skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About point number (4)

I don't think anyone said you have psychologists on call. Slot machines have
been around for hundreds of years. Obviously, someone has figured out how to
best make them work. The industry clearly has the know-how to make addictive
games that hook players in: if it didn't, then its machines would not be as
addictive as they are. Unless we want to pretend the machines got so addictive
by chance, alone.

About point number (2)

I really don't get what you mean here. Do you mean industry employees are
gamblers themselves, or that they gamble as part of their job? I'd appreciate
a clarification.

About point number (5)

I don't gabmle and I've never played any slots. The reason for this is that I
can tell there's no way to come on top. If I play slots and win more than the
house wins, then the house is losing money. So for slots machines to be
profitable, players have to lose moeny. And if they weren't profitable, there
wouldn't be any of them around. Since there are, it must mean players lose
their money.

So the people who gamble on slots either: (a) don't realise they can't win, or
(b) can't help themselves despite knowing.

That doesn't sound to me like an activity in which informed, responsible
adults engage.
What Can You Do with ARKit and What Apps Are Using It?
Read the the rest of the fantasizing comments and try to find something ethical in having control over the personal data of millions of people.
I don't think the "physical build quality" is treated objectively at all. Instead it is all subjective. Take the material of the phone - "glass/aluminium is expensive to build this precisely, therefore it is a luxury experience". But on any actual objective measurements of physical properties - scratch resistance, weight, toughness - these materials are pretty poor compared to some alternatives.

However, the alternatives like eg. polycarbonate plastic are perceived as "cheap" even though they may be better from a specifications point of view.
This guy has been trying to spread doubt about bitfinex for a long time, but never has much to back it up. A few months ago he went on a big campaign against Tether (tokens associated with Bitfinex), claiming they were created out of thin air. Tether then completed and released an audit by a professional, accredited team of their bank balances (1). I don't personally use Bitfinex, and it's possible some of these accusations are at least partially true, but there's really no evidence to confirm that. Don't buy into this type of FUD without doing your own research.

Some of the claims he makes are disingenuous. Bitcoin Gold has nothing to do with Bitfinex, and is listed on a number of exchanges. It's definitely a pretty sketchy project, but it was a BTC fork and users tend to dislike when their exchange keeps forked tokens to themselves. EOS/IOTA are big projects with large market caps and real teams. Did some weird accounting happen after the Bitfinex hack? Maybe. Did most of the people end up getting their money back? Yes. Does it matter now? Not really. This is the largest BTC exchange (by volume) in the world. They generate tens of millions of revenue from exchange fees every month. There's no clear reason for them to engage in any weird, illegal money schemes at this point, they already have a money printing factory.

https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Final-Tether-Co...
That assumes there's an immediate withdraw method on the exchange with higher rates.

MTGox abused the latency of withdraws in an attempt to attract BTC desposits (after their original deposits were stolen) on their exchange and presumably sell those back for cash via other outlets to slowly pay off customers and appear solvent.

MTGox also manipulated the market with trader bots.

https://willyreport.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/the-willy-repor...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/29/bitcoin-b...
No, I think the 42% tax-rate is kind of a differential: i.e. any additional EUR you get is taxed by 42%, but the euros below 52,882 € are taxed by less.

Running the tax calculator here:

http://www.brutto-netto-rechner.info/

it says you get 3.275,61 € after tax for 5000 € / month.

However, that already covers all the insurance costs, health insurance, insurance against loss of employment and pension insurance.

And health insurance in germany is a "real" insurance that won't try to get rid of you in case you get severely ill (cancer etc.). Even includes compensatory payments in case you're unfit for work (although your employer may have the right to terminate you if there is no chance of you recovering)
To make matters worse, after all this effort to hook players in with a promise of a win just around the corner, it seems that casinos often don't pay up when players win big. Instead, they blame jackpots on malfunctions.

Three cases of this from Ars:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/1-4-million-jack...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/sorry-maam-you-d...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/sorry-grandma-th...

The incomprehensible thing is that courts have stood behind the casinos in such cases.
I'm extremely envious of anyone who can tolerate those horrific climates, I'll remain unhappy in bay area until I can find a better climate to escape to.
SQLite wins in one area that can be crucial -- simplicity. PostgreSQL is a fantastic and robust database, and it's FTS capabilities are almost certainly good-enough (especially if you consider SQLite's to be good-enough), but it is necessarily complex to support the amount of robustness it offers.

SQLite offers a fraction of the robustness of Postgres, but that difference is not necessarily reflected in the correctness/speed of a simple full text search capability meant to support auto-complete (as in the article). Unfortunately I don't have number to back up this assertion, but I'd be very surprised if SQLite FTS was even 10x slower, maybe someone should do that comparison, I'll put it down and make a humble attempt at comparing these two approaches someday.
Every time I needed anything delivered from Ikea it was actually far cheaper to rent a Hertz van(they always have a rental place at every ikea over here) for 2-4 hours and just deliver everything myself. The total cost of the van rental was less than the delivery charge, and I didn't have to wait 1-2 weeks just to get a delivery time slot.
> Now is the case of Bitfinex suffered from a hack like Mt. Gox and are trying to stay afloat.

They were hacked few years ago.
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I'd say "I make $200,000/mo" sounds cooler.
Pytest with Mixer [1] really lowers the barrier to entry.

[1] https://mixer.readthedocs.io
Depends on your plan for life.

Do you want to become financially independent, move back to Pakistan, and retire early? A couple of years in Dubai seems like a good choice.

Do you want to move to Europe for its infrastructure, healthcare, culture, etc? Berlin is great!
> I don’t see computers having a survival pressure point similar to water/food/shelter that they directly have to address.

A program will run if its controllers get value from running it.

If the programs become more complex, such as AGIs or emulated minds, they may have enough self-knowledge to take this into account.

Zack Davis wrote a poem about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/LessWrongLounge/comments/2e9w5a/wha...
That is a realy good question. I don't know whether there is a clear answer. How come efficient passionate startups eventually end up as rent-seeking slothful bureaucratic mega-corporations. When does that 'start' to happen?

It is not just 'cargo-cult' or 'enterprise-envy'. I think it goes deeper. My current feeling is that middle management is something that is naturally lurking in the wings, and expresses itself the moment the overhead can be carried. Caricatured: Bottom up there's people looking for a way to escape 'working at the coalface', and start the innate pecking order/ hierarchy battles. Top down there is the desire of the owner to create some distance, and in many cases also the latent idea that if some proficiencies could be isolated into a single specialist, the remaining 'resources' could be sourced cheaper. It self reinforces since as 'overhead' the middle management layer crates make-work to assert its existence. Furthermore, it asserts the 'company as a value funnel', since it is a model that disemancipates each individual making sure they can't easily venture out on their own.

So the middle management pattern could be an expression waiting to happen as a result of natural forces, not as a result of direct 'needs' or 'efficiency' in value creation in its own right, but just for the sake of 'enterprise creation' itself.
Twitter pledges to fix 'error' that hides bisexual search results
I got the same notification
The credit card charge I don't mind so much. Budget airlines are understandably concerned about margins, and the 1% they charge is lower than what I understand prevailing credit card handling commissions to be. (Assuming that there is a 1%-free debit card option, of course. If not, then that's just a 1% margin booster in the guise of something else.)
Refinable functions, used for constructing wavelets and subdivision schemes, seem similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinable_function and https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.2453
Agreed - the 3v3 thing can be a bit of a pain if you've got a collection of Arduino 5v-friendly bits, but not insurmountable.

Big warning I'd make, though, is that the D1 has two revisions - the R1 (rarely described as such of course), and the R2.

You definitely want the R2. However, many ebay vendors are still selling R1's.
Do you agree that 'problem' or 'compulsive' gambling (Wiki: "an urge to gamble continuously despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop") is (a) real, (b) responsible for a significant portion of your industry's profits, and (c) responsible for a great deal of human misery?

If you agree that it is real, what distinction are you drawing between compulsive gambling and gambling addiction, and why is that distinction important?
Some negative sides that a bit ruined Berlin for me:

don't speak German?
-> you'll receive bad service almost everywhere
-> you won't get in to a lot of good clubs etc.

don't look like German?
-> you'll get stares
-> you'll be second rate / tourist / something

like drugs? like to party from 01AM to the afternoon of the next day?
-> you'll love it

like sightseeing / going to the "best" places?
-> everything's spread around a pretty big area
-> you'll take the train / taxi / bus pretty often

like pretty buildings?
-> in general, Berlin is ugly and crude. Except for the rich people areas and some places in downtown.

Partying two days without sleeping in the same club with a wide variety of substances is normal. There are weird sex club party thingies. There are ug techno parties with all kinds of debauchery. There are parks with more drug dealers than other people. Definitely not conservative, but somewhat xenophobic.
What was the predictable reason?
Out of interest, could you support MySQL? Or more specifically MemSQL?
Still.. going from 4000 to 1500 is hard to justify. Personally I think he will be very disappointed (not only for financial reasons).
> 5) its a voluntery activity. There are lots of people who enjoy the activity, the excitement, the thrill, etc and they’re responsible enough to only wager less than the cost of a theatre ticket. Sometimes they finish the night with more money than they brought in. Its a regulated activity for adults.

I'm not really sure that it's voluntary. My last several trips to Vegas I was surprised by the new number of pamphlets placed just about everywhere around the casinos (probably by law) that state in very short and simple terms how bad your odds of winning are and that gambling is not meant for making money, but it doesn't seem to stop the wave of sad stories in any way - there's an addictive quality to the games, the same that keeps kids spending hundreds or thousands on loot boxes in games.

It's predatory, and yes, the gambler themselves do need to make the effort to show restraint, it's not really something that's easily controlled for a lot of the population. I'd posit that those who are able to take the hit of a loss have the same problem and addiction as those who can't take the hit of a loss; they're chasing the same high and the same result, it's just that one has a more generous buffer for failure than the other. Both are equally susceptible to over-spending.
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I used to have a similar background (single, no GF, no night life), Indian based in UAE.

I came to London as a developer about 14 years ago! Now married (an Indian), children here, British Citizen, etc. Travel to UAE almost every year en route to India, etc.

My advice:
- You are the right age and no responsibility to explore the world, so that is worth considering.

- Also, think long term, you can't make moves everyday. Will you be happy if one thing leads to another and you live in Germany for the rest of your life with children, etc?

- I miss my extended family in the UAE but meet frequently as its much more common for people to fly around these days.
5000 euros is just the start. There are plenty of software companies in Europe and lots of opportunities.

Long term pension, medical and schooling for kids, much more stable & much more opportunities than UAE. Taxes pay for themselves. However, in UAE with new vat and growing hidden taxes are high. You can even buy a house and it is like living rent free! The rents in Dubai are high and buying for long term is not recommended.

Longer term you can even look at moving to London if you like to stay in a English speaking country.
How many times do you need to see a stewardess on a 3 to 5 hour flight though? What do you need from them during that time? I'm not sure what you're expecting from them.
I think you will make like minded friends in Berlin and be happier. I also like to be alone but really I'm just not interested in what most people I meet are interested in (and vice versa).
This is from [2014] and contains outdated information. Can someone update the headline?

As posted elsewhere, we now have vim 8, ALE instead of Syntastic, fzf/fzy instead of ctrl-p, and more.
I don’t know a single non team lead SWE in Germany earning six digits. And most find it quite difficult to go higher 60k
They stole 15% of every users Bitcoin Cash, it was suppose to be a 1:1 split, but since they don't like bitcoin cash and lists it as bcash, that might be reason why, I expect more "technical difficulties" during the next fork

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitfinex-bitcoin-cash-deposits-with...
> Tether is not used by Bitfinex heavily

Tether is issued by Bitfinex-related company. There is no reason for USA to stockpile US dollars if they can print it. China would be the biggest client of US dollar and first place at dollar richlist.
> As an MIT alum, I don't see a ton of value in competing over whose classes were the hardest.

There are many schools around the world with much harder and more technology intensive curriculum than MIT. If you disagree with that statement, then you do see "value in competing over whose classes were the hardest." If you do not disagree with that statement, then you must agree that the "MIT experience" you describe can be gotten in many schools other than MIT. F.e, I also worked 10+ h/day 7 days/week year round at university and also felt that getting A grades were impossible.

I think the professor is making a great point by comparing math to sports. Yes, you can go to a sports university but you don't have to. The way to get good at it is by busting your ass of (and having good genetics). It's your own effort that counts, not the name of the institution, imho.
[best $1 microcontroller] returns it on top.
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A small year ago I developed guldenrate.com and stratisrate.com out of the demand for a cryptocurrency tracker with a simple, clean interface. The past year I was able to welcome thousands of crypto enthusiasts to these pages, so I decided to scale it up. Today I launch Moonstats.com, which is an easy to use cryptocurrency price tracker aimed at basic crypto users.

I’d love to hear HN’s opinion on this thing. All suggestions and feedback is much appreciated.
How about this for a website:
https://beakerbrowser.com/

The Beaker Browser! P2P browser, bringing back (the web and) websites since 2017
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Също като възрастните, децата имат нужда от дрехи, и то много. Вашите любими малчугани растат с всеки изминал ден и това поражда постоянната нужда от нови детски дрехи. С толкова различни предложения, стилове и модели, купуването на детски дрехи може да се превърне в трудна и времеемка задача. Затова, ние искаме да Ви помогнем в успешното избиране на детски дрехи, които най-добре да подхождат на вашето дете.
При купуването на детски дрехи има определени правила, които трябва да следвате. Не се притеснявайте, екипът на Точици е тук и ще ви помогне във вашето начинание.
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You need to get used to launching
Reddit and HN are very old school. I made the switch from Usenet to messaging boards and then reddit.
Rust wasn't a stable language until much later, when we (DO) were already pretty far along in our Go practice.
Also just seems like "bat cave" (animal) vs "bat cage" (sport). poe + shavs forms its own context.

Google is really good at that. I can't use DDG for programming because DDG thinks I want to learn more about Elm trees.
That's a bit like saying you don't understand the difference between cars and airplanes because they both just forms of transport that get you from one place to another. Mainframes and distributed servers both provide networked services, but the ways they achieve that and the pros and cons of those solutions are very different.
Moved to Berlin 4 years ago as a software developer under similar conditions like yours.

Things I like:
- Berlin is nice city to live in, cheap to transport (bike, shared bikes/cars, nice public transport)

- very cheap and good quality basic groceries - meat, dairies, pastry is really cheap with great basic quality and you can always go for organic and more expensive variants, cheap restaurants and bars, relatively inexpensive housing

- Berlin has decent flight connections around Europe + easily reachable Amsterdam, Prague, Copenhagen by car

- No crazy workaholic culture (nothing compared to the US), lot of holidays and taking a sick leave is easy and covered by law, 8 hours of work per day

- Nice engineering meetups and community

Things I dislike:
- getting a decent apartment might be really difficult now days, even more difficult than getting a job

- Berlin is not so visually pleasing

- sometimes it's difficult if you dont speak german well

- winter is not so cold but very dark and grey
Yes, but the trick with it is pricing it so that I have a reason to use it instead of just using RDS.

If I could get something like that on Digital Ocean I’d be all over it.
That's because you never actually use them, other than for interviews (sad but true). Happens to me too, I used to know many back at school, and now I can recall just those that I use for work at least once in a 6 months or so. For everything else I usually remember some basics, but just barely enough to be able to quickly google what I need. And then you just refresh the memory when needed. It's like back in the days when hdd were expensive, so we all were zipping our files when not used to save space - and then you unpack them when you need them :)
This article is the second result in DDG for `survey of microcontrollers` - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=survey+of+microcontrollers&t=ffcm&...
Just think about someone needs to stroll around Walmart and find all these 4000 items each month chosen meticulously, buy them, store them, package them and ship them. Then there is a classic and dreaded inventory problem. The items you bought from Walmart has no guarantee that they will get sold by same day, week or even a month. It's not hard to imagine that you will need 2X inventory and many of these items may go unsold in long tail easily wiping out significant profits.
Make sure to also run a test with multiple threads concurrently interacting with SQLite.

Due to SQLite's exclusive locking mechanism, this causes actual issues with concurrent writes and reads.
But even if a computer needs, for example, electricity, does it really want it the same way we do need oxygen?
If we don't breathe, there's an unconscious impulse to do so, and we know that not breathing leads to death, which for us is pretty much the end of the road. None of those points are valid for a machine, since they don't have a subconscious mind and if they're off they can always be turned back on again.
> Definition and equality are really the same thing. A definition is just an introduction of a term/variable, and an equality giving it a value. So the only difference is if a term in the equation hasn't been introduced yet.

In CS we talk about l-values and r-values. Only an l-value can be assigned to, but you can compare r-values for equality. So there is a solid distinction there between types of expression which is upheld in programming languages.
If you mean the "Right to be Forgotten", you should know that there is a clear difference between censorship and this ruling.

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets...
> don't speak German? -> you'll receive bad service almost everywhere -> you won't get in to a lot of good clubs etc.

> don't look like German? -> you'll get stares -> you'll be second rate / tourist / something

That depends on the corner of Berlin though.

There are plenty of user groups, technical meetups, hackerspaces, makerspaces:

c-base, Chaos Computer Club, Linux User Groups, JavaScript/Python/Haskell/PHP/... User Groups, Free Software Foundation local group, Wikipedia/Wikimedia stuff, Makerspaces, ...

Every evening more than one to choose from.

At those place - essentially, at every slightly nerdy place - everybody will try their best to talk to English with you, or the meetup will have English language and presentations in the first place, anyway. And people from different corners of the world are seen there as enriching and interesting people to talk with.
Once AI can program new AI, then we've got something. This isn't it.
I don't look German, speak German or do clubbing. My experience in Berlin has always been pleasant. I find Berliners (especially the under 35s) welcoming and friendly for the most part. Warm even.. in their odd German way.

Ymmv
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Super low or super high/slow?
Even if you are doing this with redis, there are two far better methods of doing it - with lexical ranges, or with RediSearch's autocomplete, which is way more powerful - uses a compact trie, has fuzzy matching with a Levenshtein automaton, scoring, payloads, etc. See http://redisearch.io/Commands/#ftsugget (Full disclosure: I'm the author of that project)
Yeah, for the queries I tested with it returned the exact same results as Yahoo (which in turn gets its results from Bing).

The auto-completions are also very limited, no long tail suggestions at all.

They also seem to use Elasticsearch from looking at their job postings, but mostly the focus for hiring seems to be on front-end and scripting.