A Collaborative Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Prediction Problems · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1111.2664/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTA Collaborative Mechanism for Crowdsourcing Prediction Problems — mentioned by noelwelshhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3810205urn:hackerpapers:mention:1111.2664:3810205Sat, 07 Apr 2012 06:45:39 GMT<p>Good to see the Netflix prize paid off for Netflix. In pure terms of hourly rate, Netflix managed to get some of the smartest people in the world to work for less than chump change. In those terms alone it was a huge success, but the Netflix prize also pushed forward the field so really no-one was exploited. The same idea is been commercialised by Kaggle (http://www.kaggle.com/) but there are several issues. Of course there is less up-take as the idea is no longer novel and the prizes are less. More than that, I think people are realising that winner-takes-all sucks, and the winning entries…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1111.2664/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.LG