skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the meat since 80% of the article is PR blabbering and we all already know who Red Hat is:

When we released RHEL 6 approximately four months ago, we changed the release of the kernel package to have all our patches pre-applied. Why did we make this change? To speak bluntly, the competitive landscape has changed. Our competitors in the Enterprise Linux market have changed their commercial approach from building and competing on their own customized Linux distributions, to one where they directly approach our customers offering to support RHEL.

Frankly, our response is to compete. Essential knowledge that our customers have relied on to support their RHEL environments will increasingly only be available under subscription. The itemization of kernel patches that correlate with articles in our knowledge base is no longer available to our competitors, but rather only to our customers who have recognized the value of RHEL and have thus indirectly funded Red Hat’s contributions to open source that will advance their business now and in the future.

TL;DR: Competition is hard, especially when we are "open" and everyone else is not, so we adopted our competitors' tactics.
Thanks to your question, I did some googling and found this article, titled "La-la land: the origins" : http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/21/weekinreview/21basics.html

He write, "Los Angeles's distance from New York was also comforting to independent film producers, making it easier for them to avoid being harassed or sued by the Motion Picture Patents Company, a k a the Trust, which Thomas Edison helped create in 1909. The Trust, which included the dominant producers, distributor and film stock manufacturer, was intended to monopolize the entire industry. "
"Throw us in ice-cold water every day and we’ll sprout subcutaneous fat for insulation"

What? Everything I know about physiology and the effects of cold exposure make me believe that this is the opposite of the truth.
I'm pretty firmly on WebM's side in this whole patent flame war thing, but getting the Justice Department looking into MPEG-LA already just makes me think Google's got some damn good lobbyists in Washington. I never heard of the government getting involved at this early stage of a patent battle before.

Of course, MPEG protection racket-esque comments in the article makes this a bit easier to swallow.
Yeah, I got to the site and noticed that. Bummer, I'd like to give some a try.
Ajax stuff can definatly make you pull your hair out.

I don't know too much about HTML5. I haven't had time to play with it but i think that you should take a look at node.js.

It could be what you're looking for.
I reloaded the page and got something like 4 * -1 - (-4) = ?

A subsequent reload sent it back to a more complex formula.
My only concern with OCZ SSDs are initial quality. Just look Newegg's reviews, there a whole bunch of people who received DOA units or they fail after a month.
Study Says People Make Better Decisions With a Full Bladder
There's a royalty cap. I believe MSFT is paying the maximum royalty cap for H264. And Apple only has one patent in the patent pool of 1000+ patents.
I had an idea of building a similar dueling site using memes. Actually, I even designed and built the site, but decided to ditch the project it just before paying for a domain.

The reason? I didn't want to turn into that guy who runs lolcats franchise.
Why odd? They got farecast and now they are getting data from kayak to surface in bing travel. Looks more like a consolidation to me. With GOOG buying ITA, they better cover their asses.
Thanks. I actually went through the trouble of going to fb and clicking "Remove Post and Unlike".
It's Fast? It seems barely keep up with previous generations Vertex 2 in real-world tests (PCMark), and new Vertex 3 and other SandForces are even faster, and cheaper.

I really wonder why Intel released a drive that's both more expensive and slower than competition. Of course they have strong brand, as X-25 were really successful.
MS design, awesome ignorance of UIs since 1985.
I think "hacking the business world" is quickly becoming the new "picking locks" amongst those who fit more general definitions of "hacker".

Maybe this is a fad (like "life hacking" was a year or two back, for instance) but like all fads, some fraction of those exposed to it will really get into it and make it part of their identity. As a hacker in the general sense, I don't mind being exposed to these fads, because I know eventually one will come along that resonates me (and in the meantime, the others are interesting to watch.)
there's a balance to be struck. just like some people work a day job to fund their side projects or bootstrapped startups, some people are going to need to do a little hustle to help fund their more interesting but less profitable passions.

i don't mind occasionally reading about it, as long as it doesn't fill up the queue and the things that are presented are of good quality and informative.
Reasons Not to Glow
2008 - U.S. aims to boost Libya trade, trim deficit
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/06/us-libya-usa-idUST...

Libya are the bad guys this week. We were dealing with Libya in the Billions based on that article. Suddenly $75.00 for a domain name has become a moral hazard.
This does look fairly cool. Sort of reminds me of when I watched Hackers and wished that all of my user interfaces were going to be that cool some day.
What’s in a name? Naming your business, product or Internet site.
Your own company? You can do it
Patent enforcement is not illegal, but it is illegal to misuse a patent for anticompetitive purposes.

The area of law where patent law and anti-trust law intersect is very complex, so I cannot explain it here, but suffice it to say there are situations where patents can be misused for anticompetitive purposes and this can result in violation of antitrust law.

Some examples may include situations where you have a patent for system A that rightfully grants you a monopoly on system A, but use that patent to get a monopoly on or control the distribution of system B which is not covered by your patent.

This is something that may apply in this case although I am not sure it does. MPEG-LA keeps its major license agreements secret, so we do not know what is happening.

None of the above is legal advice.
The default for Microsoft's .com sites should probably be the user set browser language. If not the default then a prominent "change to $language" dropdown with the sniffed browser lang as a list-top shortcut.
My projector lamp bulb is made in Japan, but the plastic housing is made in China.
Groupon: the billion-dollar that company turned down Google
A Quick Interview with Alex Muse of ShopSavvy
Thanks. First time HN poster, didn't know I had to format the links myself.
Is face reading the newest tool for management 3.0?
"we adopted our competitors' tactics."

No, Red Hat develops software, Oracle mooches off Red Hat's work. They have made this change to ensure that they can stay in business, which is important because unlike Oracle, they actually do work on the software they ship.

They can't adopt Oracle's tactics because there is nobody else doing what Red Hat does.
try spyfu.com
Sorry, I meant the tshirt making work, I assume you won't be printing them yourselves..?
Are vague threats illegal? Do legal threats have to be specific? It seems like one of the most common threats I know of is, "I'm going to sue you!" It's usually not a specific, "I'm going to sue you based on violation of XYZ". It's usually a very vague statement. Is that generally illegal, but just not enforced?
I hope you have the license to use his likeness.
Or you can write a simple OCR program that can send HTTP requests.
Walk By A Starbucks And Get A Coupon Sent To Your Phone
Yours drawing is excellent. With my trackpad or even my mouse it is not easy to control to draw properly. You did an excellent job. Linux rocks.
New York = High School; Silicon Valley = College
Counting on your regular activities and sports to keep you fit is likely to result in eventual injury. It does not provide any reserve strength to ward off various strains and stresses. No matter what else you do, a weight training program is very helpful. especially as you get older and need more consistent exercise to keep your strength and endurance from deteriorating. Note that preventing injuries when you are younger will also be a great help as you get older.
Good times for app developers
It is for the JavaScript engine too:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/s4esdbwz(v=VS.85).as...
I keep looking, but can't find the Vertex 3 available anywhere. Any news on a release date?
Just checked your website(s) and I was really impressed with design. Do you do the designs in-house or are hire someone else.. (possibly an offshore designer)
likeness is ok - for eg. I can take a photo of somebody and sell it for $10.

what would not be ok is a copyright and no permission or license from the owner of the original image, even if it has been altered. see the obama 'hope' image dilemma[1]

the original image in this case is © WENN[2]. op - did you get their permission? The exif[3] of the image has copyright Nikki Nelson / WENN. TinyEye finds it in a few places, and other than a few spammy blogs and forums, most seem like legit online outlets that would license.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster#...

[2] http://www.superiorpics.com/wenn_album/Charlie_Sheen_-_TV_La...

[3] http://xrl.us/sheenexif
I just got the X25 less than a week ago. Now that I've seen the testing on this 510 and the Vertex 3, I'm debating returning the X25 and going for one of these models.

I can preorder the 510 from Amazon for 295, still looking for someone selling the Vertex 3.
NO WAY! I've been using this for a few months now! Absolutely love it. Works great in hollywood. Didnt know you were a fellow hacker!
The situation in the article is embarrassing. On the flip side, the US is really big. 4 US states are larger than germany. Getting the visa sounds like a pain in the ass, but it's more like a visa for the EU, rather than member nations.
They can't adopt Oracle's tactics because there is nobody else doing what Red Hat does.

SUSE does what Red Hat does (work on the software it ships). In addition to that it also provides Enterprise Support for RHEL :). Which might make it both good and evil you could say or maybe just chameleonic.
Well, many tourists need a visa to connect via the UK. I avoid travel through Heathrow because of it. (No, not as a protest; I'm usually traveling with someone not covered by a reciprocal visa and it's just easier that way.)
The code is fairly idiomatic C++, except maybe for the name of the class template (BST); hardly anybody names their classes in all capital letters (note that naming template parameters [T, MAXN in this case] in all capitals is quite common). Other than that, maybe the spaces after ( and < as well as before ) and > are a matter of taste.
That post is not well written. It's hard to tell what they mean. This may be inaccurate, but all I got from it was:

"Chrome Web apps,failed to gain a lot of popularity,because it functions more like a website than a web app" ... "It failed to interest the developers as well." ... "Well, after a long wait" we are going to create web apps too.
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Get a stand up desk, or failing that create a makeshift one with cardboard boxes. I started doing that 9 months ago. Now all my back problems are gone. 10% of my company,or roughly 20 people, have since happily switched.
As an American, I've never really appreciated this. Frequent trips to D.C., Baltimore, Philly, NYC all my life...the cities are all too new to really see such dramatic growth from the ground without really taking some time to see it. Oh a suburb here and there, a new road, a new high ramp, a new shopping center etc.

I think that D.C. in some ways is fairly easy to actually drive through the history of the city and its growth. Starting in D.C. going South or West you find yourself in various "old towns" like old town Alexandria that even today have a distinctly old timy feel. A mess of roads, narrow streets, etc. right after that you quickly see urban areas like Arlington give way to what used to be the far off suburbs of D.C. in Alexandria or Fairfax or Vienna or Falls Church. Today they are an almost unbroken semi-suburb of shopping centers and communities of small old houses built in the 60s and 70s. Get out past that area and you find the 80s. Lots of shopping malls, larger newer homes, etc. The area is noticeably nicer, better planned, less crowded, newer stuff. Out past that you find the 90s and so on and so forth.

And at some point it sort of reverses itself as you near the next old town area, you start going back again through time. The bigger the original town was, the more noticeable it is (you see this effect more as you approach Leesburg or Manassas than Haymarket.)

I actually found this effect even more interesting and pronounced in Europe, with so many cities founded by Romans, surrounded by a medieval era unplanned rats maze of narrow roads punctuated with a few Renaissance buildings (and a few later eras depending) surrounded by beautifully organized and architected 19th and early 20th century buildings and then a rats maze of ugly modern apartment blocks bleeding off into modern suburbia.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

You can actually see the history from space, the road organization and building layout are tell-tale. Like rings of a tree you can spot population explosions, times of hardship, uncontrolled fast growth. It's actually quite beautiful to ponder on.

This concept, travel towards or away from the founding core of a city in order to "time travel" is also echo'd by modern archeologists, dig down to go back in time. The Seattle underground and the Roman ruins under Barcelona are fantastic examples of this.

It reminds me in analogy of climate as a function of altitude (mountain and hills) or latitude (north and south). You can experience the climate of a northern latitude while at the equator by simply climbing up.
Quick Loan backgrounds
Yes. http://scri.ch/12c
It is not easy to draw, but fun nonetheless.
Online games in Vietnam: Game over?
Hopefully this will drive X-25 prices into the $1/GB range for those of us that think reliable 350/100 MB/s read/write is already blazing fast
I'm not making any claims about who is and isn't an illegal monopoly, that's a legal matter and IANAL.

I was addressing the claim about market share and only that.
Since they changed the puzzle to now require finding the prime duplicate number.

Is is each number delimited by a (random?) alphabetic letter? Is this to make parsing into Excel/an array harder?

Also, even the new 'harder' puzzle is easy to solve in Excel. Maybe that isn't a bad thing, however.
>"[...]a few possible reasons for Microsoft to put IE9 on Windows XP that I can imagine."

How about demonstrating that they care about UX of current users. They care about good internet experience and they care that their users don't have to use someone else’s free software to still have a vaguely secure and usable internet experience. Or simply just as an opportunity to showcase MS's improvements to their apps and demonstrate the great benefits (ahem) to updating to newer versions of other apps. It could also be a ready advertising opportunity in many countries, have the homepage fixed to an MS page with upgrade offers and info if you're on a legacy OS version. Lastly as a way to softarm Bing as being the default search engine of millions of business users.

Why not design it to work on XP, OSX and Linux from the off? The other browser makers seem to manage it. Perhaps they secretly feel they can't contend in the browser space?
Granted. I know very little about patents, I still see these loaded statements as conscience injections, red herrings, and convenient sound bites for zealots like Gruber. Might is different that is, but on Gruber's blog it's a testament to an agenda. The MPEG LA knows this.
With the recent stagnation in CPU speeds, upgrade cycles may slow way down.
Props to Red Hat for not putting out a bunch of BS pretending like it's not really what it really is.
Thank you! Yes, it would be easier to draw if we could use something else as pointer(pen) instead of mouse pointer but this was more challenging and fun.
Ycombinator, can you help out this band I work with?
WebM is an inferior codec to h264. As much as I'd like a patent-free alternative, it's unlikely that consumers will be willing to take a step back in video compression/quality. The fact of the matter is that large companies can afford to pay royalties, and end users don't have to. There's very little incentive to move to something new, let alone inferior in quality and of dubious future.

Now imagine a patent-free codec came along that had substantially better quality per bit-rate and was at least as efficient as h264. You wouldn't need lobbying to move us over. The pirates would embrace it first, and everyone else would follow. At the end of the day, moving forward is the only way we know. Sadly, WebM is leading in the opposite direction.
Students creating games for Windows Phone 7
Programming language should be simple
I agree completely and we've made hires based more on the strength of peoples passion for programming than a specific skill set. This works excellently I think for junior or mid level positions beyond that though I think you really are looking for specific expertise as opposed to raw potential.
Thanks, you too, I love the idea of save & draw.

Btw I'm using an existing simple jQuery plugin to handle touch events by converting them into mouse ones. AFAICS you're not using jQuery, but you might be able to pull out the functionality you need to add to your app too, if you decide to add touch support: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-for-ipad-and-iphone/
Paul, can you maybe lean on people at Google to create & test a few versions of a Chrome Frame download page that is highly convincing to end users? The Chrome Frame page is kinda sorta developer-centric. There needs to be one well-linked-to page that is only, and convincingly, targeted to everyday bumpkins using IE.
Sorry, but I think you're wrong. Google has no APIs which will give you the rank of a given site for a given keyword.

If I'm mistaken, please correct me, I and 100,000 other developers would love to use said APIs.
On my last flight to the US British Airways at first didn't allow my friend to board the plane, because they told us that her name is on some watchlist. An airline employee then phoned ~30 minutes with the US department of Homeland Security and asked my friend lots of questions - and then finally allowed her to board. Needless to say that we nearly missed the flight.

I can fully understand anyone who wants to avoid having a transfer at an US airport. Why risk any of those problems when you can just transfer via another country?
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A sensor-driven life: IT companies wire up cities of the future
I would wait for a comparison between the Intel 320 and Micron C400 (which are both imminent) before making any decisions.
Not so long as you think… Microsoft licensed XP for free on netbooks to compete with Linux (netbooks cost maybe twice as much as a Windows license). Summer of 2009, I walked into a Verizon store and they were selling netbooks that, swear to God, had IE6 as the default browser. In 2009!
Give us some concrete examples of tough decisions with obvious objective upside?

Also: A lot of what makes it hard to be a founder is not the shame of failure, but knowledge of lost time. If my company goes under, I'm not as disappointed in my lack of success as I'm disappointed in time not spent more productively elsewhere. There's a subtle distinction there.
This PR statement unfortunately fails to address the knock-on effects to the CentOS project that this will have.
There's some great innovation over the last decade in diagnostic and treatment technology. It makes me wonder why health insurance premiums continue to rise at many times the rate of inflation.
Looking for a cofounder? Reverse the order of operations
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You don't even need to land, flying from europe to Canada you need to not be on the US no fly list and have your details (credit card, phone number type of meal) sent to the US.

I think Greenland should retaliate with a $100 overflying charge
Are FF and later versions of IE really slower than IE6? I remember IE6 with QQ toolbar being literally unusable for me before I gave my then colleague's laptop a lease of life by upgrading her browser to IE7 (sans toolbar) for the ActiveX-dependent extensions and Firefox 3 for everything else.

Mostly I'd assume it's a function of IE-specific code in webapps and pre-XP OS installations that means that IE6 is not only required but necessary for some purposes.
I guess even Google would be pissed if an investment of 125M was to be flushed down the toilet. Also, I'm pretty sure they had far-reaching strategy right from the beginning, and had prepared themselves for such issues that might eventually leading them into battle.
#1 Yay

#2 Korea and China are only heavy (>5%) ie6 users. Whewh I don't support those languages anyways so YAY DEATH TO IE6.
While you're at it, I need the phone number for Europe.
Aside from the author's habit of putting spaces after angle brackets and parenthesis, it's standard looking code. It's pretty busy looking, but then again, there's a lot going on:

- A generic type T is introduced into the scope of this member function.

- The template parameter MAXN is a compile time constant that is part of the type of the data structure.

- This is the count member function of the class BST, which is paramaterized on the types mentioned above.

- count does not modify any instance variables of BST.

- The parameter x is passed by constant reference.

- count's return type is int.

- The actual value returned is 1 if find(x) evaluates to true, and 0 if find(x) evaluates to false.

You learn to look for what you need to know when reading the code. Also, it's also worth noting that this code is most decidedly C++ only. C programmers may hate this code.
I was disappointed that they didn't delve into how they would create the desire to heat human flesh / brains. This seems to me to be a vital feature of zombies. I'm sure there are some strange diseases that already cause people to want to bite or chew or something.
I wrote a note on the post but it doesn't seem to show up.
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Filtering non-contributions with downvotes is part of how Hacker News is supposed to work. Punishment is beside the point.
On the flip side, they apparently optimized for large sequential accesses, so this can be good drive if you do a lot of image/video editing.
A joke I read in a David Foster Wallace book went something like ...
There was an employee at an ad agency who did good work but took a little too long to complete his assignments. One day the boss comes up to him and asks "Johnson did it ever seem ironic to you that the work paralysis rhymes with perfectionist?".

The employee thinks about it and says "Yea I think I see your point about perfectionist and paralysis being somewhat interrelated like that but there is actually a 't' on the end of the word 'perfectionist'. So even though I think you have a valid point, those two words don't really rhyme like what you're saying".

The boss looks at him for a second and says "Well, close enough".