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New comment by thomasrossi in "Leaks to WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs No Substitute for Evidence"

thomasrossi — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 10:49:55 +0000

so basically it goes like: "someone says that someone said that someone else thinks that.."

New comment by thomasrossi in "U.S. sets plan to build two exascale supercomputers"

thomasrossi — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 00:00:38 +0000

I was at a conference in Sept (actually YC startupschool:P) and there was a comprehensive speech by Rigetti about quantum computers and how much more powerful they are and how much less energy they need. In the article above it's not clear what technology they are planning to use.

New comment by thomasrossi in "Mouse lifespan, heart health extended by common chemical"

thomasrossi — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 23:54:02 +0000

if you'd like to know where to eat it, table 1 has it all :) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3022763/

New comment by thomasrossi in "Apple deepens enterprise push with Deloitte partnership"

thomasrossi — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:32:15 +0000

4 years ago, when I was working in Deloitte, it was impossibile to think about using Apple products, half of the software wouldnt work! Good to see some change, are visio and project compatibile now?

New comment by thomasrossi in "Low-income families face eviction as building 'rebrands' for Facebook workers"

thomasrossi — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:59:47 +0000

If the trend continues, could it be counter-productive also for the tech industry? Are the housing price the outcome of fair demand/supply?

New comment by thomasrossi in "Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money"

thomasrossi — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:24:31 +0000

No, I was just pointing out that 80% is not very likely and is probably some sort of bias or mis-representation. In fact it would be a great compliment for them because they would be getting consistently the opposite of the market (If they overall lose money it must be that at least on the weighted average of their bets they get it wrong, maybe one big wrong and many little right ones, or mostly all moderately wrong, etc..).

New comment by thomasrossi in "Almost 80% of Private Day Traders Lose Money"

thomasrossi — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:36:33 +0000

"80%" it's very unlikely, say it is true, you just do the opposite and you have free money. I suspect the correct overall percentage should be much closer to 50%. Finding a profitable strategy should be much more difficult than "do the opposite of day traders", right?

New comment by thomasrossi in "Evidence points to another leaker at the NSA"

thomasrossi — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:26:17 +0000

"It’s one more reason why NSA may prove to be one of Washington’s greatest liabilities rather than assets." WOW, never though I'd read that on something like Reuters, he put his foot down.. :s

New comment by thomasrossi in "Penny Auctions"

thomasrossi — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 11:52:33 +0000

In some country that kind of auction is considered gamble indeed and it's against the law (most EU as far as I know). From a Mechanism Design point of view, they are maximizing their own profit and they also expect their players to be not very rational entities and so they don't nee to use a truthful auction.

New comment by thomasrossi in "Demo.paypal.com Node.js code injection"

thomasrossi — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 01:15:01 +0000

Exquisite!

New comment by thomasrossi in "Software Exploits Aren't Needed to Hack Most Organizations"

thomasrossi — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 00:54:24 +0000

I totally agree about "[attackers] prefer to use system weaknesses over software exploits" for the reason mentioned (if you use someone password chances are no alarm will ring, if you scan every port on every possible network.. meh, you may get noticed).

I've seen a growing number of systems tracking the fingerprint of the user not only the password (e.g. salesforce), I think that is the way to go because it is very difficult to train users against every possible social exploitation.

New comment by thomasrossi in "When machine learning matters"

thomasrossi — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 01:51:33 +0000

I think the interesting observation is: if you are using ML chances are 80% of your algorithms are already published somewhere and available to all, so one should tune in that 20% of his/her own field, some field which is not a common research topic. I also think that a huge difference, once you have the same algorithmic machine, is the quality of data you collect. That is also quite differentiating, I mean, respect to your own business problem, gathering data a way or the other may really destroy or boost your ML performances.

New comment by thomasrossi in "USMS Asset Forfeiture Bitcoin Sale"

thomasrossi — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 01:42:28 +0000

It looks like they are not interested in maximum profit indeed. Maybe they'd like to be very sure about where they are going? Or maybe it is some legal constraint, like a country cannot subscribe to a consumer exchange?

New comment by thomasrossi in "The economic case for giving refugees cash, not stuff"

thomasrossi — Sun, 07 Aug 2016 14:37:32 +0000

This scenario is also quite interesting for cryptocurrencies, say at the moment you don't have the cash in the local currency, you may want to distribute a token. As of now in fact paper vouchers are also used in that scenario.

Next Generation Identification

thomasrossi — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:07:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12085465

Points: 2

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New comment by thomasrossi in "Startup Technical Diligence Is a Waste of Time"

thomasrossi — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:41:44 +0000

I relate with most of the points, also from my experience with due diligence (bought by the vc from an external consulting company) they cannot say all is good, since if it fails then they could be blamed, they cannot say all is bad otherwise you'd just need to sell once and you prove them wrong, so pretty much the outcome is always in between. That due diligence was really not worth the money spent.

New comment by thomasrossi in "Ask HN: What is the Unique Selling Point of each programming language?"

thomasrossi — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 00:34:20 +0000

Java needs to be mentioned too, it is/has been front end for enterprise databases, all around sound

A Mississippi Power Plant Highlights All That’s Wrong with “Clean Coal”

thomasrossi — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 21:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601840/a-mississippi-power-plant-highlights-all-thats-wrong-with-clean-coal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12039642

Points: 2

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New comment by thomasrossi in "The Ford Logo That Almost Was"

thomasrossi — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:34:14 +0000

I like it, it resembles somehow a car and gives a speed feeling

Almost Everyone Thinks the Pound's Days Are Numbered

thomasrossi — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 17:32:15 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-02/pound-s-paradigm-shift-not-over-as-consensus-forms-below-1-30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12023199

Points: 4

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