Re:Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back
by gus_massa on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:04AM
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I like the analysis, but I wonder if the criteria is week enough to detect the dupes from medium.com , because medium adds some tracking crap to the URL that confuses the dupe detector of HN. For example see: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20Peeked%20into%20My%20Node_... (this list doesn't include many dupes that were detected and marked).
A problem with this analysis is that it doesn't count the dupes that never had a sibling that get to the front page. Counting it would modify the distribution of some domains and submitters.
Re:Data Mining Hacker News: Front vs. Back
by mutagen on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @06:38PM
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The first number might be a document version, the second is most certainly a tracking number. Load that first link in a few successive tabs and see how you get a different one each time.
A problem with this analysis is that it doesn't count the dupes that never had a sibling that get to the front page. Counting it would modify the distribution of some domains and submitters.