skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended a bootcamp Winter 2013-2014, after making a last minute decision not to attend grad school for something unrelated.

My choice was almost entirely pragmatic, and was heavily influenced by the book So Good They Can't Ignore You[0] by Deep Work author and Georgetown CS professor Cal Newport.

As for the bootcamp experience - I have trouble focusing for long classes, and would have benefited from a couple or more months of pre-study. (Classmates who did the best during the course had the most prior knowledge.)

However, the camp was a great launching point. I did work my ass off, staying up all night to work on individual and group projects in the lobby of the Ace hotel. If anything, the bootcamp helped solidify my own internal identify shift.

3.5 years later, I'm happy with my choice. I'm currently working remote for a startup and teaching evening intro to coding classes (yeah, at a bootcamp, so take my account with however many grains of salt). I really like teaching, and enjoy the intellectual challenge, salary and freedom provided by my day job.

Most of my classmates who I am in touch with are working as developers and seem to be doing alright also.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/14555091...
With some sort of "proof of upstream" cryptocurrency that trickles a percentage back to the content's origin node along with other nodes in between. Users would earn credits by leaving their devices connected and forwarding data, paying most of it back into the network when downloading data.

The original uploaders of very popular content would accumulate a surplus of credits, which they then sell to to mega-crawlers. Content creators would do well to be the original uploaders of their own content on such a network.

The credits would also be incentive to buy devices and leave them running in poor-coverage areas. E.g. the owners of billboards could mount repeaters along rural highways.
Very inspiring.

I think a remarkable part of this that no one has mentioned is that the article mentioned you struggled with homelessness at least at one point. Can you talk more about your experience being homeless? Did you have difficulties finding the ability to get your basic needs met while studying? How did you support yourself? What did you take away from the experience?
What percentage of your problems do you end up solving either with rubber ducky debugging or just in the process of explaining them to someone else? I feel like 80% of the things I can't figure out on my own are solved once I start to explain them.
Run a Business LIKE a BOSS from Your Garage
My father used to say; first sign of madness was talking to yourself, second sign of madness was replying to your conversation and the third sign....hairy palms.

I talk to myself all the time, it's about more structuring my thoughts. I also swear to myself all the time. Self swearing is quite frequent.
I did my masters in Computer Science (graduated cum laude) and am currently in the third year of my PhD. I applied for a few companies but I am having trouble getting through the coding tests, which are sometimes very practically oriented (Android and iOS). Maybe I am not skilled enough as a programmer, or the companies tests are not suitable for me, or the companies themselves are not suitable for me, but I believe I would have a better chance of getting hired if I had the practical experience these companies are looking for. Your advice about reading Cracking the Coding Interview is spot on, however I would say a bootcamp aimed at studying exactly that book would be very beneficial for landing a job.
That's like, just your opinion, man. There's always going to be that lowest level before 1s and 0s. (I say this as I'm curious if this assumption of mine is actually out of date at this point.)
It sounds like what you really want is a wrapped "instant" class, which contains something more or less equivalent to a Unix timestamp inside it, but prevents you from accidentally interpreting it using the wrong epoch or units. That's what a Postgres timestamp is. Internally, it's a modified Julian date + nanoseconds since midnight UTC, or something like that. But you don't care if you don't work inside the Postgres source.

It is regrettable that APIs make it easy to create datetime objects without timezones, which is why sane people have moved to e.g. Joda Time and the libraries based on it.
It really is that simple. Not easy but it is very clear what I need to do. I have the capacity to learn the material and overcome adversity, and experience in the field. There isn't much else needed but the will to keep going.
What can you say about this beta: https://bubblehunt.com?
Bubblehunt is the search platform, where you can get free and personal search engine for your bookmarks and other information that you think is interesting.
The state of online advertisement has to change. Customers and publishers are unsatisfied and there are massive bot scam networks out there.

I am hopeful that Brandon Eich's brave browser[1] will make the ads economy less vulnerable to Google's dominance.

[1] https://brave.com
Please don’t use Puppet
It wasn't.[1] 2003 was too early for this. Their RFID usage continues to increase, though.

Latest WalMart edict: clear bar codes must appear on all four vertical faces of each carton.[2] They're tired of having to rotate a box to find out what's inside.

"People think we got big by putting big stores in small towns. Really, we got big by replacing inventory with information." - Sam Walton

[1] http://www.computerworld.com/article/2551910/mobile-wireless...

[2] http://www.scdigest.com/assets/reps/walmart_carton_marking_l...
> And you do not need any college or bootcamp to work at Amazon, Microsoft, or Google.

Until you can throw some patents and published works in that blank section on the resume where the school goes, it's an uphill battle, though.
Flywheel storage for wind energy. It's mostly used for grid balancing.

Beacon Power has a complete solution but they went bankrupt in 2012, then got bought by Rockland Capital who intend to rehire the staff and build a 20 MW plant in Pensylvania.

Also, here's an article of such an energy storage project in Ireland by Schwungrad Energie Ltd.

https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2015/0326/689945-renewable-...
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Exactly. Most SNAP employees with significant stock grants are likely talking to financial advisors, and the boilerplate message from financial advisors is "hold if you're already idependently wealthy, diversify otherwise". Too many stories of employees getting the short end of the stick after the IPO (GRPN, ZNGA, LC, TWTR).
More like:

A couple of years at startups where the hiring bar is lower. A couple of github projects. A couple of presentations at local meetup groups.

And having a really really good interview when you get to the whiteboard.
Something just didn't sit right with me about this post and it took me a while to find it.

> The sad truth is, there are recruiters who will throw out your resume if you associate with bootcamps.

Is there _anyone_ in this industry that needs to actively seek out recruiters? The only people I know with strong relationships with recruiters are either at the top of this field or the bottom.

Outside of a couple that I know are good, I don't even really take their calls. Easily 10+ new LI connection requests from recruiters every day.

This comment really doesn't pass the sniff test.
I may have a business one day that sells bits for model steam locos. Many people who are likely to be my customers belong to a facebook group, and probably don't use their PCs much except for facebook and e-mail.

And if I needed to post a controversial point of view on my model steam loco business page, I've got bigger problems than facebook.

I can't stand facebook, but for my purposes it is probably the cheapest, most direct, and low effort way for those people to get to me. It's also probably pretty low effort on my part.

The business would never be more than a cottage industry and I certainly wouldn't want to spend ANY money on IT that I could avoid.

Anyone here offering to donate their time to keep all my IT in order for the same cost I can do it with facebook, and give me the exposure it will to my potential customers?

If so I'll give you my gmail address to get in contact ;)
From that link:

'Rubin also went to SoftBank Group Corp. and negotiated a deal to include Essential in the firm's nearly $100 billion technology fund, but the investment was nixed after Apple joined the fund, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. At the Code technology conference last week, Rubin confirmed the SoftBank talks and said the deal didn't happen because another investor that was a potential rival joined the fund and would have become an Essential backer. He didn't name Apple. "I just went to other investors," Rubin said. "I'm lucky to have good support from people that want to support these crazy, big, audacious things."'

And so the tech world turns :)
Bootcamps have a lot of haters who want to nitpick the details, it makes me glad I didn't think about it too much when I signed up, I just thought, "hey I want to code, they teach coding... I'm in"

first bootcamp (web dev) 5 years ago, second one (mobile dev) 3 years ago. Unlike most in my CoHort, I had no interest in a dev job, I wanted to provide contract work and perhaps join a startup for equity.

> What are you doing now?

CTO at a startup

> Do you feel that the bootcamp prepared you for the jobs you got?

It got me started, which is what I needed, so yes, but it took lots of work beyond the bootcamp.

> Do you think most of your cohort are still working as developers?

I'd estimate over half

IMO Bootcamps are great, you get a nice headstart with learning, you meet cool people, it's unaccredited so any job prospects are going to be obtained with your own blood sweat and tears anyways.
Apple’s “Made in India” iPhone SE Production Venture
Apple has already begun its iPhone SE production in India and is supposed to make huge profits. The company has already invested in assembling the iPhone assemblance here in India in one of the centers in Bangalore.
Company that sells ads says it will develop an ad blocker for their competition ads.
How to Deal with Sales Objections
The mechanics of "pricing it in" generally involves options or naked shorting. Neither are available immediately after the IPO.
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Yes, it's aways good to think about the cognitive biases we all have before assuming "GREAT NEWS" from a sample of dubious randomness ;-)

I'm much more attuned to these things from the following podcasts and blog:

https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/

http://theknowledgeproject.libsyn.com/

https://youarenotsosmart.com/

A few of my favourite episodes and articles:

- http://theknowledgeproject.libsyn.com/rory-sutherland-on-the...

- https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/01/13/yanss-092-avoiding-t...

- https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/06/habits-vs-goals/

Most relevant I guess:

- https://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/08/04/yanss-055-psychology...
Improving the Xfce infrastructure: Bugzilla
There's no "Platinum" malware. PLATINUM is the name of the cyber-espionage APT.
I attended DevBootcamp October-December 2012. I was the third cohort of this Bootcamp, and I believe it was one of the first, I think I'm part of the rare ones who reached 4 years of full time work experience after a bootcamp - which is the length of a CS degree.

I've written a blog post about it here: http://jonathanfromgrowth.com/2017/03/14/From-Devbootcamp-to...

> What are you doing now?
Senior engineer at Uber

> Do you feel that the bootcamp prepared you for the jobs you got?
Definitely. My first job was at a small YC startup doing Rails (that's what I learned) and that first year there taught me a lot and was a perfect continuation of the bootcamp.

> Do you think most of your cohort are still working as developers?
Yes
> Is there _anyone_ in this industry that needs to actively seek out recruiters?

You don't. Recruiters could also mean the people who pour over resumes when people apply for jobs.

The intention is whoever is looking over resumes will overlook candidates merely for attending a bootcamp.

Need proof?
Can you suggest another company that produces legged platforms with similar capabilities and better energy efficiency?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bQhGS8V6dQ&list=PLA66mD-6yK...

Here's the video from last year's ELS.

At the beginning of it he actually explains some of the reasoning - i.e. proteins are cool and powerful, but a) too hard to design, and b) too fragile.
Really sucks that the word communism is now used to describe Lenin's legacy. Even the USSR 'communists' said that what they have is not communism.. but 'socialism'.

Prior to the rise of the Bolsheviks, there were a number of Marxists that were equally popular as Lenin such as Rosa Luxemburg. They were opposed to what the Bolsheviks were preaching.

Nowadays, now a listener of Prof. Richard Wolff and his the Democracy at Work project he started.
Unfortunately, what he actually probably did was to trick a scammer into threatening some poor local to get a tattoo.
Is it actually editable again?

Last time I tried to edit an obvious error in the page the edit button led to a page telling you to create a ticket in bugzilla.
I'm with Google on this one... Just smear the leap seconds out in the general case, and anything that needs to be within 500ms of UTC can be handled as a special case.
Silicon Value has a lot of Ys.
OP contains a lengthy section titled "Why have a machine language?"

Toward the end of Knuth's answer is:

"Therefore I will continue to use English as the high-level language in TAOCP, and I will continue to use a low-level language to indicate how machines actually compute. Readers who only want to see algorithms that are already packaged in a plug-in way, using a trendy language, should buy other people's books.
All 213 Beatles Songs, Ranked from Worst to Best
ARM can win even if it doesn't have the capability to penetrate the PC market right now. As PC margins shrink more and more, Intel's situation looks more and more precarious. Gaming CPUs are only a tiny sliver of the market, and one that is not nearly as profitable as mobile.

This is great for consumers, by the way: we're long overdue for healthy competition in the CPU market. ARM is not an open architecture, so it's not ideal, but at least the various licensees compete with each other, which is an improvement over what we have with Intel.

> And until that happens my original point was: business software, operating systems, etc., have been written and / or optimized for the x86 platform so much so and said software is so pervasive that leaving x86 will take a revolution or a big player to push, again maybe Apple.

The operating systems that matter are all ported to ARM. And perhaps the most important consumer OS today--Android--has virtually no x86 penetration. In 2017, looking at the overall market, ARM has the advantage in terms of software compatibility, not x86.
Honor 8 lite specs and reviews
I ignore facebook entirely, use duckduckgo for search, and pay for journalism.
You're hosting your stuff on Github so you are part of the problem. Fix that before you start talking.
I don't need proof. Different companies are skewing for different metrics in their interviewing.

Some companies like to skew heavily in favor of academic computer science knowledge. It's a bias that they have and it may or may not be the correct one. Google skews this way, but Google also interviews and hires bootcamp grads. I also know plenty of bootcamp grads with strong academic computer science knowledge, but in general this is not the case.

That said, throwing out a resume for the sole reason that you saw someone attended a bootcamp regardless of what else they know, have done and are capable of, which is what you are insinuating, is totally stupid and possibly a bit deranged. Whoever is doing that shouldn't have input in hiring. Anywhere.
> if you are passing the same data (e.g. a record) between functions, doing stuff with it, and returning a new record then that should be a class that hangs on to that data with the methods being the functions that act on it.

But what if I don't want to mutate the source data? I always wind up writing classes that are largely immutable, and it seems wrong from an OOP perspective. Is there a correct way to marry immutable data with OOP?
I hope the influence of the DUP in Belfast will at least put us on a footing to get immigration and borders sorted more quickly. Those factors will have the greatest effect on tech companies.
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I'm curious what the under-30s turnout is. I'm hoping this will inspire younger people & encourage them to engage more in politics.
SVM Countering Over-fitting
Just out of curiosity I went and googled for this. To my surprise, there is actually a service for this: http://duckie.me/

You can thank me later.
Yep, you should also send a Content-Type if your request has a body.
Slightly OT, but explain to me again why this is legal:

> "We often seek patents for technology we never implement, and patents should not be taken as an indication of future plans,” said a Facebook spokesperson.

So can I just apply for a patent for that impossibly strong rope needed for space elevators and if anything should ever figure out how to build it, I can sue them?

(Though in this particular case, yes please, Facebook, by all means please get the patent and don't build it and make sure no one else can build it either)
I'm hoping this puts a dampener or even better kills the May-driven Conservative manifesto pledge to "create a new internet".
Hmm. The problem we have (and presumably one Notion has, as well) is to somehow show off all our widgets, without it being overwhelming. We previously had them hidden in a submenu under "add widget", but we found that the few people we tried it on were confused and weren't sure what widgets were available.

I remember when I first saw Notion: it was beautiful! And the widget picker was exactly what we needed -- it acts as an index for all the widgets, with a short description for each. So I decided to steal the idea. None of the code here was copied (or even referenced). I think that when there are good design patterns (e.g. tabs), stealing an idea is okay.

In this case, I think that I might've been a bit too lazy, as you noted. I think we should've thought a bit more about the design. Thanks for the feedback! We'll get it changed in our next version. (My excuse is that we only switched to this widget picker overnight, and really really wanted to do a show hn today)
The result is quite ironic. It was supposed to be a 'bloodbath' for the conservatives and the extreme right. It looks like the left/hard left got the young out to vote.

This is largely a vote against austerity and possibly also against globalisation. I would hope that this also translates to a more moderate brexit.
Hearing figures around 72%.
That was my first thought too, but he explains that in the last paragraph:

> I am also obsessed with eliminating hardware with clever software wherever possible. Hardware is mater and is therefore you have to manufacture, move, and dispose of each and every hardware part used. None of these these problems apply to software
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Please report it to TIGTA: https://www.treasury.gov/tigta/contact_report_scam.shtml
Not familiar with hung parliaments in the UK - normally there would be new elections if a majority government can't be formed - correct?

So if LibDem/DUP and others refuse to even passively back either Labour or Conservatives then what?
Check out Xamarin https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/mac/getting_started/hel... .
To be fair, in Ye Olden Days, web crawlers[0] were called spiders.

[0] Of course, web crawlers are no longer called web crawlers, either
Zooming out and improving page load times on the web
I would hope so. Google's positive image has already declined significantly in the past few years due to its relentless chasing of more advanced tracking and data mining of user data. Becoming a country that sells war robots not just to the U.S. but also Saudi Arabia and others like it would've made me, and probably others, like it a lot less, too.
So your point is that the name of the hash is appropriate? Today I fucked up a hash function...?
At least you didn't read "ls " as "is" with a capital "i"...I only read it it to un-confuse myself!
What does this mean for Brexit? If Theresa May is kicked out, can/will it be declawed? Can it be reversed?

Also, can someone explain to me the steps by which parties in Britain create coalitions (or whatever) and then put a new PM in place? I'm an American, so any reference to American politics is super helpful.
Speeding up builds on FreeBSD
Wrt your users, I think regardless of what scheme you use for API versioning it's a good idea to build libraries to access it – if you can afford it. [Go :), ]JS, PHP, C#, Java, Python, and Ruby, and you have most of the market covered. Then you can use semver for the libraries and the user doesn't care about how the actual endpoints look like – as an added bonus you can use more efficient encodings.

Example from a past life: https://github.com/lavab/api-client-js
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No it's not. They think it's worth it until the negative aspects catch up to them. Then they weep.

Due to some unexplainable optimism, people always believe that injustice won't happen to them. Just like with car accidents. And just like with car accidents, there should be some sort of "insurance" against unforeseen douchebaggery.

It's like this :
- let's say there's a 1% chance of FaceGoogle abuse for anyone
- when faced with that 1% chance, most people (99,99%) will choose to forego the insurance
- 0.99% of people are now vulnerable to injustice

People are not as rational as we'd like. We don't have a very good sense of how likely something is to happen, especially when the probabilities get smaller.