skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Specifically one from my own country,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_da_Costa_e_Silva

Argentina's story is a bit more brutal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Argentina_(1966%E2%8...

All over South America during the 60~80 there were numerous 'capitalist' brutal dictatorships.

And then there's more, such as

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi

Never forget, what makes you a monster is not that you killed millions, but that you were willing to do it in order to maintain your power.
why I can't download mp3 files to the tablet and listen to them

Funny, but have been I doing that with iTunes on a bunch other Apple devices for years now.
Why must a lack of a camera be in every article on the iPad? Am I the only longtime MacBook owner that never uses that little camera above my screen?
I am not sure.
Many of my technophobe relations are Multitaskers (messy ones to be sure but multitasking nonetheless) and have a problem abandoning the nested folder system they hold so dear (and Itunes will not help there) They are familiar with office applications (by which they send jokes etc) and will resist unfamiliar tools)

many older people rely on their computer to keep contact with their relations through skype etc.., and it does not offer it.

If it was a little more robust, did not require a persistent connection to a desktop (to manage files) and had Flash then maybe so, as it stands i just don't know, im fairly confident my mom wouldn't like it.
Ask HN: The Pragmatic Programmer Equivalent for Testers?
I'm starting a book discussion with other devs at my office, and we're looking at The Pragmatic Programmer first. Several testers, some of whom don't have a background in programmer, are interested. I'm wondering if there is book like The Pragmatic Programmer for software testers?
I'm going to chime in with my own progress I've made over the last few months, and it shows a slightly different path than what the author took.

I started at 220 pounds. I am currently 220 pounds. The difference? My body fat percent has gone down 5 or 6% (from high twenties to low twenties), I have muscles where there were none before.

In the end, my goal weight is still below where I am, but if I had just cut my diet, I would have not made the same kind of progress I have with exercise. (specifically, with a trainer who pushes me harder, with appointments that force me to show up).

To be fair, I still have a gut, and that'll be lost by diet, but the huge progress I've made is entirely attributable to exercise.
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Definitely agree with this. With an iphone and a laptop already, I don't have much need for an ipad.

However, I was watching the unveiling with my mom, and she thought it might be perfect for her needs. She doesn't have (or want) a smartphone and doesn't really need (or want to spend the money on) a full-fledged laptop. But she does want an easy-to-use portable device, especially one that she can use on trips for emailing, maps, watching movies, etc.

Oh, and the Wii analogy fits perfectly for her, too.
Completely agree, i've dealt myself with an access bottleneck as the one he describes.
But i found multi-threaded code debugging quite entertaining (sometimes ;)).
I'm not so sure they know what they are doing. Do they know how far their business has crossed over into the realm of the fashion industry? The fashion industry has different rules. For instance, one of the more dangerous things for a luxury brand is "The Average User". Kicking independently minded people in the face might just turn out to be a bad move.
Except that it's not in the TOS.
Battery-saving tips for laptops and netbooks
Really sorry about that. We're trying to get it up ASAP.
Shed Skin 0.3 - An Optimizing Python-to-C++ Compiler
He does italicize a postscript at the bottom of the article indicating it's satire.
I've seen some recent news associating low sodium with a possible link to depression. I don't have a news source URL at hand to cite, much less an actual study, but I'm keeping an subconscious eye open for more information.
I've had enough of people posting just to complain about it.
There are worse ones to pick.
well, if you can`t beat them....join them?
Redis is a k/v store, not a queue.
ouch...very icy, icey
My attempt at blogging: iPad coverage
The latest bluetooth standard (from april of last year) supports transfer speeds of 24Mbit/s according to wikipedia, so yes. Unfortunately for manufacturers, there's a bit of a chicken and egg problem there.
The less you know the well you sleep. Majority of people disregard the natinality prefer to sleep and eat well rather than to bother about missed possibilities and opportunities.
Thank you guys for the tips.

We tried to automated a maximum of Marketing/SEO check. Some are more interesting than others. The most important to us was to give a clean overview so anybody could understand the report.
Also we wanted to provide information about the sources and to give tips to improve any website on the fly.

We will check the spelling/grammar , DMOZ problems , more facts so we can really be more usefull that WebSiteGrader :)

Thanks again

Jean
co-founder at Woorank
Web Laureate Insight, "Competitious:  Going from Cracked to Free"
at that point, why not just use your laptop? I still don't get it I guess...
IPhone application development in Flex framework
That's what conditionals inside the CSS are for.

Browser sniffing simply doesn't work and only brings you pain. Enough so that jquery abandoned the practice a year ago; http://docs.jquery.com/Release:jQuery_1.3
I predict that Apple will come out with a background-task API that puts hard realtime constraints on the work a background thread does. Basically, you register a block of code as a background task, and select an Apple defined "level of service." If your code block doesn't complete during the time interval allotted to it, then the dev is SOL.

If they did this, they could have background tasks that would satisfy 80 to 90% of what devs want to do, but preserve battery life.
If this is the worst, that bodes well.
A REST service description language not a good idea
There are some fundamental problems with making dynamic languages run fast. Being able to prove that some variable will never contain anything other than a 32 bit int allows the compiler/JIT to do things that it cannot otherwise do.

The only way to make dynamic languages as fast as statically typed languages is to selectively remove dynamic features. A few type hints can make a huge difference.
Probably, yes.

Many people use their computer for Skype calls with family. Having video is a really nice bonus there.
That was the best iPad review I read since the launch. What makes us say "meh" is exactly what mom needed since she first laid her hands on a computer. I could remove all functionality from her computer, leaving just the browser and she would be perfectly happy with it.

In that sense one could argue that Chrome OS' hardest competitor will be the iPad. I wonder if they saw that coming.
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I thought my HP slate would be the cat's meow for photo touchups in the field. Come up with a well designed way to connect cameras, Port Aperture to the iPad, and you'd have one kickass piece of kit for photo work.

I wonder if someone could come up with a Bluetooth or WiFi enabled mini-USB micro-dongle you could just leave plugged into the camera behind its media-port panel?
>| There are SSH programs for the iPhone; there will be similarly useful utilities built for the iPad too.

The idea of typing shell commands on a touchpad makes me cringe...do people really do this?
There's no reason why Apple can't sell "sandbox" versions of this kit. The hardware would be 99% the same. The markup and the resulting margins would be very tasty to Apple.

EDIT: They'd still be selling the "Theme Park" version to the other 95% of us.
The last part talking about an Enumerator being passed back when no block is provided on the map is the most interesting to me. Definitely something I was unaware of but will certainly be using in the future.
Benefit 2: Although you’ll introduce lots of new bugs like this, it’ll be several months before they start showing up, by which time your reputation as an expert programmer will already be assured.
I've seen a lot of people trying this approach but no one of them succeeded :D
The one fly in the ointment is that the iPad does require an external computer somewhere to keep its system software updated, backed up, etc.

Perhaps we family-support geeks will now have to have a Mac dedicated to keeping all the iPads in our extended families up to date. ;-)
Yes - the majority of people view computers as appliances. They don't want a computer, they want an email machine and a word processing machine and a "show me this website" machine and a music-playing machine. They don't need 2560x1600@120fps, and they don't care about having 16 processors. They want to sit down, bang out an email, and do something else, or sit down, type their paper, and be done.

Apple actually had something like this in the mid-90s called "At Ease", designed as a child-safe file manager. You had programs on one tab and files on the other. I remember it from elementary school, and always felt that a more modern version of that would help less computer literate people.
> IBM is so far behind, they don't have any chance at all. In databases, they are a decade or so behind us. I'm serious.

FUD.
I'm an early adopter, and I like it a lot.
Do it. I still do, on a regular basis, and it's great. (On a computer, I mean. Not an iPhone.)
Yes, but I don't think you could use this thing to take notes - high latency interface and all.

The software is really important, and these guys didn't write any, or if they did, it wouldn't be any good. This kind of thing takes a lot of effort to get right.
The real question is not whether they will take down Netbeans (which would be silly) but whether they will continue to invest in its development.
The other unmentioned thing is how Apple will approach the cloud. That massive data center they're building can't just be for streaming music and video to iTunes customers.

I bet you see iPad evolve into Apple's cloud computing platform while the OSX-based notebooks stay they way they are.

This also has some serious long term problems for Mac OS. What if Apple decides (or has already decided) that the future is closed-architecture cloud computing devices? You'd see OS X (OS XI?) dead before the decade is over.
He's talking about the uniquely hepatoxic properties of fructose vis-a-vis other sugars. I'm talking about the metabolism damaging insulin responses triggered by all carbohydrates, regardless of whether it's a piece of whole grain bread or a spoonful of honey (fructose).
How can you program if you’re blind?
From the web? Not all music is downloaded/available from iTunes Store.
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Even for the non-technophiles, there's a tremendous amount of value in such a device.

Last year my parents were moving out of their home into a smaller, elderly apartment. They found an old HP iPaq I apparently left behind in a box years ago. They called me asking if it would allow them to browse the web sort of like an iPhone, but from the couch. My response was "sort of, but not really". Their response was quite dejected. They really hoping it would've allowed them to browse on the couch.

We've been down the netbook idea road before, and the laptop road, but the solution ended up being an iMac. My father (in his 60s) has terrible eyesight, so a large display was great. Time Machine was also the "killer app" for them -- they hated making backups before, but my father begrudgingly made some every few months (I used to do it for them during holiday visits).

iPad though? Exactly what they want. Especially my Mom who is a bona-fide technophobe. She's still "afraid" of computers, fearing she'll "mess it up". The iPad is perfect for 95% of what she does. The only thing she still has to use the iMac for is a few games (which could be re-bought for the iPad or her Nintendo DS), and for scanning in the family photo albums. Instant on. On the couch. No keyboard. Nothing to "mess up". Access to all the computer's media (especially if there's AppleTV like streaming from their iTunes library).

As articles have mentioned, this is the perfect computer for the family technophobe. Or for replacing that old laptop you had around that you were considering replacing with a netbook for casual-couch-computing -- so they can futz around on Facebook or do a quick email or look up a quick thing while they watch TV or have a spare moment.
The fact that it takes up to 80 percent of the CPU in a quad-core 2.66GHz Mac Pro to render a 400x300 Flash game just boggles my mind

The reason is because Adobe developers don't use hardware 3d graphics acceleration. They do everything in the processor because they don't know how to write code that works on multiple types of hardware or maybe they are too lazy or cheap, I don't know.

The effect is that ALL of their apps run dreadfully slow on all platforms because every single calculation has to go through the CPU.

This is just one of the many reasons Adobe software is some of the worst on the market.
I'm not finding counts of deaths, nor listings of atrocities, for these. I think you're stretching the "monster" thing here; they're not in the same league as Lenin and Mao.

what makes you a monster is not that you killed millions, but that you were willing to do it in order to maintain your power

But if you believed that doing so was somehow right (again, the "greatest good" nonsense or something), then it's OK? That's nuts.
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Plenty of people are very comfortable with thumb-typing on a Blackberry-like thing or typing on an iPhone. You always have the phone with you, and it's a lot less overhead than getting out the laptop.
This has been here before : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=795388
"I wont buy it but the people whose computers I have to support when they break, the people who cannot or will not learn how to do things so when they want to do something I first have to work it out and learn it myself, then teach them - they should buy it".

And really, that's not saying "they are inferior people so they should buy this limited computer", it's saying "they don't want to care about the details and I don't want to care on their behalf, and this looks like a good alternative. They might get on well with it". It's a recommendation from mutual self interest rather than scorning the 'lesser' computer user.
It can be a lifesaver in a pinch.
I believe he means the Linksys NSLU NAS box.

The thing is, modding that device isn't much different from jailbreaking your iPhone. If you're okay with invalidating the warrantee on the slug, then I don't understand why you'd complain about the iPhone/Pad model since it's largely the same: Keep Out!
> Firefox runs on Linux, it is just as good as Safari

This is the problem with Linux right here... (and I say this as someone who's used Linux as a primary desktop for years and eventually went to a Mac)

When you start saying things like X is just as good as Y, it isn't.

People that choose to use Safari have a very specific reason for doing so. Usually it's because it's well integrated into Mac system. Not in an IE integrated way, but a "it fits with everything else" kind of way. If you choose between Firefox and Safari on a Mac, the biggest difference is speed. Safari feels faster (I don't know if it is or not).

Similarly Chrome on Mac feels faster than Safari. Maybe it's just because it's a little more minimalist right now.

On Linux, no one has the authority or cares enough to say "this is the way we are going to do things...". So you end up with a ton of half assed solutions to every problem. Sometimes those are good (Firefox as an example). Sometimes they are adequate (OpenOffice). Sometimes, no matter how hard they keep trying, they can't keep up with the competition (Gimp).

So, yes... Firefox runs on Linux. But no, it's not as good as Safari.

Yes, I know there are people that choose to use Firefox on a Mac (my wife as an example). I still maintain that Safari provides a better "experience".
Before you get downvoted for sounding glib, allow me to elaborate on what you said: "The search space for evolving bug fixes in a program is likely to be extraordinarily large. Furthermore there will be places of sharp division in the fitness landscape between working programs and nonworking programs. Therefore I'm skeptical whether evolving bug fixes is likely to be computationally tractable in the general case."
It is not a python compiler in almost any sense. It is more of a macro that allows you to write C++ in a python like syntax.
It's a meaningless distinction. I don't want a browser which measures fast but feels slow anymore than I want speakers which measure 'loud' but I can't hear them.
The iPad aftermath: We got what we expected and wanted something more
You can spend $99/yearly and become an iPhone developer. Then you can put whatever you want on your iPhone (I assume iPad development will be similar). Ad-hoc distribution allows for like 500 "testers", and you could always just share source files with other developers and recompile them.

EDIT: thanks for the correction on yearly vs. one-time.
Absolutely. Unfortunately, it's an LED backlit display. This is fine for most computing tasks, but for reading it can lead to eyestrain.

I really wish they had gone with a transflective screen, like Pixel Qi's..

It's not for me, but I can definitely see the allure for a certain (large) segment of computer users.

Once something like this comes out with a transflective screen, I might pick one up. Typical LED/LCD screens are too difficult to use under bright lights.
I think the reason is user experience. Future computers
will be "theme parks", because non-geeks don't understand
the proper limitations of hardware.

For example, 99% of annoyances of computer users is that
they install too much software for the resources of the
machine they have. Then the computer starts suddenly working
slower and slower -- and they don't know why. This happens
with Macs and Windows.

In a machine like the iPad Apple can control what software
will run and make sure that it is adequate to the resources
of the machine. Also, from what I see, they limit the
possibility of concurrent running programs to interfere with
the user experience.
It's possible to make a bluetooth camera: http://www.bt-1.com/

I think it will depend on whether the Bluetooth stack is "keyboard only" in the same way the iPhone is "headset only", or whether it's "whatever you want but the App will have to be the driver" so it would need to be a Skype+Camera pairing. Actually, that sounds somewhat unlikely doesn't it? :(

(How would you Skype without it running in the background? You'd have to phone someone to arrange Skyping).
Well, for starters try to find a good AMQP tutorial. There's Rabbits & Warrens (which is good but still quite rough) and that's about it. Large parts of the semantics (exchange types, interactions between the various flags) are needlessly complex. Most of the same could have been achieved with much simpler primitives (see other protocols like spread, stomp etc.).

Even one of the authors in this article admits dumb decisions like making it a binary protocol and generally making it extra-ordinarily difficult to create a working protocol endpoint. What's up with this whole XML descriptor thing...

In summary AMQP has been the most painful protocol I had the misfortune to work with since leaving java-land. (Admittedly partly because the python drivers are especially messy)
Key == mailbox/slot, and value == message. All you need are concurrency primitives, and broadcasting (in the case of a distributed queue)

People have modeled message queues with far more primitive solutions:

http://www.freeopenbook.com/php-hacks/phphks-CHP-5-SECT-18.h...

A Redis based solution might not be as elaborate as RabbitMQ, but it will be very clean and straightforward, not to mention blindingly fast, and will get the job done.
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That's kind of weird that the blogger didn't link back to whoever actually made the gameboy. Nice picture, but I would have liked to see a link to the original source (not the submitter's fault).
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It's not a good sign that the best people can say about the iPad is that their mom could probably get by with one, even though they would never use it.

We've been hearing that refrain for decades, and it's never worked out in the marketplace. People who don't care about technology want to spend the least possible to get a fully-capable product. They want one computer that does everything and lasts forever - not a niche device that has to be tethered to a real PC anyway.

The Wii is a poor example because it didn't succeed by being simpler - it sold by offering a compelling gimmick and content that was not available on other platforms, for an underserved market of children and baby-boomers. The iPad doesn't offer any content you can't find elsewhere, and the 'touch' interface is one that's failed to find a significant market in full-sized computers for over twenty years.
I can live with a locked down device. I have a friend who may "love" such a feature, given her light use and the fact that her Windows PC has been wiped 4 times to remove malware.

But when such a device has the potential to take over the market and eliminate other channels of delivery and "ownership", I become very concerned. That's what most concerns me about the iPad; that in a year -- or more likely three -- I'll have to have one in order to access content. And then I'll only have a temporary, non-transferable, revocable-upon-whim license to said content. Bah.

I don't mind paying a reasonable amount. I do mind being locked in to whatever a monopoly dictates, in terms of cost but also in terms of rights. And I mind paying over and over and over for the same thing, as the platform changes.

And when "big media" so controls the content, what's to prevent the effective revision of history? What torture pictures? What treaty details? (What "Catcher In the Rye"?)

I guess some of us will have to resort to taking pictures of our iPads, just to document what was said. Let's just hope we're still able to do that.

(Finally, a personal grudge: I can tolerate advertisements, but ones involving motion and/or sound COMPLETELY distract me. Will the content become unusable for people like me, because the delivery channel forces an overwhelming level of distraction?)
This sort of device has the potential to really disrupt the telecoms industry.

I think huge swathes of the populace would be just fine with spending $15 a month, and having their friends and family IM them as a form of paging and calling back with Skype.
Either one, my point is that other options exist.
But if we can speed up evolution several thousand folds...
I suspect what would happen is hardly anyone would buy the theme park. "Less powerful, but easier to use" is a hard sell. Then they wouldn't maintain their reputation for ease of use.
Sometimes you need to. For example, when making an image of an iPhone's flash. It works, but is extremly slow. With some exercise you might be able to type commands slightly slower than on a computer.

A 'reimagined' shell for the iPhone might work really well. Something similiar to zsh, with lots of prediction.