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by riffer 16y ago
Fixed; sorry about that
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Privacy and Startups(bitcrumb.com)
6 points by riffer 16y ago|3 comments
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The Problem With Opera: It Tries To Scream When It Just Needs to Sing(techcrunch.com)
1 points by riffer 16y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Yes. Based on the terminology users used, and the types of threads they commented on, who else commented on those threads, etc. There was a fair amount of discussion of the tool here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046301
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Similar Hacker News Users: Building the Tool(bitcrumb.com)
19 points by riffer 16y ago|4 comments
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by riffer 16y ago
Whatever you think of Mark Zuckerberg, you have to respect him for this. He knows his information is available through the API, he has chosen to make it publicly available. It is ultimate dogfooding; equivalent to being able to see Eric's
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by riffer 16y ago
right, but should we be working on their API functions? you've moved before; gotta keep moving ps : much respect
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by riffer 16y ago
http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html
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by riffer 17y ago
I hope that one of the approaches you try is recursive on who tends to vote for whom.
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Thinking by Coding(petewarden.typepad.com)
28 points by riffer 17y ago|5 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
All posts on this page have been looked at manually Was all of the categorization done manually? I ask because it looks stellar, and I'm just curious if you had/built a tool to help you make it a bit less tedious
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by riffer 17y ago
STEVE JOBS AT HOME IN 1982 — “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” —Steve Jobs http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html
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by riffer 17y ago
Pretty much just contracts for the firehouse. And the revenue was for a portion of 2009. Anybody who was building something around Twitter, and was thinking they might open up the firehouse for free ... oops
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by riffer 17y ago
It's true that one can do worse with DCA. But if stocks go up one makes money, just less. And if they go down one loses money, but less. In other words, one is more likely to get a return closer to the long term average, which is the obj
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by riffer 17y ago
Thought experiment: If you had the full social graph, what would you build?
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by riffer 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. You know, I have somewhat mixed feelings about The Shared Front Page. For a small, cozy community there's no question it's the right way to go. And for a larger site, using things like hide functionality as a ban
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by riffer 17y ago
A set of scraped comments, indexed to get the English terms. This is basically the same stuff I used in the 'Similar Hacker News Users' tool from a couple of weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1046301 Except now it is user -&
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by riffer 17y ago
This is a tool to tilt the Hacker News frontpage towards a particular user. As HN grows, there is more interesting content added to it. What if there was a way to get this content that would be interesting to you, with less of the pain? Thi
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Personalized Hacker News Frontpage(swimwithoutgettingwet.com)
32 points by riffer 17y ago|7 comments
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Safer Helicopters: Crash, bang, wallop(economist.com)
2 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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The Power of Suggestions(blog.twitter.com)
1 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
The UI is minimal, and that is a very significant advantage. I don't have clarity around something that is superior. In terms of properties, though, the UI would be minimal and getting results would be as powerful as writing arbitrary SQL
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by riffer 17y ago
A big part of how Google won was that they made everything on Yahoo obsolete except for the search box. Now somebody just needs to make the search box obsolete.
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by riffer 17y ago
Wired - A Romance by Gary Wolf Very inspiring story of the rise and fall of the coolest magazine on the planet. Worships upon the altar of the driven, scrappy, and relentless. Nothing else like it.
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by riffer 17y ago
I also have to come up with alternative ways for people to find the comments they're most interested in on big threads I think this is the key. People come to HN because the quality of the discussion is high. With increasing community si
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by riffer 17y ago
It's a good idea. The compelling part is that you could add additional complementary services over time, as you figure out what makes sense. Biggest drawback is that startups probably make demanding customers for a product that is fundame
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Facebook Gets Pushy About Its Automatic Friend Finder(techcrunch.com)
3 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
I agree on the general speed. The server is one process / single thread, and since on the speed spectrum arc is all about exploratory programming and not benchmarking speed ... I've also noticed that connections get dropped a lot here. Us
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by riffer 17y ago
from what I can tell by observing HN the server goes down several times an hour and has a script wrapped around it to keep it up Very interesting. That sounds a little like an equivalent of MaxRequestsPerChild, which makes sense given it
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by riffer 17y ago
This is a cool question. Two things: the first is that I stopped using the colins_pride account and subsequently started using the riffer account, so the co-commenting commonality is not particularly high. The terminology score is substa

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