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alexroanon Show HN: Web scraping page analyzer

Love this.

alexroanon We’ve Raised $60M in New Funding

Should've just set up a Patreon page for Patreon.

alexroanon Windows 93 (2014)

I'm sure I'm not the only one who created a load of recursive virtual PC's inside one another. PCeption.

alexroanon Show HN: Euro 2016 predictions using Bayesian inference

Great base for future development of the idea.

Some things to take into account though:

- Friendly games are sometimes about fitness rather than winning at all costs

- Weather greatly effects results. For example, in heavy rain and high wind, the likelihood of the game yielding more than 2.5 goals reduces massively.

- How does the algorithm take into account substitutions?

- If a team in the group has already won 2 games, they may have already won. In that case they may rest many players or try new tactics

- Not all leagues (and levels of those leagues) are taken into account

Very much looking forward to seeing where this goes!

alexroanon Show HN: Euro 2016 predictions using Bayesian inference

It may be worth taking competitive matches into account over friendly matches, as the purpose of competitive matches is to win at all cost. Friendly matches, on the other hand, tend to be used primarily for match fitness (especially leading up to tournaments), and for trialling new tactics before the competitive games begin.

alexroanon Sorting algorithms visualizer

So damn cool

alexroanon Coding without Google

I felt like I was doing a degree in google-ing at one stage, but I don't believe the speed and complexity of development nowadays could be matched by the pre-broadband days. Communities can be brought together on sites like Stackoverflow and people who aren't experts in certain fields can just google it, and implement something in minutes that would take much much longer to find, then learn, pre-google.

alexroanon A Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon and Worst Nightmare

One of the most interesting reads I've found on HN in the last few days. Felt like reading a crime thriller novel.

alexroanon Show HN: Speech Coaching App – Stop Saying 'Umm', 'Like', 'Uhh'

Completely agree. He's not helped by the fact that his audience cheer every 20 seconds. Luckily his products do most of the talking for him.

alexroanon RoboBrowser: Your friendly neighborhood web scraper

From what I can tell only recently starting to uzse Scrapy is that alot more "magic", shall we say, happens in the background so long procedures which could be a few hundred lines using bs4/requests/mechanize/etc can be minimized into a lot less. Looking at Robobrowser, it seems like it will reduce some of the coding effort but not to the extent that Scrapy does.