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Is there a way to keep up with this story? Looks like Orpheusdroid is not on Twitter.

I am not sure who is right and who is wrong here. But I have the feeling that it is too easy for big companies to threaten small companies.

I wonder if there should be some institution where small companies and individuals can go to when threatened by big companies. And if the threat seems unreasonable, the institution would take up the fight on behalf of the small company or individual.

UTF-8 Everywhere 6 years ago

I think UTF-8 was a mistake.

It is a pain in the ass to have a variable number of bytes per char.

In Ascii, you could easily know every character personally. No strange surprises.

Also no surprises while reading black on white text and suddenly being confronted with clors [1].

[1] Also no surprises when writing a comment on HN like this one and having some characters stripped. I put in a smiley as the firs "o" in colors, but it was stripped out. Looks like the makers of HN don't like UTF-8 either.

All you can do on that page is sign up. Sign-up pages are explicitely listed as a type of page that can't be a Show HN.

This sign-up page especially rubs me the wrong way as it uses a dark pattern: It grabs your email address first and then tells you that you cannot proceed without entering your credit card details.

Flagged because this is a sales page, not a Show HN. Please read the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Regarding the sales page itself: If you had a list of podcasts created this way, I would definitely look at it. Because I am a big podcast fan.

If your product has not been used yet, I would start by contacting youtubers directly and work with them to build an initial portfolio of podcasts created with Podely.

Is the only reason for the iframe so that it is possible to keep a state in the top frame while loading different pages?

Because otherwise - since you use the dev tools to inject the iframe - you don't really need the iframe. You can just run it as a "snippet" in Chromium or from the multi-line-code-editor in Firefox.

Both have the problem that it all has to be a single file. It would be much nicer if one could import modules.

Million Short 7 years ago

No word on where the search results come from?

Can't find anything about it on the about page.

Doing a few test searches, the results seem similar to those of Bing.

Of all the music recommendation systems out there, this one is my favorite:

http://www.gnoosic.com

It has an uber simple interface (you don't even need to log in) but no other system gets me as well as this one.

What surprises me in the given article is the graph on the last page. Why was the treatment group still listening more weeks after they already were getting the old recommendations again?

I wish the graph would reach out further into the past then just one week before the test. So one could get a feel for how much of the variance in the graph is random.

This has issues:

    <list>
        <hstack spacing=s>
            <div class="icon"></div>
            <text>Westminster</text>
            <spacer></spacer>
            <text>0.5 miles</text>
        </hstack>
        ....
It is more complex then it needs to be, it puts the styling into into the html, it kills all semantic meaning and pollutes the global namespace of element names.

It should be:

    <my-cities>
        <my-city>
            <city-name>Westminster</city-name>
            <city-distance>0.5 miles</city-distance>
        </my-city>
        ....
And then simply style the custom attributes to your liking via css. If these "primitives" would use classnames instead of element names, their styles could be added like this:
    <my-cities class=pylon-list>
        <my-city class=pylon-hstack>
            <city-name>Westminster</city-name>
            <city-distance>0.5 miles</city-distance>
        </my-city>
        ....

My guess is that you don't even have an upvote button.

You have that little triangle, but I don't think it really upvotes.

For example, this post has 5 points but is not on the ASK page. While older posts with just 3 points are. Probably because it is "upvoted" mainly by "little guys".

As I understand it, clicking the triangle only means "put this in my saved stories list" unless you somehow secretly become a real upvoter.

I think we all are still waiting for a community with transparent rules. So far, none has managed to get a lot of traction.

UPDATE: Hey, lot's of downvotes for this post. Would be great if you guys could explain why you downvote.

Sorry, but not much sympathy from me.

1) You knowingly violated the terms of service. Therefore you are denied service now. Nothing to complain about. Honestly, if the API of my website would be intentionally abused in a way that I explicitly exclude in my TOS, I would be seriously pissed. I would probably think about suing you. Not only denying you further service.

2) You whine, bitch and complain because others did not get the same treatment as you. There are also many murders and robbers who are not in prison. If it would not be allowed to put one criminal into prison unless we put them all into prison, there would be no law and order at all.

3) You encourage the problem. By shutting down just because Amazon kicked you out. Why not address the problem that 90% of your revenue came from one single retailer? Why not talk to the other retailers and the users and see if there is a way to work it out? Do the difficult thing: CREATE! Don't beg!

Sorry, if this sounds harsh. I welcome and applaude every tech entrepreneur. But please stand up and fight for the right thing. For a better world. Not just for a bit of profit by bending the rules.

[dead] 10 years ago

They deleted the posts from the front page. Did you misread my title? For example the post with over 6000 upvotes in r/worldnews would normally be on the frontpage. But it seems to have been manually removed.