skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In MVT you're interesting in testing the interactions between different elements. If the elements are encountered in sequence the bandit analogue is reinforcement learning. If you have one page with different "slots" to fill then "bandit slate" algorithms might be appropriate. The key advantage is that all these approaches are online: they take advantage of information as it is received, and you can change things and the algorithms adapt. A/B testing and MVT
don't do either.
what about ToolPool?
What's your going rate? :-D
Censorship Fail Reveals Big Music ISP Spying Plan
Good advice. Don't bet all your chips on one hand. Keep on trying your startup, but don't make it the only thing in your life. As with investments, diversifying is less risk.
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PS3 has the best track record? More like the worst. The XBox 360 has the best track record here. There has never been a widespread software exploit of the 360, and MS are very quick to hand out perma-bans to anyone using hardware exploits while connected to XBox Live.
As a non-employee, I can confirm that these guys have an awesome engineering culture and a very well stocked beer fridge.

Great party last weekend :-)
I agree, avoiding GC is paramount. You can do this in Java by discarding less objects. http://vanillajava.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-avoid-garbage...
I have the same problem as palish: I want my water to taste like something :) (and we do have some excellent water here).

My brain does want me to eat fries and salty stuff, too.

I managed to go down to about 200 lb which is still overweight (and in my country it IS considered overweight, like palish would be as well), I'd like to go down to 75-80 kg as well but I work 12 hs and study 4 (Master's degree, plus it kills my entire weekend). I managed to go down 10 kg in 2 months with a diet of about 1000 calories, but it was killing me (I've since regained 8 of the 10 kgs).

Food did start to taste better at the end of that diet, but I still love the sugary and salty unhealthy stuff.

Thanks for the post and the entire discussion.
Why Programmers Make Bad Spouses (humor)
Brother, you need to be surrounded by people that believe in you and get a good, could even be a quick, win under your belt. Then you'll look back on this post and wonder why you ever made it.
sure, but somewhat irrelevant, since the point is that the object can be (and likely is at some point) deserialized from json.
Hi - I live in Lawrence and am interested, but I can't seem to find your email. Could you please post it?
Thanks! I've considered that, and this will probably my first investment back into the company ;). But I have the feeling it will get easier if I keep practicing it.
That's not really a problem. You'd insure individual bitcoin addresses, and the amount of bitcoins assigned a bitcoin address is public.

The real problem is figuring out whether an address has been actually stolen, or whether the user is indulging in a spot of insurance fraud.
What you say is absolutely true of the basic bandit problem. More complex algorithms can deal with more complex problems, handling the interdependencies you describe. See the "bandit slate" problem, for example.
You're probably right...we would need very specific (and unlikely) conditions for it to be beneficial.
Python is a victim of the language popularity churn, like most other things in life. Languages have trends, there are ones that are currently the hottest ones that are starting to wain and others that are out of vogue. Take for example Java, at one time Java was the language to be seen developing in. Java developers where the rock stars, Java on top actually lasted for a long time, when compared to other languages but it's sun has set now, it is now in the none of the hip kids are doing it camp. Now onto Python, it was one of the first crop of languages to try to supplant Java from the cool kid spot. That crop had limited success and the only place that python saw wide adoption was coupled with Dijango for web. The thing is PHP and Drupal also achieved success in this era which split the, we are the new cool kid market. A second crop of new languages came up this time Ruby, Scala et. al. They where more focused on the problem domain they targeted and incorporated newer development constructs, they became the new cool kids. Now Python had become the OK kid but it's shine had worn off, Then came along the shift from server to clients for the UI and everyone started building out rich UI's with Javascript, then Javascript became the darling and server side JavaScript run-times where built, Java was now decidedly uncool and Python is now out of mind and Ruby's shine has worn off. In the end with Python it did not achieve the success of Java or COBAL to provide for lots of jobs even when it is no longer the cool kid and the unfortunate reality of languages that burn their star quick is that the cool kids move on, so there are very few stuck in the middle. Ruby may have enough to support them as their popularity wains, PHP definitely will, Python has some dedicated fans and the market may reach an equilibrium but as for now, you are seeing the product of a lot of developers trained in the last gen, while the projects have moved on to the next trend.
Facial-Recognition Tools Pose New Risk
I would be interested if you could expand on this speculation?
Tiny new glass lens paves way for projectors in smartphones
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Still the broken link (you fixed it in another thread) here.

I wonder how loud that treadmill is though? I see no problems with people standing instead of sitting (might something you need to get accustomed to if it's rare/if you're the first, but it shouldn't be disturbing), but I'm not sure if I'd be happy with a constant 'whirr' coming from beneath a coworker's table..
What are you suggesting? Are you saying it's because he would be an old frail man? Or that the name actually belongs to an entirely different body but for unexplained reasons this is being covered up?

Very confusing comment.
In one sentence explain why the server is down: Error establishing database connection. (it worked! lol)

But seriously though, thank you for your thoughts. I did not expect it to be such a hit on HN, and the website was thrown together in a couple of days.

In response to this: "you get a bunch of one-sentence explanations of widely different quality, frequently contradictory."

You are spot on. That is the world we live in - often widely different quality and frequently contradictory [in everything]. For a social experiment, to see how many people respond in a helpful way vs silly way (commenting is open - when the site isn't being hammered by HN's community) was one of the pieces of information I wanted to find out.

The other is to show that no one sentence will ever work for all, and every sentence may be helpful to someone yet annoying to another.

But the main reason 1Sentence was born: It is currently not easy to track down one sentence explanations of a topic without travelling the net hoping someone has written it. Sometimes all you need is one sentence to explain a product to another person or even yourself. So in that regard, it worked.

I appreciate your feedback and thoughts, thank you!

Diesel Laws
Interesting to see Amazon on that side of the fence. If they ask people to report on their own, it won't happen. As much as I hate the idea of taxes online, this makes sense -- collect what is already due.
Yes, I'd hope so too :) There should be quite a few people who've successfully engineered microbes and plants (by extension, fungi), but for the others, I was wondering just how many candidates there could be.
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Agreed. So what I love about the A/B test is how simple it is to explain and run. How do I run a bandit test? Is it effectively what Google is doing when you tick the adwords option display successful ad's more often?

Is there a simple article that explains how to run a bandit test on exactly the example provided by the OP: which button text (e.g. click here, buy now) should I use to get maximum number of conversions?
Knowing when to quit/stop working on your startup
Shutting down your product or business is never easy, but this is an simple view on knowing how to determine when enough is enough.
Alleged teen LulzSec hacker faces U.K. charges
I don't need the money, but if I did want to rent it out I would sooner do it through Airbnb than any of the other options.
Facebook Expands In The UK
LMAX is more high throughput than low latency. Most exchanges are about 10x slower than the trading systems which connect to them. This is because the exchange has handle all its clients, whereas the trading system can limit itself to less products and a few exchanges.
Thanks zwieback!

It's very limited in functionality currently, and it was built as a side project to http://barkles.com - I won't be putting much time into 1Sentence, but that is a great suggestion - and if there is a way to implement it with Disqus comments I will surely consider it.

Thanks!
You've been able to play pirated Xbox360 and Wii games for quite a while now. Has anybody actually implemented a way to play pirated PS3 games yet?
I think the difference here is that you imagine people standing still for 8 hours straight. Obviously that would be a bad idea. No one seems to promote that.

One part of the 'more healthy' claim I've read about is that you're bound to move a lot more if you're standing. You'll shift weight more. You might wander off for a second, thinking. It comes more natural instead of lifting your rear out of a comfy chair.
I posted this on the OP's blog; but I figure it's worth repeating here as well.

I'm only involved as a speaker; I was invited to speak, and so I am going to speak. Yes, I am the chair of PyCon, but me speaking at a conference is orthogonal to that.

I am not an organizer - but I am interested in seeing how "other conferences" such as pycodeconf run and play out in the community. I also don't drink, so I don't think I'll be attending many, if any of the parties.

The Python community has room in it for many types of conferences - DjangoCon, PyCon, PyOhio, PyTexas, EuroPython, PyCon Ireland, PyCodeConf - frankly, the more the merrier - each one brings its own flavor and color to the community.

Will PyCodeConf succeed? I don't know - but for me, as someone who has never been to an animal like it (unless you count Linux conferences in the dot com) I am very interested to see how it works, and how the community/attendees like it/etc.

As a PSF director; I can state that the PSF is frequently promoting and assisting in financing exactly the types of conference you cite; that's how we, as a board, feel that we can help grow the community we have all grown to know and to love.

So, in essence, I believe there is room for all of these flavors and conference, and they all go into making this fantastic community (http://jessenoller.com/2011/07/28/thank-you-the-impossibilit...) we both love so much.

No one is forgetting the humans, at least not while I'm around.
You should clarify this. It might sound like you are saying that "some of the people who say they do Gods work are not", instead of the correct "some people believe they are doing god's work. they are not."

Only some people in this world think they are doing that, but they are of course all incorrect.

Edit: ?
The Main Street Fairness Act doesn't ask anyone to pay a single penny more in taxes. Instead, it would help governors and mayors collect taxes that are already owed.

This seems to be an interesting selling point, except that people, in the main, seem to not be paying taxes they actually owe. What I wonder as a non-American, though, is how illegal is this practice? Is it essentially a form of tax evasion and, therefore, a crime? If so, why hasn't there been a random "shakedown" RIAA-style to scare people into declaring these purchases and paying the taxes?
Someone on reddit had an interesting idea: What if Google invited people to join them in a big pool of patents? Anyone who signed in would gain use of the pool's patents, but would have to sign all of their patents over to the pool as well.

If someone in the pool decided to sue someone outside the pool over a patent, the latter could just join the pool and avoid the lawsuit (since now they own the patent as well). This would probably lead to an equilibrium point where everyone is in the pool, and thus make patents meaningless.
Lean Wireframing
Take it as a learning experience and keep plugging.

Also, I think it is important to find a good co-founder or team to keep you going. Doing a startup is emotionally tough especially if things don't work out initially. You need a strong partner to share the experiences.

Also launching early is important and can prevent you from wasting years developing a product nobody wants.
You're making an assumption that all job boards are of equal worth to HN'ers, when in actuality there's a wide variety. I'm sure some job boards (for example Techcrunch's Crunchboard) would get upvoted, while other less relevant ones such as Monster, etc. would get downvoted.

To argue that HN'rs are incapable of distinguishing between job boards that they personally find useful from ones they don't seems a weak argument.
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SpiderOak is a distributed, virtual company - we all set our own work schedule and work from home, coffee shops, or anywhere. We coordinate via Wikis, IRC, email, telepathy, and even face-to-face when possible. We don't bother with time sheets or other types of wage accounting -- we're a tight enough group that it would be obvious if someone wasn't doing her or his job.

We've noticed that some of the most accomplished people we know don't necessarily have polished resumes. As such, we don't care about formal education, age, gender, geographic location, resume, etc. We like smart people who love what they do and do it really well. Period.

If you're interested, please send a introduction letter to team+DDMMYYYY@spideroak.com making the obvious substitutions.
and I got the same treatment from my LibDem, the reply back said they lacked the numbers to stop the bill, so he was not even going to turn up for the vote.
I have considered AWS but am not sure about persistent storage. I use the disk to store some uploaded files. May be I should transition storing everything in the DB?
Because PHP and the whole LAMP stack is like air. Everyone knows it because all you have to do to use it is just breathe. Anyone can just pick it up and immediately make an awesome website. It's a simple easy-to-learn language with dozens of easy all-in-one installers. No command line haxoring needed. Unlike ASP.NET, the tools are free. Unlike Rails or Django, hosting is cheap and easy to find.

With all the hate on PHP, I feel like it's the childhood friend from elementary and middle school that you out-grew because you became "too cool" for them in high school.
I understood it as "find yourself a woman with similar entrepreneurial goals so she can understand, be patient and support you". It is _really_ important to me, I just couldn't do it if I didn't have that support.
Really? I think a no-party system would be a better style of government.
It might be somewhat better with multi-party democracies, instead of two pretty much equal options you have 3 or more...

I think Iceland's experiment in (somewhat more) direct democracy is very interesting.
What's wrong with recruiters?

I'm assuming you wouldn't have a problem if someone mentioned that their employer was hiring (ie. non-primary posting in general)
Thank you for the suggestions - Isn't Rackspace a little expensive - compared with AWS? Not looked at ORCSWeb yet.
The UK has 16 political parties represented at national or international levels:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_th...
Chicago, IL but REMOTE is ok.

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LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail
Inside WalmartLabs: The Kosmix team helps the big box retailer go social
Not everyone had access to the resources at 14 (Internet, computer).
I think you're taking the site for what it isn't instead for what it is. Curenote is not a replacement for seeing your doctor. It's a way of getting supplementary health advice from other people who may have experienced similar situations. This doesn't mean you have to follow their advice. You should always think about what they're suggesting to see if it makes sense to follow. A lot of people have a lot of health knowledge they can share. This is way for them to do just that.
> absolutely contributes to the obesity we are all facing.

Not me. I'm actually trying to put on weight. And it's slow going.
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The article describes it as the "most controversial component of our investment strategy" and contrary to conventional wisdom. So if the article is to believed, they are different than the majority of VCs.
The solution is rather simple, actually: take a break. Real break. Seriously. If you keep pushing it, you will only end up being in a much worse situation.

Do something light for a while. Spend more time with your family, close friends etc. Try something new and interesting. Then, after a time, ask yourself again what you really want to do and simply start over. By that time you should be level-headed and open-minded about your previous venture and use that experience to your advantage. Either bootstrap one of your ideas, join a start-up/company that you like or, well, do what you always wanted to do.

Naturally, take this advice, like any other, with a grain of salt. I'm not you; it's your life.
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Ask HN: How to get better at reading source code?
I've got a 2500 line Python file I'd like to understand thoroughly. Here are some questions I have:

Where should I start?

What questions should I ask the code's maintainer, if she is a busy person?

I've been using grep to search for places where methods from this class have been called from other classes; is there a better tool?

Are there any formal resources that teach you how to read/understand someone else's source code?

It's just been going really slow and I wonder if there are ways I could be understanding faster.
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"The Mac Mini is the clear winner in value for money. Even if you consider that you’d need your own monitor."

Well ... no. The 27" iMac comes with a screen that would cost you $900 - $1200 depending on where you buy it from. 2560 x 1440 resolution monitors are not common or cheap.

If you want the high resolution, large monitor, the 27" iMacs are easily the best value.
They don't owe anything, the Supreme Court has ruled that you don't have to collect sales tax unless you have a presence in the state (a la the Commerce Clause of the Constitution). It isn't tax evasion, pure and simple.

Congress has the sole authority to tax and regulate interstate commerce, and if they choose to do so via this act, that is fine and dandy but that is a totally different issue.
... And have the freedom to practice their religion because there are people willing to defend their right to do so, on their behalf.
Thanks mcphilip. Agreed. I will look into that. Thanks for the suggestion.
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In one sentence explain how asinine 1sentence.com is.

http://1sentence.com/in-one-sentence-explain-how-asinine-thi...

Added by yours truly.
> but other than a rare sexist I don't hear anyone saying that.

The thing about rare sexists is that they are not all that rare.
tl;dr: a totally speculative number.
Like you mentioned on the about page, image saving would be a nice addition, but it is already quite usable with Local Storage. Another cool feature would be the ability to attach documents to a branch. Do you have it up on github/bitbucket yet? Great work.
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