skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I graduated from General Assembly's bootcamp in the fall of 2013 (1.5 years out of college). Found an internship 3 weeks after I hired via the developer Meet & Greet GA hosted, and was hired full time at a startup a month into the internship. I'm still with the same company almost 3.5 years later in an engineering team lead role. Like some other commenters said, at GA I learned how to learn. I graduated the program still knowing very little about programming to be honest and I was lucky I got hired at an early stage company that asked a lot of me and forced me to learn quickly. I never would have gotten the job I got without GA because at the time I learned better with the accountability and structure of a classroom setting. In terms of skills, I haven't touched Ruby since GA and I knew basic JS, but GA was critical in teaching me how to be comfortable working through problems I have no idea how to solve.

Of my cohort of 15, I think over half are developers, a few are in other product roles at startups, and 1 or 2 went back to their previous jobs.
I could add so system theory on how insect perceive the world in great detail yet a bit different than us (bertalanffy did research on the "render period" of insects). IT's not really "mystique", more a holistic view on things. It's an insect, it's a pile or bio mechanic organic goo, it's quite intelligent, it's beautiful to watch, it's similar to us, it's part of the whole ecosystem.

But the thing is, the more I know about the universe, the less I want to "know". Or at least the less I want to turn into application, business and all that; which in this is case is often hubris, ignorance (selling things hidden behind marketing talk and shiney package), for the purpose of being the best, owning a market, "advancing" the world (when most people need more basic things but alas).
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Watch Silicon Valley. Ride the Caltrain.
I would say that the language is undeniably laddish throughout. And, to the extent that it is written for lads, it can be be construed as being sexist.
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Putting sexism to the side, do you not think this is laddish behavior?
It's more than "just adding another hotkey for it", it's making it finally viable to most Linux users, for whom Alt+LeftClick was unusable due to being intercepted by the Window Manager as a drag window event. (And no, I don't want to re-bind this WM event, it's has been well-known and convenient for decades :).

Thanks vscode team!
“an ex administrator has deleted all customer data and wiped most servers”
Ah okay. I thought that Intel bins everything from high-grade Xeon to i3 from the same silicon to save costs.
You mean one vote difference? Because I find it hard to believe that voter turnout is that low. :)
don't forget about the irish coffees and overpriced mediocre croissants. or pretending not to be alcoholics at brunch the next morning, with 5 of your closest enablers, slamming bottomless mimosas and bloody marys. do this while talking about work, and how drunk you got last night, and how amazing the benedict is while posting pictures of it to instagram, even though you can barely taste it after waiting 90 minutes in line for the privilege of paying $75 per person not including tip and the foodservice healthcare surcharge.
How is this a billion dollar company?

One could argue that this is one of the reasons they become a billion dollar company: They disregarded laws and norms and just did whatever, getting away with it because of a tech halo.

If the company had started with a conservative legal foundation, it would have been one of dozens of small taxi hailing apps. They said to hell with it and a lot of people got rich.
Agreed ... I've been tuning my pass "records" and still haven't got them exactly the way I want. Sharing pass records is possible since you can encrypt each password with more than one public key.
Are you aware of usable alternatives to Netflix? (I am not). This is the problem I guess...
If you don't have a culture of such infantile frat-house behaviour, you don't distribute such memos.

It might surprise you, but this isn't how adults communicate, or want to be talked to. This is frat boys communicating to frat boys, making everyone else feel unsafe and unwelcome just by using this aggressively immature and tasteless tone.

Full disclosure: I've just been fired from a similar company partly because I didn't tolerate the CEO and fellow managers communicating to my team in such an offensive way. Which obviously made me a bad cultural fit, as a grown up over the age of 40.
I expect that many people who enroll in bootcamps are coming from domains other than sw development. As such, they may have years of experience and skill-sets which complement the new skills they picked up at bootcamp.

Its not the bootcamp alone which is responsible for any person's success or advance, its a combination of factors, just like it would be if you replace "bootcamp" with "university degree".
Has anyone ever designed an API with subversioning on single calls?

So you'd have:
service.com/api/v1/do_thing/v2/param

That way, you wouldn't have to try to snap new features to entire numbered revisions,and could open new parameters / results up to clients who are interested in the meantime. Seems like it would be the best of both worlds, but I've never had to design a serious API.
I don't mean to be insulting, but maybe you need to take an honest look at yourself. Good education and worthwhile experience are indeed completely worthless if you don't interview well and can't convey your abilities. You're not entitled to a solid career just because you got a degree, you have to convince others that you have value still.

Likewise, for all we know your professors passed you to get you out of their classes and you learned nothing in school and are undeserving of a degree but have one anyways and your experience is shit and every coworker you've had thinks you're a terrible programmer and create negative value. Maybe you're being paid completely what you're worth? Maybe too much? Those sorts of people also exist.
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Exactly. It's hard to "talk" to them, maybe impossible. If we could tell insects please expell some protein threads, or squirrels to grab fruits for us, we'd probably need zero tech.
> Intel ME runs even when the main processor is powered off, and while this feature looks pretty shady, Intel built ME to provide remote administration capabilities to companies that manage large networks of thousands of computers.

So they exposed millions of consumer and business computers in order to satisfy a niche enterprise usecase? Why is this not something that has to be manually turned on?

Intel ME has always sounded like a glaring security risk. Another operating system running in the background that can run it's own network stack? This is 100% being exploited by intel agencies.
To me though a better approach would be:

1. wheeled sidewalk robots.
2. wheeled robot with arms
3. walking robot.

Still incremental just have sellable robots the whole time.
Here's the whole line item in Uber's e-mail:

> 4) Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic "YES! I will have sex with you" AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command. Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML

First: This is completely inappropriate to bring up in this way in a work environment.

Second: When it comes to sexual harassment issues in the workplace, women are the main victims, which is probably why the Guardian reporter wrote that sentence as they did. Not only does this text give a green light to very questionable behavior (which will mostly or entirely be perpetrated against women by men), but it also implies that CEO Kalanick -- someone employees might take as a role model -- has and will continue to have sex with underlings, but just not on this trip.

Yeah, it's probably a joke. If so, it's a dumb and inappropriate joke. And Kalanick was 37 when he wrote this. Not 22. Not some newb CEO. 37.
Sounds similar to Scale (https://www.scaleapi.com)
This only works though if the pretraining and your training, both are with the data in the same domain. Even in that you will have issues if the data was from same domain but different in representation, e.g. 2D and 3D image datasets.
"I host my own content on my own servers, or on rented VM's (not AWS). I host my personal home-page on a VM ..."

This sounds a lot like my own practices.

There is one pitfall which I find interesting and that is that you cannot host your own phone number in the same way that you host your own email/DNS.

If you own a domain and self-host your DNS and mail, you really are the provider - the requests come to you and you first and you have a good deal of "control" over that resource.

However, unless you actually become a CLEC, you cannot "own" your own phone number and become the "server" of that resource. No matter what your setup, some third party intercepts that requests and hands it to you - you are never first in line with a phone call.

One reason this is interesting is, if you run your own mail server, you can email other local users without generating any network traffic - it's just a local copy operation. This is not the case with VOIP/asterisk/anything - your calls are going over the telco network no matter what (again, unless you are a CLEC).
Buses are transient and routes change over the years. Streetcars, due to rails, give a sense of permanence to an area to encourage development. San Francisco is a great example with expansion of the N-Judah. You can see development along Cole Valley, UCSF, Inner Sunset, etc precisely because the rail tracks were planted there.

OTOH, the 405 expansion project in Los Angeles was a boondoggle. $1.1 Billion and Five Years Later, the 405 Congestion Relief Project Is a Fail: http://www.laweekly.com/news/11-billion-and-five-years-later...
Original source : https://www.recode.net/2017/6/8/15765514/2013-miami-letter-u...

Can a moderator change the url?
Maybe should try on another level alltogether.
Here something from 6y ago. (i even posted it here then but with near-zero attention).

A (personal) system that keeps your own notions (and versions of) and crosslinks them to each another, with translators to/from other persons/entity notions (and subsets - think i/o facades/faces).

Like the tags u put on your images. And how u would explain them to somebody else. And take some of their images (i.e. of same event) with their tags. And tag them yourself. maybe in time.

http://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/notionery/
http://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/notionery/1.html

it's rough sketch, may live on top of any p2p technology.
Back then noone could be bothered about "why would i put another layer around myself". Now maybe the awareness is better, i don't know. (contacts in profile or that site)
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It really depends on what you want to do: disseminate information (with a canonical URL that you control) or shovel users to your server?

In the former case, AMP caches are a reasonable compromise since it's really just a free CDN.
In the latter case, that cache is annoying because of how it needs to fit in the design of the contemporary web. See the last paragraph of https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2017/01/13/why-amp-caches-exis... for some ideas on how to improve the platform so the caches wouldn't be necessary for much of AMP.
> The so-called “Miami letter”, obtained by technology site Recode, is infamous within Uber and set the tone for company culture with a series of dos and don’ts, backed by threats such as “URGENT, URGENT – READ THIS NOW OR ELSE!!!!!” and “You better read this or I’ll kick your ass”.

> Fourth on the list of don’ts was: “Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic “YES! I will have sex with you” AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command.

> “Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML [Fuck My Life].”

> Kalanick also advised that there would be a “$200 puke charge” and that Uber did “not have a budget to bail anyone out of jail”. Uber employees were also advised not to “throw large kegs off of tall buildings”.

> However, employees were told to “have a great fucking time” and that it was a celebration for launching in Uber’s 50th city and for reaching a $1bn run rate.

> The leaked memo paints an ugly picture of American frat-house culture peppered with sexism and laddish behaviour that permeates from the top down. At the time Uber had 400 employees, a similar letter was sent out by Kalanick to employees when the company had 1,800 employees. By the time it had hit 4,000 employees Rachel Whetstone, the now departed head of communications, had taken over with a more subtle and respectful tone.

I'm a bit confused here, at least with the excerpt that's being discussed/referenced. What Kalanick wrote is informal and with a tone that is arguable less mature than what would be expected from a company the size of uber when the letter was written. At the same time, from what I can see it seems to just something HR would send out to employees. "Yes means yes, nothing means no and don't sleep with your boss/direct suboordinate." I'm a bit confused at how this memo paints, "paints an ugly picture of American frat-house culture peppered with sexism..."

Yes, uber's culture seems to encourage sexism to run rampant. Yes, Travis Kalanick is not a ceo with great pr skills. That said, I think it's a bit far to call this informal hr letter written by a startup ceo as, "painting a culture of sexism."

I can see how the, "frat boy" culture that this letter came from could be something that encourages sexism and discriminatory behavior. This article isn't about that though. It's arguing that this letter and it's "guidelines" paint a picture of sexism. The subtitle:

>Guidelines about having sex with employees paints picture of sexism at under-fire company that comes directly from CEO Travis Kalanick

This article seems to just want to reiterate what's been said in a dozen previous articles, but since they didn't have any new information they decided to go for low hanging fruit in the uber trainwreck.Bashing uber just for the sake of bashing uber.
Philz FTW. Go to the In-n-Out on Rengsgtorff.
Volume 4a there's a dozen or so mentions and examples of writing cache-friendly code. CS:APP 3/e is another book that gives general advice for writing cache friendly code. In fact CS:APP the chapters you can read side by side with TAOCP series: floating point, arithmetic operations, bit shifting, optimizations, boolean logic ect are in both books with TAOCP going much more into detail of course. I used the TAOCP chapter on bitwise ops in 4a to finish my CS:APP datalab assignment that was giving me problems.
This is a smart thing to do! I might do it eventually... not right now though, because of <insert whatever reason you can think of here>, and stuff, you know.
Exactly.

The turning point where I started thinking in English increasingly was when I stopped watching TV shows and movies dubbed and went looking for the original version instead.
This sounds like a perfect night out. The SF part. Not the San Jose part.
> > 4) Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic "YES! I will have sex with you" AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command. Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML

> This is completely inappropriate to bring up in this way in a work environment.

Active consent is a good thing and always good to bring up at social events. Pretending that some staff don't have sex with other - particularly staff who spend long hours in the same environment - is naive and dangerous, since it stops issues like this from being addressed. Pointing out that not having sex with someone who reports you applies to EVERYONE is also important.

> Not only does this text give a green light to very questionable behavior

What questionable behavior does it give a green light to?
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I'd recommend reading the linked article, because there are some self-evidently laddish bits therein....such as, Uber explicitly mentioning in the pre-offsite email that Travis was not planning on having sex with any of his employees at the event and then cheekily tagging the sentence as #CEOLife and #FML.

Or telling employees to "have a great fucking time" but "don't throw kegs off of tall buildings"....I mean, I read that as them pretty explicitly saying, "we expect you to get drunk and rowdy, just make sure to stop before you do anything that has legal repercussions".

That's not laddish?
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding the discussion and do not see the "wrong" way: it seems that this consistent, incremental improvement is the "right way" to get to the the "right result". Isn't that very much a tenet of a whatever one may want to call a "lean start-up"

"""

We started with a completely unscalable solution, which enabled us to validate the need. We then evolved it, step by step, to make it support more and more users. On the way, we learned not only about our users, but also discovered what the technology requirements were. We can only speculate what the outcome of the project would have been if we hadn’t let ourselves find a “quick and dirty” solution.

"""
Here is the code that made him famous: http://www.josh.com/notes/island-ecn-10th-birthday/

I enjoyed the part where it rounds an order quantity to a multiple of 100 by using string operations. A comment there explains it's to avoid floating point ops. Ah the good old days.
I did a bootcamp fall 2014 in Vancouver. I got a couple decent job offers the week I finished, took one of them with a startup, and have been working there since. I had no professional experience before, but took 8 months off before the bootcamp to prepare and was probably the most prepared student in the cohort.

Looking at where my peers are now, I would say that about 50% have turned it into a good career, and the others either changed course or quit.

The curriculum gave me a pretty solid start, though it leaned heavily on libraries and getting things done. Starting my job I felt productive in a very narrow sense, and needed pretty direct supervision for about 6 months before I was at a place to work mostly autonomously.
They also bought Sprint in USA, and I am a loyal Sprint customer and praying they start delivering on the potential they could infuse into the USA mobile infrastructure.
I think the problem with this for Google and construction is they have pretty, smooth, impressive dynamic control systems. Unfortunately that's where it ends -- at control. You don't have intelligence beyond that.

If you have to have someone driving the robot at a high level then it is less helpful in industry. The robot can't on command say "go pick up that box" or "go hang the drywall on those studs". That is an AI problem for open construction environments. For controlled environment industrial applications the dumb, non-dynamic repetitive systems work just fine.

Construction companies don't have that missing piece. SoftBank may have a shot at it.
Hard to prove a counterfactual, so it could also very well be the case that they are successful in spite of these failings, not because of these failings.
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[cockroachdb engineer] Baidu and Heroic Labs are ones we publicly announced in our 1.0 release[1], stay tuned for more~

[1]: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/cockroachdb-1-0-release/
Waze is also owned by Google, but other than that I think it's a good point that there are a couple of other viable maps options. But still, you need something that actually works well, or you'll get to re-live the fiasco that was Apple Maps, so I don't think there are more than a couple viable options.
PythonAnywhere dev here: fair point re: the caching of static assets, but could you give a bit more information about the SSL and the graceful restart? All of that should work fine.
Ah, I had no idea you could use multiple keys in pass. That's what I get for using it so briefly.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s11/sh/136ff1bb-957d-48b7-a99...
Take the like/+1/retweet/etc. buttons off your website.
Two weeks should be plenty of time to propose "Uber for ____", get it funded, get front-paged on TechCrunch, run out of money, and be forgotten.
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There's a second bug that allows a non-privileged local user to provision it.

"An unprivileged local attacker could provision manageability features gaining unprivileged network or local system privileges on Intel manageability SKUs"

https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
Rent a car, drive 3 hours to Yosemite. Idk why others haven't suggested that.
+1 totally correct

Social media works well for announcing stuff on my own web site (new blog articles, new releases of open source projects, new books I have written, etc.)

Hosting long form content of someone else's domain is not playing the game right.
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I saw this kind of thing twice firsthand in 2000-2001. I suspect when the current bubble's funding tide goes out, you'll find many seemingly upstanding founders resort to desperate, and illegal, measures.
I really envy the industry where you work on. In my industry you can't just ignore half a billion of outdated Android phones and Government seats.
Also https://appear.in — works fine in Linux browsers (Chromium and Firefox are both OK, use them myself regularly).

Just create a room, share the link and you're all set.
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Is your name Maciej?
Management consultancy gives you exposure into many other industries that might be ripe for disruption or have specific needs that your future startup could fill. If you grow in that business you might get to take on a higher level leadership role in a future startup. That's important. If you find one you like you can likely deep dive into it. And you learn how to talk to business people and solve their problems. You learn to speak the language of business which can be useful. Otherwise you have to focus on tech and raising capital from tech oriented people vs businesses oriented people. Again not necessarily bad, just different.

Are you a programmer? The programming part is important but only in that you can quantify how long something will take etc... build an MVP and evaluate hires etc... But you can hire programmers. Their is more value in understanding the business problems/needs and then solving them.

You can choose to make programming a core competency and then you will have a couple of super powers. But identifying the business need and building that is the most important piece. A lot of tech/programmers get overly concerned with building the best product or using the best technologies vs building to the customer need.

So take the time to continue learning. If you want to jump into a startup you will learn a lot but as you said pick carefully. A lot of it is luck. If you stay in management consulting you will also find value if you seek it.

I think management consultants are disparaged unnecessarily in tech but I think that is more of a industry wide recruiting scheme than actual reality.
For me, it's the tone and the implication that the CEO does it. Which casts a jokey light on, y'know, telling employees to please not rape one another.
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