jimothyhalpert7

At least you don't have to worry about erasing your childhood to store 80GB of data, when you apply for that courier position in 4 years. [1][2]

[1] Johnny Mnemonic - Official Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwl5MBzTCRQ

[2] Also, I guess Toshiba is in a lawsuit with Apple over their new VR headset - the EyePhone - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXSqN7qXwpU

I'm very glad someone brought this up. The whole talk is kind of weird. David is extremely nervous, drinking all the time, and then (spontaneously) bursts into tears in the end. One comment read that he was 'high', and, while there's no way (or point) to verify this, it describes his abnormal nervousness pretty well.

Adding to this the fact that this achievement hasn't been verified, leads to a very strange TED Talk.

So, I started wondering, whether a deliberately bad TED talk can be considered a good magic trick...?

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes - https://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_...

I'm way ahead of you :)

I wonder if all the upvotes are due the content, or my accidental use of italic formatting...

In case of the former, would anyone care to elaborate? Do you solely agree with the message, or do you find yourself in a similar situation as described?

I remember reading this a while ago and feeling completely duped. The author's definition of a 'fcked up life' is what I would love my life to be, assuming I would have an idea to devote myself too, and would be in an environment where that wouldn't seem strange.

What is fcked up it the situation when you're doing it backwards: instead of jumping into a business, and dealing with those problems, you start believing that the normality of your life is what's holding you down, so you artificially create those problems, without having a decent reason for doing so...

The target was Chrome, desktop for now. It's also quite resource heavy, and is better run in anonymous mode, i.e with plugins disabled.

Beatified - http://beatified.herokuapp.com/library/

A YouTube Drum Machine / Beat Prototyper / VJ Tool

I just noticed that pressing hotkeys (1-9) on a YT video at one point was really responsive, and you could play with them like on a drum machine. I also like how many YT videos look, when played next to each other. Now I'm thinking of a way of how to package that feeling into something less experimental, more consumable.

Thanks for digging deep. However, this question was not in relation to my previous Show HN post (damn internet :)).

Since you did bring it up, I like to think that I'm aware of the reason for it not getting any attention. Long version: I got fixated on engineering, while forgetting about the core UX.

Case in point:

1. the score you mention begins with a node service scraping a random page from lookbook, which contains a list of photos and their 'hypes' (likes);

2. then all the scores get normalized, where 1000 would be given to the highest hype score, all other being (hype*1000)/max_hype;

3. finally the sign of the score is based on whether you correctly guessed that the looks hype is more ('Fashn') or less ('No Fashn') than the average, non-normalized hype for a given page, and the nominal value of it is the difference between the normalized average and a given photo's score.

I guess I didn't bother explaining this to the user, since the initial idea was to compare your taste to that of the lookbook community (read 'objectively fashionable'). However in approach above, the score for a photo is determined relative to the other photos on the page, but not other pages. Since relativity is unavoidable with the set logic, the user must be presented with a design that allows relative comparison. This, in turn, brakes the current minimalist design, which was one of the main features.

This Buridan's ass state is where I stopped development, and decided to show it as is. HN wasn't the first place, and all the feedback resolved around a broken (not well explained?) core mechanic. Meanwhile, the restless mind queued up a number of ingenious ideas, and, not being socially pressed for time nor resources, I decided to move on.

Is there any information about an API for this? I know that they abandoned their old Voice to Text API, which is sad, because there aren't that many alternatives out there. I'm using Watson right now, but it's really bad, and the language range is very narrow. I'm also open to any suggestions for Voice to Text online APIs or local server side solutions.