skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I came across some of the microbiome research in the recent years, I know about the hacker culture interest in fermented foods and do drink kefir semi-regularly myself. But there appears to be a quite some correlation between microbiome and, well, diet: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12820 Aparrantly you can change your microbiome rapidly by eating differently.

When discovering effects for the whole organism, can’t it be that these are correlations that have been found before in nutrition studies? Why is / isn’t this a problem? Maybe I’m missing something.
You could initially present a user some images to assess it's preferences and use some recommender system (collaborative filtering), a la Netflix.

That could give you an starting point. But I believe the main issue is that fashion products have, by definition, short shelf life, so you can't run the algos on SKU data. Then you can use deep learning on product images + user categorical data to try to predict preferences, maybe simple binary classification?

I guess using images as input should give better features than textual description.
Run the antivirus in a qubes os disposable vm
There have now been about a half-dozen various suggestions to get the network to carry more transactions, all of which are mostly failures, except for Lightning Network, which is now in the process of becoming a failure.
If all the power eventually comes from renewables. Is it still wasteful?
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It takes one minute to find that you can live alone in a basic apartment in the hottest part of Seattle for $1150/mo:
https://seattle.craigslist.org/see/apa/d/capitol-hill-studio...

You can walk to the Microsoft Shuttle, which covers the cost of your commute, and walk or take transit or a bike or a cab to the rest of Seattle, for maybe $100/mo in transportation expenses.

Eating well can be a couple hundred a month if you know how to cook for yourself, $1000/mo if you're spending $30/day on food.

None of these numbers come close to hitting $85k, especially when you pay $0 state income tax.

Obviously things are different as a sole provider for a family, but most 22 year olds aren't that.
I took that to mean that most of the major "sanctioned" programs in go, do all of the heavy lifting "in repo."

Which is funny, because it is easy/natural to view dependencies as technical debt. You are literally building against someone else's technical assets. In that sense, most dependencies you have are easily argued to be technical debt. If you have the capital of google, why do that? (For the rest of us, the answer is easy, we don't have that kind of capital and have to.)
I wonder why the distros don't ship a static-core alternative package for all this stuff statically-linked, for people who actually care about improving the odds of recovering their systems in the face of random filesystem corruption which may break dynamic linking or fat fingered commands run as root.

Zbyszek's comment about systems being cattle is very telling. What the hell are the these guys running on their laptops/desktops? I can see that attitude if you're only considering GNU/Linux as a substrate for running cloud instances and containers, but I use GNU/Linux as my main personal operating system on systems I absolutely do not view as cattle.

Grrrr.
Thank you for your answer.

Bohemia Interactive created a division, Bohemia Interactive Simulations, to handle the military training software, which has worked with other NATO countries.

But from the Wikipedia page, the division has been bought by an equity firm, The Riverside Company, in 2013. So Bohemia Interactive doesn't deal anymore with the military, even if they might still have contact in the military, since they have developed military simulations.
I don't believe that many people are using K-fold cross validation at all with deep learning, as the computational overhead is massive.
Holding avoids triggering capital gains right?
This is totally a drive by comment - but random street view shows that graffiti seems to be a popular past time in this town:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@-41.1389439,-71.3092729,3a,75y,2...

I'd say the kids are bored.
O(n) total world energy expenditure on Bitcoin scales to O(1) transactions, so it currently only gets worse as more energy is poured into the system for the same transaction output.

There's a few solutions proposed:

- off-chain transactions (Lightning Network) - unknown complexity

- increased block size (Bitcoin Cash) - O(n) -> some larger O(1)

- a different consensus system (proof of stake blockchain, distributed proof of stake blockchain, Tangle, etc.) - varies

It's possible that the Bitcoin ecosystem will adopt one of these solutions in the future, but there doesn't appear to be a silver bullet right now.
Pure speculation and IANATL, but it seems like ~$1000 is where the IRS starts caring about fraudulent activity.
Inline ASM can't be verified either.
I am sorry but your example of 32 character password chosen at random is not less secure to brute force. There are 95 type-able characters on qwerty keyboard. That's 95^32 possible possible passwords or about 2^210. Compare that to an AES-128 key. That's only 2^128 possible keys. So a truly random password of such length is harder to brute force than AES-128.

The real reason is passwords are weaker is first and fore most people. People reuse passwords or choose ones that are too short or simple that brute force becomes possible. If passwords where chosen at random and of proper of length they can be equally as strong as a key. Further, passwords basically functions the same as a key symmetric cryptography. People just don't like to memorize long random strings. (Although many apply key stretching since passwords may be of lower entropy).

Second when it comes HTTP it really only supports basic and digest authentication which is based on MD5, and further is susceptible to offline brute force attacks, and a down grade attacks to basic without TLS.

Thusly, most websites just send your password over TLS. However, because each site basically can handle passwords however they want they can store them in plain text. Secondly, if your TLS sessions is compromised you sent the password over over that connection it can be compromised. Sadly, the browsers don't support J-PAKE which by the way has an RFC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_Authenticated_Key_Exc...

I guess my point is password authentication can be just as secure, and really they are just shared secret crypto-systems. Problem is people choose low entropy passwords first and foremost. So just generating a key and saving locally avoids that issue.

Websites (HTTP) can use client X509 side certs as authentication and this gets rid users choosing bad passwords. However, if browsers implemented J-PAKE you don't have to worry about accidentally visiting the site via plain text will comprise your password or a comprised certificate authority. You could always validate the certificate yourself since we don't have something like J-PAKE in place.

For SSH long passwords can be just as strong, but you must verify the fingerprint matches your servers else you may get MITMed. Although if people see a server with SSH using password logins. They may try to brute force the password which may be annoying for the system admin. So the system admin enables key based authentication stop people from trying. Even though you have a high entropy password and your not worried about a brute force attack. The attacker does not know that so they will try anyways.
Serverless is the future. But I doubt FaaS is. FaaS has a place, especially around latency-insensitive or bursty event handlers. But to suggest that it will replace any traditional server is pretty farfetched.
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This is great advice, especially as the conviction rate (and prison rate) for tax offenses is pretty high:
https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/curren... Although note that if you ever can try to fight the IRS in another court (e.g., bankruptcy); it's the only time you'll have a fighting chance. But you really do have to be in the right -- if you're just avoiding taxes and they decide to prosecute, prison is not unlikely.
> Except in the case of Nano, the vast majority of the tokens are in control of the owners

Do you have evidence of this?
I think you are right, by law any other security or commodity or group would normally disclose any known profits or interest made.

It's a capital asset and you must disclose any realized gains or losses on a cost basis. And long term and short term gains rates apply.

The only difference here is that unlike a stock, I can go sell bitcoin on the street and it would be hard to trace.

IRS will have to go after exchanges or somehow get savvy enough for people to post proof of ownership on addresses to show they didn't liquefy their holdings or deal with those who said it got stolen...etcetera

I mean, I understand people don't like paying taxes, but laws in 2014 made it pretty clear you need to claim for crypto in the US. Some will argue that the feds don't make your local coin shop file if you pick up silver all the time in small batches, but if you went and sold 50k in silver to the shop, you better be ready to claim it on your taxes. (unless it sank on your boat of course)
The ugly truth is that proof-of-stake systems, at least current ones, give up decentralization properties. Users with the most funds (stakes) can effectively validate and rewrite the blockchain. Or in the case of a network split, the 2 chains can no longer be merged (because they implement "safety" mechanism such as preventing nodes from rewriting more than X blocks.)
When they make incorrect claims on what Net Neutrality is, or say blatantly false things that benefit the telcoms, then you can't blame one for thinking that those people are shilling.
> A proper value comparison would be 'cost of all audits caused by this regulation' vs 'benefits gained from mistakes found by it'

I don't think accurately captures it and is certainly not fair to the customers. The cost is not from the same source.

Let's say audit cost per year is $100, and savings per year is $100:

If they choose to forgo auditing:

Citi: $200

Customers: -$100

If they do auditing:

Citi: -$100

Customers: $100

It's apples and oranges. Regulation is about the customer and societal protections, not the protection of the company's profits. If a regulation is sound in terms of need but too expensive for a business, we shouldn't do away with the regulation altogether.

As with your post, this isn't defending all regulations or that specific parent argument, just pointing out that the cost on the company being regulated versus money saved is not a valid metric for deciding if a regulation is needed. The regulation accounts for many more intangibles such as fair customer protections, and again, is not aimed at the value of the regulation for the company being regulated, though a regulation that causes a needed private business to be unprofitable is likely not sound.
See my comment below. I think that must be it.
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> If you think that's "just cover rent and expenses" money, how do you think the people you buy coffee, food, or anything else from live??

Since 2000, mostly through consumer debt. Wages have been stagnant in the face of increased cost of living; you can get financing for literally anything these days. Walmart dropped their layaway program in favor of pushing credit cards. Aaron's will rent you furniture for low monthly payments that add up to 5x the retail price. You can even take out a loan specifically to go on vacation.

$85k was worth a lot more in 2004 than it is now. It's still a king's ransom in rural/middle America but it doesn't get you far on either coast anymore if urban proximity is a requirement.
Thinking about it, part of the reasons music labels got big is for economy of scale when mass producing CDs for example. Of course, such economy of scale was not needed anymore with the move to digital distribution. This didn't work well with the current debt-based economy where shareholders depends on stocks always going up for things like retirements and companies treat people as "consumers" to be extracted from. I assume that Hollywood has similar problems, right?
GMO BT bacteria gets in your gut, kills your flora, releases toxins (pesticides). Your body struggles, serotonin levels decreases. You can't sleep, get depressed. Your doctor prescribes SSRIs. It interferes with your reproductive system and quality of life.
I guess this is going to be a thread where tax victims soothe their recently-bruised egos by voicing support for the persecution of others.

Please, don't be the crab bucket.

(But yes, it also isn't very bright to reveal one's identifying information to eg Coinbase and not expect this to happen. /nofriends)
Urban Dictionary has prominent offensive definitions for most entires; it's not a great source for what you're trying to demonstrate.
I’m guessing Bitmain can’t pay for electricity with BTC.

Are there estimates of how much (fiat) money flowed into cryptocurrencies in the last year? It would have to be much more than $4B for Bitmain to be able to sell $4B worth of BTC and still see the 1000% gain.
Absolutely. I think if other countries want to be inspired by the US, they should look at its constitution.
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So will a well-written Electron app like VSCode. It's not like Java hasn't had the exact same challenges leveled for decades because people wrote bad code without thinking about resource usage.
Ask HN: How do you suss out very hard but solvable problems?
I spent some time today discussing Elon Musk, the old PayPal crew, and how to get a nose for very hard problems that can, nonetheless be solved (advancing the art and establishing or furthering a business) with an old technologist friend of mine, who's been writing a book. While we agreed that "intuition based on experience" is part of the answer; we also settled on a few rules - I hope y'all can add a few more or poke holes in these.

1) How long since the problem has been seriously revisited? If your queries about new ways are dismissed with facile contempt, but no details and no examples and no specific journal references then maybe nobody alive or active in the field was around when the issue or technology became "settled." When Elon entered the rocket business, it had been an Oligopoly for a long time; many problems, such as how to form aluminum into a fuel tank other than by milling a huge chunk, hadn't been revisited in a couple of decades and more.

2) You hear "If it were possible somebody would have done it already" repeatedly from the "experts." This means "Even though this is my field and it would be an obvious advance I've never spent a second thinking about this." Which is odd, and suggests 1) is true, at a minimum, or perhaps that prevalent unconscious assumptions that have never been explicitly stated or tested, have decided the issue, at a maximum.

3) The question is just outside the understood boundaries of any current common field of expertise. Experts, we know from research, wildly overestimate their competence when considering questions bordering on their genuine area of expertise or outside it.

4) The topic has become disreputable, for reasons that are more coincidental than evidential. A highly publicized accident, fraudulent research in a similar area (that actually provided no evidence one way or another, since it was mere fraud.) Etc.
Ask HN: Have you ever written a virus or prank program?
Have you ever written a program for a prank (or worse)?
Yes but this is related to the legal basis for the claim, just because there are people who may have committed fraud, doesn’t give the government carte blanche to request any more than they’re legally entitled to obtain.
He's almost right! The Erlang VM (BEAM) will soon replace all the things :) (See Grisp: https://www.grisp.org/)
That’s the relatively easy part. There’s also a lock-in with all the integrations as you probably need to have some sort of persistent storage and all the other managed services helping to cope with the complete statelessness.
I've had friends audited for not declaring cents of interest they earned when their landlords placed security deposits in savings accounts...
There have been some fascinating steps taken towards that direction, e.g. [0] and its related work. There they take the approach of transferring input images back and forth domains (think, a street imaged in summer transferred to its winter manifestation and back or a synthetic GTA image to real-world and back are the examples in [0]). Doing this while simultaneously holding the semantic content of the input unchanged with a GAN-type strategy seems to be a way to coerce the neural net's internal representations to capture what we want them to instead of idiosyncrasies of the dataset.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03213
You go online, read a comment on HN that gives you a hint of what happens. It goes against your confirmation bias, you get triggered, you down vote. haha sorry
Ooof — for folks looking for a solution to their crypto tax problems, check out a service like https://www.cointracker.io (full disclosure: I'm working on this product)
The background - Thiel, Musk, etc have said that PayPal trained them to create other billion-dollar companies by forcing them to solve tough problems that could, barely, be solved; part of which was a training in discriminating between very hard problems that could be solved if you smashed yourself at them month after month, and those that couldn't be solved.
I’ve been feeding both of my dogs this for years. They love it!

We rotate between the yellow, purple and red bags (forget the names). The dogs favorite seem to be yellow.

We get it from Chewy.com. It’s the same price as my local dog kennel that carries it.
I don't see an aarch64 or arm linux distribution for VSCode.

https://code.visualstudio.com/Download

Java works now. VS Code doesn't. Neither does Atom. Or any other Electron app. ARM is a pretty popular arch these days. They might want to work on that.
In that sense, any 3rd party API, e.g. Stripe, or whatever, is "serverless" from the standpoint of the developer using it, but I doubt many would think of it that way.
> Where Apple provides overwhelming detail about their best security systems (file encryption, iOS, iMessage), they provide distressingly little technical detail about the weaker links like iCloud encryption.

Sounds like the author missed Apple's BlackHat 2016 talk. It goes into lots of technical detail on Cloud Key Vault.[1] Well worth watching -- and a very cool implementation of a secure backup system designed for "adversarial clouds".

It's pretty cool how it retains end-to-end encryption of your keychain while also backing it up to untrusted clouds. Basically it employs Hardware Security Modules that limit recovery attempts to 10 tries before destroying the data, thus protecting against backend brute forcing and allowing you to use your relatively weak device passcode to encrypt the backup. And here's the kicker -- they put the HSM firmware signing keys in a blender so even an adversarial government can't force them to modify them.

Update: I guess he did watch the video (he previously wrote a whole post on it). So I'm not sure what he thinks is missing, or maybe I misunderstood and he's only complaining about non-keychain data encryption.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U&feature=youtu.be...
Eclipse feels dated, but IntelliJ is quite possibly the best IDE I've ever used. The Android tooling can be a bit of a beast (until I got 8 real cores it often gave me 1990s style concurrency issues), but the IDE itself is simply superlative. It leaves me wanting for nothing.
You're underestimating how much things have changed in the last 30-50 years. Manafort knows how to use common Office programs like Microsoft Word and Excel. There's a pretty good chance that he's even somewhat skilled (by his standards) with Excel or at least that he's experienced. He may have understood from reading about it in the past that document files can save a history of changes, and he knew to some extent the difference between a document and a PDF.

None of that means that he actually understands what is happening behind the scenes. Odds are good that his college exposure to computers was limited to Hollerith cards used for registration.

Put differently, Manafort is from the generation that indents in word processors by hitting space 4-5 times.
Original PARC Smalltalk implementations had 32k (16b) word heaps (object pointers were 15b + one tag bit distinguishing SmallInteger and everything else). You could write quite complex systems with just that.

Edit: this is true for the canonical ST80 VM described in Blue book, ST80 VM on Alto AFAIK had some indirection mechanism (ie. not 32k words, but 32k heap objects) and did paging.
Curious to see if they remember Portuguese is also spoken in Europe, Africa and Asia, and isn't quite the same as in Brazil.
>Choose the path you think will be best for you.

I'm not going to defend his phrasing, because it isn't clearly written. However, this is not what he is saying. He did not know if the job was a better or worse option than grad school. His point is to pick the option that provides for more flexibility. With a job, your options to change to something different 3-4 years down the road are limited. With a PhD, you have many more options open to you (or at least, the flexibility to create those options).

He took a gamble and is writing about how it worked out for him. If you have doubt, I can assure you I know people for whom taking that route ended up worse. Especially folks who went to a school like MIT for their undergrad.

>I read more intellectually stimulating bullsh*t on the back of a kumbucha bottle at lunch. But mix in the letters M, I and T and people suddenly think he's tall engineer Confucious. We as the tech community need to think really carefully about who we choose to idolize and what that says about us.

I see no indication that this is getting posted to HN due to his MIT affiliation, and you are essentially attributing intentions to people, which is almost never a good route to go. I do not see anyone here idolizing him. In fact, to be honest and blunt, most people I know who idolize him are non-achievers (sorry for the judgment!). Finally, and this may get me into trouble, the implication that the tech community should be uniform and consistent in who they idolize and who they don't is the most troublesome to me. I sincerely hope the tech community never becomes a community so easy to characterize.
This is good to see for Coinbase users.

> A common piece of feedback from customers is transaction fees for sending Bitcoin on Coinbase are too high.

For example, around $2.50 for a 1:1 send last week or so. This is on top of the cut they take for purchases.

Clients that implemented SegWit were able to charge much lower transaction fees (~$0.15 for confirmation in 20 minutes -- less for longer waits) for the same kind of transaction.
No, Capitalism itself is rigged against good honest people.
Nice find! These guys have a picture that looks like the tower:

http://www.swaggartbrothers.com/project/10000-year-clock/
You should consider expanding your source of news beyond naturalnews.com.
In traditional accounts the brokerage would send a 1099 form to the customer and the IRS. But Coinbase doesn't do that for some reason, so the IRS is suing them to get the information. And for some reason the IRS initially asked for more information than they need, so there was some legal wrangling to narrow the information. It's like both Coinbase and the IRS are trying to make things more complicated and scary.