dcy

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   by dcy 12y ago

   I agree. The site does seem a little one-dimensional but (assuming the moderators are okay with it) I can see it grow into a "hacker news for grad students" .
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   by dcy 12y ago

   1.'Grad students' is a misnomer. I should've known better. 2.Ideally HN would've been the internet utopia that the intelligentsia turned to for respite and nourishment. But if HN(algorithm+users) performs a filtering fun
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   A Hacker News for grad students?

   76 points by dcy 12y ago|43 comments
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   Program bots in Scala to play against other player bots in an RTS game(scalatron.github.io)

   3 points by dcy 12y ago|0 comments
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   by dcy 13y ago

   I'd say the Malaysian flight disappearing/crashing-into-the-ocean is 'important' news. Here it is of global relevance because of the catastrophic nature of the incident, but one could easily argue that a series of break-
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   by dcy 13y ago

   Also crowd-sourced news seems to be the elusive puzzle that everyone seems to be trying to solve (what with facebook's new trending feature), but no one has quite figured out how . It's a unique problem in that it is just as hard
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   by dcy 13y ago

   No I don't. At least not all the time. I just started with the assumption that getting real-time quality news is the shining light at the end of the news tunnel. Which seems like a reasonable assumption considering that every innovatio
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   The future of crowd-sourced news?

   2 points by dcy 13y ago|6 comments