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I'm a huge football fan (Barcelona FWIW), so take what you will from the following comment. I watch way too many European games on late night cable, and the low scoring complaint is kind of a fallacy when you watch most games in Europe.

This season just gone, i think the average goals per game in England this year was about 2.5. Sure this average has an upward trend by games like a 7-0 thrashing that Chelsea dished out in the last game of the season. The German league has an even higher average goals per game (cant seem to find that stat at the moment..)

There are low scoring games, but that is part of the way the game works, but I definitely would not say a low score is a regular thing week in week out anymore.

As to the hooligans that truly are complete idiots, there is no other explanation for their behavior other than stupidity. Its a gang mentality that causes the problem, not the game itself. There are some epic rivalries in Europe where the fans do really hate each other, and it goes back to an identity/gang thought pattern.
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Cashculator indeed needs better press but unfortunately many Mac sites are now instead iPhone/iPad sites almost exclusively. It's like Macs and Mac software are not cool to write about anymore.
I believe it, because I've been the "victim" of similar behavior.

I've had at least two people point me to information about animal homosexuality in an attempt to get me to change my opinion on certain gay rights topics. I'm pretty sure there was no innuendo.

(It was a pointless exercise, since my objections to the gay rights movement have nothing to do with traditionalist or naturalist arguments.)
Have a look at http://www.perceptualedge.com/blog/

There is some great critique of various BI visualisations. I highly recommend the book Information Dashboard Design by the author Stephen Few
So the users want a web built on proprietary standards? If Mozilla had internal forces that listened to those users when it started then it wouldn't have the several hundred million users, and multi-million yearly income that it currently has.
I think rankings in general are pretty useless overall.

Every single World Cup in the past has turned up surprises in the weirdest kind of way.

My opinion is Spain 1st, Brazil 2nd, Ivory Coast 3rd
Ok, cool. Especially for newbie clojure coders hitting errm, 'involuntary infinite recursion' is pretty easy.

And I'd hate to cause a melt-down :)
It's true that the Premier League is very predictable, but the new influx of cash to the likes of Manchester City could shake things in up a few years. Look where Chelsea came from - mid-table mediocrity.

You should also point out that La Liga (the Spanish Premier League) while very easy on the eye, is possibly the most uncompetitive league in the world as only Real Madrid or Barcelona will ever win it.
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Playing on the sexual innuendo of a paper on bat fellatio doesn't need to mean he was hitting on her. More likely it was a subtle form of sexual harassment.
If Adobe had more of a clue, I'd feel more sympathetic. They have a track record of putting annoying marketing ahead of good software and the user experience.
I actually think it is. It'll make it harder to say "we're cheaper than aws". Now people will have to qualify that (we're cheaper than some of s3), which makes the statement much weaker.
I love that the fact that the data represents at most 0.2 seconds of traffic from a given AP isn't mentioned. Responsible journalism would be nice.
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Calling yourself a "victim" when your against gay rights?

That's like calling the white slave land owners "victims" when they were against the abolishment of slavery.
I'm probably an aws fanboi by now but I think this is great. Store your not-so-important stuff 30% cheaper. I can see how I'd use this immediately.
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One good reason is because they are committed to an open web for it's own sake, not because it happens to currently align with their advertising business, or because it helped them out from under the shadow of a competing monopoly, or because if they don't deliver then they will accelerate the irrelevance of their desktop platform. (This is also a good reason to use Opera.)

Mozilla have also built an incredible marketing machine which speaks to normal folk which seems to be missed by the geeks who are switching to Chrome. You don't get 1/3rd global market share with just geeks, certainly not the 2/3rds they've got in Germany. Apparently people think you can do this with a few advertisments and a popular brand. I wish Google luck (particularly as I think they're stealing share from IE) but I think it takes as much, if not more, support to sell a browser as it does to sell a mobile phone.

(If you'd allowed extensions as a reason, then Vimperator is nice too)
Amen. This story feels quite forced. I keep waiting for the "NOW how much would you pay? But wait, there's more!" tagline...
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Not bad, now they need the whole ecosystem starting with image search then email, then calendar, then...
In a top-class soccer match, you can't take your eyes off the action or you will miss something crucial. You could probably doze off for 20 minutes and miss little in a baseball game. Each to their own.

Just because you don't understand soccer isn't reason alone to describe it as "all over the place". It's a very exciting team sport (when played properly) and full of formations and tactics that coaches constantly try to innovate with:

The classic 4-4-2 formation

Beckenbauer's/Dutch football's 4-3-3

Jose Murinho's 4-5-1...Google em!

Also:

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They are co-workers. He should have showed some restraint. BUT academics are supposed to be famous for free and unfettered flow of ideas, so that gives him some slack.
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How was it easy for Firefox to grow? When I first started using Mozilla and Pheonix then some of the most pressing bugs involved top 100 sites that simply didn't work, often not because of anything that Mozilla did wrong, just sites that actively ignored them. Chrome doesn't face anything like that now because of what Mozilla have achieved, both in the marketplace and in the standards bodies.
> The new convention

I don't think the convention of the slanting accent ("virama" or "halant") is new. I know it's been used in books for at least the last hundred years. This means that conjoined ligatures aren't strictly necessary, but they're used a lot in handwriting and IMO look quite beautiful.
I don't consider myself a victim. Please read up on the use of scare quotes.

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

Also, I don't recall saying I was against gay rights. For the record, I favor giving gays the same set of rights that straight people should be given (as opposed to the set of rights straight people are actually given). But this is widely interpreted by lazy people as meaning I'm against gay rights.
Just saying thanks, every little bit counts.
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> I am a linkwhore.

The fancy word for that is "meretrix" (or the Latin "meretrice" for maximum pomposity). A word like that suits your style, even if the definition doesn't :-)
I'd have more sympathy for Adobe if:

- Visiting Youtube didn't result in all 8 bars on my menubar, representing my 3GHz CPU, shoot to 80%.

- The developers that wrote the god forsakened CS4 installer got the same treatment as terrorists.

- Products weren't being held in beta forever and shipped in a reasonable timeframe.
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I agree with you about freemium, in general! As you said, I addressed it in the comments on the blog post, briefly.

But I think under the talk of freemium, the important questions get lost. Freemium - it's so easy, you give part of it away for free, and part you charge for. Right?

But what do you give for free? What do you charge for? How do you convince people to pay?

Those questions typically go completely unaddressed because of the assumption that money will, magically, appear somehow, with enough viral growth.

People treat the free part of freemium as if you can just slap it on like Sriracha sauce, and improve everything. That's simply not how it works.

Freckle has an extremely limited free plan and we sort of hide it. It is freemium but it is so limited it irritates some people.

But, based on the way other SaaS entrepreneurs choke on their coffee and go "Monthly?!" when I tell them how much we earn per 1000 accounts (total), that extremely limited, fairly hidden account works extremely well for us. :)

And, for the record, I believe the best free-mium strategy is to give away related content, not the thing itself. Give away the occasional cheese stick or cup of cocoa -- not the milk, and not timeshare access to the cow.
Naive question: How do you recover the write-only data?
When China starts becoming too free and westernized - there's always Australia
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I think my approach is better, no matter how big a file you want to store I only have to store the same amount of data... all I do is hash it first.

Still working on the restore side of things, but that can't be too difficult, can it?
I have two questions:

First, doesn't using HTML5 mean that the site is accessible on fewer devices?

Second, how useful are check-in sites if you're an adult who is working full-time? I've always liked the idea of seeing where my friends are and maybe being able to meet up with them, but in general where they are is in the areas they live. Do I just need more friends, or to be going to a concentrated place like the villages or LES (NYC), or am I just totally failing to get what these services are for?
> A VC is a client, in another form.

Only, clients give you money that you can use in any way you see fit: Grow your business, buy a West Coast Freeride bike, save it for a rainy day.

VCs put money in your business and then take your business for themselves and decide how to spend their money. It was never yours and never will be. If you wind up getting a big, big payday, you might get some of that money. But you'll never get a penny from the VC.

Thus, I would say that while there are excellent reasons to do business with a VC, if we are comparing them to clients I would say they are more demanding than clients while paradoxically giving you no money at all.
Next FAQ item:

Q: Do you use any file compression on the storage servers?

A: Yes, we use unix compression program: rm -rf
Have to agree with the author, anyone that has used the web in the last decade will know that there is nothing innovative about the functionalities offered by facebook.
The average Joe will surely think differently.
He can now share his updates/groups/fanpages/photos with supposed-to-be friends and play useless games directly from one single familiar site.
Will they remain loyal to fb or jump somewhere else when shinier things will be offered?

(Note: Deliberately i'm not talking about architectural/implementation choices, considering the scale, i'm sure that from this point of view the fb engineers have found at least some clever solutions to complex problems, so, ok, they use php somewhere, but a technical discussion should not be based solely on that, let alone an evaluation...)
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This absolutely sickens me. While yes, I think certain parts of the Islamic community is exacerbating the reverence of the Prophet Muhammad, this kind of parody-centric/faux humor xenophobia is a contributing reason why some groups think Americans are assholes.

There comes a point in any society's existence where it must ultimately, to paraphrase Martin Luther (who himself was more than happy to see opponents put to death), dig in its heels and say here we stand, we will do no other. We don't need to be perfectly consistent philosophically or historically or theologically to assert what is special and unique not just about the United States, with its bizarre and wonderful articulation of the First Amendment, but the greater classical liberal project comprising not just the "West" (whatever that is) but human beings in whatever town, country, or planet they inhabit.

And stop using the First Amendment as a means to satirize an entire culture of people. Open the doors to conversation, embrace their differences and understand why this upsets them beyond conjecture. For Christ sake, stop acting like children and try to work with these people, instead of purposefully angering them, and putting a wedge between us.
Funny stuff! Looks like a response to Amazon's new offering:

"We are pleased to introduce a new storage option for Amazon S3 called Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) that enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3."

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/05/19/announc...
There's a short guide for getting Emacs set up on the Clojure Assembla page:

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The Assembla wiki is a recent attempt at fixing problem of finding up-to-date 'getting started' documentation for Clojure.
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I can only assume it was, seeing as i was conceived around then.

A 3-second lag to start a program you use thousands of times a year adds up.
When Google sends its fleet of camera-equipped cars into the streets to snap pictures of your neighborhood for its Street View product, these cars are also collecting something a little extra: The name and unique MAC address of every open WiFi network they encounter along the way...That alone is somewhat problematic. For one thing, a network ID could contain personally identifiable information, like your name, or something goofy but potentially embarrassing, like "My Neighbors Suck."

What? How is it problematic from a privacy standpoint if Google is recording information that you're literally broadcasting into the ether? And aren't your neighbors most likely to find out by, say, seeing it in their list of nearby hotspots? That's like saying that it's problematic that people take pictures on the street, because you might be wearing a t-shirt that reveals that you dislike the police. If you want that information to be private, don't wear such a t-shirt in public.
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No design awards this year either. I always look to those guys for design inspiration to bring back to the web app world.

At least Mac sites can (hopefully) transition to a more profitable area, along with Objective-C developers.
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both Apple's strategy and Chinese foreign policy, but I digress.)
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Submitted mostly because I was interested in Hacker News' take on this.
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Social networking isn't about a conversation, that was 2007's cute mantra. Social networking has devolved into a self-promotion platform whose only existence is to advertise. The conversation ended years ago. Don't worry, though, the bubble is popping. Soon we'll have some new ridiculous hype so that silly people can make lots of money being doofuses online by calling themselves "web 3.0" evangelists or whatever.
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I was thinking of it purely in terms of decision-making -- if you are only bootstrapping, you are free to serve your customers to the best of your ability, and shape your business how you choose. I have seen many friends forced to compromise because their VC demanded it. (And not the everybody-learns-and-grows type of compromise.)

But you really pounded the financial nail into the coffin there :)
You just need to reverse the polarity.
We don't know yet but basically WebM apparently means Web Media.

The rumours suggest that it will involve a patent-royalty-free video codec based on VP8, deals with video encoding services, deals with content providers, deals with video acceleration hardware manufacturers etc. Possibly also a link to a Set-top box ("Google TV") and Videochat technology.
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The "magic step" is simply an algebraic observation. I'll use python/scipy notation, since HN has no latex.

Let f = [ f1, f2, ..., fN] be the sequence you want to take the DFT of (has size N = power of 2). Let x = arange(0,N) = [0,1,...,N]. More numpy notation: exp(x) = [exp(0), exp(1), ..., exp(N)], and x * y = [x1 * y1, x2 * y2, ..., xN * yN].

The DFT of f can be written as:

F[k] = sum( exp(2 pi i k x /N) * f) = sum( exp(2 pi i k x /N)[0::2] * f[::2]) + sum( exp(2 pi i k x /N)[1::2] * f[1::2])

I.e., all I did was break up the sum into a sum over the odd indices and the even indices. The second sum can be rewritten as exp(2 pi i / N) sum(exp(2 pi i k x /N)[0::2] * f[1::2]) .

So we've now written F[k] as a sum of two DFT's: the DFT over the odd indices and the DFT over the even indices. Each of these DFT's has size N/2.

That's the divide step, now you just conquer by working down recursively.
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Same. I was even thinking: Genius! I almost never need to restore my backups. If I can backup cheaper but still with the peace of mind of knowing that if I do need to restore I just pay an extra fee.

I wonder if there's a real business model there. Most of us restore an extremely small percentage of what we backup. Could you offer a cheaper storage cost than other businesses and make up the difference on the small number of restores that occur?
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You reboot your computer thousands of times a year? You might want to have that checked out.
I believe the scope of than answer is greater than a HN thread, but I might just be wussing out. Hopefully others will engage you. If not, happy to take it offline.

I will say this: be careful of selection bias! Looking back, sure, if I show you a thousand examples that ended poorly your response will be something like "But they weren't really smart. Look how poorly it all turned out!" This is, at best, circular reasoning. The important thing is that, at the time, these folks were the best and brightest and put in charge for that very reason.

Good starting point: http://www.amazon.com/Logic-Failure-Recognizing-Avoiding-Sit...
i've used it to search for russian stuff before, not really a fan of the interface....looks too much like yahoo circa 15 years ago
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The re-branding of DocVerse as Google DocVerse, and the expected morphing of it into a new and improved Google Docs is just one example of Google making lemonade from lemons.

The original DocVerse wasn't that bad, was it? Or is the author of that piece just loathe to let a nice metaphor slip by, meaning be damned?
This article literally has no content. "Literally" as in there is the author's name (in what looks like a banner ad), then 4 comments. The article text is missing.

I thought that, in a massive twist of irony, AdBlock had blocked a spammy article. Unfortunately it turns out that the article content is just completely missing (tried firefox, safari, and chrome).
This only halfway works in Opera [10.53 on Linux]. You can type, but then if you fill the output area, only autoscrolls down after you press Enter. But otherwise, you can't see what you're typing while you type it. And then focus goes all out of whack if you scroll the tutorial, or use up arrow and down arrow. Sometimes it accesses the readline history, sometimes it scrolls the screen, and seems somewhat arbitrary. Some of this could be blamed on the betaness of Opera, though.
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I'm flagging this. There is no official or unofficial word that this is true yet. Everyone thinks this is going to happen, but there is no new source that this article provides. So it's not worth your time to read it.
What (if anything) would you ask Facebook to do to help with this problem?

It seems to me that a paedophile using Facebook to contact kids will be very visible with certain statistical analysis of user behavior.
yes, I went to the JRuby on App Engine meetup a few weeks ago, and my conclusion was ... not ready for primetime. There's a long loading time for the initial request (if your server is lightly loaded). Also, the speaker couldn't name a real site that was deployed using JRuby on App Engine.

Note that for JRuby on AppEngine, you need to use DataMapper (instead of ActiveRecord) -- that actually looked pretty cool.
And even a browser:

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But nothing else at the moment.
Just signed up as a translator.

1) There is no confirmation email. However, since you do not require a choice of a password when signing up, this is doubly problematic.

2) You place translator emails in the clear, even when not signed in to the site.

3) There is no way to delete an account.

4) You need to be clearer about your fees. State explicitly that there are no fees for withdrawal if there are none.

5) The best solution for a a verified translation would be to allow translators to post a review rate, and allow clients to choose their reviewer(s). This will not be a free service for any but the most needy of translators. Eventually, this could be integrated into the translation ordering wizard.

6) You forgot a language: Latin, which is critical for legal translation.

7) More important than age is education, but above all, you should require translators to post their mother tongue. It is also virtually required to state one's field(s) of specialization.

8) The site design is smashing, although the translator sort and filtering is weak (see note above).
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