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Re:Ask HN: Best way to distribute multi-GB dataset? on Tuesday December 10, 2013 @05:17PM (#6884199)
Looks like that only works for 5GB files or less, which is a shame.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to distribute multi-GB dataset? on Monday December 09, 2013 @05:14PM (#6877432)
Rad! Haven't run across Archive Team before. Looking into them now.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to distribute multi-GB dataset? on Monday December 09, 2013 @04:40PM (#6877225)
Interesting - hadn't considered that possibility. Thanks! I'll look into it.
Re:Ask HN: Best way to distribute multi-GB dataset? on Monday December 09, 2013 @04:40PM (#6877219)
Seems reasonable, though given the size of the file I'm probably going to have to host it somewhere for seeding purposes rather than just parking it on my home fileserver (yay Comcast monopoly in my area).

Ask HN: Best way to distribute multi-GB dataset?

I'm in the process of shutting down Word2[1], an MMO scrabble-like word game we built for Node Knockout back in 2010. The game's world is amazing - ~265MM tiles, ~123MM played words, over 1MM unique players. Once all personally identifiable information has been removed, I'd like to provide it to interested parties to play with. The clean dataset will be ~15GB compressed - what's the preferred...

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Re:Coin: A step in the wrong direction on Thursday November 14, 2013 @06:38PM (#6736573)
If that were the case, how would the data input into your cell phone get stored on the card? I believe at a minimum Coin uses BLE to transmit card data from your phone to the device.
Re:Gophercloud: A Multi-cloud Software Development Kit for Go on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @01:21PM (#6206963)
Seems like you've got a WAIS to go.
Re:Announcing Trigger.io v2.0 on Monday July 29, 2013 @04:05PM (#6123532)
Thanks for clarifying! Makes sense.
Re:Announcing Trigger.io v2.0 on Monday July 29, 2013 @02:52PM (#6123068)
Having spent a fair amount of time in PhoneGap, I recall one of the tricky bits of using stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString to call into JS land was that it could block, leading Apple to impose a 5 second timeout on that particular API call. Is that still the case? I recall that making loading large objects created/fetched via native code more complicated.

Congratulations on 2.0, regardless!

Re:Leap Motion Has Launched on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:46PM (#6087264)
The accuracy is definitely a mixed blessing - interpolation, velocity awareness, and (screen-independent) gestures go a long way toward a good user experience.
Re:Leap Motion Has Launched on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:42PM (#6087250)
The device can be positioned anywhere you like, but I'm guessing there's a definite learning period if you have it somewhere other than under your monitor (sort of like what I imagine Wacom users have the first time the use a screen-mapped tablet).
Re:Leap Motion Has Launched on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:38PM (#6087225)
It's also possible that medical applications (and, by extension, deploying the hardware in a hospital) would require them to have a whole different set of dev, manufacturing, and QA procedures, much like flight control and other "mission critical" software.
The replay button in the local web UI is enough to make this instantly useful. Thanks for building this.
What's the storage multiplier for TokuMX vs. straight mongodb? Will my total size on disk go up or down?
Is there a feature roadmap somewhere detailing what order these and other features will be added (actual schedule is great too!)?
Re:Burner Phone on Friday June 07, 2013 @01:54PM (#5840443)
The 16 hour talk time is in reference to the battery life of the phone, I'm guessing (the next bullet references 30 days' standby time).
Re:Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @09:14PM (#5034925)
Clearly an organization that values people skills.
Re:Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @09:05PM (#5034880)
Fascinating. A bit of digging suggests the founder, Ross Nochumowitz[1], has a second business as well: Big Boyz Bail Bonds[2] (note the identical avatars). He was CEO of the latter as recently as October[3].

Never having utilized the services of a bondsperson, I'm not qualified to comment on the similarity of the two businesses. Perhaps Ross can comment here!

[1] http://www.facebook.com/ross.nochumowitz

[2] http://klout.com/#/BigBoyzBail

[3] http://citypaper.com/news/big-boyz-bail-bonds-banned-from-ce...

Re:Orbitz shows costlier hotel options to Mac users on Monday June 25, 2012 @09:06PM (#4159610)
I posted the same article a few minutes earlier using the Google cache link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4159481
Re:Interactive homepage (Canvas + node.js + socket.io) on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @07:00AM (#3589650)
It's viable. Drivers exist for most of the interesting storage engines you'd use for user records, leaderboards and the like. You'll need to pay attention to any server-side operations that require heavy CPU and ensure those tasks don't block time-critical operations.

You may or may not get the same level of concurrency as someone's custom-tuned C++ backend, but you won't have to pay an arm and a leg to license it, either. :)

Found this[1] as well while poking about - fairly tall structure, unique curved shape, nothing but a road, some outbuildings and some antenna masts for miles in any direction. Thoughts on what it might be?

[1]http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=40.509945,93.236595...

At the moment, just the Facebook plugin for Facebook Connect authentication.
Great service - I've used it to build a modest application or two for Android and iOS. One caveat: Phonegap plugins that include native components (for example, the Facebook plugin) can't be included in apps built with Phonegap Build (yet).
If the final versions aren’t available, Samsung wants “the most current version of each to be produced instead.”

Given that Apple hasn't announced an iPad 3 or an iPhone 5, what are the odds they simply ship Samsung's lawyers an iPad 2 and an iPhone 4 and call it good?

Re:CSS Markup Detective on Wednesday April 27, 2011 @12:10PM (#2489956)
Could this be made into a bookmarklet? I could see using this to diagnose issues on 3rd party sites where source access isn't available.

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