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HN 2.0 2.0(zeaun.com)
9 points by zupreme 14y ago|19 comments
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by zupreme 14y ago
TZaman: I used an iframe because it was the only way of displaying the content I could think of without resorting to copyright infringement (i.e. doing a CURL query and reproducing the article on the site). If you can suggest a better and
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Benologist: Thanks! Unfortunately this site is just a (more attractive I hope) mirror of HN. Whatever HN allows to hit the front page will hit HN2. To be clear: I'm not trying to steal HN's audience. I just think the folks at YCombinator
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Next up: Handling sites gracefully that employ frame busting methods. I don't mind the ones that break out of the frame and redirect the visitor to their site - if they wish to do that, then that's fine by me. What I need to figure out is
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And the site is back up. Thanks for everyone's patience!
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Update: Per PG's post at the location below, it looks like I can query once per minute safely. I'm going to do better than that and query once every 2 minutes. Hopefully a 2 minute delay won't be too much for HN readers to bear. http://n
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by zupreme 14y ago
Congratulations Fizzadar! I think your refresh was the once that pushed the site over HN's limit :-) I'm going to try using a different server to fact the data as a proxy which will then get stored to a database. I need to look around and
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Definitely. Thanks. If you or anyone else have suggestions on an attractive way to incorporate them, I'd appreciate it.
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Agreed. I plan to add comments over the next couple of days (once I get things working to the extent that HN will not block the GET requests due to traffic)
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HN is refusing the GET requests now. I think they have a daily threshold set for queries. I'm troubleshooting options for working around this now. Most likely it will involve a cron job to pull entries on a set interval and saving those
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. It was working earlier - it looks like it hit some throttling threshold on HN due to the traffic. I will have to wait until the throttling period expires and then enable caching of requests. Thanks everyo
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Show HN: Hacker News 2.0 - A Work in Progress(hn2.co)
7 points by zupreme 14y ago|28 comments
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I've been running it as a Parallels VM for months now. It's available via the Parallels Convenience Store for free.
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I believe that, based on my own non-scientific observation, most non-technical people don't really know what RSS is or what it is used for. I think that YACG, AutoBlogs, and so forth have also made website owners question the value of publi
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by zupreme 15y ago
I'm on a relatively fast connection (16mb down) and it took a significant amount of time to load for me (Macbook Pro using Safari). Perhaps enabling caching on your server will help speed things up some. The site looks good otherwise. Goo
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Instagram: Promises Broken?(zeaun.com)
1 points by zupreme 15y ago|0 comments
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Jon, Thanks for the interesting perspective. I've actually opened, run, and sold a retail store before (mobile phones and accessories) so, while the type of layout logic I referred to in my comment above did not apply to my store (because
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Agreed. But I'm not advocating sticking our heads in the sand. What I do think is that, if we let ourselves get sucked into playing the game by their rules we (the tech industry) will lose. They have more lawyers, politicians, and even l
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Most large retail outlets will probably opt out of this initiative. A big part of their revenue model hinges on the "impulse buying" which occurs as you wander throughout the store looking for your items. There is a reason why no major de
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SOPA is simply the old-guard clutching at the side of the cliff for dear life as they, inevitably, plummet to their deaths. Next subject.
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It's telling that in the Moverio product video, Epson doesn't show a single image of a person actually wearing the glasses.... Yes, I know that there is a pic on the product page, if you scroll down.
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I think the OP is dead on. The goal here is to encrypt your connection, not to bypass industry-standard security measures. Once you install the cert (client-side) you are protected just as you would be with a publicly signed cert. If you
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by zupreme 15y ago
Thanks for OpenSourcing Node2dm. I think I'll take that for a spin this weekend.
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Here's my advice (which is contingent upon your actually selling a product or service): Setup an affiliate program and promote that as assiduously as you promote your actual product or service. Yes, doing so can take lots of work and managi
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That sounds like a great idea, (the "opportunity" you mention) but how does one avoid becoming "just another ad network"? There are so many fringe players out there who provide low value and poor customer service that many website owners
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Neither did I 6 years ago when I was making affiliate sites. When I realized that I didn't want to play that game I buckled down and learned to code...
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Assuming that his accounting of the facts is accurate, he did do all of the right things. That's why the "Dont rely..." comments are relevant. The affiliate-program market (and that's all Adsense is - a unique form of affiliate program) is
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Ask HN: Is Node.js indeed the new PHP?
1 points by zupreme 15y ago|0 comments
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Actually, what you have proposed is exactly the approach that some black-hat practitioners have used to hide click-fraud. Some guys will setup a script to go to 5 sites (for example) and click ads on all of them. Their site will be one of
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My assumption is that in 99% of the cases the revenue Google misses out on by terminating the accounts of site owners who experience the type of victimization is less than what they would spend in man-hours on investigating the matter to di

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