skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the release notes:
"By default, both the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel and the Red Hat Compatible Kernel are installed on the x86_64 (64 bit) platform, and the system boots the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel by default. If needed, /etc/grub.conf can be modifed to make the system boot with the Red Hat Compatible Kernel by default."

https://oss.oracle.com/el6/docs/RELEASE-NOTES-GA-en.html
How Kickstarter could disrupt public radio
Here's some info on using airplanes (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/missiontyp...) and balloons (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/programmissions/missions/missiontyp...) on Mars. In short: it's possible.
So by that rationale, we should have stuck with Mosaic, and Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Konqueror are all bad things?

How about the various mail clients, office products, ftp clients, torrent clients & servers, programming languages, power drills, clothing lines, gasoline engines, kitchen knives and so on?

Tools are about innovation. Standards are about locking down feature sets so that tools can interact in a common way. The whole point of the xkcd comic is that too many standards makes it difficult to make tools, and adding yet another one-standard-to-rule-them-all usually backfires.
It appears you've been hellbanned for this comment. My condolences.
Why the Washington Post will never have a paywall
Indeed, killing civilians is not an "Islamist" act, Islam prohibits the killing of non-combatants even during war, 9/11 was not even an official war. It didn't help the Palestinian cause nor did it help the Afghans or Iraqis who got killed after that (even though no Afghans nor Iraqis had anything to do with 9/11).

>I don't think that he was acting on the behalf of Islam.

His acts were as much about Islam as Vietnam war or any American President's mass-murders were about Christianity.
The US was supporting Osama and buddies to kill USSR by proxy. The US was also supporting Iraq's Saddam in 1980s to get rid of Iranian regime (after 1979 when Iranians toppled the 1953 US-UK-installed puppet King), the US continues to support Saudi misogynists who present their fanatic views as Islamist, Obama supported Islamists in Libya (even supported some Al-CIAda terrorists who were on US terror list) and now they are supporting the so-called Islamists in Syria.
Yeah, Oracle's brand/goodwill is completely dead if we're talking about consumers. However, does this effect business decisions at all? Any paid thing is aimed at businesses, and the business doesn't care about open source/ethics issues in the same way.
Is anybody up for a round of elephant hunting?
I think you might give the title to Swivel, which beat Many Eyes by a couple months. [http://eagereyes.org/criticism/swivel-vs-many-eyes] I'm not sure which one of them lasted longer. [http://eagereyes.org/criticism/the-rise-and-fall-of-swivel] In contrast, Tableau Public headed in the opposite direction from both of those, striving not to be a social network but instead focus on being embedded elsewhere.

I think the number of true viz geeks in the world is dwarfed by the number of people who are interested in particular data. But I'm not even sure that Visual.ly is trying to be anything more than a niche network here.
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He had some good points until that negative turn. Too bad I can't downvote him. He just made me dislike Oracle even more.
One profound concern I have is for "denouncing for terrorist activities" to become a common thing in the US as a way of dealing with unpleasant others.
Nodeable gives Hadoop a real-time boost with StreamReduce
Vidyard (YC S11) launches A/B thumbnail testing + YouTube management
In Chrome under OS X, the walls are invisible. (It seems like they might be supposed to be the window edges, but they're offset by an unknown and invisible amount from there.)

So that makes it less fun.
I wonder if a lot of that is the death of CRTs, which didn't have a "native" resolution. That's the one thing I really miss about old gaming. Playing something at 640x480 and having it look good, and not be resampled. Might be why the current crop of pixel-art indie games annoys me too, come to think of it. The natural slight blur from CRT overscan is gone.
Programming on parallel machines. A free ebook
WikiLeaks calls for donations, dares Visa/MasterCard to shut them down
It does - I'll keep an eye on this. Many thanks
Common Crawl code contest - with fresh crawl of 3.2 billion web pages
How does one actually transmit the images from that high up? I can't imagine you get cell signal up there.
One difference to note is that HTTY puts you in a REPL-like environment instead of being a one-shot command like curl.
Rally.org, a bad growth hack
Try Desafinado without Getz - Joao Gilberto is another master.
UK judge rules Apple must advertise Samsung did not copy the iPad
Zoomooz.js - Make any web page zoom.
Give him credit for thinking outside the box, at least.
Even though this is an awesome topic, i must say, i laughed!
I think the tool looks useful. I'd appreciate something like this for manually poking web servers when conducting a security assessment.

[Edit: removed HN snarky comment]
Obama Preparing to be Outspent by Romney
Are the links in the APODs always this humorous?
There is a noticeable lag between a keypress and the snake turning. Makes it very unpleasant to play.
Why not use JSON syntax for JSON instead of introducing your own, though?
I remember recently seeing polls that showed a large group of Americans still think (were brainwashed into thinking) that Iraq was largely responsible for 9-11.

Of course a (different?) large majority also believe the Earth is only around 10K years old.

So maybe selective/programmed memory is a more accurate term?
Surprise ending, it is a "Forever Alone" guy.
With hacker attacks on the rise, Facebook Connect emerges as security solution
The exclamation mark density looks way too high. This is because most of the site is text, and you are trying to emphasize your points.

I'd suggest using a cleaner design that allows a higher emphasis on key points, such as quality, speed, and a track record.

Good luck!
You presume that I care about Karma. Why not evaluate things on their merits rather than cynical assumptions?

And what do you mean, "no visible results"?
0.4 g's...
I spoke precisely, yet you managed to contort my statement into something that it's not: an expression of my opinion on universal health care. What I said was that other approaches exist that do not require marking tax returns in a way that reveals the existence of health insurance...
Rational people do feel free to express their views in today's United States.
Do you guys think the future of social networking will be niche social networks like this, instead of facebook? I've been getting more and more annoyed with facebook lately, it's becoming more like Myspace every day. As the masses use it, I find it to become more useless.

Other than following my family and very close friends, it's annoying. I'd rather be part of a social network that I'm passionate about.
Be ready to scale
They also know what car insurance I have and if it's a "Cadillac." Heaven forbid!
>I don't think OBL ever had it as an explicit aim to pull down US militarily or culturally transform US into a Islamic state

Actually, if you read his letters, he did state some of these as his goals, but more importantly, his advisor, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had this goal in mind, as it was made explicit in "The Shade of the Quran" by Sayyid Qatb who was Zawahiri's mentor in Egypt after they spent time in prison together.
Maybe not a "known terrorist organization" but part of the "associated forces". The more vague the name in the law, the better, because they can catch anyone like that.
Kite and Balloon Aerial Imaging
Yes, there is work going on to achieve that. Airplanes can fly quite well in thinner air, they just have to fly faster or have bigger wings. I don't know about helicopters or balloons, but there is a project which aims to bring a solar-powered airplane to Mars. The main problem are the batteries as they have to hold enough energy to fly trough the night.

See e.g.:

Noth A., Engel W., Siegwart R. Recent Progresses on the Martian Solar Airplane Project Sky-Sailor In Proceedings of the 9th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics (ASTRA 2006), Noordwick, Netherland, 2006.
[http://www.sky-sailor.ethz.ch/docs/Sky-Sailor-ASTRA2006_Noth...]

Noth, A., Bouabdallah, S., Michaud, S., Siegwart, R. and Engel, W. SKY-SAILOR Design of an autonomous solar powered martian airplane. In Proceedings of the 8th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics, (ASTRA 2004), Noordwick, Netherland,2004.
[http://www.sky-sailor.ethz.ch/docs/Sky-Sailor-ASTRA2004_Noth...]

Noth, A., Engel, W. and Siegwart, R. Flying Solo and Solar to Mars - Global Design of a Solar Autonomous Airplane for Sustainable Flight. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp 44-52, Sept. 2006.
[http://www.sky-sailor.ethz.ch/docs/Flying_Solo_and_Solar_to_...]

See http://www.sky-sailor.ethz.ch/ as well for more.
This 2009 TEDx talk is about flying an airplane on Mars:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YQBuuhh76A
It has to do with community standards. The community standards for deployments and dependency management for Python & Ruby are much higher than PHP.

virtualenv/rvm are the standard, using git is the standard, fabric/capistrano for pushing/provisioning is standard.

This is not the case for PHP, the vast majority are using graphical FTP clients to manually overwrite files.
I have also heard this. If you're going to install something new anyway, you're just letting them subsidize your new computer. I don't have a problem with this.
Good article.

I think the key sentence is "...if you want the security updates first, the only way to get them is by paying Red Hat for support, not Oracle."

You can also add "if you want additional support, the best way is to pay the much more experienced creator RedHat, not Oracle."
Isn't the ecosystem always trotted out while defending PHP, as well as its 'accessibility' to amateurs? Well, those amateurs are part of the PHP ecosystem, and you'll have to put up with that... or not.
Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down?
Kinda like the prettier http://atfight.me
WiFi-blocking wallpaper
I clicked the "speculation" link thinking it would be a forum thread full of scientist debating whether it was caused by volcanism or something similar, I didn't expect to be trolled by APOD.
Best Papers from 27 Top-Tier Computer Science Conferences
Wow, that 'choice screen' requirement is ridiculously lame. Why not just start forcing Microsoft to show a pop-up when the OS boots letting the user know that they could be running a Mac, or Linux? It seems like the EU never gets tired of trying to stick it to Microsoft. I hope they continue to defy them on this.
A meteorite could have crashed through a thinner portion of the surface and created the hole.
Could be argued that MSFT's "evil empire" thought that they could get away with this as they're locked in brutal combat with Google.

But watching MSFT fragment themselves endlessly over the last two-decades, I Think this is all about "focus".

Every successful entrepreneur talks about "focus" and not being pulled in a million directions, mastering your domain and relentlessly pursuing it.

There are only so many great leaders in an organization that can manage these types of "obvious" potential failures, and corporate memory is notoriously terrible as teams and employees turn over.
He has worked for only a year there.
I'm curious as to whether this general trend is a new one or if I'm just getting old:

1) user creates semi-controversial post (see: PHP sucks, nosql sucks, node sucks, semi-colons suck, time-is-money, ideas are worth nothing etc)

2) debated ad-nauseum with good points on both sides

3) within 24 hours, blog posts turn up which say almost the opposite of whatever was said in a) PHP works for me, time is worth nothing, nodejs/mysql is webscale, ideas are everything.

I can't help but feel that - much like this comment - it doesn't add much that hasn't already been said better elsewhere and is purely for linkbait purposes.
How does something like this happen?
How can Microsoft not be on top of this?

There really was nothing for them to gain by removing this dialog so I don't think it was done with profit in mind. Their own browser is now a pretty compliant browser so it doesn't slow down web adoption.

I can't really believe it was dropped by accident as all jokes aside, very few companies test their software as thoroughly as Microsoft.
A retrospective on my first lean publishing experience
NASA Space Technology Could Revolutionize Brain Surgeries
That seems like it would take up a lot of space/bandwidth, but I suppose that it's 2012 and it's trivial.
Not methadone, the real thing. And only to "proven" addicts. I'm not sure what the best way to engage the addicts there is, probably not "pushing", but at least you'll know where to find them.

I'm working from the premise – which could be wrong – that the average drug addict don't particularly enjoy having to engage with gangs and crime. Thus, almost any solution that allows them to tend to their addiction without crime will be almost infinitely more attractive.

I should also mention that I'm working from a rather utilitarian perspective: I'm concerned about bringing down the external costs of the drug problem – crime, cartels – and less with "curing" the addicts.
That's an odd to say. I bought my v131 in March and it came preinstalled with Linux. Dell web store shows a couple machines being sold with Linux.

Of course, the pages show "Dell recommends Windows® 7" because by doing this their OEM licenses cost a little bit less.

The laptops are at http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/laptops.aspx?c=us&l=en...
I compliment you on your enthusiasm, wish you success in bringing Oracle better reputation in the Linux community, and respectfully submit that I am distrustful of Oracle based on past behavior - specific to my experiences, not altruistically to the community in general.

And for zealotry analytics, Oracle:bad Google:bad Microsoft:bad Apple:bad. Just because I use an OS (or several) doesn't mean I completely trust the intents of the companies supplying that OS (or several).
Climate ocean tech fix 'can work', research suggests
I wonder if this actions is a result of a need to diversify just in case Windows declines much more rapidly than expected? Hedging their bets if you will.
Whole Brain Teaching could be a scam
I like the idea of the program, but specifically "Black girls"...
> George said the laptop won’t be able to dual boot Windows. But Dell made available an Ubuntu install image customized for the XPS13, so you could buy the Windows version and install Ubuntu yourself if you require dual booting.

They probably don't mean the laptop "can't dual-boot Windows," but that it requires extra steps in deleting Linux, installing Windows, then installing Linux.
How do you feel abt Mark Zuckerberg's 1% mortgage?
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They are already disliked in the open source community. This is not helping their case. I am not sure what they are going for. This sets them up again as a giant corporation attack the little guy. Geeks and nerds usually hate when little open source projects get attacked.

Why didn't they just offer paid support for CentOS? Why not dedicate full time engineers and donate?

Someone at Oracle needs to be fired over this.
i don't get why they do that?
Age Bias: Young Startup Founders Get More Investor Cash
The point he is trying to make is that the title 'Architect' has been abused at Yahoo.
Reality TV meets Silicon Valley
What Working for a Software Compnay in the 21st Century Should Be Like
Pioneer anomaly solved
Golden Ratio Grids
Most cell phones produced in the last 5 or even 10 years automatically concatenate chunked SMS. Looking at the screenshots, the capacity is at least 6*140.
When Dell sold Linux laptops before, the problem was always that they treated the Linux version and the Windows version as a separate SKU. So you were buying the Dell Latitude 4100 Linux version or the Dell Latitude 4100 Windows version. You couldn't just go to the Dell Latitude 4100 web page and select Windows or Linux from the Operating System drop-down menu.

The regular price of the Windows version would be $1000 and the Linux version would be $930. The thing is, nobody buys Dell products at full price. They wait for the sale. The Windows versions would be on sale all the time and the Linux ones never were, so the Windows version was often actually cheaper than the Linux version.
1st Cybernetic Hate Crime? Sousveillance pioneer assaulted at McDonald's
I don't know what they used, it probably was on the Hambands. On our balloon, we transmitted APRS mostly for tracking and retrieval. They could have set up ATV or some other custom protocol.
Bunnies, kitties, and... computer developers? The shocking way they're all alike
You haven't needed to restart Tomcat since at least Tomcat 5.5, if not earlier. Tomcat automatically polls for changes to the WAR file and updates accordingly.
That's pretty broken.
Did John Lennon really say what they quote him as saying on that page?
Hacking Demo Days
Thanks for the feedback!

I tried to come up with syntax that would make the most common tasks (i.e., sending JSON objects, submitting forms, setting headers, etc) as easy as possible and also feel "natural". The reason for the chosen style is that it quite corresponds to the actual HTTP request being sent. For example, if you want to send a PATCH request with a custom header and a form field data:

PATCH /patch HTTP/1.1
X-API-Token: 123
Host: httpbin.org
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=utf-8

foo=bar

You can simply copy the header (X-API-Token: 123) and the data (foo=bar) and paste it to the terminal:

http --form PATCH httpbin.org/post X-API-Token:123 foo=bar

It's not as obvious as '--request PATCH --header X-API-Token:123 --form foo=bar', but on the other hand, the command doesn't include almost anything that wouldn't become part of the actual request, which makes it short and easy to focus on what's important.
Enyo 2.0 exits beta
Um... I was on anti Iraq war demos when I was 18, because it was obvious to me Saddam Hussein had no WMDs. And I was _not_ alone in this assumption:

"In London, at least 750,000 people demonstrated in what police called the city's largest demonstration ever."
Source: http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2003/Protest-Iraq-War16feb03...
I dont get why your QA is better than red hats. They have a much longer experience with their product.
Why not? This is one of the hardest hit economic demographics in the country. I don't think targeting it to be specifically for them is bad; in fact I think it is probably best. This demographics tends to get lost in the "need more women in tech" crowd.
Grep Trimming
with our latest side project www.jackpotbuddy.com it was around $300 + monthly hosting expenses.

The first one www.diglig.com was bit more complex and we spent around $3K. So you can see the cost range depends on complexity of the problem.
That wasn't my point. You can do better than theoretically optimal -- indeed, their results, in many cases, do look better than sinc. Theoretically optimal makes assumptions that the source image is, in some ways, random, in a way that the real world doesn't conform to. If you know there are hard edges, you can do better.

The point is that they should be comparing to sinc. They're comparing to a known-stupid algorithm to make themselves look better than they are.
What I love about this initiative is it solves several problems at once, and builds a foundation for related groups (women in general, and black people in general) to gravitate to this field. They'll naturally find people similar to them and make it easier to relate to their peers.
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If Red Hat is so upset about Oracle Linux, bad enough to obfuscate code for patches, why don't they just offer RHEL for free with paid support?

Seems like a missed opportunity for RH.
Maybe they're wearing an invisible bicycle helmet.

Think such a thing doesn't exist? Well think again: http://www.hovding.com/en/how/
Where does it say they have 3.2 billion pages of fresh data?
Hi,
I lived in China (Dalian), and laptops are sold with FreeDOS. It's mainly used to boot and to make sure the laptop is working. And to check that you get what you paid for!
People who can pay for Windows don't live in China, that's why :) (well of course a minority can, but they don't buy their laptops in the same stores...).
In US/CA/EU/Japan I think everybody can afford to pay the little extra for a windows licence.
RightScale buys into cloud cost forecasting
This is doable with any grid framework: use a rounded 1:ϕ ratio between small and large classes, and you're good to go. Although this is neat.
"Provacative" = a pretty good euphemism for "linkbait". "Aggressive SEO" is another.

I am unapologetically from a view where that kind of PT Barnum grade nonsense didn't square well with real journalism. I still cringe at it.
Unless they edited the post, it sounded to me that dusing agrees and likes the idea of it being that specific demographic.
Socialcam Founder: There Will Be No Instagram of Video
Halle Berry this time became the victim of her action: Injured
The aspects of Facebook that annoy you or I are the exact reasons why other people embrace it. It's become a part of people's lives--more than just a web application.

I think the tech community might gravitate towards these niche solutions, but it'll take a lot of time and poor decisions on Facebook's part to get several hundred million people to forsake it.
Ask HN: How to stay focused
I read everywhere that "focus is key" and people who do one thing at a time have higher chances of getting successful. It is very hard for me to stay focused on any one thing, I give excuse to people that "I get bored easily", but I think that is not true, because I want to focus, I just can seem to do it. I will start a idea build it to some degree, then jump on another one. As a result not getting any thing done.

I have tried all the most of the "tricks" Don’t break the chain, GTD, checking email only once etc by I get distracted easily.

How can I discipline myself to start something and take it to end, without getting distracted mid way. Or how can I stay focused?
Ask HN: Which tools do you use for tracking your SEO
Which tools do you use to track/monitor your page rank on google, visits, etc.

I've just setup a blog (first website) and I am wondering how to, for example:

1) Check my page rank on Google according to certain keywords

2) Monitor my daily visits and what drives them to my site - I am currently getting familiar with Google analytics for that

What tools are others using?
i love zareason and system76, but neither of them ship an ultrabook yet, although i sincerely hope they are working on it
Startup Office - Creating a Google Space on a Myspace Budget
You can still use regular JSON syntax, if you like:

echo '{"foo": "bar"}' | http url

The reason for having the simplified one is that it's less verbose and usually doesn't even require you to quote it:

http url foo=bar
I think most of the world pays 50% more than Americans for most things. It's just a fact of life for them.
is this just a mockup?
If they could turn it into a thread imagine what it could do for the fashion industry. Amazing dresses that flow in the wind even when there is no wind. I'd be worried about strength though.