skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modelling for the purpose of "betting" is sort of the definition of my day job.
Over the past few years I've started applying some of the same techniques we use in the equity and bond markets to the fantasy sports arena.

The biggest issues I've come across are:

1) small sample size, football teams only play 16 games which means you really don't have alot of data to use.

2) counter party risk, lots of fantasy betting sites spring up and then fold, just like bitcoin. Ideally there would be a new form of prediction market that hosts bets but has a reliable third party escrow the funds.

3) Not enough volume, this is getting better but only due to Draft Kings huge advertising push this past year.

4) Lack of apis, most of these sites seem to want to cater to people who make 1 or two bets. Ideally I'd be able to make 1000's of bets each week.

If anyone else out there is working on models for fantasy sports betting please feel free to drop me a line if you'd like to discuss techniques for modelling( I believe the cool kids now call this machine learning).
different VCs in biotech, not the same as the software ones we discuss here usually. isn't YC also dabbling in outlandish areas?
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It sounds like he read the contract/offer and that it wasn't at all like he had previously discussed with the recruiter.
Seriously TPP is everything this year even a video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPP
> Lies

I've been in the Dublin market for a couple years and the amount of bait and switch they do it's unbelievable.
In London, recruiters and real estate agents appear to be interchangeable. The bullshitter ratio is off the scales.
Google book-scanning project legal, says U.S. appeals court
Still, I imagine it would be better to forget the 2MB page load issue, and drop frames/colors/resolution to cut 50MB off the video size.
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You treat the law as if it was a whole body rather than a bunch of individual things.

Willfully choosing to ignore the speed limit has no impact on the rest of the law - that law is ignored because it is widely seen to be broken, inefficient, and nothing more than a vehicle for unjust profit.

Coincidentally, the same negative descriptors apply to copyright in 2015.

This is not D&D, we do not have character alignments. I am not giving up some imaginary karma and slighting the deity/concept of Justice and Good Order by choosing to ignore a subset of non-beneficial laws.
It (and the Cisco and Microsoft mentions) might be a case of Red Hat showing that Ansible can configure what their customers use. As web developers, we have haproxy and nginx for load balancers, but at financial firms 'F5' is synonymous with the term. Disclosure: used to work at Red Hat.
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I've had cheap (~$100) burr grinders and still got too much dust in my ground for a proper-tasting espresso. Bought a Nuova Simonelli MCF (back when they were $350 instead of $600) and the commercial-level burrs and worm-gear infinite grind adjustment made my espresso incredibly better. Details on features of a grinder like this:

https://www.seattlecoffeegear.com/nuova-simonelli-mcf
From the comment in the thread it seems people are not aware of Kobo readers… They are great hardware-wise and the default format is standard epub. You can find everything in this format, create your own books with tools like Sigil, convert from other formats with Calibre, etc.

Please stop conflating ebooks with the crappy format of one vendor.
The guy who built Google Maps just raised $30M for his Office-killer app
Essentially, as long as I am able to pay a decent price for content without them telling me how I can consume it, I'll do it.

If the price is too high I'll wait until it comes down and not pirate it (see: waiting for a game to be cheaper during a Steam sale).

If the company tries to control how I consume the content in a way that is illogical or very inconvenient, I'll get it by other means or just avoid it altogether. Examples:

1. Rick and Morty is not on Netflix, so I'll watch it on Popcorn Time.

2. Rockstar games have horrendous DRM attached, even with Steam, so I just avoid them altogether. I purchased the GTA bundle and GTA IV simply does not work due to DRM. EA and Ubisoft are the same in this boat for me.

3. Apple requires the use of Safari to view their live streams, for no valid technical reason. So, I don't listen or pay attention to anything during their keynotes. At the office, headphones go on. From my perspective, they don't want me as a customer anyway, so there's no point in giving them any mindshare.
I think that's an exaggeration.

That scenario could easily play out. However, if the employer genuinely has no connection to the candidate (other than having received their CV a couple of times, in different incarnations) then I don't see why they wouldn't pursue the candidate without the recruiter being in the loop.
I don't know the article, but there are many sources for the individual claims, e.g.:

* Denver is at 5,130–5,690 ft (1,564–1,731 m) [0]

* The boiling point of water at this altitude is between 201 and 203 °F; at sea level it is 212 °F [1]

* "Your brewer should maintain a water temperature between 195 to 205 degrees Fahrenheit for optimal extraction. Colder water will result in flat, under-extracted coffee, while water that is too hot will also cause a loss of quality in the taste of the coffee." [2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_cooking#Boiling_...

[2]: http://www.ncausa.org/About-Coffee/How-to-Brew-Coffee
I think one thing to keep in mind about Ansible is that it's an orchestration tool that also does configuration management. We've integrated Ansible into our workflows in such a way that it kicks off everything we need to do, even if that involves just coordinating some info between APIs.
We don't mutate containers at all - merely get Ansible to make things happen around their deployment and communication.
Fascinating article. Long read (I'll be honest, I skipped the middle bits), but the conclusion in interesting.

This was the tl;dr for me:

"Some things we’ve learned over the past 30 years – that novelty is more important than quality; that if you’re not disrupting yourself someone else will disrupt you; that entering new markets is more important than expanding existing markets; that technology has to be evangelized, not asked for by your customers – may no longer be true. Almost every company will continue to be managed as if these things were true, probably right up until they manage themselves out of business. There’s an old saying that generals are always fighting the last war, it’s not just generals, it’s everyone’s natural inclination."
Saltstack is moving away from ZeroMQ. https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/releases/2015.8....
Because the weight is hidden behind the visible page content, which had a different size. Page weight is the sum of the sizes of the resources used to build the page.
From personal experience, the "interested in" setting results in messages from old friends you'd never have bothered to actually come out to as well as different dating app ads in the sidebar...
The founder of toky built his startup in Mexico City
Internet Titans and Weak Trading
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gdb program core

Assuming you compiled with -g, this might or might not be useful.
The same nothing that does not stop the companies actually seeking their own employees also does not stop 300 recruiters from copying their posted text, stripping out the original company-identifying information, and re-posting.

The noise added to the signal does make it significantly more difficult.

So rather than searching a central repository of job ads for opportunities specifically relevant to you, you have to visit individual company websites, find the "careers" or "jobs" section, and look for leads in a thousand different places.

I consider a no-recruiters policy to be absolutely essential for a job advertisements boards now. Everywhere else, you have to filter out key phrases like "recruiting", "our client", or "resume in Word format" just to find anything useful.
Festering piles of globalist shit, such as this, don't just disappear. Everyone deluding themselves into believing TPP isn't going to withstand the "scrutiny"(I think we can all agree I'm using this term VERY loosely) of partner nation's respective legislative bodies needs to take an HONEST look at geopolitical history. They didn't negotiate this deal for 5 years, cloaked in secrecy, to let a little thing like feigned democracy stop it. The era of (somewhat)open access to information and free speech that we've enjoyed in North America seems to be drawing to a close.

I realise this is a very cynical comment, but I honestly don't believe even a sufficiently motivated populace would have any recourse at this point.
chin up - it was funny, and behind the humour is some truth, irrespective of whether you find its delivery in poor taste
Yes, as much as it pains me to admit it, even PHP
> "Oh. Okay. Well, do you know anyone who's looking and might be interested in this role?"

this is the part I actually hate most. I'm not gonna do the recruiter job, especially not for free.

they have to get over themselves and stop thinking they are giving out 'opportunities' like they are modern messiah
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Evgeny Morozov Interview with Il Manifesto
The article suggests the same mechanism is used for danger perception. When REM sleeping you enter a state of deep paranoia. If you are conscious at the same time (what we call sleep paralysis) the fear is almost unbearable and you start hallucinating extreme danger and evil around you.
Meanwhile, I consider two LinkedIn hits in the same month to be a lot. :/
>This is very suspect and very hard to believe

Here is my blog post on that elections [1]. It's in Russian, so please use Google Translate to make sense of it.

>without it being widely documented

It is widely documented. Now what? There is no such thing as "class action lawsuit" in Russia. The only two entities that can file a lawsuit are candidates (because they are directly harmed by fraud) or public prosecutors. The former are filtered [2], and the latter one don't care. So what exactly can be done with the documented fraud?

>The suggestion that there are enough police to watch over tens of thousands of polling stations

All polling station have at least one policeman during voting day in Russia (at least in big cities). There are about 700 000 policemen in Russia, so there are more than enough to handle this.

>logistics challenge of such an endeavour

What do you consider a logistic challenge? There are a lot of police stations in Russia, it's not like they're all concentrated in a few places. If you mean the logistic challenge of the fraud itself, it's also pretty straightforward: the biggest part of county's funding comes from Moscow, and it depends on election results. Incentives for local authorities are here, combine them with deteriorated social institutes and all branches of authority fused together and you get widespread fraud without much coordination.

Heck, just look up Chechnya's voting results, with 99.59% turnout and 99.89% of votes for Putin [3]. It's just plain impossible in any electoral situation. Nothing is done about it, guess why.

[1]: http://si14.livejournal.com/23943.html

[2]: you need to get an absurd amount of signatures to become a presidential candidate, and even if you manage to collect them, they can be easily dismissed by some anonymous expert as "forged" ones

[3]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/world/europe/fraudulent-vo...
An actual course (with credit) for this? I disagree.

You don't need a prep course if you actually know the material. The problem is that, when pursuing a CS degree, you play academic whack-a-mole over a 4-year period, and students forget things because they do not use that basic skill often enough.

I suggest that Universities require a continuous, 0-credit course that requires students to flex their CS skills and keep them fresh.

A good analogy would be my BM in Piano Performance, in which we were required to pass 8 (eight!) semesters of a 0-credit class. This class had requirements including performing every semester in front of other students, attending other's performances, local and out-of-city concerts (symphony or opera, at our own cost, usually 2-3 hours of travel each direction, on our own time), testing over general music knowledge and terminology, etc. We did this every semester! Basically, it was the long thread of practical involvement throughout our musical education. (I laugh at CS students who think attending a Hack-a-thon should be worth extra credit!)

CS should be similar. The problem is that there is no unifying theme to keep students grounded and fresh in the skills relevant to their vocational future. Students do little projects here and there, using code that nobody else will ever have to see or work with, and that they themselves will abandon after a few weeks. They don't spend time on anything long enough to learn the ins and outs of a language, paradigm, or code set. They don't have to re-write and redesign the same API three times in order to make it more powerful or flexible.

I will state it again, just to be clear on my stance: You don't need a prep course if you actually know the material. Period. If you say that your students need a prep course, then you are not teaching them correctly. (I'm not saying that the educational content is lacking, I'm saying that the pedagogical approach is flawed.)

(For more context: I don't just have a music degree. I also have a MS in CS, and am in my 3rd year of PhD work in CS. I plan to be a professor, so this is actually a subject that I am very passionate about.)
That may be due to the pairing agreements, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_(parliamentary_convention...

They generally benefit the smaller parties more than the larger (since any missing member has a larger impact there), so it's in their interest to uphold these agreements.
They also mention the Citrix NetScaler further below that is a competing product to the F-5, so I guess they where not paid anything.
This would have very negative effects though, as the brain dumps waste during sleep. If industry/military regularly would force people to be awake, who knows what would happen to their health? Mental illness rates for Alzheimer's, Dementia, &c would likely increase.

Pretty certain it'd be handy in certain military situations. But I could also see easy abuse in industries like computer game design. Imagine if EA could force you to stay awake to shorten their deadlines.
tl;dr OP shows you what a core dump is and how to parse it.
The problem with #1 is when you get fired for not building anything sophisticated and your teammates get promoted to replace you, because they built something fancy. Unless you manage to take credit for their work. Externally imposed politics is what kills the team.
Oh, I meant senior execs at the funded company, not the VC partners.
If they bet, and that bet stops the attack, then they won't make anything, right? So where's the motive?
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It's common in the US, sure, but it rarely works. It's not that we don't all know a few people we'd be glad to work with again, it's that they're mostly happy and well-compensated where they are. Offering me an extra few grand isn't going to change that, and it isn't nearly enough to make splitting it with the candidate a game-changer either. Occasionally someone you want will be available during a bust (which often means during a hiring freeze, too) or under some unusual personal circumstances, but it doesn't happen often enough to make up for attrition much less grow a team.
> it's too early to know what it's impact is going to be

Consider the legal threat model:

Team A: hundreds of industry lobbyists have years of online
access to TPP drafts (i.e. change history).

Team B: government representatives have physical access,
but only in a secure room where they can take no
notes/phone, and cannot bring their expert staff
to interpret complex legal language.

Team C: public advocates (e.g. US Copyright Office) are
effectively excluded from the process.

With this legal threat model, there is reason to be cautious of charitable interpretations of proposed laws which emerge from the TPP's imbalanced development process, as we try to interpret the text without the benefit of draft comments or git/change history.
A statistically insignificant amount.
I am very familiar with the Dowling case. However, I assure you the definition of theft does not come from a case from 1985, the common law definition has been around quite a bit longer than 1985. There were a few issues on appeal, but most likely what you and GP are referncing has nothing to do with theft but a conviction under 18 USC 2314 which was over turned because the counterfeit goods in question being transported across state lines were not physical goods, and the court found there must have been a physical taking. This is not about theft, this is about 18 U.S. Code § 2314 - Transportation of stolen goods, securities, moneys, fraudulent State tax stamps, or articles used in counterfeiting, and under that very specific law of transporting goods, not theft, there has to be a physical taking.
> Facebook isn't my friend

Why do you still use Facebook?
Yeah, it turned out 1 million of them was a dude that used the college computer lab without logging out.

I know hacker news is for serious conversation but the stats behind this link are so dumb I don't think they deserve it.
I wish the article had gone into more detail about what the verification process is like.
That sounds great! I'll definitely look into it, as I still get many requests for Drupal developers.
In 1999 if you bought a CD and scratched it, your choices were buy another CD at full price or not listen to the music that you "bought the rights for". If we were buying rights the whole time then we should have been able to take scratched CDs to the record store and got a new copy for free or deeply discounted. Record companies/Hollywood didn't start claiming this rights crap until Shawn popularized separating content from physical media. If piracy is "just fucking theft" then every broken CD, tape, ... that record companies refused to replace is theft as well
It sounds just as bad as New York City. I'm getting my UK settlement visa within the next month and will be back on job market, definitely not looking forward to this!
I'm in the US, actively looking for work, and this rang VERY true. These guys can be relentless, with ethics and tactics a professional spammer would admire.
For the banks, the real crutch is the mental/precedence crutch of - buy back your equity and go back to running things as normal, and if the system fails we'll bail you out through nationalization yet again, so for now you can continue to operate under the taxpayer-shared-risk assumption.

Using preferred stock was intelligent design in a micro level, but at a macro level the incentives and risk/reward profile constructed by the bailouts and liquidity injections is completely perverse.
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Look, even this article is titled "controversy". I personally have a videofile from my own polling station, where you can hear loud and clear true results of the voting, and then look up "official" results with 20%+ difference. It's not even a controversy here, it's a wide scale fraud in broad daylight, and not even one official was persecuted for this.

I understand an attraction of reiterating how corrupt America is, but it's not even close here.
Thanks for the response. Admittedly, I've never seen one first-hand, so perhaps that'd change my mind.
So he can point at his FB friends list and prove that Facebook isn't in it.
The problem is that in recruiting, it's not "a few jerks". It's 99.99% utterly incompetent recent business grads. The 00.01% of recruiters that are labeled "competent" are actually still pretty bad, but they at least know that you won't find 15 years of Go experience and can at least half-tell when someone is BSing (perhaps because they actually spent a small amount of time coding themselves).

Out of the dozens of recruiters I've dealt with over my career, there was only one who was semi-competent. The article makes it sound like it's even worse across the pond; instead of incompetent doofuses, the tech recruitment industry populated by out-and-out fraudsters. I've met a few of those here in the US, but they're by no means the majority. Though I have noticed a trend among tech recruiters in the US that has really exploded in the last few years: hire traditionally attractive young women and call them "tech recruiters". The more recently they've departed their cheerleading squad, the better. This seems to be the primary qualification at a lot of US tech recruiting firms recently.

Probably the reason the competence of recruiters is so low is because almost anyone with the skills necessary to discern a good coder from a bad one can probably at least kinda code himself, and would rather do that than sales.
At bottom, its not about respecting 'copyright'. Its about respecting authors. There's a system in place so they can dedicate some part of their lives to creation, and get compensated for that. To flout that system because complex moralizing disrespects authors, right at home where it hurts - their compensation.
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A grapevine starts with one. Recommendation systems, as well as the plain old web, are just scalable grapevines. If a new product is good, people will quickly hear about how good it is from actual users. As opposed to from you the biased (and often motivated to mislead) seller.

So how do you bootstrap your good product into the grapevine? A variety of ways, depending on what it is. Sending samples to reviewers. Announcements on relevant websites (such as HN). Making it available in catalogs and product search engines (Amazon, an app store, Etsy, Orbitz, etc) where people will encounter it in search results.
> Users are willing to accept a massive spike in convenience and utility for the drastically-less-than-1%

They're usually not willing, just feel helpless and like they don't have a choice. They don't know they have a choice. They are also frequently unaware of what Amazon can do:

https://www.epic.org/privacy/survey/
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As an aside, is it not fraudulent to lie in this way? For instance, altering resumes without permission, or promising a perk and a salary which the recruiter does not know exist or apply.
I'd agree that jinja2 has a perfectly fine way of handling loops, but the problem is that functionality only works in Ansible template files.
The Ansible playbook can only make use jinja2 filters to act on variables:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_filters.html
As a general rule, I replace "on Facebook" with an empty string, and it usually improves the clarity of the original sentence.
I hope that mpdehaan2 is getting a good chunk from that sale, he really deserved it. He not only made it and built a community but he was very active in the discussions on HN, blog & Gist comments etc.

Even though I'm looking forward to using NixOps/GuixOps, I'm a very happy Ansible user both in personal projects and in the company I'm working for.