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Tell HN: Congratulations Thomas, tptacek new #1 on HN

15 pointsjacquesm20 comments

It looks like Thomas has taken the number one spot.

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Want to be like me? Let me show you how; here, in order, are the first ~60 comments SearchYC finds for my username. I'd like to think they tell a little story about me.

:) :) No. Nonsensical. …and? Ghostbusters. Congratulations! No. Yes. No? Not at this event. Why? Conceded. No. Diaspora. Example? Because? No. Delegate. Yes. No. YC. No. Ew. Why? Amazon. Why? CHEATER! Homeschooling? Lame. Why? Hire. Preposterous. Huh? Yep. Thanks! How? Burned! Thanks. Sure. Yes. And C++. Because? Ouch. Why? Freelancing. …because? Yep. Yes. The game. No. No. Sure. Yep. No. No. Huh? And? And? Douche. REMARKABLY NO. Uh oh.

I see your ploy here, Jacques. :P

Haha, you had me wondering there, but sure, why not, have an upvote on me :)

Congrats...btw, does anyone know who else besides pg doesn't show up on that list?

I don't. ?

You don't know or you don't show ;)?

I don't know who else explicitly doesn't show up, but names drop off the list if they haven't been active on the site for a period of time (a few months, I think).

I think I read somewhere that it's 60 days (IE if you haven't posted -- or maybe logged in -- in 60 days, you are dropped). Anyone want to confirm or deny?

Found pg's original comment via searchyc.com - it used to be 100 days; that may have changed though : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048468

Thanks! I just did a little searching on searchyc.com and can't find anything which contradicts that or indicates it has changed.

I have Swiss cheese for brains these days... :-/

I think I read a pg comment sometime that all moderators wouldn't show up in that list (even if their karma would place them).

Corr(HackerNewsKarma, HackingAbility) = 0.0.

I suspect that you might not be very familiar with Tom. Stay tuned and you will find there is much to learn.

Well, technically speaking, 0 correlation isn't an insult. It just means HN karma says nothing about your hacking ability.

If, OTOH, he said Corr(HackerNewsKarma, HackingAbility) = -1.0...

Thanks, exactly right. That wasn't meant at all as an insult against Tom (or anyone else). It's just that on HN it's easy to develop a tendency to try to amass karma and lose sight of doing what's really relevant to perfecting our craft.

double take Wow. The spread of the "average" column is not what i would have naively expected.

It fluctuates wildly, grellas, patio11 and wheels are usually pretty high.

It's some kind of weighted average of recent posts, as opposed to an all-time average, so it can change a lot day to day.

Congrats!

Congrats from Chicago!

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