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At least two dimensions: - tying the site to specific products. pg may decide firefox browser is the best predictor for being a hacker and ban all other browse
by ntoshev 19y ago
At least two dimensions:
- tying the site to specific products. pg may decide firefox browser is the best predictor for being a hacker and ban all other browsers. Would you like that?
- introducing bias to the community. the search engine may be a correct predictor for being a hacker, but what about the false negtives: do we want to exclude the hackers working on MSN search engine from this community, for example? I certainly don't.
- yters 19y agoThat would be a problem if the decision is technology centered. But, it isn't. Technology is only incidental to making HN membership more challenging, and making a certain technology the de facto standard is anti-thetical to challenge. See why Fisher thinks chess is dead.