I've been scraping the web a lot as part of my quest to find the best scratch-off lottery ticket. I want to share some of the practices that I've discovered. I'll do so by posting the code itself in a style of "literate programming". (It's actually just heavily commented code....

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Let's figure out the expected loss of playing scratchers. California publishes all of the information we need to determine this at their website http://www.calottery.com/play/scratchers-games/top-prizes-remaining From there, for each game, we can see: Price of a ticket Value of each prize Odds of winning each...

Graphviz DOT, UML, and VIM Prerequisites Graphviz WM Graphviz Vim Plugin (Optional) Grip Github Markdown Previewer (Optional) Add UML Diagrams to your Github README with Graphviz Install the prereqs. If you would rather use some other editor, you can always compile from the command line with dot -Tpng uml.dot...

Two things happen that make it difficult to run a Node.js process on a non-default port. First, Elastic Beanstalk uses load balancers. When a request hits your EB DNS (your-app.elasticbeanstalk.com) the load balancer directs the traffic to the least utilized instance (assuming you have multiple ec2 instances...