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OK, while we're on the topic of useless numerology: How old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post) me: 1000140 / 174632 =
by davi 17y ago
OK, while we're on the topic of useless numerology:
How old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post)
me: 1000140 / 174632 = 5.7 HN years
edw519 (current leader after pg): 999538 / 9357 = 107 HNyears
RIP, nickb: 685017 / 2649 = 259 HNyears
mechanical_fish: 999416 / 22714 = 44 HNyears
- endlessvoid94 17y ago997143 / 600 = 1 661.905
- kurtosis 17y agois there somewhere else where this convention is used? if the Id of the most recent post is an exponentially growing function of time then the time between any two posts should be proportional to the log of the ratio of their IDs.. so shouldn't it be log(ID most recent / ID first post) ?
- davi 17y agoI made it up. But for exponentially growing ID, log(ID most recent / ID first post) is proportional to age of account & that's boring -- the nonlinearity is what makes the measure 'fun' (I use the term loosely). It agrees with some notion of the 'good old days' when Startup News was a fishbowl we could all look in on, and early HN participants were Founders not only of startups but also an online community. I agree though, there are probably more interesting measures one could come up with.
- nostrademons 17y agome: 998366 / 243 = 4108 HN years There may be earlier ones - I couldn't retrieve comments before about Jun 2007, so I went by my earliest submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243
- davi 17y agoI used searchyc to get earliest comment ids.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoDoes that go back all the way? I can only find entries back to Sept 2007, but seems like I was on before that. Or perhaps my memory is going. They say the mind is the first thing to go. Or at least I think they do.
- davi 17y agoWell, http://searchyc.com/pg?sort=by_date_r http://searchyc.com/pg?sort=by_date_r has pg's first post (ID = 1) and what I assume is his first comment (ID = 17). I lurked for a while before participating, maybe you did the same? Incidentally that makes pg 1000205 / 17 = 59,000 HNyears old -- and that seems about right, I bet the average reader here cares ~10,000x more about what pg writes than what I write (pg HNyears / davi HNyears = ~10K). :)
- colbyolson 17y agoWhen was it confirmed that nickb had passed?
- davi 17y agoI was referring to the account, not the person. Sorry for the ambiguity.
- rms 17y agoOnly some trolls think Nickb is dead. The best solid evidence for him not being dead is that even if he doesn't answer his cell phone, he seems to be paying the bill. Though I suppose that's not very good evidence with automatic payment being so common.
- philwelch 17y agoEvery so often in the news you read about some elderly person in one of the developed countries found dead in their apartment, having been dead for months. Their pensions keep getting direct-deposited and their bills keep getting paid automatically so no one suspects anything for awhile.
- baxter 17y agoThe most extreme case I've heard of: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8132642.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/81326... This tangent is not a pleasant one, but I couldn't resist making a citation.
- DanielBMarkham 17y ago20 years old again! Woo hoo!
- dfranke 17y ago1000225/1809 = 552.91
- zitterbewegung 17y ago3.7 HN years. Probably after this post a little bit more.
- bootload 17y ago"... How old are you in HN years? (ID of your most recent post / ID of your first post) ..." 999899/425 = 2352 HNY latest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=999899 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=999899 first: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=425 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=425