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by dlss 12y ago
I completely agree the details are interesting -- there are very few things that focus my attention as completely as statistical decision theories. If you haven't read Ed Thorpe's The Mathematics of Gambling I think you'd lov
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by dlss 12y ago
"The lawsuit claims that Ivey and his companion instructed a dealer to flip cards in particular ways, depending on whether it was a desirable card in baccarat. The numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9 are considered good cards" from the article
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by dlss 12y ago
This. A previous article stated that Ivey and his friend talked the dealer into rotating some cards (6s 7s 8s and 9s) prior to the first shuffle.
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by dlss 13y ago
You're right, we need to add social skills and domain knowledge to the list.
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by dlss 13y ago
I don't understand this response. To be clear, I think web development is fun. I very much enjoy it and don't resonate with "keeping my head down". I guess to reiterate my point: once you've done web development for
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by dlss 13y ago
I'm not sure what kind of coding work you do, but I assure you the vast majority of web development work has little resemblance to coding questions. You are almost never designing an algorithm: that was already done for you by whoever
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by dlss 13y ago
This was too awesome a comment to pass up, so I ended up browsing your thread history / googling you. I found a lot of great posts as well as the hilarious https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5967671.. . but sadly no r
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by dlss 13y ago
> You'd still be stuck evaluating potentially hundreds of correct submissions. I'm guessing the MVP of hackerrank was the web code editor + lint/findbugs/whatever for filtering. A lot of people have spent a lot of tim
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by dlss 13y ago
As jpalomaki points out it's better than that... We are entering a brave new world of spam that's "from" people you know.
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by dlss 13y ago
There's a big difference between defending someone's right to say dumb things, and suggesting that we should ignore that they said dumb things. If you see a movie star use a racial slur, the natural response isn't "well,
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by dlss 13y ago
Why is this downvoted? Choosing where you spend your money based on moral beliefs isn't wrong...
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by dlss 13y ago
So you're saying in your mind accepting a job is like committing to a marriage? "Till death do us part" and all that? You can moonlight as an employee, so at the very least you have to agree it's like a swinger/open
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by dlss 13y ago
> to make your point you have to show that it's better for women when men actively try to seduce each other's wives at every opportunity Not really. The point actually should read "men making an agreement not to flirt with
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by dlss 13y ago
> Are you saying that a world where people are hit with AMD ads as soon as they exit the Intel store is a better world? Assuming the ad runs profitably, yep. Customers are changing their buying patterns for a reason. > Well why don&#x
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by dlss 13y ago
Yes? I get the feeling you're being rhetorical, but if I remove the tone in my head then: yes, clearly. > out of control with everyone poaching each other's customers blatantly Corporations shouldn't own customers... Like,
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by dlss 13y ago
Hey Eric, It's a good v1 for sure, congrats! I would ignore any non-baysian MAB posts out there. The formulation used by other approaches is one that considers an infinite number of repeated trials, which is basically an insane assum
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by dlss 13y ago
> The minimum threshold odds [to stop showing a variation] are calculated by 40% / number enabled variations Uh... How did you choose those cutoffs? Looks like you have a significant chance of making the wrong choice. Also: > Onc
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by dlss 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_quo_bias Basically the moral center of our brain, by default, views her leaving as a choice, and you moving as a choice. Rather than her staying vs leaving as a choice. Looks dum
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by dlss 13y ago
I think it's in the same spirit as a 100% update SLA or a 100% satisfaction guarantee
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by dlss 13y ago
> i'm sure you (or your employer for that matter) have better things to do than twisting your internal policies to client's dis/liking I'm sort of at a loss here. The customer is always right, right? If you're de
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by dlss 13y ago
I agree it's a real problem. I was saying much better advice to programmers is "remember to think about what makes software valuable" rather than "you don't want to think like a programmer"
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by dlss 13y ago
OP says that a masterful understanding of coding in general necessarily leads to a disregard for features that users want. I think this is a false dichotomy -- developing a masterful understanding of what things cost must be coupled with a
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by dlss 13y ago
How is payment or blackmail an elaborate theory? The CIA has a history of both (I'm guessing you won't debate that the CIA sets up agents, so for some talk of blackmail see http://www.scribd.com/doc/34504598&#
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by dlss 13y ago
I used to agree when people would say things like you just said. It sounds so reasonable. Honestly, if you had NSA-level ethics, and wanted to discredit Assange, how would you do it?
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by dlss 13y ago
Try checking out -- they're are still plenty of bumps in their checkout process...
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by dlss 13y ago
FWIW the horizontal & vertical charts are reversed in the preview images.
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by dlss 13y ago
I'll take a stab at this. Before I get in to it, we need to correct a misconception on your part: using a government ID doesn't work in every case. It turns out hackers know how to forge government ID images, and some of FB's
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by dlss 13y ago
I've never heard of namecheap, but given their name I'm surprised they charge so much more than gandi.net ($39). Is it normal for a company branded as the low cost provider to charge above market for rare goods?
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by dlss 13y ago
> it is unfortunate that pg is unwilling to admit that this is a problem I think pg thinks there is a problem, and is almost surely willing to admit it. I think he just doesn't see a way of solving it that doesn't involve the d
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by dlss 13y ago
This does seem plausible, so I almost don't think this is worth mentioning, but don't forget about "parallel construction". Having the world believe they can't reverse Tor would clearly be more valuable than having

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