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volida

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mindstorms.lego.com 15y ago

14-year old 1st LEGO League programmer sets off the Google Science Fair

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volos.posterous.com 15y ago

The other side of Hacker News - A User Experience Experiment

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lundxy.com 15y ago

Let's meet under a common religion: Entrepreneurship

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lundxy.com 16y ago

Morten Lund out of bankruptcy

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lundxy.com 16y ago

What a day

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yvolos.blogspot.com 16y ago

Who owns http://hackerne.ws

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gamearchitect.net 17y ago

Software is hard

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www.doingbusiness.org 17y ago

What Makes an Entrepreneur?

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www.ananova.com 17y ago

Swiss watch found in 400-year-old tomb

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www.inc.com 17y ago

Is the U.S. losing its edge?

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news.ycombinator.com 17y ago

Ask YC: Would YC create a similar event to TC50?

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blogs.zdnet.com 18y ago

$1 Million prize offered for cracking an encryption algorithm

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news.ycombinator.com 18y ago

Ask YC: What are the downsides of open source?

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www.loiclemeur.com 18y ago

Disqus, Daniel Ha interview

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www.joost.com 19y ago

The wait is over! Download Joost!

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www.amazon.com 19y ago

The start-up project

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mashable.com 19y ago

BetsGoWild Launches - Betting Done (Almost) Right

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en.wikipedia.org 19y ago

I was reading about salt, ended up in key derivation function, then to Robert "Bob" Morris, then to R. Tappan M., then to "Morris Worm"

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news.ycombinator.com 19y ago

I will tell you why it's so freaking hard for single founders: It's so freaking lonely

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news.ycombinator.com 19y ago

news.YC/active

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news.ycombinator.com 19y ago

Who wants to discuss about MySQL vs PostgreSQL?

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tredosoft.com 19y ago

Doing heavy CSS, JS? Install multiple IE versions on the same machine

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web.archive.org 19y ago

viaweb.com

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www.alexa.com 19y ago

I couldn't resist!

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youtube.com 19y ago

What to do next after launching your software start-up? Start-up your engines!

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news.ycombinator.com 19y ago

Should we worry about Techcrunch?

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blogs.law.harvard.edu 19y ago

"Search is not a business"

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skypecasts.skype.com 19y ago

Skype-cast (voice conference) for the start up community of news.YC

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news.ycombinator.com 19y ago

Bugs of news.ycombinator.com

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edcorner.stanford.edu 19y ago

Top 5 Mistakes Entrepreneurs make

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Maybe a simple weighted vote (relative to how new is the member/karma) would solve the problem. Or at least the mean from random sample from older members and another sample from newer ones, and use variance to check if there is significant difference, and maybe register another sample from members who are voting through the like button (but haven't already gone to the article from HN). A simple comparison of IP timestamps would help doing that.

(these are just suggestions I have no idea how the current algorithm works)

As long as there are points, and comments are sorted by popularity, not showing the points, I don't see how it can mitigate the problem of people trying to game the system.

If it is somehow measurable who is trying to do so, in obvious way, in some automated way and if this activity is at a level that affects the rest, then the user could be somehow penalized off that karma gained. Nevertheless this is democracy, so I would only expect this behaviour being penalized only if it really affects other in some measurable way, so that the community could approve penalizing users who are trying to advantage of lack of automated moderation.

The contrary could be done i.e. instead of penalizing users who are suspectable in such behaviour, preferably award recursively to each comment in the same thread more points, therefore the commenters who are 'legit' are awarded. Therefore, add a category of comment points named 'HN ponts' which are awarded automatically by the system.

I agree. But, the vaqueness is what elivates it to mean status. It contributed zero to the understanding of his claims, therefore leaving the negative energy stand out.

Also, that type of comment you refer to, gets usually downvoted on HN.

If you are getting downvoted continuesly, why don't you take it as a sign you are indeed say something wrong?

from your comments:

"I found the UI unappealing and the heavy use of rotation effects amateurish."

edit: that is mean, although because it was about Microsoft/Windows Phone 7 as a whole, there is almost zero direct effect on the people who worked on it, and therefore may reduce it's meaness factor by 0.001%, but amateurish and unnapealing? come on, that reveals negative energy.

well, Steve Balmber isn't the one who will actually build the competitive device, and judging from demo videos I'd say Windows Phone 7 as an OS, looks liike a serious competitor for people to build applications for.

I don't have time to read that huge article. Question for those who did: If video is counted as video delivered from the web excluding video delivered from torrents because that would count as P2P, then 51% + 23%= 74%

So, if you told me text is not the king medium it would be more real than web is dead. But that wouldn't make it a title for retweeting, or would it?

*edit: a quick search on the content of the article for the word video has only 1 result.

OpenSolaris is dead 16 years ago

The last time I said a business man is not always an entrepreneur I got downvoted to the abyss.