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by splonk 8y ago
Note: China Airlines also has these seats, branded "Family Couch". I think the target price for the Skycouch seat is somewhat below retail for just buying a third seat, so in that respect it's a pretty good deal if you'r
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by splonk 8y ago
Interesting. I admit that my knowledge comes more from the advantage player side in the US (and by proxy, some of the offshore shops in the Caribbean and such), so it's good to hear from someone who knows about how it works in other p
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by splonk 8y ago
This has pretty much always been standard, and barring some sort of change in regulation, very likely always will be. As a bettor, your recourse is likely cutting down your bets/farming smaller bets out to your employees, finding a bo
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I've been part of two efforts, one at a very large company, one at a startup. From where I stand, your biggest issue is going to be getting a sufficient data set, and having sufficient traffic in whatever you're recommending to b
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by splonk 8y ago
Interesting. I (like others here, apparently) assumed that the time saved number was based on various tracking scripts that weren't downloaded, but if this is the relevant code, looks like it's just tracking parallel requests.
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by splonk 8y ago
> The financial sector isn’t the only area of business that have these types of restrictions, and it’s often significantly easier from a business and engineering perspective to block an account entirely than to cherry pick which services
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by splonk 8y ago
For comparison, Google uses S2 cells in their maps, which is a tiling of quadrilaterals formed by projecting a cube onto a sphere, with a clever addressing system. Here's a good summary of how those work: http://s2geometry.
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by splonk 8y ago
All the real-time location based stuff is after my time, but it definitely looks like an attempt to generate more known-good reviews. Possibly for better training data for modeling. I'm not sure that the historical location data is a
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by splonk 8y ago
(I probably worked with one of GP's predecessors on his job.) Account level signals are nice but insufficient. There's a very long tail of low activity accounts that are difficult to distinguish from a bot. You can't really
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by splonk 8y ago
A few years ago my boss (in his mid-40s) said he had no idea what Reddit was, and my explanation to him was that it was the 2nd-10th best place to look for information on things, but it was the 2nd-10th best place to look for information on
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by splonk 8y ago
It appears to be hosted at https://bughunter.withgoogle.com/rank/hof (From following this error: "Refused to display ' https://bughunter.withgoogle.com/0x0A?embed=1' in a frame because it
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by splonk 8y ago
Yes. There are significant beneficial network effects in payment processing. Back in the day, eBay had ludicrously good fraud rates (and hundreds of engineers working on models, from what I heard). We hired a few people from them and were
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by splonk 8y ago
Yeah, essentially no local law enforcement is going to care about some guy successfully scamming you for a $100 chargeback. We were basically told not to bother for anything under $25k from a single actor, and even for amounts over that I
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by splonk 8y ago
Mostly agreed. I don't know anything specifically about Stripe, but I did work on fraud prevention systems for a major company. Being able to aggregate signals across multiple customers is a massive help in fraud detection - in terms
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by splonk 9y ago
This is exactly the case. My understanding is that they've pitched themselves as a commuting solution to get approval, and the local tourist bike rental places complain as they get closer to the standard tourist biking areas of Golden
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by splonk 9y ago
Flight commissions are tiny. Hotel commissions are not - probably in the 10% range off the top for smaller operators.
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by splonk 9y ago
Map view on Google Flights is probably the best option for this. It's kind of slow and wonky and probably has some stale data, but I haven't seen anything better. In principle, yes you can build this. In practice, no air provide
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by splonk 9y ago
I used to work on user generated content in maps. Business vandalism is a big problem once you reach a certain scale. It's possible that OSM doesn't have this problem yet because it's not as valuable a target as Google&#x2F
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by splonk 9y ago
I was really surprised to see that bit about London. It looks like Transport for London breaks out Underground usage, and that does recover over 100% (which is what ends up on the wikipedia page for farebox recovery), but the entire TfL sy
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by splonk 9y ago
I don't believe this meaningfully affects a top HUNL cash player, who tend to have auto-rebuy set anyways and at least think that they're bankrolled for most games they play. If anything, it might help them a bit by letting them
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by splonk 9y ago
There's some previous discussion of the "beats top professionals" part of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13534778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13358138 Note that this
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by splonk 9y ago
I think people generally wildly underestimate the scope and impact of Ground Truth (or are entirely ignorant of it). Back when Apple Maps launched (and probably just after GT had been publicly acknowledged), I had a chat with an Apple journ
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by splonk 9y ago
This is possible but also requires a bit more coordination than just buying two seats. If no one checks in for the second seat, the airline may decide it's available if you haven't made special arrangements when booking. Air New Z
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by splonk 9y ago
The conventional wisdom on this is that historically, any attempt by airlines to differentiate their economy class product on any dimension other than price has failed. There's always a vocal subset of people complaining, but when push
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by splonk 9y ago
I wouldn't necessarily take it as gospel, but seatguru says the seat pitch on those planes is 30-31 inches. United claims the same. https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/United_Airlines/United_Air... https:&#x2
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by splonk 9y ago
You're right, it's a 2.5-10 scale. For future reference, the median review score for a hotel on booking.com is around 8.1, based on a bunch of scraped data. Varies a lot by location, though. Business travelers also tend to rate
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by splonk 9y ago
Just a joke. Wrong tool, but it'll sort of get the job done if you hit it hard enough.
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by splonk 9y ago
Data science really has somewhat limited application to poker. Or at least, it's a very big hammer for a pretty small screw. The two big stats he talks about (VPIP and PFR) were well known more or less as soon as the first tracking s
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by splonk 9y ago
In practice, I believe most fast hand value evaluators just use a lookup table, treating each hand as a 52 bit (or 64 with 12 wasted bits, most likely) bitset with 5 bits set to 1 to indicate the cards.
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by splonk 9y ago
For professional low level poker players, a good deal of their income comes from rakeback. That is, for every hand, the site makes $N (the "rake"), and the player gets back X% of N/players, where X scales according to the am

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