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The front page is interesting, but the Tour page is less, rather than more, informative. As someone who does not use Twitter a whole lot - as you can probably guess - Floxee does not seem like a tool which would make me start doing so.

So on the landing page, I'm getting the impression that maybe this is why I should care about twitter (and Floxee would be the way to do these things which sound so interesting). But on the tour page, everything seems geared towards showing Floxee's add-value for people who already use Twitter, and says much less to people who don't. Although my curiosity was piqued further, there just wasn't enough information to make me want to try it: I felt like I was reading a bunch of headings with no body text to flesh them out. Perhaps catering to Twitter skeptics might allow to build a userbase quicker than competing with all the other webapps in the Twitter ecosystem?
I would expect most competitors will attempt to design a simplified GTO/balanced (un-exploitable) strategy, with some base assumptions what's considered as "good poker". The only way I can see teams approaching a more exploitive strategy is if the tournament was filled with lots of very weak 'house bots' with highly exploitive strategies (like the previous rock-sissors-paper bot competion that was filled with lots of non-GTO house bots that could be predicted and exploited).

No known bots have come close to playing competitively heads up or ring in big-bet games (such as no-limit or PLO) above the micro/lowstakes. However bots already exist that are very strong at limit heads up.
I was curious how their valuation has changed over time, so I hit up Google New Timeline* and put together a spreadsheet with a nice graph:

http://snowedin.net/blog/2011/01/03/up-up-and-away

Unrelated: The "trend" graph type in Google Spreadsheets is pretty awesome. I don't know when they added it, but it rawks.

* http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com?date=2004-04-01&zoom=...
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I think that refers to RAM, not disk space.
This looks really interesting to me. I'm curious to see the rules-- does it differ much from the AAAI poker competition [1]?

[1] http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/
It looks like GS found a place to spend all those billions we gave AIG to give to them.
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Sorry if this is a silly question, but where does the name come from? Googling 6.912 turns up references to "MIT 6.912 Introduction to Copyright Law".
This reflects human biodiversity. When you compare groups with similar evolutionary backgrounds they have similar levels of intelligence.
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I think 10:1 was the eventual P/E that would have to materialize to justify the $50 billion valuation. I think the historical average is something like 15.
With enough number of hands played and space for storage of history it should be possible to exploit each other, or at least the opportunity is there.
Is that Google Spreadsheet publicly-viewable? Your page is showing either "User not signed in" or "Access denied" (if signed into Google), in the spot where I assume there should be an embedded spreadsheet.
All of our classes are identified using numbers. The 6 corresponds to the sponsoring department (EECS) and 912 happened to be available within the department, so we snagged it.
If you're near the Boston area in February, definitely check out the New England College Hackathon! (A similar coding-oriented event)

http://nech2011.eventbrite.com/

College students will be coding, and developer volunteers will be serving as advisors.

It's free too, be there!
Prisons do often leave prisoners more likely to commit crime than they were before they were incarcerated (there was a great article on The Atlantic last year on how ankle monitors are changing this, by keeping many non-violent prisoners from ever entering prison).

However, allowing cellphone usage inside of a prison allows many convicts to run criminal networks from inside of prison walls. This makes it difficult for law enforcement to make a dent in organized crime, as incarcerating a gang's leaders doesn't prevent them from organizing further criminal activity.

Non-violent criminals could arguably be given cell phones, but the potential for violent criminals to organize violent crime means that allowing violent criminals to use cell phones in prison is a dangerous proposition.
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Something about these slides, the font usage, the repetition of the words and phrasing, reminds me of the Video Toaster "Revolution" Demo. I can almost hear the same voice behind these slides. It was about 15 years after these slides, but it seems almost just as old, from another age.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8
@Thomas, thanks for the clarification, I guess I'm just used to companies with more authoritarian policies. Something along the lines of: "If it connects to our infrastructure, it gets policies enforced" (similar to what WMF said).

Nice work on taking apart the app though.
At the bottom of the article is a great summary of Twitter's history. Overall it's an interesting article, although the writer falls back on a few too many cliches.
Google has users. Facebook has watchers.
What did Yahoo have?
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Sorry, should be working now. Had the spreadsheet on "Anyone with the link can view" but apparently the embedded chart is only available if you make the spreadsheet public to everyone.
Will we get a chance to compete against MIT students?

That's mostly what I'm interested in; I'll either get schooled by MIT, or school MIT. Yes this is a counterchallenge. ;)
will the open tournament be limited to python as well? I've got a fair code base invested in F# already laying about.
It means immediately available, as opposed to batch processed - you ask the system for a report and there it is instead of waiting for your request to be processed and delivered at some later time. It is not directly related to networking but it's much more specific than 'on a computer'.
Would you have taken his comments as seriously if he would have adopted a style of communication where he would be more forthcoming? That other style would have included all kinds of 'nice' words, that distract from the message and provide all kinds of room for you to think that 'it wasn't as bad', 'I only need to polish/fix some details'. I think swombat has done you the favor of driving the seriousness of your mistakes home, making sure you don't forego thousands of dollars, just because he was trying to be nice.

In a face to face conversation, you can be nice all you want, because you have both time and non-verbal oppurtunities to make the point. The internet is different, for better and for worse.
It isn't and it isn't.
Don't worry. When we're talking cave time & scale, a few holes drilled in the rock is a drop in the bucket. It's really only when you have unusually numerous human visitors, particularly the oils from their hands, that kill caves.

I understand your sentiment, but caves are a geologic phenomenon, and on that scale this is not even a geologic blink. So breathe easy, and save the torches & pitchforks for when they want to turn it into an amusement park :)
This great documentary by Vanguard makes it clear that a lot of cellphone smuggling is actually done by visitors and prisoners using body cavities:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/109763/vanguard-prison-contraband

It's not just guard bribes that are the problem... as long as the incentive exists to smuggle items in, people will do so (both guards and visitors). Managed Access (as in Mississippi) would kill that incentive, which would eliminate the smuggling (of cell phones, at least).
If this isn't just an urban legend it makes you wonder how easily influenced security policy might be. For instance, if a student was to walk past and talk about how they use electron microscopes to recover hard disks this might influence hard drive deletion processes without any proof that this was necessary.
Certainly possible, and teams can utilise off-the-shelf analytics tools to aid in the analysis (if that's allowed); however using this information beyond very simple adjustments (such as preflop) is very difficult. Also any deviation from a balanced strategy will open up the bot to counter-exploitation.

As I say if dummy players are in there (playing easily exploitable passive or maniacal strategy) then I think there's good reason to implement an exploitive strat; otherwise the effort probably won't have the payoff amongst other static-strategy players.
Hmm. Sounds apocryphal. By Executive Order 12333[1] the CIA is legally prohibited from collecting intelligence inside the United States in the vast majority of situations. The CIA cooperates with the FBI in these cases. Hypothetically this could be some kind of base for foreign intelligence operations, but that seems unlikely considering that I can't find any supporting evidence for the event occurring with some basic Google searches.

[1] https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/eo12333.html

Edit: Let's be clear here: yes, there are a million hypothetical reasons why this story might actually be true. Unless someone can find a reliable source that confirms any of the details in this article I'm going to remain skeptical.
Those "You will" AT&T commercials with Tom Selleck always amaze me or the Quest one where the motel in the desert has every movie ever made, Tek War is pretty good too.
Says the guy who makes his argument with the phrase "I fail to understand." Let's face it, it's hard not to be condescending when we know we're right. For one thing, it has a lot of visceral appeal. For another, it's a strong rhetorical position for convincing people not familiar with the subject matter.
DuckDuckGo for general "search," Google for maps, Wikipedia for information, HackerNews for tech/business news, Yelp/Urbanspoon/local indie paper for restaurant reviews... hmmm, looks to me like we're heading toward a more specialized, ahem, "there's an app for that" future.
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I doubt it. Not for another 7-10 years at least to beat the likes of pros.
To be a scientist, you need to be deeply curious about the how and the why. That often requires going into the uncharted, but most of the time requires fixing the charts you have today (which is a whole lot of fun but also a little less glamorous)
Print version: http://www.mobilecommercedaily.com/why-a-mobile-app-does-not...
If the goal is to test the team's ability to enter in to new areas, this mike be good reason to set the test to be a non-hold'em game. Something like PL 5CD heads up shoot-out* would be pretty interesting domain (and much smaller game tree) to work with.

Even if it is hold'em, there's the still teh question of structure (limit/big bet, NL/PL, antes, blinds, tournament or cash, heads up/ring/9m) that there's a lot of possibility.
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If you want to use a GSM phone, there are two choices in the US; AT&T and T-Mobile. T-Mobile seems to be more reasonable than AT&T, but has far less coverage.

Reasons you might want a GSM phone: so you can travel to Europe (or many other places) and just stick in a prepaid SIM card. So you can switch between carriers without throwing out your phone (though at the moment this is more theoretical than practical, since AT&T and T-Mobile use different 3G frequencies, and most phones don't support both; you could switch, but would be back on EDGE instead of 3G). So you can buy unlocked phones that are not owned and controlled by your carrier, with no contracts, giving you more power to vote with your wallet if your carrier is unreasonable.

For these reasons, I decided to go with an unlocked GSM phone (Nexus One). AT&T has coverage where I live; T-Mobile does not. Thus, AT&T is pretty much the only reasonable choice.
Who even says they would pay dividends? How many tech companies do nowadays?
There are a lot of caves in the Philippines that were used by the Japanese when the Imperial Army was routed by US/Filipino forces. Recently I was on the island of Bohol where we went mountain climbing and found a cave with Japanese pottery shards still on the floor.
Sources? I've always assumed that the bots are as good as the pros now even at high stakes. Haven't there been prized competitions where the bots beat the pros some years?
In heads up limit, bots are already at a high class level, maybe world-class. If you want to test this, there's a HU limit bot machine in the Bellagio that's rake free and plays a fair game (fair deal, no knowledge of the cards to come or holecards). It currently spreads up to $10/20. The designers are confident enough to allow anyone to take it on. The bot employs a non-learning strategy.
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Matter is made of atoms of about 100 different kinds that are constantly jiggling around, which jiggling we experience as heat.

Boiling water kills germs that cause disease. Washing hands with soap before eating removes and kills germs that cause disease. It is particularly important to keep germs out of open wounds. Pure phenol and 400ppm chlorine are effective and fairly safe ways to kill germs on skin and equipment. An active enteric glucose-sodium cotransport mechanism dramatically increases enteric sodium uptake and can usually prevent diarrhea from causing death by dehydration if you mix glucose 1:1 with sodium ions in water. Breathing smoke dramatically increases your chances of getting a lung infection; make charcoal outdoors for your indoor cooking fire to avoid this. Mosquitoes carry dengue, yellow fever, and malaria; mosquito screens and nets can prevent mosquito bites and thus these illnesses. Micronutrient deficiencies cause many horrible illnesses.

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Information in the form of a sequence of symbols can be losslessly encoded into a sequence of symbols from any other alphabet, with only a constant factor expansion or contraction. This encoding can include error-correction symbols that permit the automatic detection and correction of transmission or encoding errors if they are not too bad, and indeed for any given probability of a transmission error you can construct a code that reduces the probability of an uncorrectable error to an arbitrarily low level for any transmission rate less than a certain rate. Continuous signals such as sounds can be "sampled" many times per second and thus converted into a sequence of numbers, which can be encoded in this way; band-limited signals can be reproduced perfectly by this mechanism if they are sampled at twice their bandwidth. Nearly any physical phenomenon can be used to encode information by this means. It's often easiest to use an alphabet of just two "symbols".
Game theoretically optimal strategies for poker can only be reasonably approximated so there remains room for even these strategies to be exploited.
Well I have to say the target customer is really a business or organization that has multiple twitter accounts and is using Twitter pretty heavily already.

That being said I do appreciate the feedback! I'm hoping to have some videos/screencasts up soon as well for the tour.
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I can't give you a direct source; but there is very little public progress to bots in big bet (NL/PL) games past very simplistic, rule-based bots that may fair okay in nano-stakes games. Of course there an outside chance that powerful bots do exist and are being employed in live games, but there's been no academic work that claims much access.

However in limit games, where the game tree is finite and can be simplified, there's been great strides in poker AI. In heads up the level is expert-to-world class (see my other posts in this thread) and likely very strong in 6-max too. Academically the polaris team (uni of alberta) have published a great deal, and there are commercial/private bots that are considered very strong.
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Perhaps I should I have clarified with No Limit. Yes heads up limit poker bots are pretty high standard. But No Limit (and 6+ players) is the real interesting game to solve.
I guess the reasons for RSS being killed are
1. Search engines do not want it.
2. Advertisers do not want it.
3. Its only use by people who are tech savvy.
Hitting me where it hurts, a spelling mistake, I guess I should start proof-reading my HN comments.

What about those who use RSS and use that button (like myself)? Won't they be "put off" by the loss of the button?

If you stop using RSS because the button is no longer there, you clearly didn't actually care about RSS in the first place.
I doubt the office was for spying. More likely it was for working with emerging technologies coming out of MIT.
Being android developer,I tried it but never heard +ve or -ve response back from team. Any suggestion?
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They could have been there for recruitment purposes.
Understood. I'll keep an eye on it!
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the killer killer conversion piece is convincing me that in n out this way is still "in n out". I love in n out because it's fresh and good. Sending it via mail could really ruin that. Would it even be edible? If so,I don't care about price. Prove to me it still rocks.
> The dispatch table keyed on (i < 1000) is a straight-up cheat

How so?
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I think a helpful analogy might be to look at the "execution" side of the argument as "blind squirrels" and the "ideas" side of the argument as "paralyzed from the neck down squirrels".

Both are less than perfect but at least a blind squirrel has a chance at stumbling on a nut in the forrest. The paralyzed squirrel can see the nuts but will never get them on their own.
Most software isn't important in the sense that it affects their lives. But it can affect their continued use of whatever it is that isn't working.
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For a bug in Mozilla's Bugzilla installation, that's high.

Of course all the high-vote bugs are special-interest-advocacy stuff like "bring back MNG support" and "bring back gopher support" and "bring back the RSS button"... So high vote count is actually a reliable indicator that the bug should be wontfixed, more often than not.
Ah, the new year. People are gambling away to glory again. Maybe they are sure someone will bail them out.
Reminds me of Tweet MVC, a PHP model-view-controller framework a former co-worker created for fun. Each component (like “model”) is 140 or fewer characters. It definitely doesn’t follow many best practices ;)

https://github.com/tweetmvc/tweetmvc-core

(But hey, `import twitter as t`? Abstract things enough and any super-simple program can be 140 characters)
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Every time I tried Foursquare their service was down ("for maintenance" their page said). After ~ 5 attempts in ~ 5 different days I stopped trying. Maybe it was just my luck, but even Twitter has been more reliable for me.

I fail to see how this is not important: they haven't won a conversion out of me although I'm still getting spammed by them through my friends.

Your company's intranet to-do list won't get a million hits a day,
and if it goes down, people will just write things down on paper
instead.

If that to-do list goes down repeatedly, people will not use it ... it's hard enough to convince them to try it in the first place.
At least our dark lord Cthulhu is public domain.
Not exactly. Schools (at least ones in California) aren't allowed to distribute anything home made. You know those parties in elementary school where you brought brownies? Those are against the school code.
I think solitude and deep thinking time are crucially important to programming. However, I have been becoming more and more aware that programming is also performance art (audience of our peers), by which I mean that programming is also a social activity.

In order to be appreciated, it must be shared.
I think identifying low quality content is important, yes. But the topic I've brought up is dealing with somewhat decent quality content (all of the guides do explain how to tie shoelaces) that are individually targeting subtle longtail keyword variations.

It's keyword variation content spam using hand written content and curated by very specific keyword data. So that seems to be a different algo trigger than a quality trigger.
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There are always clusters of related articles. In this case it is a cross between "me too!" and "king has no clothes".
Search in google with a product name or, god forbid, "review" is indeed worthless.
People always ask what you would do with "FU Money". Simple: I'd buy In N Out and bring it everywhere while still maintaining the freshness+quality of work. If they didn't go easily, I'd just perform a hostile takeover or spend whatever it takes to "clone it".