skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Whales" are rich guys who are addicted to gambling and lose a ton of money at the casino. Casinos love whales and will try to track them with rewards cards and lure them into their casino with huge upfront losses (free shows, food, drinks, entertainment, airfare) because they know they'll make it up when the whale starts to gamble. Once a whale starts to bend the rules at a struggling casino too much to win money on average, he stops being a whale and starts being a huge liability.

The only people who win money (on average) at casinos are "professionals" who play games against other players rather than strictly against the house - poker being the prime example. Many poker pros will hang out at "amateur" tables and pose as suckers to draw in less experienced players, then hustle them.

So ultimately the casino does not redistribute money to the whale - it reaps money indiscriminately due to its "house edge" on every game and slot machine.

Here's a breakdown of the house edge and std deviation for a bunch of different games [1]. Craps and blackjack have the smallest house edge due to historical rules of how the games are played, whereas games such as slot machines have a high house edge as the casino can tailor the software that determines the payout. For example, slot machines in Nevada are only legally required to pay back 75% to players on average while the rest goes to the house - a true gamble for suckers. [2]

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The article implies that DFS is different because FanDuel and DraftKings are unable to implement strict rules that collect from players indiscriminate of size.

D.F.S. high rollers similarly come with demands, and because there’s no powerful regulatory body involved, DraftKings and FanDuel have been mostly free to set the parameters of play, which, as it turns out, is near anarchy, especially for the D.F.S. elite.

This gives experienced players an advantage over new players that (very arguably) isn't true of poker because the players adhere to a stricter, more heavily regulated set of rules and have more of a choice of competition between hundreds of casinos vs. 2 sports betting websites.

It's definitely a tenuous argument though. At the end of the day, it's gambling, just like the stock market is gambling. Unless you have insider info, you're at the whim of the market and the traders with high powered hardware/software and connections.

[1] http://gaming.unlv.edu/casinomath.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machine#Payout_percentage
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If that got popular in general, think of the fun malware possibilities where "setting the clock" becomes a major security issue. Not to mention sabotage. Shut down the chemical plant by changing the time on a PC to the year 2200 (assuming it works past 2039 anyway), etc.
The phone is thin enough. No one cares about it being thinner. Don't sacrifice a vital feature for the sake of that.

I have a bunch of headphones I like, and what's great is they plug into whatever I want to listen to music on. I'm not buying new headphones just for my phone. That's stupid. My MacBook doesn't have a lighting port - do I need to buy an adaptor now to use my headphones?

Give us a longer battery life, an AMOLED display, and better specs.
Well,every vote Trump looses counts. The White vote is not one unified voting block that will vote republican. You have his main supporters that will vote for him no matter what and then you have everybody else. Not every republican will vote for him. Unless he can unify the white vote, doubt it, then how is supposed to win?

I guess the newspaper articles claiming you need certain percentage of Hispanics to win the presidency have lied. I will not debate you on this point since I'm no expert. Add to the fact that he has pissed off more people than just Latinos and his chances appear slimmer. But maybe I'm just misinformed.
On the flip side, if there really is a threat, police officers have standard training which makes it clear that they have less than three seconds to react, before they are killed.

Bringing their weapon to a ready state, actually increases the time that they have to react, and lets them make more rational decisions.
I think they haven't updated the map yet. It lists just ~115 countries while the press release mentions 190.

Edit: I am also in one of the grey countries, and I can see the "Start your free month" page on netflix.com, instead of "unavailable in your country."
These devices were the equivalent of a smartphone in the 90's in a lot of ways.

I had a TI-85 in High School. Was the first calc to have a link cable to connect 2 calculators. Also had assembly programming capability thanks to an oversight that couldn't be taken away. This opened the door for things like doom, tetris and other games.

Got to build a serial port cable interface by cutting my wire in half, external storage devices for it, custom software.

Highlight for me was the programmability of it to write software for my high school courses, including math and chemistry formula sheet software. Calculus had to be done by hand but I had an app for testing various elements.

This type of development gave me a much deeper insight and grasp of math, formulas and how things worked and could be manipulated.

Surprisingly, teachers let me use my school apps on the tests because I built them myself and it needed an understanding of the concepts to build the software, and if I was going to risk my high school graduation on it, it was up to me.

It's kind of sad how much we could get done with constraints of limited hardware, and today's smart devices are making people less empowered by chasing novelty and distraction instead of solving their own problems.
This is one of those cases where you can't really extrapolate from history. At least linearly extrapolate.
That would be pretty acceptable IMO, getting rid of commercials and on-demand content? I'm in!
Though it should keep the current user base happy.
What's fascinating is the bot-bandwagon is mirroring the early app market.

With apps, you downloaded things to do things. With bots, you integrate them into things, so they'll do it for you. (Save extra step laziness)
Here's the paper I read: http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~raumann/pdf/Agreeing%20to%20Disagr...

Here's how it starts: "Theorem: if two people have the same priors..."
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What you call emotion, I call justice, and I think that matters.

Consider, without any emotion, the issue of murder versus suicide. What are the negative impacts of those acts? From the point of view of that person's friends and family and society at large, leaving aside emotion or notions of justice, the impact of the acts is the same: loss of that person, loss of their financial and emotional support. In fact, the impact on family and friends is often worse in cases of suicide because insurance policies often have an exemption for suicide.

Yet, almost nobody thinks murder should be legal while quite a few people think suicide should be legal. If we just mechanically consider "a death is a death" and count up the monetary impact of each case, we have no way to explain or justify why people feel this way.
"Around the World"

edit: they've updated their info.. it really is around the world.
The difference is that this time we're running out of work we could give to those who will get displaced by machines. Yes, we can keep inventing bullshit jobs, but we've already reached the point when people are starting to ask, if working for the sake of working makes any sense.
I don't think we'd be better off. Other devices require the ability to manage distractions and interruptions, which is largely something society is still developing.
I meant risk to include "we need an unexpected deployment just now", but I do agree it's important enough to point separately.
You don't need "up to the minute" information though. Data can be days old and still be viable as long as you're using twitter's streaming API to get injury updates from one of each 32 teams beat writers as they occur. If I'm setting an NFL lineup on Friday I know the stats haven't had an opportunity to change in 6 days.
So we are back to allowing governments to decide which crypto is allowed and which crypto is illegal.

No thanks.

He just wants to make money and sees an opportunity to sell a new blackbox engine.
Totally true - resurrecting a project is hard, to say the least, particularly if years have passed. We're an isv/agency hybrid, and we deploy monthly. The stack started a decade ago but it's as modern as it was then.

Ultimately the onus sits with the implementers to think about maintainability, and the end-user to think in terms other than the immediate.

Unfortunately, many legacy systems were implemented with the "it'll be replaced soon" view, and 30 years on are still limping along.

The software we build today will, if the species survives, probably still be in use in a century or more.

Think of your great-grandchildren when you go "that'll do"!
He created the Colossal Cave Adventure from the Crowther original back in the 70s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Woods_(programmer)
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Can anyone recommend a good, concise book on Kanban in software - preferably without mingling in Scrum?

There are multiple titles that come up on an Amazon search, all with similar review scores.
I don't think that'd be a deal-breaking price at all.

Netflix already seams cheap at $8/month, especially with their laissez-faire approach to families sharing accounts.
This trend has been clear for awhile. Interestingly, this will put performance pressure back on programming and languages as they become the "new" bottleneck.

I'd expect an implicit migration away from slower languages toward faster ones.
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> Actually, there were multiple VR technologies released in the 90s. This isn't like being on the groundfloor of some new concept, its like a revival of something old.

A better comparison might be the first iPhone. There were smartphones before the iPhone, but the iPhone is the one we think of today as being the first REAL smartphone.
My first thought is, OMG the latency...
I have been pretty familiar with a food dataset I have for my enterprise app for a while, and thought it would be neat to have a query engine based on nutrient.

Standard stuff, hosted on Rails, EC2, RDS. The only funky thing is I had to make extensive use of memcached as the core queries were getting unwieldy and took lots of time.
I'm currently writing a book in Markdown. Basically, I enjoy using Atom a lot, and I host the book in a private GitHub repository. Once I finish writing it, I'll just make the repository public and license it under Creative Commons. I have heard of GitBook and tried it out before (their web service that is), but I absolutely don't need it.
That makes sense to you (a web user who wants to use multiple platforms, and likely already does) but not to Twitter (a business whose financial interests are best realized the longer you stay within the walled garden of their product.) Twitter doesn’t want you to leave their ecosystem, so they’re considering changing the boundaries of the ecosystem.
Generally, but not always. An article in The Atlantic a few years back explained how one whale took a trio of casinos for $15M:

Johnson did not miss the math. For example, at the Trop, he was willing to play with a 20 percent discount after his losses hit $500,000, but only if the casino structured the rules of the game to shave away some of the house advantage. Johnson could calculate exactly how much of an advantage he would gain with each small adjustment in the rules of play. He won’t say what all the adjustments were in the final e-mailed agreement with the Trop, but they included playing with a hand-shuffled six-deck shoe; the right to split and double down on up to four hands at once; and a “soft 17” (the player can draw another card on a hand totaling six plus an ace, counting the ace as either a one or an 11, while the dealer must stand, counting the ace as an 11). When Johnson and the Trop finally agreed, he had whittled the house edge down to one-fourth of 1 percent, by his figuring. In effect, he was playing a 50-50 game against the house, and with the discount, he was risking only 80 cents of every dollar he played. He had to pony up $1 million of his own money to start, but, as he would say later: “You’d never lose the million. If you got to [$500,000 in losses], you would stop and take your 20 percent discount. You’d owe them only $400,000.”

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/04/the-man-...
It's not that insane, it's a secure, locked down device to do what you need it to do and not message answers between students, etc.

Android and IOS would need a lock down mode to only allow a particular ti-8x app to run and the control would have to be handed to a teacher for non-school devices.

Not to say the TI-85 couldn't technically be modified to save information in a way that couldn't be found thanks to ASM. Luckily I didn't need this ability.
FWIW, this is exactly why we chose to post to Github. We wanted to be as transparent as possible during a fluid process.
Excellent historical accuracy. Also let Billy do his homework, schedule alarms for Fido's walks, and little Sally can keep track of her Barbie clothes. Best of all it's only the size of a washing machine.
I believe there’s a study that shows educated people are having less or no children. Draw your own conclusions, but I don’t see any positives for society.
There's also those of us who are just bigger people. From fingertip to palm my hands are on the order of 10 inches long. The standard phones of a few years ago were incredibly difficult for me to use. I still have an iPhone 4S that I use in a speaker dock for media and I can easily (and regularly) press 4 keys at once with one touch.

That said, there's clearly a market for smaller phones still, just not from me, and I don't understand why the manufacturers don't see this.
My theory is we, as subscribers, have hit rock bottom or close to rock bottom in terms of content on Netflix that is not produced by Netflix. This is okay with me. I like Netflix content. But I think Netflix original content is a stick that is useful. It proves Netflix itself can survive without licensing content, that globally available content is useful (see all the people trying to use VPNs to get content available in some markets), and that Netflix original content may become high quality enough that it competes with other networks. So my theory is Netflix original content is useful both in the short term to weather the content draught (due to high licensing costs) and the long term (as outlined earlier).

My fingers are crossed that this gamble is fruitful in bringing the cost to license content back down again to levels that are sustainable for Netflix. I also wonder if we'll ever see Netflix license Netflix original content to another network.

This is all conjecture purely as an enthusiast of Netflix.
Your AI is impressive. Its ability to guess age was on the mark within a year or two on all of my tests. I am a not very well known male model and scored in the hot to godlike range with a mode of stunning. When I tested the AI on top male models in the industry I got consistent godlike and stunning ratings. The one problem with the AI could be the sensitivity to after editing. I am now sure how one would get past this issue.
More than the security risks, imho (not that security isn't an issue)... is what kind of hell-like latency would such a system introduce?
If you fancy a trip down this particular rabbit hole:

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2015/03/flat-earth-societ...

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/search/label/Controlled%2...

https://www.youtube.com/user/ericdubay77/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5i_iDyUTCg
Have to also account for labor costs being higher in Europe, I'd bet.
The problem is that nobody spends just $1 on lotto tickets. Many people who buy lotto tickets (mostly poor people) are spending a significant percentage of their yearly income on them [0]. I was at a gas station in the boonies a few weeks ago and the 5 people ahead of me in line each spent at least $30 on scratchers.

[0]: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/05/31/poor-people-spend-9-o...
I agree overall, that said, I feel that is a minor slice of his argument at best.
I would think it would be the opposite.
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This should anger everyone. The government is getting lots of my hard earned money..and I can have everything taken away from me (including my freedom) if I don't pay it.

The least they can do is have someone on the other side to answer questions if there is a mistake.

My cousin runs a company and received a surprise $5000 bill from the IRS last year. His accountant said everything was in order and everything was paid on time.

It just so happens that the IRS office kept 'losing' the paperwork. Even though he was in the middle of resolving it, he started getting increasingly threatening letters from the government saying they would garnish his wages/take his property/or even put him in prison.

He ended up just paying the bill to clear his mind (he was losing sleep over it).
Apple doesn't make any compatible laptops, and, AFAIK they are out of the desktop hardware business. Aren't they?

Linux support is slightly sadder.

Maybe one day!
Same here, I think I've watched one movie on it in the two years I've had it. I almost always have a show playing in the background though. I don't have a TV and haven't for years.
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Well, me neither. If you get the frequency wrong, you'll also get your priors wrong. Natural frequency does not compose well, but that is another problem.

That is just what I understood from the GP.
Don't read so much into it, it was a trite comment with little substance.
> This is perhaps a general question about 3rd-party auth, but how am I supposed to trust an app like this when I click "log in with google/github/etc"? I'm simply shown a new pane within the same application that could easily be a phishing attack. There's no way to verify who the hell I'm sending my user/pass to.

I see this happening over and over again on my phone. Especially with Facebook logins.
That was more of a temporary thing right up until the point that the Nazi party abolished large chunks of the civil rights granted by the German Constitution in 1933.

They made lots of promises that they never delivered on (or even planned to deliver on).

One of the more interesting ones:

http://www.bytwerk.com/gpa/vw.htm
Are you being serious? Do you understand what we are fighting for here?

What if one day, it becomes illegal to be gay? Or have sex with someone out of wedlock?

Then all this data could be used against someone.
There are predictions and there are predictions. There will always be those predicting that strong AI is a decade away, right until the point when the last group is actually right about it.

But there's a different kind of "prediction", which I think is the type those smart people subscribe to - that we are on the path to an AI, that there's nothing that would make it impossible to achieve as the technology progresses (a reminder: we have a working example that intelligence can be built - our brains). Of course there are a lot of obstacles on the way. Personally, the most probable is that our civilization ends before we reach the necessary level - because of war, or all the economic and political shenanigans we see every day.
My current team does not do standups (or Scrum or... any of these things, really). We have a rolling list of open features/cleanups/bugs and a polite triage convention. In my last company we were all-in on what I can only call Scrummerfall.

As far as I can tell, the effectiveness of the team has a lot more to do with people's ability to self manage their workload (under any system) than how much time and effort is dedicated to tracking it.

We are also able to provide other dependent teams with better day to day visibility on specific requests rather than sprint-level visibility.
And thanks to this technology, people can understand themselves better, if they choose to. It's truly bizzare that some people instead take away that the right way to "correct" this discrepancy is for companies to know less.
I found this website the other day http://killedbypolice.net/ turns out several people per day are killed by police which I was surprised by.
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House of Cards notably missing. Lithuanian here, great that we have it now, but have no idea why House of Cards is not available.
It's because the abstract idea of a child is very different from the concrete reality of your specific child. I went through the same kind of thinking in my 20s; it's very hard to realize the huge gap between the idea of children and your actual children without visiting the other side.
Netflix will have a positive effect in countries like India. Their entry will help force ISPs to upgrade their infrastructure and increase average speeds. The benefits will hopefully trickle down to all internet users!
Doesn't update enough. They add about 3 new movies a month.
It's in between right now. It's not just targeted at 'VR hobbyists', but it IS targeted at tech early adopters/hardcore gamers. Give it a few more years and I'm sure the price will slowly come down.
I was thinking they should add video podcasters.
>Yes, we can keep inventing bullshit jobs

What is an example of a non-government bullshit job?
Content creators are still consumers. An artist can still read poetry, go the theatre, etc. So, if the vast majority of population goes into creative endeavors, the demand for creative labor isn't going to increase; all of the content creators are still content consumers.
I guess Dorsey will finally get his revenge on Evan Williams.
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We are in Chicago and are pretty good too. Though we are in the hr tech space too so probably why we didn't make the list. :)
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