skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richard Dawkins about "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind": "It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets."
Whoa !
Think through the business model. $10k * x cohorts per year * y students per cohort doesn't add up to a whole lot of revenue. How many salaries does that need to support? What do rent, insurance, advertising, employee benefits, etc cost? What could the founder (presumably a talented senior developer) earn by working as an employee and not running a bootcamp?

The original question seems to suggest that students who take this path are more alike than different. There is surely a wide spectrum of graduates from the brightest student at the most selective bootcamp to the least engaged student at a poorly run school. I don't think you can generalize any more than you can for cs graduates.
Hm, I always thought Spivak was calculus for mathematicians.
I remember Ada was considered complex back in the day and now with all UB and specific compiler extensions, C++ has become much more complex with Ada 2012 and SPARK getting industry adoption in high integrity computing space.
I think learning to program is good for you in other aspects of life as well. You are able to make more informed and logical decisions due to your knowledge of programming.
thanks alot, stacksnippet.com is also a good tool.
Feeling connected no matter how small is a very strong force. I like that I have connections from my childhood to my present and to all the places I lived. Even if it is I see that my friends kids are now in high school or that someone had a great event that I had zero impact on them having.

When my son was dying from cancer I just had to jump on Facebook and I had a ton of people that were willing to help out or send him messages and videos. It was a great tool to find people who could help.
Steam Roulette
JSON web tokens are indeed pretty dope.

The main vulnerability I worry about when I see it being used is in the implementation by the end user or library, in that you must validate the algorithm used to sign the key [0]; but, many libraries assume that users will read the spec before plopping in a new auth scheme into their app, and don't do this by default.

Secondly, it's important to remember that JWTs can be decoded anywhere, but verified as signed by you.

I've been using JWT-go [1] in my most recent app, and it's been great.

[0]: https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-i...

[1]: https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
In the US you can get access to worldcat at a lot of university, community college, and public libraries to get interlibrary loans from many different participating institutions. I have gotten so many obscure technical books on loan using this service, like "Bipartite Graphs and their Applications" (it's a good read).

The only problem is if you forget to renew the book you have to pay the fine at the institution it's on loan from. :(

https://www.worldcat.org/
I love anything by Saki and Guy de Maupassant. Premchand was a great Indian short story writer. Many of his works are available in English.

Haven't found any mystery short stories that are better than Sherlock Holmes. Labours of Hercules was good though.

My all time favourite: The Bet by Anton Chekov

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1732/1732-h/1732-h.htm#link2H...
> The fact that 1.5 billion people use Facebook kind of suggests that you are wrong.

I'm wrong?

No I'm an individual with my own preferences. Each to their own. I wasn't telling anyone else to leave. I was just describing my experiences.
Ask HN: I'll be starting with a new job soon but their machines have Windows
Basically, I've got a job to write code using Node.js, AngularJS, Rails, PHP and so on.

However, all their computers have Windows and I'm not comfortable using it to write code.

I asked if I could use Linux but they said I can't bring my own laptop, they said I could develop on a VM though.

What are the disadvantages of using a VM? I find it disappointing they won't let me install Linux on it.

Any workflows I should now when developing on VM?

Thanks.
"whereas in India it's "meh, he just grabbed my ass and walked off, no biggie". Seriously that is only upper class and only happen in upper class places. Believe me if that happens in an area where middle class is there the guy who did that will get public merciless beating. Any of my know circles will surely slap the guy in the same place. I think in India domestic violence is the huge thing for girls. Still not even in educated families we overrule women just like that and we hide behind the name of culture.
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I also found this graph to be a bad start. I mean, search queries?
If facebook.com isn't bookmarked it's still presented as suggestion right after "f" is typed in close to any facebook users omnibox. The only reason I ever search for facebook is because I accidently mistyped it.
lose* - this is one of the only misspellings that seem inexcusable to me. It's my ultimate pet peeve, because they don't even remotely sound the same.
GE's FirstBuild Is the Future of Smart Home Appliances
I doubt double-entry book keeping will be replaced but there are many opportunities to build on it. GAAP earnings can give you results that are completely out of sync with whether a business is making it's owners richer or not which is what counts at the end of the day.
Did you consider Hawk? https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
Scientists turn adult human blood cells into neurons
I've been a bootcamp instructor for the last 2 years and have seen the full spectrum of students come through in that time; it's not so much about the programs themselves but rather the students as individuals. Some have a better understanding of their career goals and are more dedicated than others, and it typically reflects on the placements they'll receive after completing the program. IMO it's no different than the type of graduates coming out of the average university today.
Microsoft's new Windows Store policy will combat junk apps
> The problem with circles is that the people in a given circle don't necessarily have me in a circle.

I'm sorry, I don't really understand what you mean here. If they don't want to 'follow' you, why would you expect to send them things?

> I can really just group the input feed, not the output feed

You can choose which circle(s) you wish to share with, is that not controlling your output feed?

People can filter their input (who they have in their circles) and their output (which circles they share each piece of content with).

I suppose you can't follow a chosen subset of a single users output, unless you can do something fancy with tagging.
Personally I don't use Ad Blockers just due to the fact my own personal ethics feels I am stealing when I do use it.

When I am teaching I have ad blocker installed because I don't want to get in trouble for what advertisement will be shown, especially YouTube.

AdBlock Plus and their paid white list is the worst and I don't know why people use them.
/ops_recruitment.sh
Складные межкомнатные двери книжка – ламинированные
The GitHub web interface defaults to the PR-to-upstream behavior though, so this is at least an inconsistency; I would argue it is a bug.
This is actually rather disturbing on multiple levels. Is there any actual basis for this science, or is the guy a crackpot? The article kinda seems vague on it, which makes me think the guy straddles that fine line between insanity and genius.

I mean, I'm sitting here rather terrified that I can't comprehend such a state without saying everyone back then was 100% schizoid (or whatever you'd call this in modern psychological medicine), and could be fixed with a few pills (in theory, anyways).

I know HN frowns on macro memes and all, but http://goo.gl/5FQ0kI, this is the only way I can currently describe my mental state.
Avago Technologies to Acquire Broadcom for $37B
Also, used as the premise to Neal Stephenson's early novel "The Big U" and part of the plot for "Snow Crash."
It doesn't take a lot of effort to maintain contact with people that are important in our life today. The relationships that are important to us need to be nurtured, not followed. Facebook has created this (inadvertent) anti-social follow use case, and I think a lot of people have fallen into it.
TIL: Firefox has configurable tracking protection! https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tracking-protection-fir...
So, I never trust users to give me advice on features to add.

But I always believe them when they say something is difficult or confusing. Research should not be required to make a good CLI do what you want, provided you understand what you want.
It's Official: Avago Buys Broadcom in $37B Deal
The title misrepresent the content, just trying to clarify it in the second sentence with "Each tool follows the Unix philosophy of doing one thing well".

Almost everyone will expect an IDE such as JetBrains PyCharm, Visual Studio, and Eclipse.
Graydon Hoare: Five lists of six things about Rust
So what they did was take an abandoned project, add their adware installer and release it?
What's in a Function Name?
Nice idea, nicely executed. Tiny suggestion: I'd put a little more white space between the search results. I'm finding it hard to distinguish between different results.
I don't have fb and I don't miss it. Soon many more will join the trend and nurture their real friendships instead...
> It is old and dates from a time before Google used SSL for everything

Their budget is $52.6 billion and (as you say, the slides are old) they have lead time too. Let that sit for a moment.
I wonder if the current "depression" is merely the tech savvy market. I find that many authors make the mistake of assuming that the average Joe thinks the same way that they (and their peers) do.

In the past 2-3 months I have heard two less savvy people recite the "it's not an official relationship until it's Facebook official" social norm, which inclines me to believe that Facebook is still firmly entrenched in the way people interact with each other: even if they never visit the site it needs to be there so that they can turn their significant other into that all important profile trophy/achievement.

I had this exact conversation with some coworkers (3 of us) and all of us found out that all of us only have our profiles because our significant others demand it. We never visit the site or use the site but have to exist there because of the people around us who do use it. My S/O can't have me as a partner, my sister can't tag me in a picture etc. People are worried that if there is no "paper trail" on Facebook, other people will think that they are an imposter.

Therefore I'm not inclined to agree that the current trend is a long term trend. There are many other websites that provide exactly the same features of Facebook, if not more. Facebook is a part of culture now. It's a verb. It probably has a good few decades of life left in it.

Finally "search query frequency" is the poster child of "correlation does not imply causation." E.g. People might not be searching for Facebook because everyone already knows what it is and what the address is. It's like ranking Google's health on how often people search for Google.
Actually I don't see how being a manager at bigco or being a wealthy student in an expensive school with lots of means helps you bootstrap a company on a shoestring.

I don't think the question is whether it helps you, the point is that it's a selection effect. Either the people who are smart and effective in those fields end up disproportionately wanting to go to big, brand-name schools and companies, those big brand-name schools and companies are able to hire those people, or both. It's possible that they also have a beneficial non-selection effect, but that's not what the parent comment was proposing.
This document says "proposed state standard". Is this california law now or proposed?
It is actually demotivating to me. I know I can never live up to my epic October streak, so why bother?
The reason for the deal: as the WSJ noted yesterday, "growth has been hard to come by for Broadcom, a 24-year-old company that makes communications chips for tablets and smartphones, and supplies the Internet links for cable-television and telecommunications devices."

As to why Avago is likewise excited to close the deal, "Avago has been likened to health-care companies such as Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. that are based in foreign tax jurisdictions and also have become voracious acquirers."

So Broadcom is merely the latest "notch on the bedpost", funded with billions in new debt.
How does that relate to profile pictures, though?
I'm happy to finally find a search engine giving good results for `>=> haskell`[0] as I can never find good information on those symbols and never remember them.

One problem, the link to the browser extension seems to be broken [1].

[0] https://recalll.co/app/?q=%3E%3D%3E%20haskell

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recalll/kimdaoebjj...
PGP absolutely supports multiple recipients. As the other reply says, the (small) symmetric key is encrypted separately with the public key of every recipient.
will add query suggestion and "did you mean" functionality for more suggestive queries.
The press release also mentions $750 million "synergies" in the next 18 months which should translate to about 2000-3000 layoffs.
> Both of these are ongoing effort that has to be paid for if it is to scale and be done properly.

Have a look at bittorrent. Scale is not a problem. Money isn't either. Perhaps we should have a distributed social network based on it, or a similar technology.
I haven't read the paper, but if you define the reals as constructive Cauchy sequences you'd be forced into a coinnductive definition. Is that equivalent?
Well, it makes a change from the Ides of March.
Tracking Protection in Firefox for Privacy and Performance [pdf]
Connect via VPN to your machine somewhere else and do it all over the net?
A type of flaying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaying
My dev enviro is a debian VM that matches our servers with xfce. This on an older Mac via VMware fusion 5. I don't really like OS X so I almost never switch out. Once I full screen the vm I can't tell the difference. Even with videos. (I don't play games so I'm not sure there). I'd say a vm is a perfectly viable option. Plus you'll have the builtin option to hop back to windows and see your work as the unwashed masses will see it in a blink.
We've hired 2 (so far). I was hesitant at first since those boot camps sound like a for-profit college.

One of the hires has been on my product team and is a total badass. Better with ~1 year of experience than I ever was.
It is not disturbing, you are disturbed. Ironic to me and others who do know the subject of this article. Maybe one day you will have the mind to comprehend, but, since you asked, as an example:

"[...] in the case of problem-solving, creative or otherwise, we give our minds the information we need to work through, but we are helpless to force an answer. Instead it comes to us later, in the shower or on a walk. Jaynes told a neighbor that his theory finally gelled while he was watching ice moving on the St. John River. Something that we are not aware of does the work."

Maybe you are trying too hard to grasp a concept that is not really about grasping, but rather about being. Sorry you had to ask your question in such a judgemental tone, though.
The GIMP developer has asked SourceForge to remove the installer. Guess they just ignore him.

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May...
Apple replaces Google as world's most valuable brand
I found that PDF linked from here: http://boingboing.net/2015/05/27/porn-actors-must-wear-prote...

It implies that its a law now. Seeing as how big the porn industry is in California, I cannot see this ending well for anyone.
UKit – Intuitive mobile-first DIY website builder for businesses and startups
I was just going to point out the mobile app factor. Looking only at Google does not count search on App stores. It also does not take into account that over half a billion people are mobile only users. Source Q414 earnings slide deck.
http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AMDA-NJ5DZ/3515235624...
This makes me even more angry at SourceForge and not less.

1) There is nothing clear and open about the project being abandoned by the author

2) The author left SourceForge due to their business practices and this allows SourceForge to take over the repos and continue making money?

3) Is SourceForge just going to maintain any project that leaves them and makes a mirror?

The sad state of Download.com and SourceForge keeps getting grimmer and grimmer.
Being that VMs usually have terrible disk I/O, I've found that it helps noticably to set the Windows host to increase the amount of memory it uses for the disk cache. There's the setting in 'My Computer" > 'Advanced', plus a little-known registry (or group policy- I don't recall off the top of my head) setting that increases it quite a bit more than the GUI-fied switch. You can find it on Google easily enough.

-my 2 cents
From the paper:

To enable Tracking Protection in Firefox 35 and later,
visit about:config and set privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true.
I've heard about how SF has been some financial trouble, but isn't all this adware nonsense just going to hurt them more in the end? Surely some crowdfunding option could've been more of a viable effort...
Not to mention that sleazy line about 'helping their users avoid malware'.

The search hijacker that came with my copy of FileZilla Server was the first such infection I've had in a decade.
> straddles that fine line between insanity and genius

That sounds about right. In any case, I highly recommend reading Jaynes’s book for yourself.

Daniel Dennett: “I think first it is very important to understand Julian Jaynes’ project to see a little bit more about what the whole shape of it is, and delay the barrage of nitpicking objections and criticisms until we have seen what the edifice as a whole is. After all, on the face of it, it is preposterous, and I have found that in talking with other philosophers my main task is to convince them to take it seriously when they are very reluctant to do this. I take it very seriously, [...]” http://www.julianjaynes.org/pdf/dennett_jaynes-software-arch...

Richard Dawkins: “either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between.” (in The God Delusion)

etc. (cf. http://www.julianjaynes.org/julian-jaynes-theory-quotes-revi...)

> I can't comprehend such a state without saying everyone back then was 100% schizoid

Sounds more like a problem with “modern” models of consciousness and sanity, rather than a problem with past people. This was recently on Hacker News: http://priceonomics.com/how-culture-affects-hallucinations/

Semi-related, I like this blog post: http://www.meltingasphalt.com/personhood-a-game-for-two-or-m...
https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe

> It appears that +SourceForge took over the control of the 'GIMP for Windows' account and is now distributing an ads-enabled installer of GIMP. They also locked out original owner of the account, Jernej Simončič, who has been building the Windows versions of GIMP for our project for years.
I've described this to someone as "The most interesting wrong idea I've ever heard".
High-tech city farming grows food faster without sunlight
That is my fetish!
>Mirrored projects are sometimes used to deliver easy-to-decline third-party offers

It's as if they know the majority of experienced users would decline those "enticing" offers.
You can use cygwin as a shell, then you will mainly be using a text editor, a browser and a shell that is similar to the Unix shell, so it will not be fundamentally different from Linux - from the user point of view.
Google should demote the GIMP search term leading to SourceForge's download page, or mark the page as infested with malware.
If you want to disable "Acceptable Ads" in Adblock Plus, its still there. Nothing stopping you.
Good. Although I prefer Ghostery.

The main thing for me isn't even blocking ads as such. The main thing is blocking the absurd amount of crappy javascript that clogs up my browser, in which I have no interest.

I find the unfiltered web insufferable these days.
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Razorpay (YC W15) is hiring developers in Bangalore
Bangalore, India - Full time only

Razorpay is an online payments startup in India on a mission to overhaul the payments infrastructure of the country.

The online payments space in India is highly fragmented and suffers from multiple problems. The ecosystem is highly differentiated from developed countries and presents multiple unique challenges which we are trying to solve.

We are looking for full-time developer to join our team and work with us on the product.

As part of the engineering team and one of the first few engineers, you will get to own and drive large parts of product, ranging from our public facing API, backend integrations to fraud management solutions and so on.

We are not micro-managers and we don’t expect to have managers for a long time. We expect you to take care of end-to-end task management related to features/products for which you are responsible. We intend to scale by product and not by headcount.

Requirements:

* Strong product design sense

* Ability to take charge of building a feature and drive it to completion

* Be comfortable working in an early stage startup with an informal working environment

Bonus points but not necessary:
* Experience in working with modern PHP and awareness of OOP, traits, namespaces, and other features.

* Solid experience in working with MySQL.

* Experience with Laravel framework

* Experience in building scalable or distributed systems.

* Experience building or working in startups before

* Contribution to open-source projects

If you wish to be part of our team then please email a short para about yourself, details about your prominent works and how you can be helpful to jobs [at] razorpay [dot] com
4) The reason why they did it is actually completely irrelevant. "I killed him because he slept with my wife" doesn't change the fact that you committed murder.

Doesn't GPL have to say something about this? Wouldn't this mean that the adware would need to be open sourced?

Edit: The difference between murder and manslaughter has now been explained, multiple, multiple times. Manslaughter is still a crime and in that way it is still the same. The comparison was used as a device to elaborate why the reasoning was unimportant, the difference between murder and manslaughter isn't important within that context. Suffice to say, now that I have been corrected repeatedly over this nonsense, this would have been a better anecdote:

> "I killed him because he slept with my wife" doesn't change the fact that you killed someone.