skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Math in poker is a little overrated. It's often listed as an advantage of the game by less experienced players.

Once you have the basics nailed (mainly expected value calculations) there really isn't much more to it, the rest of the skill then comes from estimating opponents hand ranges. And past that, meta game, hand range balancing, deception etc become increasingly important.

Poker is an amazing game when you're playing people who also understand the game. When you're scrapping at the free games it's a pretty dismally inefficient learning tool. If you want to play good people, you need to play with money.

If you get to a reasonable level at poker, it does have a lot of advantages. Here's a blog post I wrote comparing running a startup to playing poker:
http://www.scirra.com/blog/80/why-running-a-startup-is-like-...

Poker also has a big potential downside, which is obsession, outright misery and despair which can slowly creep into your life. Distinguishing between addiction and a pursuit you are thoroughly interested in and enjoy is often difficult to pinpoint.

Poker also has other downsides which I've observed many times, even with close friends. Illusions of grandeur are common, and can be destructive in your life in a larger way than you are prepared to admit. For example, many players who have been playing for many years still believe they can go pro. These players don't study the game, they just play it and often bemoan their bad luck. For years. In an alternative Universe they might have perused a career, yet they are still playing small stakes games and bleeding off their money at a very slow pace, slow enough to kid themselves that they are simply suffering a bad run of luck.

Perseverance and self belief really aren't virtuous qualities in poker for most people.

Harrington on Holdem are the best strategy books on poker in my opinion. If anyone is interested in seeing how poker players should be thinking as they play I highly recommend those books!

As for recommending people go into poker, I actively tell people to steer well clear of it. Money flows upwards, addicts keep on self destructing and the winning players will justify it with ethically dubious statements like "if I don't take their money, someone else will", or with blinders on with statements such as "all the losing players are probably just casual and playing for fun" to appease their own ethics.

A lot of winning players do not understand or empathise the torture that some losing players have to endure.

There is a real pleasure playing poker on a table with people who are equal, or above you in skill level. The level of thought, the challenge, the tactics are thoroughly thoroughly enjoyable. I was never especially good at poker, but I did touch upon these sorts of experiences. To get there though will take most people a lot of time, probably time better spent elsewhere.
Agreed. Here is something better http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/30928446434/introducing-bo...
>* And the main distinguishing feature of that new 9/12 device? A form factor very close to Samsung's last two flagship models.*

You mean "a bigger screen"?

Well, it could have had even less distinguishing factors and it would have been just fine in my books. They created that kind of design, it's not like they have to differentiate for the sake of differentiation. Incremental cpu/memory/storage/batter upgrades are OK too.

>And that new iPad mini everybody's so excited about? Copying a form factor that Samsung pioneered and Amazon and Google validated. Maybe next Apple will copy the Note?

They actually had prototypes in various sizes years before Samsung, Amazon or Google ever thought of going into the tablet space, or even the original iPad come out.

Plus, Apple created the mass market for tablets. Before the iPad it was a wasteland with few inhabitants.

Samsung taking the iPad and offering something similar in a smaller form factor is something original, really? And Apple making a smaller version of THEIR OWN PRODUCT is copying Samsung? That's some twisted logic.

>So who exactly is copying whom here?

Samsung.

They copied the iPod in a smaller form factor, and now Apple will offer a small form factor themselves. Should Apple preemptively put out all possible form factors at once, to not be considered a copycat? That's some twisted logic here.

It's not like Apple didn't already have a smaller form factor device that was similar. Remember when they called the iPad (mockingly) "a large iPhone"?
Utter props to silktide to pushing this, I feel like half my posts on HN have been about this retarded legislation. Those who misuse cookies will soon use even more insidious means, those who don't are being forced into implementing stupid confusing boilerplate, utterly ridiculous!
Cheating by the site is a risk, but on Poker Stars I feel fairly safe because they have so much invested and would do their best to make sure their image does not get tainted.

I mainly played heads up before Black Friday, and there is more to it than just simple odds. You get into a psychological battle, which includes odds, and has money at the end.

I stayed around the 50NL games, but was still able to pull in $1000/mo playing in my spare time. Then there was Black Friday.
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You missed the real catch that he mentioned towards the end - Quoting from the article -
"The lesson is really simple. Make it work, put it out. You can make it pretty later, maybe."
Thanks for pointing that out betageek. That's certainly an oversight. We will be working on more IE compatibility and a better documentation.
There's a bit of goofiness about crossover in this thread.

So far as I know, since its inception in the 1970s, crossover has never been thought of as a mechanism for "avoiding local minima". Indeed, the early trend of crossover without mutation was what resulted in studies in so-called "premature convergence," where the population would converge to a single genome and be permanently locked in a local optimum.

Rather, crossover is a procedure for spreading good subsolutions (so-called "building blocks") rapidly through the population. This is effectively projecting the search space into many smaller spaces, so has the potential of searching much faster if -- and this is a big if -- the problem in question has very low dependance among its parameters. In the GA world, this is known as parameter "linkage" or "epistasis". Other techniques do something similar: for example, EDAs or coevolution or ant colony optimization all perform a related projection and likewise make a related assumption of low dependance.

> Very often, the most efficient evolutionary search algorithm involves a population of one (or two, depending how you count them): generate a mutation, compare it to the current best.

Not really true. There are lots of EAs which are touted as "the most efficient". A few, like CMA-ES, are by and large mutation-only algorithms. But others, like cooperative coevolution or hBOA (and other EDAs), are essentially extremes in crossover-like mixing.
How can Pittsburgh improve its ranking as a top city for startups?
I agree. I had never heard of the site this post is referring to. I used a different site to check UDID's that let you only enter in part of the UDID. This site looks like it REQUIRED you to send the ENTIRE UDID. Not very good.

I also had a blog post hit the front page of Reddit as well as Gizmodo. ~400K hits over 24 hours. Page size was roughly 700KB in size. All hosted on a shared hosting plan at HostGator.

How? A free CloudFlare account to cache every image/css/js resource on the page, plus a custom page rule to force cashing of the actual html response from the server.

Did I think my situation was impressive? Not really. Just an average number of pageviews for a front page article.
Honduras to create private cities with their own legal and tax systems
Stack Exchange API V2.1
$45 for a window to-do list app? You must be kidding.

Nice advert though.
Well, you got a point there. It's not being X is a necessary conclusion of you stating Y --you can take them apart and answer any of them you like.

I just assumed that it is so, because that's how privileged people I know talk (conversely, having had days searching for scraps myself --mainly as a self-employed student--, I wouldn't even think of dismissing the importance of food insecurity).
IMO, this alone is something that the W3C or WHATWG realy needs to deal with. We have cooperation now. Cooperation on keycodes would help everyone.
If you're going that route, I suggest instead looking at Grammatical Evolution, which is much more popular and does a very closely related thing. Or heck, stick with plain Genetic Programming (GP).

It'd only be a toy though. Because of the high number of evaluations used by these kinds of methods, and the cost of a single evaluation, most serious work is done in engines based on faster languages, notably Java, C, or, or C++.
Good to see them taking a stance. It is a great shame that this law does absolutely nothing to improve privacy.

I typically do my casual browsing in incognito mode, which means that I'm constantly bombarded with these cookie warnings. So this law has significantly reduced the quality of my experience, for no benefit at all.

The people who want to track me still continue to do so.
Thanks! (I'm the founder of Silktide and author of that rant).

We had some constructive suggestions on what could be done instead, although these are definitely up for debate. The gist would be using a rel element like so:

<a href='privacy.html' rel='privacypolicy'>Privacy</a>

and then using that as a means of consistently linking to a privacy policy. As a result, policies would have consistent language for users ('look for the "Privacy" link') but could also be detected automatically by browsers or testing tools.

That way you could actually test your site is properly linking to a policy, and users could have browser preferences like "disable cookies until I've seen a policy" or whatever.

It's just an idea but we've implemented it on our sites and will be interested to see what others think:

http://blog.silktide.com/2012/09/fixing-a-broken-cookie-law/
> For example, if your site requires cookies to function, what should it do if a visitor declines permission?

If I'm reading the guidance[1] correctly (and I've only skimmed it), you don't need permission for essential cookies. Most sites just display a message along the lines of "We're using cookies; your continued use of this site gives consent" etc..

[1] http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...
Quick! They should patent this before Apple does. I call it the "Smiley Like".

This actually brilliant. I'm not sure if I should have a "Like" button on my site, but it is a good idea for other Devs to follow suit. Its just plain fun to see the face go from disgruntled to elated.
You can disable Instant Search by going to http://www.google.com/preferences and selecting "Never show Instant results.".

Or, you could set "I'm Feeling Lucky" to be Chrome's default search: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/pDpfTIoSa... . Basically, you add "btnl=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky" to the Google search URL.
I use getmail to retrieve my gmail to my local network every week. It works fine.
World wide wasteland
Les studios ont déjà arrêté une date de fin pour la trilogie « Le Hobbit »
Le premier volet de la nouvelle trilogie de Peter Jackson, « Le Hobbit », n’est pas encore sorti sur les écrans. Néanmoins, les studios américains annoncent la date de fin, le 18 juillet 2014.
That's a really nice solution that bridges responsibility between the user, browser and the website owners.
There's almost zero contrast when selecting text. This makes it nearly impossible to see what text is selected on the screen.

The text also seems to randomly become bold and/or disappear and flash on the screen when trying to select text.
One thing to keep in mind is that that comment is what made me start following you in the first place, so it does get folks attention. I wouldn't worry about comment diversity too much, after all I keep coming back!
in a way, a much better one. not cluttered interface, and it follows you around more efficiently.
I would also recommend the Harrington books for beginners looking to improve their tournament play. They are widely read, however, and the strategy is exploitable by someone who knows you're playing it. But it's still much better than your own strategy at the start.

Edit: I would say, in my anecdotal experience, you don't encounter the same number of addicts in poker as you do in other games. You're more likely to see them at the roulette or blackjack table looking for a quick bet. The adrenaline moments in poker, tournaments especially, are quite widely spaced out.
"It's not actually rational to hurt others to promote yourself. In the long run, that's a losing strategy."

Just a hint: there might be other reasons than "that's a losing strategy" to avoid hurting others to promote yourself.
I never understood the old TV show/movie technique, but I might have to try it now. My girlfriend's mother watches Pride and Prejudice almost every night before bed, and I never really got it.
The rules and the reality are somewhat different. Most cabs will straight up refuse to take you someplace they're unlikely to quickly find fares.

Yeah, you can get their number and complain, but it's not going to get you to Brooklyn that night.
Ask HN: How did you find customers and/or learn sales?
Many advocate that you should already have paying customers before you start building a full-fledged product. Others state that you should have a customer in mind, build the product, release early-and-often and pivot.

Either way, selling and distribution is crucial to your business. I'm curious what approaches people have used that worked for them to find customers and/or learn sales. This part of the business seems foreign many of us that come purely from a technical background.
I wonder... Could he have done it on a free heroku instance?
So it's taken 9 years for anyone to notice that SSL is broken in the most widely used(?) open source IM client?
Yes, and with dots it would be less obvious that people are reinventing the whole XML ecosystem.

Someone should design a meta-language (probably based on s-expressions) that would easily represent all Object Notations and Markup Languages and an XPath/XSLT meta-equivalent to rule 'em all.
Raymond Camden: My Thoughts on Node.js and Express
Plus could then have a link to the privacy policy page added in the actual browser, rather than intruding on the user experience.
No, it wouldn't have been fine. If you find a security bug, you have to follow the reporting procedures. Otherwise you're just making things worse. This should not be in a public ticket.

That aside, I have a hard time seeing that there's any level of rudeness this sort of code doesn't deserve.
Exactly. I'm not telling you to play your money on poker. I'm just telling you to play poker for the fun and "benefits" of the activity.
Bad Piggies (successor to Angry Birds)
OK, thanks for the lesson :)
It's like PG says in his essay,"The Island Test":

"The notebook and pen are professional equipment, as it were. Though actually there is something druglike about them, in the sense that their main purpose is to make me feel better. I hardly ever go back and read stuff I write down in notebooks. It's just that if I can't write things down, worrying about remembering one idea gets in the way of having the next. Pen and paper wick ideas."

Although, I find that most of the time I toss-and-turn b/c my mind is continuously thinking about solving some problem at hand. It's 3am and I should go to bed, otherwise I'll be a zombie at the office tomorrow, but there is this problem that I have to stop thinking about first. Creativity doesn't really follow the same schedules as "business hours"; I would suggest that if you can, stay awake thinking/working/doing until you can't anymore.
FBI Issues Denial About Leaked UDID List
I think the general attitude here is pretty bad and I'm disgusted with the replies. I hope the hell they do get sued.

The reason that the law exists is that people have abused the cookie functionality terribly to track people all over the Internet using every possible loophole that they can. Now the price is being paid through not very good legislation.

You wrote functionality that tracks people and now you're whinging when people are given their privacy back? Forget it - I have no sympathy.

Regarding legitimate use, you click accept and the problem goes away.

With respect to analytics, stop being cheap and lazy and do it from your logs.
Finally ran the tool and the only issue I had was that the 'not found' message was at the bottom of the page, now below the fold.

When I first visited the site, before he started putting more text on the page, I don't think I would have run into the issue.

Browser window isn't maximized; if I scroll all the way up it cuts off the last two paragraphs/sentences (link to his wife's blog and the results).

Otherwise it's simple; it doesn't need to be flashy when it's a one-stop site (unless they release the remaining ones).
Ugly little game? Screw you, Wired.

It's retro, not ugly.
Winning Wallpaper Removed from Ubuntu 12.10
Copyright Release
hi all,

i am working with two guys on my mobile up. i'm paying them for their contributions. we have agreed that they will not reserve any rights for the code and i am free to use it as i wish.

does anybody have a template i can use?
did anybody have any problems in a similar case and can advise my what to pay attention to?

thanks for you help.

ar
I'm guessing that dots are marginally more likely to occur as keys, so they'd need to be escaped more often.
Brain activity aside, I would recommend everybody to exercise at least half an hour in the evening. It guarantees a nice feeling of tiredness at night, and sleep comes easily. Works wonders for me.
Your weekly food budget was 3$? Call me curious: What did you eat with this budget? (Even it is a bit more, but still less than 10$ I am curious).
On Monday at 3:30am PDT, we experienced
a hardware failure in our primary encryption hardware device.
The failure cascaded to the backup slave device as well.

How does a hardware failure cascade to a backup slave device?
Count the errors, chemistry edition
Retro Fight Video: Mike Tyson Vs. Buster Douglas - The Intimidation Factor
I know it's not the case, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only person trying to limit the information Facebook is able to gather about me... I don't put anything in my about section because I don't want to be associated with groups, I don't use like buttons, and I rarely tag posts/people.
Flexible work schedules and hourly pay are not mutually exclusive. Salary doesn't suddenly make an employee more productive. An hourly wage does not make an employee unethical.

I've seen well run firms where everyone including the CEO was hourly. Having a meaningful correlation between wages and workflow was an advantage. It provided data for better staffing. Helped employee moral as well.

Disincentivizing inadequate staffing was seen as a good thing.
I think it's fair to say that it's still not really clear.

Twitter(!) has the news as it broke/continues to break:

https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/243095210819715072
I love stories like this. Personally, it's very difficult for me to focus on one project and get it to the point where it's completely awesome and people love it. In the past year I've worked on http://openhercules.com/ , http://emailegg.com , http://omgsmackdown.com/ , http://www.whoopsapp.com/ . I've also spent time working on a multiplayer game in common lisp and just this weekend I finished putting together my first desktop app. Perhaps the most successful site I've made is http://happyjobsearch.com/ , followed by http://visualmess.com .

Which is all to say that while I spend a lot of time on side projects, I have a hard time getting from "this is good enough to show people" to "people love this and want to show other people." Saying no to all the ideas that are always bouncing around in my head so that I can focus on just one, like the guy in the article, always feels painful and risky. My internal dialogue goes, "What if this idea doesn't work out? I should just move on to the next one. That way I'm at least learning something new." What's more, when I initially release a site and it doesn't get any traction, my response is almost always to mentally run from it so that I don't have to experience the pain of disappointment.

How do people deal with that?
In Edinburgh especially, there is a lot of empty high-quality office space at the moment. You can negotiate very favourable terms, not limited to long rent-free periods, well spaced breaks in contracts, and more-office-for-no-extra type deals.
Poker is awesome. Free poker doesn't teach you much. Programmers value security and structure. With free money there is no structure to poker. People will go all-in, or raise the big blinds. There is no accountability and nothing to risk.

Once you play real-money games you see a drastic difference between play and real. People start being accountable for their actions and try to calculate optimally as to their odds of success on a given hand. The problem is once you start with real-money, win or lose, you find it harder to stop. This is where programming and poker are intertwined. Programmers can't stop programming. They will always program. Poker players will always buy-in.
Even more strange, seeing as there appears to be working validation code which is #ifdef 0, even back in 2003?

At the very least, would have been a great place in the code to comment on where (since obviously not there) the cert is supposed to get validated!
Galaxy S III beats out iPhone 4S as top selling device in US
I dont like them though.
Forgive me for being rather curt and blunt but... have you showed other people who aren't your friends?
People adore McDonalds. It doesn't necessarily means it is good for the people or the world.
I recall one of the most interesting and intellectually-stimulating aspects of university was going into lectures/labs/libraries of other degree subjects.

Restricting access like this is not to increase privacy, whatever that means in this context (what, you only want privacy from people not doing the same degree?); it's a means of putting everyone into neat little boxes to make admin easier, and an attempt to placate the almighty Gods of Security.
Allow me to fix that, because it's not just Pidgin:

> .. the most widely used(?) open source IM client library, libpurple?
The author of this ticket isn't exaggerating when he states that "MITMing this crawling horror would be no more difficult than a plain, unencrypted TCP connection".

That's how bad it is.