This is my site! Nothing better than waking up to the front page of HN. And thanks for all the hilarious 503 error jokes. ;) Thanks for the submission.
+We are currently churning along on an iOS app that we are VERY excited about. Think: Notifications every time the number changes plus some cool social content integration.
Anyway, I'm a daily HN reader and honestly this has made my week. Thanks for all the posi vibes!
In one sense, we're "in space" more so than people on the space station — there are no walls between us and the stars, just a gas that tapers off to zero with us clinging to our rock by the merest force. It gives me vertigo when I try hard to comprehend that.
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Please take the time to set up a service like CloudFlare[0]. It's free, and will prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes. There's really no downside.
Just today I went to a site that uses cloudflare and they were down - because of cloudflare. Now I don't doubt that the cloudflare people will be right on top of something like that and will fix it asap but they're not a 100% solution to prevent your site from going down during traffic spikes because sites can and do go down, cloudflare or not so the coincidence with a traffic spike can still happen.
The downside is clear: it's a more complex system, so the mtbf will be lower (now it is the combined downtime of 'you' versus 'you+cloudflare').
It's not true that there's "no downside" to using CloudFlare. They've had outages in the past which have taken client sites offline [1], for one thing. Speaking personally, I've experienced subtle errors that have disappeared when I've moved my sites off the service.
CloudFlare may well be great for some people, but it's not perfect.
I didn't downvote, but I'm not sure why cloning this into a native IOS app is such a cool thing. As long as it works in the browser, it's not really that interactive or performance intensive so you wouldn't get any of the benefits of a native app. If you just need something to use to learn to make a native IOS app, this will work, but I don't see any reason to do it other than that.
Which is exactly what I'll be doing - learning. I've made Android applications (some are in the Play store), but iOS and Objective-C is something I want to learn now.
Expedition 37 with a crew of 6 are in space right now. 2 America, 3 Russian, 1 Italian. The last three launching Yesterday
"Expedition 37 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, NASA Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins and Russian Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy to the International Space Station."
Edit: CORRECTION this is the SECOND half of the Expedition 37 crew launching 25 September 2013, 20:58:50 UTC aboard the Soyuz TMA-10M. They are expected to return 12 March 2014. The other three were launched in may.
Some people are gonna be really really happy they felt lucky.
Wow, now that I think about it for a moment, I realized no one ever feels lucky these days. As soon as the search bar on Google's homepage is filled, the form is auto submitted.
I feel lucky all the time. You can change your search settings so that this doesn't happen. Kind of strange that they even show the Feeling Lucky button when this feature is enabled though. You can also use I'm Feeling Lucky via the URL by adding the query parameter btnI
ie. for the query "How Many People Are In Space Right Now"
He's referring to the fact that the URL is in spoken question form. So people going to Google and querying "How Many People Are In Space Right Now" and using the I'm Feeling Lucky search will be brought directly to the site.
Couple side notes:
+For those asking about using our data, go for it! We've got a json file you can tap into: http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/space.json
+We are currently churning along on an iOS app that we are VERY excited about. Think: Notifications every time the number changes plus some cool social content integration.
Anyway, I'm a daily HN reader and honestly this has made my week. Thanks for all the posi vibes!