skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice covering of a certain well-known GoL pattern.

If you like GoL, you should check out LifeWiki which is the largest and most up-to-date pattern collection (kind-of encyclopedia for the GoL universe) out there:

http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page

If you are interested in latest research and news about the subject, the following blog aggregate is the best I'm aware of:

http://www.conwaylife.com/
Zizzi diners told to wash clothing after nerve agent traces found
It's not a helpful one-line reply; you could at least have offered up a link or reference to your suggested place to study.

It's also wrong in that you use "Lorenz" (as in Ludwig, the Danish one) instead of "Lorentz" (as in Hendrik, the Dutch one). Don't feel too bad; lots of respectable authors have made a similar typo ("Lorentz gauge" instead of "Lorenz gauge"), but it makes your one-liner even less useful as a piece of advice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Lorenz?oldformat=true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Lorentz?oldformat=true
That's the plot of GK Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill. Also how some ancient Greek city states used to elect their leaders.
I don't think phones are good for note-taking. There's even evidence that they may harm cognitive functioning.[1] It seems like it would be more productive to carry around a small pad of paper and transfer the paper notes to Org Mode later.

[1] https://news.utexas.edu/2017/06/26/the-mere-presence-of-your...
There’s a new group learning CD that mistakenly believes that automatic deploys are CD. Most of these came to the concept after it had supplanted discussion about CI.

Automating a deploy is relatively straightforward but doesn’t provide much value if that’s all you do. Local reproduction of build steps, metrics, historical data, building out test infrastructure, all of this is important for scaling up a team and keeping regressions low.
Blame the Computer: The fake science that keeps threatening to kill us
"How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?"

Are you allowed to combine multiple movies? If so them I'm off to combine "Howards End" and "The Hurt Locker" into something more to my taste....
An 80 bit password would be secure. In fact, now that I am aware of this issue I generate the master password for Thunderbird with PfP: Pain-free Passwords and it's in fact around 80 bits strong (too bad that I cannot use PfP in Thunderbird directly). But if you as a human choose a 16 characters password you will get far less than 80 bits. Passwords chosen by humans follow known patterns, use dictionary words etc. Which is why password cracking applications won't stupidly test the entire password space - they will go for passwords that humans are more likely to choose. Fact is, for a human getting significantly higher than 40 bits while still being able to remember the password is very hard.
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Yes. That was a bad time in my life.
Thank you for your work. Your books look great!
> ... wonder if year after year eventually that is going to give me arthritis or increase the chances of it.

This is precisely the reason I picked-up an ergodox [1] when my wrists started to hurt from `ctrl+whatever` key combos. moving modifier keys to the thumbs is so obviously superior I'm not sure why it's not more common.

admittedly it felt ridiculous to pay ~$250 for a keyboard (thanks, ebay), but now i almost never have to contort my wrists into weird angles &

[1] https://www.ergodox.io/
That so many businesses offer health insurance benefits - such that half of all Americans get their health insurance from their employer - wasn't always a legal requirement (and in many cases still isn't). That happened out of labor competition

I thought it happened out of a tax break and things never went back to normal.

https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/part-1-the-history-of-u.s.-e...
I think the article is saying that there are way too many confounding variables in determining the probabilistic nature of longevity and so far due to the fragments of data, contradictions in data, challenges in tracking, uncaptured info, it is extremely difficulty to meaningful understand what people could do to slowdown aging without running controlled study on thousands if not millions of people.

However, say someone really wants to figure this out, they really want to know every component of every meal people eat, every activity or habit and every moment of their lives in terms of heart rate and metabolism and provide a device to easily track all these and make sure the data is for anonymized for research only, and they managed to convince millions of people to implant such device at their birth, and they figured this out in 500 years and found a formula to extend life indefinitely, I wonder if this would introduce the classic “the rich/wealthy lives forever” scenario, or the alternative scenario where the knowledge of longevity could hurt genetic evolution as a whole.
The number of coincidences in the first 40 minutes of The Force Awakens is staggering.
I wonder if they can sell me some Pepsi Blue.
"During the day it calls itself a Vim Clutch, but at night its name is pornhubbrowserautohidepanic-button"

Nonetheless, it is a nice device, though I don't see myself relearning a muscle memory to use a pedal, which I will basically only have at home and/or work, but not when working somewhere remote on a notebook.

But if I had one, or had to use one, I'd probably bind ESC to it or alt+tab to cycle through 2 or 3 apps, editor/terminal/browser
Facebook's Bet on an Augmented Reality Future
Ensuring deployments are "predictable, routine affairs that can be performed on demand at any time" isn't just a generic business process problem. It imposes significant constraints on how code has to be written and tested.
This is a great list. Thank you.
Russian president and animation: What happened in May 2017?
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That description reminds me of the Sorcerer's Apprentice Syndrome in TFTP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer%27s_Apprentice_Syndro...
I use Desmos all the time when teaching. It's accessible to students with no programming knowledge, and the killer feature is that I can just give students a link so they can interact with a demo I've made.

For example:

Quadratic through 3 points (drag the points around): https://www.desmos.com/calculator/tf1f80zgug

Pythagoras's Theorem (drag the sliders): https://www.desmos.com/calculator/dbjxbeuzk7

Why shearing preserves area (drag the slider): https://www.desmos.com/calculator/1vykaqf7je
Thank you for mentioning the HifiBerry DAC+ which I didnt't know. Looks very interesting. They call the pro version "audiophile" which is hard to believe at $39. How well does it perform in your experience?
I'd like to learn vector calculus (to better understand Maxwell's Equations). Does anyone have any learning resources they could recommend? I've got this video in my Watch Later queue on YouTube, but if there are any other resources that give a clear introduction to the material I'd be interested in them. To give a bit of background, I learnt the basics of calculus back in school but I haven't used it in over 15 years, so I'm likely to need to get the basics down first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsOoClvZmic
Funny you should say that, because the last time the US crossed an ocean to steal resources was, uh... never.

The only US wars that are strongly arguably stealing resources would be the various banana wars (but the Gulf of Mexico isn't exactly an ocean), the Spanish-American War (ditto; note that the US never set out on the war to conquer the Philippines, the US Navy just happened to be in the area at the time), and the Indian Wars.
It's interesting the focus on the beginning and the end. It seems that would mean you should think a lot about how things at the end are similar or different from the start, like circumstances and character, and how you feel about all that.
Where the S8 was great, the S9 is only fine
You should check out
DrAwdeOccarim's comment below for some biotech links
One point missed in this entire calculation of "Continuous Delivery" of systems is the estimated "Cost of a Mistake" [0]. There are many applications where an small error in deployment could lead to a loss of a human life. Code for safety critical systems requires formal checks before being deployed and iterated [1]. There are indeed many many environments where continuous delivery won't work for very good reasons.

[0] https://twitter.com/benhamner/status/832785333070606337

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis
How to mine Ethereum in 2018 – Guide
I showed me 1 min as 31 mins
I just saw a reference to "How to Design Programs" by Felleisen, Findler, Flatt & Krishnamurthi go by and remembered this paper. It's by HtDP's authors and discusses some of the weaknesses they saw in SICP and why they decided to write a new "standard first year CS curriculum" to replace it.

Worth a read if you're an educational geek, or just sort of wonder what CS professors stay up late thinking about.
The Inflamed Mind (2016)
Thank you for your very reasonable answer.
This description of analysis paralysis is spot on.
Ask HN: How to self learn algorithms and data structures?
Inspired by this post here[0].

I am a self taught developer (actually, not a developer yet, just trying my best to be one). I have attempted to get started with algorithms and data structures before but failed miserably then. My first attempt was with CLRS around a year back. The book turned out to be a bit too technical. I reasoned it maybe a little early for me to look into algorithms, after all I was only months into learning programming. Now I am geared up for a second try, and I am on the lookout for a new approach.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16562173
Those unfortunately don't fit all window sizes. If you need custom sizes, a company called BlackoutEZ makes the same product but let's you pick the size.

I can attest to these blackout covers making daytime sleep not hell. I don't even need zolpidem to fall asleep anymore.
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I had a similar experience when I learned about factoring (not sure what age). I got a little obsessed with finding prime numbers by hand, and eventually figured out that I only had to search for factors up to the square root. I distinctly remember that as the first time I realized how powerful a simple mathematical insight can be to speeding up a process.

Now, of course, I use mathematical insight to speed up processes occupationally; I guess that experience stuck with me.
My browser at least seems to struggle to download the file at https://ai.danruta.co.uk/webassembly/mnist.js - how big is this file in total?
Uber's autonomous trucks are making their first runs in Arizona
When I first heard the announcement about Firefox OS a handful of years ago, I thought to myself “that’s a bad idea. They should stay focused instead of stretching themselves too thin.”

You’re still not as fast or battery-efficient as Safari on macOS, so for me, Mozilla has more work to do on its core products before jumping onto a new tech project (like Firefox OS) that doesn’t even have a clear use in the market.

You’re not Sony. You’re not Facebook. Focus on what you’re good at now, let those guys find the market and the killer apps, THEN jump into AR.

You still have more work to do where you are. Tell the product people to shut up. FOCUS. Fewer features, better quality.
Atlassian open sourced a tool to help with CLI access when using many AWS accounts through federated roles.

https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2017/12/introducing-clo...
In this case I’m talking about the double A pillars, not the D pillars. Backup cameras are fine. But seeing someone approaching a residential intersection on foot or on bike is important.
Because I do not grant people an excuse for acting like a child because other people are acting childish towards them.

That entire line of reasoning is itself childish.
I wish this article provided more context. Apart from the Svalbard facility, there are more than a 1,000 seed banks [1] around the world. Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the world's first, and for a long time largest seed collection isn't mentioned in either article. A heroic story [2] associated with that collection is worth knowing.

[1] https://www.agprofessional.com/article/update-worlds-15-larg...

[2] https://www.rbth.com/blogs/2014/05/12/the_men_who_starved_to...
I agree, because I'm on this path myself and have been for 200 days. I started by brushing up on my algebra and now I've reached integrals in AP Calculus AB.
It mostly annoys me that we had at least 17 years where this relatively modest amount of code would have made a big security & usability benefit. Even if Apple eventually deprecated it, that’s a longer useful lifespan than an awful lot of code has.
"You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else." - Winston Churchill
That's quite a few! A lot of those show up on the list as "nur für Mitarbeiter" and "nicht öffentlich"; is there a nice list anywhere of those few that are open to the public? I'd like to try one sometime while they're still operating.
I use a combination of blackout shades, Philips hue lights, and the Sleep cycle app on my phone. It starts the lights very dim and red at the beginning of a 20 minute wake up window, slowly brightens them, and then rings the alarm whenever I start rolling over. It is a little complicated, but it has worked well for a few years now.
Suppose short of an eccentric bankrolling a jumpstart to institutionalizing a longevity research culture (for discussions sake, lets say Elon or the ghost of howard hughes) how do you imagine todays research culture would evolve into the necessary scale such longevity research would allegedly require?
Believe me, there are plenty:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...

https://www.reddit.com/r/HateSubredditOfTheDay/
I like the fact that it's a GC language. You can also disable the GC using the @nogc pragma. Efforts have been recently made to make a bigger part of the standard library @nogc compliant.
GN looks like a neat Go-specific HN clone, I'll start keeping an eye on it.

Unfortunately, it seems that there are almost no comments: from the 24 topics I see on the front page, only two have comments. Do you feel the submissions are high quality? Or what makes you recommend it?
Elon Musk Explains Why We AI Development Needs to Be Regulated
Whether the advent of digital super intelligence is symbiotic with humanity is the single-biggest existential crisis we face today, [Elon Musk said at SXSW on Sunday.](https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/1834227/elon-musk-the-danger-of-ai-is-much-greater-than-nuclear-warheads-we-need-regulatory-oversight-of-ai-development)
so sure. oculus is cool.

i even know a few people working there; they're smart dudes.

but.

they're being managed by an organization whose ops group can't remember to renew certs and whose marketing group thinks it's cool to demo first person shooters at NRA events the day after a mass shooting where you play the part of a deranged mass shooter killing random people on a train platform.

as smart as the tech guys are, the organizational + business guys aren't really the sharpest tools in the drawer.
> My goal with Bitwise is to show that these things can be done much more simply and quickly than people realize if we strongly favor simplicity over marginal gains in feature completeness or performance.

This is a refreshing way of looking at the world. One of my principles is to always strive for simplicity when creating, but i've never given much thought about how it applies to the fundamentals of existing creations or ideas when learning.

In retrospect, I've learned many thing that I previously thought too complex to understand. The complexities tend to dissolve when you realise they are mostly just extra distractions emerging from the pressures of engineering the thing... distractions that you probably find yourself inventing all over again once you've assimilated the core idea.
It is easier to market something as the "cure" than to actually discover and validate a cure
The best guitar recordings of Bach are by Paul Galbraith. He really took it to the next level with a custom built 8string guitar and astonishing technique.
And those package manager maintainers (all the way from distros to software libraries) don’t see a dime of compensation for it, while companies use open source tooling to create enormous valuations. It’s a shame.

We salute you package maintainers!
Yes, 1Password is closed source. But as far as their security design goes, they are as open as possible. In fact, I recently started looking into https://1password.com/files/1Password%20for%20Teams%20White%... to understand what choices they've made. While I don't have an overview yet, one thing for sure: their key derivation algorithm isn't built for hardware from the past century.

Storing your password database on someone else's computer might not be a bad thing if it is securely encrypted. In the end, most people have more than one device these days. If your solution is doing manual "synchronization" then the result will often turn out less secure.
Using Feynman as an example doesn't help your case:
https://restructure.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/sexist-feynman-...

That said, I don't think we can judge people in the past using modern ethical values and it doesn't take away from his achievements.
He’s great, his concerti for piano are remarkable, but I don’t think his output approaches that of Beethoven or Bach for volume, or sustained quality.

Very different style too, highly romantic, lyrical. I didn’t always care for it but I must say concerti 2&3 for piano are masterpieces.
Just like, in spite of the fact that cancer cannot be cured, it’s a lot easier to market research to “cure” it rather than “treat” it.
I’ve been using the wirecutter’s recommended mask for a while and it has been great. It has that same cupped shape that you describe.
Alt-l (lowercase L) works out of the box and doesn't move the cursor. I also map a press and release of capslock to escape for when I need that (it's control the rest of the time).
I believe to know, what might make me live longer, my body often tells me: sleep more, eat less, avoid too much meat, fat and sugar, don’t drink etc.

Many times, I catch myself thinking though: do I really wanna miss out on a great moment/feeling just to live a couple of years longer with a broken body and/or mind?

I can enjoy now. Who knows if I can then.
Everyone I've seen with a Kinesis who actually had a mouse had one of these.

They're also fantastic once you're used to them. I frequently consider switching to trackball, but my favorite option is still the Trackpoint. IBM/Lenovo really screwed the pooch there though.
Not directly on-topic, but since the article mention CDNs: is there any privacy concerns when using CDNs?
Hmm might be an opportunity here to bring the 'adult' culture of hacker news to a more broader platform. Could probably most naturally be accomplished with 'subs' on HN but might dilute the core brand?
The kinesis pedals require the foot to move which is requires a lot of energy which produces a lag of about 1 second between you wanting to press a key and pressing it with your foot. This lag turned me off pedals, but in theory it sounds great.
This doesn't need docker and not even 20 minutes.

initdb -D mypostgresdatadir # creates the DB
postgres -D mypostgresdatadir -p 1234 # runs DB on given port

Done.

On systems like Ubuntu, these binaries live in e.g. `/usr/lib/postgresql/9.5/bin/postgres`.
I found this opinion piece insightful:
https://medium.com/@ummerr/youre-working-in-the-wrong-place-...

I believe a solution could be the combination of:

a) Open-office space with pods of desks that groups can flock to when collaboration is required. Noise is welcome.

b) Library space where conversations are prohibited. Complete silence.

c) Closed-door offices that are large enough to house a team and a whiteboard.

Designing and building desired office spaces does not come cheap. But, that should be weighed against the productivity upside.
How Alfred Hitchcock Pioneered VR Techniques
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php

Is pretty good for guitar / amp / etc info. (following your Music thread/theme)

Oh and: http://www.tdpri.com/
Though this comment alone may not add much to the discussion, I'd like to use it to point out how ridiculous and subtly manipulative headlines are getting -- using second person pronouns, tenuous emotional connections, faux mystery, etc. When does it end? And no mention of the phrase "seed bank"?

Edit: the original headline was "The Colorado vault that keeps your favorite foods from going extinct"
> Look, I'm sure the 1Password guys are nice, upstanding people, but implementing crypto correctly is hard, really hard. Sure, they are probably telling the truth about what algorithms they use. But did they implement them correctly? Would they tell you if they hadn't, given it would hurt their business?

I looked into a number of password managers already. So far, 1Password is the only one where I can believe that they got the crypto right (other than my own, obviously). But I'll certainly try to find flaws in their implementation. There is a nice bug bounty on those.
I rode one the other weekend in Prague with my girlfriend, and we agreed to ride it over the top together. Despite doing the same thing 20 years ago when last there, it’s pretty scary - on the last floor there is a big sign saying ‘get out now!!!’ in big red letters, and it is much noiser and shaky as you are close to all the machinery. We held on, proper dose of adrenaline, as the cabin is plunched into rattling darnkess, and the clanking gets even louder. You then get a bit of light and see the big exposed cog wheel and other machinery, move sideways and eventually down. It’s a major relief when you arrive at the top floor again. Great fun!
The f.lux website has a ‚research‘ section with plenty of reading material on the issue: https://justgetflux.com/research.html
+1 - Best of Luck
The whole point of Bitcoin is to avoid petty self-important fascist central-control freaks like the author (apparently a Mr Bloomberg writing on Forbes just to confuse people).

Blockchain is probably the best system for establishing distributed trust in Byzantine conditions since the Freemason's secret handshake. It will take more than a whining blog post to make it go away.
No, that’s something slightly different—it’s doing something for the purpose of expressing your virtue. This is just splitting hairs.
Here's my write up: http://thume.ca/2014/09/08/creating-a-keyboard-1-hardware/
Obviously not, because if Obama could have gotten it passed, he would have done it before he left office. It was already sinking even before the summer conventions.
For example with Docker Swarm:
http://container-solutions.com/rolling-updates-with-docker-s...

Some companies have GitLab workflows that also deploy successfull builds automatically, checks are there problems in that deploy, and rollbacks automatically when needed:
https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/473?autostart=fa...

Such workflows could also be made with for example:
- Huginn https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- Flogo http://www.flogo.io
I recently switched to fastmail and was able to go from 3 pinned gmail tabs to 1 pinned fastmail tab handling all of my email.

It’s so fast and I really like what you guys are doing. Thanks!
Similarly, I use the same bindings I mentioned above on my laptop keyboard, and there I have the right command key bound to control. Since it's right next to the spacebar I can easily hold it down with my thumb while using other keys to move around.
the original YC application is also really good. extremely focused.

(side, that original demo dropbox web UI is nicer than what they have now. there's a tendency for big companies to create over-heavy web UI (cf., what's happened to gmail and google maps).)