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Re:Ask HN: What to do with a Raspberry PI? on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:58AM (#5854343)
Apparently my new account won't let me reply to the OP, so I'll add it here.

Hackaday's RPi projects:

http://hackaday.com/tag/rpi/

Re:Google Says It Can Predict Which Films Will Be Huge Box-Office Hits on Monday June 10, 2013 @09:51AM (#5854284)
It's not hard to predict a movie's box office right before it comes out

Well, there's the Netflix prize[0] which tells otherwise

Predicting movie appreciation is actually very hard to solve. One of the infamous examples is the "Napoleon dynamite problem"[1]

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix_Prize

[1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1212542927.shtml