skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. It's "official" - if by "official" you mean "not official at all."
You said he should have been doing a rebase. I disagree. Almost always, if you think you should rebase, you really should merge instead.
It appears that I missed that one.
Rockstar not only used the crack

If I recall correctly Myth was not just a cracking group (as in ISO release), they did ripping as well. This basically means that you remove some content from the game (or by other means making the game smaller) in order to fit it into whatever space is the current standard.

Unfortunately I can't find a .NFO regarding the release that lists Myth as the cracker... But it makes me wonder if something was ripped here. :)

NB: Only searched here: http://www.nfohump.com/index.php?menu=quicknav&item=sear... -- enter Myth into "Group" field if you are curious about what else they were up to.

Edit This was Myth's farewell note: http://www.defacto2.net/groups/myth/mythbye.nfo which states that they did ripping:

We believe that the rip scene is one of incredible skill. Not only
is there the cracking talent needed to be successful like that of ISO,
you must have dedicated coders and rippers to fully complete the task.
Much time is needed to perfect a rip like that of Neverwinter Nights.
(We'll never forget you old friend)

A bit later on in that same paragraph they continue with saying "We see groups throw out games now with stolen cracks...". Now, who would have thought that Rockstar...

That said, I am not 100% convinced that this was actually a stolen crack. I'll wait for Rockstar to confirm or deny this (or if someone actually has the original release and does a full diff). I base this mainly on three things:

1) I could not find any release information stating Myth as the release group of MP2. This does not mean much, however. And it was just a quick search.

2) It could actually be a joke by Rockstar. I mean, imagine you sit there with the task to remove the copy protection of the game, you bounce it with your boss he laughs and nods and you throw in that Myth logo.

3) It's also not completely unlikely that the guy recompiling the game had some connection with Myth once upon a time. Back in the day (teenager, very long ago <sigh>) we were a bunch of people cracking games for the fun and the race and the majority of them actually went on to work in the gaming industry.

So, can anyone do a diff of the binaries? :)
You manually count references. It has plenty of the downsides of manual memory management, even if some silly technical distinction puts it into the camp of the vastly superior (in terms of programmer time) solutions offered by higher level languages (Java, lisps, Python, Ruby, Perl, C#, etc.).
It's funny but the most useful books I had to buy for college weren't actually textbooks and didn't come out in yearly editions.

Those that had yearly editions I read for the course and have never needed again.
The Newton had a garbage collector with NewtonScript. And the Newton only had something like 640kB of RAM.

Although, I don't think the decision to leave it out was arbitrary or solely to piss off developers. Apple likely wants to have as little code duplication as possible, so they're not going to add it in until the iPhone/iPad has enough ram free so that game developers don't have to worry about when the GC will run. My guess (and lots of emphasis on guess) is that this will happen when support for the iPhone 3G is dropped.
My anecdotal evidence from looking at what seats are occupied when picking my seat does not back up that idea at all. Passenger density tends to drop slightly towards the back of the plane, but it's rare to have a plane that's more than half full that has any completely empty rows.

Even if the back of the airplane tended to be empty, the article makes it quite clear that they looked at deaths per occupied seat, not deaths per seat overall.
This is what I think of every time I see some breathless journalist trying to claim that when we all use iPads to read our books that textbook prices will come down.

They don't charge what they charge to cover costs. They do it because that is what the market will bear. And they use every trick they can to make sure that the market will bear as high a price as possible.

The trick that I will never forget was a textbook that changed the title. Absolutely nothing else changed in the book. Right down to which exercises on which pages it was the same. But because of the different title, people wouldn't buy the old book.
Kind of neat, but the weird salute to Ashton at the end ruined it for me.
PnP model is selling services to startups - first office space, then based on your needs it could be hosting, HR etc. They don't take equity and don't have any limits regarding how long you can stay there (because they get paid cash). However the owner (Saeed) also has a fund and does get in on some Series A rounds. There is a lot more about PnP & Saeed Amidi on thefunded.com
He doesn't make a very compelling case for this being irresponsible journalism. Maybe it's mediocre journalism but I don't see any attempt to misrepresent the situation. The take-away is smaller companies/projects will try to challenge Facebook. That's it. Is that irresponsible? It seems to be a completely accurate mainstream sort of way to look at things for an audience that doesn't care about the nitty gritty details as much.
HTC HD Mini Smartphone in India
and was extremely well tested by the pirate community

and perhaps stuffed with a trojan or two for good measure
Everyone is in favor of unfettered capitalism until it personally bites them. Funny how that works.
#1 is South Dakota?? If anything that should be an indication that whatever metrics they used are not very empirically relevant.

Judging from their report, it seems like most of the factors are related to various forms of taxes and healthcare. What about significant factors like talent or mentorship? Size of market and characteristics of the population?
That is what I got out of it. A big clue was his "git commit filename". git is not svn. Is git's greatest sin really that it uses a few of the same words with different meanings from how they have been used in the past?

Someone in another post mentioned revert. svn revert file == git checkout file, while git revert patches out a whole change. It actually makes sense if you forget about cvs and svn's version of the API.

I saw the word "intuitive" thrown around... http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
Macros are better because of performance? That's premature optimization if I ever saw it. OS-specific configuration / function definition is not going to be the performance bottleneck on pretty much any app I've seen. Maybe if you're writing a CGI program where it's run many times and has to do this setup each time, but then CGI is dead for a reason. Macros have plenty of problems that result in weird edge-case behavior, and I'd really rather not have them.

Oh, and finally, they aren't unique to C. You can use the macro preprocessor on any source code you like.
I don't believe 8 local friends constitute a relevant metric on which to base a refutation of the data.
Probably a huge percentage of them will settle. The RIAA sued 18,000 people via John Doe suits, and those turned into 7,000 suits against named individuals (so 11,000 either settled or the RIAA couldn't get a real name or just dropped the case). Of those 7000, pretty much all of them settled. Bottom line, of the 18,000 people they went after, they've had to actually fight like 100 in court, and there were only 3 or so trials.

So 10,000 suits might seem huge, but with 99% of them ending before the first two-party hearing, it's much more manageable.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/has-the-riaa...
Hugo Chavez Hires 200 To Manage His Twitter Account
To bad you closed the humor element, otherwise all the comments below yours would have been funny as well.
AppEngine is being used, but I would bet not nearly to the degree that AWS is. One thing that Google could do right away is to offer a (hopefully reasonable) monthly fee to keep instances active - loading request times are a bummer and it takes some effort to keep them reasonable (e.g., use Python, or use Java without JDO or anything that takes a while to initialize).

Some things are great with AppEngine: admin web app, ease of deployment, and being able to write Wave robots easily.

For long loading request times, it would be great to pay perhaps $5 to $10 a month for always keeping one instance active.
Right story, right place, right time.
Doesn't matter that it's vaporwear.

The money is real.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/196017994/diaspora-the-p...
That would be a significant change from what we have now. It doesn't really make sense for them to do that. Sure, they COULD do it, but if they have any sense of business, they'd know why not to.
I read a while ago that he's primarily funded by a group of moneyed Germans who need a reliable tax write off. Not sure if it's true or not, but it's entertaining enough to repeat.
That's more people than twitter has working there.
Why do you believe South Dakota a bad place to start a business?
Frequent outages and "write to datastore" errors made me sad. (This was in 2009, don't know whether these issues have been fixed, but I won't be going back.)
Dictionary.com definition of capitalism: "An economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive and private ownership of the means of production."

From what I understand, the textbook market in no way represents a free market or capitalism. Publishers and schools have a lock on the market.

Also from my (admittedly possibly out of date) understanding: the authors themselves make little or no money. College-level textbooks get written for the love of it, respect, and simply to be published.
You do loose useful information, because you don't know where branches started/ended. For feature branches, that's very useful: useful for bisect, useful for reverting a branch. For syncing to upstream, that's indeed not so useful.
You probably should have blurred the names in her "Friends" box, as well, in m.png .

Hmm... and since liking profiles are now linked from liked items pages (or whatever they're called), her Likes and Interests as well. If an item doesn't have too many... Likers(?), a few page refreshes might make hers one of the six profiles displayed on the page, probably recognizable between the first name and the profile picture (despite blurring of the faces in it).
Ask HN: A product you would like to see built?
Hi,

I have been doing a consumer Internet startup for last 3 years and have reached a point where I wanna try out something else. The startup is Ramen profitable so I can work on another idea without worrying about money.

My strengths are coding, usability and interaction design (for consumer facing sites). I don't know much about enterprise software etc. I wanted to ask the community what product they wish existed. Since I am a bootstrapper, monetizability is important. Ideally I should be able to charge people a subscription fees (monthly/yearly).
Yeah, that was a really curious choice considering that Odeo is now only notorious for being the startup that Ev Williams et al. abandoned (even refunding investors' money) to start Twitter. It's sort of like mentioning that Harrison Ford had an unremarkable carpentry career.
A similar app for scheduling at MIT if you're looking for grand inspiration.

http://pickr.mit.edu/
Something like AbeBooks, combined with an e-mail to the professor asking if an older edition is okay (provided they didn't help write the newest edition of the book (-:) will usually suffice. First semester, I spent ~$600 on a book order at the campus bookstore that was essentially worthless. Second semester, I spent <$100 and got all my school books plus 5 or 6 extra computer and science books, and I finished this semester fine. If the system is screwing you, outsmart it. The only problem I've come across with this method is a) specific readings and exercises out of specific editions and b) activation crap that is required to do online homework (a bullshit tactic deserving of its own separate rant, but whatever). For a), make friends with people in your program. For b), you can often buy a separate activation code for whatever vendor they're using without buying the textbook, but they like to make you think otherwise.

If you really know what you're doing, you can just not buy the book at all, or substitute it for a better, cheaper book. Example - I substituted the crap-tastic Rosen book on "Discrete Mathematics" for a better, $12 Dover Press book and was perfectly fine.

That being said, stuff like this just keeps reminding me of the uncomfortable truth that our so-called "ivory towers" of academia are just as corrupt and run-down as the world around them. They are a business, no more, no less. Yeah, yeah, it's a big "no shit, Sherlock", but it still makes me feel queasy when I think about it.
Presumably creative directors are a particularly vain sort, and likely given the type of self-promotion required to be successful in that sort of job, the most successful are likely the most vain.
This study is simply a proxy for how "conservative" (really: Chamber-of-Commerce-Republican- approved) the state financial policies are. The taxes are obvious, but it's also things like, "does your state have guaranteed-issue health care" --- which is a problem only if the business you want to start is a health insurer.
really really really simple app idea:

Input professor's email + personal message. Asks them to input ISBN numbers of book (maybe attach syllabus for added value). Gives links to cheapest price for the book. Take affiliate cuts.
Tip for OSX: If steam complains that it needs to be on a case insensitive file system, you can go to the disk utility and select 'New Image' from the toolbar and create a files system, make sure it's case insensitive, and mount it in /Volumes/SteamDisk.

Then you have to make some symbolic links to this file system, like:

~/Documents/Steam Content -> /Volumes/SteamDisk/Steam Content

~/Library/Application Support/Steam -> /Volumes/SteamDisk/Steam

Once you've got that set up, you should be able to drag the steam icon over to the /Volumes/SteamDisk and then run it.
I have two reactions to this:

1) These are some weird-looking results and make my somewhat skeptical of the metrics.

2) Accepting them at face value, the conclusion I draw is that the legal and regulatory environment (which is what this is really measuring) doesn't matter nearly as much as people on both sides think it does. Not to say it doesn't matter at all - I'm sure that, especially at the margins, it does. But California and Boston rank pretty poorly, and yet are doing okay for new business (and, at least as far as Boston is concerned, that includes businesses of the "real", not web-startup, variety).
that's like saying that 'rm -rf' is destructive 'without warning.'

Well, "rm -r" when run as root does warn. You have specified a flag that explicitly doesn't not ask. Also, "rm" only ever destroys things, whereas "git checkout":

- creates a new branch (non-destructive, additive)
- switches to an existing branch (non-destructive)
- obliterates uncommitted changes to a file (destructive)

And the two major modes (destructive and non-destructive) have no syntactical differences. "git checkout X/Y" is non-destructive if X is the name of a remote and Y a file, and destructive if X is the name of a folder and Y a file. Deep down, you know this just isn't right.

The chief problem with git is that the user interface is a simple reflection of the mechanics and vocabulary used to implement it. That first part is great for performance, and the whole thing might seem like a good idea if you happen to be a filesystem hacker, it's arbitrary nonsense to the rest of the world.

git has been purposely architected so that you do not lose data. "stash" allows you to temporarily store local changes while you test things out. Extensive branching is key to sharing patches in a trackable way. Most destructive commands actually alert you that data will be lost. I really like this philosophy of never accidentally losing anything.

But the interface is inconsistent and needlessly complex, and should not be defended. git could be vastly improved simply by changing the command structure and vocabulary. Destructive commands could universally prompt unless an option ("-f"?) is specified.

Maybe someone could make "tig", which is a proper version control system organized from an everyday user's perspective, based on git.
State's bad teachers rarely get fired
Technically the word "diaspora" can apply to any disperse part of a group. However, it does have a Jewish connotation since the Jewish people lived completely as a diaspora with no central nation for more than a millenium. Moreover, the word is most commonly used when referring to the Jewish Diaspora.
Hey, carry that hot dog out of the baseball stadium (perfectly good even!) and see how much you get for it.

Captive market vs. free market.
Council tax definitely does not correlate with income in the UK.

I lived in Westminster, which covers most of the west of inner london. These are wealthy areas covering a lot of expensive real estate, including Buckingham Palace, for one.

My council tax was much lower than friends of mine who lived in commuter suburbs of London. The main reason is that wealthy areas like Westminster contain a lot of businesses, who get slugged with council taxes. They also make a lot of income from parking and things like that.

When you fold in lower transport costs for living in 'Zone 1' it actually makes more sense to live close the centre of London than further out. This is even more so when you start to factor in the value of your time lost sitting on the Tube for hours on end.

Not sure how these factors work out for Council regions in richer non-urban areas, but there's enough evidence to disprove correlation between council tax and income.
The smart, risk-taking people came to California because that is where all of the other similar people are. The first ones came here because for a while California had some of the best infrastructure and education system in the nation. Bar none. Prep 13 pretty much ended that dream and now we suffer through the consequent boom or bust state finance cycles, a dysfunctional statewide political system that entrenches political extremists, and an equally moronic voter initiative system that ends up causing more and more damage every year.

While there was a large net exodus in 2008 (and a similar one in 2000-2001) there were also massive inflows prior to the economic downturns associated with those years.
If you ever hear of anyone in a similar situation, send them to http://bookrenter.com/

A good friend started working there recently, and they seem to be kicking ass.
Here's a link to a PDF of the report, where it goes into detail on the methodologies used: http://www.sbecouncil.org/uploads/SBSI2009.pdf

I think it is missing some important metrics, but it's a good starting point for anyone considering entrepreneurship but undecided on a state, because it clearly lays out how the rankings were derived.
I think the Federal government does most of those things. He's talking about state tax, I believe.

It's fair that everyone should pay taxes. It's ridiculous when the productive sectors of the economy get taxed heavily to subsidise non-productive sectors. Too many governments are approaching 50% of GDP - meaning half the country is working just to support the other half. This is madness anyway you cut it.
What about http://status.net/ ?
Maybe they are ninjas.
Because you can't name one business that started there, whereas you can name how many of the Fortune 500 that started in California?
I'd love to try it out, but I'm getting Javascript errors in both Firefox and Chrome. The app permanently says "Working..." :-(
Do you think that is a good metric for how successful a given small business is likely to be, or do you think that's mostly a reflection of the state's size, geography, and history?
http://elance.com
Heavy competition from overseas developers & development firms at rates as low as $12/hr. Can still find some clients with a preference for domestic contractors at slightly higher rates though. But most clients tend to be price-conscious. You may have to purchase a paid account to submit enough bids (known as Connects) to find some gigs. Your rating is very important. Starting out can be difficult because you'll have no rating, so building up your reputation will be the first priority if you want to make this a solid income stream.

http://odesk.com
As a software/IT provider, you're required to prove that you're working through the day, either through a webcam or updating your work diary often. For this extra overhead (which isn't a big deal), you aren't required to purchase a paid account. The same level of competition exists here, however. Your reputation, and the need to build your reputation when you first start, also applies here.

http://www.guru.com
Similar to Elance, you have better chances if you sign up for a paid account. Some gigs even require a paid account. Competition is also high, as is your reputation and the need to build your reputation when you first start.

http://programmermeetdesigner.com
Haven't used this service before. Without the quality controls that Elance & oDesk have, I suspect the quality of the gigs & clients may vary. It's also not as well-known, so there is relatively less competition.

http://craigslist.org
I don't think I have to tell you to avoid this site for finding freelance work like the plague.

Good luck!
Doesn't scroll when viewed using an iPad. You have to use two fingers.
Simple. There is no one there. It is hard to start a thriving business when your market does not exist.
The health care part of your comment really isn't true. States with "guaranteed issue health care" policies are going to have higher insurance rates. That's undisputed. If Insurance companies can't turn people away for pre-existing conditions than their costs are going to go up and their rates are going to follow

(Remember we aren't debating the morality of such practices or whether it's worth the higher costs we're only looking at the economic impact in our current health care system)

Since businesses are expected to cover a large chunk of their employees' health care under our current system that makes health care policy in a given state relevant to every small business
You've just described a flat tax rate.

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

You can count me into the people who support flat tax rates, if for no other reason to stop the pointless millions of hours of productive time wasted trying to rort the system. While people will always cheat, if all income is taxed at a flat rate, at the source, then the incentive to spend money on tax accountants falls.
Could you add an option "No, but I'm thinking about it."?

I wish these guys well, but they already have all the money they need, they're at 60k+ last time I checked. But I'm a bit wary of them being young, over-enthusiastic programmers. Taking on Facebook is no minor task, both technically and more importantly socially (if that's the right word).

Hopefully they get some more senior direction and open source everything so even if they fail, people can continue to build on what they do.
I get the idea that he wants version control that 'just works'. Unfortunately version control, like most other software, has become complicated.

He needs to spend less time typing and more time reading. I don't think git is something you can reason out just by throwing commands at it.
Hmm yea it looks like it's auto logging in via certificate. Doesn't work without the cert though. Sorry.
It's all in userland on OS X (I wasn't asked to input my admin password at all), and I believe the same is true on Windows.
Well we thrive on the feedback from you guys, so keep it coming and we will keep building.