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If there is an RSS of /best, the answer is like 10 keystrokes away.
>FB friends are writers

It may be a good idea to turn this into a Facebook app. That way you have a user base to experiment with later, as well as, some further advertisement.
Ken Bruen writes crime fiction. When I first discovered his work years ago, each of his chapters would begin with a quote from someone else's novel (attributed). I got introduced very quickly to a lot of other great writers. Then the effing lawyers moved in. This wasn't Fair Use -- so pay us. As you see in the WSJ article, the prices demanded have no relation to reality whatsoever. Ever since that time, Bruen has used public domain quotes. I can't think of a single writer who would have objected to Bruen's use. Because writers love what he did. But when publishers, lawyers, and agents get involved, the common well of culture is drained dry by their greed.
I don't think it's contradictory, but it is perhaps mixing together two separate points, that Jobs or someone else ultimately accepts or rejects ideas and designs, and that Jobs claims these judgements are made based on the merits of the idea, not who came up with it.
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The thing that always interests me in these discussions is:

Apparently believing you can achieve through hard work increases your achievement over believing you're born good or bad.

What I'm curious about is how much this is actually true, which never seems to be addressed - articles (eg the linked one) talk about how holding one belief or another affects your success in life, but never about which is a better understanding of reality.
A woman on a webforum I used to frequent actually mentioned this--before she knew about PUA's, she would actually reliably recognize them in bars, and figure they were easy lays so she would target them.
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Check skimlinks, they can pay you via PayPal, too.
For better or for worse humor is a shaky proposition here.
No smarminess intended, but did you not use authoritative numbers to calculate those financial projections in the first place? What did you use?
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Churchhill did have a frikkin amazing ability to produce one-liners. In retrospect it was almost inhuman.
Are points of a story only a sum of direct up votes? Or does it already factor in age, number of comments, etc.?
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Can anybody confirm it's possible to join Amazon Associates outside "Amazon" countries? (US/UK/FR/DE/JP/CA)

Spent 5 minutes on Googling but didn't find the information.
>that said, the figure quoted also (presumably) includes legal fees for matters other than suing "pirates"/copyright infringers.

This seems to be correct. The numbers come from pages 8 and 9 of the linked PDF. All it says is the law firms provided "legal services". I'm sure they have many more uses for legal services than just suing pirates.

All we really know is "the RIAA recovered $391,348 from filesharers".
"I think some of the hatred is directed at that behavior."

Those would have to be really sad folks. Why should anyone hate somebody for standing in-line for days to purchase an, in my opinion, overpriced gadget.

I think more to the point is that Apple fanatics defend anything that Apple pulls off. I could come up with a multitude of examples, but my favorite is the finder bug, that when you moved a file to a different volume this may have resulted in complete loss of the file (something Unix figured out, like, 30 years ago). (http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/movebug.html)

This is a bug, bugs happen and they can (and usually are fixed). But you had a bunch of rabid Apple fanatics who poisoned just about every discussion by trying to defend something undefensible.

It's the same reason why you can't have reasonable discussions with members of a cult. What the dear leader says is THE TRUTH and everybody else is out there to get us, infiltrate us and destroy us.

I may be modded to hell and then some for this comment, but that's really how I see it and it's annoying behaviour.
Ask HN: How to generate better hypotheses?
There is a great deal of literature published online on testing, tracking, measuring, optimizing, etc. (e.g. customer development, A/B testing), but there are less resources about how to generate the hypotheses to test in the first place. The ability to generate better hypotheses naturally results in less testing and generally more efficient use of resources.

How does one improve one's hypothesis-generation abilities? I have had many ideas in the past that never survived the "customer discovery" stage, simply because whatever I came up with did not seem to strike a chord with my target customers. A/B testing is theoretically good, but it's hard to generate hypotheses about why visitors are not converting.

What is your take on this?
That isn't that unreasonable. The US spends far more on preventing counterfeiting than the total value of counterfeit money. The over-reaction is meant to act as a deterrent so that the problem doesn't become more wide spread (and in the case of currency, remove faith).
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There was a piece on this in the Washington Examiner 4 months ago, here: http://bit.ly/dmG12o. It basically noted that almost all of the fatal accidents involved elderly drivers, who, presumably, would be more likely to get confused about which pedal they were pushing:

"In the 24 cases where driver age was reported or readily inferred, the drivers included those of the ages 60, 61, 63, 66, 68, 71, 72, 72, 77, 79, 83, 85, 89—and I’m leaving out the son whose age wasn’t identified, but whose 94-year-old father died as a passenger."

"These “electronic defects” apparently discriminate against the elderly, just as the sudden acceleration of Audis and GM autos did before them. (If computers are going to discriminate against anyone, they should be picking on the young, who are more likely to take up arms against the rise of the machines and future Terminators)."
Speaking of the intrigue to keep secrets out of the hands of the Nazis, there were some truly inspired espionage that would make Bond look like an unimaginative phony.
I second this! I would gladly pay 5-10 bucks a month for a daily digest of top hacking-related articles (no business, no politics and no Apple rumours/speculations). HN used to be 80% programming and 20% business-related, now it's the opposite.
It's just the number of votes.
How do I fix my reality problem?
A recent study in my city indicates that people don't take bikes mostly because they perceive them as unsafe to ride in traffic. Or at least that's their excuse. :)
Seconding jawn's request for you to tell us more. if there's a something our community lacks, it's elders with some perspective.
If your talented there is huge demand for 60+ year old programmers. The issue is expected salary increases with age, and if your skill's don't keep up it becomes harder to find a job.

PS: My father was a 63 year old programmer the day he died, and believe me he was well paid and in high demand.
I live in Germany, and healthcare is very expensive here. True, if you are on social welfare, the government will also pay for your healthcare. But that means you have to live on social welfare standard. Also, you can't really bet on social welfare being still as high in 30 years as it is now.
Pretty amazing that sites with such high daily revenue (close to UK 7000/day, just for IE) either weren't testing their checkout process in IE or didn't ever wonder "gee why am I getting this 'insecure content' popup and how can it be fixed?".
Maybe you could provide the data as a JSON feed? Then others can do their thing without hurting the HN servers. I imagine the bandwidth to serve them would be pretty small (or maybe I underestimate the hunger for HN JSON feeds :p)

I'm sure you have better things to do with your time, but it would be cool and maybe would lead to some other cool stuff...
Perhaps "Top 10 most-commented posts" would be interesting as well?
As an outsider, I think the only value HN has is the community, which was kick-started with YCombinator.

Arc is just a fun project he worked on, and has yet to prove itself, especially now that another Lisp-dialect is taking the spotlights.
If you are one of the few people that understands the old system, you can easily be one of the people that set's up the new system, at which point your one of the few people that knows the new system. The secret is to get on board to projects trying to replace your system, and not become so over paid that they really want to replace you.
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Sorry. I forgot to add that.

On the other hand I think that material science will have the answer to this sooner or later. It will be really hard to make substances that can resist getting demagnitized due to jiggly-jiggly motions#, but maybe someone will come up with a way to make a crystal of domains that can stick together under extreme conditions.

By the way, there is another design possibility over here the piston can be the coil and casing can be a liquid cooled magnet. We could transfer the current using graphite, or something. However, I doubt that the cost vs. benefit scenario will be on our side.

Thanks for correcting me!

# Yes, that's a technical term :)

[edit: I don't know if it is out of line, but a post you wrote (http://jacquesmattheij.com/content/adhd-ritalin-and-evolutio...) nearly drove me to tears. You are an amazing father and human being. I just wanted to thank you on your son's behalf.]
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I find the lack of struct types, and the lack of unsigned integers especially frustrating.
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I don't know what you're trying to insinuate here. Maybe you suppose that I'm an awful liberal-democrat and that I therefore like Emanuel because he was appointed by Clinton and Obama? Tough luck, I'm much more of a rabid leftist than that (though it should not be displayed too much here on HN, an ultra-liberal outpost), and I despise the zionist Rahm Emanuel as much as Ridley.
If by 'here' you mean HN, you have me baffled. Since when is it a humorless place?

Thanks at least for saying something. :)
Reading your points 1-3 (4, I agree with, I think) reminds me of Keynes' "In the long run, we're all dead".

I'm not against planning for the future, but at-least for me, living as frugally as you say you are would simply be too boring/depressing/mundane/etc. given my current (or short term) salary. Perhaps I will feel the pinch of this later in my life, but I definitely want to "live in the moment" as much as I possibly can - and for me, that involves spending some money (I have no doubts that others can do so without money too).
Yes. You should be able to find all sorts of stuff. Whilst right now it mainly collects from foursquare tips and geolocated tweets it can also permanently store tweets marked #geosay on geosay.com There is also an iphone/android mobile version that kicks in if you browse using one of those devices.
PayPal is also not an option here :/ But I have a workaround for this, so I will check it out.
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I should have also said that you need to tweet from a client that posts your geo lat/lon
I think it's more of squelching distribution channels that are outside of their control. So they can build an illusion that they are the ONLY ones distributing music and continue to control the creation of content.
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In fact, to expand on the latter part of my comment, "weak typing" is generally understood as implying implicit type coercions or conversions at runtime. PHP and Javascript famously convert between numbers and strings depending on a bunch of factors (and usually the wrong way leading to unreliable results).

In that sense, Python is a very strongly typed language: from the top of my head, the only example of implicit type conversion in Python is the promotion of `int` to `long`, which has been removed from 3.x (all integer types were unified). All other conversions have to be explicit as far as I remember. That makes Python more strongly (but less statically) typed than Java (see the very strange overloading of the `+` operator when any operand is a string, as well as autoboxing since 1.5) and C# (C# allows for implicit type conversions, including in userland, and the cast operator doubles up as an explicit type conversion operator which I find terrible)
1) Very often clever quips, even if they are funny, distract from the conversation. Being overly strict about this helps keep the place from devolving into a jokefest like so many other forums.

2) Some people will vote you down for complaining about downvoting.

I sympathize with both of these rules of thumb, for what it's worth.

EDIT: For some reason the "reply" link below your post is missing for me, so I'll just clarify a bit here, more than I usually would since this is a thread about gaming social norms. ;)

Rule of thumb #2 also stands for asking for clarification about downvoting. Especially when you do it 3 times: by editing your original post, then replying to it, and then editing the reply. And especially when you seem defensive about it.

Keep in mind that if you get "downvoted into the basement", it's not just one person downvoting you, it's at least 5. You've probably violated some implicit norm. Repeatedly asking for clarification is kind of its own awkward thing in these circumstances (especially with some manners of asking).

Imagine if you make a joke in a group of friends and people obviously don't think it's funny. It's not cool to demand an explanation, like people somehow owe it to you to explain why and how you screwed up. Usually better to suck it up and move on, and try to learn from the experience.
The arc code that HN runs on has some value. It's beautifully written and is a nice way of learning Lisp.
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Given believing you can achieve through hard work increases your success it implies that being good or bad is at least partially based on hard work.
.... ok

Not complaining, simply wishing for feedback. I guess I must not make the distinction clear enough.

thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_air_car also looks interesting
I hate it when people put together charts (especially with labeled axes, clearly marked data points, etc.), and then say this:

This is an entirely theoretical chart. There is absolutely no real data behind this chart. That said, it does reflect our experience investing in about thirty "web 2.0" companies over the past seven years.
1. Facebook
2. Google Wave
3. Google Docs
4. And a bunch of other webapps I'm forgetting ...

Try out Wave on an older version of Firefox (say, 3.0 or even something from the 2.x branch if you're adventurous). It totally destroys the browser.
A lot of the memes on the web are short-lived, however there's nothing about memes that makes them inherently short-lived. Some memes live extremely long.
And have your twitter account settings set to "Add location to my tweets". See http://twitter.com/settings/account
I discovered a café near me that apparently does really good "smoked salmon and cream chess bagels". I would love that to be true.
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Maybe all that women want is someone they can talk to as human beings and be with?

No, that isn't true either.

It might be true for me, but it isn't true for someone else. The problem with such generalizations is something rather simple; nature is not absolute. This works if women are absolute beings who care about nothing more than finding a secure man to breed with. There are women like that and there are men like that too, but it isn't a hard and fast rule.

Gender is in fact a spectrum and the idea of women you have in mind for whom such stuff works is only a portion of the total population. There are so many beautiful women and hawt men out there who want more to life than mindless pickups and sex.

Where do evolutionary generalizations come into over here? Think of it this way; you are beating billions of years of evolution every time you use a condom.

Yes, male and female brains are different, but there are fundamental differences within those sets as well (I am living breathing proof of this). So, maybe just maybe such things don't work in the longer term. As it assumes that both parties are in the "game" for something or the other.

What happens when you mature and you realize that you want more?

If you treat most women as objects of desire sooner or later your relationship will crash and burn. After all s/he is nothing more than a fancy toy for you. Emotions have to be felt not reasoned with.

I think that the most important discovery any of us can ever make is that; love is not a noun but a verb. It is something you have to work for. It simply doesn't "just happen". It takes years of emotional intimacy and mutual respect to have a relationship that can be classified as "true-love", and perhaps that is something worth the while in the longer run...

[edit: forgot grammar and spell check]
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It looks like we built something that needs people to click everywhere else apart from our app!!
This doesn't really solve the problem though. There's still to much information to manage it.

I wonder if any social-links-sites (hacker news, reddit etc.) have tried with an algorithm similar to that which last.fm uses, where you get suggestions on stories based on which previous stories you have shown preference for? (I'm sure this sort of ranking has some fancy name as well)

If not - Why?
Keep in mind that, as they have malpractice insurance, you are in effect in part suing an insurance company. It's a long, expensive slog.
Unfortunately that's not MS-specific. The revered Google used to have the same no-go warning for users of Adwords with Opera.
I tried it again just now, the warning is gone, but the Adwords interface doesn't load properly (more specifically the dashboard loads, however campaign editor and "Opportunities", whatever that is, don't).

I can't imagine how this is not deliberate.
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Betting on deflation as the path to riches seems to be hardly a prudent strategy, let alone one to bet your retirement on. Yes I 'could' get a great return on investment if I buy that painting in the garage sale of my neighbor and it turns out to be a Monet, that doesn't make it a wise investment.
aka Absurdism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
If you look at most people of the 'seduction' community, they usually have something in their history that stunted their sexual-social development and basically need instruction/a support group/whatever to help overcome it. Usually people who grew up in religious households, or families that didn't let them out of the house much at all or let them socialize, go out or offer much anything in terms of privacy. Or they imposed it on themselves by being geeks and only socializing really with male friends. Or they developed various phobias or incorrect ideas from adults, caregivers and personal heros (Sexual harassment phobia, taking radical 2nd/3rd wave feminists seriously, etc). It could be more subtle reasons or other things.

Because they're nerds, men, usually young and are dealing with sexual problems the machismo goes to 11 and they do various socially stupid things. And most of the people who started these courses are not the most healthy of people.
Not to mention the majority of light aircraft engines made in the last 40 years.
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Actually in case of transistors, it is better to understand how they really work on physics level, because many abstract models of transistor do not make sense.
Actually, I think the depreciation point is one of the better points. Yeah, sometimes clean up is necessary, but when a language is a moving target like that, it raises serious concerns about portability and long term maintenance.
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>>>And if you are not creating, then you are not being a producer, you are being a consumer.

Creating from what? What well of knowledge do you have to dip into if your mind hasn't been stocked by reading first? And if all you do is read for a goal, then you are cheating yourself.
It is pretty interesting to read what people have to say about their apartment buildings (mine, and those around me) - I live in Manhattan.
No mention that Strauss' girl who he fell for and stopped 'playing' then later left him? How odd.
I am not trying to preach anyone, nor to force anyone to live according to the rules that make sense to me. I will never cease to see any relationship between humans, personal or professional, as a power game. Even if a couple has a deep emotional connection, the one who feels less intensely will have power over the other and be able to dictate the rules. It's the way it is.

"I would rather not date stupid and irrational women. I prefer women whom I actually like paying attention to. Especially for a lifetime commitment!"

I would rather not date stupid / irrational women, either! But the only women I know who are rational, smart, interesting to talk to are in their mid-30s and looking for a husband and father to their future children. Since I have some scruples left, I don't date women who want a family man, because I can't offer what they're looking for.

In any case, I challenge you to find a rational, smart 25 year old woman. You know what they say: you can only understand life looking backwards, but you can only live life looking forwards. You can't have youth and wisdom simultaneously. Pick something in between. It's a delicate tradeoff.
Google still says Safari 5 is not supported, I should upgrade. Apparently Safari 4 is better. Ugh.
I think it is super interesting because I doubt those buildings would end up on foursquare. We want this to become a place for local information that doesn't have to be bar or restaurant focussed.
I think it would be appropriate to rank objective(ish) information about a topic higher than extreme opinions about the topic.
Good, I wholeheartedly recommend the RIAA to continue on this obviously profitable path.
Of course this could be read another way: How Google's poorly thought out Analytics code cost a company $500k/year.

Whenever you plug somebody else's code into your site, you're taking a risk. Try browsing the web with your browser set to pop up warnings on every javascript error, and you'll see how bad most of the scripts people plug into their site really are.
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