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I love Lambda's concept. I think aligning the interests of the school with the interests of the student are a fantastic evolution, and committing to only charge students for payback in the case that they have a positive outcome is great too.

That said, the "only pay us back if you get a good job" commitment seems like lip service as long as the cutoff is $50K (for software dev at least). Lambda school's team is super vocal on Twitter and regularly shares stories of students who walk away making 3-4x what they made previously...if the program genuinely believes it can consistently graduate students who can earn $80-$150K in the market, then it should align its business model to that.

The median salary for a software engineer in the US is $100K. The current Lambda promise is "you only have to pay us back if you earn half the nationwide median salary in the 5 years following our program"...this does not strike me as a very bold commitment to the quality of the program.

To be very clear: I've seen successes of Lambda students and I believe that they have created a model that graduates students who are competitive in this job market. So, I'm not saying that Lambda is bad. On the contrary: I'm saying Lambda is excellent and they should be bolstered by that excellence to take a stance with a less conservative income share agreement.

From their site:

> Instead of paying tuition, students can agree to pay a percentage of their income after they're employed, and only if they're making more than $50k per year.
In California poll workers are paid from $100 - $250 for the day depending on the job responsibilities and county.
i have not heard of that being a cause for decertification before, do you have any more details?
I agree with your basic point; see firethief's comment. My larger point is this: If we want to minimize fatalities then we should focus on what causes the most fatalities. Speeding is a contributor to far more fatalities than cyclists running red lights, yet speeding is socially acceptable and cyclists running red lights is not. Neither should be socially acceptable.
Change it to, Don’t always be the 1st to leave...
Is writing mean comments about fatness fascism? Do you feel your point would've been fully diluted if you wrote "bullies" instead?

Personally I usually don't take overly dramatic comments seriously.
Automation has saved a lot of lives in other areas so it would make sense that this would also be the case in this instance. Whether removing the human factor from the democratic process is a good idea is a different debate entirely.

I don't consider myself a "techno-libertarian", whatever that means.
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Yeah it's not like you did anything illicit like change grades or wreak havoc on the network by mass formatting computers, unless you intentionally left out those parts ;)
Most of our students are in rural areas where $50k is actually really good money (though this is changing). There’s not really an existing legal framework to say “if you make x in this kind of city or y in this kind of city.”

Certainly, in San Francisco, $50k isn’t a win. Luckily our median salary there is well into the six figures.

Lambda School’s income share agreement is also (to my knowledge) the only in the industry that is industry-specific. If you end up as a bartender making $60k we make $0.

Most 3 month schools are 15% for 3 yrs with a $40k min. Lambda School is 9 months, 17% for 2 yrs with a $50k min and a cap.

So our agreement is actually very aggressive as is, and will become more aggressive over time.
I think you ought to compare a driver running a red light vs a cyclist running a red light to make this point. I might even agree with you, but speeding is conceivably even safer than going the speed limit if everyone else around you is doing the same thing no matter what the law says.

Running traffic signals on the other hand is just plain stupid and self-centered no matter what you're piloting at the time.
I find it silly they designate these as heroes. Seems simpler to say that most projects are small enough that a single person can do the majority of the work. Not shockingly, most smaller projects don't fail that heavily.

Add in the extra work that collaboration necessarily brings to the table, and it isn't that shocking that things both slow down and get more error prone. At a certain size, though, this is worth the cost of admission.

More, it isn't like we call all projects done by fewer individuals heroes. We have authors, not "writing heroes."

And the author joke is meant to point out that the vast majority of what you read has a single person's name on it, but without the editors and other workers involved, that book would never have come about.
Only if 100% of your co-workers over-work, arrive early and stay late. I’ve worked in companies of wildly varying sizes, from 2 (startup) to 200,000 (megacorp), some of them full of very hard workers, and it has always been easy to not be first out by just meeting the minimum time obligation that I agreed to. There are usually some people working less, and the advice above was just to not be one of them, rather than kill yourself by working harder than everyone.
There is a middle ground, and I think people should demand more in that respect. Yes, cutting engine power is more hazardous in an aircraft than in a motorcycle. So the aircraft should produce a clear warning when takeoff power is applied but control surface locks are sensed as present. Or when takeoff power is applied and the rudder/ailerons/elevators haven't been fully deflected since startup (indicating controls haven't been checked). Or when the altimeter reading has a gross disagreement with the GPS altitude, etc. We should expect more from our automation without letting it get in a position where it can compromise safety.
I came here to ask something along these lines. Sometimes I'm baffled by what percolates up to the first few pages of HN. I've seen more than a couple Wikipedia pages about random scientific trivia, and that sort of thing just doesn't feel up to snuff.
> If you have some developer that wants to write something in a new (for your company) language, [...] you probably want to fire that guy.

Now that's

> a cost with no benefit.
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Will you be saying it is all a matter of perspective when they are executing black people?
Perhaps you should look into getting it? Accreditation does exist for vocational schools, and you'd go a long ways towards alleviating the concerns of potential students if you pursued it:

http://www.accsc.org/Accreditation/Standards-of-Accreditatio...
If the current rate of growth in tech continues in Austin much longer your comment will soon be made untrue. It's been staggering to watch the growth.
Something like this is sorely needed by the open-source, not-for-profit, shoestring-resources, cross-platform development community...

For example, let's say that I'm writing some cross-platform open source software. And let's say that I am developing this software on a Windows or Linux Box.

Now, let's say that for whatever reason, I don't have and can't afford a Mac (a scenario like this is more common than you would think, especially in developing countries...)

OK, so now how do I compile/run/test the Mac version of my software -- without having that Mac?

?

That's why your software is so important.

Anyway, if you can get this fully operational (GUI and everything), you'll solve that problem for that group of software developers...

If you're successful, if you prevail... Apple shouldn't sue you... they should help you, because additional software for their platform ultimately benefits their platform.

Also, judging by the source, you've done an amazing amount of work so far... I hope you can find the additional developers/contributors you need to take this thing to completion...
It's "out-gassing", as the plasticizers leach out of the vinyl. The "new car smell".
Late capitalism. The gig economy. Deconstructivism. Planned obsolescence. Foreign ownership. Drone delivery. Fully automated manufacturing. High frequency trading. Cryptoassets. Targeted advertising. Filter bubbles. Population decline. Self driving cars. Microsuites.

A boring dystopia.
I am a self-taught junior web developer after a career change at 37yo.

I always have the impression that this perception that Lambda's model is not good always come from people in more comfortable positions that are not even close to the reality of who actually applies for Lambda.

I am from Brazil and did the career change two years ago, so there wasn't actually the option to do Lambda School for me. But it would be a no-brainer for me at the time and I am pretty sure I would be much better in my career now if I had done it (in knowledge and earnings).

4 years of college? Not an option for me. USD15k upfront for a regular bootcamp? Not an option for me. Take a loan with the risk of having to pay with a big chance of not getting a good job soon enough? Too risky for me (and in Brazil the high interest rates make it a ridiculous thought, but even with US rates it is too risky).

My path was self-taught through freeCodeCamp.org (awesome project!!!) and reading tutorials and documentation. I was able to get a frontend jr position, but I can tell that I was lacking a lot of knowledge/skills when I started (git, tests, agile process, design patterns, clean code, to name a few).

Now I am moving to LA and I am failing every remote technical interview because I lack the specific skills needed for being hired in the US.

Lambda School 9 no-upfront full-time months with close mentorship and teamwork, plus the alignment to help get me a job seems like a "too good to be true" option for me; not a "tricking naive laypeople who don't know better into paying their high price" that all "skeptical" commenters I have ever read in HN seems to think
Surgery is a dangerous comparison to make. Most surgeons get to their seniority by doing a lot of surgery. Most of which are near identical to each other.

Programmers? We, for some reason pride ourselves on doing something new every time around, it seems. I've argued before with my leadership that, if we really wanted something done better/faster, we shouldn't be promoting the folks that did it out of the position for the next go around. Rather, we should have them do it again. And then again. And then again. Not only would they be learning from their experiences, but benefiting much more directly.
I think pervasive racism does more damage than mass shooters, in total. Push it to the fringes.
I agreed, also I agree that the pro and con of each one isn't stated enough either.

I recently attended Dr. Frank Harrell's workshop and he really put the differences between the two from his experiences in perspective.

He advocate more for continuous variable responses than what most ML does. He also put into context what ML does well where the "signal to noise" ratio is so that the noise are little and signal are more. But when the noises are getting bigger statistical model will do better.

His examples is the titanic dataset. Paraphrasing but he stated, "I don't care who live or die." The better question is what is their tendency to live or die? Instead of classifying it into two categories why not give a percentage? What if a person is 49% likely to live? Aren't you playing God? And it is up to the person that's using the model to decide not the modeler. Another case is that it's a loss of information by forcing it into a classification problem.

He went on how ML tend to do this force classification. And how it is very good at things that have low signal to noise, such as game of Go, speech rec, visual rec, etc...

It's an interesting contrast than Dr. Leo Breiman's The Two Cultures paper. At least that's my take away, Dr. Breiman may be less opinionated? Both are very critical of statistic/data models but Dr. Frank Harrell have good remedies and counter points.
In Australia, the votes are counted by paid volunteers, but each party has scrutineers overseeing the counting.
You better own the robots or the land. It’s going to be bad news bears for people who don’t own either.
If I recall correctly, I believe the computer architecture course at USC (ducks) also uses these exact CS:APP labs. I loved them, it was fun realizing partway through some of the earlier labs which type of data structure they were having you walk. Decent prep for OS, if you really dig into the malloc lab.
My point is that the article speaks of Microsoft in the past tense and focuses on breaking up "today's big tech" companies. Meanwhile Microsoft is bigger than all of them right now.
> Now, let's say that for whatever reason, I don't have and can't afford a Mac.

Rely on some developer(s) spend 10,000 hours of their time for free developing a Mac emulation layer, or go on eBay and buy a $600 used Mac to test on...
In the way that they're communist? Extreme communism and extreme fascism have an awful lot in common.
I doubt most routers provide DHCP. Maybe consumer ones.
Microsoft has an idea like this - with the same surgical analogy. Sometime during the MS Word initial development process they tried it out - and the "surgeons" loved the idea, but everyone else hated it - especially as the half fleshed out ideas from the surgeons turned out poor or wrong.

I think the skill differences between individual contributors are never as great as you think.

cf "Software Heroes" book - has a wireframe cowboy hat in the front cover. v good
Probably tangential, but I think this ties in nicely with the study about the effectiveness of Reddit deleting toxic subs (1). Leadership does in fact matter. But at the same time, all politics are local.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770237
> One flaw is that it does not account for energy used and emissions related to extraction of oil and production and distribution of diesel.

If you wanted to go that far, you'd need to account for all of the fuel used in transporting Tesla parts, right?
FPH is gone because it was banned, and it was banned at a time when it was very active, provoked a massive backlash in the immediate term, and the ban appears in the long run to have had the effect of stopping the activity.

I guess your argument for the decline in activity not coming from the ban, but scaling up and down in relation with the prominence of fat acceptance, would have to be that the ban coincided with fat acceptance losing steam around the same time, which I don't think to be the case. (It's also a way of talking that seems to equivocate on whether the behavior was acceptable, since it can be explained as a response to something else, and I think its unacceptability is important enough that it needs to remain clear in any conversation about it.)

I don't have an obvious way of measuring the relationship one way or other. But the face value version of events, which is just that the ban worked, full stop, requires fewer coincidences.
I wish we tracked suicide rates and drug ODs as a nation like we track GDP.
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I check hacker news regularly and this was the first time I saw it. Reposts aren’t inherently bad. I’m glad it was reposted and I’ve now had the chance to learn about it.
Swedish national news has a initiative where gender is avoided in articles unless it is directly relevant. The goal is to avoid creating a exaggerated view of gendered roles. If 80% of the police is men and a person see two stories which both include male police, a reader might conclude that all police is 100% male. If one out of five articles have a female police you only reach the subset of readers that happen to catch those articles. With no gender you reach all your audience.

I would very much like to see a similar policy on HN. Attaching gender to articles inhibit progress. The fastest progress is the one that goes unnoticed and simply is.
What's the point of this nitpick?

Networks that configure everything statically are fairly rare, and do so intentionally. If they don't, they have a DHCP server somewhere already, and if they aren't consumer-level networks they sure as hell don't want some random "IoT gateway" box providing DHCP. So it's clear what "router" means in this context.
On one hand, this is neat, and it ticks boxes in my C++-programming heart.

On the other hand, it's frankly embarrassing that this is what needs to be done to implement a trivial data structure with the ability to print its value to a terminal.

After 60 years of computing, this is where we're at?
The only reason you are in that position in the first place is because you have few rights in the society you live in.

No, that is not the only reason I am in this position by any stretch of the imagination whatsoever.
> downloaded and extracted executables are quarantined

The vast majority of companies won't implement a security policy that strict, even if they can distinguish email attachment downloads from other sources, which they generally can't (ADS doesn't capture it directly).

> And documents can’t ‘drop and run scripts’, they are documents

Yes they can, and do, without needing exploits, for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons. The legitimate reasons are why, again, the vast majority of companies won't implement blanket security policies here.

> And by the way, try sending a password protected archive in the mail once. Most services just throw them away.

Incorrect. You can do whatever you want with your personal email, but we're talking about enterprise security. Few companies (but more than the above two cases) will block password-protected anything as a matter of policy.

In practice, none of what you're saying will be done because of the downstream problems it creates for IT and security teams.
I've heard some Christians claim it counts as "witchcraft" (KJV translation of φαρμακεία (pharmakeia), which is specifically referring to drug use, and the origin of the English word "pharmacy"). Considering also the use of the word "entheogen" (meaning a substance that manifests a god within you) by some users of psychedelics, and historical pagan use of psychedelics, this seems reasonable.
I think op means to not just do the bare minimum and be the guy who leaves when everyone else is working.
> And I doubt many people oppose supporting local libraries.

Previous threads on HN (and many other fora) about local libraries in the US, bring out a lot of people who complain about local libraries. They say that libraries smell bad because homeless people sit there all day (and supposedly view pornography on the provided computers, and use drugs in the bathroom). They say that libraries are a waste of taxpayer money now that we have the internet and they should be shut down. I cannot claim to have visited every community in the USA, but it seems to me that a lot of people oppose supporting local libraries.
they saved me a bunch of money when I had to buy dance shoes for my daughter. Sorry to see them go.
>> military aviation look like, now that becoming a pilot looks like a poor long-term career choice?

Military flying isn't like civilian flying. There are plenty of jobs where the machines are nowhere near a replacement, where nobody is even hinting that the humans will be replaced. SAR, tactical helicopter ops, mountain flying, special operations ... these are things that no machine is anywhere near understanding. Anyone here seriously believe that navy seals will be dropped off on some remote rooftop, blades feet from power lines, by a computer-flown helicopter?
I was thinking more of UK (the only place where "pip pip" makes sense as a stereotype) versus the rest! Are you saying there are those in the UK who say "negative five"? That would surprise me.
Anybody reminded of Captain Flashheart while reading this?
Seems like anybody who understands that equation already knows it's a derivation from special relativity. And anybody who doesn't probably doesn't know what an inertial reference frame is, so probably doesn't care.
You might want to read The Mindbody Prescription to resolve your lingering chronic health issues.
I have to admit that while our family is as conscientious as we can be with plastic use and recycling, I have a weak spot for coffee cups/lids.

When visiting the US recently I found the recycled paper lids quite distasteful, in the literal sense.

For me, kicking the coffee cup/lid will be a bit harder than other forms of sustainability.
I think you may be mistaken about this. If it helps any, I wasn't one of your downvoters; I upvote comments that may be incorrect but lead to an interesting and informative discussion.

I live with an HR exec and read some of this thread to her while she was cutting rhubarb for something she's baking.

She said (paraphrased), "Are you kidding? This is a perfect project for a summer intern. They won't have to take three months to get up to speed with all your internal systems, and of course there is educational value - they will get to see how some talented developers tackled the problem in one language while they translate it to another."
Going through this post and some of the other "X alternatives" posts on the site, I can't help but feel like these articles are just being content farmed by someone with no prior experience using these recommendations.
Not necessarily, but it can be for sure. I think in the context of reddit threads debating the need for moderation, a large proportion, if not most of the free speech folks were working backward from wanting to defend trolls toward an interpretation of free speech principles that effectively worked to shelter the trolling behavior.
In case you're wondering - it's $209 from Mouser: https://www.mouser.com/new/Intel/intel-realsense-camera-t265...
Or plan on “borrowing” the plans and software for the robots. The story of Robin Hood never goes out of style.

I propose Keanu Reeves plays the protagonist in the film adaption, a spiritual successor of Johnny Mnemonic.
So?

Let them. In fact, let them continue to escalate all that means.

It is all on a path to greater regulation.

And, once it gets there, I will very gladly point out they got what they deserve.
Beautifully put, thank you.
True it is sad in the domain of fixed interval instruments, but ask a Barbershop quartet singer if they're sad about the ratio 4:5:6:7 and you'll get a wholly different opinion :)
> A unit is an operation you can apply multiple times and get back to the starting point, for example multiplication by 1 or -1.

Nope. That is an idempotent[1], or a root of unity, i.e. x^n = 1 for some n >= 0. A unit is something which has an inverse, though that inverse need not be a power of x itself. For example, 1/2 is inverse to 2 in the rational numbers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence
Why should we blame Unicode for this? Emoji-like features were used for a long time on Internet forums, in SMS-like mobile apps, and even as "dingbats" in printed text. Emojis in Unicode are simply standardizing support for this long-term practice and making it interoperable across systems.
Listening and genuinely caring about others goes a long way. Honestly though, you have zero control about what others think of you. If you do good work, and are kind, compassionate and respectful I wouldn't worry about it. If you feel you have some specific deficit there are certainly professionals you can pay to help you fix it.
There are trade offs to everything - generally I haven't seen the best results from attempts to make people inteechangeable to put it mildly.
So i tried it out: https://badsector.1mb.site/ (this is something i made a few years ago, i didn't make it now :-P)

The UI looks a bit too big on my monitor, but other than that it is nice for small stuff. I think it needs some way to upload multiple files from the browser via upload dialog and/or dragdrop (like imgur does, for example).

Also i found the editor autocompleting the closing tag very annoying! Also a bit annoying was the "smart" autoindentation (autoindent is fine of course, but trying to be smart clashes with how i'd indent things).

Anyway, good luck with it :-).