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If this is Hacker News, why is there no similar-story clustering algorithm (among other things)?
by bobds 16y ago
If this is Hacker News, why is there no similar-story clustering algorithm (among other things)?
- dasil003 16y agoI'm guessing because pg does it in his spare time. Maybe he should take YC funding and really kick this thing into high gear.
- frisco 16y agoThat would be reddit.
- dasil003 16y agoAlready exited. It's a black line on the balance sheet. No conflict of interest. Go Paul!
- bobds 16y agoIt would take maybe 3 days for someone to come up with an algorithm, implement it and send it to pg ready-for-use. All he has to do is ask.
- RiderOfGiraffes 16y agoYup, I agree with you entirely. It would be great, and it's absolutely trivial, anyone could do it. Off you go then, and let us know when it's done. The HN source is available for download, and while no doubt the one PG runs is slightly different I have no doubt that whatever you write can easily be integrated. It doesn't even need to be automatic. You can just have people say "this" is the same story as "that" - amalgamate. Shouldn't even be three days - bet you could do it in one.
- seanalltogether 16y agoAnd yet the concept is rife with potential problems. Which article & title becomes the default, first submitted or highest ranking? What happens if articles get combined that shouldn't be combined? Is there an undo? Who controls that? How simple is merging the discussions?
- bobds 16y agoI didn't mean to imply that this is an easy problem to solve. My point is that there are very smart people on HN willing to figure this out for the rest of us.
- raquo 16y agoLack of HN features is surely an Arc conspiracy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830171 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=830171
- dotBen 16y agothe back-end to HN is open-source, so fork and build in your extensions and see if he'll commit it as a patch back to the main trunk
- callmeed 16y agokinda like techmeme?
- rewind 16y agoBut he also has to want it.