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Personally, as a bootcamp grad (not from Flatiron), I wouldn't necessarily call the fine bullshit. If you scream the manipulated numbers and stick the details of the manipulation somewhere where very few people are likely to ever look, I kinda think you should get smacked down. The problem I have is that that same standard isn't applied to lots of other areas of education, including some (like the utter scam that is T3 and most T2 law schools) that are doing way, way more damage to way, way more people than every coding bootcamp in the country put together.

I have friends who went to a T3 law school in the Midwest. The total cost of attendance is estimated at $62,500. The bar passage rate is around 74% (#157 nationally). On the marketing site reporting their stats, they tell prospective students that "nearly 75% [of] class of 2016 students [are] employed, pursuing further education, or not seeking employment", but when you actually dig into their ABA disclosure numbers (tucked away on a subsite, clearly obscured), you can see that only 73 of 127 grads are employed in full time, long term positions that require a JD. Since the reason most people go to law school is to get into those kinds of positions, it is more accurate to describe the employment rate as "around 54%". And from knowing some of the people graduating, I can tell you that the salary at those positions isn't great. Average starting salaries hover in the $50-55k range (self-reported, so...with a huge caveat). Given a price of $187,500, that level of bar passage, employment rate, and salary is criminal.

That's a real scam, and it's replicated all over the country in hundreds of terrible law schools, and most of them have the imprimatur of a legitimate educational enterprise via their associated universities and the tacit or explicit support of large chunks of society. And it's only now, after two decades of the problem getting worse and worse, that states are starting to crack down on the worst offenders (while the ordinary every-day criminals, like the school in the previous paragraph, are allowed to go unchecked). I would appreciate if the scrutiny being applied to bootcamps (which I think is necessary and important) was applied equally to other potentially-scammy educational enterprises, no matter how long-running the con is.
Looks like more people are supporting this argument in the media.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/22/ask-not-for-whom-the-deadp...
I should make a public trello board, good suggestions!
>MS-Net is another option for connecting DOS boxes to linux servers running samba - it's a neat way of running diskless DOS boxes.

Actually it seems to me like a non-option or a non-available option (unless one finds the program and license on some garage sale or the like).
what keyboard do you recommend?
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Standard common-sense job security considerations.
> (via heart disease or otherwise)

Smoking on it's own causes ~6 million deaths per year and air pollution is linked to ~5.5 to 7 million deaths a year so they really are on the same scale. (And larger than my example 20% vs 30%.)

Yes, only a subset of the population smoke so the direct impact is higher. However, some areas also have vastly higher levels of air pollution.

Now, if you have some actual evidence then sure feel free to share, but I am just not hearing it.
I still haven't found anything better than IntelliJ's triple column view for resolving merge conflicts. Is there anything similar in a more lightweight editor?
I don't want to live in California, but it seems like a lot of the recruiting and employment matchmaking systems these days focus almost entirely on the SF Bay area.

Added:
I think the hype might have pumped the job market too full, and net outflows are the only way for the system to concentrate more desirable candidates, with employee compensation being the signal.
Spiffy! I'm happy that worked for you.

There are a lot of ways to business. I think that tech-savvy founders often have an excessively narrow view of the solution set due to internal barriers -- I know of many founders (and have probably been one) who would be uncomfortable even inviting themselves into a Quora question.

My thoughts on this have matured a bit over the years, partly from seeing how effective one can be when combining classical sales techniques (like cold outreach) with being a savvy Internet citizen who provides value (like you did), and partly after having some experience from the other side of the table. I was a business owner for 10 years; answering unsolicited email is an important part of the job description. Yes you may translate that blog post, no I do not need an intern at this time, no interest on entertaining your guest post, yes happy to appear on your podcast, yes I will happily take a 15 minute call to talk about web analytics software with someone who sounds competent about it. Sometimes those calls result in purchases; that definitionally helped both sides of the transaction.
Author of Hello Web App here — thanks for recommending! I actually moved the entire tutorial online recently, you can read it for free here: https://hellowebbooks.com/tutorial/

It's written in a way to help you build something unique, which might help your issue, OP. Basically I walk through building a "collection of things," which you can alter to create something like a Twitter clone, a directory, a blog, a store, etc.

Happy to help, send me an email tracy@hellowebbooks.com anytime. :)
If it's MVP let it loose.. poor quality can also serve as a nice auto-obsolescence accelerating the upgrade cycle
A comparison with Yacy would be interesting IMHO
> SEO won't get you customers.

What's with the hyperbole? Of course SEO can get you customers. I got all my customers through SEO.
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OP Here. Hi. I am going to turn 30 this year. I wouldn't say I'm pretty, I'm just a chubby nerd to be honest. Magically was used for effect; it was me busting my ass networking and submitting articles at a fever's pitch. Magically means more like 'it just suddenly happened' after doing everything in my power to muster up some work.

It's a daily struggle.

Thanks for the advice--the enthusiasm isn't here every day. And I really would like a 9-5 if it was a job that I felt good about going to, that I could believe in the people and the product. Haven't had really one of them that didn't use me up in some way and spit me out. Full-stack marketing on $30k a year is ridiculous.

Like today, it's not so easy to put on a brave face. I'm sitting here staring at my prospects and I'm shaking in my boots. But you know what? I get to create. Every day I get to make something. And I'm not beholden to someone's time table. My earning power is as strong and fierce as I'm willing to go. And anxiety is a heavy, heavy motivator.

The eventual solution is to start my own business. I do not have mouths to feed yet--I cannot carry children because of a genetic disorder that would be passed to them--it'd be bad. So...yes. I can understand you feeling jaded.

Really I can.

If you want to talk sometime or something, I'm on discord--you can reach me at the handle at the bottom of the article.

Thanks for sharing your opinion!
Yeah. It's not so much about distance, it's about time. Better infrastructure for moving people in and out of the city enables a larger city, and a more populated one.
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Scary times ahead for Venezuela. It's too bad it will be the average person paying the price for the corrupt few.
No week picker? Edge and Chrome implement it.
OP Here. Like the others said, it's an obsessive stalker. ;)
It can be an effect of "Karma Racing".

Duplicate submissions count as an upvote to the original post.

If you have a source which is known is being popular by the community (i.e. stripe), then there is a race to submit that article to reap the karma of submitting that article.

That race causes duplicates which in turn increases the karma for posting that article first and pushes it to the front-page where it will get even more karma.

That causes a positive feedback loop which keeps that source popular as a source with which to "karma race", regardless of the post quality being sustained.

In this case I haven't read the post itself, so it may be of good quality, but it is a manner in which posts from certain sources quickly reach the front page seemingly without much community interaction.
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"I've played FPS games where I had to target something the size of < 10 pixels, in less than a second, and the need to move my mouse from one end of the mouse pad to the other."

Do you type with just one hand? Because that's what you'd need to do to replicate that performance while coding.

If you type with both hands, now you have to add in the time it takes you to move one hand from the keyboard to the mouse, make the mouse motion (which could be far across the screen) and then back to the keyboard, repeating that cycle for every single operation which involves the mouse.

Meanwhile, someone who knows vim well and is not reliant on the mouse can type with both hands and only has to move their fingers.
One of the things the HGP revealed is that we have way fewer genes than anyone expected. Given that the amount of data encoded in genes appears to be far too small to account for the sophistication and variability in humans, it strongly implied that large areas of DNA that were previously considered marker/filler DNA were of great epigenetic importance.
> I can't "outsmart" myself

This isn't "outsmarting" yourself, its simply getting past the hardest part. It's difficult to "get off the couch" if I think I'm committing myself to running 10 miles. But I can easily get off the couch to run for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, I can quit, or keep going. Sometimes I quit, sometimes I keep going.
Montana, a land of National parks, natural beauty, fast internet, and a low cost of living has a number of high tech jobs open. Full disclosure, I own an internet company here and want more tech savvy people in the area ;)

Social Finanace (SoFi) | Helena, MT

Oracle | Bozeman, MT

OnXMaps | Missoula, MT

Zaneray Group | Whitefish, MT

Submittable | Missoula, MT

Applied Materials | Kalispell, MT
I'm quite familiar with the bay area.

Lack of housing and traffic are familiar complaints, but it bears repeating. I remember when there was never any traffic on 280, now it's a parking lot during rush hour.

If you're just starting out in your career, it's simultaneously the best and worst place to work. Best in that there's a lot of opportunity and you're kinda bathed in the tech ecosystem, worst in that you'll probably be paying 40k (after taxes) for a one bedroom apartment in the city, or stuck commuting for an hour easy way.
Most of the bay area employees are divided into 3 categories from anecdotal experience: young rockstars that are willing to live in relative squalor for a chance to prove themselves,
vested and moneyed elites (CEO's, presidents, VC funded overlords) who are so out of touch with the average employee its best they not show up to the office that frequently,
and H1B visa recipients that endure the soul-crushing San Jose or beyond commute every day because their job represents something more than just the sum of their skills, its a ticket to citizenship and a better life for their family.

Ive turned down more bay jobs than I can count because at some age you begin to accept the fact that SFBay isnt that great. Rising levels of increasingly aggressive homeless, the inability to afford any housing, and the price of food and public transportation in general are just a few factors that led me to say no.
Cooperation isn't quite the same as cooperation. There's a world of difference between sharing intelligence on other countries and working together when conducting espionage elsewhere, vs actively attacking domestic targets. Rule of law is taken seriously, and government hacking is a thing - but the scope is very very narrow.
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Not that I'm against people building tools in their language of choice, but how does this compare to Sphinx (http://sphinxsearch.com/)?
Deadly. Have always hated the privacy implications of server-side speech processing.
It's really easy with Bluebird to assimilate promises from other libraries, though. Right now, I still think it's best to use Bluebird from the start in a new project than to use native promises. They're faster, have better error stack traces, and more capabilities.
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OP here. I...totally feel this way. I'll be 30 mid next month. I feel this every day, but I also have to stay positive and kick my own ass.

Reinventing the wheel is so totally exhausting....what is your field or expertise? I might have some people I can connect you to (?)
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If you run sovereign debt in a currency you don't control, you become a colony, not a country.

Venezuela private firms should all be run through administration to wipe out the creditors and re-floated with Bolivar investment.
One of the key points of this theory is that its learning rule is hebbian. A variation of "If it fires together it wires together." Individual synapses make or break connections based on if the input neuron firing immediately proceeds the firing of the next neuron in the chain.

This is distinctly different than say a recurrent neural network where all neurons have outputs at each timestep and weights are updated based on the derived contribution of each weight to the quality of a final output.

The first rule is very local, both in time and space, and the second is in some senses "global."

Backprop has obviously had much more success in ML than any Hebbian learning rule. However we're pretty sure biological learning is essentially Hebbian. The merger / reconciliation of both these rules is one of the most interesting areas of research right now.
Yes, it looks like Traefik handles SAN certificates from LE.
To be fair - that covers all areas the ISO date format covers.
Sounds like Visual mode
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"Put another way, I find the concept of a government willing to force Google to give up data but unwilling to use operational vulnerabilities to achieve the same thing to be contrived - how is this not just an arbitrary line in the sand?"

In the US we have a constitution the prohibits searches of our papers without a warrant signed by a judge. It might be out of fashion is some circles, but the rule of law and not just rule of power is quite popular and I would say a superior system of governance. Many Chinese who are acquiring assets outside of China feel the same way.
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OP here. I mean, 'needing' is subjective. I just like writing stuff...what would you, specifically, want to read about? I might be working on an article now about it, to be honest (hah).
That's a threat that Gmail faces as well though.
Oh, and if the outdoors aren't your thing, we have a different kind of trail map as well: http://montanabrewers.org/trail-map/
When you send an email through ProtonMail to an unencrypted user, you have the option to encrypt the email when sends them a link to a webpage prompting them for the encryption password.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4664750/excerpt-clinton-watts...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/the-inte...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics...

That's like 1/1000th of the publicly reported evidence you can find by googling.
Two points:

First, to extend what you said about startups, you generally aren't totally sure that the market is really there. If it turns out that nobody cares about what you're building, it doesn't matter what quality you built it with. Therefore, as long as it's cheaper to build it with lower quality, startups are rational to build it with little concern for quality.

Second, Toyota: I'm not going to be any kind of apologist for Toyota's horrible software. From what I read about the situation, the way it was written was appalling. And they rightly got a lot of heat over it. (Arguably, they should have gotten more.)

But I wonder if the quality bar isn't being set too high in this situation. If Toyota didn't implement things in software, they would have had to implement it in hardware (either mechanical or electrical). That hardware would have some failure modes and failure rate. If the software has a lower failure rate than the hardware, that's progress, even if the software has a higher failure rate than it should have.

Our discussion of the Toyota flaws is colored by the fatalities. Still, hardware flaws can kill people, too...
I'm thinking it might be worthwhile to engineer a scalable, high-traffic city(maybe city's the wrong word, it could be sprawling and fast, instead of dense and slow) from the ground up, somewhere there isn't one already. You don't need to build the transit immediately, you just need to have the restraint to reserve the space for a time when you will want it. Other useful constraints aside from transit reservations, might include: setting aesthetic standards (line of sight corridors[through zoned height restrictions] to natural beauty, stylistic restrictions, above-ground pedestrian accommodation planning), extensive mixed-use zoning in the sprawl, multiple downtowns (hierarchy of pedestrian/two-lane/light rail accessibility > main street/express light rail > freeway/full sized rail arranged in superblocks).

Added:
Three-dimensional land parcels would solve a lot of the problems with properly valuing natural beauty, direct sunlight, and underground access.

Added:
Environmental (noise[aggregate peak SPL, loudness], ground vibration[aggregate peak amplitude], air pollution[aggregate peak particulates, ozone, maybe fuel fumes, maybe heat], ground pollution, EMR [including radio and light]) sensor networks could be used to make it simpler to uphold agreements and ordinances, or litigate environmental property devaluation or damage (reduction in air quality, disturbance of quiet, excessive night time light, ground shaking). You could also include on-board detectors for things like gunshots, car crashes, or desperate cries for help, to aide emergency services. Data like these could be made completely public so that public offices don't need to waste their time determining access.
Why do you think that Sound Transit isn't required to use that depreciation schedule when the law directly says that Regional Transit Authorities (of which Sound Transit is the only one) are required to use that depreciation schedule?

Also, Sound Transit didn't write the legislation. They don't have that kind of clout in Olympia. If they did, explain to me how it is that they keep losing to WSDOT and UW, two state agencies that do have clout in Olympia. That UW Link Station is located where it wound up is prima facie evidence that ST has limited "pull" with the state.

(Notice how amendments were brought to modify the depreciation schedule at least twice and were voted down in the legislature. Senator O'Ban, the vocal critic against Sound Transit, voted in favor of the bill containing the Sound Transit 3 authority--TWICE--before he decided he didn't like it.)
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Also, for consideration: Bleve (https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve)

I'm in the process of building my own search engine (as a learning exercise, but also because it's related to my day job). I've learned that it's one thing to write a full-text search engine, like this one, and it's quite another to do field-specific searches with faceting support and so on, like Algolia and Lucene-based search engines do.

That said, this is clean and simple. I like it. I can definitely learn from this.
> ProtonMail has never painted an accurate picture of the surveillance requirements in Switzerland – and laws have been and are changing too.

Do you think that's partly because, like most countries, the truth is... obfuscated.
It should work both ways.

I have run sshd locally w/ an sshd_config and I would expect that I can run it standalone. My project was to do a self-contained ssh-over-tor setup. So I could have an sshd_config like so:

Port 5678
HostKey /home/myuser/sometempdir/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /home/myuser/sometempdir/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /home/myuser/sometempdir/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /home/myuser/sometempdir/ssh_host_ed25519_key
PidFile /home/myuser/sometempdir/sshd.pid
UsePam yes

And run this:

/usr/sbin/sshd -f /home/myuser/sometempdir/sshd_config -E /home/myuser/sometempdir/sshd.log

Whether I run this manually, as a service daemon on the part of the OS, etc should not affect the core piece. For my project, I even considered going as far as statically linking Open SSH and Tor, but never completed it.
We now use Zappa only for packaging the ZIP that we upload to Lambda. For deployment, we use CloudFormation (via Sceptre) which we've found to be a much more robust, declarative approach than Zappa's imperative-style deployment.

We use Lambda primarily to improve developer efficiency and to allow dev teams to own their own operations end-to-end, with cost efficiency only a secondary goal. It's been great for that as it's a small enough thing to integrate with that any given developer can learn the entire operations stack (for their team's services) well enough to work on it themselves.

3 seconds on cold request sounds unusual, it should be around a second or less - have you measured it? If you use VPC you'll unfortunately be in the realm of 20-30 seconds cold start, which is why we've avoided it for Lambda (and used stores like DynamoDB rather than RDS which work with IAM as an alternative to security groups). No Elasticache without VPC is going to be a big problem soon though...
The Julia v0.5 debugger works. Why upgrade to v0.6 when the debugger is important? I'm sure the debugger will target v1.0. And maybe it was more fun (read interesting)to work on Celeste than to support short-lived intermediary versions?
The paradox of Venezuela is a populist government that beasts its chest about foreign imperialism starving its citizens to make bond payments to foreigners. We're beyond the point where a sane democracy would have defaulted. The only conclusion I can come to involves cronies of the administration holding substantial amounts of the debt. The payments aren't on interest and principal, but for patronage.
We gained 50k jobs in the last year, this is a loss for september of which happens every year as temps etc are usually hired again in Nov.

> Over the 12 months that ended in September, the Bay Area added 50,400 jobs, a 1.3 percent increase in total payroll jobs during the one-year period.

The interesting part is the percentage slow down over the year, which is what requires more thought than headlines about "hammered job losses" that included area-wide growth.
>I can't tell what this is just by looking at the home page.
And when I tried the 'Python-inspired' tour, it just waits (presumably it's overloaded just now) and breaks my back button.
They have apparently created an experiment to test if raccoons understand resonance.