skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There has to be more to this story. I would like to hear the bookmakers side of this. Perhaps the researchers were scripting or triggered some other kind of security tripwire.

Winning $900 split across several different bookmakers is absolutely nothing in the sports betting industry.

William Hill, one of the companies that the researchers claim restricted them is a multi billion dollar company. They aren't sweating small time bets like this.

EDIT: I noticed that the screenshots they used as proof their bets were restricted are for bets on very minor football leagues (Australian semi pro football), its common for betting limits to be lower for games that don't see a lot of betting action & is not proof enough to me that the bookmakers lowered their limits globally
I just tried to put myself in the author's shoes. I think i literally had 12 moments i would have packed up and went home. Starting with the decision to apply to YC with nothing. And i don't consider myself a quitter.

(A few other questionable things like rust for a POC with no users. Why? Does someone claim to out POC Python with rust?)
Robinhood's original referral promotion (and the one I signed up for) was $10. Presumably people were just collecting the $10 and not using it to buy stock so they pretty quickly changed it to "1 stock." If it were still $10 the person would have made $230 rather than losing money.

Also, what's the TOS on this referral promotion? IIRC, for many services these referral codes are for private distribution and forbid this sort of thing.
Pollution kills 9M people a year, study finds
the wikipedia article also states that they have a more varied diet than the native turtles and could be applying pressure on species that previously didnt have that predator like the mentioned frogs. In the same way that humans didnt go out and kill/eat most big predators, we just ate all their food first and they died that way
I used to use the betfair platform until it they blocked themselves from being viewed in Canada for some strange reason right after they were purchased by ladbrokes I believe it was.

Anyways, after playing with them for a few years, I was horrified to learn about their 60% tax on consistent winners that they have dubbed a "premium charge".

Found some sort of edge to exploit and reap profits?

Betfair doesn't even care to talk to you to ask you what you are doing, they will just charge you 60% of your winnings once you go over a certain limit. [0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/jun/29/betfair-premiu...
The irony is people who need better public transit are the ones more virulently against bike lanes.
Seriously? This again?

There is no physical basis for the hypothesis that non-ionizing radiation at athermal levels has any effect on humans. So, either come up with some repeatable results, or find something else to spend your research funding on.
A two minute old gazelle can out perform and current Ai in terms of navigating a real world. Data processing isn't the whole thing.
> Plato's cave comes to my mind

Do you mind elaborating on this? I'm familiar with Plato's cave and I don't see the relevance.
My guess is that it’s the manner by which they were winning. Thirty $50 bets per week over five months is over 500 bets. That’s not the long run but winning at an 8.5% ROI over that many bets is probably enough for the house to realize they’re somehow a winning player even if the stakes aren’t huge.
New neural network restores diaphragm function after spinal cord injury
Not mentioned in the abstract is that they also used real money:

> During that period we obtained an accuracy of 47.% [sic] and a profit of $957.50 across 265 bets, equivalent to a 8.5% return (Table 1, Figure 3).

For some reason the "ok but how much did you ACTUALLY MAKE?" is always my favorite part of this kind of business or economics literature.
Sure, many countries change parts of their constitution from time to time, usually through a parliament. The question was however: "So every generation has to vote a new constitution?" because earlier someone was questioning the Spanish constitution since "no one under 57 has voted on it".
Collection of videos of successful, rich and famous people talking about Bitcoin
I wonder how much this has to do with employers giving their employees ORCA cards
My experience has been less than stellar. Busses coming 20 minutes late or not at all. 545 at 6 pm on a weekday is so over packed I feel like I’m going to second base with half of the bus.

Seattle should look to a city like Vienna or Prague. The transportation systems are surprisingly well engineered but that might be due to the fact that a larger part of the population takes it.
He did write that about chess, but clearly labeled as a personal hunch.

Your own hunch about what’s unimaginably far off differs from mine, fwiw — I’m very unsure but would not bet against human-flexible AI in our lifetime.
Obviously it would be the best if it was accessible to everybody at all times, but that's not the case right now. And my argument is, just getting "rid" of all languages except one would also entail getting rid of a lot of the things you wish to preserve and share.
For anyone without any idea how to do this, Ray Tracing in a Weekend is a good introduction.
It teaches you to do the image in the cover in a pretty short time.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B5AODD8
Lots of database options! See https://docs.racket-lang.org/db/
I actually watch a youtube channel of some Australian teenagers who show their hunting in the wild there. In one specific video they are hunting rabbits to eat, but they mention that they had to travel to a friend's land as the rabbits in their area are no longer edible due to the viruses introduced by the government[1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTW_a4tejHg
That is a pretty cool use case
The fact that they limit the accounts of successful bettors doesn't mean that it is "rigged". It simply means that they reserve the right to do business with whom they choose.
$300 buys a lot of gas or train rides. You could even buy a new pair of walking shoes, and get out the door to talk to customers face-to-face. It's scary out there, but actually speaking to people to get signups is cheap/free, and something really only a startup can do since you're not going to get huge numbers from it.

I'm struggling to find a single startup concept where you couldn't be served by walking through your city and finding a potential customer. If one exists, they're probably targeting the wrong customers.
My $8 "dumb" LED outdoor bulbs have sunrise/sunset sensors built in...
Sportsbooks in general don't mind winning players though, especially big ones. They make money off the vig and move odds to get equal money on each side of the bet so that they'll make money either way.
This is a good idea and a great relief for the family. Make sure you leave all the documentation in a place where your loved ones can find it, though. We’re pretty sure that my grandfather had paid for his burial plot decades before he died but didn’t have the records. Meanwhile the cemetery had a record of a plot reserved but somehow no payment....
If it runs as root you have much more to worry about, but that's of course one of the problems.
It's weird that you guys with a open source project don't have a IRC chanel, at least I couldn't find one on https://home-assistant.io/help/
Richard Branson Reveals Virgin Galactic's Latest Launch Plans
The syntax of defer is a function call, but it isn't called like a normal function: the arguments are evaluated at the time the defer is encountered, and then the function is called later. That's one reason why defer is very often called with an anonymous function, so that variables can be captured.

So, the version that prints 1 is

func a() {
i := 0
defer func(){
fmt.Println(i)
}()
i++
return
}
"The company's first astronauts...." Do you still count as an astronaut if you're in a sub-orbital flight?
Catalonia crisis escalates as Spain set to impose direct rule within days
It’s the same thing.

You would also want to note that many constitutions in Europe aren’t that old many were rewritten following WW2 and those which weren’t are often modified and ratified.

There is no legal difference between adding or removing parts of a constitution and voting on a new one.

You still need to approve a new constitution and ratify it.
If you start from scratch it means that you either didn’t have a codified constitution or it was really shitty but those are pretty unique cases.

I really don’t see a problem of revising a constitution once every 25-50 years.
the casinos simply ask you to leave if you win too much.

I was actually backed off from the first place I went to after I learned how to count cards while I was losing. If the pit boss or dealers know how to count themselves and identify you as a counter, they want no part of it. In most cases, they'll either "flat bet" you (tell you that your initial bet is your maximum), or they'll tell you that you cannot play blackjack there. Actual barrings usually don't occur until the second or third offense.
I think what you've built is beautiful. Sorry to hear you hate Trakt though. =(
It's a nit I guess but I feel like RAII is a pattern, not a feature of the language. Haven't done C++ in years but as I recall it doesn't have anything like python's with or finally blocks, which would both serve the purpose illustrated here. Using destructors to perform things when exiting a block is fine, I guess, but it does introduce hidden behaviors that will need to be well documented.
People who donate anonymously still get a reward - they feel good about it.
That’s awesome. The bus authority in my area saw massive ridership changes when they added BRT to one trunk route. It dramatically improved transfers and has been a boon to them.
So basically a doctor prescribed a hugely addictive opioid for something described as "discomfort". That shouldn't just mean you lose your license it should mean you go to jail.
I think what Muni in SF has done with putting cameras and microphones everywhere has kept the thug problem under control. I used to ride Muni a lot before that and would regularly watch and overhear people graffiting, planning some sort of gang violence, screaming in ecstacy while obviously extremely high after refilling their opioid prescription at sf general, openly smoking their crack rocks across from me, etc. That's why people don't ride public transit.
Can you substantiate this claim?
Creating and Running Unit Tests Directly in Source Files with Org-Mode
Google's $350B haircut
I think it’s really important to distinguish

1. pure problem-solving (chess, go) from

2. competency of behavior in the world (vision, navigating a maze), from

3. universal cognitive-emotional life (getting frustrated trying to accomplish a goal and trying a different approach; having competing drives that form the basis for goal-setting, like hunger, boredom, and self-preservation), from

4. more arbitrary-seeming, human-like cognitive emotions, like humor and beauty.

You can have 1 and 2 without anything directly resembling human intelligence, and 3 with animal-like intelligence, or you could make something completely alien. An appreciation of humor and beauty would be a great way to demonstrate you’ve made something like a virtual “human mind.”

There’s no reason computers couldn’t be better at all of these things, including writing better jokes. There’s a funny blog post somewhere about the idea of a computer writing superhuman-level funny jokes; I wish I remembered where!
Personal, on-demand, point-to-point, high-speed, low-cost, environmentally-friendly, and quiet transportation seems to me what people want. This is what we as a society should be working towards. Not making using a car so broken that a train or a bus in dedicated lane is the better option.

I hope Elon Musk can get his tunnels with electric vehicles going and remove most of the problems with our current transportation systems. By taking the shortcut of making using a car a moral failing, instead of the negative externalities of car use, we end up condemning a great tool that just needs improvement to remove its current negative aspects.
Is it ironic? If you live very far due to housing costs, bike lanes probably don't help you that much.
I remember reading a study that indicated that simple carbs combined with fat are worse than either fat or simple carbs alone. I can't find the study at the moment, but the gist of it was that a high fat, high sugar, meal will be metabolized differently than either in isolation and also that it triggers cravings for more fat and sugar.

So, a keto diet is fine. Eating bread every now and then is fine. But, something like a fast food meal consumed with a sugary soda may be particularly unhealthy and may cause you to eat more and crave more similar foods.

I don't know all the mechanisms at play, and I don't think even experts have a really good understanding of how our very complex digestive and metabolic systems (and the bacterial colonies that live in our guts) interact. It's clear that caloric reduction works for weight loss, even if you're eating mostly carbs or mostly fats. Some people report better management of cravings and hunger on different kinds of diets, and the research indicates that a low-fat or low-carb diet results in weight loss at about the same rate (contrary to popular belief about low-carb diets lately).

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/low-carb-v...

But, really, if you run a caloric deficit, you'll lose weight. Cutting arbitrary foods can do it for some folks. Some folks like keto or other relatively extreme restrictive diets. Some folks do intermittent fasting (I've been intermittent fasting for several months and have lost a little over 20 pounds). No matter how you do it, if you cut 500 calories off of your diet, you'll lose weight at a healthy clip.
I don’t think I follow.

What is then exactly now the difference if you compare Spain with other countries?
> made enough money

My fantasy about money is not about better cars or nicer houses. I'd like to do what Elon Musk is doing - try to advance human civilization through projects like space exploration. I'd be launching space telescopes, more probes to outer planets, etc.
Yeah. I love Redux and will happily promote it, but it's not for everyone, and there's definitely people out there who insist you _have_ to use it. My own advice for getting started with React is to focus on React first, then learn Redux later.

The "single generic reducer" approach is technically valid, and I've seen several articles where people do that. I discourage that approach because it doesn't tell you anything meaningful about the _intent_ behind the update, and it's much harder to trace where that action was dispatched, but it's a legal way to use Redux. My two "Tao of Redux" posts discussed the intent behind state changes being semantically meaningful, and both my own thoughts and Dan Abramov's comments on the "all-in-one reducer" approach [0] [1].

(Also, I should look at who I'm replying to before I write answers. Hi, Shados!)

[0] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-tao...

[1] http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/05/idiomatic-redux-tao...
> Life insurance is one of the insurances to consider;

Cost is only one factor. The bigger thing is taking the need to make a bunch of decisions (and fight over a bunch of decisions) away.

> while in the USA it is normal to have your (grand)parents live with you if they're old age

This is really not that common here. Retirement homes and nursing homes are huge industries in the US.

Having elderly parents live with you in the US is probably more common among low income people, because nursing and retirement homes are both quite expensive.
So, is this a webapp for brain dead people to use for sharing their location?

If so, then do you really think there’s much of a market for people who are clinically dead and have no brain function to use this page?

Or are you using this rude term to apply to people who are too stupid to be allowed to use computers?
Did you guys consider distributing reference 3D printing designs to accommodate the Raspberry Pi at home. For example replacing a wall light switch? The wall niche for the Pi+ switch is a perfect place because it supplies electricity and is already reserved for a human interface.
There's plenty of one-time cases where you don't want to declare an entire class but still enjoy scope-based functions. However, the approach in the post is not very C++-esque, I like this one much more:
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/master/src/utils.hh#L5...
Smartphones let you customize your protection with cases. If the manufacturer put in awkward bumpers, then you would be stuck with those bumpers.
I'm not a transit engineer but I think this is because we are asking buses to do too much. When a route sends a bendy bus every 10 minutes it's no longer a bus route and is now a really expensive train. The Rapid Rides are packed at rush hour as well. What we need is something like light rail that can go between neighborhoods and then let buses move people within those areas.
A two minute old gazelle is born with a lot of pretrained instincts. Instincts built from a genetic optimization algorithm that's been going on for millions of years. Spacial reasoning and "run from predators" is not something it needs to be taught. The data processing is already baked in.
It's very hard to make a car anywhere as space efficient as a train or bus, though.
Doesn’t seem to work on iOS.
For some commutes in Seattle the bus is way faster than trying to drive out of downtown. The bus tunnel is pretty fantastic.
Thanks, that's a very interesting point! I'll have to look into this a bit further further.

I've frequently read Zamenhof's famous congress speech that includes the part about "Ofte kunvenas personoj de malsamaj nacioj kaj komprenas unu la alian; sed kia grandega diferenco estas inter ilia reciproka kompreniĝado kaj la nia!" and the idea that human relations will be more equitable with an international auxiliary language... except now I don't know whether he in fact considered it "auxiliary" or merely "international". Now I'm thinking about the other interpretation in which he perhaps doesn't want other languages to survive in the long run.

Notably I guess he called Esperanto only "la internacia lingvo" at first until other people started to call it "Esperanto", and perhaps the concept of "helplingvo" largely postdates him, although apparently "auxiliary language" was used toward the end of Zamenhof's own lifetime (Wikipedia suggests maybe first by Otto Jespersen), and these terms seem to suggest supplementing other languages rather than replacing them.
Is that scalable?

e: I could see it working if the self-driving ride-share fantasy ever becomes reality. Right now everyone owning their own car wastes too much space.

What happens to surface streets with the electric car tunnels? Are the tunnels a supplement or a replacement?
I think it's unlikely, although I personally would like to see some sort of elevated solution re-visited.
20 Years Later, Cornell’s Great Pumpkin Mystery Remains Unsolved
> There are only few software products that are formally verified.

That depends what you mean by "formally verified". If you mean verification all the way from global, high-level properties and down to program code or even machine code -- what's known as end-to-end verification -- and that the verification method is deductive proof, then you're right. But there is plenty of embedded software that's verified end-to-end with model checkers, and a growing list of popular software that's verified by various means, but not end-to-end, for example most of Amazon's web services.
If they have access to your .bashrc they can also alter your PATH and create a script named sudo somewhere they have write access to that carries the malicious payload. So you're not gaining much by adding the quotes.
After Hurricane Harvey,* I ordered two RUIPU solar-powered USB auxiliary batteries [0] for about USD $40 each. Each is about the size of a very-thick iPhone 6S Plus. One whole side consists of solar cells. The battery has three USB "power out" jacks and one micro-USB "power in" jack, allowing the battery to be charged from an electrical outlet. My two batteries now live in a window in my study, where their solar cells get several hours of direct sun every morning to keep them charged up. They seem to work OK.

* We were unaffected personally, although a few nearby friends weren't as fortunate.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072NXV72T/ref=oh_aui_sear... (not an affiliate link)
When you ask geeks to name a product the result might resemble marketeers engineering it.
3 and 4 are pretty hard to beat though, because humans have decades and decades of input and feedback loops with other humans to develop them.

Who’s gonna play hide and seek and read bedtime stories every night to the computers?
It's true many companies and people will revise history upon achieving success for marketing and branding purposes.

However, that doesn't diminish the series of steps taken to stay in the game and get a look at the "big pot".

"The more I practice, the luckier I get."
Drug Companies Make Eyedrops Too Big – And You Pay for Them
Anytime I start to feel disturbed about anyone else's code, I remember to re-read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571159
How to Pack a “Go Bag” for Emergency Evacuations
I think the road work has been the main offender. A single lane road due to construction is just as bad for the bus as for anything else.

That said, crowded is as much a by product of the crowd. Easiest way to avoid that is to adjust your times.
I'm catalan and I don't want Independence.
There are tools to easily automate this process.

In fact, I would say it is too easy to automate this process, and there should be a standard way of requiring the user to perform some sort of interaction that can’t be automated away. Of course, the user should be able to choose when this functionality is required, like for all purchases over a certain amount or something.
Likely some fear a sufficiently intelligent AI without human like values will render human life obsolete-- and then extinct

Humans seem pretty good at enacting the latter all on their lonesome
This one is close to real-time at 115ms. Maybe you missed paragraph 2?
The problem in the Seattle area (including Kirkland and surrounding areas) continues to be 1) Park and rides are completely full by 8:30 2) street parking was stopped in many areas by making it 2 to 4 hours only 3) many waiting areas have no cover -- so you'll stand in the rain waiting for a late bus.
There are a multitude of answers. All require space. And building any of them will spike the problem for a time.

That said, I think we are getting there. I'm somewhat confident that the current problems are the spike.
sorry about that; honestly not flame-baiting. I do generally think that better ad targeting means, well, an advertising copy that is more relevant to the actual end-user. As opposed to sending a totally irrelevant and wrongly targeted and offensive message to the wrong person. But I also do think the issue is around the balancing of privacy needs--and that's a tricky balancing act. TLDR: not trying to flame-bait, but I can see how it might have come across as such
No discussion of sample sizes or P values? I convinced, I will refuse to stand within inches of a 5G base station for 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off, for 10 hours a day.
There's a hypocrisy intrinsic in claiming that OxyContin is too dangerously addictive to go generic but still pushing it in under-saturated markets. It's the disregard of human life/experience innate in this line of behavior.
Until the brand starts to represent another thing.