It would be great that hidden posts are also not show in /best
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Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#472Just curious - why are things like "Gitlab is hiring" not hideable? I don't plan to apply for a job there, so I don't care to see that story anymore today. But I don't see a way to hide it.
That's a bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074233 . Edit: should be fixed now.
Looks good! Thanks!
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#473I created a "best of Hacker News" page based on feature 5:
https://linkedbbapp.appspot.com
Thoughts?
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#474Earlier quoted context omitted.
The HN app I use lets you click anywhere in the heading line to collapse/expand. Could you do the same here?
> The HN app I use lets you click anywhere in the heading line to collapse/expand. Could you do the same here? Both the username and the date are clickable links in the HN interface (to the user profile and the comment itself, respectively).
I meant 'the empty space to the right of the line'.
Re: Tell HN: New features and a moderator
#475Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should add that if humans did have founders, then we would say "my founder". But we don't. So understanding of that phrase depends on us knowing the use of the noun cofounder.
Yeah I get the grammatical usage but I don't know how humans can have cofounders. My mom and dad kind of cofounded me, I guess.
Super late to this, but I have a weakness for grammatical puzzles. I think you put your finger on something rather obscure—the sort of thing the people on Language Log would come up with competing explanations for. Here's a guess about what is going on.
The "my" in "my cofounder" is different from how "my" usually works. Normally it expresses an "of" bond, as "my father" means "father of me". But here, it expresses a "with" bond, as in "cofounder with me", not "cofounder of me". Think of "my" as being bound to "co" rather than "founder".
The reason why the "founder of me" meaning doesn't arise here is partly because (as graeme pointed out) we never speak of founding a person in English. But it's also because the phrase already mentions what Scott is a founder of (Skysheet), so "cofounder" has a natural object nearby to bind with.
Compare this to a phrase like "my coworker". There, the "with" meaning is unambiguous, but that's because "work" doesn't normally take an object, so there's no competition for what "my" should bind to.