skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also graduated from DeVry quite a few years ago. I attended on a FISL (Federally Insured Student Loan it was called then). The FISL was easy to get because the school had a track record of nearly 100% hire rate for graduating students.

A few weeks before graduation an army of potential employers came and interviewed at the school. I received three offers. Everyone in my class who graduated had at least one offer. The education we received was solid, as evidenced by the demand from employers who knew the reputation of the school. I got a good job and paid off my loan.

It is true that the attrition rate among students was pretty high. Lots of people were admitted who weren't the least bit interested in attending class. Some even repeated a term a couple of times while they hung out and partied. They shouldn't have been there. If they were on a FISL they probably either defaulted or someone else paid it off.

I don't know what DeVry is like these days. But if I had to do it again in the same situation I was in back then I would do it. It opened a good career path for me.
Are 9-volts not around anymore? I haven't seen one, but I don't use anything they used to be common in like toys and radios.
> one of the biggest private sector employers in Cork.

What do all those people do? do you know?
I'm interested.
Thanks, I get that it means asymptotic behavior - that's the thing I don't get the motivation for.
I agree with your sentiment, and think that postdocs are the real problem with academia currently. Besides the low pay, being a graduate student is not a bad job - you get good job security, interesting problems, good mission, and can somewhat choose your boss. A postdoc is a terrible, soul-crushing, low-pay job. At least for the physics postdocs I have seen - I have heard that in the humanities a postdoc is actually a highly sought after position.
You're missing a key component: ITT and Phoenix recruit students who don't gain admission to any other public and private schools, a group that is generally of lower general intelligence and critical thinking ability than other college students, and more susceptible to marketing lies. These schools are unlike competitive non-profit and public colleges, in that they are delighted to enroll wholly unqualified students.
Impressive information for daily routine.
Be wary when something is described "too hard", but the describer doesn't/can't give specifics on why it is too hard. If a person can't give a generally understandable description of the difficulties, one has to ask whether they understand the topic well enough to make a pronouncement of hardness.

> Then you'll understand there are no experts.

I disagree. There are, but experts have to keep learning in order to maintain their expertise.
I think that might be one of those seemingly straightforward questions that's actually very nuanced, because I suspect that the combined masses of the two stars will have a lot to say about the outcome. For a couple of Solar mass stars, I would expect... a big explosion. I can't imagine it really happening though, except in a one-in-a-<insert -illion of choice> "head-on" collision. In that case, whether it blew apart and re-settled into a star, or a nebula, or... just blew apart, would be a function of mass and momentum.

In the case of slowly decaying orbits, one star usually ends up stripping most of the atmosphere from its partner, before the core eventually passes its Roche limit, breaks apart, and is accreted. In that case you get a series of Novas (not to be confused with supernovas), and a somewhat larger star when all is finally said and done. Lots of debris, occasionally very bright.

It's hard to imagine a situation in which two stars "merge" without a slow process of cannibalization. Compact collapsed bodies like white dwarves, neutron stars and the rest definitely do merge, but they're so much denser than a "living" star.
Design considerations when building microservices
I feel guilty every time I mention that I'm on the NBN - the real one. The fibre terminates into a NBNco branded box and as long as I've got a device that speaks PPPoE I'm online.

It doesn't solve all problems - there's massive congestion on Internode where I am that limits me to 20 megabits during the day, and TPG have messed up the routes to everywhere (Xbox Live gets <2 megabit, but Steam works fine).
It shares the same name, and some scenes are more faithful - like the squirrel room, which became a room full of geese in the original film.
I was fortunate enough to have friends who enjoyed playing them with me. My first was France 1940 followed by 1776, both of which I got at a thrift store after hearing about AH from my pediatrician. I played Squad Leader quite extensively. I owned a few dozen other games but I don't think any got the attention the Squad Leader did.
totally agree. also most CS degrees don't have a ton of EE courses, I only had a handful.

even better, learn programming on your own before college. then hacking out assignments is easy, and you can form a great appreciation for the theoretical work.

Focusing on practice or theory alone misses some of the magic, imo.
This is the worst mass death in Norway in 5 years.
Fade effect is annoying
DeLorean Motor Company will release new car in 2017
Oh! thanks for this, I did not know.
According to the ITT Tech Website they have now stopped accepting new enrollments nationwide.
Can you post the solution to the numbered hats one?
Bravo, now let's ban the rest of the fake schools!
Super cool stuff in this paper.

At its heart, this is a new training architecture that allows parameter weights to be updated faster in a distributed setting.

The speed-up happens like so: instead of waiting for the full error gradient to propagate through the entire model, nodes can calculate the local gradient immediately and estimate the rest of it.

The full gradient does eventually get propagated, and it is used to fine-tune the estimator, which is a mini-neural net in itself.

Its amazing that this works, and the implications that full back-prop may not always be needed shakes up a lot of assumptions about training deep nets. This paper also continues the trend of this year of using neural nets as estimators/tools to improve the training of other neural nets. (I'm looking at you GANs).

Overall, excited to see where this goes as other researchers explore the possibilities when you throw the back-prop assumption out.
Yeah - the trade off between this lesson and being woken up late at night because nightmares...
I'd like talk to you about your setup and experiences. My email is in my profile.
I am really jealous, it's my not fulfilled dream. But right now is kind of difficult with wife and little kid to carry such life.. offtopic
The guy would like to write games. Then the first 6 months he spent to write his own programming language, then some time to write own scripting language "sink" ( why not LUA ). I would love to hear from the author what are the motives to write all these tools.
My First Week of University in the United States
This piece is oddly silent on the failing linchpin of the program: people aren't paying nearly as much for their carbon credits as projected. The most recent auction was down 98% in nominal dollars from the preceding auction (there is surprisingly little coverage of this fact in the media, so I don't know if there are mitigating numbers).

There was an article in WSJ that is paywalled:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-cap-and-trade-bubble...

And this is the only other free coverage I found via a cursory search:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/californias-landmark-cap-trade-pr...
The Trouble with Trying to Win at Everything
You should consider running this malware detection script[0]. That script is designed to catch malware php scripts. I've used it before with lots of success. You will also want to check the access logs for all php scripts hit in the last few months. Your hacker's spam script is likely being activated/ran by a GET or a POST to that script. That's a pretty cheap way to screen for other compromised files.

[0] - https://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/
Is there any difference between a startup or a small business in your mind?

I see the two forms of business sometimes differentiated in that way.
I talked to a number of seniors majoring in computer science at a decent college not long ago - none of them knew what software version control was.

While, or right after, taking these theoretical courses in Java or graphics or whatnot, I would launch a project in that area to ground all that theory in something I could then manifest. I don't think this occurred to many of them, but to be fair, they are young and have been in school all their lives, and I went to class with a lot of (mostly non-programming) experience in the IT business already under my belt.
This area is a big deal - ML networks need to be much deeper and denser to provide human-level understanding, and training networks is currently a considerable bottleneck.
I, on the other hand, have to build a regex a few times a year. Every darn time I have to look up the difference between .* and .+, and how to do an "or", and why I get matches when I group a set of characters.

So SRL sounds like a great idea: us mortals can use it to painfully stitch together our our poor regexes, and when we get good enough we can skip SRL and become fully fledged regex gods.

Off topic, if SRL is a regex compiler, I'd love a regex decompiler. To be able to turn an impossible jumble of weird characters into a structured description of what it does would be hugely useful.
Green House Data Builds a National Footprint
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12386777
Someone I know (not me, I swear!) was excited to interview an experienced candidate with a fantastic résumé for a test lead position.

Said candidate did not know what a unit test was and could not figure out how to write one, even after the concept was explained.

I have no idea how this could ever happen.
wow - dad is really good with the angle grinder. I would have used a jigsaw. Cheers to those skills!
None of the images load for me, even after many refreshes.
Python Tracing Superpowers with Systems Tools
> I dont see society falling apart because people can't make their own apps.

But wouldn't people have made the same claim before literacy and math skills were (almost) universal? And wouldn't they actually have been right? In the world as it was, you obviously could survive without those skills. The question is: (1) how useful will it be in the future, and, even more importantly (2) which opportunities could humanity be missing if programming doesn't become a universal skill?

> Now for what its worth, I think it might be worthwhile to teach people some basic shell or python scripting, as that could make their jobs more pleasant by reducing the repetitive, boring work. But would we add a year of mandatory schooling? or would we cut something else? Because I do think those other subjects are necessary.

Well, I think another aspect is much more important: People should learn enough programming to be able to understand how the world works. Certainly, the goal should not be to enable everyone to build highly-reliable highly-scalable high-performance distributed systems, or whatever. Just as the goal of language and math classes is not to produce authors and mathematicians.

Now, I don't think that being able to create your own "Apps" would be out of the question. The only reason that's somewhat difficult nowadays is because the platforms and SDKs suck, not that it's somehow fundamentally a complex problem.

But overall, I think the goal should be to (1) give people some idea of what happens with their data behind the touch screen, so they can understand the power structures that result from the software's inner working (because they otherwise will repeat history because they don't notice how those new-fangled systems encode power structures that previously were determined to be dangerous for a society), and make informed decisions on how to use information technology and (2) give them some idea of how to approach problems with mechanical solutions and possibly encode these solutions as software. With the latter, the point isn't even necessarily that they should be able to implement it themselves (though that certainly should be an option for sufficiently easy tasks), but that they have an idea that software could even be a solution, maybe how they could explain their problem to someone more specialized.

In any case, the idea would not be to teach the details of, say, the Android API. The idea would be to teach general principles of automatic information processing.

As for other subjects to throw out? Sure, throw out woodworking and electronics classes (where that hasn't happened yet), but replace them with computer science/programming rather than with Microsoft product endorsement classes.
I had a longer reply but I deleted it because I was here for advice not to defend myself and I would get nothing but terrible useless advice if I lied.

The possibility of your explanation being legitimate is certainly not there. It only makes sense in a world where someone following me out the door is a good thing. And seeing as I have a lot of stock options it is most definitely not a good thing. It is motivation to stay not leave.

I'm sorry you are so jaded you think someone can't be good at their job.

I'm also sorry you apparently live in a world where complaints to HR go unacknowledged. Because at our company they get addressed head on, not buried.

I'll rest easy at night knowing that 7 out of 10 of the developers who left have kept in touch after and thanked me for my mentorship. Something they had no obligation to do. Because if you treat your team right, as I do, and you consistently have their back and mentor them as I do, you don't need to guess if they are telling the truth.
> So far I have not heard anything like a real justification for why Py2 is still better

I think it needs to be the other way around. If you want me to move from something that works to something that you want me to move to, the onus is on you to show what the new thing does better (or would likely do better in the future). For scientific loads the Python3 story is mostly "not worth the trouble".
Pros:
Browser based means no install. So works in more places.

Easy data import, export.

Transparent data treatment. View raw data stored for your account.

Two factor authentication - if enabled in your google account.

Better password strength indicator. Some don't even check against top 10k most common passwords.

Cheaper ;-)

Cons:
Not native app means no Touch ID.

No nice browser plugin - like Dashlane.
If there are any other roadblocks keeping you from using Nix in your infrastructure: keep in mind you can overlay Nix on top of another distribution. This way you can get a more mature base system and still have all the benefits of Nix available when you want it.
Unless they have plans to incorporate self-flying cars into the massive campaign to roll out self-driving cars, there's no way 99% of ordinary people can be trusted to safely negotiate flying a heavy piece of equipment over populated areas.

Here in the United States, people don't like 1KG quadcopters buzzing their neighborhoods, driveways and shopping centers.

So, now a one ton piloted helicopter? Uh, seems dubious.
Address Sanitizer slows down execution a lot. It should only used for testing purposes, the same as -O0.
I will certainly give it a look :)
Even graphical resources are probably not stored as optimally as they could be, given what the demoscene can do in a 4 kilobyte binary... one of my pet peeves is gradients, simple shapes, or even completely flat regions of colour(!) stored as bitmaps. I've seen apps with multiple sizes of the same simple --- as in completely linear --- gradient stored as uncompressed bitmaps.

I some someone do a similar thing about how bloated vim had become but it was mostly documentation (plus translations) and stuff like that, not vim itself.

Which then begs the question, "I only need the English version. Why am I forced to download a dozen other languages I'll never read or even knew existed?"

That also reminds me of a few programs I've come across that inexplicably let you dynamically change their UI language to one of around a dozen choices (and all the language names were in English too...) If I remember correctly, it was something simple like a file converter or downloader where most of the UI was icons anyway, and around 90% of the installer package's size was these resource files. Just... why.
Sounds like a great way, actually.

... I assume that you meant "optional".
Btw to avoid confusion I've seen happen when a new guy shows up in the workplace: ITT != IIT

ITT = ~University of Phoenix, everyone gets in

IIT = Elite programs in a variety of sciences, almost no one gets in
For anyone interested in what it's like to run one of these small pre-order-based publishers, I recommend Bruce Geryk's interview with the owner of Legion Games on 3ma: https://www.idlethumbs.net/3ma/episodes/legion-wargames
> Not everyone is a fan of prescription anti-anxiety, antidepressant, or antipsychotic medication (or their side effects, especially).

Lots of people go along with the "professional's" prescription, not knowing that these drugs are known to not work very well. They're only used because the professionals think that "they're the best we have at present time," (paraphrasing Harriet Hall MD's quote from skeptic magazine). The thinking is that if the first drugs don't work, they can always "try, try again".

Benzodiazepines are great for anxiety, until they stop working after about 4 weeks. Then you're just addicted to them to keep from spiraling down into an anxious hell.

SSRI's are the epitome of corporate science. Someone came up with the serotonin-deficiency theory of depression, Wall Street came up with a drug to sell, poof everyone got switched from anti-serotonin antidepressants to the new pro-serotonin patent drugs. There are some negative articles about Prozac in the Boston Globe's archives circa-2000, but their exposé wasn't enough to stop the juggernaut. There is now a page somewhere on Wikipedia that talks about why the SSRI's actually work for a small percentage of the people who take it... More often than not, SSRI's have a tendency to ruin people. Lexapro helped my girlfriend relapse, years ago.

"Anti-psychotics" were originally sold as tranquilizers. These drugs are given to difficult patients so that the system can pretend it's helping people, but really these bad drugs make the patient more psychotic over time. Most psychotic patients recover with time and/or sobriety.

See my comment history for references.
Focusing on the Data and the Customer
How does an incentive to work accomplish anything if the only jobs that are available (if any for a given person's skillset) are ones that pay far too little to live on. ("decreasing the cost of labor" == "reduce or eliminate the minimum wage")

Most poor people work very hard to earn enough to survive; much harder per $ earned than most people on this website. They don't need an incentive to work, they need jobs that pay better for each hour they work.

Raising the minimum wage won't accomplish that by itself, because most companies would reduce the number of positions to keep their costs stable. We could raise the minimum wage and then provide tax credits to businesses to offset the additional labor cost, but that'd wind up complex to administer and there would probably be loopholes that allow companies to take tax credits and keep the cash to themselves instead of paying them through to employees. With Basic Income, we effectively raise the minimum wage by direct payments to the employee; their income per hour worked goes up. This is much simpler to administer: everyone gets the same amount, and it counts as taxable income.
What about this article dons blinders in astounding fashion?
Powerful Pinterest and Instagram Management Suite
>Yes, it's pretty clear that the goal is to create a vote bank of government dependents who exploit the rest of us.

There's a simple solution that all BI advocates should embrace: you take BI money and you give up your vote, because it is a conflict of interest.
Demonstrative "that" adjective-connective-subjective "seems" infinitive-marker "to" verb-existential "be" verb-passive-gerund "missing" article-definite "the" noun-subject "point".
You do not control minds over the Internet.
Hard to say. The RAND institute did a study concluding that there is no meaningful shortage of STEM graduate degrees, that the aversion to these degrees, to the extent it exists, is a rational response to completion times, attrition rates, job prospects, and salaries when compared to other professional degree programs such as MBA, law, or medicine. However, this wasn't quite the same as concluding that it is irrational to pursue these degrees, just that we should stop scratching our heads and wondering why more people don't pursue them.

Payscale has an interesting ranking of graduate degrees by program, which is more useful than raking all holders of a particular graduate degree together.

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/grad?page=49

Unfortunately, it doesn't break out MS and PhD holders by subject studied. So while you do get to see a specific ranking for an MBA or JD holder from UCLA or MIT, you only get overall salary info for PhDs from MIT, not PhD in Computer Science from MIT vs Electrical Engineering from Berkeley. That would be far more useful.

As it stands, a PhD doesn't show up until spot 29 on this list, but then again, a PhD in CS might, so hard to say.

To me, the attrition rate from PhD programs is an under appreciated aspect of this discussion. A lot of people from elite Law, MBA, and MD programs are floored when they hear the attrition rate from PhD programs. Seriously, the attrition rate form an elite law or med school tends to be well below one half of one percent. Attrition rates form elite engineering and science PhD programs range from 35%-50%.

In any case, I'm always glad to see this discussed. The only people who seem to think there is a "shortage" or STEM graduate students are people who have a financial interest in hiring STEM graduate students. Almost every other analysis concludes that people with the freedom to choose their career in the US (free of visa restrictions that limit their career choices) are largely acting rationally by pursuing other graduate degree programs (or no graduate degree program).
Thanks. Wow, can NoScript be unpredictable.

1) Forbid active web content unless it comes from a secure (HTTPS) connection would, I assume, block the active elements, not redirect the entire page to HTTPS.

2) I had it set as:

Forbid active web content unless it comes from a secure (HTTPS) connection
= Never

You'd think that would disable it, but according the question just above the one you linked, Never apparently means Always unless the site is whitelisted:

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Open NoScript Options|Advanced|HTTPS|Behavior, click under Forbid active web content unless it comes from a secure (HTTPS) connection and choose one among:

1. Never - every site matching your whitelist gets allowed to run active content.

2. When using a proxy (recommended with Tor) - only whitelisted sites which are being served through HTTPS are allowed when coming through a proxy. This way, even if an evil node in your proxy chain manages to spoof a site in your whitelist, it won't be allowed to run active content anyway.

3. Always - no page loaded by a plain HTTP or FTP connection is allowed.
Also, https://labdoor.com/ is a potentially good place to check for product/brand recommendations, as they've tested the major brands to check label accuracy, product purity, estimated efficacy, etc.

They've mainly tested more common supplements (vitamins, minerals, probiotics, fish oil, etc), but it's still a good site to keep in mind.