skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great iPad type-off: speed tests vs. laptop, netbook, iPhone.
Actually, it is very much unix style. With any modern shell you can simply turn off stderr, or only put stdout in the pipe, or put 2>/dev/null and so on. If both went to stdout then it would be a reasonable complaint.
There's also www.reddit.com/r/opendata
Why was this killed? Were commenters being assholes?
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And as long as the multitasking doesn't introduce undue complexity or any new lag into the UI, there's nothing wrong or hypocritical about that.

It's clear from the range of smartphones out there that multitasking is hard to get right. Palm seems to have the best UI for multitasking, but their performance is far below Apple standards.

Multitasking is also somewhat of a long-tail feature. The mainstream, non-nerd majority is what Apple's been targeting with the iPhone and the iPad, and to them the lack of multitasking is at worst a nuisance that is usually offset by the platform's other strengths. The nerds who really badly want multitasking are a significant and vocal minority, but still a minority.

Apple's established a clear pattern of not releasing a feature until it is done to their satisfaction (see copy and paste), and this feature is easy to get wrong and hard to get right, and it's not a dealbreaker for too much of their market, so it stands to reason that it would be a long time coming. So long as whatever multitasking system Apple releases raises the bar for ease of use, the wait is justified.
I'm guessing QWERTY? Dvorak and Colemak are not too good for single-hand typing.
The two men shown around 3:39 (not the journalists) do appear to be carrying weapons.
So if Reuters was trying to get this video via a FOIA request, and wikileaks now has it, will Reuters be writing about it? If this pops up onto the "real" mainstream it will (probably) be a big story a la Abu Ghraib, but if it remains on the internet the overall impact will be smaller. Have previous wikileaks documents made their way up the news chain?
The cable companies really dropped the ball on this one.

They already have computers (cable boxes) sitting under every TV in the country. Can't think of a bigger competitive advantage.
I would argue that 'unilateral occupation' is what is going on as part of an attempt to wage war, but I see your point.
When invoked that way it still supports more than /bin/dash on my system:

% ln -s /bin/bash sh
% ./sh
sh-3.2$ echo {1..10}
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
sh-3.2$ exit
% dash
$ echo {1..10}
{1..10}

where dash is supposed to be POSIX compliant.
I don't see those as being incompatible positions. Lots of people don't like the BB/WinMo/Android style of multi-tasking. My single biggest frustration with my Android phone is every few days it slows down to a crawl which reminds me to go open Advanced Task Killer and kill off all my background tasks. Some apps run in the background, some quit. Some apps are impossible to quit once started without a third party task manager installed. The GUI for switching apps is a simple alt-tab style switcher. Even something a simple as having thumbnails of the active windows or a taskbar/dock would be a big improvement.
Surprisingly in America they give you a gun and the permission to use it at war before they trust you enough to let you drink a beer at a bar.
>When Google announced Chrome OS and told people they couldn't develop native applications but would get to write web applications for a great browser, there was joy, and Google's culture of openness was praised from all sides.

I don't remember that at all. I seem to remember everyone agreeing that it was a stupid mistake and no one would ever want to use it, because why not just use a real OS and install Chrome?
> And my personal pet peeve, asking the candidate to solve a problem that you just solved a couple of days ago (perhaps after several days of collaboration and research).

I think these types of questions lead to some of the best discussions between interviewer and interviewee. The interviewee should realize that they aren't expected to just pull a perfect solution right out of thin air -- instead the point is to have a dialogue with the interviewer so that the interviewer can see how you think and communicate. And having a couple of big hard problems that the interviewee doesn't have enough information for an immediate solution is a good approach: you can see what kinds of questions the interviewee asks, how he tries to attack it, and the interviewer can provide information and nudges along the way, having all the background information fresh in his head.
HP Slate reappears for 30 seconds, shows off camera, custom interface
It's worth pointing out that the most fundamental stuff came from Douglas Engelbart's SRI group, e.g. the mouse and windows: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLS_%28computer_system%29

Plus Xerox did sue Apple on the basis of copyright but the case was dismissed since the statute of limitations had expired.

What Xerox did and didn't do when it mattered (before this) is well described by the title of a book and the book itself: Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, then Ignored, the First Personal Computer (http://www.amazon.com/Fumbling-Future-Invented-Personal-Comp...)
Marines don't fly Apaches, the Army does, so Marine age data is completely irrelevant.

Helicopter pilots in general trend older than ground grunts, due to training requirements and so on. And many of the Apache pilots in Iraq were/are reservists, so they trend older as well.

The first female Apache pilot already had 20 years of service when she was assigned to an Apache. The oldest British Apache pilot is 54.

It's not something some kid does right out of highschool. There are no teenagers flying Apaches.

I don't know, which is why I said "a good chance", but my estimate would be that the average Apache pilot is in their 30s.
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If you're going to do this, why not just make it an input with autocomplete rather than an input + click on list item?
Without open source code, there would be no iPhone or iPad or OS X or OS X server. The very innards are thinly veiled with a veneer of 'beautiful things' .The work well part is open source.
Financial Management of Cyber Risk
We didn't for our daughter who is two and a half now. It's expensive and provides dubious benefits. We're hoping to have a child next year and we won't do it then either. There's a lot to worry about when you're expecting your first child but this isn't really a big deal. I'd spend more time worrying about other things.

Congrats by the way! This is a very exciting time. My daughter is an absolute joy and I'm sure your child will be for you too. Good luck!
As should aria2. But that would make it a completely different type of an article, more like a Wikipedia sub-section. We already have Wikipedia.
Pencils are a poor man's keyboard. There are different sets of things you can do with both. You might be able to draw on a screen with the arrow keys but that doesn't mean you should.
Think about how bad they must feel knowing that they killed innocent people

Er, they could have joined the Peace Corp, Red Cross, etc. They didn't accidentally wake up one day and kill someone, they made a series of choices and put themselves into a series of events where they got to use powerful weapons against people.

Think about how bad the friends and relatives of the innocent people they killed feel.
So killing unarmed people helping wounded is perfectly fine huh? This is not an active war zone this area is a Country which us claims to be helping to rebuild order and infrastructure, after us destroyed both.

War is an active engagement between military forces, not randomly killing civillians in a country you are trying to help.
Torrent of the video available here: http://collateralmurder.com/file/CollateralMurder.mp4.torren...

(for anyone interested being part of the crowd-archive)
I guess the disagreement is about whether multiple, concurrent tasks are necessary or not.
I think it's fair to call firing on the van murder. The people in the van were pretty obviously trying to remove the dead and help the wounded. They did not appear to be armed, though it's certainly possible to conceal weapons in a van. They were clearly not taking any aggressive action.
It is true that if no-one wants the stock then the value of it will drop. This however should (under normal circumstances) only happen if the company is not profitable and is in debt (to the point where its physical assets amount to the same or less than its debt).

It is not a psychological game, i.e. if someone somehow managed to make the Microsoft stock drop to zero then I would effectively be able to get all of Microsoft for nothing, that’s a pretty sweet deal, and why that stock won’t drop to zero as long as they are profitable.

The “psychology” that affects the stock prices are in speculation about the future worth of a company, and that is why you see a disconnect between a company’s net worth and market cap — generally the market cap should be above its net worth, otherwise someone should buy all the shares and liquefy the company :)
To a consumer, having interleaved tasks might appear like multi-tasking while it technically isn't (which you point out).
>You can use a wireless keyboard but it still doesn't feel right as you have to keep moving your hand to the screen to click on icons. It doesn't recognize Apple's Magic Mouse.

Sounds like you are starting to realize that the iPad is not a laptop...

I don't intend to be facetious. I think a lot of people genuinely think the iPad will revolutionize computing because it can actually serve as a replacement for the laptop (which, for many, replaced the desktop). But it's not a laptop replacement, it's just a big iPod Touch.
> At 4:20 one of them says, "We had a guy shooting" even though _clearly no one is shooting_ at the time. What's up with that?

It's not clear that no one is shooting, though. It's only clear that the available and very limited perspective did not capture such activity.
Yeah, it does, I either misread or missed it.
Depending on what you like from Ruby, you could also check out Lisp Flavored Erlang at http://github.com/rvirding/lfe. IIRC Virding was one of the original creators of Erlang.
Would not do that. Currently they take YOUR skin cells and turn them into stem cells. A couple of years ago the process was discovered/perfected. I have a friend who has a degenerative eye condition and this was discussed with him very recently. Basically babies are not needed for stem cells anymore. Its why the stem cell research was allowed again in the US provided that the cells are retrieved using the skin -> stem cell method not the aborted fetus -> stem cell method.
This is the second time today I've seen a service using one of the admin panel templates from ThemeForest. In any case it's not the interface that matters so much in this case.
idk, I've always felt killing someone in self-defense is moral. Not that it's right and good, but wholly fair and justifiable and moral. minor nitpick with your overall salient point.

I really agree with you here. In my opinion, total war is how war should be waged. If we're in, we're in for the long haul and we take it serious. Plus, it forces our citizens to constantly acknowledge and renew their commitment every day, which means no shaky 'oh I'm not sure' wars.
Is the pilot also the gunner? Because I would think the person that pulled the trigger would be the one we should talk about. When I said kid, I was talking about the gunner. It's the gunner's decision making we are evaluating, after all. I don't think the age of the pilot matters as far as this video is concerned. In fact, your points about the age of helicopter pilots reinforces my point. Maturity is required for positions of great responsibility.
This story toggles between dead and alive. Clearly some moderators disagree.

Most people that say this site is degrading have been here for only a short time. I just passed my 1000th day on the site. In my opinion, shit like this does not belong on this site.
As someone who doesn't live in the US, I'm excited way more by this than any iPad news.
I think many non-developers would agree that if you can't leave Pandora playing music while you go check your email, you don't have multi-tasking.
Google is the Borg now.
I would also suggest: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs1120/
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It's not obvious how 9th grade debate society non-responding and complaining-about-something-that-wasn't-said is any better, really.
What does your obstetrician say?
HP Slate Promo: Camera and iTunes and Ports, Oh My
Don't lose focus: iPhone still vastly more important to Apple than the iPad
I think most people are used to their computers being able to play music and browse the Web at the same time. If Apple wants to push the iPad as a computing device, they might hit a snag with consumers.

Edit: Whoops. I'll leave the comment but I do realize this isn't an iPad thread.
The point of waterlesscloud's post is that we shouldn't assume things we don't know. This is also the point of your post, I think. Also you need to brush up on statistics if you thing your logic proves much of anything.
Based on their behavior, it seems reasonable to presume that they are medical personnel. That may not satisfy the legal requirements, but there's a reason we have people deciding whether to pull a trigger rather than computers. It may have been legal to fire on the van, but anyone in a position to make that call should have the sense not to.
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Apple announces iPhone 4.0 event on April 8
The iPad is not a car
OSSEC v2.4 released
I checked your LinkedIn profile and it appears you:

* Live in the Bay area

* Graduated from Carnegie Mellon

* Specialize in C++

* Have an open source portfolio

* Have mobile development experience

Looks like you're low hanging fruit as far as Google recruiters are concerned - it's surely worth their time to call/email you every so often just in case your situation has changed.
My sister's cord blood was stored.
I cant remember details but just recently I read an article in the news about a child who was saved due to the doctors being able to use her cord blood to do something or other.
OSSEC is a powerful open source HIDS. If you are not using it on your servers, you should be.
I don't think I've seen many (if any) direct arguments that multitasking is bad. Most of what I've seen amounts to congratulating Apple for not attempting to provide multitasking when they can't do it without seriously compromising other aspects of the user experience.

You don't seem to acknowledge that there are tradeoffs involved. Apple's competitors have chosen to offer multitasking at the expense of performance (responsiveness, battery life, etc.). Apple's strategy so far has been to not take that performance hit. It seems like they may be shifting now to investing far more than their competitors into their software development to ensure that their multitasking won't cause an unacceptable performance hit.
Sorry I accidentally downvoted you. I agree with you. From a consumer point of view not being able to play music in the background makes the iPhone OS seem incomplete.
The question, as posed, is a little misleading - it seems to be comparing apples to oranges to pears.

The question is in fact about the speed of doing fulltext search; given a collection of documents in MongoDB, what's the fastest way to perform a fulltext search on them?

My solution to this problem has been to use Xapian integrated with my Rails project via MongoMapper and Xapit. It works quite well with the MongoMapper record callbacks (indexes updated on save, etc), and provides very robust search capabilities without too much effort at all.
Why shouldn't I mutate local data structure?
Google gifting Droids to GoogleIO 2010 attendees before conference
I was hoping for something like this and man... I am quite chuffed as one of my Brit friends would say.
The pilot was operating on the assumption that the people he fired upon were militants. Think about it; you shoot at armed militants. Minutes later an unmarked van with some unmarked men pulls up, and they jump out and start loading the wounded. Does the van hold civilians? Y/N.
But the same can be said for UPS and FedEx. I actually have more options for TV, internet, and phone than for shipping. My point is that these anecdotes can not be extrapolated to a larger point. Really your dealings with these large corporations or government agencies are few and far between with a handful of people that may or may not be nice as people and may or may not be having a good day. Should we decide public policy based on that?
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bit.ly as one of the 20 most promising startups? really?
Ceasing to Exist: Three Months without Social Media
I was hoping for something like this and man... I am quite chuffed as one of my Brit friends would say.

From the FAQ:

"The Nexus One is an unlocked GSM phone and will work in the US, Europe and Canada. The Droid is a CDMA device locked to Verizon and will only work on the Verizon network in the US."

It looks like the type of phone you get is based on the country you indicated you are from when you registered.
Right after this when someone says "Uh, negative" and the other guys ignore him, is that not about the alleged shooting?
To be clear, you can have music playing in the background, but only from Apple's iPod app, not from 3rd-party apps like Pandora.
In any case, you can browse and use the iPod app at the same time.
True, I wasn't all that clear about self defense. I think self-defense is really the one instance where you would be willing to wage total war (whether as a country, or as a person). In that case, the country (or person) would do whatever it takes to survive. Good point.
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Look, what are you talking about? Sent there for me and by me and for all of us? That's bullshit. Statistically speaking, most of us writing here think that the whole war is a pointless hole that we're shoveling money and lives into. We didn't ask for it, we don't like it, and it's our impression that it's hurting us, not helping us. They were sent there against our loud protests by politicians and policymakers we largely despise. What the fuck are we supposed to be appreciating?

If you think the war is a just or sensible war, that's your perogative, and perhaps then you feel a great deal of remorse and compassion for soldiers fighting it. But if you think the war is insane, then it's equally insane to feel like the soldiers fighting it are doing a great good and should therefore deserve some huge benefit of the doubt on events like this.
I have a friend who said his friend heard that his girlfriend's dad's mom thinks that your comment is pretty vague.
Yes, but to be honest, there are legitimate reasons why they chose not to allow multitasking. You can say it's being a "fanboy" if you want, but I personally don't want to take the tech support call from my grandma where I have to walk her through how to open up a task manager and kill a process that is creating a memory leak. Or ask her to reboot her phone just to fix a problem. Or wonder why she's only getting 3 hours of standby time on a full charge of a battery.

These are common issues with past mobile smartphone platforms like WinMo.

Apple is smart enough to know that giving people fewer choices is sometimes a better idea than giving them the power to fuck it up royally. When Apple does implement multitasking, you can bet it will probably be done right.

Does that make me a fanboy? Maybe, but you're being dishonest if you think the average user knows or even cares about how much memory is available in their smartphone.
run4yourlives sums up by feelings about this particular incident very well.

However, I'm uncomfortable with the way Wikileaks has couched the release of this video (the editing, the title, and the url used to promote it). It's agitprop, and in the long term I think it undermines the ability of leaked documents like this to enter the public discourse and (possibly) effect change.

My advice to Wikileaks if they want my continued support is to stick to what you're good at: enabling whistleblowers to anonymously release documents that may serve the public interest. But let Michael Moore handle the filmmaking.
Steve Eley, several posts down, give ths best response to the question. An excerpt from the post:

"Particularly when you're talking about using three _totally_ different classes of technology -- you're comparing apples and oranges and bananas, and asking which is fruitier."
Many hospitals in Iraq don't have money for equipment, let alone uniforms for their staff.
> With any modern shell you can simply turn off stderr, or only put stdout in the pipe, or put 2>/dev/null and so on.

Or I could type fewer extra characters by using the '-s' flag, as I described in my comment. My point was about its default mode of operation: "noisy" (which is not, as I see it, a characteristic of "traditional unix" tools).

Edit: Additionally, if both went to stdout the tool would be completely unusable -- I'd simply file that under "data corruption".
Accepting limits
If they are pilots, they are officers most likely (or Warrants), which means they have at least a 4 year degree and often a Master's before entering OCS and skills training (skills like flight training which takes about 12 months). Sure you can fast track some of this (there's a flight school program that's only 9 months), or you could get your education at West Point or something, and get out of flight school at maybe 21-22, but that's not the norm.

I'd put their ages no younger than 23 on the low end. More typically mid to late 20s with a few in their 30s (usually Warrant Officers).
In all fairness, if companies start handing out iPads preloaded with their literature, I'll be happy to take one or two to glance over.
The iPad requires iTunes (you can't even turn it on without iTunes). iTunes lets you know when there's an update and what to do.
You mean, exactly how things work right now? (If someone calls me, it comes up on my phone, not on my TV.)
The chances of your child needing it are vanishingly small, but their is a chance it could help a child. So it's a great idea to donate to a bank but paying money to store it for your own use is probably a waste of money.

http://www.marrow.org/HELP/Donate_Cord_Blood_Share_Life/How_...
This is a fantastically dishonest account of the story; ask if you want something more approximating the truth.

Although there's one bit of libel I don't want to go unchallenged: "Russell Noftsker, who had left the Lab in strained circumstances back in 1973...."

"strained circumstances" as in taking the fall for an act of fraud committed by two people who it really was best to keep out of Federal prison, despite their attitude that the ends justify the means.

It's also worth pointing out that for the founding Symbolics hackers excluding Greenblatt and Stallman from the company was a non-negotiable. There were always going to be two Lisp Machine companies as long as Greenblatt managed to start one up.
Seems like Dell has made a deal with Netflix for streaming videos to their Android-based Mini 5. So it is possible that these folks did too.
I too have been getting pinged by google recruiters from LinkedIn about once a quarter. I ignore them. I'm highly annoyed by what I consider to be bullshit interview questions, it's likely I'll never interview there.
She was frustratingly noncommittal to be honest, but I only thought of phrasing the question in the "would you do this for your children" way after our last appointment - I'll probably ask her that next time we meet.