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Must watch "Pom Poko (1994)", if you haven't already.
According to http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331 :

"Infinite recursion is prevented. Any frame that attempts to assign as its SRC a URL used by any of its ancestors is treated as if it has no SRC URL at all (basically a blank frame). This doesn't prevent all malicious documents, but it eliminates a troublesome class of them."

Ah well, probably for the best really... It seems to have a recursion limit of 10 on Firefox, and 12 on Chrome.

I cheated by creating your original frameset pattern and then just recursing index.html in the middle frame. It improves the recursion effect a bit, but still isn't infinite.

http://downloads.intermer.net/frames/
The guy who created comic sans doesn't agree :)
I probably have an unpopular opinion on this, but I feel that people who wish to commit suicide should not be prevented from doing so. By all means, if someone wants to get help or needs counseling they should be able to get it. But if in the end their choice is suicide, we should be making it easier for them, not harder. I think that if I ever wanted to commit suicide I would be less likely to seek counseling out of fear I would be "prevented" from making my own choices. Similarly, when an animal is critically injured we "put them out of their misery" because that's the "humane" thing to do. But us humans, we have to suffer to the very end. Why?
Self taught with the Stanford Course during my first and second year at university before I ended up at an agency where I had developers guiding me with patterns, syntax and other programming fundamentals.

I've now graduated with a first and work as a full time developer at a startup.

My one piece of advice would be to set yourself an idea and try to build it. Build, try and don't be afraid of exceptions. They're there to help you.

My portfolio - http://kathuria.me
Have you been to India?

The caste system predates the Buddha (500BC) btw. and is routed in Hindu culture.

The British actually also exploited the difference between Muslims and Hindus, but again didn't create the difference. Yes the Raj used divide and conquer, but they used differences that had existed for thousands of years and still do.
I agree, which is why I mentioned video encoding, databases, and three little dots.
> .. then how can they be said to be doing "independent" games?

They would still be doing the game/prototype independently from the company. There would be no difference in the making of the game from an "actual" indie dev.

Now for the IP, legal things surrounding it that's a different question.
Of course they do compare it with SQLite 3: http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/
Maybe I was conflating two things, deeply nested tables AND inline style (norm of that era).
Critics warn of watering down Nobel Peace Prize (2012)
Sidenode - Chromium 37.0/Ubuntu bug - crashes if I attempt "right click-save link as" on any of the download links here https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html#Insta...

Anyone else seeing this?

Edit: Found it - https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=357473 - carry on.
How long is a piece of string?...
This one is absolutely phenomenal. There is a clarity and precision of thinking about things that too often are very vague and ambiguous.
I have visited India multiple times, my in-laws are Indian, it's not a country I'm completely ignorant of and I'm saying nothing out of ignorance, but direct experience of the unequal status of women in Indian society compared to Western society.

You can make generalisations when doing a comparison with cultures, but not when prejudging individuals.

For example the US is wealthier than Algeria. That is a generalisation based on an aggregate (the total GDP), but doesn't reflect the individual status of people within each country. I.e. some Algerians will be wealthier than some Americans.
No, I am saying that the collective unconscious belief system of a system itself (here, I am calling a collection of humans, or a society - to be a system) is what can direct it.

This means all those side thoughts you think you ignore. When you choose to listen to analysis over intuition, but you might not consider the effect of ignoring intuition in favor of analysis, or you may even deny the existence of intuition because analysis exists. Intuition can be uniform across a population and can direct the population. I am not trying to be Freudian here, unconscious is just a word for 'thoughts you keep to yourself'.

It's all the thoughts and actions that we take that we don't tell one another about, things we may not even be aware that we are doing (like independent thinking, thinking about what other people are thinking), that can create direction within a social system.

I am not saying "engineer a human personality". I am saying "engineer yourself", and consider what that means across a collection of people when they are all engineering themselves, and happen to mutually, mentally agree on some things, but do not express this directly to one another.
It comes down to a question of definition. Is it a monopoly if there is literally zero cost to entering a market, but the market conditions make it almost certain that you'll fail?

Hatchette and any other publisher could stop selling their books to Amazon tomorrow. You could still buy them in paper from loads of physical stores, and you could still buy their ebooks from dozens of places, including little-known and difficult-to-find resellers like Apple and Google. But if they lost, say, 40% of sales, would we call Amazon a monopoly?

I don't know. My inclination is to be pretty conservative in applying heavy-handed regulatory remedies. That's a big hammer, and it's one I'd rather not use on a whim, and right now, I think it's still far too easy to compete with Amazon on its core business for this to be an option I'm ready for. But I'm not sure how hard it would be to convince me otherwise in the future.
You seem to be forgetting that for a lot of these people it wasn't really a choice. Their mind was malfunctioning and led them to do something they probably wouldn't have a few months later if they received the right help. Your argument about animals is more related to assisted dying/euthanasia which probably represents a very small number of these suicides and is a separate discussion I feel.
How about a declarative and idempotent shell? Well, more declarative and idempotent than bash + the GNU core utils.
Frankly, I'm surprized that this is seemingly the first mention of this...

"The Suicide Prevention Resource Center synthesized these studies and estimated that between 30 and 40% of LGBT youth, depending on age and sex groups, have attempted suicide."

Source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth

I hope I just missed the reference somewhere in the piece or these comments.
But if your choices are because you suffer from a mental illness such as depression, should we as a society just "shrug" and say "Well, it's their choice, let them do whatever they want." ?

I don't think so - especially when a lot of times, due to their illness, they cannot make their own choice.
If you're talking about people with terminal illnesses, then I completely agree. Otherwise, there needs to be a whole lot of counseling. Yes, its your decision, but everyone makes poor decisions, and this one is irreversible.
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I think the point is that "we" should try to prevent them from wishing to commit suicide.
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There's volumes there. Some combination of the sentiment that $900 million isn't nearly the most interesting thing going on about YC [+] and the notion that while $900 million isn't important enough to think about you'd have to correct a math error on it because math.

[+] A totally reasonable sentiment, which makes me smile in about three different ways. Once for not caring about money, once for having the luxury to not care about money because $900 million, and once for that happening to very deserving people.
It's easy to come up with much more compact schemes that are still completely generic. For example, to represent a variable length number use xxx0, 0xxxxxx1, 0xxxxxx1xxxxxx1, etc. Normally you need a pair of these to specify (version,function). But if we assume functions are packed, you can have a run-length scheme (run-length,starting-function-number).

So "function 1 is on version 5, function 2 on version 3, function 3 on version 7, and function 4 on version 1" is four functions starting with 1 = (1000,0010),1010,0110,1110,0010 = 24 bits.

It gets better quick with larger numbers of functions.

BTW, the size of the prime scheme is log2(nthprime(function))*version bits for each function. If you don't know ahead of time which functions there might be, then you have to do a prime factorization, which is a hard problem. I guess if you used really large numbers you could have a cryptographically secure way of indicating which versions of which functions are in your library.
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To us such things might be self-explanatory, but not for everyone. A lot of the people most at risk from the disease know nothing of our modern notions of how disease spreads and how to effectively prevent it. Even in the US, a lot of people don't know the specifics of how ebola spreads, there is a lot of FUD.
Nowhere near double precision.
According to the website the ranges are the same for the RWD.

S60 208

S85 265

P85 265

The dual motor configuration increases range on all models.

S60D 225

S85D 295

P85D 275
I found that 80% number strange and it seems the real numbers are much more complex than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide

The entry paragraph gives a quick glimpse of the complexities but here's my attempt at a tl,dr of it:

- there are highly asymmetric rates of attempted and completed suicide between genders

- can vary significantly between different countries

- males die much more often by means of suicide than do females

- reported suicide attempts and thoughts are much more common among females than males

- females have a higher rate of attempted suicide than males earlier in life, which decreases with age

- for males the rate of attempted suicide remains fairly constant when controlled for age

- genders tend to differ in their methods of suicide and responses to suicidal feelings
"What do you think we have these wonderfully articulated fingers for? To scratch our asses?"

--A raccoon, in the movie The Great Outdoors
Exactly as you indicate, even in "classic" terminals we have features like unicode support, color, geometry reporting, mouse reporting, window title manipulation, arbitrary cursor movement, etc. All these are in widespread use today. These features could not have been implemented in a real tty, but nowadays I think it makes sense to have them. Maybe some are a little kludge-ish, but are we really arguing about their usefulness?

So why shouldn't we have a couple of extra escape sequences where the terminal could, e.g. draw an arbitrary bitmap? You are right, that would certainly require some sort of standard becoming prevalent, but why would a little extra capability (that doesn't break compatibility) be a bad thing?
It's brilliant. By gradually building up to it, I started to really understand recursion, the power of lambdas and closures, etc. I also started to get Lisp and Scheme in the process. It's a great book, well worth it and if you're venturing out into the Lisp world, I strongly recommend it. If you're not into Scheme, I believe the book also contains equivalent Common Lisp code.
You need to educate yourself with the science of choice and what happens during depression that changes your ability to make right decisions. Assuming that a depressed person is able to make the right decision is just wrong. How many times did you decide on something and than changed your mind? only this one is irreversible. Depression is curable with right support and medication. There may be few who are hopeless cases but 40000 is a big number and I believe its preventable for good.
The problem starts when you get into "is this a state of mind or an illness?" territory. I've heard the argument that people who have the wish to commit suicide are by definition mentally ill and should therefore be prevented from doing it even if we don't know which mental illness they suffer from.
America is NOT doing nothing. America is not synonymous with the Federal gov't. We as a people do a lot outside of Federal gov't spending.
You've got these employees who have been working 80 hours a week in a big company, where they're told exactly what to do.

Then suddenly you essentially tell them: go make some cool stuff, or you'll probably be fired. Nobody's going to tell you what that cool stuff is, though; figure it out yourself.

Some people will thrive in that environment. But for most, it's just going to ratchet up the stress, especially since they're coming in burnt-out. Most working for a big company do it because they work better in an environment where they're told what to do. The path to success is crystal clear.

IMO, interproject should be all about burn-out prevention. The job path for video game developers is fairly standard. You spend your 20s developing video games, and then you get married and get a real job: twice the pay, half the hours. Interproject could keep those employees in Ubisoft rather than forcing them out.

P.S. By married, I mean "mortgage and a baby". Very few people in Quebec actually get married.
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Abortion is also irreversible, yet discouraging women who want to abort their pregnancy from doing so is considered in bad taste by most liberals.
When visiting the US this summer, we walked across the Golden Gate (which at the time didn't have the "anti-suicide rails" that I believe are planned).

In several places there were both help phones and signs asking people to seek help, and also in one place there was graffiti on the pavement saying something like "somebody loves you". It was quite moving.
I'm working on custom integrations tailored to specific project so for me each project is like a new job where I'm picking up tools and technologies that will deliver stable and maintainable outcome. New job, new people and new challenges - that keeps me sorta away from burning out. So I guess the main question is how much influence do you want to have? Do you want to craft specific algorithm that is somebody else idea? Or do you want to come up with your own ideas and bring them alive? I'm in second group.
That's what made it a joke? A 17 year old can contribute to world peace just as much as anyone. What's a joke is a warmongering president being awarded a peace prize.
But that’s not why the prize is given. It is to encourage promising people to continue doing what they are doing. That’s a very clear pattern when you look at who received the prize.

Implicit in that is that the prize might be given to people who turn out to be a disappointment.

In many ways this is actually a very hard prize to award, but I’m ok with that. Sure, it will fail from time to time, but that’s just human.
It is funny that on HN the discussion is mainly focused on driver assist and its merits/drawbacks, while the real innovation is being ignored: this thing has two engines, increased range (on all but top of the line versions where range is decreased by only 10 miles), and is nearly a 10 second car, with 0-60 time in just over 3 seconds. Oh and roller coaster-like lateral acceleration of 1 g. Also note that the range of the dual motor setup is the result of software optimization of which engine to run at what power level at what point. This is the really exciting new development here.
I think the main problem is that people from HN are on average much more self-motivated than your average person. And as a result the average person who goes on bench quickly gets bored with nothing to do rather than take the initiative and do something. They need someone to direct them. Remember most people socialize, watch tv, etc. most people are not self-motivators. It's sad but unfortunately it's the reality. On a positive note we need employees, not everyone can be an entrepreneur.

I think Ubisoft is doing a very good thing. It's better than most companies. If they want to maximize their retainment investment they just need to have some direction for the people on the bench. The problem is, is it worth this additional investment? Probably not. On a positive note your self motivators can take advantage of it which is great. And those that don't, well they don't.
Obama winning Nobel Peace prize wasn't a stretch, it was a farce.
Better than what? The average human driver?
its an oxymoron
I think you're confusing or equalizing suicide with euthanasia; the former is, in this case, a mental issue triggered by chemical inbalances (which in turn are often due to external causes), and as the people that have been through depression can attest to, a temporary one. Suicide in that case can be listed as a temporary lapse in judgment.

Euthanasia, on the other hand, is a conscious choice, often by the terminally ill and the suffering with no chance of recovery. Chronic physical pain and such, often to a point where the person is no longer able to commit suicide.
You'll love this talk then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEYCU62yeYk
Some very interesting things are going to happen in international politics over the next six months, driven by Ebola. And I use the word "interesting" in the same way as it's used in the curse "May you live in interesting times"

I think by early next year it'll become obvious that we're going to lose millions of folks to the disease. What remains unknown is what the containment ability of western societies are. R is overall around 2, but in Europe maybe it's just .2 -- or maybe 1.2. The difference between those two numbers has staggering implications for the future of many societies.

I also do not believe that some sort of massive intervention would work to contain Ebola in Africa right now. Mathematically, yes, you can make the numbers work to show that a huge intervention could contain it. But practically? Not happening. The world is heading down this road whether we're prepared for it or not.
More nuance, please!

I think most women have thought about abortion to some degree and formed an opinion on whether it's the right choice for them, or under what conditions they would entertain the idea of an abortion versus keeping the child in an unexpected pregnancy. In these cases, you're right: discouraging women who have thought about the process would be seen as in bad taste.

But what if the woman was being pressured to abort (or to keep) the child by outside pressure? Then intervention would be seen as supporting the woman, not as interfering, and it'd be in good taste.

IMO, suicide is very similar. A large proportion of suicide attempts are people who go on to regret it and successfully seek treatment. I don't think it's too much of a leap from that to the idea that a large proportion of suicides themselves are being done for the wrong reasons, i.e. the "outside pressure" of a brain that is suffering a mental illness.
> right decision

You're asserting that not only a right decision exists, but that you are more aware of the right decision than the person actually involved.
Mr. Kissinger has won the nobel prize. Its going to be hard to top that.
That's actually true and some big companies employ consultants from those consulting firms for couple of years - costing much more than a permanent or even contract employee would.
Gandhi didn't receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Snowden is in good company. It's company with the rest of the world at that.
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Petronio, I did choose those classes, thank you. Unfortunately, they weren't mandatory. I too was lucky enough to have a father similar to yours while growing up. I guess the keyword is lucky, most don't have the privilege.

I have felt passionate about providing some sort of supplemental educational tool for a while now. Yesterday, when a college sophomore friend of mine contacted me for help with putting together a resume, I knew I couldn't wait any longer.

Thank you so much for your feedback. Wonderful, wonderful information! I will surely reach out to you. You sound as though you would be great to work with and/or a great candidate for providing content for the app. Just those few paragraphs were truly captivating. You have a thing or two you can teach.

I can even see a cool video on how to give a proper handshake. A little camera angle play and you could have something nice!
I remember reading an article years ago about automatic driving first coming to commercial shipping (i.e. 18 wheelers and other cargo vehicles) using a separated lane on highways, but that the political pushback (jobs lost) was making that a difficult sell.
To paraphrase a popular movie / meme, "You're not a criminal, you're just an asshole".
So it only took 20 years...
My exact thoughts on CSS are best summed up by this legendary item :

http://craphound.com/images/css_is_awesome.jpg
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Related: here is a very good article and comments on estimating transcendental functions: http://www.coranac.com/2009/07/sines/

I'm annoyed that one of the links in the comments is broken: there was a page where you entered your function and it provided a chebyshev polynomial to generate it to a particular precision.

EDIT: well here is another one: http://goddard.net.nz/files/js/chebyshev/cheby.html
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This is interesting, as he seems to be working in Marketing it could be a stunt, right?
Depending on the method of suicide, clean-up. A popular way to go here in NL seems to be to jump in front of a train. Traumatized train personnel, a train full of people delayed for hours, loads of clean-up, etc. Jumping off the Golden Gate bridge seems to be relatively clean in comparison.
>I think that if I ever wanted to commit suicide I would be less likely to seek counseling out of fear I would be "prevented" from making my own choices.

If you already made your choice to commit suicide, you wouldn't seek counseling. But if you do, they won't do anything against your will unless you announce your suicide.
that's a horrible comparison
Except REPLs are CLIs on steroids.

UNIX shells can only seem powerful for those that never had the luxury of playing with Smalltalk, Lisp, Mesa/Cedar or Oberon environments.

Where you have a CLI and GUI experiences interact together to create a composable workflow experience.

Where I can do function composition on my REPL over data that I just selected with my mouse on a word processor, just to give a possible example.

Where public functions from dynamic modules are exposed on the REPL and can take part in any set of commands.

There is this primitive notion that a CLI needs to be the UNIX way, when a REPL as CLI is so much more powerful.
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Was Upworthy really the best source for this? The transcript is very nearly useless.

Furthermore, 'true' captalism with a truly free market is quite unrealistic, since it would require all participants to be effectively omniscient and infinitely rational (and even then you would have to compare it to 'true' communism, where no one is ever selfish or lazy)
Ah yes, we've at least gotten over the inline css ... although we seem to have gotten back into inline javascript with various ng-click="doSomething()" thingies.