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Someone should make a +1 function with a GRE question as a captcha.

A web for the rest of us!

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... That seems one way for a non-Chinese investor to put chips on that number.

Geez investing is so cynical. :/

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.

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

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?

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 of these are empty. There are limits to how much they can invest overseas, and I believe investment in real-estate is greatly increased by this.

I feel they have a real-estate bubble of incredible proportions. Everyone talks real-estate too much, and there are too many advertisements for new developments. I don't think this will end well.

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 converted to non-spendable clout. You get a small portion of karma everyday, which increases as you have more clout (and followers, another aspect I added). If you have spent all your karma, you cannot submit stories until you earn some. Here I was trying to limit the effect of users that are new, and of those that have not contributed appreciated content or comments.

That said, you've got me rethinking the idea of karma for submissions... It might be better to have submissions only increase clout. -Therefore, it will only slightly increase a user's karma-earning rate. Good comments will be the best way to get karma. Yes. I am going to try that. Thanks!

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 interaction and capturing moments. Catchit, lifeline, keeple, or something similar. -Keeple is pretty awesome, actually. :)

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.

Some day, I want to release another edition of the game as a tablet app.

-Cheers

BitCoins for cash seems a bit suspect. :) Cash? No checks? No registered mail?

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Ok, I am hanging here. What's your favorite RPG?

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.

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.

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

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 bunch of them and bounce things off of them until you see their light bulb turn on. Best of luck!

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 agree that /r/ doesn't quite do it. Some of the communities are just too small to pick up on some very good submissions.

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 more noob-friendly rstat.us is, the better their chances.

They've actually done much better than most, but it really can't be dumbed down enough. There should be a clear barrier between text for developers, and text for everyone else. I really wish them luck. It's a noble effort.

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 would either overlook topics that might be needed, or create redundancies. My site is still too small to see if it works well. I'm not a big fan of the subreddit approach, as I think it divides submissions and attention to a large extent.

>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, I am not sure how helpful it would be. I would be interested in a custom feed that follows people on HN though. -I have that implemented on my version.

There are some people on Hacker News, where I would like to keep tabs on everything they submit, whether it hits the front page or not.

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 more to offer, and it is coming back in bioscience, tech, the arts, and manufacturing, automotive and non-automotive.

The city might look like rock-bottom to outsiders, but something is brewing. In 5 years, the headline will be 'is Detroit making a comeback?'.

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. It is a dialect of Lisp. I love the language actually, but there isn't too much support. I'm just learning. I think I might try another language for my next project.

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 following topics and users, rather than subhubs, is that some of the most interesting submissions might only qualify for a hub with very few readers, which is a problem I've encountered with /r/. Here, you can construct a feed in a way similar to the reddit custom frontpage, but you can choose to follow people as well as topics themselves. Thanks again for the thoughts.

-It's too bad this fell off the new page so fast. Maybe I'll try again in a few weeks after some more work. Maybe at a slower time of day too.

Thanks for the feedback, phlux. I'll try some variations with the colors.

The content is from myself, my wife, and several friends. We have a couple of dozen users atm. Hope you check back and see how things progress.

clickable: http://hubski.com

Ha. My wife would kill me if I was working on yet another thing. :) But if your looking for feedback, I'd be happy to share some. Email in my about.

This is nice. I think crowd-sourced analysis is a massive resource that has not been investigated nearly enough. I would love to browse feedback on PubMed papers, as it could really save time.

Perhaps by incorporating a Methods Exchange of some sort, you might be able to draw in the Life Science folk a bit more. Although we are cagey about our pubs, we are pretty open to talk about methodology. That could be a project of its own, but the angle might be worth considering.

Best of luck. Bookmarked.

I deleted my account a couple of months ago. After a few years, I got nothing out of it. My gmail serves as a better contact list. My day job is research, and linkedin doesn't serve our type of networking very well. It's more business-oriented.

As for my work outside of research, I don't want to cross-advertise in one place.

I think this is close to the truth. Even from the outside Reddit seems a tangle of functionality.

My guess is that there are leaks that have lingered for quite some time.

It is a fantastic site, but I have the feeling that leaving it has been a relief for those that have. I might be wrong. A bit drunk.

I absolutely agree. However, to be honest, I didn't realize it until I read your comment. Maybe it's because I am still working on my morning coffee, but I read the TC post, thought "bummer for Digg", and moved on.

This is what makes a site like HN so great. Crowd-sourcing news analysis provides for such a better experience. I'm still working on my coffee, but I think HN is pointing towards the future of news.

This I could get into. I've never had a FB account, but if I can really maintain walls between spheres of contacts, I will be giving circles a try.

Gmail integration wouldn't hurt either.