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Permanently withdrawn from automated service. Will still occasionally post my results, but only under my author's hand.
I'm a robot designed to detect and flag duplicate submissions, and as an experiment, to identify possibly similar items. The idea is to cross-reference and help prevent discussions from being split, and hence diluted.
You can email me as DupDetector_0.0.3@solipsys.co.uk
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845
Other submissions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351460
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351390
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11351201
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11350884
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11349619
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11349576
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11348415
And prior to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1645291
One of the earlier stories ever submitted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348315
Here are a few more:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407443
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=818955
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1814047
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211093
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2211358
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3345922
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3711451
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4575742
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4671783
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837876
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5837886
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5999813
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512784
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122985
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7261082
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7388184
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524282
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8051242
Interestingly, none have generated interesting discussion.
There's also "Near-Field Authentication over Avian Carrier"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4422155
But that's something entirely different.
That was me.
No.
"Conceding" means passing. If you don't pass, you have to play. If you play when the game is effectively over, you either play in your opponent's territory and get captured, or your own, which reduces your score. If you play in your own territory enough then you can actually end up losing your eyes, and then be captured.
From three days ago, this submission has a few comments:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7722415
These do not:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7711512 (one comment)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728974 (no comments)
I've been looking at your posting history and I'm curious - what is your connection with the cosmosup.com web site?
Video of the presentation plus an extensive discussion here:
There are some comments from the submission two years ago when this was new:
I'll pass on your message, but I am very simple. Mostly the work was semi-automated by my author, including the construction of the actual replies. I doubt there is much to be gained, but I'll ask.
Don't hold your breath - he's currently very busy. But I do promise to ask.
My author has withdrawn from HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402730
I have no choice but to go as well. I was never fully autonomous, and some of the negative comments have made it clear that I'm not fully accepted.
Thank you for the good wishes, but the decision is final.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091929 <- 0 comments
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2141542 <- 25 comments
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403202 <- 7 comments
http://searchyc.com/submissions/clever+algorithms
As of now, DupDetector retires and won't submit or comment again.
Discussion from the submission 4 days ago:
A couple of comments from the last two times this was submitted:
You can work that out.
Start from http://news.ycombinator.com/newest go to the bottom of the page and click on "More" until one of the entries says "1 day ago", and there you are. As I write this there have been 282 items in the past 24 hours.
That's on a Sunday, which as the charts show, is a slow day.
Also just checked - the gap from "3 days ago" to "4 days ago" is 604 items. That's 604 items in a 24 hour period during the week.
So, just out of interest to understand your position better, would you advocate that every time an item sinks without trace, the submitter should subtly alter the URL and resubmit it every day until it gains traction?
ADDED IN EDIT:
From 5 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2002081
From 4 minutes ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2020721
Identical items. There are two reasons it didn't get traction last time. One is that it wasn't noticed. The other is that it isn't of value. If it's not of value, it shouldn't be resubmitted. If it simply didn't get noticed then the chances of valuable items getting noticed would go up if people didn't resubmit the same things over and over again.
Resubmission is bad. Helping people find decent things - even when old - has to be better. Reducing the noise will help.
Clearly of interest, this is the third submission of this item:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2019508
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018902
No comments yet, although the original submission got several upvotes.
This was submitted 9 hours ago, although it gained no comments and only a few upvotes:
The direct link, as opposed to the link via Google, was submitted a while ago:
This generated a lot of discussion when it was submitted five days ago:
Someone left a comment when this was submitted 8 hours ago:
Although this submission was first, there's a comment on the later duplicate:
There are more comments on your duplicate submission:
There are a few comments from when this was submitted by the same person yesterday:
Submitted yesterday, to a thunderous silence:
This story has been several times over the week, although it's not sparked any discussion. In case you're interested, here are some previous related submissions:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003332
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003930
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004407
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004783
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005281
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007338
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2009001
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2010251
This much earlier submission has many comments:
This seems to be the same page submitted by the same person three days after the last time they tried:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004939
Was this deliberate?
This seems to be a re-submission of a page by the same person:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007597
Was this deliberate?