skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know what? I was born after the 8/16 bit era (well, born just as the 16 bit was closing). My choices for playing these games are: ebay, emulators, and virtual consoles.

ebay can get too expensive REALLY quickly.
emulators are legal, but the games I would play on them are definitely pirated. That, and I have to deal with a control scheme the game wasn't designed to be played on.
virtual consoles offer pretty much the exact experience as the real thing, and they're affordable.

So, yeah, I'd much rather pay for a Virtual Console than go out and buy hardware which is older than me.
Ask HN: How do you contact the person behind 24in60?
I was thinking of copying his content for a project and the site has no contact form. How would i go about discovering how to?
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Well, it will be until anyone is apprehended.

I think it is fair to say that Sony did "kick the hornet's nest." Is that what caused them to become a target for black hats? Unlikely. Whoever did this was likely looking for a big score, likely to try and sell the data to organized crime, and thus an ideological attack doesn't make a lot of sense.

However, it seems very plausible that some gray hats like Anonymous started kicking the tires of their security systems, and shared information that indicated things were looking lax, and that's what brought the black hats in.

If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough. And Sony obviously wasn't.
Steam on a Mac Pro.
With the price of oil rising ever day it may soon be too expensive to be shipping goods around the world. Those containers from China may get more expensive and companies may decide to bring jobs back home rather than pay the high price of shipping. Wages are dropping in the US and wages are rising in China so at some point we may start making things in America again. We can hope.
The AMA is totally a guild and its primary mission is to limit the number of people able to practice of medicine, thereby driving up doctors' salaries. They don't need to organize as a formal union because the federal government actively sets the number of doctors in the U.S., so they can manipulate public policy instead.

I can tell you first-hand that AMA lobbied hard to reduce the number of medical school slots in America, there actually was an AMA-backed federal program in the mid-1990s that paid schools for the lost revenue from being forced to admit fewer students! The AMA also works to prevent nurses and midwives and the like from performing simple medicine and competing with doctors.
Do you fuzz your inputs? Run with the clang undefined integer overflow checker? Run your program on hardware with 16-bit int?
Of course, letslunch seems to game people as well: It's clear reading on other sites that letslunch is only active in some cities, but there is no way to find out this fact _anywhere_ on your site until after you've signed up.
None of the consoles are using online authorization to ensure game playability. The figures peg consoles that go online to be about 30%, that means the majority will never see an internet connection.

Games like those published by Ubisoft do this on PC, and when it goes down, they say "well, if only you guys didn't pirate our games all the time, we wouldn't have to abuse you this way." And, to be honest, they have a point, because PC game piracy is out of control.

No-one thinks online authorization is great. It pisses off legitimate customers and it's another service you have to run. It's not like the publishers are really getting anything tangible out of it bar the hope that their games won't be pirated to all hell (they will be).

I would like it if games/consoles had a kill switch on them, so that after x years they no longer require an authorization in case the service goes away, but I highly doubt that will happen.
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letslunch is a very cool concept, but how often do you get negative reviews? For example, if I lunched with Bill Gates, and even if he was an asshole who did not stop talking on his cell phone during most of the meal, what is my incentive to give him a bad review?
Sony Blog Post About PSN Restoration Is Down
I think he's referring to this item from earlier in the week:

"This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539591
"A house (with few exceptions) is not a depreciating asset. With the singular exception of 2007-2010, home prices tend to rise."

In the words of Shaun Micallef: "All cats are brown, as this exception to the rule proves".

http://www.infochoice.com.au/banking/savings-account/term-de...

If you compare 5-year term deposits most are in the 6.8% - 7.1% range.
Thanks, that is helpful. It indicates there were bigger changes from 0.9 to 1.0 than any since then; The Django Book is based on 0.9, so maybe it isn't worth spending time with now.
I'm almost certain you are wrong about that. Dwolla is not listed in the FDIC database.
actually seems to be going up and down over and over for me now... Getting 500 Internal Server Errors, messages on Maintenance, and the actual blog post depending on when I refresh.
I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that students sitting on the floor or at a side table facing away from the teacher because there aren't enough desks leads to a quality education. It's nearly impossible for one teacher to control a class of 40+ teenagers, especially at-risk teenagers. My parents are both teachers, and they don't have time to provide individualized feedback to their students because their class sizes are increasing and their preparation time has been eliminated.
This is an interesting list of online learning resources, but I'd really like to see some objective measurement of the success of these programs. Are there any studies about:

A) The effectiveness of online versus traditional education?

B) The best ways to go about learning/teaching online?
The way PG controls comments here is with the up-vote down-vote ranking. It works in separating the article
discussions from the opinion oriented posts. Without the
ranking the opinions mix with the article oriented posts,
creates a sloppy discussion board.
Another approach is not to bump opinion posts downward but horizontal into a new list of posts where you expect the posts to be bumpy at best and offtrack of the original topic. On the opinion list, confrontational posts are upvoted, 5 strikes and your out for a month.
This project makes me realize how many people don't use an RSS reader like Google Reader. Come on... Do you actually check the front pages of these sites every day for fresh links? Absurd.
The government does regulate the safety of things like propane tanks, but major retailers, Home Depot included, usually have merchandise quality standards well above what the government mandates. That's suggestive (though not conclusive, I'll admit) that it's Home Depot, and not government safety standards, that keep you safe when you shop at Home Depot.
What is happening with perl 6? And will perl developers actively work on perl 5 after .14?
the "about" page has the email address.
Entrepreneurs: Do You Live a Purpose Driven Life?
Does this on most resolutions with chrome
I have been expecting it to do well for several years already. Not really, but I guess you make my point.
Thank you for reminding me to bug ez about stewardship of that.
Would love to know what people think of the site/idea
I am an MIT student, and would not recommend 6.00 OCW. I've tutored a few people taking 6.00 and found their explanations over complicated and problems filtered with unnecessary details. Reading a book would be preferable.
I've always been partial to blue jeans cables (http://www.bluejeanscable.com/) ever since I read their response when monster tried to scare them into a settlement over bogus patent claims.
If it were not an array, the "undefined behavior" wouldn't come into effect. If it were a pointer, it would not have been eliminate (I'm pretty sure).
From my understanding, iOS devices, much like Android devices, are nearly, if not completely, impossible to brick. Can't you just load the old version into the updater and restore a good version of iOS? Or does this actually brick the device? (I have to ask, because it seems no one uses the word properly these days.)
Inertia and lack of time/energy are understandable, but unfortunately that's a sure fire way to have another 7 years of non-results.

You mentioned not having great web skills, but you don't need to in order to make money online. You just need to first find out what you should be doing, then stay the course actually doing it. Good luck!
There are titles on the PS3 that won't work unless you're connected to PSN.

I /think/ there are 360 titles that do this, at least to some content.

It's not something that the console makers do themselves.

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How long have you been living that way?
Same exact scenario happened, between my officemate and I.
I suspect that dirtying mechanical components have a higher TCO and/or failure frequency than total-failure electrical components.
About 3 months, with the occasional "sleep in till noon" on a weekend.
Sorry, all I meant was "I am not intentionally holding on to something". It wasn't intended to "defend" doing it this way.

Thanks for all the bits!
I'll bet money that there are exactly zero bricked devices as the result of this glitch. Each and every device can be restored to functionality by the end users using iTunes, likely with all of the data on the device intact.

Bricking isn't temporary, fixable, pain in the ass device hosing.
Yes, and I believe that includes email client etc. There is no reason why they can't do that with VOIP.
Pretty good, it's basically a max of 4 Engage energy drinks, or 2 of them and a mix of Nos or Monster. I don't feel jittery at all, but I do get a headache if I don't get any caffeine within a few hours of waking up.

I used to get a little heart weirdness (a weird beat once in a while), but I've cut down smoking to 1 or 2 cigarettes per day and started drinking more water and the heart weirdness has stopped happening.
I think Plaxo is probably the poster child for this strategy of growth through shameless spam.
Perl 6 is a completely different programming language and is generally unrelated to Perl 5 except in name, history, and a common group of comitters and users.

Perl 5 releases a new major version every year, and a new development version every month. So 5.16 will be around next spring, and 5.18 will be around the spring after that.

With thousands of users around the world, Perl 5 is not going away any time soon.
Firmwares are signed and checked against Apple's server. They block all but the latest firmware.
Some Observations on Oracle vs Google
I was a software engineer at Apple during the second Jobs reign and can tell you that this statement is extremely misleading. Apple is constantly doing market research and adjusting their strategy appropriately, engineers and product managers were quoted market stats frequently as to why feature x or y was being rushed or postponed.

The Jobs doublespeak here is that Apple doesn't hire consultants to do it.
Great service by students for students.
It's not unusual for me to leave my phone behind when I go on vacation. That's part of the vacation.
Throwing up slides and recorded lectures is one thing. But most of these courses require you to buy the appropriate textbook which, while cheaper than tuition, isn't exactly a low barrier to entry. You really can't can't replace a college course with an audiobook. You need problem sets and reference materials, too. If there's a programming assignment sometimes tools and sample code are provided in the lab environment, but the open course version typically just puts up a scan of the handout. There are exceptions, but complete online courses is certainly not the rule in my experience.

Khan Academy has a nice web app that auto generates solvable problems for various subjects. But even those kind of lack the quality of regular problem sets. For most of the subjects I tried you just get the same problem over and over again with different constants until you switch subjects.

Basically it's nice that all these universities are making lectures available. But open textbooks and problem sets are really what's needed next in my opinion.

Also, it would be nice if there was a Wikipedia of course material where editors could construct a course out of the best pieces from all of these university sites. Especially considering so many are piecemeal as is.
I get bad results with melatonin. It definitely knocks me out, but even taking half a tablet before going to sleep makes me feel really groggy the next day.
0 to F gives you 16 - it will be easier to use with midi, which has base 2 amount of divisions
Yea, it's not permanently dead in the traditional meaning of 'bricked' -- but one does have to wait for new firmware before they can get their device working again.
I think the biggest problem is that the solution require hardware support that was only added on the client side with Sandy Bridge that was only released at around the beginning of this year. Considering that the paper says that VT-d can't be done securely without this hardware support, this means two generations worth of Intel hardware that has VT-d but can't use it securely!
Poll: Have you ever used any sort of online dating services?
Based of this question from DHuang: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2548602
Why do you feel that paying for downvotes is important? It's possible we're looking at the same problem differently, but I'd be just as excited about limiting the number of upvotes. I feel it's the ratio that matters, not the sheer numbers.
Army Wants Soldiers’ Heads To Control Robots
Gladwell is to science what homeopathy is to medicine.
What it Takes to Power the Cloud [Infographic]
Do not waste your time with The Django Book. The Django docs are epic, and what you don't understand you can usually get assisted with on StackOverflow or in #django on freenode. Also, find a website you use a lot and create a clone of it in Django. You'll find that to be more educational than any generic tutorial.
So that means you can only test read-only features of your site then? I can't imagine you want dummy test data floating around your production servers.

I don't know if this really qualifies as an acceptance test, it's more like an advanced version of Pingdom.
Author here. Point taken. Please use whatever works best for you. I mostly wanted to encourage people to write more readable JS timers. Ideally, after() and every() would make it into ECMAScript in some optimized form so you wouldn't need my code :)

By the way, the argument order and flexibility is what contributes to most of those lines.
Why The Golden Idea Is A Myth
Added them to Dark Patterns:
http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Bait_and_Switch
24in60 at gmail.com on the about page
It's only infinite noise very briefly, the next sample may be ok, and more than one bit are transmitted at a time. Consider that as you add bits to a digital sample, it gets closer to resembling an analog sample.
MBAs make their way in engineer-crazed tech world
(Unless you use Cydia's "on file" service, which caches the latest firmware's "okay, install this" response whoever you open Cydia for restoring later.)
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Thanks for the idea but that's definitely much more complex than what I had in mind: just encouraging people to use more readable JS timers.

Feel free to build on top of my code though!
Why not combine them into a single list?

All three sites use point systems; HN and Digg's range are almost identical, just need to equalize them to Reddit's.
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Your So-Called Education
I'd have to guess WWU is disappointed its CS department isn't self sustaining from grant money so this is a kick in the pants to the faculty. It is my impression, which could be wrong, that most academic computer science is money making, attracting more research grant money than it has students and faculty to complete. Better CS departments draw huge funds to build its own buildings and name them after the famous alumnus who coughed up the most cash. The fact this CS department is dependent on the school's budget and not vice versa is telling something isn't right.
Oh, so a downloaded game doesn't work. Well, if we're to compare apples to apples, the Atari 2600 online store has been offline for a while, too.
Some people really value the original experience, and like to have the old hardware. Though the original Sega, Atari and Nintendo consoles and the c64 hold a special place in my heart, I'd rather fire up a emulator or buy an iPod version at this point, too.
Thanks for sharing. I haven't worked with underscore yet. What about delay do you find superior to setTimeout() ?
I think it's a great service, too. I was just pointing out that older games not working might be seen as mildly helpful by the game companies, rather than as a problem. I'm glad they still make games available in modern forms, but I do value the ability to play in emulators.
It's apparently two titles that were download only. Not games that came on discs, which would be the appropriate comparison for older consoles.
Is it just me, or does this at the beginning of the article:

"For digital signals like HDMI, as long as there is enough data for the receiver to put together a picture, it will form. If there isn't, it will just drop off. While processing artifacts can occur and gaps in the signal can cause blocky effects or screen blanking, generally an HDMI signal will display whenever the signal successfully reaches the receiver. Claims that more expensive cables put forth greater video or audio fidelity are nonsense;"

directly contradict this at the end?

"No one saw any appreciable difference between the $3 cables and the $120 cable, or any of the cables in between. However, we did notice a curious phenomenon: the screen appeared slightly darker and a bit more saturated when connected to the Blu-ray player with the Monster Cable 1200 High Definition Experience Pack cable. The HDTV showed that it was receiving the same 12-bit color depth information through each cable, so the more-expensive Monster cable wasn't pushing through more color detail. Again, the difference was minimal, and could be corrected by calibrating your HDTV."

The contradiction there immediately makes me assume all of their testing methodology is bogus and any other "facts" they introduce in support of whatever argument they're trying to make are probably suspect...

I know they're right, and multi hundred dollar Monster Cables are snake-oil, but I'm also left with the distinct impression that anybody who finds the Monster Cable's transmission of a digital video signal "curiously darker and more saturated" has shown themselves to be incapable of convincing anyone that they know enough about what they're doing to change anybodies opinion. (In fact I _strongly_ suspect Monster's notoriously evil marketing department have had a hand n this "review"... How long till we see articles linking to this saying "Look, even the skeptics who know all the digital domain science can see the improved picture from our Monster Cable 1200 High Definition Experience Pack cable!" Notice how strongly brand and product specific that statement is, it's almost as though it's specifically written for SEO juice...)
Why is NoSQL becoming popular?
I'm becoming increasingly viral blind. In the same way banner blindness is decreasing the value of CPM and moving things towards clickthrough, I find myself not clicking on things because they seem viral in nature.

How long until viral blindess spreads to the people who play Farmville? Not long. It's a typical conditioned response; when there are enough false positives to tip your average joe off to the fact that broadcasting to your networks does not produce the desired result, then people will start ignoring hooks like these.
Maybe I'm a luddite, but I would never give something access to my facebook profile or contact list without ever actually using the service.
What about twitter search? They have a widget made just for that: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search
I think what you will find is a large increase in business users. Many of my friends are using Skype for international calls for their business - the same people who are seemingly locked into using MS Outlook. I use Google Apps myself.

There is a strong small business contingent stuck on Outlook though, and if MS integrates with that, they should have no problem selling lots and lots of paid, higher quality business use minutes.
Rails 3 Performance - Not Good Enough
if you are taking up on a real world project

I think this can be an important motivating factor. Are there any popular open source projects written in Python (or built on Django)?

For example, back in 2005 I setup a personal Wordpress install on a Dreamhost server (also coming from a finance background, with some prior HTML experience). Wordpress did most, but not everything I wanted it to do. As a result, I've become quite familiar with the LAMP stack over the years, turned that knowledge into a business and made a buck or two. A similar project in the Python world would be a great introduction, but at a cursory glance, Django seems a little too low level. If I'm wrong about Django, please correct me and I'll jump right in.

P.S. On a side note, it's definitely wise to seek out a mentor... after making enough money to hire a programmer for the business, my knowledge level really took-off. Up until then, getting things coded up could often be a very long and tedious process. Good luck!
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