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by Jd 19y ago
oh dear.
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by Jd 19y ago
Yeah, I'm not big on the word 'karma' myself, but it happens to be what is out there. I'm not sure about 'x threshold' either. If 'karma' assignment is weighted it wouldn't matter much anyways. As for colors, what about a bar that increase
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by Jd 19y ago
Okay, makes sense. I hadn't read your earlier posting that carefully before, but it sounds better than what I had in mind.
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by Jd 19y ago
Here's one model I'd be interested in testing. Three roles: basic, member, and administrator. Each account has karma (natural numbers), but the exact of karma is invisible to all except the administrator. There is a karma meter which disp
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by Jd 19y ago
Lot of good thoughts there whacked. I also tend to be biased against institutions and hierarchies, although I have a similar bias against youtube comments and trollishness (which tend to be the same things). I think one of the main reason
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by Jd 19y ago
Probably 6 at the moment. Too much.
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by Jd 19y ago
Is this what you are actually doing? How do you store the pickle output?
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by Jd 19y ago
The question has to do with storage. I suppose you could serialize it and store in a flat file, but will this beat the DB access time, even if there is extra time needed for interpretation?
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by Jd 19y ago
I disagree that we don't think in tiers in real life. We do - except they are called roles or titles. For instance, the typical university has undergraduate students, graduate students, professors and administrators. One could simply say
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by Jd 19y ago
Yeah, this is mostly about speed of growth in social networks and only looks at Yahoo 360 and Flickr. I will keep looking for the original paper and post back if I find it.
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by Jd 19y ago
At least one related paper is available online: http://research.yahoo.com/publication/structure_and_evolutio... I probably won't have time to read it until this evening, but will post then.
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by Jd 19y ago
Your algorithm suggestion is interesting, but probably not sufficient. Although reddit trolls are one step up from internet spammers, the same principle applies. With sufficient quantity of trolls/spammers blocking each one individually b
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by Jd 19y ago
After some reflection, I suppose my only hesitation with this method is that it locks one into dealing with the comments in a particular way, whereas the lisp model I outlined is easily adaptable to a variety of schemas. However, I'm not
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by Jd 19y ago
Just thinking off the cuff here, but couldn't one store a lisp-style list as a string in a relational database. If I was using Ruby on Rails, I could simply build a simple lisp interpreter in Ruby to parse the string, then capture it as an
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by Jd 19y ago
Alex, this is very interesting. Do you think there might be a way to get one's hands on the original? If there is a person/persons at Yahoo to contact I would do it, as this is something I have thought about quite a bit and would love to
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by Jd 19y ago
Clay Shirky has a couple good essays about this: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html http://shirky.com/writings/broadcast_and_community.html I agree with most of his points. Better technology can not substitute for better p
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by Jd 19y ago
Anyone else see the toilet advert? Very disturbing...
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by Jd 19y ago
Should it be a surprise that a salesperson writes a post extolling salespeople?
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by Jd 19y ago
You might want to google "Panopticon"
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by Jd 19y ago
def birthday(people=23): import random days = 365 sample_size = 1000 return reduce(lambda x, y : x + y, (len(s) != len(set(s)) for s in (map(lambda x: random.choice(range(x)), (days, )*people) for i in range(sample_size)))) (two empty lin
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by Jd 19y ago
Looks pretty silly.
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by Jd 19y ago
Actually from a standpoint of diagramming human intellectual output, both reddit and YC do poorly. Even so, I can't think of any simple mathematical processes that would be better. Systems dealing with human beings must take into account
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by Jd 19y ago
<blockquote>Costco's strict attitude toward product markup reminds me of 37Signals frequent assertion that often constraints are a good thing to be embraced.</blockquote> Rails, Grails, Unit tests, woo!
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by Jd 19y ago
Yes, I think the way you have done it is better.
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by Jd 19y ago
How to?
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by Jd 19y ago
If one is pinning the comment to the top already, one could easily remove the reply link to that comment.
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by Jd 19y ago
I also thought it was somewhat useful.
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by Jd 19y ago
Looks like it was written by someone attempting to promote their own book.
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by Jd 19y ago
The integrity thing is huge. I left a startup about a year ago for the same reason.
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by Jd 19y ago
Depends on where you go for college. The ivies I am familiar with separate the applications and financial aid process the issue of 'leniency' is not there (except when there are very large sums of money involved). As for private schools, I

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