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> > Choi sent forged wire transfer confirmations in order to induce WrkRiot employees to continue working for the company without being paid.

> I don't get it. How long can you fool anyone with this? A couple of days at most?

I have (briefly) worked with a few people like this in the past. There is no clever long-term plan to it, they are persistent "excuse makers". If a problem, like employees complaining about not being paid, comes up, they will find the quickest way to solve it for today by making up a new excuse.

And in their mind, they aren't even doing anything wrong - they honestly believe that the big sale or investment round will definitely close any day now, and they are just "motivating" the team to get through a slump.
Maciej, how much would that require, ballpark? I think this is something there would be massive support for. My company would support it
What’s in a pitch?
Always wanted something like what you suggested. It would be fair to the users, hence why it's not implemented (lol).
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I missed a call today because I messaged my coworker and nobody answered. He told me he messaged and called me but I didn't receive anything. It worked yesterday.

That's a kind of a showstopper so I switched back to 4.3 hoping they'll fix it before the end of the month. I have a Windows VM with Skype installed but I'd rather start using something else with my customers.

Another annoying feature of the new Skype is that it has that modern/videogame look and feel which could be appropriate for casual chatting but not for business. Version 4.3 can be tweaked to look much like these HN pages: text with little space in between. Much more appropriate when copy pasting information and when scrolling back to read past calls.

And no history past 30 days.

And no search in history anyway.

And that useless unresizable black call window that eats up of half of the screen, thanks MS!
Facebook Is Teaching 40,000 Images a Second to Understand Context
Google does a lot of different things, but people with an axe to grind often like to label Google as something specific that they dislike.

In this case they call it a data mining company, which is both meaningless due to how vague the term is, but also slightly menacing sounding.

Does Google do things that would fall under a reasonable interpretation of data mining? Definitely. Is it their primary activity? Not by a long shot. Even the people who want to label Google an advertising company have more of a point on a revenue basis. But these characterisations are needlessly reductive and lead you to believe false conclusions like "Google wants all of your data"
I infer from that statement that the other characteristics of N3 did not troubled you that much.
As far as I know, the two major approaches are

1) Caches

2) Supporting a "compressed" variant of the instruction set (ARM Thumb, MIPS16, RISC-V Compressed). This can be put together by using the same field for target and destination registers, shrinking the set of named registers, making shifts and conditions into explicit instructions instead of fields (for ARM), and similar tweaks.
$150+? Holy fuck.
I'm sure that's the case where you live, but where I live our public transport isn't 100% disabled-accessible.

If you prefer, you can substitute "Like a robot delivery driver, who must deliver to flats without lifts" or "Like a robot cop, chasing truant teens through a mall" [1]

[1] http://pbfcomics.com/comics/truancy-bot/
IMO compared to Dart it's not (or at least that much of) an improvement like it is over Java.
I've been using Skype since 2007 or so. While I haven't found a more convenient alternative, the application quality has always been extremely low. This includes failing to sync notifications / received between mobile and desktop, zombie notifications that keep reappearing (even after being dismissed multiple times) and the list goes on. Why they can't get their shit together is a mystery to me.
I can see screens shared by others but I can't share my one. But I was using Teamviewer with my customers because it had a much better video quality.
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I attended Fullstack Academy in NYC, completed in February of this year. I had some CS fundamentals under my belt from college before I attended. I'm currently employed as a developer and I feel like my education has properly equipped me for the Junior Dev role. Many people in this thread are saying that they must continue learning after the bootcamp - I'd be really surprised if any CS major decided to stop learning about programming after completing college. I'm extremely happy with the quality of education I received at my school, but I can't speak to other programs.
Thanks a lot @andkon...that's some terrific insight; my weakest area is storytelling and with my next video I'm hoping to round off all of the corners to showcase the branding quite prominently and making the video easier to digest.
Not sure why this was downvoted. There's even a paper that explores this technique: [1].

[1] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877705811...
Epistemic Justification
Thank you so much for pointing me to web.skype.com. I didn't know this existed and it solves so many problems for me.
That sounds incredible time consuming and very frustrating. How do you manage to stay so hostile against everything around you?

Do you never wake up and just feel depressed about the state of things? Ever wanted to just say fuck it and create a facebook account?
I learned assembly with a Motorola 68k emulator. While the particular instruction set is different from the hardware I use today, is that experience useless from an educational point of view? Would it be better to have not learned it at all?

It's not a fantasy system, but it's not commonly used anymore so it's as good as fantasy.
You mean that private corporations can somehow just sit there and collect rent from this publicly funded research? Amazing!
Node 7.6 and Koa 2: asynchronous flow control made right
I know you said no HTML, bit IMO it's the only way to do cross platform well.

I'm a big fan of Ionic, especially now that they released their Drag and Drop UI editor at https://creator.ionic.io/.
That's just a formality. The implementation is trivial and left to the reader of any good DARPA project as an exercise.
"Similarly, the Read::lines() iterator is very easy to use, but it has one downside: It allocates a String for each line. Manually allocating and reusing a String will reduce memory churn and may gain you a bit of performance."

Back when Rust used "internal" iterators, this could be the default. Now, you can encapsulate it by passing a function to handle each line.
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A long inclined track, and magnitudes of order more energy inputs in the form of steel and super heavy duty tracks and earth moving and maintenance than could ever be recovered.

Soneone here recently ran the numbers assuming you could move rocks unencumbered up and down earths gravity well and the mass required to generate enough electricity to power the world even for a brief movement. The numbers were sobering.
> wheels are insufficient

Tell that to these guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1apqfrJYwk. I think one day we have have two wheeled robots with these kind of capability.
Even Einstein, a pacifist, realized that it was more important to be the ones that created it than to pretend it wouldn't happen and lets either the Germans or the Russians take control instead.

He claimed to regret it in retrospect, only because he learned after the fact that the Nazis were further behind than he thought.

But the benefit of hindsight is not something we get beforehand. When he thought the risk real, he knew there was only one choice to be made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Szil%C3%A1rd_...

//

On top of all that, nuclear medicine has saved more lives than the bomb ever took, by multiple orders of magnitude.

//

Please don't get me wrong- I am not some war hawk. I do not want people hurt or killed, and I don't want to personally build any weapons. But the sort of hand-wringing that some people do over 'evil' technology... Knowledge doesn't work that way. Information is morally agnostic. And if it has the potential to be used in a harmful way, the best way to avoid it is to be the one that sets the leading tone. Anything else, IMO, is just wishful thinking.
It's telling that a company with a "complete solution" went bankrupt.
I'm in my second job as a .NET dev after boot camp. My salary has nearly tripled since when I attended the boot camp. The technical skills I learned at boot camp were a great start, but I'd say the biggest change is just how slow work gets done at an enterprise. Most of the work I've done since has not used the newer tech (Angular, ORMs) I learned at the bootcamp, but I've been a rather successful advocate for them.

Needless to say I am pretty happy about my choice, the ROI manifested in the first year. I'm not so certain the rest of my class did as well, as many of them struggled with the material and most of them did not understand our final team project. I would also have not gotten very far if I stopped learning independently and pushing myself after bootcamp.
Benchmarking Elasticsearch: 1M Writes per Sec
> In what world is Go a realistic consideration in this discussion ?

It actually works rather well, specially as a C++ replacement.

https://talks.golang.org/2014/gothamgo-android.slide

https://github.com/golang/mobile
(n.b: I am an engineer at Algolia) Algolia's engine computes relevance at indexing time by design, allowing us to deliver optimal search performance at query time. As a result, each new `sort` - by price, by name, by date added - requires several indices containing identical data.

To make this easy to implement, we provide a way to create index replicas, read-only indices that can have different settings from the master index.

When using replicas, every record added to a master index gets also added to the replica index. Same goes for deletion and update operations.

All indexing operations done on replicas are not billed.

By using replicas, you can adjust your calculate by removing the factor of four you included for each index,
meaning that 300K*30 days = 9million operations/month. This assumes you update the entire index daily,
whereas you could also only update the prices that changed, which would in turn further reduce the number of operations.
For those who want to try and disable their ME: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
I agree, phonegap might be the best best for cross platform hybrid apps but doesn't officially cover desktop, although it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to use electron instead
https://electron.atom.io
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What are your problems with Google Hangout, GoToMeeting and Zoom? I've found all three to be significantly less of a headache than skype.
Timezones have more information and are a mini-database in themselves, which is why most database include the information and have timezone capable types. Offsets as simple numbers are not usable in any real calculation.

100% of apps? You must not know what timezone intricacies are then or just how much effort is spent to make sure time itself is properly handled, especially in any major application that has global users.
I wonder, why aren't graph databases used more often? Why is neo4j relatively alone?

It seems obvious to me that graph databases are much more parallelizable AND more scalable, since you are essentially able to break up parts of the graph into their own computing nodes quite easily.

The lookups are usually O(1) instead of O(log N) and instead of indexes and table scans to do joins you literally just traverse a graph at runtime. Plus you have more flexibility because instead of relational algebra you can literally run any code at any poit to walk a graph.

Why aren't they supplanting relational databases despite being faster and more parallelizable and more powerful?
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In the last "Who is hiring?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460777 (458 points, 7 days ago, 965 comments) there are two post from Norway and two post from Sweden.
Scraping Dynamic Websites: How We Tackle the Problem
DeepMind Shows AI Has Trouble Seeing Homer Simpson's Actions
The commute is just brutal.
> You can't work at Starbucks and read HN?

My point isn't that non-programmers can't or don't read HN. My point is that there are more programmers reading and posting on HN than Starbucks baristas. If you hated your boot camp, the odds of you reading HN is lower. Selection bias doesn't mean absolutes, it means probabilities.

> after some early career burnout I did a stint at a restaurant job to pay the bills while I decided what I wanted to do with my life

I really respect that. I think I'd like to do the same, but the mortgage can't be paid on minimum wage.
A buddy moonlighted in the kitchen of a 4-star DC restaurant. There's more to life than coding.
My bootcamp (Hack Reactor) had a big assessment test at the end of six weeks. If you didn't pass, they would ask you to leave or redo the first six weeks.
I suspect that one can partially mitigate this risk by removing the network card from a laptop motherboard and using a USB network device that requires a software driver.
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Migrating to Spark 2.0: Spark ML Transformer API
My only experience is with one bootcamp, but people rarely don't graduate. That wasn't because they just pushed people through, but filter people out at the beginning. A month of online prework helped filter out those who couldn't handle it, as well as a test at the end of it.

If you were someone who wasn't keeping up, they might hold you back (there was two sessions, junior/senior phases). And in a rare case, you may get asked to leave.
QuesTour – Discover new Town
Description
QuesTour is the new app for android. The Society benefits from it, because it provides good balance between learning content and physical exercise. This is a walking tour with the elements of quest. If you are tourist, it helps you to learn a new city. On the other hand, if you are local, QuesTour brings your attention to small details, which person, preoccupied with everyday activities, may miss.

The structure of the application is simple. User needs to answer the questions using general knowledge or by searching for an answer around the given location. After the correct answer is submitted, app provides interesting facts about monuments, buildings and streets in the area. The graphics and interface are simple and intuitive in use.

What is unique
Unique combination of walking quest, tour guide, local tips and game. Business model provides ability to grow around the world, and can be applied in any country, targeting multiple customer groups. The app can be used by family, looking to spend a weekend together, by schoolteachers, as an interactive history lesson, or by friends, which want to identify the smartest person among them.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ed.concept.questour
I started providing wordpress websites in college (Economics Degree), custom solutions via code, was an extension of that. As others have mentioned, my CTO role could also be described as "Lead Dev".

The Startup started out as a Client, I made their MVP, and the app did well, got some traction, so here we are.
What do you mean by environmental fitness? I literally mean that strict homosexuality results in less offspring by a large factor. Perhaps close to zero.
Solo RPG with a Virtual Game Master
How to Reindex Spotlight on MacOS
Rich boys that can afford ANY toys. Alphabet wraps the hobbies of Larry and Sergey. As long as the main part of the company makes obscene amounts of money, the board and stock holders dont care too much.
It's not really a travesty. CPython just isn't designed for that kind of workload, and that's fine, because not many people use it to do that kind of thing.
For better or worse, it also improves analytics for the publisher— they can measure what proportion of readers made it to page 2, and of those, how long they spent on page 1.

(Yes, some of that could be done with scroll tracking too, "clicked to view page 2" is still a very strong signal of engagement.)
Government funded research played a role in the development of the Internet. Private enterprise also played a huge role.

So we're reaching the conclusion that a capitalist economy combined with a functional government allocating resources to projects that hold the promise of long term potential but not short term financial gains is a good system? That both capitalism and government activity play important roles that each is better at filling than the other?

And we're also realizing that a debate which reduces to 'capitalist vs communist' is idiotic? Wow. I'm proud of us.
"I'm tired of creating accounts and managing umpteen million passwords."

That's your choice. You can use the same credentials for all accounts you create and manage the entire mass as one. It's a bad practice, I know, but it's still a solution.
You actually want to do things?! You should move fast and break things not to actually solve them. I leave a trail of mayhem behind me... /irony.
It's a good thing Apple, Google and Facebook care deeply about our privacy and would never abuse the trust of their users. Or the users' lack of interest in protecting one's privacy.
Here is what I have been doing:

https://qbix.com/platform

A wordpress-like open source platform that communities can install and have their own facebook.

A platform that allows developers to release apps that communties can install. Or turn their existing app into one.

An auth protocol that works with everything else out there and lets people manage their identities across the web, and link up with their friends from their private address books.

And more.
Due to instability and memory/race condition issues with the new sykpe app, I've been using Pidgin and the skypeweb plugin: https://github.com/EionRobb/skype4pidgin/tree/master/skypewe...

This works well for me since most of my skype traffic is chats, but I have to load the new skype app for calls.
1) No, not even close.

2) Disconnect from the network. This, of course, won't stop local attacks on the AMT or ME.

This is why I've been complaining about the ME forever. Forcing a privileged black-box that can't be disabled in to every CPU is... not suspicious all.

Even worse are some implementations. I have a Supermicro all-in-one MB that I used in building a home storage server. It has two gig-ethernet ports. About two months ago, I was rearranging around the machine, and when I plugged it back in, apparently I switched the ethernet port plugged in to the switch to the "primary" interface.

And one of the monitors goes off a few minutes later - there's a new network device on my private network. Turns out a web interface to the ME comes up automatically when using the primary NIC - it got a DHCP lease and was happily waiting to be managed - with the default creds ADMIN/ADMIN.

I thought that we had that one figured out, but apparently not. Yes, I should have read the manual for the motherboard, but that's beyond absurd. And, I guess, a good reminder to trust nothing.
You could be strict and limit this conversation to formal boot camps, but the reality is that this training is happening in a lot of different places.

I've been mentoring a number of our senior support folks on coding, and they've been doing something along the lines of a boot camp. My management finds that support team are able to better understand how things work, attempt to debug things they'd have been afraid of, and ask better questions of software engineers. Support engineers get to do something different and are building skills. They have seen "coders" move quickly through support to the engineering team. Another group manages our tools, but I hope they'll be able to hack on some tools for our team. Some people will stay in support, but it should be less stressful because they can understand how things work better. From a distance you can see how the online communications have changes between the two organizations.

From my past experience in Pharma I know there was similar interest from scientists to learn to code (if they didn't already). I also know that some of the designers working on electronic detailing apps for sales at the time really wanted to learn to code because they had to transition from Flash to HTML 5 and JS.

For these reasons, I think that the make up of coding boot camps may surprise some. A differentiation may be related to where someone is in their career. Someone laid off, or without a job is probably more like to jump to a boot camp than someone who has a job. Quitting to take part in a boot camp is probably a huge jump for people, if they are in the tech sector because they may have more awareness of what is involved, or other means to make the jump to coding.
I literally had this happen to me by a "non-silicon valley" startup. I reported this person to the DA (NYC), and nothing came of it.

If any reporters want more info, contact me.
One of my primary uses for Skype has been phone-calls to family (international landlines) and it has at least been reliable in that regard. Most recently Hangouts no longer works on Firefox (due to Mozilla switching plugin API's), I haven't experience with the other two, which would you recommend if moving from Skype?
"All Out War" by Tim Shipman has a lot of the details of the post Brexit manoeuvring for power - Boris appeared to be completely disorganised and with a poorly managed team. One particular event described is where Boris probably lost the PM role because he got mixed up about sending a text to tell his team to tweet that Andrea Leadsom was joining the Boris & Gove team. Leadsom backed out after hearing nothing from Boris and announced that she was running on her own behalf and then Grove did the same.
I just met two vets at a makers faire. One was a cop for 8 years, the other doing sales for his small biz. They both are now enrolled in a local code camp (sorry, spacing name). They LOVE it. They're both deeply chagrinned they had never tried that "math geek" stuff before.

Now they're talking about starting code camps targeting other vets, help with transitioning to civilian life, build community, mitigate PTSD, work with kids, etc.
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PHB (2000): "I just went to a conference. From now on, everything has to use Java."

PHB (2017): "I just went to a conference. From now on, everything has to use machine learning."
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Came here to say exactly this.
The rise of the remainers is about to begin. May’s Brexit strategy lies in ruins
Interesting. Why not use the shares as 100% collateral?
> This is an incorrect and terribly biased opinion.

- HN
In Cooper v. Harris, Supreme Court strikes a blow against racial redistricting
Bought it, got all the secrets, all technology, software, made connections between key people, possibly made the company dependable on Google technology then sold it. Sounds like a perfect way to handle this.
I have been using the new Skype For Linux app since their first alpha release and never experienced any of those problems. It lacks features but was never unstable for me.
Ask HN: How can I experience SF and Silicon Valley in two weeks?
Hey HN.

We're two hackers from Korea, visiting SF from June 13 to June 24.

Our current plan is to just jump around good cafes and parks, while doing Kaggle competitions.

Any recommendations on places to visit? Things to do? Cool meetups?

What's the best way to experience the Bay Area?

On the small chance that anyone is super generous enough to give a tour around their HQ, I'd be greatly appreciative. (email in profile)