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by fiaz 19y ago
Good point. I admire what Jobs has done with OSX in making it easy for developers to create first class software. Perhaps Xobni is exemplary of this model for Microsoft. An acquisition of Xobni might not benefit Microsoft as much as seei
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by fiaz 19y ago
First step in building a successful ANYTHING: make sure your product works! They are claiming to possess algorithms that are able to predict the success of a given startup. I'm curious to know how many startups they have successfully inve
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Duncan Watts vs. Malcolm Gladwell: Mathematician turned sociologist challenges "Tipping Point" idea.(fastcompany.com)
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Ask News.YC: What are your favorite startup-related news feeds?
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Perfect Viewing for Wednesday's Total Lunar Eclipse(blog.wired.com)
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by fiaz 19y ago
What is the difference between andLinux and coLinux? http://www.colinux.org/ http://www.andlinux.org/ They seem to have similar logos and website...
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by fiaz 19y ago
What is the difference between andLinux and coLinux? http://www.colinux.org/ http://www.andlinux.org/ They seem to have similar logos and website...
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by fiaz 19y ago
Interesting. I wonder how Slashdot maintains a high level of commenting over time. Thanks for the tip. Perhaps I'll revisit them in 18 months... ;) (This place is too cool at the moment!)
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by fiaz 19y ago
I'm not entirely certain what he's getting at here... The bulk of this posting is exactly what Surowiecki describes as the contributing factors that lead crowds to be stupid. "The wisdom of crowds" only happens when the following are prese
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by fiaz 19y ago
I also wonder how much of a contributing factor people's attempts at humor would spin the dynamics of group discussions out of control. The main reason why I went Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> YCNews (and most likely YCNews -&#
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by fiaz 19y ago
Good point. Scoble informs us that this project is beautiful for the same reason a scientific paper is beautiful, yet he cites the for-profit Netscape as opposed to the innovation that was the "father" of Netscape... or perhaps he just got
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by fiaz 19y ago
You have stated exactly what I was intuitively feeling. It definitely seems like a long stretch to call this a killer app when it seems to me that these two projects seem to be solving the same problem but by different means.
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by fiaz 19y ago
I remember when I first saw Bill Atkinson's Hypercard back in 1988, when it came bundled with my MacSE. I was 15 and it opened a world of possibilities for me as far as creating something fast and functional. True, Hypercard was not somet
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by fiaz 19y ago
1) conceptualize 2) implement (keeping in mind things will change) 3) get feedback (indicating how I will change things) 4) scrutinize what I have conceptualized or implemented against feedback I get 5) continue on to either step 1 or 2 dep
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by fiaz 19y ago
I think this story is testament to the fact that resourcefulness outweighs whatever resources you have. How you use what you have matters more than what you have to work with. Definitely a lesson in this story for those of us in the proce
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by fiaz 19y ago
Is spamming much of a problem for the editors? I suppose I should have asked this when you posted instead of going on my (useful?) brainstorm below (and I really was just throwing out some ideas)...
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by fiaz 19y ago
Yes, this would break it temporarily. In the long run this strategy would lose. With enough eyeballs scrutinizing a site, such a system would eventually identify a site as spam and have it marked because of the dynamic nature of human jud
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by fiaz 19y ago
interesting site...how long have you been up and running?
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by fiaz 19y ago
But the fact that other quality links can be liberally up-voted by others would prevent low quality links from rising. The only advantage I can see with the down-voting is that it will make (subjectively) quality links rise faster and poor
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by fiaz 19y ago
You are actually right on the money with this progression. Also, YC News is small enough (thankfully) that we don't have much of a spam problem. I'm just attacking our current situation as a global/general spam problem that social sites h
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by fiaz 19y ago
You are right; at the same time there is nothing novel about CAPTCHAs. I also have a habit of running wild with ideas, and I suppose it's beginning to show... But hopefully my hatred for spam is showing through as well!
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Some users would get too powerful in the long run. These users would be the head of a long tail of submissions and could have disproportionate influence. Of course, this depends upon YC News having the problem of a large user base. Also,
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by fiaz 19y ago
Awesome point about the political blog example. Perhaps attaching some sort of meaning to the filtering instead of a black/white SPAM vs. NOT-SPAM would be an added advantage of leveraging human judgement. So for example spam on a politic
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This would incentivize some of the insidious viral marketers that leverage social news sites to create fake personas out there and eventually masquerade submissions for profit... that is if YC News faces the problem of large numbers. Also m
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by fiaz 19y ago
The problem with down-voting is that there is no distinction between a spam report and judgmental calls on the content of a link. It changes the dynamic and the quality of links that make it to the top. Having recently come from reddit (an
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by fiaz 19y ago
The simplest technique would be for the YC News gods to grant us a "report SPAM" button. The site would then be self moderating. I would also suggest something like granting karma points for sniffing out SPAM in case the YC News gods agree