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Bayesian bandits is also a very interesting approach: http://tdunning.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/bayesian-bandits.html

Was Marc Kac: "There are two kinds of geniuses: the 'ordinary' and the 'magicians'. An ordinary genius is a fellow whom you and I would be just as good as, if we were only many tim…

Sounds great.. please tell me more. Any ETA on a beta?

I'll second that. Watched the video and i'd buy it in a heartbeat.

9% of gross revenues to be able to use hardware accelerated 3D and fast memory access? The fast memory access has been available since Flash 10 days and usable with HaXe. I'm stunn…

Ooops. There's about a half dozen people down_vote DOSing the server right now.

I think i've fixed that now! Fingers crossed.

Hi everyone. I built this over the course of the last week as an exercise in learning Django. I noticed my friends and I tended to share lots of stories about our work-related deve…

How does Cassandra stack up against HBase these days? Both projects seem to be moving so quickly that it's really hard to find an up to date comparison.

I was under the impression that for YC the the idea was less important than the team. How did the teams change between rejection and acceptance? Was a different idea enough to cons…

Were they rejected at the application or interview stage? Have you had many groups accepted after being rejected at interview stage?

As an aside, I randomly bumped in to Steve Wozniak while in San Francisco and he's a really nice guy.

I get a "Subscribe/Join AAAS or Buy Access to This Article to View Full Text." for the PDF page.

It's a shame the original paper seems to be stuck behind a journal paywall. Does anyone have access to a preprint?

I was under the impression that Doubleclick was the largest exchange by some distance. How much wider reach do you get from going to multiple exchanges? It's maybe time I did some …

Do you offer anything over Google's boomerang retargeting? We've already had decent success with that.

This article is just plain awful: "- Avoid the General Product License (GPL)." in the introduction sets the tone. It's an article about Open Source Software and you don't even know…

I think i'd feel a little more sorry for Microsoft if it weren't using software patents to fight Android. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870346610457552... (search fo…

HN doesn't have private message functionality and you don't seem to have any contact details in your profile. Is there any other way of contacting you? =)

The reason I dislike Microsoft and actively avoid their platforms is largely because despite their vast resources and obvious talent, their management rarely compete head to head w…