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You make an interesting point but the alternative is to purposely hamstring your combat abilities in order to make a commitment to using them less appealing. That doesn't sound like a sound survival strategy.

I am by nature a pacifist and would prefer not to engage in war or violence at all. However, once the bonds are slipped and the blood starts flowing, I don't think there should be any punches pulled and the more options on the table the better. I still maintain that if the pilot in this particular instance had less reason to fear for his own safety he would have been more careful with his judgement call on the combatant status of the target group.

This is actually one of the common arguments for increasing the role of remote robotic agents on the battlefield, less necessary to be overly aggressive in defense in edge cases. I think the commonly cited example is not calling artillery on apartment buildings to flush out a sniper.
I'd agree that load average just isn't intuitive. I personally just look at CPU, Memory, and IO usage separately.
'shit like this' is a fantastic display of the power of the internet at work as a force of democracy, it is one of the worst ways of presentation that I've ever seen but it concerns all of us here in ways that we probably don't even realize yet.

Arguably this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1203545 belongs here a lot less than this article.
I think it's now done by IEEE: http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml

I doubt OUIs were ever a profit center anyway.
My wife and I had considered storing cord blood for our second child (now 1 year old). We ordered the kit and in the delivery room the nurse had begun unpacking and asked us to sign a form authorizing it. She briefly explained the process where, after delivery, she would cut the cord immediately in order to "capture" as much as possible for storage. I guess we hadn't thought the whole thing through because this concerned us. It is my understanding that it is recommended that the new born be left with the cord intact for as long as possible, until the cord goes white (empty) because that blood makes up a large percentage of all the blood the baby has, which provides the baby with what s/he needs for the first part of his/her life. So by not letting this blood flow back into the baby we were essentially jeopardizing it's health from the get go. My wife and I are not doctors and this is only my opinion but we decided to not store the cord blood and let the baby have all of it, hopefully giving her a head start to a happy, healthy life. I would suggest reading up on what possible problems may arise when the cord is cut too early. Just something to take into consideration.
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Yes, all true. But just like I can drive a car, I couldn't compete in F1. Just because you understand that you have to do things like advertise, or negotiate a licensing contract for third party components doesn't mean you understand all of the ins and outs of how to do so.
How much was it?
Even if you're not mutating the state, you may be interested in knowing what it is.
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Right. More explicit means less fluid. So there is a trade-off. Fluidity might not be important when the design is well-known and fixed. But if you want to use code as a medium for exploring design, then fluidity is powerful.
You absolutely do not need multi-tasking (for 3rd party apps) to have background music. You simply need to expose the system media player as a service. I'd actually much prefer that solution. In fact, _most_ backgrounding needs would be better as a sensible system service call. Services could be provided for scheduling jobs, callbacks for location awareness events, etc.
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I can't quite decide how to interpret that myself. (I admit I never considered they might be going to an every-other policy.) My theories were:

Pessimistic -- They knew 4.0 was right around the corner and that charging people $20 or so for 4.0 would go over like a turd in the punchbowl. So they're covering 4.0 but it'll be back to business-as-usual with 5.0.

Optimistic -- They're trying out not-charging for major releases but are reserving the right to change their minds again.
Thanks for the kind words! If there are additional topics you think should have been covered but weren't, please let me know.
It's all over the web:

http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/2219553/amerikanen-vermoordden-i...

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/04/05/4117730-wik...

http://www.mediaite.com/online/wikileaks-publishes-video-of-...

And since one of the people murdered was a Reuters employee I'd wager the chances they will write about it are about 100%.
Huh? What if I have a 48 core AMD server? A fully CPU-bound load average of 48 would be great.

Load average can tell you if the system is under-used, but it can't tell you how the system is over-used.

I regularly have a few dual core systems spike to load averages of 50+ because of suboptimal NFS mounts. The NFS issue keeps processes waiting around with nothing to do for a while. Those processes are still counted towards the "load" even though they have no CPU activity (they are blocked on IO).
So will microVentures allow non-accredited angels to lend money? I've been wanting someone to figure out a way to allow that, though I don't know the laws well. I understand that the accredited investor law is intended to keep widows and orphans from gambling away their money to smooth talking men with shady business deals, but as a your person with a small amount of investment money it is frustrating that the only way I can invest in a startup it with labor.

I work at Anybots and see all the YC startups come through here and in an ideal world I would invest a few hundred dollars in many of them. As I understand it, this is illegal. It sort of feels like a tax on the poor that only rich people are allowed to invest in startups.
"The foregoing explains why open source has nothing to teach literature or indeed any artistic creation"

Literature or arts has usually been done alone or in small groups.
Science , engineering and software development is much more of a collaborative effort that can combine the works of many people together.

That might explain why open source is more useful in those fields.
Passive GPS tracking apps
- Like locale for android which changes your profile settings to put your phone on silent when your at school. Speakerphone only while travelling fast, forward to your home phone while at home, etc.
Actually, your idea of just sticking in the strlen on the hash nodes as a heuristic to prevent unnecessary collision checks is pretty good.

I too am glad to engage in this topic!
Sorry, but Ruby pretty much is Rails. There is very little Ruby that's not written to be used in conjunction with Rails.

Play, while impressive, still retains most of the ugliness of Java. It's hard to compare it to a DSL like Rails.
take a look at step 19 on the ifixit ipad teardown... http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-Teardown/2183/3. notice the soldering. probably a manufacturing problem on certain lots.
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Thanks. I thought the comment I was replying to had some value, but would have been better if the OP looked up a bit more information before posting. Saying that would have been boring though :)
> That doesn't sound like a sound survival strategy.

It wasn't meant as one. There is a price to war, it should be paid by both sides for things not to go badly out of control.

The current trend is to minimize the cost to the aggressor so that 'home support' for a war is easier to come by. If there would have been one American soldier dead for every Iraqi civilian this conflict would have been over long ago.

If the perceived cost of waging war to a nation is low then the chances of war being waged go up.
There's a lot of pressure to hire in fast growth companies. To prevent managers from just hiring warm bodies, Google decoupled hiring from management.
Its surprising why Google would choose Droid instead of Nexus One for US attendees.
Well, given that the iPad runs the iPhone OS, I think you can generalize this to one case. Any app that needs to maintain a persistant network connection. That covers IM, streaming...and remote login (ssh, vnc, rdp, etc...)
I'm also just fine with Wifi. I've been using this with a Cradlepoint hotspot, though. The café I was at yesterday presented no problems with their hotspot.
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> Yes, but to be honest, there are legitimate reasons why they chose not to allow multitasking

And those reasons will magically disappear if they offer multitasking some day? 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>."
3. Give me an alert notification based on my GPS coordinates (ie., remind me to install updates on my parents' computer next time I'm at their house)
I could see that happening, namely with cars, which is why I think it's important to have a strong car manufacturing industry (and another reason to save GM). However, one caveat I think is we need to place higher importance on quality, not just with cars but American products in general. If China has gotten good at the role of producer after these years, and the U.S. as consumer, and that suddenly flips... I'm not sure how smoothly that would play out. A lot of people could potentially eat our lunch.
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You bought a minimum $500 device and you're going to complain about a nominal upgrade fee? Why do people bitch about this? You have even less excuse if you're using a 3G version which costs $700 and charges you a min of $15 a month (assuming you use the 3G).
I just passed my 1100th day on this site, and I feel this should belong here.
What about a tripod. Cameramen don't just carry cameras. When the rescue van showed up the attack helicopter crew is saying they are picking up guns. Total BS. What the heli pilots relate to the command officer is alot of FUD. Regardless of the tripod the rescuers and children were attacked without provocation.
Is there a reference implementation of this?
I think that's the first time I've heard someone described as a “manual transmission fanboy.” As a fanboy myself, I love it.
> My version of curl only prints the progress junk to stderr if you pipe stdout somewhere.

Hmm, good point -- I actually hadn't noticed that, and it seems to be the case on mine as well. (Though I rarely use it without piping or stdout-redirecting to something, so it still strikes me as inappropriate.)

> BTW, how do you detect whether your program's stdout is being piped to something other than the shell?

In the three languages I've used recently enough to remember:

C: int isatty(int fd); /* from unistd.h */

Python: os.isatty

Shell (bourne): [ -t 1 ] # exits 0 if stdout is a tty, 1 if not
Apps normally run in the background all the time in Android. I know which app it was (meebo) because I can view the stats afterwards. Also, to help alleviate some of your confusion, we are talking about background processes, not just streaming audio.
"I personally believe 'cheap and barely works' triumphs over "beautiful and works well" often enough that things will turn out okay."

I agree with your sentiment. I'm not especially alarmed about this new walled garden. Our industry has been here before: IBM mainframes->minis->micros->mobile devices. Every step of the way a group identified weaknesses in the wall and exploited them to open up the platform. Someone will come around with a device to rival the iPad. It may not be as slick, but it'll be slick enough. The software may not be as well designed but it'll provide a good experience for a large number of people. It'll most likely be at a price point that more people can afford.
If you were a world champion boxer would you get into a lot more fist fights because it's less likely that you'd be injured in them? Speaking for myself, I would not.

I'd hope that just because we can doesn't necessarily mean we should in any case.
Could have used a better title..
After the cord is clamped, how is the blood on the other side expected to get into the baby?
Long about 2005-6 one of my investment newsletters urged those who could to "sell your house and rent", on the theory the median home price could not indefinitely remain out of reach of the median home buyer.

A bit early, but still correct. I'm not sure the final chapter has been written, even as the DOW bumps up near 11,000.
You drive cars with a manual transmission. You AIM cars with an automatic transmission.

Think about it this way, there are some people out there who have no good reason to really drive a car. They'd rather just aim. Perhaps it's the same with the IPad. Some people don't want to know how everything works, or how it's done. So long as it works and they can accomplish their goals, they'll be happy.
It's kind of pet peevee of mine, but 3D graphics could really play some role in 3D CAD stuff. But that needs better controls too. Mouse moves on your desk which is essentially 2D plane, and that makes it difficult.
That's a pretty gutsy move to leave Digg. As far as I can tell Digg is doing pretty well, Jay must have a great idea brewing.
This is probably going on longer than it merits, but...

Those aren't really good comparisons.

Perhaps you have a different version of grep than I do, but my grep only prints filenames when more than one file has been specified for searching (in which case showing which file the match is from is necessary, I'd say), and certainly doesn't print line numbers if I don't give it '-n':

[me@host: ~]% grep PATH /etc/bashrc
if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
PATH=$PATH:$1
PATH=$1:$PATH
[me@host: ~]% grep PATH /etc/bashrc /etc/profile
/etc/bashrc:	if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
/etc/bashrc:	PATH=$PATH:$1
/etc/bashrc:	PATH=$1:$PATH
/etc/profile:	if ! echo $PATH | /bin/egrep -q "(^|:)$1($|:)" ; then
/etc/profile:	PATH=$PATH:$1
/etc/profile:	PATH=$1:$PATH
/etc/profile:export PATH USER LOGNAME MAIL HOSTNAME HISTSIZE
/etc/profile:export PATH
[me@host: ~]% grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

As for du...well, frankly I'd prefer if du's output were less verbose -- a default more like 'du --max-depth=1' would be more to my liking. Compare to 'ls' vs. 'ls -R' (though I realize du does need to operate recursively regardless of whether it prints a line for everything it finds, so perhaps that's not an ideal comparison).

But the main difference here is the nature of what they're printing. In both of the above cases, the extra output text is still much more immediately relevant to the program's real task than what curl prints to stderr. For a more direct analogy, it would be like grep printing to stderr '50MB searched, 974MB remaining...' as it searches through a 1GB file.
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.

That's funny. I think it will revolutionize computing because it is a big iPod Touch.

The Touch is too small to be ideal for a lot of tasks. Yet a lot of use is made of the device's multi-touch interface. With a bigger screen, more mobile uses will reveal themselves.
Wikileaks video of apache helicopter killing dozens of people
What in the world is a manual transmission fanboy? Are you just trying to rattle the cage, here?
some good ones, but crazy boring list generally.
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Haha right on, he'd probably beat me in ( n - 1 ) moves, where n is the least number of moves required to win a game of chess. Perhaps even turn 0 :)
Personally, I just dislike the existing phone UI's for multitasking. If they can make that awesome and battery life doesn't take a nose dive, I'm all for it.
fair, but I do think there is some really interesting stuff they can do with mass aggregate data about what people are sharing at any given moment - particularly rich content - video, documents, etc.
I agree. I nearly passed on the article because of the title. "Digg CEO steps down" might have been a better title.
No, I'm saying that the choice between joining an organisation that gives you aid packages to distribute and one that gives you a rifle isn't as clear-cut as you implied. Not for the majority of people who end up joining the forces, anyway, though my view may well be coloured from having grown up in the self-styled "Home of the British Army".
My point is: is that what the person heard on the video experiences, or an association we're making as viewers based on our experience of video games?

I mean, the only experience I have that comes close to whats on that video is from playing Call of Duty 4 (which has sequences that look almost exactly like the footage).

So when I see that video, I think, wow that looks a lot like a video game I've played, and when we hear how they talk in the video, it sounds a lot like how people talk when they're playing the video game. So we make that association because it's most accurate association we can make, based on the fact that we've never actually been in combat. On top of that, the video games are designed to make us feel like we are in that position, so it makes sense that people playing those games might talk like people who actually are in that position.

I'm not sure that someone who has been in combat would make the same association. They could very well say "He's talking like a soldier in that video."
Man, that's cool, but it'd drive me crazy.
It depends on the character of the person.

Plenty of people with martial skills are amongst the most controlled that I've known. And then there are the psychos that are fascinated by violence.

Some countries are a lot more restrained when it comes to applying violence than others. Compare Switzerland and America for instance, the gun ownership in Switzerland is one of the highest in the world, yet gun related fatalities are extremely low. In the US it's a bit different...
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Also, ask your doctor about it, as medical professionals they should be able to help make sense of everything you're reading on the internet :-)
Actually, many historians argue that the practice of moving from bombing military targets to bombing cities caused Germany to lose the Battle of Britain.
Are you talking about the measured load (as part of the load average) or a general state of the machine as 'heavily loaded'?

The short answer is: it should be smaller than the number of cpu cores you have, if the sort of tasks you're running are actually using the cpu (vs just dispatching I/O, for example). A 24-core machine with load averages in their teens is still pretty responsive. Then again, considering that the right definition should specifically say that it's the number of processes in the 'Runnable' state.

It's a measurement of the CPU as a performance bottleneck. Other bottlenecks (e.g. your disk(s)) aren't covered.
Why does this keep getting deleted?
You obviously didn't read that lady gaga article. It is actually really interesting.

If this story were about wikileaks, and not about the iraq war video, I'd think it was appropriate.
> Sorry, but Ruby pretty much is Rails.

Nope. That's like saying cycling pretty much is riding around on the street on sub $200 machines just because that's what most people do with a bicycle.

To you there may be relatively little Ruby that isn't used in conjunction with Rails but that is not the same thing as saying that there is very little in an absolute sense. And surprisingly, the uses outside of Rails may be the most influential in terms of its direction and future as a language, thanks to the particular circumstances of Matz and what interests him.

To cherry-pick an example, he is loathe to work on things that would have the side-effect of slowing Ruby's startup time. This is a tradeoff that is good for long-running server applications like J2EE stacks, but bad for writing scripts.

Of course, there's JRuby which goes in the other direction. We'll see what happens with that kind of thing.
Sure the iPad is a car.

But it only travels to Apple-approved destinations.
I only mentioned my duration because the common response to "news.yc is getting worse" is "ohh, you're new. People say that a lot"

I'm not new.
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Because there is a 245 point story about this same topic on the front page already.
It made more sense when the furor over automatics was new. Now no one cares, which is kinda the point.
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Are you talking about the solder for the cap they mistakenly melted?

"Dont worry, the capacitor near the lower right corner of the Broadcom chip didn't come that way. The solder melted and it moved when we heated the steel casing to remove it."
uh, looks nice, except that ipadpeek supports flash, but the ipad does not
> You obviously didn't read that lady gaga article.

I did, or at least as far as I got in to it (the 'eye in the sky'), it has nothing to do with hacking or computers as far as I could tell, correct me if I'm wrong.

> It is actually really interesting.

I think you meant to say "I find it actually really interesting". It is not a finding of fact, but an opinion.

What some people find interesting is not what others will find interesting and vice versa.

> If this story were about wikileaks, and not about the iraq war video, I'd think it was appropriate.

It is about both I think, though clearly the contents of the video are what attracts the most attention at the moment. We already know what wikileaks is, but there is definitely a lot of stuff about wikileaks in there as well. (And not all of it good for wikileaks).