skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But casino gambling--including slot machines--has almost nothing to do with chance. You are as certain as can be to lose if you play long enough.

With betting on things like the Scottish referendum there is a chance for an informed bettor to best the game, and people actually do this. There have been cases in Canada of people making a living on sports betting, to the extent that they got in trouble with Canada Revenue over whether their winnings were due to "chance" or "skill" (which are taxed differently.)

Bookies cannot be experts on everything, so particularly for a one-off like Scottish independence the odds of an informed bettor making money are not bad.

So the comparison of gambling behaviour depends very much on the kind of gambling being done. If it is conventional casino gambling it is simply losers paying to lose--the converse outcome is simply too low probability to be worth mentioning (for comparison: sure... it's possible to jump out of an aircraft without a parachute and survive, but it isn't an eventually anyone ever takes into account when faced with the practical choice, so it isn't clear why anyone takes into account the possibility of being a winner when faced with the choice of casino gambling.)

In sports betting and betting on odd-ball events, on the other hand, it is at least theoretically possible for a well-informed bettor to win (but realistically: you are probably not that bettor, so it pays to be very cautious and never, ever bet more than you can afford to lose, because you will sometimes lose.)
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The odds are so long on lotteries that it's not really the same experience and can't result in some of the same problems.

People don't borrow $10,000 to buy Powerball tickets so they can chase their losses, but they do for types of gambling where there's a good chance of winning in one night, like poker or sports betting. Even the terminology is different: you 'buy lottery tickets' instead of 'wagering on the lottery', reflecting the feeling that the money is spent and you don't expect a return.
Sebastian Mallory's More Money than God is another book worth looking into for a broad overview of the history of hedge funds.
It seems more like a proof of concept, not something meant to be feasible.
> 1) How much do labor costs impact overall profitability?

Well in this case a lot. Competitors were able to produce better quality cars at the same price point, since they didn't have approximately $3000 in extra overhead.

> 2) There may be advantages to paying workers well in salary and benefits.

There are advantages and there are good examples for this, but it depends on the industry, the culture, the location as well and a lot of other factors.

> 3) You weren't addressing this aspect, but certainly there are advantages to the workers, who I have no reason to be less sympathetic with than management, and in some ways to society.

Then why did Detroit fail?
Seems pretty accurate.

Saying that, take a trip to A&E (ER) on a weekend and see if you still think it's too much fun.
Might be interesting to bring up the Piet esoteric programming language: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
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"fortune of about $1.5 billion in !today’s! dollars."
Apple to Shut Down or Re-Brand Beats Music?
Beats are not premium headphones, they just sell at those prices. At best they are comparable to maybe a sub $100 studio monitor set, and that $100 is also a retail price, not a cost. An actually good set of headphones in the $300 range (like Grado SR325e, Sennheiser HD600, AKG K601) will blow away the Beats, it would be like comparing a Ferrari to a Kia. The amount of profit Beats makes on headphones is ridiculous, which is why Apple bought them.
I don't think its a matter of "offensive" so much as "carries negative associations", which both has first order effects (makes some people less likely to use it because it is less attractive on an sub-rational level) and second order effects (makes some people less likely to use it because they perceive that it is less likely to be a long term success because other people are likely to find it less attractive on a sub-rational level).

Not all negative associations are about a term being "offensive".
So, they were built with enough stone, time, slaves and... water.
I agree, Spotify is missing a few things that you want, so the solution is to abandon it and buy all of your music instead? That doesn't make sense.
Its effectively infinite if you need the whole energy output of the sun to crack it.
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In the SF bay area, I can "keep" but not "bear," and in many other locations in the U.S. it is illegal to possess the means of self-defense at all. The ability of policymakers to completely disregard the Constitution lets us enact policies preventing the ownership of cruise missiles, but it also lets them disarm citizens entirely, require people to verbally invoke the right to remain silent, and so on.

We could do these things without disregarding the constitution. For instance, we could hold a constitutional convention and ban private ownership of cruise missiles, grenades, rocket launchers, SAMs, nuclear weapons, most 9mm handgun magazines used by police ("High capacity magazines"), and rifles that look scary but kill almost nobody. We could also repeal the 5th amendment. Instead of doing these things, we make them policy in contradiction of the law.
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اخر اخبار مسابقة التربية والتعليم 2014 لتوظيف 32 الف معلم ومعرفة النتيجة
>What is wrong with the authorities asking you to unlock your phone with a court order?

The same thing that is wrong with the authorities asking me to incriminate myself.
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It was primarily developed at Macromedia, if you don't count that Waldemar Horwat and others greatly influenced its design via the whole JS2/ES4 situation in the years prior. That's why AVM2's IR used to be called the Macromedia Intermediate Representation, for example.

There were public betas available about 6 months after the acquisition, which didn't leave Adobe much time to change anything. Even the main APIs, like those in playerglobal.swc, almost all have a copyright stamp of 2005 in them.
Consider a recursive function like factorial:

fact :: Number -> Number
fact 0 = 1
fact n = n * fact (n - 1)

This will build stack frames and fail with a stack overflow for large inputs. We can fix this by using tail recursion and an accumulator:

fact :: Number -> Number
fact = go 1
where
go acc 0 = acc
go acc n = go (acc * n) (n - 1)

The PureScript compiler will recognize that every recursive call is in tail position, and will convert the function to a while loop.

If we want to perform side-effects during the recursion, we typically use a monad to track the type of side effect in use. For example, we can use PureScript's Eff monad to trace information to the console:

fact :: Number -> Eff (trace :: Trace) Number
fact = go 1
where
go acc 0 = do
trace "Done!"
return acc
go acc n = do
trace "Keep going ..."
go (acc * n) (n - 1)

In the case of the Eff monad, the PureScript compiler employs some special tricks in the optimizer to enable the tail call optimization, so we're still OK. But this is only possible because Eff is defined in the standard library (at least until we implement custom rewrite rules).

In the general case, the compiler only sees applications to the monadic bind function of the underlying monad. For example, if we use the Writer monad instead:

fact :: Number -> Writer String Number
fact = go 1
where
go acc 0 = do
tell "Done!"
return acc
go acc n = do
tell "Keep going ..."
go (acc * n) (n - 1)

which is equivalent after desugaring to the following code:

fact :: Number -> Writer String Number
fact = go 1
where
go acc 0 = tell "Done!" >>= \_ -> return acc
go acc n = tell "Keep going ..." >>= \_ -> go (acc * n) (n - 1)

This is an example of "monadic recursion" - a recursive function whose return type uses some monad. In this case, the recursive calls are no longer in tail position, so the compiler cannot apply the tail call optimization. The result is that the compiled JavaScript might blow the stack for large inputs.

The point is that idiomatic Haskell code is often not appropriate in JavaScript because of the different semantics, so it might not be appropriate in PureScript either. The good news is that many Haskell idioms have corresponding PureScript idioms (often using the Eff monad).
NO
The process at the link below is better; shorter and doesn't depend on a third party script.
http://www.linuxproblem.org/art_9.html
I've used both apps for an extended period. Personally, I liked Rdio slightly more, I just feel it looks (I prefer the lighter background) and handles better. I also think their recommendations when I'm listening to their radio are a better. However, I haven't really looked into too many apps on Spotify, so they might have one that does this even better. On the whole though, both services are extremely similar so if you like Spotify a lot, theres probably not much point to switching
Typescript vs Elm? Fight!

(I.e. what are the relative strengths and weaknesses of these two "modern languages targeting JS" offerings?)
Anyone know if the source code is available? Their post says it's an open source project -- would be cool to explore.
Gotta say I'm surprised this didn't happen years ago when Aviary made all those flash-based web tools for editing Vectors, photos, etc...
> The gurgle of scuba equipment, submarines and robots that are normally used to study marine life tend to spook whales. To avoid scaring them, the Dare Win team have abandoned much of this technology and use freediving techniques instead, using only a mask, flippers, and a single breath of air to dive dozens of feet deep into the ocean.

SCUBA doesnt make any more noise than freediving other than the bubbles, which can be solved by using (somewhat expensive) rebreathers [1][2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather_diving#Other_advanta...
That's not conclusive. Look up how truecrypt's hidden volumes work. That is at least cryptographically sound. Then, you employ obfuscation techniques like occasionally using your "decoy" files.
His voice seems much calmer in this video. I hope that's an indication he's doing well.
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We're still tied to Adobe products like Illustrator and Phototshop, but to your point more than half of the product comps we do now we do in Sketch
Lyft has offered to pay the drivers a $10,000 bonus in
compensation or to help them sell the Explorers and
cover any depreciation.

So stucked! What a dumb headline.
This post seems to have been flagged down pretty fast.
your ipso isn't quite so facto. There are many scenarios where encrypted information is evidentiary in non-thought-only crimes. Consider bitcoin theft, other money laundry. Consider second-order evidence, e.g. incriminating pictures or video of illegal acts for which not enough physical evidence has been gathered.
Perhaps the title should be changed then. If it has become something that is so well known and reviled, even when pointed out, then maybe we should change that. Perhaps a script that edits these titles out? I think Betteridge's law is true maybe 80% of the time (sorry no data here). If so, then thats enough to just screen out the bait titles.
Look like Tech Crunch updated their article to reflect that as well.
I was wondering about that but I don't see how it wouldn't apply. In a series of bets it guarantees you wont go bust and will maximise your long term winnings (I'm probably missing some subtleties here so corrections welcome). But the whole concept can be traced back to a letter/essay by one of the Bernoulli family, in which the example was a one off bet.

One other thing: it has always bothered me that people should have a 'like or dislike of risk.' Something about the concept doesn't sit right with me, unless we're talking about having an adrenaline rush. That's why I liked the Kelly criterion - it takes all notion of personal preference out of the picture and gives you a universal formula.
> But casino gambling--including slot machines--has almost nothing to do with chance.

Yes, it does.

> You are as certain as can be to lose if you play long enough.

That doesn't mean that the individual instances of gambling have nothing to do with chance -- its a product of the aggregation of the effects of chance. Given an infinite number of iterations of any random gambling scenario, you are eventually going to hit a losing streak sufficient to consume your entire bankroll (the size of the bankroll relative to the stake in any given iteration affects how many iterations it takes before you are more likely than not to have hit this point, but that's about it.)

But the existence of this effect (Gambler's Ruin) doesn't mean that the type of gambling has nothing to do with chance -- indeed, it only applies because gambling is about chance.
Whhhaaaaat the hell? Is this real?
If technological disruption is going to cause mass unemployment regardless, or the shifting of the burden onto "contractors" as Uber likes to refer to them, why should the EU accept it? I'm not sure what leverage SF startups have against nation-states that would prefer the well-being of their citizens over the pure free market "winner takes all" these marketplace startups (Uber, Taskrabbit, Homejoy) are advocating for.

Internet-based disruption? Easy. Physical world disruption using public infrastructure and slave wage labor? Not so much.
come on, that's just crazy, Aviary is no competition for Adobe. There are a million photo editing apps, and Aviary is one of them, but Adobe is the giant gorilla in the game, the go-to software for designers and photographers.
No, you can't. At least, not generally. Look up truecrypt's hidden volumes. That is just one method of keeping plausibly deniable hidden files.
TempleOS has been around for a bit! Definitely awesome.
There have been variations of this run in the past, too:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_deprivation_experiment...

The James IV of Scotland experiment was the one I was familiar with, but it appears others have attempted it as well.
JP Morgan was far richer than that in his day. It's disingenuous at best.
Yup. Terry Davis and his TempleOS are quite well known. I believe he suffers from schizophrenia although I do not know if this has been confirmed by anyone?

He is certainly a gifted programmer.
Glad to see it. Sure, names don't really mean all that much in the final run; influential brands tend to cancel out pre-existing negative connotations (see: Git). But for nascent projects like Nim, a name with pre-existing connotations can be a burden, and a cool name can give a useful boost.

Of course, what I think when I see Nim now is The Secret of NIMH: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084649/reference.
The only trust you need to negotiate is the trust that the other party will follow through on what they promised and we have the police to enforce that.

Real trust is great, but you can negotiate without it.
not COBOL?
How can they demonstrate that you have not forgotten the password?
I believe LaLa was the foundation for iTunes Match and iTunes Radio.
OP: institute is a tld now? Seems really obscure.
They are talking about NNs used in machine learning, which are atemporal, unlike H-H or other models of human cognition.

In a machine learning neural network there is no integration; they are basically just nonlinear data transformations that can (usually...) be trained.
I discover Mailpile.
Excellent idea to create a new mail client
Because none are good.

Now I'm using the most perfect (in my opinion) Foxmail 7.0.93 with gmail imap and seven 64

So if you want to create a really good mail client I think it is necessary to
(some are possible with addons in Thunderbird but why not integrate in the client?)

FIRSTTTTTTTTTT
- preview jpg, png, pdf, word, excel and powerpoint attachments INSIDE the mail window in ONE ONE ONE CLICK (like Foxmail 7.0.93 or Outlook) and NOT in Acrobat or Word ... or a double click and NOT in another tab etc

VERY USEFULL in business
Almost ALL EMAILS now have one of these attachments

SECONDDDDD
A good templates creator (like in The Bat not excellent in Foxmail - and better than Axel Grude Template in Th.) which is able to create easily a template for EACH account and for EACH kind of reply, send, transfer
And with macro functions (like in Foxmail 7.0.93) : one of the best is %cursor% because of sending automatic mails and replies

Then
- search and display all email from a sender from all folders and trash folder in ONE CLICK (2 clicks in Foxmail 7.0.93)
- delay for sending mail (like The Bat)
- different ringtone for EACH account
- rearrange imap account order
- rearrange imap folders order
- open or close folders pane with a button (good for small screen laptops)
- good looking characters dimensions (not like in Thunderbird where it is really the jungle)
- possibility to download a selection of attachments (like in Foxmail 7.0.93) and NOT all or one
- adress completion not only on the email but also with the domain name
- automatic display of To - CC - BBC (like in Foxmail 7.0.93) that we can use ONLY with tab and not using mouse... (energy for nothing)
- a quick folders toobar (same as quick folders addon from excellent Axel Grude) with drag and drop and renaming (not like Postbox favorites bar : no rename and no drag and drop :D )
- the CHOICE (like in Foxmail 7.0.93) to display one or two lines for mail pane

For the moment I stay on Foxmail 7.0.93

I bought or tried . Mailbird, Foxmail 7.2.5, The Bat Pro, Outlook, Thunderbird 30, EM, Postbox, Fossamail... and many more

Best regards
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Yes this! I suspect it's a "frog boiling in water problem" One thing that struck me was the ticker tape of betting related activities that runs along the bottom of news/sports TV.
>Don't do illegal things?

Wow, you're right. The Jews in Nazi Germany should have just not been Jewish.

Legality is not the same as morality.
It's not obvious that the music sample continues past the previously-known track to the one that's discussed in the article, but both are worth listening to.
Random numbers coming from God is cute. I'm not a theist, but I also feel awe of the elusive concept of true randomness. I read something about this from him before, and it pops up in the 1st video.

The flashing Menu button and marquee filename are interesting. A distraction to most people, but I wonder if they help the author Terry stay focused.
Shine on, Terry, you crazy diamond.

If nothing else, TempleOS is a testament to how much one programmer can accomplish absent feedback or collaboration from others. For better or worse.
Yes he used to post on HN quite a bit, most of his posts get down voted into oblivion however because few knew who he was and his mental illness makes for some abrasive comments.
58 millimeters is quite a lot. Besides, it's totally reasonable to think that the stones were rough-hewn at the quarry, then refined at the construction site.
Crypto is a two way street, it allows gov't to hide it's crimes and people to hide theirs.

Given the number of people killed by gov't vs private action in the 20th century, I'm not overly concerned about the crimes of people as a first course of action to reduce human suffering.
I think there's an argument for the users having consented to the use of CPU and bandwidth for the purposes of displaying the website. That the website can technically use that allowance for unrelated purposes doesn't imply consent, any more than you'd be giving a parket valet permission to take a ride with your car just because you handed him/her the keys without an express agreement.

In an implied contract, it's the expectations of a "reasonable person" that count.
> It would mean that Alibaba was far more likely to recover its value.

You seem to misunderstand what the PE ratio actually represents.

As an experiment, I'd suggest you test your hypothesis against actual market data. Hint: you will have no problem finding stocks with higher than industry average PE ratios pre-2008 crash that have significantly outperformed their lower PE ratio counterparts since the market bottom in 2009.
I'm actually curious if you could help explain the difference between this and Chinese (not sure if characters or radicals are the appropriate metaphor)? I feel that Chinese has a turtles-most-of-the-way-down writing system.

IIRC you tend to understand research finding quite well and can speak/read Chinese.
All the flashing bits and marquees... I never thought that someone could create an OS that reminds me of GeoCities
His entire twitter is devoted to exposing the CIA's "conspiracies". https://twitter.com/TempleOS
I don't know specifically about Renaissance's case, but they may well have avoided $6B in taxes if a lot of their fees were categorized as "carried interest". (I don't think the particular fact that they invest in derivatives has anything to do with it.) For hedge funds any fees they accrue for "performance" are carried interest and not subject to regular income tax, though they will eventually be taxed at the capital gains rate. E.g., if a hedge fund charges 2% of assets annually, plus 20% of annual increases in asset value over 8%, the 2% fee would be taxed as regular income and the performance part (20% of increases > 8%) would accrue to them as carried interest, treated as capital gains.

You can read more about this at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest

My not-so-informed belief is that while there may originally have been a decent rationale for treating hedge fund performance fees as carried interest, in many (most?) modern hedge fund scenarios that categorization is misapplied. In any case, the treatment as carried interest is legal, at least for now.
Agreed, not to mention, if they were looking mostly at the streaming platform, why not Spotify? It was definitely about the hardware.
I wonder if the people talking about "social function" have applied this standard to candy crush and angry birds?
When I scuba-dive, there is a noticeable sound of, I guess, a valve opening and air at some pressure flowing through said valve. The Darth Vader breath sound. It's pretty loud in the confines of my head, though I can't say how loud it would be to marine animals around me.
But filesharing is never legally considered theft. It is considered a violation of copywrite.
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Oh, that sucks :/ So far, my best guess is that it is a graphic/driver issue. Can you send me your specs, processor, graphic card, that kind of thing? Maybe I can find a similar machine somewhere to debug on.
Btw, thank you for taking the time to run it from terminal, I really appreciate it.
Personally, I'd rather they merge the streaming service into iTunes.
Weird, William Hill's corporate cheques are drawn from the very same bank branch where I have my account.
This guy never ceases to amaze me, he's insanely smart and dedicated.
I can't see how they picked the Ford Explorer. It's a big vehicle, but that is all it has going for it. In no way is it "luxurious".
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Depends on your usage, I guess. I haven't used Photoshop Elements, but Pixelmator does 90% of what I used to use Photoshop for, from photo editing, color correction and retouching to prep for web. Really only go to Photoshop for certain filters, serious masking and color contortions. I use it more than I used to use Photoshop as it got bloated, and Pixelmator launches in a flash.