skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like mystery novels, read Willem van de Wettering's series of police procedurals about a bunch of Amsterdam cops, and you'll come to a decidedly different conclusion.

Also, Nicholas Freeling's van der Valk series, ditto.
It isn't counter intuitive. It's just poor education that tells people the goal is to complete the standard education process, not to use your education toward some end.

I get the impression lots of people don't do self examination much for the most important questions about satisfying work and things that make you happy.
No, and this is where most people make the mistake. The winner of any auction is the last and highest bidder. Whether or not it is rational to bid more than retail is irrelevant to determining the winner of an auction. People conflate "I would never do that" with "no one would ever do that".
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You didn't understand my point. Winning is not getting the item. I define winning as paying less than it would cost at Amazon or wherever you would buy it. If you pay $20 in bids plus $50 for an item that costs $65 at Amazon, you lost $5 (even if your time is free). Yes, you "won" the auction but the real winner in economic terms is the house.

[edit: what is the point of participating in an auction for commodity goods other than to pay less than retail? I assume that people who take part in this site do it in the hope of coming out ahead, not to win an auction at any cost even if it means paying more than the item is worth. I don't see how users of this site can confuse "winning an auction" with winning in economic terms]
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And drink the soda before you've bought it?
JVM will access your "C libs" just fine, but the code written for JVM usually stays under JVM.

I am sure it's possible to go the opposite direction, but then there is "fun" of dragging this fat pig alongside your application. I.e. JVM bytecode is as useful as a swap file to CRuby, CPython, C, Haskell, OCaml and millions of other programmers. Linux would have died long ago if JVM took off. I'm glad it didn't.

Got an idea for a cool open source project? Don't bury it under 6 feet of JVM. Please.
The problem is that this article isn't very good. You'd be better served to read the piece I wrote:

http://jseliger.com/2009/05/20/spent-sex-evolution-and-consu...

and Robin Hanson's work at Overcoming Bias:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/spents-main-argument.h...

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/05/engaging-spent.html

I believe I submitted the first link to HN, but it didn't get voted up. That Time's facile article did instead is somewhat disappointing.
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puzzled

My name, as the author, is at the top. Do you know a lot of women named "Tim"? (Kake, the original author, is a woman, but I contributed that particular item. Yes, I know that's not obvious from the list, which is why I clarified.)
You are inventing absurd definitions of gambling to support your incorrect, defeated argument.

The fact that one will usually lose money with that site does not change the fact that the winner is the person willing to spend the most money.

"I would point out that they sometimes run 'special' auctions where the 'auction' price is free, and all you pay is the bid price. In that case there is 0 ability to 'win'; it's straight-up gambling."

If there is no cost of entry then it isn't a gamble, because a gamble requires you to risk money. Quit inventing definitions to support your defeated argument.

"I'm not sure what metric you would prefer, but if you feel it's dumb and not gambling, I would invite you to try it. Me? I'll be over here, not trying it. I can work the math. But feel free to let us know how it goes."

That is a red herring. Correctly pointing out the fact that it is not a gamble, does not mean that I think it is a wise use of my money. Do not use such intellectually dishonest tactics to try to change the subject from your failed argument to one that I did not address.

You are conflating the inability to control the price with the inability to control the outcome.
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So if somebody raped your mother, it would make you happier if they felt no remorse than if they said they were sorry about what they'd done?
"I define winning as"

You don't get to redefine words to support your personal opinion, and still have a valid argument.
That's actually something I noticed on the Mac. It's good at staying sleek enough that on the desktop you notice a difference.

On Windows I used Google Apps for nearly everything. The desktop equivalents weren't good enough to be worth switching to. I'd still take Google Docs over OpenOffice instantly. So my desktop argument only stands when the desktop things are so good that a web equivalent wouldn't work. I doubt I could ever find an online to-do list as good as The Hit List, for instance.
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Having spent a few years in Ann Arbor, it is almost like it is not in Michigan. But then again, Michigan has more variety by many measures than most states.
But it is how they work. Each person is able to choose their own idols. Disagreement is expected. You have aesthetic extremists who will tell you T. S. Eliot is a terrible poet, or that E. E. Cummings is modernist garbage. I personally think that Dickinson is overrated; I know a literary enthusiast who doesn't really think Shakespeare is particularly brilliant. That's all acceptable.

The idea of the liberal arts is that they're not rankable collectively. While there's an objective bad to be found, good is to some degree subjective, and each person can decide what they value. So you're allowed to value deconstructionism if you'd like, or state that meaninglessness is the point of art, and I'm allowed to disagree with you and call your work bullshit.

Where did politics come in? Are you legitimately trying to make a point, or are you just trying to blindly spew your dislike of the liberal arts? If so, tell me so I can directly address that instead of making tangential arguments.
"putting up motivational posters"

Seriously?
> If there is no cost of entry then it isn't a gamble, because a gamble requires you to risk money.

No. He said that they only charge you for the bids, and not for the item, in these special auctions. So if you bid twice and win, you pay only 2 x $0.15, whereas normally you would pay 2 x $0.15 + whatever your highest bid was (I hadn't heard about these special auctions before, it seems like people would just keep bidding forever.)
In Drew Curtis's book It's Not News, It's Fark, he talks about how more than anything, the media loves talking about media, because they understand it the most. That means any huge story almost inevitably turns into reports of "Has the media gone too far?" and "What role do we have in stories' getting out of hand?"

I see no reason why this wouldn't apply to mass-market tech blogs.
use Amazon referral program.
Just add links to items they might be interested in buying.

You will earn 4% to 10% of every purchase they make on Amazon!
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As stupid and cliche as this sounds, it's kind of right. I have this quote up, and every time I look at it, I get a boost:

"Get action. Do things; be sane, don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action."

-theodore roosevelt
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How would you make this application better? Everything from UI to basic functionality. Just a complete review, be as honest as you can please.<p>Thanks,<p>-P
I remember milk coming out my nose when I read this comment--I guess it would be four years ago now:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=147701&cid=123...
Please tell me what you like and don't like about this application AdDesk... everything from UI to basic functionality. Probably goes without saying with you guys but, be brutally honest.

Were you able to submit an advertisement? Was it hard/easy to navigate?

-P
Depends on the surface finish you want, amount of post-fabrication hand work you want to do, price, strength, size...

You could look at www.shapeways.com
Or probably also by cutting corn subsidies, but neither of those is likely to happen. Unfortunately, Iowa has quite some sway, so big corn is here to stay.
> "As to why it’s all Flash and not HTML: well, I have a saying, "Go with what you know."

The Flash throws an error on load (only visible if you have the Flash debug player installed), so even if the logic is good, the execution isn't.

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
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Not to say that this is a good reason, but the Time headline is extremely catchy.
BTW, I did find your review to be actually a review (unlike the Time piece)

EDIT: I see the anti-catchy police have changed the HN title ;)
Gambling is betting on an uncertain outcome. The uncertainty is not in whether you can the item (you can get it if you keep bidding forever). What's uncertain is whether you will get the item for less than its value. This is what makes it a gamble.

You define the outcome as winning the auction. That's dishonest. The outcome is whether you'll spend more or less than buying the item outright at retail price, which is what you are competing against.
Doesn't that contradict the rest of your statement?

Yes, it does. I shouldn't have written that. I did because I was hoping to quell any "nature vs. nurture" debates.

My argument assumes nature, then goes on to argue that those born with an advantage shouldn't be forced to suppress it due to some sort of self-defeating attempt to make children succeed.

My point (sorry, I'm rambling) is that I don't want to debate nature vs. nurture, I want to debate the idea that kids that aren't excelling in a field should be encouraged to regardless of their natural talents.
We didn't stop creating solar panels, but we didn't mandate their use either. I can't speak for anyone else on the site, but my negativity comes from feeling that in the U.S., ethanol isn't about innovation, it's about politics.

Also, I'm not satisfied with ethanol even as just a possibility. We can make harddrives the size of credit cards, but for energy, we pretty much still just burn shit.
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Is it mainly new or low karma users voting a particular way on the poll?

Also see the first time this was asked, including appropriate response from Arrington. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181539
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I say ban them both...
That definition is the only one that makes sense from an economic standpoint. If you spent $100 on an item that cost $90 on Amazon, you lost. I don't care if you won the item. The winner of the auction is not necessarily the winner in economic terms, and that's all that matters.

[edit: what makes a game of chance is the point that you win or lose money, not whether you win or lose the auction. I'm not confused, I'm just not getting distracted by the semantics of "winning the auction" vs. the real objective you are after]
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Sure. I was thinking particularly of corn and the resulting "tortilla riots" in Mexico.
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Wow so that Wolfram Alpha thing is good for something huh? :D

Still, the raw numbers don't paint an accurate picture of what the early US was like. Consider this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Franklin

Tennessee was once considered to be "the West". Gives you an idea of how settled the country was at the time, and the difficulty of crossing the Appalachians in those times.
There is a respectable startup coming out of CMU pushing a more secure version of the credit card pins. They or one of their competitors will catch on soon enough in the USA.
Thats remarkably accurate. I fell asleep during Wolverine exactly when they said it's appropriate to take a bathroom break. I didn't feel like I missed anything.
The really shady thing is how Swoopo shows the same auctions to people bidding with different currencies. Look at the front pages of these two sites:

http://www.swoopo.com/
and
http://www.swoopo.co.uk/

You probably won't see the same items I do, but I'm sure you'll note two ridiculous (dishonest?) things:

1) You'll see the same item listed for the same number of US Dollars as Pounds Sterling (e.g. I see an iPhone for $86.50 and £86.50, with the same "countdown" running). This is not outright deceptive for penny auctions because, after all, the current "bid" is just a score, not an actual value that anyone ever pays.

2) You'll see that people in the US and UK are bidding against each other on the same auction, but people in the US and UK think they're bidding on different items. For example, I see on the US site a Sony VAIO VGN-AW220J/B 18.4-Inch Laptop for $10.27 with 2:45 remaining, and on the UK site a Acer Aspire 8930G 18.4" Notebook for £10.27 with 2:45 remaining. If you click through to both auctions, you'll see the same people and bids on both - they're clearly the same auction. Presumably when someone finally bids, Swoopo buys whatever item they think they won and ships it to them.
Thanks for the comments guys, if anybody's interested in trying it I've an explanation here: http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-using
They are already in Canada, as is just about everything else in the article (rotting teeth on cigarette packs, waiters with portable credit/debit terminals). I had the sense not of USA vs. Europe but USA vs. everywhere else in the world.
GPS won't help you enter a URL from a magazine ad. QR is a nice idea, fills a niche, and since you don't need a standalone barcode reader like the CueCat anymore this might have a chance here in the USA.
You need to substitute "winning" for "being an idiot".

It is an english language problem...If you spend $90 on a $50 item, you lose because you are losing money.

We are talking about lose in the "win/lose" usage of the word.

You're not wrong, you're just confused.
Ironically, it's the stories where TechCrunch serves as the primary source that seem to cause the most problems. See: Blaine Cook, Last.fm.
Book of Ecclesiastes, nuff said.
But his example, a plumbing business, both solves a pain in the marketplace (people need their pipes fixed and plumbing installed) and is not at all innovative.
So the lottery isn't a gamble because you could win by buying all the tickets?
People who voted to ban TC had an average karma of 350 and accounts 318 days old, and people who voted against it had an average karma of 562 and accounts 367 days old.

> (let voters (map !2 ((item 625256) 'votes))
(list (round (avg (map [karma _] voters)))
(round (avg (map [days-since (uvar _ created)] voters)))))
(350 318)

16 people have so far voted both to ban TC and not to:

> (let novoters (map !2 ((item 625257) 'votes))
(len (keep [mem _ novoters] (map !2 ((item 625256) 'votes)))))
16
ErrantX, awesome feedback! Thank you for giving us your take on the FAQ, but even greater was the feedback you gave for the site. We really appreciate it. I think you have some great points.
When I think of link bait, I think of sites that go after Digg and not really Hacker News. Hacker News is an awesome resource (better than digg imho), but if you get to the top I don't think you get too many links out of it.
Yeah the wording is definitely a bit weird from someone who has never seen this before. You're not dense at all. I don't think we realized that it might be a bit too simple and not descriptive enough the way it's worded.

"then join" is a really good point too, I feel like it's telling you to signup as well, I didn't even realize that until now!

Thank you for the feedback.
Wow, just wow. The visual effect of so many dice tumbling down the spiral is totally worth the Rube Goldberg-esque design; that's something a random number generator based on thermal noise or cosmic background radiation just couldn't possibly match! :)

I want to see a probability distribution graph for this behemoth! It would be very cool (well, in a geeky-cool sort of way) to compare it with various 'strong' crypto RNGs...
Negative effects?
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Ask HN: Any tips on how to build a web community (1 million dollar question)?
i am trying to build a digg type of site but in spanish, any tips on how should I do it? or should i give it all to seo and wait?

thx
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Is there one? If so, it appears to be in a non-obvious place to me; see this screen shot on flickr for my view of the thread: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14475164@N06/3565921520/
This seems to be a mirror.

Who made it?

Interesting.
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I'm confused. Could the submitter or the creator of the site explain what the purpose of the link is? It simply looks like a reproduction of Hacker News, at a different URL.
I mistyped hacker news earlier today and discovered this, so I thought I'd submit it.
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I think you have way more chances at being successful by copying something that already exist and being a competitor, than creating something totally new and trying to persuade people that it will fix their problems.
Why?

He's correct. Given enough time, he probably can recreate any lisp program with a faster C program. A good assembly language person can do better still.

However, if we're looking at the total time to running said program 1000 or even 1 million times, he's likely to lose.

While he's recreating a given program, the lisp programmer has produced N more programs. He'll never keep up.
The article also felt a little naiive to me, but in a completely understandable way, I'm not about to expect someone to know how cigarette packets, credit cards, restaurants, touristy areas, etc. work around the world.

He probably would have been either annoyed or appalled by the anti-credit nature of Germany. In Munich, at least, non-touristy venues did not accept credit circa 2006.
Our OS Prof. told us that some programs for Windows NT like compilers display progress bars to look more interactive (to the kernel, not the User) and to generate I/O completion events to get stuff done faster.
someone going for a fishing trip?
is this is phishing scam?
This is a dupe. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=317692 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524470
Some guy registered the domain as a favor to the community. He submitted here and was flamed for the inherent security issues. It has remained in existence. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039
I don't think it is owned by PG or YC.
At least the from domain info, it is not very obvious.

I would be careful and not login to that domain with my HN credentials
Ahh now I see, it was a new years gift:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=84039
Get off the Intel bandwagon and go ARM.
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I have:

"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

-Walt Disney
And yet the rich economies of today, the ones that support, e.g., scientific research, were mostly built by people pursuing material goals.
I always try and find a way to make it out of metal in smaller quantities (and larger for that matter).
Is this meant to be viewed on a blackberry/iphone?
This is certainly true. I always said to myself that running a startup is like running a marathon. If you can just move one step at a time BUT KEEP MOVING, soon, you'll arrive.

That's what i did when i finished my marathon last year. Just one step at a time, no matter, how much i hate it (especially started from 30km+). The metaphor of cry from sadness to joy and everything else is so spot on pj!
FAQ is not the first thing I look for in a site. To me, in context hints and help links are more useful. Personally, I would focus more on these. I do check the faq, if all else fails to explain.
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Ask HN: Do you think the whois rules need to be modified?
I don't see the point anymore to require domain owners to provide address/phone#, not with all those domainbyproxy type services out there.

Leave to just email and be done with it.