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“A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

#11

Post by yathern »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them? I'm greeted with http://i.imgur.com/WTeSt8s.png No, I won't sign in with Google, nor Facebook. How do the people upvoting this read the article? Do they sign in? What possible benefit is there to signing in? They're basically holding content hostage. When I defended Scribd, people came out in droves to point out how wrong it was to hold un…

There's a button right there that says 'close'. I assume you just didn't see it. Granted, I'm not a fan of this either - but it's hardly holding the content hostage.

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Post by arjie »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #9
arjie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it's because everyone knows you can add ?share=1 at the end and have it work. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lesson... Still, I'm not a fan of this either.

Perhaps HN could either do this automatically for Quora links, or simply prohibit Quora links that don't already have this added?

That would be great, in my opinion. For now I use an extension (though a Greasemonkey script would suffice).

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Post by teraflop »

yathern wrote: post #11
sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them? I'm greeted with http://i.imgur.com/WTeSt8s.png No, I won't sign in with Google, nor Facebook. How do the people upvoting this read the article? Do they sign in? What possible benefit is there to signing in? They're basically holding content hostage. When I defended Scribd, people came out in droves to point out how wrong it was to hold un…

There's a button right there that says 'close'. I assume you just didn't see it. Granted, I'm not a fan of this either - but it's hardly holding the content hostage.

Clicking "close" doesn't make the blurred-out content visible.

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Post by w1ntermute »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #9
arjie wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe it's because everyone knows you can add ?share=1 at the end and have it work. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-most-profound-life-lesson... Still, I'm not a fan of this either.

Perhaps HN could either do this automatically for Quora links, or simply prohibit Quora links that don't already have this added?

Given that Quora is in YC[0], neither of those things are likely to happen.

0: http://blog.ycombinator.com/quora-in-the-next-yc-batch

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

#15

Post by isaacdl »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them? I'm greeted with http://i.imgur.com/WTeSt8s.png No, I won't sign in with Google, nor Facebook. How do the people upvoting this read the article? Do they sign in? What possible benefit is there to signing in? They're basically holding content hostage. When I defended Scribd, people came out in droves to point out how wrong it was to hold un…

I just clicked on the whitespace away from/off of the login popup - it disappeared and I could read all the text.

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Post by cortesoft »

teraflop wrote: post #13
yathern wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a button right there that says 'close'. I assume you just didn't see it. Granted, I'm not a fan of this either - but it's hardly holding the content hostage.

Clicking "close" doesn't make the blurred-out content visible.

It did for me?

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Post by arasmussen »

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #4

Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them? I'm greeted with http://i.imgur.com/WTeSt8s.png No, I won't sign in with Google, nor Facebook. How do the people upvoting this read the article? Do they sign in? What possible benefit is there to signing in? They're basically holding content hostage. When I defended Scribd, people came out in droves to point out how wrong it was to hold un…

> Why do Quora articles continue to make the front page when we can't read them?

We can read them, by signing in.

> How do the people upvoting this read the article? Do they sign in?

Yes

> What possible benefit is there to signing in?

We get to read the article.

> If the HN homepage had a popup saying "Login with Google or Facebook to read all of HN," would you tolerate it?

Yes

Btw, dude, there's a close button.

Re: “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”

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Post by neumann »

arjie wrote: post #10
greenyoda wrote: post #3

One of Ousterhout's examples of this principle is something that comes up frequently on HN: "Before I came back to academia a couple of years ago I was out doing startups. What I noticed is that when people hire they are almost always hire based on experience. They're looking for somebody's resume trying to find the person who has already done the job they want them to do three times over. That's basically hiring bas…

Intriguingly, that's the opposite of what's popular on HN. HN and /r/programming posters prefer the "Look at what I've done. Here are my projects" approach which is the y-intercept because it describes where they are. Asking them a question they've never heard before and observing their approach is a way (albeit imperfect) of seeing how fast one can deal with a novel problem.

Not necessarily, it can also describe the slope, based on the timestamp of the projects.

4 years ago I did this, I did this last year, last month I tried my hand at this. However, it requires the interviewer to have the skill to extract this information during the interview and recognise the slope.

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