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Every single thing you said in the first paragraph that you don't agree with is how every professional field works. There are no shortcuts, you can't bullshit your way into a profession and be successful. If you are not genuinely interested in writing code and building things, it really isn't the right career for you. In addition, as far as I know flatiron school people deploy on the first day there - it's not a dry syntax run with no application of knowledge. The truth is that a career as a developer is not for everyone - some people really like it, and others try it and don't.

In addition, if you don't have interest in things like where commas go, it's pretty likely that you don't have an interest in writing code, since that's what code is all about, once you are on your own at least.

I think defining the theory of learning through understanding and aptitude as a 'dogma' is a little bit of a far reach. But what you are saying about the experiment does hold value. It would be easy to figure out the output of an experiment like this - take the flatiron school as all the way off the understanding and commitment end, and take your course as the option all the way off the other end, low commitment, little understanding. Then compare the outputs between the two -- how many graduates does each approach have into jobs in development?

Now as you go down the response here, you are getting more and more reasonable with your claims, which is good. Next, you are saying that the real purpose of your course is to inspire students. And that's totally fair - I can see that. Obviously you have done will with this: look at your reviews and the number of students you have had. You are a smart and passionate guy, and you can inspire your students.

BUT this is exactly my issue with the course. You claim to teach students to code, but you are not teaching them to code. You are exposing them to code and trying to get them motivated, with minimal real learning. You are, as you say in the last paragraph, giving them a broad, high-level overview of what it would be like to code, if they were to learn. If this is what your course does, this is what you should say it does.

As you get to the bottom of your comment, you further and further solidify the real purpose of your course. I like this, and where you have gone with it. I don't think you are going down a bad road. I do think though, that you need to be clear and honest about the goals of your course. And if you do, it will likely mean sacrificing some money, because what you're selling right now is an impossible dream, and lots of people buy into that stuff - that's marketing. But trust me, honesty and good work will come back and repay you, and the opposite will come back and bite... whether it's now or later, it is bound to happen.

Mattan, I wish you luck with this company. I wouldn't spend so much time here anonymously writing to you if I didn't care, at least a little. If there's anything you take away from this discussion, let it be that you should always be clear, honest, and transparent with your work. I promise that if you do, things will turn out better.
Thanks! I'm extremely interested in the possibilites for embedded MIDI processing, as my music-making is hardware-based and I prefer to minimize the computer use.
Totally.

At the time, I was deeply inspired by his talk at Startup School 08: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nKfFHuouzA
@WestCoastJustin, I am not able to plan the app. How do I create a database for restaurant menus, where I need to differentiate eat-in and takeaway prices, substitutions, additions and subtractions in an item etc.
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Security experts give the agency high marks for creating the VIPR teams. “They introduce an unexpected element into situations where a terrorist might be planning an attack,” said Rafi Ron, the former chief of security for Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel, who is now a transportation security consultant.

Unexpected? In Boston, I've heard about the reports of TSA checkpoints on the subway, and they're always at the same downtown locations -- Government Center, Back Bay, etc. People have pointed out that they are easy to spot, and avoid (1):

" ... You don't want the terrorists to know that if they try boarding at Government Center and the TSA is doing its show, they can walk in three minutes to Bowdoin or Park. Or if they're entering at Kendall or Central or Harvard and see the TSA show, they can walk to the other entrance of the same station, where the TSA show will almost definitely not be happening. And definitely don't tell the big bad terrorists that they can enter at a street stop on the E line and almost definitely not be harassed. Or board one of the above-ground Silver Line stops and be at South Station in a few minutes."

The most telling statement from the NYT article:

T.S.A. officials would not say if the VIPR teams had ever foiled a terrorist plot or thwarted any major threat to public safety

In the absence of arrests, convictions, or other evidence/data that prove its effectiveness, the TSA has to justify their existence and salaries in some other way ... such as security theater in crowded subway stations.

1. http://www.universalhub.com/2011/they-were-having-security-c...
Was it what he negotiated at Bilderberg club this summer in Watford, UK?
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I think in that sense, this is more of a social engineering hack. Everyone trusted a common host. You can say the trust was not manipulated into existence by an adversary, but trust was involved, in hindsight.
I just send money orders with the return address and the destination address the same.
When was ECHELON disproven?
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The designer chose a helluva markup there, or the piece is really very thick.

Shapeways prices by volume, cubic centimeter, and if you put your design up for others you can charge a markup.

There's a Pebble bike mount for $12, and I'd expect this to have similar volume, so the markup to $39...?
I've heard they're losing their best talent left, right, and center. Between that and stuff like this, I wonder how much longer Zynga can keep going at this rate?
It's always been related, but it's not the only factor. Packaging, assembly and test are the other primary components of manufacturing cost. You are correct though, that price (as opposed to cost) is going to include amortized R&D, marketing, license fees, margin etc.
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For a different perspective, I am now following teamtreehouse rails app tutorials, to build a facebook style app. They make easy work of building a simple app as there are no tests written, and quite a bit of hand-holding. I guess One Month Rails does something similar, but at this stage I need a bit of one-on-one help.
I never understand the logic behind acquire-and-shutdown process. Like Google's last decade of shopping and killing spree, not long ago Yahoo bought Astrid and shutdown million users. Are there any significant business reasoning I am missing?
Nathan Seidle, founder of SparkFun (and my boss!) recently talked at a hearing of the House Committee on IP with regards specifically to open source hardware. The EFF quoted him in this article:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/tech-sector-does-its-p...

And it echoes how he feels and how we as a company operate. 145 people strong, $30MM in revenue annually, and not a single patent. All of the products we make are open source. It's awesome.
Price or cost?

The whole premise of taking NAND from 25nm to 19nm (for instance) is to fit more floating gates in the same area. You can take that as a smaller die, or as more bits on a slightly larger die than the previous generation.

Die size is indeed a major factor on cost. For a given technology (litho node + process, e.g. # and type of steps), the cost to process a wafer is fairly constant regardless of die size.

If you shrink a die size, you fit more die on a wafer. Additionally, yield goes up (given an independent manufacturing defect density), and especially for large die, the tessellation around the edges has a major impact.

Indirectly, even testing is related to die size, in that there is a limit to tester parallelism, and more gates means more time and more combinatorial patterns to test, e.g. for stuck-at testing.

There are of course non-linear costs in packaging and package-level testing and elsewhere.
Which is unlikely to give you more than a few months, the same time you already often have, and still won't protect you if the company has trouble.
I can see how you don't want to be in a situation where you are holding in your hand evidence that Shady Marketing Tactic X is proven to convert better. But I think the solution is simple: Don't A/B test shady features. If something makes you uncomfortable or seems like a dark pattern, don't test it, because you would never want it on your site anyway.

I don't think this is a failing of A/B testing. That someone can get numbers that show "evil" tactics can make money is not materially different from someone coding "evil" HTML in Notepad and getting results. As you said, it is just a tool.
It was mostly because he was clever. He hired people that were loyal to do the killing/etc. So those people commited the crimes, and plead guilty every time they were caught. Al Capone could not be guilty of a crime someone else committed.

technically, the only place where he miscalculated was tax. so they got him for that. they didn't plant false tax evidence on him, as the NSA/FBI did recently with that guy that refused to join PRISM with google and others.
Jon: would you please make this not auto-play? Thanks.
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Glad someone said it. I stopped answering recruiter calls several years ago, and now I just email them back with a list of demands and the resume.

There is zero -- and I mean zero -- point in engaging them for conversation. They will ask you stupid stuff, try to make you take stupid tests, etc., and then try to sell you the job like a timeshare in Miami.

There are a few who do NOT do this, and I am eternally grateful when I encounter one of those.
It's a little troubling for me that people crucified Canonical about the use of the Amazon search "lens" but there's not a peep about this.
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When a company acquires another and then shuts it down, the reasoning usually has something to do with intellectual properties or acqui-hiring the employees.
Let's be cautiously optimistic. Every few years a new memory tech comes along with tons of articles about how it's going to displace the current one in only 2 years. (RRAM has been one of "the new ones" for years.)

I'm not saying it won't happen, but on the journey from idea to millions of units, a test chip is just the beginning, and in the meantime, NAND is moving.

Look at how slowly NAND has replaced rotating magnetic storage: it's been around since the 80's. Decades of iteration have brought it to a place where it's compelling for non-niche use cases.
It isn't NSA owned according to the records. 65.192.0.0/11 is UUnet (Verizon Business) owned. nsa.gov is hosted on 65.196.127.225, and both 65.196.127.225 and 65.222.202.53 fall in the block of 2(32-11) = 2,097,152 addresses designated 65.192.0.0/11 and owned by Verizon Business.

Verizon rents out those 2,097,152 addresses to their customers, but they are unlikely to tell you which customer is assigned which address at which time without customer permission (and neither address is set up in Verizon's nameservers to reverse resolve back to a hostname).

There is as much evidence that the NSA is behind this as there is that the YMCA USA (another Verizon customer) is behind this (or any of the numerous other Verizon Business customers): http://dns.robtex.com/ymcausa.net.html#records (that is just an example to show the flaw in saying that link [8] is a smoking gun that the NSA owns the server; I don't think the YMCA is behind this).
I agree with everything except turning off IPv6. I suspect you're "fixing" the issue with things trying an IPv6 lookup before an IPv4 lookup and appearing to hang - this should be reported as a bug.
The political stuff always becomes the same hive mind: armchair liberalism.

I just wanted to flag this:

> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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It's interesting how <100% change in annual salary (50k to 100k) is the ultimate hallmark of 'doing well' across the country, when the cost of life can vary >400% from one place to another.
I like that name better. There's nothing "hacker" about this.
And comments like that is exactly why I am considering stopping reading HN comments alltogether. Thanks!
> Perhaps if they had contracted out the right bits to Sun

Or bought Sun, incorporated Solaris into Darwin. They had the cash.
Having done this wrong, how I look at it now:

You cannot expect anyone else to share your dream.

You can either hire them, or find commonality in a dream.

But at the end of the day, if it's your idea, it's going to have your name on it and thus, will be what you work on the most out of all the people who touch it.
Zynga should have sold it back for 300M-400M.
The status report mentions a DoS attach is specific to Sunday (yesterday as of this writing), but the manager is still not resolving for us. https://twitter.com/StatusLinode doesn't appear to mention anything more recent than yesterday either.
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It Now Appears Possible to Hack a (Fancy, Japanese) Toilet
You seem to think you successfully defended Google and the NSA. My technical chops are just as good as your, if not better, and I found your efforts utterly buffoonish. If you don't like people disagreeing with you or criticizing the gov, time to pack it in.
It's a trendy thing amongst billionaires lately. Even in Australia they are trying it. I think there may have been a consensus of some sort made at one of the many "billionaire conferences" that happens every year.
Hey thanks for sharing that. Glad to see there is some diversity when it comes to civil liberties advocates. (not that there is anything wrong with the ACLU as far as I can tell)

"Our four pillars of litigation are private property, economic liberty, free speech and school choice." - their website

What's the deal with school choice? Seems kinda random

One thing I wish advocacy groups allowed is donating towards narrower goals. For instance I support most of what the ACLU does, but I don't really care for their views on gay marriage and don't particularly want to fund that part. It would be great if I could donate to more specific parts of the organization (same goes for public radio, haha)
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That's good news. I like Jeff Bezos.

> Our touchstone will be readers, understanding what they care about [...] and working backwards from there.

Interesting how one of the core tenets of Amazon is:

> from the customer and working backwards from there.

Disclaimer: I'm interning with Amazon.
I clicked through to your profile but there's no obvious way to contact you.
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>Hell, personal financial advisers generally take 1%, right? that'd be north of $177K right there. And surely a startup founder does more work than a personal financial adviser.

An underground coal miner works "harder" than a financial adviser too, but I doubt they're earning more. Comparisons aside, the investment is for the company, not the founder. The founder may have a decent salary, but income is not wealth and that income stops if the business fails.
Combine this with the DEA / NSA data sharing and you have a recipe for the devastating financial harassment of dissidents.

At this point the USA is not far from Putin's Russia in terms of totalitarianism and corruption.
Well, the output is responsive indeed.

The build tool needs more screen space than iPhone/Android can offer (left and right columns + content editing in the middle), hence it make a perfect sense to "force" you to use a larger viewport.
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The actionable steps are actually part of the vision, usually the more important part. For example, suppose there might exist some fantastical amazing place full of unicorns and rainbows. What's more important: having detailed visions of what this paradise will look like once you get there? Or actually knowing how to get there?
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While FAEs (field apps engineers) are helpful and readily available, they are constrained by their lack of product knowledge, and the unidirectional flow of reference code and designs.

On the design side, I hope that the energy and continued improvement the open source software community has will spill over to hardware. I think that would greatly improve the accessibility of the hardware world, and facilitate new product development and innovation.

Proprietary hardware reference designs and tools (whether it be for schematic capture, logic synthesis) etc, while tried and tested, often lack the polish and open interfaces, hence extensibility, good open source systems have.

Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly glad we have Verilator and gEDA.

On the manufacturing front, I feel your pain (mostly on behalf of my colleagues).
> is SSH still a safe tool?

Is there something better?
While I couldn't imagine anyone other than hipsters holding the phone, the video was actually really well made and simple, and it definitely introduced your product to me (I sat through the whole thing). Looks pretty awesome.
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Wouldn't that kind of be re-inventing Bitcoin, except as an exclusive, possibly proprietary layer?
That's awesome! Thanks for the advice
I still think it was a mistake to buy OMGPOP. Draw Something was one of those games that you get addicted to, but it only lasts a week or two. Eventually it becomes saturated in that game market, and unfortunately for Zynga they bought it when it was in the middle of this process.
Huh? Just learn to write a regex. I'm pretty new to regexes, but I believe that the regex that corresponds to the example on that page is /^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?[! ]+$/. It's one line, and yeah, you have to examine it for a second to figure out what it matches, but it's easy to modify and you can use parens to match subgroups quite easily.

There's a group of people who want to make a literate API for everything but part of what makes nice programming, in my opinion, is an API that's different from day-to-day language. Don't get me wrong, APIs should, of course, be simple and succinct, but I find it hard to learn and remember really literate APIs because it's hard to keep their vocabularies separate from the basic English I use all the time.
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Please let me borrow your time machine.
Obj-C has the significant advantage of being a fairly thin layer over plain C so it's lightweight and easy to port. This means you can bootstrap it on a new platform pretty easily, write in a fairly high level language for most of your application code, and transparently drop down into C for performance.

Had it not been for mobile I think Obj-C would have quietly died out but it happens to embody a pretty good set of compromises for small, resource constrained devices. Recent developments like ARC and blocks make it a lot more pleasant to use now than it was even a few years ago.
Hey I think you might have to rename your README file to README.md for it to recognize markdown?
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when you pretend you aren't using regular expressions, then you have two problems.
I believe this list is up to date as of July 2002.
Ask HN: practical uses for augmented reality?
Say you've got a pair of computerized glasses that can augment your vision, not just by overlaying, but by projecting 3D models onto your environment.

While I think this tech is really cool, I'm having a hard time seeing what industries could benefit, or how one could make a business out of it.
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It's just like taking a "shot in the dark" with beers.

Beers have all sorts of different flavors, olive oils too, and honestly, you're really going to have no idea until you try them. Price doesn't mean anything, you just have to see what you personally like, and different olive oils "work" for different kinds of dishes. You want a pepperier one with one thing, and a fruitier one with another.

There's no way to inform yourself except by taste-testing them. When I move to a new city, I'll buy several bottles of olive oil from whatever shop, none too expensive, and will usually discover I really love one or two of them, and reserve them for salads/finishing/etc. The rest, I'll use for frying/etc. where the flavor matters much less, and then buy cheap Bertoli for frying/etc. once those others are gone.

So you do have to be "serious" about oil if you want to. But if you don't want to, then that's fine! Just buy the cheap stuff, obviously.
Do you contest they are good?
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FWIW, the OP does allude to the militarization of the police when describing the violence used in their cash-grabs:

> In the midst of festivities one evening in late May, 2008, forty-odd officers in black commando gear stormed the gallery and its rear patio, ordering the guests to the ground. Some in attendance thought that they were the victims of an armed robbery. One young woman who had fallen only to her knees told me that a masked figure screamed at her, “Bitch, you think you’re too pretty to get in the mud?” A boot from behind kicked her to the ground"

While the militarization of police is a huge issue, it's one that is orthogonal to the one the OP tackles. A system in which police can confiscate property -- with very low risk of being called out for it -- and share a cut of the seized goods (with the prosecutors) will quickly lead to a very bad situation. It doesn't matter if the money goes to buying more commando gear or towards a prosecutor's vacation home.
Who, really?me too! It's cool to see fellow Albertans on HN.
Okay, I see. I guess if I was to offer advice, I would say get a pad and sketch out how you think the app will work, and make a data model (on paper -- this is much easier). What I mean is, as you go through all these pages and the workflow, think about all the data you will need to collect (restaurant names, contact info, menu items, prices (in/out), dates, etc) and how it relates to each other. I would then start with the simplest thing possible and slowly add to the system. The first prototypes will likely throw away, but this will give you useful feedback as you iterate your design. This should really only take you a couple days to get a prototype with a very simple flow. Maybe just do the mockups without any coding. I think it is hard for people to help when you are not really stuck on something. I'd say, start your app, and see where it goes, you'll likely get stuck and then you can start to research the solution, either via railscasts or stackoverflow, or email someone ;) Hope that helps.
Sounds like a great project! I hope you share it when you get done =) I'm a big fan of electronic music, although I don't care for MIDI due to some quirks.

Are you thinking of the traditional route of making new instruments to do off-board audio generation to your mixing board?

One of my favorite projects so far was to make our LED lights MIDI devices so you could sequence them using something like Ableton directly.

http://blog.saikoled.com/post/49255468343/myki-show-tell-epi...

The second application is my favorite.
Oh hells yes. I've been waiting for something like this to make http://www.bitbanter.com/ more interesting. Not sure how I'll handle non-Coinbase microtransactions...but still, this is really, really cool. Thanks Coinbasers!
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