skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is my proposal to eliminate problem gambling forever: scrap all laws restricting gambling. I know this might sound surprising (ok possibly crazy) but hear me on...

Today it is extremely expensive to open a casino. I'm not sure what the laws for offline casino are, but license costs for a new online casino are 100s of 1000s to millions USD per year. Subsequently there are very few companies that compete in this space -> there is artificially limited supply -> the price for gambling is high. The price for gambling is the players average loss per bet (called the house edge). It varies from a few % to over 10% for most casino games. It's what makes the gambler loose in the long run.

Say online gambling were legal in the US. There would be way way more online casinos competing for the player. This competition would drive down the house edge to either very close to or actually 0. A 0% house edge would do away with problem gambling. Gambling addicts make 1000s of bets per day, and the law of big numbers dictates that they would not loose money over the long run. This does not even factor in that online casinos would be VC funded, and would not need to make a profit for a long time, which would drive down the price even further.

This isn't just a lofty libertarian theory. The bitcoin gambling market is largely deregulated and the house edge in bitcoin casinos is way lower (1% - 0.1%) than for regulated casinos. Recall that regulated casinos have to somehow pay huge licensing costs to the state, that's money that their players have to loose.

Long story short, it is my conviction that online gambling laws are what make gambling addicts loose money (and much more, see article). Do away with the regulation and the market forces will lead to a state where gambling addicts do not loose any more money.

(full disclosure: I run a bitcoin casino)
Fastmail. I'm just a regular (paying) customer, not a business or anything. I've opened a small number of tickets, one or two of the RTFM variety. I've always got a human response and satisfaction, even a "here, let me RTFM that for you."

I can't imagine being locked out of my fastmail account for anything other than abuse of my fastmail account. Or not paying my bill.
Making people want to use your product was a good business strategy last I heard.
This should be a movie
USGS Estimates 20B Barrels of Oil in Texas’ Wolfcamp Shale Formation
Woah! To clarify, when digging up filler for the Hescos, PMN was present in the area the filler was taken from and thus made their way into the Hescos?
I think I know why... it was fixed a few weeks ago.

https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3701
It's linked to providing these tuple types out of a method call.

So instead of having to declare that Foo returns a FooReturn, it can be declared as (say)

public (int ret, string err) Foo() { return (5, "something"); }
There was a paper published about how being presented with disconfirming evidence causes people to double down on their belief in a lie if it has an emotional connection with them.
So basically not much different than reading the national enquirer while standing in line at the grocery store, garbage in garbage out. All about greed and ads. People should be marching the streets, setting cars on fire, "not my facebook" over this.. )
This page has a good explanation of why - https://www.mwave.com.au/help/faq/view/24
But there's one option they didn't mention:

DON'T BUY THE GOOGLE PIXEL.

I mean, that's the real message I'm getting from all this.
Get off the "for profit" theme please. This has nothing whatsoever to do with it. Google is an ass. That's it. Simple as that. A totalitarian regime.
Does SpaceX have any concerns about the Kessler Syndrome [0] or any plans to mitigate it?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
Currently paying US$60 a month for land based internet in NZ and a friend pays $160 for the crappy satellite equivelent. Several million subscribers would not be unfeasable and provide a pretty massive income stream
Particularly when you have no background in biology or medicine.
It looks like their own ghetto implementation of Verified by Visa.

Verified by Visa is secure because it uses a shared secret (not terribly unlike how JWT works) for the merchant to redirect you to the bank (with information on what card you used), who verifies your username and password and that that is your card, who then redirects you back to the merchant with something that says "Yep, we verified them"
It's much easier to change the compiler now that it's implemented in C#. The C++ implementation was much harder to add features to.
Funny you mention that...my current approach for games that make me nauseous that I can't fix with FOV settings has basically been ginger gum and lots of fresh air breaks.
Lol. Bill Maher misses W.
From what I read, it's to your own mailbox, not domain. "x@gmail.com" was the example used.
That is true. But for WiFi chips, some of that initial development cost can be bypassed as they usually operate over a SDIO interface, which is a generic interface and compatible with most microcontrollers with a SDIO controller.

So you can usually just get the WiFi chip (for example, Broadcom or Marvell) on a SDCard form-factor extender, plug it into your standard SD Card slot and work on it with the SDIO controller on your development board.

Note: the SD interface controller must support SDIO and not just the memory SD-Card portion of the spec.

But, of course, you still need the development documentation and internal chip information. That, unfortunately, must still be paid for.
That route would only get you copies of your email. It wouldn't help you change a password on a 3rd party service, if their practice was to require confirmation through your address on record.
Family friends with Tim Draper of DFJ.
Just came across some more evidence in a wapo article today. Bannon opposing immigration for highly educated students says: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bannon-flattered...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Wore_Menace_Shoes

I believe
One point would be to have a platform for legacy applications. There's probably quite many PC's running in various places, doing what they have been doing for the last 20 years (for example running some control software for some machines).
The one time I was in a casino I accompanied a coworker who gambled to one of the low dollar casinos in Colorado. What I noticed were poor people who came with $100 and wanted--or needed--to leave with $200, and of course the business model says that very few of them did. I bought a $10 bucket of quarters out of boredom and after 10 or so minutes I had $11.25, which is an incredible annualized return but not what gamblers are looking for. I noticed people going from one machine to another--"this one is cold", "maybe this is the right one", etc. It was very sad, and I learned that low dollar gambling can be insidious when the players are poor and look to the casino for money they need. The big dollar losses may make better headlines, but the self-delusion and suffering are the same.
NewEgg does the former, for sure, with my corporate Amex. Oddly they don't do it with my personal one.
The receivers/Earth stations will be phased array antennas; basically an antenna 'grid'. They won't fit in your pocket, but they will fit on top of your car.

Keep in mind, this system is designed to give the Internet to everyone. The antennas will be small enough to conceal. Since the signals go up instead of across a border, censorship is not an issue.
Of course you're right. The quoted statement is part of a broader attack on self-responsibility that is taking place in the western world. We all are poor poor beings who bear no responsibilities for our flaws. Bad at school? It's a mental disorder. Gambling addiction? It's a bug in the brain. Everybody else is responsible for one's woes. This way of thinking is incredibly toxic and prevents human flourishing. To blame other people for your faults is to deny yourself the opportunity for betterment. And I say that as someone who doesn't necessarily believe in free will.
The last time this system was discussed they mentioned needing a pizza-sized dish.
The retailer and only the retailer.

It probably reduces fraud chargebacks to nearly 0.
* Elon Musk

* Paul Graham, haven't heard from him lately

* Pieter Thiel (ideally a long interview about Trump, Palantir, seastanding, Libertarianism)

* Sam Altman (sneak peek into the upcoming MOOC, things he's working on, OpenAI)

* OpenAI team

* Failed startups: Homejoy to begin with

Please ask HN for questions, before going to interview people. Ask deep and difficult questions, and avoid boring, generic questions.
Mmm, this is probably a long conversation, but I don't disagree with what you are saying. I think discoverability (in API terms) is different than the flexibility that HATEOAS, with a proper hypertext gives you.

The query issue just depends on how complex your data consumption needs are. The closer they get to levels requiring SQL-levels of expressivity, the more you will need to either churn your API or expose expressivity (and security risk) on the browser side.

In the old days, the way we dealt with changing the UI in another location was by simply replacing the whole page. This actually works pretty well, except for those FOUCs, and we are heading back that way, but now people are starting to do DOM diffs to avoid the blinky-blink. intercooler has a few options for solving it as well (either expanding your replacement target or using dependencies.) I imagine eventually I'll end up adding DOM-merging as an option as well.

Anyway, it's a long conversation.
Ah. Okay. Thanks.

Let me respectfully suggest that your original comment was poorly worded, given your stated intent here.

Best.
These are all fascinating facts and new to me. I actually didn't know any of these things. On balance, I think he is a leagues better person than Hillary or Trump but this definitely underscores hat all politicians make some terrible compromises/must do bad things.

We will never know if Trump would've beat Sanders but had he been on the ticket, I likely would've voted for him instead of writing in "no confidence". Interesting.
All of the organizations you listed employ fact checkers who are responsible for checking articles for accuracy and facts. Sure, they make mistakes from time to time, they're human. Disagreeing with the slant of an article doesn't mean it's fake news.
The editor application itself has remain essentially unchanged over the past decade. I have a strong premonition that JavaScript was added to potentially discontinue AppleScript. The revision history of the AppleScript docs is the third reason.
Have you seen what the typical Wikipedia userpage looks like? E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao.

People pretty much DO use them as personal websites -- the differential enforcement seems to come mainly from how established a user is.
I was just researching these a little while ago and hadn't heard of Tomoyo. Turns out it is included in the mainline kernel and is pretty simple to use.

http://tomoyo.osdn.jp/

On debian you just need to enable it via a kernel param and install tomoyo-tools to get going.
Will the First Amendment Protect Backpage.com from Pimping Charges?
So after blowing up Facebook's Internet-providing satellite, they're going after their own constellation.

I do wonder how this will affect potential customers who would launch communications satellites on SpaceX, but are worried about handing over something proprietary to a competitor.
No, it's not designed to be anonymous (although it will force encryption). The goal is to provide a free, community hosted email service to regular non-technical users.

It is similar to TOR in the sense that it will rely on volunteers to host nodes and/or relays. The goals of TMail and TOR are, however, fundamentally different.
Has anybody managed to extract what was actually "spy" worthy that the guy did?

"Asked people for information" isn't saying anything. What do I miss? What were the secrets?
Platonism and Christianity both could reasonably be seen as atheistic from the perspective of classical antiquity, in that their view of what god was, was radically different from mainstream religious practice. In Platonism, especially, the One was very abstract and impersonal.
In most concepts of justice there is the idea of proportional punishment.

For example it would not be considered just to cut off someone's foot when they are caught speeding. Yes, they broke a rule, but the punishment is a huge overreaction.

Google now has so many services, that so many people use for so many things (at Google's encouragement!) that cutting off everything for a minor violation of purchase terms seems like an unfair overreaction.

And it's bad business. I am most definitely going to think twice before putting data into Google now. In order to grow, Google needs its users to trust it. This seems like a gross violation of that trust.
> because everyone already has their 20 year old [C] codebases

It's comments like these that remind me how exclusionary the software world is. Your definition of "everybody" is such a tiny number of people. But that's who you have in mind when you are constructing the world around you each day.
Equating "life more difficult" with "destroying apartments" is silly.
Depends on how you look at it. With a social game like WoW, you get back what you put into it and it depends on what you wanted to achieve.

I played quite heavily for about 2.5 years while I was still in school, in the early days of the game. Probably close to 12,000 hours. But to me, those hours were actually a great investment for following reasons: 1) When I started out, I set out to play in the best global PvE guild. After two years, I achieved that and played with them for another 6 months; and 2) two years later, I had an idea for a gaming related app that took me two months to build and eventually made me $250k. Wouldn't have had that idea without my WoW experience.

Climbing as a random player to joining a top guild showed me that you can achieve anything reasonable in life if you put your mind to it. WoW had 11 million players at the time and for a while I was considered a top 100 player in the game. In a way, it gave me a sped up view of life. And honestly, I'm grateful for that because I probably wouldn't be where I am now!
Anyone else feel that if the Russians really wanted to influence the election, the actual methodologies used and people targeted were not that impressive or well thought through? I mean it was hardly Stuxnet.

If your wanna change an election why not hack a wider range of targets? I know that "Who gains most?" is one of the best ways to attribute blame in the intelligence world but I have not (like the North Korea / Sony hack) seen evidence that even nearly proves it was a hack directed by the Russian Government. Possibly a malicious sympathiser but hardly state level techniques...

Also, how slow and useless are the NSA that they weren't watching to protect senior people in one of the two major parties in the country? If so many intelligence folks are as sure as they claim to be that it's the Russians, where is the counter-response? You mean to tell me that the TAO can't do better then some leaks about Russian businessmen close to Putin - obviously that is one of his weak points but he doesn't care about that right now. I get that they don't want to reveal warfighting capabilities but seriously - if you think it's really the Russians, throw a shoulder...
If your only error handling mechanism is exceptions and you disable exceptions because you can't bare the cost, then what are you left with?

> The people who can't tolerate exceptions are the same ones who want precise machine control and who probably don't want stdlib either.

I don't agree. Just because I don't want to pay for exceptions doesn't mean I don't want, say, convenient platform abstractions over file systems or I/O.

> I regret that this opinion

The opinion that you don't like Rust's error handling isn't the problem. It's all of the insinuations you're making about the people who worked on it. You paint a picture of carelessness and irrationality, but that couldn't be further from the truth.

The other problem is that exceptions vs. error values---aside from the performance or implementation implications---is a debate unto itself without a clear answer, but you pretend as if it's a solved problem and that your view couldn't possibly be wrong. On the other hand, I'm trying to sit here and say that there are trade offs, but you don't want to acknowledge them.
Can anyone elaborate why this is getting downvoted?
I used to subconsciously judge email based on the amount of "fw:re:fw:fw:fw" on it. The more fwd:/re: the less I trusted the data. I wonder if this was ever valid signaling, but I also wonder if people trust articles more on FB because, AFAIR, it's hard to tell how many times an article has been re-shared, or "forwarded".
Apple to Halve App Store Fees for Subscription Video Apps
Even under the worst lease violations you can think of, it is illegal for a landlord to keep your stuff. They can throw it out on the curb, but they cannot keep it.

Google not only cut off services, they cut off access to remove users' content. I don't see how that is defensible.
That just pushes the problem back, unfortunately. Do you trust the people who designed the algorithm? Even if they were wonderful, apolitical idealists, do you trust the people who maintain the systems after those guys leave the company to stick with it, no matter what? After all, this election is the Most Important One In Our Lifetimes, so surely it's okay to put our thumbs on the scale just a little bit in the name of truth and justice... it's for the sake of the children/gays/whoever, you know... what kind of heartless monster would just stand by when they could make a difference?

Ultimately the only way to really address this problem is to have a diverse variety of competing news sources so at least they aren't all captured in the same way at the same time. There's no way to line this up with Facebook being the One News Source, any more than if it was the government doing it.
Disney’s Latest Attraction? 300 Drones Flying in Formation
I can't speak for the Apple of today, but when I left Apple in 2010 there were more wizened, "gray-beard" programmers working for Apple than at probably all the SOMA startups combined. Of all the things you could accuse Apple of (and there are plenty), I think ageism has got to be near the bottom of that list.
> What they can't do is say they hate a particular Jewish person, and link to that person's account, and encourage their tens of thousands of followers to post anti Semitic hate to that person.

Like, let's say, kill DT because [insert victim group du jour here]ism?

Or I'll kill you because u so white, and kill all white people? #noracist
Ask HN: Good wedding RSVP app?
Do you have any suggestions for a good RSVP service for a wedding?
This may be subjective, but it feels like there is a lot of cargo culting going on in the VC industry. To a certain extent this makes sense as predicting the future is hard. There will always be a large gap between observed metrics and the end results, because companies are being launched into an unpredictable landscape and the conditions necessary for success change all the time. As a result these uncertain conditions create a strong incentive to pick up "best practices" even if they don't make sense at the time.

However, at the same time, the cargo culting creates inefficiencies and a lot of group pressure which forces companies to conform to the metrics du jour to raise funds. From a vantage point outside of the industry, these metrics feel almost memetic in nature. It seems that a lot of these hoops exist because other people have used these set of hoops before, therefore they must be valid in some shape or form. It's a recursive sort of logic whereby the rationale behind an investment metric is reinforced by the social signals around it. Plus, I'm sure that it doesn't help that most VCs don't actually have a quant styled background and most VCs don't model their investments in any shape or form. (while the modeling may not be accurate - it is still a useful tool for thinking through investments)

Of course all of this is actually an opportunity for the enterprising VC. A smart VC firm could theoretically create a better, more quantitative process and pick up unconventional companies for cheaper and get better returns as a result.

edit: Just in case it wasn't clear, I'm not accusing the OP of cargo culting - it's rather the opposite. It's more of a meta-observation / addendum to his observations.
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I have no doubt it's not, just commenting on what I have experience with. It's the only country I've worked professionally in.
"Director Adam McKay, fresh off his Oscar for The Big Short, has even signed on to make a movie based on Holmes, tentatively titled Bad Blood. (On the bright side for Holmes, Jennifer Lawrence is attached as the lead.)" [1]

[1] http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/09/elizabeth-holmes-ther...
This is common practice in germany. The whole payment methode "sofortüberweisung" or "sofort" is based on this. You give your login information and a single use password to sofort, they initiate a wire transfer and instantly guarantee the money will arive. (It will arrive 24h later, as banks are allowed to delay it this long and they use it as additional liquidity) Of course this is a security nightmare and or course the ToS of the Banks prohibit you from sharing your login details. But unfortunately they don't enforce their ToS. Recently the cartel office called for making this part of the Banks ToS void, as they would "hinder the adoption of innovative FinTec".

But it illustrates how deeply flawed the whole banking sector is that people are willing to give up passwords to third parties or paying insane fees to paypal. IMHO we urgently need a law that makes wire transferees instant, or this dangerous and incredible expensive layers grow for the disadvantage of everybody (expect paypal and sofort).
Funny this is posted, I just bought a copy of Cocoa Design Patterns yesterday. Hopefully it's still useful for modern iOS development.
Can you expand on your statement? Some questions come to mind:

- Is capitalism in and of itself good?

- Are humans purely rational beings? Should they be treated as such?

- Does legality imply ethics? If it's legal does that mean it's good?

- Laws change. Does that mean that ethics change at the same time as laws?

- If people want to create laws and regulations that prevent them from making common mistakes at the expense of pure freedom, is that okay?

There's limited information in your comment, so please don't take these questions as an assumption on my part of what you believe.
Actually, they are trying to be like the Windows XP/2003 base and not the newer Windows. It is because Microsoft makes their APIs secret and undocumented in modern Windows and over time people figure them out.

ReactOS shares code with WINE to run Windows apps, the older the better. 64 bit Windows can't run 16-bit apps and that is what NTVDM does for ReactOS running 16-bit DOS and 16-bit Windows programs.

ReactOS has a small memory footprint of about 48M of RAM or so, because it doesn't have services for it like BITS etc and just runs Windows Apps and Drivers. So it is better for older PCs to run on because of the small memory footprint.

I have donated to ReactOS, HakuOS, and AROS before because I want to see them get ready for consumers to use them as an alternative to Windows that isn't Linux. ReactOS is a Windows alternative, HakuOS is a BeOS alternative, AROS is an AmigaOS alternative. It is a chicken and egg situation where people don't want to develop for it or support it until it has good enough apps for it that can surf the Internet, do Office documents, etc like Windows can.