Riding the New Silk Road • Hacker News Board

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by sliverstorm » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:08 PM UTC

RockyMcNuts wrote: post #44

dclusin wrote: post #16

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.

The actually appointed a 'Snowfaller in Chief' http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/07/12/new-york-...

Thank god. IMO the "Snow fall" article was the best thing I've seen come out of journalism in many years.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:10 PM UTC

dclusin wrote: post #16

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.

And yet, I can't see this being developed into something regular; I mean, artfully done as this is, eventually they're going to want to make money.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by MaxGabriel » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:10 PM UTC

dclowd9901 wrote: post #41

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

It'd be nice if there was a machineable way to test UI in varying browsers. Litmus.com gets close, but it's only for emails, and "all" it does is render the emails in like 40 different clients (which is actually amazing). But it'd be nice to be able to say, "Yes, this version in chrome is what I want it to look like," and you get back scores that determine how "close" the other versions are to the version you selecte…

We're having the same problem at work with the same ad unit HTML/CSS shared across iOS and android phones and tablets. My laptop looks like an octopus with various devices tethered to the computer, there's not enough hardware to share, and it slows iteration as well.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:11 PM UTC

veemjeem wrote: post #32

cocoflunchy wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome latest... Maybe something's wrong with my computer?

Works great fine over here on my 4 year old windows machine. Maybe it's time to do the annual windows reinstall...

What annual Windows reinstall? As far as I'm concerned, that's a thing from a decade ago. I haven't done a Windows reinstall (or even had a virus scanner) in years without any hitches.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by jamesdelaneyie » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:11 PM UTC

That soviet train tracking system looks beautiful. Wouldn't mind that on the wall of my office.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:13 PM UTC

hippich wrote: post #47

I see mentions of security, but from pictures it is just few men without any (visible) weapon most of the time. Even given these men, i believe on a so long distance, there are many desert places, where nobody is present. Question - how such a valuable shipments protected against someone, who will try to disconnect few cars, crack open 'em and steal all these laptops on trucks?

Well, with security forces, of course. I'm also pretty sure that, outside of required stops for customs offices, these trains will just keep on going. And third, that crime and hijacking isn't actually as big a risk or common happening as people may think.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by haberman » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:14 PM UTC

Wow, the presentation of the photos really made an impression on me -- it's just like Harry Potter. It's amazing that even after almost 10 years of YouTube, having video presented to you in a slightly different way can give you a feeling that you're experiencing the future.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by gerow » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:15 PM UTC

adamnemecek wrote: post #5

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

Huh, for some reason the gifs don't play back Chromium for me (within Ubuntu, at least) but do work from Firefox.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by aw3c2 » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:17 PM UTC

dclusin wrote: post #16

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.

This kind of presentation would work perfectly for magazines like National Geographic.

Re: Riding the New Silk Road

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Post by aw3c2 » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 8:19 PM UTC

modfodder wrote: post #46

chime wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Actually, they're just really nice high quality animated gifs (someone below analyzing the source states that they are actually video, which is possible). A cinemagraph is a still photo that has one (or few) moving parts of the image, typically in a near seamless loop. A cinemagraph is a bit more involved to create than a gif, requiring at least some basic compositing.

They are webm videos, really nice.