skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've suffered gambling problems. Of all the times I've gambled, Casino's hurt the least. I generally had the most fun, lost an amount I was in control of and didn't feel too bad afterward and generally was in good company.

In a Casino, at some point you have the cold hard cash in your hands. This makes a big difference. Secondly, there are lots of barriers in your way, for example maximum withdrawl on debit cards, actually having to queue up for cash for the nth time as supposed to just clicking a button, actual time to mentally prepare (you need to get there, plan your money - it's harder to 'impulse' gamble from location x) etc etc.

Stock market by far was the most damaging, and the most exciting especially when you get into leveraged forex plays or options. The big barrier here for joe public though is the order of magnitude higher complexity to actually make a gamble over an easy to understand proposition (like a horse).

For now stock market gambling is probably OK due to it's general inaccessibility, but there is a big move into making it more accessible: so called "Social trading" for example.

The platforms are significantly more accessible to average punters who I believe are going to increasingly start using these services for gambling, because these places are actually thinly disguised gambling houses. The spreads they offer are ludicrously expensive, the promotions they offer are aggressive (and borderline scam), and the marketing message sucks people into a false sense of security about what activity they are actually engaging in. This is in my opinion the big danger in the future. It's hard to lose your house at a casino in one go, or with online poker. Plausible to lose your house in one single bet gone wrong in Forex/Options and the social trading platforms look pretty and friendly.

'Social trading' in my experience and opinion is pretty damn irresponsible, and is executed pretty damn unethically. What benefit the offer society and their users I've yet to see apart from getting a nice adrenaline fix.
>Do you have a recommendation for further reading on this? (Specifically, the brain influincing the gut, not vice versa.)

Try:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2982.2008....

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/14603941_Stratakis_C...
I found it interesting that the sort of golden rule of freelancing was in play even for a content farm writer in the Philippines: charging higher rates results in steadier jobs.
I am sure you are quite capable of clicking the link and reading the items under "Content issues" on your own.
Yup, no argument there. They've converted that talent into a significant advantage for their platforms.
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Let's not assume the worst here and consider the intent/effect is to effect influence on public policy toward his philanthropic or otherwise closely held goals.

It's possible he may not be Lex Luther, _lex.
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What are the problems with existing services that you are attempting to solve?
>>So Curve25519 is pretty much rock solid unless (a) someone discovers genuinely new math or

After the NSA news happened , schneier said the math is safe , saying/implying you can trust Diffie-Hellman. And now it's not secure. So how can we be so sure of Curve25519 ?
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> “That’s just proven to be a loser of an approach in a lot of other domains,” Mindell says. “I’m not arguing this from first principles. There are 40 years’ worth of examples.”

Well, that's the problem. Everything the author says is supported by the last N decades in engineering. That argument is so flawed it is astounding that it is coming out of someone from MIT. In looking at his bio it seems he has dedicated quite a bit of time to teaching and researching the history of engineering. It might just be the case that he isn't fully up to date on topics relevant to automation. Does he have an up-to-date CS/AI background? How about computing or chip design?

Saying that automation has failed to deliver in the past N decades is like the Wright Brothers saying "let's not bother because powered flight has failed to be developed in the past N decades". That is not how engineering works.

Today hundreds of millions of people have phones in their pockets that are orders of magnitude more powerful than the computers decades ago. We have better, smaller, cheaper sensors of all kinds. We have accumulated knowledge in relevant CS and AI fields. Today we have cars that can actually drive themselves to various degrees under their own computing power (without having to communicate with a supercomputer in a building). And this is just the beginning.

Fully auto-drive cars will happen. Of course, they will retain the ability to be human driven as well for some time, probably decades. There are many reason for which that makes sense. I am fairly confident we will get to the point where the average self-driver will be safer than the average human driver. All you have to do is point at a teenager behind the wheel. Commutes will be shorter (due to driving efficiently using data) and safer and, with electric cars, healthier (you won't have to breathe the crap coming out of all those exhaust pipes).

Besides, think of the wasted potential of millions of people staring at a road for hours rather than doing something more useful. If you commute one hour per day you'll get back 250 hours per year.
Yes, you're right. My point is that some people deny that it's even possible for them to do anything to help with their depression, even though the evidence is pretty clear that psychological interventions do help.

I'm not saying that depression is easy to fix, or the person is to blame for it. I'm just saying that factors such as lifestyle, thought processes, etc. influence anxiety and depression.

(edited to better reflect my point)
Update: Parliament will hold an emergency debate on the subject on Monday. http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/MPs-hold-emergency-debate...
"Uniformed officers closed off the road, the Route de la Combe d’Ire, and forensic technicians gathered shell casings and marked where they fell and photographed the blood and studied Saad’s BMW without disturbing any of the bodies. They did this with such delicacy that they did not notice for almost eight hours that Saad’s younger daughter, 4-year-old Zeena, was alive and physically unharmed, hiding beneath the folds of her dead mother’s skirt."

I'm not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work, there, Lou.
Bad analogy. There's a lot more to learn from a failed medical experiment than a failed build.
Previously submitted twice with no comments each time (but I think it is a cool article as well):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385399
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5462445
There are countless altcoins with the same or more advanced technology than Bitcoin, and they have tiny marketcaps. So the marketcap is provably unrelated to the technology.
Except in this case the answer seems to be 'yes' (or at least 'quite possibly').
Suggesting the use of a central server for this is like suggesting the use of gas to power an electric car. The whole point is decentralization.
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> For the most common strength of Diffie-Hellman (1024 bits), it would cost a few hundred million dollars to build a machine, based on special purpose hardware, that would be able to crack one Diffie-Hellman prime every year.

I'll just leave this here: http://fortune.com/2015/06/29/intelligence-community-loves-i...
SaaS pricing works best on business products that provide value consistently & you need to know support exists. Very few of the things I pay recurring for are for software that I use recreationally - they provide value every day (office, google apps / email, hosting, etc). The products you mentioned (adobe) is still hosted. Customer backlash today is worth dealing with long-term viability & profit. Companies that start as a SaaS will not have the backlash problem.
Working poor tend to do more physically demanding labor, so that is still correlated with less jogging.
Almost every startup blog we see on HN is a content farm packed with contrived content targeting this/similar communities and brought to us by accounts that only exist to promote themselves on HN. Some of them are regulars on the front page -

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=githubengineering.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fogcreek.com

etc
I made about €250 from €20 with a series of bets relating to Euro 2012, and that's where I stopped.

The only remaining slight interest I have in betting is possible automated "exploits". For example, some bookies will give you 1.01 odds in live betting even when the outcome is almost certain. So with a little luck and a clever algorithm, you could increase your money by 1% each time, making several bets per day.

Unfortunately, they'd ban you pretty quickly. They ban anyone who wins too much. My bwin account was locked shortly after I cashed out.
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Interesting. Do you have an example or a link to an example?
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I don't think that option is off the table. They could set up a bunch of labels, and use the Pandora platform for distribution. I don't know Ticketfly's share of the venue market, but if it's not significant then I don't think regulators would have an issue with a producer/distributor/event-organizer combo. Overall, they're still small potatoes.
> However, just based on my prejudices, I'd claim that those that do work crazy hours across three jobs typically do not need to go jogging, they get some exercise when moving from one job to another.

All the hours spent in the tube and in the bus will leave you sore and aching, but that doesn't quite suffice to call it a workout.
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The counterfeit rate of UK pound coins is 2.5%, yet you can easily exchange ten of them for a £10 note. If what you state was true, people would not be willing to give as much as £1 per coin.

http://www.royalmint.com/discover/uk-coins/counterfeit-one-p...
If someone gives a fortune away for something that deems noble, I would give it a double thumbs up even if I don't completely agree with the recipient. Myself, I would have probably directed that money somewhere else, but I still plaud Jack's initiative.

In addition to that, I've always had mixed feelings about him: yes, successful entrepreneur and apparently smart person, but I saw him in person at an event and I made my (bad) opinion about his personality. This gesture somehow fights against that opinion. I might start to like him after all.
I love the idea of using an antenna. HDTV with 5.1 surround for no cost other than a rooftop or set top antenna? This is the future! (or the past) Only one problem, what if we live in an area where we are blocked from a signal? Could a community pool their money and buy a shared antenna? (as was done in the 1970s - this is how the cable companies go their start) No. We could not. The cable companies (and others) would sue. This is what happened with Aereo. Brilliant business model that made cable companies successful, is sued out of existence. TiVo bought their assets, so perhaps there's still hope. But it's sickening how much power we've given these anti-competitive companies.
Intelligence agencies are full of smart people. They know that secrets this big can't be kept indefinitely. Once the cat's out of the bag, then the panopticon comes into effect.
They have factored in the effect on free speech into their decisions.
I also assume the same regarding the "Response to criticisms" section. There wasn't anything significant:

"there is nothing remotely identified" "that changes the fundamental conclusions about climate change."

(from the "open letter from 255 members of the U. S. National Academy of Sciences including 11 Nobel laureates")

or

"Overall the summary conclusions are considered well founded, none have been found to contain any significant errors."
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That's simply not true. One of the most, if not the most, common ways to fail an experiment is through contamination and there are at least a dozen different types of bacteria in the average lab that are brutally efficient at outcompeting whatever is in your sample and probably thousands more that are problematic at best. Once your sample is contaminated it is useless because the number of variables out of your control grow several orders of magnitude in an already poorly bounded experiment.

Even if you have the best biosafety hood with proper airflow to pull things away from your samples, even the simple mistake of taking off your gloves in the hood or wafting your hands over petri dishes is enough for some skin cells carrying bacteria to wipe out an entire experiment.
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My understanding is that stock gains are (in this case) LONG TERM capital gain, and therefore only 20% [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax_in_the_Unite...
I’ve last used Chrome around 2012, and at that time it would work after resetting the account password. In fact, I still don’t know which account password I had used.

So at least at some point in time Google did store all this data.

It seems to have been quite leaky in the past, and that doesn’t make Google any more trustworthy.

Solution: Use Firefox. Also, Firefox at least allows Cookies on localhost or other local domains.

Anyway, Google may not store any bit of my browser history in the US anyway, so I should probably go to court against them.
Could you elaborate on how it is exponentially expensive? I don't see how that would work. If 100 people are allowed to vote on a topic with this system, then one person with 100 sock puppets should be able to vote on a topic, as there isn't a technical difference.
Ramanujan was a genius, but he didn't just factor 1729 on the spot in the hospital bed. According to Wikipedia, he'd already known about it a few years before, so it was just coincidence that Hardy happened to present a number he already knew about, although to be honest, he probably knew interesting facts about most numbers below 1 million or so.
How can you accuse parent of injecting biases, when the parent was reacting to the claim of racism?
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So "those not hyperconnected" means just normal people?

I don't claim to be hacking proof since I don't control every bit of my data myself, but if someone came into my house they wouldn't find passwords in a notebook or saved passwords in my browsers
Can you touch on the Hammurapi (however you spell it) and its lack of animal food prohibition (or as far as I can remember, pork at least was not prohibited)?

> It deepened my faith but I must say most are terrified at learning too much will change their faith, which they shouldn't in m opinion.

Can you talk more about "most are terrified at learning too much"? Do people think through studying rigorously they will inevitably shed beliefs?
>she lets them into her house

She didn't need to though, they could have entered through the garage door while she was away.
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I wish I had the link, but I remember reading an article years ago (maybe 7 or 8 years ago?) titled (roughly) "Don't outsource your software development", focusing mainly on Walmart. The article described a project at Walmart where they had their software developers actually go to stores and work the cash registers for a while to develop the kind of empathy and understanding of a job to design a good system.

While Walmart labor practices definitely get a bad rap (not necessarily undeserved), I found this story very encouraging. It's kind of ironic, but having developers work the cash registers actually suggests that these developers have a very high status in the business - they are not viewed as glorified typists, or even as technically talented but limited people where it comes to business. They are viewed as people who need to understand business processes deeply and who have the autonomy and authority to act on that understanding. And from what I understand, Walmart did rise to prominence at least in part on the effectiveness of its IT systems (which enabled more efficient supply chains, in particular).

This was a long time ago (and the WSJ article certainly acknowledges that some companies have been aware of this for a long time). Personally, it took me a long time to understand how software outsourcing could ever be anything other than a disaster, and I slowly came to realize that this is because I worked in the jobs that hadn't been outsourced, that required a lot of business context.

Even then, it's been pretty clear to me at times that decision makers higher up on the org chart really don't understand what I do. Or, more cynically, you could say they absolutely do understand it, but are aware that it would take a few years for the hidden costs of their decision to catch up with them, by which point they've made their numbers and can use it to move up another rung (ie., if a highly competent software developer who truly understands the business has built robust, well documented, well tested systems, that person could be replaced with someone more limited in ability and business understanding, and it could actually be a few years before critical systems no longer effectively support the business).
I'm surprised that the "nothing complex / hack up a quick prototype" recommendation is Angular. I get that it's powerful, but there's so much deep magic inside angular [1] that I find even simple stuff takes significant forethought and wrangling.

As a substitute, why not Ractive.js? It's simple and does what you'd expect. You put

{{#each foo:i}}
<span class="{{classname}}"> {{foo[i]}} </span>
{{/each}}

in one place, and

ractive.set({
foo: ['a', 'b', 'c'],
classname: "output",
})

in another, and things just work. No messing with insanity like:

angular.element(myDomElement).scope().$apply();

/rant. Maybe I'm missing something deep here.

[1] Introspecting the parameter names of the callback function I passed in? Really?
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10392481 and marked it off-topic.
And some cons:

* Instead of writing for Linux, you write for Android. Forget about
prototyping on your desktop with plethora of debugging tools (strace and
ltrace being the most basic ones), you'll also need an emulator or the target
device even for something that doesn't talk to hardware.

* You're pretty much stuck with any brain-dead Android behaviour you hit.
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you, suck it up.
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I've never worked at Google, so if anyone at Google responds with an answer, feel free to ignore what I've written. However, I know a bit about how Google works from research and talking to people that have worked there.

It's very unlikely that you'll land into Maps or Search. Google has a, mostly, blind allocation policy designed to fill in the gaps for teams that no one wants to work at internally. That is where a vast majority of external recruits get placed. There are some exceptions, like if you're a domain expert of some kind, or quite senior in some other regard, but it doesn't sound like that's the position your in.

I don't want to rain on your parade, but you're likely to be doing work that you are overqualified for. Also, see Michael O. Church's Quora answer below, but it takes a lot of work to finally get on a team worth putting on your resume.

I don't want to be a downer, but these days just having Google or Facebook, et al. on your resume isn't all that impressive to hiring managers at companies/teams doing interesting work. If I ever interview anyone who started working at Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Facebook after a certain year, respective of the company, I'm actually going to dig into what team they were on. If they were on an internal tools team, or [insert job they were overqualified for] I am not going to be that impressed that they choose to work at Google, etc.

So, if you're doing this to resume build then I would highly suggest you decline the offer. However, if you think you have the chops to actually climb the ladder at Google, then you should definitely accept the offer. Just be prepared to do a lot of work.

sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712230

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4712230

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-Google-decide-to-mak... (scroll down to see Michael O. Church's answer)
There is a trend across the US mall food courts of Chinese quickserve shops evolving into pairs of such along side "Cajun" shops selling essentially the same food.

But still, American "fried chicken" really implies "on the bone"
Oh they have time. What they don't have is the hope that doing some small positive thing will make any long-term difference in their lives.
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It shouldn't be a problem, if you want to write something just do it!

Just avoid to write statements about things you don't know. Start your article by saying that you are a beginner and for things you don't know, give open questions instead. You can also learn one simple thing well and do a post about it, or you can try something new and write a tutorial about it with a few conclusions of your experience. For instance how to do a simple web app with React, Flux, and Node.js.

So there are still things you can write, just be open about your level and what you don't know, and write about what you learned. And even trivial things can be useful for others (like simple stats for devs, or simple python code for data scientists).
Laying 1.01 shots can be a very profitable business, as far too many people think a near-certainty is the same as a certainty. You won't last long backing all of them. If you want to try it, sign up with Betfair and share your money with the world :-)
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Why is that a problem? The person got a lot of points because people liked this persons contributions. People with more reputation should be allowed to post more.
That's pretty accurate and quite scary, mostly because it will start pulling off bio's from PornHub now instead of Wikipedia and that can never end well.
"could" my ass! Think what was literally moments away from happening when Russia actually got false news of a US nuclear strike.

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

We were one sane man away from world war 3.
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Your experience here is a bit anecdotal and might say a bit about what your frame of reference for what it means to be "hispanic".

But of course, I don't know you, so feel free to ignore my point :D

However, if you walk around the (objectively affluent) La Cantera mall in San Antonio, you'll hear maybe 1/3 of the conversations in Spanish.

About 30% of the folks in Texas speak Spanish, so if you're in Texas you're in a hispanic area by definition....what you're describing are areas where people are or aren't willing to pander to folks who aren't bilingual.

I don't know if that describes a line between affluence and poverty though. It's possible, though I'm not sure if I believe it.
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Maybe you should regulate the problem away.
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