skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always liked the idea of color life. I like that this did one game for each bit. That's an interesting take on it and the results look nice.

I made a quick color life a few years ago. I wanted the rules to be simple like life itself, so this is what I came up with:

* Each cell has a color attribute. When generating the initial board, colors are randomly assigned.

* When a new cell is created it inherits the most prevalent color of the surrounding cells, or if there is a tie, any one of the the top colors may be used.

(Randomly assigned colors aren't filtered, so it is possible for dark cells to exist that are the same color as the background.)

Here is the result:
http://www.node99.net/content/color_life/index.html
Also perhaps interesting for comparison, a Clojure library called Vertigo that emulates C structs with high performance on top of byte buffers:

https://github.com/ztellman/vertigo
They are 320kbps mp3's. The difference between that and flac is practically undetectable to the human ear[0]

[0] http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~hockman/documents/Pras_presentation2009.pdf

edit: The knocking one is 320kbps, the others seems to be lower. I imagine the pure tone ones compress very well.
Agreed - flagged
Do never ever use Google trends to compare programming languages. The names of programming languages have different meanings in different contexts.
"My prediction is much stronger than saying Go will be as popular as Ruby, Python, or Node."

Was anybody else thrown off by this? I thought it was weird to throw Node in there considering Go, Ruby, and Python are languages.
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Exactly how I feel. I don't even want to bother with languages that don't have algebraic data types and exhaustive pattern matching.
HD595s aren't worth buying directly. It's cheaper to buy HD555s and mod them. They have the exact same driver, with a piece of sound dampening material that can be removed.

http://mikebeauchamp.com/misc/sennheiser-hd-555-to-hd-595-mo...
Non-termination is a fundamental property of turing machines; after all, if all programs terminate, a halting problem decider is trivial to write. While you could certainly argue that the CSS + human system is a turing-complete system, the CSS is a bit superfluous there; the human could just be doing all the work on their own. As such, when a language or system is proven to be turing complete, it generally has to be shown to emulate another turing-complete system _until termination_ without external assistance.
Yeah I totally agree. As much as I like lambdas in JDK8 the syntax feels super bolt on. What's wrong with just {}, -> is just silly.
I believe the point of exercises like this is to show that the risk of being hacked is higher than was previously thought. The easier it is to do, the more likely an attacker will pull it off when they attempt it, and for someone whose goal is to wreak havoc rather than defeat an interestingly difficult system, the more likely an attacker will make the attempt in the first place.

Certainly it could be the case that the benefit exceeds the risk, but if such calculations were made, they may need to be reevaluated.
Not just China; probably also the rest of the known world.
Yes, one can have a conversation using 'cryptic' language. For example, it's common to hear Q-codes used (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code); they are cryptic unless you know what they are. They are not, however, secret.

I fail to understand your analogy about buses and cars.

Amateur radio is about amateurs learning about, improving and using radio. It is not about private conversations. If you allow encryption on the amateur bands then you are de facto excluding others. Part of the joy of amateur radio is picking a transmission out of the air, listening to it or 'decoding' (not in the cryptographic sense) the transmission scheme used.

I would suggest that Lulzlabs people look at not using an amateur radio band. There are unlicensed bands that they could use for this purpose. e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_band
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Substantial discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7666034

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My previous list of earlier submissions:

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I would much much rather be using Firefox, but I use Chrome because of the issues being mentioned. Firefox becomes unresponsive for me left running for more than a few days.
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"When you see an ad, the ad sees you" this is excellent!! It succinctly explains the problem in a layperson friendly way.

"When you see an ad, the ad sees you. When the advertiser 'sees' you it sees what site you are on when you view the ad. This information can be used to build a profile about you: where you shop, what blog or news sites you read, what forums you post on, etc.. Privacy Badger stops your browser from requesting the ads, so the advertiser never 'sees' what sites you're visiting.

When you see an ad, the ad sees you... Privacy badger stops you from seeing the ad and stops the ad from seeing you!!"

Ideally you'd just copy this: http://donttrack.us/ but specifically for ads.
So your guess is that google is testing automated uploads to their own service with public videos?
Most people say Node as to not confuse client-side JavaScript. e.g: Saying Go will be as popular as JavaScript would be unreasonable, saying Go will be as popular as JavaScript on the server is reasonable.
Either the language is complex or the application code is. Which one would you prefer to keep simple?
All of those absolutely help, at the cost of added complexity, additional points of failure, and hardware/VPS costs. And you still risk losing data, or at least data integrity.

Not to mention there are still hard limits on how quickly you can insert data into a database with 100% durability (which is, of course, impossible, but another topic entirely), and there are scales where even these mitigation tactics can't help you anymore (in particular, online casino games have this problem since they are persisting the state of multiple players very frequently).
Apple still dominates tablet market despite losing share to Samsung
Think of the SQL GROUP BY functionality as an example. You have a giant terabyte-scale text file that is a CSV of observations (say the raw US census results). You want to group people by some facet (say zipcode and household income) and compute some complex, arbitrary function for each group.

Your map function scans the rows and outputs the kv pair (zipcode+","+income, csv line). All the csv lines in a group go to the same instance of the reduce function, where you can run any code you like (compute averages, do deep learning, etc). The output is the results of what you want to compute for each group.

This is a pretty simple example, but does demonstrate where the power of mr comes from -- arbitrary functions in the map and reduce functions that are allowed restricted one-way communication from the mapper to the reducer. It also should help you understand the glib "you can implement SQL on mapreduce" comment below, which is what Apache Hive does.
Recreating Facebook UI with HTML and CSS (live coding screencast)
...that asks a question about why a powerful person wasn't prosecuted, or why the polled will of the people wasn't followed and the opinion of a few wealthy people was enshrined as law. Otherwise it wouldn't be relevant.

In this thread, it's the talking around in circles about "what the American people think about Snowden" and whether the speaker lives in a tech bubble or not that's irrelevant. We already know statistically that what people outside of the top 10% think has absolutely no relevance to policy.
Yeah, I have to agree that you really start to see diminishing returns. Going from Koss PortaPros to HD595's was a huge change and I spent most of my free time the next week listening to music. I just upgraded again to HifiMan HE500's and thought they sounded better, but my listening experience is more or less unchanged. Worse, they are quite heavy planar magnetic headphones and I don't enjoy wearing them as much. Maybe I need a better headphone amp, but part of me is convinced I might have hit my ceiling for my listening perception. Maybe I should have just gotten those Grados...
You seem to have a binary view of who is a good actor or not.

Are you a good actor, and if so, how do you know?
Really? It's just obvious, huh?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-nature-nurture-nietz...

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

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
Merchant adoption is a bad indicator since almost all of the benefits of using bitcoin in a commercial transaction are on the merchants side. So while they can do it for free adoption will go up even if actual usage by customers stays at or near 0.
$18.25/year/square meter at $2.50 per liter of kerosene. The US currently generates 0.6kg/year/square meter of cereal -- and that's on fertile (irrigated...) land.

So, assuming that most of the plant is low maintenance and not too expensive to manufacture it's not that bad. Certainly I don't think that turning corn into fuel is anywhere near as efficient.
Github was willing to go on the record at https://github.com/blog/1826-follow-up-to-the-investigation-... stating " The investigation found Tom Preston-Werner in his capacity as GitHub’s CEO acted inappropriately, including confrontational conduct, disregard of workplace complaints, insensitivity to the impact of his spouse's presence in the workplace, and failure to enforce an agreement that his spouse should not work in the office."
No invokedynamic though :-) https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=360

Also missing:

Reflection
Serialization
Lambda expressions (JSR 335)
JNI and application native code
User-defined class loaders
Full annotations support (Runtime annotations)
Thread groups and demon threads
Full Math APIs (with BigDecimals)
Concurrency utilities
Full security APIs
Full collection APIs (Sorted collection classes)

Source: http://docs.oracle.com/javame/config/cldc/opt-pkgs/api/cldc/...
I have the E6400 and it works like a dream once you install the broadcom driver (which is easily done with "Install Additional Drivers in Ubuntu).
Unless you're already familiar with the material, spelling and grammar lends credibility to the content of the article. Similar to a code smell, it makes you ask "are you sure you know what you're doing?"
I agree on the first two, but I have a hard time believing that anyone in national office possesses any personal integrity. Perhaps maybe one or two, but that's it.
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I think parent and grandparent just operate in different sub-industries/geographic regions etc. I find it easy to believe that some communities find linkedin indispensable while some consider it an anti-signal.

I also find it strange that while you clearly know that over-generalizing your own experiences shows that one "only knows about the bubble that one operates in", your first sentence is that you can't believe people don't use linkedin...
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Being a media company we find our way into all kinds of cool stuff. Our office is furnished with things like a $3000 high-end bed that was sent to us to review. We got to talk to and get pictures with Warren Buffett and Lloyd Blankfein (CEO of Goldman Sachs) when they came to Detroit.

But, you interject, finance is one of the toughest startup seas to sail upon! The old boys club runs an ironclad ship with no visible decks for boarding. Avast! We've built a battering ram of a business in just a few short years that has pummeled its way deep into the heart of Wall Street. Old Ironsides has warmed itself to Benzinga and once a taste the thirst cannot be quenched.

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Ironically, the areas with an abundance of sun and low-value undeveloped land near major aviation hubs tend to be in petro-states...
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> Supporting generics over primitives and values, through specialization, is the topic of a separate investigation.

Sort of off-topic, but isn't that dilemma also the one preventing Go from having generics?
I didn't read it, I was wearing open headphones and I just spent 5 minutes trying to work out who had knocked on the door near me.

Even when I replay it I get freaked out.
It's going to be annoying for developers. We often put special query string hooks to test functionality or debug queries...it'd be kind of a pain to have to enable flag in chrome just to be able to type in the URL.
"The purpose of insurance isn't to protect the driver, it's to protect the victim of an accident"
Well, first of all. It depends on what kind of insurance, and who got it. What I'm saying is that all of the insurance that the reckless driver has, whether for himself, or for third-party damage, should be denied. That way it's ALL out-of-pocket for him, assuming the law finds him reckless and owes damages to the victims.

Now, of course. The victim should have their own insurance, if they're smart. So they are covered whether or not the reckless driver was insured, or his insurance pays out third parties for damage.

Of course, as one of the other posters mentioned above. "Poor reckless drivers won't be able to pay the victim, and this will hurt the victim." Well, I'm not an advocate of more-state, but if that's what tickles your fancy, then mandate insurance. Like, I asssume, they already do for third-party damage? I don't live in the US so I don't know about that.

"I have 1-3 mobile phones on me most times and share around 7 SIM cards between them. Also, what about cars with more than one driver?"
Well you're an exception. And if you think that's a reasonable argument against my solution, then you obviously didn't read it in its entirety, or you didn't understand it. If it's the latter, then I'm sorry I failed you. My point is that no one really wants to fix this problem, they just want to appear to fix it. Because if they really wanted to fix it, it would be fixed with whatever draconian/weird/unique/ballsy solution works.
http://imgur.com/D9rrl0g
> Do libraries handle the collections of the primitive types and the collections of the objects differently now

You can't use the built in collection classes on unboxed primatives, but there are a few different popular third party libraries that help overcome that. For example, Google guava has utility classes to work with arrays of primitives as if they were lists (https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/PrimitivesExp...). There's also GNU trove, and Goldman Sachs' java library. Maybe somewhere in the apache commons library too, I don't remember.
How to identify Node.js memory leak patterns with ChromeDevTools and heap snapshots
SkyRunner: The dune buggy that can fly [video]
The pencil is inverted, but other than that this should do it.

http://lftl.github.io/rgb_of_life/public/
I've also had the experience of getting "suspicious looks" while walking in suburbia.

I was once stopped and questioned by a police cruiser because I was walking on a well lit street at night in my Ohio hometown. The officer was reluctant to accept that anyone would walk for the sake of walking - and yes, I've read "The Pedestrian" by Ray Bradbury [1]. Truth can be as strange as fiction.

After living in NYC for 10 years, walking has become such a natural part of life that I completely forgot how unusual it was in suburban Ohio.

I can't help but think that the lack of walking goes beyond negative health effects; I feel like it erodes civil society to a certain degree. When you drive door to door, you rarely interact with strangers. Given my experience, I don't think "paranoia" is too harsh of a word to describe what car-focused settlement patterns can do to people.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pedestrian

EDIT: not sure if "The Pedestrian" is in the public domain, so linking to wikipedia instead of directly to a PDF
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Is this a promo video for the new godzilla movie?

That's just the first thought that I had while watching it. Off-topic, you say? true, but so is the story. Don't mean to be insensitive to the people who were affected.
Binaural recordings are fantastic. I love listening to binaural asmr (preferably without talking) using headphones in bed. It is a very relaxing experience.
He just gave a list of rather good reasons why a normal person might not use facebook. Yes, it is quite uncommon to see a facebook-less person nowadays. But why do you think this implies that a person who doesn't use facebook is necessarily not normal?
A simple definition for mobile cards
Agree. Would also add that if you lie infrequently you are probably not prepared to know all the potential pitfalls of lying and how the other person can tear you a new one if you want to call it that.

Additionally I've noticed a loose correlation between people who lie and who their parents are or how they were raised. Nothing scientific of course, but people whose parents don't hold their feet to the flame are generally more likely to think that they can get away with something because "the other guy is stupid". People whose parents are either very intelligent or hold them on everything they say are generally more practiced at thinking of the various possibilities that can come about to refute something they would say.
I bought what The Wirecutter recommended (RBH EP2) and absolutely love them. Here are their other picks:

http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/headphones/
What Really happened with Box and the Intralinks/docTrackr deal
Given that most of the identity players (Google, Twitter, FB) also offer retargeting themselves, I find it tough to accept your reasoning that the two are distinct and unrelated.
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To be honest, I don't think (and I'm going off the author's name) that english is his first language. Personally, I posted this to HN as it succinctly gave me a quick overview of MR.

I try not to judge an article/blog post on the quality of the grammar when the ideas they are trying to convey are solid and useful.

There are some exceptionally fantastic minds out there that are able to succinctly explain, sometimes difficult, subjects.

I appreciate them for at least trying, and if they explained it in a language that is not their first language, all the more respect to them.
Downright shocked to see my home town mentioned here!
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