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by timothya 11y ago
I regret using the word "just", sorry for seeming negative. I only meant to clarify that this doesn't expose any information that YouTube isn't purposefully providing as part of the search API. I apologize for the confus
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by timothya 11y ago
Good on you, it's definitely pretty neat! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that this was simple or anything! At first I interpreted it as a security / privacy bug where you were exposing what your neighbors were uploading, so my
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by timothya 11y ago
Looks like this site is just a wrapper around the YouTube search API, which allows you to specify a location to retrieve results from. From the documentation[0], "The location parameter, in conjunction with the locationRadius paramete
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by timothya 11y ago
Neat! I played one game, and solved it in seven guesses. Is that a good or bad score? It would be nice to have it tell you if you're doing better or worse than the average player.
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by timothya 11y ago
This sounds like a good use case for a Shared Worker[0]. A shared worker is a web worker which can be shared by multiple pages / windows / tabs, and can easily be used for coordination of this type. The shared worker can listen fo
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by timothya 11y ago
You can license the clips by going to the AP Archive website; e.g., this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ6NNLCdio can be licensed from here: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/c0016
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by timothya 11y ago
Does archive.org have the storage space or bandwidth to serve this much video? I agree that archive.org is the "correct" place for this content, but I think YouTube is a more practical location for now (and also the place where I
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by timothya 11y ago
Here's a couple of great videos explaining the Fermi Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fQkVqno-uI
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by timothya 11y ago
Google Play Music seems to be streaming with MP3 for me, at least in Chrome on Mac (maybe the native apps are different?). I don't use Spotify so I am unable to test it (I updated my post to note OGG anyhow).
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by timothya 11y ago
I just tested Google Play Music, and it's streaming in MP3 for me (Chrome on Mac). Maybe it streams using different formats for different platforms, though?
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by timothya 11y ago
Thanks, I didn't realize that! I've updated my comment to make that point clear.
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by timothya 11y ago
An interesting stance he's taking. Spotify, Google Play Music, and Rdio all stream at 320kbps MP3 or OGG, and Apple Music streams at 256kbps AAC (which is approximately the same quality as 320kbps MP3). [0][1] Yet, the vast majority of
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by timothya 11y ago
I don't think that sort of ad is permitted anymore. Here's what I see when I do that search: http://i.imgur.com/505yzNW.png
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by timothya 11y ago
Could you give a real example for $popular_software which is showing a dodgey ad?
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by timothya 11y ago
Reddit is also getting more popular over time, so it's hard to judge exactly what that graph means. Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by timothya 11y ago
It's possible to have significant amounts of business logic. Google is able to share 70% of it's code (written in Java) for the Google Inbox apps[0][1]. [0]: http://gmailblog.blogspot.ca/2014/11/going-und
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by timothya 11y ago
No, it can only use your microphone on New Tab pages and Google Search pages, and only after the user explicitly opts-in to it (the module is disabled by default).
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by timothya 11y ago
Good for Apple. It's too bad it needed a really high profile artist to come out against it, but I'm glad they could listen and make the right choice. Taylor Swift has previously not put her music on other streaming services (despi
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by timothya 11y ago
Good for Apple. It's too bad it needed a really high profile artist to come out against it, but I'm glad they could listen and make the right choice. Taylor Swift has previously not put her music on other streaming services (despi
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by timothya 11y ago
Here's Appelbaum's reaction to the disclosure from Google: https://storify.com/bbhorne/jacob-appelbaum-s-legal-disclosu... It's interesting to get a glimpse into the lengths that Google goes to push back
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by timothya 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what does Twitch do differently than this?
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by timothya 11y ago
> Karplus-Strong guitar synthesizer implemented in JavaScript using asm.js and Web Audio. Are the asm.js annotations required for this to work in Firefox? I thought the primary use case for asm.js was converting low-level code into som
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by timothya 11y ago
No, that screenshot is from the new Photos app (I took it from a review video of the new Google Photos app). And I've tried it myself on my own phone (which is an iPhone, but it looks just like this UI otherwise).
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by timothya 11y ago
> What I really (really) hate is that they've moved the delete button. It's no longer a button on the toolbar at the bottom (on the Android app), it's in the menu and labelled "Delete local copy". Once you sele
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by timothya 11y ago
> it starts to indiscriminately upload all of your photos It only uploads your photos if you check the "Back up & sync" checkbox when you first start the app. If you uncheck that box, it won't upload anything. Don&#x
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by timothya 11y ago
> Could someone share a link to the original presentation? The presentation is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpbWQbkl8_g&t=47m23s (starts around 47:23).
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by timothya 11y ago
They look the same to me... here's a screenshot of them side-by-side (PDF on the left, website on the right): http://i.imgur.com/ToQFktD.png
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by timothya 11y ago
On a related note, here's a comparison between Apple's San Francisco and Google's Roboto, along with FF DIN and Helvetica: http://www.fontshop.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/comparison...
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by timothya 11y ago
Meanwhile, on the original post, the author is acting like HN was tampering with the ranking of the article because it started doing poorly after people realized that a real key wasn't factored: > "Update II : Amusingly enough
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by timothya 11y ago
Chrome also groups multiple tabs on single process, based on a number of factors: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/process...

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