skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a few videos I've seen recently -- I've also just been trekking in the Everest region and watched and read a lot before going -- that do an amazing job of conveying that summit-fever attitude.

The one that most sticks in my mind is this talk on K2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA
It's an hour long, but I highly recommend it.

There was an incredible documentary, which you can probably find online, called "Doctors in the Death Zone" which followed a team of doctors studying the effects of altitude on themselves as they attempted Everest. There's some pretty horrific footage of a team they encounter along the way watching their companion, in obvious distress, drunkenly attempt to reach their position, while they just wait.

Lastly, this talk from TEDMed is by the only doctor on Everest during the 1996 disaster, and it's both a great depiction of the main route, and a frightening reminder of just how dangerous it still is up there despite the number of summits and knowledge of the route these days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSidnKdH5_4
The great thing about HN: there's so many good submissions. Don't like what's on the front page? Check out a page or two after it, or put a feed on new submissions. You don't have to read the stories and comment threads about Wikileaks, you know. And when you get more karma, you can even start flagging things! (I don't know the karma threshold.)
http://rixstep.com/1/20101202,01.shtml

Is this correct?
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One very on-topic part of this wikileaks saga is Amazon and PayPal's reactions. If you are running your start up on them, you have to be careful now.
It's not about the money, it's about the numbers
Probability theory looks to be one of the harder areas in math to get anywhere with by just being smart, as opposed to studying it. Plenty of professional mathematicians, including Paul Erdös who was pretty smart about math stuff, got the Monty Hall problem wrong when they first encountered it, for example.
Regulatory compliance hogs security pros' attention
Driving in winter - what you should know?
In order to minimize accident risk, drivers need to fully adapt their driving to the different conditions. Extremes of temperature (even those experienced in the UK) will soon show up any deficiencies both in your vehicle and in your skill as a driver.
He's Australian - I can't see how he could be extradited to the US for treason.

[Edit: On second thoughts I think I'm expecting a bit too much rational behavior from our legal system, they'd probably extradite him if he was accused of shooting Abraham Lincoln]
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I don't think so, low dose aspirin has little effect on inflammation.

Aspirin (ASA)is special WRT NSAID, in that it inhibits the Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) enzymes irreversibly.

COX are a family of enzymes that transform arachidonic acid to various inflamatory mediators called the prostaoids (comprising prostaglandins, prostacyclin and thromboxanes). There are two subtypes, present in different tissues, but since ASA inhibits both kinds.

Platelets contain COX and uses it produce Thromoxane A2, a potent vasoconstrictor and platelet activator. Since platelets don't have a nucleus, the effect inhibitory effect is permanent in them. New platelets have to be produced in order to restore a normal clotting activity. Since the platelet have an half life of more than a week, the effect is long lasting.

Other cells can synthesize COX as needed. Low dose aspirin has thus little effect on them. You need a much higher dose to get a clinically noticeable anti-inflamatory response.

In blood vessels, activated platelets use COX to synthesize Thromoxane A2 (TXA). TXA further promotes vasoconstriction, platelet activation and aggregation, leading to the formation of a blood clot [1].

On the other hand, endothelial cells (the inner layer of blood vessels) use COX to synthesize a prostaglandin (PGI2), which antagonizes TXA (vasodilatation, platelet inhibition).

ASA disrupts the TXA2/PGI2 equilibrium in favor of PGI2, inhibiting platelet activation.

Other NSAID also have an anti-aggregation activity, but it is far more short lived, and requires anti-inflammatory doses to do so.

That said, I can't prove that a chronic, subclinical anti-inflammatory effect isn't at play here too.

EDIT:

A Google scholar search confirms that TXA2 is involved in carcinogenesis [2-3].

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[1] Such a clot is fragile. It is then stabilized by the coagulation process: the irreversible binding of fibrinogen into a fibrine mesh.

[2] http://scholar.google.be/scholar?hl=nl&q=pgi2+neoplasm&#...

[3] http://scholar.google.be/scholar?hl=nl&q=txa2+neoplasm&#...
They decided it was a problem when they figured out he'd pulled the same bullshit with both of them!
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Your explanation can also be reflected on this comment from the post: We've nearly quadrupled our engineering team this month alone

Without more information, this can either make people trust more tumbler in the future (we went from 3 to 12 engineers) or less (we went from 200 to 800). I'd worry in the later case, because it might show that Tumblr is not aware of Brook's law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law), which is always unreassuring for me.
establish a connection with nature that you can't get from simply running a marathon

That's bullshit talk. What does that even mean?

I think mental illness is much more appropriate, because you can "connect with" nature just as well by climbing smaller mountains. No, these people are attracted to Everest specifically because it's so extraordinarily difficult there's a 2% chance they won't come off it alive, or possibly lose body parts.

There's something wrong with you if you're willing to risk your life that easily.
How long before Google Maps subsumes Google Earth? The browser is capable of incredible things.
Actually, we were testing it checked on or checked off by default, too. I don't remember the details, but the conversion rate drop was from combining both of those flavors.
That link is to the Time 100, from April 2010. Julian Assange is still a candidate for Time's 2010 Person of the Year: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2... And he's still in first in the online poll: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2...
That's why i pointed this place , i think it's a great idea.
Cause it's funny read things like this:
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/US-Government-Works-...
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2228062
It's important that Microsoft gets out of this crisis ASAP.
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What evidence is there of skillful people helping out? All I see is total technical incompetence: https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikil...

Wikileaks: It's not a wiki, and you can't leak anything through it
Don't shoot the messenger for telling the truth
"How I Met Your Girlfriend" - using Google Street View data to stalk victims
Logarithms, Tables, and Babylonians
re: "computer genius"

"Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede; not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people cannot count above fourteen"

- http://lesswrong.com/lw/10o/rationality_quotes_june_2009/
Climbing has the benefit of making you look good.
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In France, a box of 20x1g pills is around 3 euros, so you can get 1g per day at 4.5€ per month (~0,15€ per day).

I find this rather cheap personally.
1) I think people really overestimate the effort required to learn a new language. When I've changed projects in the past, learning the language was much easier than learning the codebase and project/business requirements.

If I was assembling a team of Java programmers today, I'd prefer to hire an excellent Python developer than an average Java developer * . A great programmer can learn a language faster than an average programmer can become a great programmer. The great programmer could be reasonably productive with Java after two weeks, but an average programmer is unlikely to improve their problem solving skills, or their ability to cleanly structure large programs after the same period of time.

* Feel free to replace 'Java' and 'Python' with any two languages within the same paradigm. I don't mean to pick on Java as a language.

2) In the article he's ignoring many advantages that smaller languages have going for them:

- Much, much higher signal-to-noise ratio when hiring: The people who currently know Scala or Haskell learnt it because they love to program – they sure as hell didn't learn them to land a job. You can't say the same about Java, C# or PHP.

- You may make your company more attractive to the best developers: A company advertising for work in Java sounds very average (and a place to work for pointy-haired bosses). It will have to work a lot harder to stand out from the crowd. A company sounds interesting if it uses interesting languages.

- Great programmers will usually prefer to work with languages they are passionate about.

- Great programmers like working with other great programmers. I can assume I'm working with better programmers when joining a Scala team than a Java team. When hiring, you have to work harder to convince me you're good if you are a Java team.

- If you only hire great programmers, you can have smaller teams: ie, you don't actually need to hire as many programmers.

- And, of course, it ignores whether these languages may be more productive to work in.
Presumably that's a rhetorical question and you're actually trying to say 'I believe this is engineered by the CIA and is directly connected with cablegate'.

To which I'd answer, I'm not assuming anything since there is currently an absence of factual information on the subject. Certainly not enough to make such a specific claim.
Hopefully cosmological kludges like dark matter will fall by the wayside as better observational data is utilized.

Here's a start: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101201134158.ht...

With triple the number of stars in the universe the balance between baryonic matter and unicorn dark matter becomes more like 60/40 with the aesthetically painful dark matter on the short side.
Apple vs. HP, a difference in hardware design
Most will be able to pay it but it is still obscenely expensive compared to what you pay elsewhere for completely stupid reasons.
Looks really promising but, does $10/100,000 records and $10/150,000 transactions seem high to anyone else?

On the plus side, it is meant to work really well with Ruby's ActiveRecord library.

I need to try it out :-)
Up to a point, after which one's also at greater risk from various brain diseases.
>When your startup is terminted on PayPal or AWS on dubious ground, come back and leave a comment.

If that was what this post was about then you'd have a point. Wikileaks and Assange's private life are almost entirely orthogonal IMO.
I doubt it - the benefit comes in the fact that IM's happen in real time but are saved for anyone not online. Forwarding it through SMS and email just wouldn't do, I think. If no one had heard of Google Wave, I think they'd be just as scared to start getting lots of emails 'through' it, and no one would actually use the functionality it offers.
You're assuming there will be "justice." You know what they say about assumptions...
Looks like we killed the server - mirror?
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Honestly, I don't think this approach would work at all. Taking for example myself (which is a bit of a debating faux pas, but whatever):

If I see some software that I think would be useful, but don't have €14.99 to spend on it, I'll download it and google for a cracked serial number. Easy-peasy. I then copy-paste the number. I hit return enough times to get to the main window of the software. I use the software. If I use the software an awful lot - say more than once a week - my own guilt will start to hit me, and I'll pay for it - perhaps more than they ask, if the option is available.

Notice the part where I said "hit return enough times to get to the main window of the software". Pirates don't give a shit about the developers. If they did, they'd pay for the software in the first place. Furthermore, by the time anyone reads that guilt-trip paragraph, the decision has already been made to pirate the app, and all it takes is for me to hit return, and hey presto, no more guilt-tripping. This is why very few pay for software like winzip (or is it winrar? You know the one, anyway). By the time you hit the "You should pay for this software!", you don't care anymore, and it takes no more than a keypress or mouseclick until it's gone.

Disclaimer: I'm a pillar of society who wouldn't pirate something if a gun was to my head, and all situations described above are purely hypothetical.
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EC2's API is awful, inconsistent, and the subject of the article.
If I take the high-profile “rape” trials I know about as a guide (mere allegations, scant or no evidence, a hungry press and tons of lawyers) this could take a long, long while with much opportunity for Assange to say whatever he wants and a lot of pressure for all involved parties. It’s not as though Sweden can lock him up and throw away the keys. He is relatively safe in British or Swedish custody, if anything were to happen to him the respective governments would get massive problems and there would be no plausible deniability.
Quote - "In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks today reinforces the need to defend the right of all media to reveal the truth."
Yes, because when you don't play by the standard rules, it's hard to find others to play with you. Cache servers are just one example. Another example: web browsers. Note that web browsers are still useful against REST services, even if they don't have good support for PUT or DELETE.

In general, REST provides discoverability and interoperability that you don't get without a uniform interface.
But of course there does! Why, you need legal ground to issue an arrest warra.... Oh wait - now I see your point....
high probability of government organized cheating
it's China and national pride justifies everything
Sorry, but design looks so ugly and unproffesional. It's not encouraging to try the service.
I have had experience of a couple of HP laptops and an HP mini-tower PC. HP follows best practices. Apple relies on good design.
Another difference: HP doesn't directly work with manufacturers on a lot of their hardware, instead opting to rebadge/rebrand products that also exist under other companies' names. Many low-end HP printers were made by Samsung.
Money should not be the ultimate objective

Why not?
Causality runs in reverse: To be noticed on a motorcycle, move forward. The CHP bikers get taught to move slightly faster than surrounding traffic; it makes you more visible.
Cloud Computing Risks Demonstrated By Wikileaks Experience
I think the plan is fairly simple: to clear his name by showing these absurd trumped-up charges for what they are, the machiavellian machinations of the US via a disturbingly compliant Swedish legal system.

I'm sorry, but there is simply _nothing_ he could ever say to them that would make those charges go away. How is the name clearing supposed to happen?
Can you elaborate? I can't see what is you point here.
I understand your point about the difference between places etc.

But locally, calling 4.5€ per month "obscenely expensive" is really far-stretched. One baguette cost 1€ here (~ 30€ per month).
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Thank you, it's nice to have another member in the REST sanity brigade: http://searchyc.com/comments/%252Brest+hypertext
Can someone put this on slideshare? I'm in Indonesia and my internet is dialup slow. Thanks.
You make two points:

* "freedom of information should end where it endangers...people's lives"
* "expose the wrong, not the mundane"

Forgive me if I'm just being naive, but: wouldn't exposing the wrong be way, way more likely to endanger people's lives? And, contrariwise, if this is all information everyone already knew -- why is anyone's life in danger from everyone being told about it?
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AMIGA game publisher "Thalion" once said "We're going to release this game without copy protection. If you pirate it, we'll go out of business, so please be honest."

They went out of business.

http://www.illusionware.it/commodore/lionheart.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalion_Software

btw: whats with this url.. original url: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/12/18/how-to-guilt-trip-s...
Some quotes:

"Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the tops of mountains, but to improve the man." - Walter Bonatti

"When I rest I feel utterly lifeless except that my throat burns when I draw breath...I can scarcely go on. No despair, no happiness, no anxiety. I have not lost the mastery of my feelings, there are actually no more feelings. I consist only of will." - Messner on the first solo ascent of Everest

I have never been to Everest (would like to one day), but I climb 14ers in CO all the time. Climbing at high altitude is simply the hardest thing I've ever done from a mental, physical, and emotional standpoint. Once I started climbing everything else in life just seemed easier.
"In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act" G. Orwell

I find the calls to get him assassinated or kidnap his son simply appalling.
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As much as I dislike .NET in general (there are some excellent parts) and doing large enterprisey development, I think C# is an excellent language that is only getting better. C# started out as a clone of Java, but it seems to be what Java could have been if it had evolved more rapidly.

If you're concerned about concurrency support, there are new features in .NET 4.0 that I find pretty impressive and nice to use.

That said, I don't know if the story for developing C# applications on Mono is as solid as Visual Studio.
I'm designing a RESTful api at the moment and using get, post, put, and delete to represent select, insert, update, and delete gives users a clear pattern when new features are added. Right now say there are just photos in my app. Post json or XML to /photos to create a new one, put to /photos/123/ to update. Now I announce that I'm adding videos. The pattern is exactly the same, the URL is just / videos. But I suppose you're right, I could achieve the same effect with ?object=video&action=createNew, but why make users learn a new vocabulary?
I'm enthralled by the world's obsession with this man. Sure, I get that some people like that he plays reluctant hero up against the "evil" US, but come on. The guy is charged with sexual assault. If there's any chance he did it, then he should go to trial. Why would we treat him any differently than other criminals?

If there was no misconduct, then we will find out, and the charges will be dropped.
rory, you got so hung up on my reference to drug that you decided to ignore the point. The paragraph "Like, I'm uncertain if he's saying..." neither of those summaries were what I was saying. I re-read the article twice to see if I was mis-stating something that made it sound how you described it and I couldn't see it... let me know if I missed something. It sounded to me like you saw "drug use" and "bad" in the same article and personalized the entire thing into an attack against you and "your favorite people" -- that's not what the article is about.

The article points out how people chase happiness with easily accessible things; sometimes unhealthy things.

I was looking at human behavior regarding over-eating highly satiating foods to quickly and easily compensate for unhappiness as an indicator that if we readily provide mechanism for even higher happiness boosts (assuming there weren't the stigma there is now around drugs) a good majority of people would likely use it.

No where in the article did I comment on recreational use. The entire article was about ABUSE.

From your closing paragraph, it sounded like you were talking about people using Ayahuasca/Peyote/LSD/whatever to gain moments of total clarity and shut off the mind. I think there are likely huge, legit benefits to these types of practices, but that isn't what I was talking about.

Just like I wasn't saying that anyone that eats fastfood should be ashamed of themselves and are lesser people.

I wrote an article about people's tendency to abuse substances to make themselves feel happy in a fast-paced world where we can't all sit on mountain tops and think. In that world, I think it's CAN BE dangerous to a large majority of people to have easy access to destructive things that make them feel happy that they might abuse.

Again, I am not denouncing "drug users" as lesser humans. You could replace the word "drugs" in the article with "fast food" or "compulsive shopping" or "illegal street racing" --- the point is still the same.
"Software, after all, affects almost everything we do. Pick any major problem—global warming, health care, or, in Finnegan’s case, highway safety—and clever software is part of the solution."

what? global warming?

A simple reason why people should learn to code os because then they get independent, they don't need to work that much, machines will do.
My personal rule is that if it's cold enough that I'm tempted to put a shirt on, it's too close to mountaineering and it's time to move south.

That's funny. My friends and family think I'm crazy as I research all the things required to do a winter time 14er summit attempt. I'll probably spend this winter practicing my back country skills in general and then next winter plan the hike.
China pressures countries to boycott Nobel ceremony honoring Chinese dissident
Is there a way I can use this to replace Unison, which I lean heavily on but am unhappy with?

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/
I took 100 milligrams a day for prophylactic purposes for about 5 years. It caused severe gastritis, to the extent that I had to go to hospital last year. Since having to discontinue taking it for a medical procedure, I discovered that my stomach is much better and have never taken a single pill since.
I think it’s mostly a problem with how Hacker News works and that, to a certain extent, there is no way around it. I would think that a detailed 10,000 word article about recent Wikileaks developments every three months or so with an accompanying extensive discussion would be entirely appropriate. Not too much and not too little. The problem is that social news sites don’t have that kind of foresight.

That’s why we so often end up with this uncomfortable decision between accepting a topic and the accompanying occasional article avalanches or locking out a topic completely, neither of which seems entirely appropriate Wikileaks on Hacker News.
Just reframe the question. Rather than assuming that what we need is a standardized VM, instead assume that what we need is a standardized IR (Intermediate Representation). It solves the same problem, makes LLVM-IR a viable alternative, and leaves the world free to make multiple, interoperable implementations rather than one monolithic implementation.