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> Breast cancer can be prevented by frequent tests and self-examinations. Colon cancer cannot.

Is that true? I was under the impression that colonoscopies can reveal polyps which can be removed, thereby preventing progression to full-blown colon cancer.

It is arbitrarily divisible. Fitting inside 64 bits is convenient, but hardly an insurmountable engineering challenge. There's libraries that handle this sort of thing with ease.

Thanks! Yes, I plan to; I'll put it here when it's ready: http://wwwtyro.net

I'd argue that the stateless bit is more of a Docker idiom than something intrinsic to containers. LXC/LXD, for example, treats containers as machines instead of processes.

Sure! Here's a tutorial using a square: https://paroj.github.io/gltut/Illumination/Tutorial%2013.htm...

In my implementation, I render a cube and discard any pixels that aren't along a ray intersecting the sphere, while the rest are colored according to user settings and atom colors. The same approach is taken with the cylindrical bonds, except of course it's a ray-cylinder intersection instead.

That's... that's a really good idea. :)

Thanks :)

My primary purpose for writing it was for the production of journal article figures.

Author here. You can try it live at http://wwwtyro.github.io/speck/

Would like to see this applied to a page of text.

Yeah, it's an important point. There's two primary aspects to head tracking - translational motion and rotational motion.

Tracking rotation can be done pretty cheaply & with low latency these days, and I expect the Daydream viewer will probably handle it quite well.

Translation is quite a bit more challenging, and I'm not expecting much in that department for this iteration. The issue can be addressed to some degree with a neck model that maps rotation to translation, but it can't handle real translation, such as leaning or walking around.

This is on par with Oculus/Samsung's current mobile solution, the Gear VR headset.

FWIW, you could totally accomplish that with javascript & WebGL.

I'm sure there's good reason, but I have the same question. I also don't understand the need to use promises in the construct. I'd love some clarity here.

I've used with great results in my procedural planet generator[1]. It's very forgiving, so made writing a "UI" with lots of complicated controls very easy for me.

[1] http://wwwtyro.github.io/planet-3d/

Thanks. Cube maps are on my short list. :)

Thanks - what platform / browser are you on?

Author here. I've only tested on Firefox and Chrome on desktop. YMMV.

I'm all for this, and consider it to be inevitable in the long run. In the short term, however, it seems like the major hurdle will be getting one of these projects into the mainstream: for the most part, the web already does what most people want it to do, and those people aren't going to be bothered to install a new web browser so that they can do things they're already doing. Especially if it lacks the features, performance, or ease-of-use of their current browser.

So, how do we address this? Is there a "killer app" for the distributed web that will motivate people to move to it? Can we use existing web tech like Web-RTC to bootstrap the system? Maybe a workable avenue is mobile, where people are pretty comfortable installing new applications - what if we built the next social network into an app based on the distributed web?

I don't know the answer, but I'd love to hear any ideas/brainstorming you clever people have to offer.

Cue the rapid price increases.

"Problem: asm.js is basically unwritable by humans."

I have no idea where this is coming from, but it's simply untrue. See [1] for a ton of examples of it being perfectly human read/writable.

All I can come up with is that people are looking at code compiled to asm.js, which is of course going to have all semantic meaning stripped from it, no different than code compiled to javascript.

[1] http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/

> The private company would also price gouge because they would also be a monopoly

Why would they also be a monopoly?

One point I've not seen mentioned yet is that the web is a fantastic distribution platform. Given the option, I'd much prefer to have written my molecule rendering project[1] on a native platform, but I'd get only a fraction of the users I get when deploying to the web. The activation barrier for native apps is just so much higher because of the download/install/launch process.

For now, the URL click is king, and it's hard to beat easy when you want people to use what you've made.

[1] http://wwwtyro.github.io/speck/

Sorry to hear that. Was it the same error as the parent had?

Looks like there's not support for that extension[1] on your system. Unfortunately there isn't really anything I can do about that. Thanks for trying, though, and for the feedback!

[1] https://www.khronos.org/registry/webgl/extensions/WEBGL_draw...

You'll want to use the latest Chrome browser. If you run into issues, post them here (preferably with errors from the console) and I'll try to address them.

Great points, thanks for the counsel!

In a nutshell, Toothless is a daemon that downloads, installs, and launches Docker containers when it is queried over http.

> Accepting bitcoin as payment isn't beneficial right now. There's no benefit for merchants, because it's instantly converted back to traditional currency.

I see two advantages: 1) They get their name in the news (and in consumers minds), and 2) they get the bitcoin spenders that they may not have otherwise (an admittedly small bump at the moment, but a bump nonetheless and at virtually no cost).

Cydia.

It is hardware - we can do as we please with it, we're not limited to Facebook's software.

> Capitalism is what gives rise to corporatism.

Corporatism is a legal construction of the state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation#Formation