skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the show. A lot of media is incredibly stimulating and stick with you for hours or days (or more) after you've watched it.

Even complex shows like Game of Thrones can be stimulating simply because of the complexity, even if it's nothing more than made-up stories. And stuff like Blue Planet or Black Mirror are genuinely thought-provoking.
Map, and a finger. Or a piece of paper with a hotel name written on it. Are people really becoming so incapable of navigating life without a phone?
Nearly every cryptocurrency followed Bitcoins scheme, wherein massive quantities of the supply were produced for the first few weeks to a small group of users, so any later users entering these systems must than buy from those horders or spend more and more capital on the increasingly expensive and reducing output of mining.

It's not exactly a ponzi or pyramid scheme, but the manipulative intent is clear so a new term is needed.

It's a Satoshi scheme.
How much did the price change from the first coin you sold to the last?
Space on the blockchain is essentially auctioned off. If you are willing to wait a day, the best you can do is wait until there is a block with little enough competition for you to run your transaction at your desired price. This is no cheaper then sending your transaction immidietly if you happen to do so when the price is cheep.

Bitcoin used to have a concept of "priority" transactions that would allow transactions to process regardless of fees if there inputs are old enough; however this is effectivly disabled in modern Bitcoin.
Listed economists supporting tax plan include ghosts, felons, office assistants
Exactly the type of people who read HN then! Wait...
Scary. Makes me think about moving my personal mail domain back to a regular hosting company
>exercise bike

10 years time, headline reads: Male office workers sperm counts plummeting, bike-desks blamed.

"These people should be spending more time sitting" says talking head with vague academic credentials slightly linked to the subject matter.
There was a story on the top of HN recently about an Asian student who came to live in the US and joined a hedge fund out of uni. He successfully predicted a huge windfall for his fund - but for entirely the wrong reasons.

He put a lot of effort and research into his analysis of the market and was sure he understood it well enough to bet big. He failed but luck saved him and made a killing. His boss told him not to tell anyone, ever, and then promoted him. His boss was also promoted for his 'talent' in managing a successful team.

The student was self-aware enough to realize he failed spectacularly and left the fund, but many aren't. Cognitive dissonance is rampant in the financial sector and with bitcoin everyone feels like a stock-broker, it's a dangerous game if you let your ego dictate your strategy.
This is called a dividend recap, and there is not necessarily anything wrong with it if you have a profitable firm and if used prudently.
Was this for starquake or GRB modeling?
When and why did popcorn become a popular and common movie snack?
He doesn't care about survival. He's a speculator who wants to pump up the bubble, ride the wave, and cash out billions in a few years. Nothing wrong with that though, as long as he doesn't do anything illegal.
Well in anti-harrasment training they definitely tell you not to ask those questions. Search on Google for illegal interview questions and you'll get similar advice (0). Hell, I just saw an HR sign warning that asking for the name of someone's spouse is discouraged because it can be used to discover gender identity and sexual orientation. You can certainly ask these questions in an interview, but you run the risk of being sued.

0: https://www.monster.com/career-advice/article/illegal-interv...
You might be able to do it for all user names within a certain Levenshtein distance of the current user. That would handle mistyping, but it wouldn't handle the case where you have numerous emails and forgot which you signed up with on this site.
I'm in my 40s and took up CSGO this year, I'm silver-2/rank 15, I find very often other players beat me in reaction time when we're heads up. Gradually I'm learning to compensate for that.

It's my first time playing a proper FPS, yay Steam and Linux compatability.
I wonder about some tasks that people already do for charity with their computers...like protein folding, finding super huge prime numbers. I don't know enough about the algorithms involved though to assert they satisfy the POW requirements. But some infrastructure already exists to distribute these problems.
The neatest UFO I saw turned out to be from a rocket launch a bit after sunset. We were in Florida near the Cape.
What's the point of this, other than "nicknames are hard to remember?" Not a rhetorical question, since that seems to be the main point brought up in the article. Presumably, there's some other problem they're trying to solve with this.

Anecdote: I found seeing the various usernames on the platform quite nice when I used OKCupid a few years ago. When my now-husband and I met on the site, some of our first discussions were about why we chose the usernames we did.
I didn’t find amusing at all, being less than a decade away myself, and having come off a Call of Duty session last night where I’m sure I was in the top half seventy percent of the time. I might be old, but cunning, patience, and strategy can still frag yer ass. :-)

Now at an e-sports level? Frankly I can’t judge as games haven’t been something I put effort into, but I imagine it’s like anything else where there are few outliers, but mostly dominated by younger players. I know I m just not as quick to juggle the multiple things that need tracking, all while trying to line up that headshot. Not crippling by any means, but noticeable. On a “fun on a Friday night” level it doesn’t make much difference, my K/D is about the same as it always was. But once in a while I’ll go up against an organized team and where previously I could help keep it respectable, now we just get run over if the randoms on my team aren’t any good.

In summary, I’m still a pretty good casual player, but I’m not the strong player on any arbitrary team anymore.
Multiplayer Tron in the terminal
> The entire point of the revelations was that after bringing to bear the entire analytical arsenal of the Pentagon there is no obvious explanation remaining ...

The articles I read seemed to indicate this “office” at the pentagon was basically a one man show and was rediculed by his peers, probably receiving little if any analytical support.
"resource" ?

proof that it is a resource? If it cannot be used in practical context as a currency then what is this resource?
Like Protein folding, Search for ExtraTerestrials, Asteroids, etc... there are a lot of them, some of which structured properly could provide public benefit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...
Trusting "your life" to a third party service is very dangerous. Because if your life depends on that service, your life can't continue with out it, so I ask, why do this to yourself?

The convenience is a serious trade off.
It's not the small cabal of professionals that irks me. It's the method of increasing the money supply to generate inflation that bothers me. Central bank fiat systems use credit to increase money supply, so banks and people who consume large amounts credit (large capital projects) get the hot money first. Inflation does not apply evenly to everyone in the economy at once. As new money works its way into the economy, price levels rise. It's a rigged system for those close to the central bank.
I hate articles like this. Someone makes an extraordinary claim, journalist finds some experts to insist that claim must be false based on their current understanding rather than testing the claim. This is ridiculous. Either ignore the claim, or test it. Speculation is information-free and a waste of everyone's time. Same goes for the EM drive. I don't care about hearing some random expert's opinion on why it's impossible. I want them to either ignore the story altogether, or show evidence that the proposed effect or technology doesn't work.

This is the same sort of thinking as flat earthers, except that they happen to have the status quo on their side. Science and truth aren't based on opinion or emotion, but on test results.
There is a very simple explanation for why the alloys are so mysterious.

Harry Reid was able to get the program funded, and directed most of the $22M in spending to one of his closest backers, Robert Bigelow so he could build a fancy warehouse. If that fancy warehouse wasn't storing super valuable alien artifacts it just looks like Reid filling the pockets of a close friend with government monies, and people might think Bigelow might be laundering that money to pay back to Reid after his retirement.

Since both of these upstanding citizens are known to have such high ethics that can't be possible, clearly the warehouse was full of priceless alien stuff. We can scientifically examine these alloys right now, except Reid agreed to cancel the program, because of deficits? or Harry's retirement accounts were fully funded.

But we also have an esteemed government director who can corroborate all of this, Luis Elizondo. He has no reason to make up sensationalistic stories, he's too busy helping Tom Delonge convince backers to fund the "To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science" to research alien stuff, and which supposedly is contractually obligated to pay Tom $100,000 a year once funded. What it's going to pay Luis is no-ones business.

Yep, completely on the level. Can't understand why these scientists are so skeptical.
One of the biggest blessings in disguise for me was not having much money as a child[1]. From the moment we left college, I've made more money than all of my close friends, and I somehow spend the least as well. We've talked pretty openly about income and budgeting as we all entered adulthood and learned our way around personal finance, and it's been fascinating to me to see how wanting to purchase unnecessary things is this vice that my friends consistently struggle with, to varying degrees. I don't have especially good willpower: I just seem to be missing that urge almost entirely. My lifestyle is far from ascetic, but the value bar for making something tempting to buy is just set way higher for me for some reason. I buy everything I feel like; I just don't tend to feel like things unless I think I'll get a lot of enjoyment/value out of them relative to their price. In retrospect, a couple years of disappointment before getting used to my mom saying "no" to most purchase requests was a pretty small price to pay for not constantly struggling against urges to spend irresponsibly.
What do you consider a "difficult" country? I used to lug a kayak around South America with me on public transport and taxis or even the back of trucks that were going the right way (while speaking the language very poorly). The biggest problem I had was getting a taxi in Hungary where the letters look the same but the pronunciation is quite different. Even then it was a case of getting a map out and pointing to the street.
> producing video games that make people stupid

Why are you such a pessimist? Not all video games make people stupid. In fact, some strategy / simulation games actually require a fair bit of work.
How the Rohingya Escaped
so how does one protect oneself from these kinds of scams? how do i distinguish it from a legitimate find manager who actually performs as well as they claim?
I guess the reason people keep surfing is that one out of every X waves is big and awesome, and worth the swim back out.
There are some good answers here already, but I'm going to take a crack at it too =)

Say you have a random hash function that produces (unsigned) int values. So, for all inputs, hash(x) will be in the range [0, 2^32).

- How many different inputs would you need to feed it before you would expect to see hash(x) == 0?

... uh, like, billions?

- How many different inputs would you need to feed it before you would expect to see hash(x) < 2?

... well, still in the billions, but maybe half as many as finding hash(x) == 0..

- How many different inputs would you need to feed it before you would expect to see hash(x) < 4? .. 8? .. 16? .. 32? ... all the way up to < 2^31 (typically you'll see this within two tries) and 2^32 (all of them).

... and so on and so forth; math does the rest. The "count the leading zeroes" check is the same as "the hashcode is less than 2^X". To prevent a single "lucky" hash from throwing off your estimate, you process your inputs in batches and average their estimates.
Blackboards are much better as lecture tools than digital whiteboards with autoscroll, or most uses of powerpoint, or whatever else people try, in my experience.

If you're down voting me for mentioning these, I have no dog in the fight. I only said that the advice was "learn your tools" - IF the tools HAPPENED to change, the advice would change. If not, sure, use a blackboard well.
Does the implementation of reality really make any difference?

If reality was really implemented on the rocks from that one xkcd comic, would it be better or worse compared to a computer simulation?
> I'm thinking something like draw regularly, in order to build a war chest to "defend" the cryptocurrency against too violent crashes

Or just print fake money and call it "USD" on your exchange.
I ... am Canadian ... and have never in my life heard anything so absurd. I'm not going to throw away a lifetime of experience because of some ridiculous and obviously false comment on the internet.

Use your head: a society that couldn't deal with broken bones without months-long lineups would grind to a halt. How can you seriously believe something so ludicrous? Notice how many other Canadians are jumping in to tell you your statement is totally untrue.
Agreed, the best exposition style for a digital white board is not to use it.
We're actually in a golden age of good TV now...but it's also true that there's plenty of garbage on.
You sell a percentage of your (Bitcoin) for (cash) each time-period, and you buy (Bitcoin) with a percentage of your (cash) each time-period. You can put any two assets in the parentheses.

You end up having a balanced ratio of assets according to the relative ratios of those percentages and the current value of each asset, and it will be balanced at a rate according to the total percentage you're trading on (10% means it'd be averaged over 10 time-periods).

There is more formal analysis of this by people around optimal portfolio theory, math about how to balance your portfolio among a variety of assets to choose a risk level analytically, but this is the rule of thumb version AFAIK.
How can you test something that doesn't exist? Where are these samples? Why can't ufo researchers produce anything to from any alien sighting to test that isn't a known alloy/substance?
I don't disagree -- but why do we value reading books so much over watching TV? Aren't you consuming stories passively in both cases? (let's say reading Harry Potter vs watching Harry Potter)
for some perspective, Youtube has an estimated 46,000,000 channels.

there are over 7,000,000,000 people in the world

100 channels is not even close to enough, especially when they're all funneled through the same 2 or 3 providers
Exactly. And not just libertarians, but any bitcoiner who understood that a prime motivation behind bitcoin was not having to rely on centralized financial entities!
My kid has three years and because of me always watched Netflix Kids. Tried Youtube Kids but too much "infomercials" and weird videos.

We went to grandmas house and once the commercials started he said:

"Daddy take this out.. This take out"

And I was kind surprise. He did not have the concept of Commercials and hate it.

Now I think about myself, having to wait commercials and be woke up at certain time to watch my favorite cartoons.

Love it, I only wish it was possible to have a password on Netflix Profiles.
HackSource – 18,510 Curated Programming Tutorials
I got a couple of DigiRule's [0] from their kickstarter [1] a few years ago which was kinda fun. It has interactive logic gates, flip flops, a 4 bit counter and a handful of different modes.

On the back you get some truth tables and some common pads and size holes. Selling for $11 [2]

[0] https://www.bradsprojects.com/the-digirule/

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1897710270/digirule-the...

[2] https://www.tindie.com/stores/bradsprojects/
Comic: Be polite, don't question VC decrees
Those points are not accurate.

IOTA uses the coordinator as a security measure right now (against 34% attacks) and will be removed once the coin is distributed enough to diminish probability of attacks. So saying it is not decentralized isn't honest. Without the coordinator it is decentralized.

Point two is also refuted once the coordinator is gone.
"Soon" is a pretty hilarious term to use here, assuming you're talking about mass scale resource mining in space. We must have very different definitions of that term.
Lots of studies on video games show cognitive benefits, actually[1]. I seriously doubt all video games are cognitively beneficial, but it's ludicrous to just dismiss them all as a monolith.

Most of the people who are paranoid about video game "screen time" seem to just be extremely ignorant, and unwilling and/or disinterested in alleviating that ignorance. They've already decided that video games are garbage for the brain, and no amount of "facts" or "science" are gonna change their minds.

1 - https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201502/co...
No idea why people are downvoting you. My comment about blackboards is kind of a tangent.
The thing is, the top-10%-but-not-1% band gets hit the hardest with taxes. You are not living on tax-advantaged income from your investments (i.e. you are still working for your money), but you are in a fairly high tax bracket (you could be paying more than 40%, maybe even more than 50% of your income in taxes). That is the income band with the highest marginal tax rate (i.e. the tax rate per extra dollar of income).
This is the approach some of the apps are taking these days, e.g Pluto TV.
I oversimplified for brevity. What I mean is, it doesn't require making an informed decision. You just flip it on and start making yes/no decisions. It has a lower barrier to entry in the same way that Tinder has a lower barrier to entry than other dating sites.

Trust me, having grown up in a broadcast and then cable TV household, there's a habituality to TV consumption that isn't there in streaming.

Though streaming has its own habituality in the form of bingeing.
Beside if you live close to NYC, there is no 1 bedroom cost 3k a month.

Stop acting paying 3k is the norm.
The way I see that history, Multics was the second system that never shipped, and Plan 9 was the fourth system that belatedly did ship Multics.
Nothing an afternoon of Googling can't tell you. Too much work to list them all. Current and previous British crown dependencies (also the UK) are generally good.

Unless you're an American. You'll probably be out of luck then.
What does it actually mean by "unknown alloy"? All periodic table metal/metalloid elements can be extracted and detected. Even a standard high school chemistry texts include these processes with wet experiments to be done in the labs. Do they mean new element? If that is the case then those elements must be radioactive. Or do they actually mean "known alloy with new electromagnetic/crystalline properties"? Still it does not make any sense.
The moviegoing experience
Drug sale and use is not victimless. The costs vary with the type of drug and the enforcement regime but the social costs never go to zero.

The selling of drugs may be undesirable some people's minds, "society" may decide it should be suppressed. That's your judgment but drug use remains "victimless" in the sense I described earlier - all people involved want the event to happen. Theft or assault are against cooperative victims who will come to police to complain (in the case of murder, the relatives would). So enforcement dynamics are different. That is all.

I'd mention that those opposed to drug laws would say the costs are predicated on the enforcement itself.
Was it the happiest time of your life? ;)
Real V7/PWB UNIX pros write m4/cpp macros to cross-compile their custom semantic/structural macros + document body fragments into troff and then generate final output from that..
Clients. I do mainly backend work which ends up in house and doesn't give you much of a portfolio to show off, so its difficult to get clients without having something to show off your work. Front end stuff seems more likely to get you freelance stuff but Javascript isn't a nice ecosystem.
Which is why the Nintendo Switch is so genius. A home console that can appeal to people with a marginal interest in video games, but who don’t own a TV.
Simpsons, at least the first several seasons.
You can set your first name to be AllAboutBass and it'll be a-okay.
I'll add another animal to the list of previous agricultural speculative bubbles - emu: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-02-15/news/1998046051_...

> It's a long way from the emu craze of the early 1990s, when a productive breeding pair fetched $50,000 or more.

> Those Texas-sized prices and promoters' heady promises that low-cholesterol emu meat would become a grocery-store staple convinced thousands of Texans to jump into the fledgling industry.

> In 1994, just before the market crashed, one study predicted that 2.5 million of the gangly, flightless Australian imports would be raised nationwide by 1998. Texas promoters boasted that half those birds would be Texans.

> Then the emu bubble burst.

> Within weeks, back-yard ranchers and big operators alike were stuck with birds they couldn't sell and feed bills of at least $100 a year per bird.
There's plenty of content out there that's not stupid at all.

If all your kids are watching is deemed stupid by you, either you haven't put in any effort in finding good content, or you're an insufferable human being - either way, I'd have a good hard look in the mirror.
No. The price never reached a 570% gain so your "most likely" is impossible. The error in the article confusing percentage and multiples is one of a common math errors and the most likely explanation. 382 is 5.7x the price paid or (382/67). That's not 570%. It's 470%.

The most likely explanation is the majority of bloomberg reports know almost nothing about finance or math. Unfortunately and sadly it's still some of the best finance journalism available as there's little competition.
This is why Bitcoin Cash (BCH) is gaining momentum with merchants. Transactions are verified quickly with the typical fee of half a penny.
Ask HN: How does an engineer work via a Pass-Through? What are the pros/cons?
With the new US tax bill signed into law, there is a much lower tax rate for pass-through corps, and apparently Engineers are allowed to take advantage (as opposed to doctors and lawyers). [1]

Is this something that engineers in high-tax states like California should consider? Where does one start?

[1] https://www.enr.com/articles/43659-engineers-and-architects-gain-pass-through-tax-deduction
This happened to me as well. I stayed in a hotel last week for a night, and watched a movie on TV. I watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith on some channel, maybe MTV or FX. Literally every seven to nine minutes of movie, there were five minutes of commercials. It wasn't even enough time to really get into the movie before a commercial appeared. It was really a let down. Makes me happy I haven't paid for cable in many years.
Looks like Bitcoin is more like gold that you stash, and Bitcoin Cash more like money that you buy things with.