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Dan Nguyen
Personal blog · danwin.com · on HN as dansodataprogramming
Dan Nguyen's personal blog at danwin.com covers data and programming. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 46 times, most often “Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy?”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dan Nguyen's posts on Etsy's infinite-scroll experiment results and on De Beers' diamond marketing, mostly as sources in discussions of infinite scroll.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dan Nguyen is a computational journalist, programmer, and educator. Previously taught at Stanford Journalism and created at ProPublica
Most-linked posts?
- Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy?6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2013-01-06
- The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-01-11
- The Irrationality of Price Anchoring2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-12-26
What Hacker News says?
https://danwin.com/2010/08/how-de-beers-diamonds-won-over-th... You sure you want people to really know about "the industry"?!? I view Debears as industrious as the Casinos. They produce nothing but feelings created by predatory practices at an astonishingly high price.
Comment linking /2010/08/how-de-beers-diamonds-won-over-the-japanese-and-everyone-else/
on “Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever”Submitted Flickr's redesign makes it a photo service actually worth sharing as a story · 228 points
HN discussionHa - Hollywood/Debears infected post-war Japan too: https://danwin.com/2010/08/how-de-beers-diamonds-won-over-th... The scope of their mass brain washing is indeed staggering. Heck I have a good friend in the jewelry business and we still get into heated discussions about how he feels there is nothing wrong and how he is providing value as an agent of Debears brainwashing. It is pretty disgusting.
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on “Pandora says laboratory-made diamonds are forever”Submitted Edward Tufte’s defense of Aaron Swartz and the “marvelously different” as a story · 202 points
HN discussionI can't speak to the name (or even existence) of any fallacy that this describes, but pricing strategy you mentioned is known as price anchoring , where a higher number anchors the value against which the lower number is compared. Sometimes it's an explicit comparison of price, for or example where a higher price is offered, then "discounted" to a still high, but percieved bargain price; or a comparison of price to…
Comment linking /2011/12/the-irrationality-of-price-anchoring/
on “How I’m Making Five-Figures A Month Off Bootstrapped Products”Submitted Feynman's Clock as a story · 137 points
HN discussionWow...I can't remember being this blown away by a search development since...I don't know when (being able to Google mathematical formulas is pretty amazing, but not as everyday-useful)... I asked both Google and Siri, “How much damage did Hurricane Sandy do?” Google heard it as “How much damage did Hurricane Sandy too?” and returned with official Hurricane Sandy emergency info and latest news stories literally as I…
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on “Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS”Submitted The SOPA Debate and Congress's Understanding of Child Porn as a story · 132 points
HN discussionHere's a good piece about why it didn't work at Etsy: http://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/ A presentation that goes into some of these results is here: http://mcfunley.com/design-for-continuous-experimentation
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on “Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?”Submitted Why did infinite scroll fail at Etsy? as a story · 105 points
HN discussionTo my knowledge, the most prominent analytics-based example of where infinite scroll was harmful comes from Etsy. My most read personal blog post [1] was a summary of a great Etsy talk given by then-engineer Dan McKinley on "Design for Continuous Experimentation" in which he mentioned how infinite scroll failed at Etsy: http://mcfunley.com/design-for-continuous-experimentation One of the examples he uses was how Ets…
Comment linking /2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
on “Ask HN: Please stop making infinite scrolling websites”Submitted Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers as a story · 92 points
HN discussionhttp://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
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on “Why Infinite-Scrolling in Mobile Apps is Destroying Content Consumption”Submitted A Million Pageviews, Thousands of Dollars Poorer, and Still Countlessly Richer as a story · 58 points
HN discussionThe way I view copyright law (IANAL), this is the correct approach. Each upload of an item to Megaupload is an independent assertion by the uploader that they have a license to put the work in question on the site. _Content_ itself is not prima facie infringing; instead, it is the unlicensed _use_ of the content that is infringement. This was essentially Youtube's argument when Viacom uploaded "roughed up" content t…
Comment linking /2012/01/the-sopa-debate-and-how-its-affected-by-congresss-understanding-of-child-porn/
on “MegaUpload complaint has Dropbox Implications”Submitted Woz and Religion as a story · 17 points
HN discussionAlthough as a counterpoint, infinite scroll wasn't successful at Etsy and their audience is also primarily female: http://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
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on “Why Pinterest-style layouts are worthless to everyone except Pinterest”Submitted Louis C.K.'s mass email announcing two more $5-DRM-free comedy recordings as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://danwin.com/2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
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on “Chromium proposal for browser-level infinite scrolling lists: Lazy Block Layout”Submitted To find insights: ask the cage cleaners, not the veterinarians as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou reminded me that I had wanted to mention my observations about pageviews, so I added them to the post: http://danwin.com/2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-d... The answer: I don't know. Besides frequently uploading to Flickr, I don't take advantage of many of the social features...I notice I get very few comments on even my highly trafficked photos. I'm guessing this is because a good portion of traffic c…
Comment linking /2012/01/a-million-pageviews-thousands-of-dollars-poorer-and-still-countlessly-richer/
on “A Million Pageviews, Thousands of Dollars Poorer, and Still Countlessly Richer”Submitted Fashionistas (and bureaucrats and journalists): Please learn to code as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://danwin.com It used to be more personal, but now I try to blog about things related to work, including my photography. It's Wordpress hosted on Dreamhost. It's been on HN a few times and the WP Super Cache plugin has handled it like a breeze. I've always thought about changing everything to Octopress, but as long as Wordpress cache plugins work as promised, I guess there's not much need to
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on “Ask HN: What's your blog?”Submitted The Irrationality of Price Anchoring as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCould have used etsy's help back in 2013: “Seeing more items faster is presumed to be a better experience”, McKinley said. But the A/B tests showed various negative effects of the feature, including fewer clicks on the results and fewer items “favorited” from the infinite results page. And curiously, while users didn’t buy fewer items overall, “they just stopped using search to find these items.” http://danwin.com/2…
Comment linking /2013/01/infinite-scroll-fail-etsy/
on “Google dropping continuous scroll in search results”- Mz · 2014-08-30
Submitted Coding for Journalists 101: Go from knowing nothing to scraping Web pages as a story · 3 points
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite personal sites?”Submitted Fashionistas (and bureaucrats and journalists): Please learn to code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coding for Absolute Beginner as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unix for Journalism – Computational Methods in the Civic Sphere as a story · 2 points
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