skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But many states that ban gambling already have lotteries, so the two aren't as clearly linked as you think.

This is a non sequitur. Banning lottery competitors certainly would be "promoting" the lottery.
It indexes pages you visit, it does some MITM/Browser snooping but at least it's not intrusive enough to do SSL stripping.
This analysis is tremendously racist. period.
Ramanujan had such an extraordinary life that you don't even need to tell anything about mathematics to make it interesting.
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I don't get something : if this is an algorithm who determines the outcome of a match, it is really easy to fix a match. What is preventing it ?
Will not work in the USA, poor black people buy new German luxury cars and live in dumps. I don't understand.
Life is special because it's complex. Modern human society on Earth is the most complex thing in the history of the known universe. Complex things, though, tend to be very fragile.

(paraphrased from David Christian's "Big History" Great Courses lecture)
> In Guatemala it is rare to see people who are very overweight, but it could not be more different here

The woman quoted is correct, however Guatemala is semi-unique in Latin America for being lower on the obesity scale than most countries there. Obesity is generally just as big of a problem across Latin America as it is in the US, with Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, El Salvador, Belize, Panama, Uruguay - all ranking either fairly high or very high on the obesity scale. I'd be very curious to know what separates Guatemala from its neighbors Belize / Mexico / El Salvador, which all have serious obesity problems.
> “People would argue that it’s a victimless crime, and it’s not,” said Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, who has successfully prosecuted several gambling rings with Mafia connections. “Those who participate in it often use threats and intimidation.” Profits from these illegal rings also fund other criminal enterprises.

Funny. Likely, the ONLY reason the Mafia and threats and intimidation and shady deals and violence are involved is because it's illegal. Legalize the activity, and all that goes away overnight. MGM Grand and Caesars replace sketchy-web-site.com, and VISA and MasterCard replace paper bags full of cash. Lots of parallels with the war on drugs here.
This stereotype, ironically, is mostly upheld by lower income white people who stereotypically consume large quantities of ... fried chicken.
I see this quite often even with mid-quality content providers.

They're selling content for around £25 - £30 per 500 words but you have no idea who actually wrote it. The results are, at best, bland but otherwise reasonably well written.
I think that those van were (are?) mainly for show - http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detector%20vans.htm
In short, the entire nature of how information is published and monetized.

There are numerous problems with the current ad-sponsored publishing systems with web content, but some of the more interesting ideas we're looking at deal more with the professional publishing industries around photography, music and books.

We were very excited to read this report from the Berklee School of Music that outlined a system very similar to what we've been building!

In addition to the aforementioned benefits, a compre- hensive, accurate database of music rights ownership information would provide a platform for new technol- ogies to be applied in potentially game-changing ways. We encourage the investigation of the use of emerging crypto-currencies, such as Bitcoin, and their underlying technology, Blockchain, as new royalty-distribution mechanisms for the music industry.

...

A database of accurate rights ownership information, like the one we have proposed, could form the founda- tion of a similar cryptocurrency log. In addition to rights ownership information, the royalty split for each work, as determined by a mixture of statute and contracts, could be added to the database. Each time a payment is generated for a given work, the money would be auto- matically split according to the set terms, and each par- ty’s account would instantly reflect the additional reve- nue. For example, suppose a song is purchased from a digital music store, such as iTunes. After the store takes its cut, for ease of demonstration, we will hypothetically assume the revenue generated by the purchase comes to US$1.00. This money would be split between the two different works contained in the song, with a 9.1 cent mechanical royalty going to the musical work, and the remaining 90.9 cents going to the sound recording.

Next, if the contract between the publisher and songwriter specifies a 75/25 split of revenue from downloads, the publisher would receive 6.825 cents and the songwriter would receive 2.275 cents. With an identical split at the record label, The label would receive 68.175 cents, and the recording artist would get 22.725 cents. The block- chain network could also further divide this 22.725 cents between the members of a band, if applicable.
This entire process would take place in less than one second, allowing all parties to access their money immediately after it is generated. Further, this payment system is fully trackable and would ensure that royalties are not held by third parties, such as labels and publish- ers, before being passed to the artist and songwriter. This would eliminate concerns about accidental or intentional underpayment of royalties. - Fair Music: Transparency and Money Flows in the Music Industry, p.27-28

https://www.berklee.edu/news/fair_music_report
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Aren't they crackers instead of hackers?
When I got my TiVo a few years ago, you could buy a lifetime subscription. I think it was about $300, which seemed pretty reasonable. I've had the unit for almost 4 years so I've definitely broken even on it.

They still seem to offer a lifetime plan, but now it costs $600. That's a bit harder to justify.
> "I suspect cable TV is actually on the rise here, but can't find stats to back that up."

Here's one recent report about Virgin Media (the main cable TV provider in the UK)...

"just 5,100 new TV customers were added as revenues fell by 3.3 percent to £234.7 million"

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/mobility/4g/virgin-media-say...
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Url changed from http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/10/how-one-of..., which points to this.
I think you're right, and furthermore note that low income jobs in the US rarely come with health insurance (until very recently), and also were lacking in paid sick leave. Some of these jobs will even fire you for taking unpaid sick leave. On top of all of that, although health clinics do exist which operate outside of normal working hours, the quality of care appears to be worse.
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"It just wouldn't be useful for anything."

It is useful for something. It's just not useful for problems that require a high degree of specificity. And not all problems do; in fact, some are hindered by it. (For instance, focussing on individual atoms won't really help you do politics.)
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I've been antenna-only for 6+ years now. My first antenna cost $60 and was OK. After a couple of years, I replaced it with a $100 version that is much better. I rarely ever have any issues with it.
My biggest issue with all the investment in blockchain-derived technologies that aren't cryptocurrency related is that it's hard to apply proof-of-work systems to real world problems. How do you incentivize people for mining blocks? How do you ensure you have enough distributed computing power, so that a single actor can't take over the entire network? The company using a blockchain to track diamonds is a good example. Do I get diamonds for mining blocks? Then what's the point? Companies like Everledger claiming to run a "private blockchain" are only using the word as marketing bullshit, because that effectively becomes a centralized database/linked list.
> Do you have the same opinions for stock market investing at your house?

Look at Uli Hoeness, former manager of FC Bayern. He fucked up big time with leveraged deals, lost all his gains and had to pay taxes on gains which no longer existed, netting him a stint in jail instead.
Of course not.

Shuffle a deck of cards. If you did it properly, the new arrangement is unique. No deck of cards has ever been arranged like that before, and none will ever again, unless you deliberately preserve it.

I just drew a scribble on a post-it note. Nobody else has a scribble quite like it, or ever will again, after I throw it away.

Every time a snowflake melts, something beautiful and unique is lost forever.

None of these things are special, unless you're using a really weird meaning of "special".

You can say that they might be unique, but they're sufficiently similar to other things that they might as well not be - but what distance metric are you using? You're using one shaped by your own values, which say that one human is special even in the presence of another seven billion humans, but that one snowflake is unimportant in the presence of another seven billion.

It might be that rareness is a prerequisite of specialness. It's not the only factor.
So look for Teslas?
There is a whole library around this and similar techniques in Boost. I've used it before on several occasions. It's quite nice, although it somewhat lays a trap, in the sense that CPP really should be your metaprogramming technique of last (or second-to-last) resort, so it remaining difficult keeps your incentives in line. :)

I've never used Chaos PP (the predecessor of Boost.Preprocessor), but IIRC, it enables even more cool stuff at the cost of reduced portability (Boost.Preprocessor contains all the hacks to work on broken preprocessors, while I think Chaos takes more of a "fix your preprocessor" approach).

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_59_0/libs/preprocessor/doc/i...
Interesting paper (https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf) and lots of good references!

Inspired me to write a little tool to download all referenced pdfs from any given pdf: https://github.com/metachris/pdf-link-extractor
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Yeah, it's just goofy. But feels ... overused?
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Agreed. That's a very law enforcement specific view which is unsurprisingly circular logic.
I think you missed my point. If the purpose of increased taxation on vices like cigarettes is to dissuade people from a particular activity, that goal is missed once the taxation become a profitable venture. The government becomes reliant on the vice and risks switching into a promotional mode.

Raising money to treat smokers is all well and good, but I'd rather see fewer people smoking. If a government becomes reliant to the tax revenue it risks becoming as addicted to cigarette use as the people it was once trying to stop smoking. Such traps are what separates vice from other pleasurable activities.
I've trained myself to mentally block those on Quore, like I've trained myself to mentally block ads.
We changed the URL from https://theintercept.com/drone-papers to the first article on the list, which begins by introducing the series.
You don't need to involve Objective-C to use a C API in Swift. You can call C functions directly in Swift and wrap them in a nice Swift API.
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I'm about a third through the book. I like a lot of the content but I do not like how Vance ties most things to Musk's ego - even when they are hardly related and seemingly would have barely crossed Musk's mind at the time. He often seems to intentionally paint a darker picture where the facts don't warrant it.
It's popularized (il)legal gambling, you don't understand it because you aren't justifying an addiction to yourself.
BTW you've pretty much explained the thought process of everyone who gambles at anything regularly.
I wish I could find the article, but they showed that neighborhoods with check-cashing stores were lower income than those without. No mention of the others. Although I suspect bail bond offices aren't a reliable indicator of economic stability; they're more likely to indicate proximity to a courthouse. In SF, they're all on Bryant St by the criminal court. The area is slightly sketchy for obvious reasons, but the houses/condos there are probably not cheap. I've lived in 4 other cities and the majority of bail bonds places are within a block of the justice centers.

Anecdotally, I live in San Francisco and have lived in two neighborhoods. One was midway through the process of gentrification and the other is in its final stages. There were many remittance/check-cashing outlets in the former. I live in the latter now and there are 7 coffee shops within a block of me; no chicken joints at all. And the closest check-cashing store to me is about a third of a mile away on Market St.
What are your memory settings for utilizing the 360GB RAM with ElasticSearch?
Yeah. It kind of reminds me of photography: when people just get into it, they tend to be obsessed with all the different gear, until 20 years later they are content with a simple manual view-finder camera.
Discussion on the previous blog posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9090525
Mr. Betteridge has retired.
> Aside from whether their technology actually works or not, the central premise that cheaper, easier and more frequent testing will improve outcomes is unproven. There are many potential downsides.

This is an excellent point. Nevertheless, it's very hard to convince patients, and the public, that more tests do not lead to better outcomes. Think on every time there are revisions to the recommended screening criteria for breast or prostate cancer---it's good evidence-based medicine, but there's an outcry from the public every time.

In addition to your considerations of more testing being invasive and expensive, I'd also add that overtesting can lead to interventions that present a non-minimal risk to the patient and ultimately increase M&M.
You're low margin, "high risk" in their opinion. They kicked me off too, I tried appeals and that was just a waste of time. On PayPal for last few months, no problems. Switching was easier than fighting.

Maybe Patrick (Stripe CEO) will respond here. He has for the last few Stripe complaints.
It's mentioned in the article that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA) this was tacked onto a must-pass safe port bill hours before adjournment for 2006 elections. It doesn't go into much detail. From wikipedia:

"... the SAFE Port Act (H.R. 4954) as passed by the House on May 4 and the United States Senate on September 14, bore no traces of the Unlawful Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act that was included in the SAFE Port Act signed into law by George W. Bush on October 13, 2006. The UIGEA was added in Conference Report 109-711 (submitted at 9:29pm on September 29, 2006), which was passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 409-2 and by the Senate by unanimous consent on September 30, 2006. Due to H.RES.1064, the reading of this conference report was waived."

The legislative branch is broken.

I was a professional poker player at the time this bill was passed, and it caused a lot of pain for a lot of people. Players' funds were frozen (and a lot of professional gamblers kept essentially their entire net worth online at the time). If you want to learn more about that story, there's an excellent documentary called "Bet, Raise, Fold (2013)". Many of my friends from that world who were also into sports and sports betting have now moved over to professional fantasy sports betting.

It kills me that it makes exceptions for the brands of gambling in bed with the Republican party (NFL, horse racing), and was passed without an actual vote. A friend of mine who works for the casino lobby told me that it would have been included, but because American casinos were late to the game (by 2006 the industry was dominated by two companies: one started by an Israeli group and the other by some big-name professional poker players from the USA) they wanted those companies to get squeezed out of the American markets first, so that they could come mop the industry up themselves (which hasn't worked very well, beyond some state-specific cases).

My opinion on policy is that prohibition is the wrong approach, but that maybe there should be some type of regulation to protect people with gambling problems from ruining their lives. There absolutely needs to be regulation about making it clear how much of your bet is being raked (the bookmaker's vig). Many online casinos intentionally obfuscate these numbers and are able to run absolutely insane margins based on the fact that many people don't understand what they're paying to play.

On the other hand, I don't hear people clamoring for regulation of Day Trading, which is exactly the same.
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Illuminati??
No, the prism leaks show that the NSA had access to data. It is often implied by various commentators that the access was facilitated by the companies, but there's no evidence to support that.

The evidence about companies cooperating with NSA on mass surveillance came out in the first decade of the 2000s, e.g., http://www.salon.com/2006/06/21/att_nsa/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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Only if they are open late at night. Last time I was in London there wasn't much after a certain time.
The telcos (AT&T, Verizon, etc...) were cooperating, but that also fell under existing wiretap laws-ish and was known-ish. There had been rumors about it for years, there have been photos of mysterious governement vans of equipment showing up at sites, special locked rooms, etc... Those companies also haven't denied it.

However there is none of that for any of the other companies listed under Prism. Later leaks from Snowden suggest that the companies listed in Prism did not know they were part of Prism (places where inter-dc traffic was being spliced, that sort of thing).

Also just practically speaking with how fast companies rise & fall in this area doing this on a per-company basis wouldn't scale. Like when would you expect the NSA to approach, say, WhatsApp? Or Snapchat?
"Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

FWIW, I think the problem with some of your comments, including this one, is that they're too dismissive. It's fine to make substantive critiques, but if the substance/dismissiveness ratio gets too low, people treat those as bad comments.
>> "No, because nobody would do that..."

This is literally the most breathtakingly naive comment I have ever read on HN.
> Likely, the ONLY reason.

No way. People who enjoy shady deals and violence will likely find a way to enjoy life despite their circumstances.

I also bet illegal enterprises run more efficiently.
I suspect you're mixing up cause and effect. Individuals drink at home alone because they have a drinking problem not the other way around.

It's true if you outlaw drinking and gambling etc then there are people who would become addicted that never do because they never have the experience. But that creates all sorts of other issues (organized crime, corruption, higher costs for those who partake thus destroying lives more rapidly) Best to make it legal, tax it and ensure you take those tax proceeds to try and offset the costs.
So you'd rather have a middleman coercively distribute funds or amass more debt, and take some of the funds in overhead, rather than be able to direct your money where it's deserved, especially in an age when you can use the internet to set up payments and research deserving institutions? If you abdicate responsibility -- the poor are some distant entity's problem -- you are not being virtuous. By the way, it's not ONLY billionaires that can help with the needy. Your time is also valuable--for example, you could visit some lonely elderly people in a nursing home. If you pay it forward, people will help you out when you're in need. Your friends and family become your "social safety net."
Just make something like a usb Rubber Ducky with a couple buttons and a screen. Plug it in, scroll to password, hit "type it", and it types it in. Could probably make one for about $40. Arduino Leonardo, LCD Shield, and the leonardo keyboard libraries. Could even have it as a full password generator too.
Android prototype

You can't start a startup on Android because you've got to purchase 500 devices for validation.

server-less backend that will scale once we gain traction.

You can't use peer-to-peer on Android because of device fragmentation unless you want "Google Nexus 2015 Devices Only" social networks.

by turning our POCs into MVP's.

Wrong way around. Users first, refine, iterate, grow.

I'm based in Atlanta, GA

Move to San Francisco.
I don't know about the writer in the Philippines, however I was in a similar situation as the writer in Brooklyn earlier this year when I signed on with a content provider while I was in between gigs (not the same one that the writer in the article works for).

After submitting my initial writing sample, I was given a writer grade (from 1-5, with 1 being too horrible to get any work and 5 being perfect). Your writer grade influenced what open gigs you could accept- higher number gigs were more technical, wanted better writing, and were more long-form. You could pick from gigs in an open marketplace setting, and gigs varied wildly. Some companies were obviously trying to set up a website for SEO bait with gigs rated at a 2 posting for thousands and thousands of 100-word blurbs with a different topic per blurb, typically paying about $.50 or less per blurb. Other companies actually wanted content like blog posts or a re-write of info that's already on the company website. Frequently writers using the service would set up relationships with clients directly instead of going through the marketplace, and there was a handful in the short time I was there who accepted gigs writing 100K-300K long form pieces for companies (technical manuals, training manuals, documentation, etc.)

While there are definitely content farmers utilizing writing services such as the one that I worked for and the one mentioned in the article, it can also be a great way to contract out content creation for new companies or getting someone to re-write and update existing content. It's a lot easier and cheaper to go through a writing company to get a copywriter for a temp gig than it is to go out and hire one, or even go to a regular temp agency since good writing is such a specialized skill.
The substance of the article is quite interesting, but the headline and premise--that it was a computer program and not humans who found the result--is ridiculous. The computer program did not collate and index the raw data and notes. The computer program did not choose the relevant inputs from the sum of all knowledge. And most importantly, the computer program did not write itself.

Software is a tool that humans create and use, not an entity in itself. Even if you think true AI is near at hand, this article describes nothing of the sort.

Houses are far easier to build with saws, hammers, and nails than by manipulating wood, earth, and metal with our bare hands, but that does mean the tools built the house.
I 100% understand why the zoom is on that top header image but holy hell, that is god damn annoying. I had very little interest in checking out that service just based on that poor experience.