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How good is your Japanese? There are a ton of games in Tokyo, but if you can't read/speak Japanese your choices will be limited. In any case, ideally you should go with people you know, since communication will be important.

First off, there are four general types of escape games in Japan:
1) Room-type (single team trapped in a room/series of rooms)
2) Hall-type (multiple teams at separate tables in a conference room/hall)
3) Stadium-type (large areas like convention centers/stadiums, sometimes with no limit to team size)
4) Field-type (no team size limit and no time limit; play area ranges from in-store to city-wide)

In general, room-types are the best experience for beginners, since they are more immersive, you don't have the distraction of other teams, you're free to talk/make noise without fear of spoiling other teams, and you have the staff's full attention. I get the impression that the majority of games outside Japan are room-type, while hall-type and field-type are much more common in Japan.

If you just want to get the feel for what kind of puzzles you'll have to solve, field-types are low-investment, and are less stressful since you can solve them at your own pace.

Most of the games I would usually recommend for beginners aren't running, but out of the ones that are (that I've already played), I would suggest these if your Japanese is fine:

- 時空研究所からの脱出 (room-type)

- 下北沢謎解き街歩き (field-type)

- ある牢獄からの脱出1&2 (room-type; highly recommend going with a full group you know)

- マグノリア銀行からの脱出 (hall-type)

- のび太の宝島からの脱出 (hall-type; better if you like Doraemon)

These are also okay for beginners but may be better if it's not your first time:

- 2099年からの脱出 (room-type; this is a sequel of sorts to 時空研究所からの脱出)

- 不思議な晩餐会へようこそ (hall-type; the tables use projection mapping to advance the story)

- Escape from the Red Room (room-type; also can be played in English)

- The Mummy Escape Game (room-type)

- ある都市伝説からの脱出 (room-type; it's an escape game + haunted house, so only if you like horror)

- アイドルは100万回死ぬ2 (room-type; this one's a "time-loop game" where instead of solving puzzles you're trying to figure out how to successfully break the time loop, but very fun even for those who aren't good at puzzle-solving)

- Any of the Detective Conan games (hall-type)

- ドラキュラ城からの脱出 (hall-type)

- 監獄アルバトロスからの脱出 (room-type)

All of the suggestions above are SCRAP-produced games, since I feel they're entertaining even for beginners, especially if you're not sure whether you'll like escape games in the first place.

If you can't read/speak Japanese:

- Escape from the Red Room (mentioned above)

- Mystery Mail Box Global Edition (field-type)

- Tokyo Metro: The Underground Mysteries (field-type; the play area is city-wide, taking you to various Metro stations; not currently running but they've run one every year, generally starting in October)

- Any of the Escape Hunt Tokyo (recently rebranded as Nazobako)-produced games (room-type)
> Solar's great and all but putting a 15kwh a month installation on the roof would be crazy.

Do you mean 15kw per daylight hour install, or a 15kwh total per month install? Because 15kwh per month is a really small amount of power, that's roughly equivalent to running a single desktop PC for one hour per day.

That's hobby-kit amounts of electricity. A single 100w solar panel could almost produce 15kwh/month on it's own, in ideal sunlight conditions, and you can buy that for roughly $200 USD at retail.
Sound great, but somebody else might have already stolen their lunch:

https://eosenergystorage.com/

This product is, of course, more expensive but at least it's already being deployed.
Since iTunes has been getting buggier and buggier for me (and I'm trying to switch to programs that run on all platforms), I've replaced with...

beets http://beets.io/ for library management

mpd https://www.musicpd.org/ for serving music &

ncmpcpp https://rybczak.net/ncmpcpp/ for playing music (which I alias to `music`)
I think you're conflating 'rich people' with 'intellectuals'.
I know about lasers. I meant the entire waveform. Vacuum tubes do that for electricity. It seems the only similar method is to use a lens, a smaller sensor, and hopefully the initial light is bright enough so when it's miniaturized, it does the chemical/electrical work necessary on the film or sensor. Film negatives already uses this concept - taking ordinary light and increasing its power by minifying it over a smaller surface area.
> There will be more of us

That doesn't look to be the case. While the "net native" generation is more likely to turn to digital content than other media, studies show that computer literacy, in the sense of understanding the basic workings of a computer, is on the decline.
After 10 years being CEO for online marketplace, I found us in the position where our profits from the existing business (which support a team of 50) were not best allocated to the product we spent the last 10 years building. After reading Warren Buffetts “The Snowball,” I became convinced that we were best off channeling our profit into the highest ROI opps, regardless of whether they were directly relevant to our marketplace.

Judging by the other responses here, I’m in a distinct minority to claim that you could consider building both businesses.

The jury is still out on whether this will prove to be a sound idea, we started building two separate projects last year and only one has been soft launched thus far (StaticObject.com).

That said, a couple relevant takeaways from our work to date:

1. The only way a multi product company can possibly work is if you’ve accumulated an inner circle that can stand in for you. You’re not going to do a great job building two things at the same time. You’ll need to find others who can pick up your slack
2. Our arrangement was pursued in part cuz we’re almost entirely self-funded, which means less VCs to encourage/force us to follow the path more traveled
3. A single, great developer can get as much done on a project as a team of 5 developers by virtue of reduced communication cost, and (hopefully) less tech debt. There is meaningful leverage available by splitting great devs onto separate projects.
like... tmux?
When ads stop tracking me, serving malware, and showing fake download buttons, I'll turn off my ad-blocker. Usually if there's a site I visit frequently, I try turning it off to support them. But if the ads are abrasive or misleading, I turn it right back on.

Here's an example of a non-skeezy ad provider which would not cause me to turn my ad-blocker back on.
https://www.buysellads.com
So the site's owners and employees should work for you for free because you're giving them exposure.

https://www.reddit.com/r/choosingbeggars would enjoy discussing that proposition.
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Parse transforms operate at the abstract form level, I believe. Virding talks a bit about it here: https://youtu.be/qm0mbQbc9Kc?t=12m00s
The periodic table of console/handheld controllers
Why are the only sources I can find when googling this from sites like Breitbart, Infowars, Daily Stormer, Daily Caller etc.
Ask HN: Besides capital, did you get any help from your VCs?
This weekend I spent some time going through Tren Griffin's new collection of essays "A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs." There is some good advice and great content. I can't help but notice a big gap in the talking points of these VCs about partnering with founders and providing a network of resources vs my own experience.

At my last startup we had investments from some very big names that you'd all recognize. I think that they collectively provided one great enterprise lead and hosted a couple of meetings around that lead. The founders/founding team did key hiring with our own network and cold reach out.

I'm wondering, was our experience out of the ordinary. I assumed that the network effect of investors was largely about networking to other investors and the rest was just flowery language. But now I'm wondering if there is more to it and we didn't use or weren't offered all of what our investors had to give.

Have you gotten anything more from VC firms than a cash for equity transaction?
I still don't see it happening, outside of silos. There's no precedent for DRM'd content outside of silos (like much of the digital publishing ecosystem, especially with ADEPT and whatever Amazon use), unlike with video and audio (through plugins like Flash).

Unlike EME, there's a far stronger argument of "the web has survived without this for 25 years" (and yes, for better or for worse, I consider a plugin with over 99% market penetration as part of the web), and I think that still holds weight.
date 2015.
Training the Next Generation of Computer Science Teachers
On both front benches today there are pitifully few people one could call intellectuals (as distinct from intelligent): Jesse Norman and Barry Gardiner are the only ones I can think of...

It's rare that a whole thesis can be undermined by the author in less than a full sentence.
I recently applied for the Backend engineer role in Sofia, but received a reply that you require trial work with a candidate before hiring and it would be expensive for SumUp to invite applications from abroad. How will someone get a visa unless you hire them? Seems a conundrum, and I'd like to know if it's the same case here
Compilers use many intermediate steps to transform the input on the way to their final destination, in this case bytecode. Each of these 'passes' performs one or more transformations with a specific goal for each transformation (for instance: an optimization). The Erlang Abstract Format is a parse tree representation for Erlang code.
It seems like any method for solving this problem could be interpreted in a Bayesian way: At any time, you consider all the different possible distributions each arm could have, and assign each a probability which is how likely you think that distribution is to occur.

The probabilities are initialized to some value (the "prior"), then when you pull the arm, you get some new information, which you use to update the probabilities based on evidence.

It would be interesting to try to see if you could analytically solve this problem for a simple family of distributions. For example, assume each lever produces Gaussian results, but has an unknown mean and SD. Set the prior to be that the means are normally distributed with mean 0 and SD 1, and the SD's are exponentially distributed with mean 1.
I like to tell such people what they clearly want to hear, but in a pointedly unconvincing and undersold manner. It makes it clear you’re willing to pretend to play the game for purposes of expediency, but that it’s silly and not worth actually getting wrapped up in. You can’t let them see you sweat, though.

It also gives you a chance to infantilize them in the guise of apologizing, “gee it’s so awful that your feelings got hurt by that bad demo”, etc.

--

Edit: Developing my thoughts on this a bit further...

Really, I think these slides as presented are "giving too much to the devil". If someone marches up to you and says "you're a bad programmer and make bad software", the situation is not an academic debate between two disinterested parties regarding the quality of your software. Rather, the situation is that there is a babyperson yelling at you, maybe because their wife is cheating on them, or their kid is flunking in school -- who knows why, but it isn't your problem.

There are two goals in such a situation:

1) This person is unprofessionally emitting a bunch of anger toward you; either avoid it or redirect it back to them. Getting mad or upset = you lose.

2) Avoid buying into their frame. This person is trying to get you to buy into the form of the argument "my software is bad", but you have a choice in the matter, and you should choose not to accept that form.

If you immediately start defending yourself in your head, "no my software is actually good, because...", or "you're saying that because you misunderstand xyz", you are buying into their frame. Don't do that. (Of course, if the quality of the software you make really is questionable, that's another matter entirely.)
I've developed an intuitive understanding of what people mean by this term after experiencing its absence and subsequent return. It's the judge, the classifier, the model-maker; it filters incoming information and tries to make sense of it, usually distorting it in the process. Without it, the outside world is strange and magical but also chaotic and overwhelming. But that's just a description, the feeling of its presence is something else. I can pinpoint exactly when it starts to work overtime after e.g. a personal attack as it tries to maintain an undisturbed worldview. What would be the closest analog to such a concept/process in Buddhism?
The Web works because no single vendor has absolute control over the platform, and the competing browsers can keep each other in check. Hell of a thing to watch people in such a hurry to throw that all away. No one would ever abuse a platform monopoly, would they?

(For disclosure, I work for Mozilla. But I wouldn't want us to control the Web, either: competition and open standards are key.)
Advanced Placement Computer Science is a necessary evil
OP (on Reddit) also mentioned that their site sells content/subscriptions.
I don't really buy into this. There's still a lot of great academic and intellectual programming on the BBC - Life Scientific and In Our Time come to mind - and British universities are ranked as the best in the world [1].

[1] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankin...
I guess this may happen if browser doesn't accept third-party cookies.
Is there research on how effective the Google/FB model is compared to content based? I wonder if fine grained tracking is even all that more powerful. Regardless, there must be diminishing returns and I wouldn't be surprised if we're there now.
Yes, health starts creeping in - it's inevitable. (I'll be reaching 50 in a year, so I've done that 40's gig almost up to the next promotion ;)

But excitement and novelty? Every day. You get more discerning in what you do, but there's plenty of interesting stuff. And yes, people are more interesting than tech - they're slightly less predictable.

You might want to question why you litter your living room with it if it doesn't feel interesting, though.

FWIW, for me the 40s were about defining who I really am. It's taken a lot of work, but it's given me so much freedom. I know who I am. I don't need to prove myself anymore. I don't need to do things because other people tell me I'll like them. I can make decisions knowing they rest within my values, not pushed by external sources.

It sounds like you're starting to look at that question, too. I'd recommend doing it with professional guidance (therapist/life coach/priest/whathaveyou), it's easier that way.
Cultural prejudice?
I had the misfortune to work with a CEO who not only started a second company but used the VC's from his first company to start the second. His first was in a similar state (making money, but not out of the woods). didn't end well for either startup A or B. Focus is critical, unless you are Jack Dorsey I guess.
> And a DRM for website instead of only video DRM that exists, so that user cannot view source code, and no extension can block the ads

Good luck with that. You could render an article into a DRM'd video, and utterly destroy SEO, accessibility, readability, and the website's whole reputation.

"DRM for news articles" makes zero sense. Movie DRM works because HDCP decrypts the video on the display. ("works" - pirates got the private keys anyway :D) You can't DRM software on a general purpose computer. You can try, and it would be cracked soon. Even the best attempts (Denuvo) get cracked.
Quite.

Equally, whilst Thatcher and Attlee disagreed about almost everything they had at least one thing in common – a loathing of referenda.

There's been a lot of faux intellectualism and requoting of Poppler et al since the last referendum. Seems a very thinly veiled article to me.
My choices at work were windows and mac. I changed from mac to windows so I have better bare metal support (AD, VPN, etc...) and run Linux VM's to do my work. It is a hassle, but I am not permitted to run Linux native on the laptop.

I make heavy use of gnu screen on Linux in the datacenter so that most of my work stays at work and I just access over a vpn+ssh tunnel. Others use tmux.

I think some devs prefer to code locally vs. check in and build remote. I am not constantly checking things in, so that is less of an issue for me.
So embed is designed for embedding one syntax within another. Such as the script tag in HTML, or fenced code blocks in Markdown. Previously to embed another language, you would have to use a with_prototype that would prepend a pop pattern to escape the nested contexts once you reached the end marker, whether is be a close script tag or three backticks. Typically this would be a lookahead that would pop.

However, when using with_prototype, you are create a complete transitive set of new contexts that all include the prepended match rules. This also means that new regex patterns have to be compiled for each of those contexts. This leads to higher memory usage, potentially in multiple places. For instance, the HTML syntax can have CSS embedded in a style tag, or a style attribute, both with different end markers. So two complete sets of the CSS syntax had to be copied into the HTML syntax.

With the embed action, the escape pattern is scanned for first. Once found, the embedded context is then used to highlight the text up until the escape, at which point the syntax pops any number of contexts up to where the embedding happened. This means that we don't have to compile new contexts since the escape is matched separately before the regular matching.

This, combined with optimizing our syntax definition memory layouts and de-duping our regex pattern cache is the majority of the memory savings we managed to accomplish in this dev cycle.
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Undergraduate physics textbooks provide introductory examples using simple friction-free Newtonian classical mechanics. It's just there isn't a school of dissident physicists citing undergraduate textbooks to argue that the mainstream physics profession consists of stupid ignoramuses who don't believe in friction.

And the reality of money creation is pretty fuzzy too and depends a lot on what you define as "money supply" and the "banking sector" (funnily enough, even pretty basic physics has a degree of this problem too, which is why you get concepts of waves and particles that both fit some of the facts, though you don't get anyone inside or outside the mainstream very strongly committed to arguing against wave-particle duality...).

Ultimately private banks both intermediate between deposits and savers and create credit borrowed from central banks.
They're only permitted to do the latter because their role in doing the former makes the government unwilling to let them fail. The "credit creation" emphasisers are right to emphasise that the limits on individual bank credit creation are soft because the "bank capital" they are permitted to borrow against is not a fixed variable, the intermediation emphasisers are right to note that when the commercial banking system borrows more money, the central bank tends to pull money out of the rest of the economy in the very short term, and propose raising interest rates in the slightly less short term, and so the banking system is only really able to expand the money supply when the central bank is comfortable with it doing so.

More generally, it's possible to entirely agree with Werner and MMT on banks' present role being far better described as primarily one of credit creation and entirely disagree with their respective alternative preferred policy approaches to central banking (or vice versa for that matter). What mainstream economists are primarily concerned with is the principle that raising interest rates for a variety of reasons (including but not limited to its effect on demand for bank credit) somewhat reduces inflation (and demand) and lowering them somewhat increases demand (and inflation) which is pretty much the most theoretically and empirically sound conclusion ever reached in macroeconomics (despite a few edge cases where it might not be true).
It's not a bad idea but it definitely has downsides. For example, if your GV number is on the same Google account as your email, and you use the GV number for 2fa, then you've turned two points of failure into a single point of failure. The point of 2fa is to use "something you have access to" and "something you have" (e.g. a device). By using the same account for both steps of 2fa, you defeat the purpose of it, in the event your Google account is compromised. Whether that is safer than the status quo of a 2fa SMS number at a wireless carrier is up for you to decide.
A lot depends on what stage you are at - Series A/B/C? Do you have VCs or angels?

But the worst thing you can do is to come across as unreliable or a cheat, so if you are having doubts - talk them over with your investors. After all they are your partners, and are equally interested in seeing your company succeed. If you screw them over chances are you will be banned from the VC community for good, which ruins any chances a new startup would have. Talk the idea through with them, they will have insights that will prove useful. If they get equally excited you will find a way out together that makes all parties happy. If they don’t - perhaps the opportunity isn’t as great as you think, otherwise they’d want to be a part of it too. Treat them like you would want to be treated yourself.
This is why I use Firefox on mobile. You can install Ublock Origin, just as on the desktop. Plus it has reader mode, which is a godsend for some websites who don't optimize for mobile.
Unrelated: this reminds me of the “2-tier” water dams that also store energy in the form of water from whatever production source connected to them.
If there is an outside observer with their own sense of time, how would we know which time is real? Are they both? It would seem that, even if not steady to the outside observer, our time is still steady. In a world where physics depends upon time, is it even possible for time to not be steady?
Traefik 1.6 Is Here Featuring Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates
Long debates about philosophy might not have been what the public wanted, but BBC bosses thought they were good for us.

I think a form of education is one of the primary purposes and responsibilities of a country's national TV. Managing a broadcaster so that it gives the public what it wants, rather than what's better for them, is akin to giving kids fries and coke all day, because that's what they want.
I've also seen this behavior when trying to use Jira in Firefox. It's been a few months, but I was pretty certain it was because I had third-party cookies disabled.
New Service Blocks EU Users So Companies Can Save on GDPR Compliance
Natural Language Processing could definitely allow for some context-dependent ads within an article. When reading something on the new C# 7, I'm most likely not interested in some tupperware I decided not to buy on Amazon a couple of weeks ago, but I might be interested in a couple of books on C# and might find these ads acceptable. Don't track me, track and machine learn content people consume.
Obama screwed the US by stopping Intel MIC sales to China. That forced them to roll up their sleeves and bootstrap their own semiconductor industry.
Hi
Is there plan in the future to teach MOOC or upload lecture videos for the class?