skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The lower part of that route was quite dangerous in terms of rock and ice fall, but that was mostly behind them once they reached the upper part. Crevasses don't just occur anywhere, and they were mostly on technical ground where it was a non-issue. Ridges can have cornices, but if you are paying attention, you can usually find a way to traverse the ridge in a safe place (this might be much slower/harder). Usually you use a rope on serious cornice terrain and you carefully choose how to run it so that it offers some safety, but big falls are definitely possible. They didn't have serious cornices on that route.

I do believe that Jerzy lived through that event due to his preparation/talent for handling extreme conditions and his mental focus (to keep warm when sitting in the snow all night, to not make mistakes after being out for so long). Piotrowski was no slouch, but he fell because he got sloppy. Perhaps his physiology was also somehow less robust. Note that lots of other people have died because of one night out in the same conditions, even following a comfortable tent-bound night of sleep and a day with food and water. These two were strung out from their big new route and after the second night of sitting in the snow shivering without food or water, they still broke trail up to the summit. It was after the third night out that Piotrowski finally got sloppy on the ice climbing.
What does Apple use inside their datacenters?

Any one know?
I'm guessing you're right. I was responding to the tone of "Nowadays...overenthusiastic" — in support of enthusiasm — and to the notion of naming specific current apps — which I'm imagining as the puck's current location.

We may not even be equipped to answer that question. There are a lot of web-based but private & internal corporate applications that we'll never know about, and can't hope to name.
US Sen. Joe Lieberman suggests NYT could be investigated for espionage
OK! cool! but whom do I report a bug to?

The list of states in the form doesn't change even after changing the country. And there's no "other" option too in the state field. I ended up selecting a US state even though my country is different.
How many bloggers give up on their blogs within the first month?
Although I expected very high number, I was still a bit surprised to find out that up to 8 blogs out of 10 will not survive the first month of their existence. That’s pretty bad, huh?
Your analogy doesn't quite hold: a sherpa is not an innocent bystander--they know exactly what they're getting themselves into, and they've decided they're willing to accept the same risks that the hikers take on.
We should do a retrospective to see who here gets one.
I am concerned because someone seems to have fed you a bunch of misinformation, and unfortunately we tend to believe most whatever we hear first. Technical diving is not some kind of high-risk, white-knuckle adventure. It can be safe and fun in most any reasonable environment.

Having a unified team actually increases your flexibility. When all your dive buddies have similar equipment and training then they're essentially interchangeable (within reasonable limits). Solo sport diving is always and everywhere a bad idea. You need someone to assist if you get entangled or have a serious equipment problem. Plus it's nice just to have some company and another set of eyes to spot interesting marine life. If you can't find a qualified buddy then just skip the dive; there is nothing underwater worth risking your life. There have been too many incidents of solo divers ending up dead for unexplained reasons, because there were no witnesses and no one to help.

The dive computers available today are simply not useful. The fundamental problem is that a computer can't accurately measure bubbles and dissolved gasses in your body. All they can do is run some simple, idealized models (i.e. "first assume a spherical cow") which are fairly close to what a typical person will experience during a limited range of dive profiles. For example, the models I have seen — including VPM, RGBM, and others — fail to properly account for the oxygen window during decompression and so will stretch ascent times out unnecessarily. A lot of divers lack the scientific background necessary to understand the difference between accuracy and precision. A dive computer will display highly precise numbers, but who knows whether they are accurate? Despite their limitations, the mathematical models are useful for understanding the general shape of the decompression curve across a spectrum of possible profiles. Once you understand that then you don't need a dive computer, or computed tables. No one I dive with would actually try to reference a table in the middle of a dive. If you want to waste money on an expensive dive computer then go ahead, just don't fool yourself into believing what it tells you.

Helmets are unnecessary for sport diving; don't dive in places where heavy things can fall on your head. A light on your helmet will blind your dive buddy when you look at him, plus having things stick out from your head is an entanglement hazard. Bring snorkel in your pocket if you want; it won't hurt but I've never found them useful. There's nothing wrong with bringing a bag of tools when you need them but please leave the wrecks intact so the rest of us can enjoy them, too.
> MQ lets you do the exact same thing as the interactive rebase. It's not like it forces you to go back and ensure every single patch is correct after you've qfolded some together or reordered them.

It doesn't force you, but by providing easy ways to push and pop patches it encourages it.

> And you can do the exact same thing with your git commits before pushing them, last time i checked MQ had `qpush -a` and did not force you to run your tests between two qpushs.

What's the git equivalent of `hg qrefresh`? What about when there are other commits on top of the current one?

> No you can't. Because if it's a changeset (rather than a patch in a series) then you've already qfinished it and pushed it to a public repository, and you're now rewriting public history.

In this case I meant that you don't qfinish the patches right away. You leave them as patches while you submit them to the mailing list.

You're talking about pushing to a public repository, which is different than patch bombing a mailing list. In that case the "MQ" way to do it is to push your patch repo somewhere, and other people can grab your patches that way.

It's a bit more complicated, but it does have the nice effect of giving you a "history" of a series of changesets. I don't know how you'd do that with git.

> I don't like git for a number of reasons, but this is a terrible strawman: git provides all the tools needed to ensure each and every commit is correct (whereas bazaar, for instance, doesn't. Not without untold amounts of pain anyway), and I've seen a number of blag posts and comments which recommended exactly that approach: tinker on your local branch, rewrite to your heart's content, and before you push anything to remote test each commit individually. There is nothing which prevents you from doing that, just as there is nothing that forces you to do that with mercurial.

I agree that you can do those things in git -- I'm only say that it doesn't encourage it. The existence of the index actually encourages doing it the wrong way: checking in states of code you've never tested.

No, Mercurial doesn't force you to do it right, but MQ and its qpush/qpop provide an easy way to do it the right way if you want to, and versioned patch queues makes it easy to track history of patches if you need that kind of power.
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World Community Grid Lecture Series - FightAIDS@Home
Also, South Park Cafe makes a really delicious burger for $9.
For me this was foreseeable, a guy I know bought a PowerMac G5 in 2006, an expensive high end workstation, generally this type of machine can be used for 5 to 7 years without much problems, if you upgrade the hardware it can last even longer, although you probably won't try to use it to deal with performance demanding taks, Apple slapped him in the face, he cannot even run Snow Leopard in a four years old workstation.
How much pain is your untimely death going to cause if it happens? How many everest orphans and widows are there? Include in that the considerable cost and time investment to do this when you could be creating something, exploring something that has a conceivable chance of helping humanity, or just plain investing in helping others. No, this is a hugely selfish act.

I was going to create a startup, but unfortunately I think it's just too selfish of an act. What if by giving up my cubicle I screw over my family and pets that depend on me? Can I be so selfish as to give up my livelihood, my life savings and dedicating every waking moment to making my startup succeed?

I would argue that creating a startup--much like climbing Everest--is a risky endeavor with unspeakable rewards. I am not a mountaineer, and I would never risk my life on a mountain just for the pride.

But you have to wonder, as we sit here talking about it on the Internet, do these people know how to really live in a way we haven't experienced? Maybe it's the physical exertion or the satisfaction of accomplishing one's dreams, but you can't chalk up every hardcore mountaineer (or any other deadly hobby, for that matter) as mere adrenaline junkies. The real debate here is whether or not it's worth it to risk your life in order to live it to the fullest.
Here is a simple Forth implementation in Ruby.

https://github.com/fogus/rforth
Is there some reason you expect anyone to try to prove or disprove your bald assertions? This type of reasoning is called argumentum ad ignorantiam, or argument from ignorance. When you boldly assert 'x', then provide no proof, then subsequently expect others to disprove your assertion, you expose the weakness of your own argument.

It is not our responsibility to prove or disprove your assertions. If you have enlightening information to share with the class which you can cite, then please, by all means do. Otherwise, get thee gone.
I thought most Xserves were sold to be used in media situations, i.e. running final cut asset sharing systems and render farms for compositing etc etc. The film industry will surely be pissed? Then again, just ask all the people who were devoted Shake users
"The requested URL /java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.htmlhttp://skife.org/java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.html was not found on this server."
I don't really like the project grouping. A developer can work on multiple 'projects' on the same day and you don't want to have to look for them on Project A and Project B to get their latest update.

Maybe add a Team layer to the mix. A user can belong to multiple teams. You can have a Dev team and an IT team. Then an overall Tech team which includes everyone in Dev and IT. Then update the dashboard to allow you to view by Team or Project.

You'd have to work out a good way of explaining/displaying this to users.

Additionally, it'd be great to see the last 2 updates underneath each person. Or maybe on the team view list all updates under each person for the same day (otherwise show last 3).

This it personal preference, but adding different views to the dashboard would be pretty simple and would help sell me on this for my use.

Lastly, I don't know how well the pricing model works by limiting to a certain number of projects. To me, users is a more important grouping and I would do pricing based on that.
Say many Slowloris clients attack at once. There reaches a point where threads are much less free than events. Newer concurrency systems will handle thousands or millions of lightweight processes without firing up large numbers of native threads, and there's a reason for that design decision.
Outside of the US, helium is seriously expensive. I was figuring dual rebreathers, or rebreather + OC bailout. $800 in gas alone for a 100m training dive for TDI Adv Nitrox, open circuit.

It has been almost a decade since my Adv Nitrox course, but I am trying to figure this one out. You are not doing trimix and from what I remember of the the course spec you are mostly working around bottom mixes that are hypoxic at the surface and dealing with a ceiling on the dive profile. Even with the bottom mix in dual cylinders on my back, a descent/ascent mix on once side an a 50% mix for the last few stops on the other side I can't see how you were getting charged $800 for the mix unless you were getting completely hosed on everything that was not a standard 32 or 36 recreational nitrox mix.

OTOH you are completely correct about it being a deceptively expensive hobby, even if you take the "cheaper" route and go with semi-closed rebreathers or even OC.
Cool. A Greasemonkey script would also be useful.
Hydrox might see some limited use for deep commercial diving (there have already been limited experiments) but it will never be rated safe for sport diving. The explosion risk at tank fill stations is ridiculous.
Cyber-Activists Launch DDoS Attacks on Payment Providers in Defense of WikiLeaks
Two fascinating languages in the same blog post. Excellent reading.
Interview w/ Yegge, Torvalds, Thomas, Heinemeier, Norvig, Gosling, Guido, Bray
Fred Destin jokes & thoughtfulness about venture capitalists
This is a pretty good point. Russell Brice, the owner of one of the largest Everest companies and the main person in Discovery's Everest series, has never had a client die on one of his expeditions, and he's had something like 200 people climb with him.

He's able to be so successful because he makes sure his climbers are adequately prepared, and he doesn't allow people to climb who he doesn't think are fit enough. It seems like (at least from the Discovery series) that many of the people who die are hiking on their own, without the help of one of the successful companies, so when something goes wrong, they don't have a support network to help them.
Thanks! I was trying to be funny but also call attention to the extremes of climbing.
It always felt to me like Apple was targeting small shops and departmental servers. I've never heard of anyone having a real xserve datacenter, but I've heard of tons of companies running on xserves for infrastructure.
Nothing in this article is wrong -- but raising that healthy Series A at the prototype stage requires a track record most of us don't have.

Any first-time entrepreneur who reads this and decides to forego today's very-entrepreneur-friendly angel environment to try and raise a Series A instead is doing themselves a disservice.
Retractions of the year
I've tried applying from Poland without any error messages appearing at least.

It's rather confusing though; why have a country drop-down if it's only open to US residents?
I definitely like the idea of being able to have more control over how websites use my information. Doesn't Firefox 3 have a feature like this already? Or am I thinking of something else?
Storing XML post source with Drupal
A Smart Phone For Every Soldier
NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 570 GPU, As Fast As GTX 480 For $100 Less
"...performance of JavaScript property accesses, arithmetic operations, tight loops..."

Does this mean Crankshaft includes a tracing JIT like Firefox? This layman speak confuses me.
I always wanted to have an HN store. We have a community but we don't have a market place.
I always wanted to learn Forth, as there was a Forth compiler available on the Commodore Vic-20. Thanks for the reminder and the link. :-)
The problem is that nobody effectively owns Tuna.
Google and Apple benefit from the volume of sales of apps through their "app" stores. By supporting a standard (and helping it be a good one, not one that has many proprietary interpretations), they can help extend the reach of apps, reduce development cost/time of app developers, and possibly increasing the volume of apps that get sold through their stores.
Original poster here ... sorry the page still shows 'coming soon' ... the URL was published in Google's presentation, and they said it should be live "momentarily".

They're currently finishing up the Q&A, maybe they'll take off the 'coming soon' label when it's done.
This is so distressing, it really is the return of desktop apps. So much for all the progress we've made, it feels like we're going backwards 10 years. I've been meaning to write a blog post on this for over a year now, maybe this will motivate me.
That was a great idea to put a "search" key in place of a caps lock key. I search all the time, and haven't (intentionally) used caps lock once my entire life.
Haha, I wonder how many notebooks will be listed as going to Alabama (first alphabetically)?
Link in title is broken, is missing the http://

Use

http://skife.org/java/jcp/2010/12/07/the-tck-trap.html

-Brian
"The Pilot program is open to individuals, businesses, schools, non-profits and developers based in the United States."
Show HN: Better Local Info for Parents
ParkGrades (www.parkgrades.com), my new start up, aims to provide one-stop local discovery for parents, beginning with parks, playgrounds, museums, and beaches.

Focus "starter" cities are Austin, Tucson, and Phoenix, but we have data for places across the country (via GeoNames).

I am not a real hacker (the site was built with Drupal), but I love the HN community and I'd appreciate any and all feedback. This is my first start-up.
Thanks for pointing out my brainfart, I've edited it. As a thankyou, here's the Forth I used as a kid: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0008178

ISTR it was a FIG-Forth implementation, but I haven't used it in over 20 years (wow, that feels old) so I might be wrong.
> No hard drives, no spinning discs and a built in jail breaking mode make this Chrome notebook every geek’s dream machine.

"built in Jail breaking mode" - a funny way of saying no jail.
Also posted on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1979526

No comments there though...
The chinese are going nuts these days. They are desperate for the "final" advantage.
You can raise a priced seed round with a lead investor without going to an A.

You can raise a convertible note with a lead investor as well.

The article is a BIT confusing.
In Google's presentation, they said there are 120 million active Chrome users. Not just downloads, but people who use Chrome regularly.

In some countries Chrome now has more than 25% market share.

That audience could make the Chrome Web Store the biggest app store on the planet.

All the apps are built using web technologies like Javascript, HTML5 and Flash.
But isn't it true that most start-ups can't raise more than $1 million without a proven track record or traction?

Doesn't the angel round buy the company time to get either a higher fidelity prototype or actually launch the business and get some traction before going for the bigger Series A?
Jessica Mah reminds me of Christy Jones who started Trilogy. Go Jessica!

http://www.ladieswholaunch.com/magazine/christy-jones/1006

http://www.girlgeeks.org/innergeek/inspiringwomen/jones.shtm...
My opinion might be biased because I'm working on drag and drop z-index issues in IE7 today (which are a NIGHTMARE), but given IE's track record of "being different" I think this will be half-baked and full of bugs and inconsistencies.

I fully expect to get support calls from people who opted into this privacy control setting and are wondering why things (more likely phrased as "your web site") aren't working right.
Using a framework is a hard and fast rule for a custom web app? I disagree.
Thats essentially what Node.js is, although with a heavy focus on asynchronous operation.

Check out: https://www.cloudkick.com/blog/2010/aug/23/writing-nodejs-na...
Google's "Chromercial" includes SlapChop and Shake Weights
They definitely need a list. I'm generalizing a quick'n'dirty watcher[1] I made for jsconf.us 2011 to check a list of URLs, which is fun in a geeky way, but it's also lame I have to resort to that.

[1] https://gist.github.com/726642
Ask HN: Unlocked Nexus S and T-mobile
I want to buy the Nexus S phone unlocked, but from what I can tell the only carrier that this works on is T-Mobile. If this is the case, then assuming I don't travel outside the country, what is the purpose of buying it unlocked as opposed to subsidized from T-Mobile?

I do not have any friends on T-Mobile, so I am unsure what quality of service I get in the area that I will be moving to in a few weeks (outskirts of Atlanta, Ga). I am afraid if I buy the Nexus S, even if I get month to month service, cancelling won't do me any good... because the phone is no good on another service.

Is there a way to know if T-Mobile will work for me, and what has peoples' service been like in other parts of the country (I do travel sometimes)?
You said we should be thankful for what you have. That implied disagreement with the criticism of the US govt for this hypocritical stance. I suggest starting the post with something along the lines of "I agree that this stance is hypocritical, but ..." if you want to avoid conveying disagreement. It's less concise, but it gets the message across correctly!
Sure. But they why let the user select a country? Right now, the form lets you enter "123 Maple St, New York City, New York, Russia".

What?
I think a smart "founder" saves his Porsche buying until after the company is actually profitable.

A $50k salary for a founder is about the limit until the company is actually raking in some dough, unless the goal is to feel important and drive that sucker into the ground.
It wasn't this by any chance? http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/vic20/roms/tools/8k/V...

You should be able to load this into VICE (http://www.viceteam.org/) and start hacking away. Hope this helps.
US Falls in World Education Rankings - 14th - "Average"
How to help API providers?
Jesus - Annapurna is absolutely brutal, almost a 50% death rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander
"Waitlessness means never having to wait for the the web. "

Seriously, Google?
The context is more generally that a lot of companies are doing the 500-750 now and will all be raising again at the same time mid next-year. Which means many of them are going to fail to raise simply because of the timing.
An amazing tale of broadband latency and congestion
For a real mind blowing experience, you should also read _Thinking Forth_ (http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/) also by the same author. It was one of two books that radically changed how I write programs (the other one being _Writing Solid Code_).
They shouldn't put a "country" field on their form if its only open to the USA. Highly disappointing.
US Falls In Education - "Average"
I thought about putting news.yc in my little comment box but I decided against it.
Interesting, though I was a bit taken aback that it turned into an ad for Keynote around slide 60. Not that it doesn't have merit, just made me raise an eyebrow.
Apple announced the PPC -> Intel transition in June of of 2005, and the first Intel macs were release January 2006:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple–Intel_transition

The writing was on the wall for anyone looking to keep a machine for a long time.
It runs web-based applications, not legacy PC software

When did PC software become legacy?
It is possible to monetize the chrome applications using ads? I am looking in the terms of use, but I dont find anything against it.
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SME Server: Simple. Mature. Enterprise.
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50k is often not survivable. Especially in SV, where everything is expensive.

I agree that if it is possible you should do that. I'm drawing zero salary right now myself.

But more importantly - strong talent is expensive.
Sure, my point is the bug is that the country field is selectable, not that it requires a state.
Cloud Print should be live in Chrome version 9.0.597.1 and newer. You'll need to be on the Chrome 'dev' channel (not beta or stable).

Go to 'Preferences' (or 'Options' if you're on Windows), click on 'Under the Hood', and scroll to the bottom of the dialog to enable Cloud Print and print a test page.