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WebRTC works well in Firefox and Chrome, and provides UDP networking. See for example https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread - so we should definitely be able to do that in quakejs. Totally agree that TCP is not great for FPS games.

About vsync etc., I am not an expert on those. But the game should be able to render at 60fps (equal or better to consoles), see the demo above and also Epic Citadel etc.. Any worse means there is a bug, and we should file an issue and try to get it fixed.
It's not easy to buy $500,000 worth of bitcoins on the open market at "current value".
Perhaps France wasn't your best choice of country.
Replace breaking bad spoilers with low winter sun. AMC would eat that up.
Thanks for the context. I used to use Ubuntu and found this feature to be nonsense. Who would come up with this idea? Let's make money by sending peoples searches to Amazon whenever they search for a file on their PC. Of course when I can't find my file, I'd love and expect the convenience to... get it on Amazon?!
I subscribe to this and NSHipster. What other Obj-C resources do you follow?
What are the chances of this being primarily spyware? I am seriously concerned. Is there a Chinese wall mentioned anywhere.
One of your product quotes is "Whoever made this deserves the friggin nobel prize" which is a response to a person who said "what will these azn's think of next" and linked to http://www.geekstudent.com/index.php?tag=bubble-wrap

Are you sure "some chick" on twitter actually said that?
Right, nautilus was never big on features, but it had the basics. Now it has less than the file manager in Windows 3.1. Yet it still uses plenty of ram.
I saw a presentation by a company that seems to have a similar focus at recent meetup in new york: http://www.indicative.com

Their website claims (cutting out the marketing) ... to empower all web and mobile businesses to make smarter, data-driven decisions. ... tools that help startups and small businesses learn from their data and improve their performance.
Concur with this analysis. This is an unofficial official strategy statement, done with plausible deniability. Effectively, he is stating what the board would be hiring if they hired him. It also effectively puts the option on the public discussion board.
I wonder if these big brands (Amazon, Google) can be stretched infinitely with more and more offerings without confusing users.

Amazon is a retailer and cloud computing provider and a video streaming service and a TV producer and a device manufacturer and a grocery store and a bank for small business loans and a hundred other things... At what point does the umbrella brand start to confuse people?

Bezos must have a brain the size of Texas to keep all these moving parts in mind.
Yes. If it's not a valuable USP for your business then it's not worth getting into bitcoins at this stage; no-one's going to avoid a site because it doesn't take bitcoins, and they're (naturally) more difficult to get right than more mature forms of payment.
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Seriously? Choosing to not load ads is now "stealing".
The crazy/frustrating part to me is that this takes place "even when you're not signed into an account".
If the next Microsoft CEO doesn't have a github account it will clearly show the company is heading in the wrong direction and needs to put some serious consideration towards a pivot.
I care about politics a lot. But I don't like discussion of politics here on HN, where the "discussion" too often turns into potshots. I use multiple sources of information, from more than one country, to gain information about current issues.
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Any explanation of the giant spike for ART? GC misbehaving?
We currently allow you to add any keywords you want. We'd like to eventually allow rather to communicate with things like tweetbot, so tweetbot can just pull from what you hate, etc.
Agree, but all day means several different systems as well (Tabelt, Notebook etc pp). I prefer to have everything online
Which would make this news if a 3.7% daily move wasn't average daily volatility for this stock.
Are they using anything different from cookies? If so, the results won't be any different from what you get in Google Analytics.
Right, if there are supposedly buyers from abroad who want to buy, we can save money in currency conversions and transfers across borders.
It's more than just interest and lots of time practicing, though. I have a good programming job. But from early on I just got things like algebra and boolean logic, didn't spend nearly the time on them that others did. etc. I remember some calculus homework in high school and the rest of the class was working on the problems and I was goofying off. They got stuck on the last problem and it took me about 10 mintues and I traded them for the other 9 problems.
Yes, but assuming errors are uniformly distributed, there's a chance read errors will actually correct problems. They'll occasionally flip the bit that was tampered with.

So error correction gets worse (less effective), but maybe not as bad as you might believe.
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Perhaps that means you are not the kind of person the parent was referring to? For me, I tend to get excited about doing just about everything. Since I cannot possibly do everything, I usually tune my interests to where industry interests are.

While I've never had a job drawing sketches specifically, I have had jobs using other artistic mediums. I've spent a lot of my career as a programmer. I've been farming for several years now. If there was strong external interest for drawing, I'd probably be quite keen to hone my skills there too. I've been spending my spare time recently introducing myself to a few other industries that seem promising. I haven't worked professionally in those industries yet, but who knows what the future holds?

That all seems natural to me, though it is clearly not for everyone. I can see where the parent is coming from though. From my point of view it is somewhat difficult to imagine someone who wouldn't want to become an expert in computing, drawing, or whatever industry needs.
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I had forgotten, but I just read up on it [0]. I haven't actually studied the code, but it appears to me from this post that your characterization is not quite correct. They didn't just add code to initialize the memory; according to [0], it would actually have been correct to do so (see the second sentence under "Links and Notes"). Instead they did something slightly different from that, which was wrong.

[0] http://research.swtch.com/openssl
Ask HN: remote collaboration setup 2013
HN, how do you make remote collaboration work?

Which tools do you use for:

* planning / scheduling

* real-time note-taking/drawing

* chat / voip / video chat

* file sharing

* Software prototyping / mockups / wireframes
I've seen "severance" offered in exchange. E.g. we'll pay you what we owe you, but if you sign this we'll give you an additional month of salary.
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What a divisive essay. Thanks :)
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/ip/

> Complaints regarding trademark infringement due to website content and domain names are outside of ICANN's scope and authority.

The only case where ICANN Has anything to say is in a case of domain squatting, which this isn't: although Canonical has a trademark interest in "Ubuntu", there's no violation since it's being used nominatively,and it's not being used in bad faith. (Search for UDRP for more information on this policy).
> Bzzt, middlebrow dismissal. How about you make a concrete proposal on how you think Canonical's business model should be constructed, instead of "computer says no"?

They should offer a ad-free system, which you pay $10 for, or a free version, supported by ads.
28000 CNY/sqm * ~.1 sqm/sqft * .16 USD/CNY = ~$448/sqft.

That's coming up on prices in SF, and a little bit more expensive than Boston. I had no idea.
hmmm. Maybe I got my links screwed up. I'll fix that. Anyway, here's another one: https://twitter.com/CLAYMOORE/status/306965801494257664
Quake Live is based off Quake 3 which was released at the end of '99, but I get the point.

Ironically though most of their Linux based competition (Xonotic, Open Arena, etc) all use the quake 1 - 3 engines.
I (probably) did miss that. I only have so much time to spend on here and so much stuff just falls through the cracks. It's the worst of both worlds then already.
I'm gently surprised SO hasn't done a 6 month torrent of a stand-alone locally searchable SO. They could possibly do a monthly subscription download?

That'd help the people wanting to turn off the Internet.

EDIT: And, if you really need it, you can get Internet on a ship. It's hideously expensive, but that's okay. You just need to think before going online.
Can anyone see any terms and conditions that apply to Amazon's use of the data returned? The "Program Materials License Agreement" doesn't seem to cover the service as such but the software you a licensing to include in your app to talk to it.

Most of the existing services (Mixpanel, Flurry etc.) give them the right to use aggregate data for their purposes which has put me off using them so I initially sort of rolled my own but never got round to doing the analysis side. I would love to use this if the TOS are OK.
On a second look, it may not be as hard as it first appeared. When shading, the artist will just have to be very conscious of the angle of incidence from the light source. We will see how difficult this is once alpha is released and we get a chance to compute some normal maps and debug their lighting profiles.
Yes, context driven adverts. Not sure how much that's worth, but it's worth pitching to someone like Fox Sports or AMC.
Startup CEOs: you are overestimating your tech talent
I have been struck recently over many conversations with different VC-funded startup CEOs (series A or B money, all at least $5M) at how strong the CTO/tech team rockstar/ninja kool-aid seems to be. "Our tech guys are smarter than everyone else in the world" seems to be a pervasive sentiment. Generally speaking, the CTO/tech team also seems to believe that about themselves, and usually the CEO is personally self-effacing and does not have that kind of personal arrogance.

I know that there are dark days and uncertainty within a startup, and that you do have to "fake it until you make it", but there's a real danger in drinking that kool-aid and missing out on the fact that everything reverts to the mean, and not everyone can even be "above average", let alone the smartest people in the world. The reality is that your startup that's survived to series A likely has pretty decent tech talent, but it's unlikely that they're significantly better than the tech talent at other startups that have survived similarly.

In particular, it is a big mistake to assume that your tech team is going to be able to solve problems that were really hard for other tech teams, unless you're willing to make solving those problems one of your core competencies (and the other tech teams were not willing to do so).

As a tech co-founder, I am extremely appreciative of the support that I get from my CEO, but I would never want her to (nor does she) assume that I will be able to solve problems that other talented teams have failed to solve for way less money and/or in way less time and/or with way less organizational focus than they have.

So if you're a tech CEO who believes that your CTO and tech teams are far superior to everyone else out there, I would say: the confidence is good, and probably necessary, but you have to make sure that you spend some of your time sober enough to acknowledge reality.
The hazards and medical care availability pointed out in the article (Good 'ol Cecil) seem to greatly outweigh any possible benefits.
It works with $(this).addClass instead of this.addClass: $('img').load(function(){ $(this).addClass('loaded')});
Do you have a Litmus test you can post on GitHub https://github.com/zurb/ink
A little black box regulates the applied pressure due to criteria X.

I submit to you that if X is buggy, the little black box may decide never to allow pressure to hit the brakes. This in turn prevents braking.
>It's vestigal on a server.

Do you have any source for that? If it is vestigial, why would it need to suck up so much ram? Unless I explicitly activate it, what is point of draining the power and filling up the ram by default. Not everyone does and know how to inspect the crash dump, they are mostly useful to the OS manufacturer and the developer of the crashing application.

> currently the crash reports sit on the server awaiting (local) examination and do nothing.

So Ubuntu (Canonical) doesn't collect any crash data from servers but only from desktops despite having the technology built-in and activated? Highly unlikely.
My team of two uses Trello, Skype, Sketchpad.io and Balsamiq (desktop).

What we really need is a solution that can act as a whiteboard where many users can draw and write at the same time.
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I don't believe it should be different, and so far no better way of pricing has been found than a free market. However a completely separate issue is inequality. This is important to the winners as well, as it provides a measure of stability to the system. What governments (or unions for that matter) should not do is impose new labor laws on businesses. This merely distorts free markets and creates burdens which might cause them to simply move elsewhere. What is needed is a basic income so people can pursue opportunities. Oh, and maybe the grubmint can be more efficient at spending money.
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Started reading the Ender Series in anticipation of the movie. Right now on book 6.
only 17 pages - very short compared to the much-discussed report yesterday from the Swiss:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6684314
Since this isn't getting much attention, you might as well delete it and submit the real link.
Headline is inaccurate, though I can't really blame the submitter. jawed occasionally makes comments on YouTube (example: [1]), but eventually hides everything but YouTube's first video from his channel (presumably so he can "make his first comment in X years" which then gets headlines).

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo&lc=XBr2JHTM1EEDT3...
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> The point I was making is how deeply the connection to Debian is buried on the ubuntu.com site and contrasting it to Crunchbang's approach which is to give back mindshare

I accept that point.

(TBH, I shouldn't have bothered with my previous comment, because it was just pedantic).

In my mind, Ubuntu is competing (or at least trying to compete) with Google, Microsoft and Apple. They can't afford to waste valuable front page space on things that would only interest people like us. I think that's perfectly understandable. They still have an Ubuntu and Debian page for those who care. If sharing credit is important to you, than by all means go with something like Crunchbang.
Like others here, my major concern would be access to the technical resources that are freely available on the internet like StackOverflow. I was curious and consulted the StackExchange API and license. They seem to indicate it would not only possible to pull down the site's entire contents but it also would be allowed under the CC license that is used. Although judging by the various throttles in place, it would take you roughly 11 days to grab all the data. So who wants to take the plunge, write up the scripts, pull the data, and then share it with everyone else?
Since we're keeping it factual I accused them of blurring the lines between open source and spyware. I linked to Richard Stallman directly calling it spyware on the Free Software Foundation website.

I think collecting, mining and sharing information about your user-base for money is deeply troubling. We may not have a good word to describe this type of activity but spyware at least gets us in the right neighborhood.
I agree wholeheartedly with this comment, as computer and embedded programmers approach completely different tasks from completely different paradigms. The embedded system may have to run for years on end, with no one pressing control-alt-delete, performing a reset, or an update; it may also have to be very robust against unexpected situations, fail-operational or fail-safe or fail-deadly depending on the product, and protect itself from exposure to dangerous signals and environments. On the other hand, computer software must be easily maintained, updated to add new functions, work on new systems, be easy for the end-user to operate, and limited in scope. Expecting people with such different tasks to behave similarly is entirely unrealistic, and foolhardy.
What do you mean by “Give your bank time to fully "digest" the payment.”?
> Gitx has better UX and appeals to me as someone that prefers to view more relevant content on the screen.

... and has a Mac, of course, which rules it out for many of us (though I can't speak for the sdfjkl).
For what it's worth, the giant code scans fine for me using QR Reader on an iPhone 5S. Pretty amusing.
I am of course not referring to this particular instance, but posing a counterexample to the overly broad language in their intellectual property policy.
> If most people are envious of Bill Gates, does it follow that they have the right to take away his money and redistribute it?

You're presupposing that there's such a thing as a "right" outside of a given social framework. (Cf. @rayiner's various comments on that subject.) If people are envious by nature, that's like the weather; to paraphrase Robert A. Heinlein, attempting to argue with the weather is seldom a profitable enterprise.

In any case, Bill Gates's success was not due solely to his own efforts; he built his achievements on a foundation provided by his fellow citizens, of America and the world. So it's not a moral axiom that Gates should keep some particular share of the money that happens to come into his hands. Cf. Elizabeth Warren's famous talk during her campaign for the Senate, where on the subject of fair taxation she accurately pointed out that:

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did. [1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htX2usfqMEs, starting at 0:50, transcribed at http://spectator.org/blog/2011/09/22/elizabeth-warren-on-fai....
In that case Canonical have really shot themselves in the foot :)
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I'm afraid I do not understand your comment as you seem to be echoing what I have stated.
Wow. I'm no artist but I'm already looking for any excuse to use this.
No thanks, I am fine.
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We release an XML data dump every 3 months. It'd only be a bit of work to make it presentable and load it into something searchable. http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...
In my opinion the major reasons for longer console cycles are development cycle time frames and hardware compatibility issues.

Graphics improved over the life of the last console generation until they plateaued. To do that many game developers and game engines have to get down and write code at the hardware level to optimize as much as they can. Add on the 1-5 year development time frame of many games and you're in a scenario where updating hardware regularly actually becomes a big middle finger to many of your game developers.

Things that could change this:
- Newer Super Powerful hardware allows consoles can stay in the sub $500 price range and is strong enough to allow hardware level optimization to be done away with so that a 3-5 year game can work on multiple console versions (past or future).
- Revolutionary game development software that some how magically lets super AAA titles be made in months instead of years while also drastically dropping the price of a new release from $60 into the phone "app" range.
- Instead of hardware becoming substantially more powerful it becomes substantially cheaper and smaller. If you could buy next gen consoles for under $200 it would be a hassle, but possible to own multiple generations so that you can play your 3 year old games as well as your new ones.

TLDR: Hardware is not the reason for long console release cycles, the games are.
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I'm sure people can find the team page fun, but I saw it as uninformative; I see three co-founders and all I know at a glance is that one guy used to be with BuzzFeed. The front page of the site is also fun, but it's also informative.

I was also a little confused about why the LinkedIn URLs don't point to the public page but rather the URL used by those already logged into LinkedIn. I'm thinking this was probably just overlooked. I happened to be logged out, clicked on one of the icons, was required to log in, and because I use the 2-step authentication I wanted to just get back to browsing HN because all I had was just a low level of curiosity about the people behind the product.

Example:
The icon for Peter Marquis links to http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=32333289 while it could have been linking to http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pete-marquis/a/9b3/489 (or better yet the /in/ URL which would give all users the information, whether they're logged in or not.)

Bookmarked the site. I'll check it out soon enough. Good luck!
"Protecting"
I think many of the cruises leave on very short notice. That would bring the price way down.
Ask HN: What's the most promising field in A.I?
http://kapeli.com/dash
There's a 3DS game called Pullblox (or Pushmo), which allows you to make your own (low-res 2D bitmap) levels and then distribute them via a massive QR-code.
I don't like Google Earth's approach too much either, I always have to correct back the roll..

I can understand it when you reach the zoom level of a city, at that point you correlate the data on the map with actual visual memories at the street level, where Up does not correspond to North anymore, but instead is related to Forward.
Maybe an exponential transition between the two systems as you zoom in?

Interestingly, on a phone it is also trickier because there is not "grab" equivalent and the y axis also makes the page scroll.

Sorry, I don't want to sound overly critic :)
Mike Ash's articles are the most in-depth I've seen.

http://mikeash.com/pyblog/
Great question -- when I ask my mom what she thinks of first about Amazon she says "buying Christmas gifts"

The first thing in my mind is almost always one of their technical services, most specifically AWS
I know that nicknames are here because of anonymity and so on, but can I ask you who are you to say that ?

In the current context, I can hardly see any window for introducing disruptive innovation (I mean it, there is room for that) in France. Those who wants don't have money (mayors, univs, scientists), and those who have don't want it cause of so many reasons (employment would be the first).

Stays the middle-size societies, where the entry ticket is damn so high and who are busy too think about the next tax that will be created/canceled/rebranded/transformed/increased/wasted.
Should have started his Kickstarter today while he's #1 on HN.
>Canonical isn't providing a service for free here

Canonical is providing the operating system for free.
I'm not saying it's above refutation, quite the contrary. What I'm saying is the article is opinion--not fact--and it's presented as such.