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My second child was born about a week ago. I kept both their cord blood in sepearate banks in separate cities in case of a disaster or an emergency.

I paid 20 years of storage for both of them also. I believe in the future their stem cells will be beneficial to them in at least one area of their lives, and I hope never to need the cord bloods for health reasons.

But there is one crucial point you should be aware of, make sure they are not sharing personal information or genetic profile with international third parties make sure the service agreement between you and the bank covers this explicitly, banks that I stored my children's bloods had no such clear points in their agreements and i made them add my own no third parties article for me.
Ask HN: What do you think of this 3D fad?
There are 3D TV's coming out, and now a 3D Nintendo DS ( http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/nintendo-to-launch-3d-nintendo-ds-without-need-for-3d-specs )

Just a fad or here to stay?
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That is not really a good assertion. Look at grep: default output is filename, line number, relevant line. This is far from a minimalist output. Or du, which by default lists all the files and subdirectories and their sizes. Minimal, quiet output doesn't define "traditional unix" style -- the ability to taylor the output to the situation, and further make the output as machine readable as possible is what makes it "unixy".
When I interviewed with Google it was under 2 months from first contact until they sent me an offer letter. I have not interviewed with either MS or Amazon, but I'm quite sure neither one hires senior engineers in a week.
> I'm not convinced that I'm more secure because of them.

Does that mean that you are convinced that you are equally secure ?

I would wager you are less secure because of them. For every civilian killed you get a whole family that hates you in return.

Note the recent Russian bombings and the fact that at least one of them was carried out by a woman that lost a loved one.

Multiply by a few thousand and you get why there is no shortage of people willing to take up arms against what they rightly see as an occupation.
My rule of thumb is that the end users of a web application will perceive that the system is "slow" if the 1 minute load average is above 4 on the application or database server.
I'd rather people have training in weapons and discipline before drinking, actually. So that's not so surprising to me.

What's outrageous is the progressive infantilization of teenagers. 13 year olds can make moral decisions and take responsibility for their actions. They are not as fully developed in all cognitive areas as adults (including judgment), but they are starting on that road. That (actually, much earlier) is the time to make sure their development includes things like personal responsibility, ability to safely handle weapons, an approach to drugs and alcohol that includes moderation and adult supervision, and even the discipline imposed in working (part-time, of course, nobody wants the return of child labor sweatshops).

If someone's first experience with combining discipline, responsibility, and the freedom to act is when they join the military at 18, is it any wonder that judgment is impaired, excitement and fear dominates reason, and life begins to look like a trigger-happy first person shooter? Note that I'm saying video games aren't the problem here, infantilizing our youth is the problem.
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A great deal of classics require a boatload of history and context to enjoy. For instance: Most of Dickens is about 3x more interesting when you know the history of England for the timespan as well as the Poor laws and all that. Additionally it's very important to know Dickens was paid by the word (so if it feels like a section can be skipped, it likely can).

For modern classics, you already have most of the context and history, so you don't have accessibility issues.

I'm not saying "Don't read the classics" I'm saying "Start reading modern fiction which is considered a classic, even genre classics". Once people catch the reading (fiction) bug, they eventually try a classic or two.
No, most of the time its a story about how lack of multitasking is GOOD and how the other platforms are bad for offering it, how users are too stupid to use it etc.

To be perfectly honest, I can only think of two use cases for (third-party application) multitasking on a device like the iPhone:

1. App 1 in background streams/plays music while I use App 2 to do something else.

2. IM client in background popping up messages as they come in.

On a device with the form factor and use cases of a typical "smart" phone I just can't think of any other reasonable case where I'd even want, let alone need, multitasking.

So count me among the group who'll be happy if something shows up which actually makes multitasking on a device like the iPhone useful, but who don't particularly miss it at the moment because there just isn't that much it'd be good for.
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You mean it requires iTunes for the first sync. After that you only need it for backing up.
The funny thing is there seems to be a Westward migration as companies get their feet under them.
If it's inexpensive enough, why not? My sister just had her first baby about 7 months ago. They were talking about using a cord bank but didn't follow through with it. More out of distraction than anything else.

At this point in time you can't know whether or not it will be used later on. But if you don't save it now, if the event happens you won't have it to use. There is also the perspective that if your child never needs it, there might be other kids that it could help years down the road.

You are looking at long term storage of cells, so make sure whoever you go with is legitimate and has a long established history.
If a helicopter is not a good platform to do this work from then it shouldn't be done from a helicopter.

The whole reason this stuff happens is because at 'stand-off' range the person in the chopper might be safe but those on the ground are no longer to be identified. It's the doctrine of force protection that is the cause here, not some hyped up kid with a trigger happy finger. He shouldn't have been there in the first place.

Helicopters are not good at police work, they're good for killing people long distance without too much discrimination. Better zoom lenses would be a mixed bag, it would give you even less field-of-view with a more jittery aim.

Choppers are great at evacuation and for killing people and destroying stuff.

Boots on the ground are better at identifying friend-or-foe (and even then there are plenty of mistakes) but are more vulnerable.
As far as I can tell, this article doesn't mention the most frequent problem people have comprehending high load averages on Linux: the inclusion of processes in uninterruptible sleep. This can result in a system with virtually no CPU load reporting a very high load average. (And, IMHO, makes the load average much less useful a metric than a pure running/run-queue-based method.)
Thanks. Had to leave before this meetup, was bummed I couldn't make it. Hopefully in July...
Why does his discussion of automatic transmissions sound like he hasn't actually driven a car with an automatic in twenty years or so? His comments, compared to my actual experience of driving various automatics over the past decade, feel like someone who says cars must not be so great because of how you have to turn the hand crank on the front to start the engine, not realizing that this is a solved problem now.
I'll try to make it - might not...
I agree that I wish they had released the video with only subtitles and left out the narration. It's powerful enough on its own, the rest only weakens the impact and introduces wiggle room for authoritarians to squeal about the horror of liberal propaganda.
Android is just now getting reasonable battery life with 2.x when heavy multitasking is in use. Many people need to have process cleaning apps to have zippy performance without rebooting the phone every few days. (And the fact not all android phones are upgradeable to 2.x is an issue meaning many still have crappy multitasking battery life).
And their expenses wouldn't be so high. Forget the editing, forget the hosting, forget the editorializing. Post the video and the transcript on a bittorent channel and let it move on to better funded news agencies. Is their job to protect the sources that release information, or be an advocacy group based around information leaked from sources? Because I would donate to the former but not the latter.
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All definitions depend on context. There isn't a "human right to read" that is always true regardless of context. For examples, you do not have a human right to read your neighbor's personal diary or journal, unless you do so in a particular context - one in which they give it to you, and say, "Please read this now."

If you get a gift, and the terms are "I'll let you have this, but you can't open it until Christmas", you should follow through your end of the bargain or refuse the transaction.

The kids that got their Harry Potter books early got them by mistake. By reading and disseminating information early about the content of the book, Rowling's terms would have been violated. We should all be concerned with what Rowling's terms are, because there would be no book to read in the first place without her.

Remember that the kids were free to read all kinds of other things, to write their own books, study, play outside, etc. No one imprisoned them, or did anything untoward - in short, no one violated their proper rights.
Yep, admin interface from ThemeForest provide a really good looking base for apps such as VWO to build their UI. I love ThemeForest and highly recommend it for all kinds of design needs.
Why can't Apple take the hint about flash, usb and a sd slot. ipad would be much better off with those included
My iphone runs ~2.5 days without a charge...
I bought it exactly for that reason. I'm very happy with my laptop for work, I wanted a "better Kindle" meaning a device I can take on a weekend retreat and not be tempted to do work. For that, it's awesome. It belongs next to my bed.
It's funny, because when I heard the original description of the iPhone push notifications at WWDC, that's exactly how I thought it worked.

That'd be a fairly good compromise.
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For what it's worth you also need iTunes for software updates. Maybe one day we'll see OTA updates.
The basic premise here is that the guys on the helicopter claim they see weapons (AKs and RPGs). So they shoot shit up, and then the soldiers get there. What I don't get is that nobody seems to be following up on the basic premise: there is no audio communication where the helicopter guys are asking about weapons, or the guys on the ground saying that they do or don't see any weapons (or that they instead see a camera with a bigass tele lens).

This implies that the soldiers don't care whether their kill was justified. Setting aside conscience, this is bad because there's no feedback - next time they'll just mistake the tele lens for an RPG again.
I wouldn't -- your baby can use that blood TODAY.

For more info, Google: benefits of delayed cord cutting
At least partly it's about keeping people watching TV and away from the internet. In a recent interview that I had with a TV company they were quite fearful of the move away from TV and the loss of advertising revenue which that entails for them. Personally I can't see any reason why this isn't just a passing fad. Although I'm interested in 3D vision, I've very little interest in watching TV wearing goggles, and think that the novelty would wear off very rapidly. At the end of the day making good quality shows or movies easily trumps 3D gimmickery.
Funny you should say that, I was halfway implementing that when wikileaks re-opened.

Wikileaks is a public service, not a business and they shouldn't try to run it as one. The bittorrent channel was exactly what I was going for, with automatic conversion and a 'triage' stage, bogus, maybe true, verified true.
Wow, thanks for this point. Just reminded me to turn off the android phone I was using but had stuck in the drawer.
I'm having this issue right now.
And how do you define "loss" and "gains" for market players?

PS: Your definition appears to be "you lost iff you left with less money than when you came in". OTOH, my definition is "you lost iff you made less money than if you would have if you'd invested it in an index fund".
True. In addition:
-Dogs are a poor man's velociraptors
-Toothpaste is a poor man's hair gel
-Rocks are a poor man's sandwich ingredients
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Race is a complex topic. I wonder how many people will be willing to discuss it here.
Should you view the video, you'd have seen (and heard) that gunner is trigger happy, sadistic and would kill you in the middle of the street on a sunny day - if he had a reason to believe nobody is gonna get him.

That is the "missing" context for you...

I believe that this video sets a very powerful context. Don't be ignorant!
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I can't see the entire list without registering onto vcj, anyone have the list somewhere else?
What do you mean non-developers. Developers too.
i agree that they're presenting it beyond their original intent, but i'd also point out that they've been striving for a business model as a pure information source, just to keep the lights on, and it hasn't been working out. this might be their attempt at finding a way to monetize some of their information.
I always found it depressing that Colin Powell got a red card for his UN speech but that My-Lai cover up was never even mentioned.
As someone who does, I'm still way more excited about this than any iPad news.
The Apache has a pilot and an observer/gunner. Both positions are pretty highly skilled -- the observer has to know how to use all the targeting electronics, etc. You would have to be crazy to spend God-knows-how-much on an Apache and then put a 19-year-old in the back seat.
I experienced this issue as well.
I knew the car analogy would make some folks defensive because it's so apt.
This is a good article, but clearly written by someone who is a manual transmission fanboy. I drive a manual, too, but I recently switched from an automatic and I know why automatics are more popular - they're easier to use, and you don't have to learn or think as much as with a manual, to get where you're going. I would say his conclusion is wrong - that the iPad/PC distinction is actually very similar to the automatic/manual distinction.
You can ask the person behind the counter to scrape some of the bread out from the middle before they start adding meats and veggies. I do it all the time and it makes the sandwich taste better too (due to the higher flavor-to-bread ratio)
"All my googling is getting is people saying how nice it would be."

Because that's all there is. It doesn't run on XULRunner. Getting it to do so continues to be a project goal, but it doesn't as of right now.
Are you saying you're not responsible for the lives you take if the organization that trained you had better advertisement funding?
I work with people who do iPS (induced pluripotent stem cell) work. The technology is quite promising: take a skin punch biopsy, add Yamanaka factors, and obtain iPS cells. They have not supplanted embryonic stem cells for most purposes but someday they may (there are various scientific advantages and disadvantages to both).

I think the most honest answer is that even those of us in this field don't yet know if storage of cord blood will prove to offer something that iPS can't. Perhaps there is someone even closer to the intersection of those topics than I on HN who can weigh in.
I'd like to see the raw video before they edited it and added sub-titles. Thanks for the link -- this one is slightly clearer than the youtube 480p version.
He may be exaggerating for effect but I don't think his assessment is wrong. I drove a fairly new automatic recently and it wasn't fun. Better than 18 years ago when I last owned an automatic, but still not nearly as smoothly integrated as my Japanese five-speed subcompact.
This is the second or third article I've read explaining load average, and sad to say I still can't explain it.

All I know is that when it's inexplicably over 3-4, you can't determine why as (no processes are using high CPU), and 1 in ten database queries are taking to 5 minutes, under normal load, that day will not be the best of your life. Well, what I've determined is that a full storage device, or overloaded i/o system for your disk, can produce very high load along with accompanying performance of doom.
The transmission he's describing is the one that came with my 2007 Camry. (We were later able to get a firmware update that made it reasonably safe to drive.)
I'm not the author, but over the last one year I've driven 20 different cars with automatic transmissions (made by Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Pontiac, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Volkswagen and Subaru). For most of them, what the author says holds. The VW Jetta & Hyundai Elantra had good gear systems. The Chevy Cobalt was fairly good. All of the others had problems with fast acceleration and going slow downhill.
My version of curl only prints the progress junk to stderr if you pipe stdout somewhere. I guess I've never had a problem since I don't use a pager usually.

BTW, how do you detect whether your program's stdout is being piped to something other than the shell?
Agreed. It seems to be another attempt by the entertainment business to incorporate new technology to enhance the otherwise "lackluster" broadcasting. Not to say Avatar 3d wasn't great, 3d tv will just be overkill and cost $2000.

True test: Wold Cup 2010
at 3:55 the crosshairs are one a guy with what looks like an RPG (could be something else) and is clearly not a camera. I think the guy peeking out from behind the wall does have a camera with a telephoto lens and not an RPG.
I think it had a lot to do with the mentality of the day. Back then, stuff like guis was something cool that you did with patented technology, not the thing itself.

Much more recently, we've begun patenting all of the ramifications of technology as well.
According to the Geneva Conventions, you are not allowed to shoot wounded combatants who are out of the battle... period. End of story.

It also specifically provides protections for civilians who are trying to assist wounded soldiers, so it's immaterial whether or not they were official responders or not.

Either way this is a war crime and needs to be prosecuted as such. Those who conspired to suppress it should also be charged as co-conspirators.
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Probably the most polite way of expression I’ve seen on HN
Au contraire, the fact that a soldier is far enough away to be able to murder indiscriminately when not at risk is what caused this. If he had been standing more vulnerable but right by that road side this would not have happened.

The further you take the person pulling the trigger away from the person they murder the easier it gets.

Do you really believe the guys that dropped the bomb over Hiroshima and Nagasaki would have been able to do it given an infinite supply of ammo and a machine gun that never jams pointed at fields full of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians?
A week for a local candidate wasn't unusual when I worked at Amazon (AWS was hiring a lot). After leaving I ended up looking around and got offers from both Google and Microsoft. Google was at least 4x slower and was generally frustrating (took them a month to get back to me after the phone screen). I ended up in a startup. Several people I know had the same experience.
I like this, but perhaps not for the reasons the author hopes. Associating oneself with Superman is a common form of narcissism. Perfect for some sysadmins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_complex
I think the comparison between automatic transmissions from 20 years ago and modern ones is a good way to see why the iPad will work well for most people. Old automatic transmissions did have problems when you wanted to accelerate quickly and at certain speeds they couldn't decide what gear to be in so they'd keep shifting. Modern transmissions are so good that only a few people notice that things aren't quite how they would like them to be and there are a lot of people who can't drive a car with a manual transmission. The iPad takes away a lot of control, but it makes choices that most people will like. Not everyone wants or needs to have more control.
Good advice across the board, not just for political discussion.

This is just explaining the logical fallacy of "fundamental atribution error" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error ). More popularly, this has been paraphrased as "never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity".

Personally, I find this logical fallacy infuriating because it just doesn't matter. Whether someone is being evil or is just wrong is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is the end result. If someone is being charitable because he thinks it'll make him rich in the long run, that's still good. If someone is accidentally causing harm, we want him to stop regardless of his intentions. And that's all that matters at the bottom line.
You'd be surprised how much weight you can transport on a bike with appropriate gearing and a trailer. I'm not sure what your public transit options are, but unless I've got a straight-shot light-rail route to where I'm going or it's really hilly, biking is almost always faster than public transit for me.
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> You realize that the alies dropped incendiary bombs on German cities in WWII that killed women and children at a pace of thousands per bombing run.

Not to say that this is acceptable, but Hitler started the bombing of civilians. Apparently, one of the bombing runs on England at night got too close to the city (London?) and killed a bunch of civilians. Instead of admitting that it was a mistake, Hitler pushed out propaganda saying that this was the intention from the start. After that both sides bombed each other's civilian populations.
This is iPad news.
Do you hear music in the background while doing other
things?

Do you see your mail being checked while doing other things?

Do you get background notifications while doing other things?

Do you get appstore apps downloaded while doing other
things?

The iphone is fundamentally built on a mach kernel, which supports multitasking. Taking it out, when they already needed to use it for multitasking for the above tasks, is a silly idea.

Here is a rundown of other parts of the iPhoneOS kernel: http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2007/07/13/iphone-os-x-archite...
Watch the mp4 (http://collateralmurder.com/file/CollateralMurder.mp4.torren...) or the 480p version. It is sitting on the ground as the gun camera sweeps back around and is clearly too long to be a telephoto lens.