>I'd bet that a vast majority of users commenting on HN are not trying to predict what other people think, but whether or not it is worthwhile to invest their o

>I'd bet that a vast majority of users commenting on HN are not trying to predict what other people think, but whether or not it is worthwhile to invest their own efforts into the subject. If you notice, I wasn't claiming that 51%+ of posters are predicting what others think. I was characterizing a common pattern of commentary from a vocal (and possibly minority) HN crowd. As an example, the following is 7 quotes from 7 different people pulled from the top 9 parent posts of the HN Docker thread. After reading each one, ask yourself if the poster was talking about himself, or was he talking about others? - "Most corporate laptops are locked and you can't install anything on them." - "It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating." - "It's is problem everyone is having, and everyone knew it." - "Why would people feel comfortable leaving their valuable stuff on "Drews" server?" - "If you are looking for a wider audience than those who already know the context of dropbox, make a video where you lay out the case for use of dropbox using simple examples from user point of view(think a college student)" - "How are you going to scale up your storage to meet the demands of the users? " - "Your main competition is not USB drives: it is HotMail, GMail, and Yahoo! Mail. Once people are taught the "email it to yourself" trick, they love to use it"