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>I've torrented a bunch of things I own. Ripping videos especially can be a waste of time.

Sure. But that's like 1% of use cases. Most people download movies they don't own -- to see new stuff without having to buy the DVD or go to the movies. Nobody I know (in several countries) downloads only (or even mainly) movies he owns from torrents.

That's how you get screeners on the most popular torrent lists. I seriously doubt those people own the DVD when it's not even released yet.

So, while you do that, and I sometimes do it (rarely), it's not representative of what is usually done.
Yes, threading is definitely the main challenge for asm.js. I'm not as pessimistic as you about it, though. :)
You're acting like you can't do the same thing with dedicated hardware. On the post-install side, chef/puppet/salt/etc work just as well. On the setup/build side, dhcp, pxe, and the hands-free install setups built into every unix distro let you spin up and down machines with minimal hassle. Need a new db machine? Throw the MAC address of the new box in the db pool of your dhcp server and tell it to boot. Need to move that machine into the web server pool? Move that MAC into your web server pool and tell the box to reboot. Combine that with a mixture of hot spares, cold spares, and warm spares, and I'd still bet you'd be cheaper than AWS for any significant sized service.
That reminds me that https://www.fimfiction.net/ used to have a carousel in the header for featured stories, and it worked like you describe. Featured stories arrived at the left side and were gradually pushed to the right. It was kind of cool that the carousel started at a random featured story when I navigated to a new page – it increased the change that I’d find a good story, without making me read through all of the story descriptions at once. And I was successfully taught how to find old stories by moving farther right in the carousel.

Now, FIMFiction.net moved the carousel from the header to the home page, and made it much bigger. I hadn’t really thought about whether I liked that change – I don’t see featured stories as often, but I don’t have to scroll down as much to see the content of each page.
I'm sorry if I'm coming across negatively. It's not my intent. And please don't presume that my concerns about asm.js are in any way tied to projects that other people in Google/Chrome work on, or that I'm entirely supportive of them. That said, I am curious if you really are committing to to future versions of asm.js not using any divergent APIs or observable divergent behavior from JavaScript as used on the web?
I think the prime directive stated is a little too long and lofty. Instead how about: "Love or die"?
Hell yeah, I'm a lift user as well. Love it!
Re: enterprise vc, I am still horrified whenever I think about the "diff tool" one of our top consultants from Big Blue used when coding in Java: copy code from IDE into Word, copy the Word file across systems, reverse the process...

As for what you guys are doing, it's fantastic and it was high time someone decided to tackle the problem. Another huge market opportunity is an editor tailored for writers (academia, fiction, etc), with vc embedded and an open format behind the scenes (HTML maybe).
I wonder how long it will be until a similar headline about tablets? Eventually that market will also be saturated.
>It actually lowers the level of political discourse to punish people for expressing their views.

it's not punishing people for expressing their views, it's punishing people for their views. Allowing evolution deniers the stage to talk lowers the level of political discourse.
I have seen our local police spray mace/pepper spray on dogs, but have not heard of any dogs being shot here unless the police were actually being attacked.

I too am a dog aficionado, and I can't imagine the feeling of having my best friends shot simply because of an error.

That said, some dogs are naturally protective of their family members, and it is the responsibility of dog owners to train their dogs sufficiently to be able to maintain control of their dogs, even while being restrained by authorities.

This is where Schutzhund training comes into play.
My dogs respond to both voice commands as well as hand signals.
When I say "Pfui! Ablegen!" my dogs immediately lie down and are still. The same with "Platz."

I have trained my dogs to work well in varying situations, including violent confrontations, with/without firearms, attackers with bats, etc, and it takes a level of commitment that the casual dog owner lacks.

I was urged into Schutzhund training by a neighbor who raises beautiful Rottweilers and he didn't want to see any uncontrolled bull-dogs in this neighborhood. (rural agriculture, and my dogs run loose on my un-fenced property)
It was the best thing to ever happen for my dogs and I.
Why not just outsource it to ADP for $5 billion?
Theoretically, my current desktop is in bad need of a refresh. I think I cobbled it together from slightly better than middle of the road parts in 2007-ish for...oh around $1300. Core2Quad@2.4Ghz, 4GB of RAM, Windows 7 x64, GeForce 9800 GT with ~ 1GB of video memory on it, spinning rust SATA drives.

I have yet to find a piece of software, game, whatever that's not reasonably performant on it now 5-6 years later. There's some high end virtualization stuff that just doesn't work on it anymore, and a few recent Demoscene releases struggle a bit, but if I keep with web surfing, document writing, music production, photoshop/gimp, and games, it run all that stuff well enough that I don't feel any pressure to upgrade.

It used to be that to run the latest AAA game, Emulation or Demoscene release I'd have to upgrade pretty much my entire machine every 2-3 years. Now I'm seriously considering going another year with this machine or making the plunge and building another. BSNES runs like a dog on it, but I can always ZSNES or SNES9x my way to good-enough-ville.

The churn just isn't there. Windows 7 is rock freaking solid, $500-700 desktops at Costco are better than my current desktop in every respect. If you buy a computer today, you can probably happily use it for the next 10 years and never feel the need to upgrade your system for any reason.

Software used to drive this stuff, but CPUs aren't getting faster in ways that users care, and cheap GPUs make up for the rest. There's no Doom or Quake or Crysis to force an upgrade (hell, most AAA PC games these days are just ports off of far less powerful consoles). Casual gamers are on WoW capable machines (an almost 10 year old game!) and have no reason to move.

The market is simply at saturation not death. It's become like telephony or indoor plumbing. Everybody who's ever going to get a computer (except for kids) has at least one. Hell, my 80 year grandmother finally bought a laptop so my mother can play out of copyright mp3s for her while she cooks.
I use Gliph pretty much daily, and have since I first read about it (on HN) almost a year ago. Great app.
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I'm not saying the DOD's accounting systems don't have massive problems. I'm jabbing at the article for not giving us enough information to justify that conclusion. The article says that "he's not the only one with problems" but that means nothing given the scale of the operation. With 2.7 million payees, just a 0.01% annual error rate means hundreds of mistakes per year. That's the equivalent of Google messing up payroll for 5-6 people each year.
Good to see Counter-Strike still holding ground. Though in recent months it has gone down a few positions.
Actually the difference between DotA and LoL is precisely that (or so I've been told by a friend who plays LoL; I play DotA): LoL creators realized the problem with DotA was that it was terribly newbie-unfriendly. So they created LoL trying to do the opposite.

Dota2 seems to be a lot more newbie-friendly than the original DotA. Eg: you get hints on which items to buy and how to combine them to create better items. But I would still put it in the newbie-unfriendly category. Nothing, nothing can generate so much hate and rage as a DotA match. I have lost IRL friends to it.

Just to be clear, I love the game and I still play it when I want some adrenaline.
I'm married to a designer who spends a lot of time in Adobe products, and her team's collaboration workflows are very similarly busted.

I've often felt like they could make great use of a version control system, and wondered why this hadn't been done before.

Good luck, this looks really promising!
To be clear, I really do think those of you working on asm.js have the best of intentions and really want to make something that works for the Web. However, I expect that supporting existing codebases and commonly used APIs is going to mean compromises. They'll start small and polyfills will work well enough, but I just don't see how asm.js doesn't eventually diverge in significant ways from normal JavaScript, or end up introducing special purpose hacks. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't see my position as unrealistic.
To not go extinct?
What do you expect from a group that thinks trans-compiling C++ to JavaScript is a good idea...
After she spent a night in jail. More relevantly, she called 911 and fled because she was scared of people who (unknown to her) were active law enforcement agents. This aggression as a first resort is precisely what is being discussed here.
Check out this chart: http://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Wha...

There may even be a happy middle-ground with regards to firefighters. In eastern King County, they don't send out a firetruck and three firefighters for non-lethal medical emergencies anymore -- they just send a single firefighter in an SUV.
In my area we have SERT police who are also regular police officers who do normal duty unless the SERT team is called up.
Please dont add that design :|
OK. I thought you were referring to the morality of working while in person as opposed to idling. Given your comment, it seems like you weren't---and yet your previous comment seems to imply it. So why refer to private prisons as "nothing more slave labor camps" while public prisons could just as easily be "nothing more than slave camps"?

I now understand that you were criticizing the incentive structure of prisons, but it didn't seem that way.

> Moreover, the taxpayer still ends up footing most of the bill for private prisons

I would therefore not call them private prisons. Perhaps, crony prisons or quasi-public prisons?

> In a private prison, an inmate who finds Jesus/Buddha/etc and becomes an honest citizen is a blow to the bottom line.

How can this be true while tax payers are simultaneously footing the bill? Moreover, isn't a large part of the comments in this thread about how there is an incentive structure in public prisons to keep more prisoners? (The correctional officer unions.)

> in state-run institutions, they at least have a budgetary incentive to moderate sentences, rehabilitate, and reduce recidivism.

That kind of makes sense. But when there are unions, and the jobs of union members depends on the number of prisoners, it becomes much less clear.
Diverging from JS would require standardization, but it's too early to consider something like that. I don't know what our ultimate plan for threads will be or where asm.js will eventually end up; there are plenty more discussions to be had.
There's that. But most players don't have to deal with this thanks to the matchmaking system. I'm talking about how any veteran player can feed in a game and it ruins the game, inciting insults and frustrated remarks.
I think the big necessity for Dota 2 is to add a forfeit button. Too much time is wasted on finishing up games. Demolishing a base with low damage can take a very long time...
In other words, you shouldn't have a gun because some scary men might break into your house and point their guns at you.
If you're looking for a more immediate solution, I've been pretty satisfied with FastGlacier, as an Amazon Glacier client.

http://fastglacier.com/
There's some intent here -- this is clearly intentionally abusive of users' computers, and for his personal profit. Seems pretty clearly malicious.
am i the only one that read this as employee of rogue ales (http://rogue.com/)? i need a beer ...
$2.7mm in damages over 6 malware infected parts. That escalated quickly.

Where do they get the rationale for the Mice and Keyboards?!
How would you compare this to LiveLoop?(http://www.getliveloop.com/) It looks like a very similar approach, is it just sans the real-time aspect?

(I know the LiveLoop folks, so this caught my eye.)
The gaming PC I built in 2008 still handles brand-new games without any problem or slowdown. Almost everyone is in the same situation.

The market isn't dying because people aren't using PCs anymore, it's dying because upgrades have become unnecessary.
If you're just going to install a Linux distro doesn't that defeat the point?

I thought the whole idea of chromebook was that you used google services rather than locally installed apps. So yes, inherently more tracking since they want to monetise ads.
I seriously doubt that anyone who wanted to play the game a week ago couldn't find a beta key floating around somewhere to play (there are about a million key giveaways on reddit, etc). I think that Valve getting rid of the beta status is more about them being confident that it's polished than wanting to release to a broader audience.
There is at least two sides to every war. Dissarmerment has to start somewhere.
> Protocols are not programming languages. They don't need flexible syntax.

Or, as the langsec crowd claims, protocols don't need flexible syntax, lest they actually become programming languages.
Agreed. According to wikipedia, it is also known as "action real-time strategy (ARTS)." That's marginally better, but I'd guess that'll never catch on.
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Horizontal price fixing is when competitors in a market (like, say, the major book publishers) cooperate to control prices in that market.

Vertical price fixing is an entity at one level of the chain of production controlling prices at another level (typically, its a manufacturer dictating retail prices.)
FYI kyledrake: The blog uses an http:// link for its CSS, which makes the SSL version of the page insecure. Such insecure mixed content is blocked by default in Firefox 23+ (now in beta), so the page loses its styling for Firefox beta/alpha users, and soon for all Firefox users. (Edit: The CSS seems to also be blocked in recent Chrome and IE9, thanks thejosh.)

One fix is to remove the protocol from CSS links, i.e. change this:

<link href="http://blog.neocities.org/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

to this:

<link href="//blog.neocities.org/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

and likewise for any other CSS and JavaScript includes. This will use the same protocol being used to serve the page.

Other than that, great work! Just wanted to point out this little issue.
Best hacker I ever met was Bulgarian. Just anecdotally.
Before CoinLab shifted gears and got sued by MtGox, what this guy got fired for was exactly CoinLab's startup: monetizing games through Bitcoin mining.

Needless to say, with Bitcoin ASICs on their way back then, this wasn't exactly a sustainable business model.
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Could you please justify your claim that "it's not exactly honest to frame it as "just JavaScript."" ?

The fact is that asm.js runs and as of recently, does so performantly in Chrome which does even implement the aot optimisations in odinmonkey.

To my mind given the above fact it seems perfectly reasonable to make the assertion that asm.js is just javascript.
Oh? I hadn't heard about that. It certainly sounds bad. Do you have a pointer to more on this?
How can the existence and relative success of this game offend you so? Virtually all games out there nowadays are newbie friendly and watered down to a fault. People with your preferences are drowning in choices. For those of us who enjoy uncompromising skill-based games, the only AAA titles to come along in recent memory have been Dota 2, Dark Souls and a handful of RTS and fighting games.

League of Legends addresses many of your apparent concerns with Dota's game design. But guess what? Its online community is every bit as toxic and obnoxious. Both are skill-based team games that are played over the Internet, require a lot of coordination, and usually take over 30 minutes per match. You can address in-game bad manners at the margins with something like Riot's tribunal system or Valve's reporting system, but I doubt you can do much to eliminate the problem without also eliminating those essential features of their game design.
I think its more appropriate to say instead of "a doomed to fail and a successful" is "a doomed to fail and a less likely doomed to fail."
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Chrome also blocks it as well.
Those posts usually have a lot of responses that rise to the challenge though, and without any opposition or advocacy for the devil, much less (or even nothing) is learned. I don't think it's fair to call him out like that, HN is better than this and posts can be dealt with on a one by one basis.

Take off all the nicks, for maximum message resolution.
"...the whole country will be strung out in weeks if we legalize the stuff."

Some would point to the thinning of the herd aspect of allowing those so inclined to kill themselves with their drug(s) of choice...

Less losers = less problems.
These are the people that take the money out of your paycheck each week. Don't know whether it's gross incompetence or cronyism to buy new equipment from a contractor.
The ARTS name predates the MOBA name iirc, but the ARTS term was unpopular because it's plainly obvious that they aren't RTS games and they were only called that because they fell out of the modding tools for Blizzard's RTS games. Ironically the existing genre they resemble most is ARPGs since they're basically ARPG gameplay and progression mechanics in a team vs team setting, but people get grumpy when you bolt the term "RPG" onto something with no plot to speak of.
Wuala tried to do that, but I think they have since switched to a centralized solution.

The difficulty is ensuring enough clients have a copy of the file that it won't disappear, especially with people connecting and disconnecting a lot.
I made "m" a search keyword in Firefox which queries google maps directly. So I just do ctrl-l m <address/query> enter. No cache misses, ahem mouse clicks, involved.
The http://dontbubble.us/ site did it for me -- in a contest to see who filters the most accurate results for my brain between my brain and their artificial intelligence...I will always win.
I recently started to take an empathetic approach to answering customer queries. I noticed their responses changed significantly from angry to accepting.

I remember reading a post on these pages that explained Apple's sales and support methods... to empathize with the customer. One message I got from giving customer feedback was that instead of saying 'No, that is not the problem' when a customer complains, I start by saying 'I understand how frustrating that could be'.

That tone is enough to put the most angered customer at ease. With that approach, I rarely ever require a second response.
Oh, I figured I was missing some context. I still hope that's the case. I'm not sure what value there is to replying to imagined posts by people who aren't posting, and hijacking the top rated comment to boot.
Thanks, that's a bit of helpful context. I appreciate that it's too early to say where exactly asm.js will go. I'm just afraid of private APIs or other divergence from JavaScript in order to mainstream asm.js. Sorry if that apprehension came across as overly negative.
PCs may be dying for the average consumer but this certainly doesn't affect the enthusiast and gamer market. I would expect the market for enthusiasts to only grow as more of its users will have to resort to building their own.
yes, i would love to check it out, but dont want to click through 1000 links.
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Great idea! I'm sure you will be subject to network effects. What about users without a facebook?
It would be a lot harder for Balko to cite so many instances of it happening if there weren't so many instances of it happening.
The numbers on the left are literally off the charts. I can't read them, they go under the graph.
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I always thought stealing at work or looking at porn was ridiculous for the same reasons. Talk about poor risk analysis.
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Installing a plugin and pressing "Sync" may indeed be improvement over manually merging Word docs, although they do gloss over the hairy yet important bit of managing permissions: who exactly gets access to each doc?

But having gotten used to Google Docs, it's considerably more convenient -- hell, nearly magical -- to be able to just work and have your changes sync in real-time. For example, meeting minutes pretty much write themselves when everybody has the ability to edit the doc simultaneously and summarize what they've just said.
The biggest tactical difference between Bill's Microsoft and Steve's Apple was always in the level of market power each could exert at any given point in time.
Wow, this site clearly shows they are not killing pitbulls or stuff like that. Labradors. The nicest dogs ever. This is disgusting.
We (cintrexav.com - a small video conversion service provider) are building something very much like this right now. Will post here when we get to MVP in a month or so!
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> It's worth noting that the Guardian published this slide weeks ago, except they redacted some information

Heh, well, I guess I fell for the incorrect headline then. Thanks.
For gaming that will change with the new console releases. The Xbox One is >4x more powerful than the Xbox 360 and the PS4 is >6x. It might take a few years, but the slump in increasing processing needs will probably die off.
That doesn't sound ideal, that sounds subpar but easier. A human readable text based PPT sounds atrocious!