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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by minimaxir on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:51PM (#9765868)
> Then we'll let HN vote on the projects

You mean vote on the top-level comment submissions? That's not a good idea because comment ranking is influenced heavily by time of submission (more recent comments appear at top, so it would be smarter for startups to submit later and also it means order will not correspond to upvotes), and, more importantly, comment scores are not visible.

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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by dang on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:55PM (#9766373)
We'll rank the thread by points, not time-based rank. We won't do that until Sam and Kevin are ready to start, though. Otherwise it would be even more time-sensitive.
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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by minimaxir on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @02:06PM (#9766459)
That works :) thanks!
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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by d0m on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:57PM (#9765922)
it's okay, just give it a shot. What's the worst that can happen? (hint: We'll get smart advices from Kevin and Sam anyway)
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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by minimaxir on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:04PM (#9765974)
There's potential for confusion and missed information (e.g the Top 5 submissions are not at the top of the story thread, due to how ranking works, so it may be difficult to find sama/kevin's comments). Although a summary thread of sama/kevin's responses afterward should fix it.

Obviously I don't disapprove of the office hours, but it's always good to raise questions and concerns.

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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by JonnieCache on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:27PM (#9766180)
With HN being architected the way it is (in LISP) it might be possible for them to implement a different ranking system for a specific thread. I know pg has talked about hacking HN from a repl before.

Probably more effort than YC planned to put in though.

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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by saganus on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:33PM (#9767136)
Really? HN is implemented in Lisp? Wow. Never knew that. You have any links that talk anything about this?

This sounds interesting.

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Re:Tell HN: Kevin and I are doing HN office hours Friday fro... by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @03:48PM (#9767269)
Here's a mirror of an old version of the source: https://github.com/wting/hackernews

It's tightly knit to pg's Lisp dialect called Arc which attracted much fanfare years ago, but has since went off the radar.

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