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> This remains a massive unsolved problem in the gaming industry.

No. Very much no. There is absolutely no shortage of servers for almost any game. Getting hosting, either private or public, is extremely easy and comparatively cheap for most games. Even alpha level releases get dedicated servers set up on most hosting services.

If you mean the "massive unsolved problem" is that servers cost money I don't know what you're thinking.
There's already a US law limiting the extent to which UK libel damages are enforceable.
In my experience living here, it's not only the farmers. Dutch doctors typically avoid prescribing general antibiotics (or advising anything stronger than paracetamol) to people.
... and which offers illusory salvation (a safer, democratic Iraq, reduced terrorist threat) from spurious ills (WMD, Al Qaeda support by Saddam) delivered by a charismatic leader with access to a divine hotline (Blair, too!) and engages you by blatant falsehood, psychological manipulation and peer pressure ...
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Not only that, but it also performs extremely well at downloading Firefox.
I have just re-read this entire thread in its entirety and once again a potentially valuable debate about the limits of police and intelligence services have devolved into a stunningly naive rant centring around -

> The Islamic Terrorist threat is made up
> The Government is a homogenous entity that cannot be trusted. It is definitely not a disparate group of people and organisations trying to make an effective and functioning society. It is sinister
> Intelligence services watch your children naked. Seriously - this is disturbingly dark. In nealty 10 years of service neither I or anyone I ever met in my employment ever saw a child naked. Honestly; that comment hints at real psychological problems.
> Government oversight of communications travelling along copper wires is the same as pre-WW2 Nazi Germany
> Assertions we live in a police state etc etc. Which is hilarious because I have been to actual police states and very few people assert online they live in a police state. You know, on account of that not being wise in an actual police state.

I could go on but this is beyond absurd.

Privacy concerns? Legitimate.
Anything else? Hollywood-isation of actual intelligence work. 99% of it is seriously boring and no one gives a fuck what porn you watch. Bit busy trying to stop actual people getting killed.
Australia mostly needs aircraft with a long-range, decent loiter-time and an anti-shipping capability.

They have it half right purchasing the Boeing P-8A Poseidon
and evaluating Reaper drones.

But like the UK we don't need aircraft carriers, but it seems that's what Tony now wants the new Canberra class ships to be.
Am I the only one that finds it odd that (according to the article and comments) the compensation is tied tightly to levels, but the mean salary for each level is considered secret? So you get to know how you "compare" in terms of "performance", but not how much Google actually values you as an employee? Is this just an aspect of "if you generate revenue we pay you more"?
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Well, it's often said around here that we should consider Google to be in the ad business, right ? Then following that logic Google is actually advertising illegal stuff by providing links to Morgan Jack's website on Google's own site.

I am not convinced by that line of thoughts, though.

> Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called "Morgan Jack" in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.

But Google would be the only restaurant on the whole planet in that analogy.
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Is the process of matching cleaners so different from lets say matching handymen? Or is this more about markteting to the right audience or maybe not overwhelm the user?
Which only shows that you know nothing.
A unicode font can come in at about 20MB, but let's add more tiny pictures and make it 100MB, so that i can see the snowman on your webpage (which would be probably 2-5 kB as png).

Why should my browser load thousands of pictures that are never used?!

Yes, it's ridiculous.
I wonder if they'd combine play music and subscription youtube, music videos are one of the few real advantages they have over something like spotify.
I think all they mean by "prebiotic" is that Titan is similar to models that scientists have proposed for what the Earth might have been like before there was life (assuming abiogenesis) -- i.e. it has weather, complex hydrocarbon compounds, etc.
What happens to Google if they comply in all of Canada but do not comply for the rest of the world?

It would be cheaper for Google to offer specialist SEO and web design help for these aggrieved parties - "here's how you get your story out and ranked higher than the attack sites" - than to fight legal cases through the courts. Although I am pleased thay're taking the cases to court to defend their position.
"...we got something much more like C#..." - you wish, C# supports both dynamic and static typing. I think we have finally passed the peak of hype cycle for dynamic languages and now better understand their place (scripting and integrating other systems).
"Fewer adverts" doesn't quite have quite the same draw as "No adverts!".
At this rate google is going to shit.

By the time every court in the world is done removing all the stuff they want the only thing left will be cats.

There won't be any porn though that is too controversial.
Yep, WebGL works on my system. Both browsers show the spinning cube fine.
Potentially looks like a grand vomitarium (and I am terrified of heights), thank you. I've noticed you can download it on the site posted, I'll have to give it a go.
Mostly because this article is made because of the football/soccer world cup which is currently taking place in Brazil, and they don't mention any other sports ?
That is one of the questions this mission is intended to contribute to. Yes, the current theories would expect that, but they would also expect the observable universe to be swarming with intelligent life, which it doesn't (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox). We are still looking for the Great Filter, and if Titan is still viably pre-biotic but lifeless, it would point to the optimisitc outlook that life is less common than thought and that the filter may actually be in our past. If, on the other hand, there is independent complex life on titan, things look less good for us, as that points to a Great Filter later in the development of life.
Seems author is not familiar with Xamarin and C#.
Not that new. Most of the DMCA take down notices are also executed worldwide.
To further the analogy - it would be like telling McDonalds to not sell food to this person but ignoring In'n'Out Burger and Burger King.

I understand the point about forcing Google to stop sellin advertising to this person. I am confused about how a disappeared person continues to pay for services from Google; why didn't anyone get a court order to force Google to release information about the infringer?

{edit: i did not downvote parent. I am not sure why parent has been downvoted}
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I would have thought that right of first sale should guarantee the right to do that. I guess not?
I just saw a documentary on German tv showimg mich the Same thing for Danish pig farmers so it is not an isolated example. It is a simple issue of incentives.

Even more impressive was that zero anti biotics use in pig farming practiced by a farmer who had his pigs in stables with free range access was only 40% more expensive. Just think about it. We endanger the most important scientific advancement in human health for cheaper bacon.
There's also http://toplap.org/
Microsoft doesn't deserve a second chance. They went out of their way to destroy Netscape and then allowed IE to languish for years. Microsoft has always been an underachieving bully. Mediocrity is part of their DNA and they simply have no desire (or ability) to make good products consistently.
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Hi - Slava @ Rethink here.

Postgres is an amazing product, and incredibly stable by virtue of being very mature. You can't go wrong with it and will almost certainly be just fine.

However, you can't quite compare Postgres document support with RethinkDB. You'd really need to play with the product to understand the difference, but think of it this way. You could sort of treat Java as a dynamic language by casting everything to object, it would work just fine, but it is night and day compared to how it would work in Python. The difference between the experience of using Postgres and RethinkDB for JSON data is just as vast. You'd really how to try both before you can viscerally understand how amazing a dedicated JSON environment can be.

RethinkDB is behind Postgres on raw performance and we're still shaking out scalability quirks (see http://rethinkdb.com/stability/) but if you take the long view (a year or so), these will be worked out in on time. I'd encourage you to play with the environment -- it's easy and fun, and see if you like it. Feel free to shoot me an email (slava@rethinkdb.com) and I'll be happy to help you out if you have questions.
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Would we? Competition is good but fragmentation is bad. If I want to stick on a playlist of 10 songs and half of them are on YouTube but the other half are on DomainNameAbu.se that's not good for me as a user.
This has since been fixed. Red Hat appeared to have screwed up and nuked the name server configuration when they took ownership of the centos.org domain. Nice 4 hour+ outage.
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It may be the case that he gets paid, but the Surface is at least a legitimately good piece of hardware (much better in its product domain than IE)
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Online morse code translator. With sound. Using the web audio API.
The Internet is going to become a country-by-country intranet at this rate.
The article mentions this. There was this twisted situation in Netherlands where doctors avoided antibiotics as much as possible. At the same time farmers were using more antibiotics than necessary. The latter effectively undoes the effort of Dutch doctors to keep resistance to antibiotics low.
If we really analyse it, who are the real thieves?
If it's created as a platform (hear, a protocol) it may effectively need to be created only once. The whole online world is unknowingly waiting for it, and I feel it coming our way like, at raging speed.
The thing that jumps out at me from the article is the sheer size of 'the broiler farm that 160.000 chickens call home.'

If anything this article makes me feel ashamed for being Dutch.
Not just fun.

Well, not just fun for certain definitions of fun.

Not all good quality games are great examples of what some would call "fun".

Loneliness is an interesting flash game/ interactive experience, (and while I don't think anyone would pay for it, it is very simple), I do think it is good and interesting. I'm having a hard time thinking of a game that is for sale that doesn't fit the term fun as much as might be expected, I think that looking for "fun" as the core determination of success is likely insufficient, even if one also adds advertising.
Google isn't selling advertising to him. Their only involvement as far as I can tell is that his sites show up in organic search results.
Also, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA [1]. It's a BASE jumping simulator set in a sci-fi universe where it's a huge entertainment sport.

[1]: I'm serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!_%...
This is in direct conflict with another library: http://artoo.io

Might be better to use another name?
You can see the map itself: http://chriszetter.com/voronoi-map/examples/uk-supermarkets/

And the code is on github: https://github.com/zetter/voronoi-maps
Some part of me wonders what would happen if they were to turn off Google to Canada for a day and list the judge's phone number as the person to complain to.

(Probably one very angry judge, but I wonder...)
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Just wanted to say I feel you man, and all the nerd love and support from HN in this thread really punches me right in the feels.

/singletear
What more can you ask for in a browser than these two points?
Google was the defendant in this case, so they had little choice but to go to court. Let alone the consequences to their Canadian business, US and Canadian courts cooperate in enforcing judgements, so they couldn't ignore it regardless. (Of course they are choosing to appeal, which is optional but obviously a good idea given the pain this precedent could cause.)
Probably a lot of angry users, anti-trust proceedings, and a bunch of other stuff they don't want.
But there is this thing called timezone support. Even JS can handle it.
Also, isn't that one of the yet unrealized capabilities of a drone? You can have a control unit embedded with the forward observer so they can directly control the drone. Depending on their design you could have them land at the nearest FOB or directly at the line and re-arm it as desired.
I don't think so. For combat use, the drones would have to fly low and have a range of at least a few dozen miles to be a reasonable offensive weapon.

If the "commander" plane is going to rely on satellite links, they might as well be sitting on the ground. The "commander" plane needs extensive defenses as well; pretty much similar to how AWACS aircraft are protected.
I have looked into the code, why do you sometimes use the old hash syntax with the hashrocket and sometimes the new (>= 1.9) one?
Thanks, I'd no idea what that was till I read what you referenced.
There are uncanny parallels here with software projects typically getting late, over budget and a complete mess of conflicting goals. In our industry, we have found that this typically happens when people detecting requirements are neither the end users nor the engineers. Best projects are the ones where people behind it are playing both roles. May be its time for military to instill this culture by assigning generals who are themselves pilots and engineers to lead such projects.
What about browser bugs?

I'd like to suggest that the software agent that has access to your private keys should NOT be in the same process as an agent that directly handles data from the internet. The reasoning is simple: defense in depth, and the principle of privilege. Really, this is no different than the idea of running a web server in a chroot(2) jail.

A proper solution that might be something that can be provided in some sort of browser extension (*though it's likely to have platform-specific requirements) is to simply call gpg as an external process. It shouldn't be hard to wrap that up in an API provided by the extension.

Of course, it would be even nicer if the browser's provided that feature directly, as they could utilize platform-specific features such as a secure-password-entry UI (e.g. pinentry)
It doesn't have to have weapons control, even. If it's limited to an "AI scout" role it could just loiter around, find potential targets and flag them for a human operator. If the targets are reviewed to be valuable enough you could take manual control and fly an assault mission.
Both are really different. Phantom.js is a headless browser while artoo is a tool to easily scrape data from website.

But combining both would be nice to make it possible to automatize scrapers that have been developed quickly directly in the browser with artoo.
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Good point. Obviously Google does considerably more business in the US than Canada, but it's still bizarre for any one country's courts to make decisions that directly impact the entire world.

Maybe it's time for an international treaty on Internet regulation to spell out exactly what powers any given nation has. (Although such a thing would probably have the potential to go very wrong.)
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LMAO!!!

I work at a bank (network and maintainace department) I see the case on MOST PC's where a user prefers either Firefox or Google Chrome over IE, it's NOT because the user is aware of the performance issues but they generally assume/gossip that other browsers JUST work better...

and they do :)
> I keep throwing it around and if I ever met a few folks interested in trying it I'd definitely be up for giving it a major go - I think its the inevitable "maximal" solution to intellectual content.

I've looked at business models for all-open content with strong attribution. One question is, how do you protect the business from free-riding competitors who are better capitalized and want to "enclose the public commons"? There have been a few promising efforts in crowdfunding of creative activity, where the resulting content was owned by the creators, e.g.

- (YC) Beacon for journalism

- Star Citizen game ($40M+ raised to date, for 1 game)

- Minecraft did well in selling alpha software

These models seem to work best when there is a strong community invested in using the creative work, and interested in funding roadmaps. Payment infrastructure for DIY crowdfunding continues to improve: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/09/your-guide-to-diy-crow... . PayPal's API can split a payment between several parties, e.g. 5% to patronage platform.

When DRM gets implemented in the browser (starting with video, but will inevitably be extended to ePub3 ebooks and thus any web page), public awareness will skyrocket with "no-can-do" messages that users will experience several times a day. Google can pull the rug out from Firefox whenever they want, making Chrome (and app store policies) as much a point of influence as Google Panda.

The low-cost way to get started is not to host content, but to create a decentralized directory based on crowd-sourced metadata (itself public domain) for public domain content. Start off by collecting the Top 500 most-viewed public domain items from: Youtube, Soundcloud, Universities, Internet Archive, Libraries/Museums. If that gets traction as a proof of concept, it can be scaled up.

In the short term, Qt (have you seen QtBitcoinTrader?) and luajit could form the base of a modern version of Groove/Chandler that runs on Mac/Linux/Windows. Medium term could incorporate concepts from secushare (p2p), camlistore (CCNx), askemos (trust) and tinc vpn.

In the long term, this needs to become a new operating system, borrowing concepts from Rebol, Plan9, Ethos OS, Genode, Qubes OS, etc. Then it can run on dedicated in-home hardware with virtualization and always-on connectvity to trusted peers and mobile devices. But that pipe dream requires success from earlier, simpler to deploy products :) Ping me if you want to brainstorm.
That's mostly because they rely on the fact that once you help someone they feel indebted to you that all breaks down if the person your helping feels no obligation to return the favor.

A lot of people use this behavior to manipulate other people so it's a good idea deprogram it in yourself.

Whenever I help someone i don't expect anything back in return that's probably why I'm ok helping anyone regardless if i ever meet them again and i expect the same no string attached help.

Don't get me wrong though i never 'expect' anything from strangers however if they offer to help (which is a nice surprise) that the type of help i expect.

You want to help me? Fine.
Are there any google docs based CMS's ? Seems like you could offload the editing, saving, tracking changes to google docs - a platform many people seem familiar with now - and then keep the actual CMS to a bare minimum. Have it import the text & spit out a static page even.
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It is not that simple though. It is rational to not eat meat that contains antibiotics or fruit and vegetables that contain pesticides. But you need the time, money, resources, knowledge and organisation to actually pull it off. I don't know there is some sort of Maslow pyramid for countries, but a lot of countries might just not be ready to face this problem just yet. For instance, China wasn't too bothered about pollution until recently, they were (and still are) busy raising the general standard of living. Similarly, the United States might not be ready to attack this problem just yet because they are busy attacking... other things.
The thing is, it's boring. We don't care! We have had good browsers for years! Too late to the party as always MS.
Why? Those chickens are living in much better conditions that others in chicken farms all around the world.
It would be fantastic if customer reviews were included in the peer review process, because there have been a number of times where things were launched for Google Apps customers that became a major cluster, or which actively strove to remove heavily used features, or which otherwise broke many companies' processes & use cases.
Of course it does,like it is paying astroturfers right here on HN.
Nice to read this.

Now.

There is no enough meat farmers in the Netherlands, to produce all the meat consumed _daily_ in the Netherlands.

I´ve been living and working there. I'm a meat lover. The Netherlands is the Hell for a person with the same tastes than me (many years of high quality meat and vegetables and cooking practices).

Meat in the Netherlands is of very bad quality and very high price (I will avoid more colloquial expressions of my basic english).

In those countries that dutch people call "monkeys" or "Moroccans" (this is, portugal, spain, italy and greece) the meat is much better in quality and price... but... we don't have the "autosuggestion" of "we are the best" than dutch people have (even with their street reality).

I don't trust news years ago, but I trust my experience.

The pseudo-nazi dutch people (the first place in the world where I did meet black-skin-nazis, gay-nazis, jew-nazis, etc), are very prone to believe, say and sell, that they are the best, this news are very well crafted for their mind, I don't want to live on a country with the meat quality and price of the Netherlands streets. I know the reality there.

I prefer to be a "Moroccan monkey discriminated european" for them, and take meat and tomatoes of the mountains of my not so auto-suggested, auto-inclined, people. And live with the bad reality (and crafted news) of my country.

Enjoy the meal, and sleep on ignorance and discriminatory abundance, and justify yourself your incoherent reality, dear dutch people.
Stock prices are animal herd logic, not science. See e.g.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=670404

If you believe that business should have long-term horizons and not simply be a machine for organising the maximum possible quarterly profit, stock markets in their current form are one of the least efficient ways to organise labor and capital.

Inflated CEO pay is only one symptom of this.
Lost my interest at "A New Workout Every Day" - that's the antithesis of useful training:

"Exercise is physical activity for its own sake...Training is physical activity done with a longer-term goal in mind...random exposure to a variety of different movements at different intensities...is Exercise, not Training, since it is random, and Training requires that we plan what we are going to do to get ready for a specific task." - Mark Ripptoe

It also removes the ability to accurately track progression, which is something that tends to matter to the geek with a fitness app. AKA your target market.