skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A reasonable competitor could light a bit of fire under them to get that fixed.

Is there anything in particular that you'd have them change?
I've consistently found this to be a game-changer: "* if you do go, don't mention it on your resume. Plenty of people just throw bootcamp resumes out. Just say you're self taught."

Yet so many of the bootcamps are telling their students to list the bootcamp on their resume.

The whole job placement numbers thing is a sham. I've helped dozens of bootcamp grads improve their online presence during their job hunt and many have to take shitty jobs to start after struggling during the job hunt for months.

That said, the bootcamp grads I worked with a few years ago who kept at it are doing really well right now.
2. That's pretty good!

3. That is very interesting, now knowing your stack (pages + disqus + adverts) I see one side of the 'problem' is that bloggers don't have much choice in terms of revenue, so the infrastructure charges with user data . The other side is likely the complexity, incompatibility, and time wasting of home rolled solutions.

The really nice part of a CDN deployed blog is handling the traffic spikes though.
Radio broadcasts are subject to the inverse square law. They will be buried in noise long before they reach any distant civilization.
Apparently they've been in a rough patch ever since he opened, fueled largely by his Netscape money. They're out of the rough patch now, and tumbling down a rough hillside.
I guess you are getting downbotted because you've open-sourced someone's proprietary business idea that they were going to kick off next week.

You may have better luck with the Wall Street crowd.
Let me know if you guys have any questions, or have feedback. Thanks!
General Assembly is located in more than just NYC - see here for all campus locations: https://generalassemb.ly/locations

https://www.coursereport.com/ is another site often used for reviewing/scoring various bootcamp programs.

(Disclaimer, work for GA)
I assume by "multiple SANs", you're referring to subdomains under the same registered domain? In that case, you can use the rate limit adjustment form or register your domain as a public suffix if that's more appropriate. The form has been available since August. The rate limits in general have not changed since back then (or even before, I don't recall) either.
ZH Analysis Russia Helped Trump by “Discrediting” Clinton
I've found that, for people without a pedigree, having 6 or more live projects or one large live project tends to be enough to substitute for that and get many candidates through to initial interviews at many startups in SV.
I would also like to do something similar. I worry that the US will fall behind due to our constant expansion into the suburbs. Large cities have historically been the cultural and economic centers for all civilizations.

Think about how much cultural change has come from New York, Chicago, etc. Now think about it, China has over 20 cities with populations over 7 million! That's like the US having 20 New York Cities. Imagine how different the US would be if we had 20 New York Cities.
There was no doxxing suggested. The original tweet says it all with it's last word: RELATIONSHIPS. Later tweets go on to explain what they mean by relationships (lines).

Scraping the bottom of the barrel with one lamely misinterpret tweet simply makes it clear who is desperate to discredit wikileaks by any means possible.

You can do better than this -- can't you?
I must say right now I'm pretty envious of even semi-prolific broadcasters. For example, stream 4-6 hours regularly of me massing ladder in a competitive game while interacting with other prominent members of the community (who probably have their own streams so we essentially advertise for each other) injecting the occasional few hours of variety streaming that I can even utilize from time-to-time to develop personal interests, e.g., play guitar.

Of course, the best strategy here would be make it on a proteam and become a personality. This has the added pros of my daily needs and equipment being maintained for me while in the roster (and probably better health benefits than I have now if I get a gym membership to regularly exercise and, also, no team wants an "injured" player). Whether I win a big prize pool or not, I then secure some momentum for my stream. I don't see my stint lasting for more than 2-4 years for either some external or intrinsic reason, but options are pretty open from there. If I made near the amount the top, say, 30% make, then I estimate I have a healthy cushion for at least a couple more years given my relatively modest desires. I can go back to the tech world (honestly I'll probably still contribute to open-source projects even during this period), become a content creator of a different kind or use my clout/connections I've built to find my way in a similar scene.

More than I expected to type for this prompt.
dagre.js uses DOT. https://github.com/cpettitt/dagre-d3
> Nice to see Graphviz trending

agree completely; GraphViz is extraordinary.

for intance, Yifan hu (U Florida faculty, i think) maintains a spectacular gallery of very large graphs comprised of millions of nodes, all rendered using GraphViz (persisted and input to GraphViz as incidence matrices):
http://yifanhu.net/GALLERY/GRAPHS/index2.html

The graphs in the gallery i liked to above were rendered using sfdp, one of the 5-6 layout engines in GraphViz, and which is the GraphViz engine of choice for very large undirected graphs not limited to a particular layout geometry
How is it a stretch? They were clearly and obviously working for Clinton.
I noticed the same thing about a week ago when I was setting up comments for my blog [1]. I hate bloated websites, so I copied the Disqus markup and opened up Chrome dev tools, and saw the Facebook URL along with dozens of other resources being loaded.

I ended up researching WAY too many comment systems, and eventually settled on Reddit. Not ideal, but better than all the alternatives.

Blog commenting is pretty broken right now, I guess due to the dominance of social networks. I wanted to write my own blog comment service in rage but thought better of it.

Disqus seems pretty sloppy. I was surprised to learn that they were an early YC company.

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/12/29.html
Indian+Economy's+Growth+Estimated+Breaking+News+in+Hindi+Latest+News
As it happened, we were migrating production infrastructure to a new service tonight, and had a few minutes of time where the cert was invalid. Sorry about that.
The unemployment looks good, if and only if, you don't take into account he broke the thermometer.

The less critics says real unemployment rate = x2 (9.6)
https://qz.com/877432/the-us-unemployment-rate-measure-is-de...

Other economists arguing that someone who is living in misery while working should not be really counted as a worker who can provide for his/her needs rate the unemployment rate like in Europe at ~ 20% of active population.

Knowing that Obama helped intelligence (sic) agencies hire a lot of contractors, he is credited of 1M workers hired for spying on US citizens.

I mean, BLS figure are at least available to the public (not like in Europe), people with skills are supposed to use their brains no?

If he lied on unemployment rates and shutting down guantanamo, maybe he lied on other topics, maybe?
Just installed on Linux Mint. The installation was quick and painless from the instructions, and it is noticeably faster than my previous MATE terminal. We'll see if I notice a lack of scrollback.

Thanks!
The pain your product is solving must have a cost associated, either time or money saved.

Anchor your price based on the value you bring, not 'what it costs to run the service' + 20%

Speak to your ideal customers and learn what your service is worth.
They already do; cPanel supports native LE https://documentation.cpanel.net/display/CKB/The+Let's+Encry...
I am going to be learning some new JavaScript tools. Specifically, I want to learn more about ES6 features, React, and Vue. I am doing the 1PPM challenge, with my January project being a Vue app. Documenting my adventures on my site, releasing my results as open source. https://roth.fyi/
Nevermind -- Turns out I was just trying to type some characters in Emacs' welcome screen, which doesn't allow that in any terminal. I was so focused on kicking the tires of Alacritty I wasn't paying attention.

Looks interseting!
Says report consisting of Not One tiny tit-bit of evidence and a whole lot of moaning about Russia Today.

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> Is there anything in particular that you'd have them change?

I'm no UI/UX expect, but here's my impression of deficiencies (as a fairly heavy VLC user)

- Media player default window is super busy. I rarely use any of those options.
- Audio/subtitle sync is tricky. There are keybindings but I can never remember them.
- Open dialog is really complex for what you are usually wanting to do
- Preferences is just crazy. It used to be tough to configure caching, but that seems to be fixed now (cool!)

The VLC UI is a lot better than it used to be in fairness, but it still has a ways to go before I'd consider it to be modern and clean.
After reading everyone praising tmux, tmux, tmux, I tried to use it several times, several days or weeks each time. The thing only got in my way all the time, to the point that now I prefer to lose sessions than to use tmux. It has to be a really important and peculiar and heavy operation, to have me still launch tmux punctually.
In the English channel, off the coast of Sussex. I learnt programming by doing it and then reading about it. I learnt sailing by reading about it and then doing it. This is because when programming it hurts less when you screw up, when sailing it's best to have a basic understanding of things before you set out so you're not a risk to yourself and others :)

The actual sailing bit isn't really very difficult. If you have a basic understanding of physics, you'll soon grok it. Navigation is a bit more involved, but not for a programmer, especially if you've done any GIS coding and remember your basic geometry. Oh, I also had to do a very simple radio exam.

Now picking the right boat, that is difficult as hell ;-)
I would never give a guarantee even if I ran a great bootcamp. Opens them up to too many lazy people trying to get into tech who feel entitled to a job but don't put in the work needed.
Curious why you're doing a pre-law program. You can just take the LSAT and go to law school...
I'm working on an alternative to Disqus called Remarkbox - http://www.remarkbox.com

One of my early design decisions is to be as lightweight and fast as possible. This means no oauth, no ads, and only core features that you would expect to find in a comment system.
Money quote at the end:

"“A huge part of an assistant is search,” he said. “Google is a search company. Amazon is not.”
MS EDGE, unlike the now hopelessly outdated Internet Explorer, has an open issue tracker. And as Safari is literally just webkit, which also has an open issue tracker, there was no need to pretend to be better than Windows and OSX users by pretending they're on their own.
Plus: "cuddle zombies" :-)
I'm a retired(?) programmer who spends his summers as a Forest Service camp host. I spend the mornings programming a "side" project and the afternoons panning for gold, fishing, etc.

My boss described being a forest ranger in the Mt. Shasta area as the Forest Service equivalent of being a green beret. They carry automatic rifles and are totally isolated from support while dealing with drug growers and associated violent criminals. Not my idea of a comfortable job.
Are they now believed not to have been? As far as I can tell it's still just as open of a question now as it was then.
Honey in the morning
Your comment is irrelevant whether or not somebody feels it is. The post title is "Ask HN: People who did coding boot camps, what did you think?" How is this hard?
> When it's many to one, each member of the mob only has to absorb 1/N of the target's downvotes. For large N, the target will be exhausted before any of their attackers feel a thing.

They can do mob-downvotes today, only they don't get punished at all. This would be an improvement.

If a mob wanted to hurt only one target, your model makes sense. But a mob with an agenda would need to downvote hundreds of posts, at least, to make a significant impact. So having their karma drained while they do so would be a dissuading factor.

> What your proposal does is just give the bullies a new weapon.

It also gives people a chance to defend themselves. Right now, bullies can not only get away with their tactics with no fear of retribution, but they can also do so anonymously. This new system at least gives the victims a chance to "punch the bully in the nose", regardless of whether that means even a harder beating or not.

Also, that you could then "name and shame" even the most karma rich individuals as bullies, by directing people to their profile and "unfair" downvotes, this is another way of fighting back against them.

When you weigh that against a bully being able to simply add another negative point, and only if the victim has decided to fight back against the bully (by downvoting their downvote), it seems like a win in my opinion.

> Yes, Slashdot has gone downhill, but I think it would have gone downhill even faster with HN's system, and faster still with your proposal.

I disagree, but anyway bringing up Slashdot when you admit that its quality is subpar is not evidence that its system is a more ideal model.
Why I Interned at a Startup Instead of a Tech Giant: The Myth of the “good” Job
"* if you do go, don't mention it on your resume. Plenty of people just throw bootcamp resumes out. Just say you're self taught."

Yep. I haven't discarded a resume just because a bootcamp was listed, but I do have less respect for them than "self taught", perhaps unfairly. "Self taught" speaks to a personal responsibility for one's own education, which seems to be the key for success at bootcamps as well as college as in life.

With colleges the multi-year commitment is a reasonably useful proxy for said responsibility, though outliers are of course legion.
Redis-backed Async Job Queuing/Scheduling for Go
I would try purely emailing / chatting with someone and compare that against the relationship you build with someone who is right there. You probably are not going to be available on video, so there is a lot of transcoding happening between you and your email / IM etc. and that loses a bunch of info. Not to mention the lack of impromptu hallway conversations and general social bonding.

It is the same problem we face with remote offices - closer is considerably better unless we figure a way to be omni-visible in a better way. I don't think a good enough solution exists yet. It doesn't help that people associate working from home with laxer schedules / attire / locations etc. which also interferes with the omni-visible thing.
Nope. I do watch a few sailing vlogs though: DrakeParagon, Untie the Lines, La Vagabonde and Sail Life. Each have a very different approach to the subject, ranging from extensive preparation and fitting redundant systems (Drake), to buying a beat up boat and just casting off on a round the world trip, figuring it out as they go (La Vaga).
Craftsman’s famous lifetime warranty in question after $900M sale
iOS version?
Only one video can be open at a time by default.
2 things:

@stickperson, your email isn't visible. You have to add it in your profile in the about box or only admins can see.

Second, I'm friends with one of the https://appacademy.io founders. I don't think my friend is lying about the placement rates. And because their model is a chunk of your first years salary, they don't get paid until you do. I'd check them out. Of course, do your due diligence as well.
What legal risks am I taking? If any.
Solo founder on H1B.
Working on a side project from couple of years.
Recently incorporated, B2C platform pre revenue.
> because of .Xresources format?

Specifically this. Without being above-average proficiency with X, the format and available options are likely to be difficult to figure out.

> "GUI-based configuration is unnecessary", so how exactly is Alacritty easier than urxvt

The config file is well documented and in a human-friendly format. Most flags will also take effect immediately without restarting the program.

> One feature that I really miss in rxvt is an easy/fast way to change the color scheme, or at least reverse colors (like with xterm, which if correctly configured it's just ~3 times slower than urxvt). This is something really important when your screen receives direct sunlight.

You could have two `colors` sections in the config file and just uncomment one or the other. Not quite as convenient I suppose. One thing I'm considering as a key-binding option is to exec a command. This could be anything like `sh swap_config.sh` and then you could bind it to whatever you like.
Amazon actually had a general purpose search engine once. That's what a9.com was. The company A9.com [1] is still around as an Amazon subsidiary [2], the search engine is not.

[1] https://a9.com/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
I've been thinking about bootcamps a lot recently as my wife is attending one and it's amazing to me how dismissive our industry is of bootcamps, while we're totally supportive of "self-taught" developers. People learn in different ways and the fact that we have no problem with people who sat in their basement reading to learn coding but we dismiss people who learn better from lectures followed by labs is bizarre.

As far as my wife's experience, it's a legit introduction to the craft and she'll be able to assemble crud web apps when she's done. It does not make up for experience, but neither does learning on your own or a CS degree.
I share the sentiment.

I am almost certain it is worse to sow distrust in the institution of the presidency than any minor campaign influence Russia might had had. The campaign to delegitimize the presidency seems to be coming from our own media sensationalizing these reports.
You'd need a new lens design for that really. Right now the lenses that are used aren't really good if you start looking to the side too much. When I get going in VR I generally just look with my head instead of my eyes to avoid those lens issues like chromatic aboration.
> Home automation was supposed to get better with HomeKit but arrived basically stalled.

No clue where you're getting this from. HomeKit is bigger/better than ever. There are tons of new HomeKit compatible devices being shown at CES this year. You can goto major hardware stores like Home Depot and Lowes and buy HomeKit lights, outlets, switches, door locks, etc. Apple made some nice improvements to HomeKit in iOS 10 by adding the 'Home' app and including control of HomeKit accessories in Control Center. They also added a bunch of new features to the HomeKit APIs to support new types of devices. I've never heard anything about incompatible HomeKit devices. It's possible but I'm using all first-gen devices and they work fine so I doubt it.
There's a small subset of systems experiencing this. Do you happen to have a Radeon video card? In the profile I looked at, glClear was calling down into (through libxcb) __poll_nocancel which was eating 99% of the CPU time. I'm not sure if there's an issue open for this yet, but it's something we're looking into. One of my testers during development ran into this so we're aware of the problem.
Averages alone don't give you the full picture; surgeons can rack up >$250K of debt which is probably about as high as it goes (the average medical school debt for 2015 grads was $183K, mind you). On the other end, plenty of young adults don't have any debt coming out of college (worked numerous jobs, parents paid, scholarships paid, some schools don't charge for people under certain circumstances, etc.) It just turns out that once you take the one-and-a-quarter trillion dollar student loan debt, add the 44 million-ish college grads up and do the division, the average lands you around your number (albeit I'm seeing $28K with newer data: https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html).

You'd need a lot more data than I have on-hand or care to track down bit-by-bit, but from the number of doctors and lawyers we mint yearly I wouldn't be surprised if 1/10 college grads were well over $50K in debt; MBAs make up something like 10% of graduate degrees and cost around $40K on average by themselves. To me, one in ten is not all that uncommon - student loan delinquency rate more than that ;).

On top of that, it's not "uncommon" for two people who are both surgeons or doctors or lawyers or MBAs to find each other and get married; these people, very much like most of the software engineers I've met, live around their jobs. The people they meet are quite often in their same fields, and have similar financial backgrounds as a result. Two young MBAs? Easily $80K in the hole together.

We in the Bay Area just get this warped sense of perspective because everyone here has to make absurd gobs of money just to make rent, reenforced by the demand for good software engineers being so high. Most of the other people we deal with or interact with are either software engineers themselves or are directly in support of software. We get insulated and siloed from differing perspectives by our monocultured Silicon Valley society.

(And yeah, doctors and lawyers don't usually become doctors and lawyers from the goodness of their hearts alone; they understand that eventually they will come back and get way ahead of their massive debts, especially as the government keeps piling on incentives like debt forgiveness and restructured repayment plans to keep people choosing these avenues of work.)
Hi Sam, I need to take my startup to next level and that requires me to work with established companies. However now everything I have is a not so fancy looking site and user traction is low. Should I start engaging potential partners and pitch my idea first or focus on getting user traction up before anything else? Thanks!
There's now an investigation into the clinical aspect, as at least one patient died during the outage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38535946
I salute you for your generosity, and I thought you might like to know that I have granted one additional upvote.
The tiling WM argument has basically sold me at this point. I'm expecting to open an issue about adding this feature behind a compile-time flag.
We use the strategy of versioned events. Event data is still immutable, but older events are upgraded to the latest structure at read time. This works reasonably well but it is not ideal.

Storing data as immutable events implies that all data ever generated by your application becomes available to future versions of your application. Writing an application that can handle all the forms of your data across time is obviously more complex but it's a necessary consideration if you decide to go with event sourcing. Unfortunately, you cannot have all the benefits of available and useful unaltered historical data without also putting in the engineering effort to support it.
I think those are the best possible thing you can do to get employed. I recommend to everyone I meet - teach yourself to code, build a few things of increasing complexity as you go, and put em online. Preferably things a potential employer could look at.

There's a night and day difference between asking a newbie engineer about their ideas in an interview vs talking about something they've built before.

I made a bad chess game in JS before applying for jobs after college, and ended up talking about it in half my interviews - either describing it, or, in a few cases, finding that the interviewer had played it before I showed up (in one case he found some bugs! I brushed it off, saying that I had quit the project after getting basic functionality down and hadn't thoroughly tested pawn promotion...).