Apostolos Tsakpinis

"Hi Fred, It is intresting that you mention this, I had been thinking about the same problem for a while. As a specific category of posts in every blog is about typos, there should be a 'corrections interaction channel' seperate from the 'comments interaction channel' as corrections generally do not contribute to the conversation. The way I was thinking about this being implemented is that the posts are essentially editable (or easy to turn to edit-mode), with anyone being able to submit small correction diffs. these would get gathered similarly to comments but in their own queue that could be public or private only to you. duplicate submissions essentially count as 'vote ups'. The application of the diffs is a painful subject. Perhaps the MTurk approach, perhaps through high-reputation users who can OK some changes (but leave the more challenging/ambiguous ones for you), perhaps once a correction reaches a vote threshold or a combination method. Whatever method of application is..." - alexandros marinos

"What a strange thing for a Greek to read on hacker news. Being in Athens I must say the riots have certainly subsided by now and a semblance of normality is back on the streets, at least until the holidays are out. Other than that, the analysis was pretty good if simplified to fit the size of the article. One thing that does not come out is that the youth is very leftist, very much against privatization and market solutions, perhaps due to the horible way this has gone in the past. Although I personally would hope for a libertarian direction, I am in a very tiny sliver of the population. In all honesty, between state ownership and a capitalism beholden to a small number of powerful families, I am not sure what is worse. It's hard to tell if greece is a 'last of the mohicans' kind of country where the social fabric is still strong and therefore a lot of 'law and order' policies where the govt cracks down on the people are less tolerated, or if it is a first of a new phase of unrest all..." - alexandros marinos

"the video can be seen here:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=..." - alexandros marinos

"Should I worry that I immediately started thinking how this would combine with seasteading?" - alexandros marinos

"It's incredible to me how anyone gets away with doing predictions without a corresponding article like this afterwards documenting their (lack of) success. We only hear about predictions when they are accurate." - alexandros marinos

"Extremely intresting article on how digg users have managed to bend the algorithm to their whims. I wonder if any social news site is really immune to this." - alexandros marinos

"Anyone else notice it's hosted on Google Video? :)" - alexandros marinos

"I do know what the paper is but I am sorry to say, it's still a strawman in this case." - alexandros marinos

"Of course not. But the title might be slightly misleading and not tolerating inaccuracy is best for everyone concerned in the long run." - alexandros marinos

"That's what I thought too at first but the journal instructions have it covered: "At least one stub article (essentially an extended abstract) for the paper should be added to either an author's userspace at Wikipedia (preferred route) or added directly to the main Wikipedia space (be sure to add literature references to avoid speedy deletion)."" - alexandros marinos

"Thank you for filling in the details. It's amazing how fast they moved and were able to make a cool £5k and tons of publicity. If anything it shows very good thinking even if a bit opportunistic." - alexandros marinos

"Anyone have any idea what the comment about Denmark and France alluded to?" - alexandros marinos

"wow, this looks impressive. how long did it take you to get this far? Me and a friend are looking for a good php framework to build an application on. Any idea on when this will be out? The support for methods and paths is very cool. Is there any support for media types/content negotiation?" - alexandros marinos

"Intresting question, but the feasibility of it is not dependent on my ability to give a good answer. Regardless, I'll give it a shot for argument's sake. Of course everything you say is valid. you would need to do these things. I would also mine all the successes, details of interview process and characteristics of successful applicants and their applications for commonalities and then see how many of these can be easily added to an application for 'bonus points'. Of course it depends on how black-hat you want to get about this. The first thing that came to my mind though, having read pg's essays, would be 'teach them LISP' :)" - alexandros marinos

"This may well be the beachhead for the introduction of firefox into some hardcore IE-only businesses. Which can only be a good thing." - alexandros marinos

"I am almost certain Zittrain had prophecised an extension of the tethered iphone model to the desktop. Intresting turn of events if it comes to pass." - alexandros marinos

"Paul seems to be hitting on the optimization by proxy issues seen in many areas, even in pagerank. Google looks not for quality of a page but for indicators of that quality, namely inbound links by quality websites. Similarly exams and credentials do the same. If you can write about these books, you know literature. If you got a degree there, you must be very capable. And in the first generation it works. However, as people become aware of the ranking mechanism, they try to get ahead by overoptimizing for the narrow areas inspected. So pages do linkfarms and black-hat SEO, students goto cram schools, etc. etc. essentially producing the exact opposite of what was initially sought. I believe Joel spolsky had a good article on a simillar pattern in sales. The question is if an algorithm that affects its input data can be made so that it adapts to the changes and gradually reaches some kind of equilibrium with the input data or stabilizes in some other way. As paul suggests, one way would..." - alexandros marinos

"Just because it has not worked until now, does not mean we stop trying. Unless there is proof of impossibility, we should try new attacks. In fact, languages have been getting more and more high level, so we are getting there, albeit slowly. If 4GLs, Case and MDA jumped the gun, that is another story entirely." - alexandros marinos

"only the code is not accessible to the busines owner to audit, validate or change. Presumably the business analyst would produce something more accessible. Also, the 'extra bits' [aka. modeling bias] added by the programmer may or may not have been vetted by the owner. I do not believe that today's business analysts are what is needed and I agree that programmers have to step in many times to do their work. I am just saying that in principle, that is what the BA should do. If these are core skills of programmers, maybe that is our future vocation, when a language hi-level enough comes around." - alexandros marinos

"Shouldn't a good business analyst be able to do this? Given a business with no information system, shouldn't policy be consistent anyway?" - alexandros marinos