albertyw

I set up an old iPad Air to show https://www.codemancer.com/ for the last two years. It's got a clock, weather, and appointments and is readable from across the room. I've also run into crashes from Safari, which I resolved by automatically refreshing the page once an hour.

I built git-browse: https://github.com/albertyw/git-browse

After getting tired of constantly searching github and phabricator, I built a small tool that would open git repositories, files, branches, and commits in the browser.

Pretty sure it was just for Halloween (a US holiday) and they've changed it back now. I guess they also changed it internationally too?

How is this different from a regular CDN like Akamai, Cloudflare, etc.?

I agree with your message, but that quote could be applied to any company ever. Case studies would be more useful.

"If the project is behind schedule, Gigster just assigns more developers to it or fires under-performing ones so it gets done on time." - Somebody hasn't read Mythical Man-Month.

Disclosure: I'm working on a video delivery network company called Dendrio (www.dendr.io).

You're pretty spot on about AWS. Storage is super cheap, but data transfer can be really expensive. Also, depending on your users' habits, you'll likely want a CDN to serve your files, especially if you want to serve international markets, and I can tell you that most CDNs are very expensive for video hosting. Third party hosting like Youtube and Vimeo have limits for how you can use them which are easy to go over while full-service video hosting/analytics/monetization like Brightcove and Ooyala will cost you a house.

Shameless self-promotion: you should check us out at dendr.io. We're working on a peer to peer CDN that runs on top of your existing hosting provider (whether you do it yourself, or a CDN) to decrease your costs and give you other benefits. Feel free to email me at "albert@" our domain.

Brainfuck is just a set of symbols that map to the actions a Turing machine can make. I believe that the symbols themselves were chosen to make it difficult to read and write much like Whitespace. As for Turing machines, I'm sure there are programming books about them but I'm pretty sure their point is about studying computational theory rather than practical use.

I think this is a use case of signed commits. They would allow for verification of the commit's author's identity.

Invert the colors - white is paths, black is walls.

Fourier Transform equation is wrong. Integral from infinity to infinity? That doesn't make sense. It should be negative infinity.

Another red flag - Is it just me, or is the header image on the conference website an image of Las Vegas?

Amazon EC2 vs Google CE - Fight.

From the article they published in Advanced Materials, it seems the ink actually contains silver (the element) nanoparticles in a colloid. I'm surprised that the resistance is still that high.

Making some overgeneralizations here, software written by scientists aren't going to be as good as software written by software engineers. Their usual purpose (and their training/background) is to publish papers and writing code is just a means to an end.

Maybe not on high alert continuously, but with satellites now, they must have seen this hurricane coming for days if not weeks.

Love how "well connected" HN commentators are.

As a person who isn't in this space, why do you say that? Is it because of increasing competition or something to do with Braintree/Paypal?

Anybody wondering how long it will take for Bitcoin to gain enough respectability for the FBI or Secret Service to get involved after hacks like this? If the same amount of money was stolen from a normal bank, it'd likely be covered by every news outlet.

isn't this a repost of another (debunked) article that was on HN a few days ago?

My guess is that Dell laptops have incorrectly vulcanized rubber. During vulcanization, sulfur compounds are added to rubber to make it more elastic. Cat urine also contains a high amount of sulfur compounds. If Dell's suppliers got the vulcanization process wrong, sulfur could be leeching out of the laptop's rubber components.

Sorry to be pedantic, but the US dollar is not backed by US government taxation. A dollar is still quite valuable outside the US because people and institutions attach a value to the US dollar, mostly because the US economy has been the largest and most open economy in the world for several decades. Taxes set by the Treasury, like all other market forces, change and are changed by the rest of the economy.

Your example is a classic example of exchange rate problems surrounding floating currencies. Since both the USD and bitcoins are free-floating (though there are powerful institutions stabilizing the USD such as the Fed and IMF), there would be an onus to convert USD into Bitcoin until the relative value of USD was high enough to offset the conversion deficit. That, or there would need to be equally powerful institutions behind Bitcoin to buy other currencies, but it would be very hard given that there is a practical limit to the total number of Bitcoins in and out of circulation.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

Sun Tzu - Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak

Yep, I find coding on planes to be pretty productive too, if only for the fact that it's not like you have anything better to do. The only hard part is looking stuff up, like APIs. I find airplanes really useful for code reviews though. I often end up with less code after a flight than before.

I wonder how long it'll take College Board to move to a more expressive language like Python or Ruby. The basicness of AP CS (learning loops, recursion, and simple OO) means students don't learn enough about programming for the benefits of Java to be apparent. I knew a lot of classmates who were put off of programming by APCS, not least because of the verbosity and density of Java.

Not to sound self-righteous, but the HN audience (or more plausibly, some subset within) has a high influence on what the rest of the world sees and wants.

Any Dropbox employees read HN?

It's MAD 2.0