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You think too small, then. html5 gaming as a platform isn't meant to just end at Quake quality visuals and 2d puzzles. I'm putting words in other peoples mouths here since I have no idea Mozilla's or Google's motives, but I'm sure someone working there has a vision of running Skyrim or Crysis 2 quality visuals and worlds on top of web tech using APIs like webgl to get the hardware performance needed, all while streaming assets over the net and in completely connected experiences run from a browser, where you can pick up your session anywhere without any install times just by going to the game site.

What is now high end desktop graphics hardware (gtx 670) will in a few years be common in laptops. The modern gtx 640M, for example (a mainstream graphics chip for a mid range laptop) has performance comparable to a mid-range 9600GT desktop dedicated gpu from 4 years ago, at one third the power consumption, or an 8800GT, a high end card from 6 years ago. So if trends hold, GTX 670 performance will be available in a mainstream laptop profile in 5 years.

Go even further - the Tegra 4 coming out this year will feature up to 64 shader cores on an APU package running at 600mhz, which beats out the Playstation 3's 24 shader units at 550mhz in the RSX handily (other architectural changes, such as the lack of dedicated VRAM for bandwidth and latency, come into play, so comparing the two just on shader cores alone isn't sufficient). But in practical terms, next generation tablets will have graphical capabilities that rival or surpass consoles that are still the market leaders.

So a web game developer, especially a very future-thinking one, might want to try to build a game engine modeled around matching performance of devices 5 years from now on the high end, rather than treating the current status quo as the performance they should expect when web games using webgl really take off. Using a 670 or some comparable high end card to create demos that truly test the bounds of performance in these technologies now iron out the wrinkles 5 years from now when everyone's tablet is boasting similar performance.
How about a solar sail for braking? (We've got to be creative, I can't imagine there's no solution for slowing down.)
right. key employees documenting everything they know that makes them valuable. This seems to be some empty suit managers wet dream.

As a thought experiment, imagine Google asking Peter Norvig to document everything he knows. The key assumption here is that what really makes your key employees valuable is documentable, and transferable (from said document to someone else's head) to the point where someone else can just read some document and replace him.

Sure, documenting some things may be valuable, but 'fire your most valuable team member' is either utter cluelessness,or just link bait.
"Harvard, Yale, and other brand-name colleges command a premium because they insert you into the network of a higher economic class."

Those are maybe ten universities out of thousands.
Some people use quotes as emphasis. I've found this especially prevalent in people with an asian language background.
Call your senator and tell him/her to say NO to FISA extension
I guess it's due to the extra work they have to do to put the proper amount of color on the sensor, as the Red EPIC they used tends to mute them a little bit.
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I believe these could be the key statements from the article:

Developing native apps today means accepting guidelines
and restrictions that potentially limits what services
can be developed, and how they should look.
...
Firefox OS aims to extend the freedom of the internet
into the mobile ecosystem, by allowing anyone to easily
create a web app at the same time that they create a web page.

In short, Android is an open platform but you can't easily run Android apps somewhere else. Here, I think, they are aiming at providing runtime support on mobile and other platforms. Firefox has big enough market share to pull this through.
Bigoted against what?
I understand these titles as that netizens should not propagate the rumours of corrupted local officials. I'm afraid that the only affairs that matter here are several cases where the anti-corruption inspection was initiated by social-media leaks.
Google Apps for Business users pay USD 50/year and have an option to disable ads.
>> but there are plenty of internet "lifestyle businesses" that can communicate with their user base much much better.

> Like..?

MetaFilter [1] does an excellent job of owner-moderator-user interaction. Here are some key features:

* Because of the size of the site, they don't have to rely on community moderation - and the moderators they do have do a very patient and professional job. You don't get capricious or childish deletions, you get the feeling moderators think carefully before deleting posts, and they're always willing to explain their decisions. There's nothing like wheel wars or moderators trying to kick out other moderators.

* There's a $5 signup fee so regular bans work - no need for things like hell bans/shadow bans.

* There's a section of the site called 'metatalk' [2] where things like policies, bugs, moderator actions etc can be discussed. Metatalk posts tend to get read by mods pretty quickly; the top post there has a reply from the site's main developer within 2 minutes.

* Between Metatalk and the mods chatting in the site's normal threads, people feel they know the moderators [3]. Matt, the site's owner, seems like a reasonable guy.

As such, people are much less worried that the site's owners are trying to fuck them over - because the site's owners have an established history of not doing that.

[1] http://metafilter.com/
[2] http://metatalk.metafilter.com/
[3] http://metatalk.metafilter.com/17338/Does-MeFi-have-a-privac...
Meh, I think it will just take time before people are A) used to HFR and B) directors/producers are accustomed to working with the new framerate.

The porn industry thought HiDef was going to be the end of their career, since suddenly everyone could see that the porn actresses were really just people with makeup on. Porn certainly hasn't died yet. Cinema won't either.

(Sorry for comparing porn to cinema)
Jokes tend to get downvoted on HN and there's been a few (to many) jokes in this HN post :( Your's the only one I didn't downvote because decided to leave a comment instead.

re: Unicode - Perl6 does already use unicode characters for some of its operators. Take the Hyperoperator »« (http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html#Hyper_operators):

my @a = 1..5;
my @b = 6..10;
my @c = @a »*« @b; # => 6, 14, 24, 36, 50

And there are >> & << synonyms for those who find using unicode chars too odd:

@c>>++; # => 7, 15, 25, 37, 5
Carpentry? Sewing?
Why would such moves be automatically altruistic?
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Trademark law is designed to protect customers, and is designed so if you see "Facebook" or "FB" in the context of a social network, that you know you're dealing with the same company.
Basically, if customers might think you are the original company. It's essentially a form of fraud protection.
I am not certain there are, or even if there should be, steadfast rules: it largely comes down to whether there is a legitimate case for confusion. If you tried to prosecute this you would attempt to demonstrate cases where users were confused while potentially attempting to motivate that the name was chosen with at least some intention to confuse.

To look at your examples, however: the usage of prepositions changes things drastically. Can you imagine Microsoft creating a new product, "Microsoft Essentials"? If you saw that book, would you at least momentarily, wonder if it was a first-party product (book, software, whatever) from Microsoft? I am not certain about you, but that sounds like it could be them. However, if I saw "Essentials of Microsoft", I am pretty certain I wouldn't jump there: I would think that this is something describing Microsoft, not something built by Microsoft.

(edit: I thought I made that example up, but I then did a search for it after posting my comment, and it turns out that, in fact, that is so much the kind of thing that Microsoft would do that they pretty much have, with "Windows Live Essentials", "Windows Essentials", and "Microsoft Security Essentials", all being terms they've used. Yet, even with all of those usages, "Essentials of Microsoft" sounds more like a documentary or description than something they would have made themselves.)

This gets exceptionally bad with little tags like Apple's "i"; the "i" is so overwhelmingly "Apple's thing" that if I saw an app on someone's phone called "iVideo" I can't imagine not thinking "wow, Apple made a video service?", and when people choose a name like that, it is because they know what the "i" means to people, and they want to look "more official" and "more like Apple", which even if the intention is not "I want them to think I am Apple" is still in the bad zone.

Regardless, the core issue here isn't even this trademark problem, and that should probably have just been left at "we agreed this was fine, and now they are changing their minds". The more serious issue here is whether Facebook should be able to ban a user for building a product they don't like and whether building it, using it, or both are legally grounded.
There is not a lot to write the donation off against. Zuck is on a salary and won't be selling any stock for a few more years. This is straight up just giving away $500M.

Zuck wasn't the one who put a dollar value on the donation, that was CNN. Zuck only mentioned a number of shares. He also said he is committed to giving away most of his net worth.

There really is nothing that can be criticized here. You could perhaps discuss his choice of how to distributed his wealth, but the fact that he is giving it away, and starting so soon in his life (as opposed to waiting for when he retires), should be commended.

And if Facebook "should" be trading at $10, then it would be trading at $10.
Very nice...

Also I am very happy to see that Twitter Bootstrap has a lot of the things in this site already there.
Usage of third party trade marks in a descriptive manner (including in the manner you reference) is generally permitted when in good faith. 'Nominative use' is how the term is referred to under US law.

In addition to the identifying function of trade marks, a trade mark owner can generally take action where someone is piggy-backing on the goodwill in a mark (for example a reasonable consumer wouldn't necessarily think 'Rolex Tractors' was related to the watch company as they're very different product fields, but Rolex would be able to argue unfair advantage is being taken of their mark) or is causing it detriment.
I wonder how significant the dropoff of users will be!
Once consumers/investors decide that the risks are sufficiently low over the time horizon they care about, they will not mitigate risks over longer time horizons.

This isn't just a failing of an efficient market - it's a "failing" of any system with a time horizon.

Politics has similar incentives (election in 2012, who cares about 2013?), as does software development (who cares about code maintenance after I leave), management, etc.
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Wow, why don't you eat shit? His entire post was lamenting the fact that he is ignorant, why do you have to berate him over it?
I'm with you on this. I dropped out of high school because it was becoming hard for my parents to support me, and there was certainly never going to be any money for university education. This is in a developing country, where English wasn't even my first language. Yet, I've always had this curiosity that made me want to learn, and want to better myself and my life. I've moved between countries and started from scratch a few times, having to make opportunities for myself. I think I've been lucky to not be stupid, but I'm also wondering if my upbringing didn't help a lot more than I thought. My mother took me to the library a lot as a kid, and my father was never good with money or appeared hard working or ambitious, but he was always knowledgeable or able to explain things very well and a rational manner. I was left to my own devices and guided to take responsibility for my own well being and figure things out for myself. Maybe that was it, I don't know.
I agree with you main point but I do think I should pick you up on the use of 'efficient' which I think is wrong in a technical way.

In an 'efficient' market all future risk is included in the analysis of current value meaning that if it was an 'efficient' market this would actually not be a problem. However it is just one of many* ways that markets are not in reality 'efficient' in the economics sense as the assumptions required to prove them just do not match up to the real world.

* http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-Economics-Revised-Expanded-D...
> I think it would be interesting to compare the results with a similar eye track of a program written with more emphasis on data flow

It would also be interesting to compare with code with decent syntax highlighting. For some reason I don't quite understand, most syntax highlighting out there highlights the wrong thing: keywords. It needs to highlight the site-of-definition of functions, variables, etc. For example: http://david.rothlis.net/code_presentation/distracting_synta...
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I imagine you would need a ridiculously large solar sail to slow down the mass of an Orion.

It's not that slowing down is impossible...you just start throwing bombs the other direction. But by slowing down you increase your travel time, so the 150 year estimate is no longer valid.
Wow... that's exactly what I needed for a small site I'm building right now. Thanks, author(s); thanks, stevoo; thanks, HN!
The interactivity here makes this guide a really great resource. People who would normally just scan (Like me) end up clicking the buttons on each step and can then read the sections that sparked an interesting change.

Would be nice to see it extended with some screens on using constructs like footnotes/sidenotes/captions etc.
One of the interesting things in that Wikipedia link is that you only need to run your Orion for 36 days to get it up to speed. Beyond that, detonating more bombs won't accelerate you any further.

So yes, you could turn it around. But surprisingly it seems you can wait until a month before arrival to do so. The downside, however, is that your max velocity gets cut in half if you bring enough bombs to slow down.

With better explosives, you could get a higher max velocity and therefore closer to the "accelerate halfway, decelerate halfway" ideal case, but at the moment such explosives don't exist.
Almost every aspect of your post is wrong (regarding the author and the post) or irrelevant (regarding the content).

The author is a filmmaker and was comparing film formats. He watched the Hobbit multiple times on the same night at a state of the art cinema. He watched the (same) film in this film format order: 3DHFR, 3D, 2D, 3DHFR.

Therefore, the content could technically have been any film and the elements of immersion compared were across the same content.

It is shame there was no 2DHFR format to compare though.
The true value (something I'm working on at the moment) is integrating this with Sauce (https://saucelabs.com/) to run in multiple browsers continuously.
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I believe NDAs make sense when you're developing for unreleased proprietary platforms. If you get outsourcing work to develop a piece of code for the next Samsung phone, preventing you blog the phone spec months before the launch is probably very reasonable. Wannabes adopting bigcorp schemes - it's just cargo cult.
The story of every free, commercial social web service ever.
Don't forget the Area 52 where they combine alien and human DNA.
Yeah, IE6 was a known enemy and not really surprising, IE7 bugs seemed weird and erratic in comparison.
Increasing the FPS of a game isn't going to change the refresh rate of the monitor.

It makes the game smoother because there are more game loops, so more calculations on a smaller time delta.
>I swear no one knows a thing about science these days.

Funny, I was thinking the same thing.

>What Evolutionary Psychology does is provide an explanation for a behavior given what we know about evolution, biology, economics, game theory, etc.

It provides a guess on what could have happened based on those fields. To be science you need to be able to form theories and for an assertion to be a theory it must be falsifiable. An assertion to explain the modern woman's behavior toward mating in terms of evolution can not be falsified, so it doesn't qualify as a theory. Doesn't sound much like science to me.

As far as I know, you're in a pretty small minority with your claim that Evo Psych is science. A lot of people debate Psychology itself being science, but Evo Psych. Wow, may as well put homeopathy, voodoo and everything else in.

>His first (biology) book, The Selfish Gene, which established him as a leader in the field, is 100% science.

Nice. You imply that I know nothing about science yet you say a book that is largely speculating on what might have happened and why it might have happened is 100% science.
OCaml compiler optimizations: we need a representative benchmark suite
Why would it matter if they're altruistic or not? It's a move, it's going to help. Who the fuck cares why?

The saying goes "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"
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Could pickup some more standard IT skills which would help you doing admin type work?
What do couch surfing and being minimalist have to do with earning a living?
Probably the way to go with this is to open source it, such that anyone can independently share and compile it. But just in case anyone becomes fatigued of fighting the ridiculous control freakery of Mr Zuckerberg’s lawyers there is always Friendica. Friendica is already open source. It’s themeable. There is no spam or bribed posts, and you don’t have to be trapped in some AOL-style walled garden.
"Our contacts with OEMs say that it really was that bad, the depths of their hatred for Redmond right now is truly unprecedented, and all are hard at work on a Plan B that is Microsoft free."

Let's hope that means more Ubuntu/Linux laptops in the near future, and laptops that are actually $100 cheaper than their Windows counterparts, not $300 more expensive, like that Dell one.
Sure, but it raises the number of nukes needed at launch considerably, holding the travel time constant. More than double, even leaving aside considerations like the additional storage size.

Also, designing nukes that last for 150 years before being used is non-trivial (can't use tritium in the initiator, for example; it decays too rapidly for that).
Damn! I missed one of my fav movies. I've been living here for only 4 months and I'm shocked to hear they would allow for such a "theme" in their media.

Someone probably broke in and forced them to play it on their "backup national channel"
Who said anything about supporting? I am just stating that it is a product and you can choose whether you use it or not, for whatever reasons you deem worthy.
Even if they were a convicted pedophile and you had small children in the house? That was a situation a friend of mine faced recently. Oddly enough, it was similar to a situation another friend's family faced 20 years ago (minus the conviction).
It's not about what but to whom.

To whom is hard to control and is made harder on purpose as after all, their entire model is based on encouraging sharing legitimately or otherwise.

Don't underestimate the power of the majority to make a crap decision. That's why we have privacy and data protection laws in the EU: to protect people from predatory information gathering and sharing.
Once DPs get a hang of exposure and motion blur to look the same as on slower frame rates, this debate will be over.
Really? (with regard to in the west)
Most of the social network 'news' I see is total crap. The stuff of chain-mails, rumour and heresay. When a major story breaks in the west the traditional media, despite biases in one way or another, seem to have the same pace and at least a much information.

Plus, I know who to blame when the information is wrong if it comes from a traditional outlet
There is nothing mutually exclusive about running a business and being honest. What exactly are you trying to say about HN and/or startups that would make him out of place here?
Damn.. I am getting paid less than that :(

No mention of the average number of job offers? From last year:
"Students who replied averaged about 2 job offers."
That's clearly not correct, since there is opportunity cost.
Android has shipped more phones but they're far less used, mostly due to the same reason it's so much more expensive to develop for: for every iPhone-competitive Android phone in use there is at least one phone with marginal hardware, an antique unsupported OS release, horrible vendor/carrier modded UI. All those “free smartphone” offers count towards units shipped even if the only app regularly used is Facebook. If you're Flickr, you also have to deal with the crazy range in camera quality - akin to having to support everything from the iPhone 1 to 5.

Google's inability to get carriers & vendors to be serious platform maintainers is the best thing which happened to Apple.
> What's so hard about saying "we wont sell your photos, promise, fingers crossed", unless they actually do want to keep that option open.

This is what's hard about it: The second they sign any kind of commercial agreement for money, no matter what you and I consider "selling", hundreds of litigious a-holes (pardon my french, but I do believe that's the correct description) with their eyes firmly fixed to Facebooks market cap, will decide that today is a great day to get some courts to decide what exactly the words "we", "won't", "sell", "your" and "photos" means. And even if they win (not that there are any winners in such a case), the same thing will happen again the next time they do such an agreement.
Excellent guide! I always wondered about the science behind typography but could never muster up courage to read boring theories. This was quick and fun!
Any specific reason that the submit page in HN has no Nav links at top ?
I'm not an expert on this, but I've talked with someone who is and The Old Testament has basically a lot of violence and punishments while The New Testament is about love.
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At least the Hobbit was filmed on dual cameras and didn't just have 3D 'painted on' afterwards. For ordinary shots, it should have correct parallax.
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"Today, you have to be able to make a life determining decision right out of high-school, with limited and outdated information and years of the older generations giving you an incorrect view."

I remember being terrified in 11th grade - all my friends were doing college applications, and it all felt permanent. I remember crying in the counselor's office one day, and she didn't understand the pressure.

"I'm being told I have to choose 'a major' in a college, which is going to determine the rest of my life, and I can't even drive yet". "Oh, don't worry, you can always change it later!" (She was nicer than that, but that was the gist).