skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the PSX needed a modchip soldered in the mainboard

Nope, the way people played copies on the first PS1 (before the modchips arrived) was to use a spring loaded weight ($5) on the door sensor, boot a legit disc and then swap to the copy after the boot sound. No modchip required. The Sega Saturn required a mod, but it required no chip, just a few wires and a switch.

If you didn't want to "spring for the spring", so to speak, you could do it manually with a little more difficulty.
Internet content blocking travels downstream, affects unwary users
Brilliant people don't need to be brilliant in everything. You can use lesser tools and still accomplish a lot.
Nice. MultiMarkdown would be even cooler!
You don't get the analogy do you? see Jerf's post: the restaurant was never meant to be like applebees, but is not going to stay open if they don't make any money, same as the Ouya: odds are it wont beat the X360, but if it doesn't make enough money then how is it going to survive?
If you see nothing wrong with what they did, I have some really hot stocks to tell you about.
I think you just embodied the entire sentiment the GP was criticising: the whole concept that Vim is not an editor; it's a state of mind.

I compel you and anyone else who is quite dogmatic about their choice of editor to try explaining it in such an objective, non-patronising way, so that the layman can think, "oh, it sounds like it's worth learning then."

I'm not a Vim user per-se, but I'd find more value in something like this, possibly with a more specific follow up:

Vim works a bit differently than other editors. It cares more about manipulating existing text than creating new text, and so it tries its best to let you make changes without just deleting and re-typing from scratch, or using your mouse to point and click and drag and highlight.

It has a steep learning curve so it's initially hard to adapt not just to this change in perspective, but also to the commands and shortcuts that allow you to be more efficient and productive.

Such is the investment of time and effort required to do be good in it, you might consider grokking Vim a commitment as big as grokking your programming language of choice. However, you will in return acquire a life-long knowledge of working in Vim, and using it will become second-nature and infinitely preferable to manipulating text by hand.

As a developer, knowledge of Vim is valuable because of two things:

1. Portable configuration: what you learn, and how you personalise your editor, is transferrable to other machines, as it's just text. No modern editor has adequately replicated such basic functionality.

2. Ubiquity: you can't load Sublime Text, Textmate, Eclipse, {$gui_editor} on the VPS you routinely SSH into. You will, however, have access to Vim, or its predecessor Vi. You can thus have a somewhat familiar environment when working on remote servers, without any faff.
Is it illegal to hand over passwords yet if it's self-incriminating? Because encasing the encryption key in a passworded file could get you out. You would be providing the key, but wouldn't be self-incriminating yourself.

It would be like handing over an virtually unbreakable safe and saying "open it".
My reading of the Netflix announcement was that it wasn't just a bug, but that they made the conscious decision to include manual intervention in the process (of releasing dead instances) but grossly underestimated the time required to do this across an entire zone.
Oh. Well that makes a lot of sense. I feel like I understand Vim a ton better now.
Actually, this is almost the scenario for which Vim's father was designed.
We're already diverging from the official version, so I don't think one could be more correct than the other. This is like arguing over whether "octopuses" or "octopi" is correct when the etymologically correct form is "octopodes." Only pedants and etymologists worry about it.
I'm not sure anyone laughed harder than me upon hearing the news.
my previous managers always talked about "drinking your own champagne"...
Rust 0.3 released
Alternate title: How to become delusional and get fired from your solid job that pays all your bills and allows you to save for retirement and invest, too.
Any idea what bus the eSATA port is attached to? the DreamPlug is similar to the CuBox but the eSATA is hooked up internally via USB2, limiting its speed dramatically
Finding a great tool and sticking to it means you're then free to focus on work, not process. While I completely agree one shouldn't be enslaved to their tools (and, thus, capable to work with nearly anything and everything) it isn't true that any tool is a good tool. Mastering one means you're vastly superior at the work you do when using said tool.
> That doesn't mean we have to settle

And I never suggested otherwise. I just pointed out that Americans apologise for this stuff while non-Americans don't.
No offense, but this author is an idiot. He should've given them nothing, and said nothing, and requested a lawyer. He did exactly what the secret service wanted him to do: to feel intimidated, scared, and willing to talk, since he's innocent, right? That is precisely what they want you to do. Next time, say nothing and request a lawyer.
Being pedantic here, transmitting one byte (8 bits) of data requires 10 "bit times" (called bauds) because there is a start bit and a stop bit. This is sometimes called 8b/10b encoding since you get 8 bits delivered out of 10 bits sent. In packet systems (like ethernet) it gets a bit weirder since you might have 1500 bytes of data (represented by 15,000 bauds) but you add 36 bytes of network header information (another 360 bauds)) 1500 bytes is now 15,360 bauds [1].

The biggest challenge of shipping drives around though is that hard drives are really really cranky about g-shock so you can easily destroy all of your data if you drop, or even suddenly bang your drive as you are moving it around.

I think it was mostly interesting from the perspective of someone who isn't used to dealing with large data sets suddenly having that 'ah ha' moment when confronted with the challenges of managing data with consequences.

[1] This is nominally incorrect since the protocol layer overhead isn't 'bauds' like the physical access layer which uses the term strictly for signalling structures, but it works well for this example.
I don't use reddit so have a fairly basic understanding of how it works but looking at all these replies about subreddits, it struck me that basically reddit is a web2.0 version of usenet. So I guess that means good content is there, you just need to know where to look :)

P.S. for the redditors: I have nothing against reddit, it's just that I'm already drowning in information and never found the time to get in to it.
are there any arm boards that are supported by ubuntu/debian/etc out of the box?

i bought a couple of boards and they all run their own minor variants.
Detailed release notes:

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-detailed-release-no...

Download tarballs/docs/etc:

http://www.rust-lang.org/
At 100k no one will bother to make a game just for the Ouya, probably not even support the platform which means adding controller support to an existing game. Keep in mind some games sold 100k units and were deemed a failure, even good games.

This is a console.
you can get close enough through various adapters. really not a significant difference.
In Nintendo's case, you might make the argument that it's their exceptionally good first party software that allowed them to survive those years of not being number one.

First party software is also the reason (in my opinion) that the Wii was so successful. There were only a handful of titles that were actually good, with the free pack-in (Wii Sports) being arguably the killer app.
I think that's exactly it.

Explaining nifty Vim backflips is the wrong way to sell Vim. A 15 minute session of `vimtutor` was enough to enlighten me. If I had needed a proficiency in Vim to appreciate Vim, I would've never started.
I'm no stock market or finance expert, but this seems a bit simplistic. CNBC just subtracted any stock price index gain from 24 hours before a Fed announcement. I don't think they added back in any price index loss from 24 hours after. Which seems to me to make the "price indexes lower" conclusion sort of a necessity of the arithmetic.
For example, it was "racist" for McCain to not address the NAACP convention in 2008.

Likewise, it was "racist" for Romney to mention points of disagreement in his NAACP convention speech earlier this week, as proved by their boos. (Any time a white person is bood by a mostly black audience, the speaker is racist. And no, their applause doesn't erase that.)

That said, it would have been "racist" for Romney to only mention points of agreement.

Speaking of boos, if a mostly white audience boos a black speaker, that's because they're "racists".
Which is one reason why little usage vignettes (vimgettes?) are helpful.

I've got a quarter century history with vi and its kin, and am still learning new tricks.
Google Conway's Game of Life (easter egg)
Thanks! Good point. We actually repurposed our offsite database recovery to clone slaves off a master (after LVM was no longer performing), so that's a great way to get more testing in.
Indeed - for the crab apples as well.
I imagine this article being read in 100 years like we might read about black bile causing melancholy.
Nice writing, this goes straight to the HN monthly. Ultra nerdy nonetheless.
curious to see what you wrote, but you may have posted the draft link on tumblr. can you repost with corrected link?
Ask PG: How can I recover my HN/ClickPass password?
I missed your post in February warning users that ClickPass is being turned off. Had I seen it I would have heeded your warning and promptly added an email address to my profile. I clicked logout today and have now lost access to my account permanently. If there's a solution please post it.<p>Note to anyone else who used ClickPass: make sure you add an email address to your profile. Otherwise you're screwed if you logout!
Right now http://www.reddit.com/r/peloton/ has some of the best coverage of the Tour de France you can get.
I'm sorry, but although I'd agree vim is awesome, there's no way I would call its commands "intuitive." Take 'y', for 'yank.' Would anyone really argue that the word "yank" is a natural way of expressing "copy?" "Yeah mom, just yank and paste that into an e-mail... " And there's nothing inherently intuitive about '/' for searching, unless you're already familiar with unix commands like sed. Or ":" for go to line. Or "x" for delete letter. Or "jkl;" for movement, for that matter. Etc... etc... etc...

A lot of people here have made the point that vim has a steep learning curve that eventually pays off, which, to me implies that intuitiveness is either lacking or besides the point. Still, I agree with your other points. I'm thinking of going back to it to minimize hand strain.
True, I hadn't thought of the domain acquisition, but thats because digg is effectively dead to me.

I can't think of any service that could be built out that will benefit from that domain name though, s even for a four letter domain - I think they threw $500K down the tubes.
So I'm not involved in the current discussion, but I remember some stuff from the last discussion and in general.

To start, you can consider the problem of type checking of scalars in a language with implicit type coercions. You're supposed to be able to treat 0 and 0.0 the same. At the same time, if you have a type check that says "int", you kinda expect to get an int. So "with cast" does that.

I know a lot of people find that ugly, and that you want to strictly that you must receive an int, but that's just not how people use PHP, and it doesn't make sense in the context of the language. As an example, you want to be able to add type checks to all the functions in the standard library, many of whom treat null, "0", 0 and 0.0 to be the same.

For PHP specifically, there is the additional consideration that PHP is supposed to be a newbie friendly language. There was a perception in the PHP internals community that newbie developers could not wrap their head around the concept of "types". I've heard people say that a developer shouldn't be required to think about what types his variable might hold. Clearly this is lunacy for many reasons, but there it is.
Two points:

1. I don't think that people, working all hours, are actually significantly more productive than those working regular hours. In fact, in knowledge work, there's good evidence that you only get two or three hours of real productivity per day, no matter how long you keep banging your head on the keyboard.
2. Even if reddit developers and staff were twice as productive as Digg folks, that only indicates that Digg had five times too many people (instead of ten times too many).
Displaylink x2 + 1 MiniDP + laptop screen

http://www.displaylink.com/

I run two older versions of this evga product (as my monitors are older - 1650x1080).
http://www.amazon.com/EVGA-100-U2-UV19-TR-Supporting-2048x11...
Obviously it was hyperbole, but in the restaurant category, the few gems that popped up here and there, have been largely replaced by restaurants which aren't going to be around much longer.

My use and excitement for Groupon is almost on the same trajectory as their stock and frankly, I don't think I'm alone.
Actually there are a large number of groups within the piracy label. That's part of the problem because too many want to ignore that fact and pigeonhole all those groups into the same "lost sales" bucket. That's why such people usually have problems with addressing piracy and how to properly prevent it, or at least soften its impact.
Meet the company building AOL’s micro data centers
Why we need a standard for the Internet of Things
We never saw poetry written about TECO.
This seems to be nothing more than a long-winded advertisement for Persway.me. Which doesn't even serve areas other than NYC and LA.
You fail to realize how tremendously expensive it is to operate a retail environment. The real estate, the overhead, the heating and cooling, the cleaning, the customer associates; It's absolutely huge compared with a warehouse.
It is a mistake, in my view, then, to swing too broadly in trying to fix things

I feel that a natural line to draw is computability, which rayiner has argued against in another comment. He cites an old communications patent[1] as well as the ARM architecture patents as examples with protecting. I am not familiar with either, but I feel there needs to be a strong metric for patentability. To that end, I propose that we create a collection of patents that those of us whose innovations in software are supposed to be encouraged, feel are worth protecting.

[1|http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=...]
It uses a Marvell Armada 510[1] SoC, which has a SATA port, so I assume its connected to that.

[1] http://www.marvell.com/application-processors/armada-500/
Okay, Eternalwar ended up on the front page, ended up on news outlets all over and even got a response from Sid Meier. From a reddit post.

Then there was the girls graduation present where her dad got all her teachers from kindergarden to graduation to give her encouraging words. This hit my local newspaper about 5 days after I saw it on Reddit.

Soft news has basically turned into trawling reddit and twitter for popular things.
Court rules firm must process payments to WikiLeaks
Can you explain the nginx/HAproxy config a little more?
Point is, sometimes you just wanna vent because no one understands you. SRS is exactly that place.

These two sentences do not go together.
Actually, that's now resolved since Snow Leopard - there's a "sleep display" key-combo (IIRC: Ctrl-Shift-Eject) that, combined with screensaver password will do effectively Win+L.

My major issue is that sometimes it showed content before screen is unlocked (likely my displaylink device) or fails to unlock (sleep/unsleep resolves this)
On the Dreamcast it was all software, not even a jailbreak, just some code on the pirated game. It left no traces, you could boot a legit disc and connect to SegaNet, try doing that with LIVE and not get banned.

Right now pirating on a X360, either with LT, RGH or JTAG takes so much work the vast majority of users don't bother to even try, but if it was like the Dreamcast you would have a totally different situation.
Google "definition literally". It's depressing, but that's the way the cookie bounces: language mutates, for better and for worse.
It says 3Gbps here:

http://www.solid-run.com/mw/index.php/CuBox_hardware_specifi...

I am just about to place an order. They finally have stocks, though the current price is 10 USD more compared to the pre-order price.
/r/funny
/r/wtf
/r/keto
Programming Related:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/programming

- http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming

- http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby

- http://www.reddit.com/r/vim

Linux Related:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/linux

- http://www.reddit.com/r/ArchLinux

- http://www.reddit.com/r/commandline

Meta:

- http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof

- http://www.reddit.com/r/depthhub

- http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama
Digg, Dugg, Done: Once mighty social network sells for 500 grand
Very good analysis there. I wonder whether # of eyeballs is more important that accurate ranking algorithms. Viewers are washed, rinsed and asked to repeat.
He's probably not putting a cork in it.
I see; that's indeed a good idea. Perhaps it'd also be an idea to tell parents about the intended age range?
and Ctrl + R for redo.
Does this load images as the table is scrolling? Or only loads onscreen images when the scrolling stops? Do I have any control over which behavior I want?
I'm sorry, perhaps you are unaware of this fact: the term "Ponzi scheme" has a specific meaning, which an activity either conforms to or it does not. If it does conform to that definition, then you should be able to present material facts about the activity which would cause a reasonable person to reach that conclusion.

Likewise, when a person makes statements about the mental states of another, such as what those people did or did not know, that is a statement of fact. If you assert those facts, then you should have evidence to demonstrate that such things are true.

Unfortunately, all you have are poorly formed, emotionally charged opinions informed by a couple of articles you read on TechCrunch. Or maybe the WSJ if you're a little more rigorous. What you don't have are sufficient facts to warrant the conclusions you're defending, unless -- and this is my point -- you have such a low standard for truth that practically any statement can be considered substantiated, so long as it agrees with your prejudices about who deserves wealth and what constitutes success.
/r/programming
/r/learnprogramming
/r/homebrewing
/r/camping
/r/netsec
What I found what the best things weren't the highest-priced.

Agreed; I've found the best things are often in the ~75th percentile of price. High quality goods are rarely bargain-basement priced, and non-luxury choices usually perform better than their more expensive luxurious counterparts.
Agreed on all counts, however you can change the primary display in System Preferences.

You have to drag the menu bar on the diagram onto the display you want to be the primary.

Of course, that fixes one thing, but then your laptop screen is rendered useless instead.
They do finally have stock? There was a thread just earlier this week where I mentioned this but there was a linked forum post where they've not been fulfilling preorders, etc.

Plus there's some straight up weird stuff on their Word doc exported "Spec Sheet".
I have not seen SDWebImage. From what I can recall about AFNetworking (a fantastic library, by the way), it provides a category on UIImageView whose methods can download and display web images. I don't think it provides any help for loading images in a UITableViewController context. In other words, the app developer still needs to state what URL to load and when to load the images. With PFQueryTableViewController, you just state which image each cell should load, and the loading is managed by the controller.
"Used to acknowledge that something is not literally true but is used for emphasis or to express strong feeling."

Well that just makes me sad. We don't really have another word to use in its stead, do we?
I just read the RFC, and I think it's very good. The only minor quibbles I have would be using the "compiler" instead of the parser to produce the hint, and whether or not you should cast if losing precision. But these are minor issues that should probably be ignored, since this improves the status quo considerably.
hey Chris - how ya been?

for me the problem with digg started when they took down th leader board. It was what a few months later that "gamification" was the buzz word. Digg just effed that one up.
"The price was only about $500,000, three people familiar with the matter said"

Shouldn't the headline have added the word, "rumored"? Or maybe a Betteridges law version "Digg to sell for only $500,000?"
For some reason, I think the Ouya's more analogous to the Boxee Box than it is to something like the XBox 360.

At ~$100, the Ouya's throwaway technology. If the platform fails, you can always root it and make it a media player. It's a low risk purchase compared to something like the Dreamcast or 3DO (remember that one?).

If they keep the games cheap, casual and social, they might actually develop enough of a base to reach sustainability. In any case, I hope they succeed, because I've bought way too many $60+ games that I only ended up playing for 5 hours.
Giant sunspot shoots out intense, X-class solar flare
I thought this was interesting. Apparently you don't need to move to the Seattle area.

https://www.bingfund.com/About

What if my company is not located in the Seattle area?

While we will be able to give more hands-on assistance to startups that are nearby, as long as your company is incorporated in the United States, you will get the same benefits, with the exception of co-workspace.
IIRC, I had my import DC chipped, but shortly after, the Utopia disc came out but by that time, I had lost interest in gaming for several years.
I agree, but I think that Reddit is only usable for a specific subset of hardcore users.

Unfortunately, Reddit's admins chose to take a hands-off approach to policing bad behavior in the community. As a result, Reddit regulars have to guard themselves against providing enough information in their comments to attract the attention of a diligent troll.

I had a 5-year-old account on Reddit, and had been active on there from just about the beginning. I had hand-picked subreddits and the like. But, ultimately, it was better just to delete my account entirely and become a casual reader.

Now Reddit is basically the daily equivalent of reading the comics section in the newspaper.

I think Digg has a huge opportunity here. I doubt that they will take advantage of it though.
Yeah and that upto 9/11 you could go into alot of Church's in the Boston area and make donations to the IRA. That kind of stopped post 9/11.

We all learn from our mistakes eventualy.
Unfortunately for iOS developers, yes, you need Lion for latest XCode.

Compiler toolchain and other stuff is available via older xcode or gcc-osx-installer project, though.
‘iPhone 5′ Available Now In China
True. At the very least $500,000 will cover some of the costs associating with tying up loose ends when legally doing something like this instead of winding it down. May be employment contracts, leases, colo costs etc.

Either way it is a good deal by smell test standard.