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Ask HN: Readable RSS but only front-page articles or 10 votes?
Is there any way of using the readable rss feed thanks to http://andrewtrusty.appspot.com/readability/ and http://nirmalpatel.com/hacks/hnrss.html, but with only articles that have made the front page? Otherwise the feed quickly reaches the thousands of articles, but I don't want to miss out on the great content here.
One possibility would be to use after-the-game replays only to punish particularly egregious behavior, like blatant dives, with suspensions. Wouldn't interrupt the flow of the game, but would deter wrongdoing.
where? maybe for 7-10 year old kids but even low games that have only 1 referee will be played with offside (at least thats my experience playing until the age of 16) i think the DFB (german football association) requires 3 referees starting from the 7th or 8th league. and below that they just dont have the manpower.
My favourite stat is from the 2006 Germany World Cup:
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/archive/germany2006/statistics/...

Calculate the fouls suffered per game played. Italy is number 1.
It boggles my mind that you are even considering a lawsuit over this. First, adaptations, tracings, and parodies are almost certainly fair use. Second, it is completely unreasonable and counterproductive for you to be "angry". Email the graphic artist and get a beer with him, you two seem to be mutual fans.
Never underestimate the addictiveness of a good job and a regular paycheck. It's very easy to get busy and have years fly by before you know it.
In the World Cup there are always 3 refs on the field, even though really only 1 is needed.

I don't get that; the extra "refs" simply reduce the chance of an error being made. It is possible to play pretty effectively without them.

Actually there is still only one ref - none of the others can make a decision, only advise the referee and provide an alternative viewpoint if he misses an event.
Don't Interrupt Everyone
Yes, that's something I think they should do.

The problem is ensuring the game is recorded fairly - they could use the existing cameras certainly but I suspect it's a non-trivial discussion to ensure that the camera coverage is fair for review purposes.
If the USA qualified for a world cup with a team of NBA players, at the very least, the TV ratings would be good...
Or just "Not detected, help detection by hitting a key"
Haha. If that was sarcasm, well done.
General consensus seems to be 3GS is faster, 3G is slower.
you're right, by amateur I meant the first level of engaging with sport, not amateur leagues. sorry for the confusion. made an edit.
Good points.

Football is a gentlemans sport, played by hooligans. I suspect thats why the refs don't take a very central place in the sports administrative structure.
> If you follow the history of currency from a piece of gold of unknown purity, to gold coins produced by governments, to the establishment of central banks, to outlawing privately issued banknotes, to fiat currencies...

You trust governments way to much. Especially here "... from a piece of gold of unknown purity, to gold coins produced by governments". If nothing else, because governments in general were (and still are) famous for debasing the currency, not for keeping it honest.

The story of taler coin is telling in this regard. It was just a coin issued by a specific mint, which win international recognition through competition with currencies produced by other mints.

So.. not even close.
Count in binary and you can count to 1023 on your hands.

(2^10 - 1 : you have 10 digits on your hands. This also assumes you have a value for 0.)
Doesn't the existence of vanity plates complicate this picture a little? In any case, I would think people will strongly resist having stupid ads for their car when they don't get paid to have them there.
I'm thinking someone like Chris Paul or Rajon Rondo - same height and similar physical build to Cristiano Ronaldo, very fast and tough players with a good idea for spacing and good intuition and decisionmaking. Who knows how they'd take to the game, but I wouldn't be surprised if either could play futbol at the highest level.
Fundamental Attribution Error: "A person will attribute qualities of [their own nation] to their environment and situation, but qualities of [other nations] to inherent properties of those others."

Everyone knows their own country isn't like the way it's portrayed by the media. But, at the same time, everyone knows that all other countries are like the way they're portrayed in the media. It's a wonder our brains don't leak out.
Yes, I know. I know how Erlang works and what makes it better. But I think that something like node.js really encourages people to not do stupid things like while(true) in actual code, which is why I maintain that, while it's not as good as Erlang, it may be "good enough".
Immoral != less moral

Your english skills may be less than good, but not non-existent.
Monofur: a groovy coding font
Hey, things change. It wasn't all that long ago that rugby was big in the USA.
As an American, I remember back when the Republicans passed the "Personal Accountability Act" or some such. The gist was that credit card debt was going to be even harder to get out of when a person goes bankrupt. The spin? People need to be responsible. When they make debts, they have a moral obligation to pay them. Therefore, the government shouldn't help them do something immoral.

Never mind the fact that the entire business model of credit is based on assuming a risk the borrower doesn't pay. If government takes away that risk, well, it's like printing money. Which is exactly what the credit card companies are doing.

I was with the author until this point: That’s what should happen in a healthy market. Credit and debit cards aren’t a healthy market. That’s why regulation is necessary.

Whoa. Hold on a minute. Regulation is the tool of the monopolist, not his enemy. I told the story about the Republicans to make a point: the game is for special interests like PACs to write legislation that then makes their members more powerful. The best (sometimes the only) way to do this is to pretend like you're regulating or cleaning up the industry in question.

So the Congressman who's all about cleaning up the finance industry? His staff is the one writing the 2,000 page bill that nobody understands yet somehow will be a boon to the finance industry in the next five years or so. When folks figure out that the bill actually made matters worse, he'll be the guy on TV telling us that what we need is actually another bill, much better than the first one, and the cycle continues. (Just got through reading a great article on just this process from an HN link: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2009/05/the-quiet-...)

The answer, I think, is that government has a critical role in defining things. How about defining what a life insurance policy is? Make seven different levels. If you sell life insurance, you have to meet one of the levels. Or in this case creating a standardized P2P clearing process for payments? Nobody needs to force people to use it, heck, if you can standardize the way payments are made between parties such that the banks are mostly out of the picture? Visa and MasterCard just go away.

Not that this will happen. Too many connections and powerful people involved. But the point is that there is a spot between chaos and total regulation where government can and should do a lot of good. That point, in a lot of cases, is just in making definitions and forcing market players to use them. These choices are presented almost always as false dichotomies: one extreme or the other. That's because arguments sell newspapers and make people watch TV shows. It's also because in most cases politicians get more votes from the argument than from the solution (another reason why the regulatory bills that create new problems will come forth ad infinitum)
it's already being done, but not to punish dives. it's used to analyze more serious situations such as brutal fouls (a player can get additional punishment by football associations after the game, even to a complete season dismiss) or alleged corruption.

dives are stupid and I hate them, but I think they are far overrated in the US (assumption from what I see in internet discussions)
I think this is just differing perspectives; a lot of what you highlight, for me, makes US sports unwatchable (as i said elsewhere I can't watch all of a baseball game simply through boredom - despite quite liking the game).

(though for the record post-mortems, referee training etc. are good ideas)

Referees should be required to make distinguishing hand signals for each call. This would greatly aid the players, the fans, and the commentators in determining exactly what the ruling was.

This is the case - hand signals are pretty conclusive in Football (and relatively simple).

Offsides should always be "tie goes to the offense".

Ouch, no. You'd see far too many goals scored like this; in fact from my observation the way it comes out if "tie could go both ways" - which makes it all the more fun/difficult to play. And more importantly keeps it relatively fair. I dislike sports that are "binary" - i.e. if it's A it's A. In football sometimes it is A but the ref calls B.

For minor fouls in the box on set pieces, there should be discretionary power to the referee to retake or reverse the direction of the kick instead of either calling a game altering PK or doing nothing (and thus providing an incentive for questionable behavior in the box). There's simply insufficient granularity there. Minor defensive holding should generate a warning and another kick from the same spot for another scoring chance (but at a much lower scoring percentage than PK).

See this is what frustrates me about US sports... it starts to get complicated. There is no need to introduce this complexity because the game is already well defined and correctly played in this area.

If a player leaves the field of play for an injury, or is down for more than 1 minute, the player should not be able to return for 5 minutes.

This just demonstrates, IMO, a misunderstanding of the game. 5 minutes may be no time in, say, American Football. In Football the game could be entirely changed in 5 minutes.

I think the biggest problem is that compared to many US sports Football is an extremely fast moving game that relies on being able to run smoothly and cohesively. For example if the ball goes out of bounds it could easily be thrown back in within just a few seconds and the momentum of the game continues (for me this is what I enjoy most).

There is, obviously, a culture difference. I think that is why I find US sports quite boring and unwatchable and some Americans want to change/slow/formalise football. I think... each to our own thank you :)

In my mind football is a perfect spectator sport because of the "flaws" introduced by human error. They make a game less predictable, more excruciating, provide human emotion etc.

(although I do think the current crop of players are a bunch of spoiled brats and need to be reminded of the real game)
why would you want to be a programmer for more than 5 years if managers view the position with such disdain?
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I'm trying to do exactly the same thing - I recommend using Adioso for flight search and Airbnb for accommodation.
In the next days...
It is fixed in late 1.0.x versions and in 1.1.0
This is exactly how it works on Windows and Linux interface of VLC.
You are so right - the first thing your free-enterpriser usually does is try and get rid of free enterprise by destroying his competition and making sure you can only buy from him.
The new extension framework was designed for such features.

Here you go:
http://ale5000.altervista.org/vlc/extensions/subtitles-mod.l...
Which is exactly how a video ref would work: advise the main referee to reduce mistakes. And the current world cup certainly could use that given the horrible rate of horrible calls.
Well, simply because Broadcom doesn't use the standard APIs, which means one need to do a special plugin for it.
I agree with the research, but that does sound oddly tautological. Of course the people sampled preferr life! You can't sample the ones who didn't... (One would hope that was controlled for though.)
Because to make it work better with AMD/ATI GPUs, you need some Intel CPUs, because AMD CPUs don't have SSE4.1
And this is exactly what it does...
yes, but it is going too far. Waving a flag, or perhaps the occasional short conversation does not delay a match very much. There is a net gain.

I can't see much of a net gain in video refs simply due to the unnecessary delay. One of the delights of football is that 15-20 seconds after a goal they are kicking off again.

(the calls in this world cup have been pretty good; I've watched, literally, every game so far and there have been a couple of shockers - which obviously we notice - but generally it has been good)
Yea I'm not really sure.

I did find this interesting article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
FIFA already does this ... though there's a lot of bias involved.
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What kind of job did he had? It seems very good. Can I send them my cv :) ?
Who says soccer has to scale down well? And who says this is a good rationale to base the rules on?

The whole point of playing a game as a child, IMO, is to learn the basic skills of the game as well as possible and to have fun. Do you think the street kids of Brazil and Argentina, some of whom grow up to be some of the finest natural footballers in the world, worry about the pair of t-shirts they use as goalposts isn't FIFA regulated, or the battered football they use isn't either?

The whole point of playing the game at amateur level when you are older is to play the game you have loved since you were a child. Do you think every amateur game even has 2 linesmen to aid the ref?

This is a totally different proposition to watching the World Cup, Champions League, English Premiership, La Liga or the Serie A. Millions of fans tune in and watch these high-level games, and billions of euros are generated by the sport. When Thierry Henry cheats by blatantly handling the ball, incorrectly getting France into the World Cup, when Kaka, one of the greats of the modern game, gets sent off by some diving, cheating pr*ck, when the ref disallows a perfectly legit goal for the USA, millions of fans are turned off by this crap. Diving is another huge area which is wrecking soccer too. Video refereeing and being able to appeal obviously incorrect decisions like most other modern sports is badly needed to bring the game into the 21st century.

The argument about video refereeing slowing the game down doesn't stand up either. At least trial the system for a few months in major competitions where the necessary equipment already is in place - if it doesn't work after that, then I've got egg on my face. People who argue the reverse are mired in the past, and don't have the balls and vision to at least experiment with something that could bring on a new level of professionalism, and fairness to the sport instead of rewarding cheaters and divers.
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What's the allure of getting a job at a startup? Founding, sure, but just working for one? Probably low pay, certainly long hours for a (small) chance at a decent payout at some future date?

If you want to make consistent good money it's in consulting for firms, and that's going to be almost exclusively C# and Java.
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Our research led us to conclude that even for the best configurations in the world (yes, that includes Google, Amazon and all biggies), maximum theoretical downtime (for a few users) will be 30 minutes. You cannot possibly escape this limitation.
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You've overestimated your own abilities. "The biggies" don't need to use DNS failovers, they use anycast routing and the like. Therefore, their "maximum theoretical downtime" is probably much lower than 30 minutes...
since when -1 * -1 is -1???
Posted to mathoverflow: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/29070/is-defining-a-consta...
Hi! This could be possible. Please sende me an email with info about yourself. Contact info in profile. Andreas
to quit a good job that pays well just to randomly walk around and try to figure out what you want to do doesn't seem wise to me. It seems much wiser to wait till you have an idea that you want to pursue and then quit.

If you follow that course, you'll never quit. Because nothing stops you figuring out what you really want to do with your life like being continually busy, chasing someone else's dream.

Time flies when you're busy.

Back when I was young and inexperienced I took some bad career advice and pushed myself through a degree in a medical profession, and then postgraduate training. With 20/20 hindsight I was utterly unsuited to the profession, temperamentally. But I was too busy to see that I was making myself unhappy (and doing a second-rate job in the process). It took 18 months of post-qualification work to get around to the idea that I ought to bail, write off the previous six years, and go back to square one, and another year to put the plan into effect. Why? Because I was busy. In the end I wasted seven years on a mistake that was clear by the end of my first year at university.

You only have one life. Use it wisely. If you find you're doing something that doesn't agree with you, think very hard before you push on indefinitely: nobody's going to give you those years back.
Even with Anycast, a portion of their users will still be routed to old, down server until DNS cache expires. No? I'd love to get clarified as this is a problem we desperately want to solve.
I first and foremost want to solve a real problem for someone. To do this I think that I should develop a web application which solves this problem. If solving this problem also requires a business, then that is something that I would consider. Andreas
It seems you are not very familiar with soccer rules. Just a few comments:

1,3. is already true. There is post-morten review, we do see red-cards being cancelled and players being suspended all the time.

4. It is like this already. FIFA rules says that "when in doubt, favor the offense".

5. There has been some national championships with 2 field referees, it didn't noticeably improve the quality of the calls. FIFA allows rule experimentation from time to time on national fields. We've seen "blue cards" (where players must be replaced by others) for instance, two referees, etc... sometimes those rules end up in the official set: referees telling how many extra minutes of play was one of those experiments.

6. They do. English is spoken among all referees in a world cup game, except when all referees share the same nationality.

7. There are recognizable hand signals for all calls, but not for all rationales which would be impossible.

8. I have no clue what you mean by this suggestion. Just wanted to point out that it includes "discretionary power to the referee" while rule 2 suggested that this is "anarchy".

9. What happened to rule 9? Well, I want to use this opportunity to make a point that your comment (as most of comments suggesting new rules) seems to be sincerely trying to create a better game. But this game is just not soccer.

10. Players are not allowed to return immediately and they do must wait for the referees approval.
Yes. I wonder why the built-in update never works. It gave me the message while updating 1.0.5 that it is the latest version.
I'm not a particularly big fan of football, but even so it's glaringly obvious to me when I read articles by certain people (let's just say it's those who call it soccer) that they.. just don't get it. This isn't just random bloggers, I've read articles in big papers like the NY Times, and as much as they want and try to, they don't really understand it. It's not "inside" them like it is for me (involuntarily) and billions of others.
Thanks for all the feedback and ideas so far, everyone. I would still like to challenge you to share more real problems that I could develop a web application to solve. Andreas
But this guy wasn't continually busy, he was finishing at 4pm everyday.
I agree with you on the above points except for the five minutes rule. The point is to provide a disincentive to get on the stretcher. If you can get your butt up and recover on the side, you should do it. If you can't, there's no shame, but if you can get right back up and back in, then obviously it wasn't that big of a deal in the first place.
Disparate levels of play do not require arbitrariness in officiating. I don't do soccer at any level, but in my spare time I do work and hold a certification as a tournament judge for Magic (the card game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering). The DCI -- sanctioning body for organized Magic -- has formal standards for officiating which work at and scale from the smallest local game shop tournaments all the way up to massive events with large cash prizes and a pro tour. And one of the biggest goals is to ensure consistency: enforcement shouldn't and can't vary from judge to judge, because that would fundamentally damage the integrity of the entire tournament system.

Given that as background, the lack of consistency I see in World Cup officiating literally makes me shudder. And the worst part is that the usual straw men brought up in response -- massive delays due to replay, etc., etc., -- are, well, just straw men. A few simple, non-game-disrupting, changes (a highly-relevant example: let a team captain or a coach ask an official to state the foul for which a penalty has been issued, something which, so far as I'm aware, practically every other organized sport in the world does) could vastly improve both the actual and perceived consistency and fairness of soccer, but FIFA doesn't seem to care enough to do anything.
I totally get the sentiment and agree with all the reasons (to varying extents), but quitting my last job, where I was in almost the exact same position, was incredibly difficult. I wouldn't have been able to leave without another incredibly compelling opportunity (which I got). Those downsides are part of every job and are only downsides if you let them be.

<shameless-but-not-self-serving-plug>

On a related note, if anyone in Boston wants a job as awesome as the OP's was, go work for TripAdvisor (my former employer). Hit up sanj AT tripadvisor.com with a resume ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sanj )
To me at least, that comparison actually makes me lean the other way, given how filled with corruption and fraud the auto market is (especially auto repair, which is the closest analog to health care). If the free market delivers health-care like it delivers car mechanics, then no free market please! I would love to be able to take my car to some semi-trusted government repair shop, even if it charged 2x as much and provided mediocre service, as opposed to having to try my luck at some shady local outfit, armed with no more information than some yelp reviews to determine which shop to go to.

(I gather the dealers used to be this option---expensive but trustworthy---but it seems that lately dealerships are franchised with little enough oversight that you can't really trust them either; the Honda dealership near me is particularly shady.)
Yes. Alot.

No. Not at all. Games are already being interrupted constantly by players diving, kicking each other. Video replays wouldn't add that much.