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More points for someone who wire-wraps a bunch of transistors.

EDIT: This is the one using discrete transistors (http://www.6502.org/users/dieter/mt15/mt15.htm)

(http://www.bigmessowires.com/bmow1/)

(http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~harry/Relay/index.html)

(http://www.nablaman.com/relay/)

(http://www.northdownfarm.co.uk/rory/tim/)

etc etc

(And see other sites on the homebrew CPU web ring.)
I needed something like this for a project I am hacking on!
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At first sight, this seems awesome. I've been looking for something like this for a while. However, The homepage seems to be a little sparse in terms of specifics. Before implementing this as a core part of a product, I'd like to know:

- Pricing model?

- Seems free for now, but how about when it's out of beta? How are you going to ensure you stay alive without making me go out of business?

- How does this work? "Magic scalability" is mentioned, which sets a red flag for me. We process >1B requests a month (and growing), and we've found that even the best tools have to be used carefully. Black box software such as this is very scary.

- How is this deployed? Is it on EC2, which would mean low latency between our infrastructure and the bridge servers? Is there an installable version for people who aren't on EC2? Seems to be a requirement, since message / queues and internal apis require low latency to process things quickly. Especially if we're basing our entire internal service-oriented architecture on top of it.

I want to love this, but there's a lot of unanswered questions, at least from perusing this site. I've learnt the hard way to not believe in magic.
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Pretty but same core mistake as other redesigns of HN that show up periodically: current HN shows me more information, in less space.
Why do all these redesigns have serial numbers ? what purpose do they serve ?

Submissions to HN move up and down dynamically - remove the serial numbers and show (302 points..25 comments) which should be CLICKABLE. This will bring front and center the only two things that people judge in deciding to read a submission. Plus it will make it easier to click on a mobile device.
this seems to solve the same problem that ØMQ solves. Plus SDKs.
can you describe how timeouts are handled ? thanks !
Lettering and the a sign's border are often made out of reflective material.

The blurring will thus occur at night when car's headlamps illuminate the signage.
Sure -- shoot me an email. It's on my profile.
It wasn't really clear to me what the advantages of this is over a ZMQ+Socket.io based system. The aim is a fully-baked SAAS I suppose, but it seems we already have all the pieces to roll our own without too much effort.
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Meteor is now MIT licensed
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/megaupload-close-to-mu... is the story linked above.
Thanks for putting this together.

Would you be interested in doing a custom theme for http://ribbot.com ?

It's an open source HN clone that lets your create custom themes (much like Tumblr). https://github.com/barmstrong/ribbot
What level are you looking at? Masters? PhD? Which University?

I'm wrapping up my PhD in model based software engineering. There are a number of interesting avenues for future work in that area. E-mail me directly if you wish or we conduct an open discussion here.
Well one case would be to have a bookmarklet that lets you upload from any webpage.

As a site owner, not having to write yet another bookmarklet would be great.
Seems like someone like the Friend Connect :) Oh
We can't let everyone post jobs or they'd swamp the site. But once a month there's a Who's Hiring thread that anyone can post on.
I totally misread this and, after a glance, thought that it was a nice cross-language RPC library. Like many fiddly bits, whipping up a quick protocol is simple (and I've built one that I like), but I'd be happier to use one that everyone is helping build/maintain/document...

But I was wrong... This is a service... or something. The web page suggests library, but the pricing page suggests service. Color me confused.

[An aside: these Pusher, PubSub, whatever businesses exhibit very little in the way of barriers-to-entry. As the price to replicate the service falls (as smart folks think "pay for that? I just make it into a gem/pip/AMI!" and crush the implementation costs), I'm curious how these business will survive. See Engine Yard...]
I always use this http://hckrnews.com/ to browse HN.
I know its a minor point, but perhaps they're mind-boggled by the fact you pay $50,000.... not the fact that you're going to school for design.
RPC = old skool, ha!

What do you differently from Firebase.com? Or objectfabric.com?
That's interesting. They talked around my questions about offline use and a GeoClue developer's questions about web APIs for Free software.

I wonder what their deal is. The "cynical me" wonders if they are a front for a company that quietly profits off wardrivers eagerness to share. :(
OMG, what?

Scraping data for offline processing, but certainly should not be for user-facing traffic. Cosmetic tweaks can blow up the scraper's parser, UI technologies are built on a taller stack and are prone to higher latencies and points of failure, yada yada.
Sounds like the foundry has an all-or-nothing philosophy of font pricing, even if the marketplace their fonts are found on doesn't quite support it.

To understand this perspective, don't miss the bottom of the House Industries FAQ page:

http://www.houseind.com/fonts/faq/generalfaq
If you were to redesign HN's home page, what would you recommend?
Nope. That's with virtually no data usage at all. Just turning it on and connecting to my home network.
Will the lucky hiree still have to design around the name 'GrubWithUs'?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022116
This is pretty core behavior for domain owning power users. Locating your namserver at same facility as your webhost will theoretically reduce your points of failure.
I wrote one once, though not ram based, based on a lucene index, about 6 years ago, that crawled a subversion repository and presented a web query interface. It was a quick project to write.
These days, git grep is hard to beat.
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This library solves it by using a bit of specially-crafted html: https://github.com/adamdbradley/foresight.js
I think we all sortof knew this was what it was going to be.
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its a call to stop using google services altogether. I am personnally sick of their now frequent habit to discontinue stuff without even asking before. That shows how little they care. Get LARRY out.
The Flotype Bridge Cloud service is intended to be a free/cheap way for you to try, learn, and use Bridge.

Think of it like Joyent's No.de service, which is a free way to host Node.js apps.

The technology is actually targeted at larger-scale applications, and enterprise sales is the focus of our business model. We've had some great traction on the enterprise front, but we're not ready to announce that yet.

We're not in the business of nickel and diming fellow developers each month.
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Lot of stories get submitted more than one time. People just don't like searching.
Ok, I'll ask the obvious question: how is this an improvement over Thrift, Protocol Buffers or Avro?
Wow!! no comment.
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I don't think HN is about fast load times and minimal bandwidth. Yahoo YSlow and Google PageSpeed reports recommend that ycombinator.com use HTTP compression, minify HTML and JS, and use HTTP caching for static resources.

https://developers.google.com/pagespeed/#url=https_3A_2F_2Fn...
The Android Lockdown
Good news, we now know what the DOJ based their dot.com theory of takedowns on..the fact that they cannot legally bring criminal charges against foreign corporations outside their jurisdiction.

So now the playing field becomes level again..
The cool part of this is the top comment on the article. It's from the executive editor at Encyclopædia Britannica, presumably wanting to offer him a job(?)
A few people have mentioned information density as being important. I've got the 'Stylish' chrome extension installed with a userstyle for hn which looks like this:

table > tbody > tr:nth-child(3) > td{-webkit-column-count: 2;
}

2 column layout is v.cool. Makes the front page as well as the comments section much more readable for me.

example: http://imgur.com/a/oidEM#1
I also wonder if people repost a different article/URL for the same news story, hoping their post will be the one to get upvoted.
Off-topic: how can anyone read this? His layout keeps popping up and down, and the second you scroll away from the top, the image in the corner breaks and the text goes all fuzzy.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/6SCgN.png, no addons in use.
I agree Picasa for Linux (Wine or No Wine) was great for some quick picture manipulation. I was well connected to Picasa Web. Picasa is being slipped into G+.

I suspect Google might be working on a better webapp. A lot of picasa style picture editing can now be done in G+ while you post picture. Google has to bring something out for Chrome OS.
This is great to hear. This issue was one of my great qualms with the platform, and the biggest argument for creating a copycat platform. Now to address the auth/permissions!
This is exactly what I was and is expecting.
No one gives a shit until they can buy and use it.
Hi! I apologize for the sparseness of the website. I'm not a great designer, and this is just my MVP.

Pricing model: see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3870726

When it's out of beta, there will be a free tier on Flotype Bridge Public Cloud, and a few paid tiers for people that would like us to manage the Bridge server. This is meant for smaller applications.

We can handle 1-2 billion messages/day on a single 8-core server. "Magic scalability" refers to the concept of Bridge Services[1]. If you write code to publish a Bridge Service, you can magically scale by simply firing up more instances of that code. You'll read more about this in the docs.

This can be deployed anywhere - EC2, Rackspace, or your private datacenter/cloud, whatever! We just need to make kernel/OS level optimizations for each stack. The Flotype Bridge Cloud runs on EC2, but you can buy and run Bridge anywhere you want.

Yes, there is an installable version. The goal of Bridge is to build a messaging system for products with very large messaging needs (billions of messages/hour or more). (This is just a beta). For such applications, subsystem latency is crucial, so the primary deployment model is for you to install it next to your application servers.

Please email me at darshan @ flotype.com if you have any more questions :)

-Darshan

[1] Services documentation example in JavaScript: http://www.flotype.com/docs/gettingstarted/js/services
I think this is a great move. Longer term it'll be better for Meteor, the team and the community.

Ruby on Rails would be fine as an analogy here. The monetization model might be different from directly licensing and selling the framework, but these guys are smart, they'll figure it out.

I am quite impressed by this. The team listened to the feedback from the community. They weren't obligated to do so :-)
1. Everything is bloated. The comfy header, myriad bubble quotes, and excess space make HN look like a daycare for those that have an unhealthy obsession with Wordpress and Dora the Explorer. The precise, technical vibe that exists with the website simply isn't there.

2. The bubble quotes are deal-breakers. They take up plenty real estate, are identical, and don't line up vertically. Your eyes are more attuned to the "wave" that's going on in the right than the stories themselves.

3. Taking a second look I half-expected the HN logo and login button to be circular.
I think he was referring to the fact that many Android phones don't receive updates after the first few months, whereas iPhones are typically receiving updates at least 2 years after release.
Did you design your software or business plan with an API contingency plan? Some web APIs have reasonable replacements, but most offer some unique value.
Thanks! auth is next. But check out the madewith.meteor.com source for a good example of how you can lock down an app today.
None of them handle server-client and are just an RPC layer.

Bridge provides the full layer from RPC down to message routing, access control, etc.
sending you some good sentiments, my friend! A lot of great people I know have trouble in this area, so don't let it crush you. Best wishes.
from a design standpoint, the points are a bit distracting..and to me (not as important as the titles in most cases). I'd rather see the titles aligned to the left as HN currently displays. I think points can be equally important as comments as well as aligned to the right. otherwise, nice work
It's all asynchronous, so there are no timeouts.

-Darshan
yes, yes it does make them untrustworthy. by definition schizophrenic people do comprehend truth from fantasy, and Rachel "Marone" Mendelson is most definitely in that group. She is an infamous liar, and somewhat skilled at getting the credulous to buy into her deranged notions, at least for a while...
Firebase is a backend for your web applications. It's like Parse for web apps.

Bridge is a messaging system for server-server and server-client communication.
When Meteor first launched, I was one of the very very many people who said that Meteor looked amazing, but was afraid that their license would hamper adoption.

With the change in license, I think the only major hurdle has been removed. The fundamental idea is good, their current execution is extremely slick, and their immediate plans[1] look achievable. I have very high hopes for the project.

If you haven't checked out Meteor yet, at least watch the screencast:
http://meteor.com/screencast

[1]: I originally said roadmap; as mcrider rightly points out Meteor does not have one. There is some info floating around about current development goals (notably related to adding authentication), which is what I was thinking of.
Tor and Freenet for now are premature optimization.

Personally, I run an hidden Tor bridge and before I ran an exit node. But I have no real reason to use Tor for my daily browsing.
I doubt its even that, and I question the due diligence of the People at said Hedge Fund as Groupon has been using shadow banking and nefarious accounting to hide massive loses since its inception.

http://www.valuewalk.com/2012/04/groupon-inc-grpn-accounting...

There is no accurate way to place a (positive) estimate/valuation of the operation or its profitability, personally I doubt they even have operating capital since it took that dive earlier this month. It looked to me like the tail end of a significant short selling position finally came to fruition by insiders who got in early.
"Design, on the other hand, is the core of the product: how it functions. It's the soul: what story it tells."

I find it ironic that this submission is near the top of the front page at the same time as this (excellent) essay about startup culture (among other things) is also on the front page:

http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels...

The design of any website is supposed to be a reflection of your company culture. It needs to make the people you're trying to attract feel comfortable and at home. Sorry to be blunt, but this redesign does the exact opposite of that, for me at least.

Please don't take offense at this because it isn't meant toward you as a person; I fully support people doing redesigns of sites and posting them, but in this case I can't help but feeling like "dear god no." If you watch Rocky IV, the reason it's so easy to root for Rocky is that he's a product of his community, whereas the other guy is a product of some cold and unfeeling scientific process. Hacker News is a community, so you want a website that feels like something that a community would make. This redesign just doesn't do that.
I tried it with Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera on a Mac, and didn't have any problems. Well, selecting text in chrome was a bit wrong, but not exactly broken.
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actually 5 people made those comments, and 1/4 were from Rachel and 1/3 were from her boyfriend David "Lefty" Schlesinger attacking the remaining 1/6 by someone trying merely to point out that Rachel failed to produce the goal of her last KS, for which she got $3,000.00. 3k to do nothing. that is fraud. there were a couple of random trolls also posting. Most of it was Schlesinger, really thumping his chest and chimping out, as usual.
Really. I worked as a laptop salesman when Intel introduced the term "Centrino". I had to explain to many customers that yes, this other laptop that happened not to use an Intel chipset also worked wirelessly.

To get a Centrino sticker, a laptop had to use an Intel chipset, Intel wireless adapter and Intel CPU. Because the marketing for Centrino focussed almost exclusively on Wifi capability, there were many laptops with non-Intel chipsets or AMD CPUs that were perceived by customers as not being capable of wireless networking.

This article[1] explains how Wi-Fi wasn't very popular until the Centrino campaign.

[1]: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2011/04/inte...
I think the only lesson here is that if you operate a site like megaupload the gov't will come down on you like a ton of bricks whether it is against the law or not. So if you operate some kind of scumbag business like megadownload you might get your house raided by a swat team and your business shut down.

I understand that what the gov't is doing is technically wrong but Kim is a scumbag and a con artist so I have a hard time getting upset about it. He is getting rich by selling content had absolutely no hand in the creation of and has no rights to. Megaupload was not like youtube, and Kim is just a leech on society.

If people want to operate some kind of not for profit piracy site that is one thing, it is another thing when they are making a fortune selling content they do not have the rights to.
We got some amazingly specific and valuable feedback -- check some of the Meteor HN threads. MIT is going to be a big part of making Meteor available everywhere.
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It is lame because a company like Google should be able to provide a Linux version of its perfectly serviceable photo organization and basic editing app. I know they don't have to do what I want them to do, but "pfft...", y'know?
For people those who do not have bandwidth problems. Resolving the story in Readability like distraction and ad-free style which include comments in bottom would be great. Also Commenting is hard to follow on HN.
I think _exec was asking for a source to back up the claim about the pharaohs' copper mines.
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Honestly, I'm surprised.

You've got a team of cracker jack developers who introduce a product that, frankly, isn't ready for prime time by any sane person's definition with the goal of targeting the majority of developers (e.g., not the most experienced, and not the ones operating at the top end of scale), with no real mention of license?

I expected it to be a commercially licensed language, and honestly, was perfectly happy with that. This is of course better, but leaves me wondering just a little more what the business model is. Not that it's going to stop me toying with it -- I think Meteor is the best JS framework I've seen for ease of use.
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Maybe I'm just not the audience for Meteor, because while it looks like a great project but as a nodejs guy, the fact that it hides itself away from the platform and turned away from the fantastic npm makes me sort of weary about it as a whole.

But I imagine people coming from rails or whatever don't find this a problem at all.
Cool I can now use this in my closed source project without ever giving any change back!
Hate this GPL that requires you to give back anything if you let others get your product.
ZMQ is for server-server on the backend. Socket.io would be client-server for the frontend. But the pieces in the middle would have to translate between ZMQ semantics and Socket.io semantics and it's all ugly. There is no way for a ZMQ endpoint to directly address a Socket.io client, and always have to go through this complex intermediary component.

As I point out in the video, this is the strategy today. Hook up a bunch of different pieces together.

Bridge is meant to be a solution that provides the same semantics for server-server and server-client communication.

Thanks
-Darshan
What roadmap? The FAQ says there isn't one.

Edit: I figured that's what you meant, I was just curious if you had seen an official roadmap. I guess they are too fresh to have one and are waiting for more community input before formalizing their goals -- Which is fine by me.
This isn't a problem with hiring. For crying out loud, the founders of these companies aren't looking for jobs, they're founding companies. Larger companies are drooling over their customers, their products, and their people. There is a big difference.
Hi! I just brought up the difference in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3870777

Thanks Tobi
-Darshan
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I believe this is not a good redesign, and I'll try to explain why:

- Where should I click to go to the comments page? If I have to click on the little bubble on the right of each article, it actually makes my user experience less pleasant than with the current design. (Did OP read "Don't Make Me Think"?)

- No flagging button. Did OP voluntarily omit it? If so, why? If not, where would he put it?

- The scores of the articles look likes buttons, what should I expect when I click on them?

- Knowing the number of comments of an article and its score are both important to create a certain "I need to see this" factor for readers. Putting those numbers respectively on the far left and on the far right does not help this at all.

I really agree with SeoxyS here. This redesign does not improve the current HN experience, and it actually makes it more complex by displaying the information in a way that does not look bad but does not actually help browsing the site.

I would suggest OP to think (or learn) more about UX. That's a very good thing to do on a Friday night, and even though a lot of this knowledge can come through working with a different focus (think about your user) and common sense, there are good books to get you started.[1][2]

[1]:http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134... - I recommend this

[2]:http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Mind-Simple-Understanding-In... - Not as good, but only 200 pages, and interesting.
The initial page load and scrolling back up to the top is extremely laggy, not sure what your doing behind the scenes buts its bad in Chrome on dual i7's
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