skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What basis are you using for saying this is StatArb? Typically that involve hundreds or thousands of equities where you can use the laws of large numbers to your advantage. Buying one item that is below the average price of something and "hoping" you can sell it for more just doesn't strike me as any type of real arbitrage.
One of the things I've noticed from my earliest days on the net is the degree that folks seem willing to be humbled and belittled by what they think of as celebrity. Geesh, I remember some YC application deadlines that the sucking up got so bad I was afraid I might get pulled into the screen of my laptop.

Ferriss seems to be capitalizing on this. He's the guy that had the new book over on Amazon with something like a thousand positive reviews. A thousand! Something has gone wrong somewhere.

This was a great review. I am reminded of the beer commercial with "with most interesting man in the world". Sounds like Ferriss could have been a model for this idea.

Obligatory link for those outside the states who haven't seen "The most interesting man in the world" beer commercials and don't know what I am talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bc0WjTT0Ps
getting a nice body - looking beautiful - is probably one of the most valuable benefits you could offer to someone. rule of marketing - human drives. 4HB appeals to drive to bond, drive to defend, drive to acquire.
Great video, but wasn't it fiendishly expensive to make? I assume that means Airbnb is doing well?
Hi Brian, I met you when you stayed with my cousin Caitlin (using your own service!) in Denver back during the Democratic National Convention in 2008. It is really cool to see how much your company has grown since that time. Congrats! - Jason
4HB reads like a hacker's book, and that's why I loved it.

Conventional wisdom says you kill yourself at the gym to bulk up. But a muscle isn't strengthened by fatigue -- it's strengthened by the body's response to that fatigue. So shouldn't your goal be triggering the response?

That makes for an exciting read. The book is full of it -- tracking down the extraordinarily successful in a given field, taking their advice himself, and sharing the results.
"Unlike in the late 1990s, shares of today's Web sensations are privately held and not available to the general public. But a growing secondary market has developed in which investors meeting certain criteria, such as minimum net worth, can buy and sell shares."

They left out a couple words. They meant "a growing thinly-traded, easily-manipulated secondary market ..."
Looking at some mailserver spam filtering log.... spam levels have dramatically dropped, but they also dramatically rose before that. At this point what I'm looking at is only slightly lower than things were in early december.
Most people won't think of this when deciding whether to use your service.

For me, I hardly send faxes. When I do need to, I email them to my assistant who faxes it for me. Takes me minutes and she has a fax.
It might be fun to send the automated phone call to a public phone booth (if any still exist).
Is there a way to have applications disabled by default? I already know this trick, but I hate having to go through it every time I install something.
JQuery Mobile PHP MVC Framework (download and demo)
Monocle: design notes for an exceptional magazine
(yahoo_answers || answers_dot_com) + follow == fail
I guess what I was trying to say is that there's room for revenue growth, not that there's no chance they'll tank.
Why you should buy shares in BlackBerry right now
Is it just me, or does every self-appointed culture snob find the need to make the gratuitous digs on Dan Brown's work? The man's an amazing storyteller.
Tags? Just a fad.
Same here. It shouldn't come as a surprise, it's a problem most of us have faced from both sides, and it's a problem that has a direct monetization path. Finally, recruiting is something only a small % of technical people are really good at, so it makes sense to let them sell their comparative advantage.
Sometimes a confirmation dialog will popup in a window, and I'm not sure about what conditions cause this, but it gets stuck "between" spaces so you will catch a glimpse of the dialog while switching spaces, but it vanishes once the desktop-changing animation finishes. This is often a blocking dialog, so the app becomes unusable (from memory it's happened with Safari and Dreamweaver). The solution is to stick the mouse cursor in the middle of the screen, switch to the space the dialog should be on and click madly to make sure the dialog gains focus, then do the switch again but hit space or enter to take whatever the default option is in the dialog.

The second, less severe issue is that it will yank you between desktops 3 or 4 times for unclear reasons. It's sort of as if someone else is controlling the desktop switching and they just want to annoy the crap out of you.

FWIW, I used Desktop Linux/BSD for ~8 years before going to OSX, so maybe I have just been spoiled by a very old (eg, well debugged) virtual desktop implementation in X11.
Vimlander-2-The-Quickening
Sorry, newbie mistake! I was (and am) a host before working at airbnb so sometimes the two worlds collide. Just excited about the video and my first comment on HN. Thanks for watching!
To be honest, I think this is the reason Google doesn't have this feature. The sites everyone wants to blacklist are the spammers that game Google search and show Google ads. If they don't get traffic, they don't show ads. If they don't show ads, Google doesn't get that money either.

It's to Google's benefit that people end up on these pages, see a ton of ads, and then click on one out of confusion or desperation.
Plus--as far as the "four hour" promise goes--the desire not to work very hard or very long for it.
Interesting that the goldman clients have to agree to not sell their shares until 2013, so once they finally know the full financials they'll still be prohibited from selling for almost a year.
I think it actively works AGAINST you in a technical business to try to / assume your employees are drinking your koolaid... Technical Koolaid still tastes vaguely like bullshit, which most geeks are somewhat opposed to.
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Nobody here proposed using that as a tactic.
The British view of America?
There are tons of different startups. I feel like you're talking about extremely early stage startups, or startups started by college students themselves.

A startup founded by seasoned founders that's been alive a year or so is actually quite a good learning environment for a recent college grad. They will have good coding process in place, good communication, etc.
Well, the part of the media that's filled with Coca-Cola and McDonald's commercials needs to be taken down a notch, but I don't think "orthodox health techniques don't work" are an adequate explanation for why people are in bad shape. After all, not many people are good at following any kind of health technique at all.
The 2005 media coverage was all over Wakefield's attempts to pretend he wasn't in the pocket of trial lawyers fighting drug companies over the MMR vaccine. The peak hysteria over the threat of the vaccine itself was pre-Iraq war.

But I'm finding it hard to see an argument in your post against the original point that people without medical backgrounds really shouldn't be making medical judgements. Especially if they consider the views of medical professionals and the NHS less pertinent to their kid's health than knee-jerk distrust in anything government-approved provoked by entirely irrelevant military intelligence scandals...
"...outside of Ferriss' marks for this"?
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S.E.C. Questions Goldman Sachs on Facebook Offering
Thank you. I was already writing something along these lines in my head before I read this.

I'd just like to add: analyzing anything, especially social taboos, without socio-historical context is an exercise in futility.
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Word Lens Creator Profited on 2.5 Years of Work in Days
I really disagree with this.

You can be a well rounded engineer (important for working at a startup) without being a) financially stable and b) risk tolerant (important for starting a startup)
Not really a bug, but I mainly found it too slow. In linux you can just scroll over the desktop to switch. And I couldn't see how to drag windows across spaces for easy organization (without going the long way to show all spaces).
I was actually just trying to google the http://www.madebyone.com site (currently under discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2076163) and tripped across this (http://www.madeforone.com). I thought it might interest a few folks here. (I interests me, so maybe just personal bias.)
The Never Ending Tech Debate
Bacteria gobbled methane from BP spill
I'm going to let you go now. If you're feeling hostility, I suggest that the very best thing is to just walk away and forget about it. It's a title. Of a submission. To a rather ephemeral web site. There is absolutely zero emotional investment on my part. I have certain opinions about what is or isn't positive for HN the site, but at no time would I ever consider them more important than your personal enjoyment and security.
12 of the Year's Best Ideas in Interface Design
(concentric elite growth strategy || answers filtered by my friends) + email notifications == win

Quora has so many respected tech industry people using it that I want to use it. That's similar to how Facebook was first Harvard only, then Ivy League, etc. - you want to be where your perceived social betters are.

My Quora feed shows the topics that my friends are interested in. This is super valuable for finding information slightly outside what I would search for myself.

Their email notifications keep me clicking back to the site so that I stay engaged.
One has to wonder that by the time manned stealth air-superiority fighters are deployed, whether they will be operationally inferior to, and greatly outnumbered by, adversary air-superiority fighter UAVs.

What a waste of resources on behalf of pilot-dominated air forces.
Don't get this.
Our backend is already equipped to handle this and now we're starting to focus on getting manufacturer data feeds. If you have a chance, please send me an email to let me know which manufacturers you think we should prioritize (andres@octopart.com).
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Virgin Galactic now offers space trips for $200,000
Salesforce Buys Web Conferencing Platform DimDim For $31 Million In Cash
Google Domain Blocker: (userscript/greasemonkey), for those interested.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/33156

You can also sync them for Firefox across multiple machines using Dropbox, as the preferences are stored in your profile (IIRC, in a javascript file).
Ask HN: Experience with bundling laptops w/ startup app?
I've got a complete management system web-app (with a 2-year contract) I'm selling to a particular small business niche. More often than not, these businesses don't have computers, which I believe is one factor limiting sales. I believe if I could offer hardware along with my app, more businesses would bite.

Does anyone here have experience with bundling hardware (laptops) with your product? Do any major hardware sellers work with small guys like me (Dell for example)? I haven't been able to find anything. I'd even be willing to swallow some of the laptop costs to gain a few more sales.

Any advice?
Ask HN: Space travel start-up ideas?  Crazy or obvious next step?
With Virgin Galactic taking reservations and the New Mexico 'Spaceport America' nearing completion, it seems to me that we are nearing a new era of private space travel.

What impact will private space travel have on society and how can we, as entrepreneurs, be a part of that change?
So what we are talking about is censorship. You are suggesting a non-traditional type where a government does not do the censoring, but a few people do. How many votes would it take to put a website on a blacklist? 50, 100?

Who decides if a site is spam?

So is free speech dead under your proposal?
What is I build a site that criticizes the Governor of your state. Or a federal agency. What would prevent my site from being blacklisted in your proposal? Even if I had great content (your argument is about poor quality content) my could be voted into a black hole in a few hours.
Lets think about this carefully. Is that the price we are willing to pay to get rid of EE?
Reach.
iTunes is very unlike Apple’s other apps.
StatArb has no dependency on equities. This is arbitration, Arbitration between two markets, his local craigslist market and the rest of the online market. There is no hoping, hes priced the item in one market and it is above the price of another, that is pure arbitrage.
Let's do Math!

Let's see if the $50B valuation is as outrageous as many seem to think. :)

Projecting earnings to $500m for 2010 gives them a P/E of 100.

I agree that a P/E of ~100 is high for a mature company: GOOG is ~24, YHOO is ~22, AMZN is ~75, EBAY is ~14.

Obviously Facebook isn't a mature company at the moment, though, but what their earnings would have to be to keep the $50B valuation with a P/E of 30? $1.66B

Earnings of $1.6B is a lot of money, but Yahoo had earnings of $1.4B last year, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that Facebook will be earning more than Yahoo within a couple of years.
I have to admit I did get one thing from the 4-Hour that has worked for me: It is OK to email the CEO or other high person of a company. I was surprised at how quickly I would get responses (although generally short ones) from CEOs of billion-dollar, global companies.
It's not that reason and logic don't matter. Reason and logic are imperfect tools, though, and engineering is a different sort of problem than deciding whether a friend should live or die. Honestly, hope for the future is often an irrational idea. It can be difficult to defend - especially against someone who is bright - but it is essential.

I don't believe that suicide is always wrong. I do believe that the lives we value should not be given up easily, and that we should not be easily swayed by the death wish words of the departed who we so dearly miss, mourn, and respect.
The victim of a scam is often known as a mark[1]. It seems to me that jonhendry was implying that Ferriss is a con artist, using his book to defraud people of their money, by making them pay for something which is worth far less than they think. I am, however, not familiar enough with Ferriss or his books to pass such judgement myself; I'm just interpreting.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidence_trick
I've noticed that a substantial proportion of "Ideas Guy"s are also really quite ignorant of how hard building is, often to the point where they decide (and tell everyone) that they are the heros of the day... After all, they thought of a multi-user real time GUI driven DNA editor and donut maker, you just built, tested, programmed, mixed and maintained the thing.
I've sort-of replied to this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2077931

Basically, I think there expectations aren't as unreasonable as the large numbers seem to imply.
Ask HN: Charge for service or wait?
I'm creating an idea similar to ServiceMagic.com, and those whole mortgage sites who make you submit your credit history and you get provided rates from several different banks. So basically a user comes in submits their quote, and a relevant vendor(developer/manufacturer) gets the RFQ and gives them a price.

Basically after they get quoted and select the vendor to make their product, they are going to be dealing with the vendor directly after that point.

So I run into the issue of how to get that customer to come back to get more quotes instead of sticking with that vendor. Kind of like how sidestep, kayak or those sites keep customers coming back to their site even after someone buys a flight from southwest or something.

Also I run into the issue of how to profit of these vendors.

Should I charge them a percentage of the quote price, but how can I insure that I get paid?

Should I charge a lead fee to quote the customer, or some variation of that?

Or should I initially leave it free, because it is a new service, and I have to attract both sides.

Any input will be appreciated!!
>Any sufficiently intelligent and reasonable person wouldn't be questioning the established medical fact that vaccines provide an overwhelming net benefit.

The problem with your position is that people still die from taking medication. Low statistical significance of harm doesn't matter to you if you're one of the statistically few that ends up harmed.

Statistics are valid over populations. Yes, if one looks simply at the greater good then vaccination to prevent epidemic is a good idea. However imagine a scenario where everyone else is vaccinated but you aren't - you're not exposed to the pathogen as the disease doesn't spread nor exposed to the risk of the vaccine, you win. This is of course not a scalable response.

Disease control requires those involved to consider the population and not the individual it would be beneficial to this end to pretend the vaccine is perfect and incapable of harm, this produces the best results for the whole population.

Looking further, you rightly say "vaccines" provide a net benefit. Of course one is being vaccinated with a particular vaccine which, by the nature of vaccines may not have been tested beyond cursory short term tests. We can't wait 5 years for the results of double blind experiments on a vaccine when it's been rushed in to mass production to match a particular strain of pathogen. Yes the variations may be small but small variations matter.

>It's fine and dandy to play expert without a formal education in almost every situation, but in this case the lives of people, _and not just your own children_ is in play.

Driving in the snow, say, would you do it without a formal education?
That's true. Nothing to do with the human body or mind is testable with scientific rigor on an individual basis. You have no control, and you have no way to prevent placebo effect. That doesn't make it entirely worthless, however. I know my own body, and I know what it's historically capable of.

Without getting T-levels and other indicators tested at several intervals during the trials, I only have gut feelings. But, well, as with software, if it Works For Me(tm), I'm gonna keep using it.
We are really all on the same side - the concern on both sides is about centralizing power. Your concern is that we're giving government too much power, mine is that we're trading government power for corporate power, and we each see the power we grant as mitigated somehow - either by the 3 branches of government, or by the free market, and neither has faith in the other's mitigating force.

Starbucks free WiFi is an excellent point, which sheds light on the underlying philosophical debate. If an organization provides a resource (WiFi, water, a job), but only to a select group of their choosing, at what point do we call it supplying a service, and at what point do we call it discriminatory starvation? Is the glass half full, or half empty?

If there's competition, it's moot, but if there isn't any, we're giving the single supplier complete power over distribution (slippery slope to plutocracy argument). If we ban discrimination, it's also moot, but then we're giving government power to dictate rules for private organizations (slipperly slope to fascism argument).
That's pretty interesting. I wonder why this approach was never re-done with iPhone and MobileMe (Contact sync and Calendaring have big applications here). Perhaps there are important unsolved problems I'm overlooking.
Interesting, not long ago I was in search of such a site and thought about building my own. Eventually I found this site (basically the same as your site from what I can deduce), which I've found isn't great (mostly because of lack of participation though): http://www.convinceme.net/. How will you distinguish yourself?

Seems to be a good start though. I understand it's a MVP, but with the design of the site currently I don't know where my eyes are supposed to go on the debate page. What's the main focus? Where should it be?
Personally, I feel this is the Achilles' heel of an otherwise splendid website. Their NIH syndrome forces them to implement everything in C++ ( http://www.okcupid.com/faq : 200K lines of C++ ). I don't know how to be agile with a system like that, and it probably explains the rate of feature growth compared to other social networks (FB, Friendfeed, Quora)
A couple years ago I bought two copies of that book to give away as jokes because the Engrish is just that awesome. Both recipients were appropriately baffled. :)
"OKWS allows developers to program their Web applications in C++"

An application server for C++. Well, this makes it kinda interesting. Although lines like

okclnt_t *make_newclnt (ptr<ahttpcon> x);
okclnt_simple_t (ptr<ahttpcon> x, oksrvc_simple_t *o) : okclnt2_t (x, o), ok_simple (o) {}

do not look especially appealing.
My favorite line in the article is when he says that RIM has "two CEOs".

If one is good, two must be better!

I don't have any investment advice re: RIM, but I can say with confidence that we're not downloading their tablet SDK anytime soon.
Well, given I have a very limited understanding of their business model, but I would think qik being the main system for video calling on Android would have some effect on them. But again, I have every limited understanding of this so it might be off base.
This article fails to make a convincing argument for how the Playbook will fare any better than the dozens of "me too" Android tablets already on the market.

Why do enterprise customers need tablet devices? What is the advantage to a tablet device running the RIM OS versus whatever desktop operating system the company uses for the rest of their infrastructure? Is RIM going to make another aborted attempt at pushing their app store, or are they betting on a third party to pick up the slack?

Opinions are cheap- let's see some harder facts.
I agree with you, and came ere to say what you have -- however I can name a few reasons why FB users will leave/choose to be non-participants.

(Disclaimer, I do not have, nor shall I ever have a FB account)

Lets assume that in the next few years FB userbase doubles. 20% of the population of the planet has an account.

The amount of data held on those users is immense, and as such, of keen interest to the corporate oligopoly that is government -- There is a very good incentive alone to not have an account on FB.

I am sure there will be a not-insignificant number of people whose ability to get jobs/keep jobs will be inhibited by FB.

I also can imagine FB fueling interest in even more privacy as well - and groups of people with a personal desire to have absolutely ZERO information about them online will be a small but real niche in the populous.
The writer of the article was indeed very funny, but honestly anyone can be made to look like a buffoon if their words are taken out of context, and the results aren't examined.

Personally, I'd recommend to anyone interested in health and fitness at all to grab the 4 Hour Body - there's some stuff worth reading.
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Looking for quick and easy dinner ideas? Here is a great food apps roundup for iPhone and iPad.
Desktop Mac on ARM today?
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