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War2Map: experimental MMO RTS game on gMaps (in node.js socket.io mongodb)
Apple should buy big companies, says Scully
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I'd be interested, sure! :-)
As a cyclist interested in recumbent and other alternative bicycle designs, I disagree. You can buy whatever kind of bicycle you want.

Regarding competitions, I definitely think every cyclist has to ride the same type of bicycle, technology-wise, but I'd love to see competitions using alternative designs.
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>Something tells me that Apple will resolve this new bug, while Android will have more trouble fixing an issue that has been around for several years.

What makes you think so? and what does this BSOD have to do with Android at all?
There is another project at facebook which uses Haskell [1]. It's a DSL that replaces an interpreter which was written in C++. Performance was one of the reasons for replacing it, and the talk includes an comparison of the performance of the two approaches.

[1] http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/simon-marlow
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As a former startup CTO, I confirm that "we" (== the start-ups) love interns, for all the bad reasons.

They are dirt cheap, they often don't have enough experience to say no when they are handed the crap tasks, and if we decide to hire them, we can offer very low wages, because they often don't take the time to check out the competition. Oh, and they can be blamed for just about anything wrong that happens, too.

Sorry about this, interns, that wasn't my call.
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The Guardian[1] is notorious for typos and other little inaccuracies (mostly back from the non-digital printing days, but they proudly keep the tradition going even with modern presses.)

1. a.k.a. The Grauniad. www.grauniad.co.uk redirects to theguardian.com
If you're going to be absurdly reductive, yes.

We could pay to have every prosecutor shadowed by an auditor who would be charged with catching any mistakes the prosecutor makes that might have made an acquittal less likely. We could even hire an auditor to check the first auditor! At some point you hit severely diminishing returns, all while making the justice system slower and more complex, which can cause harm to both sides.
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Yes indeed, the consumers got nothing in return for accepting DRM, for accepting the side-stepping the term "buy" - the ebooks are still way too expensive and it can be argued the popularity of eReaders and eBook buying has come at a time after DRM became viable, unlike music piracy - which came before DRM and DMCA even existed. eBooks, readers and stores, all began with DRM, and the prices have only gone up - despite the consumers giving up their ownership.

It looks almost like DRM is designed to empower a few at the expense of the many.
Virgil on Richards and DeltaBlue
Could that be a forecasting system that notifies the driver just in time for him to react about what is going to happen in a next moment?
+1. I don't know of any meet-ups that's there already. I'm in. :)
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Samsung is not buying a fingerprint scanning company
Friends & family members don't ask any questions which is why I posted "people are quite compliant of that request". Yes, there's plenty of CCTV footage of me, I suppose the difference is there's no connection. Footage isn't tagged and is really only kept for security purposes; if something happens in the area. Of course, if facial recognition were implemented in CCTV, that would be a different matter all together.

It just feels like we're heading towards 1984. The way we use technology is changing. Prior to the internet, I'd have little reason to complain about photography. It's only with the advent of tagging on Facebook that I have become a lot more strict.
Here's a thought experiment: can OS X or Windows have a true open source app?
Would Inkscape[1] or some other open source vector graphic editor not fill the hole you describe ? SVG's have existing tooling and with later versions of Creative Suite should work with Illustrator without problems.

Infact - there are a number of browser based vector editors I believe. What would be very interesting is a github clone centered around providing preview, diff and edit functionality specifically for graphics. Another idea on the pile *sigh
I use mint.com, but I really have a problem with the method of how they receive data. I believe banks should provide API keys for their customers which allows read-only access to their accounts.

Unfortunately, their is zero interest within banks to build this.

Edit: I do too many transactions to use something like this or Toshl.
Air Gaps
Add some features to set budgets, track total expenditure and work out how much you've got left.
How Facebook is using Haskell for a rule-based DSL
Sure it can. If the source is "open", why should the platform for which that source is compiled have any bearing on it's description as such? Or am I missing something?
Yeah, but there are the GDC [1] and LDC [2] implementations, which AFAIK uses their respective (open source) backends, so that should really not be a problem IMO ...

[1] http://gdcgnu.sourceforge.net/
[2] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc

(In my tests, they are also mostly the fastest ones, especially LDC ... see for example my comparisons in http://saml.rilspace.org/moar-languagez-gc-content-in-python... ... D with LDC is among the top contenders, together with various optimized C versions ...)
>I actually think that it runs in my family a bit - we're very private people.

I completely agree. I think a lot of decisions I make are based off cultural reasons. My family has always had respect for privacy, although only "offline". ie. they'll knock before coming in. However, as they don't know much about technology, they all use Facebook and tag every photo. I feel like they seem to believe the privacy they enjoy offline extends online somehow.
Sorry I missed something. Why does not being understandable on first glance make for a great symbol?
Makes perfect sense to me. Webber and RedBull are not on good terms therefore RedBull doesn't give him Traction Control esp since there's a good possibility that he might blow the whistle on the whole operation if he finds out. In a lot of F1 circles there are conspiracy theories that RedBull is actively sabotaging Webber and there might be some truth to that as Webber is constantly at the receiving end of reliability problems, mechanical failures and botched pitstops whereas Vettel's car runs smooth without a glitch. I very much doubt that those two guys have the same machinery underneath them.
While it looks like the source icons originate in Illustrator, what impresses me is the high level of support for other standards, making the icons useful and customizable outside of any graphics software:

"This includes support for emerging formats and technologies like Web Components, CFF, WebP, SVG 2.0, a top-notch, multiweight, unicode-mapped icon web font implementation, SVG animation and a powerful SVG DOM injection tool"

Now, that said, I've longed for an alternative to Illustrator. I like your thinking around the DSL, but because this is all inherently visual work, nothing will become widely adopted until the visual design tools supporting the standard are excellent.
Because the GP said Illustrator icons are not really open source.
It's also worth remembering that once Vettel builds up enough of a lead, he's likely to ease off a bit. If he kept pushing, his lead at the end of the race would likely be far bigger than 30 seconds.
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I had a few problems with Mint which is why I decided to build this: 1. It wasn't available in my country and 2. I didn't want to connect my bank account, just because I wasn't comfortable with giving them that info. The API key would be awesome, but with banks being such large organisations that deal with so much data I feel like this would be almost impossible to implement with their current systems.
Show HN: Kickstart Your Own X-Prizes with FuturePrize
Hi HN, FuturePrize is a crowdfunding site for incentivized prize competitions – kind of like if you mixed Kickstarter with the X-Prize.

http://futureprize.com/
This is AWESOME!!! Well done mate
Minardi's old team was bought out by Dietrich Mateschitz and converted into Torro Rosso.
I feel there is some bad blood still around, since it was Giancarlo Minardi who pretty much started this theory/conspiracy.
If it's entertaining because of the risks to the participants, that's not sport, it's blood sport.
This is a great event. I'd highly recommend it to anyone in the London area.
Self driving cars doesn't sound like a sport, tho.
Thanks! It's the first of a looooong series, so stay tuned and chack it our on thevaliens.com
I should disclaim english is not my primary language... but what is the fine line between 'drive' and 'motivation'?

I don't think he is really giving the deep reason why he is motivated (or driven, as you like) to get it done, he's just saying he strongly feels that he has to.
Zoom is a magnifying glass containing a `+` or `-` (or both, if it's a zoom menu?).

Search is an empty magnifying glass next to/within a text field.
"the first company to market a USB stick with a light that indicates a write operation -- not read or write; I've got one of those -- wins a prize".

Get to work, people!
Here's a direct link to the actual net changes: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/compare/1.0.0...1.1.0#...
I didn't mean to say Illustrator is bad b/c of the not openness but more because of the file format. Icons ---compared to other projects done with Illustrator--- are extremely simple and we could use simpler tools instead which means we can use a programming language (an appropriate one, not python etc) to define the languages.

As long as we have the source and it is readable (hence my wish to use a DSL) people will contribute to it with pull request. The result of the kickstarter will not be contributable (except by a small fraction of people)

This can give you a slight taste of a well done DSL which can produce EPS:

http://www.piprime.fr/developpeur/asymptote/example-asy2d/ge...

http://marris.org/asymptote/

Asymptote also knows structs and overloading
First they came for the mugshot websites, but I said nothing…
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You are soooo damn right.
> It's an incredibly dangerous sport.

Maybe it is time to make a clone of the race, but without the pilots.
A 30s gap over an entire race isn't that big of a deal, Hamilton won the 2008 British GP by over a minute but that was changeable conditions. Watch the first lap of any race and see the gap Vettel builds in a single gap, it has hovered around 2 seconds for many races...
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Millions in Asia still on Windows XP
True. But good French startups pay good compensations for good interns. Believe me.
I wasn't aware of the Repulsion/Death bits. Awesome!
If I search "@z" I get 13 repos. So why exactly do you think that searching "@a" is yielding all repos?
Indeed, when compare Java with Python, Ruby, Javascript using the tool that the OP used for showing that monthly commits to Java were stable for the last 7 years it shows how quickly they are catching up:

http://www.ohloh.net/languages/compare?l0=java&l1=javascript...

Although it looks like Ruby isn't growing as quickly as JavaScript and Python.

It will be interesting to see if perceptions change after JavaScript and Python overtake Java.
This should actually only take you 2 minutes if you'd like to keep the old behavior ... regardless of how many View classes you happen to have in your app. For example:

var originalView = Backbone.View;
Backbone.View = function(options) {
var instance = new originalView(options);
instance.options = options;
return instance;
};

Ahh..., isn't JavaScript just a lovely thing ;)
I'm now in The Hague, but I am interested!
Great starting point. Do you have a hypothesis about who would benefit from such a product? It may help you with next steps to validate the concept.
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Textbook example of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. The two things he cites to replace icons (gestures and text) in no way provide the same affordances and efficiency of icons. It seems like he's just trying to think big for the sake of thinking big, while ignoring the fact that conceptually an icon is at its essence the most distilled form of visual communication available. If you're going to say icons need to go away then you might as well say visual design needs to go away and we'll just use voice UI in the future.
I really like the simplicity of it. Keep it clean and simple and people will use it forever.

BUT,

there are some basic features missing, such as: currency config (Europeans have Internet too ;), subject & comment notes. A receipt upload would be really great too. Plus, as much as I love Bootstrap, please invest $15 in a custom theme ;)

Nice job!
Is there an effective way to "mostly" airgap, if you need Internet connectivity for your work? This is a comment I posted on a similar thread a few weeks ago.

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Just curious, how would airgapping be practical if you need Internet connectivity for your "real work"?
For example, let's say you run a quant trading firm and the algorithms you're concerned about being stolen need connectivity to download live trading info, and then after processing that info they need to communicate buy/sell orders to the outside world.
Are there any methods that could be used that would prevent all communication with a secure system (with an airgap level of certainty) besides the strictly defined data you need to do your "real work"?
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Sure, you would just use Radianz, and that is in fact what everyone does. This is a very solved problem! Bloomberg also operates a private network, and there are others too. These systems can operate perfectly well without access to the public Internet.
A couple of jobs ago I worked at a financial services firm with 2 networks and 2 PCs on everyone's desk. Rednet for outside connectivity, and an internal network for real work, and never the twain shall meet.
NO-ONE needs the Internet for real work, let's be honest, just for goofing off. Time we all started to prioritize security over mere convenience.
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wikiburner 19 days ago | link

Yep, maybe trading wasn't the best example, although they are still effectively at the mercy of the security of their data providers network - which admittedly is probably quite good.
Let's say you're a P.I., journalist, researcher, law enforcement, or intel agency, and need to automate news or people searches for some reason. If you were able to very strictly define the data you're expecting to receive, isn't there any way you could automatically pass this data on to a secure system without opening yourself up to exploits?
I'm not sure that's explicitly true about competitions. I know there are a number of rules around weight, helmet design, etc. However, I think there is at least some room for innovation that does occur and at least some variation of equipment (see: http://road.cc/content/feature/85959-tour-de-france-team-bik... as well as http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/4320804). I distinctly remember growing up and watching the debate over which types of TT helmets were allowed, which wheelsets were allowed, etc.

One area where I feel like is also an interesting comparison and where I thought ronaldx was going with this is around performance enhancing drugs and the UCI. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that things that Vettel being accused of now are, strictly speaking, not against the rules but clearly creating an advantage. The innovation is in the details in the same way that the drug regimens of many cyclists throughout the last couple of decades in many cases did not include drugs listed on a banned substance list (e.g. early blood doping '70s vs. became illegal in '86), because the UCI and WADA simply didn't know about them. It will be interesting to see if Vettel is found to be playing in this gray area how he and Red Bull will be judged.

*Please note I do appreciate there is a big difference between doping and mechanical advantage through design, just thought there were some interesting parallels there too.
Searching using Array.prototype.reduce
I think the BBC's article from Oct 3rd has some good commentary on this topic:

"Red Bull's advantage is believed to come largely from a more effective use of the exhaust gases for aerodynamic effect. This creates more rear downforce than the other cars, meaning Vettel has the rear grip to enable him to accelerate sooner."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24381349
Gee, that's an unexpected comment -- how refreshing.

As always, the best thing to do is browse through what's actually been done with them, compare the relative quality of the result, and judge for yourself...

http://backbonejs.org/#examples

http://builtwith.angularjs.org
The market I'd really think that would benefit from this (at least early on) is University students. Obviously, it isn't only limited to this, but in general uni students are generally making smaller purchases relatively often.
Considering how intrusive SOX auditors are for business, why shouldn't the government take some of its own medicine. The amount of paperwork SOX rules give me on a daily basis is pretty silly. Worse it the quarterly visits with auditors to review sample documents.

The minimum we should require would be all death penalty cases and any where prison terms exceed a threshold, say those over five years? We cannot write off justice just because the process is difficult. Considering the power of prosecutors and countless stories of intimidation of both the accused and witnesses it should be a requirement
I appreciate the comparison but it's really not "much the same". Modern F1 cars are much much better (not just faster) than they were in 1972.

The strict technical regulations are in place for two main reasons:

1. To allow teams with smaller budgets to compete.

2. To focus innovation away from simply making bigger, more powerful engines with computers managing every facet of driver input and car output. That kind of technology will (and currently is) making it's way into roadcars anyway, it doesn't need the help of F1. F1 enforces constraints in the usual suspects (engines, driver assists, ECU, tyres, etc.) which pushes engineers to come up with genuinely new and creative approaches to making cars better and faster. This is all done within the competitive arena of sport. It's actually quite a smart way to bring about a particular type of innovation (I'm trying not to say "out-of-the-box thinking") that may not necessarily happen naturally but may still eventually make it's way into roadcars.
One of the book bonuses is a 30 min interview about exactly that - career path. Short answer is being friendly and doing a lot of extracurriculars - started a nonprofit with some friends including a guy named Kalvin, who was a CS major, eventually became my roommate and cofounder at Ridejoy.
This article misses the most important security tip: do not use any proprietary software, especially the ones starting with "W" made by MS.
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Good by Silicon Valley standards or good by European standards? Because as a software engineer moving from Minneapolis to Palo Alto to London, I have to say salaries in Europe are a fucking joke (although it's improving).
Or better yet, the full product but doesn't save anything until you register.
Whoops, marked a dislike for Perl by accident.
Your query was as to whether an application compiled for Windows or OSX could, in general, be open source. Whilst there may be a point to be made about the openness of Illustrator - I just thought that a tongue in cheek response would correct the more general assertion :) . Sorry for the confusion.
I'm sure even Ford would agree that working smart trumps working "hard" most of the time...
the RB9 could limit power when compressed and boost power when expanded

Isn't that backwards? If you're light on the suspension, that means you have less grip, and thus less traction.
It has nothing to do with Android, so i'm not sure why he's even comparing them. My Nexus 4 has been running like a dream for months now, no random reboots or anything like that. This iPhone bug seems to be directly related to an app.
The difference between pixel-by-pixel and feature based comparisons
Also note that Sam Altman was a part-time partner before he sold Loopt. And I know plenty of YC co's who do have fairly involved side projects. The good thing is that the book's content often overlaps with being a founder. It's not like I released a "1001 Ways to Fold a Paper Crane" book.
Where can I read more about changes related to nested model parsing and submodels? This is something I had to implement just a week ago, and I resorted to overriding `set`. I wonder if they made it easier, or if there is a builtin support for nested models of some kind.
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You don't need a GUI or expensive programs to make very stunning and impressive graphics. I've coded SVG manually myself (using Jade templates) and I've written TikZ and asymptote and it works very very well. Remember, we are programmers and not graphic designers who need Illustrator since they often don't code.

Check out some stuff they do over at tex exchange:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf

You can also easily take existing SVG and extract the curve formats out, normalize them and integrate them in your project as a few arrays. You wouldn't start from scratch and have to redraw the github logo. You just put it into source code and things such as arrows you can draw with a few commands
Don't know about London, but the ration [salary]/[cost of life] in Paris is way better than in SF for a good software engineer.
>> We need to stop making "open source" icons which aren't actually open source

It took me a few rewrite of this to boil down to this question. Why do you say they "aren't actually open source". I'm curious to know what you're referring to. Is it that AI spec isn't open source, the files generated aren't open source because they require a paid application to edit, or the files themselves are binary formats and as such, aren't "source" in terms of how we think of XML or code.

If Illustrator was made free tomorrow, would that be satisfactory?
Commerce is a big factor, but so is government intelligence, so is education, and and so is bottom-up social interaction.
Sorry, I did not realize my tone would make it sound as if I looked at it as a bad thing. This is a very good thing. Strict F1 rules are a good thing for innovation.
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But there's no guarantee working would eventually make you better off? You're just taking that as a given. If there aren't any real prospect for higher pay -- then the issue isn't just "getting off welfare".

Better welfare (say free college or other education/training) might make a difference, however.

Now I agree that it would be good if people worked (if they are able) -- but in and off itself that doesn't make them better off.
The article is more about Gladwell than about his latest book.
Not only that, but the traction control system can control wheel slip at a per-wheel basis. Something the driver can't do, with his single brake pedal.
I really like the point this story is making, but I've really not seen much "France Bashing" going around lately. Did I miss anything?

Additionally, the points made seem to apply to a large extent to many European countries. Which is a good thing, of course.
You have absolutely every right to request your friends don't post pictures of you on facebook (or anywhere else). If they don't respect that... then I know who the "dick" is.
Possibly stupid question : Why did he not write the assembler himself ?