markkat

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   by markkat 15y ago

   Interesting thoughts. Personally, I think that we need to look more at the nature of ourselves, and less at the nature of the information. We are social creatures that have evolved to interact in a certain way. Part of the information overl
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   Have robots closed the window on human space exploration?(hubski.com)

   1 points by markkat 15y ago|0 comments
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   by markkat 15y ago

   Here's how I am doing it: Grab an open-source program (in a space that interests you), figure out how to get it running, then mess with it. Keep changing it and messing with it. After time, you will begin to understand more, and gain confid
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   by markkat 15y ago

   I think a flattr like service that uses Bitcoins would be great. It might be a good way to increase circulation too.
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   by markkat 16y ago

   Thanks for pointing these out mikhailfranco and arethuza. I'm the author of the linked post. I'll be giving them a read. Just scanning them now, I think they will be very helpful.
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   by markkat 16y ago

   Hubski, a thoughtful content forum built on the HN code. Much more to do, but you can follow people and topics, and a bunch of other things. http://hubski.com
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   by markkat 16y ago

   Alexa shows something similar, but it's pretty noisy: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/techcrunch.com# I don't think the content has changed much, and TC is still my preferred "big tech blog". But FB comments decreased my visiting quite a bi
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   by markkat 16y ago

   Awesome. Testing spam filter. :)
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   by markkat 16y ago

   Someone should make a +1 function with a GRE question as a captcha. A web for the rest of us!
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I don't believe it is possible. I've considered alternate ways of leveraging this. Right now the Australian dollar is supposedly propped up high by selling commodities to China: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/128654/20110330/australian-d.
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Fantastic site. I think I am going to pick up online chess again. Really nice work. Could you put some contact info in your about? I'll send some feedback after I use it for some time.
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I don't have a SO account. Do you mean when someone downvotes you, or when you downvote someone else? Or both?
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I really expected to find some mention of quantum computing in this article. Could probability of spin states (or some other state) be used in this paradigm?
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    by markkat 16y ago

    My wife is from Dalian. I've spent a lot of time there, -nice city. I just returned from Shanghai and Sanya. There are a lot of dark apartments in Shanghai at night. I know a few Chinese who own multiple apartments, some more than 10, most
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I've built a HN-based site that uses karma as a currency, which I submitted a week ago, to little fanfare :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359935 In the scheme I'm trying, it costs you karma to upvote or downvote, which gets conver
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Agreed. I do think domain names are valuable. However, they could have spent their money better. Probably less money too. The name color doesn't evoke anything to the purpose. I would have gone with something that speaks to social interacti
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Ah, I've always wanted to play Traveler. I started working on a space-faring game myself, but lost the time to other projects. I did make a new old-school fantasy rpg a few years ago, though. It's called Wayfarers. My nome de plume is Swill
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    by markkat 16y ago

    BitCoins for cash seems a bit suspect. :) Cash? No checks? No registered mail?
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    by markkat 16y ago

    ... Ok, I am hanging here. What's your favorite RPG?
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    by markkat 16y ago

    This was my thought as well. And thus, I think it's hard to see how they are in competition with each other, aside from competing for users' attention in general.
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I think it is an interesting concept. What are some scenarios where you think this might be used? You might want to provide some examples of the site. You could use a stronger call to action.
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Smart kid, but integration by parts is a long way from a good alternate theory of relativity.
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Cool! I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys come up with. Like I said, what you have gives the impression that it's on your mind. The underlying concept is actually a pretty heady idea to non-tech folk. It might not hurt to get a bunc
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I'm trying something very similar in a hack of news.arc. I submitted this just yesterday, but it fell of the new page pretty fast: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2359935 I don't have enough data yet to tell if it works well though. I
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I think they should consult some people with strong experience in marketing in order to present this in the most concise and approachable manner as possible. Their biggest hurdle is going to be apathy due to a lack of comprehension. The mor
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Yes, you might be right. In fact, it might be a good way for the site to provide both with a little bit less competition between tech and non-tech posts. The tough part is getting tags right. I went the organic route, as I assumed that I wo
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    by markkat 16y ago

    >Here's something I prepared earlier: I'm working on a site based on news.arc that has tags. They can be followed, and used to sort stories. http://hubski.com However, hubski is a general news site. Since HN has a focus to begin with,
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Great link-bait headline, but nothing more than the census numbers. I'm in Detroit. I just ate lunch at Slows, which was packed as usual. Detroit goes as does manufacturing, and the last decade was harsh. However, the city has increasingly
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    by markkat 16y ago

    Hm. That gives me an idea. Maybe I could build an alternate 'followed tags' page that have a view broken up like that. Each box would be the content from a different tag. -Thanks for pointing that out. I'm using Arc, which HN is written in.
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    by markkat 16y ago

    I agree that a feed of these might be useful. One of the functions on my shortlist is an RSS feed of your hubfeed. That way you can get filtered content from Hubski, not so much of a fire-hose. One reason why I took the approach of followin