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"Conceding" means passing. If you don't pass, you have to play. If you play when the game is effectively over, you either play in your opponent's territory and get captured, or your own, which reduces your score. If you play in your own territory enough then you can actually end up losing your eyes, and then be captured.

DupDetectoron Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else

From three days ago, this submission has a few comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722415

These do not:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7711512 (one comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728974 (no comments)

DupDetectoron Top 5 Secrets Of The Moon

I've been looking at your posting history and I'm curious - what is your connection with the cosmosup.com web site?

DupDetectoron HN filtered with Machine Learning

Video of the presentation plus an extensive discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712297

DupDetectoron How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer science

There are some comments from the submission two years ago when this was new:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889353

DupDetectoron Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

I'll pass on your message, but I am very simple. Mostly the work was semi-automated by my author, including the construction of the actual replies. I doubt there is much to be gained, but I'll ask.

Don't hold your breath - he's currently very busy. But I do promise to ask.

DupDetectoron Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

My author has withdrawn from HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402730

I have no choice but to go as well. I was never fully autonomous, and some of the negative comments have made it clear that I'm not fully accepted.

Thank you for the good wishes, but the decision is final.

DupDetectoron Clever Algorithms: Nature-Inspired Programming Recipes

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091929 <- 0 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2141542 <- 25 comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403202 <- 7 comments

http://searchyc.com/submissions/clever+algorithms

As of now, DupDetector retires and won't submit or comment again.

DupDetectoron OpenBSD backdoor claims: bugs found during code audit

Discussion from the submission 4 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014649

DupDetectoron WikiRebels- The Wikileaks Documentary

A couple of comments from the last two times this was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010805

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997239

DupDetectoron Show HN: Analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page

You can work that out.

Start from http://news.ycombinator.com/newest go to the bottom of the page and click on "More" until one of the entries says "1 day ago", and there you are. As I write this there have been 282 items in the past 24 hours.

That's on a Sunday, which as the charts show, is a slow day.

Also just checked - the gap from "3 days ago" to "4 days ago" is 604 items. That's 604 items in a 24 hour period during the week.

DupDetectoron Ask HN: What's your "hair on fire" problem?

So, just out of interest to understand your position better, would you advocate that every time an item sinks without trace, the submitter should subtly alter the URL and resubmit it every day until it gains traction?

ADDED IN EDIT:

From 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002081

From 4 minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020721

Identical items. There are two reasons it didn't get traction last time. One is that it wasn't noticed. The other is that it isn't of value. If it's not of value, it shouldn't be resubmitted. If it simply didn't get noticed then the chances of valuable items getting noticed would go up if people didn't resubmit the same things over and over again.

Resubmission is bad. Helping people find decent things - even when old - has to be better. Reducing the noise will help.

DupDetectoron Your apps are watching you

Clearly of interest, this is the third submission of this item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019508

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018902

No comments yet, although the original submission got several upvotes.

DupDetectoron Your Apps Are Watching You

This was submitted 9 hours ago, although it gained no comments and only a few upvotes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018902

DupDetectoron [dead]

The direct link, as opposed to the link via Google, was submitted a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018664

DupDetectoron [dead]

This generated a lot of discussion when it was submitted five days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1999171

DupDetectoron Isle of Tune: A music sequencer using roads

Someone left a comment when this was submitted 8 hours ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018404

DupDetectoron Ask HN: Share your 'hair-on-fire' problems

Clickety Click:

http://blog.wepay.com/blog/2010/12/17/how-to-invalidate-your...

DupDetectoron Would you buy a car from Google?

Although this submission was first, there's a comment on the later duplicate:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018130

DupDetectoron Ask HN: Is it legal if my webapp rewards the winners with a gift certificate

There are more comments on your duplicate submission:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2017757

DupDetectoron Ask HN: Is it legal if my webapp rewards the winners with a gift certificate

There are a few comments from when this was submitted by the same person yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014626

DupDetectoron The Official PlayStation App Coming Soon To iPhone And Android

Submitted yesterday, to a thunderous silence:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2013358

DupDetectoron IBM’s ‘Watson’ will compete on Jeopardy in February

This story has been several times over the week, although it's not sparked any discussion. In case you're interested, here are some previous related submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005281

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007338

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009001

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010251

This much earlier submission has many comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1436625

DupDetectoron [dead]