Hacker News Reader

shaunrayon Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

Ben Rickert, is that you?

shaunrayon My journey applying AI to horse racing

Betfair has a public API, but they are not parimutuel: https://docs.developer.betfair.com/display/1smk3cen4v3lu3yom...

Tabcorp is an Australian Wagering Company that offers real-time horse racing APIs: https://studio.tab.com.au/

Others are a little less public and you need to sign up with an account and prove you are a syndicate. Hong Kong Jockey Club, UniBet, Amtote.

I don't normally talk about this history as I was active in this industry until four years ago. There are however people who have come out in public:

Bill Benter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-05-03/the-gambl...

Jelko: https://www.smh.com.au/national/meet-the-joker-the-australia...

Most of the other families and players are extremely private or are of Eastern European I wont talk about them publicly.

This is a list of common bet types that are targets for these types of players: - Trifecta - Big Six - Quadrella - First 4

Here is a blog on working the combinations of the Big Six: https://practicalpunting.com.au/pp-online/a-z-of-betting/exo...

shaunrayon My journey applying AI to horse racing

Actually the most successful parimutuel syndicates and HNWI bet programmatically through API’s. They consistently win and they do not make their money from picking a single winner. They bet on exotic bets that have much higher odds and are easier to box. For instance picking two winners or order of the first three horses.

Source: I worked on those APIs to integrate with 20+ exchanges over three companies and 10 years. The syndicates and HNWIs were always the same people over that decade.

shaunrayon Show HN: Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework

Hi OP, I am the person that made the most recent changes to the AWS Labs refarch. I had been working on a golang version and wanted to clean up the python one. Sunil the original author used the AMPLABS benchmark to calculate the results table. I was planning on updating it with the 1 and 5 node test. Would be happy to include Corral as well.

shaunrayon Apache OpenWhisk – A serverless, open-source cloud platform

Not where you can bring your own image as of yet. Although Thomasj above mentions you can do this in OpenWhisk.

The closest to scientific HPC I have used personally is pywren https://github.com/pywren/pywren

Which is attempting to add more cloud backends. It's out of Berkley University.

shaunrayon PopcornNotify – Send simple emails and text messages from one API

Beacause these types of services go to great effort to keep their repuation high on email services. You use these services so your 1000's emails get delivered instead of being rated as spam or being blacklisted.