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The pain point for what you want there is the versioning and deployment side of things: how you update the application as atomically as possible.

I need to get Lambda Complex into real apps for a while in order to understand what is really, actually needed around the transition of the interface with other AWS resources on update of version. Currently I'm sure it's going to be a major pain to have to write some code to redirect the flow of events to a different queue, but that's still better in my mind than to try to manage versioning with a single queue or other source of events that is not included in the CloudFormation template or has to be managed as a special case during updates.

The other pain point is monitoring of the application state and clearing up after it. Lambda functions spawn infinite log groups in CloudWatch, and they don't get deleted without some sort of automation to go do that. It isn't clear to me what the best approach is at this point in time to attach monitoring and alerting to CloudWatch Logs. I'd almost rather leave them alone and primarily monitor via SQS queue attributes, leaving the CloudWatch logs for manual inspection.
This may be true for non-violent crime.

For violent crime, there is a direct correlation with black Londoners.

"In London in 2006, 75% of the victims of gun crime and 79% of the suspects were "from the African/Caribbean community."

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

This does not solely reflect lower socioeconomic standing as Pakistani + Bangladeshi communities have higher levels of poverty, and similarly poor areas of cities in Wales and Scotland do not have the same proportionate level of gun crime that occurs in London.

http://www.poverty.org.uk/06/index.shtml
Really? I cannot turn on the TV or radio without hearing an ad for government-owned gambling.

Just look at this: http://www.bclc.com/
And here is their twitter feed: https://twitter.com/bclc

That's the British Columbia Lottery corporation, the crown-owned business with a monopoly on gambling in my province. They buy ads, sell tickets, license betting venues, and even run their own online casino (playnow.com). BC is not unique among states/provinces in this regard. How can one not describe this as governments promoting gambling?
I wonder what all these people are doing.
Browsing HN, probably.
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What you're saying is scientifically untenable. For one, dietary fiber is not a macronutrient, so including that in your ratio is just incorrect. Secondly, carbohydrates are the preferred source of energy for your brain and body - the majority (80%+) of a healthy diet should consist of carbs - whole wheat like pasta, veggies, fruit, legumes, etc. Finally, even WHO recommends only 5% of caloric intake from protein. May I ask where you're sourcing your information? Every respectable medical and nutritional journal I've read recommends a whole plant-based diet, low in protein and fat, and high in carbohydrates, for optimal human health.
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I remember being told by my cable company that network channels were free of charge with internet service. Of course, they were on crazy channels I have to have the TV autoscan for. And now they're probably encrypted and I'd have to rent a cable box for $8/mo.
Who's to say it's not already happening? Could be an interesting twist on this mystery... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10391723
Isn't satellite more common here than cable? Americans get cable, we get Sky.
Doesn't stealing - technically speaking - mean taking another person's property without an intention of returning it? Duplicating someone's property without their permission is copyright infringement, not stealing. You're making more of it, not less of it.
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Most have the barber come to them or have a private barber in the building. My office has a separate room and a barber comes in every other week to cut hair.
> Plus, stating the governments 'promote the vice' is a big stretch, governments don't promote the lotteries, the companies that run them do.

Where do the companies that run them get the revenue and authority to promote them?

Just because the states outsource the management doesn't mean that they are absolved of all of the effects.
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heh, I could build a prototype for $40~$50 or so, maybe we need to start a kickstarter
Yeah, I guess I should be scared that companies I trust might be making these types of mistakes; I hadn't seen it from that angle.

I'm just disappointed that the article was about "hackers" but just talked about scams most of us are already aware of; seems kind of click-baity. They could have entitled the article "Here's One Easy Trick to Protect Yourself from Identity Theft."
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What recurring service are you notionally paying for every month??
That's shortsighted. Sometimes such practices eliminate the need for additional protocols for related tasks. Maybe instruction slips could be passed on here?

This kind of approach can be very helpful in the wild. For delivery of SMS, for example.
orrrrrr, if you watch the demo video really closely, you'll see how you can try the system out without actually having to sign up
or by getting a job!
Bookies and betting exchanges will take commission too. This kind of betting is not particularly lucrative.

Better systems involve looking for unusually high odds by comparing across exchanges/bookies, backing/laying, waiting for them to swing back into favour, and backing/laying to lock in a profit regardless of the outcome. You can back/lay to minimise your losses if the odds don't swing as much as you thought. Other systems involve backing all possible outcomes (Team X wins, Team X loses, and draw - for example) across multiple bookies such that you guarantee a profit.

A good way to start and dip your toes in the water is matched betting. Place bets at bookies and LAY the same outcome at an exchange - do it right and the net loss will be a few pennies/cents. Use this technique to syphon money out of bookies offering free bets for new accounts. How much you make is limited, but I made a few thousand doing this at university.

edit: Matched betting isn't useful only for free bets mind. You can use this techinque to take advantage of some promotions too. One story that comes to mind is a friend who matched bet on horses. The offer was that if you bet £X for Y horse to come in 1st and the horse actually came in 2nd - you get a £X free bet up to a limit of £350. He did four or five times that day. Two times his horse came second. The other times, since the bet was matched, he only made a small loss (less than £5).
Err this is about a constituant talking to their MP you can not not anonymously lobby and MP
Bitcoin is still around?

March 2013 it was worth less than $100

Currently it has dropped to $200
I prefer writing scripts to generate repetitive code. The result tends to be quite readable, it can be seen in the debugger, and you have the full power of a scripting language to build your code.
Some alternatives to voting that come to my mind:

- Figure out the real reason why the US is at war with "terrorism", and do everything to help develop and popularize technology that will make that reason obsolete. Is it because of oil? Then become a Tesla evangelist.

- Keep talking, writing, shouting about the issue, shaming and blaming everyone even tangentially related to drone strikes. It's utterly ridiculous that you can lose your job and home and have life ruined over pissing off some random feminists on Twitter or Tumblr, and yet people responsible for drone attacks are all happy. We need to turn aiding the program to be Worse Than Hitler, no matter the dronesplaining and hellfireblaming they're doing.

- Help develop counter-drone tech and make sure it becomes widely distributed among people in the affected areas. Warning: this will likely paint you as a valid target.

- If you know anyone over at Hollywood, pitch for turning the problem into a movie. Not a documentary, but a good action movie. Big productions with top actors have a way to influence public around the entire world much stronger than anything a news station could ever tell. Get a good writer for the script and make sure the protagonist personally suffered from the strikes - say, his entire family was killed in a strike that targeted them because over at the US nobody gives a shit about confirming intelligence anymore.

- Put your money where your mouth is. It's easy to talk, much harder to do anything meaningful if it costs you something, but the latter is what really sends a clear signal. Put a "do no drone strikes" clause in your software license. If you own a shop or a restaurant, refuse to serve Air Force / Intelligence officers until they get their shit together. Yes, you'll probably affect directly everyone but the parties responsible - but this is a situation where guilt by association actually works. They will be talking about you over at watercooler or shooting range. Maybe someone higher up in hierarchy will start thinking about it and push feedback upwards. Yes, you'll lose some customers to competition that won't follow suit, but you already know they're greedy cowards, don't you?
It appeals to me personally. My personal income in NYC is much higher than the average for the area I live in, and it seems to me that many younger people around me have aspirations modeled on those they see in popular media/instagram/youtube. Photography, sound production, graphic design, illustration... these are real, if difficult careers.
-- Eggs were one of the first foodstuffs to disappear at the beginning of the second world war, but the Soviet authorities were quick to find a solution, in the powdered eggs provided by the US under the 1942 lend-lease programme.

-- Initially people reacted to powdered eggs with caution, and the government responded by taking coordinated action. One after another, Soviet newspapers featured articles claiming that while powdered eggs contained almost every nutritional benefit known to mankind, regular eggs were filled with pathogens and fats that weakened the body.

-- In the mid-1950s fresh eggs began to re-emerge on grocery shelves. At first people were understandably doubtful, so the authorities immediately commanded the press to reverse their previous statements and a “new” idea came into vogue: fresh eggs are enormously healthy and nutritious.

This says so much about the power of the media.
Probably from the /r/keto echo chamber. Don't waste your time arguing with fanatics.
That's a bit misleading. Most NFL games are only available on network channels, not ESPN/Fox Sports/Univision. I'd hardly call that minor.
No, where did you see that? It isn't constantly buffering live TV though. What I do is pause and go fix a drink for a few minutes and that gives me ample ability to fastforward commercials. I'm actually not completely sure about how rewinding works on live TV, since I almost exclusively let it record my normal shows for later.

Edit: from one of the Amazon reviews:

"It does let you pause live TV (temporarily recording to the hard drive just like the DVR does). However, unlike the DVR, this unit does not automatically record anything so if you missed something and want to see it again, too bad - unless you had previously entered into "Timeshift" mode by pressing Pause. Therefore, assuming you have enough hard drive capacity, it's probably best to press Pause then Play at the start of watching anything to let the thing start saving to the hard drive- then you will be able to Rewind, Pause and Forward through content that was buffered. (all the more reason you should use a big hard drive and not USB stick). While in Timeshift mode, you cannot change channels until pressing Stop."

That's true, but is as simple as hitting pause, I don't really think of it as a special mode.
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Good thing all those guys are drinking at 10am every day in a bar, if they were doing it in the privacy of their homes they'd have a drinking problem!
Nuclear weapons, most likely.
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No, it shows that federalism is not yet dead. That the principle of 50 Petri dishes still holds, that Texas and now Oklahoma can try out this experience, which, as you yourself note, isn't ideal in the old government run model, and wasn't exactly great in the one time I used it myself.

Am I concerned about this? Yep (we'll ignore that I'm retired by non-workplace disability and living in Missouri, albeit very, very close to Oklahoma). But I also believe it might become a better system, with, of course, suitable government oversight.

ADDED: slapshot pointed out something else in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10394007, this adds another set of players, the plaintiff's bar (which is traditionally healthy in Texas) and of course the judicial system they're a part of. No sovereign immunity for the bureaucrats to hide behind.
I guess people usually vote on domestic issues. Unless a war has direct consequences on the domestic level(draft,too many soldiers getting killed,cost of war...), they don't care.

The problem is not voting. Voting is a right but also iMHO a duty. The problem is usually the political offer. You have 2 parties on the national level, they agree on almost everything except minor stuff like gay marriage so voting for one or the other has very little impact on foreign policies.

On the federal level, it looks like democracy actually work better and independent candidates can win elections.
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Nothing fancy, however I was manually copying `status.py` file from Django Rest Framework in every project. So I thought I would release this as a pypi package and it may come useful to others also.
Draft Kings is simply stock market day trading redux.

Some people win, some people lose...for the life of me I can't see any difference between the two, so either let both continue or (somehow) eliminate them.
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As someone who lived in florida, those affluent hispanic areas don't have billboards in spanish. Billboards in spanish signal a large amount of single-language homes, and when that single language isn't the native tongue it doesn't bode well for socio-economic prospects
This analysis is simplistic and flawed.

It asserts a correlation between the fried chicken/coffee shop ratio index and home price, which is reasonable enough. It then assumes that homes that are undervalued vis-a-vis their implied value by the FC/CS index are up and coming. This likely makes sense in an environment of overall rising house prices. However if house prices are falling or stagnant overall it may be the coffee shops which are lagging the market.
Not exactly - you've also got to consider the tax consequences on cashing out directly so with the charity, the money only gets taxed once instead of twice.

Scenario a:

Bob starts Hooli - his stock is now worth 100 million. He wants to give half to his family. He cashes it out and pays long term capital gains on it - at 15% he is left with 85 million. He pays out half to his relatives, but don't forget, there is 35% gift tax when you gift someone more than ~15k So of that 42 million, only about 27 million will actually make it to it's intended target.

Scenario b:

Instead of directly cashing out, he starts the foundation with the 100 million. (using that to offset his entire income that year with a charitable tax deduction most likely). He wants to pay out half to his family still - this time he is starting with 50 million which will similarly be taxed at let's say 35% (income tax) - leaving 32.5 million to pay out. Also consider the case where he exercised a large cash performance bonus upon cashing out, that 5 million he will potentially not have to pay any taxes on either because he was able to make a large tax deduction from his "charitable" gift to the foundation.

It is not a simple thing - depending on how exactly the money flows, there are ways to prevent a significant amount of double taxation. (Also a couple years ago gift tax was 55% so it would have been 19 million (scenario a) vs. 32.5 million (scenario b) in post tax money. What makes things an order of magnitude more complicated, is on top of all this one has to consider timing. Tax rates change significantly all the time (55 vs 35% on gift tax in 2010 vs 2015) - some of which are known far in advance, some changes may be a surprise - so in estate planning where the goal is to maintain wealth for many generations to come - strategies like this start to make a lot of sense
The number is closer to 33% as long term capital gains are taxed as income in California.
right, which shows you the value of Big Data. Probably the best measures of real estate value trends are available not to real estate experts, but to Google starting with everybody's inboxes, combined with search, geolocation, etc.
Not that dang need anyone to defend him but I think dangs point is thats the Betteridge meme is a bit tiring in the long run.

After all, this isn't reddit - or slashdot.
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Anyone else find it slightly revealing, and obviously disappointing, that any conversation about wealth nowadays only seems to encompass financial wealth, as though all other forms of wealth [1] were either redundant or meaningless. I often wonder when i see headlines like "1 percent of the world's people control 50 percent of its wealth" how the other forms of wealth are distributed and if indeed having more of one predisposes you to have less of all the rest?

[1] - Whatever they may be, spiritual, happiness, obviously off the top of my head, i've ran out here because it's not a topic i usually hear discussed, any other suggestions?
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Yikes 60kWh = 1kg of H2. I knew it was expensive to generate H2 but that's very high. 3-4x worse than BEV depending on your efficiency.

Given that we're going to see sub 30k BEVs in the not distant future it's a shame to see Toyota back Fuel Cells.
not super sure about MGM Grand but Caesars was just chapter 11 right?
Sound could be an option.

A TV license is required to watch broadcast television, so the number of channels they could be watching is finite. Even a muffled signal detected from a vibrating window (via laser microphone) could be compared to what is currently being broadcast by each of the channels (give or take a short processing delay) and any match found.

Nowadays it's mostly database enforcement. You obviously don't have to care about addresses that do have TV licenses so you just go looking for people with various TV subscriptions (Sky, Virgin Media) that don't have a TV license. It used to be done by the retailers submitting addresses of people who bought/rented TV equipment (TV, VCR, etc), any that didn't get (or already have) a TV license would get a visit shortly afterwards. Also people who watch programmes 'live' on-line (IP -> address conversion thanks to the DSL providers).
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What's with all the "stone" measurements? I'm used to seeing that in historical novels, but not in modern writing.

Is stone a regionally popular unit, or have I just been utterly oblivious to its modern commonality?
So true. Actually anybody has a potential "interest from VCs", because that's what VCs do - they are interested, they look around, sniff, check, look at ideas. So anyone could say that they have the VCs interest in their stuff.
The same is true for patens/patent pending. Just don's say this. If you said: we sold our patent for $xxx its completely different story.
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I wonder if the "Queens district attorney" has a skewed, or biased view of the gambling world. If you're living in rural America miles away from the city/organized crime and you gamble online - how vulnerable are you to threats?

I'm not sure how payment works, but wouldn't the idea of "shaking down Johnny" for failure to pay his gambling debts be reduced due to the use of digital currency? As in, there shouldn't be a way to bet and then "stiff" your bookie?
Uh, pretty much any car in mid to luxury range can be gotten with that option these days, it was novel around 2003.
Voting in the US reminds me of that old parenting tactic of an illusion of choice for kids who don't want to go to sleep: "Do you want to wear the blue pajamas or the red pajamas?"

Feeling empowered by having a say in the completely unimportant choice of pajamas, he is going to sleep whether he actually wants to or not. Ina similar manner, whoever you vote for, some foreign country is getting invaded and bombed for strategic or political reasons.
In traditional betting, you have an observable outcome that is external from the bookie (let's say most of the time, unless the match is fixed). Here, if I understand correctly, the bookies are also simulating the match or rather the season without any external control, or third party auditing. It would be pretty easy to tip the odds in their favor if they have too much to lose. Either I am missing the obvious, or this is a mind boggling stupid way to bet on something.
I've been using the somewhat annoying term "art music" instead of classical music to unpack carefully and artistically crafted music from music purely for commercial entertainment / not intended for close critique. The instruments used largely don't matter -- Chopin is indeed beautiful in certain chip tune arrangements. I'll make a slight digression here though by asserting that keeping live performers in the loop adds an additional unreplaceable layer to the music, since the performer then gets to interpert the original music and highlight new patterns within the music.

Unfortunately I don't know specific books to learn this appreciation (although I know there are excellent ones out there) -- I was raised in this tradition and absorbed it through violin lessons, practice on my instrument, theory class, history class, and listening to a lot of classical music.
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Hey, thanks for the detailed and considered reply. So many of the proposals I see (including the slides in the main article) seem to be either technical plans without any obvious motivation (other than 'because we can'), or are people trying to use technology to magic away laws that they personally don't like. It makes me very cynical of it all at times :(
Jogging, fried chicken, and coffee shops.

Yup. You'd be paying fines and penalties if you posted this from the USA. I doubt there'd be criminal prosecution under 42 USC unless you repeatedly continued posting this kind of content after warnings, but that is not legal advice.

It's illegal for anyone involved in the housing or real estate industries to propagate racist information. Also it's illegal to advocate racist opinions about housing policy in public discussions.

And jogging is just as obvious as fried chicken and coffee shops.
Capital gains isn't the relevant tax, though. You'd want to compare it to the inheritance tax.
The telegraph was always "trashy" back when it was the "Butlers" Paper they used to publish detailed reports of society divorces where the times used to bowdlerize its reports.

And the DT is to the left of the Kippers (Ukip)

Edit: Interesting I worked on the first version of Open Democracy nice to see its still going.
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Although, there's no known mechanism by which ships get all their parts replaced while preserving their function without some life forms involved.
oh, they look pneumatic. I'd guessed solenoid. In retrospect a solenoid is either just on or off. pneumatics allow holding any position.