When did Hacker News become a place to use profanity and trash ideas without providing any constructive input?

I haven't logged in for as long as I can remember. I did so just now to say how dissapointing the tone of this comment is.

Seriously. The bash-everything mentality is bad - for the Hacker News community, but also for the startup community as a whole. No one is going to create anything new if they're afraid to try.

Beyond that, I don't come to this site to read people insult everyone else. Can you imagine going to a developer meetup where everyone just walks around and criticizes everyone else? But somehow people think that sort of thing is okay online.

As far as I'm concerned, people like this represent the worst form of hackers, and should not be welcome on this site.

True. And the original commentator is plain wrong. There is certainly value in a working solution to gesture recognition problem.

Thank you.

You know, you're totally right. Thanks for calling me out on this. I apologize to the OP (and everyone else) for my negative tone.

How is this the top voted comment?

Anyway, working on software that takes abstract input to a camera as an interface is awesome, no matter what particular bits of functionality they start off with.

When I'm watching movies from 5 feet away using VLC, the pause gesture is invaluable.

Thank you!

Thanks for your feedback.

Thanks for being a good sport. The HN crowd can be quite rough. Don't take it personally. I'd take feedback from non-technical users more seriously as they don't have a tendency toward know-it-all-ism and contrarianism like the HN crowd does (myself included I suppose).

To refute the parent, the problem exists. I have a keyword sans playback buttons. I've often wanted a quick way to pause music. Even on my Mac where there are playback buttons, sometimes ill be listening to Spotify, try to pause the song using the keyboard, then iTunes tries to open instead. I'm not sure if your app addresses that problem but it'd be cool if it did.

Thanks so much. We think it addresses that issue. Try it and let us know.

My keyboard doesn't have a pause button on it.

Thanks.