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by tansey 15y ago
I suppose I expected more from a Nature post. All of these suggestions are things I learned in fourth grade; it's just basic human communication. Most successful scientists I've met are actually quite good at explaining their research to a
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by tansey 15y ago
I have to admit, this article is really awful. I initially upvoted this too quickly, after only reading the first page and seeing that there were five more to go. After reading most of the article, you're right-- it's pure fluff. I suppose
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by tansey 15y ago
Why was this submitted via a link shortener instead of the real link?
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by tansey 15y ago
The power of a filibuster is that it forces the opposition to experience pain, slowdown, and increased public scrutiny. It prevents bills from being passed quickly and silently. However, it's a risky move on the part of the filibustering se
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by tansey 15y ago
At UT Austin, we've been building a 3-D interactive environment called Nero [1] for some time now. The project's goal is to have an all-in-one, visually appealing platform to teach and explain different concepts in AI. It was started as a c
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by tansey 15y ago
Congrats on launching! One small UI suggestion: put thumbs-up on the right and thumbs-down on the left. About 90% of the population is right handed and the word "sinister" originates from the Latin word for "left" [1]. Generally speaking, p
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by tansey 15y ago
>There's just something neater about having your app in your hand to show people wherever you go. This is so true. I used to build TI-83 games and physics apps for precisely this reason. Handheld devices are hugely popular among kids
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by tansey 15y ago
They address this in the article, noting that treated monkeys used 50% less insulin.
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by tansey 15y ago
Such a sensationalist link-bait title. 1) Correlation is not causation. 2) The study is between two groups: those who watch TV for > 6 hours a day (!) and those who don't. Who in their right mind watches an average of 6 hours of TV a da
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by tansey 15y ago
Salting a password doesn't make it uncrackable, it just makes it impervious to rainbow tables and other parallel attacks because it forces the attacker to recalculate the hash for every guess for every user account. You can certainly still
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by tansey 15y ago
Seems more like "Genius strikes later unless there is a revolutionary breakthrough in your field, in which case it strikes early." Makes sense, since a breakthrough typically opens the door for other relatively low-hanging breakthroughs.
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by tansey 15y ago
What's even better about Card Case is that you don't need every retailer to have it for it to be useful. The example they show in their demo video is perfect: going to your regular coffee shop. If just that coffee shop supports it, Square i
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by tansey 15y ago
The idea that Caroline County, VA (my home town) is the 9% is fairly ridiculous. It's a very poor county, with most people working in the food industry or at King's Dominion nearby. I suppose DC commuters may be skewing the stats, but that
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by tansey 15y ago
> No special powers other than helping to ensure their submissions are not 'honeypotted' and submissions contrary to their view are 'honeypotted'? Please see my detailed explaination of why this is not a problem [1]. > I notice y
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by tansey 15y ago
It's not really supervised learning. I suppose one could argue that the bootstrapping phase resembles supervised learning, since you are in fact measuring how well each user discriminates between honeypots and acceptable articles. However,
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by tansey 15y ago
Correct you are! I've updated the article with a fixed version of this formula. This version should in fact rank the 5 for 5 guy slightly lower than the 100 for 100 guy. It's still not perfect but I believe it does its job in theory. Thank
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by tansey 15y ago
Any suggestions on how? Is there a good subreddit to post this on and get attention?
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by tansey 15y ago
> One more potential problem with the idea of superflaggers. If 'social media experts', or spammers, or whatever the people are who game sites like Digg and Reddit got wind of the fact that flagging honeypots could increase the weight
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by tansey 15y ago
Yes, thank you! I originally had the formulas differently and forgot to update the text to reflect the flip. :)
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by tansey 15y ago
That's a fair point. I wrote the post as a reaction to an off-topic article that I saw on the front page. That's not to say that the overall quality of HN isn't superb, but I was just particularly upset that a glaringly off-topic article wa
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by tansey 15y ago
> you are creating an adversarial premise for a wide-band community with varying maturity and motivation. I really have to disagree here. There is this misconception in these comments that somehow my system would let people get these
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by tansey 15y ago
Sure. I totally get that and think it's a great area for future exploration. A couple of points though: 1) You are not technically giving any reinforcement, because the agent in question (i.e., the user) does not perceive any change in th
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by tansey 15y ago
> Unless I completely misunderstood your article, you are suggesting the admins put out links to things they do not approve of to see who screws up and upvotes them. Great! We now know that you did not completely understand my article
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by tansey 15y ago
Thanks? :) But this is not serfdom. You have mobility in the case of implicit honeypots, because if you follow the guidelines well then you'll float to the top and become a super flagger. And even better, if you stop consistently upvoting c
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by tansey 15y ago
I don't know Arc, but I'm happy to write out the idea in simpler instructions than the blog post if it helps. The implicit approach is very practical. You basically just need to bootstrap it and then it will run itself. To bootstrap: - Trac
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by tansey 15y ago
I am not sure if we disagree or if you are fundamentally misunderstanding the proposed solution. There is nothing preventing using both methods simultaneously. Your approach is to teach people how to act. My approach is to punish people who
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by tansey 15y ago
> adding fake articles to it is just going to make the problem worse Hence the implicit honeypot extension that I proposed. :)
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by tansey 15y ago
The whole point is you show them nothing with honeypots. They simply get their vote penalized in the background because they didn't follow the guidelines of the site. When a site is growing, there is no way to handle the constant influx o
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by tansey 15y ago
But that seems like a poor heuristic in general. For instance, maybe the early users are not necessarily great at filtering articles, they were just good at not submitting off-topic ones. A honeypot approach is a much more flexible and robu
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Hacker News Needs Honeypots(nashcoding.com)
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