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That is exactly what makes mountaineering so awesome, at least for me.

In modern society most people have lost their respect for nature. Going into the mountains and climbing them makes you respect nature in all its awesome force. You're walking a very fine line, where you're taking risks but also mitigating those risks by using proper equipment.

For the most part this is a skills based discipline, but the fact remains, you're dealing with nature, an unknown force.
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Not entirely unrelated:

In some of these countries, school is mandatory for 15-year-olds (e.g. the Netherlands). In other countries, like the US, you can drop out by (or before) that time. I wonder if this skews the results in any way. In the NL, a random sample of 15-year-old students is essentially a sample of all 15-year-olds. In the US, it's a sample of all 15-year-olds who are still in school; in other words, you are not testing the results of kids who have dropped out. If you did, it seems to me that this would likely bring the overall score down.
Nobody would want to go?

I'd go to friggin Mars, just to step on its red soil. I'd go there on a one way trip to stay there and die and I'd sign up tomorrow. If I only could.

But sadly modern world is too worried about my well-being to let me do something like that.
I'm wondering if it might be better suited in this context to producing byte-code for Parrot?
Go http://ca.indeed.com/ and have a look. Of course hopefully a Canadian that has a startup on Ycombinator will respond first. ;)
The video is worth a watch. The part where he tilts the 2D map into a 3D perspective is awesome. Apparently, they are using vectors instead of tiled images which allows them to now do touch rotations and other cool stuff.
The SENS Foundation (Aubrey de Grey's outfit) is amongst those presenting. You might recall that Thiel donated $3.5 million to fund research into repairing the biological damage of aging a few years back.
Well, if you're poor enough that having that money means an important change in your lifestyle, then sure: In the short term, making money is a sound goal.

But once you've got money — not even "fuck you" money, necessarily, maybe just enough to go day to day without money being a central worry – then suddenly money becomes a really shallow final goal. What are you going to do with it that you can't possibly do with the money you've got? What is that money really doing for you? Why bother hoarding when what you have is enough?

Especially if you're an entrepreneur, used to turning your ideas into profit. A desire for more money can ruin a sound, integral idea. Some businesses kill themselves because even though they've got money they need more. Others don't necessarily die, but they're given a chance to do really cool things and pass up on them because they'd rather stack onto the money machine.

Out of all the things in the world I could be reaching for, I can't imagine many things more boring and unnecessary to reach for than money.
Seriously, people what's wrong with linking to the original?

This one was shortened to a frame containing blog gadgets.boingboing.net from 2008 linking to crunchgear, linking to this reddit discussion
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7jyua/awww_now_...
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Are your numbers correct? If so that's a 98% chance you come out fine.

Do astronauts have a mental illness?
IANAL, but here's what I did for SeqCentral.

1) Look around the web for the Terms and Policies from similar companies. (Since SeqCentral is SaaS provider, I looked at GitHub, 37 Signals, and our competitors.)

2) Look at the Wikipedia pages for more "official" references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service

3) Draft your own terms such that if you were a user, that you would be comfortable with them. (I'm an idealist, and as such, the SeqCentral ToS centers around the right of the consumer rather than the tyranny of the provider.)

4) Iterate with a lawyer who will tell you what you need at a minimum. (e.g. Refunds, children (COPPA), health (HIPAA), EU or CA rules, etc.)

5) Sleep on it.

6) Post as a "draft", issue an RFC, and be ready to make changes as needed.

Best of luck.
Traditionally, by starting with "Not guilty, Your Honor," and going from there, but things might be different in Sweden.
kilian, the article was about addiction and abuse in search of happiness. I am sorry you missed that.
"Pirates don't give a shit about the developers."

I don't think that's necessarily true. Quite a few 'pirates' simply don't have the money. If they had it, they would have paid.

I'm not saying it's -right-. I'm saying it happens.
I'll freely admit I have limited and dated experience of .NET use of WSDLs, but I remember it making me almost cry with frustration. Really, really grim.
This was in the Atlantic recently, looks at only the "top" performers in different countries since it's so hard to compare diverse populations and school systems. Yay for MA.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/your-chi...
Legalizing all software copying across the board would be a type of socialism or communism. The programmer, designer, coder, etc is due just compensation.

As the majority of human effort goes into research and data aquisition, there must be a system in place to systematically reward effort and punish laziness.
Even if Evernote has already tested it, you shouldn't just rip off your competitor's look and feel. It's in bad taste and fails to show why your product is unique at all.
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It's certainly possible, but saying it without evidence is an extremely weak argument.
... I feel "freedom of information" should end where it endangers those people's lives who are working for their countries ...

Who exactly has been endangered by the leaks? No concrete example has been given so far, and if there had been any, the US government would have jumped on the occasion to demonize Wikileaks even more. Without any proof, those allegations amount to FUD and hypocrisy, since the death toll caused by the US government is considerable.

Taking the Irak war as an example (but others abound, e.g. Chile or Vietnam): Bush attacked Irak based on lies, and, by 2006, the war had caused 654,965 excess deaths (direct and indirect casualties) [1]. I couldn't find a more recent estimate, but I wouldn't be surprised if the number had doubled by now.

Now that is a big death toll caused by hidden information, isn't it?

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casu...
So you can't cliam it does what it has to to be useful and you run the risk of unknown lawsuits on hidden grounds from a large and litigious company who you're trying to outmaneuver to avoid giving them money.

You want to try and build a business doing that?
Nevertheless, throughout the article assumptions are made that are certifiably untrue. I hope you agree with me that that's not a good thing.
eh, I think that if firing someone is like killing him, you are doing it wrong. I mean, yeah, in the course of your business, sometimes you have to fire people for the good of the company; but I don't see how that's anything like leaving them behind to die; and really, I think part of the skillset employers need to be good employers is the ability to separate from someone without hating them or inspiring hate.

I mean, don't get me wrong, to be an employer, you need to be able and willing to fire people. I'm just saying, there's no reason to do so with malice, and there's quite a lot of reason to help them get another job somewhere else, usually. I mean, you hired the guy to begin with, so you must think he's got some redeeming qualities someone else might like, even if you don't need those qualities at the moment.
Similar discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978955
How are they absurd and how do you have such intimate knowledge of this case?
On the same subject I've found very useful "The Little Manual of API Design" by Trolltech (the makers of Qt): http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf

The documents start stating some characteristics of Good APIs:

1. Easy to learn and memorize
2. Leads to readable code
3. Hard to misuse
4. Easy to extend
5. Complete
You're contradicting yourself. First, you're saying the approach wouldn't work at all. Then you make a good point why it'd work for you. Why do you think it wouldn't work for others in exactly the same way?

It's an interesting psychological experiment at least.
Well so do mountaineers - when there not at the edge of life due to exhaustion in the "death zone".

I'm in same millieu with some of the greatest climbers of the world. And generally they are some of the best (read moral, ethical, sincere) people I ever met.

But when an accident happens somewhere on K2 - sometimes there needs to be a tradeoff - either some die or all die. There have been daring (but foolish) successfull rescue attempts. These guys tend to make peace with the world before they start climbing the damn thing.

Messner himself had to leave his own brother die to stay alive.
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we tried a pilot using it as a tool for a 3 person initiative with a fourth checking in occasionally. It was pretty easy to start and seemed useful in the earliest stages of brainstorming and posting things between our regular calls. As the number of attachments and posts increased we experienced speed issues and we gradually started reverting back to email, IM and to a certain degree Dropbox. The final nail in the coffin was the information that Google wasn't going to continue support. But our small team trying it out in pilot mode was already moving away from it.

Its funny how little usability issues can annoy you just enough to give something up, even though you like some of the features.
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> You are never warm, the food sucks, camping for long periods at high altitude sucks rather a lot, you are never clean, altitude sickness sucks, pooping in an 8" hole in the ground sucks, not eating much protein sucks, but… the views are spectacular, the people you meet are amazing, the place itself is awe-inspiring, the wildlife is interesting and diverse, the peace of the place is fantastic, and the mountains… well, the mountains are something special.

Great post. For those interested in experiencing the splendors of the Himalayas with less of the grittiness, I'd suggest booking a trek. Everest base camp treks can be done in 2 weeks or less for a modest price, along with many other scenic and adventurous treks in the area - no mountaineering needed. Tea houses provide an alternative to camping, no need to "poop in holes," and I found the food available great. You can't escape the lack of bathing, nor the possibility of altitude sickness - but I had an amazing time, and hope to go back some day. My one suggestion: go during low season.
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More evidence that we have trouble thinking about probability as applied to our daily lives.

That's a 2% chance over a four day period. I don't know if that number is accurate- it's from the article, if you've read it- but even though it looks small, it's actually huge.

For comparison, in the US 6860 people die per day, and we have a population of 312 million. That means over a 4 day period, you have about a .009% chance of dying; that's a 200,000% increase. And keep in mind that's the death rate for EVERYONE in the U.S., including 90 year-olds riddled with cancer. I don't even want to think about the percentage difference in death rate using the Mt. Everest cohort, which tend to be younger, healthy males.

I can't think of a single activity that's riskier, except for actively trying to kill yourself, which by the way, only has a 5% probability of death.
This is such a common idea brought up time and time again - the problem is that most people can't program beyond a very simple level.

The fact is that once you get past the simplest level, you are effectively programming, whether or not the interface is designed for 'non-programmers' - and all that complexity you can't get away from remains there (i.e. the essential complexity of the problem at hand), as well as accidental complexity arising from the fact that as soon as you make it easy to do a certain thing, other things become more difficult in any programming environment.

You only have to work in an internal IT dept. where the users have access to excel/access to realise the impossibility of this goal.

In many ways it's in fact insulting to software engineers to suggest that 'anybody could do it' - then what, exactly, do we do?

We are a victim of our own success - applications look almost, straight-forward to users they have no idea the complexity involved in getting just about anything substantial working.

Having said all that, I think encouraging people to use their computers more effectively is great - they just have to accept that programming is actually hard. You can pick up a guitar and play a lick, badly, very early on. Actually becoming any good is way, WAY harder.

I am a firm believer that only a certain % of the population are able to think in that funny way we programmers do (I recall Knuth suggesting it was 2%) - that's not an ego thing, just literally that we lot have the right 'type' of brain for it.
Sorry, it works. But the Ajax is slow. When I posted my first comment, the Javascript just didn't complete in time to show me the rendered equations and hence I reported things not working. The quality is great and good job for that, however I believe you are doing a bunch of processing on the server and that's going to be an important hurdle in widespread adoption.
Why? It seems perfectly capable of producing native code.
To the downvoter:

Do you disagree? Please, tell me why you disagree. Do you agree with the author of the article and think I'm incorrect? Please, step up and tell me this.

But I'm not trying to be witty without substance, I'm not spamming - I'm trying to engage in discourse about this issue.

If you're gonna disagree with me, kindly do me the favour of replying in kind. I'd like to know why you disagree.
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Your tone is a bit suspect (what is not "real" about aspirin after all) but I liked your link. Especially "Physical inactivity: People who are physically active are at lower risk of developing colorectal cancer."
Well, I doubt anyone whose motive is money is passionate about green ink on paper. So, it's redundant to say money should not be the ultimate motive.

The point is that more money brings more opportunities. You know like starting your own space exploration companies. Worked out well for Bezos, Branson and Musk. You don't make so much money without it being a motive.

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” - Oscar Wilde
I believe, Wikileaks emailed the government on the matter of redacting the sensitive information and they [the government] rejected doing so.
Ah, so he's a Queenslander. That adds context - we're a special breed north of the Tweed.

To add some other context to non-Australian readers:

* Gallipoli, remembered as Australia's 'coming of age', was a disasterous battle in the First World War. While hardly more pointless than most of that War's assaults, it was more or less the first time we had fought as a sovereign nation and Murdoch's efforts helped shock our young country to that war in general, and the results of our troops still being commanded by our former colonial masters. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_Campaign

* The Fitzgerald Inquiry in the state of Queensland revealed corruption that ran through the police force and (via the Police Commissioner) into Cabinet and the Premier. Joh Bjelke-Petersen had been running Queensland for 19 years, supported by the gerrymander in state politics. We Queenslanders have a chip on our shoulder about being overlooked by the officials 'down south' - Joh worked this masterfully (in one election campaign he called Queensland the greatest 'Country' on earth) and while he is still remembered fondly for 'sticking it up them', the corruption of that era is a blight on the nation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joh_Bjelke-Petersen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzgerald_Inquiry Incidentally, Chris Masters' famous piece of journalism 'The Moonlight State' was seen as instrumental in propelling public support towards an Inquiry and a change of government.

Assange seems to be positioning himself as another in the long line of Australian journalists (and Australians generally) who believe the 'powers' want to hide the truth. His belief can be neither true nor false; I'm not yet convinced his methodology is supporting the outcomes he seeks BUT, if nothing else, he has certainly revealed by provoking the actions of our PM and other political leaders around the world that there remain powers whose opposition to truth is far stronger than their respect of law and principles like a fair trial.
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Sorry, to post the same question twice, but I mis-phrased it the first time and didn't get the answer I was looking for.

I want to move back to America before the Summer cycle interview process begins, but I can't find any information online about when they are. I read that the deadline for applications was changed to early March, but it didn't mention the interviews. Are the dates set, or do will they be announced at a later date?

Thanks, and sorry for the mis-informed post earlier.
Ask HN: How do you manage your contractors?
For those of you hiring contractors to perform work for your startup, what are some tips you have for managing them?

In trying to not micro-manage their progress, I've recently ended up with one contract extending from 2 weeks to 4 weeks, and another that needed to be canceled after 2 weeks of no progress.

From their resumes, these contractors were qualified, but what recommendations do you have to help me make sure that the job is completed and delivered on schedule?
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I find it hard to be motivated by "want to make money", at least once basic starvation is solved, on an ongoing basis. I definitely am motivated in the decision making process by "wow, owning a $100m exploration yacht would be awesome" or "I'd like to afford a house in Palo Alto someday". It doesn't motivate me every single minute, or even every morning, though.

Learning something new, building something fun, or making customers happy, general professionalism, or desire for and having respect of teammates, is a much more continuous reinforcement.
Apple's solution does not allow a person to determine conformance to the standards without turning the device on...should the device not conform to local regulations a violation may have already occured,

In addition,the HP isn't locked to an operating system. The assumption by Apple that specific software will always be installed on a piece of hardware is dubious.

>"Maybe you’re paying more for that little pull-out tab thingy?"

Two cameras, faster processor, a desktop operating system, usb, sd, a smaller physical footprint, and widescreen format.
Wouldn't that slow down an application to have every database call go over the internet?
And you'd think that with the resources they have they could come up with a better logo too! Pretty lame.
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American Chinese vs Chinese Chinese is the only fair way to do this; otherwise, it's apples and oranges (and oranges are better).
"Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend."
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hey, Riyad! Glad you dropped by!

It's not that I disagree with the larger point you're making. It's that I'm not certain quite why you outlined it in the way you did. (Actually, probably it's just that you wrote it without thinking too hard about it, which is totally how I wrote my most-known posts, so I completely understand.)

If your primary issue is that people will take easy alternatives to happiness if it means avoiding more difficult but more satisfying approaches, then write an article about that specifically rather than shoehorning it in as a topic, because that's a very complicated issue that requires some breathing room of its own. As it happens, your article sounds more like: "If the thing that makes you happy hurts you, then do something else to be happy!" Well, yeah, but that doesn't really provide a novel perspective on the issue, or offer a potential solution. It doesn't even really explore in-depth what "unhealthiness" truly means. Obesity is one of the simplest forms of unhealthiness; there are more subtly damaging things that I'd love to read about.

I didn't think your whole article was about drug users; that was just the one part of your article that stood out to be as particularly wrongheaded. The rest of it didn't strike me as being interesting enough to warrant comment, if you don't mind my saying so. It's a run-of-the-mill commentary on people being unhappy who ought to be happy, problem's hard to solve, society enables unhappiness, people won't you stop being so fat.
Things I am worse at at 34 vs. 25: Staying up late, coding until the wee hours.

Things I am better at at 34 vs. 25: Not needing to stay up late, or code until the wee hours, and yet accomplishing more.
Some people like extreme situations.

I remember the John Krakauer Book _Into Thin Air_, about an Everest disaster, made me want to climb it -- I haven't.

It's the whole "yeah people die, but it won't be me" attitude.

I remember coming out of Saving Private Ryan thinking "that looks like fun", despite what I know intellectually.
Happened across this just now too: http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/12/the-risk...

It discusses how WikiLeaks got kicked off of AWS, PayPal, and other providers for violating the ToS.
When I saw "old," I perhaps thought you meant it was published in 1998 or so. :-)
Interesting finding, but I wonder: did they allow those patients to opt-in to the aspirin regimen?

If so, it could potentially be related to other confounding variables -- eating healthier or avoiding certain chemicals or some such. Basically, allowing opt-ins suggests that people who do so could already be more vigilant about their health.

If not, given the previous indication of benefits from an aspirin regimen, I wonder if there was an ethical concern in not giving it to all patients.
While not an attribute of an API itself, providing libraries in a variety of languages or supporting libraries developed by your users also plays a critical role in uptake.
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Yeah, this is fantastic. When he shows the demos and talks about the engineers building it, it really sounds like Google has told their developers to "build the future....and, go!" Unbelievably cool stuff.
The article quotes a 1/50 chance of dying.

For perspective, only 1/20 suicide attempts are successful. That means that climbing Mt. Everest is only half as deadly as trying to actively kill yourself.
The best things I take away from this video:

1. The new Google Maps is coming out in the next few days for Android phones and it looks SLICK. Pure vector graphics when looking at standard map views, which will greatly reduce bandwidth.

2. The gmail app in 3.0 looks slick, perhaps even slicker than the Mail app for iPad.

3. It seems as though we're going to be able to have one binary for both phones and tablets, and the device will automatically detect which device it is and work accordingly.
I bet that he'd add the following today: "And the less downtime we'd experience."
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