skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a note - about 60% of Bitcoin addresses have less than $60 in them: https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-bitcoin-addresses....

As fees get higher, those addresses become unspendable.
It works for me. But then, I'm not looking for a buzz. Modafinil modulates my ability to focus, and my need for sleep. But not in an acute way like caffeine does.
That is exactly what I had at Hertz at Newark Airport the other day (when I booked via Expedia instead of Hertz direct which would have led to the more convenient “just get in a car and go” experience). I’d rather deal with a human though.
For most of the 20th century the UK did disproportionately well in the metrics of scientific research - Nobel prizes, key articles.. The UK has not had the kind of outstanding economic success that should have accrued to it if these things matter economically. Especially once north sea oil is removed from the calculation.
Actually they do a pretty bad job. Most of the stuff they have is only available to subscribers [0] (Watch out for SZPlus). This topic is too big to put it behind a paywall, but in Germany the whole thing is already out of the focus of MSM. [1] (CTRL-F : Paradise)

[0]: https://projekte.sueddeutsche.de/paradisepapers/politik/die-...
[1]: http://www.tagesschau.de/

EDIT: I just saw, they made more stuff available to the public, yet the concrete pieces on people using the system are paywalled.
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How bad is the withdrawal when you stop all of that?
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"Learning all the advanced math within a few years is a hopeless endeavour."

Not in my experience. It's possible to get the equivalent of a bachelors and masters in math within two years (which is enough to overcome the issues listed in the post), but it's all you'll be doing for that period of time. Well worth it imo.
That sounds like a speculation rather than actual fact. The human body needs salt and there are other minerals in sea water.
I know right? Interviewers say "the solution isn't important, we just want to understand your thought process" but if you don't get the solution dollars-to-donuts you're not getting the offer.
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You can largely blame the media. Scientific research is always finding new results and refining our knowledge. When a new study is published it's often oversold by the media. Then later more research adds to the original finding, sometimes changing the recommendation. Then the media hypes up the new finding.
I don't see why the two should co-exist, given there is just no reason for the existence of BTC looking at the present landscape and positioning of the two. Forcing all the transaction throughput into a channel with bandwidth no greater than a few Fax machines is just stupid, and no argument exists to justify this position at all. It's really amazing that the forces backing it managed to delay it coming to a head all these years, but now that it finally has the conclusion appears mind numbingly obvious.
I have to encourage you not to give up on all tech interviews. (By that I think you mean "hands-on"/"practical" type tests).

I do hiring for our agency, which consists entirely of non-rock-stars, at non-rock-star pay, solving non-rock-star problems, in non-rock-star time. We still do practical tests for all interviews. Some people, actually, do just get up and walk out. I wish they'd at least look.

We do problems on the level of "fizz-buzz" or similar. Quick 10-20 minute problems. We don't make full completion a binary success/failure metric. We just want to hear you discuss your thought process and see that you're aware of variables, if statements, and for loops. Because, yeah, turns out some candidates who claim years of programming experience ... aren't.

But no tricks. And we also make sure the request is suitable to the resume (think about it as resume validation). So we wouldn't say "Python person, write a method for us in C#" or vice-versa. Smart people can easily cross-train themselves once the job starts. It's more about finding someone who has the fundamentals and can apply them.

In conclusion, I would defend the hands-on "tech" interview as necessary and not even evil.
Anyone can but it still takes something significant to get traction - in this case it was a contentious difference in ideology. As long as a new token can fill a new need or niche, it can survive.
> They would have direct access to chip fabs and money to throw at it.

And every time they make chips and attack the network, the users change the POW or move to a different altcoin.

There are even crytocurrencies that don't use A Proof Of Work algorithm, and use something called proof of stake (which means that the current holders of the coin get to vote on what happens.). Hows the government going to stop THAT? Buy up all the votes? And THEN buy up all the new Proof of Stake coins that ever get created?

> Or just laws available to stop production (mining is illegal now).

What people need to understand that it is no enough to 'just' destroy the current version of bitcoin. The government would need to destroy EVERY version of bitcoin, and EVERY altcoin, all at once, now and forever. And then ever single other NEW crytocurrency that people create.

And not only that, but the government would have to do it EVERYWHERE. It is not enough for 'just' china to ban mining. Every country in the world would have to ban it, because if there is a single country that doesn't ban it, or is ineffective, then everyone would just trust THAT altcoin.

The government can't even stop online piracy. Hows it going to convince every government, all around the world, to stop something that most people believe is perfectly OK?

Like, fine, if the world governments somehow convince 90% of the population that Crytocurrencies are somehow as bad as child porn, then MAYBE they have a slim hope of stopping them. But I Think that this goal is extremely unlikely to be successful.
You just summed up maybe two-thirds of the comments on HN.
I think you've made the mistake here of reducing music down to its tune. If you were right, people would be just as happy with a knock-off cover of a song as with the original. In fact, they'd be just as happy with a cheap MIDI version. That's demonstrably not the case.
Have you ever heard of the Birthday Paradox? 23 people in a class, the odds of two having the same birthday = 1-(364/365)^(23x22/2) = 50.5% Well, the odds of two out of nine photons hitting the same rod out 350 is 1-(349/350)^(9x8/2) = 9.79% so there's your 10% improvement over a wild guess.

Factor in that two photons should have a much higher chance of hitting neighboring rods which would substantially increase the chance of a hit (at the synaptic level) the question really should be "Why is it so much worse than random?"
Maybe the tabloids are to build the infrastructure and they plan to move upmarket quickly? Maybe Facebook courted users to share news while Snap is trying to court journalists? I googled "journalism at snapchat" and it looks like a lot of results trying to court young journalists.

Anecdotally, I've heard a lot of other journalists talk about Snap hiring good journalists. Separately, I swear yesterday I heard an article introduced something like; "So and so, from the NYT, currently at Snap, wrote this article for the Atlantic" which seems to reinforce that idea.

I don't use Snapchat and don't follow tabloids, but I feel like Snap has popped up on my radar occasionally with actual journalism.
I would love to see more ads that instead target the content of the page. When I'm reading about machine learning, it should be books close to that topic, and other related things. I can't believe little that happens.
What's Happening with Bitcoin
They might have, it's not entirely clear from that story.

The problem is - I've been here - there is only so much you can follow up.

If you follow up once, and they don't reply, then what? Try a 2nd time? A 3rd? If your unlucky and your first follow up was swallowed by whatever reason caused the original problem, do you keep trying and look pushy?

Or, you might have another prospect and althought you'd prefer the first one, you can't keep the second one waiting for ever so at some point you give up on the first and take the second. How many times do you give someone a chance to follow up before giving up?

I once had a boss interview, then a good tech interview, then for several weeks tried to get any response at all out of the boss for a follow up. I gave up and moved on. Several months later by chance I saw the boss at a tech event across the room, we nodded hi, and the next day he emailed me asking about the job. Dude, that was 2 months ago. I already had another job by then.
Or maybe bring up some heuristics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests) – but of course proving a negative is always a futile exercise.
Re 2.: It's not possible to prove that a single number is random. You can run some tests on a series of numbers. If this were me getting that question, I would first say that I'd google for some standard tests, then if being asked if I know some by heart, I would start with the average and standard deviation, then I would draw a histogram and expect the distribution to be flat and finally I would try to visualise the numbers in a two-dimensional grid and look for patterns. A truly random number generator doesn't produce patterns.
One potential contributing reason: it’s not (or wasn’t recently) in app stores other than US, and doesn’t take international credit cards - making it a non-starter for many visitors to Austin. Lyft had the same problem too - I don’t know if it’s fixed because Uber never had that issue so I use that.
It’s sad people are downvoting this. Maybe they disagree but this is absolutely a question all of us must ask.

There are side effects to growth. We lose cultural practices, we lose languages, we lose neighborhoods, we lose species, we lose entire ecologies.

I actually really appreciate the conservative (well...Republican) argument that sometimes it’s worth it. Maybe we should burn some fossil fuels to help developing countries build economically, bring down mortality, be able to support larger investments, etc, in exchange for some extinctions, and the loss of some indigenous culture. I’m open to that.

But you also have to be open to the fact that sometimes it’s not worth it, and ask what does it look like if we were to try to preserve our cultural and biological heritage. This is a conservative ideal too.

And when I think about how to do that, I am drawn back to Japan over and over who solved many of these problems hundreds or thousands of years ago. Japan has already asked the question: “should we destroy all of our native ecologies and cultures in order to fuel industrial growth?” And they are one of the few countries who has taken a stance on that issue, and succeeded at preserving things America seems destined to continually destroy in its relentless path towards an industrial monoculture.

We can’t write that off as provincialism or regressiveness. We (in the U.S.) have something to learn here, and the advantage is not entirely ours.
The other option is to target the ads to the publication. As long as the publication is on a niche topic or geographically localized, you can choose ads that will likely interest people (local restaurants) without needing to track them. Tracking is only necessary when the ad venue is incredibly broad across topics and geography.
Hi,

I'm responding to all emails. I'll check my spam folder too! What's your email?
Bitcoin congestion singularity may be coming
I am curious, what constitutes “traffic”, and if it is page loads, why is it the right thing to measure? Users who load the page are already visiting, regardless of whether there is an ad on the page or not. (Or does it include a delay to filter visitors who immediately close the page?) And they did not know in advance whether there was going to be an ad, so their decision to visit the site is not based on the presence of ads. (Unless perhaps if they had a particularly bad experience a previous time — bad enough to remember the domain and not follow the link.) I don’t understand how turning ads on and off every two days can be used to understand long-term effects. There appears to be the assumption that there is a relation between a user seeing an ad or not, and subsequent traffic. There might be a small correlation because of visitors browsing the site, or likeliness to share, but if outside of the spikes, the majority of visitors arrive from an old external link or search engine, and they only read a single page, then how does turning ads on and off every two days measure impact on these users?
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I don't get what's the point of his article. Promises and async/await are here for ages. Moreover it does not highlight issues with await such as if you forget to await a promise you've just introduced a subtle but in your code. Sounds unlikely? Check out the last snippet in the article (waitForHello(2000) missing await, doesn't do any harm in this case as there are no code after it but it's a hidden bug).
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With good tooling unwieldy and harder to read shouldn't be an issue for a transmission format. If you need to read a raw transmission you could have a tool that presents it a JSON. I find JSON hard to read though, so it's a personal thing.

Verbose might be a real issue because it takes more bytes to send the same message. But then if you care about bytes, I think protobuf is worth considering instead of both JSON and XML.
If you're almost able to afford private school the extra money from not being taxed into oblivion could allow you to justify the cost/benefit of private school.
nope, it's louder and always at the same speed.
> but in Germany the whole thing is already out of the focus of MSM

because in Germany the coalition bartering takes precedence at the moment (where, like the election of the catholic Pope, every tiny signal is massively amplified to keep the buzz going), and it doesn't exactly help that Trump spews out new nonsense every other day, and the neo-nazis from the AfD can be counted upon to do the same if there is nothing newsworthy at the moment...

And the AfD is actually a major part of the problem - they have shifted the discourse from "ultra rich vs poor" to "everyone against Muslims/refugees" pretty successfully and that's shame enough.
It's not impossible: make a dice with all the numbers up to that number; throw the dice until it falls on that number; done.
I think it’s everybody else that’s “easily distracted”. He uses his Twitter as a laser pointer with a cat, and he has been doing so for years. You don’t win an election against the Clinton political dynasty if you’re “easily distracted”.
Your concerns are typically addressed by:

1. Reserve pricing - if no ad is 'good enough', e.g. no advertiser is willing to bid above a certain threshold for you, then no ad is shown

2. ePCM pricing - Adsense predicts what the likelihood of clickthrough/conversion is for a given ad and user, and includes that in its auction algorithm. Roughly, eCPM bid = cost per click / probability of click. This addresses the typical problem of high CPC/CPA bid but low engagement probability ads crowding out otherwise good CPM-based ads.

In general responsible advertisers have aligned incentives with viewers. Intrusive or obnoxious (or malicious) advertisements hurt viewers, who are less likely to return.
Did your job change locations with you? If not, do ME and NH have a tax reciprocity agreement? If not, you may be committing tax evasion.
Honestly, I have not heard of this before. Is this real? Is this common? How does asking to be paid for an interview pan out?
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Ok, tell that to the Standard Model. [1]

Like it or not, in modern physics, "photon" refers to a particular type of discrete lump of momentum and energy. It is a thing you can definitely have one of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Model
It is probably a combination of performance impact, lower page views per visit, and lower return rate.
Let me know when an affordable arm board with ecc support comes along, wholesale or “call for price” not allowed. Because as it stands it might as well be sparc or mips in how accessible the hardware is.

Wait, who am I kidding: mips is still great.
Maybe it does? When I was learning Russian, it just helped to hear everything slowed down by 2x.
If the last 'n' generated numbers were also given to you, this seems like a fair task - to check the randomness of a sequence of numbers. Wikipedia has an article about "randomness tests". [1]

An example algorithm could determine if a run of integers represents a random sequence with some probability 'p'.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_tests
I think you’re reversing cause and effect.

If a bunch of anarchists or communists had access to a few billion dollars in capital, I have no doubt they could build innovative environments.

We live in a culture that concentrates capital in the hands of autocratic industrialists. They’re the ones with capital, but it doesn’t follow their management style is the only way to innovate.
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i would love to see a translation of quantum paradoxes to probability paradoxes - e.g. quantum tunneling is the same as basically measure 0 events.
What incredible timing. I just got off the phone with some friends in Germany who were accusing me in particular and programmers and SV in general of being cold optimizers who leave out basic human needs and can't even make their own surroundings a better place. I think there is at least some truth in their accusations. To me part of the problem is that you can't quantify quality of life readily. We usually just have proxy metrics like life expectancy, child mortality, income etc. If you can't measure it, you can't optimize it. I'm somewhat in agreement but at a loss of actionable thoughts.
What I got from the article is that the NYT is leaning towards publishing articles regarding hacking or other meddling into US affairs, especially by Russia, in order to generate public perception of the Russia issue as a large and embarrassing failure.

>"again on Saturday disputed his intelligence agencies’ findings on Russia and the election". You can hardly criticize that though.

In Hanoi yesterday, Trump made the statement that, "I'm with our agencies, especially as currently constituted with their leadership," regarding Russian intervention in the election. USA Today reported that, "Trump says he believes intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in election — but Putin does not."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/11/trum...
If Bitcoin fees are so high that you have to use Lightning, then effectively Lightning is Bitcoin and you're potentially trapped in a centralized system.
I'm dubious about generalizing paper-filter results to the paper-under-pressure aeropress; you can see the oils come through. It's great for the body of the coffee though.
> Some veteran intelligence officials believe a lopsided focus on offensive cyberweapons and hacking tools has, for years, left American cyberdefense dangerously porous.

> “We have had a train wreck coming,” said Mike McConnell, the former N.S.A. director and national intelligence director. “We should have ratcheted up the defense parts significantly.”

Yes, I think many have said this for years. I'm glad someone high-up went on record.

I'm not against what the TAO does, but the NSA (and more broadly, the US government) has massively failed to develop defensive capabilities.

I hope the NSA will use this as a moment of introspection, and up their defensive work -- particularly opensource collaborations and research. (The IAD github page[0] is awesome in this regard; as are things like SELinux. On the research side, things like HoTT as a basis for verified software; which has some DoD funding, but would be so much more if NSA researchers collaborated.)

I get that attacking things is cool -- but we really need help defending the national infrastructure against constant assault. It's in rough shape. I hope the people at the NSA -- particularly those comissioned -- will reflect on why they're there, and take the stance that the safety of the nation is paramount. Then work towards that, as I know they're more than capable of.

[0] https://github.com/iadgov
1. Honestly, if I were giving a simple coding exercise and the candidate submitted work using their own custom framework (which is implied here), I might reject them also, or at least put them at the bottom of the interview list. It's just a complete misread of requirements, and points to an inability to follow directions.

2. On the one hand, Joel Spolsky created a lot of problems with his idea that a "no" from any interviewing dev results in a "no". Some people just don't evaluate interviews very well.

OTOH, everything looks like it went well here. One interviewer voiced concerned about a specific technical field, but the team as a whole gave that item its appropriate weight. No problem.

3. Yeah, HR often sucks. But I don't see how a story about the recruiter completely dropping the ball for two months is somehow a defense of how valuable recruiters are.
I agree with all the above points, and like to add a few more.

There's incredibly good aspects to .NET, and it was better in the past than it is now relative to the competition..

However it's been a victim of it's own success, both in attracted a lot of recent mediocre talent due to it's success, and in growing more complex in it's 15 year lifespan so far. The platform complexity has increased significantly with PCLs, .NET Core, and moving from a dependable 18 month release cycle to a fragmented multi-channel release cycle.. ostensibly to keep up with the competition, but really just getting trapped into a classic prisoners dilemma of a race to the bottom of fragmentation and dependency hell. I think they should have left that particular trick to the Javascript framework of the month ..

Another issue that holds .NET back is licensing, startups don't want to worry about the licensing in case they scale. .NET core is improving this though and there is a huge amount of open source .NET code available.

Despite these drawbacks it's still an awesome platform, with possibly the best general purpose language available in C#. But it's not cool, and yes a lot of that is cargo cult based misunderstanding of it's abilities.
> Because income taxes are generally progressive

Except that assumption is wrong. State taxes are typically not progressive, even though they should be. The lack of progressive brackets at the state level is one of the sources of biggest economic injustice in our tax system in this country.