No, "honor system" is very frequently used and understood to refer to a system where there are explicit rules but where the rules are not enforced via active surveillance.
It sounds like you want to make a judgement call: "they're too small to enforce this license agreement," so you get to pretend it's an honor system and not a license agreement.
This is about how each character adapts to the radius, not the path itself. Each character is tweaked so the design holds up as it’s curved. I don’t think you have tools to do that.
FWIW, people have glyph warping text (both on and off paths) using tools like Adobe Illustrator for as long as I can remember. I also don't quite get why one might want a capability that supports one type of glyph warping in the typeface itself.
A font is designed to have certain attributes (e.g. harmony between the letters). It is not clear that this harmony is preserved if you distort the font algorithmically. For this font the designer ensured that it is preserved.
I get that part (I've designed commercial typefaces), but as I understand it, (1) this only works for type on circles or circular arcs, and (2) the typeface has no awareness of the circle/segment it's on, so the designer still has to manually match the Curve property to the radius.
I think this is really cool and interesting work by Nick Sherman. I just wonder if I'm correct about the limited applications, and what could be done to enable the kind of "contextual intelligence" that would enable fonts to better optimize themselves for a broader set of types of envelope deformations.
Because it allows the effect of the curvature to be customized by hand for each letter shape by a skilled designer. Fonts like italics, bold or condensed can also be approximated with simple geometric operations, but I think you would agree that that looks terrible.
As a complete layman, it seems obvious that it should be hard? Like, text is a type of graphic that needs to be coherent both in its detail and its large structure, and there’s a very small amount of variation that we don’t immediately notice as strange or flat out incorrect. That’s not true of most types of imagery.
The changes in the Aladdin and Lion King stills surely can’t be accidental side effects? The Aladdin shot especially looks like they deliberately shifted it to a different time of day. Could there have been a continuity reason?
Hardly. Its actual mission seems to be: ”A no-noise email roundup of all the
must-read Nintendo news”. I’m sure it did exactly that for its reader. It might not the best article to submit to HN though.
Interesting from a technical point of view. But the real problem to solve here is buried in this throwaway at the end, and it even suggests that this is entirely the wrong tech for the job:
> So the way I see auraphone working at an event, you walk around and mingle as normal but yeah every one has their phone out and running the app but ONLY this app. You are still present and in the conversation not just looking at other distractions from your phone.
What is so magic about this app that it will make your phone not be a distraction? And how do you get everyone to download a new app? And if you can get them to do that, why not just exchange the info through a normal server? Then you could literally just tell the app which event you’re at (and sure, use Bluetooth for that, but a QR code or even just a link would probably work better) and then they don’t need to walk around with the app open.
bluetooth proves you were physically there. also no cell tower or wifi issues. this app purposely has no backend! truly decentralized. If i used a normal server I would have to just trust the gps sent? And even if I could trust that, bluetooth lets me know who is closet within feet. The list of devices shows you by who is at the top, who you are nearest.
It is a chicken and egg problem for sure. Will enough people install the app and will people keep it open and in foreground often enough. I need real event with like 100 people to test :)
well which specific piece, your instagram username is very different than your phone number right? And depends on the event. Is it speed-dating or tech conference? You can chose what to broadcast. If you are at the event, you have some goal of who you want to meet. Long term in the app I want to let you give more info about that and then filter the list for you. Help you find your people.
I understand all this, but it still feels like a solution in search of a problem. Why does it matter that it is decentralized? There are simpler ways to reasonably prove you were there. Scan a QR code taped to the wall, use a WiFi beacon, get a unique code, tap a link in their invitation, ticket, whatever else is used as admission, or use Bluetooth for that matter. But exchanging the data by Bluetooth and requiring everyone to have their phones out, and thinking that it won’t be a distraction for some reason… that’s the part I don’t understand.
Well having no backend is also a cost thing. I can scale this to millions and my fees are still just $99 a year for ios app developer program and $25 for google playstore.
And at crowded events cell towers and wifi do have problems.
Someone can send a picture of the QR code to someone not at the event. With BLE and no backend I get that 100% assurance I was actually in the room with this phone, our phones talked, and I even know how many feet away that person is in real time.
No backend cost is a benefit for you, not for your users.
Walking around with your phone out with an app open is inconvenient and a distraction, and a battery drain. Downloading a special app just for this is already too much friction unless the event requires it or the benefit is very tangible. But in most people’s minds, the benefit would be very hypothetical, and you need to get nearly everyone at the event to do it for anyone to continue to try to do it, I think. I don’t see how it’s going to work, other than at conferences where the attendees are perhaps already interested in this exact problem space and find it interesting to try.
well it benefits the users if the backend never goes down!
And in this case, it can't by definition of not existing.
I think it depends a lot on the event. I would do all this at a 222.place after party if it placed me into buckets with the people I'm looking to meet.
Apologies. I write everything in plain text on my mobile and just copy paste it to blogger/fb. Most platforms automatically create clickable links (hn also does that) but apparently blogger does not do it.
I like full links on the post because it makes it easier to backup. If I embed them in anchor tags they'd have to be parsed from the formatted web page or I'd have to store data as an html file. I don't want to do that.
md is a good alternative and slowly I'm migrating my files to GitHub.
I sometimes wonder what people are thinking (or apparently not thinking) when they link to their personal sites and blogs and it's totally unreadable. I think they are so used to it they don't see any problems with it.
It looks a bit messy to me, neglecting usage of hyperlinks, but at the same time highly legible (does not mess with fonts, colors, or the layout too much), lightweight, works without JS, does not geo-block me or require to solve captchas, not paywalled, not blocked here, is straight to the point. So perhaps still more easily readable than most of the other submissions found on the HN front page.
That part of the title is in quotes. It’s paraphrasing how the guy expressed it to point out the absurdness of being asked to remove a face mask when you’re not wearing a face mask.
I wonder how it might affect people with medical conditions that make their faces look unusual. If the law only applies to pornography, most people in that situation might not want to go talk to a journalist about it.
Not well. "When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services." https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-kno...
