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Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by fictorial »

benologist wrote: post #64
fictorial wrote: post #20

http://playrelay.io I wish I had some time to finish it (client work first)! It also might be a miniscule market.

I don't think it would be a miniscule market, someone was asking me about multiplayer on iphone the other day and I don't even make iphone games.

Sorry I was unclear. Multiplayer on iOS is a huge market. But with Apple providing peer-to-peer built-in a hosted solution such as PlayRelay might not find many fans. Game Center might be "good enough". That is why I am trying to add things like accountability (opponent is losing and quits the game with no punishment) and tournaments.

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Post by natep »

ydant wrote: post #259
maneesh wrote: post #126

http://nearestburrito.com - Enter your address, find a burrito

May I suggest using the W3C geolocation API to get the user's location and pre-populate that? It's Simple to get the Coordinates, and then you can probably use Google's geocode API to get the address. I just tried to use this while traveling and I don't really know my address.

Agreed. I don't really see myself using this from my laptop, but if I could use my phone's already known location...

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by natep »

conesus wrote: post #74

http://www.newsblur.com An RSS feed reader with intelligence. Got half of the intelligence part working. Still lots of bugs and not quite ready for primetime. But soon, hopefully. It's also open-source: http://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/

Very nice. I really like every single screen, up until I went to look at my Hacker News 100 feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/newsyc100)

I was expecting it to break, because the title links to the content, and the body of the rss item links to the comments, but not quite that badly.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by natep »

Nobody's going to look at my response at this point, but

github.com/nsp/JSkills

So far it's just a port of Microsoft Research's TrueSkill rating algorithm. Next up is to learn SQL so I can test the accuracy of the algorithm, and once that's done, a web site to allow you to track games with friends (I'll probably end up porting it again to Python or Ruby)

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by pontifier »

http://www.crossies.com is a media marketplace. It is very ugly, but try it out and let me know what you think.

Each of the codes below will allow you to create an account with an initial balance of $10 on the site. They are one time use so first come first served.

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Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by zeemonkee »

http://whatsmycallsign.appspot.com/

When you're on the phone and you need to spell your name, address etc. It will print out the international call sign (Alpha, Delta, Lima etc).

Took me about 30 mins or so, running on Google App Engine but almost all JavaScript. Was going to make it into an Android app instead as a learning exercise, but never got round to it.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by smackjer »

http://www.twackit.com

Track any numeric metric over time using your Twitter account.

People have used to to track their weight, mpg, jogging, movie ratings, etc. Most of the users right now are Japanese, tracking their "hakaru diet" (whatever that is).

Here's an example report: http://www.twackit.com/yishibashi01/hakarudiet

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by oms2010 »

http://www.organizemysearch.com

I developed organizemysearch.com after being tired of keeping tons of car ads and notes all over the place while I was looking for a used car a few years ago. I wanted an application that will let me enter all the data I wanted to keep track of when searching for something (eg. color, miles, make) and later be able to quickly and easily sort through everything so I can compare things based on my priorities.

The idea is to let you compare properties of items you are considering buying across multiple websites. It's a shopping comparison tool

The official definition from the website is this:

"organizemysearch.com helps you organize your searches, keep track of them, and provide you quick tools to sort and display all the information your are considering when making a final decision. In other words it helps you manage searching for information in the real world, regardless of what you are actually searching for."

The project is public but I have been caught up with other projects recently and didn't get around to market it (part of it being that the app falls into the caregory of 'people don't know it's useful until they use it'.

Re: Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

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Post by mentat »

daeken wrote: post #202
tectonic wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fascinating, could you explain how this works?

I'm planning on writing up a blog post exploring the attack and possibilities, but from a high level: When you pass data into a regex engine for matching, it works character-by-character. When it reaches a character that doesn't match, the matching is terminated. That means that if you have the regex /^foo$/, "f" will take slightly longer to parse than "b", since it'll move on to the next character for "f", but not "…

As someone who has made regular expression acceleration products, we were aware of this possibility but we didn't ever implement a proof of concept. The range of applications is pretty staggering just in network and host security. I'm interested to see what you come up with.
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