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by matt1 17y ago
On a realted note, any word when startup school will be this year?
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by matt1 17y ago
Don't you think they have spent a lot of time thinking this through, consulting with experts, and debating internally whether its been a good decsion? At least I hope they did. If there's a chance they could successfully pull off a system w
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Murdoch signals end of free news(news.bbc.co.uk)
15 points by matt1 17y ago|25 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
The spam points to a site that says it was "As seen on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CNBC, and As Seen on TV"... With such credentials, how could it not be legit? Plus it only costs $1.95 to get started! /sarcasm
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by matt1 17y ago
Sounds like a major pain in the ass. Are you happy that you did it? How did it work out?
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Ask HN: Inventing a physical product
5 points by matt1 17y ago|4 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
Back in 2000 or so I ran an AOL hacking website called AOL-Files.com. One day, BMB, my confounder, successfully tricked a high level AOL employee into divulging his SecurID pin, which was required in addition to the user's password in order
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Q&A: Broadersheet.com CEO Peter Clark(econsultancy.com)
2 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
Very well done. The navigation is easy to use (you can tell he focused on usability), the videos seem top notch (nice background music in the previews), and its useful to me as a developer. One thing, and its probably nitpicky, is the color
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by matt1 17y ago
Looks like the user must have a Paypal account. From the Tipjoy FAQs: Click it, and from there you can cash money out of your Tipjoy account into your PayPal account. You can also give your money to another website (a charity, maybe?), or
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Ask HN: Facilitating payments between users
5 points by matt1 17y ago|9 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
Streisand effect, FYI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect Mike Masnick originally coined the term Streisand effect in reference to a 2003 incident where Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for U
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Entrepreneurs Can Change the World [video](youtube.com)
1 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
They said they polled 120K people on their website to gauge the sentiment for this idea. Isn't it true that polls that depend on self-selection are very biased? That obviously doesn't completely invalidate the idea, but isn't it a bit much
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by matt1 17y ago
Why? It's clever and it symbolizes Google's bubbly, geeky corporate personality. If I had to decide between working at two otherwise equal companies, I'd happily choose the one that encourages this type of playfulfulness. Small things like
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PokerShark: Gaining an Edge at Online Poker(mattmazur.com)
4 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
HackerNews, this is an idea that I was seriously considering spending the next few months of nights and weekends on. I've decided not to pursue it and was hoping to hear your thoughts. Specifically: is this something you would have been int
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Ask HN: Rate this Idea: Analyze your life with the help of a GPS data logger(mattmazur.com)
2 points by matt1 17y ago|2 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
Great observation. I assume you mean because of the Screen Shot button on the bot software. I had to do that because when I tried taking screen shots of the few CAPTCHAs I saw, I wasn't able to paste it into MS Paint, so I built my own scre
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by matt1 17y ago
What I meant was that building a bot is worse because you don't realize immediately that it's a bad idea, unlike eating glass. This topic is important and deserves a long discussion--its one of the main things I want to write about in the f
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by matt1 17y ago
Somehow I never read Coding the Wheel until tonight. My initial impression is that he made some things way more complicated than they had to be and other things way simpler than they needed to be. But who knows--there's definitely more than
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by matt1 17y ago
Honestly I didn't even bother trying setting up multiple accounts. The money was a nice, but it really wasn't the primary goal. Plus, in order to maximize profits I would have had to tread in a lot of murky waters that I didn't want to be
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by matt1 17y ago
Yeah, soon. Anything specific you want to hear about?
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by matt1 17y ago
Matt you hit the nail on the head. People like to think that if you can build a winning bot you can easily run it on a dozen computers and rake in millions of dollars. In reality, the logistics of running such an operation are prohibitively
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Memoirs of a Poker Bot Developer(mattmazur.com)
84 points by matt1 17y ago|27 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
Zeo Personal Sleep Coach, from the article, FYI: http://www.myzeo.com/pages/4_what_is_zeo_.cfm $399
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by matt1 17y ago
The funny thing is that the CNBC article does much more damage to online poker than the actual prosecution. The sites are very good at finding ways to get payments to players and have managed to circumvent most attempts in the past. Online
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by matt1 17y ago
As someone who spent about 18 months building a No Limit Hold'em bot, I can safely tell you that the "bot problem" is not as big of a problem as it might seem like it would be. Not only do you have to program a winning strategy--which is ve
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by matt1 17y ago
SharkScope, which tracks the results of all the major poker sites' Sit-n-Gos--which are basically short tournaments--says about a third--33%--are winners. That doesn't include cash games, which probably has a lower win rate than 33%, but li
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by matt1 17y ago
I created a new project on Github which I use solely for the wiki. I use it to jot down ideas, take notes, etc. I've found it a great way to keep organized.

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