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ouch, splitting France this way is quite frowned upon for political reason.
Haven't seen these mentioned yet, and I recommend both:

Powergrid: Unique because there are no dice involved; a game of economics

Steam: Unique because there is a bank (partly tied to your score) that you can borrow against to build pieces faster
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The link to the original content on FT would be easier:
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/1aab09a4-8fb2-11df-8df0-00144...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-style_board_game

As mentioned in the article, and here in the comments, the term "Eurogame" is often used to describe them:

http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Eurogame

(That term, in fact, redirects to the Wikipedia page above.)

Also, FYI, in contrast to Eurogames, there's a style of game colloquially known as "Ameritrash", which you can read about here:

http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ameritrash
Statistical data don't tell why. Divorce could be the effect of the real problem (alcoholism or mental disorder) and staying married could actually have made things worse.

The thing is, once you got to decide, statistics say nothing useful, it's your situation or, if you prefer, your exception, your anecdote, what really matters.
He doesn't seem to know what he is talking about. This "If your profit is not healthy, people sell your shares and then you get bought out by a private equity firm" There are P/E ratios between "massively overvalued" and "massively undervalued" and there is no rule that you have to jump from one territory into the next - you can be overvalued and then adequately valued by the market as well...

And there are many companies not paying dividends. In growing companies it can make sense. The Washington Post pays dividends and is down >50% for the last 5 years, while Amazon is up 166%... Who has the generous shareholders now?
Personally, I wouldn't trust the un to run a lemonade stand. Their track record is exceedingly poor. I actually trust the us government more than the un, simply because there are checks and balances in place, even if theynonly seem theoretical at times.
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Or DNS. Or probably any number of other foundational systems of the internet. At the bottom of it all, the basic concept of communicating data across distributed systems is the internet.

This is where the original post is spot on - the new players are not interesting in distributing, they want to collect and retain, but not share, except in their own limited and controlled ways.

To break out of that you need to break away from centralization. Yes, I don't know how you make this is self-supporting business, but then again, I doubt the Wikipedia folks did either and they went forward (open platform, freely available data), not to mention the folks who wrote the SMTP, NNTP, FTP, HTTP, and every other RFC we have built our global communications on top of.
Obligatory link to "| sh" HN comment:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427492

Why do people still do this for every new project? It's not as if roots isn't packaged properly with npm.
Led to his suicide? I think that is assuming too much. I've read plenty of material suggesting his suicide was an accident, considering his new experiments with drugs, while generally appearing content to the people around him.

Now, obviously, he could have been masked this whole thing by playing a game, and the experiments was purely a cover for killing himself. But that doesn't make sense to me; why didn't he leave a note? Why would Alan Turing kill himself without letting the whole world know what happened?

The lack of clearcut evidence (and what seems like a strange way to kill one self; there are plenty of easier choices) leaves me to believe that his death was accidental and not a suicide.
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That was a fantastic presentation, thanks!
First, your "Take Action" link doesn't work. Second, I don't really care if "NSA's Supercomputers" are scanning my emails, text messages and even my phone calls. They're not really interested in my activities. Third, I'll let you in on a little secret, Its not just overseas communication!

If it keeps safe, what do I care!
Guilty of breaking the law of the time? Semantics? Guess you could say "he broke a law. There shouldn't have been such a law, but unfortunately it was there, and he broke it."
> As a german the question is rather what is not a german-style board game?

http://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/Ameritrash
A simple solution would be to provide a virtual machine image with the web app and environment preinstalled and only provide support for that. If people want to host in their own environment then they can debug issues themselves. If they want to report a bug then they must test it in the VM instance first. This removes the majority of the disadvantages.
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But does he have his own lab where he brews turbo sex drugs while on the run from the fuzz?
Sorry - I've had two cups of coffee and I'm still not understanding what you consider "the biggest need web startups fail to address". You said:

"The single most important factor which makes me gloss over new web startups and the services that they provide is that there is no option for self-hosting."

Self-hosting what exactly? What are we even talking about?

Wait - upon my fourth reading, I'm guessing you are referring to "web startups" who offer an API or other SaaS offering. Is that what you are talking about? I'd rather ask than spend 20 minutes writing a response to that and then for you to later so, "No, that's not what I meant."
I don't think others will cover said aspect. We actually like computers more than we like humans here.
I see exploration, which in a changing industry is always essential. Compare with the steps Hollywood and the music industry take to adapt.

Perhaps you find annoying that they are exploring without sticking to certain "principles": "free access" and "no walled gardens". I would guess that part of their exploration consists of searching for which principles they can stick to without having to close down.

The Guardian, in particular, has an unusual ownership [1] and they probably need to explore solutions in rather unusual ways.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian#Ownership
Philosophers of mathematics spent the 20th century what mathematics is all about and they did not settled on any potential definition.

Ok, I have to disagree with you here. What Godel established is that there's no complete axiom system. Every mathematical formalism will have statements P for which neither P nor ~P can be proven. This was not an unexpected result. What makes Godel's Incompleteness Theorem awesome is that it proved incompleteness, which few people thought possible.

Same with Turing and the Halting Problem. Almost no one actually believed that such a program (that could determine, algorithmically, if a program halted) existed. If one did, it would blow open all of mathematics. Turing proved, in a very elegant way, that it didn't.

What 20th-century mathematicians agree upon is that mathematical statements aren't "true" or "false" in an absolute, platonic sense, but that they are products of the axiom systems that generate them.

Whether the Axiom of Choice or Continuum Hypothesis are "true" is meaningless. These aren't mathematical "controversies" that have people yelling at each other saying that the other is wrong. They're axioms about infinity (specifically, uncountable infinity) that, although they have no physical correlates (you can't actually Banach-Tarski an orange) are logically independent of the "obvious" axioms. What logically independent means is that neither L nor ~L will generate a contradiction, and therefore neither has any absolute high ground.

Most mathematicians use AoC and CH for typical mathematics, but there are alternative mathematical worlds in which they don't hold, and those are interesting in their own right.
Thanks for the feedback Dan! You got it, the "text below" is what you can send to us and which we'll then turn into a form/database. We'll try and change the wording to make it more clear!
Funkenschlag (Power Grid) is a typical German board game, and great fun. It is well-balanced, and contains map-control, auctions, and resource management:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid
Thanks for sharing your story, its very moving and wish the very best for you, and all your siblings.

>People say drugs like marijuana are bad, alcohol is the worse of them all

Totally agree. I have seen, my close friend (from college) totally disintegrate because of alcohol abuse. He did a lot of very nasty things to the persons he loved. Lost his job (several times). Got a job after a long time with difficulty and then lost it again. It became so bad, that he became delirious, and started hallucinating about some people being present when he was alone. And being the raw and powerful person he is, its very difficult for anybody to help him, unless he himself cooperates.

After seeing him at close quarters, and trying to be of help, I can say that alcohol abuse is the worst kind of evil. Now a days, in India, they show a lot of mandatory ugly-cigarette warnings before showing a movie. Every time I see those, I am reminded, that there can be none worse than alcohol abuse. Cigarette smoking is known to cause cancer, and is bad. But alcohol abuse is like cancer of the mind. Where the person himself/herself becomes a cancer for their close family.
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Conveniently ignoring 34% revenue growth per year for the last 5 years: http://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/revenue_growth

Perhaps Amazon's investors recognise that there is still a lot of room for growth in online commerce...
It's not necessarily just one of them that's responsible for the poor performance. It could easily be both. Running bad JavaScript using a bad interpreter leads to awful performance.
No.

Do you mean that you weren't impressed with the font?

Or that there was something of value that I missed in this self-descriptive blog announcement of yet another pre-alpha release of an experimental text editor?

EDIT: Modern after-the-fact typo correction, be damned! Self-descriptive not 'self-deceptive'...
Something I found quite nice was a web series by Wil Wheaton: TableTop (http://tabletop.geekandsundry.com/) which basically consists of a round of people playing a board game, explaining the rules and generally having fun doing so. The nice part is that you can experience how the game is played and whether you might like it or not – much better than just with a verbal description or review on Amazon.

Of course, for cities that have such a thing, a dedicated board game shop where you can try out games is even better, but those seem to be rare, even in Germany.
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Great concept, best of luck!
"as long as you're sensible and frugal with what you're using it's no worse than anything else"

That is part what makes C++ worse: the fact that being a C++ experts primarily means knowing what not to do.
My most common use of xarsg -P is for compressing logs on remote hosts before downloading them:
cat RemoteHosts | xargs -P 0 -n 1 -I Host rsh Host gzip -9 xxx/*.log
The cool thing is that it waits until the completion of all the commands before returning.
I've always had this hypothesis that if a country has a strong cultural background in games people tend to have good critical thinking skills c.p.
The case study for this would be Germany.

Either way I'm pretty convinced playing board games with children is an excellent thing to do to foster their development (sadly in this day and age it almost seems spending any time with your kids puts you way ahead of the curve already as far as parenting goes).
It's fun, too.

Crowdfunding seems to work pretty well for board games btw. And I wouldn't be shocked to hear that passionate board gamers make good startup guys (poker players seemingly do)
Fish out of water flail. It's all they know how to do.

You make an observation that I agree with. The very few Old School Publishing people that I have brushed past in my life keep this observation alive with their hand wringing. (If it weren't for the handwringing, I might be tempted to call such activity 'exploration'...) But it seems to be what happens to organizations that get large and comfortable- they can't imagine life any other way, and when that way of life is threatened, they try to hold on.

It reminds me of the people living in a hurricane's landing zone. We know it's a killer hurricane, we know it's coming ashore, but these people will not be moved, will not be threatened to leave their homes by ... this inanimate storm that doesn't care whether your home is in its path or not.

My 'advice' to these companies: the market doesn't care whether your particular company survives. Its participants only care about their own desires- consuming quality content, being entertained, keeping their own costs down, etc.
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Also, if you like the "Introduction to Astronomy" course, there's a follow-up (although from a different university, Caltech) coming up: "Galaxies and Cosmology": https://www.coursera.org/course/cosmo
C++ Primer, 5th Edition, by Stanley B. Lippman, Josée LaJoie, Barbara E. Moo: https://www.informit.com/store/c-plus-plus-primer-9780321714... and http://isocpp.org/
How is this even remotely like Facebook?

All I saw in this video was an idiot harassing people.
Thats the downfall of systems like this. The algorithms don't (yet) have the intuition that humans do, a human creating that book would instinctively know that the market needs that data segmented by the zodiac sign of the fabric company owner, not by city.
Oftentimes old stuff is digged up and reimagined and fitted into new games, too.

A great example of this would be the fairly recent game Trajan which uses a Mancala board as a core piece of the game mechanics.
I disagree entirely. I would say that C++ should be treated like COBOL: useful only to maintain legacy code that nobody has the time or money to rewrite in a better language. C++ is a mess, and C++11 has done little to make C++ less of a mess.
I don't think it does work in all other browsers.

At least in Firefox on Linux, the mousemoves are only triggered when the mouse is directly over the page itself, not even when over the tab-bar etc, nor when over the Gnome 3 on-screen keyboard (which overlaps the page).
My main problem with board games is that they're too expensive sometimes.
Anyone who hasn't tried the Trello iPhone app should check it out. It's free and even better than the website version.
Not sure that Sublime Text 2 fits with those other products you mentioned.

I recognize that anecdotes != winning PowerBall tickets, but I have never in my life met a user of Chocolat, Light IDE, or Cloud9.

But pretty much every Mac or Windows developer I know has ST2 at least installed (Linux, not so much (at least not yet), although it is available).
I love to analyze games and as a programmer there's quite a bit of neat stuff you can do due to the discreteness. Build DSLs for the game logic or strategy, the whole field of AI, modelling of games as FSM, Petri Nets whatever seems interesting.

There are quite a few of these cafes. They have game collections and you can rent a table+game and pay for the drinks. You can also bring you own etc. the atmosphere is usually pretty nice/relaxed.
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Does the 'vla' part have anything to do with the wonderful Dutch dessert?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vla
Not at all, I really dislike people that think that just because they bought something expensive, they have rights to brag about how cool they are and how lost everyone else is. The most recent example: a friend of mine posts "Oh, no! My laptop died!", to which a Mac user comments with "That's why I bought a MacBook Pro!". When I mentioned that they fail too, he began talking about the grapes being sour and how poor I am?! I would never want to be associated with people thinking this way, ever. I bet they don't even know what a savings account is.
I know all these "best of" lists are mostly irrelevant but this one is pretty decent and contains absolute musts.
Yeah, everyone's different, plus it depends a lot on the situation (short message vs. long message, importance, is there an attachment, etc). Most of the people I know who insist on facebook messages -only- are more the type that can't figure out how to even open a zip file.

Also, a lot of people I know got hit in a round of account deletions and got majorly screwed over because they were conducting all their freelance business through fb messages (and then had no way to communicate with their clients, since neither of them had each other's e-mail). Because of that, it just feels more unsafe to me, like I could lose all my data at any time. Plus they keep doing weird things like deciding what posts I want to see from my friends (I'd like to see all of them by default?? if they are annoying then I will change it), constantly resetting my news feed to "top stories!" and etc. I guess I don't trust them not to mess up the messaging too and then maybe I'll miss a message from someone about something that's really important.

I agree that it works fairly well as a directory. I wish there were something like facebook that wasn't facebook, but none of the alternatives seem to have caught on quite as well yet. (also--I hope my original post didn't insult you or anyone else reading it on here, that wasn't my intention at all.)
I love powergrid! I recall the last two turns require a lot of calculations. When I played with non-mathematically oriented people (most people in my life), they got frustrated.
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Your SSL certificate on simvia.com is not valid.

edit: Sorry that is simvla.com, but my point still stands.
I'm very skeptical about these tutorials since codecasts[1] came around. We have new ways to learn that are way more efficient than before, why not using them?

[1] http://cssdeck.com/codecasts
All internet malfeasance isn't Nigerian banker spam. The vulnerability could be exploited in a whale phishing expedition. One cannot assume that the attacker does not know the specific hardware and software configuration. Nor can one assume that the attacker does not know which website is being accessed.

In addition, the ubiquity of IE makes the collection of analyzable data from which patterns may be extracted practical, e.g. one could probably learn to identify specific virtual keyboard layouts.

Finally, given the degree to which persons are identifiable while browsing, and the persistence of tracking data, finding whales is perhaps more likely than many people might imagine.
simvia.com isn't our domain.
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To highlight the ridiculousness of this vulnerability: you don't even need to use `fireEvent("onmousemove")` to gain access to this information. You can use events that have absolutely nothing to do with the mouse, such as onbounce* on a hidden <marquee> element (seriously).

* "Fires when the behavior property of the marquee object is set to "alternate" and the contents of the marquee reach one side of the window." -- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/ms536910(v=vs.85)...
What a paradox...

The Theater of security & the futile attempt to maintain the illusion of control.

The sacrifice of pseudo-freedoms for spoon-feed ignorance.

We as a species, have already passed the point of no-return.

Rouge A.I. threats will be the only true distraction to the current state of global surveillance, and only because the allocation of resources will so chaotic to attempt to deal with them.

If YOU don't care about YOUR communications being intercepted, you have just fucked-over all of the next-generation off-spring/relatives.
YOUR ENTIRE FAMILY TREE, FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, just for your lack of "care"...

This is humanity @ its lowest.
If I'd do a ROI analysis on all my board games most of them beat out lots of other social activities.

If an average game lasts maybe an hour and you play it with an average of 3 players that's 3h of entertainment per play. 10-15 Euros per hour of entertainment seems very reasonable so most games actually tend to pay for themselves after just one play if oyu look at it that way.
One piece of evidence that flat discussions don't work well at all: on
general news sites which have numbered flat comments, I often see comments that
start with 'reply to number 4...'. Users are actively trying to make up for the
lack of threads. Of course, such discussions quickly become unreadable.

The article points out some valid criticisms of threaded discussions (like excessive indentation), while ignoring the giant mess that flat discussions tend to become. The funny thing is that it's a false dichotomy. Even the article mentions the
possibility of having just one level of reply, and yet in the last sentence it
just reverts to 'Always favor simple, flat discussions instead.'
haha! that's funny, but the name has something to do with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simula
C++ Primer was updated to C++11.
http://www.amazon.com/Primer-5th-Edition-Stanley-Lippman/dp/...

The C++ FAQ is really helpful but doesn't seem to be updated to C++11
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq/

Fortunately you can refer to Stroustrup's FAQ about C++11
http://www.stroustrup.com/C++11FAQ.html

For reference (like libc manpage, basic usage, which header to include):
http://en.cppreference.com/
Then why do you link to it on your website? Look at "Signup to our Hosted Solution" a little closer. :(

edit: Sorry, I missed the typo there, but it's still invalid for SIMVLA.com as well.
This is probably my fault; it turns out I've been incorrectly spelling it antemeridian for ages!

Antemeridian is an adjective meaning "of or relating to morning", and antimeridian is indeed the correct word. Thanks, Rob!
I am very impressed with how rapidly .io is becoming the cool new domain.
Pardon? Pardon, a pardon?! An apology is what he deserves and what he got. To use words like 'pardon' and 'forgive' carries the very strong connotation that what he did was wrong, and we're being nice by forgiving his mistakes.

I mean, half the great men in the history of the last century have had the honour of being jailed by the British. Imagine the Queen issuing a posthumous "pardon" to Gandhi. I can scarcely imagine a worse insult to his memory.
I am also very fond of the arranged marriage mindset if not the actual practice. I believe countless viable partners exist but a marriage to me me means not giving up or chasing a more perfect option. Especially since the later quickly turns to what I call kitten syndrome. Everyone loves a kitten and everyone lives a new relationship but eventually you gotta deal with the fact that a cat is a cat. Some people though rather drown a cat every spring.
You don't need to be involved with Apple to know they had choices. They knowingly relied on Google, and instead of planning earlier, they waited until the last possible moment to start putting resources into their own version.

They choose to rely on Google. They choose to enter those agreements. They choose to ignore maps for the first 5 years. They choose not to start planning to move away sooner. You act like they couldn't put any effort replacing Google until the last minute. It wasn't.

They screwed up and released a crappy product from choices they made. End of story.
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