skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one example: http://tinyurl.com/2739npb

It's not that sabermetrics itself is without value, but the principles put forth in MoneyBall for "success" with sabermetrics in baseball have not held water for other teams in other markets.

Even arguing the other side of the coin, it's easy to make the case that with resources like Baseball Prospectus ( http://www.baseballprospectus.com/statistics/sortable/ ) available to all, any small sabermetrics arbitrage advantages which Beane & Co. may have once had are obviated.
Dammit - I was thinking of buying these!

Muddy application of Bayes' rule here: From what I understand, they (with a capital T) determined P(watch | terrorist) to be a high probability; however, this doesn't necessarily mean that P(terrorist | watch) is also high.
Three observations:

1) Redundant Scheduling

As an AR.org client, I would not revel in the idea of entering an appointment more than once; it also needs to show up in my normal "scheduling" calendar. Possible/partial solution: Google Calendar http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/

2) Zipcar - example #1

They have a very effective implementation of an app that schedules/extends your car appointment via SMS. It has saved me a $50 penalty on more than one occasion.

3) Time Warner Cable - example #2

TWC has an automated call reminding customers when they have an appointment; may be worth investigating. Anecdotally, as a reminder, it has been most handy when an appointment was made a week or more in the future. Of c. 7 appointments over 6 years, I think it effectively reminded me to reschedule 1 of the two appointments I had to reschedule.

One last thought; two factors seem to be driving your choice of business: (1) a focus on under-served niches, parlaying your marketing savvy and (2) unsexy businesses, reducing the potential for competition from technically skilled entrepreneurs... a very practical approach! Anyway, best of luck.
Penumbra: Overture Goes Open-Source
Continuing the release of games in the Humble Indie Game Bundle, Penumbra: Overture goes open source. It's arguably the most technologically advanced of the bundle and should be pretty interesting to look at.
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A refresh button that does a POP fetch from other accounts.

You can get this feature by enabling "refresh POP accounts" in labs. Google rolled it out in March: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-in-labs-refresh-po...
It's fairly easy to port Android to x86 platforms, in fact we have some working in our lab. The target here would not be mobile devices but set-top-boxes. It's known that Google is working on an Android STB; however, it seems Chrome OS would be another good choice.
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You can now increase it up to 20 seconds from the "General" tab in Settings. As of now, the only choices are 5, 10, and 20 seconds.
That has changed. Native Client now supports ARM:

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/native-client-and-web-porta...

They're also working on what they consider the Right Thing: instead of sending instructions for a particular processor, send LLVM bytecode and have the client finish the compilation.
SNI is supposed to fix the SSL + virtual hosts problem, but XP doesn't support it, unfortunately.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Suppor...
Indeed, the point of NaCl is that it's not going to be another ActiveX-style security nightmare, so people might actually use it. That will be great.
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LLVM in the browser == client-side Haskell... Thanks Google!!
I personally strongly recommend against using H&R Block for business needs. Their focus IMHO is on personal taxes not business taxes.
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The NaCl code itself should ideally be part of the browser, though there will be plugins available. As for code that is to run with Native Client, why should there even be a plugin installation process, any more than you have to install Javascript code on random web sites? Everything runs in a sandbox, so the user shouldn't need to worry about it.
Overreaction or Opportunistic?

Considering the kind of attention Facebook has been getting, companies in the tech space who can differentiate themselves not only magnify the amount of trust they build, but also will afford itself greater protection against something like a congressional investigation on the broader industry's privacy/security standards.

I'd call this a business savvy move.
Out of all the "free software" propaganda that we get out there from the hardcore GNU side, this puts things in a realistic perspective with rational arguments that you do not normally get.
You're probably right about their desire to get rid of the x86 dependency. Distributing LLVM bytecode really is a better way; it'll allow NaCl pages to be viewable on ARM-using devices as well as x86-using PCs without needing to provide separate binaries. As the makers of Android and Chrome OS, Google probably would like to avoid locking ARM out.
one of the most interesting talks I've heard in a while (and it happened to be on Friday night)
If multiprocessing exposed such an option, it would effectively be harder to write non-portable code, which seems like a good thing (to do optionally). You could then switch on "no, do a sensible fork(2)" purely as a performance optimization. Seems like a pretty obviously good thing to add.
The guy asked how exactly did this happen, I was speculating. I am in no way associated with google, and a quick Google of my username would have figured that.

From the quick skimming of the articles I did I saw several mentions on different places of debug versions. It is very plausible.

You may be paranoid, but if you had read any of the articles you would have seen that the cars channel hop 5 channels a second, and that they are constantly driving. All they are looking for is beacon information sent out by access points. Apparently this also captured a couple of packets of actual data that was not discarded by the computers in the Google cars because of a debug build (from what I have read, again that might be pure speculation, but makes sense).

That won't be enough time to even figure out if the user is using Google or not. Go grab an wifi antenna, a wireless networking card, your favourite Linux distribution and go wardriving. You will pick up the same information that Google picked up. Now, if from the small samples you did get you can determine where people are using Google and for what and can make it valid research, good on you, but I doubt you will get much more than the occasional URL, and if you are lucky that URL is a Google URL.
Wikileaks: "In the coming weeks, we will face our greatest challenge."
It's looking more and more like we are entering a new age of web/browser innovation. Google, Mozilla, Apple and sometimes Opera are in a browser arms race, each pumping up the speed and capabilities of html/css/javascript to heights not many people imagined they could go 5 or 10 years ago. And with stuff like native client and soon LLVM support I think we're going to see an explosion of innovation as people discover what's possible with the new web.

Long ago some crazy folks managed to cram most of the guts of a processor onto a single integrated circuit, allowing the creation of a crude yet functional general purpose computer with a single printed circuit board and a few commodity support components. This enabled the creation of "personal" computers that were cheap enough and small enough for nearly anyone to own. At first they were far, far less capable than the mainframes and mini-computers of the day, and written off by many professionals as merely toys. But the nature and simplicity of their construction as well as the expanded potential user and developer base enabled for a faster rate of evolution than old style computer systems. At first micro-computers could only run native code, then people started writing simple interpreters and compilers, then developers created command line operating systems, just as had happened for mainframe computers decades ago, the micro-computer was simply playing catch up. But micro-computer development caught up extraordinarily quickly, and then began to surpass mini-computers and mainframes (as the rate of evolution didn't change after having caught up). Mini-computers quickly died out as specialized micro-computers began to take over their old roles.

Will things be the same for the web? In 5 or 10 years will we see web based applications and games more advanced than photoshop, visual studio, and Halo today?
Whenever I reflect on this fact, I feel like something H.P. Lovecraft might have written about.
I just wrote about doing this myself recently, actually... getting rid of stuff feels good.

Oh, and the obligatory pg: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
Certainly, but I think the mix of content and lack of censorship also helps get a significant amount of traffic.
No, it's advertising the issue to the people who might care about devices not having flash - ie, the people who actually use it
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I think 4chan is probably a positive factor in regards to moot's perception by VC's. Considering that moot managed to build a well-known, high-traffic website before he was 20 is significant. The fact that it is sometimes controversial and has had run ins with the church of scientology and yet survived relatively unscathed is also somewhat in his favor, I think. Investors want to know whether you'll be committed to your vision, even through the hardships. Dealing with competitors who want nothing other than to see their success and your failure is probably a hell of a lot easier than dealing with scientology lawyers and fanatics trying to bring you down in any way possible.
I understand the reasoning behind wanting LLVM but targeting x86 first actually makes a lot of sense. It differentiates this project from Silverlight, JavaFX, and Flash for one thing. But going as low-level as possible is a great way to start the platform and ensure that it's secure and free from cruft at the very bottom. It gives them a solid basis to begin adding on the abstraction layers like LLVM and binaries for other CPUs without settling on any one technology.
I can't believe he still goes by christopher poole
I've used NOLOH on a dozen projects, some very large a few modest and a few experimental and small. As someone who has a deep background in OO programming and design and who came to NOLOH with a strong distaste for languages with a C-like syntax (but still a JavaScript fan; go figure), I was not prepared either to enjoy or to appreciate NOLOH as much as I have come to do. It's the first tool I reach for when building Web-based software these days.

I'm not affiliated with NOLOH,but I am a fan, I know its founder through my work with his technology, and I'm always happy to chat about it with interested people.
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Domain Registrar: I like enom.com but I'm a reseller there and I'm not sure there's a huge difference among players in this space.
Google Says It Collected Private Data by Mistake
It does. I use it. I like it.
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The issue isn't "Can Android run on x86" but "Can the shiny new features Google is developing run on Android phones that already exist?"
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Narcissus died admiring his reflection. He just sat there until he croaked.

That sounds very different from what an entrepreneur does, regardless of how arrogant he/she may be.
If I make it out of private beta, I will charge at launch. In the mean time, I don't have to actually collect money to answer my biggest question: do people find my service valuable enough to pay?
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Holy shit, mootles is going legit. 4chan is absolutely enormous, but completely unmonetisable. The question investors must be asking is whether he can translate his obvious aptitude for community building into an arena that isn't absolute anarchy.

On a personal level, I'm tremendously pleased for moot. He's been running 4chan on credit cards and goodwill for longer than any sane person would bear. Closing /b/ might have made 4chan profitable or it might have killed the community stone dead. I don't know why moot didn't chase anon out of town and turn 4chan into a halfway legit community, but I think the world is all the better for it. I might be being silly, but I think anon will be a far more important figure in the history of the internet than any of us realise.
It's like the feeling you get when you delete stuff off your hard drive, except now you're deleting real things.
My experience has been that the Adobe fans are way more up in arms about this than the Apple fans. What does an Apple user hope to gain here? That is very unclear to me. The "true believers" have already put the war behind them; the Adobe warriors are the ones still fighting...
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Kernel Source Code and Binaries for HTC Android Phones
You know, I really think you've got something here. You'll have no problem with content once people start hearing about your site. I feel like uploading a bunch of random sounds just by browsing through what you already have.

Nice.
Twice since 2008 I've left one state for another with all my possessions crammed into my Honda Civic. It's liberating in a way that's hard to explain to someone who doesn't already understand the feeling. I learned what I really valued (apparently some books, my computers and gadgets, and old letters and other mementos). And a car is large enough that there was still plenty of room for junk I didn't need.
I'm not sure how this applies to 2-10 people startups. And, honestly, once a startup reaches the scale where it has multiple hierarchies of management and engineering organization that requires formal training, it's not a startup anymore. It's a different kinda beast... small business perhaps.

Not saying informal training isn't useful, it's just not something you'd formalize at a small startup.
Not sure how well 4chan users monetize, but if he ends up producing anything halfway interesting to the general public, I think just being "the 4chan guy" will get him enough mainstream press/visitors to do well. Even outside the tech press--- I could imagine CNN running a human-interest story on, "guy whose website led to those weird kids in masks protesting Scientology, now has business doing [whatever]".
You're assuming that this business about debug modes and the cars channel hopping so quickly is not a cover story. There's no way for us to know that. My theory was that given a bunch of interesting data and no way to see what they were really doing, there's no telling what was really going on.
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Here's a few things I've done this week:

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EDIT: I'm charging 30-40 an hour, but am really open to suggestions(such as paying by project/page). Email: hajrice@gmail.com
When Murdoch announced that the Times of London would become a subscriber-only site, my reaction was "there's no way I'm paying for the same news I can get anywhere". With the NYT, I'm not so sure. There's still the basic issue of the gulf between "free" and "not free" regardless of price, but the NYT does things that I just don't see anywhere else.

If I were Bill Keller, I'd be thinking seriously about how much value traditional news actually adds to a paid product. I certainly place very little value in reading regurgitated wire feeds and press releases. Come to think of it, I'd be far more inclined to pay for the New Yorker, Salon or Slate than the NYT. Hmmm.
Since we are in hypothetical conjecture land, I'll give a guess:

My guess is that the code was originally written for a completely different purpose. When they decided to start gather wifi data, somebody said, "Hey, I think Bob wrote something like that. Maybe we can use it."

Next came a quick rush to get the thing into their street view cars without doing a deep analysis on the code.

And, yes, wiretapping without a search warrant. Electronic communications don't generally fall under the same laws as far as I know (IANAL!).
I'll add http://www.freeagentcentral.com/ to the list of companies growing in this space. It's quite excellent too.
I agree. It is probably an attempt to mitigate damage that would happen when the regulators announce their findings.
That's an interesting idea, but I can think of no way to do that without a door-to-door campaign.
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what are the few things?
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Was updating the post, sorry.

http://imgur.com/KRbNx.jpg

http://imgur.com/w8S4A.jpg

http://imgur.com/DlHDb.jpg

http://imgur.com/qfhbv.jpg

http://imgur.com/KedPg.jpg
http://imgur.com/KRbNx.jpg

http://imgur.com/w8S4A.jpg

http://imgur.com/DlHDb.jpg

http://imgur.com/qfhbv.jpg

http://imgur.com/KedPg.jpg
Merits aside, you would think someone responsible for years worth of laying out text in comics would realize their blog font is too f*ing small.
You can also buy invites on ebay. Last summer they were going 10 for 2.50.
This is for money right?
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The IM conversation that started this whole topic was not a social service, yet it, too, is public.

If you don't want it shared, don't put on the internet.

(Well, at least, not until my startup is shipping its product. Then you'll be fine.)
I think Google need to pour its heart and not just technology into direct to consumer phone.
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Wouldn't a title of "TELL HN: Give me money" be more appropriate, then?
Where did Flash go wrong?
> It's better to have users opt-out of your desired behavior because people are less likely to switch from defaults in general, even when they completely understand them.

That's the point - "your" = "Facebook". Their desired behavior (most data is public) doesn't serve their users' needs. This is one of the key reasons there's such a hue and cry about this - they haven't been able to justify why having this data public is better for their users.

> given the clarity of Facebook's presentation of the options during the transition

Clarity? Much of this thread is about how poorly Facebook educated its users on what impact its new privacy settings would actually have. Clear as mud, maybe...

> That's not what I meant at all. Choose a random Facebook friend who doesn't share posts with everyone. Pick a random post. Ask if she would mind if it were made public.

Opinion. We're talking about who makes the decisions about what's "public", where "public" is defined as "available to anybody, searchable by anybody in the world, and archived forever and ever, amen".

> Myspace was public by default. Twitter is public by default.

That's my point. They were always public by default. Facebook wasn't, and went public without asking users to opt-in. That's a bait and switch.

> The general public values privacy less than you do

Source?

I believe the general public doesn't understand the value of privacy online until it blows up in her face.
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This is the exact post I would make if I was recording peoples wifi data and then was about to get audited...
If I find a cell phone, I'm not going to give it away to the first person who comes forward about the "lost phone ad". I'm going to ask the person 20 questions to make sure it's really their phone (what color, brand, etc). If you look at this "at just the right light" you could almost see it... until the editor went on about profits, etc.

It's an apple-branded phone ffs. The Gawker editor clearly dug a hole for himself with that email, and Jobs was right to send in the dogs (as much as I hate to admit it)
Doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
So the browser is becoming a VM that can transparently download things off the web... Companies will totally control the software this way.

SaaS is the biggest lock-in, but no one seems to be complaining.
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point of evidence

No, those are unsubstantiated claims, not evidence. The people who made those claims were compensated for 88% of detainees.

How many people, for money, would claim that you, InclinedPlane, met with and received money from Usama Bin Laden? It only would take one.

If there's evidence, let's have trials.
My wife and I are selling pretty much everything we own: our house, our car, most of our furniture, etc.

It feels scary and liberating at the same time.
Disclaimer: I'm from the EU and I'm only going to finish my studies in Switzerland. Everything I say is only a guess.

To my best knowledge, you need about 14.000€ for a year as a student, but this seems to depend on your location. But since you need at least 20.000 SFr to incorporate a GmbH (similar to Limited) anyway, this shouldn't be a big deal.

Things are generally a lot more difficult for non-EU citizens - they have a lot more trouble with a visa when they want to study. I think it's similar for work permits.

My advise: Ask startups.ch for info and check the information with a lawyer. Things will get very ugly otherwise, since getting a flat requires you to show that you have work, iirc.
Maybe he legally changed his name by now...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011915
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Now i am feeling +much+ better. :)
It sounds good and feels good to get rid of all useful rarely used things that clutter our minds as much as they do our homes.

Its unfortunate that our government is so committed to consumption and has geared so much of our economy and infrastructure, at great expense and much debt, to supporting a complex existence, often at great cost to those who swim against the tide. Why is it that we cannot let life develop in its own direction?
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I posted a comment on a similar article recently (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332845)