danielhughes

It has recently become popular on HN to write "this" as if it is a complete thought. I don't understand this usage of "this". Can someone enlighten me?

I love that you are working to solve this problem. Grouping by date is a requirement across every project I've been involved with. Yet I find it never fails to frustrate me. Surely it could be simplified. Do professional developers share my frustration (I'm a hobbiest)?

Terrific name by the way!

I wish Yahoo would do the same. Instead of 2-factor they have a feature where they only require a second verification if Yahoo deems the attempt suspicious. Their approach strikes me as being simultaneously less secure and less convenient (no code-generator app).

I don't think your security analogy applies to trading algorithms. Open source is good for security because it aids in the discovery of vulnerabilities. However, good trading algorithms are usually reliant on some form of information asymmetry. If you make a discovery and develop a trading algorithm to exploit it, I would think it would be advantageous to keep it a secret for as long as possible. This is not my field of expertise so please correct me if I'm misunderstanding your analogy.

Edit - I love the project by the way. As others commented already, there's a really strong argument to be made in favor of open sourcing the infrastructure side of this. And that appears to be where most of your effort is focused (e.g. open infrastructure, private trading algorithms).

I largely agree with this post and share the author's frustrations. But there's a part of me that still likes the fact that a large portion of the web equates an email address to an identity. If you choose not to use your true identity, it's as easy as creating a new email address. Eventually someone will solve the identity problem without sacrificing anonymity for those who need or want it.

For those on a wide-screen monitor, it would be nice if you used all of the empty real estate on the right. Move everything up to a single line and take what is currently your second-line content (comments, vote count, etc) and push it all the way to the right. It'll make it a lot easier to scan the headlines. For mobile devices you could always revert back to the stacked approach.

http://i.imgur.com/in4x0Im.png

Has anyone actually seen the source code for edx? They claimed that they would release it. I don't see a repository on Github or anywhere else.

I was surprised to see that the price is only $13.00. You could charge more in my opinion. I normally am not seeking a bargain when my purchase is affiliated with a group that I have a strong affinity for and when the proceeds are going to a good cause. Most of my past purchases of charitable t-shirts were in the $20-$30 range.

Perhaps you will test a higher price for the next iteration and share the results in true HN style.

Well done. I love that you allow users to try out the game on your site first. I wasn't initially inclined to download the app, but after trying the game I was hooked.

Looks great. I'm quite tempted to buy this. But I have a few questions:

1) Is a tab bar included?

2) What other iOS controls have you styled and included in the kit?

3) I see some icons depicted in the screenshots. Are those included? If so, what other icons are available?

4) Any plans to target iPad?

I had no idea they were a reseller. It's all the more interesting when you look at eNom's reseller pricing page http://www.enom.com/resellers/benefits-pricingplans.aspx. I hope NameCheap is getting better bulk rates than what is listed.

Here's the direct link for the Baidu English-language developer center: http://developer.baidu.com/en/

Seriously? You're only 23. Just do it. You literally have decades ahead of you to enjoy coding. When I saw the headline I thought I'd be responding to a senior citizen...in which case my response would have been the same.

That was a collection of questions and responses from different sources and times. It wasn't an interview transcript. I made the same mistake as I was reading it and at one point started to wonder why the "interviewer" was asking the same question over and over.

A little off topic but last weekend I had the privileged of watching an FLL (First Lego League) event. This is a robotics competition for kids ages 9-16. And it's AMAZING. The energy from the kids and parents was exhilarating. Details are here http://firstlegoleague.org/. There are also a lot of videos from the competitions posted on YouTube (search First Lego League). If you have children I definitely encourage you to introduce them to FLL. And if you don't have kids consider volunteering to coach one of the teams.

In what way does his mistake about Perl invalidate any of his other examples?

This is why I'm happy when I see other domain suffixes catching on in the public domain (no pun intended). While I fully support this guy's right to sell this domain for whatever price he can extract and to park it for as long as he wants, it's a waste of a good piece of real estate. It's hard enough as a developer to find a good domain for a project. I hope that one day the public will be so accustomed to using suffixes other than .com that it will no longer be necessary to pay such exorbitant prices in the secondary market.

If you want the benefits of a CDN I think you'd have to link S3 to CloudFront. S3 alone does not provide CDN capabilities AFAIK.

The approach I've been taking with my recent projects is to serve all static assets from Amazon S3/CloudFront. That way 200 hits per minute is only 200 requests. 19 of those 20 assets in your example would get served from the CDN. I don't have a lot of experience building robust apps (I'm a self-taught hobbiest developer) but intuitively this configuration makes sense and it has been incredibly easy to implement. I did some stress testing for the first time on one of my apps using jmeter and was able to achieve much higher performance that 200 hits per minute on my free micro instance.

When Stack Overflow went down tonight my productivity dropped precipitously. It reminds me of how grateful I am of the team at Stack Exchange. They built one hell of a resource.

What was your approach? I'm working on a similar effort that requires making audio work via a mobile web app and am interested in the details of your solution.

Are you arguing that the intent behind the second amendment was not to keep the powers of the government in check or that it is no longer relevant in an age where peaceful rebellions have accomplished so much?

You should consider featuring a free preview somewhere prominently on the page. Most people won't think to click your RSS button to find them. I know it says "free videos" right there on the button, but it's still very easy to miss.

Do you mind sharing some details? This happens to a lot of sites so it would be interesting to know what your initial configuration was and what you scaled up to.

I'd love for there to be a "Show HN" filter as well. My favorite part of Hacker News is seeing what others have built.

It would be helpful to see at what age you will run out of money for a given withdrawal rate. Without that it's difficult to know what rate of withdrawal to enter.

You should consider offering an option to scale these up to life size.

It struck me as a little derogatory as well. Why not tech bus or hacker bus? I suppose nerd bus generates more headlines.

I don't think the fiber runs all the way to the TV box (someone correct me if I'm wrong). I have FiOS where I live and the way it works is Verizon installed an ONT (Optical Network Terminal) in my basement and then plugged the coax cabling into that box. It would be very expensive to rewire the home with fiber or even ethernet. Presumably if Google was building a CDN they wouldn't want to be reliant on standard wiring in their customers' homes. Also that sleek-looking TV box would probably have to be much larger if it doubled as an ONT (the one in my basement is huge). Seems a little impractical if my assumptions are correct.

Edit: I don't mean to dismiss your idea about the value of Google reserving some space on the disk for their own purposes. Cable & satellite operators already do that today. Technology exists for example that allows the operators to cache household-targeted TV ads on the disk. These deployments are still small scale but I think it's highly likely Google is thinking about such things as a way of monetizing their new network. If you're curious about this topic do a quick search on Google's investment in Invidi and on their partnership with Echostar.