skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This past autumn I enrolled in the DePaul University online degree completion for CS. As the name states, it is not a four year program, you need to have basically your freshman year completed elsewhere. I have only taken a single class so far which worked out good. Starting in January I will be in a Discrete Math course so it will be a bit more intense so I will see how that goes.

When researching a program, I had narrowed it down to the following options:

* DePaul University

* University of Illinois at Springfield

* Arizona State University

* University of Maryland University College

* University of Florida

I ended up choosing DePaul because of the name recognition and the fact that I can actually visit the campus for advising, activities, etc. They also do not have a distinction on their diploma stating that the degree is "online", it is the same as a residence degree.

It may seem petty, but one of my criteria for choosing a school was that if I had ever heard or seen the school advertised on TV or radio, I wasn't interested. I wanted a school that was invested in academics and not advertising.
I've had a lot of fun doing just that over the course of this project. Little random stuff like a report on a "professional strip-teaser" named Candy Barr and her film "Smart-Alec" is the stuff that stuck with me.

A few people have asked about the text, so once the 11/03 release is complete in the next couple of days, I should be able to upload it to github. I'm sure that someone who is really familiar with image manipulation/cleanup could produce a better text index.
On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies by A. Einstein (1905) [pdf]
Thompson's article has been heavily criticized: https://www.wired.com/story/what-an-internet-analyst-got-wro...

While Title II classification may have some burden, there are no viable alternatives for preserving net neutrality. Ajit Pai isn't interested in making net neutrality better or in making the telecom market more competitive. Further, it's possible to streamline Title II compliance for small ISPs.
This. We have the technology to go this fast... but no pressing need. Should a pressing need arise I do not doubt we will begin immediately. SpaceX could be turning around Falcon Heavy after Falcon Heavy as we loft fuel tanks to a “probe” we assembled in orbit out of an existing space worthy hardware “core” capable of autonomous operation such as a Soyuz or Dragon capsule, any instrumentation could be just built as stand alone modules and bolted to a separate set of communication hardware. We could conceivably build a probe and chase this thing down to contact in under 5 years.
I think the real rot of social media is the filter bubble it creates (along with social media merging with news, ala google censorship).

I remember my early days on BBS's and IRC, when if you were an idiot you got called out for it. It was a generally more hostile atmosphere with less patience for idiocy, which at first doesn't seem like a positive, but by creating rules like the one HN foisted with little user input on us of arbitrary enforcement of "don't be unecessarily negative", I feel we actually create a worse space by coddling users. The same applies for users self-coddling via filter-bubbles they put on themselves, or filter-bubbles imposed on them by whatever company. (for example, reddit censorship and manipulation has been getting out of hand for years, and it's obvious they have been angling towards IPO, which will be their death I hope.)

This is why I still like irc and usenet to this day.

The secondary rot of social media is the surveillance dystopia it has created and is enabling.
I have similar experiences with single player games sometimes. Though after, I might go weeks without playing anything.

That is one reason why I have always avoided MMOs. I may obsess over a single player game for a few weeks, but there is always an end.
An incredible display of pragmatism from our regulators. Given the commentary on HN it seems that most here want everyone involved in an ICO to be thrown in jail. ICO’s are an effective way to raise funds from a global pool of enthusiasts. The Ethereum blockchain itself was funded from an ICO, and it’s doubtful that as much money would have been raised at such advantageous terms from traditional VC for a 22 year old kid like Vitalik. Very, very good news.
>Today’s post is by Brendan Burns, Partner Architect, at Microsoft & Kubernetes co-founder.
Gives me nightmares. But today it’s already possible and I haven’t seen this yet. Ad supported industries haven’t moved to canvas-only websites to circumvent ad blockers. I hope this is a predictor of the future.
That is awesome - thanks much for sharing!
Move to Thailand.
Bitcoin mining likely uses more energy than it takes to keep NZ's lights on
If you want more fine grain control over your app than turbolinks, but like the general idea, intercooler.js gives you that:

https://github.com/LeadDyno/intercooler-js

There are some good blog posts on HTML and HATEOAS too:

http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht...
Server side rendered javascript means you can mix and match turbolinks style with spa style

For example, initial load SSR but popovers SPA, all same codebase, you could even configure which components render which way after the code is deployed
> It is personality focused, and sexual appeal is going to be part of it.

Well, exactly that is debateable. Sexual appeal is often coupled with a completely flat or acted personality. And if they have somewhat of a personality, then usually the stream is constantly interrupted by them reading out donations or whatnot.

And this discussion is not just about the rest of Twitch. Some people would actually like to use the IRL section to find streamers whose personality they like. Having the top-viewed streams there being focused on sexual appeal generally makes it harder to find actual personality streamers. It also means that actual personality streamers often avoid IRL.

But then they don't avoid it completely either. Some artists now stream in IRL instead of Creative. The section Music has been pretty much dead since the introduction of IRL, because people making music now pretty much either choose between Creative or IRL, leaving Music for completely personality-devoid streams of pre-recorded music.
I think that is a very considered and wide ranging statement. The proof is in the pudding though. He looks like he has called out some ICO's, but until enforcement proceedings start, it is still not clear. I can't see how any pre-mined ICO, like ripple, wouldn't be treated like a security given those statements.

As a long time crypto investor, even i recognise that ico's are out of control. It is my opinion that if you can't mine it yourself, or get someone independent from the issuer to do it for you, it's a security in everything but name. Any presale token is simply a security towards the coins once released. I can't see how that isn't a security.
Agreed. It wasn't until about a year after it was released that I realized it was a different system. It seemed like a new controller for the original Wii.
We started (API SaaS) with https://plasso.com/membership but had to find a different solution because of European b2b tax handling. Maybe plasso or https://recurly.com/product/speed-time-to-value/hosted-payme... works for you (Brazil).
Do these people know cryptocurrencies are reliant on unsolved mathematics?

This information needs to be the first thing people learn about cryptocurrency.. long before putting any money in
There's not many places that offer options on Bitcoin and even less when you consider they need to be solvent enough you'll actually be able to cash them out.
Well sure sex is a great way to sell products, but for Twitch it will be terrible. They are selling a brand and a platform. That's all they have, because the tech is not too hard to replicate. That, and existing users, which I'll get to now.

Twitch already has a reputation with gamers/streamers of becoming something close to a camsite slowly(while it seems hyperbolic, sentiments of most of people there usually are too), contrary to what it was meant to be - a purely game streaming centered site. Apart from infuriating other usual steamers on the site who will lose viewers to the 'sexual content' steamers (and will result in general discontentment). These streamers will most likely leave to YouTube Gaming or something else. If that doesn't happen, there are long term ramifications to consider.

Say Twitch accepts that section of streamers and continues with MATURE AUDIENCE ONLY labels etc. Now obviously those videos won't be monetized so they are more of an expense now. Then, if they become a significant part of the website, they'll get questions from upper management. Despite silicon valley considering itself 'progressive', none of them will be okay with this (see patreon).

Then comes the next step: Gaming competitions and other engagements. If a gaming competition accepts Twitch as a sponsor, people will see it as if the events agree with that part of Twitch, which is a no-no because those events have kids' parents to consider (remember, you still can't swear in most similar events and hosts get fined if they do).

While this may seem like a weak argument, a weak enough link to sex industry is enough for investors to pull out. That's because they fear the occasional articles from The Daily Beast and The New Yorker about the effects of Twitch on teenagers' sexuality and the world in general. Now say one of those lead to someone from the NYT or Bloomberg looking for a story, you've got investors making calls who read a lengthy piece about how Twitch is preying on adolescent kids.

Do you think this is too outlandish? Look at YouTube's 'weird videos aimed at kids' problem and how many people it is hiring and time it is investing to solve that problem. Twitch is more at risk since it is a newer brand still at the 'first impression' stage for many. And boy you don't want to get that wrong.

Ask parents if they are okay with letting their kids have (paid!) membership on Twich after that news gets out. Parents are a huge effect on revenue of services their kids use.
likely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcantara_(material)
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I'm not confident the PSRs have been all that great (Caching / HTTP in particular). They really lend themselves towards creating leaky abstraction. It didn't actually replace the adapter pattern anywhere, now you just get PSRX adapters for everything
> To be honest, I just thought it would be a fun project.

You are generous to give the world the benefit of your project, and for free. I wrote the feedback because that's what Ask HN is for, but overall IMHO it's awesome that you did it.

Definitely, it's better to listen to your S.O.'s feedback than to strangers on HN - most of us can't even get a date.
I think Product Managements responsibility’s are fairly straightforward:

1. Figure out a what success means for your venture
2. Come up with a strategy that leads to said success
3. Get your team to execute on that strategy (and never forget that you can be wrong about the strategy, but you can’t fuck up the execution...since otherwise you will never find out if the strategy works)

Now implementing this is far less straightforward...
Two things:

1. Capital expenses are quite high, even though running expenses are low.

2. It's only viable in specific geographic places, where heat is brought up close to the surface by magma and water flows. Otherwise you just need to drill too deep to get useful heat. So the big sites are at places like The Geysers in California, the hot springs of Iceland, and the places the site mentions in Kenya.
I'm not sure where you got the ideal that moral prudery is involved here, but it has nothing to do with that. The people who want "twitch girls" off the site do not have any objections to cam girls. The problem is that they're hijacking a service that was built for and by a specific community.

Twitch has a large number of sex workers who are just using it as a conduit to find "customers" and are not contributing to the community, but detracting from it. There are other sites dedicated to that.

This is especially problematic for female streamers who are community members and get constantly harassed with "tits or gtfo" or worse. They struggle to be taken seriously as gamers due to the cheap antics and "accidental wardrobe malfunctions" employed by the other women on the site, and are punished for it in terms of number of viewers.
He was 19 around the time when Ethereum was raising money.
If it isn't, using Calibre to batch convert isn't hard (DRM free books, that is).
China's staffless gyms are carb-loading on investor cash
Any chance notifications on Android will be grouped anytime soon? I had to uninstall the app as it just got to crazy showing all the notifications for messages.
Every job has its difficult days, but none has ever felt like "eating sh*t" (and I've also tried starting my own company). So I can't relate to that unfortunately.

If any job ever felt like it wasn't meeting my needs in some way (stability, financially, growth etc) I've moved on.
That's probably not a problem with Nintendo currently. At least for Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, an important part of game designers are composed of fresh blood that challenged the established ideas of what a Zelda game is supposed to be.
I think we're just used to computers advancing noticeably on a regular basis: "Is this year's iPhone better enough to justify an upgrade?"

Also, we judge the difficulty of things by our own experience. It took us ~1 billion years to get to the point where we could communicate abstract ideas and play chess. These were once believed to be the challenging problems in AI.

It turned out that chess is easy we're just relatively bad at it.
Ask HN: Is anyone still using the Vaio S?
Is anyone still using the Vaio S? Since they became independent from Sony, they've built a new version of the S model laptop. https://us.vaio.com/vaio-s/

Something still worth buying?
The Vaio S and Ubuntu used to be a killer combo.
Product differentiation was a big problem for Wii U. At one point a friend of mine asked me how much a Wii would sell for, this was well after the Wii U launch. I asked "Wii or Wii U" and she said "What's a Wii U?". The Wii U Gamepad failed at delivering the play however you want, whenever you want, experience that the Switch successfully executed on. It was the right direction but the implementation wasn't quite useful enough. I wouldn't have bought a Switch if I couldn't play it as a handheld, for example.
Possible slightly off-topic, but I discovered a screw up where due to a typo they had reverted back to an ancient version. My wording was deemed rude and I was shut out and not even given a chance to apologize or explain. That pretty much guaranteed my future non-contribution to the project.

EDIT: reworded
It runs a modified form of 3DS firmware with BSD bits in it. It's not as clear cut as the PS4.
It is somewhat of a nihilistic or fatalistic argument. But to me it serves as a counterpoint to the fear and depression that can take hold when considering the future of humanity and one's lack of control over it. It's meant to be comforting in a "don't sweat it too much, life will go on" kind of way.

I do sometimes feel like it's not worth worrying too much about what kind of earth your children's children's children's children will inherit. Just as all humans, they will enter the world as it is and make do. Their perspective and basis for what a "good life" is will be relative to their environment and experience.

I'm not saying we should burn it all down for the hell of it, but that I feel like there is a lot of hand wringing and pessimism about "the future" that is perhaps unnecessary and contributes to increased fear and anxiety (i.e. not the good life) among people that are actually alive right now.
thats what they did with the MOG turned BEATS music turned apple music in 8 months.
"In contrast, many token offerings appear to have gone beyond this construct and are more analogous to interests in a yet-to-be-built publishing house with the authors, books and distribution networks all to come."

I am impressed with this SEC statement.

The problem right now is with ICOs that sell tokens for something that doesn't already exist yet, as well as promise returns.

Selling a token for something that doesn't exist yet is clearly a security. Whereas selling a token that already exists, and doesn't need any additional things to be built, is probably not a security.

I am glad that the SEC seems to be getting things right.
Important second line to that quote:

"A change in the structure of a securities offering does not change the fundamental point that when a security is being offered, our securities laws must be followed"

They're saying it's fantastic, just do it legally. And for any offering that passes the Howey Test, that means registering with the SEC.
> Sample Questions for Investors Considering a Cryptocurrency or ICO Investment Opportunity

What a great move by the SEC. I think Ethereum, as a vehicle for many/most ICOs, owes it to the community to embrace this list and create a standard disclosure form that encourages new ICOs to answer these. And if Ethereum offers an index of tokens somewhere (I'm not familiar w/Ethereum's details), it could indicate which ones answered some/all of the questions in the form.

BTW industry/trade groups is how lots of businesses avoid regulation. Entertainment industry especially; e.g. ratings and content guidelines from MPAA/ESRB/Comic Code.
I wonder how to reconcile the apparently exciting stuff going on in quantum computing with a conversation I had with a Harvard quantum computing PhD last year (I know very little about the field myself, so I unfortunately can't comment much on specifics here—I just know the guy was legit because of other people I knew who worked with him): he said he'd chosen the wrong field 'cause it has basically played out that quantum computing is intrinsically more limited and less exciting than what people had hoped for, and that a lot of big companies were starting to realize they'd wasted tons of money on it. (This was admittedly all being stated in an exaggerated and joking style, but he did seem serious about the basic idea.) Has there been something in the last year that's changed things? Or maybe his opinion was just an outlier?

Edit: that could've been up to two years ago, thinking about it.
He even flat out says that most of the ICOs he's seen should be considered securities:

> By and large, the structures of initial coin offerings that I have seen promoted involve the offer and sale of securities and directly implicate the securities registration requirements and other investor protection provisions of our federal securities laws. Generally speaking, these laws provide that investors deserve to know what they are investing in and the relevant risks involved.
I have asked the SEC’s Division of Enforcement to continue to police this area vigorously and recommend enforcement actions against those that conduct initial coin offerings in violation of the federal securities laws.

I think some of the other commenters are glossing over that statement and being rather over-optimistic about the SEC's stance toward tolerating ICOs.
Genuinely interested - which app is making millions a year on Laravel?
It isn't yet practical for the SEC to regulate crypto formally because the industry is still in its early stages and evolving rapidly. The SEC needs to balance many interests, and it's not clear what the costs and benefits will be.
ya it might be prudent to tweak the title
Indeed! He mentions something related at 5:00 in the video (https://youtu.be/BxQw4CdxLr8?t=300):

> You know, people think that mathematicians have been working for hundreds of years and now there's tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of mathematicians all spending every day working on problems so how could you possibly still find a simple down-to-earth problem that hasn't already been studied, you know, way too much? And the answer is: those problems aren't rare at all, they keep coming up several times a year, and this is an example where even this very basic problem of rectangle into rectangles has all kinds of, sort of, stones not yet turned.

And the other thing you mentioned is one of the reasons it's always a pleasure for me to see Knuth's talks or read his work — he is one of the mathematicians (like Euler and unlike Gauss) who make it seem simple: we get the impression that we could do it too, if we spent enough time on it, that things are within reach for us, just barely. This is so inspiring. And then of course when you step back and look at his body of work, it's staggering! (Something like this talk may account for about half a page of Knuth's published output, and he has thousands of them…) That's additionally inspiring.
Nah, parents did. Kid didnt hatch a scheme to make money from it. He is an employee at best.
They wanted a stream of what, you coding? Maybe teaching? Maybe twitch is not a bad platform to teach..
Another factor is that we’re seeing the continued rise of massive front end frameworks at the same time that the native JavaScript environment is becoming faster and easier to use. There’s a non-trivial number of sites where the easiest thing to maintain will be standard JS/CSS rather than whatever was in vogue a few years before.

This is also of interest from the performance angle: frameworks take on a lot of expense maintaining certain levels of magic, convenience, and general applicability which has its benefits but also makes it easier to miss or fix problems. The first time I tried React on a serious project, the coworker who’d been hyperventilating about how fast the virtual DOM would be was surprised to learn that it was something like 40,000 times slower and that there was no easy way to fix it (innerHTML updates on rows in a large table when textContent was sufficient).

The last time I did a fresh project I ended up using just ES6 + SCSS and found it to be quite pleasantly rewarding. So many of the old tedious points have gone away with flexbox / grids, ES6 classes and arrow functions, querySelectorAll and the newer array methods, fetch vs. xhr, etc.
Despite some comments here, I don't thing society will adjust to this for a long time, if ever. We already live in a world where you can create bias with words on a page or a website, moreso if they come via someone with influence.

Imagine an AI generated 5 second clip of Weinstein saying something scandalous about raping women, or imagine Trump retweeting _anything_. People choose to believe something that fits with or reinforces how they think - emotion and reaction is easier than checking if something is true. Even if it's reported to be a fake after, people would rather question the reporting ("well that's what he'd want you to believe" / "of course they'll report it as a fake") than acknowledge the fake.

I hate to be a harbinger of trouble, but I can see a lot of people having their lives destroyed with this.
> Every design decision

I wouldn't say every. The charging of the Joy Cons is a pain. Having to remove the straps, put them in the base of the system, then do the reverse. If you have 3 sets of Joy Cons it's just straight up absurd unless you buy additional accessories, and then you still have the strap song and dance.
Hey i used Elixir/Phoenix on the backend (http://elixir-lang.github.io/) and React/Redux on the frontend
Turbolinks evolved from Pjax (4 yrs old) and is part of Ruby on Rails (11 yrs old). Not only does it respect back/reload out of the box, but it also supports native. Its as mature as it is supported as it is powerful.

It really just works - drop it into a project and you instantly have a SPA. Its far from a framework - its API has less surface area than even React. The above comment couldn't apply less to Turbolinks.

The only true caveat necessary is that it's written in CoffeeScript. :P