashamed of saying that this is something of a frusteration to me, and I have a hard time taking this

>If there is an EE feature that is would come up frequently in these conversations we would not hesitate to open source it

statement seriously in light of how many times I have seen this seemingly harmless feature shot down for essentially no real reason.