skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You couldn't buy drugs with Monero until the end of 2016 when, coincidentally, RingCT was hard-forked in and this paper's entire basis for existence disappeared.

Also two of the Monero Research Lab papers both identify and quantify the problem, and then suggest solutions to it. At no point do the papers dismiss them as theoretical: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9nIqDmUQAAqP-R.jpg:large

MRL-0001 is nearly 7000 words, the entirety of which is devoted to showing how dangerous mixin-0 transactions are (ie. the bulk of this 'empirical analysis' paper). MRL-0004 similarly consists of nearly 7000 words, although this time they don't only have an entire section devoted to "traceability with zero mix-in spending", but they cover knock-on effects of banning them ("change and dust force zero mix spending"). They then identify further issues including "temporal associations", "association by use of outputs within a transaction", and "combinatorial attacks to reveal outputs".

The MRL-0004 paper provides a roadmap to defeating some of these by forcing a minimum ring size, but notes that a perfect output selection strategy could not (at the time as now) be determined. They note that "although we have identified this security issue, we are not making formal recommendations yet until we have further data to inform our choices".

Subsequent to that the Monero developers switched to a triangular distribution for selection, and then more recently they added a %-of-outputs-must-be-recent scheme (I can't recall what %). This, combined with the advent of RingCT, has defeated the claims of the research paper. There is no double-think about older transactions, because nobody could use them for anything of note, and it was during a time when 'fluffyass' kept telling people not use buy Monero (which I believe he continues to do).
Yes. Note that I did not say it was wrong or that he shouldn't be allowed to hold it, only that the style in which it was expressed seemed unlikely to be effective for people who didn't already share that opinion.
Look at something like slavery. We look back in shame now but back then it was just the norm as it had been since ancient times.
In other words, the "Greendale Human Being"[1][2] effect.

[1] http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Greendale_Human_Being

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr-F40mnul8
This is why every air craft comes equipped with a set of MKII eyeballs. Not trying to make light of it, or anything, but this is a prime example of why good vision is a requirement of any pilot. Not familiar with this incident or whether it was night-time or during inclement weather.

Regardless of the circumstance, my apologies & condolences to the friends & family of the crew and any passengers. From your short description, this seems like an easily avoided accident and I hope actions are being taken to prevent a recurrence.
Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Plex has nothing to do with how users are getting the content, it just offers playback and cataloging after they've already retrieved it.

I'd agree if they allowed something like library sharing between users, but I don't see them as a likely target just for allowing playback of consumer media.

I use a (local) Plex installation for home videos, downloaded clips, and various other non-infringing things. It's the most convenient way to share the library out to a Chromecast/phone/Roku.
Shypmate is now Envyl
We all think we know what makes us happy. So we try things and we find out that it doesn't work... The sad truth of it all is that not only do we not know what makes us happy, biologically speaking, there is no evolutionary advantage for a creature who reaches the nirvana of eternal satisfaction.

We are biologically built to forever embark on a fruitless quest for happiness, and while we can be happy at certain times, we'll never be able to reach that state of complete satisfaction that we spend our entire lives searching for...
Some charts and graphs are inflation adjusted, others aren't. You have to find it for each one.

And yes, some are in thousands, some in millions, and some are actual. On a large report like this with many different metrics, expecting them all to be scaled the same would make many hard to read.
An algorithm that generates (an average of) O(n) random variates has time complexity at least O(n), not O(1).
I was trying to remember if CONVERT was added in W2k or XP but if memory served you couldn't run it on the boot partition.
Man I'm dense. It was only as I dropped my tax forms in the mail just now did I realize why he chose today to release this.
>Google sure spends an incredible amount of money making their UIs worse (and usually increasing memory use by a large multiplier at the same time).

Isn't everyone doing this these days? All the UIs on PC software have been getting worse since the mid-2000s.
I think the reality of criminal court cases is that in the vast majority of cases the defendant is clearly and unambiguously guilty. Most criminals aren't smart and aren't covering their tracks. Thanks god the legal system doesn't need to rely on some really smart Lieutenant Columbo to figure out who's done it. Of course there are some more difficult cases but if you pick 10 randomly, you are unlikely to find one. I suspect most juries mostly deliberate about the degree of implications, mitigating circumstances and the severity of the sentencing.
Increasingly relevant:

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/23/virtual-reality-allows-t...

Emotion detection as a service? I'll pass.
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This is why I prefer the Rust and modern C++ approach more personally. Put everything on the stack by default for fast, easy access, it automatically gets destroyed when you leave the scope. Then use reference counted shared pointers or other tactics when you need to store large amounts of data in memory.

This keeps users thinking about lifetimes but at the same time encourages safety and performance.
>Socialism is basically confirmed to be invalid now.

I don't think that's true, I still think Socialism is a solution to the problems of society structured with class (capitalism, feudalism, slavery etc.)
Hi! It's true, I did not include the explanation of how Maxwell came to the displacement current in the post [edit: I mean I didn't include a satisfactory explanation]. I cannot refer to Nahin's book anymore since I've returned the book quite some time ago. However, I do have another source:

"His [Maxwell's] system of equations worked with jeweled precision. Its construction had been an immense feat of sustained creative effort in three staged spread over 9 years. The whole route was paved with inspired innovations but from a historical perspective one crucial step stands out -- the idea that electric current exists in empty space. It is these displacement currents that give the equations their symmetry and make waves possible. Without them, the term dE/dt in [Ampère's law] becomes zero and the whole edifice crumbles.

Some accounts of the theory's origin make no mention of the spinning cell model, or dismiss it as a makeshift contrivance which became irrelevant as soon as the dynamical theory appeared. In doing so they wrongly present Maxwell as a coldly cerebral mathematical genius. One can hardly dispute the epithet 'genius', but his thoughts were firmly rooted in the everyday physical world that all of us experience. The keystone of his beautiful theory, the displacement current, had its origin in the idea that the spinning cells in his construction-kit model could be springy."

Mahon, B., The man who changed everything -- The life of James Clerk Maxwell, 2016 reprint, p.125-126
Enjoyed the analysis.

I wonder if our educational system will ever reach the point where the layperson doesn't immediately think "I should get married to increase my income".

Tho many people seem to believe that moving to the Bay Area will increase their earnings... post hoc ergo propter hoc.
They routinely give the men with children/wives the better hours, pay, and whatever else at my work. They just changed several peoples' schedules so that my peer could have Saturdays off with his kid. Contrast that with myself: I have requested the same shift and been denied. I don't have kids. I also have better reasons to be on that shift. In my anecdotal experience, it appears classist. I would file that under 'human capital'.
Just try not to be naive when trying to understand espionage and counterespionage. A clever strategy is to give the adversary what they want, while profiting from it. Let them have the feeling they're winning while they're actually losing.

0 days may be real and the exploits may be real too. But maybe the higher objective was to make people believe that the NSA operates regularly through 0 days, that there's no preferential disclosure of bugs between them and Microsoft, and that they do not rely on RNG/crypto/hardware/software tricks or backdoors. We will never have the means to truly know if any of that is the case.

So while the leak might be real, it could be still be fake in the sense that is not representative of reality in terms of how they operate.

Then, you do not fully know if running the exploits come with unexpected side effects put there by the authors.

I am very skeptical of high profile leaks with full media coverage such as this one, as well as Assange, Snowden, etc. Maybe the information is true but cherry-picked, and potentially mixed with false information.

Do not underestimate people that make a living dealing with classified information and asymmetric information.
It's hard to say, but anyone who is a part of a demographic minority that has collected 51% of all the income in a country's economy has clearly gotten some additional benefits.
Just because I was able to overcome, doesn't mean the system works fine.

It took a lot of hard work and luck to get me to overcome this. So I would say that my life improved in-spite of H1. I was able to found a startup (and successfully exit) while on H1, which is extremely rare.

Around 2010, the Green Card wait for Indians went from 3-5 years to 20+ years. Many people who moved before or around that time got invested here (bought a house, grew family, kids going to school) and in a way are stuck in a limbo. Many of them are smart and hard working people, who used to have dreams of building companies. But after a decade in limbo, all they talk about is the next H1 renewal and the uncertainties around that.

Now, the best from India are instead choosing to stay in India and build startups there. While the current system is allowing staffing companies bring subpar talent which displaces good American jobs. So yes the H1B system is broken and it needs fixing.

If I had stayed, I would have had different set of opportunities in India. Difficult to predict whether they would have been better or worse!

And it is easy to say "that's fine" - when you are not living the life with constraints.
We are in South Africa/Lesotho and so keen to be part of YC
Bangkok is (used to be??) perhaps my favourite city in the world.

Is Kuala Lumpur more hygienic? You bet. Is there more 'order'? For sure.

Guess what! Kuala Lumpur is not in my top 10. Maybe not even top 20.

If I want order and hygiene, I go to Singapore, which is tied for the top spot on my favourite city list.

Bangkok is so charming because... it's Bangkok. Change that drastically (for example by imposing 'order and hygiene') and you get something like a watered down Kuala Lumpur.

Thanks, but no thanks.
> If many people believe this is the case, why not? All articles get some common types of responses based on the topic, this is just one topic/response combo that you happen to disagree with.

Because such comments tend to be repeats, making them not interesting. They also tend to derail interesting discussion. When there's an article on an interesting detail about X, but the top comment litigates why X should even exist, the interesting part of the article never gets discussed. And when that happens on all threads that involve any aspect of X, it's boring.
It's just shocking to me how much the aesthetic drawn up by sci-fi in comic books and movies have entered the mainstream. To me, it just seems so cheap, gaudy, and ugly. But I suppose the idea is to keep it frivolous to lock itself in the domain of 'fun' and 'jokes' to deflect seriousness and criticism.
The Tainos were the natives of not only Puerto Rico, but they're mostly gone now. I have a few relatives who are partly Taino, even my great grandmother was a full native to Puerto Rico. To clarify further the Tainos were not only Puerto Rican natives, they were also native to parts of South America (north east), Cuba, Jamaica, and Hispaniola (Haiti / Dominican Republic). It would be incorrect to attribute it to Puerto Rico itself, thus I attribute it to the Caribbean where they were natives. I'm sure it's been done elsewhere, but it became widespread in the southern states first according to Time:

http://time.com/3957444/barbecue/
Intent definitely matters, but I think there has to be the possibility of achieving your goal too. For example, if I cast a spell that's said to make your heart explode, I won't get done for attempted murder even though my intent was to kill you.
Sailing is a much more dangerous game then driving.
So avatars are limited.

Makes sense, but it could also open up a way to sell premium avatars. Or really, rent their use.

If I could design my own avatar, then pay $10 a month for it to be approved and then available to just myself in various online spaces, that would be very cool.
I'm fully agree!
Trump orders review of visa program to encourage hiring Americans
By restricting the project to data provided by governments there is absolutely zero chance of much additional accountability being offered by this platform.

I think all recipients of public funds should be required to account for all spending per hour, project and employee, and should also publish highly granular KPI and transactional data.

I don't necessarily want to see a 10-K, I want access to google analytics, the ERP system, and the financial ledger.

It should be possible for anyone with a copy of OpenOffice to determine the cost of the top 10% of patients at any public hospital, the cost of all high level "missions" the US Military is involved in, and the Federal employees who have received the most disciplinary action (or the most complaints).
does it mean PyTorch or Tensorflow are better for research, experimentation and Caffe2 was more designed for production?

Or it actually means Caffe2 was designed for both research and production
Definitely is quite a legacy. I didn't realize it went back that far, but I do recall it running on DOS. Only had one brief go at it on a friend's computer in the late 80s. Don't recall being very good at it. As I recall, it wasn't very friendly to mistakes, especially on landing. I remember crashing a lot.
> what the algorithm should do, namely what politicians will/can not

It's dangerous to imagine that the algorithms won't be used just as politically as anything else. The difference is, instead of a mostly transparent process in a legislature, the decisions will be made between powerful people and software developers.
Well done! Time to prepare for an interview :)
That's a risk than an artist assumes when he or she publishes a work.

In the past 10 years, I have met the director of my favorite film and my favorite musician. I tried to be as respectful of their privacy as possible but still wanted to say hello and tell them how much I appreciated their artistic endeavors. They were both gracious and I tried not to take more than a minute or so of their time.

If you want obscure anonymity, don't publish art. Especially not under your own name.
Oh, those discovered drugs. They are discovered like bathsalts are- glue a molecule here and there to a know compound, renew the patent.

I want to know how the R&D looks for compound group discovery. Everything else is just repackaging with a chemistry kit.
Yeah but in what region? As a european I've been disappointed before by lack of python support in european regions.

Edit: Just noticed in my AWS account that there's 3.6 in Europe. This will get me away from GCP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)
I'm sorry for your personal suffering, but as a systemic issue, immigrants are taking jobs away from Americans. Whether it be in software, healthcare, or other professional job, Americans are being displaced. As for the number of Green cards, I can only take your word for it, but I'm guessing most of them are not displacing college graduates/ STEM/ etc.

179K * .37 is still > 65,000 jobs that Americans could have done filled by others and depressing wage conditions regardless of the field.

Remember that most of the people in the US on H1-B are here because the law which states that there must not be any American capable of filling the job was violated. That is the law.

The H1-B has been used by US firms many of which are very wealthy to try to drive down wage rates. That is the problem.

If someone is here on H1-B according to the law where there is no American with the skill set (perhaps a PhD nuclear physicist that deals with machine learning and nuclear reactions) then that is a completely different matter.

But any H1-B hired for almost any software development there are American that can do the job.
The elevator pitch is fundamentally a pitch. And a one sentence summary is fundamentally a summary. They're fundamentally different.

I was sailing with a buddy (a made man in SV) and he asked me what I was working on. I blurted out a one sentence summary and did it ever hit. I hadn't even thought of running through an elevator pitch because I was racing and was really thinking about sail trim. But I remember the summary and I'll use it. I may even lead the pitch with it.

BTW the worst single sentence summaries are the Hollywood summaries: this is Airbnb for Ubuntu distributions. That sort of summary says that you haven't really thought it out. It's a trope and their eyes just glaze over immediately.
- Vegans

- Mass Muslim immigration

- Gender/Racial Politics

- Anti-White Racism
So when do we get the rejections? so we can move on.
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No it isn't, the paper is a re-hash of the work that the Monero team themselves put out in September 2014 and in January 2015.

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf

https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf
> Also, keep in mind that AAAI is a conference, where you are supposed to present promising research that you are still edging out. Finished works are supposed to be presented in journals, where space constraints are typically more relaxed.

This is a dated view of AI research.

Promising research appears in workshops, blogs, and/or arXiV. Finished research appears in conferences. Nobody's sure what journals are for.
And of course, biographies are 100% correct, especially on what might be a contentious issue.
Except that the foreign company which profited by 246B is foreign. If it weren't foreign, then taxes would have been paid to the US on the monies as they were made, and there wouldn't be close to that amount of money offshore. As the article says, "Repatriation is front and center. That is good for the country and Apple." That is different from envious theft.

There is more than one company called Apple. Which one do you mean?
I think it's mostly of the first. Having an income makes dating easier, having a higher one makes it even more so.

One way to test that might be to follow a group of unmarried men who are all the same age, and then 10 years later and compare the still unmarried with the long-time married (5+ years).
Ask HN: Resources, Mentors, Advice, etc for advising startups
Hello everyone!

I wanted to check in with the community and see if anyone could direct me to any resources or mentors or social networks for learning about advisory roles with startups. Or any advice in the discussion would be great too.

I've founded 2 companies and worked as an engineer for the last 10 years with several big names, so recently I've had several startups approach me about taking an advisory role...

And I have no idea what is expected of me, haha. I want to be able to provide them with true value and prefer to develop a sort of "playbook" for certain things, but I'm just not sure where to start.

Any help would be much appreciated!
Will Mark Wiens have to relocate?
Would have been interesting to see a breakdown by dual-income vs single-income, unmarried with/without dependants, etc.

If you get married, and find yourself supporting a spouse, and potentially, children, you have new motivation to make more money.
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MS has had to take actions over border disputes in the past. Original releases of Windows 95 included a map that you could use to select/show your timezone. There was a dispute over the Pakistan/India border, and MS opted to later remove the map than attempt to correct it.
None of this clarifies your argument or answers any of the questions I asked. I literally don't understand the argument you're trying to make, and because I'm a nerd like most of the people here, there's a siren in my brain going off over it. Can you try to reword your argument more precisely?

It sounds to me like you made a statement in your original comment that was straightforwardly refuted, and I'm trying hard to understand how anything you replied to that refutation with changes anything. You claimed there was an "unprecedented" rise in food stamp benefits during the Obama administration. No, that's not at all the case, right?
1. Women seek men with high income,

2. Having a housewife leaves the man with more free time to work.

See, no need to make a study.
OT, but parliamentarian systems with first-past-the-post election of MPs seem to work very well. That's basically the entire anglo-saxon world minus the U.S.

Advantages of the parliamentarian system over presidential include:

- short campaigns where the parties run, rather than personalities
- short campaigns because the PM can call snap elections any time
- parliament is usually not adversarial towards the government
- elections are less frequent

Disadvantages:
- parliament is usually not adversarial towards the govt
- elections are less frequent

What I'd like to see is a way for the House of the U.S. Congress, and the POTUS, to be able to do something similar to calling snap elections: accelerate the election schedule by shortening the terms of currently-sitting congress-critters and the POTUS. (Presidential term limits would have to be adjusted to an amount of time rather than number of terms.) I think this would give us the best of both worlds. It would give Congress a huge check on the POTUS and vice-versa: whenever POTUS is very unpopular Congress could call elections, and whenever POTUS is very popular POTUS could call elections. And campaign seasons would be much shorter: presidential campaigns would not be two years long, but weeks or months. But a new primary system would be needed, that's for sure.
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I think that sailing requires a whole other level of income than living in a van.
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This is pure causation. Men with more income and stability in their lives are more capable of attracting women, therefore more likely to be married. How could they miss such an obvious answer?
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