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Hey Shawn,

Jesse, here. For those just tuning in, Shawn & I know each other and I help run Dev Bootcamp. Tony Phillips, one of Shawn's co-founders, was a teacher-in-training at Dev Bootcamp for 5 months and before that a student in our first, 8-week cohort.

A few corrections:

1. Our current cohort has 54 students. Starting January 28th, we'll have 48 students in the space at a given time. Although it's been challenging, we've so far been able to increase group cohesion as we increase class size.

Below a certain size it's very easy for students to feel isolated if they can't find at least one other student to identify with.

2. Although our core hours are 9AM-6PM Monday-Friday, most students are here 12+ hours per day, 6-7 days per week. 75% of the class was here last weekend, for example. We keep a tight container on core hours and give students flexibility on off hours.

The average student is working for about ~750 hours over the course of Dev Bootcamp.

Also, about 50% of each cohort comes from out-of-state, and about 20% have families and children. Trust me, they're "tak[ing] time off [their] normal life."

3. We've worked with around ~100 companies over the course of our hiring days and none of them are asking for a longer training period. If an employer is skeptical, there's little difference between 9, 10, or 12 weeks.

Twitter hired one of our summer students as an intern, for example, and their initial skepticism was more along the lines of, "How could 10 weeks compare to a 4-year University CS education?" That's a rough paraphrase from a conversation I had with a head of their head of college recruiting in April.

On the flip side, virtually all employers return for future hiring days and about half send employees to become mentors for students in the following DBC class. I'll grant you that we might be talking to different employers.
Josh Gans provides a good summary on Roth and Shapley over at Core Economics http://economics.com.au/?p=9423
Not sure I understand yet.

http://ffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu.arelikefacebook.com/

http://demons.arelikefacebook.com/

http://faces.arelikefacebook.com/

http://aliens.arelikefacebook.com/

http://minecraft.arelikefacebook.com/
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Google Doors Wider For Gmail Results Within Main Search, Adds Google Drive
Absolutely. Email support at flightfox and we can send you all the info. They are all still mostly bookable, but the AirBnb room availability is most likely to change.
Who is we? I tried looking in your profile but you don't have it listed.
This should be a microsite, not a one-time promotion. It would let you customize various things like where are you flying from, how many people, and what your budget is like.
Somewhat offtopic - I really liked the digitized whiteboard looking drawings. Is that off a tablet, or a photographed whiteboard?
Switching consumers to digital books is hard enough. Next: magazines
Is Google doing stuff like this more in recent times (open sourcing things related to their core competency, search), or have I only noticed recently?

Like https://github.com/refr/ also.

[side note: I wish they'd put all of this on github in an organized fashion like http://github.com/linkedin or http://github.com/facebook ]
> That people didn't want to join them up into one stronger federal government has stronger ties to the general tribal nature of people and the significantly different economic and cultural needs.

To be fair, one of the reasons was to limit the power of the federal government. But that power was limited partly in order to prevent one state from having power over another; that's why the Senate is so laid out (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise), and one of the reasons the federal government is seated in neutral territory (Federalist #43).
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It would be equally fascinating to look at all the incredibly well designed launches that failed miserably. This is a great reminder that if you solve a big problem or have unique content, people will crawl through sewage to get to it, but if you build an amazing empty container, it will die a slow death.
My impression is that their push to remove keywords is hurting the readability of Rust code. They also seem undecided about the keyword length issue. In any case, it's really interesting to witness the evolution of the language.
> Holy cow with the grandiosity of the title I would expect a master 5 year plan

Thanks, I edited the post to include a chart from a PowerPoint I saw -- it only projects the next 4 years though.

Seriously though, the goal of this post was to point out how current trends are creating a user experience where Yahoo! Pipes is relevant.
I was thinking the same thing, I think it's a whiteboard.
Thanks jeebus; so kind of you. We're just a startup hacking travel using humans vs machines. Empirically, folks here seem to enjoy our in-house tests.
haha nicely done

http://facebooks.arelikefacebook.com/
Does anybody know who made this?
The interesting thing here is that musicians don't actually make any significant money from radio airplay or streaming services like spotify or pandora. If completely unregulated file sharing results in an equivalent or greater amount of financial benefit to the artists then that's a rather interesting data point, I'd think.
Where does it say this is comparing against the average music listener, and not random people who will answer a phone?
Is it just me that read "Bum queue" instead of "Run queue" in the first diagram
> Whilst I find this whole privacy setting issue unpleasant and frustrating, I am continually amazed that people would be Facebook friends with parents and relatives - from whom they would prefer to keep things hidden.

> I would not let my parents sit in the room whilst I chatted with friends, or listen in on phone calls. I would not let them go through the photos on my phone, nor those of me on the phones of friends.

Same with most people. Most people have different personas for different groups--they have their family persona that they present to their parents and other relatives, their casual friend persona they present to most of their friends, their intimate persona they present to close friends and lovers, their work persona for co-workers, and often others.

Facebook has purposefully decided to ignore that, and insist that you have a single Facebook persona. That gives you a couple poor choices for how to use Facebook. You can pick one of your personas and make that your Facebook persona, and do not "friend" anyone with it who does not belong with that persona. This is hard to explain to those groups that you use the other personas with.

Or you can try to use Facebook's poorly designed, poorly implemented, poorly documented, frequently changing, and laughably inadequate privacy controls to try to beat their "one size fits all" persona approach into something approximating the reality of any normal person's life--and if you ever trip up, you have a good risk of blowing up some aspect of your life.
Looks good; it'd be great to have a SQL generation feature which will allow you to generate scripts from the design surface.
Phil Bagwell's VList is a really cute data structure. It's an immutable list with O(1) cons and cdr, lookups that are expected constant time and O(lg n) worst-case time, and better cache locality than linked lists. The wikipedia entry is short and understandable, which makes it easy to honor the dead in a pleasant and enlightening way:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VList

Obviously a very clever guy.
> My point is that most businesses don't need to exist, but there is opportunity in both short and long term arbitrage that isn't durable or sustainable, but many times can be quite profitable.

I'm not sure your point here follows. Arbitrage is supposed to express a need, isn't it? (IANAEconomist)
In-app purchases are most commonly a supplemental revenue stream. Most of the largest free apps are backed by ad revenues.
In theory, I'd rather have it in a cookie than unprotected in a database. In practice, anyone doing something that stupid will have XSS exploits rendering that information available to anyone running an exploit.

While security and encryption are definitely not easy (and far less so when you're talking about adhering to PCI-DSS Level 1, which somehow actual banks never seem to do), there are plenty of well-tested libraries that make it significantly easier. Having said that, I'd prefer to see the data stored in plaintext - obviously bad - rather than using easily-broken encryption (short keys, re-used keys, bad key storage, poor algorithm, etc) which looks OK at the surface but provides a serious false sense of security.

What really blows my mind is that Visa and Mastercard never seem to require PCI certification for their issuing banks. Being deep in the industry I realize how many middlemen and layers of misdirection there are with this kind of thing (usually to get around these security requirements), but Visa's diligence process is actually quite thorough - at least in the US. I've been interviewed by PCI auditors, and my experience was that they were actually asking the right questions, and required demonstrations to prove your claims. But for all I know, that varies widely from auditor to auditor.
ahaha, gotcha, sorry about that.

A few different times they popped up in the news over the years I went there to get a feel for why people were joining in any certain cause, (yes, mostly for the fun of it), and often to find out exactly what they were doing.

Probably the best example is around Christmas 2010. People were pissed that credit card companies were not processing payments towards Wikileaks. There were tons of posts about taking down their websites (and arguments for Amazon). Of course, it did eventually happen, and while I was at work. It's not some major earth shattering story for a local newscast, but, it's easy to get.

Yes, a lot of the actual goings on of some of the operations are smaller clandestine groups on IRC and the likes, and I'd love to work my way into one or two of those. But a lot of them do rely on populist support, be it from actual outrage or potential for schadenfreude. A lot of wire copy is just "secret hacker group!"

It's not like I browsed it nightly lying in wait or anything. But it was in my history, and I when asked I told my boss that yes, I'd visited it. As I started to go into why, he stops me and tells me the company can't have people visiting these kinds of sites, etc... Had I been smarter, I could've made a better defense, like asking to be shown the offending material.

At first I was angry, depressed, and all kinds of other things. Now, I genuinely think it was just a case of wanting to get rid of someone, and look for a way to fire someone without paying them. I don't take it as personally. I don't think he thought I was trying to do anything untoward at work. (I mean, it's not like I didn't have a bigger monitor and privacy(!) at home... And if I was, why wouldn't I use Privacy Mode, or at least erase the history and cache?) I don't know. Just a bad situation.
I believe it's Paper for iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/paper-by-fiftythree/id506003...
Trust me, when I say 'implicitly', I mean it.

The implicit branch here is any local code. It's clearly diverging from the authoritative repo (whatever that is for your workflow and VCS)

My point was that any workflow that doesn't operate in a shared source directory already has those local "branches". You might as well acknowledge it and roll with it.

(Doesn't diminish your point about master & origin/master. I think this link is a propos to that: http://wheningit.tumblr.com/post/32959730634/when-the-office... )
This is an interesting exposition, but (I would just add for generality) the nature of "Market" is quite undefined, ex ante.[1] There are only specific markets in specific places for specific things, with specific participants. The nature of a "free market," is also precisely that they are not "gamed" by external authority ex-ante.[2]

The study of "non-economic" (ie, meta) activity that has (determinant) economic impact is most properly referred to as Political Economy. Although many trained "economists" avoid this. The illusory notion that veracity lies in 'scientific' objectivity (and so with it, government funding), has something to do with it.

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[1] ie, It is only defined directly by identification of a contractual exchange between N parties (agents), or 'archeologcally' through recipt, contract, or other record. But such an exchange directed by fiat, for example, would not qualify.

[2] For the definitional seperation of Hierarchy from Market, see for example Coase or Williamson.
Because I don't want just Linux. I use Linux, Android and Windows regularly.

Also what I'm after isn't offsite backups but seamless directory syncing (with cloud storage to eliminate the need for peers to be online simultanously), which is related but not exactly the same.

Dropbox, SkyDrive, Google Drive fit this niche generally speaking but Dropbox is the only one that has full coverage across the OSes I use regularly.
"Never trust the client"
I'm in agreement. (Except the part about using bible scripture as a point of reference.)

"Stop worshiping the man like he is a god. His essays are not bible scripture"

People worship bible scripture not because it's 100% right or even 25% right but because they've been brainwashed into believing it is worth believing in. Same as apparently, from what I can tell, people seem to be doing with PG. This reminds me of some of the people over at AVC.com thinking Fred Wilson should run for political office (an idea that he quickly shot down). I mean seriously we already have enough of that. Someone excels in one area and others seemed to think that they can do anything and can do no wrong.

"You can usually tell when you've hit on an uncomfortable truth"

Agree with that as well. But to be complete, somebody who makes the comment that you did could also be jealous, or frustrated as well. (Pointing out other possibilities. I mean there is a type of personality that loves to get any attention and then there is the type of personality that would feel uncomfortable with excess attention that they don't feel is entirely deserved. If you are reading this PG I hope you understand that you appear to like this attention. Or, you don't, but it serves your greater goals to be a demi god. Such problems it presents, to be so successful. We should all have to deal with people fawning over us.

But I don't think that's the case here.

I think you are just finding the people who are doing the worshiping naive in their thinking and it's getting a little irritating to some HNers.
This is what was produced by mechanical Turk, so I can't completely vouch for its accuracy. However, I think it's probably pretty correct. Unfortunately, there are not a lot of data points available from the video transmission during the ~4:00 jump.

https://gist.github.com/3896312
This post does not deliver what it promises in the title. It gives no reason why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT. It's not particularly insightful either.

I'm trying to guess why it has 53 votes. The only explanation I can come up with is that there must be a number of IFTTT fans who upvoted it just because it praises IFTTT. That would mean there is a high likelihood that this comment would be downvoted.
My take is that the US is basically a corpocracy at this point. They should just drop all pretenses of being a government of, for, and by the people.
Hi ph0rque, we weren't sure this would work, so needed to test the experts first. We're still not positive it will work at scale. With so many variables and subjective customer preferences, the experts had quite a tough time.

In terms of the business, we're at a crossroads in this respect. We can either A) go much deeper into flights, or B) venture sideways to do entire trips. We're running a battery of these tests to provide the necessary data.

We thought the results would be interesting to anyone looking to take some time off. We would never have come up with such thoughtful itineraries, so at least for the FF team we'll plan full trips like this in future.
That's a straw-man argument. The question isn't whether file-sharers are net positive or negative. The question is whether if file-sharing were reduced, would the industry be better or worse off. It's entirely possible that if file-sharing was more risky or less accessible, the people who file-share would spend a lot more on music.

I'm pretty sure that the RIAA has never stated that file-sharers are bad for the music industry, just that file-sharing is bad. Those are two different things.
No, the point flew over your head.

The point is that America's global hegemony shouldn't be maintained.

Quite apart from the jackass immorality of it, maintaining hegemony implies indebting America to the point of economic collapse while generating more and more enemies.

The objective instead should be to maintain the quality of life of American citizens.

And there are all kinds of countries, from Japan to Switzerland to Norway to Slovenia, none of which attempt world domination, where citizens can live fine.

(Oh yeah, and as a result of not attempting world domination they also tend not to get attacked by terrorists.)

Many across the spectrum, from Dennis Kucinich to Stephen Walt to Ron Paul, have explained this better than I can here; if you are interested in the geopolitics I suggest you look them up.

Your points about history are equally preposterous. Just because modern middle eastern states are young it does not mean that middle eastern civilisation is young. By that logic, China and Greece are both younger than the USA.
Well, let's say you did the same "light-hearted" thing with respect to a girl that you were interested in? I would guess that some would call that stalking. Let's say you did the same thing, indexing all of patio11 or edw or tpatcek comments. Wouldn't someone assume that there was some weird fixation going on there or an attempt to curry favor?
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New Programming Language Makes Coding Social Apps Easier
It is interesting. It certainly made sense for the bank to connect to a pre-existing and well known award rather than to endow an obscure prize from nothing. I hadn't known the Alfred Nobel family was against it, however.
Amber Case On Geoloqi Acquistion: "Esri Is A Beautiful Match"
Google may do some questionable things but it certainly is no Microsoft or Facebook or ebay/PayPal.

Google contributes to open source software in a very significant manner and completely voluntary - from early in it's history. Not sure I can name more than one or two others at their level who have done that.

Google's biggest problem is lack of human beings vs technical automation ratio. When things go horribly wrong with their services (ie. ban) and you need a human, it's pretty much impossible unless you can reach the top of a popular website with the story of your problem.
I hear they're pretty cheap in the empty states, especially if you're willing to share them with their current owners.
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I enjoy your posts. More please.
I'm a Canadian and we did something exactly like this as well for a junior level class.
This is a great idea. I built something similar at a hackathon a while ago. The whole idea is using both location and time to create an interesting locative media experience, which is something none of the incumbents do well right now.

You need a copywriter though. The language on your homepage is vague and needlessly wordy. Here's an edited version of one of your paragraphs describing a use case:

"Lots of fun things happen at school. Share them with Sqardius, and leave memories for the future."
Probably equivalent (or very slightly less), but then again the artists aren't the ones that are taking enormous amounts of money from the streaming cervices.
This is cool, especially the coroutines. BTW the predecessor to Lua was called "Sol" -- moon and sun in Spanish/Portuguese.

(It was described in one of the Lua papers, but Google for "lua language predecessor sol")
The html to text ratio is a bit high. I would suggest sticking with a plaintext email for now.

If you stick with html, make sure it validates. The font tag's 'face' attribute doesn't look legal as it is.
It would be cool to have sample SQL queries for certain common inquiries and some more complex ones. How to find all articles tagged as "programming"? What about all articles that have both "programming" and "timesaving" tags? What's the average amount of time between a friend request being sent and accepted?
What are the criterion developers' use in general to chose programming languages ?
You know, we have also began testing with mono on the backend. And I love it. This create a really cool flexibility of running your apps in Linux and Windows... :D
I downvoted you just for the jab about "that will mean this gets downvoted".
Thank you. I will definitely check that out. :D
I didn't know that! Ha, ha.
‘Fake it until you make it’ – Skype’s early days
That really warms my heart. Thanks for letting me know I can be an inspiration.
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I take Pearson's subtext to be: The eTextbook, eLearning field craves to be disrupted.
The DMCA does not require a service provider to take down an entire server without notice. This is a problem with ServerBeach, not with the DMCA. But, I guess that would get fewer page views.

(What a strange world I find myself in to be defending the DMCA so many years after being part of the opposition to it on Slashdot.)

ed: "farms" has posted a link downthread which explains more of what's going on. It's more complicated than the TechDirt article makes it sound; it's also still not primarily a DMCA issue, but a ServerBeach customer service issue.
This article has the right title and discusses the idea of services, not servers, but misses an even bigger opportunity to discuss how you can legitimately ditch lots and lots of servers. WebRTC means that every application can have aspects of peering and reduce the need for centralization in servers.

Back in 2010, well before WebRTC, I posted the following use case on the WHAT-WG mailing list that explores using peering to offset CDN static asset serving costs in social games. It was a while ago when I was a product manager and a lot less technical, so excuse some of the naive misconceptions I may have made at the time.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20...

Anyone interested in exploring an idea like iron.io, but in their own application stack should check out the following projects from James Halliday (substack)

https://github.com/substack/seaport

https://github.com/substack/airport

https://github.com/substack/fleet

https://github.com/substack/airport-cluster-example

It'd be awesome to see someone combine WebRTC with the basic idea behind Seaports to allow semantic versioning of services provided by your application's users.
No, arbitrage is mechanical or intermediate step in the elimination of a pricing discrepancy between two markets or market participants. It is usually implied as one that is taking no net or residual risk in the underlying asset. It need not exist, per-se, as with dispersed time and information (and threshold efficiency) the market participants would adjust their bid/ask prices in its absence (eventually).
A9's search portal died years ago they've been focused more on product search as a service. I actually sincerely doubt this move is intended to be search portal to take on Google.
EU demands Google privacy rethink
That is an idiotic reason for downvoting a comment. However, I wouldn't downvote you if I could.

By the way, as the CEO of Justin.tv you may want to be more mindful of your personal image. I wouldn't want to see comments like the above if I were your investor or your employee.