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The cynic would say that AirBnB is a YC company and HN doesn't want to draw attention to negative news, which makes sense (if you were the operator of this or a
by nonchalance 13y ago
The cynic would say that AirBnB is a YC company and HN doesn't want to draw attention to negative news, which makes sense (if you were the operator of this or any site, you wouldn't want bad news to surface)
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoThose who believe in cock-up before conspiracy would say there is a 'bot running round changing submission titles to <title> tags, given a certain SOUNDEX gap (ie if the title is close enough, leave it, else call it editorialised) It might be feasible to test this by changing titles a lot. A mean person could build titles ("AAA AAA") to discover the algo. Whatever. Bit of a tangent.
- k3n 13y agoHah, haven't heard it as "cock-up before conspiracy" before, which seems to be a rather amusing way of stating Hanlon's razor[1]. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoWell, I don't drink in the sort of pubs where a sentence beginning "Never attribute to malice" will be allowed to finish, but a sentence with cock and up in it will happily run its course.