skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is something we're still working on and hope to improve in subsequent versions. Most coloring book apps only allow you to fill or paint and if you are able to fill the number of areas is pretty low. We decided to go for doing everything and although it's working well (we think) we're continually seeking ways to improve the speed in that area.
It all depends on whether it's a job board that hackers will find useful and not something like Monster.com. If it's sufficiently relevant and useful to thread readers, it should be posted. Don't be pedantic, don't make up rules.
We're making a commercial system. Implementing a bandit algorithm yourself is quite straightforward. You could implement, say, UCB1 in a day. I might open source some of that code if I get the time. Packaging that algorithm into a usable and scalable system (unlike our blog ;-) is a lot more work.

PS: I've installed a cache so the blog should stay up now.
Why is it the top 10? Their profiles seem really standard for developers aged 19. Who didn't start playing around with PHP and JavaScript at age 14?
20under20 is a fairly well thought out "anti education agenda". It's not against the idea of learning, just the outdated concept of going $300k into debt for content you could have learned by yourself online. Predictably, Wadhwa is very much against the idea of doing anything that doesn't involve paying him and his colleagues for four years.
I'm genuinely curious to hear which web developers ignored legacy browser support and got burned. Please divulge.
I see - I saw the pricing sheet from endgame that was leaked, but it was not clear to me if anyone is really buying their services, and I am in the industry (doing not shady things). So I was just curious.
The fact of the matter is, this kid will be dealing with legacy type issues over the next 40-45 years of his career. 10 years from now, devs will be grumbling about supporting some technology we view as common place and whiz-bang today.

Yes, supporting IE6 is a pain in the ass (I have to do it due to my company's huge Chinese user base). But I am watching it die a slow death.

The specific experience sucks, but in general it will help him prepare for realities of web dev.
Cheer up - at worst you've got more experience than most late 20 year-olds I know, and there's not too many developers with both business and programming experience.

I suggest you do some freelancing or consulting while you get your head together (plus finances in order!) and plan your next move.
IE is the bane of my existence. It's got a lot easier over the last few years. The original turn from table based design to CSS back in 2005 was hell. It was guaranteed that half of your CSS would NOT work. It's a lot easier now but I still find some really weird issues.

Nowadays I use mogotest.com to help me with it. It's a lot more handy than booting up a VM.
This is interesting (and I'm yet to study the algorithm in detail) but I guess you are comparing two dissimilar problems. One is hypothesis testing and other is continuous optimization.

The reason A/B testing has many parameters is because at the end of data collection it hopes to employ a hypothesis test to determine whether variation was better performing as compared to control (the interpretation of "better" is done according to parameters defined). The confidence level and other parameters allow you to do proper risk-reward analysis and see if you want to go ahead with variation. Moreover, minimal sample size (visitors/conversions) ensures that local (initial) fluctuations do not unnecessarily bias the test results. In fact, in A/B test first 100 visitors are virtually identical to last 100 visitors with regards to impact on final results.

However, I am guessing in bandit algorithms (since their primary usage is continuous optimization and not hypothesis testing) local fluctuations can have an adverse impact on ultimate results which may be okay for continuous optimization problems but not for projects where you need to determine with a defined level of confidence whether one version works better than the other.

Different needs, different algorithms.
> people want to optimize for what they think is best for themselves and their offspring

Copyright is a form of for-profit censorship. There are always people who will vote for censorship and slavery in order to maximize the exploitation of other people fot the benefit of themselves and theif offspring. the fact that there are always people willing to support and profit from opression does not mean that everybody else should not condemn, fight and try everything they can to end it.

As of now, copyright is not democratically supported. It is directed and enforced against the majority for the benefit of a influential minority, but it was never, anywhere on this planet, supported by any kind of democratic vote by the people. It originated in a dictatorship and has been spread behind closed doors and shielded by various party mechanisms from a direct popular vote, because the probable result of this vote would be a "no".

The turmoil around ACTA, where even talking about the negotiations was a no-go disguised as "national security" to prevent any opposition to even form, has shown that the politics around copyright is as undemocratic as ever.

I do not feel any moral obligation whatsoever to obey such a authoritarian law clearly not backed by the majority of my peers. Copying and sharing stuff is simply not wrong as long as the majority of my peers does not condemn it. I will never let a authoritarian, profit-oriented minority legislate my morals.
Can you compare to MVT (Multi-Variate Testing)? From an admittedly surface reading of the post, this sounds like the somewhat common "A/B sucks, MVT is more accurate at optimizing and showing impact" with a newer optimization approach.
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You can script Sorenson Squeeze through a command line but that's expensive software and was probably not available in the form that exists today when YouTube launched.
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The browser market share does not matter, the _conversion_ share does. I've heard from several large retailers that IE6 comprises a significantly higher share of their online sales than the market share would indicate. That could be because Grandma's PC hasn't been upgrade, but it might also be because people are buying stuff on their lunch hour with their nasty old IT-department-supported XP with IE6.
Very true, but these are rather trivial concerns compared to A/B testing. With A/B testing you still need a large amount of samples, but you also need to specify the (usually arbitrary) parameters, and decide when to stop the test on top of that.

The challenging aspects seem more of a limitation, but you still would be testing things all the time, ostensibly, rather than test once in the beginning and then stay there. I'd imagine some of the algorithms have a window of data to consider, rather than everything since the beginning.

You could also discard old data to make sure past actions don't impact your performance now.

Overall, the technique isn't a miracle cure, of course, but it's leaps and bounds better than the split tests we have now.
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The point is that without SSL no one can know for sure the right, secure Javascript was served.
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This is based on what MSNBC.com does in their news articles. It's really quite brilliant.
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Premiere is an editing suite. After Effects is not an editing suite, rather a compositor and motion design suite. I can understand if the distinction is lost on people who have never used the latter, but trust me, it is not lost on motion graphic designers.

You might be surprised to learn that even Apple sells separate editor and compositor software: The just-released Final Cut Pro X is a separate product from Apple Motion.

I do agree, though, that Adobe should consider merging apps when appropriate.
Isn't it interesting there's only one mention to C#, one to Java and one to Windows?
The question of whether copyright serves the minority or the majority is going to depend very much on who you ask. If you ask the typical hacker, who tends to see digital works as generic stuff in the "tubes", copyright is annoying inefficiency. For people that create that content though, copyright is what makes it possible for them to put food on the table and, more importantly, focus with the attention that good work requires.

If it becomes impossible for people to make a living creating digital work you're soon going to have a super-efficient network of tubes full of nothing but shit.
Probably any that you've seen accept uploaded video from their users. My company's software is dependent on ffmpeg and a few other open source tools for converting and dealing with video. I don't accept uploaded video but I do a lot of transcoding and ffmpeg is excellent for that. I also use mp4box and handbrake if anyone is curious.
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I like the way you talk :)

As @e-dard says, the more page variations (arms) you add, the more traffic you need. Non-stationary behaviour isn't a huge problem in this setup. The "non-stochastic" (aka adversarial) algorithms address this, but I don't actually see web pages traffic displaying a great deal of non-stationary behaviour to begin with. A bandit designed with I.I.D. assumptions and, say, a weighted history seems to work fine. Ad optimisation, which is an interesting area for extending the product, seems to be highly non-stationary.

The other issue I'm concerned with is interactions between different variations (called multi-variate testing in the A/B world). This becomes a reinforcement learning problem. There are good algorithms for RL but I'm not aware of much work that also includes generalisation (aka context or function approximation) in a principled way.
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You said roughly "other people have more money on the line, so YC should let them do it"

This is wrong in far more than 5 ways, but we will start with 5.

1. Your model of "money on the line" doesn't seem to account for diminishing marginal utility (if a billionaire has $1 million at risk, and a millionaire has $1k at risk, the risk is greater for the millionaire even though the percentage risk is equal).

2. Your model doesn't seem to account for relative portfolio size (if a billionaire risks $1 million, and a $10 millionaire also risks $1 million, the risk is greater for the $10 millionaire)

3. Your model doesn't seem to account for the opportunity cost of time (YC seems to like/have time for talking to the press about YC companies, something that many VC firms don't)

4. Your model doesn't seem to account for relative skill (YC seems better at talking to the press than most VC firms)

5. Your model doesn't seem to account for compensation options (if YC doesn't feel that time spent would be positive ROI, AirBnB or the other investors might be able to pay YC to do it)

In short, my coming on HN to read interesting business discussion, only to find thoughts like "Saying that YC should handle this would be like suggesting that Bill Gate's Harvard fraternity should clean up Microsoft's faux pas (That's a bit hyperbolic, but I think you see what I'm getting at.)" is like being invited by a friend to the symphony, and showing up to discover a five year old alternating between playing a xylophone and eating wood glue (That's a bit hyperbolic, but I think you see what I'm getting at).
These seem like loaded questions. It's appropriate in certain scenarios where the combatant is perceived to be a threat (that someone is unarmed cannot be known until they are killed/apprehended).

In this case Bin Laden used his wives as human shields and only froze after that plan was foiled. Note that the first SEAL used non-deadly force on one of the women and even risked his life in bear-hugging them to protect his teammates.

They said that capture would have been possible had he surrendered immediately; he didn't do this, he used his wives as human shields.
You always have (at least) two options in life when it comes to hard experiences.

1) Allow yourself to wallow in your failure and keep yourself there by constantly focusing on the negatives of what happened.

2) Focus on the experience that you had. Think about what you learned, good and bad. And use that to help you form your path towards the future.

I know it sounds really cliche to say that "failing often" can lead to success, but I have known many people who have gotten laid off or failed miserably at something and instead of dwelling on the fact that they were a failure, they bounced up and took the lessons they learned to do something different or change directions in their life or career.

Personally, I've also had a few experiences with failure that devastated me at the time, but after a few days of mind numbing woe is me, I picked myself up and did something about it and I am much more successful now than I was back then because I reflected on what happened in those instances and it helped me redirect my efforts.

So cliche or not, your attitude matters and if you start focusing on what you've learned instead of what you've lost I'm sure you'll bounce back.
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Guess what, by violating copyright you're enabling the very people that seem to outrage you so. If you really cared so much about this, you'd put your time and money where your mouth is and support the people working outside copyright.

More likely, you're just another pirate stealing food from the dinner table, all the while complaining how bad it tastes and how small the portions are.
What if the hotel industry is setting up these unsuspecting customers of AirBnB? They, the hotel chains really don't like this business model.
Create enough negative press, a carefully crafted situation that will cause a busienss to fail and they you can cash in on how "safe" a Hotel chain is...
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Are those being able to create websites and use fancy web frameworks nowadays considered top developers?
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When said country is harboring (whether intentionally or ignorantly) an international terrorist and mass-murderer.
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And basically all of them listed PHP.

I guess you need to be a little older to truly form a deep hatred for PHP.
Pedantic might be a little harsh, but I see your point.

You have no idea how spammy job board people (yes, I'm part of this crowd) can get when they find a new field to peddle their wares. We're just shameless. And if there's isn't some throttle/downvoting, these threads will become 90% "check out my job board" and 10% real jobs.
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Anyone over 30 :)
Thanks. Though I need to look it up whether it really teaches to not defend one's right and how it works in reality.
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Does anyone not in the 'enterprise' or studying at University really love Java or C#?

They seem like very unlikely candidates for young self-taught programmers/designers imho.

When I started programming, I jumped into a lot of open source programs, poked them and cloned them just to understand how they worked.

There isn't really that much interesting open source C# / Java software at a basic level, and that I think might be the reason why self-taught programmers are more likely to use other languages.
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For the last 2 changes to the AT&T wireless contract, I have called up and declined. They kept me under terms of previous contract rather than letting me go without the cancellation fee.
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What part of this post + you saying, on your very own website, "I have not, nor ever will attempt to solicit business on Hacker News," is honest?
I understand where Corin is coming from but his well-meaning advice completely misses the potential. The question "Explain why Justin Bieber is popular" and the answer "because teenage girls exist" are both BRILLIANT - the fact that Corin can't see the point of them doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with him, it just means that he is out of tune with the type of humor that most normal people enjoy.

A site like this is a novelty, potentially an extremely popular one. It will never be a storehouse of proper knowledge, like a sort of mini-StackExchange, full of the sort of things that Corin might consider "worthwhile" - think logically, what would be the point of "reaching out" to Paul Graham and other worthies ... for single sentence answers!

Seriously, this thing's true destiny is to be a dynamic stage for funny thoughts and funnier answers, and in that it has tremendous potential, tremendous value.

My advice would to look beyond the constraints of your own idea of what 1sentence will be, ease off on deleting answers, let your users lead the way and ignore the advice of techies who can't see the simple beauty of your idea - these are the type of people who orignally wrote off Twitter with grand, huffy statements about not wanting to know what other people were having for breakfast, completely failing to realize that something important was shifting in how people communicate.

Well done.