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by markkat 15y ago
I use something much like this on my forum and it seems to work well. People only need a general idea of the score for it to be informative of value.
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by markkat 15y ago
I have BitCoins, so this only is of benefit to me; but I have the feeling that stories about BitCoins are being promoted on HN, not only for the community's interest in BitCoin, but in an effort to pump the exposure to increase awareness an
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by markkat 15y ago
>but it's important to recognize the adaptability of our sensory systems to fundamentally 'new' ways of interacting with the world. I'd say in most cases, good design asks us to adapt less, rather than more. Keyboards have finger-sized
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by markkat 15y ago
I think you can change interface, but you can't fundamentally change our sensory organs or how we process information (at least not with an app). We have a biological bias to certain interfaces.
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by markkat 15y ago
Personally, I prefer to discuss content on another site. Not because their commenting systems are better, but because I have a wide range of interests, and it is more convenient for me to discuss information where any content can come in. A
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by markkat 15y ago
Don't stop working on things. That's it. It's habit-forming, actually. Just get over the hump.
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by markkat 15y ago
Maybe. I haven’t seen any evidence as of yet, but it is early. Also, the effect of followers/clout upon karma is pretty conservative. Another way around that is that eventually, I expect that people will be as interested or more interested
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by markkat 15y ago
That's quite a bit. I guess even a google account would be a big boost. Thanks for the info.
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by markkat 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. You are probably right. I see tagmask uses them. Have you noticed an effect? Community sites are always plagued by the chicken/egg problem, so removing any friction is probably worth the effort. In the case of Hub
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by markkat 15y ago
Thanks dagski. It's appreciated.
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Show HN: Hubski: part blog, part news-aggregator, part social-feed.
12 points by markkat 15y ago|9 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
It's beautiful. I don't know if Craigslist is the optimal medium, but I like looking at it. Nice work!
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What is existence?(hubski.com)
2 points by markkat 15y ago|0 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
Dealing with 3 tons of flagstone my wife ordered and one of a list of things for hubski.com.
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George Soros: Why I agree with (some of) Friedrich Hayek(politico.com)
14 points by markkat 15y ago|8 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
Winking at a shill account is pretty meta. Your shill calling you on it is even more meta. Whoa.
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by markkat 15y ago
Well that decides that then. :)
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by markkat 15y ago
I do it for the submitter on my site. I understand why some might think it is controversial, however. Actually, it might be best to keep it to comments only. -That's user created content. I'm going to consider that for my site. Thanks.
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by markkat 15y ago
HN could allow us to put a flattr link in our submissions. I've done it for my site, crickets so far... There is a similar service for Bitcoin that I am thinking about adding. That might be more interesting.
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by markkat 15y ago
Down-to-earth cool guy. Reddit owes a lot of what it is to him. I can't see how the community won't benefit from this. Congrats Alexis.
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by markkat 15y ago
>I think this is definitely the edge of a huge new market. I agree. I also feel that we are going to see uses of this information that we haven't considered yet. Urban planning seems a very low-hanging fruit. I'd bet you can predict cri
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by markkat 15y ago
PG might consider doing something similar to what I am doing on Hubski ( http://hubski.com ). -Scores have ranged values, only the user sees their absolute score. Maybe I can give something in return for the great source code. :) Thanks PG.
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by markkat 15y ago
And yet, almost no one knows of them. What will be interesting, is if/when the average person is aware of them. As it is a border-less currency, that's a lot of average people. IMO, the great thing is, we will get to find out what happens.
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by markkat 15y ago
>How does that make sense? If the supply is decreasing and competition for it simultaneously increasing, how does that make it less valuable (even in the cynical view of the PhD as a commodity)? A degree is a commodity. The education be
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by markkat 15y ago
I do believe that word is spreading amongst possible students about the actual value of a graduate education. I feel that my PhD is valuable, but not execptionally so. I could be earning much more now had I just gone into the job market. Ho
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by markkat 15y ago
I don't mean a phone call to stop ff, just tracking the positions of the phones to prevent it.
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by markkat 15y ago
I think a large part of the motivation is to limit friendly fire. My father served in Vietnam. He said he was shot at by the US much more often than by the VC. Once he and a pal were sent to guard the perimeter. Just after they got into pos
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US Army picks Android to power its first smartphone(arstechnica.com)
24 points by markkat 15y ago|26 comments
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by markkat 15y ago
>I'm not convinced that even developers are.. and I'm picking my words with trepidation here.. sophisticated enough to put together queries, filters or even collections of topics in the main. Absolutely. Human curation feels right, be
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by markkat 15y ago
> Yes, but as any cognitive psychology banks his career on... we are also information-seeking creatures: basing survival strategies on our ability to predict, control, and assess the degree of our control, etc. That is actually to my p

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