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The article does not judge; in fact it says:

whatever the preparation and outlandish cost, perhaps it's not simply ruthless determination that makes someone abandon their team mates, and yet still have the energy to summit. In such alien conditions, utterly hostile to human life, climbers might face their own mortality. Under the spectre of pure, unadulterated fear, they must realize that they are beyond help as well as beyond helping anyone else.

If they don't, they fall among those who never leave, abandoned on Everest.
Wow, this article is seriously fucked up.

"Fuck you" is a brilliant song, a social media phenomenon, and this absolutely shit article is clearly written by a fucktard and has no place on a site like HN. In fact, I don't know why I'm commenting on this shit. I should just fucking flag it.
It's interesting, I know a few early twenties startup founders (plus just a lot of college aged people) and very few have the arrogance that you claim to have had. In fact most follow the majority of your advice without having read your post, although that doesn't make it any less valid.

But what I'm really trying to ask, is I'm wondering if in ten years the maturity of the average young founder has changed. Are the people who start tech startups at 21 a different type of people than those who started them in the previous bubble? What changed? Where did the arrogance go? Or am I just hanging out with the wrong crowd?
What do they use the data for?
On the evidence of a single coin toss
Will Apple design their new campus to be a landmark piece of public art?
Well, don't buy it with a contract then.
Why does it has to be 8.8km?

Because it's there.
Interesting. Do you have a source on that? Is it not something that software can fix? I think my N1 suffers from this bug and I'd like to know.
Space is inherently dangerous, but since it's so high visibility (and funded by deep pockets), they can use technology to reduce the risk below most activities. I think they go too far in reducing the risk -- I'd accept a 10% fatality rate for important space missions if everyone was a volunteer, if it improved the rate of progress.

We know how to do diving in worse environments than caves relatively safely -- commercial and naval (Naval diving is working on docks and repairs for the Navy in peacetime vs. military diving, which is the kind of dangerous combat/commando/infiltration/specops missions done by SEALs and UDTs, etc.) diving to 500m is actually relatively safe as a career. This often takes place in HAZMAT environments, zero visibility, etc.

The issue is that recreational/"technical" divers are doing it with much less equipment, and vastly less support staff. A commercial diver has a $3-5mm recompression chamber waiting above, a safety diver ready to splash in, dive medics or medical officers, a dedicated support ship, unlimited surface-supplied gas, heated water in the cold, wired communications, etc. Recreational divers have what they can carry and personally afford to buy.
Irony. Their site is not usable on mobile devices. On my iPad I see a picture of carpet squares.
With the amount of precaution they take for space exploration, I'd think a lot of things are more dangerous, fatality-wise, than space exploration.
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Not true. The VM is very important. The consistent & unified memory model is why Java can do synchronising, threading, garbage collection efficiently, cross platform and consistently.

Also, HotSpot is really important. Java is an acceptable systems language at 80-110% the efficiency of C. It's not at 50% or less.
GPLv2 gives an implicit grant. You cannot distribute your code under GPLv2 unless you can ensure the user has full right to use and redistribute your code.

Section 6 says "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein."

Section 7 says "if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program."

The scope may be different under different laws (that's one of the reasons GPLv3 makes it explicit) but it's pretty much reasonable to assume Oracle would rather not test it on court.
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I don't think that sounds ridiculous.
I'm not sure why everyone is down-modding you. Pooping in an 8" hole and climbing to 19,850 feet seems like a pretty good summary of the experience.

Edit: I might actually use that as my short summary of the trip.
You can't really compare Java with C++ directly. All they have in common is the syntax style. Java was designed to be C++ programmer friendly, but it shares a lot more with Smalltalk than with C++.
This points to the necessity of a data storage solution which doesn't involve waiting for hours upon hours for the caches to warm in order for your service to be reliable.
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You can't do sophisticated GC in C. The memory model of the JVM is important - it knows what is a pointer and what is data, which is important for efficient GC.
Mobilicity and (in Quebec) Videotron run on the same band as Wind, so should be on this list as well.
I am just a recreational climber but my motivation is a mix of overcoming myself and enjoying beauty of nature.

The challenge in climbing is very real (not that dissimilar to startup) - you have to plan ahead, check conditions, execute well and know when to bail out. Sometimes I say that climbing is the real thing and business is just for fun - when you screw in business you probably won't die. But noone wants to die in the mountains either.

The beautiful thing about mountains is that it does not matter who you are back in civil life. There is no difference if you have fame or money back home. It is up to your skill, training and determination.

And of course when getting to mountain by yourself the connection and enjoyment is much better than by cable car.

Great article on types of experiences by climbers: http://kellycordes.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-fun-scale/
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While the situation is far from perfect, I am at least happy that actual progress is made, as we have a release date for JDK7 and respective JSRs at last.

Regarding the "premium JDK", I dont mind Oracle charging companies like investment banks extra bucks for additional JRockit-features (Monitoring, etc) that the open source community never actually had free access to anyway. There are so many Oracle products that heavily depend on Java, that it does make no sense for them to hurt Java. If they destroy Java, they destroy part of their income, which I just dont see happening. Although the geekish OSS-nature of Sun's stewardship is gone, things could be by far worse for the Java ecosystem.

Speaking from our situation, I dont see us switching to .NET any time soon. Although it is a great platform especially with the recent developments on C#, for us it is just not cost-effective to buy new Windows Server, SQL Server, etc licenses for every new non-trivial project. It is just far easier and cheaper to build a new Debian-machine on our VMWare cloud and apt-get whatever we need.
How about just running a marathon instead?

How about just taking whatever drugs are necessary to stimulate the same neurotransmitter production?
If course you can. But you will have to write a memory manager for that and make the compiler keep track of what your pointers point to. I don't know enough about Vala to say it's not desirable given its syntax and what it assumes about the memory management the program does, but it's not impossible.

It may be a whole lot of work.
Can you elaborate a bit on why you'd see people wanting to do this? I mean, I understand that mountain climbing affords a nice view, and I understand that it's a feat that you can tell people about, but I can't imagine being willing to take a risk as large as Mt. Everest for those reasons.
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Oof, I don't think the fatality rate on SEALs is public, but trust me, it's not good.
Hmmm... One pain point for me is developing with Django there's relatively few starting points for django templates. I don't know if you've ever heard about Ruby on Rails' scaffolding, but Django has 80% of the equivalent in it's generic views. However there's no generic view CRUD templates on the net. I'm sure it's the same for other templating languages as well.

Likewise a decent set of web app HTML, CSS and Jquery templates for dashboards, user interface paradigms to use as a starting point would be useful. I realise every app is different but when you're starting from scratch it's nice to have something to work with, even if it's just that initial iteration. What do you think?
Despite being an experienced Java programmer I found the scientific computation section really useful at bridging the gap between math formulas and working algorithms. Very concise explanations and example code included.
http://www.amazon.com/Eiger-Dreams-Ventures-Among-Mountains/...
Your clarification helped me to understand your comment. However, I don't think what you describe is unique to startups in any way. Any industry or business can be described with those terms. In fact, it's probably more apt of a description of public companies, which frequently state their purpose it to maximize shareholder value.

With startups, in fact, failure or "leaving someone behind" is probably less traumatic, because failure is accepted and often valued as part of improving. While the company may be left on the wayside, the people will most likely be back again with a new company soon after.

Traumatic isn't really the right word, but you get what I mean.
It is probably because it is not really a good summary of the poster's experience. It also has a hint of being mildly disrespectful of the difficulties of really climbing to 20k feet by not acknowledging the experience in totality and merely highlighting 'pooping'. If it was not a jab, it atleast sounded like one.

I've never made it to 20K, infact the highest I've reached is 15k feet being a non-professional climber and it is hard to do justice of the difficulty of every step after 12k. From the difficulty in breathing to not being able to sit for anything more than 30 seconds, it is really a testament to the strength of the climbers who make it to 20k and above like the OP.
While I think the grandparent comment could be considered disrespectful, note that the commenter I'm replying to is the original poster in this thread, i.e. the guy that actually climbed the mountain (and, apparently, pooped in an 8" hole).

So please don't downvote too much.
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I'm the author and it would be fair to say that removing the IP from the Spamhaus blacklist had the biggest effect, although certain accounts (especially Yahoo) required different measures.
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Naval diving is Navy or Coast Guard (or Army underwater construction) diving done by hard hat divers to repair ships, salvage, do dock maintenance, etc. It is not "all diving done by Navy personnel". They're ND ratings, and while technically part of Naval Special operations, not SEALs. There are probably some special missions where Naval divers have done something special opsy (tapping undersea cables, or salvaging a foreign nation's warship without their knowledge or consent), but it's not routine. Naval diving techniques are basically adapted commercial techniques, and in a lot of cases are more conservative and safer than what cheap commercial contractors use.

SEALs are probably never qualified Naval divers, unless they start out as Naval divers and then switch to SEALs.

What SEALS do -- Combat diving, combat swimming, etc. is called "military diving". That tends to be dangerous, although not as much due to the diving aspects (it's a lot of oxygen or other rebreather use at shallow depths, undersea scooters for long transits, etc.), as due to the other people trying to kill you. Also, at least recently, SEALs mainly engage in combat on land in countries with no contiguous oceans :)
I'm the author of the article. That's a fair point, although there are some application specific measures that were taken. This includes setting the mime type and headers. Basically though the advice applies for any web app.
"Every time a new Cloud API is announced, its “RESTfulness” is heralded as if it was a MUST HAVE feature. And yet, the most successful of all Cloud APIs, the AWS API set, is not RESTful."

I think whether you have REST or REST-like (i.e. RPC over HTTP) doesn't matter so much, as long as it's not SOAP.

That's what people are lauding.
"The tech repair video said to first unplug the computer..."
It all depends on how low you set the poverty threshold. This morning I saw my old Economic History professor Stephen Broadberry get news coverage for a paper that suggests that on average people in several sub-Saharan African countries were not only poorer, but much poorer than the medieval English (less than half GDP per capita, using access to food as one of the main barometers).
I think for most people the stumbling block was "Here it is, now use it." Use it for what? What are some real world examples? How is this different?

I think more "this is exactly how I use Wave" demos - from people who use it, like yourself - would really help it along.
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Why Java interoperability instead of a good C FFI? That's what Perl/Ruby/Python/Lua/... are doing, and it works for them.
What's "the scientific method" you speak of? There main idea behind scientific reasoning is "Look for evidence to test things, don't be afraid to challenge the big boys"
LLVM does include a VM, although that's not the focus.
There is a history of (non-rap) songs featuring the expletive in titles or lyrics:

Beautiful South, Don't Marry Her Fuck Me

Lily Allen, Fuck You Very Much

and don't forget Tenacious D, Fuck Her Gently
Let's just say night insertions are stupid and be done with it.
So my logic is faulty based on arrests that weren't reported, are unverifiable, and as far as I know don't exist?

Yep, it's faulty because you're assuming that just because you're not aware of something, that something doesn't exist. It may or may not exist.

In this case, I feel it's a reasonable assumption that there have been e-commerce related arrests that didn't make it in the media simply because they are no longer novel or newsworthy. It counters your suggestion that in order to get a similar arrest you must first be featured in a major publication. I disagree.

Example: People get busted on ebay all the time; only a small percentage of it gets reported somewhere and even a smaller percentage makes it to any big media. You can do a search on sites that archive court records to see volume of such arrests.
Another annoyance with unison is that you must have the same version of unison on both hosts. It's a pain if you have (say) 2 different releases of ubuntu.
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Keep up the good work I look forward to your next article.
To the best of my knowledge the Dutch government, like the Belgian, never confirmed nor denied that US nuclear warheads were stored on Dutch resp. Belgian soil. Everybody knew for at least 25 years that they were there, and nobody was even coy about it - just that there was no 'official' confirmation. So it's not a new fact at all.
Mountaineering in general is not just about the views, wildlife, and other unique memories, it's also about being probably the hardest thing you will ever do, mentally, and physically.

One of my hobbies used to be brutal enduro-hiking, and my little trip up Rainier years ago still stands out in my memory as the hardest thing I've ever done.

If HN readers really need that entrepreneur spin on this, then I'd suggest that there are a lot of parallels between summiting (and knowing when not to summit) and entrepreneurship.

Everest specifically is probably more because it's a trophy; there are a lot of mountains out there that would afford a pretty similar challenge.
I'm pretty sure the moral choice was easy at first -- of course you help! -- and then got harder as there were more and more tragic outcomes, until it swung all the way to becoming an easy "no." It is morally correct, perhaps mandatory depending on your beliefs, to value your own life as much as another person's, especially one climber valuing his own life as much as another's. You have to balance the odds of dying yourself against the odds of saving another person. Plus, under those conditions you would be risking several lives -- an entire team -- on helping a single person who has a slim chance of survival, in a situation where the rescuers have little more strength than what is required to sustain and control their own bodies. This assessment might be considered unduly pessimistic if there were not plenty of deadly history supporting it, but there is. Therefore, it seems like an easy decision to me. Not that it matters what I think, since I'll never be there to make it!
Interesting to see that e.g. Eclipse and Red Hat voted yes.
Ultimately it is a matter of priorities. Yes rescue is difficult in the death zone. Yes people are generally on their own up there and if you fuck up and die it's on you.

But on the other hand, why are you climbing? It takes resources and a very serious effort to get to the summit and back down. And it takes a particular kind of person to do that, to use all those resources and expend all that effort while stepping over corpses or soon-to-be corpses of others. That's not mountaineering to me.

I have never been on Everest and likely never will be, so I can't say whether I would attempt a rescue. Nevertheless, I don't think I could live with myself if I pursued the summit while others were dying.
Looks great. Though, the demo seems so locked down it's hard to actually get a feel for how it'd be to use.
Nothing would be stopping ISPs from adding one or more non-ICANN DNS servers in their resolution chain. In fact, independent ISPs may do just that if they're not explicitly banned and there are a set of standards standards in place.

DNS is one of the easiest thing to do infrastructure-wise on the inter-networks.
Are there more reasons than just "it's simpler" and "Amazon did well without it"?
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I currently have a use case for wave and would like to use it. Would you recommend against it? What's the current status. When will it go offline?
As said in the other comments, this is a really, really bad article by someone with apparently zero domain knowledge.

"I don't believe that [obesity is a disease]". Can we get over this already? Obesity is very much a disease like diabetes. In fact, it's closely related to it, in that in both cases, the insulin system is not functioning correctly. It's too much to explain in a comment, but I urge the OP to read "Good calories, bad calories" by Gary Taubes.

On drugs, want to know what really happens when drugs become legal, in real life? Wikipedia can help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal#decrimi...

Signed, a thoroughly skinny guy ;)
There's not really a very consistent AWS API. Some services are very restful, others are not.
Reading the article I had a very difficult time conciliating point 1and 2 from your summary in the same reality
EC2 uses SOAP, no one cares.
Everything about getting older is great, bar the actual physical ageing.
S3 is a superb example of a REST API, and is a key example in the RESTful Web Services book.
I think it's worth mentioning that in the Plan 9 dialect of C, main returning void is absolutely correct. Instead of returning an integer, you call exits() which uses a string argument. The fact that Ken Thompson and Rob Pike made this design choice for Plan 9 is interesting. This is just a related fact, not an attempt to argue that void main is acceptable in standard ansi/iso C.
Especially when "screwing over" means settling a lawsuit with gazillions of dollars.

I agree, I don't see much of a similarity between startups and risking death--literally.

It seems tantalizing and there is lots of vague overlap in attitudes and risks but that is something startups share with anything requiring lots of hard work, passion and commitment.
Or does it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity#Force
It's only locked in the first place if you buy it with a contract.
not sure if you've realised it yet, but the person you're replying to is the OP
You're right, on should not make up excuses.

But speaking about the future of a country, giving the young the opportunity they are given in silicon valley is surely a good thing.
What? Imperialism is seldom about money. Trade is much better to make money than war. War only costs money, and 'acquired' territories don't make money, they just cost it - so much that many a kingdom with too aggressive expansion policies has gone (nearly) bankrupt because of it.
The OP is completely correct. I designed a bunch of the Windows Azure APIs - we spent a lot of time making sure they were RESTful. Looking back now, I think it was a big waste of time. Almost everyone uses the API through some custom library and I doubt it would have mattered if we hadn't taken the trouble.

I'm involved in some API design again and I sent out a mail saying that any discussions involving whether option A or option B is the more 'rest-ful' thing to do will get smacked down :)
s/night insertions/wars/
Funnily enough, I can control my TV with my N900.
Ok, I see what you're getting at and I agree. My point was that this should have been one of those cases. It should have been stopped when it was just a petty criminal being an ass and not a national issue. I mean this guy was willing to talk about his case to the New York Times. He couldn't have been that good at doing this.
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Any thoughts on best machine learning libraries for python (both in terms of capability as well as syntax/semantics)? This may be too general, so what about best libraries for specific domains within ML? I am looking around right now and there are so many -- PyBrain, pyML, Orange, MDB, ... Please share any opinions, thanks!
When Java was released in '95 it replaces Smalltalk in the Enterprises (mainly banks). And during this decade Smalltalk was down to little or no usage till useful stuffs (Seaside and Pharo comes to mind) bring it back to life.

Can Smalltalk be the new (old) stuff?
I second the recommendation, I read that a few years ago and it is an incredible story. Krakauer tells it as one who was gripped by Everest fever, fascinated by the mountain itself but also the colourful personalities drawn to the most serious level of high altitude mountaineering-- but also a man who has seen his friends succumb to the madness of obsession, and ultimately death. It was hard for me to put down; a compelling read for anyone interested in travel or the outdoors.
Just google it. It's definitely not a software problem because some people never experienced it. Basically the screen becomes unusable as if you were pressing constantly its bottom part. Given that the nexus one doesn't really have a real multitouch, your input will be averaged with a pressure on the bottom and the cursor will always move somewhere in between the spot you touched and the lower edge of the screen. For some reason, you lock the phone by pressing the power button, you unlock it and it's fine again.

It happens to me maybe once or twice a week.