8^8 – Find another you

Post by DanBC » Sat, May 16, 2015, 8:18 AM UTC

tajen wrote: post #71

DanBC wrote: post #57

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Did you see this post and thread, asking HN to avoid gratuitous negativity? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9317916

I'm not sure why my comment seems negative to you, while the comment above doesn't. The person above was generalizing negatively about "the people here", and it seemed gratuitous because no-one had criticized the speed or the CAPTCHA before. In other words, please hellban me now, because I didn't get what was negative in my first comment.

Post by scythe » Sat, May 16, 2015, 9:00 AM UTC

eevilspock wrote: post #110

DanielStraight wrote: post #30

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Thank you for putting into clear words my gut impression that this wouldn't produce the intended result. I wonder if you couldn't do better with binary questions. I'm reminded of the site http://www.correlated.org/ . Suppose you were to ask a bunch of binary questions, and then use some statistics to find questions that have fairly evenly distributed and non-correlated results, then take 24 of the best questions by t…

okcupid does exactly this. Most of their questions are submitted by the users themselves, and they have hundreds if not thousands of them, but they present the questions to you in the order of most differentiating first. You can answer as many or as few as you want, but matches get better as you answer more, with monotonically diminishing returns. You also get to say which answers you would accept from your match (do…

Post by userbinator » Sat, May 16, 2015, 9:27 AM UTC

iyn wrote: post #39

pavel_lishin wrote: post #23

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> On the other hand, I would feel a bit bad for using up some of the "freebies" that legitimate people might miss out on I wonder what the legality of publishing their questions and answers are. If we can duplicate their questions and answers, people could find each other on twitter with a hashtag: #my8x8is{answer 1}{answer 2}...{answer 2}

I like your idea about the hashtag. I don't think that the definitive answers are the best approach (I'd prefer multiple answers), but it'd interesting if we were able to design a "format" that could be used to describe one's answers.

Post by Dewie3 » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:05 AM UTC

Post by praptak » Sat, May 16, 2015, 11:50 AM UTC

personjerry wrote: post #103

btilly wrote: post #97

Interesting idea. Bad execution. There is NO way that performance should be so bad given current load. Some of the questions are frustrating. For instance question #4 is "YOU SAVE AN OLD LADY'S LIFE. IN GRATITUDE SHE GIVES YOU $100,000. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH MOST OF IT?" The obvious answer for me is, "Save it." But all possible answers are ways to spend it or give it away. I chose "Move to a nicer neighborhood", but th…

I suspect at each POST request the website is attempting to match (and filter) against all existing results.