skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there have been multiple lawsuits filed semi-recently against ITT. Here's a story about one from last year which was started by a former employee and later joined by the DoJ; you can skim it for some allegations about ITT deceiving students:

https://consumerist.com/2016/01/21/whistleblower-lawsuit-acc...

direct link to complaint: https://consumermediallc.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/lipscom...

A separate suit was filed by the SEC around the same time alleging that ITT deceived investors and auditors regarding the financials of its student loan program:

https://www.sec.gov/news/pressrelease/2015-86.html

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2015/comp-pr2015-86...

There are others.
This site is absolutely unusable without an ad blocker..
What about coding bootcamps? Aren't they worse? They try to make you a "coder" in a couple of months and promise people jobs if they finish the course. It sounds eerily the same thing as ITT...
I've personally interviewed applicants for a "senior developer" position who claimed on their resume 5+ years of jobs where their primary job was supposedly programming, and who could not come up with code to sum the odd integers from 1 to n.
I am making the case for lawsuits with billion dollar settlements or judgements against universities, as well as ongoing concessions. The article advocates what I would describe as 'half-measures', not actual penalties. Many have proposed criminal charges against tobacco company executives, and I see no reason that the university heads should be held to a lower standard.
It appears that there's been a generic abilify for about a year now and also that it's definitely covered under Medicaid in at least some states.
One of my best direct reports came from ITT. In his case, I'm pretty sure he'd have been successful having gone anywhere, but at least ITT didn't prevent his future success.
But it's an extremely good proxy. You don't see good results coming out of bad tools on a regular basis.
>Does anyone have references to more specific accusations against ITT?

Here's 101 reviews that rate the institution 1 and 2 stars:
https://www.consumeraffairs.com/education/itt.html

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against ITT Educational Services, Inc., accusing the for-profit college chain of predatory student lending. The CFPB alleges that ITT exploited its students and pushed them into high-cost private student loans that were very likely to end in default. The CFPB is seeking restitution for victims, a civil fine, and an injunction against the company.

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-sues-f...

A recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit against for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute accuses the school of operating a “systematic scheme” to defraud the government by using a litany of abusive, deceptive practices to enroll students.

https://consumerist.com/2016/01/21/whistleblower-lawsuit-acc...

For-profit educational giant ITT Technical Institute inflated its job-placement rates by counting “any job (graduates got) that somehow involved the use of a computer” and misled prospective students about the quality of its programs as part of its high-pressure recruitment tactics, the Massachusetts Attorney General alleged in a lawsuit announced Monday.

http://www.whio.com/news/education/lawsuit-claims-itt-tech-e...
" 110 mile per hour airspeed"

I guess there's something alluring about pulling out of your driveway and being in the air within 10 minutes then arriving at your destination 150 miles away within 90 minutes after leaving your house. The world just became a lot smaller.

Now, what we actually get might be a lot different but who doesn't want that flexibility? Personally, i think we need autonomous vehicles before we fill the sky's with hundreds of thousands of "cars".
Virtually all of them. Their main interest is the Federal student loan program. Vets are a special target.

> The emergency order, which takes effect Sept. 1, comes one day after the U.S. Department of Education banned ITT from enrolling new students who use federal financial aid.
I don't see why being irrational is bad. A "labour of love" is precisely something that does not obey the law of diminishing returns. Passion and interest are much more sustaining and fulfilling than a job in the finance sector just because it is highly paid.

I think "rationality" is a stupid assumption, often wrong. Of course, people need more money, but a lot of people are also willing to make sacrifices for something else - spouses, children, parents, religion or country. Money is important, but not the overriding concern for everyone. I often feels that the correct word for a "rational" individual in the sense of economics is "sociopath".

Ralph Nader once said about his organization, that "you can bring your conscience to work" every day. This actually counts for a lot.

However the basic point of the article, that the Universities are conning students is perfectly valid (source: ex-PhD student, can relate to the frustration).
This point needs to be better made, avoiding slinging mud on the intellect of the hapless students. This article is an example of how you can write a dubious article, even in the presence of good data.
An ideal OS would not require any RAM and CPU resources, making 100% of them available to the applications it runs.
Well, I read the article and don't have an ad blocker. People tend to take this complaint about ads way too far.
Yes indeed, we really are so modern, if we are going by how many more things have become wobbly. We have one-upped the enlightenment geezers: we no longer have a fixed notion of time (relativity).
There is a very big difference between a private university and a for-profit school.
So 92% of Seattle (the city, not the region, which is a weird way to look at Seattle transit, but sure) transit commuters are above the poverty line...?

That's literally all the data actually said. If your no-content comment was supposed to convey something else, I'm afraid it's lost on me.
I do have NoScript, but I don't know what NoScript feature would force this page to httpS.
What ever happened to personal responsibility? It's something that needs to be instilled in our youth before they ever get to college.

I know at least 3 people that knowingly got PHDs in majors that will not amount to any sort of high-paying job. They chose to do this and it's not really the job of the university to determine the market value of their degrees.
I'm curious as to what the crash safety features in a flying car would even be. Emergency balloons? Parachutes? A collision at flying speeds is going to be bad for the riders, but the sudden stop after the resulting long fall will likely prove far more fatal.

How do you design for that? It seems the general trend in Aviation is that you don't; if you're falling that rapidly, things have gone so far south that you're just considered dead on arrival. (Best to get out of the plane quickly, and activate your parachute.) But I'm no pilot; I'd love some more experienced input on this. I think the idea of flying cars is ridiculously silly for the safety problems alone.
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">

Did Microsoft FP 4.0 exist in 1996?

WikiPedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage) says that it was 1.1 in 1996 and 2 in 1997 (also called FrontPage 98).

This might not be an original unmodified-since-1996 page.

Beautiful page though.
Are there any good ITT / University of Phoenix type schools? They all seem like scams.

I don't count community colleges here, I know those can be very good. My wife went to one, got great education, was able to pay it by just budgeting money every month out of her part time work. Then switched to a 4 years univeristy, transfered credits and graduated with honors after 2 more years (with minimal loans).

Would it be hard for any of these for-profit school to also do a good job?
+1 .. RuneQuest was great. The only rival for my affections at the time were Chaosium games.
Let me flip that around and offer that I've had "technical" recruiters fail their end of this transaction as well.

One experience involved a recruiter who wanted a compete rewrite of a CV portion outlining a SQL project from planning to continuous implementation models I built.

This on top of 8 years of other experience in data design and management.

The recruiter wanted to pass on my resume because I had failed to indicate my experience with flat CSV files and thought I needed more experience with them as a "highly specialized software stack".

I decided not to pursue that company further, maybe it was ego getting in the way but insisting I rewrite a technical resume covering 10 years of database experience over the omission of operating with flat files seemed like refusing to hire a qualified electrical engineer because he didn't list AA Batteries on his resume.
I was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder about 5 years ago.

Today I only have an anxiety thing. The thing that helped? DBT: dialectical behavioural therapy.

So, I am extremely disappointed that it only got (barely) mentioned in passing at the end:

> There are also things like meditation, brainwave entrainment (Neuro-Programmer 3), CBT, etc.
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Seriously?

That really says something about the people who developed and tested these... (Something along the lines of "Hey, maybe you should try getting out of the Google campus/dorms occasionally, possibly even out of the Bay Area, and see how the world works for non-Google employees…")

Chromecast - only $35![1]

smallprint [1] requires unlimited highspeed broadband. May use several times it's purchase price in bandwidth per month if your employer doesn't provide free Google Fibre to your home.
Those arguments could all be used against the tobbaco company lawsuits too; I am asking what makes them different.
One of the recent members of my team was from a bootcamp, she's been a real joy to work with and has mad some decent contributions. Bootcamps may serve their purpose but like with anything else YMMV.
I find 3 files useful for my one-man side-projects:

* TODO.md - contains things lined up for a 2-week sprint.

* ROADMAP.md - contains other stuff not lined up for that sprint, also big epics that would suite for an "Icebox" column.

* CHANGELOG.md - version release notes for the sprint.
I think this is a fantastic step in the right direction, but what is the legal justification here? ITT is in no way alone in being evil and predatory, so I'm surprised I keep hearing about crackdowns for them but not for anyone else. I'd love to see some new rules to keep all of these predatory places from operating instead of what kinda seems like a picking out a scapegoat. (Or is all this recent news more general and everyone just mentions ITT?)
It's coming back as WebVR ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebVR )

Initiated by the developer who started WebGL.
Or just skip JSX and use ReactDOM directly.[1] JSX is just sugar for the functions underneath, after all.

[1]: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/top-level-api.html#rea...
Why can I not highlight the txt? I can't be the only one who likes to highlight as they read. If it's to stop copying they should have disabled double click and ctrl+a.
So, Netscape Atlas was 6 megabytes in June 1996; Firefox for Windows 64-bit is 45.2 megabytes today (I picked the Windows download because it sounds like this guy was using Windows back then); that means the size has multiplied by 7.5 over the last twenty years, for an annual increase of about 10½%. That's — not terribly great, actually.

OTOH, according to http://www.jcmit.com/diskprice.htm disk prices have been dropping by almost a third every year, with the result that the cost of a Firefox install in 2016 is less than 1/500th the cost of a Netscape install in 1996. That's pretty awesome!
I'd imagine it depends on the "bootcamp." It seems like many of the more reputable ones don't charge tuition and make their money on referral agreements for successful placements.
That's been the case for decades. Except in Microsoft land, of course.
The biggest thing I learned when analyzing my time, which I wish I had recognized earlier, was that I can have two types of productive days:

I can have days where I do a million small things and hop quickly from task to task.

Or, I can have days where I work on big issues and should not be interrupted by small issues.

But, if I think I'm going to have a day where I work on a big thing and it turns out I get interrupted by a million little things, I end up doing nothing well and end up very unproductive.
I agree that a lot of post-secondary institutions in the US push students into irresponsible loans. If you measure program quality in terms of employability, some others may mislead students students as to program quality too. If you measure program quality by pace and depth, MIT has an objectively higher program quality than most public universities which generally have a higher program quality than most community colleges.

This metric is a gradient which can be used to rank undergraduate educations. ITT Tech falls below the vast majority of other institutions by this metric. If this were not the case, credits from ITT Tech would easily transfer to other institutions. Beyond that, they are in danger of losing their accreditation. This suggests to me that their already low standards have been declining in recent years and look unlikely to improve.

The problem may be precisely that it is a trade school presenting itself as a college. If it were actually a college, the program quality would be higher. If it were presenting itself as a trade school it wouldn't be misleading its students about program quality.
Depends on the bootcamp. Some of the best candidates I've interviewed graduated from hack reactor.
It looks like BPPE has their eye on them as well, at least they did in 2014

http://www.wired.com/2014/01/california-hacker-bootcamps/
It's literally written by an individual that is male. Let's hope he knows what gender he is.
Click bait garbage that's somewhere between intellectually dishonest and outright fraud. The New Scientist article [0] Mother Jones cites [1] discusses a meta analysis on whether women's preferences in mates change over the course of their cycle [2] (the referenced analysis says it does not), then makes an unwarranted leaping reference to Mcclintock's 1971 work on menstral cycle synchronization in humans [3], and implies the meta analysis invalidates it. It doesn't. The meta analysis was on possible mate preference changes, not cycle synchronization.

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2102956-do-women-sync-u...

[1] http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/menstrual-syncin...

[2] http://m.emr.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/03/24/1754073914...

[3] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v229/n5282/abs/229244a0...
How Google defrauds Advertisers
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California has an incredible quantity of private schools, and not a few of of them are high performing.
Just wondering: How many miles per gallon does a small propeller plane fly?
Chrome for Windows on the other hand is 405MB, which is quite an astonishing difference.
I get the "world got smaller" aspect; it's a big part of why I fly. Interesting that that 110 mph is an appealing speed. I guess I'd just forgotten as almost all airplanes bigger than a Piper Cub will outrun 110mph. Ours does well over 200mph and the kids still complain about how long it takes to get to grandma's house. :)

Put 110 mph airspeed into a 26 knot headwind and you'll see cars in the left lane of the highway passing you. Winter winds are regularly 40 knots or more at altitude. Into those winds, Priuses in the right-lane will be passing you. ;)

LSA rules limit the airplane to a maximum of 2 seats, further hampering the utility. (I'm trying to stay engineer-neutral and not go full Debbie Downer, but it's hard.)
History will remember the day the world lost the headphone jack
Nope. Title refers to the author himself.
> But, if I think I'm going to have a day where I work on a big thing and it turns out I get interrupted by a million little things, I end up doing nothing well and end up very unproductive

These can be some of the most frustrating and dispiriting days
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This is becoming better than an episode of Silicon Valley on HBO. I hope they release a video statement countering the claim where you can clearly see they have coke out on the table.

The CEO of this "company" is basically Russ Hanneman without the money. Instead a boat load of debt.
I think you missed my point (see my other reply). Our impact has had a geological impact on the world going back thousands of years. We've had a very high profile role in the environment of the world. But a lot of the evidence of that role has not been extremely obvious (we don't have an uninhabited control planet to compare with so we have to make guesses, many of which have been wrong), and only recently have we come to figure out how massive the impact of humans on the environment has been for a very long time.

Looking back at, say, the bronze age, it takes a lot of research to figure out the extent of that impact. Looking at today it's blindingly obvious. But that doesn't mean that our impact has been extensive only recently, it only means that it's become blindingly obvious recently.
Frequently the conference organizers will be handling the AV setup for an event. Its likely much easier and common to get this content onto Periscope, and YouTube for those folks then some custom Netflix deal.
An array of anything decays to a pointer though, if I'm not mistaken.
Does Chromium include this "feature" ?

Would be nice to have a barebones Chrome.
Came here to post exactly this, love this show. Can't wait for the new season, there are supposed to be 6 episodes which is awesome considering the other seasons only have 3 each, October can't come soon enough. I think my favorite episode was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Bear_(Black_Mirror)
I've heard stories like that before. Serious question, what do those people actually do? Are they just so far removed from these general type of questions that they can not answer them or do they have no programming ability at all? It just strikes me as bizarre
My A36TN gets about 13 mpg in "go fast mode" (205-210 mph true airspeed). I can slow it down and get better than 17 mpg, but rarely do. That's for a six-seat, single (large, turbocharged) engine airplane.

My first plane, a Cessna 182, got about the same ~13 mpg at ~160mph, due to having a much worse drag profile and a less efficient engine.

Twin engine airplanes get a little more than half of that (feeding two engines, not going all that much faster). Going faster hurts mileage by about the square of the ratio of speeds; slower helps by that same ratio. (10% faster takes 33% more fuel burn per time, making specific range (mpg) 21% worse.) Slowing down 20% can often increase mileage by more than 35%. (It's not perfectly quadratic, ground ops consume fuel, and takeoff/climb is still expensive in terms of mileage.)

Obviously, headwinds hurt mpg and tailwinds help. You have more headwinds than tailwinds (mathematical fact, not just pilot grousing).
I like the idea of a flying car as a great example of just-around-the-corner technology.

I remember reading about flying cars in mid 80's from a Soviet technical journal (Yuniy Tehnik or Tehnika Molodyioji, forgot which...). It was about Paul Moller's cars and how in just 5 years we'd have flying cars around. And I thought that would be so awesome.

30 years later it is still just around the corner.

My other favorite one is "new type of batteries". Every other month there is a new type of battery that will revolutionalize the energy economy.

Not saying there haven't been improvements in these areas, or we'll never see it happen, but it is just an interesting observation I noticed about those 2 things.

One reason I imagine is those two things are easy to sell as "popular science". It is easy for anyone regardless of background, to imagine flying in a car or to imagine never having to change batteries again. Nanobots or faster integer factorization using quantum computers is maybe is not as captivating or fun to dream about.
What you look for when you buy a table/desk?
As apartments and living is getting smaller we don't need a desk and a table. What do you look for when you buy a table/desk? If you could customize it? Would you want to?
You seem to be framing PhDs as terrorists. Why is the university obligated to provide jobs when students come regardless of the extent its faculty is exploited?
>> instead people seemingly are coming to the liberal and liberated countries with a distant goal of making them as backward and oppressive as the countries they left/fled.

I see this line in "liberal" countries and find it hypocritical.

Part of being liberal is the freedom to adopt any legal practices that makes you happy. If "liberal" countries think XYZ practices are backward or oppressive, make it illegal and file cases against people violating it.

Asking others to follow unwritten rules isn't fair.

Many liberals are unhappy that immigrants haven't integrated and by this, they want immigrants to adopt language, dress, food and religion(mainly Atheism) of the majority. It is hard to make these things illegal and still call yourself as a liberal.
The major difference between bootcamps and this sort of enterprise is that bootcamps don't pretend they are as good as a regular college.

In fact many are quite proud of not being that.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12383317
The gist is that they let anyone in (and advertise heavily to try to let everyone in), regardless of their ability. They also charge exorbitant amounts that students can only pay because of their government loans. That might sound a little like the general complaints about college, except that they don't really offer anything in the way of actual education, and the costs are really high, even for U.S. colleges.

So what ends up happening is the government pays the school and the students lucky enough to graduate end up with massive debt, no useful skills, and a degree that actually counts against them on the job market as employers think, "They were dumb enough to fall for that scam?" Other students who leave part way through are often surprised to learn that none of their credits are transferable to a real college because other schools know how bad these are.
In my experience people don't enter into PhDs expecting to make a lot of money. And STEM PhDs get paid, so it isn't as if we accumulate debt. Often times a PhD is the only route to doing what you love. It isn't possible to do academic research in industry. Personally when I entered into my PhD I really liked that the research I was doing had a noble purpose.

On the other hand, a PhD is way too long. And if you stop at year 4 or so you have basically wasted 4 years. I did not appreciate how much my values would change over time and sort of got locked into trying to finish my PhD. Trying to finish a PhD when you don't have passion for the subject anymore is very stressful. This experience is disturbingly common.

Finally, the author early on implies that the job market for STEM PhDs is not good. At least in physics, this is only true in academia. I know many people who have transitioned successfully to data science, or who have gotten a post doc. Overall, the unemployment rate of physics PhDs is low.
For some, it could be anxiety. I sometimes choke on really simple questions in interviews that I know I could easily answer if I were home alone. I have anxiety issues in general, though.
The role we were hiring for was for tier 1 desktop support. It involved basic Windows and network troubleshooting. Most of the people we hired for this role were self taught and picked up their skills troubleshooting issues on their home machines.

I also would be shocked if a CS grad could not complete FizzBuzz, but apparently that happens.