Seems like the FCC already blocked the page mentioned in the video...

The current administration doesn't believe in facts, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were to shutdown the very thing that is going to stop them, Americans. The FCC office goes by there own agenda(Trumps) not the American people.

I wonder how the edits could be pre-review by an image analysis tool, that will auto detect if the submitted path is a text or a logo. Might speed up the manual process.

The Android pissing on Apple was created step by step with shapes that by itself looked totally clean. This would not work.

Sort of. Here's their list of edits: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... (should be page 3), the Apple at the bottom would be reasonable to expect a human to catch. Not so much for a logo seeking algorithm, but it's not a clean simple shape. On page 4 the android head stands out too, again a human moderating could be expected to spot that.

This same page appear on HN almost 3 year ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4008040.

Interesting how this all WebGL stuff is still so "hacky" and not yet commonly used all around .

I don't think WebGL is hacky if you approach it right.

We have 100,000 users who have created +180,000 scenes using advanced WebGL and it is really stable: http://clara.io.

Here is a new demo scene I've been working on. PBR materials (w/ clear coat), area lights, HDR, bloom, DOF and FXAA:

https://clara.io/view/d3b82831-d56b-462f-b30c-500ea1c7f870/w...

And you can edit any part of the mesh or materials or animation or lighting in our editor.

Just for the lols i visited the link on my phone... It worked! All the blurs and reflections all of it worked. Hats off to your team. Frame rates though were laggy but i'm still impressed.

It's really cool but please to not link to the "real time" tab? It almost hung my browser :) (FF37, shitty old netbook)

So sorry... We'll all make an effort to keep the internet slow while you're browsing on your shitty netbook.

I love WebGL and 3D graphics and particles, and love seeing WebGL becoming ubiquitous (when I first played with it I had to download a nightly of Firefox). But it's really hard to come up with a business use case that justifies using WebGL in say, a marketing product, or an online marketplace.

Maybe because it isn't available everywhere, specially in mobile platforms?

It is available on all new Android and iOS devices. And it mostly works (although less so iOS devices.)

> As if everyone just would dump their devices and buy new ones for WebGL.

That just happens every three years, and we don't have to do anything about that.

Maybe in your country, on my country people buy handsets full price with pre-paid cards and use them until they die.

Maybe in your country, in my country people repair their handsets when they die and pass them on from generation to generation as family heirlooms.

It's this guy (https://twitter.com/boblemarin). I know him, and he is pretty damn good.

:)

A genre is not a game.

All the articles on HN look the same, identical ASCII character set, English prose...

I like his games and have spent some money on them over the last 20 years, never regretted it.

They are not focused to appeal superficially visually. Someone who solely ranks games by polygon count would be horribly disappointed. Thats just not his market.

> All the articles on HN look the same, identical ASCII character set, English prose...

Not a very good comparison since most games do not look like this, while most written texts do. I'm not saying the games are bad anyway. I'm actually hyped to try them out.

But by same logic, aren't all text only games same?

You have a point but I was actually just referring to the visual aspect where I would say the same thing about text games.

They're all good games. And computer game sequels are nothing like movie sequels. Games get the chance to do the same thing better, more conveniently, with better graphics.

Is this the place to bring "inches vs cm" on the table ? :p

It's not the place, but not that you've brought it, as an American I say imperial units can go die in a fire.

Totally orthogonal argument. It's the ratio that matters.

This describe a process used by J.K. Rowling to write the 5th HP book. Am I the only one to think this is also the worse book in the series ?

I wouldn't describe it as the worst but I'd say it is not gripping. Half Blood Prince and the Deathly Hallows are gripping. Remember, the 5th book was also a very dense book because JK Rowling wanted to fill in a lot of information that hadn't been given in the preceding books.

So, in terms of how it keeps you excited, it failed but the book packs a lot of other useful information which were referenced in the books that follow.

It could have been, but it was also the cultural event of the year... and it was a book. I grew up in an era when "bestsellers" were written by the likes of Harold Robbins, so to see a genuinely massive popular attachment to books of the (variable but always good) quality of the HP series was a wonderful thing.

Well, I've never read the 6th and 7th, precisely because I lost interest after reading the 5th, which I found confusing and unengaging. That said, I was relatively older when I read the fifth book, so my tastes may have changed in between.

If you liked the earlier books, I'd give it another try. I also thought the 5th book was the worst, but 6 and 7 are my favorites of the whole series.

> This describe a process used by J.K. Rowling to write the 5th HP book. Am I the only one to think this is also the worse book in the series ?

There are opinions. It was actually my second favourite in the series

Personally, I found all of them to be similar quality-wise (though obviously varying in the tone in which they were written, as they catered to a more and more mature audience) until the final book, which -- and this is a point of view not many of my friends shared -- I found both appropriate and head and shoulders above the others in terms of both depth and character development.

I remember there was more than a couple of years between the 4th and the 5th book's release. More than enough time for the general audience to grow out a bit of the books.

Personally, I hate the last book but all of the others are just fine.

Everything text is great if you listen to Stephen Frey reading it to you. But I personally think the "Goblin of Fire" (the 4th?) is the worst.

I have to wonder whether you either read some odd sort of knockoff of Goblet of Fire or whether you just weren't paying attention... ;)

Who knows what the mysterious "Stephen Frey" is capable of?

The blog title contain a question mark, I guess this HN topic should also have it...

Yes, this should be edited. It is very misleading.

Rings of someone trying to get more people to click the link because instead of asking if it might be happening, it sounds like it definitely is going down forever.

It needs to be changed.

The servers have probably been HN DDOS

Why is it so difficult to build a community on the web where people stay reasonable in their comment ?

NSFW (language) http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Maybe people aren't reasonable.

It's probable, but in real life people, most of them at least, stay reasonable. Why is it so different on the Internet? Is it only because of the social rules that we are gentle IRL?

Maybe it's because it's not face to face. Think of how awful people are in traffic, and many of those same people would never say or act that way in a movie line or a meeting.