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> then the risk to Lambda School is practically zero

If only!

We only get paid if a student is making $50k/yr or more and the agreement is time-bound (10 yrs).

A student may teach those levels of salary without our involvement, but when our possible downside is $18k + the cost of training and our potential upside is somewhere between $0 and $50k any level of default or non-hiring destroys returns immediately.
I should have said "NASA seems to need a wake-up call, given their motto 'For the benefit of all' while short-changing their own federal government agencies!"
The problem with the radical left is that they don’t appreciate the fragility of civilization, and they don’t understand just how horrific things can get if we get carried away with some utopian program and accidentally cause the whole thing to unravel. My suspicion is that it’s caused by a selfish desire to personally witness the true “end of history”.

I oppose them because—to paraphrase a well-known movie quote—some men just don’t want to watch the world burn.
The problem is that modern social media is more about bragging about how awesome you are.

My GFs Instagram account is literally professional photos of her... I mean she's a model but it's basically her portfolio.

Now EVERYONE does it though... girls go out specifically to build up their instagram...we're not ourselves anymore.
Ask HN: What inspires people to write on Wikipedia?
I suppose the best way to improve critical infrastructure is to create an emergency that makes improvement a priority lol
How frequently it fails seems to depend on the answer to question 1 - unless you are aware of other incidents beyond the Lion Air crash?
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Is there someone else you recommend for learning more about ag tech?
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Wake up at 4 or 5 AM. Every preventable bad thing in your life happens because of lack of sleep. Waking up early makes you go to bed early.
My issue with modern "chat apps" is they usually fail to let you know if someone is up for a conversation. Presence is reduced from "I'm available, let's talk!" to "last online".

If I don't know if someone is up for chatting, I'm not going to start a conversation with them, in case I bother them.
Aren't the flaps up during landing?
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Not sure what that means though.

As far as I am aware (totally a layperson), there have been potentially only 3 potential 737-MAX MCAS trim issue occurrences:

1. The Lion Air flight prior to the fatal lion air flight

2. The Lion air flight which crashed

3. The Ethiopian flight which crashed

Of course I don't think any of those 3 are absolutely confirmed, but I do think it seems likely the three had MCAS trim related issues. If the success rate for pilots dealing with this issue just 1 in 3, does that say anything regarding the MCAS issue difficulty/complexity or the skill/training of pilots?
Love what you're doing. Think the model could work for other well paying jobs such as the medical field or legal?
Impressive.

As someone a bit later in their career (4 years in), I'm a bit jealous of this opportunity. I'd be very curious in some kind of midlevel->senior program like this. Something like Bradfield but more widely available geographically. The content is more difficult at that level, but the salaries are substantially higher as well.
Is "green text" a pejorative on HN?
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These all sound extremely serious and damning, but it's hard to know whether these match the typical tone and content of these kind of reports. Is this is well inside the standard for adjusting to a new aircraft or does this suggest a serious hazard left unaddressed?
Private colleges should be free to charge rich kids lots more, and let them in even if they are dumb.

Someone has to get the low grades and why not a rich dumb kid that pulls the grading bell curve down.

Plus the rich kid could meet smart kids in class and later fund their startups.
The alternative would have been redesigning the 737 such that it would be a different plane. There are advantages to keeping it as similar as possible to the previous generation. Boeing was in a bit of a bind. They had a plane (the 737) originally designed for different requirements (the plane is low to the ground) in wide spread use that the airlines wanted them to make more fuel efficient to stay competitive with Airbus’s latest models. If they introduced a new plane that would require the airlines to retrain all their 737 pilots among other things. So Boeing found a way to put new engines on while keeping the plane similar enough as not to make it a new type.

From what I understand, MCAS is a reasonable solution. Where it gets questionable is in not informing the pilots of this new system (but again, there were reasons for that, maybe as it turns out not good reasons), allowing the new system to override the yoke input (Boeing reasoned there was already a procedure for runaway trim pilots would follow), and keying the new system off a single AoA sensor and only having two AoA sensors total so it’s not clear what to do when they disagree.
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Mind to name and shame?
Is that true outside of US?
I suppose you can optimise by only taking candidates who can't survive without a job. There are certainly people who can, e.g., people who have partners with well-paying jobs, people from wealthy families, or people with investments. Some of them may still find an extra 2k/month attractive.

Edit: I my case, I'd find an extra 2k/month attractive, and there are always new things to learn about software.
You can absolutely disable app and OS auto-updates on iOS.
> Perhaps. What crime is it?

When the mails are used in the course, the federal offenses that appear to be involved from the charges in this case are “mail fraud” and “honest services mail fraud”; the bribing of the officials would probably also be criminal frauds (against the university) under State law.

> It doesn't look to me like paying an admissions officer to admit your child is a crime at all.

Then why are people being charged with (or pleading guilty to) criminal fraud (or patterns of racketeering activity where the concrete racketeering activity includes criminal frauds) for doing that, conspiring to do it, or facilitating other people doing it? Yes, the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction over mere fraud, so it's the use of the mail that is key to the federal charges on this case, but the basis of the charges here (other than the money laundering and tax fraud related to concealing the quantity and source of the profits from the main scheme) are all about bribing school and test administrators.
And the demise of the distinction of the term "gaslighting" from "lying" is now complete.
The offline aspect is hardly the main draw here though. As mentioned earlier in the article, the latency reduction is huge. Another aspect they didn't really cover is privacy implications. Lastly, you may not be offline, but dodgy connections can also be a pain if you need a stable stream of packets going back and forth.
Yet another way in which Boeing's marketing/regulatory insistence that the MAX was the same type as the 737 caused safety problems.
Tortious interference is a tort, not a crime. It's right in the name...
I would be significantly interested in something to help explain legal terms as someone with little experience with business, finance, or law. I'm interested to see how this turns out!
cool, so now the developer that did this will just thoughtlessly type npm publish npm instead.

At the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Really, a hammer shouldn't have a prompt on it confirming each hit. If it does, users will just instinctively press it and then a few months down the road they'll hit their thumb.
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> A little scary?

Perhaps, but it’s not unprecedented. The B2 stealth bomber, for example, famously lacks a vertical stabilizer (tail fin) and so is inherently unstable and relies on computerized control surfaces to maintain stable flight [1].

This seems to have worked fine, although the things definitely log way fewer flight hours than an airliner. I believe several other aircraft do this as well (fighter jets and such).

Still, the idea of it would give me the willies if I were in charge of flying one.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit#...
They're not that I know of. But the paper cited is just showing relative parity or slight improvement on relatively toy examples. The claim that convnets are the clear winner for speech in general/what everyone is doing now is just not true.

I work in the field, a more accurate summary would be that there are a number of viable architectures that currently get fairly similar accuracy, but that have other pros/cons with respect to streaming, memory use, parallelism, model size, integration with external language models and context, complexity of the decoder, friendliness to different types of hardware etc.
Here is a list of alternatives to all Google products:
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You might be right about the exit polls. Perhaps this can only be applied in countries that have strong independent monitors (which Estonia should have being an EU member). Regarding vote selling, I don’t know how it is in Estonia, but in Iceland voter ID is pretty lax. You can provide an ID in the form of passport, drivers license, bank issued debit cards, etc. As a buyer I have no way of knowing if I'm witholding all possible IDs from my agent since they might have several debit cards from several banks, more then one passport (through dual-citizenship), etc.
Can I ask how many students have a degree already? I'm not sure if its a University alternative or a capstone course.
That's a pessimistic way of looking at it. Personally, from my experience, it's the exact opposite: If they're doing something invasive, it's because the data actually powers a feature so valuable that it's generally worth it.
Yes. "Hangouts Classic" goes away for GSuite users Oct 2019, and they get migrated to "Hangouts Chat".

"Hangouts Classic" is going to be shut down at some unspecified date after that. All users will eventually be migrated to "Hangouts Chat" - GSuite users are just getting pushed first.
You may be hitting this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

Firefox does not use Core Animation, unlike Chrome and Safari, which causes an extra full-window blit on GPU in some cases. It also uses a transparent window, so macOS has to composite the content behind the window whenever Firefox draws. I have a patch in there to improve things, as well as a crate planeshift to help the situation with WebRender, but the patch causes some usability regressions so it has not landed. In the meantime you can set gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque to true in about:config to get an opaque window at the cost of rounded window corners and vibrancy.
Hormones are active in trace amounts. That is all it takes. Never ever eat soy, unless maybe you are menopausal.

Your mention of "dudes drinking jugs of cow breast milk" brings to mind a fond memory I have of my son bringing milk home. It was sold in gallon jugs with red caps. He was riding a unicycle. To stay balanced and not fall over, he bought two jugs. They were cold and the handles would dig into his hands, so the only comfortable way to hold them was against his chest with the red caps aimed forward. Passing traffic took notice. :-)
Judging the other reports that people are posting for more mundane issues, this seems to be of an unusually serious tone.
If you're only getting repaid when someone is employed and making over 50k, which seems to be the case from your website ("Upon completion of the program, students will pay 10% of their [pre-tax] salary for a five year period once they're making at least $50,000 per year"), then the "repayment floor" for Lambda school is 25k (with probably a close-to-50k "repayment average").

I'm assuming that if someone loses a job, and later regains one, then payments pause while they're unemployed, but don't count for "repayment time", due to an article I read -- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/business/dealbook/educati....

How I think it works is that once someone graduates, they have 5 years of "repayment time debt". Once they get a job that pays >50k, the "repayment time debt" starts ticking down. If they lose their job, or start making <50k, then their "repayment time debt" stops ticking down, and will resume when they next get a job.

Even with a 10-year cap, this seems very close to traditional debt. It seems likely that software engineers will make more than 50k for 5 out of 10 years.
This is getting pretty bad. The thing that really bugs me is when people are shamed for things they did 20 or 30 years ago. 20 years ago I was prank calling people and saying some pretty awful stuff to them. Would I do it now? No, of course not. I've changed. Should I be shamed for something that long ago? I don't personally think it's productive.

I guess there's a balance, though. If I had questionable character now perhaps it would be relevant to include past information. And also, what's the cutoff? Five years? Ten? At what point do we say "that's recent enough to be a reflection on you?" I don't know.

I do know we seem to be reaching back ever-further to find ways to smear people we don't like. It's a constant drive to feel outraged about something. As if there isn't enough bad stuff going on already...
It kind of glosses over that part of the problem is the EU is pushing for a hard border between the South and the North and the UK doesn't actually want this. The EU has much more to worry about from a porous border than the UK. But it is all kind of irrelevant because the EU has no way of enforcing a border that neither the South or the North want. If the UK stays in some form of relationship they will try to threaten the UK into putting up a border, but if the UK exits hard then they are going to be in the ridiculous position of threatening the Republic of Ireland to put up a wall.

What the North and the South want to do is fundamentally at odds with how the EU works and unless the EU gives the UK a free trade deal which is something the UK would be happy to have it's going to cause lots of problems for the EU. It's kind of weird that the video ignores that the border is a problem for the EU the same way it is a problem for the UK. There is a fundamental symmetry. From the UK perspective I think a lot of people don't care if the porous border undermines trade policy (also, considering how the EU is talking about treating us post-brexit a porous border is going to be seen as a feature rather than a bug) because the Irish issue is more important. However, EU doesn't care as much about the Irish issue and cares more about stuff undermining its perfect union.
This is great! It is a shame that Box and Dropbox need you to be a paying customer to be able to share password protected shared links.
Or accidents per departure and arrival. Since take-off and landing are the two most dangerous times, gauging accidents based on how many times one leaves and arrives could provide a more direct way of measuring how dangerous any one departure/arrival actually is?
My problem is that I often think by proxy of conversation. My ramblings are a kind of experimentation which then leads to some good ideas or insights ones in a while.
> The forthcoming software upgrade for MCAS certainly implies that there were improvements to be made.

Not according to Boeing... "Boeing has been developing a flight control software enhancement for the 737 MAX, designed to make an already safe aircraft even safer."[1]

To me an incredibly infuriating statement. The 737-MAX has a fatal crash rate of ~4 per million, when compared to .1 per million for the 737-NG models (40x). There is no currently flying major commercial aircraft which has a higher fatal crash rate than the 737-MAX [2] [3] Of course the MAX has a small sample size, but that's still not evidence of safety.

What data is Boeing looking at to show that their aircraft is considered a safe aircraft?

[1] https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-releases-statements?item=1...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/boeing-737-crashes-liability-...

[3] http://www.airsafe.com/events/models/rate_mod.htm
The thing is, as someone who grew up in the corn belt on a farm, grain farmers by and large aren't involved in exploitative labor practices to any significant degree. The only farms I was aware of that used immigrant labor were feedlot and dairy operations. One of my close friends in high school certainly came from a large farm (16k acres, mostly corn and soybeans, some wheat, and a negligible amount of cattle, maybe 75 head). Their hired labor were easily middle-class, it was not at all similar to the laborers hired at the larger livestock operations (of which swine producers seemed to be the worst). Additionally, while no significant fruit/vegetable crops were grown in my area, those remain another large user of migrant labor. Unless we as a society can accept higher food prices, I don't see this problem going away. And note that while my family's farm was small (1500 acres), the only way it has remained afloat is a cattle feedlot that is barely under the CAFO limit and a focus on alfalfa hay of sufficient quality to sell to large diaries, so not at all immune from these concerns.

That being said, while I am a carnivore I heartily agree that too much animal protein is raised in this country. I don't believe that veganism is a tenable solution (and suspect it isn't actually a long-term healthy diet), Americans in general consume too much animal protein as a percentage of diet. Transitioning to a more reasonable diet is, in my mind, the only viable outcome. That, and growing way less corn in this country, there is a lot of farmland that could be producing crops for direct human consumption instead of making ethanol, which is energy inefficient and wasteful considering we have a petroleum surplus.
Fighters, in particular, are designed to be unstable to increase their control authority. That is, as an intended design feature they are easy to turn intentionally, which means they are also prone to turn unintentionally.
Man, it really feels like at this point the reactionary response to “outrage” is orders of magnitude larger than the initial outrage ever was. I never, ever even hear of any of these supposed outrages until I hear folks going on and on and on about how opposed to the “outrage” they are
Off topic, but... why do the titles so many papers start with "towards"?
Adium was / is such a fantastic piece of software. Connect to every relevant chat service from one native app. Infinite ways of customization, plugins and themes to install and all accounts under one unified contact list.

The post made me feel sad—realizing what we had, and lost. Back when MSN (Was the de facto standard in Austria when the IM services got popular) a large chunk of my waking hours and nights were spend chatting with friends on Adium and later IRC.

I just started Adium that I keep migrating from computer to computer to keep my custom icon even though I don't use it (Nostalgia I guess) and the apart from nobody being online the only message that greeted me was the ICQ message that it was turned off.
The word "censure" doesn't appear once in The Fine Article, which, I think, undermines its point a little. He writes with nuance about witnessing without judgement, but then assumes all this behavior is categorically "shaming". There is a legitimate social value to censure, and some of this stuff is absolutely censure, not shaming.

To clarify my terms, "censure" talks about behaviors: "That is not an okay thing to do," versus shame's, "You are 'bad' for having done the thing."

Shame is just toxic. Telling people they're defective in an effort to make them improve is stupidly counterproductive.

It gets tricky when we have some kind of identity invested in the thing we're doing. It becomes hard to experience censure and not feel shamed.
Yes, Cloudflare + B2. Since they're part of the Bandwidth Alliance, traffic between Backblaze and Cloudflare is free. I also cache all files on Cloudflare with a "page rule" (they cache files up to 512MB), so the heavy lifting is done by them.

What am I hosting?

There's modified Google Camera app that unlocks Google's HDR+ on non-Google phones. It's an amateur thing for people that like to thinker with their Android phone. People were having issues downloading the files so I started hosting them (https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/). I also host other stuff which is used by people that install custom ROMs. Eventually all this got popular and now my personal domain uses this massive amount of bandwidth. Here's the weird thing: this domain is on a "pro" plan ($20) and they haven't said a thing (yet?).

This is not a business or a service. I have Adsense, but sometimes it's not enough to pay all expenses, so if an upgrade to an enterprise plan was required, I would be forced to close down the site or (with community support) move all this to one or two dedicated servers (you can get at least two 1Gbps servers on Hetzner or OVH for less than what the Business plan costs).

I really mean it when I say that I'm happy with Cloudflare. Without them this little hobby wouldn't exist. I only showed the email because jgrahamc asked for it and because it's not the first time I see someone mentioning "forced" upgrades.

Now, while "unlimited" is nice for what I do and for when you get popular overnight, not having a limit creates some insecurity. 80TB wasn't okay before, but 150TB is okay now? Was the email sent because CF was proxying/caching .jpg and .mp4 files? If so, do .zip and .apk files have different limits? We don't know if we have crossed the line if we don't know where the line is.

If Cloudflare does what you need, go for it. If you want a plan b, look into dedicated servers, after all not all content needs a CDN.

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I tried to edit my original comment, but the "edit" button is gone: the email was sent almost 2 years ago. At the time they also claimed to have unlimited traffic, but I received that email anyway. Maybe something changed between then and now?
I would tell him how I was able to go back in time. It would revolutionize physics.

As to life advice, there's no point — you can't tell 20 year olds anything.
I need to say something important, but I'd rather stay silent.
What you said is not usually considered "hard Brexit," which is essentially the government's current plan, with respect to the "soft Brexit" where the UK still stay in the customs union. What you're describing is "no-deal Brexit."
More specifically:

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It says its an 85MB download for US-English
I think the difference is more than race. Wealthy professional coke users don't cause a lot of violent crime or robberies.