skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some more info from the official page that is not included in the wired newsbite (http://www.jp.playstation.com/psvitatv/hardware/):

[Disclaimer: I don't speak Japanese]

Base package for 9,954 yen includes the console, 2m HDMI cable, AC adapter. "Wireless Controller (DualShock 3) is necessary".

Value Pack for 14,994 yen additionally includes one DualShock3 "PlayStation Vita TV edition (white)" plus USB connector and an 8GB PSVita memory card.

The controller is also available separately for 5,500 yen.

The system features a 1 GB "Built-in memory card" and "maximum power usage"(?) of 2.8W.

In the video an ethernet port is visible, but the site does not specify whether the system actually has builtin WiFi (though I'd guess so, considering the PS4 streaming).
Many do find it offensive. As many find the word "nigger" racist, but some do not doesn't disprove that it is a racist term. So it is here.
What happens when you tell the TSA you didn't pack your own bags
Interestingly enough, when backblaze started having trouble purchasing hard drives during the flood, I am fairly certain they enlisted friends and family across the country to buy them harddrives from places such as costco.

>Maps were drawn, employees were cut off from purchasing hard drives at Costco — both in-person throughout Silicon Valley and online (despite some great efforts to avoid detection, such as paying for hard drives online using gift cards) — and friends and family across the country were conscripted into a hard-drive-buying army.
Inside the World's Largest Cave
>the problem with Wayland is that one can't just 'switch' from X.

Does switching to a wayland compositor by default and using xwayland for the applications that still can't talk to it not sufficiently address that? At least as practically as is possible when replacing a popular piece of interoperable software with a large user install base?
Analysis of the Compromised Devices of the Carna Botnet [pdf]
We developed a similar thing, but for PostgreSQL [1][2]. Also a single page JavaScript app with a good UI and fairly full-featured.

[1] http://www.teampostgresql.com

[2] Demo: http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com/ (runs on a free Heroku account so a bit slow, and demo users sometimes mess up the db)
I thought about that too, but then you'd have _three_ game tiers: No touch (VitaTV + DS3), single non-video touchpanel (VitaTV + DS4), and the Vita handheld :/
Don't most televisions come from the factory Netflix etc capable? My Sony Bravia from like 4 years ago had it as a 'new' feature so I'm sure it's standard by now.
from a pure math point of view:

You can solve the cube – with commutators!
http://lamington.wordpress.com/2013/08/24/you-can-solve-the-...
I don't understand why this post is featured on HN. It is just commentary on a previous essay, and doesn't even sound like a comprehensive commentary; just a few observations.
Comments on the internet ...
Has anyone noticed the sharp number of softpedia links getting posted around?

I'm not sure why, either, (unless it's just spamming on their part) as the quality of content on the site is absolutely awful.
I get quite a bit of phpMyAdmin nostalgia when I'm going through my server logs.
Yes that's actually the reason I mentioned this. When GWB was in office they started looking for other sources outside of the ME and we get most of our imported oil from Africa now AFAIK. Brazil could be part of that push.
I too can hate on phpmyadmin and suggest superior alternatives. However, just let it sink in for one second how incredibly successful this tool has been, regardless of its detriments. Most of us would kill for this kind of household name recognition. It was at the right place at the right time, for sure, but I think there's probably something we can still learn from them.
I'm one. I'd rather spend a day and a half in the car than deal with them.
This is exactly the problem. Also, the vox populi interviews in newspaper from older people saying "25 mbps is fast enough" makes me rage so hard.

Oh, 25 Mbps is fast enough? So if I were to offer you $25 or $1000 which would you take?

Ugh. The NBN is a good idea, but poorly sold to the older generation who cannot seem to grasp the idea of its importance,
You've made a good utilitarian argument for why the biased gender views in tech should be abolished. I think this will convince some people. But it's worth mentioning that making other people comfortable around you is something that is worth it on its own merits.

Refusing to bother with making other people comfortable unless there is a benefit, which some hacker types tend to do, is really a sociopathic personality trait.
Pantyhose
Great to see OpenSUSE get onto the Pi. Seriously my favorite Server Distro. I just wish more people would give OpenSUSE another serious look especially as a server.

The ability to use the SUSE Build Service alone is worth it! It really is one of the most powerful thing to come out of Linux the past decade and I see so little traction.

https://build.opensuse.org/ : The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. It makes it possible to release software for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. The OBS reference server, which we use to build our distribution, currently has over 35.000 users that are building over 200.000 packages for 22 base distributions on 6 architectures.
If its just you and your wife - then I'd say take a chance! :) I actually enjoy my time in Russia...We even have a guy working with us from Ukraine so its a lot of cultural fun for me anyhow. ;)
When we launched our company, we spent quite a bit of time identifying, based on the concept, who are the top 100-companies that we would like to do business with, who in the organization would buy this and how do we get to that person.

From there, we cold called / emailed like maniacs - 'here is what we are working on, here is the problem it will solve, here is why you need it, can we have 20-minutes of time to walk you through this?' We leveraged every possible network connection that we had.

When we got people on the phone, we actually showed them mocks of what their site would look like with our platform (lots of Photoshop). Explained that about how we wanted to get them in a beta program, and how much would they pay?

It was a ton of hustle, but we had 10-customers when we launched that were generating a little bit of revenue and willing to give us quotes in the press or get on stage at events.

It is more of a larger, enterprise sale, so it won't work for all companies, but we were essentially selling something that we were building in parallel and wouldn't accept free for an answer.
I'm not familiar with using DACs to connect my digital gear to speakers. How noticeable is the sound quality differnce?

I've used a 3.5mm to RCA cable to connect my computer to external speakers before - is there something about the Raspberry Pi that would make this cable a bad choice, or is using a DAC just an overall better choice for good sound quality?
Because it's technical, nuanced and wholly ends up bound up in "well I just didn't trust labor to do it".

It requires comprehending civil works project scale, scope, duration and expected lifetimes, the logistics and finances of managing large infrastructure works and a mind open to the idea that the internet isn't "just for games or something".

So, not going to happen ever - but for what it's worth, I fully expect the Coalition to quietly keep going with FTTP since winding back the NBN doesn't save them any money with it spooling up - the money has been borrowed, but not borrowing it doesn't suddenly put the budget in the black. Instead you just don't get a future major asset, and do get to keep the maintenance costs of the old network.
Step 1 (now): Fibre to the node

Step 2 (later, on an incremental basis): Fibre to the home

Why do we need to do both steps at the same time? The last mile is incredibly expensive and difficult (as the slow rollout of Labour's scheme has demonstrated). Doing fibre to the node now doesn't stop us from having it to the home at a later point in time, as demands increase.
Thanks for noticing... yes thats part of the reason to do things this way - family is important... I think perhaps my writing gives the impression Im a shit dad... oh well... maybe according to someone's Hallmark card Daddy... - yea...Im a shit dad. ok. ;)
Chive is excellent software, Yii fan or not. It has bugs, but the few bugs I encounter with it are worth the pain to not have to fuss with phpMyAdmin.
Photoshop CC 14.1 now available, includes new feature: Adobe Generator
Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Salesforce
I on purpose bought the best top of the line tv from a manufacturer that didn't include the built in junk. I have never seen one that is implemented decently. I would rather have a "dumb" tv that starts fast that I can use for a decade while I swap the "computer" every year if I want. TV manufacture companies have zero interest in keeping your Bravia software up to date. Think of your TV like a first generation android. You knew there is better software that could run on your TV (even when you bought the device), but the manufacture just won't bother releasing an update, ever.
Football Transfer Window Visualised
Wonder if there's much of a chance of them cracking the extremely tight synchronisation side of things for multi-room audio without the Sonos price tag
Web Performance 2.0
I think the SixAxis’s motion control is just an accelerator, not a gyro.
Could be as simple as they still want you to buy a PS2
> does hint to them not being really open.

And what does "really open" mean?

Software licenses exist to define situation the author can live with, and which ones he would be unhappy about. Some authors:

Do not care at all (WTFLicense).

Demands attributions, and would be unhappy if someone else falsely claim authorship of the authors software (MIT/BSD).

Demands that companies not go and backstab customers and sue them over patents for code they themselves have redistributed (Apache).

Demands the same as all above, but also that users get the source code of the program that they have bought/received. (GPLv2)

Demands the same as all above, but that users can actually use modified version of the source code. (GPLv3)

Demands the same as all above, but adds a clause about users of web services are equivalent to customers who buys software in the store? (AGPL)

So I must then ask, which one is the "really open"? Only WTFlicense? Only BSD/MIT and above?
EDIT: I meant: "Do you really think that a context-independent grammar will make for easier to understand code?"
Riptide: Journalism and digital technology, 1980-present
DS4 is lunching with PS4, but there’s no reason why the Vita TV can’t have a firmware upgrade at the time to add support.
Enabling DHE ciphers in Apache limits encryption strength
Seagate to Ship 5TB HDD in 2014 using Shingled Magnetic Recording
It's not powerful enough to handle PS2 emulation. Even the PS3 can barely do it for a handful of games.
I agree 100%. I fight that daily. My brother is staunchly against genetics manipulation and agribusiness in general. I'm just for using science and having some peer oversight myself :D
The Lifestyle of a Minimalist Digital Nomad
This just shows you that security is always a trade-off, whether in your application or in life in general. People rarely consider the true cost of a change in security policy.
OMG looks like a 90's Windows application.
They stopped making them earlier this year.
Why replace the control box, instead of controlling that? In the article it says: "but the power has to be off for more than a second to have an effect. Not quite as simple as simulating a momentary switch."
With an arduino and one relay, this sounds really easy, right?
Hack an Old LCD Monitor into a Polarised Privacy Monitor
Matching misspelled brand names -- the easy way
A lot of business owners that I know are addicted to work and their family lives have been greatly affected by the time they spend at work.
Are there many (computer) languages which don't use a text file (in some encoding or other) as their 'normal' representation?

If the compiler interpreter wants a tokenized input, perhaps we could/should save in that format?

Obviously the code-entry system (not sure that it's an 'editor' at this point) has to have an efficient way to let you select which tokens to enter (and enter free text in allowed places, i.e. string literals and comments).

That could either be 'one token per key' a la ZX Spectrum Basic (the only system I'm aware of which works this way): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum#Firmware or something which looks the same as auto-complete to the end-user.

The typing experience would be much like a modern IDE, but would not allow you to enter or save incorrect text strings where a token was required, and would not require a lexing step (since it would be saved as tokens, or possibly even as an AST).
>if you know already about SQL then it is really easy to use.

If you already know SQL then its much faster to type a line into the CLI than click the mouse 50000 times in a web gui. However, I do use it so when I'm on call I can walk someone thru a simple password reset, or something of similar level, over the phone rather than spend 45 minutes find and plug in the laptop, VPN in, do 15 seconds of work, then shut down everything and put it away until next time. Someone completely incapable of finding the semicolon key on a keyboard can usually none the less be successfully talked thru clicking the mouse 5000 times on a web page.
"since airline travel is far safer than car travel" -- source quoted by Schneier

This old line has been exaggerated because people make a fallacious comparison. Ask whether people feel safer driving or flying, and many will say driving - this may still be statistically wrong, but it is intuitively based on the correct comparison.

The comparison people intuitively make is "events I can't control in each alternative", while the fallacious-debunkers compare total casualties. But almost all of the plane casualties are beyond the traveler's control, while on the other hand he/she can make sure the car is in good condition, drive while alert, obey speed limits and so on. The plane casualty number may still be lower than the corrected car casualty number, but not nearly by as much as is sometimes claimed.
Nice! Certainly looks to have a lot more features than mine right now ;-)
Note that Diffie-Hellman with 1024-bit keys is roughly equivalent to symmetric encryption with 80-bit keys [1]. The resulting connection is thus less secure than AES-128.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Asymmetric_algorithm_...
lifesaver!!
3-Sweep - Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo
On computing education
Yes, wouldn't it be correct (and less confusing) to use the plural "Onions" in the title?
STEM and the forgotten rest
Is anything similar to PhpMyAdmin that's made for MongoDB? Been looking for something decent with no luck =/
You had me up until "Sexism is a female only problem". This is provably false for any sane definition of sexism. Try being a male nurse or kindergarten teacher, getting an allegation of sexual abuse taken seriously, looking at the statistics of criminal charges vs. convictions by gender etc.
So whats your products?
Yes you are right.. I am partially absent during my time with the kids.. there but not all there. I wish I could tell you I was the picture perfect version of a dad... but Im not - and to me being a dad is an everyday struggle to get it right...but that being said - my version of whats right and yours are probably very different...My dad was busy all the time too - he flew choppers in the Army... he went on TDY ( long term duty ) / he worked over weekends ( MEDIVAC )... he was busy as hell and yea sometimes he was grouchy.... but dammit he was a great dad..and I love the hell out of him...he was real with me...always... he let me know that the world is not all pretty smelling roses and sometimes you get your ass handed to you... maybe thats why I am the way I am now? dunno.. I hope to teach my kids the same kind of survival skills my parents taught me... do what you must do to survive and succeed on your own terms... be a real person... strive to stay honest and seek what is good in your heart. Thats all I'm doing here... if I've sacrificed being a 'great dad' - well... hopefully my wonderful kids and wife will forgive me for trying... my goal is to get to a place where I do have much more freedom and time with them...and I'd never trade the time Ive had with them thusfar... being an at home dad... even if it meant laptop glued to my fingers... has not been all that terrible in my pov. cheers.
This thing will release months before the PS4 in Japan, so it makes sense to use the DS3.
Do tell about the superior alternative, I still have to use phpmyadmin sometimes.
New windows? That's a paddlin.
Exactly. The Xray scanners (now pulled), the offensive groping, the authoritarian attitudes, the long delays - I'm sure I saw some numbers showing big declines in the airline industry from late 2001, and undoubtedly few Americans today think terrorism is a big threat, but no one likes the TSA.
You can't control other drunk drivers, either.
Similarly, I believe her assessment of the job creation associated with new businesses is deceiving. Her comment, "GM employed hundreds of thousands, Facebook fewer than 10,000", while may be factually correct, is a function of how Facebook chooses to organize its business, rather than a true reflection of the jobs it created.

GM liked to control all parts of their value chain - GM parts (I.e. Delco Electronics), GM service centers, even GM financial services.

Facebook's strategy is more akin to owning the toll roads, and letting other people build the cars. Hence, Facebook doesn't provide social media management services, app development, or FB media buying - external businesses do.

Therefore - comparing the two businesses directly in terms of job creation is not comparing apples to apples - there ARE hundreds of thousands of people employed in businesses directly related to Facebook's existence, they just aren't directly on the FB payroll.

Granted, while I feel this specific critique doesn't necessarily significantly weakens her overall thesis, her usage of comparisons like this one makes me cautious of accepting her other examples I am less familiar with at face value.
Don't worry. Chances are they leave the actual writing of policies to powerful think tanks and lobby groups that understand that situation perfectly (and then cynically exploit it for maximum profit for whoever is backing them). All the politicians do is push the policy and sign it into law.
Please do not be misinformed. The last mile is a very contentious issue. What incentive does Telstra have to share the infrastructure to the last mile with some scrappy upstart?
Surprising Stats from Mining One Million Tweets About #Syria
same here, someone should recognize this opportunity.

It was the same with PC monitors, for years LCD models had ENORMOUS input lag and crappy features, but now we see models with 120HZ and no input lag/passtrough mode appearing.
s/Americans/US Government/

Don't toss us all in the same group.
> want something they can play some games on their TV and get access to streaming services

Roku has been around for years and everyone that wants your list already bought one (or a competitor). Other than a slightly fancier controller cannibalizing higher end sales yet not being completely compatible with the higher end, and a much larger ad budget, I'm not sure what if anything Sony brings to the table better than the numerous established competitors in exactly the same space.

Its the "memory stick" of streaming boxes.

If I was in the market, I'd probably be more likely to purchase one of those generic android PCs with HDMI out, so I have the same apps my phone and tablet have on my TV, or buy yet another Roku, which has worked well for many years for me doing the exact same tasks being claimed as "new" by the sony device.
But ... They have spied on everyone. Every politician, every mistresses, every CXO looking to move, every VC talking to a new equity partner. Everyone.

This is not one scandal - this is the same scandal played out over a mlion times, but there are just not a million front pages of newspapers.

Many years ago Schneier said that our data trails were like the pollution of our age - and it seems we have just noticed the NSA are the Dark Satanic Mills. This is a fast turnaround - will we be as fast in creating an EPA or a Clean Air Act?
The Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
How a summer job selling knives has helped me with my startup
If I were him, I wouldn't worry about 1 customer saying they'll build their own. My coworker (a PM, no less) decided, rather than Solr or ElasticSearch, to write his own search engine for a work project. He did it, and it obviously took 10 times longer than estimated and cost way more than was necessary. There will always be a proportion of customers who want it cheaper, but that doesn't mean you're priced wrong: it means they're not measuring value accurately.

For a good engineer, 600 dollars gets you something between 10 and 20 hours of work. To produce a polished project, start to finish, that's not going to happen.
D3 Interactive Visualization of the US Budget – 1976 through 2013
It has a catchy title, however.
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'Less than $600 a year' is different to 'less than $600'.
If you plan to use it for 4 years (assuming team size remains constant), that's a potential saving of $2400.
It should work fine for starting and stopping containers provisioned under Dokku. I played with this UI a few weeks ago and it seemed like a very promising front end. I'm keeping an eye out on Shipyard as well: https://github.com/ehazlett/shipyard
Nobody was reduced to that though.

What fun would a pair of tits floating in the air be? I'd rather stare at tits that are attached to a whole woman.
It seems dominated by links about people dying and things shutting down.
Now that is a good point. I still think tiered pricing is a better fit, but perhaps he can make the tiers higher.
Entertainment is part of tech and tits as well as tit jokes are damn entertaining.
> Between the "ship early" ethos and SaaS becoming increasingly popular, software quality has been going downhill for quite a while

Do you have a citation for this? Having spent plenty of time working around bugs in the older era of software development which took years to fix, I think your statement reflects nostalgia or inexperience. Those long, deliberative development cycles weren't some bygone golden age – and any codebase from that era has the thicket of "#ifdef BROKEN_SUNOS_FEATURE" blocks to prove it.