skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is interesting.
I haven't had this problem and my router is in a different floor from where I generally use my iPad.
I wonder how this is affecting the call rate of the suicide hotline.
Doesn't matter. You aren't allowed to shoot wounded combatants who are out of the action.
The poster is Guy Steele, who when implementing Scheme, found out that his implementation of objects (actors) was actually the same as his implementation of closures.

[Edit: the poster is actually Anton van Straaten, replying to Steele]
fyi, this is not an update from me.
Fix your language implementation: a debugger should have access to a closure's captured state.
Nobody can really believe the US wants to CONQUER Iraq

There are many people who believe precisely that, precisely in the sense you mentioned. In the US too, not just in the Middle East.

I do not think there are many ways to rationally convince them otherwise. It seems that such opinions are often formed not on a rational basis, but on different grounds. As a result, an atrocity committed by US forces would be taken into account (as it should), but any positive aspect of the US involvement would be discounted.
I've seen this done with a Quicksilver style filter as well. Where you don't have to type a strict substring of any of the items. For example typing "US" and still seeing "United States of America".

Demo: http://static.railstips.org/orderedlist/demos/quicksilverjs/...

Article : http://orderedlist.com/our-writing/blog/articles/live-search...
I understand why we have to sacrifice few cars for crash testing but wasting expensive gadgets like iPad just to show off your Blender is not right.
certainly, but I can throw 20 off the top of my head who are way more important.
Probably to appease Motorola. I was hoping for a Nexus One, but oh well.
Live Search with QuickSilver Style (for jQuery)
There was the man crouching against the corner of the house, looking like he could possibly have an RPG to blow the shooter out of the sky.

The helicopter was at very long range; no one of the guys on the ground looked at it. The "RPG" was pointed to the ground. You can see that it was a camera before he starts to fire. Further, an RPG takes two seconds or so to draw, time which the gunner could've used for confirmation. It didn't look as a threat to the helicopter, once seen; still the gunner freaked out and shot them.

Very organized team? They were two guys in a dirty van.

Yes, it wasn't, strictly speaking, murder. Still, it was unjustified, criminal use of force.
So, what about threads? I've seen Linux versions where they all had the same load as the base process, resulting in a huge load in a multi-threaded server application.
This entirely depends on your referral and reference. I have seen turnaround in 2 weeks for senior managers, but more so if they are rehires.
Who's the sheep?
Achievement vs. Fortune & Fame
Lady Gaga (and her handlers) has everything to do with hacking. Hacking pop music. That is explicitly what she is trying to do. In that context, a story about the meaning of her work (that your thoughts are controlled), is really interesting.

> It is not a finding of fact, but an opinion

You're trolling, right? Everything I say is from my point of view.

[shit like this comment thread are why I don't comment here as often as I used to]
A three-dimensional tribute to Conway's "Game of Life"
I think the best option right now would be to donate the cord blood to a public blood bank if that option is available in your area. That doesn't cost you, and it benefits a child more immediately and helps to advance the research. I think there is a chance of benefit to storing it yourself, but the marketing from these companies seemed to be preying on parents' sense of guilt so much that it was off-putting to me. I can put those thousands of dollars to better use to benefit my children. Of course, if the money isn't a meaningful amount to you, your decision process may be different.
It isn't really sensible to distinguish between "meaning" and "information." As he notes in the side bar, measurements of "information" content depend on the statistical model used. "Meaning" is just information content in a statistical model we don't currently know how to formalize: patterns of human thought.
It varies depending on the bank. Public banks cost far less than private banks. Once you figure out which type of bank you want to use you really have to look closely at individual banks. Where do they store the tissue? What is their financial situation? How many successful transplants have been done with tissue that they've stored? Even the collection kit varies, with CBR claiming to be able to collect up to 30% more stem cells.

We ended up choosing CBR because if the collection doesn't meet a certain threshold you have the option to get a refund or store it anyway. They also guarantee a successful transplant or your money back plus $50000. It cost us just under $2000. We hope it's money thrown away, but if we ever need it it's a small price to pay.

Some banks can also store cord tissue. The way it was explained to me is that the tissue can be used for all the things the blood can be used for, but there's a much better chance it will be a match for the father. Apparently, the chances of the stem cells from the blood being a match for the father are quite low.

That said, I'm having some second thoughts based on some of the things I'm reading here. We have a few more weeks before delivery.

Here's a table of banks and estimated costs:
http://parentsguidecordblood.org/content/usa/banklists/summa...
IPad review
Our OB/GYN, who does stem cell research, said she doesn't really recommend it since there isn't a high probability of using it (weighed against the cost). But my father-in-law who's also an OB/GYN only wanted the best for his granddaughter so he foot the bill :)

Here's my blog post on it: http://athomedad.justinchen.net/storing-cord-blood
"Look at those dead bastards"

"Nice, nice. Good shoot'n"

They bask in the moment, somehow deriving pleasure from the murder of 12 people. This is what disgusts me.

It's dangerous how far from reality some people can drift in certain situations.
Kevin Rose: “One Of Us Has To Leave”
In my reading of interview feedback, too many interviewers don't understand that the candidate shouldn't be expected to pull a perfrect solution right out of the air.

Often too much criticism is feedback is placed on the fact that the candidate went through three or so iterations and too much emphasis is placed upon the fact that the candidate's initial solution was quadratic or worse. This really should reflect strong analytical thinking.
That was a fun rant about cars, but did the author have anything to say about the iPad?
Engadget: iPad app prices are out of control and will kill us all
academicearth.org. Really nice resource. Bookmarked.
A tale of two venues
I, for one, and disappointed.
Dribbble - A Designer’s Twitter
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/4/1/rails-3-0-second-beta... Comment #13.
An interesting note on the zero sum discussion, while the stock market clearly is not a zero sum game options on the other hand ARE zero sum.

On the exercise date the payoff for the buyer of an option that's in the money will exactly match the loss of the seller. Vice versa if it's out of the money. Kind of neat.
Let us leave this nonsense to reddit.
I spent 11.5 years at VT, in Blacksburg. Loved it. Only NYC could make me leave.

Some notes:

(1) It's a young town. It's 25k students, almost all undergrad. 6k nonstudents. If you're single and younger than 30, it's a pretty good spot to be in.

(2) It's cheap. My rent in 2008 for a small studio was $320/mon. Friends had roommates and kept their rent below $250/mon. You can go cheaper if you don't mind adding 5 min to your commute. Everything else (food, drinks, etc) was cheap. As a calibration point: $4 Guinness pints.

(3) It's out in the country. Really, really out. But, it's also utterly gorgeous and there's plenty of outdoors to enjoy.

The Corporate Research Center (CRC) described is also where the VT CS dept is, and it's on the other side of the VT airport from campus. Quick access to the highway and maybe 2 miles from the next town over, which has all the standard chains/amenities: Starbucks, Walmart (24hr), Staples, Panera, etc.

It's also a nice little bicycle ride from main st to the CRC.
I think that means you're not supposed to go walk up to them an shoot them while they're wounded. But, how do you aim a 30MM cannon from a moving platform to target only unwounded combatants? And in Iraq what is the difference between a civilian and a combatant as far a dress goes?

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying if both of us had to go to Iraq, I'd probably come home alive (having killed a lot of people, probably some innocent people in the confusion) and you'd come home in a box because you assumed everyone was nice and wanted to buy you a beer...until they shot you.

In other words, in a war, my life means more to me than a civilian's who has a 50/50 chance of being a combatant. Again, this is why we shouldn't be there.
Something that I think gets overlooked as a reason why people choose automatic is that they're much nicer to drive in heavy stop-and-go traffic. Accelerate to 5 MPH for a few seconds, then stop. Repeat ad nauseum for 1.5 hours. Do it again for another 1.5 hours going home. Having to constantly go in and out of gear stinks in this scenario.

With the ridiculous commuting times people have in the US, it's no wonder many drivers don't want manual. On top of it, many people do not drive 2.5 hours daily due to sheer distance; it's because of traffic causing the pattern I listed above.

(Of course, the heavy traffic and long commuting time begs the question of why we don't invest more into public transportation. But, that's another clouded issue.)

I've driven manual for 22 years. Even a half an hour in heavy traffic makes me wish for automatic.
They could of wasted a tree by delivering $1000 worth of advertising flyers. I like the blending approach better.
There's a lag of 2-3 seconds between the sounds of gunfire on the video and the rounds striking their targets. The AH-64's chain gun has a muzzle velocity of around 2600 ft/s, so the choppers are at least a mile away.
hey, this has already been posted!

Repeat my comment: it supports flash. FAIL
I've heard it said (and experienced myself) that the hiring system at Google is designed to favor false negatives in order to reduce the risk of false positives. I know of plenty of cases where the first (and sometimes even second) trip through the hiring machine at Google rejected someone who now is happily employed there.
IShowU HD Pro review
I understand that NJ has problems as well. They're purging historical data, and re-using patient ID numbers on new patients; one can imagine the problem leading to the same results. Apparently they're promising that it'll get fixed, but that now becomes a huge mess.

I after wonder about the competence of anyone that would reuse ID numbers like that, and how it can be worthwhile to purge history in this day and age.

The only thing I can figure is that the government just doesn't care.
Yeah, this will now be my second freebie Droid from Google. Not to look the gift horse in the mouth, but some variety would be nice...
I agree with your post but I'd like to point out that calling this "disrespectful combat" implies that most combat is respectful.

I would like to see a change in people's attitudes so that ALL combat is considered disrespectufl and as offensive as what happens in this video.
As for your second sentence: it's a little outdated now though. They were written at a time when it was easy to delineate civilians from combatants. That's not the case in Iraq or Afghanistan now.

I'm not saying that justifies the shootings, just pointing out that the conventions need a refresh.
Ask YN: Any chance to get a work permit in the US and work for a web startup?
I'm a 28y old sw-developer and native German citizen. After 10 years in the German IT biz I've one big dream left:

To join an innovative start-up in the US like e.g. squareup.com

Unfortunately I've no university degree because I quit junior high school when I was 17 to join a startup (1999) and later moved on as an employee at Amazon.de where I was involved in the european Marketplace (and Payments) launch. Since 2005 I'm a freelancer/contractor building mid/large scale web-applications for companies like Yahoo.de (FIFA Worldcup 2006 offical Website core-team), Allianz SE (insurance) and two leading publishing companies in Germany using Ruby, (Rails, Sinatra, ...), Perl and PHP.

I've neither an university degree nor "exeptional skills" (like in terms of getting an US work permit): Is my dream really impossible? I'm really depressed with the work here which is kind of 18th century (crap technolgy pared with managers that have no clue of webapps/social media things) — and copycats.

Ideas? Thanks.
That blender costs twice as much as an iPad,FYI: http://www.blendtec.com/productDetails.aspx?id=1340
This is a neat little app, however I was able to see flash!!
That's not always the case. That suggests your friend is going to be working on something secret in some way to me.
I may be mistaken, but I believe both crew of an Apache are typically at least E-7, so, at a guess, 25-30-ish at the low end.
Clojure: Immutability at the Language Level
If they offer multitasking, it will be in a well-thought-out, actually-useful way that doesn't cause you to have to walk grandma through Task Manager or listen to her complain about how her battery life is a quarter what it was before the update.
This is nice in FF on the Mac but doesn't seem to work in Chrome on the Mac (not that developers <i>need</i> to support a beta browser quite yet).
After building and using some complex web apps, it would be nice if there were search boxes like this that quick-linked to functions in the application. For example, if I am new to a project management application, and need to find something obscure like, "login settings", it would be nice if I could type "login" and see a list of things that matched that function.
Yes, she's 'hacking' just like that great 'hacker' Michael Jackson, and the Captain of the Greenpeace boat that sunk who was 'hacking the law'.

These are all interesting ways to try to stretch the definition of 'hacking' so something will be palatable for HN, but the fact is that they have absolutely nothing to do with it.

Wikileaks is an internet phenomenon with many real world effects, is newsworthy and not just entertainment. So in spite of my apparently losing the 'moderation' I stand by this article being about a hundred times more applicable to HN than the lady gaga article.
Our first child is 11 weeks old now and we asked the same question to our pediatrician. Her answer was that "neither she nor any other pediatrician she knows would do private banking at the moment". I agree that public banking is the best idea and we were going to do that, but our child came 5 weeks early before we had a chance to set it up.

The thing that became clear during this whole thing is there were going to be MANY times in the coming years when spending "only $3K just in case" was going to be offered and this seemed like a bad precedent to set. The vast majority of children will never benefit from private banking, so go public!
Those non-developers apparently never used DOS or other non multi-tasking OSs.
I was having the same problem. It's a geo-IP thing; switching to a US proxy causes the warning to display.
I prefer looking at output of "sar" which shows you nicely, in 10-minute increments, how idle the system was today (and I think usually this data captured is rotated daily for a month), and gives you also a good idea of whether you have processes waiting excessively for IO.

It also has a bunch of other options.

On my own system, I also generally run "ps auwx" every 15 minutes, together with a scan of what queries Postgres servers are doing and dump of web request activity (read last 10k lines from access logs, find out how long ago the first request was to determine rough hits per second and ares of application they hit). That way when someone says "hey, the system was slow around this time" I can go back and find out that some cron job had a dozen processes taking up tons of memory or blocking on IO.

Some of those statistics also go into some RRD-based system which makes it easier to follow e.g. number of users logged in or number of Apache children based on weekday/time of day.
Well, it was posted and killed once already.
Your satire is refreshing. Especially the part where I said "Or will the fanboy crowds switch to "well Apple didn't want to do it until they could build a better version of multitasking, and now they have for <insert esoteric implementation reason>.""

And you responded with pretty much exactly what I said, pretending to be a rabid fanboy.

Hilarious!!! HN doesn't usually see much humor at all, it's nice to see some, particularly with such a sophisticated wit!

Kudos!
It's easier for developers to start high and adjust prices lower over time to increase sales. The article says $4.99 seems to be the iPad defacto app price for many apps. If that's high, people won't buy. Or other developers will come in and produce cheaper apps. As a side note, the article does mention the hope that Apple eventually releases some type of trial functionality.
Straight from the posting guidelines.....

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

This is in no way an interesting new phenomenon. People have been dieing in wars because of stupid mistakes since the beginning of civilization. How shocking can it be that an individual died who was hanging around people who remotely looked as if they were militants?

Source: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Let me first say that killing unarmed ANYONE is wrong. And that I did get queezie watching this video. We are suppose to be better than this. That being said, war is not clean. It is not merely a set of commands and rules that are followed where everything turns out ok. It is horrible.

I have been in the smoke of war. Crazy things happen out there. Sometimes, there are children with guns and bombs too. And those bullets kill just as well. It is easy to make mistakes when you're in an area where there are very real threats to your life and the lives of your friends all around. Even so, they are MISTAKES. I don't believe these pilots felt as though they were murdering these people. I'm sure at the time they felt they were dealing with a real threat. But they made egregious errors in judgement and caused a terrible tragedy because of those mistakes.

But there is another tragedy in this case. In the military there is a process called an "After Action Review" that is suppose to be done after EVERY mission. It is a time to look back on what happened, talk openly, and analyse how things could have been handled better. The military could have used this horrid event as a way to change training and tactics to prevent things like this from happening in the future. In just a few hours of being released on the net, there are already scores of dissection and analysis about how things could have been done differently. Imagine if tactical analysts had reviewed this and in theater pilot briefings were changed to reflect the results of that review. Imagine if the military had actually acted in good faith on this event instead of trying to cover it up. This is 2010. The event happened in 2007. And still they did not release the video. It had to be leaked.

In cases like this where mistakes were made, the government loses any credibility to "mitigating circumstances" when they try to cover it up.

I hope one day the military can be more transparent with this sort of action.

I hope one day that we don't need an organization like wikileaks, but I am so glad we have them right now.

And most of all, I hope we aren't going to be watching a similar video in 2013 of a similar event that happened this week.
I was just doing some back of the envelope calculations as well and concluded about the same thing.
Executive Pay: A Special Report
Do we have any actual proof or justification to think that they will add unfettered multitasking or that most consumers are actually demanding such? Seems to be largely speculation.
According to the relevant parts of international law, it doesn't matter if they're uniformed military--if they're unarmed and loading wounded into a vehicle for medevac, you let them go.
The Droid is a nice gesture, but will be a brick after the 30 day free service is up! I am on AT&T and won't be paying for a Verizon contract and data plan :(
Add in two shots of tequila, some ice cubes, and a dash of lime and you have a Fanboy Margarita.
My impression is that this is a publicity move on their part to get people interested and get donations. The presentation seems part of that. They're pitching "hey, look at how useful we are."

Before the shutdown, Wikileaks did present most of their content without editing or editorializing. Content would generally be accompanied by a short couple of paragraphs discussing the context, veracity, and format. If memory serves, they did write some opinion/publicity pieces, but labeled them as such and published them separately from the content itself.

I guess what I'm saying is this: I think the extra stuff is there because they need money badly and are basically marketing themselves with this. I don't think they intend to make a habit of straying from their original focus on content. I don't have any proof of this, but that's because they're still short on money. So if you would donate to the former, donate. Hopefully they'll be back to their old selves soon.
Wow, that's incredible. Unfortunately, part of me is in complete awe of the power of our country. I can see why so many young kids want to be apart of this. These kids have so much power and responsibility.
This is amazingly well done advertising. Notice the following:

- Tom dickens is perfectly casted, geeky yet funny and very likable. Oh, and guys in lab-coats are always believable, which is why they're used so often in tv ads.

- The graphics and setups is a great pun on the TV-shop infomercials, with added humor. The 70's style is carried all the way through including the music, the setup, and the graphic design.

- It conveys the message "our blenders are better than all other brands, and will blend anything you care to throw at them" without ever explicitly stating it which makes it so much more believable.

- It's viral like hell...
When I hear "stem cells" my first thought is "scam."

A lot of people want more from medicine than it is ever going to deliver. Just say no to another expensive procedure that has no demonstrable value.
Why were they so agitated about getting permission to shoot the men who came to pick up the wounded guy? Did they just really, really, really want to make sure that guy died?

And who gave them permission? (Really ignorant here, sorry....) Did the person who granted them permission to fire have another source of information about the situation, or was the decision based entirely on the crew's description of the situation? Did it have something to do with them saying the van was "picking up weapons?"
It doesn't use the UserAgent either.
The bleak reality of the US School Lunch Program
18 apps for $95.88 doesn't really sound that greedy. How much are 18 lattes at Starbucks?
I wonder if Apple could drop the bomb and say they're bringing flash to the platform (since so many people are whining day and night about it)

I hope not.

On a more positive note, I hope they have multi-tasking and some kind of dashboard feature.

As a developer, I really hope they have some kind of CoreImage support.
If someone wore a medical uniform in order to not get shot at during that time period in Iraq, they might actually be more likely to be a militant than hospital staff.