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Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like a very nice and thought-through architecture/design. What's your current status / how far away are you from a more or less complete beta (e.g. in regards to the minecraft client) (if you don't mind me asking)?
Well, the design has been through a few revisions. I'm not afraid to make breaking changes before version 1.0.0 (for example, I completely rewrote the level handling system to improve level editing performance by an order of magnitude). The current status of the server is: * Full support for Minecraft 1.6.4 networking (1.7.x networking is a WIP) * Full support for editing Minecraft levels * Implementations of all Min…
Thanks for your detailed response. I see quite a few people are involved, and the project is a truly active one; I wish you luck. :)
One last inquiry: have you done any benchmarking / performance tests on your code? I imagine that since the library is thread-safe, it should in theory be able to handle significantly larger numbers of online users, etc.?
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#333A high performance, affordable personal airplane: http://www.skycraftairplanes.com It's extremely fuel efficient, can fly 575 miles on a tank, cruises at 118 mph, and comes standard with really nice instrumentation including GPS, collision avoidance, synthetic flight, and an auxiliary input for your iPod. They sell for $55k. Here's the HN post I made a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5826062
Just out of curiosity, what are the monthly maintenance requirements and costs on a plane like this? Very nice btw.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#334Seat 14A (www.seat14a.com) a). Most men hate shopping. b). Sizes are never consistent and a number cannot define a unique bodily shape. Our solution: We simply send an email with a few complete looks every few weeks, if you like a look - order it and we make it made to measure for you. We ship globally for free. Each look is about $150-$175 (so won't break your bank account). Each look is based off of heavy research…
They only have a few outfits but some http://seat14a.com/ensemble/the_valley are really great.
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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#335Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, the design has been through a few revisions. I'm not afraid to make breaking changes before version 1.0.0 (for example, I completely rewrote the level handling system to improve level editing performance by an order of magnitude). The current status of the server is: * Full support for Minecraft 1.6.4 networking (1.7.x networking is a WIP) * Full support for editing Minecraft levels * Implementations of all Min…
Thanks for your detailed response. I see quite a few people are involved, and the project is a truly active one; I wish you luck. :) One last inquiry: have you done any benchmarking / performance tests on your code? I imagine that since the library is thread-safe, it should in theory be able to handle significantly larger numbers of online users, etc.?
It's been a while since I've formally tested it, but it performs very well. I don't have hard numbers handy, but CPU usage and memory usage is both well-tuned (and better than vanilla/bukkit). I've tested with a few dozen concurrent players and it didn't have any trouble. All players reported smooth gameplay, far better than vanilla or bukkit.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#336I'm working on a JSON based website layout and component system. For example: a component that lists blog posts could be represented by: { options:{ elements:[image, title, author, date] }, criteria:{ sort:date.desc, published:true, limit:10 }, request_vars:{page:3} } That would show the last 10 posts that are published, ordered by date, on page 3 of the results. That's a simple example, this site: volumeone.org is b…
I might suggest using YAML too, either as an alternative or as a complete replacement. YAML (when written in a certain way) is basically JSON without any line noise, and optimized for human reading and writing. You will be able to parse it exactly the same.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#337A simple algorithmic stock trader. https://green-machine.us Give it a set of rules and it will buy and sell stock for you. I got interested in algorithmic trading and built this site to find out if it works. If it does I'll add real money trading.
You should add a demo or something - that landing page is a bit ominous, and I don't really want to sign up for something that I haven't seen yet.
Next on the todo list is to add a tutorial and do the front page.
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#338Seat 14A (www.seat14a.com) a). Most men hate shopping. b). Sizes are never consistent and a number cannot define a unique bodily shape. Our solution: We simply send an email with a few complete looks every few weeks, if you like a look - order it and we make it made to measure for you. We ship globally for free. Each look is about $150-$175 (so won't break your bank account). Each look is based off of heavy research…
Are the pieces in the outfit generally specific to that outfit? This is an interesting idea, but the value proposition to buyers is much higher if you're selling a few pieces that can go together, but are also very versatile in that you can use them in any number of combinations. I don't want to spend money on 'one-offs'. Can you speak to the quality of the pieces?
On our blog we try to show how these outfits can be combined with other wearables. I think we need to step this up a bit more (so thanks for the feedback here). The quality is good (feedback has been positive but again it's always relative especially in fashion). We hand source all the fabrics and own our process end-to-end - so that helps wrt quality assurance. Hope that helps!
Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
#339Toy project: an HTTP(S) brute forcing tool using Python as a templating language. Why is it cool: high performance using async IO, powerful templating for Python programmers, very easy to take HTTP requests and turn them into a fuzzing template that mutates request in a combinatoric fashion. Similar to features built into Burp proxy for those that are familiar with it. Real project: A system that will help organizati…
In regards to the first one: Sounds like a cool idea.
Might I also suggest an overall fuzzing engine? Sulley and Peach Fuzzer both have fairly ugly APIs and config formats, in my opinion.
A pretty DSL that lets you describe a template, also with the ability to add custom Python functions and integrate them on the fly, would be great.