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LiamPaon The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

This one work?

https://join.slack.com/t/betcode-org/shared_invite/zt-2uer9n...

LiamPaon The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

Search betcode, plenty of us on the slack.

LiamPaon The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out

My step great grandmother is currently the oldest in the UK, the family had to take her car keys off her when she turned 100, she wasn’t best pleased about it.

https://oldestinbritain.nfshost.com/

LiamPaon Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

I wouldn’t hold your breath

LiamPaon Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

SEPA has always been ISO20022, SWIFT (US) is now following

LiamPaon Show HN: Iso20022.js – Create payments in 3 lines of code

It’s a shame it’s probably going to take another 10 years before any of the banks actually migrate to ISO20022 (if it ever happens) SwiftMT conversion software is currently the big sell so they don’t have to rewrite / build everything they already have.

LiamPaon The horse, the drone, and the fight for gambling success (2021)

The delay is 1s for placing bets inplay on racing, you are correct in regards to zero delay on cancellations. The advantage is simply down to latency and being ahead of everyone (except GPS users) in an event where probabilities move very fast. A lot (maybe the majority) is liquidity provided by automated systems or ’keep’ bets placed before the race where the user has no intention to cancel.

LiamPaon Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account

I think they are supposed to be the ‘wing’

LiamPaon Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account

How is something like this not picked up in a pen test? Can only assume there never has been..

LiamPaon Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

It’s a power station, have a read of ‘The Giza Power Plant’

LiamPaon Docker Hub Is Down

Best decision I made was migrating to ECR on AWS, docker hub just cannot be used for production services.

LiamPaon YARA – The pattern matching swiss knife

I use yara for real time screening in Django rest and it’s super fast and easy, Airbnb open sourced binary alert which is a cool serverless implementation.

https://github.com/airbnb/binaryalert

LiamPaon Great but Underrated AWS Services

Cognito?

LiamPaon Pytest-austin: performance regression testing with no instrumentation

Yesterday I was wondering if anything like this existed after accidentally adding 100 duplicate database requests on a Django endpoint.

LiamPaon Large 2000-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines

Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24819730

LiamPaon F1 Pit Stop In 2-Seconds: An In-Depth Analysis (2017) [video]

Was in a similar place but drive to survive (Netflix) got me right back into it!

LiamPaon Ask HN: Modern tech companies that use Django for Web products.

Old now but interesting:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale

LiamPaon Ask HN: Modern tech companies that use Django for Web products.

Open source as well

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

LiamPaon Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades

Recent discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24257648

LiamPaon Ask HN: Multi-tenancy in software vs. infrastructure for SaaS

Recent thread but focus on the db side:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305111

LiamPaon What are some bad UX present in today's popular apps?

Here is the blog post on the release:

https://monzo.com/blog/2020/05/04/confirmation-of-payee-laun...

LiamPaon What are some bad UX present in today's popular apps?

Monzo have now introduced this

https://monzo.com/help/payments-getting-started/cop-cant-che...

LiamPaon Captured Warplanes

Never heard this story before

“In June 1942, after shooting down a Spitfire, a Luftwaffe pilot named Armin Faber landed his Fw 190A-3 at RAF Pembrey in Wales (believing it to be France). Because of an unfortunate inability to distinguish the Bristol Channel from the English Channel said Armin let his plane get into the grubby hands of the RAF, with barely a scratch. Given its total superiority to any Allied fighter then in service, this unexpected gift was insanely valuable to the technical experts of the RAF. In fact, so desperate were the British to get their hands on one that a Commando raid had been planned to steal an Fw 190 from a French airfield.”

LiamPaon The silence of the owls

Owls are extremely territorial, even small owls like tawnys have been recorded attacking/bombing humans when coming too close to a nest site.

LiamPaon The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

From a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875

LiamPaon Ask HN: Best resources for non-technical founders to understand hacker mindset?

Ghosts in the Wire, Kevin Mitnick

Made me realise that many just do it because they like the challenge.

LiamPaon Ask HN: Best learning resources on architecting modern web app systems

Designing data intensive applications seems to be what you are describing.

https://dataintensive.net/

LiamPaon The NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code (2018)