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Right, you should never ever use eval but I don't think that a lot of the things that are commonly done in Ruby could be achieved in JS without eval. And what you are talking about is not exactly meta-programming.

> OTOH, grep for instance_eval and class_eval in rails source.

I mean what's your point. Yes, I realize that both are used profusely, which is one of the things that this discussion is about.
Ironically, the organisation set up to handle the bailout part of the Union evolved into what became RBS:

http://www.rbs.com/content/otr/content/curriculum-for-excell...

Edit: An excellent book on the subject on the long rise and quick fall of RBS is "Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy" -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Happen-Goodwin-British-Econom...
I find it really disheartening that there is at least one person who isn't completely tired of NSA articles at this point and even wishes to read more on the same topic. Same with Bitcoins, Snowden and so on.
Hey guys, I posted a GitHub issue on this feature -- https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/1716.

We'd appreciate if you chimed in with your feedback and ideas! Thanks for bringing this up.
You can rent a yatch, no need to own :) (though it's nice - but yatchs are costly to maintain!).

One of my uncles rented a yatch to sail on northern Australia (the Whitsunday islands), from his description, it sounds amazing (much like you described, white sandy beaches, awesome weather, nice sailing). He does own a yatch and a sailing license back home though, I think at least the designated captain must have a license.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitsunday_Islands

Edit: remember the quote "A boat is a hole in the water into which you throw money"
Damn man, I'm sorry but you bet too much on this given your family responsibilities :(
Really sorry to hear that man. We often stereotype startups as cool, exciting, explore-new-frontier crazy wild success.

Sometimes (probably most of the time) they just don't turn out that way, and the failures have real, life-changing consequences.
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"Don’t be a “close talker”."

"Everyone has different needs in terms of personal space, and one of the fastest ways to creep someone out is to get too close to them when having a conversation. If you google “personal space diagram” you’ll see all sorts of sociological visualizations of the degrees of person proximity okay-ness."

Reminds me of a ex-friend who always said I'm only a normal friend and yet we always have conversations that I would say is in the very very inner of a personal-space diagram.

PS: We r no longer friends due to a misunderstanding. I miss her.
You are naive. If you don't understand JS, you can try something else that compiles to JS. There are some cool tools for people like you!
Do you mind telling us a bit about the stack? How do you prevent cheating by just forging server requests?
New TLDs have arrived
124.217.253.42
IP:
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server location:
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ISP:
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I don't follow, Weiner admitted he posted the pics.
Really, when you're betting everything on startups, which is a risky endeavor, it's best not to have 4 kids (3 of which look like they'll be in college at the same time) until you're well settled.

Also I did think of editing that part out because I know it makes me look like a giant asshole, but it was too late.
> Trammell just admitted holding 800K$ worth of Bitcoins.

Well, no. He admitted to holding an amount of Bitcoins that would now be worth 800k. At the time he transferred them they were worth a 20th of that amount.
Business cards come out when you've had an interesting conversation with someone and you want to stay in contact for one reason or another.

If you need to find an excuse to hand one over, you've wasted money and materials. The person on the receiving end hasn't demonstrated that they want one, and you have demonstrated to them that you don't value them.
Ever saw the interview that the minister made for censoring the web in UK?

You should watch it, it shows haw unknowledged some people are, to bad i didn't found it...

(ps. Searched for minister UK censorship)
It just seems wrong to have three kids under 6 and a wife pregnant and still try your luck on creating a new company. I think before anything else, you need to be responsible with the ones that depends on you.
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That's what's funny about them.
Why doesn't everyone vote for this article and leave a comment?
Caffeine compared
Yeah I'm afraid that doesn't make any sense. Why would he admit to it? And then admit to it again.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Weiner_sexting_scandal...
I make an exception for Amazon as they are a big, known site. I mean "shady site I've never seen before". I'll see if it has EV SSL. If it doesn't, it depends how badly I want the item it's selling. Most stuff can be bought on Amazon.

By the way, some non-financial websites use EV SSL, such as Twitter. I don't see why Amazon can't get a cert.
The "more details" link goes to a blog post from September 2010, so I suspect the test has been around for a while, but it was still interesting to see that for me (Linux, nVidia 560Ti, 319 proprietary driver), Firefox reported 60+ fps while Chrome reported 24 fps.
Failures are the things you learn from the most. What have you been trying to do the last months with your company?

Perhaps some of us might help :)
I don't see the problem with asm. It appears that Chrome and Opera support them too. It can only be a good thing.
https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/11/26/chrome-an...

It doesn't require requires a plugin install like NaCl
Encoding in Java:Base64
Use all the know how you gathered while creating and working on your company. Understand how you fit in a company and what that know-how can make you a valuable asset to the company. Look for a full-time position, leverage your know-how to get a higher position and a bigger salary. Get a job, get everything running, start thinking about a new idea and jump to it again when it's time.
I'm actually very meh on PgSql to be honest, so I think I'll talk your advice and give it a try!
Isomorphic JavaScript: a new paradigm
Certainly a viable strategy, although as other commentators have pointed out - it's easily countered by simply holding down only one button and thus forcing opponent to stop mashing and find the correct counter move.
Building a Strong Start-up Company
Probably the simplest possible multiplayer game that is actually fun... once you get the point of the game...
I've sent out a couple of emails with updates of new features to encourage existing users to stay engaged, another one is due pretty soon actually. And I'm in the process of adding an opt-in daily email reminder service which may also help with engagement. The more engaged users are the more likely they are to convert to paying customers.

I'm not tracking conversion rates from different sources, I'll look into that.

More testing of UX choices sounds like a good idea, so far I've just gone by gut instinct and user feedback. Was the fact that "Start Now" landed you straight into Trial Mode a bad surprise, would you have preferred a signup form at that point? Or perhaps a walkthrough tutorial?
Why? I'd rather have someone tell me what they thought of me and that I managed to change their mind.
"I'm totally an asshole"

At around 34:30 he admits he's an asshole in the context of slamming other people's work.

For him to jump all over the person above who called him a cock, well, all I can say is "pot-kettle-black, motherfucker".

"I'm busy helping people, you're busy calling me a cock".

Cry me a river. In the video he gets real busy rubbishing other people's work. Not to say he didn't have some very good, honest, refreshing points. But one needs to be able to take it if one dishes it out.
Web Workers can actually let you pass messages at the speed of shared memory, thanks to an optimization, when using typed arrays with "transferables". So you can fling around buffers straight from a worker to the main thread without copying, pass it to WebGL without conversion etc.

(The sender loses access to the buffer after it's sent, so it's still safe)
If you have something interesting to say, say it. If not, don't speak. I sometimes dream of a world where this is the norm.

That's why networking is such an "awful word".

Also: Produce something of value for the world and networking happens automatically anyway.
SquareWear 2.0 — An Open-Source Wearable Arduino
Indeed. Depends on whether you need to do a read-update cycle or you can just do it in a single SQL command.
Supply is not decreasing fromthe miners, in fact I would argue that practically all mined coins (25 each 10 minutes) are being sold these days instead of being horded. If you run an expensive mining rig, you want to sell as quickly as possible. In older days, there could be some miners who would mine for their own use. Now, casual miners are a tiny fraction of mining production.

So, there has to be roughly 20K USD of new money coming into BTC economy every 10 minutes to keep the current price. Is this sustainable? I do not know, but you definitely need new blood to keep it up.
Are there any papers about practical (slash nefarious) uses one could make from the work put into the blockchain? I had the same thoughts as you recently, but don't have the background to imagine what's possible.
Google Earth Reveals Untold Fish Catches
Insurance companies should be paying for that.

The danger to insurance companies is that people might do that before purchasing insurance and use the result to inform their purchase decision. The net result is adverse selection and fewer people purchasing insurance.

Explanation of the math here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6807426
Could somebody write a Chromium plugin for this? Close the tab and report it directly.
HTML is not a language, not unless you consider CSV and XML, programming languages.

CSS on the other hand...
I'm not saying one is better than the other.

But I would say the main difference is OS APIs. Ability to manage memory, interact with filesystem objects etc.
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The string type is broken
Managing fisheries from space: Google Earth improves estimates of fish catches
Client: JQuery/mobile, Backbone (models)
Server: Scala, Play, Akka, PostgreSQL

Server keeps true state of the game, both players send inputs from which the server calculates the score (new state) which then is pushed back out to the players.
Thanks. So why will the law change prevent this problem? I could send my saliva abroad to be tested.
> [emscripten] lags LLVM releases, it has glitchy behavior. Compare to clang and especially gcc which build robustly and cleanly everywhere and come with elaborate test suites. This isn't a toolchain I'm about to start betting a company on, for sure.

Are you comparing emscripten to clang? Using clang alone won't get you something you can execute in a web browser — unless you include a CPU emulator in JS.

If in fact you are comparing the asm.js workflow with the PNaCl workflow, they each rely on clang, sure, but PNaCl requires a bigger difference with clang-trunk. It is a plain fork.

> PNaCl is essentially a modified version of Clang. This is done for two reasons. First, it eliminates an install-time dependency. Second, Clang was historically not supported on Windows (but this is beginning to change).

Also, PNaCl has a unique, specific API (Pepper), which is very different from the way emscripten works.

Finally, the comparative workflow to have your app work on the Web.

PNaCl: write HTML/CSS/JS, write manifest, write PNaCl code, compile to pexe, rewrite the code to work with Emscripten, compile to JS via pepper.js.

Emscripten: write HTML/CSS/JS, write native code to work with Emscripten, compile to JS.
There have definitely been classic RPS AI competitions, but I wonder how different the intelligent agents that play this real-time variation would be. I'd love to do an AI contest for this game!
Or you can use Go and get high performance concurrency in a single-threaded instance. The best of both worlds. ;-)
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Let's not delude ourselves here; these days getting work is all about network too. Fantastic resume is fantastic, contacts who can get it at the top of the pile: even better.
Jejones, you're lucky. I got 20 fps, but after some tuning I get 42 fps, which is the answer to the universe and all =)

Here's how you double performance on Chrome:

Open chrome://flags then enable:

* #ignore-gpu-blacklist
* #force-compositing-mode-2
* #enable-experimental-canvas-features
* #accelerated-filters
* #enable-css-shaders

Optional Rendering Tweaks:

* #impl-side-painting
* #enable-webgl-draft-extensions

TCP/IP Tweaks that work:

* #enable-quic-https
* #enable-spdy4a2
* #enable-http2-draft-04
* #enable-async-dns
* #enable-tcp-fast-open

This is handy when you use OneTab, Tabs close much faster this way:

* #enable-fast-unload
Thanks, its not very clear. And the mashing just gets harder as you see the red increase. You just helped some people avoid RSI :)
RPS AI is pretty stupid because there is no strategy that can beat a balanced strategy consistently.

Without the human element, there is no strategy or skill involved.
I motorcycled North and South America from 2001-2003. It was fairly simple, and cheap, to fly from Panama City to Quito, via Bogata. The yacht technique was the source of quite a few bad stories, while Colon, the step off point from Panama, was awful. I had to build my own motorbike box, but some others had theirs done for them. These days the number of riders is huge, and the process for flying should be very well covered in the adventure motorcycle sites like horizonsunlimited.com.

I did get to ride on a yacht through the canal - and that was amazing.
I agree. The ad is very honest in it's requirements as far as I'm concerned. They're aiming it at competent fans. They're expecting a huge response. I think they'll get one.

If this was published back when I was in my late 20s, the job spec would have been an ok match and I would have applied. I think working in that environment for a few years would be a great buzz and would give me the opportunity to learn loads.
Computer teaches itself common sense
This is one concern that can't reasonably be considered. A person should first and foremost be in control of their own life.

Only when that is absolutely impossible for an prolonged indeterminite time (ie. not for an hour, not when he's drunk off his/her ass for a week, not even if for some reason someone would be unconscious for a year), then we can talk about letting someone else decide.

What the family or community or friends think of the matter, they can get fucked. They're only asked to provide an answer to the question of whether that person would have chosen suicide, no-one would never ask them to make an actual decision.
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How do you increase your rating? I've got an 18/3 win/loss ratio, but I'm still at the default 1500.
Just a small detail that isn't mentioned in the article:

in NFC form, "base characters and modifiers are combined into a single rune whenever possible"

the interesting detail is "whenever possible": since NFC works by first decomposing, and then recomposing... there're some cases in which if you run NFC normalization on it, the characters will remain decomposed

an example is 𝅘𝅥𝅮	(U+1D160) which its normalized composed form is made of 3 different codepoints

I tried to look at the algorithm for generating the composition table, and it seems it's generated from the decomposition table... if that's so, I can't understand how it could happen that some code points have an NFC form longer than 1

more details:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17897534/can-unicode-nfc-...

does anyone knows the cause behind this?
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As far as #2, they are still people, no matter how authoritarian/establishmentarian, so they still need to convince themselves (and each-other) that what they're doing is right (even though, seemingly, the bar for achieving that may be lower than for a typical person).
Apparently I was caught by that, yet I don't believe I flagged an excessive number of stories. I seldom used the flag at all unless it was for egregiously political or lightweight stories on the front page, or for spam comments a few years ago.

I doubt I used more than double-digit flags in the 6+ years I've been here.
Chrome “OK Google” extension adds hands-free search - SlashGear
I had a very quick webs search, and found this page: (http://aitopics.org/topic/roshambo-rock-paper-scissors)

That has some links to other competitions, and seems like a nice very simple introduction the topic.

I would love to see the results of AI competitions from the HN community. Perhaps someone should set up a website with a variety of challenges?

You can do rock paper scissors in 27 characters (not lines!) of PERL.

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11188/rock-paper...
correct me if i'm wrong, but it does sound like NaCl is about "making the web x86 dependent", but google also has architecture-agnostic implementations in PNaCl and pepper.js
Summary: RPerl is a module that compiles inline code, consisting of Perl 5 code with a restricted feature set, into optimized C in order to get more speed without needing to actually write C. It is currently in very early alpha.
Let's hope there is a rebuttal... his last major blog post[1] was censored by his university. In a flash of reason, the decision was reversed (woohoo academic freedom!)

In this case, since Zerocoin is actually a university-sponsored project (from the Johns Hopkins Information Securuty Institute), we can hope for a response... hopefully it will be a rebuttal from the researchers and not a kneejerk response from administrators.

Even beyond its obvious utility (for good or ill), zerocoin is a fascinating problem in cryptographic research, and we should be grateful it's occuring in the light of day and not as some super-secret project.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/10/nsa-mat...
I agree, but it is worth noting that these single phrase labelling isn't all that the NSA knows about these people.

For example, the first one you mentioned ("The U.S. brought the 9/11 attacks upon itself") has also had "writings appear on a number of jihadi websites".

Even combining those two things doesn't make that person a terrorist. OTOH I do think it is reasonable that the NSA has a file on a person like that.

Also, note that the NSA does not label them as terrorists - they use the word "Radicalizers".

Finally, the NSA doesn't actually seem to intend to discredit them - these are merely documented plans for how it could be done if required.
singular, don't worry, your post was fine. The self-confessed asshole (Peddling Luck vimeo - 34:30) overreacted due to a self-appointed discussion thread-relative moral high-ground.

"Fuck that book...fuck that bad advice, those people are lying... he/she is full of shit" etc etc. That was my first introduction to the Zed, just 5 min ago.

Then, singular comes along and says "I once thought you were a cock, but not anymore, kudos", and that gets a rage-reply from the Joker? Well, that's funny. People are hilarious!
Where's the beef? If it is a Web design company, web prefab is an issue because that's their beef. If the company sells something else and the site looks/works great, I would only give them credit for saving time/money/energy by using prefab.
I think I tend to agree with you. In this context, I'm trying to make the point that the ability to "ship" software quickly and easily seems to lead people to the belief that shipping hardware is almost as easy, and it's not. I'm not trying to imply that actually writing the software is easy, just that the process of making a piece of software available to millions of people is substantially easier than shipping hardware to millions of people.
There's a lot of tribal knowledge that's difficult to access via Google, although things are getting substantially better, as lots more people are going through small scale production ramps and blogging about it.
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My technique for personal space management when "networking" is to let the other person determine how close they want to be. I try not to move away or move in once that distance is set. People seem to react well to this.
OT:
Reminded me of this:
http://pbfcomics.com/45/
True. It's the more basic of the games out there. However, I'd still say that there are lots of interesting things to learn and practice implementing for RPS. For example, it's about the simplest adversarial environment you can fathom. Also, the human aspect of the game is definitely still there, and it still seeps through the AI written by the humans, of which your own AI can take advantage. :)
It's not for bashing the parent comment, but I find it funny. From the beginning of time, 99.99% languages have horrific unicode support (and 99.999% programmers have not got a bit of clue in this area) and then suddenly…
What was the company? Why was it "stupid"?

I'm keen to hear what it was. Do you know why it failed? If so, knowing that is very valuable information that is not easily taught. Use that knowledge for your next adventure, and maybe share with us here, so we can learn too?
This gives the impression that all British are pro-monarchy. While it's try that royalty is tied to national identity, the nation in this situation is England, Ireland, Scotland or Wales. You'll find very different levels of republicanism in each country.

Personally I'm pro-tradition. If I wasn't, worrying about the complicated but small-impact question of the monarchy would come after issues such as the de facto Christianity in our post-disestablishment country.
This is something that amazes me about the Dutch. I'm working not too far from the Netherlands, and nobody here seems to have mentioned that the Dutch state effectively gives elderly 2 choices :

1) they can choose pain meds overdose and/or euthanasia (active/passive)

2) they can choose to go without medical care (when above a certain age, the rule is that if, on average, a treatment does not result in at minimum a 5% increase in the length of useful life per EUR 20k spent per year, that treatment will not be given).

An example I'm intimately familiar with. Someone who required dialysis since he was 38 due to late-onset diabetes which wasn't discovered for too long (ie. partially destroyed his kidneys at a -relatively- young age). The national health insurance would stop covering his treatments at the age of 62 (note that this age is going down due to medical expenses rising above inflation). So the choice was pain meds overdose, or self-poisoning.

To say that this person voluntarily chose euthanasia is a flat-out lie. He would have chosen to prolong his life, if there were no consequences.

The deciding factor for the timing of his death was the financial needs of the state.

Note that the royal family was actually scared of the government they led when it came to a prince who has slipped into a coma. They openly chose to have him treated in the UK (he had an accident in Austria skiing), to prevent the euthanasia choice being made for them. ( http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/dutch-would-have-stopped-t... )

I am scared to think how many, percentage-wise, elderly Dutchmen actually are forced to chose between euthanasia and the cessation of most medical aid.

And, frankly, knowing that that person paid decades for health insurance that promised health care until end of life, only to have the government change the deal under him ... I find it reprehensible.

But it never seems to gather much attention. It seems Holland just wants to get rid of it's elderly.