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Show HN: Chrome extension batch cancel Amazon Subscribe and Save subscriptions(chromewebstore.google.com)
3 points by longzheng 2y ago|0 comments
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by longzheng 10y ago
I've published a desktop Windows app before with a freemium strategy. It was developed by a team of 3 after hours. We didn't make a living out of it because we wanted to keep it as a hobby project but it paid out well enough to be
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by longzheng 12y ago
(Author) Yep there is definitely an instant download page. Strange it's not the #1 result on Google. The #1 result is actually the thing as I've annotated.
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Windows Phone Store rankings appears to be manipulated with bots(istartedsomething.com)
1 points by longzheng 13y ago|0 comments
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by longzheng 13y ago
Normally I am usually very susceptible to motion sickness from FPS games, reading in cars/trains and theme park rides which can all easily make me feel like throwing up, but I've not had effects of any degree from using iOS 7 sinc
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Photoshop CC's new shake reduction feature works really well (my own pic)(pbs.twimg.com)
1 points by longzheng 13y ago|0 comments
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Google Docs + HTML/JS = auto updating TV kiosk presentation(istartedsomething.com)
1 points by longzheng 13y ago|0 comments
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by longzheng 13y ago
I'm using the Google Maps JavaScript API which now has the option to enable the new visual style. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/... Of course it has a daily rate limit of 25,000 free requests so if it goes do
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I made a test page to see the new Google Maps style(istartedsomething.com)
1 points by longzheng 13y ago|1 comments
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by longzheng 14y ago
That's weird. It should definitely switch to the new article if you click the picture/play icon or the title. As a workaround, could you try "up/down" arrows? It's possible the HTML5 audio player in FF19 is buggy.
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by longzheng 14y ago
I think early on I investigated getting comments for posts but couldn't do it reliably or "say it" in a consistent way that made sense. May add it as a future feature.
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by longzheng 14y ago
Forgot protip: you can also use up/down arrows and spacebar for play/pause.
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by longzheng 14y ago
We investigated this. Unfortunately HTML5 audio (especially mobile devices) doesn't offer a lot of capability in that regards.
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by longzheng 14y ago
The feeling is mutual. :)
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by longzheng 14y ago
We applied but never got in :P
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by longzheng 14y ago
Yeah parsing is a tough challenge for something as diverse as Hacker News where the content could be anything between a thesis, a blog post, to a picture gallery. Will investigate Shoutcast but there might not be enough content to have a co
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by longzheng 14y ago
Thanks Peter. Already drafting email. You're absolutely right about the TTS uncanny valley problem. We're betting on the fact that this is an industry effort. Currently we don't have the resources to really invest in the core TTS technology
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by longzheng 14y ago
I'm a co-founder of the startup that built SoundGecko. But more specifically I had a bigger part in building this "feature" for Hacker News since it's something I actually wanted to use personally.
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by longzheng 14y ago
Yeah. Came across Hacker News Radio before but the domain has since expired. Anyone know who was behind it?
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by longzheng 14y ago
Glad you're pleasantly surprised. You'll probably come across a few oddities sooner or later. My startup has licensed some premium text-to-speech engines for a pretty penny so you get what you pay for!
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by longzheng 14y ago
Yeah I came across tldr.io the other day and really like the concept. Would love an introduction. PS: the codename of the backend that powers all this is actually "tldr" since I can't be stuffed reading :)
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by longzheng 14y ago
Yeah unfortunately there isn't a lot of control over HTML5 audio AFAIK. There is a preload option but it's specific to the individual <audio> element. Maybe as a hack I could change it so each article has a hidden <audio> so
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by longzheng 14y ago
I find I don't have enough time to read all the stuff on Hacker News, but I spend heaps of time on the train where I’m usually listening to music. Since I work at a startup doing some stuff with text-to-speech, I hacked together this text-t
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Show HN: Built a Hacker News radio web app I can listen to(soundgecko.com)
315 points by longzheng 14y ago|85 comments
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by longzheng 14y ago
A friend of mine at MS said the same thing, the IT department blocked the IP.
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by longzheng 14y ago
My friend just found this gem in their privacy policy “We gather personally identifiable and may include information regarding your geo-location, ip address, operating system, language setting and information regarding whether recommended a
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by longzheng 14y ago
It wasn't Ask or Conduit. It was actually a company I had trusted. That is before I received their email...
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Y Combinator is funding the future of spam in Windows(istartedsomething.com)
1065 points by longzheng 14y ago|455 comments
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by longzheng 14y ago
Sorry about the delay. Our email outbound provider dropped the ball and there's a big backlog of emails. Trying to get it sorted now. (part of SoundGecko team)
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by longzheng 14y ago
If anyone has any questions or feedback, would love to hear it.

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