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Do read the fine print though. Usually you sign away all rights to your algorithm and source code. You might be OK with it, but just be aware of what you sign and for what kind of compensation (not ne…

Oh its a full aircraft and not just the jet engine! Still as remarkable though, somehow got a different interpretation form reading the title.

Can anyone shed some light on why logos and names matter so much. I know they do because millions of dollars are spent on getting these right. But I cannot see myself consciously saying "Nah ! I wont …

Not quite the 1,000 cores but with GreenArrays you can get 144 cores on a square cm for $20 a piece. They can do only integer math in hardware though. Comes with a free forth based SDK. Wish I knew en…

Replying again as I missed out a vital piece. Bayesian reasoning is an online process so after every decision one has to update the priors. The next time one has to use the reason engine one should wo…

Selecting proper priors is quite a contentious issue, mainly because there does not seem to be one perfect answer. Though there are a few guidelines one can follow. One of them is what you pointed, bu…

OT: this seems to be one of the most bizarre things I have seen on HN. For some reason my comment and the reply seems to have rubbed some the wrong way. It has been cycling up through -1 and 4. Not co…

Oh nice ! I for some reason thought google exposed Pageranks only through their toolbar and that one needed to be logged in.

You touch upon a very important point. For some reason we are very bad at Bayesian reasoning. Sometime it leads to unsubtantiable opinions http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1909576 but could be ve…

+1 Thanks for digging up on this. It is something that I have interest in.

This is a gross exaggeration. The petty corruption that permeates is surprisingly easy to resist if you can put up with some delays and other inconveniences. If your comment was about going up against…

I disagree that everyone in India pays a bribe for a passport. A handful of my friends applied for their passport while in college and none of them paid, neither did I. In fact my passport got stolen …

Yeah sure.I was commenting particularly about awarding scores based on outlinks. I got down voted, I think because my comment was about web pages and it had got separated visually from the other comme…

If your homepage and your portfolio page are on the same site and on the same url directory, then it could be an artifact of the block rank approximation to Pagerank. Since Pagerank is an expensive co…

Is there a reason why you are sure that out-links are rewarded ? I have not encountered anything which demonstrates that. So I really would like to know.

The HITS algorithm that you are talking about isn't used much because it is quite easy to game the rankings. There are some partial fixes to it. If I remember correctly the search engine Teoma was usi…

Its a tricky thing to do as the potential for link-spam is very high. All one needs to do to rank his/her site high is to link to some authoritative/reputed site. Edit: One apparent fix is to assign s…

Reminded me of John Graham-Cumming's incident http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1811718

Your comment made me think of a scheme where a post automatically incurs a tiny negative karma, which can be compensated and exceeded by the karma awarded by the community. Right now we do not have an…

Yeah that is a valid point. We have been at the top of the food chain for a long time, no natural predators to avoid. So any mutation that drops some of those self preservatory traits will not get wee…

I would not go so far as stop awarding those karma. It gives people the incentive to post those stories and its not that just by posting one gets some karma. It has to be liked by the community. But t…

Are you sure you are being voted down like you claim ? In my experience HN'ers are quite restrained in their downvotes. Apart from a few of your comments in this thread that got downvoted I don't see …

> so even my question about being a newbie get voted down. NICE! Is not a question. That's what I was referring to. You will get the context from the indentation level. And yeah I hope :-)…

Maybe because someone who is more than 90 days on HN isn't considered a newbie. That's plenty time to get an idea about the community. Besides, most fair play guidelines are universal and common sense…

The thing that I do not like about it is that it floods out other submissions from the "New" page. Surely there are better and less disruptive ways of keeping track of news you find interesting. Maybe…

Sure I can bulk dump entries from my feed reader to HN, but that doesn't mean I should, right ?

The conversation claims that "humans" have lost an equivalent of a tennis ball volume of the brain. But perhaps a more revealing measure would be weight of brain lost in proportion to the body mass. E…

Or take a look here http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=10smom

Look at the link in the footer. Do you usually flood HN with postings at this rate ? http://www.webcitation.org/5vU30ydvF