skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just had to search for it.

From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORDVAC

"Unlike the other computers of its era, the ORDVAC and ILLIAC I were twins and could exchange programs with each other."

"Instead of the sequence A B C D E F universally used today, the digits ten to fifteen were represented by the letters K S N J F L (King Sized Numbers Just for Laughs), corresponding to the teleprinter characters on five-track paper tape."
Exactly. Also use an email client for handling email, while using the browser with cookies self-destroyed[1] and google not whitelisted.

[1] http://www.technorms.com/26262/auto-delete-cookies-firefox-s...
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Sometimes 'text only' trumps an article that has pictures and moving video. It is good to have one's imagination work overtime rather than have everything 'spelt out' with imagery.

At one moment I was imagining an octopus bigger than myself, able to drag me into a tank and maybe eat me whole. The next moment I was learning of an octopus able to fit inside a beer bottle (note to self: be careful what one picks up when scuba diving!).

I feel I might actually remember more about the life of the octopus from having read this article and having to engage my imagination than what I might have learned had I sat through some nature programme on TV. Plus it takes less time to read than it does to endure a programme. I also now know things I don't know, such as what it is to make eye contact with an octopus, something that a TV programme could go some way to describe.

Aside from the 'wow, intelligence', why is it that those of us with spines lack any 'computing power' in things like our arms? Are there any common sense reasons?
No one wants to review your code! Let's fix that.
I was addressing malice as well. Having the same code is no guarantee that it does not contain an intentional bug that can be exploited. Neither is knowing that it came from some specific entitity (code signing), because again this presupposes establishing trust. There is no technical solution to trust.
IPython NB: Interactive Facebook Data Science and World Bank Plots
There exist people in all of those organizations who read HN. It has been known to cause them to escalate things internally. I'm going to elide pointing to examples because several of those companies would institutionally prefer that there exist no backchannels into their org charts and it is definitely to the interest of HNers that HN continues to be an effective escalation mechanism into their org charts.

It is probably important to your understanding of Big Companies (TM) that a big company is referred to as a single entity for purposes of corporate personhood and shorthand, but they rarely act as a single body, but rather as a collection of people and sub-organizations who are colliding together in Brownian motion.
It is basically borrowing your health while you are in your twenties in a hope to win big when you will be in your thirties. There is no magic trick to get around this.
Hackers now crave patches, and Microsoft's giving them just what they want
A bit less flashy/more old-fashioned, Niklaus Wirth's 2013 edition of Project Oberon covers an FPGA-based CPU, operating system, compiler, tiled window manager and text and vector graphics editors. No Tetris though. http://projectoberon.com/
Not really. Without the correct IOD (interocular distance) [1] you won't get "correct" stereoscopy, and the effect you get will not feel right at best, and make you sick in the worst case.

A LF camera only gives a stereoscopic effect proportional to the size of the sensor. So unless you have a sensor even bigger than a medium format camera, you are not going to achieve the effect you are describing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons."

- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sorting algorithms visually explained
There are other products which don't require electricity at all: MittiCool - http://www.mitticool.in/product_detail.php?product_id=4
If nothing can escape black hole's gravity, how does gravity itself escape?
Not just GA.

Next time you link to a .css with those wonderful free Google Fonts, ask yourself - what's in it for Google?

Then take a look at all those ajax.googleapis.com links pulling down jQuery libraries and wonder the same.
What's the point of flying the most stealthy plane on earth if you have to register a flight plan ?

I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous and be able to "see" and avoid other planes.
Of topic: before I clicked I have half expected applications of some deep knowledge of category theory in topology to programming :D ... I guess that is what happens when you progam in haskell and share flat with algebra master student.
Ask HN: Could it be Microsoft that actually made the supposed Beats deal?
Given the history, Microsoft is the type of company which would make acquisitions for a brand name rather than the technology.

Looking at the past, Microsoft has quite a bit to gain from such a deal than Apple, which already has a successful streaming and music distribution network alongside great hardware with the brand name.

Microsoft kept their Nokia deal silent for quite some time as well.

Also, to note that this acquisition news has not received any comments from Apple.

What do you think?
I might advise not phrasing this sort of advice sarcastically on HN, as I know there is a substantial contingent here which would actually believe that software being mostly done implies that the price should go down.
A 9 Year Old Boy Made His Mom A Promise. 12 Years Later, THIS Happened
Monthly revenue breakdown of PlentyOfFish's early days
The info you quote is a description and not the answer. The whole alphabet is on the page 9-5. I still don't know why there isn't some "order" in encoding (like it is now in ASCII, that would still result in the encoding for 10 to be A and not K. and it's not a USTTY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code there is K == 01111) but I'd expect they must have had some reason.
Documentation is something completely different from comments. Documentation is something you write for the interfaces you expose. This, I have absolutely no problem with. Interfaces are meant to be stable, they should be well defined, they should have human-friendly instructions and examples on use.

Comments in code? That's something completely different.
Runs like a wounded animal on FF 29, Windows x64
Welcome to HN, Markus. Please consider sticking around -- many folks here could learn a lot from you. (We have very different businesses but I've been quietly Internet-stalking a lot of your work for years.)
Except most UIs on today's ipad use retina images. Meaning 1024x768x4x4 = 12 mo of ram for a single fullscreen image. Most applications run into memory warning at some point even when running on its own. I can't imagine having 3 or 4 in parrallel without virtual memory.
The "cjdns" in the headline links to:

https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns

It looks like TOR with a GPG/PGP web of trust.
It could be anyone, if we go by that logic. It could be Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon or Apple. The deal might fail. There's no limit to possibilities.
No one said anything about burying it, it can be at the top of the main configuration file if you insist. The basic problem is that one quantity was limited (memory), without dealing with another (altitude). It makes perfect sense to limit both, while you're at it. But of course most important of all, test and study the effects of going over those limits ...
"We have run out of code to review. Come back later!"
Not Your Typical ATX Power Supply Hack
I played with an idea of an off-site delivery the GMail-destined emails.

Basically instead of an actual email the recipient would get a link to an https'd page on my mail server and a brief note explaining that due to delivery policy the message is available only at the link.

The reason why I started looking at this was that I was buying a house and the broker person was using gmail to handle the transaction. From negotiation to all the forms with all juicy details. I switched him back to the fax mode, but it got me thinking that it'd be nice to have a system in place that would try and offset such negligence, automatically.

I never got past a rough prototype though, but perhaps I should've.
I have seen some statements of Perlman and persons related to him or his companies, that this technology is not only applicable to communication networks. That, and the recent patent applications, make me think that he is talking about wireless power.

I really wonder if, and I have some doubts that, the underlying technology is at all feasible for such an application?
This scenario wasn't unit/functional tested then.
How to Cook with Weed
For the Cannes Festival, Uber offers on-demand jet flights from Paris to Cannes
For me too (i5-2520M laptop). This one runs faster: http://www.codebase.es/jsgb/
Twenties? Try mid thirties :)

I am glad that I waited to work on a startup now because my knowledge and experience have given me confidence that I can pull it off. Earlier on in life and I would have been running on pure hubris.
> flying the most stealthy plane

A U2 is not at all stealthy. You must be thinking of some other plane.

> if you have to register a flight plan

It's not a military operation in a foreign country, it's a routine flight in the home country.

> I thought such a plane would be 100% autonomous

The U2 was made long before such computers existed. They do have drones now.

> and be able to "see" and avoid other planes.

It wasn't the plane with the problem, it was ground control.

This must be a world record: A faulty assumption in every single sentence!
Have you read the article? The cause is explained quite explicitly, and it was the very absence of the altitude not any of the things you mention.
I guess the memory limit is per app by apple. To preserve the device battery maybe?
ah, he confirmed on twitter last night: https://twitter.com/MichaelAbberton/status/46560706028634521... so I think what happened is that the original image was produced, someone annotated it with unverified info, and Michael Abberton then double checked this and annotated it further with the bold text to note any claims which couldn't be confirmed.

I think that he's confirming that some claims aren't verified because he's being honest, irrespective of party ties.
So How Do You Actually Calculate The Fibonacci Numbers?
Inverters tend to die a lot quicker than panels, so it probably would not make sense to make them part of the panel itself.

A dead inverter would mean a dead panel that was otherwise just fine.
vim keys (hjkl) and arrow keys would be better.
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That's irrelevant to the rest of the article, it's only how his expertise is characterized.
Except for the original Mac OS, almost all mainstream OS did have a CLI of some sort.

Having a bash like CLI is meaningless in terms of means to be a UNIX compatible OS.
There's a version of track changes available in "compare" mode (see https://www.writelatex.com/blog/154-a-first-look-at-the-new-... for details), and we'll be releasing a further update to this in the near future.
Why bad scientific code beats code following "best practices"
That's not what the article said. They said that since it didn't know the true altitude the computer assumed the plane could be at every altitude, and checked every single possible one.

This was made worse by a flight plan that had the plane going in and out of the area, so there were a tremendous number of permutations of possible flight paths.

The computer attempted to allocate memory to calculate every one of them and ran out of memory.
Yeah, we're not delighted about how complicated this is, but it's really the best we could do. =( To be clear though, Requests only requires the three packages be installed, it'll do everything else automatically.

Actually, is there interest in this being an installable add-on? Meaning you'd run: pip install requests[SNI] to get it?
Cbfs
Trust me. Coffee is my best friend but I do know that my body has completely undergone hormonal swings. Even my partner says that my lack of sleep and increase in coffee and Red Bull has changed me.
Bug report opened on NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/534

Because they're using Requests this should be a fairly trivial fix for them.
Visualizing Ocean Shipping
Does it have to be limited to using a gist? Would it be possible to pass in any url to just raw markdown and have that parsed (i.e. like raw.github.com)

Great work though - I wish I saw this last week while showing markdown to others for the first time.
It's not the most stealthy plane on earth, in fact it has been shot down over the Soviet Union and China in historical cases, because of being tracked by radar. Moreover it was flying over American airspace, it makes sense to register it.
What news? We heard that they have automated indexers that use the info for showing you ads, but that wasn't "news", it was part of the ToS from beginning.
Crossroads.js
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This is the type of stuff us HN folks need to focus on.. POF is your classic "started in the garage" success story. No fancy trendy offices, no upfront VC investments, no trendy website with no product etc. This is true entrepreneurship.

POF is the Google of dating sites, it came in to fill a need already being filled by "big money" and simply did it better, and gave it away free with revenue from advertising.

Personally I love seeing something like that work.
A matter of critical mass ;)
What was the question? I don't see any question mark in the posts above. And how exactly did I redefine it?

I pointed out that this is wrong:

> Cray didn't need to bother with parallelism to get the best performance possible at the time

because Cray not only bothered with parallelism, but all Cray computers were parallel. And that this is wrong:

> By committing to using ECL logic (read: cost is basically no object)

because cost is hardly the only challenge when working with ECL. And that this is not only a truism, but also unenlightening from a historical perspective:

> If he'd been confined to CMOS (or to a somewhat lesser extent bipolar) logic, he'd have had a very different set of trade-offs to get the performance he needed.

First, ECL is bipolar logic, like anything built with BJTs. Second, that would have also been true if he'd been confined to relays or cranks. Of course you get a different set of trade-offs if you use a different technology.

But no computer company at the time was building minicomputers, let alone mainframes or supercomputers, in CMOS! The most megasuperparallel computers of the time, from the C.mmp to the ILLIAC IV were ECL or TTL. Cray's empire was built on precisely the same technological basis as that of every other computer company in the seventies.
9-8:30? that's tough. I guess I shouldn't be complaining.

I can relate to forcing focus on time management. I've got little for everything else but I'm only focused on the long term so I know there is light at the end of the tunnel.

You are completely right. These days and with my hormones completely abnormal, butterflies and raw emotion are non-existent. I almost feel robotic.
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Could LFP be used to 3D-map a scene - assuming you can extract the data from their proprietary format? It would be great to be able to turn a collection of photos into a virtual world.
Bitsaver is great.

Thanks to it I have collected almost all manuals from Xerox PARC systems.
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Except that it is crafted with privacy, not anonymity in mind. And it does not use onion routing.
Facebook only has my browsing habits if I choose to allow content from their servers while viewing non-facebook content. This is also avoidable, albeit less easily.

To most people, it's black magic. In fact, they don't even know that such tracking is possible.
I should have mentioned that it implies that you can work on sufficiently small values of n, usually measured in how many cache lines it takes up. Saying that "there will always be a value of "n" after which the computation will take over" is, while true, completely theoretical. Not that it have its uses, but I have yet to see a IO heavy process being limited by the CPU. If it's streaming, it's usually also quite simple to process, and if it's random access the CPU is doing something else most of the time.
That sounds very worrying. The fact that this issue occurs shows that they didn't prepare for OOM conditions, and another issue could easily cause a different OOM condition they didn't prepare for. It's not inconceivable that there could be an issue which gobbles up an amount of memory you throw at it. It is a tragic irony that the fact that testing is costly may be the very reason this condition was not tested for.
Can you explain the uselessness of HTML5 canvas? I've found some uses for it ...
I am totally enjoying it as the light at the end of the tunnel is almost there and have learned a bunch. But I'm not yet ready to pull the cord and go full time until it has replaced my current income and then some.
"weuse.meteor.com" is not an optimised app because a lot of data (you probably won't ever see) is sent to the client.

Of course optimizations are possible, but I wanted to keep it simple and show "everyone" on a map
The button just deletes the first character for me.
In the theoretical situation you drop anonymization is where this gets troublesome.

Here's something even more troubling. Take an 'anonymous' crime reporting site[1] and put Google Analytics on it. Put it on every single page, even on the page with the forms to submit anonymously. Not bad enough? How about a similar site, only this one aimed at reporting corruption[2] and try the same thing. What could possibly go wrong?

Both sites are well aware of the issue and have written me back when I pointed this out. This level of trust in an American ad company is curious. All I can do now is hope that whistle-blowers wanting to report corruption are savvy enough to avoid the web forms.

Imagine you are a government worker somewhere and you see evidence of corruption and report it. From the same machine you signed in to GMail with. Now consider that your local government can order Google to secretly hand over tracking data and forbid them from notifying the crime reporting site(s).

[1]: https://crimestoppers-uk.org/give-information/give-informati...
[2]: https://forms.theiline.co.uk/integrityline
Oh yeah, man. Latvians defy Latgalian being a language. Despite the very fact the word "Latvian" never existed before XVII century.
Rent control is the worst
I remember trying this out a few years ago, and was amazed that it ran at 0.5fps on my modernish PC, when the original game from 1996 ran fine on a 66MHz PC with 16MB of RAM.
"How I pitch French Tech" by a Paris VC
"Peter pointed out that if all of your friends use GMail, Google has your email anyway."

Peter reminds me of the old "If you have nothing to hide..." fallacy. I'd have expected more from the EFF.

Yes, anything really sensitive should be PGP'd anyway, but using gmail still gives google the opportunity to do analytics's.
I have had lucid dreams, but I'm not able to control it.

I remember one dream about being cornered by a bully in a dream, a person that bullied me in real life, but for some reason when he punched me it didn't correspond to what I remembered from reality so I figured I was in a dream. Which meant, guilt free revenge :D i.e. punching him in his face. I soon awoke.

Also the whole thing about not being able to change scenario seems off, I do remember literally saying, you know what dream would be better? The other one. And then switching to that dream.

If you really are in a dream and have nightmares about being in a war zone, just transforming into Iron Man and going ballistic would be the most prudent thing to imagine. After all your dreams, won't kill you and you can change yourself if not the scenario.
Sounds great; I'd love to have this in an interface compatible with Postfix.
Block the .js file. Problem solved.

Or, just, you know, disable javascript entirely.
> Adding memory is the cheap option

Only in the sense of having a broken system, putting in place some procedural constraints and then praying that everyone follows the rules.

As you say, it's a software bug. Until it's been 100% characterised and tested this leaves a huge question mark hanging over the system. Adding memory is a band aid solution.
Powershell terminal sucks. Is there a better choice?
That doesn't really help if $incriminating_website is among the real visits. I think obfuscation is a waste of time given the machine learning techniques at their disposal.
Don't forget get Dad!!!
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I wrote it in a hurry. O(n^4) is only for the size of the current chunk of data being operated on, usually measured in cache lines. I guess it should have been m, as n is usually used for the total input size. It's not unusual to see O(m^c * log n) algorithms or even O(m^c * log log n) if you can use vEB search structure, where m is the number of cache lines the algorithm works on, c is an algorithm specific constant, and n is the total input size.
I don't see why you would single out Gmail at this point. You're basically rejecting email as a secure medium (I don't disagree).
Note that DTrace/Linux exists outside of Oracle. (Search github for dtrace4linux).

As that author of the product, I took a different approach to the GPL symbols - one which may be questionable, but nobody has raised the issue as yet.

Yes, GPL symbols are problematic, and the dtrace4linux is CDDL - the GPL vs CDDL - means its impossible, from a legal perspective to get the balance right. That does not preclude generation of a useful tool - the beauty of all open source - is the ability to learn from it.
I was under the impression FB also tracks all your other browsing even if you log out. So I use a different browser just for FB.
For me it runs with the correct speed (as measured with the ingame timer and I'm glad to see it's open source :)
Nicely done!
Err... there's more than C# and F# targeting the CLR. Even just from Microsoft (VB.Net and Managed C++), but there are a heap more.
unsigned short int altitude;
Interesting application. The idea's not new: wasn't the central thingy in the concourse in Grand Central Station found to have exactly this effect? Without it, people dither and take longer to cross a clear space - paradoxical, but that's science for you.
It looks like they took the ITA2 telegraphy code, which has the numbers in normal order but the letters in typewriter order, and re-sorted it so that the letters are alphabetical. That would explain the scrambled numbers, but not the punctuation or "K S N J F L".
Blizzard will only somehow succeed if they manage to get a nice casual community for this game unlike LOL and DOTA2.

Lot's of people are complaining about the people not speaking in English on Euro and US servers and trolling other all the way. Blizzard needs to keep attention on this point as their did on other games.
They're Aluminium over a steel core, not copper. A copper over steel version would be significantly heavier.
If you're sending a link to Gmail, Gmail could simply crawl that link, so I don't see how that would solve anything (except awareness, possibly? At the cost of convenience).