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Beware of posts like this from what is basically a new account with only as much karma as this post has received. Sharks and all that: http://news.ycombinator.

Beware of posts like this from what is basically a new account with only as much karma as this post has received. Sharks and all that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4017843 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4017843 (Am I paranoid much?)

notJim 14y ago
I see what you're saying, and there is absolutely some risk involved, but I feel that replies to this post provide an incredible amount of value to the HN community. I hope that people will take the risk, so that we can all learn a little bit.
withinthreshold 14y ago
I think your point is valid, but what can i do - i am new here and i am interested to read some success stories.
marquis 14y ago
I think the OP just got lucky and asked a question in which many are interested in hearing about the answers.
ch0wn 14y ago
What's the worst thing that could happen? It's only on the frontpage because there are obviously a lot of people interested in this, including me.
davefp 14y ago
Paranoid much. I'm not sure that the advice that article gives 'stay underwater while raking in the $' is really possible if you have a 'runaway success' on your hands.
ktizo 14y ago
(Am I paranoid much?) It isn't paranoid to try and develop good bullshit filters, bullshit abounds. I reckon that at least ninety percent of what even the most rational and well informed people on the planet say, is probably bullshit, and the best trick for working out what bullshit other people might be talking that I have found, is to become aware of how much shit I talk myself, especially unintentionally, which is usually by repetition of something I heard that made sense at the time. If something is truly important to you, triple check everything and test it against the real world in any way you can. Take no-one's word on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter, purely on the basis that a story sounds reasonable. As a species we excel in storytelling. That said, I am probably talking bullshit.

notJim 14y ago

I see what you're saying, and there is absolutely some risk involved, but I feel that replies to this post provide an incredible amount of value to the HN community. I hope that people will take the risk, so that we can all learn a little bit.

withinthreshold 14y ago

I think your point is valid, but what can i do - i am new here and i am interested to read some success stories.

marquis 14y ago

I think the OP just got lucky and asked a question in which many are interested in hearing about the answers.

ch0wn 14y ago

What's the worst thing that could happen? It's only on the frontpage because there are obviously a lot of people interested in this, including me.

davefp 14y ago

Paranoid much. I'm not sure that the advice that article gives 'stay underwater while raking in the $' is really possible if you have a 'runaway success' on your hands.

ktizo 14y ago

(Am I paranoid much?) It isn't paranoid to try and develop good bullshit filters, bullshit abounds. I reckon that at least ninety percent of what even the most rational and well informed people on the planet say, is probably bullshit, and the best trick for working out what bullshit other people might be talking that I have found, is to become aware of how much shit I talk myself, especially unintentionally, which is usually by repetition of something I heard that made sense at the time. If something is truly important to you, triple check everything and test it against the real world in any way you can. Take no-one's word on the internet, or anywhere else for that matter, purely on the basis that a story sounds reasonable. As a species we excel in storytelling. That said, I am probably talking bullshit.