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Ah, Close Combat. I still find myself from time to time playing "A Bridge Too Far", despite its refusal to run in any higher resolution than 1024x768. It does actually run, though, which is pretty impressive for a game that came out 15 years ago!

Edit: If you like hardcore tactical multiplayer, you might want to check out "Battleground Europe". Oldest online multiplayer game still running, as far as I know. It has its rough edges, and certainly can't compete in the graphics area, but the realism when it comes to weapons modeling is the best I've seen. Not to mention the skills you find in the longtime players. Check out the top anti-aircraft gunners (like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_eeYikGjjw).
I'm glad that I'm not the only one to feel that way about the book being poorly written. I got the book the week it came out and read maybe 4-5 chapters, I haven't touched it since then. There was one paragraph that I must have read 5 times before I could understand it completely with the poor choice of words.
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Firefox for android already implements webgl. of course, your phone's gpu may not be up to the challenge.
It worked!

In two hours, for 6 dollars, I got all the confirmed referrals.

Fun way to learn how to use Adwords.

Dug out an old .edu email account I had also, up to 18 gigs for "free" XD
I'd go for unpatched VxWorks system.
For hackers, this is how PR is done. The hook is Steve Balmer's flying chair, but the aim of the stsory is to position Cloud Foundry as what Microsoft isn't. Very well done. If anything it might convince people to take a closer look at it.

I had downloaded cloud foundry when it was announced but did little with it. I might have a closer look again.
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The number of people being monetized by Spotify is great for the aggregated interests of all the labels on the service but may be meaningless to individual labels/artists. If they are indeed losing record sales and Spotify isn't making up for the difference it must be pretty hard to justify staying there. The argument about piracy could be weak too depending on how many pirates go on to buy the music. 1000 streams for 1 cent each = $10 vs. 10,000 downloads that turns into just 2 sales $10 each = $20. (fake made up numbers but they illustrate the point)
As far as the story goes he likes to stop by on the launching queues
A bit like a UIWebView? How would one deliver flash based stuff on Air on the mobile then, or would the developers have to exclusively work with HTML and js?
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"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more nearly perfect solution."

Malcom fails to realize by his definition everyone would be a tweaker. Henry Ford - tweaker, Einstein - tweaker, Jobs - tweaker...

I think its clear who the tweaker is and it isn't Einstein, Ford, or Jobs.
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This is an odd rant. First, it's coming from a Yahoo employee. Next, it's about a service that is only a couple months old and a feature that is just a couple weeks old. Next, it's the type of feature that is easy to see not making the first release but would come at some point in the probably near future. Finally, the post doesn't support the headline at all.
The Mac is nice, especially with a good UX where FaceTime just works. Mine sits at home rather unused though. I do enjoy looking at it. It is a beautiful piece of furniture.
I don't understand why using mturk is against Dropbox's TOS. Surely from Dropbox's pov, the privacy (or loss of privacy) is identical in both the case of mturk and adwords.
The sentiment in this post reflects a larger frustration with Malcolm Gladwell's oversimplified, reductionist writing in which complex systems are dumbed down into highly marketable archetypes.
While I agree being able to access the clipboard without flash would be very useful, I don't think disabling javascript URLs are a good idea either... A lot of very interesting and useful things can be done with bookmarklets. I suppose given the tradeoffs I'd choose clipboard access over bookmarklets though.
No, wyclif is right. The people who "freak out" over this kind of thing at work are really just looking for a payday. Anyone can be easily offended if money is involved.
So here's what LearnBoost is doing (if I understood this correctly): they're splitting Socket.io into two lower level layers, Websocket.io and Engine.io.

Websocket.io only does websockets transports (... all six of 'em)

Engine.io is a slightly higher level package that adds more transports
(polling, flash), and which uses websocket.io.

These two both expose a websockets -like API over the transports they provide.

Socket.io becomes a particular implementation of a Comet stack that depends on these two, with some client extra niceties. This means that the code behind Socket.io can be reused elsewhere on a lower level without resorting to patching a full stack framework like Socket.io. Developers get a greater deal of control and the project is more clearly split into different parts. Awesome!
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And I would hope drawings are another matter yet.
Yes, I saw the explanation. But I think it would be more fun to include alpha versions of the other browsers too :)
Hmmm ... the author says that percentage of frame time left for game logic is the important factor, but if raw c++ is around 6 times faster, doesn't that mean you can do 6x more sophisticated game logic in a given amount of free time as well?

That said, the webgl performance in chrome is indeed (relatively) impressive. Am also a macbook air user and have no trouble getting good performance on it.

One point to note is that the webgl engine in chrome runs all graphics in a single process, atleast partly for reasons of security (shader code gets checked by the browser before being set to the gpu, for example). That is sort of like a driver on top of a driver and so there will always be like a 2x performance gap between webgl and c++ i think.

Still ... the future looks bright.
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Since sovereign keys are an optional extra layer of protection, it doesn't have to support every configuration. But I think Citibank could just sign all their SSL keys with their sovereign key.
Don't know whether to upvote for the informative link or downvote for the unwarranted accusation of racism.
Having paired with many people who have loaded Emacs keybindings into Vim, this made me laugh.

But serious talk:

Unless someone has loaded Emacs keybindings, shouldn't <C-a> be used to increment a number (even a hexadecimal one)? How is that heresy? Not having <C-a> makes several macros difficult.
Its a big ball of dependencies with no chance to mock due to someone deciding on being "clever". Its up there with being untestable.

Generally I agree. If possible clean it up, but quite often its a small one line change, which needs to be fixed ASAP, so there is little chance to refactor.
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As the article says the cloud foundry project already has a life of its own outside of VMWare with both ActiveState's Stackato and AppFog already offering products and services built on Cloud Foundry with a growing community of contributors to the project, the best is yet to come!
Any reason it couldn't plug into this and then directly into the TV with an HDMI cable?
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They can be bought for cheaper elsewhere online.

I dub it the "reach around pc" when it is plugged into TV on both ends, otherwise it's just like a guru/shiva/dream plug.
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It is a fact that at 10M users, facebook was reporting engagement, notably that over 50% of the users log in every single day. (1)

It is a fact that google+ has 40+M users.(2)

It is also a fact that Google's exec refused to release any info. about engagement despite repeated attempts by journos. (3)

Given these facts, I think it is logical to conclude that google+'s engagement is poor.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2005/09/07/85-of-college-students-use-...

2. http://allthingsd.com/20111013/four-month-old-google-has-40m...

3. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_plus_engagement....
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I think you redeemed yourself here haha. Honestly, I didn't think you were really being serious but that was kind of a borderline comment. Borderline in the sense that if we assumed correctly that you were kidding around, do we tolerate that kind of thing around here and let it go or do we assume you're being ignorant and ferociously downvote you to hell? I get where you're coming from, hugh3, and I can have a sense of humor about it but other people's racism/prejudice radar just go off the charts when you say that kind of stuff.

But hey, I really like how you put your thoughts with that last sentence. "it's not that good on either end" - very true. It is ridiculous to take this article into any kind of consideration when thinking of having a child. While the study shows data to support the premise, it's far from enough to consider the findings accurate or relevant to having kids. Correlation does not equal causation and all that. It really is just an entertainment piece when you really dig in.
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For a given number of triangles/quads, you have a certain amount of time left in the frame period for the game logic. Say 5 ms out of a 17 ms frame (@60 FPS). A faster language like C++ is going to take less time for feeding vertex data to the GPU. So instead of taking 12 ms to push the vertices it may take 2 ms, giving you 15 ms for game logic instead of 5, a 3x increase in time.

The game logic will likely be faster by a similar factor, so you could quite possibly get an 18x increase in game logic capacity.
"he only way I can think of to grade like that is to quote "The Social Network": I need the algorithm they use to rank chess players

Get the teams to rank each other, then apply the ELO algorithm?
I think he prefers it that way. Plus, it gives people the chance to interact with him in the lines.
I loved Arrested Development, and I'm glad that it's coming back, but I'm not sure this is a good move for Netflix. If this idea picks up steam, Netflix becomes a competitor to the networks and their relationships get worse. Heaven knows they're tense enough already. It seems likely that others may pull their content, as Starz recently did, lessening Netflix's appeal. So yes, in the short run they'll gain subscribers, but I don't think this outweighs the major risks this poses in the long run.
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The report didn't pin it on China. What kinda moronic title is this?
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Your imagination is just fine. My mind went there too! This is just an entertainment fluff piece. I think I'm spending too much time on HN as I'm starting to feel like a lot of crap is getting on the front page. Who can I blame but the people who submit and then up vote it. So if that's who is to blame then maybe HN is getting diluted. or maybe I'm becoming elitist? Or I'd better get off here for a but and find something to do :)
Or the producers of television see this as a way to not deal with the networks and still get their show distributed to people, and the networks find themselves without good television to put on the air.
To play the devil's advocate in favor of mikeknoop's comment:

The claim is

(a - n) + b < a : n > 0

a: record sales
(a-n): record sales minus would-be sales due to spotify
b: additional profit spotify generates from would-be piraters

The fallacy (IMO) of the label is that "a-n + b" is in all situations less than "a". They're deciding that it's less profitable to distribute content with spotify without examining what "b" is.

You may very well be right that a spotify-license system is less profitable. I think it's jumping to conclusions to decide this, though. "b" (the profit generated from would-be piraters) is a study-able quantity, and should be measured before making any claim.
I have tried it myself, with their beta hosted service - good stuff. I am very happy with Heroku but something similar, open source, and multiple vendors is also good.
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Perhaps you see why some of us are skeptical when WebGL's proponents downplay concerns about it enabling security bugs.

The hardware provides a full-featured CPU with DMA access to the host's memory. Everything better go just right, or it's going to end up remotely exploitable.
Don't those long-term risks exist no matter what?
I don't find it creepy at all. Some people can obsess and that's not cool. My family always placed a high importance on intelligence. Not grades or test scores but real intelligence and thirst for knowledge. So when I'm ready to make some kids I really want them to be smart and I know I'll end up putting a lot of effort into making sure they are more intelligent than I am and then everyone else as much as I can without hurting the kid or giving him a complex.
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Ignoring images created without using a real child, the trading of actual images is illegal for the same reason that drugs are illegal - to remove the demand. The thought goes, if there is no demand then people will stop creating images with kids.
Racer (http://racerjs.com) is a specific part of the Derby project which compares more directly to Thoonk, I think.
You will find that Steve Jobs (aka Apple's) path to success aligns itself very well to Gladwell's 10,000hour rule. Gladwell proposed that it takes almost 10year to become an expert as you go through the do, learn, tweak cycle. Steve Jobs took something which was existing but questioned a lot of assumptions to come up with new inventions (an approach which Elon Musk mentions in his "Reasoning from First Principles" interview). On the other end of the spectrum are people like Einstein who clearly wrote the first principle because there was none before that. I am personally encouraged that Steve Jobs was able to bring about massive change in the world with this approach....the valuable lesson for budding entrepreneurs like me is that given time, identification of good ideas and persistence, we could also do something similar though on a smaller scale without being born with an IQ > 140.
She is a lawyer. Her highest professional responsibility is to her clients. I don't consider a great lawyer who defends a murderer to have the same morals as the murderer, and without quality representation, justice can't be done.

I have met her on many occasions and she has always been competent and helpful.
p(viewer loves Arrest Development | viewer has netflix) > p(viewer loves Arrest Development) ?
If Netflix doesn't make steps like this (and the $100M tv show produced by netflix) they will be at the complete mercy of the major studios/networks.
They had to do a study to find out streaming is a substitute for other forms of music distribution? Of course it is. Raise the price, but please don't make me go back to less covenient systems (e.g., iTunes, bittorrent, CDs, etc.). It would be like insisting that you're only releasing 8-track. Fine, but I'll find something else to listen to that doesn't force me to deal with an antiquated hassle.
Why bother with the legal trickery? Jump straight to the conclusion that the legal system is a hostile entity, as it actually truly is in many places in the world, and act accordingly.

There are encryption methods to prevent key extraction under duress available and have been for some time. Let's not go thinking that the government actually has any power in this particular instance.
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So to update the headline to your (very reasonable) criteria:

"Study: Oldest children test scores higher when 2+ years older"
The Gladwell article was a travesty. It was hastily written piece, basically copied and pasted from the Isaacson biography with a thin layer of crappy pop psychology on top.

The whole time I was reading it I was wondering why Gladwell didn't refer to any other material than the biography since they offered a deeper, more balanced picture of his work, but then I remembered they were probably trying to cash in on the Steve Jobs aura by putting his article on the cover.
Certainly--but someone buying an Android device thinking "it runs Linux" would probably be disappointed. Linux is there, but from the perspective of the average user it might as well be a custom kernel or even the Windows kernel, because without "surgery" and tweaking, you'll only be running applications built for the Android stack.

I've chopped out the Java layers of Android and run my own software on there, but it took some work to get my application running with the Bionic libc and the Android-specific devices.
I hope Netflix licences this out in countries they don't serve.
The flawed premise here is that the networks will continue to matter.

They won't. Their days are numbered.

Building the future is hard and it's messy. Netflix has been taking it on the chin this year as they've passed through a really rough patch.

In the end, though, I'd put money on Netflix existing in 2020 before I would any given broadcast network. TV is dead.

Netflix is trying to redefine distribution. They're not going to win by placating the dinosaurs of distribution's past. If the Arrested Development deal works out, production companies may see that they have new options for financing their projects and might get better opportunities to reach an audience than they'd ever get on TV.

So it's simple: take the issue by the balls and control your destiny or bow and scrape before moronic suits who don't understand technology, hoping and praying that they won't change their minds each time a licensing deal expires.
I'll be sure to watch it on pirate streaming/BitTorrent once it comes out.
Agreed. This is proof-of-concept time. If it succeeds, TV/film producers will gradually dip their feet in more.
So what is their business model? I'm happy they open sourced the project, but they have to make money somewhere to remain a viable business. The article was unsatisfactorily vague about how VMware is going to make money off the project.
This is better understood as a strategic move, not a tactical one. It's not about Arrested Development qua Arrested Development, it's about not needing Fox, and not Fox qua Fox either but Fox as a particular instance of the general category of television channels.
The article wasn't vague. It explicitly pointed out that there's no business model at all yet:

Maritz says VMware doesn’t have a concentrate plan for making money from Cloud Foundry. “A leap of faith,” he calls it.

I imagine the obvious business model though is to position themselves as the world experts on this platform and provide hosting and support to enterprise customers that would rather pay a premium for peace of mind as opposed to startups that would shop around for the cheapest option.
I wonder if these "security" features are on imported Chinese printers (from Chinese manufacturers). It is so easy to order generic products from Hong Kong, even online, these days, for example.
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I'm hesitant to mention this again but it does seem that rubber hose is being overplayed as a trump card here too much. Shadow volumes and multiple layered passphrases in arbitrary memorised data offsets on various volumes amongst a scatter of purely random data is completely invulnerable to rubber hose.

It all depends on exactly how paranoid you are as to how deep you go with layers of misdirection here of course but the point remains, they cannot continuously compel you to provide a passphrase when they do not know that another one actually exists.

This is the one arena where the only reason the government has any power at all is due to our ignorance, they do not, and indeed should not, have any power at all in this realm.
So, how does this work with duplication equipment? Can I print an original and color-copy it?

Edit: Or just add yellow dots to the document I'm printing?
What's the problem with encoding in two or three different formats? How many gigabytes of videos are we talking about?

It's not like you have so sit an manually shuffle bits around. Just leave the encoder running, no need to bill your client for that time.
Well havin just cancelled Netflix, I may have to get it again, at least for a month.
Your benchmark is obviously CPU bound, not GPU bound. That pretty much invalidates this "analysis".
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Paper is paywalled. I find this slightly ironic.
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Small businesses are typically based on an established business model. Restaurants, bars, retail outlets, etc., count as small businesses.

Startups in contrast are an organization in search of a business model. Once it finds one it doubles down on the product search with a viable business model and develops it to profitability.