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I think you should be more sarcastic, that definitely belongs on HN and in no way makes you seem unnecessarily defensive.

Edit:

OK, I'm not being constructive either. But here's the thing about good ideas: you are not the first to have them. I am not the first to have them. I even wrote a disclaimer on my website about this exact problem.

Cracking the shits because the first comment -- on a site with thousands of people who read widely -- is about someone else who's had the same idea is kinda pointless, don't you think?

When I read the Wired article, I had the same idea too. I later wrote a research proposal on testing it on freshman comp sci students. After that I read Jack Kinsella's article. After Jack Kinsella came Derek Sivers, who at least had the grace to say "oh neat, this Jack Kinsella article is good too" and link to it.

My original comment was more about how ideas can be traced back to common beginnings, how a blooming garden can sometimes come from a single seed. But I guess you felt it was a personal attack, a swift kick in the guts from another faceless HN boo-parade. Well I'm sorry you feel that way.
his major achievements to date have been in predicting player performance in baseball, an area which he has spent a large part of his life analyzing. Baseball analytics rewards attention to detail and persistence over technical brilliance/advanced statistical techniques. his special ability is really very domain specific, so it's not like we should expect him to be much more effective than other qualified people if he applied himself to different topics...
That's why I switch on iCloud mail!
The most important thing to note in that article is the revenue graph near the end.

You might make a few $K in on the first day, but if it's all downhill from there, you don't have a sustainable business.

That's not to say this guy hasn't made an impressive accomplishment (which getting any game in the top 25 is) - just be wary of the stories of "overnight success" that we hear now and then on the app store.
Mount a watch/calendar on the wall.
The logical thing to do in this situation would be to block those search terms when they come from ios-devices.
Silly questions:

1. What is your name ?
2. How do you remove unwanted results?
3. Are you tying all this into your own homepage?
The recently released ocaml-ctypes <https://github.com/ocamllabs/ocaml-ctypes > library by Jeremy Yallop does something similar. It uses GADTs to represent the C type system in OCaml's type system with as-you-would-expect OCaml signatures. For example, you can pass an OCaml comparator to a C sort function that takes a function pointer and it works.

It's not quite as smooth, as far as I know, but it will soon include C header consumption and C stub generation to both improve binding accuracy/safety and remove dynamic paths for performance.
what are the best publicly available sources of baseball data?
What you've said regarding pricing & the freemium model is entirely correct. But this race-to-the-bottom that everyone has been forced into annoys me to no end.

Personally I'd much rather pay $5 or even $10 for a good game if it's going to give me a few hours of entertainment.

Unfortunately there's so much crap on the app store that it's a big risk paying that much for something unless you know (based on reviews/recommendations etc) that it's good.
SSL Certificate summer sale has just started
Just an unfortunate side effect. There are lots of legitimate uses for port mirroring in troubleshooting and monitoring a network, like intrusion detection and performance monitoring.
This was probably the FBI. And if the data center's switch couldn't mirror the customer port (I can't imagine any data center would use a switch that couldn't - but it is within the realm of possibility), the investigating agency would probably provide a 1U switch along with the 2U server that could handle the mirroring and then they could force the data center to connect the customer through that switch instead.
Have you invested into Birkenstock yet? No? Why? They will be multi-billion dollar company in the near future...
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There is an enormous range in the movies that are produced today - it's just that a lot of them don't make it to your local cinema. Over 10,000 feature films are produced worldwide per year.

It may be worth tracking down some arthouse cinemas nearby and seeing what their program looks like!
Here's the source I have: http://www.screendaily.com/home/blogs/david-lynch-hints-at-n...

I'm also VERY excited about this one.
1. Yahoo has official email ids which no longer work (but were functional in the past). Are these also up for grabs? Or, are some email ids "more equal than others"?

2. Websites with paid access. There are people who sign up and do not access these sites for a long time. If the person who signed up with his Yahoo email id no longer uses it (the email id) now, there is the danger of someone claiming that email id and then using the "Forgot password" option on one of these paid websites. Most of them send your password to your email id, or send a link to reset it.

Boom. You now have access to their personal information (and possibly credit card/bank details) as well.

Edit: Even free websites quite often store personal information, for that matter.
I think the issue of contracts is somewhat orthogonal to a market. Of course you need to be able to deal, but the details of that aren't somehow fundamental to a market.

The point of a market is to allow sufficient flexibility so that lots of individual actors can by trial and error find an efficient solution to a hard problem without requiring a benevolent genius at the center. How much flexibility is enough? How much is too much? I don't think there's a one-size fits all solution here, and the size discrepancy between the cellular provider and the individual user only makes it harder.

Personally, I think that in most markets, but particular these kind of highly asymmetric ones, we'd see more innovation and progress if the market were more fluid; which suggests to me that the carrier (and handset provider) lock-in is not a good thing.
I don't understand why people are making a fuss about it.
It shows only when you have chosen your inbox to show different categories.
Secondly it shows only in promotional email subscriptions. Not disturbing "Primary tab".
I agree, it was pretty big smackdown for a single tweet. He sounded like he meant it when he used the word "disaster".
A swarm of pixels in a space.
It's not just the "getting caught on purpose" trope that annoys me, it's the whole omnipotent-(bad/good)-guy thing. The Ocean's Eleven sequels were particularly bad at this.
Skunk works vs. Corporate Bureaucracies: A short debate
Isn't it also true that hourly or daily billing creates a conflict of interests from the start, because it's in the customer's interests for you to finish as fast as possible and in your interests to finish as slowly as possible?
Show HN: Display OS X notifications from your terminal easily
The Y comb shoe was actually a fun/extra thing!
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CyanogenMod implements SELinux in its ROM
I created this because I found myself running scripts that'd take 20 minutes, start something else, and completely forget about the original scripts. Let me know if you have any comments or criticism!
Because he loves sports, it sounded fun and they offered him a boatload of money? Those seem like perfectly legitimate reasons to me. I don't, and never have, understood why people bash celebrity intellectuals who pursue their own passions rather than the passions critics believe are more valid or important.
This is gobsmackingly awful. Their 'relax we won't let people use this to hijack accounts on other services solution is to check incoming email for a new header. a new header that yahoo invented.[1] good luck getting every web based sign up site with email password reset to update their email service.

1. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/yahoo-email/
Do you mean your full name? My last name is distinct enough to easily get a whole first Google page about me, but my first name only gets my Twitter account on the second page.
OP sounds like a guy in this quote: "Linux sucks cause iptables it's so hard to configure compared to Windows Firewall". And we, hackers, know the truth ;)
Design is good.

However, your on-sale price for Comodo PositiveSSL Wildcard is $ 6.95 more expensive than Comodo’s own offering [1] [2].

[1] https://comodosslstore.com/positivessl-wildcard.aspx

[2] http://cl.ly/image/210I2n2R000Y
So I've been told :)

I've been using email since like 1996 but had never seen that kind of thread hierarchy display until I used MailMate. I can't believe all these email clients have been holding out on me!
a couple of 1-star reviews on amazon have about 99% more impact on sales of a product than some dude tweeting a rant.
Yeah, there was a lackluster movie adaption of the first book a few years back, and there's a second movie due out next month.

Hmmm... fun adventurous non-fantasy YA, first that comes to mind is Kenneth Oppel's Airborn, etc. Old-fashioned boy's adventure stories set in a steampunk universe.
More importantly you probably shouldn't care or worry about investor/user who reacts on a single tweet without knowing much context.

The tweet says nothing about what was the problem, or details about why he might have any particular problem while others didn't, it could be the way his office is designed.

He just expressed his opinion in as few words as he could, it could be for legitimate reasons or it could something silly he overlooked.
"The court ordered NMC to pay $58,000 as cost under rule 68, this is less then 2% of what the cost was to defend this case."

It has cost Nissan Computer $3M to defend itself? For a local PC repair shop? Either he's highly principled or just lying.
Should I really have "all this fancy stuff" to process onClick events which can be done in 3 lines of plain ugly JS?)

"All this fancy stuff" is just an exploration of what's possible. The verbosity can (and will) be abstracted away via Clojure's excellent tools of abstraction (higher-order functions and macros). Your "3 lines of plain ugly JS" aren't going to scale because they rely on mutation. Mutation is deceptively quick and easy when you're just starting out. However, once your program grows large it turns into a sprawling mess of complexity.
Haskellers complain about Haskell's module system and say that SML's is better more often than any MLer, I think.
I use lsyncd (https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd)
Show HN: The best new way to convert numbers since the measuring cup.
My attempt to shake up a very crowded category: Unit Conversion. A conversion app without a keypad! And that's a good thing. Instead; jump and swipe and pinch and have your answer and the bigger picture too.

I would love to get your feedback on the app so far.

http://tflig.ht/14CbISw (TestFlight)
If Nate or anyone could program a statistically accurate sports predictor model there would be huge potential in this as far as sports betting goes.

The guys that make millions in large part use their own software.

I used a simple piece of hardware last year for college football season that was suprisingly accurate. I weighted my own opinion most heavily but would use the software to confirm my picks. If both ways checked out, I would place a bet.

Never had a losing week last year and would usually pocket a couple thousand in profit a week. Of course there was alot of lucky but a large part of my success was due to the statistical software I was using.
urmm, "OP", runs this website...
Surely the fact that Verizon was ordered to hand over all its phone records for a period of three months means that anyone who is a Verizon customer has standing.
Netbeans 7.3's support? It works fine on Java 6, though it will only grudgingly use it if 7 is installed. If you're on MacOS (assuming that from the retina screen), then, in /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 7.3.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/etc/netbeans.conf

add the line

netbeans_jdkhome="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home"

(Yes, the configuration lives _inside_ the application bundle. Lovely.)
props!
To be fair my direct manager is supporting me on this--he's giving me more quantitative work and the work time to knock it out. If I stay it'll be because of that.
From only a week ago here on Hacker News, a comment about a news story on Australia:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6037235

From the article:

"The contract was prompted by Telstra's undersea telecommunications joint venture called Reach. When it sought a cable licence from the US Federal Communications Commission, the DoJ and the FBI insisted on a binding security agreement.

"The contract does not authorise Telstra or law enforcement agencies to undertake surveillance. But under the deed, Telstra must preserve and 'have the ability to provide' wire and electronic communications involving any customers who make any form of communication with a point of contact in the US, as well as 'transactional data' and 'call associated data' relating to such communications."

. . . .

"The document was signed by Douglas Gration, a barrister who was then Telstra's company secretary and official liaison for law enforcement and national security agencies.
"He told the Herald he could not remember much about the agreement. 'Every country has a regime for that lawful interception,' he said. 'And Australia has got it as well.'"

This looks like a pattern of mutual agreements among governments that cooperate in routing and connecting cables for international telecommunications. The statement is NOT that every telephone call from Australia to another country is listened to, but that a data archive is maintained that might be accessible with court orders. Particularly significant is the statement that other countries ask for the same arrangement if a cable connects to or through that country.

Switching email providers has little to do with what governments have access to your data by mutual agreements among the governments.
> I'd think that Apple would be happy to tell us it was a simple power/network failure were that the case.

Really? With the multi-region AWS failure, Amazon was very reluctant to even confirm it was happening for a while, and didn't explain it for weeks afterwards.

> Sudden shutdown of vital service + silence = most likely a security prob.

Or alternatively, "oops, how much customer data have we accidentally irreparably destroyed?!" IIRC in the aforementioned AWS incident Amazon only really started talking when they had an idea of how many EBS volumes were irreparably corrupt.
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Network protections are, as you pointed out, something they cannot control. At the legal policy level, they are somewhat less cooperative as an Austrialian company with US server assets.

"> I feel safe in speculating that if you will not pony up the emails to a US judge, the people who maintain the server farm here in the US will.

They can't - they have no access to the emails, because they can't login to the machines and they can't access the encryption keys for the data. All maintenance of the OS/software is done from Australia.

We've had a number of US-based law enforcement bodies over the year try to get hold of our data without going via the appropriate Australian bodies, and it doesn't work out for them. In the end, they have always ended up submitting a request for cooperation via the Australian Federal Police, as they are required to do, and we respond to that request in line with Australian law."

2009 Slashdot.org Interview with Howard Jeremy, Founder of Fastmail

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1391605&cid=2963395...
Seriously? This is _Apple_. When the multi-region AWS outage occurred a while back, Amazon was unwilling to talk about what had happened for a week, and they're a rather less secretive company.
Huge explosion rocks beijing International airport[pic]
Before explosion :
https://twitter.com/richardlai/status/358549117812736003/pho...
VLC 2 for iPhone returns with Multiple Format Support, Video Filters And More
Thanks for the comment. Yes, you are absolutely right. Wildcard SSL is currently cheaper from Comodo because they have a promotion themselves.

However, Business validated certificate is still significantly cheaper from us: $65.95 vs $99.95 [1]. Standard certificate is few dollars cheaper too.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/FoVTH80.png
Anybody know if they're available in better quality? I realize the source material isn't exactly 4k quality but maybe there's a better encode.
Netbeans' Python support was quite nice as well -- so nice I kept a separate Netbeans 6.9.1 just to keep Python support. However, it was never ported to Netbeans 7 and upwards.

Sadly, that version is too old now. With no git and svn 1.7+ support, it's become just another text editor. I hope the Python plugin gets ported to this new version!

Its C++ support is also great, but a bit opinionated. I remember I wasn't able to get its cmake plugin to make out-of-source builds for example.
I'm a SSL certificates newbie.
What's the added value of using a SSL reseller, instead of buying directly from Comodo?
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The previous discussion had this distinction all over the place as well, but...I've looked at what's in my promotions tab, and a few mailing lists and some of the shop member mail I subscrided went there by default. 'Promotions' is set as a split part of my inbox, not some feature coming out of nowhere with whole new and google only content. Having junk ads in there is the same as having junk ads in my inbox.

PS: yes I can just get rid of the new tabs and go back to the old layout, and tha's what I did. I just hink the difference made between the main tab and promotions tab doesn't seem meaningful in this discussion.
> It's the strongest argument against laissez-faire economics, yet it's amazing how many people are blind to it

If you actually would read free market economomics, for example market process theory. You would learn that actually free market economists do not belive that the market is this always stable thing that is pareto optimal.

It is actually discribed much more as a lagging, thing where there are forces pushing the markets in the right direction in the longer run.

Also if you for example look at public choice theory, that is economic analysis to democracy, you will see that just because the market is not stable does not mean you want the state to stabalize it. The state faces insentives that make unlikly to do the right thing, even if we know what that right thing is. There you have to problem that you often get unintended consequences, that is even if you assume that the state is all nice and only wants to help you, there is still a question if the have the knowlage and forsight to actually implment things correctly. So in the end it makes it very lickly that the intervention actually has negative consequences instead of positive ones.

So, next time please inform yourself befor attacking a groupe of on the basis of what you think they belive.

tl:dr; free market econmists are not as dumb as you think they are, they actually have spend the last 150 years thinking about these problems.
To be honest, I expect someone trying to sell me a SSL certificate to be using an EV certificate on their own site.
A good hustler must consider that–if he has nothing to lose by asking–it might be because his self worth is nothing.

That's quite a harsh judgment - I think the hustler is generally aware that they are on the losing end of the power dynamic, and that is what requires the hustle (partly to prove their eagerness/enthusiasm), but their self worth is definitely not zero as this would cause them to just shut up and not bother. I see hustle as an attempt flex muscle by the weaker person in the negotiation.
Sorry, my bad. I had no idea about CLI, and the CLI-CLR distinction, or I would not have put foot in mouth. Thanks for the link and not a snarky comment.
How much traffic do you think they actually lose by not having Nissan.com? I would have thought as soon as someone looking for Nissan cars visits that URL, they would realise it was not the right site, then try the ccTLD version i.e. Nissan.co.uk, or simply search "Nissan" in their search engine of choice.

It's a bit like Google AdWords - some choose to bid on their own brand keywords, but are they actually gaining incremental visitors, or just spending budget on acquiring traffic that would otherwise arrived for free anyway?
For a pure Java UI app - NetBeans 7.4 beta looks and performs acceptably. This is on a fast SSD with 16Gb RAM but still the fluidity of workflows has improved a lot. For example I just created a JSF based Enterprise Java app and modify/rebuild/redeploy were pleasantly fast. So was the code completion. Got contextual help on CSS properties as well! If this continues to rock I might dump Eclipse which has grown to be too complex, slow and disorienting.
I'm reasonably certain that this is far more sinister than a simple advertisement tactic. No, dear people, this has all the similarity to Google's 411 service. I have this feeling that Google has implemented some new nifty ML-algorithms and we are giving them the training data. "We" are those people who aren't techy and think 'Sweet, I can classify my email nicely now'.
Excellent. Thanks for the information.
Price and support. We want our customers to be satisfied.
this is ridiculous - what are they trying prove? it won't change history and I seriously doubt it will bring any sort of solace to anyone. Pure politics in the runup to the legalisation of gay marriage in the uk.
This also happens in reverse - recruitment agencies bidding on names of prospects. Certainly got my attention when I was first targeted by this approach.
Plug anti-PRISM solution raises half a million dollars in 9 days on Kickstarter
If you were a sports geek and a numbers geek, wouldn't your dream job be more like ESPN rather than the NYT?
Question for those in the know: I had expected NetBeans development to stall after Oracle took over Sun - after all, there's not really any direct profit coming from it. My understanding of Oracle is that they mostly think along the lines of "no direct profit = no investment".

Why does it keep getting better?
Google is developing a Chrome Remote Desktop app for Android called Chromoting
That's nothing. Wait till they start streaming context dependent ads straight to your Google Glass :)

* Getting in your 2008 Toyota... Tada! An ad presenting the 2013 model.

* Walking by a Nike store... Tada! An ad featuring new sneakers.

* About to make love and for some reason left your Glass on... Tada! A safe sex promotion ad.
Steampunk sounds promising, thanks :-)
It would have been helpful to know a bit more about what PG expected and what he got.
The XBox was really the only diversification from their core Windows/Office business which has really even slightly worked, though. MSN/Windows Live/Bing/Whatever it's called now was a massive cash sink and market failure, as was Zune and Windows Phone. Azure is looking like it's heading that way too, though no-one's making much profit in that market right now.
Ah, alright. That makes sense then. I interpreted it as you suggesting to dd the first sd card to a second sd card which would then become your backup.
There's a very big difference between "asking" and "refusing to take no for an answer". The first one rarely has negative effects - but the second one often can.

Some level of social skill and empathy is also required for the "asking" portion, too...
It just randomly takes you to few span followed by mazda on first go.
> I would credit that business model for bringing about the smartphone revolution more than the revolutionary design Apple introduced.

That wasn't actually a new business model. Subsidy was already pretty much standard in the US; it's just that for whatever reason (probably risk-aversion), AT&T didn't do it for the iPhone for the first six months.