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> Certainly, anything they did after the avalanche hit wouldn't have made a difference

That statement shows you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about and clearly have no place commenting here.

The reality is that how you react after an avalanche will absolutely impact the lives of those buried.

> Or do you think they knew

They seemed to know, but went against their gut.

> Also, no amount of training can fully prepare you for disaster.

Agree, that's why a big part of training is simulated avalanches where people are yelling at you, it's cold, and people are 'dying' every minute you choose to use your damn cell phone.
> Going forward, rather than obtain permission from you to introduce possible advertising products we have not yet developed, we are going to take the time to complete our plans, and then come back to our users and explain how we would like for our advertising business to work.

This sounds like informed consent... where have I heard that before... oh right the Privacy regulations everywhere http://www.ftc.gov/reports/privacy3/fairinfo.shtm
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> Snow is a counterintuitive medium.

I think the bigger problem is ski resorts. They are so "safe" and controlled (we call them Disneyland) that anyone going skiing doesn't have to engage their brain.

It's then very easy to continue to behave in that manner when you are not at a resort.

Often in the back country we say out loud to each other "This is the real deal", "This is not a joke", "No ski patrol has been here" to constantly remind us to be alert to danger signs
OP here.

I'm not strictly advocating HATEOS. Hypermedia and HATEOS are related but not the same concept. I am very strongly advocating hypermedia, as I believe it it greatly reduces the complexity of interacting with an API.

Never having to build a URL by hand is great! Being able to just grab a field from a resource, and go do a GET on its value is very easy to code, even if that process involves finding a link with a certain relation. You speak of complexity, and I'm speaking of convenience.

With that convenience also comes the ability to automatically crawl the data with good solid knowledge of how each resource relates to others, enabling the ability to create massive graphs of information. Like wikipedia has for humans to read, but structured and standard for computers to parse.

> His theoretical (well, implementations certainly exist) universal REST client only works when every API you want to consume standardizes to presenting the information in the same format.

That sounds like a great day to me.
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I wasn't aware of StackMob. They seem to be a bit like Parse but with no API limits on the free tier (Parse's are pretty high) and better Core Data integration but a less rich API for doing things like saveEventually (which I find useful for logging as it should write eventually when network connectivity is restored even if it is the next run of the app).

I'm going to be implementing my own synchronisation code to allow multiple users/devices to edit a document at the same time and I'm not sure either of these platforms (Parse/Stackmob) are really suitable for that and I've read bad things about UIManagedDocument (iCloud with Core Data) and I want to be able to share between users too.

Does anyone know any good tutorials for handling these things well on any of these services or rolling my own server?
I commissioned this Rails app for $50 on Bountify.co. I'm also the founder of Bountify, and am trying to demonstrate some cool use cases. Please let me know if you have any feedback on either site!
This is why I don't understand why so many hackers these days like to use apple products.

Apple is the antithesis of the hacker ideal. They're just as bad as Microsoft.

I mean, seriously. Have you ever been to a radioshack? Multi-charging devices are a common product. Yet apple will have none of it. It's clearly an anti-competitive measure aimed at making sure they're your only supplier.

Furthermore, apple's chargers suck. They deliberately have a weaker rubber sleeve around the end of laptop charger cables because it looks aesthetically nice. It's been proven that it's weaker than the conventional rubber joints on most laptop chargers, but they don't change it, because they value aesthetics over functionality.

Avoid if possible.

/me realizes he's using an ipod shuffle. oh well.
GitHub does it for more than pagination: http://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/

Please see my comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949311

Also, Balanced (YC W11): https://www.balancedpayments.com/docs/overview#storing-the-u...
The same way that opening the options to which plugs can be supported by a product compromises Apple.
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Of course there is. If a type foundry has sold you a font, but then says you can't share work you made using that font with other people even though the PDF file is identical to what they'd let you use in-house, that has an obvious and fairly direct comparison to the situation where a patent troll says you can't do something because although you have built an entire new thing they have a patent on some part of it and won't let you licence it. I see only two major differences:

1. You actually paid the type foundry money.

2. Even patent hoarders can get hit in some jurisdictions by things like compulsory licensing, FRAND obligations, or being legally unable to prevent someone from infringing on their patent, where one way or another they can't actually stop you from using the missing link.
Sincerely hope you posted that link in jest
Probably the biggest issue in avalanche education is how to deal with this human element. I can only imagine its even worse when amongst pros and industry elites like in this group.
This was written for a less general purpose audience

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/snow-sports/T...

I just wrote about this from 3 days ago, an inbounds slide at Crystal which is about 40 miles away from the Pass, as the crow flies

http://www.reddit.com/r/skiing/comments/154319/inbounds_slid...

And truthfully, this thread is very similar to the discussion when Craig Kelly's group was caught out in Revelstoke (2003). We have better beacons and airbags but not much has changed (and funding for a lot of avalanche forecasters has been cut

http://www.staynehoff.net/craig_kelly_death7.htm

I used to not think about slides but one day i was skinning around Kirkwood by myself (there are a few areas like K, Alta and Mammoth, that I used to know like the back of my hand) and the snow was whumphing and i was thinking it was textbook snow. A little crown broke off, maybe 2 inches high, 8 feet wide, and I was shocked at how hard it hit my boots, almost knocked me over
"just as bad as Microsoft"

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Arabic is Semitic not Indo-European.
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Good story! I agree its always about execution, stay nimble !
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>just as bad as Microsoft

You have to be joking, Microsoft is way more hacker friendly than Apple. Try to build your own OSX PC and you can't because Apple won't sell you a license, Apple started the whole walled garden game with the iOS.
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Apple is far more closed and tyrannical with its products and its users than Microsoft ever was.
Wasn't there an EU ruling a few years ago saying that cell phones needed to start using micro-usb connectors? How is Apple getting around that, and still selling phones in the EU with proprietary plugs?
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Contract law is your friend.
You claim that he breached an agreement (even if it was not signed).
if indeed you are correct, there are pretty much 2 remedies:
1. make him fulfill his obligations (either by speaking to him or getting an attorney)
2. demand to renegotiate the agreement, or even breach it yourself. for example, he should have less equity because he did not invest enough.

explaining this legal situation to him will probably make actually going to an attorney unnecessary
Regardless of this particular issue, can anybody explain Apple's stance on this? Why are they forbidding Lightning connectors on products alongside other types of connectors?
lol epic fail for me. Thanks for that! Funny, I usually enter Wikipedia from search engines...
Are all the good ideas taken?
I've been considering ideas for a new software project. I have modest expectations, and I thought a few good ideas. But every time I research an idea, it seems someone is already way ahead in that area.

I've never seen so many new ideas on the ground at the same time. With the success of incubators in recent years there seems to be few green pastures left in the internet space. Does anybody else feel this way?
They released an adapter:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD099ZM/A/apple-iphone-mic...

Apparently these are quite difficult to buy in the United States.

Edit: Lightning to Micro-USB is only $20, though: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD820ZM/A/lightning-to-mic...
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Nothing like calling Apple a bunch of a-holes in the press to make you look super professional. Siminoff sounds like a whiny baby who got mad and flipped the risk board. At least all the backers are getting their money back.
Hopefully. If mobile OS makers put more effort into making browser execution as fast as native (well, almost as fast), then we'll see more native apps.
I'm sort of lost on the idea of this and Boiler Plate. Is HTML really this difficult to use? I don't understand why these are less confusing than the very well-written WHATWG documentation. [1]

I'm not really sure who the target is for these HTML 5 frameworks: brand new HTML users with no coding experience? This seems like a target that is completely lost anyways, as you are now enforcing some idea that they really won't understand anyways. Yeah, I get the idea, but I won't use it because writing correct and valid HTML5 is not hard at all.

Twitter Bootstrap has a very simple mission statement: give those who can't design the ability to create some minimally nice design. Why? Because design is very hard. HTML isn't.

[1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
That is exactly what I'm arguing: that font licensing works effectively for the high-value projects the foundries target.

Well, OK, I'm not disputing that. But this discussion isn't about those high-value projects, it's about using fonts in native apps.

And if you don't think what you're building has the potential to be high-value, why are you working on it?

Because not every project in the world has to be Google or Facebook. I think your definition of high-value is probably a lot higher than what many people would consider a successful project, assuming the project is even being done for profit in the first place.

You don't seem to get it: it is a perfectly sane business decision to choose your client base.

I get that just fine. It's just that you seem to be the only person in this entire discussion who is talking almost exclusively about high-end projects, while the rest of us seem to be generally agreeing that the current state of type licensing is not helpful for anywhere below high-end.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD820ZM/A/lightning-to-mic...

Apparently one of the following is true:

* The EU ruling doesn't mention charging extra for an adapter

* Apple will send you one free if you bought your iPhone in the EU
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> Apart from parsing, I am the API client in this instance. I'm the one making decisions from understanding what services are about.

Your browser parses, yes, but then it goes and fetches images, css, javascript, iframes, etc. Following the analogy, these are 'api calls'. It knows to make these calls because the HTML defined the links, and for the HTML to be rendered the contents of the links are required.

I maintain the browser is the client - it responds to your actions, but it does so with a lot more activity than just parsing.

>What makes hypermedia interesting IMHO is (minor point) easier intra-linking within a webservice, and (major point) the ability within a service to point to resources from another one.
>
>This will enable the distributed web we are all waiting for.

Couldn't agree more. But without some standards, those links to other services may not be as useful as they could be.
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> They saw evidence of big slides on the way down, but kept going anyway!

Those caught in the avalanche didn't see any signs, 3 locals splintered from the group at the top and did, on a separate route.

> Waiting for those above by just standing around waiting in the potential slide path.

It's fairly clearly noted that even those in the path stopped in an old-growth bunch of trees, that's usually expected to be safe[0] (in fact, one of the 4 wedged himself in a tree and didn't get carried away)

> Calling 911 immediately shows a lack of experience and understanding. Those buried have ~13 minutes before their chances of survival drop to essentially zero - help is not coming to save them. YOU MUST SAVE THEM.

There were multiple people in search mode, and the first 911 call mentioned was 7mn after the avalanche, not "immediately" by a long shot.

[0] of course not as safe — or smart — as not being in the path at all to start with
> Among other things, when somebody says something is "literally" infinitely better than something else, we compulsively start trying to figure out what that could mean and whether it is true

It's funny that you mention it, because this may be a great example of something that to me appears to be intuitively meaningful, but may not actually be.

Here is what I meant by it: one way you could compare different explanations of a concept is to compare the amount of time and effort it takes the learner to understand it. If one explanation takes 4 hours of study (or 4 problem sets, or 4 lectures of listening, etc) to give understanding compared with another that takes only 2, you could say that the latter explanation is twice as good.

If you accept this model, then an explanation that does not given understanding even after an arbitrarily large amount of study is "infinitely" worse than one that does, in the sense that the ratio is arbitrarily large. You could use the reciprocal formulation instead and get a division by zero.

Is this rigorous? I dunno, it seems reasonable to me. :)

> The math books you were reading probably appealed to intuition that is developed elsewhere in the undergraduate math curriculum (possibly linear algebra.)

Maybe, though I did study linear algebra (coincidentally without getting a great intuition for it either; the shear mapping graphic on this page blew my mind when I first saw it, since I had computed tons of eigenvalues before without having any idea it corresponded to a geometrical concept like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvalues_and_eigenvectors).
What about using aggressive targets set for milestones and deliverables, then letting the team loose to achieve them as they see fit? I personally don't care what or how my employees spend their time so long as they get what they have to do, by when they need to.
I am well aware that he is, but since he didn't say so it sounds accusatory if I point that out. If you read my original comment, I said that SproutCore has been missing a table view for years, and that it wasn't an oversight but something that people attempted to fix a number of times. So if Ember has solved the problem, I am glad it has finally happened. But as someone who has been trying to build projects on SproutCore for years and finding roadblocks, this was long overdue. Perhaps Ember has attained the maturity that SproutCore never seemed to be able to find.

The guys who built the table would tell you that instead of being an architectural road block, ember.js was the power that made the table possible.

That's what it means to be a roadblock... if you don't run into one, you would never imagine that there could have been one. A roadblock is what happens when you attempt to do something logical and find out that due to something outside of your control, it's realistically never going to happen.
The parser's behavior is not specified except in the implementation, which is messy C. I was once loosely involved in a project that tried to reimplement it, which turns out to be extremely difficult, and was laughed at by Brent Welch. Indeed, it failed on countless edge cases. lex and yacc (or whatever) at least isolate this part of the language, making it much easier to have more than one implementation.
Holy crap is that womenandtech format awful. It's like the internet version of a really bad pop-up-book.
Classic JavaEE or Spring+Hibernate is out
classic programming mode such as JavaEE or Spring+Hibernate is out, changing the mindset - more object-oriented view at the business domain modeling, thinking about business process instead of data, DDD + CQRS + EventSourcing is the future. football Match is the example for future.
"I don't see why programming for multicore processors has to be so complex. Why not just run four copies of the program on all four cores?"

This is actually a good idea.
You're beating a straw man. I'm not saying you have to be shooting to be the next Google.
JetBrains offering 75% off all products/upgrades for "Mayan End of World" Sale
Can't beat that.
Not if you compare their stance on open standards in general. They are both bad and acting nasty with using lock-in in different forms.
Well, yes. Microsoft is a software company. They're happy to sell you the software to run on any device. Apple is a hardware company. If you want to run their software on a non-Apple piece of hardware, you're not their customer. In fact, in the early 90's when Apple did allow for Mac clones to be built, that almost killed the company.
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This is a ridiculous argument. Patent trolls deprive makers of the fruits of their own creative and engineering work based on bogus monopolies on ideas. Font foundries license their fonts.
Its because they make very high quality products. I changed over after being sick of my linux laptop never connecting to wifi, and the full-disk encryption on ubuntu never working. It took some getting used to, but Macs are really great products that are great to work with and write code with.
Only $20? Are there even any voltage modifiers in it, or is it just a pin to pin mapper?
I believe in the EU Apple provides a MicroUSB adaptor.
FWIW there were such mentions in this account, section 2 or 3.
classic programming mode only thinking about data not business language. in there, the domain model is a data package, not a object.
Many people, especially those who have acquired substantial skiing proficiency in a setting that is superficially similar to the backcountry (i.e. maintained and patrolled ski areas) do not truly appreciate the risks of backcountry travel in the mountains.

We have become used to the concept that no matter what, help is just a phone call away. The mountains are a force of nature that we as backcountry users must have the most profound respect for. Conditions can change on a dime, and even the most skilled and resourceful SAR technicians may not be able to reach you for days. Some areas, like Canada's Rocky Mountain Parks, are blessed with numerous highly trained and fearless professional SAR personnel. Most are not. In rapidly changing mountain weather, any trip can become an overnight trip, perhaps in the harshest of conditions.

Mistakes happen. Even the best among us have been killed in freak accidents that could not have been anticipated or mitigated (I am reminded of this tragic and unpreventable incident this summer: http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/sp-ps/sec7/08-2012.aspx#...). But tragically, it is often the so-called "second mistake" that kills - the failure to take appropriate actions when things started to go wrong, or worse, the failure to appropriately assess situational risks.

For many feats of ski touring or mountaineering, less than 10% of days in a given season may be suitable for a successful attempt. More likely than not, today is not the day. Know when to turn back, and understand that help will come when it can, not when you need it.
They seem to have 2 female USB connectors already. They could have just changed the 2 30pin connectors to USB as well. Or have 4 USB + 2 Lightning..

Not sure if they're also supporting the extended dock connector functionality, and hence had to keep the 30pin connector.. but I agree that it seems like a press grab..
> The reality is that how you react after an avalanche will absolutely impact the lives of those buried.

The reality of that avalanche is that there was none: according to the doc' report, all three deceased were dead on arrival from blunt force trauma.
Speaking as an MBP user, they're shiny.

That's it.
This is why I don't understand why so many hackers these days like to use apple products.

Avoid if possible.

That's the thing. I can't. Because I want a computer I don't hate. There's nobody else who makes a machine I want to spend 8+ hours a day working and playing on.

There are some PC manufacturers where I can get some of what I want, but I've yet to see one where I can get all of it--I like Lenovo's build quality and aesthetic, for example, but their laptops are universally underspecced for what I want (if your only GPU is Intel, you are not getting my money) and I can't get a Retina display, which I now consider mandatory, anywhere else. And, while we're at it, if you're significantly heavier than my rMBP and don't provide at least competitive battery life, you're out too. I carry around enough crap as it is.

Worse, there are no operating systems other than OS X that fulfill my needs of a pleasant-to-use Unix/Linux system--certainly no Linux distribution comes close on the "pleasant-to-use" part; I'd rather use Windows 7 and Cygwin than any Linux desktop I've been subjected to in the last five years.

For me it's the same as it was with iOS--until Android 4.0 there was simply no worthy competition to iOS as far as I was concerned, but 4.x is fantastic and I switched over because it gave me the environment I don't hate plus the ability to mess around and customize it to my liking. But the first part is more important. If there was a Linux distribution with Apple levels of attention to detail and a modicum of taste--and that doesn't mean "looks like OS X", something different could be fine so long as it was designed for human beings instead of neckbeards and was uncompromising in its attention to detail--I'd probably be there. There isn't (and very well may never be), so I'm not.
I also read "this" as "his" in that first sentence, and had to do a double take.
But don't you see? I have an emotional bond with my tools.

That's healthy, right?
Pretty sure hardcore Linux and Windows fans have a bond with their tools, too. It's just usually it would be in software and not hardware.