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by sylvinus 15y ago
So there will be an "official" JS VM but there will be no actual compilation. Title should be updated IMHO.
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by sylvinus 15y ago
I can't stop being amazed at how powerful those lobbies are.
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Hi, Please keep in mind it was hacked together in 48h, so yes it's supposed to be unprofessionally done ;-) However we'll now calmly fix all the issues and continue improving it: https://github.com/joshfire/chessathome/issues Feel free
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Thanks for the pointer! We'll definitely look into it.
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Well JS can make GET and POST requests to arbitrary URLs, that is often enough for a DDoS.
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Fair point. Though I'll have to get burned trying before being convinced it's that complicated :) However webGL is not in the critical path of the Guinness Record thing, so I'll happily trust you for now!
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by sylvinus 15y ago
The worker implementation could be made generic with a little work. These people made a map reduce implementation with a similar design: http://maprejuice.com/
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Yes, most chess programs do this, although it is forbidden in some chess computer tournaments with stricter rules (but we'd never qualify in those anyway :) As for asking people to open multiple tabs, that may be an additional instruction f
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by sylvinus 15y ago
It is indeed unlikely. But if we can actually get to the point that 2^10 web clients (1024) are as strong as Houdini or Rybka on one high-end hardware, it won't be that hard to double the size of the web grid a couple more times. As you p
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by sylvinus 15y ago
I think selling time can definitely be considered as unethical. However what scares me most is people using this to do DDoS or other network-related attacks. Because of JS' performance, from a pure performance point of view, it is current
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Yes, it's astounding (if true) that Pocket Fritz only searches 20k nodes per second, compared to Deep Blue's 200M. There must be some serious positional intelligence involved there!
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Well, enthusiasm was clearly speaking here but you can consider it epic in that one player will be thrown against potentially "all" the computers of the world. Kind of a "Man vs. Grid" thing. But yes, in terms of pure strength, nothing epic
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Indeed. APHID doesn't scale well and it will be hard to distribute YBWC efficiently but we think we have a shot at it with very short compute windows for each worker. We may also look at other algorithms but currently a variation of YBWC se
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by sylvinus 15y ago
By the way, just posted the source from NKO: https://github.com/joshfire/chessathome
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Chess@home: Building the largest Chess AI ever (in JavaScript)(sylvainzimmer.com)
197 points by sylvinus 15y ago|42 comments
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by sylvinus 15y ago
congrats, I wonder how you'll make money though.
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by sylvinus 15y ago
90 is an astounding number of useful node modules :)
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Most badass JS you will see today? Distributed chess AI with webworkers and nodejs! http://chessathome.org/ Please vote for us, top right corner :) thx
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by sylvinus 15y ago
AWS: "We'll continue to cut our prices forever" GAE: "Almost all applications will be billed more under the new pricing" Pick one...
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by sylvinus 15y ago
"The WebRTC initiative is a project supported by Google, Mozilla and Opera." http://www.webrtc.org/
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Introducing WebAPI(hacks.mozilla.org)
218 points by sylvinus 15y ago|41 comments
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by sylvinus 15y ago
I'm always blown away by the consistent performance gains they reach with each new version. Congrats!
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Thanks for taking care of it, also good to know they got a suspect. What can you say on the 24/7 "urgent" line, which sounds like an important feature even for cases less dramatic than this one?
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by sylvinus 15y ago
Use a standard jsonp paramter format so that we can use it with jQuery.ajax : jsonip.com/jsonp/?callback=xxx
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by sylvinus 15y ago
That would be nice however I'll be offline 99% of the time!
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Ask HN: Going offline 15 days with an iPad. How to code?
11 points by sylvinus 15y ago|7 comments
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by sylvinus 15y ago
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google this is the 100th acquisition by Google!
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by sylvinus 15y ago
you also have to thank tbassetto for that! :)
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by sylvinus 15y ago
well, thanks! You sir are a gentleman and a scholar, I hope you can make it to the next ones! Thanks again for coming and shedding some light on this weird Clojure thing ;-)
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by sylvinus 15y ago
All the presentations were and will remain in english. There was a fair share of people that didn't speak french, which is good!

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