skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps 8% is a reasonable number to not lose your digits. Unfortunately, the customer isn't going to be able to decide (unless they buy SawStop's own) until Delta et al. license. and/or significant public pressure is brought (e.g. someone famous losing their fingers woodworking)

Another reason why companies like Delta et al. are resistant to the innovation is the imminent threat of tens of millions of damages in retroactive lawsuits (e.g. by licensing this technology now - it is tantamount to admission that they were negligent in not providing it earlier [at least in the years since SawStop was announced to the industry].

720k * 40% * (2009 - 2003) is a lot of potential class-action litigants. 2003 is the year when Stephen Gass stepped up his negotiations by approaching the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission about a federal mandate.

"Woodworking equipment produces approximately 720,000 injuries per year often causing severe psychologic and functional impairment. Responses from 1000 injured woodworkers to a demographic survey revealed that 60.5% of injuries occurred to amateur woodworkers; 42% of injuries were caused by the table saw and 37% of respondents reported amputation of one or more digits. The most significant causal factor reported was failure to use properly installed guards, but personal factors, such as fatigue and postprandial somnolence were also implicated. Twenty-seven percent of respondents required hospitalization for an average of 3.7 days, and 22.8% were treated by hand surgeons."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3498745
A Heretic's Toolkit - How to communicate dangerous ideas
Some people just down-vote anything they disagree with despite any merits the comment may have.
He is talking about a group of people who have less than average contact with other people. Some, hard core Libertarians seem to want the government to have a military. Everything after that point is debatable. Some think public roads are a bad idea, others are fine with public police forces etc.

As a movement it has some good ideas, but there is also a huge collection of irrational people that are pro Libertarian and have little understanding of human behavior. For example we removed most monopolies because they where a bad idea keeping a few that are more effective than breaking them up so many people seem to ignore the idea that monopolies are bad. In theory there might be little problem with monopolies until you start to consider how people behave.

PS: The articles of faith that underlie the standard Libertarian predictions of how the world will work under their system are largely derived from the capitalist myth, and share all its imbalances in how it understands and defines human nature. It is my belief that as long as Libertarian philosophy ties itself so closely to idealizing capitalism, or makes itself too absolutist in any other way, an attempt to get people to live by purely Libertarian principles will find itself fighting against aspects of human nature that it doesn't want to acknowledge, and if it doesn't compromise it will fail because it tries to make people only half human.
Why do people feel the need to continue voting down a comment like this that is below 0? Clearly mikeyur made a mistake (HN could very easily prevent these types of mistakes). Voting it down to 0 seems sufficient.
I don't understand what your story has to do with someone expressing their opinion about the legality of spitting. In fact, it's a little dismaying that such a profoundly inane thread could be echoing into other stories on HN. But then, I'm spending too much time here this morning.
How we reduced chargebacks by 30% (as a percentage of sales)
Not directly. Occasionally, after a couple down votes and a rebuttal, I'll restate my point in a clearer, less confrontational way.
I consulted for a startup that transcribed medical records and enabled insurance companies to search and filter them to find fraud, malpractice, whatever.

Apparently changing the workflow in a big insurance company isn't like steering a big ship, it's like steering an island.
There are fresh fighting-words arrest-reports, here: http://news.google.com/news?q=%22fighting+words%22+arrested
Thanks NonEUCitizen, much appreciated and it's free!
I was asking this at my doctors office yesterday. I'm sure the arcane situation is due to the required confidentiality needed with patient data. Average people (secretaries, receptionist) can not be trusted to keep digital data secure, given the cleverness of social engineering. Moreover, public perception of data insecurity is well established. So, you would need a very secure system and to convince the public.
Stimulus Update: $0.9T and counting.
...a profoundly inane thread...

Precisely! That, and the pattern of votes "-13, 40, -9, 10, -8" seems indicative of digg/reddit-like group-think.
...provided yours is better than your existing competitors.
My understanding was that the second-system effect refers specifically to a junior programmer's second project, not the second iteration of any given project.

In any case, the solution proposed was not to avoid ever designing a second system, but to be mindful of this danger while doing so.

(Not that I'll follow this advice either. Deliberately forcing myself to solve the same problem the same way more than once would drive me nuts.)
Spitting to me is pretty violent behavior, and while Michael suggests that it's borderline with something "far more violent" I personally can't imagine what could be worse. I'll take a good punch attempt over a spit any day.

"Before TechCrunch I assumed most people were essentially good, and assumed that an individual was trustworthy until proven otherwise. Today, its exactly the opposite."

I think any history buff would disagree with this assumption. People tend to be "essentially good" when there are plenty of resources and nothing to fight about. Numerous societies collapsed and some even resorted to cannibalism when resources became scarce.

Also I don't really get people who hate Arrington or love Angelina Jolie or want to kick Brad Pitt's ass. They don't know these people personally, they only can see an artificially engineered media-projection of them. Arrington didn't cover our startup, but hey - we haven't done anything for him either so I never felt bad about it. However, I had a chance to chat with the guy once and even though he looked tired and overwhelmed with attention, he still managed to give me a few very useful suggestions, far better than an average "wow that's nice" doublespeak you'd hear from people who aren't interested but just trying to be polite.
You want someone to click through 25 pages and copy the names of each company for you?

I doubt most people here won't make past 5 before closing the tab.

Edit: First 5 were either law firms, hospitals or energy companies.
In Soviet Union, WRITING affects your karma!
Generally Arrington hasn't been respected by the journalists I've met. He covers companies and fields he has a direct financial interest in, he's OK with posting rumor and innuendo, and he can be sensationalist. The first one is a big problem, the others are mostly style things. Faking photos like http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/01/27/cal-to-offer-course-in-... is totally uncool.

(I'm not speaking here about my coworkers, or my employer, or my employer's content-sharing agreement with TC.)
Third US gov't worker pleads guilty to passport snooping
If the parent poster is correct to point out some flaws in the original article, what makes you think I am not correct when I point out some flaws in the parent poster's comment?

However, I do agree with you that words and ideologies have meaning at some point. I just think that the supposed meaning often differs; usually even for those who have subscribed to a certain ideology.

Taking about ideologies: Try to read the original article with open eyes. Some of his points do not just apply to the Libertartian position, in particular, but to ideologies, in general. Even if he misunderstand or over-emphasized some details -- how can his general arguments be wrong? You would have to argue that Libertarism is not an ideology or dogmatic point of view to counter them.

Additionally, even some of his concrete points seem logical: For instance, do you have the freedom to travel when all land is privately owned? Doesn't look like much freedom to me.

If you now argue that this is not the Libertarian position, then please take the time and explain what the Libertarian position is. How much land should be owned by the public, represented by the government? What is the Libertarian position on the commons? Who is going to defend the commons against greed and private interests according to the Libertarian ideology?
Mark forgot to mention a "Full disclosure" he founded HDnet, which is a HD television network.

I call FUD. Mark's argument is that point to multi-point streaming of live video events isn't feasible technologically because of bandwidth limitations. His argument is a straw man.

There are problems with point to multipoint video streaming. That doesn't kill internet video. Fewer and fewer people are watching live events as they happen. Many people want the content, but they want to watch it asynchronously, not live. People are increasingly recording the shows that they want to watch on DVR and then watching them whenever they want. Internet video is all about watching content whenever you want to, not about watching the content live. That's where Mark is wrong.

Who here watched the inauguration live? I watched it on Hulu 1 hour after it happened. Much more convenient than trying to remember to hit the DVR record button.

The boon that YouTube and internet video has been for content creators is that they can get any distribution at all. Before YouTube and video streaming, if you had video content and you wanted to distribute it, you could either try to get a TV station to pick it up, sell it to a movie studio, or market it directly yourself via direct sales.

It's actually _possible_ now for a content creator to distribute their video on YouTube and get it seen by one million people. That's the promise of internet video, not that one million people are going to watch your content all at once.

And, it's that sort of distribution is making a lot more cottage video industries possible like Peepcode: http://peepcode.com/ Where a couple of guys can make a living selling educational video streamcasts. That would never have happened 5 years ago.
It's going to be interesting to see what's the next step when the stimulus doesn't work -- which I doubt it will.
Unfuddle gets a speed boost from Amazon EC2
Slight tangent: For some reason, it seems like everyone I know who has worked from home ends up making Maury part of their schedule. What is it with geeks and baby daddy drama?

For whatever it's worth, my working from home schedule was almost exactly the same as yours - Maury included.

I also feel like I am far more productive when working from home. Partially due to the lack of interruptions as well as the fact that my home office has been built specifically for the the exercise of writing software.
Team Forming - Seeking Suitable Enthusiasts
A Low-Tech Treatment for Bee Plague
How do you vote down? Or does that require enough karma? I only see the vote up arrow.
Stimulus Update 2: Whats inside.
B2B Thought Leadership
JSXGraph - javascript library for interactive geometry, function plotting and graphs
This links directly to a video. Can you put [video] or something in the headline next time?
I really don't care about karma. Recently I suggested to regulate market capitalization of companies so that more opportunities are created for start-ups.

I know HN won't like it. But still I expressed my opinion.
Thank you for the indepth response. An Introduction to Database Systems is quite pricey though but if it does the job...
I don't think that's necessarily right.

Anyone motivated enough to take an "extreme" action against someone else (eg spitting on them) could be argued that they are not necessarily in a right frame of mind and more or less going to do it regardless of circumstances.

Exhibit A - the guy who threw shoes at then President Bush.. there were secret service all over that place.

Without knowing who did it, or for what reason, I'd be fairly confident in betting that at no point did Michael's size come into the equation.
I had the same reaction as you. And to add to what you wrote, I interpreted it as, "I disagree with you and don't like what you write about, so you must be an asshole, and my only problem with what happened is that it was a bit over the top."

I might be in the minority on this, but I was unhappy with the whole discussion from the past about banning/censoring Valleywag and Techcrunch. Though the arguments against Valleywag had slightly more merit, the whole thing smacked of intolerance toward people and ideas we disagree with, which see its logical culmination in acts like this spitting incident.

Makes me think John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" should be required reading here.
IPhoto's Faces Recognizes Cats
easy VC money

i expect you've never tried to raise vc?
The Canary At The New York Times Grows Larger As Internet Advertising Keeps Dropping
To Buy or Not to Buy: The Origins of Good Taste
Backup_fu for rails apps with zip and password encryption support
backup_fu is know as a convinient method to backup databases and static files for rails application. I forked it today and added zip support and passwort encryption for zip archives.
Cox to test new way to handle Internet congestion
"HN is filled with Bipolar people." -- No. You cannot upvote a comment you previously downvoted. HN is filled with people that maintain a variety of opinions.
The original video of Steve Gass sticking his own finger into the table-saw: http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/325071/6bb3c29d/time_warp_ci...

(the one on CH is of a hotdog... this one is of a real, live human digit!!!)
Arrington is a pathological narssicist.

I'm not remotely surprised that he's pissed off other crazy people enough for them to get retaliatory.
Typo, sorry. I meant, just because a design is a scientific paper, that doesn't make it a good or simple one.
Weberlities Have Feelings Too
Just like changing your top bar color, it is a reward when your karma goes up.
He's just a journalist, dude, doing what journalists do.
I do think of karma when I post. It helps me keep my comments helpful and not negative, and forces me to think a little more about each comment then I would at a site with no karma system. The sense of community/group of peers plays a part as well.
Apple vs. Palm: the in-depth analysis
While this sounds very interesting, it only makes sense on a regional level. On a national level, a tax on savings and deposit accounts could very well to the same at a lower cost. The logistics of doing scrips nationwide would be very complex.

The article also omits the fact that the value of a scrip would change as it gets closer to its expiry date. Simply put, you wouldn't want to accept scrip that expires tomorrow as payment. This would call for some funky mathematics at the checkout counter.
Not me, karma affects nothing, even if you get downvoted -1000 so what? It won't change anything.

If you are worried about karma so much you have a few options.

A) diversify: post more, that way if you "screw up" and say something people won't like, it'll be made up with points from your other comments.

B) deletion: monitor your comments, if you suddenly see that its at 0, quickly delete it. Because it really is a bandwagon, and people will downvote a comment just because it has been downvoted before.
Q&A With Drop.io Developer Jake Good
No. Or I'm trying to convince me that it's not.

But at the end, I think that's the main reason why I have few friends.
Most people aren't interested in real discussions, they get upset if you
argue against their view. They take it to personally, they aren't
interested in new views, they just want to get their views confirmed.

If you play the game you're inside the group, otherwise you're an
outsider.
A bunch of existing social-networking sites already let groups form, split, and die off as necessary. LiveJournal, Yahoo Groups, FaceBook & MySpace (people really just talk to their friends on FaceBook, it's not one monolithic community), Ning, and Reddit now that they have user-created subreddits. Come to think of it, that includes just about every really successful site. Being able to fragment the community seems like a prerequisite to having a scalable social networking site.
You're right about GoDaddy doing domains well, and not much else. Their hosting is the worst. However, other simple services like domains, for example: SSL certs are also done well.
But pointing out these effects shows that certain "rewards" are provided for achieving certain levels of karma.
Isn't it reasonable to guess that providing rewards was instituted at HN with the hope to encourage people to think about karma?
[ and even more so the reward of improving an application to YCombinator, as an above link suggested? ]
The problem is when the bully is your boss. I had this happen to me after a reorg. I did good work so he wouldn't let me move to a new group. I put up with it for 2 years. Big mistake.

Seth's advice is good but if it doesn't work, plan your departure.
UK gives £2.3B to domestic auto industry
I think you really should create a prototype and test out some of these ideas. You know Rails; you don't need a super technical genius to test whether this'll be somewhat useful for people. And you'll find out a lot more than you would by simply thinking about the problem.

If your prototype is interesting, you'll probably have no trouble finding talented technical people to help you. If it isn't, you've got more information to redesign it. Right now, it's really difficult to communicate just what you're getting at. Don't tell us, show us.
I’m a Venture Optimist
Google underpays because they have a 'cult' following similar to Apple which allows them to recruit not based on pay, but on their credibility as a cool-smart company, and other non financial perks.
> Housecats weren't designed, they were evolved. That's a big difference.

What properties of a design do you think are determined by the design process as opposed to its outcome?

> whereas the ranking algorithm's goal is to match text to relevant pages, which requires solving far fewer problems than a living creature

While "relevance" is the commonly used term, "utility" or "value" would be more accurate. And they're far more complicated than you seem to think.

There is no "best" search result for a given query. There's not even a best result for a given person. Add in their context, and you're getting close, but there are still other factors that are relevant to determining "best".
I don't think it really matters - I try to contribute to the great little community here, provide whatever insight, argument or counter-argument that I can.

The only times I've put in a "I know I'm going to get downmodded for this" are when I'm commenting that serves no purpose other than my own personal amusement. In all honesty, I'm expecting it :)
That's not what "eating your own dog food" means. It means using your product to do your own work. As in: if Gass were a woodworker and used the saw on his own projects, he'd get better ideas about saw design.

I like the saw story too, but its applicability to software projects is...? Here's the moral of the story offered by Atwood:

Nothing exudes confidence like software developers who are willing to stick their own extremities into the spinning blades of software they've written.

That's inane even by his standards.
the US government will never allow the US dollar to be displaced as the only paper currency, it would undermine their power over the public. even presidents cannot undermine the dollar...kennedy attempted to circulate "US Notes" instead of "Federal Reserve Notes", and he also failed. the government will respond to alternative currencies with violent force.
It makes me _more_ happy :-)

Rather them than me.
I've caught myself thinking of time in complexity classes.

Eg. should I walk or drive? It doesn't matter, they're both O(n).
aka. pre-sales: Engineers whose main responsibility is complementing sales people in demos, POCs, presentations and other technical aspects of sales.

Common in the enterprise software world.
I know Arrington, and he's much nicer than you sound. Can you give an example where he's said anything even half as nasty about anyone as you've just said about him?

From the way you describe your beef with him, it sounds as if you're making up a personality for him-- that you're projecting onto him your bitterness about "Web 2.0 greed culture." You're wrong about that too, incidentally.
I'm not that wise. Sometimes when I have a good idea can't help fantasizing about receiving awards. Lately I've seen myself teaching young people about my accomplishments. Knowing this is completely ridiculous is not enough to stop it. So maybe I should try meditation.

I was about to ask if anyone knew how to find a meditation class, but then I googled it myself:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2222761_meditation-teacher.html
I agree, but I actually liked this campaign.

The only thing I would point out is that adults do this texting shit too.
It would be interesting to see if comment karma scores changed by hiding the score from your view before you upvoted someone. That would eliminate "groupthink" because you would not know how many other people voted for a comment until after you upvoted (or waived your right to upvote).
They work with the Sales team to give technical support and advice to potential customers before they buy a product. It's not a fun job IMHO unless you are technical and like to travel a lot.
Ask YC: Meditation Advice
I am getting a lot of stress lately and have trouble focusing, so I'm looking to start meditating to help my case. I failed to find something useful on searchyc.com. My only experience with this are the 5-minute meditations a professor made us do in class. I am basically failing to see the difference between meditation and sitting on the couch and watching empty space for a couple of minutes.

So, what is the hacker way to meditation? Do you have any tips as to how to approach it? Thanks!
Craig Newmark reminds me a little of Markus Frind. Each comes across as not being interested in building their business beyond their huge initial success. However un-motivated they appear to be, change happens and they still manage to change the online world by simply not doing things that most people think they should be doing (like this joker)
Poor sleep habits.
Running Python in a linux browser with moonlight
James Penrice "A New Dad's Guide to Playing God".
> the usually-excellent reliability and stability that Google usually offers

This is most of why I put aside my reservations and used them as a registrar intermediate. I am quite sure I said to myself, "well, you can trust Google".

My domain expires in March. Bad news for me. Bad news for Google too. I can't trust them implicitly any more. I'm sure anyone else who is in the crosshairs on this issue feels the same.
A Plea For Corporations to Expose Public APIs
I think it had something to do with the paperwork specific to their trade.
Agreed, there's nothing lucky about the success of Craigslist. It's amazing they've been able to be online and out compete for over a dozen years now.
Selfless plug: try LocalDataPlace, which we built as a replacement for freecycle's local recycling (http://free.LocalDataPlace.com ). We expanded it to include generic classified (http://www.LocalDataPlace.com ).

As has been discussed recently, there's a traction issue with launching a nationwide user content site. We certainly suffer from that.

We can also make private label versions of the site if anyone wants to add classifieds to their sites.

Lena Boucher
lena@LocalDataPlace.com
try biofeedback... with meditation type exercises... search for WildDivine I think...

I found it helpful..
When Bullet Points Go Terribly Wrong: How Not to Write a Tech Job Listing