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I remember when that whole snafu was on the HN front page! :) (This isn't the exact link I remember seeing, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3666564 )

If you want knowledge from the same pool Ritter's drawing from, check out this blog post[1] about fr-041: Debris by ryg. Now, keep in mind, Ritter didn't do work on Debris as far a…

On the subject of interesting magnetic effects, a lot of people don't know that pretty much all matter is magnetic, just that the strength of the interaction is a lot smaller than …

Sound intensity actually falls off as 1/r², and here's a source: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/acoustic/invsqs.h...

In my experience, the Thai restaurants around me (East coast US) like to make their sauces very oil/butter heavy, which contributes to the second phenomenon you alluded to. I've ne…

It's the registry, not Docker itself. This analogy might help: Docker Registry is to Docker as Github is to Git.

I have a friend who used to keep excitedly showing me his crazy, impressive redstone ALU/CPU designs. I kept trying to get him to buy an FPGA and build out something with real hard…

This is a good opportunity to plug ORE, a Minecraft community specifically for this kind of thing: http://openredstone.org/ That video on their main page is mind-boggling to me. I …

Well, some classic "high school English literature class" books that fulfill that criteria are Miller's Death of a Salesman and Wharton's Ethan Frome. Still in the Western classica…

It looks like that's the case -- none of the example images on the front page work for me.

DeepFace's figures[1] also come from running it on the LFW dataset[2]. While Facebook's production tech will be more accurate because of what you say, the Deepface algorithm has a …

That was an interesting article/book summary. The main idea (that there exists a correlation artistic creativity and mood disorders) is something I've observed anecdotally. I get t…

Actually, your timing is really fortuitous: Just yesterday, the aforementioned Farbrausch member/NOWHERE developer posted a progress report[1] for the game. Somewhere near the end,…

You know what they say: ASD -- Amusic's Soundtrack Dump (That said, I'm actually part of the faction who likes aMusic's weird prog-rocky compositions. And, regardless of what you t…

For a point of contrast: I attend the College of William and Mary in Virginia. In 2009, the College dropped its speech codes and became one of the most free-speech-friendly schools…

Yup! Est. 1995! Here's a Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(game) I remember playing a version of this game that was posted on HN a few weeks ago. Jennifer De…

Well, I started working at a place where I was regularly juggling 2-4 SSH sessions, 2 programs running and dumping logs in other tabs, plus a few more open terminals, and after a c…

> ...Reading the article, I think some of it is more of a "why?" than a "why not?", since the articles are factually correct but are mostly just lists of facts and not really somet…

I'm not very in-tune with Wikipedia's culture (which, I've read, is very nuanced and rigid[1]), but I really don't see why this is a bad thing, given the information in the article…

I feel like Minecraft came close. Interestingly enough, Minecraft has similar features to a lot of MUDs (focus on player-defined and player-modified environments, lack of focus on …

Man, saurik, you need a vacation. You need to not have to think about Cydia, or the community, or maybe even computers at all for at least a week or so. You're talking about how al…

I'm really interested in this stuff, and I did some Googling along these lines. The most useful thing I've found so far is this "Common Data Set" initiative[1] that essentially has…