skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>So basically students enroll in a scam college to trick people into thinking they are well educated, and then complain when the scam is revealed.

I don't think so. There are colleges (mostly online and often postgraduate only) where the 'student' is in on the scam. They mostly serve markets where promotion or pay prospects are tied to box ticking possession of a masters or PhD with no real consideration of the academic rank of the programs. Those really are about trying to trick people into thinking they are well educated - although you could argue that if no-one cares about the quality of the 'degrees' they're not really scamming anyone.

What Corinthian was doing was charging large sums of money to students for nearly worthless, marginally accredited or unaccredited education while telling them that they were receiving valuable, career enhancing education and recognised credentials. They were the marks and not in on the con.

Of course I absolutely agree that people need to take responsibility for their actions but we need to consider the context and determine what is a reasonable amount of due diligence to undertake.

First of all, our society relentlessly pounds the message into people's heads that they need to go to college to succeed in life. Think of how often an 18 year old will have been told of the importance of going to college by teachers, counsellors, and other authority figures in their lives (all of whom have themselves been to college). How often their parents (who usually will not have been) will tell them that this is what they need to do to succeed. How often the media portrays going to college as the right thing to do. In every sitcom set in a high school or with high school aged main characters, applying to and getting into college is eventually a major plot point.

Now compare that with how often those same sources mention the difference between applying to a community college, a state college, a private non-profit, and a private for-profit college. If they even know the difference (which parents who haven't been will almost certainly not).

Think about the government services which poor people tend to interact with, and the American attitude towards public provision and realise that the educational superiority of publicly owned community colleges over privately owned colleges is actually anomalous. (and in fact the most prestigious American colleges are private, just a different kind of private). How on Earth is a teenager supposed to figure that out.

Should we expect an 18 year old to understand that regional accreditation is better than national accreditation? I mean, does that actually even make sense?

So while I agree that there is a case for people taking responsibility for their actions, I think that young people doing what society told them to do and making some poor decisions after being lied to have met the test for contextually reasonable due diligence.
I assume you've already installed the web developer toolbar and firebug? FWIW, I do all my primary web development in FF, and don't have that network problem.
Being little people, the laws apply to us.
Because the Fed can add and remove dollars from the economy at will. See: Quantitive Easing with mortgage-backed bonds.
Interesting claim. Do you mind elaborating on your thought process?
I'm curious if data privacy & protection will ever emerge from its little corner where a few passionate folks worry about it while the masses blithely ignore how their personal data is used and abused.

Couple of other related items just from today indicate this _may_ be taking on steam but we've seen this kind of blip before just to see it fade.

1. Helping Prove Mr. Weinberg's going (CEO of DuckDuckGo) is an article on how heath web sites share your search queries with 3rd parties found at http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-... Nice to know that WebMD et al are sharing your _assumed_ private searched for whatever itch you might have with others.

2. Symantec published results of their European survey on the topic of Data Privacy found at http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/about/presskits/b-stat... Not sure I believe a survey where the respondents claim to read the terms of service 25% of the time.... My guess would have been .25% of the time.
Strange, we host our website with MediaTemple and are yet to start using a CDN, this will probably help with issues like this
I think the reason many students put up with increased costs is because they have access to subsidized loans, mainly from the government. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau estimates that out of the $1.2 trillion in debt, $1 trillion are estimated to be guaranteed or held by the federal government [0]

I may be in the minority opinion, but I think college is still pretty affordable.

> In 2014-15, average published tuition and fee prices for in-state students at public four-year institutions range from $4,646 in Wyoming and $6,138 in Alaska to $14,419 in Vermont and $14,712 in New Hampshire. [1]

CUNY for instance is $6,030 a year [2]

The tuition is higher than it has been in the past but attending college is a lot more profitable as well. I know the state school I had attended has raised tuition over the years, but I can't help but look around and think that all the money went into a new stadium ($33 MM), new athletic gym and new (very impressive) dorms.

The average student attending an expensive for-profit (less credible) college isn't the same person as someone attending a good state school. A lot of time these colleges attract more marginal students. The payoff for most colleges is still very high and worth the cost. But there should be some cost as to discourage less productive ventures and to have some skin in the game for the student.

[0] http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/student-debt-swells-...
[1] http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-table...
[2] http://www.cuny.edu/admissions/tuition-fees.html
> I mean once they showed up and realized it wasn't a real college and they weren't being taught anything, that would have been the appropriate time to protest [etc]

The people signing up were probably not those best prepared to evaluate the quality of schooling. It might have seemed a continuation what they saw in high school
Don't disagree with you there.
Good point, also useful in and out of itself without being out of place (much less than webrtc audio chat)
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Respecting your craft means using the right tools and techniques for the job. Not caring about one group of users is no excuse for needing Javascript to display a chart. You don't use Javascript to display a chart because you don't need Javascript to display a chart. Render the chart server-side and use an image to display it. It's a static chart, it's not like the information is changing with every page load. To do otherwise is just lazy and disrespectful.
Damn, that was a good pitch video. Nice work, Mr. Jarvis.

Definitely one of the best I've seen. Clear, concise, relatable, human, and funny.

I wonder if the classes are like the pitch video?
They advertised "up to 7 days" of battery for the original pebble, too.
Very true, but there are also arguments about why you should always surround yourself with people that are smarter than you for both personal growth and bottom line results. Especially in the fast paced startup culture, you need the smartest and fastest people around.
You should go to about:support and use Refresh Firefox which will probably fix most of your crashes (outside of Flash-related ones which should only be affecting the plugin and not the browser).
I'm very confident that the laziness-factor accounts for less than 25% of the people out there when it comes to student-debt. Afterall, they had the discipline to go to school and get that degree. But like I said, this debate shouldn't even be happening. College & University should just be free to everyone. No line needs to be drawn in that situation.
Forgive my ignorance, but what was that Target incident, and how/why algorithms informed a father that his daughter is pregnant?
33 minutes later...$2.7 MILLION?!! I think this is gonna break a record!
What does the end of Austin Ventures mean for Austin startups?
Because the last thing I want in my life right now is to go back to living at a university campus, with shared kitchen and shower.

There will be a lot of people who are alright with this - and there is such housing available to those people. But generally, people who are done with education and are "working professionals" would rather not live in a frat house anymore.
Humblebrag, sorry.
I am not sure you are fully connected into the situation anymore. Rents have increased around 40% over 5 years on average and that includes the outlying areas that aren't really even Austin anymore. Home prices are skyrocketing and out of control, e.g., Mueller development is in the $800,000 range for 3/3 on what looks to be about a 1/8 acre lot where you have a car sized back yard and you're paying around 2% property taxes per year. Then there's also the Fitch assessment that Austin home prices are the most overvalued IN THE COUNTRY http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/blog/real-estate/2014/12/a...

There is absolutely not way that the data is accurate, just alone the velocity of the Austin market guarantees that the data is inaccurate.
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Can't you just cover the wheel? Certainly I would think the sides would be easy to cover; the tread itself might be more difficult, but unless I'm missing something, having the tread be open is not a required part of this design.

Basically I'm imagining something that looks like a regular tire, but inside has the tweel. In addition to the tweel's benefits, you also don't have anyone even notice you're using something different.
I disagree with you in parts. I've a pebble while my wife has an android watch. The killer feature on the android phone is voice commands. I agree that when in public it's a privacy concern to use voice commands hence an alternative is necessary. But its incredibly convenient and useful to control your phone and watch say when you are driving or at home. It's incredibly useful to set reminders just by saying "Ok Google, Set reminder for..." etc. Btw, our native language is not english and have bit of accent although that hasn't caused any issues. The second great feature on android watch is gestures. Just swiping and tapping to control is useful than having to fiddle with 4 buttons.

However the best thing I find on the pebble is
- Battery Life,
- Readability in daylight,
- Slim and light weight.

Smart Watches are quite nascent tech and if we get to where we get ones that are amalgamation of all these features, I'll be a content man.
Hey,

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I really am a big fan of quality education being available for everyone, and because of that I've opted to open source my CS education on YouTube.

I'm starting with Rails, and I will eventually work around to more core CS topics like circuits -> logic gates -> binary -> assembly -> c -> Data Structures -> Algorithms etc.

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People are willing to trade personally-identifiable information for a Snickers bar.* Until and unless that changes, privacy doesn't have sufficient value to change the status quo very much.

*Really, they'll even trade it for intangible gold. http://candycrushgametactics.com/get-free-gold-bars-in-candy...
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focus on getting your bachelors, continue that for sure.

If 4-5k per month is in dollars I would look in to hiring a part time person to help out with bug reports/support tickets to free up some of your time. Finding someone good might be tough, but look first in your circle of friends. I expect a fellow student would be looking for some extra spending money. Test out a few of your friends for the position.

Other than that it sounds like you've built a great tool that's making good revenue.

http://startupsfortherestofus.com has some great information that can help you I would start listening to those especially the ones relating to the problems you're going through right now.

Last thought is maybe relaxing some, setup an autoresponder to bug reports and tickets that you have received their bug/request and allow yourself some time on the non-critical ones.

Good luck, sounds like you're on the right track.
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There are plenty of businesses using the same model. No one complains too much about them.
Eh, you still have to write instances of Arbitrary. And often those instances are not great; wayyy to many libraries are tested with Arbitrary String instances that only generate ascii, for example.
We're getting exposed to the chemicals anyways.
Very usefull tool!
(If I downvoted you, sorry. Stupid tiny arrows on mobile, and no undo or even a way to see which way I voted.)

Meh, you get it a few months early, and they're not shipping retail until the Kickstarters are released. That, and as an original KS backer I get a special engraving I'll never, ever see. :-)
Exactly. If you're free, they can garnish your wages, no matter how small. If you're in prison, you can't make any money. Creditors would rather have even a 1% return than nothing at all, so why would they put you in prison?
Ah thanks. I was looking at the code and thinking that the serialize step was part of the exploit but of course it isn't.
Very good points. It has really been baffling me why, especially in an industry like tech, where products for distributed networking and communications are developed, companies are so hell-bent on co-location.

I have my suspicions that it actually has to do with tax code and incentives to have corporate offices in expensive locations, but that's just an untested theory I have at the moment.
1. We don't know of 13K different ppl bought it or if just 1K different ppl.
2. Don't you think that it's great marketing both for pebble and KS?

I still find it hard to believe this numbers, but I might be wrong...
Though I may not like it, I believe it. It's unfortunate that with SF's skyrocketing cost of living that we can't spread that out to cheaper and less economically fortunate cities.
You spend the highest percentage of your budget on the military. That's where it goes.
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Isn't there a conflict between points 1 and 5? Claiming to be an independent student while living at home?
It's awesome to see how the NodeJS ecosystem is improving day by day.

The role that the open-source community plays on this success is clearly the reason why NodeJS has a lot of attention and a great future ahead.

Kudos to Unitech/Tknew for creating PM2, the best NodeJS process manager around and let's hope that Keymetrics will soon become a key solution for every NodeJS app running :)

Keep up the great work.
Only if you use a secure random, otherwise you are just obscuring the problem and are still vulnerable.
Probably, but I'd like to point out that this subject has been studied for the past forty years or so, so we can do better than conjecture. While it is true that minorities often feel left out in homogenous groups, there is a big difference between cases where that minority is simply a numeric difference and those where that minority has less power[1] in society. We now know that the discussion of sexism and racism is not about numbers and differences but about certain groups having more power than others, and that causes some very specific behaviors.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_(social_and_political)
It's great with four services.

It's awful with dozens. I, for example, have four client AWS accounts, each with the AWS icon, that are rather difficult to distinguish between. The earlier iOS app (with a left-hand side drawer and larger text) was much better for me.
You talk good about the Pebble Watch but still you want to replace it with an Apple Watch. Are there any interesting reasons for this decision you might want to share?
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> The salaries of professors, lecturers

Most professors don't earn that much money[1], unfortunately.

> college employees, construction workers,

Why do you think it's going to them? For reference, the average salary of a construction worker hasn't changed that much in the past decade [2].

I posit that the majority of that money is going to higher education administrative costs, and so the "stimulus" is occurring entirely in higher education. Stimulus entirely in one class and market of employment worries me for the inevitable market correction (for what seems like an unsustainable path, i.e. the current state of higher education costs). It also comes at the expense of a diverse service economy: It would be extremely shortsighted to support living in a world where higher ed and student loan companies are the thriving sources of the economy.

[EDIT] I removed an argument about "trickle-down" because it felt forced.

1: http://www.salon.com/2014/09/21/professors_on_food_stamps_th...
2:
http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/construction-worke...
One minor grievance I have with the Firefox console is the input line is all the way at the bottom. I quite like Chrome's approach of starting at the top.

Firefox has a few of these irritating UX quirks that I just can't get over. Having to restart after installing an extension is another. Every time I see the request, I can't help lose a bit of respect for it.
Yes, its way better than Linkedin's "free" premium trial, which despite being free wanted my credit card details.
Actually the number does not surprise me, but the source would be great. My informal observations show that great number of knowledge workers freelance on the side of their day jobs, so I suspect that the number of full-time freelancers and part-time freelancers is different.

Also, the studies might indicated breakdown by profession and how it changed over time... Programmers, graphic designers, writers, etc.
Focussing on the cause won't give you the side-effects (or benefits, depending on how you look at it) of installing a surveillance state / building up intelligence for economic advantages etc.

If in today’s world the act of merely "kidding" around on the internet or dropping a suitcase in front of some building, is enough to bring whole cities to a grinding halt, then the terrorist already one.

And because of this, you won't need anymore technology to stop terrorist, but the technology to remove all the fears from peoples minds. Fear and the removal of freedom are the terrorist ultimate goals, they may achieve this in part by killing people, but they also receive a tremendous amount of help by your government of choice which wants to know every little detail about you.

It's a game about visibility after all, many many more lives are lost every day due to illness and hunger than through means of terrorism. But there is no visibility, because spending money on medical research isn't as "effective" as spending it on your military / intelligence budget. Partly due to the lobbyists and partly due to the fact that helping - seemingly "random" - people won't convince your average voter, that you're actually doing something for them. Arguing about how you're protecting their children is much more convincing in the short term.

Sadly, at the moment I don't see any way out of this dilemma, except for some horrible events to take place which will wake everyone up e.g. someone newly elected using the existing surveillance mechanism in their country to install a totalitarian regime along with the mandatory secret police. Which I really hope won't happen.
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This is huge. I have considered the H1b route in the past, but ended up deciding against it, as I didn't want my wife (who would not have been eligible for an H1b herself at the time) to become an "H4 housewife" (look that up if you don't know what that means).
Most hiring managers I have worked with completely ignore schoolwork. It often ends up being a poor predictor of actual working ability.
What you fail to realize is that this attack is simply an academic proof that shows the libc++ implementation is broken and can have quadratic performance. This is a bug, because the C++ standard mandates a worst case of O(n log n).

What you also don't seem to realize is that this attack merely uses a comparison function to find the worst case. Once the worst case is found you can feed this input to any program using libc++'s std::sort, without comparison function, and trigger the worst case.

So no, this is not frivolous at all.
Yes. According to Patrick McManus (owner of Gecko's networking stack), 9% of Firefox requests are already using HTTP/2 with the draft implementation enabled for Google (and now Twitter). With Google alone, HTTP/2 usage is already higher than SPDY.

http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2015/02/http2-is-live-in-firefox....
Merchants could adopt this to gain a competitive advantage over others that don't offer any buyer protection to their customers. In conjunction with rising consumer demand, we believe the market will eventually settle on a standard buyer protection process using some form of dispute mediation (which may or may not be Bitrated).
I've had my Pebble Steel for just at a year now and I have the opposite experience. I consider it to be as important as having my phone on me at this point. Part of this is no doubt due to never wearing a watch (for more than a day or two) prior to owning the Pebble so I love having the time/weather on my wrist at all times. I love having texts, calls, emails on my wrist and I've started using Pushover (Push notification API with app) more and more since I don't have to dig my phone out of my pocket to read push notifications any more.
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Good question. My random guess would be that it goes into wars. Defense represents about 17% of the federal tax money. I don't know how it compares with other countries though, and whether or not it's a money leak or profitable in the long run.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_S...
Great release, but not so happy about HTTP/2 being used by people now. I mean they kind of have to implement it, but the standard is still rather awful in many regards, like no caching by default (but at least headers get compressed?), bad security, ...

See also: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2015JanMar...

I really wonder whether there is a measurable change in traffic and whether it goes up or down.
The title here is misleading. It should say "DHS extends Eligibility for EAD of certain H4 Visa Holders."
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Yeah, I don't think 1 THz is achievable, but we can likely do substantially better than 4 Ghz, even when we can't go smaller. Then there are also gains to be made from building bigger, building in 3 dimensions, decreasing waste heat, etc. I suspect that innovation with chips will get bumpier, but likely overall maintain the pace of innovation for a couple decades more - which is all we need to get into really interesting territory re AI and other things.
The free course cannot work.

There is a particularly good reason why the free course in how to be a successful freelancer won't teach you how to be a successful freelancer: If it did then there'd be no reason to buy the paid course.

They ought to be more clear that you're about to spend time on something that they know won't do what it says it does.
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