Riding the New Silk Road • Hacker News Board

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by tomphoolery » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 6:52 PM UTC

farnsworth wrote: post #10

adamnemecek wrote: post #5

This is the first time I've seen gif-like videos used in a news article.

Another step closer to Harry Potter style living portraits in the news. Some day we'll be good enough at building a 3D scene from a video or a bunch of 2D pictures that we'll be able to animate the scene and the people in various random ways rather than just looping a video clip.

The Onion is gonna get really interesting once that's all developed.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by kiba » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC

Did anybody thought of the black market site "silk road" rather than the actual Silk Road before clicking on the link?

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by eCa » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC

josephpmay wrote: post #7

This may look great on the desktop, but its pretty horrible on mobile.

It repeatedly crashes Safari on my phone.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by cm2012 » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:00 PM UTC

Wow, I really wanted that to continue the path all the way to Europe. Really just a treat to use. The smoothness of the "gif-like" images just smashes typical video in my mind.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by cocoflunchy » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB...

The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black:

http://prntscr.com/1gq4he

http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by dclusin » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:04 PM UTC

It seems to me like we're finally witnessing the birth of a 21st century news paper. The New York times has always been well regarded for it's journalism. Now we're starting to see what can be accomplished when a credible journalism outfit is complemented by equally credible digital designers.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by sehr » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:06 PM UTC

kiba wrote: post #12

Did anybody thought of the black market site "silk road" rather than the actual Silk Road before clicking on the link?

To be fair though, it's been the only silk road in the news for the past few years.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by chime » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:07 PM UTC

cm2012 wrote: post #14

Wow, I really wanted that to continue the path all the way to Europe. Really just a treat to use. The smoothness of the "gif-like" images just smashes typical video in my mind.

They're called http://www.reddit.com/r/cinemagraphs

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by emilyst » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:07 PM UTC

cocoflunchy wrote: post #15

It's great to try new formats, but the experience is completely broken on my now-slightly-aging Windows laptop. I wish web developer/designers would test their pages on regular hardware instead of 27" iMacs or rMPB... The scrolling is horribly lagging, and the gifs/videos are all black: http://prntscr.com/1gq4he http://prntscr.com/1gq5b6

I have to wonder, which browser?

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by easy_rider » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 7:09 PM UTC

kiba wrote: post #12

Did anybody thought of the black market site "silk road" rather than the actual Silk Road before clicking on the link?

I'd like to think I knew what the "real" Silk Road is, but I'm afraid that I would not answer this question correctly in quiz setting.