How did you answer the final application question?! • Hacker News Board

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by adamsmith » Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 4:15 AM UTC

I crawled the MIT facebook and built a friendship predictor that will take guesses at who, out of the people you are not currently listed as being friends with, you actually are friends with in real life. People's traits (age, sex, home state, etc.) are significantly less predictive than how close you are on the [ friendship / class / photo / group ] network. In descending order of predictive power, the most important traits when considering two people as potential friends are:

how many friends you have in common how many pictures you simultaneously appear in how many classes you have together relationship status looking for (e.g. friendship, dating, random play) how many facebook groups you have in common

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by mauricecheeks » Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 7:32 AM UTC

Sleep is a dumb waste of time.

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by rms » Tue, Apr 03, 2007, 9:25 AM UTC

juwo wrote: post #15

python_kiss wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Van Gogh Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable.

python_kiss wrote, "Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable". Only if you do not know what the purpose of life is. http://juwo.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-purpose-of-life.html

Jesus is more insignificant to the universe than you and me.

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by juwo » Thu, Apr 05, 2007, 3:15 AM UTC

rms wrote: post #23

juwo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

python_kiss wrote, "Images of galaxy clusters always sadden me. Our insignificance in the Universe is laughable". Only if you do not know what the purpose of life is. http://juwo.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-purpose-of-life.html

Jesus is more insignificant to the universe than you and me.

"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together."

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201:1...;

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by rms » Sun, Apr 08, 2007, 10:20 AM UTC

juwo wrote: post #24

rms wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus is more insignificant to the universe than you and me.

"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201:1... ;

That doesn't make any sense.

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by juwo » Mon, Apr 16, 2007, 3:55 AM UTC

rms wrote: post #25

juwo wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians%201:1... ;

That doesn't make any sense.

"all things" == Universe

Re: How did you answer the final application question?!

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Post by juwo » Mon, Apr 16, 2007, 4:00 AM UTC

immad wrote: post #18

cwilbur wrote: post #17

I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trite when I first filled out the form, so I left it blank and decided to come back to it later. (As far as I'm concerned it's a long shot. I don't think my idea and my goals for my business line up that well with what YC is really looking for, based on what they've done in the past. So I filled out the form more for myself than for them.) But then I thought of the best…

The deadline is yet to arrive. is you mesage from the future?

LOL!!!