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> Are you planning on verifying that people leaving reviews have first hand experience with a school?

Not really. Honor system.

> Do you allow people affiliated with the school to respond to the reviews in order to share their side of the story?

This is more about personal experience from both students and companies hiring. I'm not preventing people from replying, but that's not really the focus.

> As someone who has participated in one of the bootcamps you list on your site I can tell you that your data will likely be skewed by a vocal minority, and a request to "open the books" and provide the data on graduates is a faulty proposition.

Well I would hope both sides would be represented that way we can get a better view of how successful these places for students hoping to enroll.

> TL;DR If nobody from a program gets hired, then there is a problem with the program. However, if several people do get hired, the others have no business crying "This is a scam!"

Why? Are you assuming those that got hired were also hired by competent companies and went through an interview process that validated what they learned?
I guess I should feel dumb, because I thought Carmack left id when he joined OculusVR.
For businesses the UK is quite clear on payment terms: "If you haven’t already agreed when the money will be paid, the law says the payment is late after 30 days for public authorities and business transactions after either: the customer gets the invoice or you deliver the goods or provide the service (if this is later)"[1]

So this: "I see no payment terms so it will be at my discretion when we release payment" actually means " could mean kanmei can now claim interest and debt recovery costs.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/late-commercial-payments-interest-debt-re...
He was also featured on Beta List's blast this morning, so some of the signups are likely from that. I don't know how big their list is, so I can't say how many signups that would account for.
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where are the red lines from the grassy knoll from the cia assassins?
Your hint is simply not true.

Traditional banking rules require attachment of identities to accounts, and automatically trigger reporting to the tax authority for any significant movement of cash. Any account can be frozen and seized with an official-looking piece of paper. The system has tax compliance built into it.

Bitcoin has no such requirements. It is actually possible to be secretly, anonymously wealthy. Your accounts cannot be seized or frozen unless you give up your private keys.

It is true that people evade taxes in other ways. These often involve foreign accounts in countries that do not strictly comply with tax-reporting demands. Assuming the tax authority cares, it would also have to present evidence, which is somewhat harder to get out of the Bitcoin system.

And it is also true that for most people with dollar income, taxes are as simple as filing 1040EZ. There is no need to calculate basis or holding period or do a million lookups of tax code minutiae. If you make $50000 a year, compliance is easy and the risk is low. If you buy something with 10BTC, you have to hire an accountant to strictly comply with the law.
http://petapixel.com/2012/10/16/nophoto-license-plate-frame-...

"The trick is that that the frame is basically a optically-triggered slave-mode flash unit that’s placed right up to the subject (the license place). A sensor at the top of the frame detects when a flash is fired, which in turn instantly triggers two xenon flashes built into the sides. The powerful flash will turn your license plate into a rectangle of blown-out highlights."
Arimaa can be played using a chess set: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/. it's specifically designed to be hard for computers to play.
I would if I knew someone that was on there. None of my designer friends are on there.
...and then earn/buy the advice elsewhere. See also Naval Ravikant's view of the once-upon-a-time VC-package of "advice, control, and money" becoming progressively unbundled...

http://startupboy.com/2010/12/01/the-unbundling-of-the-ventu...

...which has only accelerated (including by Naval's own initiatives) in the 3 years since that post.
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As someone who writes predictive analytics software, I can say that you are dead on. Most of analytics is a process of doing one of two things:

1) Extrapolation of data where samples are lacking.

2) Taking big data and making it little data so that you can actually comprehend it.

My goal in practically every algorithm/tool I write is to take a several billion records and condense it into something that can be put in a spreadsheet, put on a chart, or rendered on a map. Analysts roll their eyes every time some big data guru releases another map with 7 trillion points on it. "Oh so you took 3 weeks rendering a map that looks like yet another population map, when you could have rendered this instantaneously with a choropleth?"
I read an article a while back about the founders not being on the same page might explain the pivot
I would hate to see the legislative definition of "random".
I agree and that is the main reason that made me move on from previous companies that I've worked for. However, I never used this fact as an excuse to care less about the work I am doing.
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Never heard of this site. Thanks for the tip. I'm actually liking this site better already. And as a traveler (in Mexico now), I can actually visit the site without having to use a VPN.
This was the primary source of 'stiction' in the disk drive business. Platters became optically smooth, read write heads similarly. When the heads "landed" on a spot where the lubricant had migrated away from they would bind so tightly the motor couldn't break them free. (old SparcStation drives you could take them out. give them a sharp twist along the platter's rotational access, and if you were lucky move the heads to a space they wouldn't bind to.)
Thanks so much for this comment - when reading the article I noticed it carefully circumlocuted "superconductivity", and was curious what the difference was. This perfectly explains it (and goes into further interesting detail), which is exactly what I wanted.
A redundant array of insured deposits of course.

I'm actually serious, there's a service called CDARS [0] that balances a large number of individual CD accounts of varying expiration times and maintains the 250k per individual per institution invariant. It acts like as single (albeit illiquid) bank account.

[0] http://www.cdars.com/
Bitcoin Gets a Cautious Nod From China's Central Bank
The real question around US compliance is how to position Bitcoin holdings in the most favourable light and prove it so that if the IRS initiates an audit then you can provide enough of a trail (e.g. blockchain) to show that you've held onto them for long enough to qualify for certain tax rates and satisfy conditions for capital treatment.

Proving length of ownership is necessary for all capital goods for which the taxpayer hopes to qualify for capital gains rates in the face of an audit. However, audits are retrospective--you don't need IRS permission to claim capital gains rates on your return. You simply need to have supporting documentation to defeat an audit if the IRS audits your return and challenges to applicability of the capital gains rates.

I refer only to wallets held on exchanges above because wallets held privately or in the US generally don't incur compliance obligations under the FBAR (foreign bank accounts) or FATCA (foreign financial assets) information reporting regimes. Specifically, the issue is that the FBAR and FATCA reporting regimes apply to accounts held in foreign financial institutions. Any business that holds financial assets for others is considered a financial institution, so any exchange offering bitcoin wallet services should be a financial institution under these laws. Because all of the major bitcoin exchanges are foreign, FBAR and FATCA reporting becomes an issue for U.S. taxpayers. The threshold for having a FBAR reporting obligation is $10,000, and for FATCA is $50,000. In both cases, the value of foreign accounts or assets is translated to USD.

Note also that financial institutions are actually defined somewhat differently for FBAR vs FATCA contexts. Bitcoin payment processors appear to be financial institutions in the FBAR context, but not in the FATCA context. However, all of the major payment processors are US-based, so FBAR and FATCA don't apply. Generally, U.S. tax law doesn't require you to disclose your domestic assets (the income is what matters.)
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Pretty sure I interviewed at the same place, with the same reaction. I wasn't too impressed.
This should not come as a surprise anymore. Developers need to be more responsible in picking their hackathons - https://medium.com/hackers-and-hacking/593688fa7c09
My understanding is that they do use such magnets for microgravity experiments. Here is a cool video on diamagnetic levitation from the University of Nottingham: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nod54HFkH0o
> I got pretty frustrated by the two "Senior" devs who seemed to take great pride in tearing my code and my decisions apart.

Two possibilities:

a) You got a glimpse of how your life on the job would look like.

b) Just like qualified specialists can be terrible interviewees, they can be terrible interviewers. They just screwed up.
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Hope you own the company, or are higher up in it.

Your boss may like you, but your company couldn't care less if you were hit by a bus tomorrow. Sure, you'd get a mention and a small office party with stale cookies and cheap pizza, but you'd be forgotten within the year.
Not entirely true. Redis sets are quite powerful.
The only justification i've ever heard is that it's an attempt to prevent DOS attacks by forcing a site to try to hash multiple insanely long passwords.

I don't know if that's even valid though, it doesn't sound plausible to me.
I'm all for the market in most instances, but I really hope Internet access starts to be treated like a utility in the United States. It is approaching the necessity of electricity a century ago (or water, gas, roadways, etc.) The market had zero incentive to invest so heavily in these utilities for such a drawn out return before the government financed the basic infrastructure. I know the analogy isn't perfect for a few reasons, but imagine where we would be if all these other necessities were privatized?
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If you aren't enjoying it anymore, you probably shouldn't be playing any longer.

I didn't advocate playing only for the sake of making money. I suggested it because of how complex a game it is. How much time it takes to master. And because the potential rewards once you do are quite significant, which is a nice added bonus.

And I'm not sure when you stopped playing (pre black friday?) but I don't think there's a single point at which I've ever stopped improving. I know many heads-up professionals as well and not a single one of them ever stops learning and improving their game. Stagnation in poker is death. As such, I don't know why you feel like it was a lot of fun at the start but lost that later on. There is always another level deeper you can go.

The point of any game is to win. The metric that determines the winner of a game is different in every case. In poker, it's how much money you're making. But that doesn't have anything to do with the game itself. It merely depicts how well you're playing.

Learning to maximize expectation with true mathematical finesse while factoring in accurate opponent profiling and gameflow is one of the most challenging things I've ever had to do gamewise. I've played chess since I was 5, Counter-Strike very seriously for five years, WoW for the first 3 years before it went to shit, and have been getting into Go. And in none of those games have I achieved the level of mental satisfaction as I have from poker.

Edit: Was your stars alias RRiccio as well? Were you a cash player? You only have ~750 tournaments recorded on sharkscope.
hmmm thanks for your input. if you want, you can check out the site using the following login info:
login: rebecca@reppio.com
password: guest

i would still very much appreciate if you can provide your feedback in regards to what you liked and what you didn't like about it.
I'm unrated and without a particular talent for the game, but I've always enjoyed it. I managed one draw and one win (out of dozens of matches) against someone supposedly rated >1800 (not sure if FIDE or US) ... 20 years ago. I haven't even had a game in over a year so I'm not really a "player" if I ever was. :)
>I really wish the IRS would concern itself with USD only...

This wouldn't work at all. If that happens, why wouldn't people switch to using Euros? Certainly there would be difficulties with convincing other people to take Euro, but if the cost of things decreased 20-30% because of no taxation on non-USD currency, people would switch.
Why are they allowed to take time to "get things in order"? They lied, shouldn't they be prosecuted? If the text is saying they won't, that seems much closer to polite than serious.
Eh most of the designers there aren't 'good' they're just copying the current trends (is a designer works with designers)
The "Some people can't use it in some situations, therefore it's worthless" internet retort.
Some of us wish that the IRS would also concern itself with US states and territories only.

The essence is that the IRS is going to invest in a lot of kneecapping wrenches to get any sort of meaningful compliance from BTC users under the current system, as the only way to seize properly secured coin when the owner is unwilling is to somehow make him willing.

Thus, if you can't file your bitcoin taxes on a space smaller than a postcard, you're probably not going to get a lot of voluntary compliance, no matter how much people actually support paying taxes. Think about the use tax on interstate retail sales. Hardly anyone pays it because no one cares to tally up every Internet purchase they made, figure the amount of tax owed, and send it along when that information is not already available to the taxing authority.

There is no consequence to not doing it, and doing it correctly costs both a small amount of money and an enormous amount of time, which is arguably even more valuable.
Well I think that incremental delivery of applications, crawlability, URL bookmarkability and being able to push live updates are valuable features the Web has already solved. In general iteration speed in dev is better too (usually lower compilation times)
Thanks for sharing! I m still new to this thing and exploring!
In certain circumstances, that could be treated as a "like-kind exchange" governed by Sec. 1031 which is not subject to taxation until the property received in exchange is sold (see http://www.irs.gov/uac/Like-Kind-Exchanges-Under-IRC-Code-Se...).

However, if that doesn't apply, you should generally owe taxes on any gain resulting from the conversion. Based on the types of properties excluded from like-kind exchange treatment, you should probably have taxable gain (or loss!) from the exchange.
This is fantastic news.

I loved Id back in the day. When all it took for a game studio to be great was the most advanced code, Id was king! Then FPS games became more like movies, and Id became a bit like Michael Bay. They still pushed the technology forward, but almost everyone was making FPS's that had better plots, characters, etc.. The technologies Id licenses to other game studios are put to better use by them than in Id's own hands!

VR has been around for decades, but it has always sucked. Low resolution displays and poor head-tracking have historically been problems, but latency has long been a problem that trumped all others. Carmack and Oculus were already working on getting Rift's latency down to levels that would make VR a less nauseating experience for users.

This move just means Carmack is finding his work at Oculus more rewarding than at Id. That means we can probably expect great things from Oculus in the near future.
Putting words in my mouth, and a personal attack?

Where did I say anything about the bias, resume holes, people trying to survive, or judgement of the unemployed person, exactly?
Actually you can here in the Netherlands. We have a website called thuisbezorgd.nl that allows you to order food from thousands of shops through the country with Bitcoins, and have the food delivered at your house.
Not only the President. Federal judges, Cabinet Secretaries, and Senators all have been impeached in the past. The actual line from the Constitution is: "The President, Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

While it may not be a good idea to impeach Obama over this, they could impeach Clapper over it, as he is the one who petitioned the government to dismiss the case on the basis that the plaintiffs didn't have grounds as they could not demonstrate that they had been affected, or possibly against Solicitor General Donald Verrilli who made the argument in court. Coupled with his lies to Congress during hearings about whether the NSA collected data on Americans ("not wittingly"), Clapper would probably be the best target.
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As much as I'd love to talk about this it seems much more political than tech related, are there any issues of tech workers getting less than 8.50? What's the angle...
Eh I shouldn't have even bothered with this argument because look... I wouldn't give a s__t about "eGold" either.

(Credit Cards || Google Wallet) > All this junk

The only reason I bothered with the gold argument is because Bitcoin's volatility is its downfall. If it were pegged to a real-world asset this would essentially be solved. But credit cards already do this -- they are pegged to bank accounts.
Perhaps I'm unaware of the circumstances, but what about this is drastic? His company got acquired, he stayed for a few years, and now he's moving on to the next thing that excites him.
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If you exchange one mutual fund for another, you pay capital gains (this is one reason IRAs are so tax advantageous). Typically during bartering, you also owe capital gains even if you never receive USD. It therefore seems possible that you may owe capital gains taxes when you buy Litecoins with Bitcoins.

There's generally no "this must become USD" rule before you owe capital gains tax.

I am not an accountant or tax lawyer.
I actually have a room of my house I don't go in because a cfl broke there a year ago.

When I read how to clean it up it sounded so scary I now stear clear of the whole room :-(
Can't say I'm too surprised by this. I mean, the guy's amazingly talented and has been working almost exclusively on technology for basically the same game for like 20 years. Granted, the hardware has changed considerably during that time, but I can see how that might become just a wee bit tiresome after that amount of time. Definitely looking forward to what he's able to do for VR though.
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See: http://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardburman/2012/03/14/raising....

I don't think the minimum wage has been a great success anywhere it's been implemented, so I'm a bit surprised Germany would adopt it now instead of trying something more forward-looking. The conservatives in Germany could have preempted this I think by proposing some sort of minimum income like in Switzerland.
Taxes have always been based on voluntary compliance. Despite all of the grumbling and complaining, people actually do pay their taxes (and understand why they are paying them).

There will always be some amount of non-compliance. In those instances, the IRS and DOJ pursue criminal charges (i.e., Wesley Snipes). For the most part, however, the IRS just wants to receive the taxes. If frequently offers amnesty to people who belatedly realize they owe back taxes (meaning, usually no penalties or criminal charges, but interest accumulation does does apply).
That only works if the company shares that commitment and wants to share the rewards of that success. In my (admittedly not small-startup) experience, that is not often the case.
not many other fields of work where that analog exists, so I call BS. What's the personalized test given to CPAs? Sales? Marketers? You ask about past experience, accomplishments, etc..but rarely put them under the gun to produce on the spot.
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Your link to Rosetta Code reminded me how much I love Inform.
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Towers_of_Hanoi#Inform_7
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That's an oversimplification. The field of cryptography has advanced by orders of magnitude since DES and RC4. Each time one of those breaks, we abstract the weakness into a class of vulnerability that the next algorithm will be immune to.

>There is actually no precedent of a cryptographic system relying on computational hardness surviving for more than a generation.

That's because cryptosystems relying on computational hardness aren't that old.

>And given that our fundamental theoretical understanding hasn't really evolved beyond, "we think a bunch of these problems are hard", things are likely to stay that way for a while.

These assumptions haven't really broken though. You give an example of DES, but that doesn't rely on computational hardness assumptions. Asymmetric crypto with a trapdoor function does. There hasn't even been a big breakthrough in the original prime number factorization assumptions of RSA/DH.
You're taking actions in public, of course it's not private. Where do we get this idea that, not only do we have a right to privacy, but we have a right to privacy everywhere, all the time?

As for potential for abuse, guns can be abused too - that doesn't mean guns aren't allowed at all. Or if your country does ban guns, think of something else that might be abused but is allowed anyway.

Just because something could be abused doesn't mean that's a valid reason for not doing that thing.
Wow, that's amazing that Germany never had minimum wage!

To be honest, this seems like a good example that not having minimum wage doesn't necessarily lead to pre-industrial age wage slavery that academics are always worried should minimum wage disappear.
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