A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma to post

Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by wensing on Friday September 07, 2012 @11:06AM (#4489450)

  def cutoff():
    return min([leader.age for leader in get_leaders("http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders")]

I leave you to define get_leaders. :)

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Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by tommi on Friday September 07, 2012 @01:36PM (#4490229)

Or, as humans would say that, the cutoff could be the youngest of leaders.

However, that really doesn't answer the problem when you don't define what a leader is. If it's the highest amount of Karma past 7 days, then the youngest leader could even be a day old user. Please respond with solutions, not http wrappers.

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Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by wensing on Friday September 07, 2012 @02:46PM (#4490567)

If you go to the URL in the code, it defines what a leader is: the 100 people with the highest karma. By define get_leaders I meant write the scraper, not come up with the definition. Heh!

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Re:A proposal for improving HN : it should cost a user Karma... by tekacsYC on Friday September 07, 2012 @04:11PM (#4490954)

574 days and it's llambda

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