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maurits on May 28, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How exactly does Hacker News 'points' work...

Counting up and down votes is a surprisingly interesting problem.

If you are interested, have a look at chapter 4 of Probabilistic Programming and Bayesian Methods for Hackers [1].

[1]: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/CamDavidsonPilon/Probabil...

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