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> 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.

Absolutely.

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

I was fascinated reading about Bob Haralabos' incredible tracking of basketball games: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/4974/following-up...

> 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.

Care to elaborate (without giving away your secret sauce?) I love reading about this stuff.

I try to approach soccer betting in a similar fashion (it's trickier than US sports in some ways, as soccer doesn't lend itself to stats as easily as say baseball and American football). See a comment of mine on reddit here, with tons of resources:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerBetting/comments/15dcao/what_v...
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I don't believe that is the case. I think it only stores deleted documents in the .SyncArchive folder, and does not log modifications.

Of course running a cronjob on your raspberry pi to do incremental backups would be a fun way of tackling that problem.
As far as I know logging into Flicker will keep your account activated.
Did Edward Snowden backed the project ?
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Just set up BTSync with a couple of friends for a shared folder. Seems to work pretty nice so far.
> Note how in '08, when the subsidized iPhone 3G was introduced ("New features, new price") it sold almost more in one quarter than the previous original had sold all year. Of course, it also had a number or new features such as an app store, but the one that really made a difference was the subsidy.

But, er, that's not actually what happened. The original iPhone was released in about six countries in June 2007, usually at $600 or equivalent. In September 2007, the price dropped to $200 (in the US; there were regional variations). In June 2008, the 3G was released, at $200, in 22 countries.

It had 3G (the original's lack of 3G made it a hard sell in Europe, in the few countries where it was even available; many European telcos had skipped EDGE and gone straight to UMTS/HSDPA), and the app store, and people were more used to the idea. In 2007, normal consumers simply didn't know what a smartphone was, at all. It's far more likely that a combination of that was responsible for the growth than a price drop which actually happened nine months earlier.
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On Linux, I experience a lot of lag when I cycle through the menus on the top. Anybody have the same experience?

I have had this issue for the last couple of releases and I can't narrow down the issue. It works fine on Windows.
XBox is only profitable if you read the data very carefully (ignoring sunk costs), or if you take the 360 _on its own_, ignoring the original and XBox Live. It will probably eventually be profitable, but it isn't now.

I'd be astonished if Azure is profitable; AWS isn't, and it sees vastly higher volume at similar prices. And, of course, profitability for Azure is a messy concept; is it profitable when it makes more than they spend on it, or when it makes more than what they spend on it plus what they're losing by selling fewer Windows Server licenses to Amazon et al?
Yeah, it isn't that he tried to diversify that's the problem, but that he did it so incredibly clumsily. A company with billions in the bank had no business bringing out WP7, say.
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I work for FastMail. We (Opera Software Australia) are an Australian company, subject to Australian privacy laws regardless of the location of our servers. We legally must only respond to Australian law enforcement agencies with valid Australian warrants (summary of the law is available here: https://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/tia.html).
Just put in my request for jerryyang@yahoo.com on their "wish list" site.

This could be interesting.
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> Azure including their Virtual Machines are a great competitor to Amazon AWS and EC2. I've used both.

They may be for running Windows servers, but they're certainly not price-competitive for running Linux servers in most cases.

> Expect cheaper prices with increased competition - example being how Amazon just lowered their EC2 pricing by as much as 80%.

I suspect that's more to do with Google's EC2 clone, which is actually price-competitive with AWS. Also, that reduction was just on dedicated instances, which pretty much nobody uses; they largely exist for things like PCI compliance.
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Really looking forward to angular support improvements. Does anyone know of any plans/plugins that might bring sublime text-ish multi cursor editing to netbeans? Rectangular selection is, erm, all right. But I do seem to spend a lot of time with netbeans and subl open at the same time.
... Which really doesn't change anything to the comment you're replying to.

Not that I agree with it because I think his understanding of Nest selling point is wrong.
Hope someone grabs Palin's old (compromised) email. This decision by Yahoo is a troll's wet dream.
Ice, ice, maybe: Snow and ice melting at record speed
> About to make love

Would be amused to see the criteria/logic used to isolate that scenario! Perhaps if Glass was monitoring current room, spoken words, heartbeat...
> Everything I see states that Windows 7 is the dominant Windows operating system in the Enterprise.

That seems improbable. Windows 7 only passed Windows XP in global usage under a year ago, and while reliable figures are hard to come by, most polls show in the region of 60% XP usage for the enterprise sector.
I'm surprised they're allowing the application servers to respond to public requests while under maintenance.
> As I mentioned in another comment I've got a lot of folks who run big stuff on Azure and I can tell you that almost all of their instance time is comped.

That has been my impression, yep. I know a few people using it, but I don't think any of them are actually paying for it.
I think most people are unconfortable with Balmer's lack of pushing Microsoft in new directions. Not so long ago Blackberry's numbers wheren't bad, they were selling a boatload of devices, clausing new deals all around the world, and pushing these facts as a sign of health. But it just felt wrong because all the good news were about fields bound to die or shrink in the near future.

Balmer as a CEO brings plenty of money, sales are strong, figures are good, but mostly in fields that might as well disappear in the next years. Even things like Office and .NET which should have many years left are so heavily bound to windows that they might as well get silently siloed into niche markets while the current PC market gets disrupted.
Yes, but those are smaller than the converse, where the conversation is about whether something ambiguous/new is in or out of scope (strictly adversarial discussion), rather than whether such ambiguous items are worth it or not to the client (simply a resource allocation discussion).
> You even give an example of "folks who run big stuff on Azure" -- how is that not proof that Azure at least provides competition in the cloud services market?

Well, it offers competition in a niche; it's largely price-competitive with AWS for Windows instances, but not for other OSes.
So the internet doesn't "never forget" after all.

Are the advocates of "right to be forgotten" supporting this?
Fairly sure all his credit cards and accounts are frozen.
The traffic is not interesting. Business transactions are; incidentally, the transactions are trivially blocked.
CRD is a nice plugin. Not sure how useful remote desktop on a phone screen is but for really basic things i guess we'll see.
Depression probably returns self-harm images, which Apple would obviously block.
I guess you have to first install and register plug on the mobile device before you can use it. This would forbid connecting from any random computer.
People also routinely do much faster than low triple digits on the track, with exactly the same machine that they ride on the street. And when the road is clear, the risk is all mine.
So we has just established that not only hardware companies are at risk. Good.

Now, step two: US trolls will not sue a company doing business outside of US; too much trouble. But any company doing business in US is a subject to local laws, and most SaaS companies want to work on US market simply because it is the biggest one.

"Doing business in US" means, among other things, having US customers and using US payment processors.
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Avatar also owes a lot to Disney's Pocahontas, which is itself a blend of an old American legend with West Side Story, which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet, which was based on an old Italian story....
Do you measure the quality of the film by the number of good jokes? I don't consider TDK to be a great movie (and Inception was not masterpiece either), but it's weird to expect them to have jokes.
Run your code in Production. Scaling. Robustness. Error Handling. Correct logging. These will all keep you up at night until your code is correctly engineered.
Thanks, cool ideas, Ya you could also make that eventual tweet for linked in and facebook, I hope you get some time to start chipping away at these.
I'm willing to believe a small fraction of the amount they subsequently spent on legal fees would, if offered at the beginning instead of threats, have been more than enough....
> What? If anything Windows Phone and Nokia is growing exceptionally in the emerging markets specifically India and Africa.

Well, Windows Phone is. Nokia is declining in those markets; it's simply cannibalising its existing large Symbian market there with WP.
You have a failure of imagination, then. Many times an ill-advised overtake started out below the speed limit but needs to go a bit over to be made safe, and that's not just my opinion, but that of many traffic police officers over here in the UK.

And think about what a low speed limit like 65mph would do to the economy.
Cheeky. But I doubt they'll include that. More than likely, they've whitelisted all Yahoo CEOs/employees/associates/minions and people with "allah" in the name somewhere.[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Mail#Username_bans
Closed source, low performing hardware. Who would want this?
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In other words, is being small & poor a good defense against trolls? Yes, it is.

Try to get bigger though or get a investment round, and troll will come after you.

It is not a coincidence that the company in the article's got trolls about the same time it's got an investment.
Exactly. Get one cert per domain including one subdomain for free, get as much as you can handle for $60 per 2 years. Compatible with every modern OS (so no old Windows XP). That offer can't really beat that.
What happens if your hosting company gets an NSA request to access your servers?
Wow imagine this scenario:

I sign up for a service using my Yahoo email account.
I don't use my Yahoo account for a year.
Someone gains access to my email address.
That person enters my email address into a forgot password field.
Boom They now have access to my service.

As another poster stated, the mind boggles.
Indeed. Also - that quote struck a nerve because it is -exactly- what mobsters say to shop owners when they're demanding (extorting) protection money.

This is nothing more than legal (for now) extortion.
I love the new Gmail interface. The promotions and social tab allow me to keep my main inbox (Primary) to be clean. In fact, now I will simply go for weeks without having to see the stupid promotional emails and just mass-delete them at some time.
Ask HN: How to disrupt TripAdvisor?
Being that they have complete market dominance with user generated reviews and the value the provide, any ideas on what possible fronts you could fight on? I thought about design/ux but still it is not enough to have a position where they can't switch up their site and done. Also, a strategy I thought of (which is quite simple) is deep customer development to find this 'front'.
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Used to work for a credit card company, MBNA. They wanted mbna.com, which was owned by Mercedes Benz, North America. Not so amazingly enough, hand Mercedes a million or so and voilà we now had mbna.com, and why Mercedes is now mbusa.com.
"Why do all of your websites look the same?"
Yes, but sane CFOs have to evaluate "what's the best use for this money?" and trade off share buy-backs (or overt dividend declarations) against other investments the company could make.

So, it's perfectly reasonable to say that any investment with dramatically worse return than a share buy-back is a financial loser. If you'd like to argue it's a strategic winner, then change the time window or otherwise make the financial analysis take those strategic gains into account (with an appropriate discount to compare NPVs).
I never heard of it before, but it seems like it addresses the major issues I have with programmable thermostats, which is that their UX is invariably like something from the 1960s.

Now if you could disable all that learning crap then we'd be talking.
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I don't get it, why do you assume a non-English speaking audience would be more confused by subtlety and complexity? From my experience, Hollywood movies have always been less subtle than the films from most other countries. And not only in movies; for example, British comedy seems to be turned into a caricature of itself when remade in the US.
You might mean "voila", not "wala"
Well, the Internet is dynamic isn't it? Other services are already freeing inactive accounts, email or e.g. Twitter handles, and think of changing mail service owners and domain changes, too. And why should a service hold an email forever, just because someone registered it and maybe was never even using it?

Isn't the real problem that users and services put too much trust in plain email addresses? Especially when accounts are outdated? Crypto might help here someday in the future.

We could even say: Isn't it your fault that you didn't keep track on which services you used that email? Or that you lost your password? Why blame Yahoo for that?
> They had a real chance to corner the market before Apple was even making iPods, I believe

They were so very, very insistent on "it has to be Windows!" which lead to the notoriously dreadful Windows CE/Mobile interface. This goes on to an extent, but now more as a confusing marketing thing; Windows Phone does not seem like a good name for a phone that doesn't have windows as a concept.
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It may all look like bits to you, but here's something to think about: I have recently bought an electronic product from a company in a different country. The payment processor though added Canadian HST tax on top of the purchase. Processor did two things: it figured out I'm in Canada so the HST tax may apply, and it knew that the product was actually sold via a reseller, which also registered in Canada, which made HST mandatory.

You see? The online purchases are not as unregulated as they may seem. There are laws about them, and the online companies do follow those laws.

Trying to sell banned service to US customer is not much easier than trying to sell banned food. One may try but the interested troll only need to send a cease-and-desist to yet another payment processor one uses to sell to US, and the service is on square one, again.
> I've never used one myself, but everyone I know who had a Newton said it was "just right".

Interestingly, a big part of the Newton's failure (along with the terrible v1 handwriting recognition, which was largely fixed later, and Apple's strained finances) was that they went for a complete break with the past; there was basically no developer familiarity. iOS was probably a sweet spot; new, purpose-designed interface bearing very little resemblance to MacOS beyond font choices, but almost the same under the hood.
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A friend of mine operated a movie review site that mentioned Netflix in the name. Netflix sued him, but settled out of court by having him change the name, and buying the original domain for a few thousand dollars. They then let the domain expire.
Isn't that what people say about Apple Macintosh systems?
This is why the project would have been better off as open source with anonymous donations. Decentralization is still the best way to defeat aggregation.
Obligatory "Pardon implies he did something wrong post". they should apologize.
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Yes, except for the "low performing" bit. And also "who would want this" because everybody...
They have apologised:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/pm-apology-to-alan...
Sure, a few people will lose their identity,
but millions will get good email addresses!
It looks to me that the author himself doesn't value his own time enough, yet, since he "conceded and said (he) would fix the bug".

If you are bootstrapping something, it is critical to be able to say no at this point and not follow along, since so many things can eat your time.
I often use SML for writing games. The Functioning library (http://github.com/robsimmons/functioning) provides support for SDL and includes an SML port of Box2D.
Also, our names are on lists now.

[I despise the fact that I am making a joke like this, and that it's probably true. I'm writing my folks in congress again.]
> It would have been helpful to know a bit more about what PG expected

Mac Pro.

> and what he got

MacBook Air.
Ask HN: How would you change the HN stylesheet with 10 or less lines?
I know that Hacker News is about the community rather than the usability, and I know that the look has almost become iconic, but there is always part of me that wants to tweak the site a bit - maybe make it a little more mobile/touch friendly etc.<p>So many people before me have come up with great ideas but normally requiring a big change to the site (DOM etc), but I was wondering if we could make the smallest change, just a few lines to the css, what would the talent on HN come up with.<p>So here is your challenge if you choose to accept it this Saturday!:-<p>If you could add (or change) 10 lines in the HN css file, what would they be?
Ask HN: Is there a quickstart website package with a user database?
So I've built sites before, and it gets tedious opening mysql (or phpmyadmin), creating tables, etc, and building pages for new users and registration.

I've hunted around. Django and other CMSs feel too big - all I want is something containing:

database, already with a user table (that I can add to)
registration screen
login screen

after that I can take care of things, add to it, create new tables. I just get tired of rebuilding the wheel.

Suggestions?
>65k years and counting, lets see if our "modern" and "advanced" civilization makes it that far.

Uh, we have.

You're assuming that they've lived for 65,000 years with no social or cultural or technological upheaval within their own little sub-civilization. While at that same time drawing arbitrary end-points in ours.

At this point, they're only surviving because of the benign interests of outsiders. Do you really think they could survive a hypothetical contest of "what society can survive the longest?". If our culture hadn't evolved to accept and respect indigenous people like this, or if there was any economic value on that island, they'd be dead or subjugated by now. So how can you claim that they've figured out better civilization survival instincts than the rest of the world?
This is terribly insulting to investors. And probably true.
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>Closed source

This is THE dealbreaker for me.

I felt so excited to see Plug. I was ready to sign up to Kickstarter to back my first product. It's a plug-and-play NAS, a data solution I've been trying to find. I really, really wanted to use it. But I can't for ethical reasons.

I hate to sound like I'm preaching open-source but it's unacceptable anymore, although I will give them credit that it's a step in the right direction. We need devices like Plug. Just make them open and I'll happily back it.
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You (and I mean you, Ameican reader) put up with full scale systemic 4th Amendment violations by TSA searching every bag at airports on grounds of public safety and non-targeted searches.

NSA now does the same, just with phones. Precedent matters.
Because for better or worse, email has become the defacto identity identifier on the web. If you allow people to grab emails that used to be owned by someone else, you effectively allow them to own their identity on every website where they registered with that email in the past.

And while some other email providers do the same, it's particularly bad with yahoo because they are such a huge and longstanding provider, they have tons of email, some that are a decade old, and a lot owned by people who are not very technical or who don't check their email very often.
Ah, but what is Cocoa? :) In practice, Cocoa has had at least two major refreshes; a major overhaul of AppKit in the NeXT->MacOS transition, and the replacement of AppKit with UIKit for iOS (and I'd be sort of surprised if AppKit isn't eventually deprecated and replaced with a UIKit derivative on the desktop; UIKit smooths a lot of the rough edges).

Bits get added to Win32, but it hasn't really had much substantive change to existing stuff in a very long time.
A USB device can boot the needed software when it is plugged in, and the device can have its authorisation interface (say a numeric keypad). It should be able to interface to Windows and OSX devices without much rigmarole.
Don't forget - when the ghost doesn't attack you claim credit for stopping the ghost.
NB has a life of its own within Oracle. And since the product is fully Open Source, sponsoring companies carried on supporting it, even after Oracle acquired Sun.

Moreover, Java is worth nothing without people developing in Java. They need a good IDE. Hence, Oracle needs a good IDE. Oracle surely won't complain that partners sponsor NB, since it reduces this necessary cost of doing business.
The whole idea of measuring the speed of moving object in any given moment is not an optimal solution. It is much better (and easier) in many cases to measure the time in which it took a car to travel some distance. You just set up ALPR cameras every few kilometers and record travel time. If the limit is 60km/h and you managed to drive 20km in 15 minutes, you were clearly over the limit at some point, and therefore you should be fined.

I think France uses this system. Also there was a huge uproar on the news of potential introduction of it in Poland. Mostly because it's so effective.

EDIT:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECS_%28speed_camera%29