Stuk

This looks to be damn cool. Looking at the docs[1][2] it's now possible to create a Spotify remote control (e.g. control PC from a phone) using the native client. Thinking about it, it's probably also possible to sync two Spotify players on different computers, although they would have to be using different accounts...

It would have been nice if the manifest.json used the Chrome extensions format rather than creating yet another one, but otherwise the developers should be congratulated on using plenty of HTML5 stuff, and what also looks like CommonJS modules.

I'm looking forward to seeing what comes of this!

[1] http://developer.spotify.com/download/spotify-apps-api/tutor... [2] http://developer.spotify.com/download/spotify-apps-api/refer...

I guess you're in the US, Canada or Brazil, because Rdio isn't available anywhere else. But Spotify is, and is doing well.

Agree with all of these points, especially the condensed-at-first display.

I would also like it if the search box was in the fixed header, so I don't have to scroll back to the top to re-search.

Otherwise nice tool!

I really liked #4, the juxtaposition of the relaxing site and "vulgar" cursing made me laugh out loud, and feel more relaxed.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is the quality of the video. The length, dynamism and content were all perfect! Nice one.

I've never used Gowalla, but I've seen a lot of complaints on Twitter that peoples' "stuff" has disappeared. What's happened there?

What is this? A blog with a terrible UI? A presentation? I have no idea what is going on.

It would be really good to get some Selenium tests written up for them as well so that we know they all, and all future ones, behave the same. I might do this if I get a bit of spare time.

It's two squares, each with three rounded corners and one point, rotated +/- 45 degrees to point at each other.

For the Hacker_News article there seems to be a peak every Tuesday in July (and to some extent May). I wonder why?

So the differences between this and Javascript that I can see are:

    * ^ replacing function
    * default values for arguments, ^(x: 4){...}
    * print instead of console.log
    * array slicing x[1:3], x[:-2]
    * embedded HTML, div = <div/>

Edit: like beaumartinez says, the Github page explains the differences much better than the site: https://github.com/rsms/move

Looks very interesting, it would be great if you could put a video of the app in action on that page. I don't have a Mac so I can't try it out myself.

After seeing the demo I thought this was being done in canvas, but no, it's actually using css transforms applied to DOM elements. SVG is far more suited to this task.

Also despite it's vector look, all of the lines are in fact pngs http://wwwimages.adobe.com/labs.adobe.com/cdn/technologies/e... . Disappointing.

I wonder how https://www.tropo.com/ is doing. They seem to be a bit of an underdog in the telephony api world.

Because it's open source.

Yep, before I would even consider paying I want to see the docs for the command line tool, and at least a few screenshots of the web interface!

I does look good from what info is available though.

I enjoy Newsblur, http://www.newsblur.com/ , and paid for it to support Samuel

Does anyone know of something similar for Android?

What's the ratio of coders to designers?

There have been several attempts at solving this, including one by Microsoft[1] which involves putting a camera on either side of the screen and synthesizing a new image that allows eye contact.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=6726...

Well the author says in the conclusion that they don't think that they're particularly readable, but from an artistic point of view they're definitely more interesting.

Even if it isn't a success, I would like to encourage this kind of experimentation with data visualisation.

This isn't a particularly good example as you're doing all the work adding up the word counts in your reduce function.

A better example would count the occurrences of the words in each line in the map, and then add up the totals in reduce.

Posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2505763

But completely ignore Fitt's Law. Usually I can speed my mouse to the right of the screen, click, drag. Here I speed to the right of the screen, maybe try clicking and dragging, fail, move in 30 pixels, overshoot, move back and finally can scroll.*

The problem with allowing the customisation of scrollbars is that most people are going to make them worse.

* Personally I use the scroll wheel, but I know a lot of people who don't.

I really like this idea, and have been meaning to code up something similar for a while. A few points:

* I would like to set lengths of time shorter than 15 mins. * If you visit a URL like http://timeslot.me/agendas/#day/2011-4-29 without being logged in then the interface appears, and slightly works. A redirect to the login would be better * As others have mentioned, drag/drop of tasks and length would be great * And a random idea: I would quite like to have a "repository" (todo list) of tasks with the length already set which I could drag onto a day.

With the drag and drop functionality I would happily pay a few dollars per month for something like this.

From "How does it work?" in the Readme:

    Dropbox its deduplication scheme works by breaking files into blocks. 
    Each of these blocks is hashed with the SHA256__
    algorithm and represented by the digest. Only blocks that are not yet
    known are uploaded to the server when syncing.

    By using the same API as the native client, Dropship pretends to sync a
    file to the dropbox folder without actually having the contents. This bluff
    succeeds because the only proof needed server-side is the hash of each 4MB block
    of the file, which is known. The server then adds the file metadata to the folder,
    which is, as usual, propagated to all clients. These will then start downloading
    the file.

Yeah, that's true. I like using it more as a launchpad for ideas. It's definitely not going to generate the next Flickr!

If there's nothing here that is satisfactory, then it's quite easy to generate random pronounceable words, just alternate between vowels and consonants. As an example: https://github.com/Stuk/generate-words

I was thinking along similar lines last week with regards to APIs. Obviously you want people to use them, and they only will if they're understandable and useful. It would be good to have something like http://fivesecondtest.com/, where people can comment on your ideas for "karma".

(aside: I can't actually work out if people who complete reviews at 5 sec tests get paid? Or if they do just get karma)

Very true, but just because you can't help everyone doesn't mean you shouldn't help someone.