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by riffer 17y ago
Yeah, one potential solution is lists of users. Another route might be clustering ('technical', 'political', etc.)
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by riffer 17y ago
Yeah, that's one of things to consider. All of the logic for this was originally developed for another purpose, and it got applied to HN for fun. The human connection element makes it very cool, and so do the possiblities for applying it
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by riffer 17y ago
These are the 12 'farthest' from you, rms: osteele erikstarck zedshaw atarashi matthavener clemesha alrex021 cliff NateLawson jefffoster mrcharles fix3r This was done with the karma effectively off (same as the karma slider in the middle).
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by riffer 17y ago
This is fun to consider. Are you thinking of people who have completely different interests? Or folks who are interested in similar things but disagree?
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by riffer 17y ago
If you don't mind telling me the user you're thinking of, I can take a look as well.
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by riffer 17y ago
Thanks for the positive response. If three things were to get added to this, what should they be?
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by riffer 17y ago
You're correct. I feel terrible. There is no question that you're the posterchild for controversial-interesting. I will fix this.
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by riffer 17y ago
Yeah, there's really two issues here. Most of the techniques for this sort of thing don't work that well for sparse datasets. So given a choice between showing bad results for users with relatively few comments, and not showing any results
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by riffer 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback, you bring up a very interesting point: reciprocity. If I am closer to you than anyone else, does it follow that you are closer to me than anybody else? I'm not sure the right answer to that is yes ...
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by riffer 17y ago
This is interesting, thanks for pointing this out. The top result is actually getting filtered out from the displayed results (don't ask). spolsky is going from being the second result, to the first result, to the second result in your exa
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by riffer 17y ago
Excellent question. Middle ignores karma in the quantitative ranking. Far to the right gets lower karma users. Users who consistently get almost all 1s and/or negative points are separately filtered out since they generally don't make for
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by riffer 17y ago
That's a good point. Let me see what I can do. The catch is that HN is case sensitive as well. works: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SapphireSun doesn't work: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sapphiresun
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by riffer 17y ago
Everybody here has somewhat similar interests to pg. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. ;)
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by riffer 17y ago
A big part of it is that the default settings reward comment karma fairly heavily. Try moving the sliders around. For example, with the defaults, patio11 is the top result for your username, but at the karma slider midpoint he's out of th
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by riffer 17y ago
People asked for a similar users tool back in the early days of HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=701 And recently, too: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1036247 How does this particular tool work? It's based on the threads a
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Similar Hacker News Users(swimwithoutgettingwet.com)
175 points by riffer 17y ago|107 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
I think he's merely asking for access to data that might potentially either prove or disprove his hypothesis.
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by riffer 17y ago
Blogscope is a very cool analysis and visualization tool for blogosphere that I just stumbled across. It looks like it's the Univ of Toronto guys from the Nextflix prize. Probably using Probabilistic Matrix Factorization under the hood.
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Blogscope(blogscope.net)
2 points by riffer 17y ago|1 comments
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How to Capture an Idea(tomorrowmuseum.com)
9 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine(moreintelligentlife.com)
1 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
If Gates/Buffett really believe that the government is deserving, why have they arranged their affairs to pay as little tax as possible? Including (but not limited to) essentially zero estate tax? Forgive me if I'm not convinced by an argu
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by riffer 17y ago
But the argument being made here is that spoiled kids are not deserving, so the estate tax is a just tax. The point is: government is not deserving either, so the spoiled kids angle is bogus. Pointing out that the government collects other
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by riffer 17y ago
This looks at the tax from the perspective of those who will inherit, and concludes that since spoiled kids don't deserve big inheritances, the estate tax is fair, just and moral. But what about where the money goes? Does the government de
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by riffer 17y ago
Nope. The tax may apply to a small number of people, but it isn't the top x-percent. There are a lot of strategies for getting around the estate tax, and the people who pay it are not the richest people but instead are upper middle class
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Preserving My Favorite HN Links(jimlawless.wordpress.com)
3 points by riffer 17y ago|0 comments
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by riffer 17y ago
Firing teachers for poor performance: not allowed Firing teachers who offer the most to high potential students: politically correct I grew up in a town right next to Berkeley, and I'm not surprised. Just disappointed.
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by riffer 17y ago
Searching for news.ycombinator.com, I get: ERROR: Web server not shown in header. If I search ycombinator.com, I get: Apache/2.2.14 In the first case, I would recommend either parsing the user input to try and return some reasonable res
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by riffer 17y ago
Currently at #4 on the frontpage Users with negative karma should not be able to submit stories
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by riffer 17y ago
It should also help supplement the spam filtering. Taking a quick look at /noobstories, a bunch of these would die solely from this. Which should in turn make the /newest page somewhat better, which can only be a good thing.

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