toffer

If you search Github for "iphone sms" or "iphone messages", you can find lots of projects that will export your iPhone messages. So, if perl isn't your preferred language, there are plenty of other choices besides jwz's script.

I wrote an export script in Python that's fairly popular (200+ stars on Github): https://github.com/toffer/iphone-sms-backup

Unfortunately, I never did get around to exporting photos and videos.

Sounds like you want MakeSpace: https://www.makespace.com/.

(Discussed on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6453732)

I found it surprising too, but your impression is wrong.

When you query the Foursquare API for a user, Foursquare returns the user's Facebook and Twitter names in their response (if the user has provided them to Foursquare):

https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/responses/user (see the "contact" field)

Once you have that, you just query Facebook and Twitter for their publicly available profile, photos, likes, tweets, etc.

Better yet, use Fluid[1] and create a single site browser for Facebook. Make sure you use the paid version of Fluid App, so you get separate cookie storage for each SSB you set up.

[1]: http://fluidapp.com

Back in February, Jim Bumgardner wrote up his experiments with gaming Foursquare:

"Eventually I amassed a huge number of mayorships, spread among multiple accounts, including the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the Lincoln Memorial, Stonehenge and the Taj Mahal"

http://www.krazydad.com/blog/2010/02/mayor-of-the-north-pole...

I only see 6 links on the front page. NewMogul had 30. 30 links on the front page is much, much more usable than 6.

I go to aggregator/news sites like this for interesting links...show me more!

This is a great article.

If anyone is interested in learning more about Andy Beal's million-dollar poker games with the best players in the world in 2001, you should check out this book: "The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King: Inside the Richest Poker Game of All Time", by Michael Craig. It's got a pretty complete profile of Beal, and tells all about the games.

You would think so, but apparently not...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=502769

I've never seen this discussed before:

Buffett thinks the Black-Scholes formula produces "absurd results" when applied to long-dated options (see page 19).

"Though historical volatility is a useful – but far from foolproof – concept in valuing short-term options, its utility diminishes rapidly as the duration of the option lengthens."

Berkshire Hathaway has sold equity put options that require payment if various stock market indexes (S&P 500, the FTSE 100, the Euro Stoxx 50, and the Nikkei 225) have gone down after 15 or 20 years from the inception of the contracts.

Buffett think that the likelihood of these indexes going down over such an extended period is extremely unlikely, due to inflation and an increase in corporate retained earnings. But, even if the indexes do decline, he has already received the option premium up front and is able to invest that money for 15-20 years, before having to pay out anything.

"Clearly, either my assumptions are crazy or the formula is inappropriate."