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by bevan 14y ago
I'm glad you got solutions so quickly! I've also had a hard time selecting a winning solution when several correct ones are posted. I'd like to avoid duplication of effort by solution providers when possible, but finding a way to do that is
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for your thoughts. I see what you mean about the time limit- I imagine that use case (people needing solutions quickly) will be quite common, so I'll look for a way to address it. My concern with adding time limits was that a shorter
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by bevan 14y ago
Landing page looks great! Let me know if you want to compare notes sometime over coffee (SF or NY). Looking forward to seeing the product. All the best!
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for posting a bounty! Sorry about the latency, I'll work on that. I'll also address the Terms and Conditions issue (by most likely removing it entirely, since there is a redundant notice on signup). Please let me know if you have any
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation, no offense intended. My point was that there's a mechanism (imperfect though it may be) to help catch flawed solutions. BTW, the winning solution doesn't appear to have the security flaw you pointed out.
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the great feedback! 2. That feature is forthcoming 3. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll fix that. 4. It started that way, but then I realized the time limit wouldn't have much impact on when the bounty actually gets answered, be
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by bevan 14y ago
The lack of a guarantee of payment may dissuade some potential solution providers. However, I think most users provide solutions for fun. At least one repeat user can't even accept Paypal payments in his country. BTW, you can also send your
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that not all coding tasks are appropriate for Bountify, and that there'll always be potential pitfalls whenever you outsource bits of work. But I'm hopeful coders will recognize those pitfalls and learn to u
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by bevan 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. There isn't a way to see only the unsolved bounties (adding that soon), but there is only one and it's on the front page. There were a couple unanswered ones a long time ago but they have expired.
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by bevan 14y ago
@impostervt, I'm the creator of Bountify- thanks for pointing out the broken link, I'll fix it asap. Yes, I think the money-to-charity policy will dissuade some users from posting higher bounty amounts at first. My goal is to show that cert
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$25 bounty: create an open source syllable counter in Ruby(bountify.co)
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Switching gears from tech to marketing- Bountify.co(bountify.co)
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by bevan 14y ago
For those of you who feel clear-headed after fasting for a day or two: you might have a delayed food allergy (google "IgG food intolerance"). The most common such allergies are to gluten (not just coeliac sufferers are sensitive to gluten)
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Show HN: Better HTML to HAML converter(htmltohaml.com)
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by bevan 14y ago
A better solution: www.wasmylinkedinpasswordleaked.com
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by bevan 14y ago
haha, quite funny. I made it.
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Was my LinkedIn password leaked?(wasmylinkedinpasswordleaked.com)
3 points by bevan 14y ago|0 comments
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What app/website do you wish existed?(appwishlist.net)
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Show HN: Find Haiku in Your Tweets(haiku.li)
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by bevan 14y ago
I explored iPhone dev at about the same time as you. I also had a hard time finding good resources. There's so much to learn that it was intimidating sitting down and just reading about it. What worked for me was porting simple programs I'd
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by bevan 14y ago
Yeah that might have been an exaggeration. But as I recall, once you have the MT seeded and fired up, getting a new number requires little more than a bit shift. Anyway it was substantially faster than simple alternatives I tried (including
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by bevan 14y ago
I went to Middlebury. There was an AI class, but the 3 semesters were research with my late professor Tim Huang. The department at Middlebury was small, but I doubt that I could have received a better CS education elsewhere. The opportunity
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by bevan 14y ago
That's funny, I had that experience too. At first I tested my implementations against the plain UCT-player, and was puzzled why my "improvements" didn't do as well against GnuGo.
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by bevan 14y ago
Correction: "most non-random tactics" wouldn't make it better, as someone else pointed out. Finding ones that do is a tough question, beyond just runtime; keep in mind that the MC player uses that strategy against itself over entire random
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by bevan 14y ago
The Monte Carlo simulator is a very simple and weak heuristic by itself. In UCT go players it's inseparable from the tree-traversal/expansion algorithm, which uses data propagated up the tree from the MC-tested leaf nodes to decide which mo
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by bevan 14y ago
To further illustrate the point, I think I may have actually tried a no-capture heuristic at one point. I wouldn't be too surprised if it also worked better than random.
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by bevan 14y ago
Real-life tactics unfortunately don't make for good heuristics in the Monte Carlo simulator. Our goal was to improve overall gameplay by making the Monte Carlo simulator play slightly more realistically than random. Keep in mind that when t
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by bevan 14y ago
I worked on UCT-based (one-arm bandit algorithm) go players for 3 semesters. It was truly a great, if often frustrating, experience. It's a tough problem to get your head around. Sure, the premise makes sense- that the Monte Carlo heuristic
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by bevan 14y ago
That's really nice. Would be great if Stinson beach or others near San Francisco were on there!

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