skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What bothers me-- assuming there's still a preference for a full degree over a bootcamp certificate-- is that even clearly career focused degree paths are still burdened down with an "academia" mindset that feels dated and quaint.

The old "college is about being well rounded/learning how to learn" narratives made sense 50-100 years ago, when people were going to university as more a "cultural elite" thing. The rich 20-generation legacy who attends to build his social network, mixing with the top-5%-of-his-class scholarship student and social-climbers powering their way through school, had a different set of needs. Yeah, let them study Latin and great thinkers so they can schmooze in the corridors of power. It was fine when only a few percent of the population went on to university, and the actual degree content was less important than that you got a degree.

However, the kids signing up today-- especially in well-known high-revenue programs (CS, EE, etc) are in it because they either 1) love the subject matter or 2) are bootstrapping their careers. These kids have neither use nor interest in becoming cultured or well-rounded. They'll go further referencing Dennis Ritchie than William Blake.

There might be a case for a writing course or two, but all those 100-level survey humanities or "fun sciences" classes you're taking to hit general studies requirements? I doubt it. Or the requirement some programs have of "at least NNN total credit-hours" even if you can technically hit all the content requirements on fewer.

I'm surprised you aren't seeing legitimate universities responding to the market and producing a 2-3 year BSc program, stripped of almost all general-studies courses. You want to fight tuition increases? Get kids out in 2.5 years!

I assume the endgame of this would be that a lot of literature and philosophy professors will be out of work, but this surely leads into some sort of punchline about them working at Starbucks..
I imagine a scaled-down version of the U.S. Army’s C-RAM, or Israel’s Trophy system, could work quite well for VIPs. Some drones can be VERY fast (think hobby-sized jet engine fast), so you’d need active radar and full automation to stand any kind of a chance.

Perhaps you’d use shotgun shells loaded with rock salt, so any overshoot into a crowd would be less-than-lethal.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17713350
I don't think the motive is necessarily creating stink. I think it may also in part be because other startups might want to use this technique, and YC is an incubator...
Another alternative is to rent one - there are various places that sell you time on them
MIT’s tool for tracking police surveillance: A cryptographic ledger
This is ludicrous.

Firstly, this is a small and modestly exclusive institution. So much so that it could hardly be a causal factor in motivating women to decline to have children in preference to their career. Simply declining to let qualified women be doctors to make room for privileged rich sons is a repugnant insult to human intelligence, and should be viewed as the sexist attitude it is.

Secondly, if the "force women to stay at home by disadvantaging them in the workplace" were such a great strategy, Japan wouldn't have a declining birthrate because until very recently (and ongoing, to a marginally lesser degree) this is the case.
I don't disagree, but at least some money would come my way. Currently no money comes. And yeah, I could build my own game with my own characters instead of modding old ones, but why? It'd be fun to put a silly hat on Starfox and make him into Piratefox and make him go yarrrr as he blasts all the innocent bad guys. I wanna try it and I wanna sell it and it'd be hilarious and benefit society and it's stupid I can't.

To be precise, the argument goes like this: Star Fox 64 is not currently generating any economic benefit for Nintendo. It doesn't harm Nintendo for someone to make a derivative work of it. In fact, I'd be more than happy to cut a deal with Nintendo and just give them most of the money. The problem is that no one tries to do this, and we all lose what could have been made.
What's the incentive to crack it, to sell it? Does the cracker sell it for less? Would I be willing to buy a cracked piece of software? It'd be a horribly unsafe idea if it were, for example, security software or a tool for modifying my operating system.

Even in a complete wild west, some people are going to do the right thing. Maybe even most people. Probably is far more a cultural issue than a legal or technical one. Still, I'm not arguing that 100% deregulation is a good idea, just that I don't really think this is a convincing argument.
This week is a massive week for our beloved ETH protocols
This gun-drone is real, however, and may have already been deployed in Israel:

https://youtu.be/VaTW8uAo_6s

It carries a stripped-down AR-style carbine, and makes shots at what looks like 50-100 yards with sufficient accuracy.
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WebGL is an OpenGL implementation. On Windows, it's often implemented with ANGLE, also an OpenGL implementation.

The GL spec doesn't require that the hardware or OS manufacturers are the ones to implement it. :)
Indeed, even before full-on cord-cutting was a thing, Tivo was (and still is, AFAIK) a thing, including speculative recording of content (i.e. it became more than just a digital version of a VCR).

There's evidence that this has been an evolution rather than a revolution.
Yes. One practice is honest and one is dishonest. Do you really not see a difference?

"We invited you in with your lower score because we recognize it is more difficult for you to achieve that score, and as such are more likely to succeed" versus "We didn't like how smart we were so we lied to you about passing the exam to hide the fact that we're biasing entry standards."

Biasing entry standards is a thing that may or may not make sense. For public and public-funded institutions, transparency and honesty are absolutely essential.
Chain of custody.
That would be a joke. And it would also be Maciej Ceglowski's style. He would probably prefer something along the lines of "clever idea" or "ingenious solution"; it conveys the message in clear, conventional English without being hip, cool, or clickbaity in any way.
Does this mean they won't have the Warner music in Spotify?
Australian researchers develop drug that puts cancer cells to 'sleep' in mice
> Downloading junk is also a life lesson, they will learn.

Mega-corporation - with deep pockets, professional advice, etc - stalks teenagers and does targeted personalized campaign, it is teenagers fault to fall for it... I see a "blame the victim" attitude here.

> Is an ice cream truck playing music and slowing rolling down your street on a hot summer day also a psychological trick we need to guard against?

The truck guy does not know my name, the school I go to or any other data beyond that I am in the neighborhood and can hear the sound or see the truck. The truck is fishing.

Facebook is collecting personalized data, creating profiles and targeting unsuspecting minors that feel "special" for being chosen without knowing the reasons.

> TBH described its methods as “too ‘scrappy’” for a big company.

So the same company that had the idea has the same concerns about it.

There is somethings that are not-so-bad (but bad) when done in an small scale, but become horrible at a bigger scale.
Some poems rhyme; some don't. It's a weird distinction to make, technically speaking, and not one I'm sure I'd hang my hat on.
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I get the motivation for this kind of identifier. I have a project in mind that could make use of the DID format. So I was optimistic to see that thought has been put into it.

But when I read "if value is an object... if value is a string..." (from the specification of publicKey property), I worry. Did the authors choose JSON to take advantage of loose typing as a "feature"? Is it OK for a specification to require this kind of introspection and conditional logic?
> how to become a genius: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired.
they’re just optimizing for the wrong metric. If the metric was “user satisfaction” they could target it day and night and nobody would be complaining.
Ask HN: Why Facebook.com uses flash to display video?
To add a link to the video I tried to view, https://www.facebook.com/himantabiswasarma/videos/vb.329145898982/10155948594863983/?type=2&theater
> But you can't invest in things you can't quantify. You can't make money off of good vibes and authenticity without metrics. Snapchat and the like have thrown enormous money at understanding humans and have the best people in their fields to get this right.

Not everyone can, but great products often have a bit of genius or perfect timing in their creation. Snapchat - disappearing picture messages! - wouldn't have been arrived at by analytics alone.

Quantifiable metrics can amplify good instincts, but it can't replace them, and most of Facebook post-newsfeed, or Snapchat post-stories, has been just the metrics-driven iteration part.
How did this article make the New York Times? It’s awful.

I listened to the entire Snap conference call and Spiegel directly attributed the drop in active users to the app redesign, a fact that wasn’t mentioned until 2/3 of the way through the article.

Moreover, they gave no guidance for DAU projections, and merely said that historically fewer users are active in the third quarter than the second. This does not equate to a longer trend, it simply implies that fewer people are active in the late summer months than the late spring/early summer which seems to make sense.

It seems like the NYT more and more either wants to report negatively on the social media industry or has more success from these sensationalist headlines. What happened to thoughtful fact-based reporting?
I use the web interface and filter it with the IP address of the device. It will usually show up in the top of the list and try whitelisting.

Example my Samsung TV took some effort :
multiple domains were blocked and had to restart my TV everytime, thankfully PiHole has a neat responsive web interface. After allowing 2 domains it started to work or else it wouldnt go online.
> The words on Twitter do sometimes include slander and threats which would make them illegal.

The idea of a nebulous "illegality" is simplistic and wrong, in the US. They might open an individual to civil liability, but they aren't in violation of a criminal code, nor tort law.

> That doesn't mean the action of speaking those words are legal

Speech is always legal, in the US. What you think "legal" means is up for debate.
Probably not in the short term. But I always felt that Spotify having the labels as shareholders was the main guarantee that they would keep their content on the platform.

Maybe they'll need to start producing their own original content like Netflix did.
Does anyone really know what time it is?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...

The tradition of American law certainly flies a different way than the approach you suggest. I sincerely respect your position, but feel that wisdom and tradition have found value in taking a more nuanced approach.
Apple tells U.S. lawmakers iPhones are not spying on you
time to drop my spotify subscription, I see.
I don't even understand what this means, let alone how you could disagree with what was said.
Life happens and honestly I didn't give a shit about finishing up at 36 years old. The shiny degree wouldn't have made a difference in my life. And after helping in the hiring process and reading countless resumes I don't even skim the education section. I am not going to be impressed by the diploma. I will be impressed by relevant factors related to working with you.

And seriously, trying to convince a college student to drop 30k on a credit card is awful.
+1 The API support this too
You don't have to idolize it to understand it, and learn from it.

Same with the Unabomber. Everyone likes to make jokes, but how many of those people have read what he wrote?
In this thread: people writing a blog post's worth of text on why they don't have enough time to write blog post's worth of text.
Lawsuit coming up?
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I wonder if, perhaps, this is in any way related to Spotify's censorship of Alex Jones (hear me out). Not because of any political agenda on the part of Warner, but because, unlike Apple, YouTube or Facebook, Spotify is a subscription-based content service. Where Apple, YouTube, and Facebook have a significant buffer against Alex Jones' somewhat fanatical fanbase leaving their platforms, Spotify has no such insulation. Spotify has 70 million paying subscribers as of Jan. 2018. Jones has 7.5 million unique visitors to his website, which is a tertiary method of access, behind his radio syndication (secondary) and YouTube and Podcasts (primary)[1]. His podcast peaked at the #9 position on the Itunes podcast chart (Sorry, I had trouble finding download numbers, but given that the top ten podcast publishers had a unique monthly listenership anywhere between 5.2 and 4.3 million, assuming 4.5 million from podcasts is likely reasonable)[2, 3]. And his radio listenership is counted at 5.9 million [4]. On YouTube, he had 2.5 million subscribers and 17.6 million video views [5]. So, assuming that some people are superfans, we can probably assume that his peak reach, among people who sought him out is somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 million. That's ignoring the fact that his podcast with Joe Rogan was the most downloaded podcast ever when it came out (I think it still is. I recall hearing download numbers of that episode in excess of 50 million). We can assume the number of people who actually care enough to boycott a service would be in the neighborhood of 20 million. Assume 30% of those are spotify subscribers. These are the fans. We're not even dealing with the regular conservatives who just heard about it from Limbaugh and Drudge, some of whom may cancel subscriptions on principle. A drop of 5-6 million subscribers will be significant for Spotify, and likely result in a drop in share prices as well, once Spotify announces their next round of subscriber numbers.

[1]: https://www.spin.com/featured/the-invisible-empire-of-alex-j...

[2]:http://www.itunescharts.net/us/artists/podcast/alex-jones/po...

[3]: http://analytics.podtrac.com/industry-rankings/

[4]: http://www.talkers.com/top-talk-audiences/

[5]: https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/thealexjoneschannel

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I was talking about the timing of the drop. It's quite clear from the article, given Warner's previous sale of equity, that Warner intended to do this eventually. I was only suggesting that they might have decided to sell at this time because of potential subscriber drop.
It's a pretty scary prospect, to the point that I have to imagine it's already happening to some degree. If a nation state wants a backdoor, what better way than to bribe the cash-strapped OSS maintainer of that little project that every company depends on.
No one is obliged to bid on such projects. You'll find clients who pay good rates too. I have been freelancing on Upwork since 2010, I never bin on low budgeted projects and usually I'm happy with $35+/hr rates.
That may sound to low in US but where I live it is very high pay rate.
Revisionist if you don't have a clue what Special Forces/CIA et al do....
> ... you don't have to think about 'long running things need to be futured/awaited', you just do things in a straightforward way in the thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg

Six years later, very little has change in the arguments about events vs threads.
Why heat concrete blocks? Doesn't water have a higher thermal capacity?
> But you can't invest in things you can't quantify.

I hope you mean the current world of VC and the greater finance world can't do that. Because as individuals and small companies we can absolutely invest in anything we want whether there's a metric or not. Granted, you can't organize a mega corporation or a hypergrowth startup around vague values because you're so far past Dunbar's number that any kind of shared understanding of anything more complex than simple metrics is tenuous at best.

However it's worth recognizing that there's a real thirst in the world for authenticity in a world driven by global brands and corporate behemoths. There's plenty of room for other approaches, it's just not what interests the financial world whose interest is directly proportional to the number of zeros involved.
Because I didn't want to add more any more debt. And quite frankly at the time I figured anyone I would would want to work for would not care...sure that piece of paper on the wall is cute but it's a meaningless trophy after a while. What have you actually done and how can operate in a team environment is more important

The "prestige" of the degree. Meh
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Just saw this today. I couldn't believe it because I saw this first on reddit like a few weeks back, where a redditor thought all of Musk's weirdly negative publicity stunts were to make Tesla less desirable in wallstreet's eyes so he could make it private. I can't find the post now, but that's interesting it turned out like this. I do agree that institutional investors have an incentive to prioritize short term over long term gain. After all, you can just sell your stocks, buy into another company and push for short term gain over and over. Maybe it is better for Tesla to be private
The problem of putting together complete strangers with shared interests is solved by Reddit.
I bailed at the advent of forced non-chronological timelines. I would have been less insulted if Facebook hired someone to spit in my face.

Easily the scummiest design decision I have ever whitnessed.

Actively manipulating the structural representation of time in a communication platform is begging for chaos. Yes, of course I know the time stamps are still presented. That is not my point. Communication is sensitive; very sensitive. Adding barriers in reverse like that signals to me these companies do not have a clue. The issues with this sort of thing will not be measurable or even observable.

Our lives and society are impacted in mass proportions by events we as individuals will never perceive, or have the capacity to. And this is precisely what thinking is for; we theorize, organize, and make sense of things. This is the basis for all of our potential, and that potential is all we have.

But this is not rocket science. It’s a sorted list. that everyone uses. And now it’s unsorted. for And what?
Since the discussion is about higher education in general, perspective from eastern culture..

Higher education most often helps poor students or students of limited means and without any family connections to land coveted jobs, which is life changing not only for them but for their family. Education (and to some degree small time entrepreneurship) is the only way for them to come out of their circumstances that were not of their choosing.

These people would not have succeeded anyways.
The argument is that it's harmful for society to restrict artists from remixing other people's work. And when you put it that way, how could it be otherwise? We'll have to agree to disagree that it'd cause problems for people to be able to tell a Darth Vader story.
Couldn’t it be that users are switching more and more to Instagram from Snapchat? For sure my view is biased but all my friends that were using snap a year ago are now primarily pushing content through Instagram and all are ditching Snapchat ...
The real problem with higher education is really how we finance it. Give the lenders the ability to discriminate based on major and borrowers the ability to default easier and all of a sudden you’ve got some banks seriously motivated to ensure students get economic return on their investments.

Besides, it just shouldn’t take a decade or more for someone to discharge a bad debt. Student debt seems uniquely oppressive within the American system, and it really needs to look more like other forms of personal debt.
That really wouldn't work though.

Most people use Spotify like the radio, they listen to the top 40 chart, or they listen to music they know and love.

If Spotify was missing the Warner catalogue, it would be completely neutered. It relies on the fact that I can find 99% of the music I want. Every time an artist or an album gets removed from Spotify, so many people get up in arms about it. Imagine a major label dropping Spotify.
Well if they're not paying for the daycare they don't. If they are they are then they do.If you want someone else's money then you're going to get it on their terms or not at all.
It wasn't at odds with those techniques. The redesign was meant to force the users to view sponsored stories by sacrificing the usability of the app to view their friends stories. To look at the redesign as some kind of improvement for the users is totally wrong, IMO.
> What, Web 3.0 will come with booze?

Off topic but, you know what, maybe it eventually will. Just like in the movie Ready Player One, nothing says it couldn't be done.

Maybe the reduce of physical interaction between people are not caused by social medias, maybe just because people don't want to spend time and energy (or, lazy) on those physical interactions.

If meet with friends face to face cost 2 bars of power, and interact with them on social media cost 1 bar, I think many people will rather to save 1 bar, so they can do more tings (like, take a nap).
while : ; do scrot ss-$(date +%s).jpg ;sleep 60 ;done
Ah, a small correction: I'd never pass someone else's work off as my own. The idea is more along the lines of "Look at this silly hat I put on Picachu. Won't you give me a few cents so I can keep dressing up Pokemon as space marines?"
Could be that it’s only “fine” in the short term. Just 80 years ago Germany was very far from “fine”.
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> It would make sense if you could get electronic textbooks which are already in the question/answer form required by spaced repetition software, ready to "load and learn". Rather than reading a traditional textbook, you would take an equivalent question/answer set and learn it by spaced repetition. Do such things exist?

I am working to solve exactly this. A form of learning where the learning happens due to interaction between a bot and a human. Machine teaching humans basically. Been working for over 20 months. Will be releasing within two weeks. :)
Also: It's pretty remarkable how many bikes can fit in the size of say, 2 car park spaces.
I find it funny that these numbers are not available. In our free education system (Denmark), almost all of this data is freely available, also as the government, want students to make an informed choice. So most schools its easy to get graduation rate, salary estimates and even how many from the last class are employed, and how many in relevant fields.
>We invited you in with your lower score because we recognize it is more difficult for you to achieve that score, and as such are more likely to succeed

This seems like a generous description of affirmative action given it punishes asian students and examples of demographics that benefit underperforming once accepted.
I was earning $95/hr as a ux UI designer. Now I run a consultancy and charge per project which equates to 260-300$ an hour. Upwork has many issues and limitations but if you do well by good clients you can make it work pretty well.