skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does github use Jekyll for it's blog? And what chat/video conference software is used, Skype?
i dont believe tiled can generate random maps, but you could potentially write a program that generated a random tiled document (the tmx format is well documented), and then use tiled to touch it up. But i guess this only works if your pipeline is offline, and won't work if you want to be able to generate random maps at runtime.
34/36 and I was 50/50 on both of the 2 that I missed.

This is about what I expected. I'm very good at reading people in real-life situations.

I also can informally "keep score" of what battles people have won and lost in a team environment and very, very informally, without people realizing it, make small deals where people win the battles they want where the other side loses battles they don't care much about.

I don't talk about it much, but I suffered some abuse as a child and it may have been a learned behavior from being quite in tune with what is about to set someone off.
D3D9: Why It's Not a Part of Dolphin's Future
I like this post (or at least the direction it begins to take at the end).

"One could do something similar with render quality. There are possible solutions, and I'm thinking creatively about it."

Thank you for taking the time to answer me.
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You want to know old? I'll tell you old. I just downloaded a copy (never mind where from) of Borland Pascal 7.0, the last version of Turbo Pascal for MSDOS. I have my own legal copy, with 5¼" disks, but no disk drives. But I also have a program I wrote in the mid-1980s that still has some users, and I've wondered for a long time what would happen if I needed to make changes to it. Now, thanks to DOSbox, I can run that entire programming environment on my Linux box and... probably do nothing with it, but at least it's there...
Are the videos mirrored anywhere? I was working so I couldn't watch the talks.
Not yet.

"We have massive investment in Android. I promise you will be happy soon."

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/18/free-voip-calls-now-...
"system of repression . . . in which deviance isn’t furiously stamped out . . . but pathologized instead."

For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggishly_progressing_schizop...
Many of these have entries in the 99 Bottles of Beer website http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/ .

Konrad Zuse's Z3 computer belongs on the list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer) , making it accidentally the first ever actually-constructed Turing-equivalent* computer. There may be some kind of lesson there. (Zuse evidently wasn't unaware of the possibility of Turing-complete computation though: he designed the first high-level programming language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankalk%C3%BCl before the end of the war.)

* (Or memory-limited finite approximation to a Turing-equivalent computer, like any other actual computer, of course.)
I know I'm not the only one to find it hilarious that for every single top-HN post you make, you can double the traffic by simply posting the status of each one.

As much flak as HN gets, I have found that it's the best source of traffic. My post yesterday about building a desk stayed at #2 for half a day and I got about 20,000 views with an average time of 40 seconds. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6566643
It is entirely possible to generate infinite loops in MTG. You can generate inifinite mana, damage, health etc, bring back cards from the graveyard etc. If you have the right hand and cards in play these are easy to do. I remember playing at a tourney and my opponent got off a combo that did unlimited damage and mana, I was very sad.
Anyone willing to share their experiences with their use of Cocoa over the years?
Why Condom usage rate is so high in Hong Kong?
Are pro athletes like Arian Foster really selling stock in themselves?
Wearehunted was the best music service around but when twitter got their hands on it, it was done! Useless. Someone recreate it please... I would pay cash money.
Like the ability to write user defined functions to process data in SQL queries in whatever language you want, for example. Language handlers have long been available not only for SQL, C, and PL/PGSQL (PostgreSQL's variant of Oracle's PL/SQL), but also TCL, Perl, and Python. Third party language handlers are available for Java, PHP, and many more languages. Yes, you can run PHP inside your PostgreSQL database.....

Now new data types are pretty much C-only, but you can also create a lot of the same functionality using composite types and sql. Composite types (and even arrays of composite types) can be tuple elements.

Add to this the object-oriented-inspired features, allowing you to use multiple inheritance to mix in tables and create common interfaces to data (both features older than PostgreSQL's use of SQL).

What this means is you can do some extremely advanced db-stuff with PostgreSQL. This can include:

- I want to create a common interface for notes but avoid a global notes table.

- I want to scan a series of images stored in the db for those matching an algorithm in a Java library showing which are likely images of sunsets.

- I want to add support for a third party Java full text search engine into the back-end so I can call its functions from inside SQL queries.
Doesn't seem to, although the last update was a few weeks ago. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... There are apps that do this though, I use GrooVe IP for example.
I don't really agree with calling an RC helicopter a drone. It sounds way more malicious that way. But then again, "Local man found to be bad at flying RC helicopter" isn't nearly as attention-grabbing.
As a New Yorker, this article seems to delineate the rural/suburban-urban divide more than anything about age or the effect of technology.
I have a feeling that this would be part of new Android. I would say they want to merge traditional voice and text into Hangouts
For me, mbpr 13 is a really good balance between usability and portability. I was Thinkpad + linux for years, but I find the mbp hardware feels a bit sturdier, compared to other options in the same price range. The main contender for me was the Thinkpad Carbon, but I liked the feel of the mbp keyboard and trackpad a bit better (The latest TP has weird rounded keys).
A remote controlled aircraft is not a 'drone'. At least not in the breathless sensationalist sense we're supposed to read into that title.
I wish it was ironic, but I find it typically narcissistic. HN can resist a good navel gaze with a side of a lint-picking.
Well, facilitators and enablers will be in demand regardless of what methodology you subscribe to. For the last 8 years I've been a product manager (& director). This is one of those jobs that if you do a mediocre job, at best you'll be a nuisance, at worst an impedance. If you do a stellar job, your team's productivity will skyrocket and so will the returns on the investment.

PMs, like many other enablers/facilitators, are there to weed-out noise and make sure the team is always in the know on the relevant context and insights. When things go badly, strong PMs provide cover for the engineers to work through the storm and continuously synthesize all forms of feedback to ensure engineers have proper situational awareness and facts to make sound decisions, but not thrash in response to whatever strife might be out there.

There are other "managerial" type professions that have a place and make things better. All good managers know how to resolve conflict and make sure the team knows about any land mines, but also knows when to get out of the way and let people work. Individual development is also the job of the manager.
Strangely, the whole GoAhead code including the backdoor seems to be on Github: https://github.com/socoola/yhrouter/blob/master/user/goahead...
To me, I think either way this activity should be banned. Though the activity should be allowed in some rural area with permits. Especially in a dense, metropolitan city like NYC, flying a robotic copter or drone can pose dangerous. especially if everyone were to fly one.
YC Startup School 2013 Summary
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This article is just purple prose nonsense that takes advantage of their audience's natural distrust of information that surrounds the human mind (see the author's reference to multiple benign conditions to discredit the work) and the author's own hang up about some sad end where "human beings are individuated, sick, and alone." From pioneers like Freud to the modern psychoanalysis spectra we have today, I see much of the body of work around human mental states being about classification/categorization, statistical aggregation, symptom/diagnosis tracking and vocabulary. The article is more or less reading a collection of codified medical anomalies and then attributing a singular, malevolent narrative tone to it instead of just reading it for what it is: a standardized professional manual with a strict written style and many collaborators. There's no narration let alone an "unreliable" narrator, there's minimal subjectivity, there are no actors, there's just some observational information presented in a standard way. While I'm aware the DSM has its critics and naff list of non-disorders, I don't believe that committing to basic research and presenting objective findings is a madness that itself belongs in the DSM. What if the goal to this manual is altruistic? What if even one patient benefits from a faster recovery from some mental malaise because of this manual? I'm inclined to say keep researching!
I hope everyone understands that there is NO reliable evidence that any dietary supplements, including vitamins, provide any health benefits whatsoever to healthy people.[1] Occasionally individual studies will find an association between a particular positive outcome and a particular supplement, say breast cancer survival and vitamin D.[2] But it is just as likely to find an association with a negative outcome, say higher breast cancer risk in regular vitamin takers.[3] However none of these results has ever been found to be reproducible AFAIK.

For example a 2009 thorough review of all research on vitamin D and calcium supplements by US DHHS concluded:

The majority of the findings concerning vitamin D, calcium, or a combination of both nutrients on the different health outcomes were inconsistent.[4]

Most if not all of the studies initially finding these spurious correlations are large studies looking at lots of factors and outcomes. Unfortunately due to the nature of statistics there is always a small chance of a false positive or negative relationship and if many possible relationships are examined, such as in these large exploratory studies, it is almost a certainty that some false correlations will be found. This is why almost all of these studies say that confirmation in additional studies is required but this warning does not always make it into press reports. Occasionally a new relationship will be found that is confirmed in follow up studies. Unfortunately this confirmation has yet to be found for any supplement for any outcome in healthy people AFAIK.

FYI - Peter Norvig has a nice writeup of what to look out for when considering the results of a study.[5]

[1] Some supplements can help people with specific health issues but ask an expert such as your doctor as there are many false claims about supplements helping with specific conditions.

[2] http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/BreastCancer/...

[3] http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/183880.php

[4] http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/evidence-based-reports...

[5] http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
An army of robot baristas competes with Starbucks
I'll post mine when I get a chance.. I thought the speaker line up was pretty good. Lots of diversity.
At least cloudflare will still serve your cacheable pages, right?
I'm a computer science Ph.D. student who works with that software that runs on the supercomputers. Yes, the code is bad, but no, it is not slow. In fact, the people (often not computer scientists) who write it are often really, really good at getting every little ounce of performance of it. And yes, they are pragmatic about it -- good performance is more important than good code. Sadly, this is often why they are producing software that's getting work done while many CS students aren't. The CS students are too focused on the code and not on what the code is used for.
Well, fixed installations of sound-powered telephones do typically come equipped with hand cranks to activate the "growler"/signaling system at the destination station.

However many sound-powered telephones are portable (as in, headphones and a microphone set with a long cord that you could walk around in). These portable sets would be quite unwieldy with a growler-style set attached, you'd have to crank throughout the conversation to achieve amplification, and you'd also make each sound-powered telephone set that much more complicated and expensive.

But the reality is that usually volume isn't that bad of a problem. If the circuit is quiet the solution is always the same: SPEAK LOUDER. Eventually you get used to being loud when needed.
Did you create your account to make this silly comment?
Does Xiaomi's new budget smartphone mean the end for China's cheap counterfeits?
I don't like Facebook but I have to give them credit for addressing this so quickly.
Anterograde amnesia is definitely a greater challenge for a storyteller than retrograde amnesia because the amnesic character is essentially static in the story, and that's one of the reasons that Memento is such an extraordinary film.

For another example, while it's not central to the story, Finding Nemo features a supporting character who has anterograde amnesia (Dory the fish).
MBA is great but this saying is dead wrong.
In china, I think TP-link is much better than D-link and Tenda,
Tenda is just rubbish, it's not easy to use,
TP-link is much easier to use, but I am not sure does it have backdoor.
"Ban all the things"…

How would one envision something like that to be enforced in NYC (or anywhere): Stop and frisk for drones? House to house, apartment to apartment sweeps?
There is some irony in this now being the top comment...
Hangouts is looking to get a huge update for 4.4 (integrated SMS and more). I'm sure we'll see it then.
Scoville was overambitious and underinformed, but it's also important to remember that HM was living with debilitating seizures that made daily life almost unbearable. And for context, this is the era in which Walter Freeman was perfecting frontal lobotomy techniques that eventually left tens of thousands of individuals with gross cognitive impairments. At least Scoville had the sense to realize what he'd done and stop.
Scientists generate first map of clouds on an exoplanet
bs. most fixes for ie are implemented with the conditional comment, maybe even one for each version of ie. loading a truckload of css.

and honestly, for most cases feature detection is just an empty term. i agree with if t for javascript. but the rest is mostly impossible (or so much more work that it is i practical)
Nice metrics, I especially liked the device breakdown: 66% desktop 25% mobile and 9% tablet. Welcome to the post-PC era (!)
"Dat" not only means "that", but also an admiration (perhaps of the lusty variety) for the item thereafter described.

Most infamously, the meme "Dat Ass" is used, but "Dat X" is commonly used on Reddit, Imgur, and other meme sites to express attraction to some object.

In this case, "Dat Reference List" just means that the reference list is very impressive.
The NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health) announced a few months ago that it would be "re-orienting its research away from DSM categories".

Even the guys on the inside don't trust it.

http://mindhacks.com/2013/05/03/national-institute-of-mental...
Risky. Yes. Innovative? Hell no!
I believe the intended meaning is that the subject in question is so awe-inspiring that the speaker can only briefly direct their audience's attention before lapsing into wordless reverie.

Here's an NSFW discussion of the phrase's origins: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dat-ass
Publishers Resist Pressure to Undermine Evolution in Texas Science Textbooks
I wouldn't say a phobia, as much as an acknowledgment that historical experience has shown that electrical-type facilities are the most susceptible to damage, and that the conversion from analog electrical to digital electronic didn't always help matters.

I've served on a ship where we had to keep a "fake" target entered into the fire control system at all times, since it would crash if the last target was dropped. That system was our only interface to the torpedoes, so in that scenario we'd be left in the situation of having to wait minutes for the system to reboot before we could launch weapons again. Peacetime or not, it's not a good feeling.

Top all of that with the fact that we have to survive damage from accidents and casualties and not just battle damage. E.g. what happens if a fire breaks out in the port turbine generator and fries the connector wires to the solenoid for an important valve needed to control ship's list and trim? Without the possibility of manual backups we'd possibly be in for a very bad time.

The Navy has a lot of experience with how the oceans and the enemy will conspire against a ship. However well you design your circuits, it's still better to have something available which always Just Works.
Wendy's Pretzel Pub Chicken Love Stories Episode 1
How much did you get for this bug via their bug bounty program?
By checking to see whether there's any unauthorized drones in the sky?
I use that, too. You can configure your phone so that outgoing and incoming calls use wifi when it's there, and the cell connection when it's not, automatically, and you can use the phone's default dialer. This kind of flexibility is not available on iOS.
That said, almost every (cheap) server hoster will have something in their TOS forbidding IRC use.

I have no particular insight into why IRC is so troubling, it used to be popular for malware botnets (C&C) and it attracts its fair share of script kiddies.
How would they find the IP if you don't have it used in any DNS records? Unless Cloudflare exposes the real IP at times and you've taken all the proper preventative measures I don't see how this is possible...
The police were, but the FAA isn't a fan:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/9/4821094/remote-aircraft-pi...
The Ocean Cleanup. The newest of the new plans to remove marine plastic.
> What if the goal to this manual is altruistic?

That doesn't sound at all out of line with a typical dystopian novel plot. :)
> I could probably simulate a turing machine on a TI-81 graphing calculator depending on if it fit in memory.

Well of course. A TI-81 is "a computer" in the layman's sense of the term. It has a general purpose Zilog z80 processor that can be programmed by the end user with a BASIC dialect, and (recently, with a exploit discovered in TI's software on it) with z80 assembly.

Pointing out that a TI-81 is Turing equivalent is like pointing out that an iPhone is Turing equivalent. It was never pretending not to be.
Congrats guys! I really enjoyed your presentation. Obviously the product is the start of something bigger but how you guys worked together on stage to answer questions to what you built is kickass. You peeps are obviously smart, know your market and have the determination to make this big.

Too many startups just deliver educational content digitally. That has been done many times over. But very few look at creative ways to keep the user engaged (focused) while being educated. You guys managed to do both. Superb.
Some, wrong, people say "she" (not always a woman, mind you) had her life shattered. Other people talk about the potential harm while balancing it against resilience and community support in the face of unconscionable violence, without diminishing nor further victimizing the survivor.

It not okay to tell rape survivors that they are weak or wrong for having experienced their assault, their great betrayal in public as a negative and traumatic event. Instead, we need to blame rapists, over and over again, and dismantle rape myths, and offer survivors the support they ask for, not the support you decide they need.
If the other party didn't bother to ask or pay attention, they shouldn't be having sex. It's like driving with your eyes closed: when you hit someone, the blame is entirely on you.
One of the criticisms being leveled at the DSM-V here is that "normal" is being negatively defined as the absence of disorder:

> DSM-5 seems to have no definition of happiness other than the absence of suffering. The normal individual in this book is tranquilized and bovine-eyed, mutely accepting everything in a sometimes painful world without ever feeling much in the way of anything about it.

Positive psychology[1] is a branch of psychology that agrees with this critique, and rather than looking at what goes wrong with people, it looks at what is right about people. There is a book "Character Strengths and Virtues"[2] that is aimed at being the positive counterpart to the DSM, providing a taxonomy of character strengths that have been identified across different times and cultures.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Strengths_and_Virtues
That's a pretty amateur mistake for a such an enormous company. Made respect for FB, but c'mon, how'd this slip through? This was a very trivial exploit.
you need to understand that DSM-V is the same intuition voted into existence by many doctors instead of one. The same BS at the end of the day. Who in their right mind would call a science a subject where we vote/unvote things into existence or deny their existence by voting process? Can you imagine the best in the world physicists voting in the beginning of 20th Century if Einstein theory of relativity is true or not? 90% of the vote would be that Einstein is wrong. However, nature and real science don't give a shit about democratic process. It's all about facts. And the facts, especially in pseudo-science like psychiatry - could be very, very damaging to the status quo.
That particular guy eventually was, enough to want to make amends. I believe that there is more luster in having "scooped Google" than "worked at Google" on a resume, though.
Nearly every exploit is a "pretty amateur mistake" in hindsight.
This points to the sadly much more likely FAA and law enforcement attitude and responses to the advent of rc copters than encouraging the licensing of useful things and tacocopters.
This article is missing some crucial data. It concludes that Xiamoi's new Android phone will squeeze out cheap Chinese shanzai phones because Xiamoi's phone costs half of an iPhone 5S. But the article doesn't say how much a shanzai phone or Apple's cheaper iPhone 5C cost in China.
I used to have a Myr deck that you could combo a Palladium Myr (tap to give +2 mana), and two Myr Galvanizers (Tap and pay a mana to untap all other Myr) to get infinite Mana. Combo that with any number of cards (X mana to do X damage, or X mana to make target player draw X cards, etc), and you get a fun way to win a game (though hard to pull off).