skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've felt like writing a "Money is not a real thing" article for a while, and this would be a prime example of why you don't optimize for revenue but rather e.g. physical goods.

The generalization of your argument is that rapidly increasing productivity of any good is bad, because it decreases the relative power of existing capital holders.

If all the miners on all proof-of-work currencies lost all their revenue and the currency was equally secure, I would consider this a good thing since the electricity could be allocated elsewhere.
Interviewer was not smart. Games are super positive to have in portfolio, due to them being products with complex architecture and high UX demands.

It might be not great for pay, but generally game devs have no trouble landing jobs in non gaming fields.

Also a lot of enterprise user facing applications run on Unity/Unreal.
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This incentive to oppose the switch to a proof-of-stake consensus model is inherently self-centric.

While it may be rational to lobby for the continued use of proof-of-work from a short-sighted and egocentric point of view, the switch to proof-of-stake seems absolutely appealing from a long-term or holistic perspective.
I agree, but I would call that loose thinking, not out-of-the-box thinking. If you don't know where the the box walls are, it's a crap shoot finding the other side.
Cultural expectations have certainly shifted. I just don't think "prudish" is the appropriate word. No one, e.g., thinks it's prudish to want privacy when taking a shit. The fact that nudity is involved isn't, to me at least, sufficient to label it "prudish".
>In my country when I last interview I got treated like an fool every time I mentioned I program games.

Just use it as a filter. If you get that reaction, you most definitely don't want to work at that place. Save yourself the time.

In fact, if the interviewer(s) who have that reaction were to take a permanent marker and scrawl "ignorant, low-caliber trash" across their foreheads, it'd accomplish the exact same thing as their outward disdain for game programming.
I'm with you on this. JSX is quite a bit easier for me to reason about than the Angular-like expressions of Vue. But I am glad that there are viable alternatives available for those who don't feel the same way.
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Useless stuff, make a game?

If people was clever enough,they would understand that creativity and curiosity are necessary things in order to make you a better programmer.

We are reaching a world where new ideas and new point views are necessary. att.Daniel
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Who do you mean "we"?
I haven't done enough with Flutter to really report on it but I like it better than React and Android's API so far. I do feel comfortable enough with Dart to say that it is very familiar and easy to pick up. It's Java syntax mostly with modern features and much less boilerplate code. The concurrency model is the same one you find in distributed languages like Erlang, Golang, and Akka Java or Scala. The bad parts of Dart have nothing to do with the language. Oh, and functions are first-class citizens which is my biggest gripe with Java.
I tried being as neutral as possible but you're right that my language implies that they signed it. I should've worded that differently. However, I still wouldn't let them off the hook entirely: intentionally blocking nodes signaling Segwit2x in 0.15 is definitely a political move. There are clear sides that are forming; and I don't mean to make any value judgment here on which side is "in the right." I'm simply trying to explain the volatility of the current situation and the various points of contention between the groups that are forming.
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- Stalin WPO compiler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation)

- Larceny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larceny_(Scheme_implementation...

(Personally, I haven't explored any of these yet. I plan to get into scheme-to-C compilation some day. I think it's the future of programming, but I might be wrong.)
Long term hodlers who haven't locked their coins into staking can respond quickly to network events such as Bitcoin-cash. People who are running mining businesses can at least sell the business if they suddenly need access to a lot of capital. With proof of stake, it really is locked up for whatever period of time.

If your staking period is just a couple of weeks, this is probably less significant than owning a mining farm. But if your staking period is several months, the opportunity cost probably is greater than mining or hodling, because you sacrifice a lot in terms of flexibility.
As long as these riddles keep the web devs and infra engineers away from machine learning, I'm all for it.

We must preserve the elite reputation associated with machine learning; not watered down by avergae engineers looking for a career change.
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Lightning Network wants non-full blocks to work properly. It needs to be able to settle reliably in the future, full blocks destroys the predictability.

Also LN does not need a malleability fix to work, it just makes the implementation easier.
These are good questions. A good quantitative researcher can answer most of them. They're also fairly open ended, allowing the candidate to show what he or she knows.
That's not how it happened in my case. I was promoted to a manager role that I wasn't suited for, and pretended I could just go on being an individual contributor while still handling the managerial role. I went from doing good work as a developer to mediocre work as a manager, and I started seeing personal failure in everything I touched.

I left the organization after that and moved across the country to take another job. That was the summer / spring of 2016. My five-year-old, who was otherwise healthy, started having tonic-clonic ("grand mal") seizures around that time. Neither my wife or I have a history of epilepsy in our families and neither of us had seen a grand mal seizure before, so we thought he was dying. My wife called 911 while I ran downstairs with him in my arms and I basically screamed until the ambulance arrived. He had another seizure about a month after that, and a month after that, and so on. The peak came in August 25 of 2016, when he had a series of seizures in rapid succession (status epilepticus), landing him (and us) in the ICU. I will spare you the details.

He is healthy now -- we were fortunate enough to find an anti-seizure drug that is effective at controlling his seizures. But his parents (i.e., us) haven't recovered entirely.

There are other factors that have caused turbulence over the past couple of years, but they pale in comparison. I've had a lot on my plate. I know other people who have dealt with / are dealing with worse, with greater poise than I can muster, but I am who I am.

I can't quit my job and drive for Lyft. I have a family to support.
> 1. Deciding to use a social media website as a website rather than an app.

> 2. Using a long password which you have to manually type in every time.

Yes! I do both of these for facebook and I rarely use it now. It's been great. The only downside is the friends who insist on group facebook messenger conversations (mbasic) which I won't see for a couple of days, and then need to repeatedly log in to keep up on an active topic or coordination/meet-up.
You nailed it :) You could also destructure the passed properties in the scoped slot (scope="{list}") so you could just use "option in list".
Previous proof of stake cryptocurrencies have typically struggled to get above 30% participation during the 'exciting' days of the coin, and it only falls off from there. Exchanges will often have anywhere from 15% to 40% of all of the coins in a token, which means that if exchanges choose to participate in staking, they will very likely have the majority among the staking participants.
PoS will turn into a stealth PoW if it is possible in any way to influence the outcome with money. The history of all economic activity shows people being willing to spend $49.99 to make $50. Though spending $49.99 of bank balance probably beats $49.99 of carbon.

Have they got a proof of concept as yet, or is this all still vaporware that nobody on this thread should be talking about in the present tense?
Statistics and machine learning have a huge amount of overlap. Almost seems silly we separate the fields.
Yes, just like he mentioned for the other projects. It even has the PATENTS file added to it:
https://github.com/caffe2/caffe2/blob/master/PATENTS
This post makes no sense. "Inflation" is an increase in the price of goods; this definition is both prescreptive and how inflation is actually measured. Since all the goods you can buy with cryptocurrency peg their prices to fiat, it's meaningless to talk about BTC/ETH inflation as a thing distinct from their exchange rates with the dollar, and that will continue to be true until a cryptocurrency economy develops that is not pegged to the dollar.
Not quite. Mining on the wrong chain doesn't penalize you, it's mining on multiple chains that does. Only a bad actor would mine on two chains simultaneously.
That goes to show how much salt you should take with the rest of his opinions on JS. Yes, dependency hell is a problem, yes, no type safety (though you can choose TS), the rest? Not so much unless you're trying to hammer JS into the shape of your old favourite language.
Being a nerd hasn't been politicized anywhere near as much as being a woman, being an ethnic minority, or being LGBT. Furthermore, there's active efforts to shut down "problematic" parts of nerd culture. The recent Google fiasco with James Damore is a highly relevant example - creating a safe space for dispassionate debate about controversial ideas is the number one reason why I like nerd culture.
It's not an ebb and flow in the criticisms but in their adoption and the awarness of them in the wider programmer population. It's that awarness that ebbs and flows.
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Just for an other-side perspective, people that enjoy this might enjoy my technical deep dive into PoSv3: http://earlz.net/view/2017/07/27/1904/the-missing-explanatio...

It is a much older implementation that works on Bitcoin's UTXO model (rather than the account model in Ethereum) and without smart contracts. It doesn't have a solution to the nothing at stake long-term attack, but it thwarts all known short-term attacks. Personally, CASPER's solution to the nothing at stake problem is concerning. In an ideal world, it is ideal, but in a more practical world, I can definitely foresee someone doing something wrong or making a mistake (either developer bugs, or consumer running two wallets, etc), unintentionally making a block on another chain, and losing their $1M worth of ETH as a result. It only takes that happening once, maybe twice, to get people to think twice about staking, and when less people are staking with less coins, the network is much easier to attack

(disclaimer: I work on a blockchain project that is somewhat a competitor to Ethereum)
Ethereum was supposed to have every feature under the sun from the start, proof-of-stake perhaps being the second most hyped. (Turing completeness being the clear first, which is problematic given the halting theorem and all that, so it's now rich statefullness instead.) And PoS is one of those ideas that most people looking at cryptocurrencies end up trying some variant of. PoW is obviously wasteful and it would be nice to improve on that. The problem is that it doesn't have the same properties as PoW have, and that are hard to do without.

The problems are the basic ones, how to avoid colluding stakers, how to neuter the market for consumed stakes, how to deter chain splits. There is a constant flow of new coins that try various approaches, but the ones that have survived have all had to resort to some variant of checkpoints where a trusted third party decides on regular intervals which chain is valid. This has obvious implications for a supposedly trustless digital currency, where you don't really need that complicated blockchain anymore.

This Ethereum PoS FAQ is much like other documentation from the Ethereum Foundation quite dense where most paragraphs introduce terms not seen elsewhere (economic finality? slashing? weak subjectivity?). If you want the interesting bit, the TL;DR, then skip to the part about weak subjectivity. Read it, and then read it again and bear in mind how other coins solved this problem.

Tell me I'm wrong, but I think this bit with the key part being that the node "authenticate out of band", involve a certain third party with a Very Important Key. In which case the rest of the theory in the document doesn't matter much, does it?
No, because the economic majority can simply make a new chain. Just like the DAO hard fork. Ethereum Classic still exists, it just doesn't have (relatively) as much economic weight.
Not any time soon. At present it's an altcoin with the main sponsors (Roger Ver and ViaBTC) still trying to push it along in the hope of organic trading action starting.
Thanks for the reminder, I loved rereading this article.

Even though I read this years ago, I'm still having vertigo when reading the last part. So many people, so many ideas .. so much inspiration.
Ads Manager App is built entirely using React Native[0].

[0] https://code.facebook.com/posts/1189117404435352/react-nativ...
Heckuva tangent to "scents" there. How are you connecting prudishness around nudity to people finding strong odors unpleasant?
I also make games. This has never caused problems in interviews because of technical reasons.

It has caused people to ask, "Why would you want a job like this when it's clear you want to make games"

Best Interiview is where I made the Management guy quite nervouse because the conversation with the tech guy was going so well It looked like he was going to quit to go make games also.
I can relate. I'm five years into a similar situation and trying daily to recover my attitude to risk. It's no surprise that I've discovered an interest in academia. What do you think it would take to get you to get excited on a side project again?
Sorry for the newbie question, but can someone explain why the round trip time is so important for transfer speeds? From the formula I'm guessing something like this happens: server sends DATA to client, client receives DATA then sends ACK to server, server receives ACK and then finally goes ahead and sends DATA2 to the client. But TCP numbers their packets and so I would expect them to continue sending new packets while waiting for ACKs of old packets, and my reading of Wikipedia agrees. So what causes the RTT dependence in the transfer rate?
a degree in computer science is really inefficient if you want to be a data scientist. imagine a 10 class CIS masters: with graduation restrictions you might be able to take 3 classes that directly relate to data science. good luck in your job interviews if you took them first, as you spent 20 hours a week on homework to fill requirements you will never use.

now take a statistics major, every class is relevant, and you can still take machine learning in your electives. win win.

I came to this conclusion after I noticed more of my classmates in the mba program (wharton) as data scientists than people in computer science who took machine learning. in fact, _all_ of the CIS majors in machine learning who really wanted to be a data scientist ended up as engineers.

so then I started doing a small search on linkedin, only looking at the big tech company data scientists. selection biases aside, out of 12 profiles: 5 statistics majors, 5 business, 1 biophysics, 1 IT major.

I have also done some looking into interview questions via glass door, and you get grilled on statistics questions. this matches my one interview with uber in 2016. I only got asked 2 ML questions: what is random about a random forest, and in KNN, what happens to bias & variance as K goes to 1

if you want to be a data scientist, you need to learn stats really well or getting past the interview process is going to be very difficult.
No. I've seen this written many many times, but where is the proof? The Facebook app has 230MB of native binary in there on iOS. It uses very little RN.
Ran a start-up for 7 years, burned out because of the toxic business environment for a start-up and ended up on an island in Canada. The next couple of years I spent building an off-the-grid house, a solar array, a metal working workshop and a windmill. In retrospect I wasn't doing less to recover, just different stuff and stuff that I did not need to interact with the world of business for. Since 2007 back in 'cilvilization', completely rebooted my career in a different direction which feels much better.
I'm not so sure. There are a lot of people who wanted bitcoin to serve the cash use-case who aren't convinced core will keep bitcoin low-fee and workable as anything other than a settlement layer. Bitcoin cash is closer to the original vision.

Signs I'm watching:

* Merchant adoption

* bitcoin-abc doesn't have any commits in the last 21 days.

* Mining has not diversified (yet) so this doesn't appear to have gathered tons of support and it is really centralized.
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Do you mean the 4 minute mile? The mile record has been consistently dropping from the 50s until 1999. However, only 10 high schoolers have broken 4 minutes, although 4 have been in the last 3 years. The closest high schoolers have been to it would be Jim Ryun in 1965, only 2 seconds off.
Seriously. There's not "hey well he worked for amazon so we know he's good" free pass in the future for having Amazon on your resume.

The point of a CV is to get you an interview. A person who graduated from an Ivy/Russell, did a year or two at Google and a similar spell at Goldman Sachs, will be able to get an interview anywhere, for the rest of their lives.

They probably won't get an easier ride in the interview, it may even be harder as the interviewer's egos insist that they best one of the "elite", but they will never need to worry about passing a screen.
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Ugh. Vue.js is just Angular 1.
If disney lost the copyright on their older works and copyright law started expiring after 20 or 50 years instead of the 100 plus today, I would consider this a good thing.

People who make billions of dollars from the status quo have great power to maintain the status quo.
While not a steroid in itself, still it is a hormone/PED. Bodybuilders to it all the time for the same reasons (increases muscle and lean tissue mass).
Except that buying Docker will accomplish nothing. The genie is out of the bottle. And VMware is arguably in a better position to profit from it because of their ties to customers.
I assumed as much myself, but after a few weeks of BCH sustaining a non-trivial trading value, it's hard to keep faith in that hypothesis.
Where's your proof?

The FB app uses RN for very esoteric and small portions of the flows. It has 230MB (at least) of compiled binary.

Instagram also uses it minimally, mainly to replace what used to be webviews.

Those are not "major parts".
Once we move on to stabilizing the health of everyone we will focus on consolidating the infrastructural dross that takes up the space around us. I believe that house sharing will be a major thing once we all realize what we are here for and how perfect things could be.
> creativity is simply taking an idea, and making that idea happen. Most people can be creative

Maybe in the context of the HN audience (mostly people interested in writing computer programs), but for me being "creative" means being someone like Stanislaw Lem or Kafka, i.e. people who actually create new (in this case literary) worlds which are really, really interesting to navigate through, so much so that sometimes you don't want to come back into the real world.
Only if your measure for great is "looks and behaves in a bug-compatible manner exactly like the native toolkit". Otherwise, no, I'd very much disagree.
Fair enough, thanks for the detailed response! Note that 'temporary insanity' is exactly what he will claim as his defense if he's halfway smart.
Brazil was a mess, but it simply makes zero sense to say that the young lefties thinks that our country was a paradise under a right wing military dictatorship, most of them agrees that our country was always riddled with corruption, bureaucracy and a ton of other problems.

On the aspect of privatization, some of that was necessary, but the main criticism is not about the privatization per se, but the way it was handled, giving strategic companies for almost nothing.

If you want to criticize the left, please don't resort to lies just because most of the HN aren't brazilians.
Still vaporware.
I think it's a double-edged sword; disagreements IRL are less likely to get nasty, but it they do get nasty things can escalate faster and end worse.
It's not really about them being a big kid in the playground ... they're surely a minor player in the DNS hosting market.

It's more that their internal extremism means they feel justified in doing this sort of thing because they feel 'dangerous' speech must be suppressed.

I am concluding that Google is no longer trustworthy enough to run a search engine.
FB app uses it for esoteric views.

Most portions of the app is rendered using Component Kit.
> I don't see this declining with aging, though my patience with people who can't respond to logic and facts is declining rapidly

I have no patience for management either..aka people who can't respond to logic and facts
I have mixed feelings concerning this methodology. At the same time I feel I'm a bit rust on the details of the field, I still believe best way to assess academic background is by sending a paper "offline" and asking the interviewee to explain it.
IMO all these quick-answer questions asses is how prepared is the interviewee in answering quick-answer questions.
Well yes. Before the trendy buzzword, machine learning was known simply as predictive statistics.
CS is discrete maths, which is not quite the same as statistics.
I just looked it up. They don't use it for the entire app, but they do use it for specific parts [1]. Since this was written over a year ago I wouldn't be surprised if more was converted.

1: https://code.facebook.com/posts/895897210527114/dive-into-re...
> Hope you're not trying to do anything else that requires bandwidth.

I get the same on Sky (UK) ADSL (fibre[TTC] seems to be unaffected). When I'm uploading e.g. a video to YouTube, even something like Hacker News will often time out.
I also agree with all of these things.

I think you're right about 'purely artistic creativity'. In addition, I think it's a distraction, a bit misleading. Let's say the boxes are a warehouse of boxes stacked in perfect cubular formation. So, when you leave one box, you find yourself in another.
This is ultimately what makes React the right choice for me. A big part of the whole code=data thing is that code can be typed, which means now your data (markup) can be typed as well.

Of course this only really matters if you use Typescript/Flow.
and we can muse on what the outside of the ware house is haha.
What kind of a reason is this? "Ignorance is a bliss."
believe it or not you're on the right path. governments are destroying the world.
Again, "Sure!" We simply don't know, and there's no good reason why it can't ever be so.

However, will cheetah muscles be better? We don't know.

This possibility is strongly in the speculation part at the end of essay. It's science fiction at this time.

We might instead have nanomachines which augment the muscles and tendons. Is that more likely to occur first? (To avoid detection, smuggle it into the body through a glass of water, and have it geolocated so it breaks down quickly into normal body waste products.)
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