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How do you install meteorite? I can't get this working! Frustrated!
http://docs.meteor.com/#quickstart
To me some parts of stackoverflow might appear interesting to you.
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on the topic, I dare ask for an invite to lobste.rs if someone has one lying around. I promise I won't be an ass. (Cause a week ago I reached the threshold of wanting to leave a comment enough times)
invite just sent..
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"and you're more likely to have a good comment downvoted." This has never made sense to me. On some subreddits that focus on disciplines (like AskHistorians among many others), you can easily get downvoted (ie "dissapeared") just by asking a question, let alone answering one. Other times you'll won't get upvoted nor downvoted when you've actually contributed to the discussion. In these instances I lurk even when I ca…
Reddit's voting system has two issues: (1) Lots of strategic downvoting. That's why no thread stays above 75%. It happens to comments as well as threads. Some of it is spammers trying to improve their own ranking, and some is probably just trolls. (2) "Stalker" downvoting, which is when a person retaliates to a comment by downvoting that person's contributions en masse . I wonder if they've put any machine learning m…
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If anybody wants an easy way to set up their own HN, may I suggest taking a look at Telescope? http://telesc.pe/ It's a real-time, open source HN clone built on Meteor, with features like invite-only mode, notifications, and a lot more stuff. And since it's open source, if something is missing you can always code it yourself and contribute it back to the project.
Does this have karma style points for users?
Does any RSS/Atom client exist which can subtract feeds? So you can for example add HackerNews feed and subtract feeds from /r/politics and /r/worldpolitics so only link mentioned on HackerNews and not mentioned on /r/politics or /r/worldpolitics would pass?
We have designed and built intigi.com for this exact purpose: a secret weapon for hackers to consume news. This is how it works: You tell intigi what sources (RSS feeds and twitter accounts) you want to follow. Then you provide intigi with what's basically a lucene query that you want articles to match. Intigi then monitors your sources, indexes the article's title and full body, and delivers to you only the relevant…
http://lobste.rs seems like exactly what you want. It's a good community, give it a try
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on the topic, I dare ask for an invite to lobste.rs if someone has one lying around. I promise I won't be an ass. (Cause a week ago I reached the threshold of wanting to leave a comment enough times)
invite just sent..
Thanks in advance!
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Technically, HN already exposes an API over HTTP. It just uses HTML as the exchange format instead of XML or JSON.
Hmmm, not sure if I agree with that or not... but if so, it has a very limited usage quota before you get banned. :)
HTML APIs to come with the added benefit of being less prone to change, which I realize goes against conventional wisdom, but seems to hold in practice.
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About a decade ago I noticed this phenomena. Worthwhile communities need to be maintained by barriers. The kind of barrier that I personally enjoy most is, "Crappy enough interface that only people who really like the content will be motivated to show up."
Yep. No magic tricks. Just substance.