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Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

#31

Post by timr » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:07 PM UTC

I'm a fairly private guy, and I find this a bit creepy. I've never been more glad that I don't have a Twitter profile.

(Which is not to say that I think that the developer is doing something wrong, or even unethical: if you have a Twitter profile with your picture on it, one could fairly argue that you've made a contract with the world that the information is public. But all the same, stuff like this makes me want disconnect my internet connection and line my windows with tinfoil. If someone can make a site like this, someone can just as easily make a site that reads "Top Internet Pedophiles".)

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by dzlobin » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:10 PM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #24

palish wrote: post #14

How do so many websites break the zoom feature on iPhone? So frustrating. Patio's massive face drowns out all the content. =)

It is a viewport meta tag. Sorry that the page doesn't work great on iphone. I am working on making the layout scale, and the page leaner for iphone. My nexus S views it just fine, but even it could use a better page.

Just wanted to point out that the page is almost entirely unusable on iPhone 4, it freezes for 5-10 seconds at a time.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by acangiano » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:11 PM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #6

tokenadult wrote: post #3

Do the users get to submit updates to the descriptions? Do they get to delete their descriptions if they would rather not be listed? Is there are a particular reason why some users on the current Hacker News leaderboard http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders appear not to be on your interesting and informative site? After edit: I see at the bottom of the display it says "powered by HNSearch API," which makes me wonder w…

Hi. Thanks for noticing. The reason is that standard Hacker News profiles don't have photos or real names. Therefore I focused on the 1000 Hacker News profiles that have such data (by stating their twitter profiles). Notice that HNSearch API limits the amount of responses to 1000, but this has nothing to do with the current limit (you can hack this limit by sorting ascending and descending). But the limit was not rea…

I didn't have twitter in my profile. Can you add me?

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by chegra » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:12 PM UTC

Mz wrote: post #21

chegra84 wrote: post #18

Need more females. :)

I'm female and fairly openly so (and people still sometimes refer to me as "he/him" because they assume I am male, presumably just because it's HN and for no other apparent reason). A lot of the women here seem to intentionally downplay their gender a good deal. On at least one occasion a female member created a throwaway account to explain in part why she hides her gender while posting here. So a) I wonder why you a…

It was just an glaring observation. I do remember the post about anonymous female members, but I didn't think it was something that was wide spread. Nevertheless, it would be brilliant if we could have more females on here[diversity].

Yea, I was looking for your account too[there is a more button on the bottom of the page]. So, I think maybe it is for people with twitter handles. I appeared twice, maybe trice[didn't reach that far down] with less Karma.

What are your suggestions for increasing our female population?

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

These meta posts -- users sliced and diced by karma, what makes a good rating system, the role of humor (or lack of it) in a successful social site -- always appeal to my inner data nerd. It's got a bit of everything: programming, stats, html5, and, well, me. As a startup junkie, I'm all for anything that brings attention for my various efforts, like http://hn-books.com or http://caption-of-the-day.com

I'd like to see a live twitter feed of the top HNers, but not just their comments here, also their public posts on FB, G+, and Twitter. To bring the volume down to size, I'd filter out the bottom 90% by karma, then maybe filter again by average. If you really wanted to nerd out, you could even allow the user to have some sliders to set their own thresholds. Seems like it would be an easy project to put together (hint, hint)

I'm concerned about privacy in a big way. I know some would find my idea pretty uncomfortable, but I've long since decided that what I put on the net is my public life. I worry a lot more about my insurance company asking me to install tracking GPS devices or my local police force being able to check my ISP logs without judicial review. I'm okay with the things I made public being correlated. It's access to the stuff I feel is private without notice that concerns me a lot.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by 0x12 » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:21 PM UTC

timr wrote: post #31

I'm a fairly private guy, and I find this a bit creepy. I've never been more glad that I don't have a Twitter profile. (Which is not to say that I think that the developer is doing something wrong , or even unethical: if you have a Twitter profile with your picture on it, one could fairly argue that you've made a contract with the world that the information is public. But all the same, stuff like this makes me want d…

Wait until someone gets the bright idea to mine all your past comments for factoids and pieces together your unauthorized biography.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by veyron » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:22 PM UTC

Locke1689 wrote: post #19

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi. Thanks for noticing. The reason is that standard Hacker News profiles don't have photos or real names. Therefore I focused on the 1000 Hacker News profiles that have such data (by stating their twitter profiles). Notice that HNSearch API limits the amount of responses to 1000, but this has nothing to do with the current limit (you can hack this limit by sorting ascending and descending). But the limit was not rea…

Interesting... it seems you must have some other criteria because my (admittedly woefully outdated) profile lists my (admittedly neglected) Twitter account, but I don't see myself on there. ~5000 karma should put me only a couple pages in.

No its because he's using HN search. I would venture to guess that most of your karma is driven by comments, for which HNS records as 1 karma (comment karma is hidden, so HNS can't get that info and assumes 1 )

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by DanielRibeiro » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:26 PM UTC

palish wrote: post #26

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a viewport meta tag. Sorry that the page doesn't work great on iphone. I am working on making the layout scale, and the page leaner for iphone. My nexus S views it just fine, but even it could use a better page.

No no.. We don't need a "lean" iPhone layout. The iPhone is designed to view webpages. So make it a standard webpage. No special casing. =) But... Really, just strip out the meta stuff for now. It's unusable on iPhone at the moment.

Ok. I've uploaded a new verion without viewport and without the overlay for mobile phones. Let me know how it works out for you.

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by palish » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:32 PM UTC

DanielRibeiro wrote: post #38

palish wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No no.. We don't need a "lean" iPhone layout. The iPhone is designed to view webpages. So make it a standard webpage. No special casing. =) But... Really, just strip out the meta stuff for now. It's unusable on iPhone at the moment.

Ok. I've uploaded a new verion without viewport and without the overlay for mobile phones. Let me know how it works out for you.

It works!! It worksitworksitworks.

The layout in fact could not be more perfect on an iPhone.

Tell us whatever you did, so that we can refer other people to do the same, please!

Re: Show HN: The users behind Hacker News

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Post by davidw » Sun, Oct 16, 2011, 7:36 PM UTC

timr wrote: post #31

I'm a fairly private guy, and I find this a bit creepy. I've never been more glad that I don't have a Twitter profile. (Which is not to say that I think that the developer is doing something wrong , or even unethical: if you have a Twitter profile with your picture on it, one could fairly argue that you've made a contract with the world that the information is public. But all the same, stuff like this makes me want d…

The trick is to either hide everything, or flood the internet with so much stuff that it's just a pain in the neck to really stalk you much beyond what you post in very obvious places such as profiles.