skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Betable handles all of the gambling, so game companies working with us do not need licenses. This is a key piece of our value proposition: licenses cost millions of dollars and take years to acquire.

As for the revenue share, given the cost of licenses (mentioned above), and the significant increase in revenue that could come from real-money gambling, we think this is appropriate. Remember that we employ and manage the legal, fraud and compliance aspects of gambling that make it so expensive and time consuming. Also, this revenue share only applies to gambling revenue. Your IAP and ad revenue remains your own.
brilliant app!
Two suggestions:

I think your list of users/referring websites, etc. would be much better with pagination rather than infinite scroll.

also clicking on the # of users next to a country - should open a popup with a filtered list of users (which should be downloadable as a CSV by itself).
To bad it doesn't run on Linux...
This is awesome.

I was just about to write a basic referral system for my site but this looks like it fits the bill.

I'm going to give it a try.
I had a few questions about the actual implementation of this stuff. I took the coursera ML course, so much of the terminology and techniques are familiar after that, but Professor Ng structured the exercises in the course around Matlab/Octave and suggested using one of these tools for a first-pass solution when implementing machine learning problems.

Have you used Matlab much in your work? How does the performance (and libraries available) compare with Python?

Also, does anyone know a good resource for finding good, high performance ML libraries for other languages (Ruby, C++, etc.)?
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"I'm feeling lucky" is no longer usable for most people as Google Instant shows the first page of results as soon as you start typing (unless you have javascript disabled). Back in the day I don't recall using it for much either than Google bombed results as a joke (ex: searching for "french military victories")
It's fairly easy to change a T-shirt. Whether or not anyone agrees with his appearance or not being relevant, he wasn't photographed in the audience at the conference or up on stage.

He posed for a photograph in a hotel.

Even if he didn't have a spare shirt, the gift shop in a hotel generally does. That's if he had thought of that issue. No problem with telling the photographer you had to change. Even if they noted that in the story it's the picture that's worth 1000 words.

I had a story done a number of years ago and they sent a photographer to the office. I took several hours to arrange everything to get a good setup for the photo. It paid off. The photo was good and the photo editor liked and made it the centerpoint of a story where many people were quoted. It ran all over in syndication. My point is simply it's important to think ahead when the media comes knocking. (Along those lines hmm, maybe he did the right thing with that t-shirt publicity wise).

In any case people can now learn from the "nitpick" and decide for themselves if they are ever in the spotlight what they want to do.
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That's not entirely accurate. We needed to control the number of attendees to accomodate the venue's space constraints. We set aside 100 tickets, 50 male and 50 female. The male tickets sold out first, then the women's. We then opened up the waitlist in batches as people changed their RSVPs.

Eventbrite made this pretty confusing, as you can't waitlist more than 1 type of ticket (e.g. we couldn't waitlist male and female tickets). We'll come up with a better system for the next one.
What a tech blog post about a startup should include, according to me
Ask HN:How to setup a landing page to collect info. from a niche group
I would like to start an Appsumo like web portal which will provide ridiculously cheap deals on instruments and lab kits to a bunch of people in a particular niche group. Say for the people who are in universities and Govt. organizations doing physics and astronomy. However, I have no technical background(coding) for launching a good landing page which can collect email address from these niche groups. Also I have no business experience how to collect enough numbers of email address to start with.So here are my questions.

Q1. How should I set up a landing page to collect required information.Should I go with any landing page template off the shelf to test the idea or hire a freelance developer to do it?

Q2. 1. How do I go out and collect large number of email addresses from a particular niche group?

Thanks.
The early guys at apple have said the same thing.
Alot of the stories Andy Hertzfeld wrote on www.folklore.org describe pretty well how much of a "genius" Steve was.

edit: here's a good one. http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... by Date&detail=medium
I like the looks of this.

Any chance of a read-only demo to poke around in?
Many simple products are made completely by machine yet have been coming for a long time from places like China. Sometimes it is due to the Chinese owning better machines (e.g. mills in China are generally more advance than their counterparts in America).

3D printers are probably going to be a boost for Mexico and low cost countries in Europe. That is if they get their act together.
I can understand that people are worried. But for anyone who reads this who fall in the worried category, I usually ask for at least 20%-30% more. Asking for just a tiny increase has never been something I'd even consider. There are situations I might settle for an increase in that range if the original offer was high enough, but I'd certainly ask for more than that. If asking for an increase that low is rocking the boat, there will be other problems with that employer...

A counter-intuitive trick for those who have trouble getting offers and/or worry about talking up their offers: Look for jobs below your desired salary range.

Most people look for jobs where any stated salary range match what they expect based on past experience - I see that in candidates for jobs I hire for all the times. Most candidates fit squarely within the range.

If you look for jobs slightly lower, it will often mean you interview against less skilled candidates than yourself. As long as you can convince the hiring manager you're not overqualified and looking to leave as soon as possible, it significantly increases your chances of an offer.

Once you have an offer, if you stand out skills wise, you'll be in a far stronger position to ask for more, even if you're asking for more than their salary range - everyone will have "invested" in you as their preferred choice, and standing out in terms of skills makes it easier to justify to HR to offer even beyond the top end of the range, sometimes beyond what they'd planned on stretching to.

I've seen this work from both sides of the table - psychologically it's hard to give up what is seen as a great deal, even when the other side makes the deal less and less attractive (by bumping up the salary requirements), and in the end people (on both ends) tend to be happier with deals where they've had to negotiate.
That's incorrect cellis. Betable is handling all gambling, so any gambling-related legal risk (such as US customers gambling) is strictly our problem. This is why we have advanced geolocation, IP and identity checks.
There has been quite a debate in the wake of this, and the our anti-terror institution have admitted that no increase of power and knowledge of their part would likely not have done a big difference. It is apparently extremely difficult to detect people working completely on their own, almost regardless of resources.

Some of the focus in the debate has been more about how to avoid people ending up with value systems (or mental disease) that permit and promote such horrible violence.
How is Mailchimp $200 / 10,000 emails? With their monthly plans you send unlimited (to a limited number of people in your list).
This thread will likely get a million "us too" style posts but Redis is core infrastructure at Shopify. It's been so solid that we recently waived our defensive requirements that the app remains working if Redis goes down. This allowed us to port our inventory reservation system (a huge point of potential lock contention) completely to the new server sided LUA scripts. We have seen a full order of magnitude speed increase from this. A reservation for a complicated order is now measured in µs instead of ms.
libxml2 http://www.xmlsoft.org/
XML parser, used a lot, so probably well coded.
Likely smaller code-size than some of the more famous gnu products.

zlib http://zlib.net/
zip library, used a lot, so ... hmm same thing as above.

zlib contains both zip-specific logic (which maybe hard to understand if you don't know how compression works), and also IO-logic which is pretty straight forward.
Twipix: A web magazine about Olympics made from Twitter.
I did plan to wear the shirt; I felt it injected a bit of fun into something that, frankly, is scary as hell.
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you take your best people wherever you go. Especially when they're your friends.
The problem with the Grace Hooper example is that she is from back when programming was still considered a "secretarial" and "womanly" profession. Software Engineering has become a more male-dominated since then and the percentage of women has gone down.
You'll also want to implement some defense against short-term replay attacks (i.e. before the token expires).

You could include a sequence number in the token, but this, of course, involves a database write, which is what you were trying to avoid in the first place.

A better approach would be to store in the database the time that the user's password was last changed, and refuse to honor any reset tokens that are timestamped prior to that time.
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I liked the existing SatNav in my Prius for this. I could split the display, the left hand side showing the 3D turn-by-turn navigation view, and the right showing a top down, north-oriented view. On longer trips, I'd also zoom the right map all the way out to show start and end, so I could visualize the entire trip.
Thanks for the suggestions! Will plan them for future iterations.
Such aggressive usage of the test data set in determining the tuning parameters in effect makes your test data set part of your training data set.

The more times you go back to your test data set to evaluate the effectiveness of a model, the more optimistic your error predictions will be and the greater your chance of overfitting. Several iterations of his loop will probably improve the model, but if you keep repeating it eventually the true model performance will start to degrade.
The first paragraph explains the context of the article:

A telling moment in the presidential race came recently when Barack Obama said: "If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." He justified elevating bureaucrats over entrepreneurs by referring to bridges and roads, adding: "The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all companies could make money off the Internet."

This seems designed to discredit Obama's claim that the government performs useful functions. The WSJ was acquired by Rupert Murdoch a few years ago (Fox News). Since then, the editorial page has been politicized.
Very soon, stay tuned!
I second that, I like the product and would love a demo.
I imagine it's based on their pay-as-you-go plan.
A lot of other offers I had gotten at the time didn't budge after the initial offer, and they hadn't been as good as the one I accepted. I do see your point, though.
Ha, you can see the teal trend getting stronger in the 2000s. I wonder why the colorfulness of 1919-1921 was so quickly reverted?
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Understood. Makes sense.

It almost seems like they are preparing YouTube for some TV displacement role they hope it will play in the future. It's not just funny cat videos anymore.. you can watch live concerts, rent movies, watch lectures or even broadcast your own content live via hangouts. I'm not sure where the real name initiative fits into here, though.
Yeah, let's compare the president of the most powerful country with 300M+ people with a president from a country who's total GDP is less than some of our billionaires. Makes a lot of sense.

Can we please stop the USA hating around here?
> Is it just me or does all this talk about women in tech and efforts to balance things out (artificially) just devalue what good work women engineers are doing?

It's just you. No one is asking to accept sub-par work.
Research Firm Correlates Spending on Lobbying with Stock Market Performance
I agree. As people move up, there often lurks a desire to "get the band back together."
New Google Nexus packaging sucks
Why is this still an issue with packaging. I can't open half the shit I purchase
Creatief en veilig speelgoed voor kinderen
Yep, I've definitely seen that. I bet if I were to reserve a portion of the dataset for validation after all tuning, I'd get a much better measure of it's actual ability at prediction. Using it in the way that I did, I wouldn't be surprised if there was significant overfitting. In fact I'd be surprised if there wasn't.
Very cool! What are your plans for licensing this if someone wanted to build it into their product?
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Pop culture has more traction than ancient history does.
Just remembered Forrest Gump.
So what youre saying is that its entirely accurate?
True, using the pay as you go price is slightly bogus because I'm sure most people sending newsletters would be better off with a monthly plan. But it depends on how frequently you send messages, I guess. The monthly price is still $75/mo (and at 10,001 addresses it's $150/mo).
I used to prototype with Octave but I actually find I"m much faster in python. I push my tests to EC2 and just use cProfile to make sure I'm not doing anything silly before hand. I parallelize with celery, but I've also used pp with some limited success. Performance is sufficient for my needs currently but not for production or real-time.
I got that prompt recently and I want to emphasize just how obnoxious it is. I'm still really angry about this.

I wanted to quickly fire off a comment, something I almost never do. Instead, and completely unexpectedly, I get a scary modal dialog "Start using your full name on YouTube". Really, that's bad enough as it is. I didn't interact in a way that'd make me expect any kind of dialog (e.g. logging in/out or a major account modification). And there is no easy way to dismiss the dialog without making a decision, no X in a corner, clicking the background does nothing. Also really, really bad. Opening another YouTube window doesn't help, either, you just get another copy of the dialog.

But the reaction to declining the request -- which is the non-default, non-highlighted option -- is just outrageous. Instead of simply going away silently, or maybe telling me where to activate the feature if I change my mind, it tells me it'll show my real name anyway, but just in a preview mode that's only visible to me, if I just click the default, highlighted button. That's not exactly the opposite of what I wanted it to do when I declined their unprovoked offer, but it's pretty damn close. And again, there is no easy way out, you have to chose a reason why you dare refuse them, with none of the options being "I decline to answer" or "Go to hell"; the closest thing being "I'm not sure, I'll decide later", which I chose and which I expect will just mean I'll be assaulted again in the near future.

This is the kind of hostile user experience I expect on cheap travel websites and other scummy parts of the net, but not on a Google property and certainly not on a website I visit a lot.
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For simple tasks. Identifying thousands of different products by sight alone in infinite numbers of configurations at varying light levels/obstruction? Humans are best.
You can split it into training, validation, and test sets if you have enough data. Then, the validation set would be used for the training. Presumably by using a genetic algorithm, he isn't going for a perfect fit, which may help avoid overfitting.
You don't lock the bolt or the chain mechanism when you stay in a hotel room? Or are you saying they bypassed those also?
Is this run/authorized/curated by YC/pg et al or are you just hijacking the brand name to promote a third-party podcast?
Ask HN: What are your 5 essentials news source, daily?
Apart from HN, twitter or reddit, there are any 5 news source you read everyday? Or at least any week?

I'm asking this because sometimes I feel a little bit overwhelmed with all the news source I have, and would like to crop it down to 5.
The Problem With Reviews
You are missing the point of the second amendment. The second amendment isn't about making sure we get to keep firearms for the sake of having them.

The purpose of the second amendment is to protect the right of a free people to protect themselves. This includes self-defense, but is not limited to it. Understand the context in which the Bill of Rights was written. We had just fought a long war to overthrow British rule. This meant ordinary people, farmers and craftsmen, took up and used their personal firearms.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

In the language of the day, a well regulated Militia means a well prepared body of men 18-55.

What the founders were saying was that for this country to remain free, all able-bodied persons must have access to a means for the personal defense of their freedoms: firearms.

The second amendment is critical to freedom because it enables free people to defend individual or collective freedom from tyranny. It enshrines a method of last resort when all else fails (as it did in the American colonies on April 19, 1775).
Very cool. I've been waiting for someone to add a layer on SES for sending newsletters instead of transactional emails.

The only bummer with SES for serious newsletter folks is that you can't get a dedicated IP address.
OK. Here's another approach. You offload the task into a separate queue that doesn't even run the task immediately.
At least, higher. If you were in the business of robbing hotel rooms, I'm sure a onetime fee wouldn't be much of a barrier. Keep the small-time thieves at bay though.
Before you bash my head against a hard surface for lazy UI/Design and horrific language mistakes, this was done over the course of 2 hours last night at about 3am.

The premise is simple: We all know how to move our stuff when we move apartments, and yet the business of moving is booming all over the world.

Same thing with this company; You might know how to move your site from one hosting to another, but you don't want to do it yourself, or your not knowledgeable enough to do it in the first place.

Enter Move My Web — A company dedicated to make moving from one hosting to another as painless as possible. Want to upgrade to a newer CMS? We're the address. Want to switch from GoDaddy to MediaTemple? We're the address. Need a new website design and a personal blog from scratch? Not us, sorry.

Simple: We Move Websites. Personal or corporate, easy or complex, static or dynamic. We'll do it quickly, efficiently, and we'll care for your data's integrity and security, and make sure that not only you'll call us again next time, but bring all your friends to us when they need to move.

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Very early stage as you can see, but I wanted to get it out there before I lock it up in some "projects" folder to never be seen again by any human.

With the little research that I've done, there are hundreds of "How To" guides on this subject, but no one is actually doing anything in this space, and I personally needed this kind of service a few times in the past, and lost some of my data to my own negligence, and I genuinely feel that this kind of service is missing from the web.

It's simply no brainer, hire professional operators to do their stuff over the wire working from anywhere on earth, getting paid in any method they chose (Bitcoin for example is going to be one of the methods), working on their own time and taking the jobs that they feel comfortable with.

I'm not referring to a marketplace, but to a bunch of cherry picked quality employees that love this kind of work, and want to do it full time or as an additional income.

Hiring: CEO, CMO, graphics design, client-side dev, server-side dev (pick one: Python/NodeJS/PHP), Linux sys-admin, wordpress/drupal/magento devs, linux operators.

Comments, remarks, heavy flying objects are all welcome.
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Android game goes free due to 'unbelievably high' piracy rate
There's plenty of blue in 1919-21, but it disappears for the following decades. Either the data is seriously biased or something happened here.
You, briandear, and refurb are painting with broad strokes where a more nuanced view might provide more insight. See the Reynolds, Kolodziej paper [1]. It was a complex situation with many factors.

I was curious about your claim, so I did some cursory digging to compare defense spend against potential oil export revenue. "Potential" because I can't find evidence the USSR exported before 1990.

According to some inflation-adjusted data I found [2], from 1980-1990 (approximately the period everyone is likely discussing here), in real terms the $/bbl dropped from $104.49 to $40.67. At this point the analysis of your claim becomes rather challenging. According to the US EIA [3], the USSR had no import/export figures to report prior to 1992. What we have left is to posit their total imputed revenue loss upon all production, and guess at their losses from various barter-like trades they performed for the oil. I'd appreciate it if anyone had more accurate data (unfortunately, Wolfram Alpha doesn't have this kind of data).

Assume for the sake of discussion you were right, and the Saudis pushed down the price of oil from 1980-1990. How much did this cost the USSR in lost oil production revenue? I pulled total production numbers from an US EIA spreadsheet [4]. By my calculations (I'll post the spreadsheet to a Google Docs if anyone is really interested in pursuing this), it is $2.2375E+12 USD in real terms, or $2.2T in round numbers. Even if the USSR consumed 50% and exported the rest in swap trades, that is still $1.1T over 10 years.

Taking refurb's numbers on defense spend and assuming an equal distribution across 10 years of $13.2B extra per year, or $132B over 10 years for the US. Even if we assume the USSR kept pace with that spending, or even doubled, you are right, the potential export losses on USSR oil dwarf the defense spending. If I were Russian, I'd want a Putin at the head of the table in a geopolitical climate that engineers that kind of machination, too. If this was engineered as some claim, it is one of the greatest untold stories of market manipulation and geopolitical chutzpah of astonishing scale.

Here is where it gets interesting and I can't connect the dots to tie up your theory. If you look at the US EIA figures [5], Saudi Arabian production dropped from 1980-1985. That is not consistent with the theory that Saudi Arabia pushed down prices during that period, as one would expect them to flood the market to accomplish a price decline.

I'm intrigued to hear other explanations of what caused that precipitous price decline in the 1980-1990 period that would be consistent with the available data.

[1] http://people.bu.edu/marek/FSU_Oil_Decline.pdf

[2] http://inflationdata.com/inflation/inflation_rate/historical...

[3] http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=RS&tr...

[4] http://www.eia.gov/ipm/supply.html

[5] http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=SA#pet
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