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That's why you have been supporting Emscripten with... just one developer, it's creator? Shouldn't there be a whole team towards this goal you envision?

Currently emscripten should have the amount of people three.js has.
I feel that this post is out of date by about a year or two. Game developers no longer need a big publisher anymore. With the success and reach of all the app stores, game developers can just take a risk themselves, own their IP, and reap the full benefits of owning that IP.

With the rise of stuff like Kickstarter, they don't even need to fund development themselves anymore either. Take this game for example: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit...
The result is stated in the article, but deserves mentioning again; http://cssdeck.com/labs/html5-doodle-jump/8
A Crash Course On CSS line-height
Do you think the current status of Emscripten justifies your words? We'd all like to believe that.
> "One not-trivial-but-straightforward path is to own the company you're negotiating with regarding employment terms."

That's what I did. I make games and I only make money from royalties. It's super rewarding having complete control over what I do, but it's a succeed-or-die kind of venture.
Learning Geometry in Georgian England
Distribution ideas for yelp+pinterest for democracy?
Hiya YCers - for the past three years I've been bootstrapping a politics focused startup/project called Democracy Dashboard: http://demdash.us/ Last week we released a version with national data for 20k+ candidates that you can take positions on and share media clips about. (think yelp+pinterest for democracy) We're getting a ton of really positive feedback on the site, but I've been probably too focused on writing code and not focused enough on setting up distribution deals. I've stepped up talking to campaigns and orgs but there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem since there's not many users on there now. We're developing a facebook friend analysis tool that has a viral loop built into it, but getting it out before the election is going to be tricky. What other distribution tactics might we try in these last couple weeks before the election? Thanks!
How is that a bad thing?

I for one welcome our new framework overlords.

Meaning: Maybe we can have a rest from chasing after the 'technology of the week(tm)' and simply get things done without having to dig through yet another framework.
Isn't this basically the purpose of giving people options? If the company turns out to be profitable, the developers who exercise their options can share in the benefits. If not, they wouldn't make anything from royalties either.
The debate should have taken place suspended from a weather balloon.
Felix Baumgartner free fall real-time map
How much bandwidth do 5.4 mio viewers consume? Can someone give me a number?
If you're looking for a Rich Text Editor, this is the only one I will recommend. I wrote a proprietary RTE last year and continue to maintain it because nothing available both worked and produced clean markup. Redactor came out this spring and is the only generally available RTE that does this. If you insist on OSS, WYSIHTML5 is the best available.

For those that care, Redactor uses the designMode technique, leans on the browser for most operations and keeps the markup clean via regexp cleanup. This is the cleanest solution for the most common use case of html email/html item entry. The other two techniques are full emulation and contenteditable.

Google uses full emulation in their products. You type into a hidden text field and the display/selection/cursor is entirely script rendered. This is especially good for things like docs where they need to emulate word's behavior. Downside is that doing it is a lot of code and it's easy to miss OS specific keybinds (e.g. CMD+left/right in OS X don't work in gmail).

Using contenteditable would be the preferred technique but it's buggy as hell. Of the editors I know about only Aloha and my editor take this approach. The amount of code is relatively small (mine is around 2k sloc) but it's all really ugly code that reminds me of the bad old days in 2002-2004 when I had my own DOM abstraction lib.
Look Mr. India-nigger, I'm in jail.

You are in denial on God, stupid fuck.
Inequality and the world economy: True Progressivism
I don't think a typical sampling of the HN crowd would be familiar with the work of J.D Salinger outside of Catcher and the Rye, but as someone who's loved these stories intensely since my mid-teens, I can't recommend them enough. In fact the mere mention of Seymour: An Introduction in the article sent shivers down my spine, reminding me of the amazing originality and artistry of this writer that I haven't experienced for several years now (I very rarely read fiction now). I won't bother summarizing the stories here, but if you have even a passing interest in zen, religion, literature or (at the risk of sounding pretentious) life itself then this is required reading in my book.
"In a community like HN, I think it has a secondary value, as well, in that it provides well-intentioned posters with feedback that they are making a weak point, or doing it in a way that is not contributory to the community."

Dream on.
Whenever I try to troll a bit (or let's say be flamboyant) I get upvotes. Sometimes massively. Whenever I present "unpopular but sincere opinion" I get downvoted, usually massively.
What? You are massively uninformed about the music business. You are ignoring everything from copyright laws, mandatory licensing, agents, gross vs. net point compensation, musician's unions, the producer's role in it all, and seem to only be focusing on the studio musicians who take a paycheck rather than points on an album.

Your entire comment shows you know nothing about the music business other than the little bit of pro-piracy drivel you've been fed over the internet. I am a musician and an author with real contracts that I've signed who's had to take classes and talk to lawyers about this subject, so I know what I'm talking about. You do not.
At first glance, skydiving from 10k feet and 100k feet seem like they wouldn't be any different. I'm sure there are intricacies that make the jump very difficult, but it seems like you just let gravity do the work, and the chute automatically deploys for you. Can anyone help me understand what the intricacies are?

EDIT: nevermind, seeing him spin but regain control removed my doubt of the difficulty.
Sorry, I just relaxed and just watched the live stream :), I'll see if I can do it before the jump.
A page discussing creative 404s giving me a 502 (where I can not express myself, no less!) is just too delicious.
Its a nice idea, I'm sure there are tons of people who go unrecognised for what they've done. However, I can't help but think it will make the pseudo celebrity nonsense going on in the tech-sphere an order of magnitude or more worse than its already become. Imagine the collusions that would ensue from certain "news bloggers" and others in the SV cespool with awards in the mix. I remember this little gem: http://www.realdanlyons.com/blog/2012/02/13/hit-men-click-wh...
Hey can you share the link of the RTE that you wrote. Interested to see that.
Your Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map
Well I'm glad to see that also other people have this sorts of messages in their commit history
See ServusTV with german commentary: http://www.servustv.com/cs/Satellite?pagename=Stratos/Layout
Neat! With a little bit of googling, it seems CoffeeScript can do the same thing. That lowers the barrier-to-usage of compile-to-js languages enormously!

Now I'm looking at the sweet.js source where they register the extension, and there's some additional magic I don't recognize; is module._compile documented somewhere that I just can't find, or is that getting added somewhere in the sweet.js code?
No problem. I just can't relax watching it!
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>> "there is NO indication that Silicon Valley's flood of innovation has ceased." Any research to support this claim?

Let me try and answer the last question, though just like you, I am not in a position to provide sufficient research to support my views:

"Quantitatively, what is the proof that any policy change is needed?"

Compare the "American entrepreneurship/immigration policy + equivalent policies of other start-up favoring nations" five years ago with the most recent mash-up of "American entrepreneurship/immigration policy + equivalent policies of other start-up favoring nations".

Do you see a difference in how policy changes in UK, Canada, Chile, Singapore, China, India, Israel and other nations leapfrog over status-quo immigration policies (may still be better) of America?

Also is it not a big risk by letting Silicon Valley wane away like Hollywood, while we wait and see a booming film industry coming up elsewhere (a possible outcome). Just a few thoughts, but not deep enough though, I confess.
Ironically, his blog is title "Mystic Rhythms: We Suspend Our Disbelief and We Are Entertained"

This is a song title and lyric taken without credit from Rush, specifically their Power Windows album. http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/108820/

He decries the lack of respect given to developers of creative works, yet here he steals ideas from another creative group and uses it without any attribution whatsoever.

I'd say it detracts from the strength of his argument just a bit.

(Note: hopefully he fixes this in the future, but no attribution as of Oct 14, 2012 10:51am)
I'd be interested to see a list of the best philosophy books for non-philosophers. I'm not a philosopher or close to the field, but I always thought Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions was a big hitter. Not so much for an individual essay but the combination of essays - What Is it Like to be a Bat? and The Absurd are both classics in my mind. Basically every essay in that short book is great, completely understandable to the lay-person, has the potential to be deeply influential to one's everyday beliefs, and is philosophically rigorous.

Philosophical Investigations is beyond my ability to follow as is Heidegger (I think it's a common complain against continental philosophy in general). Kripke's Naming and Necessity is something I can understand, but I don't really feel the 'oomph' to the insight that there can be a posteriori necessary truths and apriori contingent truths. Obviously it's a deeply important fact, and an astonishing breakthrough. But it doesn't hit me in the same way as Nagel's Absurd, which attempts to break down and dismiss existential dread. I don't think he succeeds, exactly, but it feels important and deeply insightful.
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Dr. Edward and Mr. Allen
Hitting print and having a fully-assumbled iPad put on the platter is definitely Jetson stuff, but we do have the technology to print plastics, glass, and even circuit boards. The remaining components needed to build an iPad-like device can be sourced from your favourite electronics supplier. Having all the building blocks to build a tablet at your disposal is still really amazing.
Down votes have caused me to reconsider thoughts and sometimes even change my mind altogether. I am not as smart as I imagine.
You've taken exactly the opposite point from my comment that I intended. Developers get salary and benefits. Musicians do not. I am, for whatever it's worth, vocally anti- piracy, and though I'm not a musician, I come from an immediate family of them.

If you wrote a top-level comment about how the music business was different from the software business, and included details like typical contract terms, that comment would head up this thread instead of Patrick's and my own. But I submit to you that it would reach basically the same point as my comment, which is that songwriters and recording artists get royalties because they bear risks; developers tend not to get royalties because they are paid up-front.

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http://squarespace.com

I was messing with it last week and looks like I broke list handling.
Not all tech journalism is created equal - or for the same audience, for that matter. @sarahcuda at http://pandodaily.com is leading a hard battle to remain an unquestionable source of original content, investigative reporting and industry insights unseen elsewhere. Pando should not be placed in the same platter as TC, BI, Mashable or the likes. In my opinion, Pando is to tech, what The Economist is to business, or The New Yorker is to culture.
You can do #2 easily, you specify a URL that returns a list of uploaded images in a JSON format.
Yeah, we should form a union so we can continue getting paid even when we no longer produce value. Because the real problem in the world is the amount of people who produce value.

</sarcasm>
Interesting concept. I use http://www.unbounce.com . Landing page platform with a/b test features and integration with lots of third party systems - mailchimp, kiss metrics, aweber, lots of templates etc
Sifteo SDK: Paravirtualization and LLVM toolchain for STM32
Tables are for tabular data. A lot (maybe most) interfaces are not tabular.
Red Bull Stratos Skydive visualized LIVE on a map
See how Felix fall down in real time in a map
Also Aloha Editor (GPLv2)

http://aloha-editor.org/
Air temperature and pressure are much different at the higher altitude.
> given that Dropbox has native version control (via its web interface)

I'm guessing you've never had to do a large restore from Dropbox before? It's technically possible, but on a file-by-file basis. Delete a folder of 1000 photos? You've got 1000 restores to do.

A competent restore system has been begged for by the users for years:

https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/2215/restore-to-a-specific-e...

Frankly, it's almost sad that Dropbox's restore feature is so bad that people are able to make entire products based around making a good version of it.
So it just watches github's live feed for commit messages that contain a curse word.
What does "oversupplied" mean?
Amazing site. All the best with the company!
I love Redactor. I use it for an internal project and its easily the best compared to TinyMCE and others. Its clean, produces clean markup (you don't get random empty HTML tags like <strong></strong>..text) with no inline-styles.

I wrote a Python library to take its output and shove it in a word document: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/HtmlToWord/
Hmmm. Was there a little sarcasm in his comment?
We're a happy paying customer of Redactor. Can't tell you how much we love it. It's literary the PERFECT WYSIWYG editor. Highly recommend you try it if you're looking for a fast & beautiful editor.
Rackspace: concerns from a former Slicehost customer
Please don't play the kid card. So played out.
The idea is that as the jump starts, we will see the ground approaching on the map.
I can never tell. I'm making french toast for my kids, watching this jump thingy, and cleaning the kitchen too. Maybe I just missed the joke. Sorry, if so.
There is nothing wrong with cloning apps or games. It happens all the time and should be expected by all.

Remember copyright protects a particular version of an idea, as made to exist either on paper or as a computer program. It does not protect the idea itself (that is where patents come in).
Patrick's Appointment Reminder doesn't have much in common with your smart phone app. Patrick's app is really a robocall tied to a central calendar. Your smartphone is just a personal calendar.

You could cobble together a solution using manually sent email to meeting invites, but it wouldn't work for all customers as well.
I'm curious why you decided not to use Aloha Editor, since it is also able to produce clean markup. Disclosure: I'm one of the Aloha Editor developers.
#2: Looks like the Insert Image dialog has a list of images that have already been uploaded.

#4: There are no handles, but in Chrome 22 on a Mac at least I can drag anywhere in the image to resize.

The CSS classes/styles are the reason I'll probably stick with CKEditor for now. As cumbersome as CKEditor is overall, I can't lose the ability to add styles that my non-technical clients can choose from when editing their websites.
I don't understand HN sometimes. There is a saying in statistics: if you torture the data long enough, it will admit to anything.

The point being ... if you get a statistically significant result, you're not done. Vice versa, if the data disagrees with your intuition, it doesn't necessarily mean your intuition is wrong.
I agree, the article it's pretty shallow. It mentions some unrelated topics without getting to the point.
Funny, but why did you post this twice from two accounts?
Hey Eric, at risk of sounding like I know a lot about this, there are two facets that make it hard to fit in. The benefits take days to appear and it's uncomfortable in the beginning. Like running, it's hard to start a practice of meditating, but if you do 1 minute, then 5 minutes, then work your way up to 20 minutes, there is a breaking point where you will do it because the benefits are clearly making your life richer. Colors appear more vibrant, sounds more clear, emotions more fully experienced. You will take more moments, like while stopped at a stoplight, to meditate because it allows joyful feelings rise to the top. Then, you won't ever think, "how can I fit it in," it will become part of you.
Is there any benefit from a quarterly presentation though for organizing your strategy? Even if I don't have investors, should I not create some similar type of document to organize a picture of where the business is and where it is heading?
Oh, I would not want Wittgenstein teaching any child of mine. He is one of the people who deserves to be called an Asperger's sufferer. He could be roused to fury if something wasn't up to his exacting intellectual standards. When he was an architect he once had workmen raise a ceiling by 30 mm (a little more than an inch) so the dimensions of the room could be perfect. There's something about his life, which I think many on this board could identify with -- he was at once extremely proud of his mind, but also aware that he was a victim of his own relentless obsessions.

This is why it's almost heroic how, through rigorous, dedicated adherence to philosophizing, he was able to show that philosophizing was not everything.
This should be upvoted so that it can be discussed on HN, since I think it is a dangerous trend. For some reason the previous story about violentacrez's outing didn't get too much discussion: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4647116

The irony is that the creep hunters, e.g. "Samantha" themselves want to remain anonymous.

But aside for that, although I find CreepShots and the like abhorrent, e.g. a teacher posting photos of his students online, I find what people like "Samantha" are doing almost equally bad. Contacting people's employers and esp. the police on an alleged crime as the first step seems not only cruel and unusual punishment but may in fact may be illegal. What if "Samantha" makes an error in her identification and contacts my employer?

I don't want to comment on the "In my personal opinion, not all speech deserves to be protected..." comment, which has hundreds of years of debate on it. But "Samantha's" assertion that

"But Samantha believes that CreepShots is a gateway drug to more dangerous hobbies. Fetishizing non-consent "indicates [that CreepShots posters] don't view women as people, and most will not be satisfied with just that level of violation," she said. "I want to make sure that the people around these men know what they're doing so they can reap social, professional, or legal consequences, and possibly save women from future sexual assault. These men are dangerous."

is quite indefensible, to me. The idea that porn (not that these pictures are porn) will lead to predatory behavior was the leading cry of old-school feminism, but is not so widely accepted.
I read recently that in medieval England large distributed families (i.e. families with lots of extended cousins in different towns and counties) had important network effects for finance, information, and so on. It was a great benefit to have a second cousin in that other town in the rather parochial society of the time.

I wonder if the rise of urban density, fast transportation, and more efficient technological networks have served to replace these benefits?
I was a huge J. D. Salinger fan in high school. I read all his books (there aren't that many) over and over. But Seymour, and Introduction was always my least favorite. It seemed kind of unfocused. A spiritual/philosophical, new agey, masturbatory navel gazing.

Not that it wasn't interesting, in its own way, but it was the kind of thing only hard core Salinger fans would want to read. But this mention of it makes me want to go back and reevaluate it. Maybe my high school brain just couldn't appreciate it.

And, aside from reading one or two of the Nine Stories every couple of years, it's probably been ten years since I read Salinger, so now I want to go back and read them all. Thanks.
Any of the Nexus phones (new ones are coming very soon) are just great. Consistently supported and updated as well.
I'd give him the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people quote things in that way because they're huge fans and the source is taken for granted in their world. They think everyone knows it and those who don't, should. (I've done this myself and realized later that it looked like plagiarism, which dismayed me because my intention was exactly the opposite, to honor the source by acting like it didn't need to be mentioned.)

Blog titles are also a common place for people to adopt cool quotes that are particularly meaningful to them - it has almost become a little genre - and it would spoil the fun to footnote them. This guy actually has quotation marks around his, so he's more punctilious than most.
There is a team working on the longer-term goal, including game platform, JS engine, and Mozilla Research people. Why did you assume otherwise?

Also, Emscripten has a strong github community. Unlike Google we can't afford to pay everyone who might be needed -- we also prefer not to if we can build a wider community from day one.
I thought assigning priority labels is manual anyway?

I mean, if you want to build a natural language parser that counts how many times the words "URGENT" and "HELP" appears in the issue and then automatically reorders it, you can do that with the Github issues API anyways, right? I don't know of existing bug trackers that make priority automatic.

You can filter based on labels in github issues, if that's what you meant.
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The challenge now is more on the JS VM side, optimizing the Emscripten-generated idioms and the typed array memory model. Also, longer-term, we're working on JS language evolution via Ecma TC39.

These are focus areas of the team I just mentioned.
Specifically, https://github.com/astanway/Commit-Logs-From-Last-Night/blob...
No offense taken. I'm just tired of rah rah feminism. It's so boring. Just stop dividing people along ridiculous lines.

To answer your question, it takes no feminists to screw in a light bulb because they will lobby the government to make some man do it for them.
That's Mach 1 in nearly no atmosphere. Nothing there to tear stuff off.
His parachute deployed! :D

And he landed! http://i.imgur.com/l8z0k.png

There was some issue with his heat visor, but that was resolved.

Edit: More images I screen-snapped (sorry about the low-quality, I'm sure HQ images will be out soon):

http://i.imgur.com/ZWvSs.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZNQu2.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZFRIq.png

http://i.imgur.com/eZBhB.png