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Season 6 black mirror pitch idea right here

Javascript!

I have experienced this first hand while chaperoning school field trips - it's an amazing ad-hoc local area social network! Definitely emerging cultural patterns via technology. Going to apply for grant money to study, brb.

Came here and searched for "couch". Love it to death and have used it at medium large scale with very large custom indexes.

Once you understand the way that views and map/reduce work, it's super powerful for doing large scale statistics on data sets quickly. Only thing that I wish for is a Mongoose adapter for couchdb so I can use it as a backend for when an open-source project wants to use MongoDB (Looking at keystone.js for example)...

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a network that includes google engineers. And it's laughable to suggest this as a remedy for "developer as platform customer service"...

They forgot all about Brown Sauce!

Kind of explains why React came from Facebook. If you're abusing the DOM to obfuscate the nature of your content, and running into performance issues.... hmmm

Couchdb and Cloudant are awesome awesome databases, and I'm staggered that they have a legacy of any kind from Notes shocked

Seems appropriate to mention here that Jason's opened the door to direct support from his fans like us: https://kottke.org/members/

Would be awesome if he saw a nice boost from the attention here!

If you don't want the barcode scanning feature, and just want to type in a name and see who owns it, why can't this be a plain old website? Or to say it another way, is there a web-based interface that does the same thing?

I've been using the mono in my code editor for a while and it's a delight.

For Watson Speech to Text - Did you choose the correct model to match your source audio quality? They default to a "Broadband" model intended for high quality audio sources, but you can also select "Narrowband" for things like phone quality. Not guaranteeing a difference, but in my experience, matching the source quality to the correct model makes some difference.

I've not compared them extensively but for streaming realtime, I found that Watson beat the Google api for a specific use-case. Your mileage may vary!

They also provide a handy Mic / File reader interface for browsers: https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/speech-javascript-...

Found http://www.oblicard.com/ after searching...

Agree on the need for a declarative high level language. Something akin to Markdown, but for chatbot flows.

Yep, this. Basically leveraging the knowledge difference between developers on the edge of what's available with Cloud ML API services, versus people with business problems that are not aware of same. Throw in some customization and nice marketing / design for niche use cases, and you've maybe got a business.

As a kid I once missed out on a few hundred in cash on the ground at our local golf course. My friend walking behind me was paying more attention to the ground and spotted it after I had just walked past...

Will they allow bots? Looking forward to hearing more details...

I recently installed Audacity on a new machine and was pleasantly surprised to not have to poke around and drop the LAME libs manually for it to work with MP3.

This is awesome. Does not compare to touchscreens, but wildly useful for hacking interactive real world objects. Would appreciate a DIY hardware guide from the creators and open source code for processing the signals. The full paper does have some detail but not sure if it's enough to run with.

Very cool - Tone Analyzer is one of the more useful Watson APIs. For anyone curious about 'is it doing anything really', their references go into more of how it works under the hood: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/tone-analyzer/...

Etsy's blog post is a great primer (as usual) on how to accomplish this kind of thing: https://codeascraft.com/2017/01/31/how-etsy-manages-https-an...

What about supporting github read/write deploy keys? Those can be generated with permissions for a single repo, no?

I just spent the last hour trying to figure out why in the hell I can't update the function code on a lambda instance. Next time I will remember to check HN first!

Design your UX so that any large assets can be requested at will by the user, and indicate the file size? That way it's the user's choice if they want to load that large video over their slow network, etc.

Great question! I'm a fan of the Mozilla Thimble project - "An online code editor for learners & educators" - https://thimble.mozilla.org

Easy to use code editor with live preview, fun starter projects to remix, easy to follow tutorials.

Great points. Also feeding cats only dry food can lead to kidney problems in old age - they do not naturally drink much water, instead relying on moisture from their food sources. Feed good quality canned food!

You're lucky if you've got a good enough site so that you can get people to stick around for the second page load! Subsequent CSS calls will be cached for the majority.

The naming is rather brilliant

Code Wars is my favorite. The earlier ranks are pretty simple but there's a broad depth of challenging problems at the higher levels. Online editor and test runner verifies your solution and the community aspects are a big win.

https://www.codewars.com/

FYI, you have an untested hypothesis, not a theory. Unless you have done some research somewhere. Sorry for the pedantics!