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by notabel 20y ago
Aha! I'd not had the realization that the the downmod arrow only appears probabilistically. It meshes interestingly with a notion that dfranke and I were discussing earlier tonight, namely the appropriate ratio of up to down mods. By cont
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by notabel 20y ago
An addendum, stimulated by dinner with dfranke: under certain assumptions about the growth rate of the community, karma ages without any algorithmic intervention: as the community grown, the number of moderators grows, and so the mean and m
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by notabel 20y ago
Well, I certainly hope that news.yc users are a bit more than Ricardo-programmed economic optimization automata. :) One solution to older users having a perpetual advantage would be to implement some sort of aging of karma, or at least of
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by notabel 20y ago
This is an interesting notion; there is an implicit assumption that the low-karma user has something to lose by posting comments. Am I missing something here? I do see your point, though, wrt top users not spamming the site. That's largel
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by notabel 20y ago
That is certainly the status quo; I would ask, however, whether it is desirable. I think the system should provide more incentive for thoughtful comments, or at least some sort of disincentive for shotgun-style submissions. It is difficul
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by notabel 20y ago
I'll be honest, I've not been nearly so good about doing my time on the 'new' page. In your experience, are there any strong patterns in good submissions? What I'm getting at is basically: are there any views on the new submissions list t
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by notabel 20y ago
One thing I find interesting about news.yc is the relatively small set of active contributors to the comments, and their rather high availability: case in point, this thread, which is feeling to me rather more like an ongoing conversation
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by notabel 20y ago
I was pondering this phenomenon earlier today; it would be interesting to do a quantitative analysis of post and moderation rates (this would require access to the backing database). I have noticed that there tend to be definite hot times,
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by notabel 20y ago
This, combined with a burying system to get rid of junk stories, could clean up the 'new' section substantially. It would also be useful to factor snr into the computation; the nature of the karma system, which makes it more advantageous (
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by notabel 20y ago
"mid twenties" -- pg in an email
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by notabel 20y ago
This is interesting, I'd never heard about it. Time for some research, I suppose. Yahoo's gambit is reminiscent of a real-world retailer telling a customer to go to a competitor to find the product they really want (my local bike shop did
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by notabel 20y ago
Yeah, Guy Kawasaki is a great example of the maxim that what really matters is "getting it", not so much "being it". Even though he's no hacker (and makes no claim to be) he understand hackers, which has made him incredibly effective at in
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by notabel 20y ago
The code for the bookmarklet is refreshingly simple; glad to see that PG can design an interface that is minimal and functional, even in this age of wrapping everything in 12 layers of XML, JSON, SOAP, $ACRONYM. Thanks for doing this, phil.
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by notabel 20y ago
The ideas embodied in Shaker design are (in my opinion) almost always correct design rules (the almost being that, as always, you should break your design rules when they interfere with your goal), but aesthetics aside, there is a very rele
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by notabel 20y ago
However, you need the correct subset of the 15 billion pages, which is only fractionally easier, and in some ways harder: google can just grab everything, and then pull semantics out. If you want to leverage your limited domain, you need
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by notabel 20y ago
I entirely agree. The best way to build something is to get alot of smart people working on it--or rather, just enough smart people. The thing that Wikipedia leverages so powerfully is the ability of a wiki to let people work in parallel.
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by notabel 20y ago
QUOTE: Considering that relying sites can filter which providers they allow authentication from, I am overall positive about an increased usage of OpenID. I'm hoping that this sort of thinking will not proliferate, as it nullifies what I se
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by notabel 20y ago
I'd be curious to know how many people were polled to generate those numbers. For instance, if 25 people[1] were polled, then 23 of 25 -- 92% -- put Sequoia on their list. That would be quite impressive indeed.[2] [1] I'm pulling that nu
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by notabel 20y ago
As you pointed out, Google already competes both directly and indirectly with myspace; NewsCorp knew that going in, and went with Google anyway. I doubt that serving ads for yet another social network would be enough to drive NewsCorp away
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by notabel 20y ago
Thank you! I had the nagging feeling that there was a more precise bit of terminology that I was missing. You've gotten it off the tip of my tongue. As you pointed out, though, priming properly refers immediate-time phenomena. Whereas p
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by notabel 20y ago
\begin {ego}Welcome to the wonderful world of the learned.\end {ego} Seriously, though, I've had problems like this ever since I started studying psychology--self examination can be risky! Ultimately, while the human mind is excellent at f
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by notabel 20y ago
Unfortunately, the author largely glosses over what I consider the most difficult part of search--extracting semantic information from unstructured source materials (also refered to as "magicks"). However, the discussion of bandwidth and se
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by notabel 20y ago
Yes, actually, there is a word for that--sort of. It is essentially a special case of confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a concept from cognitive psychology; basically, the human mind heuristically prefers data which support (confirm
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by notabel 20y ago
This is certainly a great product, and the fact that the founders are in fact "scratching an itch" gives me confidence that they'll continue to do fine on the tech side of things. I do wonder, however, what the business model is here. My