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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 times better. There is no mystery as to how his mind works. Once we understand what they've done, we feel certain that we, too, could have done it. It is different with the magicians. Even after we understand what they have done it is completely dark. Richard Feynman is a magician of the highest calibre."

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 stunned by how short sighted this strategy is from Adobe.

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 development woe on IRC and thought it would be good to create a place to share the stories!

Let me know if you've got any feedback.

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 consider them in a different light or is the interview process just sufficiently noisy that they were false negatives earlier?

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 research on moving away from boomerang!

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 the name of one of the biggest licenses?

"Coming from backgrounds primarily in enterprise software, which meant Microsoft® .NET and C#, as well as Oracle and Java™ technology, it was obvious that we needed to choose something different. No one wanted to spend money on licensing and managing compliance to licensing."

Java has a _huge_ OSS ecosystem and the JVM is free as in beer. The idea that their technical choice came down to "Python or Ruby" seems to me like they'd already decided to go with one and then had to rationalise.

I stopped reading after that.

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 for "patent fee")

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 with technology and would rather resort to other practises that, as a tech person make me sad.

There are plenty of examples of this. See what they did to companies that wanted to ship dual-boot BeOS systems. See the approach they took to OOXML. See the approach they're currently taking to suing OEMs shipping Android handsets that refuse to pay their license fees. See the copius amounts of misinformation they put out about Linux.

A company with Microsoft's resources, I want to see competing for my business with the tech they're obviously capable of producing.