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Re:Ask HN: Would you start a startup if the upside was limited? on Thursday November 14, 2013 @01:34AM (#6730947)
Exactly. Given this system, there might actually be more incentive to create startups, as earning potential from a traditional job is limited.
Re:Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:19PM (#6303665)
Cable providers have been the worst with this in my experience. No matter what you do it takes an ungodly amount of time to cancel service.

There was a great Behavioral Economics course on Coursera taught by Dan Ariely that touched on methods like these, as well as subtler ones. I think the slide on Organ Donation was from him. https://class.coursera.org/behavioralecon-001/class

Re:Machine Learning Course Materials on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @05:53AM (#6165678)
I've not had the time to go through the Hinton course fully myself, but the Coursera link is still up - https://www.coursera.org/course/neuralnets

You should still be able to register/download the materials. That's what I did.