skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say that you, zem, are an expert player and you have entered a roster into DraftKings Million Dollar contest.

I, swanson, am an employee of DraftKings and have access to your lineup and/or data about all the other lineups entered. (* This is speculation)

I, swanson, then use this inside knowledge to make my own lineup on FanDuel (I am not allowed to play on DraftKings because I work there). I win big money on FanDuel.

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The results of the NFL games are not the inside information, but rather the game theory-esque information about the decisions made by other parties in a zero-sum game. Knowing which players the elite top 1% players are playing is an advantage. Knowing which players appear in the most (or least) lineups is an advantage. This data is only available to insiders (employees of the companies), so that is where the "insider information" analogy is coming from.
This doesn't really make sense. If that arrangement had made legal sense for opiates, marijuana, etc. it would have made legal sense for alcohol. In fact it was perfectly legal to distribute, purchase, and use those in numerous places through at least 1914, when the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act passed. Even that Act attempted to finesse the issue by limiting imports rather than just outlawing the substances directly. The Volstead Act didn't go in for such half-measures, because it had the backing of the Constitution. Neither Harrison nor any of its successors could say that.

Frankly, I was mostly attempting to engage with mason240's rather strict legal philosophy in a way that would cause most strict constructionists some discomfort.
No. The middle class in the US and other highly developed nations is hurting, but by any global measure, this group of people is actually relatively wealthy. The global middle class has experienced an unprecedented level of growth and prosperity over the past 25+ years. Of course, this has in many cases come at the expense of the first group.
"Government can't do anything" meme tends to be pushed by organizations that actively want less government.

The sort of groups that listen to people like Grover Norquest who said: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

While there is a lot to be said about the idea of efficiency in government it isn't the same as wanting to burn our infrastructure down.
That sounds great! I am trying it right now...

FYI it's here: https://github.com/alols/xcape
aha, looking up parimutuel betting made it a lot clearer. thanks!
Hyperbolic discounting is rational when the availability of resources increases exponentially, as it often does for products that catch on.

A company that comes to market with a product that is useful but buggy will attract the attention of venture capitalists & other investors. It will receive user feedback from its existing user base. It will find it easier to hire top talent. It will be able to use collected data to make better products. All of these factors are in proportion to the company's size, which tends to make growth rates exponential.

It's pretty standard practice in the tech industry to bring a buggy, barely-working product to market; use interest in that to raise money; use money to hire engineers; and use the engineers to fix the bugs. You could even look at this as a net benefit to society, as long as existing customers would rather use the product in its buggy, incomplete state than go without it.
The US Constitution is, without dispute, constructed as a whitelist of enumerated powers for the federal government along with a blacklist of prohibited actions that constrain even those enumerated powers.

You can't really understand many constitutional debates without understanding this core formulation of the U.S. Constitution.

Attempts to interpret the whitelist in such a way that it effectively becomes "allow anything" is a good way of understanding the criticisms of expansive federal programs.

Similar attempts to minimize the blacklist portion is a good way of understanding the criticism of expansive police and military programs (i.e. war on drugs, war on terrorism, etc.)
In the data. Advertising, etc..
I want to learn more about Galaxy's security hygiene. I also want to learn more about what reasonable steps Galaxy is taking right now to ensure our data is safe after we `meteor deploy`.

Are they compliant with any security accountability programs like FEDRAMP/FISMA, ISO 27002, PCI-DSS and HIPAA?
I agree, even shutting down compute/cost-intensive features (i.e. the actual functionality) and leaving the login screen open might prevent a few people from losing work.

Then again, if the code is mirrored on github/bitbucket/whatever, then the risk of data loss is minimal and the product is actually all functionality.
The advantage is in knowing what percentage of football players are started by the entire pool entrants. This information is released once that particular game is started (e.g. % start for NY Giants players would be known to all at 1 PM when their game started and % start for Denver Broncos players would be released at 4PM when that game started), but was known ahead of time by those who worked for the company. While these %'s would not be exactly the same between Fan Duel and Draft Kings, they should be close enough.

How does this all help you win? You can get an average return in a tournament (e.g. buy in for $10 and win $15 or $20) by playing high point, low variance players (safe bets), but to win big, you need to play high variance players (e.g. the wide receiver who will probably score 4 points, but might score 20-30 pts if they have their best week of the year). That said, if everyone plays the same high variance player, you will be beat by or end up tying with many other players. So, if I have two high variance players that I think may have a good week, one who is owned by 8% of teams and one who is owned by 1%, I am better off playing the 1% player who will put me ahead of the field if he scores big.

Edit to add information for those that aren't familiar with daily fantasy:

Each player gets a salary and you are working under a salary cap that prevents you from making a team consisting entirely of "studs" (the top players at each position). If salary cap is 10X, then the average salary on your team needs to be X. A "safe bet" like Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers will cost you close to 2X. So for every safe bet you need to pick a long shot like Tavon Austin (who Yahoo tells me was owned by 1.4% of daily fantasy players) with a salary just over X/2.
You might want to think more about what insurance actually is.
> "That all sounds like science fiction, that can't happen in the real world."

Tell them that the mobile phone they have in their pocket also seems like science fiction - and it was 20-30 years ago. Now it is science fact. Facial recognition is getting the same way.

If anything, based on all the shoddy movies that 'zoom in, enhance' with photos, the public should be primed to accept facial recognition quite easily.
I suspect that it's not Amazon directly changing the price, but some of the other vendors, and Amazon matching. Other sizes are offered at prices up to $85 at both Amazon and other vendors.
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I can buy that.
You probably also know plenty of people who have mustangs, or chargers, or italian sports cars. There's always going to be some folks who just want to play with power. None of them make any sense from a marginal utility point of view.
One of the investors in FB held a previous position at the CIA's investment company.

https://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture...
This reminds me of some of the early websites I built. I always enjoy looking at early personal creations.

Tips:

• To prevent "button dancing" on hover add an invisible border to the buttons when you are not hovering –> border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0);

• Keep building more!
Why not create a second account for work under your real name?
American progressives can be just as guilty, if less organized. They tend to view big business with suspicion and incorrectly think that the American government is hopelessly corrupt and in the pocket of "Big Business and/or Wall Street".
TPP was just signed, could be 'biggest global threat to the internet'
Thanks for this. Financially, I could survive quitting before securing a new job. That said, I have told myself I will hold out for the 12 month mark, for credibility.
You just described exactly how student loans work in New Zealand. You have a special tax code "addon" SL, which means you pay a little bit of extra tax, which goes towards your loans.

Only major difference is, death & bankruptcy release you from the loan in NZ...
> If you don't hang around questionable people ...

Who is questionable and who defines it? Gay people were "questionable" for most of history; they would lose their jobs if discovered (that was still true in the US military until very recently). What about Muslims, overtly discriminated against in many places? Poor people? Latinos (someone might suspect they are illegal immigrants)? etc.
If I thought I had such a proof (and I expect the proof would be complex, relying on many leading-edge pieces of wildly different branches of mathematics, and therefore comprehensible in the short to medium term to but a few), I would first see if I could develop a practical implementation of the proof for a well-known NP problem, test that out, and see if it worked.

If so, I would have that reviewed by trusted colleagues. ("Hey, buddy, I have a P space solution to travelling salesman!" "Get outta town!", "No seriously..."). That would at least demonstrate that the proof works.

Next step? Well, there's a bit of the responsible disclosure argument at play: If P=NP and you have a practical implementation of a P-time algorithm for an NP-complete problem, translating that to another will be less work, I should think, than the original proof or the original implementation...

...meaning much crypto would break soon after publication. Give the proof and the implementation to 100 well-known and trustworthy mathematicians from around the world, have them agree to your disclosure strategy, then announce what you've got, with their backing, and tell the world that you won't publish for 6 months. Or 12. Whatever.

The Fields Medal will wait.

That will give the world time to adjust to its new reality.
Wow, that's pretty harsh. Regarding the depression. I have started taking medication, which has a lead time to effectiveness of about 6 weeks. I'm about 4 weeks in so hopefully things will pick up soon.
Unclear, but our EU customer was satisfied by using the EU servers.
If you can point me to someplace that rents 1 ton pickups with 5th wheel hitches for short-term (1wk-1month) rentals I'll be very grateful.
Given sufficient commerce, any virtual market will replicate every flaw of real-life markets.
> defenders of

> everyone who doesn't seem to get it due to youth, lack of experience, very privileged life, complete inability to empathise

> huge lack of life experience informing opinions

> immature opinions

That comment was very mature.
That's what my understanding is, although there's a lot more informed analysis in this thread now.
And the only reason he can act like that without consequence is because he's Linus. Anyone else who tries to mimic him (and they do, often) will see the conversation quickly spiral into hateful comments and insults. There's never a good reason to not be civil with someone (stupid or not).

While we are on the topic of stupidity... Do people really believe there are that many "stupid" and "arrogant" people contributing to Linux? Seriously? Because, ya know, FreeBSD doesn't seem to have that issue. Odd... Maybe there's something else going on. No?
Reminds me of this similar article on the global decline in violence: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2...
Arguably they cheated the players of the other site... As the employees were (rightly) banned from playing the site they were employed by.

That said they acted on knowledge not everyone would have. Similar to inside trading, but not the same due the unregulated nature of these sites. I'm not exactly sure what laws that would bump up against, but definitely most important to these sites who are trying to build consumer trust.
Intents are one of the things I've always loved about Android. I set Hangouts as my default application for phone calls and spent the summer traveling with data SIM cards in the countries I lingered in. I was able to make calls anywhere in the world for about 1MB per minute.

It worked well enough abroad that I signed up for T-Mobile's $30/5GB plan when I came back to the US. All my phone calls are routed over my data plan, and none of the apps on my phone need to know that to keep working correctly. I can open Yelp and tap Call in a restaurant listing to make a VoIP call in Hangouts just as easily as someone on a traditional plan can with the Phone app.
Sounds like it might have been a fluke - like a windlass day on the rode to success.
if you are a non muslim it is illegal to enter mecca under saudi law.
I wonder how this relates to Web Intents, a similar Google project from a few years back:

http://webintents.org/
A bit of background on the Glossip case (from PG): http://pg.posthaven.com/the-case-of-richard-glossip

If we can't stop the state from killing a person known to most likely be innocent, it makes me wonder what hope we have with genuinely complex issues such as gun violence.
Y Combinator's Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]
When money buys political speech, I don't think you can call the other side "just as guilty".
Show HN: Go Checksum Performance
What Is the World's Actual Lowest Hanging Fruit? (2014)
I couldn't find any correlation to inflation. I put in $2.00 in the calculator, and the millions of people in poverty came close to doubling.

Maybe I'm missing something?
> if Facebook is a utility it's also expected for everyone to have it.

How so? I am in no way required to live with running water and electricity in my house. Even things that are tangentially related, like my workplace requiring me to bathe and wash my clothes occasionally, don't require me to have the equipment to do so in my house.
The US has not ratified (and will not) the treaty that would make them subject to the international criminal court. There have been many things the US has done that may well be war crimes but they aren't subject to independent oversight and will never be prosecuted.

I think the theory being that the US is a democracy and that the people of the US hold their government to account to do the right thing. Therefore the US can be trusted to prosecute crimes it has committed itself. Assuming the US media isn't manipulated and the government doesn't hide anything etc.

Democratic allies from NATO, Canada, Australia and others are subject to the ICC. Its another instance where the US seems to be out of step with the rest of the "western world" and exposes itself to criticism.
Inspired by the Search key in ChromeOS, I've been mapping Caps-A to "Quick Open File…" and Caps-S to "Command Palette…" in Sublime for years. It's wickedly convenient.
Another big secret, is that the source of a lot of poverty being lifted is because of China. That's right, that terribly communist government suppressing its people and free speech, is actually responsible for lifting 500 million people out of poverty over the last 30 years. That is definitely a big secret of american media, and something that it neglects to report on, in favor of free speech violations, naval exercises, ip infringement, and "job stealing".
The conceit of the article -- borne out by economic history -- is exactly that: it's the reduction of efforts to centrally plan, and the rise of entrepreneurial, capitalistic efforts to advance, that has reduced poverty. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/deirdre-mccloskey-...
[2] https://ricochet.com/perhaps-the-most-powerful-defense-of-ma...
Corporations dissolve all the time. Do you have something else in mind when you say they cannot die?
What? I can see the prices of players on DraftKings and other sites as a player. That "internal pricing model" is public knowledge.
Wow, thanks for the reply! :)

> decompiles it into machine code

...this was the part my eyes started getting big...

> very carefully injects new security features directly into the decompiled app

...and this was the part I had a small jawdrop moment. :P

> This allows adding security features like data at rest, analytics, etc.

_Wow_. I think I suddenly get the rationale behind patenting.

Hah.

* Reads link *

> Mobile app wrapping is able to provide the same level of security as device management and even takes it a level deeper by securing the app itself and inspecting that app to know what it is doing and if it contains any malware.

(Italics at the end mine)

After an admittedly short look around, I've concluded that you seem to be focusing entirely on enterprise-controlled system-/app lockdown.

To me, the technical accomplishments you've achieved to make this possible provides a massive opportunity just waiting to be fulfilled: a new, unique approach to mobile antivirus. It wouldn't be for everyone, but I can totally say that I'd use it, and a lot of technically-oriented "tinkerers" would probably love some of the introspection and analytics your system provides, in an antivirus context. :D

I suspect most of your existing tech could translate across really easily - and that the effort you make to make antivirus better will also translate across into even better lockdown heuristics.

Granted, I don't fully understand the platform, so I might've missed a point somewhere, but I still think this is pretty amazing tech. Thanks for the info! :D
That works only when the quality of the libraries and frameworks are high. When they are crap, you just spread the pain around and you've made things worse.
> Though personally, I find the whole concept of this type of multiple identities weird. Why should I present a different identity at work than I do in personal affairs?

Most people act more formally at work than they would otherwise. It's the same idea.

> And if your boss objects to your weekend parties, then (unless we're talking PR-heavy industry, you being in the spotlight) you should consider changing jobs. Caring about such issues is as sign of serious problems in the company.

If you have a secure job, or are important to the company, maybe.

Many younger people are not so secure in their jobs, however, or live in a highly religious area, or both. A Facebook user still dependent on their strict parents could also be ruined by a stray pic.
I'm a bit confused about that as well. What's worse is that the background papers that the world bank website references seem to all 404:
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTDEC/EXTRESEARCH/...
http://cvdazzle.com/

I don't know how well obscuring facial features will really work. There might just be too much information. Partially obscured face, body dimensions, clothing, location, time... I think it might be a loosing battle.
It's a thread about PHP on Hacker News. Even if there were no comments at all it would still reek of negativity.
You're right - I was assuming the pollution controls would only result in a lower fuel economy. On the other hand, degrading the car's performance to improve emissions is the opposite end of the spectrum. Since fuel economy versus performance provides an entire spectrum of tuning options, it will be interesting to see exactly which trade-offs they make in the ECM's code.
One of my favourite types of humour is the unexpected development.

This made me LOL. Would that I could upvote more than once.
I came here to ask the same thing.
Taking in consideration they use the US$1.25/day measurement since 1981 [1], today this value should be US$3.28/day [2] (based on US inflation between 1981 and 2015).

Given that, I'd love to know the real value. Maybe it is still a positive perspective, but I think it'd be more realistic (or, at least, accurate). :-)

[1] http://iresearch.worldbank.org/PovcalNet/index.htm?1

[2] http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
I hope DraftKings and FanDuel followed the advice of a post on HN a few days ago [1] and made (i.e., didn't re-invest) some money along the way. Something tells me they're going the way of online poker in the US very soon.

[1]: https://medium.com/@dhh/making-money-along-the-way-did-dropb...
Facebook harvests a mountain of data about you when you use the new Messenger app. I swear the only purpose it has as a separate app is to be far worse than they think they can get away with the main Facebook app being.

It's probably from the messenger data that they correlated your proximity.
Further, none of the cited sources seem to be past 2008...
This would be more persuasive if you told us what your prescient Syrian acquaintances think, and how that contradicts TFA.
I think the average American is going to be shocked in the next couple of years when the rest of the world passes us by. The technological capability of developing nations has increased rapidly. Our rate of technological progress is slowing down. For example, Intel is having difficulty scaling down process technology past 14nm while the fabs in China are catching up at 28nm.
Looks nice, any idea what the cost was/would be?
Welp, democracy was nice while it lasted.
When I put $2.00 into the calculator it only showed me 2011. Maybe I'm missing something? I wish they would elaborate on the calculations on the site
you're playing on words. If you add someone on facebook, it's because you know them.
I have a question that's off topic from the TPP/TTIP debate. I have another friend that is interested in this topic. Do you think it's possible to create a computer parsable Domain-Specific Language for legal documents? Or maybe to cover a certain subset of legal document types?
SmartOS on a home server (2014)
A White Hat Virus for the Internet of Things
Apperently it started at $1, was raised to $1.25 in 2008 an now they are planning for $1.90 which'd likely skyrocket absolute poverty numbers.
Right. Currently runtime.NumCPU tries to be fancy by looking at the population count of the cpuset mask[1]. However in a hosted environment using containers there's no reason to believe that the cpuset will remain fixed over the life of the process. This can undercount the available CPUs, leaving you with a GOMAXPROCS that is too low.

1: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse/src/pkg/runtime/t...
Can't wait to try this out. I've been using Disqus on my Jekyll + GitHub pages blog and I don't like it much. I changed the URL of one of my posts once and it was a huge pain to get the comments migrated over.
The language is typically vague, if there is any. POSIX also notably never had anything to say in regard to cpu affinity.
Wow, thanks!

You've definitely given me some awesome ideas with this. My implementation is likely to be slightly different, but your links are an awesome start and will definitely come in handy.

I'll likely take a while to get to actually implementing my idea (>.>), but I think it'd be cool to share my implementation when I (finally) finish it. How best can I get back to you in perhaps a month or two?
Node.js Denial of Service Vulnerability