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Arvind Narayanan
Personal blog · arvindn.livejournal.comculturephilosophy
Arvind Narayanan's personal blog at arvindn.livejournal.com covers culture and philosophy. Since 2008, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 47 times, most often “The calculus of caffeine consumption”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Arvind Narayanan's LiveJournal is linked mainly for posts on caffeine usage strategy, plus posts on StumbleUpon traffic quality and Delicious data sharing. The caffeine post is the one most often pointed to.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The calculus of caffeine consumption7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2008-11-17
- StumbleUpon Considered Harmful2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-25
What Hacker News says?
Of course this assumes that users would want to migrate their data to a replacement service. Or, for that matter, that users would share their tags with researchers who build on social tagging data: http://groups.google.com/group/get-theinfo/browse_thread/thr... Here is a (scraped?) delicious data set, for those who are interested: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/116137.html
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on “Hey Yahoo, Can you please open source Delicious?”Submitted Why read books if we can’t remember what’s in them? as a story · 106 points
HN discussionPossibly inspired by Pypes: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/68137.html
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on “Pipe: Infix syntax for Python”Submitted The calculus of caffeine consumption as a story · 80 points
HN discussionIn a previous life as a math nerd, I used to do memory and mental arithmetic tricks, so this post rings true -- i.e, these calculations are all in fact easy to do with practice, even if they might not appear to be so at first. It appears that the only way to make math cool is by focusing on the least useful part of it, and further, by giving it an aura of mystery by making exaggerated or false claims, when in fact t…
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on “Debunking Daniel Tammet”Submitted Lessons from the failure of Livejournal: when not to listen to your users as a story · 72 points
HN discussionIf this sort of thing is fascinating to you, and you consume caffeine, you absolutely must spend the short time to learn about antagonistic and reinforcing caffeine usage. I've read a few papers on it, but I'm not finding any of the best ones by googling. This link has a short overview though: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/57651.html > What is common to these tasks is that progress happens in spurts, due to the fac…
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on “Next Big Thing in health care: chronotherapy”Submitted Harvesting email addresses surreptitiously as a story · 68 points
HN discussionMan, this never gets old. Every time I see it work on a different dataset, it's as surprising as the first time I saw it. Recently I plotted supermodel incomes. It was an amazingly good fit. http://arvindn.livejournal.com/98510.html
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on “Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of Curious Mathematical Phenomenon”Submitted Is Chess with Queen Odds a Provable Win? as a story · 52 points
HN discussionHonestly, this data should be free, and available to researchers who work on social tagging. You should contribute your bookmarks to a public data set. http://bulk.archive.org has offered to host such data sets. Someone should build a webservice that allows you to easily share your delicious tags. If no one steps up, you can simply email me your export (turian at gmail), and I'll package up whatever I receive. Here…
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on “Export your bookmarks from delicious”Submitted Amazon is not the enemy as a story · 49 points
HN discussionYou can do that yourself for pretty much any site with the Stylish extension for Firefox, which lets you tweak CSS of websites you visit. It turns out to be surprisingly easy to write your own color scheme or whatever. I actually use my own for hacker news because the default one makes it hard to see the links on the front page that I've already clicked on. http://arvindn.livejournal.com/98803.html
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on “Hacker News goes Christmas”Submitted Thoughts on the Y Combinator interview process as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThis is awesome. I've been looking for something similar, I wrote about this last year: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/89794.html Luckily I have a G1. I'm installing Locale right now.
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on “1 Million Google Android Phones sold by T-Mobile”Submitted The death of the printed book is closer than you think as a story · 33 points
HN discussionBut what sort of traffic? See, e.g., Arvind's comments on StumbleUpon visitors: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/133249.html To quote the takeaway, "most of the traffic generated by StumbleUpon users to any given site is going to be low quality because the dopamine junkies make 100x more clicks".
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on “Is Stumbleupon referring more traffic than Facebook?”Submitted The anatomy of a privacy meme as a story · 29 points
HN discussionAn interesting and very different take on caffeine consumption strategy was posted here a while ago: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/57651.html The idea is that you should use caffeine when you're at your peak , because you want to maximize your productivity for doing really hard stuff that you normally would only accomplish when you're having a creative spurt anyway.
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on “Caffeine is a dangerous drug”Submitted Why Craigslist needs to die as a story · 25 points
HN discussionVia coffee. Scratch that; via well-planned caffeine consumption: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/57651.html
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on “How do hackers here concentrate?”Submitted Python is now Blub! Run! as a story · 23 points
HN discussionYeah, this is an important question. I currently use rememberthemilk but I feel there is a potential to do far more. I discussed this recently (my interest is more about things outside the office than inside it): http://arvindn.livejournal.com/89794.html The commenters there had some good suggestions as well.
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on “Where's the task management category killer?”Submitted How to protect your password from keyloggers as a story · 21 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bookmarklet to bypass NYT registration as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remember when being a geek meant something? as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tupper’s Self-Referential Formula Debunked as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on the future of the real-time web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Calculus of Caffeine Consumption (2007) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bioinformatics needs to be democratized as a story · 3 points
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