skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to say currently, as my phone broke about a month ago and I intentionally didn't order a new one until just recently.

I'm also just bad at quantifying anything as a whole. I generally have trouble getting distracted whenever important things aren't attention-grabbing and shiny things are few clicks or taps away...
All the complaints about the uncapped ICO aside, the biggest concern for me is the compensation structure. Breitmans et al make out big immediately. So much so that they have relatively small incentive to ensure the success of their coin. They have also demonstrated that they are both toxic PR people and incapable of responding to even the most innocuous line of questioning without going into personal attacks or sarcasm.

Its too bad. I first heard about Tezos when one of their devs posted an amazing interview question here on ycombinator that spun up an enormous discussion that was being refreshed all day in my browser. But their leadership is suspect. Their statements regarding their employment timelines (fulltime vs parttime dev work, 1 year vs 4 years) doesn't really add up either.

Hopefully they prove the FUD wrong, but I avoided the ICO because I can't accept that kind of risk.
yawn. is this the HN equivalent of a 4chan "GET"?
LINE was a real thing 16+ years ago, probably still on sourceforge. It allowed you to execute native Linux binaries on Windows, similar to WSL.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/line/
Lots of 0s in a row.
It's heat, you can't send it anywhere except by thermodynamic processes. You can't beam heat to space. A beam of infrared is not heat, it is high quality free energy.
There are 2 competing proposals on how to scale up bitcoin/blockchain and this is the day that the community/miners have to decide what side they will continue using: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/countdown-segwit-these-...
Yeah, you'd think that if nothing else, our current governmental situation proves that all expected norms should now be discarded. If this dipshit can act this way w/o recompense, there's no reason that the rest of the chain of command should follow orders...
oh wow that is awesome. I've not used firefox in years but something like that could be reason enough to give it another try.
In the country where I stay(India), this doesn't look possible. Might be possible in the US though.

But you don't exactly have a self driving car, if you can only drive in specific conditions.
That's the Tesla "self-crashing car" feature. Watch these videos.[1] Teslas will run into a clearly visible obstacle partially obstructing the lane.
Tesla is a level 2 system with inadequate safety interlocks and crappy obstacle detection.

[1] http://autoweek.com/article/autonomous-cars/tesla-model-s-au...
Ok but how did you make your start in this space?
I'm not sure I agree. The "system" right now leaves a lot of room for both good and bad camps. It's unregulated, but isn't in and of itself like University of Phoenix.
Doubtful. Aside from bitcoin.org's history, if it were, you'd expect more exchanges announcing UASF / legacy / SegWit2x trading pairs.
I want to write a similar write-up for a company which basically does everything over HTTP with their own half-baked hardcoded AES key in app for sending credit card info. and that their confirmation checkup is stupid (for SMS) and can be bypassed.

The problem is that their site TOS forbids reverse engineering, and I am afraid their lawyers will go after me instead of fixing the security issues (even if I just contact them), any tips for me ?
Yes, and that's why we have so many obligatory legal oaths. It is kind of astonishing that Americans without the internet developed a pretty rigorous system so long ago - Joe Rogan (sorry) summarized it well when he said that smart people think they're smart, but they're actually just regurgitating things they've learned from truly genius people from past generations
7 steps to become a Web Developer in 2017
Trouble with anecdotes is that it is not data. I'm happy for your brother but that still doesn't change the fact that most bootcamps are overpromising and underdelivering on their promises of gainful employment. It's simply not possible to learn to program in bootcamp time frames.

I'm certain if we saw actual numbers it would not be a pretty picture.

For the truly motivated it is much better to go to recurse.com or join a learning Meetup. Get a day job to pay the bills and learn at your own pace. Programming is not going anywhere even with all the fancy AI startups. In fact if I was just starting out I'd just learn Python and R.
Early Dev Bootcamp grads I know are pretty talented, but over the last couple years they seem to be the bootcamp of choice for people with less prior experience (that's a good thing) and less commitment to their own personal development & the industry (that's a bad thing). Those two things combined are a disaster.
Not trying to turn my original joke into an argument, but does applying the scientific method make something a science in your mind? By that definition, couldn't any subject be a science?
Autonomous ride services will come to sunny cities first, but the amount of money to be made in transportation guarantees that snowy cities like NYC and Boston won't have to wait many more years after.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/01/the-cleve...

https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4013366
That's really no different than any university. A lot of the value of Harvard or Stanford is that they only pick the top n% of the country. The signaling factor is as important as the education, often times.

Bootcamps are this weird space where, because they're so short and so expensive, even the most legitimate are considered mediocre by most employers because you can only teach so much in three months.

So you can make it a year long, but then do you charge $40-80k up-front? No one has that kind of money.
From my perspective, their values were the only thing that made the company insolvent.
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The article didn't mention backups at all. If a SOHO environment can afford only either backups or a ZFS storage system, choosing backups leaves much less residual risk on the table.

Yes, there is still a risk that corrupted data may end up in backups, but that's true even with ZFS. Ideally you want end-to-end integrity checking and verification, that means application layer and should also be done for backups. But like with all risk management, there are diminishing returns...
(I'm a cofounder at Hack Reactor, a competitor.)

DBC launched an industry. Early students/staff went on to start Hack Reactor, App Academy, and Hackbright Academy. Early students/staff of Hack Reactor went on to found Zipfian Academy (acquired by Galvanize -- went on to lead Galvanize's education efforts), Codesmith, and a half-dozen other bootcamps. I'm sure AA and HB alums went on to pass the gift on in their own ways.

DBC also launched several thousand careers. I attended a coworker's birthday happy hour today, and I told a story of a former student that brought me to tears. DBC launched an industry where real lives get changed in real ways. Staff and alums alike participated in a very personal transformation.

DBC was a rock in a pond and its ripples will extend past where its story ends today. I can't speak for DBC, but they were probably struggling (like the rest of our sector) with growing past the bootcamp industry's early days, when starry-eyed optimism clashed with the operational realities of a highly-regulated industry. Kudos to everyone that tried, and there were many that poured their hearts and wallets out.

Staff/students/mgmt/etc -- reach out if I can help. shawn@hackreactor.com

For nostalgia's sake, here's the HN post where Shereef launched DBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3267133
HN's "GET" would be when tesla's stock price hits 0.00000$
United Airlines piloting technology to manage the problem of oversold flights
What's the best resource for learning CLJS as of mid 2017?
Show HN: (rubtex) Write ruby then output latex
I think he meant about learning from ground up as a start. If not, I am really interested in one :)
Why not? The real cost would be documenting it, but a lot of devs would be willing to accept essentially being on a mailing list for breaking changes a few weeks in advance. It's not like Starbucks can roll out breaking changes to their own API instantly.

It would only really be used by enthusiasts and techies who are used to this sort of thing.
I still don't get it. As long as a reasonable majority of hashing power stays on one chain, there shouldn't be any symptoms except increased confirmation times.

The bitcoin.org page says:

> Do not trust any payments you receive after Tue Aug 01 2017 02:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST) until the situation is resolved. No matter how many confirmations the new payment says it has, it can disappear from your wallet at any point up until the situation is resolved.

Which I don't understand, unless miners are actively trying to make this happen (by mining on two different chains with roughly the same hashing power). According to the paper[1], as long as at least 20% of the hashing power is honest, 11 confirmations should be final (in 99.9% of cases)

[1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf (page 8)
Haha that's awesome.
The long arrow operator in C++
Well, that's a remarkably uninformative announcement. Here's an attempt at a neutral tl;dr from a Bitcoin amateur.

Bitcoin is currently suffering from significant scaling problems, which lead to high transaction fees. Numerous proposals to fix the scaling issue have been proposed, the two main camps being "increase the block size" and "muddle through by discarding less useful data" (aka Segregated Witness/SegWit). However, any changes require consensus from the miners who create Bitcoins and process transactions, and because it's not in their best incentive to do anything to reduce those transaction fees, no change has received majority consensus.

In an attempt to break this deadlock, there is a "Bitcoin Improvement Proposal #148" (BIP148) that proposes a User-Activated Soft Fork (UASF) taking effect on August 1, 2017. Basically, everybody who agrees to this proposal wants SegWit to happen and (here's the key part) commits to discarding all confirmations that do not flag support for SegWit from this date onward. If successful, this will fork Bitcoin, because whether a transaction succeeded or not is going to depend on which side of the network you believe.

However, BIP148's odds of success look low, as many of the largest miners out there led by Bitmain have stated that they will trigger a User-Activated Hard Fork (UAHF) if needed to stop it. Specifically, if UASF appears successful, instead of complying with SegWit, they'll start mining BTC with large blocks instead: https://blog.bitmain.com/en/uahf-contingency-plan-uasf-bip14...

Anyway, it all boils down to significant uncertainty, and unless you've got a dog in the race you'll probably want to refraining from making BTC transactions around the deadline or purchasing new BTC until the dust settles down.

And an important disclaimer: this is an extremely contentious issue in the Bitcoin community and it's really difficult to find info that's not polarized one way or the other. Most notably, Reddit's /r/bitcoin is rabidly pro-
BIP148 and /r/btc is equally rabidly against it. Here's one reasonably neutral primer:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-beginners-guide...
Whenever you do this sort of thing, you should check whether they do negative number checking on the client side or in the API itself. You might be able to get 1 pizza with bacon and (1) pizza without, all for the price of the bacon.
The million dollar question. If you look back at what the Ethereum split did for the market, maybe it'll give you some ideas.

Remember though- if you don't have any Bitcoin under your own control (non-custodial wallet) you might not be able to trade between chains if there's a split. There are only two exchanges with announced pairs AFAIK- BitFinex and ViaBTC both have futures contracts set up.
Shereef Bishay sold out his staff and sold out his mission and he's going to the do the same to his staff at Learner's Guild in Oakland! He sold it off to Kaplan for 80M and his staff (with equity) got nothing!!!

I interviewed for a role at Dev bootcamp in 2016 and got an odd feeling from the place and the woman who interviewed me. She took several months to get back to me after I followed up multiple times and wow am I soooo glad I didn't get that.
How do you know that? From anecdotes? :)
I think you could make the argument that because the C ABI is available in most compiled languages, you do have a choice. Whereas on the web, JavaScript is the ABI.
Howdy all, Kev Needham here, and I'm the Product Manager for add-ons. I want to make sure everyone understands that we're going to be making changes.

Some parts of Firefox populate the content of some “about:” pages (like about:addons) from web-based sources. Thanks to your comments, we better appreciate how users may not know that content in those pages can come from a web service, and can use third-party analytics. We don’t like to surprise our community, and are disappointed that we did.

It's always been important for us to use Google Analytics and other analytic services in a way that meets the expectations of Firefox users. We have taken great care to ensure that our partnership with Google is structured so that they are prohibited from creating user profiles from our website data, or from tracking users across other websites. We also need to help ensure that we are clear where Mozilla products and services make use of those services.

We want to make sure we follow our “no surprises” rule (https://www.mozilla.org/privacy/principles/) , so we are exploring solutions that inform our users about how these pages in Firefox use web content and analytics tools - and provide our users with tools to better control the data that may be sent. We’ll be making changes in the near term, and will publish updates as we make progress.
Net Neutrality and a Proposal for a New Web Protocol
Time stamp and set a reminder for 7-10 years from now for this comment: Tesla will be the biggest company in the world. See you in 7-10 years when you remember this comment.
FWIW (probably not much) I've looked at both briefly, to build a tool with a 3d component. I know nothing about graphics (basically flunked it at uni) but Babylon seemed much more approachable than three for basic stuff (a box and a camera). However there is a lot more written about three than Babylon.
I never said that the route the FCC took to get to Title 2 classification made any sense or that the FCC's previous actions were justifiable. But the final outcome seemed fairly good.
sold for 80M to kaplan.
A Bitcoin Beginner’s Guide to Surviving the BIP 148 UASF
"Pretty Spot on" is not good enough when your and other users lives are at stake.
Many people simply believe there is a need for a digital censorship resistant currency like physical cash.

I don't think it'll replace currencies, but I think it will serve a purpose as a means to transfer value when authorities don't want you to transfer value.

Not saying if this is a good or bad thing, but it is a real value proposition.
This doesn't help - just a set of domains (and page count + times of connection) you connected to last month is a very precise and valuable identifier of who you are and what your interests are.
hard to price unless a fork actually occurs.
if a fork like ETH/ETC happens, exchanges do benefit.
Always nice to read a post from someone with a) experience and b) succinct writing style.
Ford [1] has been testing automatic driving in snow. Waymo and Nvidia have said they are, but don't have videos out.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GdV7em34Ro
It's bonkers that they couldn't make those numbers work. I can't wrap my head around it or make it not work no matter what I do to the numbers.
What's everybody doing to celebrate?
Why I Launched a One Dollar Marketing Agency
Even though a direct competitor with DBC I just wanted to say: solid team and leadership; we respect everyone there, especially in pioneering the market in the early years.

It was in DBC's NYC campus that I did my first LGBT advocacy event. Still remember the passion of the students and instructors two years later.

I know I speak for everyone here when I say I’m sorry to see a leader and organization leave the community.

- Team Thinkful
darrell@thinkful.com
You skipped the option that's closest to consensus! SegWit2x has industry support and has a short enough window to lock-in before the Aug 1st UASF

EDIT: Quick reference https://medium.com/@wintercooled/the-road-to-segwit-activati...
I remember having a party for the billion seconds, which was on September 8, 2001 -- then overshadowed in my memory by the September 11 attack less than three days later.

I also remember another party for Unix time 1234567890, back in 2009, which got an impressive turnout.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/estro/3304453623/in/photolist-...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/briankusler/3278099542/in/phot...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/estro/3305280994/in/photolist-...

At that party, I made some thyme tea, in honor of time_t. (Later on I learned that thyme tea is actually a thing... I felt like I was just making it up!)
I think the comment is really about bootcamps in general.

Some people will succeed in development. Many won't. I received very little formal education, mostly self-taught, and I've been very successful. Put me in a bootcamp, I'd likely thrive there as well. I suspect your brother had a knack, and just needed a little direction.

Most criticism is focused at the false promise bootcamps provide. Many grads are barely qualified to be an intern, yet they were sold on promises of employability if they graduated. Even worse are the bootcamps that pad their employment numbers by hiring grads as teaching assistants.
> I'm a bit mystified as to why it's called event sourcing, though. Everything sources events.

That's a bit like saying Historians know everything, since every known fact is in the past and therefore history :P

I think the point is that the events are kept and can continue to be used as the primary source of truth, rather than used and discarded.
I was just typing in random times and saw that it came eerily close to 9/11. Kind of crept me out.
21 of the 23 people in my App Academy cohort got jobs. 18 of them within like 3 months. The two that struggled had severe social issues holding them back. We had 5 dropouts who got full refunds.

2+ years on and all of us are still working in the industry.

It really does depend on the bootcamp. How valuable a bootcamp is depends on its style and the individual. Even though I had a positive (but probably unnecessary) experience, I'm not exempt from feeling like they're a bit scammy sometimes.

In my case, they give you a curriculum of the minimum that you need to get a job (really) and some serious pressure to get it done and get that job. Almost anyone who actually gets through it is going to be an asset to most companies that don't need an extremely diverse or exceptional skill set.

For roles I'm looking to hire, would I hire a fresh bootcamp grad? No. Would I hire one with two years experience? You bet your ass.
> 57 GB of audio files of bubbles

This made me smile. Did you take continuous measurements then? You could do a windowed FFT and just take snapshots.
> Some people in the Segwit camp are tired of waiting so they are attempting to force the issue without the support of most miners. The date they picked is Aug 1.

I don't understand why the bitcoin.org page sounds so alarmist. If the miners are not in on it why would some special Bitcoin blockchain (with alternative rules) matter, since miners could easily DoS this chain, if they wanted to, in case they don't support it?

Anyone can create their own chain with non-agreed-upon-rules (e.g. testnet3 or regtest), but that's just not Bitcoin precisely because it's practically ignored by miners (like a UASF).

Are bitcoin.org, themselves, supporters of this UASF?
I hadn't and it looks good but it'll only allow 3 recovery stripes or none, which isn't optimal for me.
>... older animals may also benefit from having their blood scrubbed by young kidneys and livers, which mere blood transfusion would not offer.

What of transplant patients that receive a kidney or liver transplant from a younger donor?
The world? That's quite a tall order for a company with such a small product line. They would have to compete with companies like Exxon which have 250B in yearly revenue.
date +%s

To see current time
"A number" that a lot of people use and recognise as "one, four, then a lot of other digits" will become noticeably different. Do not adjust your set.
That's too bad.

I've worked with many DBC grads and some nice people came through there. I interviewed many DBC grads and they were definitely all over the place in terms of ability and understanding, but some had everything it took to grow into solid software engineers.

I've worked with some of the instructors as well and they're great folks.
I like this idea, but because websites have the content, they can simply throw up a button that requests showing your identity to view the content and most people would blindly click it leading to the same situation we have now. The HTTPS push is important and works because the search engines can leverage their importance and the browsers can (effectively) scare people without any user input.
I'm going to burn whatever incense is appropriate for ensuring my value to society by the end of the 32 bit Epoch.
What do you expect from a bootcamp that's notorious for their "touchy feely wednesdays". They cared more about the mission than the curriculum.

You interviewed with a cult.
Unpopular opinion: I've never had a problem with Comcast and I loved the fact that they allowed users (in my experience) in the same residence cash in on promos.

promo ends -> cancel plan -> new roommate signs on.
For anyone seeking alternatives, $0 up-front cost software engineering bootcamps that I'm aware of:

Learner’s Guild https://www.fastcoexist.com/3068200/when-this-entrepreneurs-...

42 (completely free) https://www.42.us.org/

Holberton School https://www.holbertonschool.com/

Lambda Academy https://lambdaschool.com/computer-science
> A lot of the value of Harvard or Stanford is that they only pick the top n% of the country.

The difference between the people who go to Harvard and those that don't has much more to do with money. Hire people with this assumption at your own peril.
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Hmm, that actually sounds workable. I could even format the mdadm device as ZFS too if I really wanted. I am somewhat worried about performance, have you had any issues with that?
Agreed. The app has definitely sent a different order than was on screen before; until recently it refused to work with Apple Pay unless your Apple Pay address matched character-for-character what your bank had on file (if one used # and one used APT, or one used VA and one used Virginia, it would fail), and we've lost the ability to customize orders as much as we used to (e.g. you can no longer order a flat white with chai unless it's saved as a previous order).
Nice trick, Fx has that built int too!
Thanks so much for sharing! I was a DBC student in 2014 and have immense gratitude for the program's impact on me: Its students, instructors, culture, the powerful world of programming it introduced me to, and the career change it launched for me.
given the number of "click to send" pop-ups I've encountered today, I'm willing to bet that a large % of them are.