thanks for sharing the article. I think I spotted a minor logical error in it tho.
> This is because on average, you will gain $1 with every coinflip. For those interested in the maths, you have a 50% chance of winning $2, and a 50% chance of losing $1. 50% * (+2) + 50% * (-1) = +$1.
Isn’t it an average gain of $ 50ct per coin flip? That way the calculation would be correct aswell.
I was looking for a go module that exposes runtime metrics with little compile and runtime overhead, and an idiomatic interface. I couldn't find one, so I just built one. I hope this might be helpful to anybody out there.
Thanks! MetaMate's HackerNews service relies on hn.angolia.com under the hook, which only returns a maximum of 1000 hits for any given term unfortunately
Hey, we are building something similar. Please checkout https://metamate.io/blog/most_advanced_hackernews_api. For now, we concentrate on reading public data from various social sources. We just released a HackerNews service and going to add more over the next couple of weeks. Here's a little application build on top of a MetaMate http://showcase.metamate.io/hackernews-activity. Please let me know what you think :)
cheers for the feedback, it's open-source and completely free. You can either spin up your own instance, by following the instructions at github.com/metamatex/metamate or use our public instance at https://metamate.one
thanks for sharing the article. I think I spotted a minor logical error in it tho.
> This is because on average, you will gain $1 with every coinflip. For those interested in the maths, you have a 50% chance of winning $2, and a 50% chance of losing $1. 50% * (+2) + 50% * (-1) = +$1.
Isn’t it an average gain of $ 50ct per coin flip? That way the calculation would be correct aswell.