skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The overwhelming reaction I had to this was of how bad the group dynamic sounded. I don't really agree with "severe lack of training and practice caused deaths". Everyone involved had some degree of backcountry experience - many of them had a lot. The issue wasn't lack of training and practice, the issue was how many of the skiers ignored their training and didn't listen to what their experience was trying to tell them.

The primary take-aways I found were to pay more attention to the human factor, keep group size down and route/hazard discussions happening, even (especially?) when skiing with pros or people you really respect and don't ski with all the time.

Fairly strongly disagree on hitting the slope at 11:45 and no snow pit being problems though. Totally depends on the day, and I wasn't there, but this thing slid on depth hoar 3 feet down - that's not caused by a little bit of february sun in Washington. As for digging pits, while I think they can be a good tool to get a look at the snowpack, I also think it's easy to rely on them too much. Spatial variability in a snow pack is HUGE, and all a pit does is tell you how the snow is behaving at one little, somewhat random point. Especially if you're a local and ski in the BC all the time, you should have a pretty good sense of what the snow pack is doing without doing any digging at all. In my home range (the Wasatch), I typically use snow pits mostly to test SPECIFIC questions like "how energetic is this known weak layer that I've been watching for days?." Far more useful are small little "hand pits" and pole probes as you go along, feeling the snow pack in a lot of different places to gather more data points. In this particular case, however, everyone already knew it was touchy, a snow pit wouldn't have changed much. The problem was that they didn't plan or ski accordingly.
he was being ironic. We already have that technology.
EdX announces new courses for the coming semester
> Stop the crybaby nonsense. "have kids" ... who cares?

More people than those that care for you, apparently.
> All the videos are HTML5 <video> tags for me.

Not the case here, the "big" ones are <video> tags but the smaller videos embedded from linked from the text is flash (and that's apparently sufficient to make everything crawl to a halt, Chrome barely shows up in top but the flash process maxes out a core)
People forget what a company that is friendly to hackers is like.. if indeed they ever knew in the first place. They see "Oh, it's a UNIX?" and think that is the end of the story, the best you could possibly ask for.
So here's how this is going to go. I'll post some of the thousands of recipes for stews that don't use braising, you'll snark back how they aren't good stews or some such and we'll be at an impasse.

Let's just say that tonight, as a point of fact, I ate a tremendous pork belly and cabbage stew that is never cooked by braising the pork. Tomorrow or over the weekend I'll probably eat a different one, where the protein (pork or beef) can be braised or not to taste -- but typically isn't. On Christmas I know that we'll be eating another bean and pork stew that has no tradition of braising.

The fact that you think stew meat must be braised shows the magnitude by which you simply don't have a clue.

Ready for something that'll blow your mind? Tens of millions of people eat incredible stews every day that don't even have a mammal as the protein!

I think you focus way too much on very specific stew traditions and really need to get away and try some other traditions.

Not every stew is Goulash.
I already nuked my account yesterday, je ne regrette rien. There are too many viable competitors (plus I'm already a paying flickr account holder) and facebookagram doesn't really have much of a differentiating advantage over them. I hope flickr gets a nice bump out of this and others take heed that they need to keep their legal department sober when they're coming up with these TOS changes.

The other thing that's disappointing about instagram is that they want to get into the creepy 'social' side of the advertising at all. I would've loved them for offering an affordable subscription that gave you power user features like what flickr offers, and promising to stay the hell away from manipulating my social relationships for profit.
On Software Startup Culture
Our site (https://circleci.com) is built with bootstrap, and we've managed to make it feel very not-bootstrapy, with some small font changes and not using the black topbar. The only real clue is the font-awesome/glyphicon logos.
Apple refuses to license any product which combines the Lightning connector with any older Apple connector.
Thus, buyers would have had to use the 30-pin to USB (or USB to Lightning connector, which is apparently not available in the US?). Either way, this was not the product that they Kickstarted. They decided to do the right thing, by returning the Kickstarter money. The company behind the Kickstart is contemplating whether to have a new kickstarter that would feature Apple connectivity by way of the usb-to-apple connectors (rather than through dedicated connectors like they have/had in the current version).
A philosophical take on fitness
You might be right, as you've clearly thought about this more than I have. I have a couple of thoughts though.

> A few years ago, before Rails made "REST" popular, this exact same statement was made. "Nobody is going to want to learn about PUT and DELETE. They just want to do everything over POST."

> This is an education problem. We're still in the early days of this stuff.

The developers I was working with also had a lot of trouble with REST. I had to explain repeatedly what PUT, DELETE, GET and POST were (they weren't really familiar with HTTP at all), and that they weren't doing RPC calls. On the one hand, I feel REST is a simple and elegant concept and its not much to ask someone to understand, but on the other hand, when I build an API, I want it to be easy to use and accessible to developers of wide skillsets and levels of experience. To me, sacrificing some of my desire for elegance is worth it if it reduces the level of “education” required.

> One thing that's nice about hypermedia is that you can lead clients to wherever you want them to go. You're free to change things at any time. Have a mobile app? Make less features, and make the request paths shorter. Have a desktop app? Make them longer, add more stuff. It's up to you. Nobody says that you have to complete N steps to do anything unless your server does.

Either I'm not understanding you, or this seems totally backwards to the way APIs should work. You build an API so that users can do things with their data/your service that you haven't thought about, or cover edge cases that aren't interesting to you. I feel like my API should enable people to build the things they want, not limit and encumber them so that I can have my pretty hypermedia. In other words, I'm not interested in leading clients places. I'm interested in where they lead me.
Wait, why does Apple even have the power to do this...?

It's a connector... Why on earth is it possible to patent a connector that doesn't involve any particular innovation (take wires, rearrange a bit, tweak shell shape) in the first place...?!?
The thing is, for on-screen use, that simply isn't true. Good screen-optimised fonts, including the better free ones like Open Sans or Source Sans, will blow almost any standard font from almost any major foundry out of the water right now if the application is on-screen web or native apps.

The strengths of good screen fonts (i.e., hinting) are very different to the strengths of high-end pro font families from the big foundries (subtle details, comprehensive range of weights, big character sets, and so on).

The sad thing is that even those foundries who have made some attempt to port their popular fonts to a screen format, typically for use as web fonts, have produced very poor results more often than not. (Don't believe me? Go visit any trendy web design blog that uses Typekit, and then disable Typekit and read the same text in a dedicated screen font like Calibri or Verdana, and tell me which one really looks better.) I attribute that directly to the fact that they haven't invested the same effort in those screen fonts that they might invest in a "full" font, which in turn is presumably because they don't expect any extra quality to make much difference to how much money they make, which in turn is probably because they're segmenting the market into "rich" and "freeloaders" and mostly ignoring the middle ground who might make better screen fonts a profitable endeavour.

Until that changes, I'll take something like Open Sans or Source Sans over anything in the H&FJ collection for use in a web or native app, thanks -- not least because H&FJ still don't seem to have converted their fonts and made them available for web use at all. I sometimes wonder how their high-end clients who demand consistent high-end branding feel about that.
I think xkcd explained it best--
http://xkcd.com/327/
> 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.

This kind of thing sounds great for exploratory development, but undesirable (for the reasons I outlined previously) for an actual production app.

> That sounds like a great day to me.

I hope you're used to waiting :).
Awesome. Apple Stores are now the most profitable in America: http://mashable.com/2012/08/15/apple-stores-infographic/
I don't think anyone thinks that. I think that for many developers it's a balance between a solid platform to write code for and a user interface that appeals to them. I flat-out won't go back to a Linux desktop environment until one demonstrates as much basic give-a-shit for building a great computer experience as Apple does. That's as important to me as being "friendly to hackers" because I have to live in front of it every single day.
> Apple has refused to give the project permission to license the Lightning charger in a device that includes multiple charging options.

> In fact, even combining Apple’s new Lighting connector with the old 30-pin connector in a charging device was verboten

Emphasis my own. That doesn't read like combining Lighting with the 30-pin was the only issue, but rather the particularly egregious seeming issue. I'm reading that as Apple would not allow Lighting and USB either.
US Justice Department Plans Indictments Against Cyber Hackers
Bill: Hi Alice, want to play a game?

Alice: OK.

Bill: I'll tell you my name, and you will say "Hello " and that repeat my name. So if I say, Superman, you'll say "Hello Superman", ok?

Alice: OK. (suspicious)

Bob: Bob

Alice: Hello, Bob.

Bob: The Incredible Hulk.

Alice: Hello, the Incredible Hulk.

Bob: Bob and I owe you a million dollars.

Alice: Hello Bob and I owe you a million dollars. Hey!?
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Maybe I'm just an old fart, but I think it's less misleading to label "not production ready" releases with a 0.x.
But your entire argument seems to be that font licensing is working just fine for high-value, high-end customers.

The rest of us are talking about what is holding back typography in apps and how the current licensing regime isn't promoting the use of better fonts in that context. It's right there in the title of the discussion.
> That's where the LN-2 comes in. An elegant solution if you ask me.

It's quite a classic solution for subway construction and restoration in the deep areas. In certain conditions, when tunnels get flooded with quicksand, liquid nitrogen can be used to isolate them.
If you don't claim to have chosen Apple because the company hold good hacker ideals, then... okay? Good for you?

My concern is with those that have. You think those people don't exist; if not, then my concern is with nobody. I suspect that is not the case. In fact, I know it is not the case, with at least a small subset of Apple users I have met personally. To be fair these particular people are not affording Apple any undeserved 'hacker cred' for having a UNIX operating system, but rather giving them the 'hacker cred' for the legacy of Woz. Woz is great, but that is irrelevant.
all routes to that gaming

All routes to that particular method of gaming. There are other methods.
which sounds just enough like "pahng" that a non-portuguese, learning about bread might turn it into "pang" or "bbang" or "bao" depending.
>there was no let's put up a "scheduled maintenance" page to mislead anybody //

So why not a "site overloaded" page then.

I'd guess it went down like

1: "the servers are melting; Rackspace say they can handle it for $X million"

2: "take the site down while we switch over to Amazon"

1: "what do we tell customers"

2: "just stick up the 'scheduled maintenance' page".

It's perhaps on the level of lying to your boss that you got stuck in [road] traffic on the way to work.
A quick meal (10 minutes preparation time) I eat about three times a week. It's highly parallelized:

- chop up mixed vegetables and put in bowl, cover with lid, place in microwave, set it for 4 minutes.

- put a pan on the stove with some olive oil in it

- pour sweet soy sauce over some fish filet, rub it in, cut in pieces, sprinkle ginger powder over it

- place fish pieces in pan

- chop some parsley or cilantro

- microwave should be finished by now - let the veggies rest for two minutes (lid still on)

- turn the fish pieces

- fill a glass of wine ;-)

- put fish on top of veggies, put parsley/cilantro on top of that

- have a nice meal!
Yes, diffusion of responsibility. Psychology should be a big part of safety training. After all, most of the time you're training for something out of the ordinary.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility
Hmm. That seems probable knowing Apple.

But then an all USB solution (bundled with Lightning cables) could have been an option too..
Facebook: Pay us a dollar and you can bother anyone.
It's Good Stuff for any of the millions of entirely non-technical site admins who managed to follow the instructions but otherwise keep their hands off the stack. Or if you have clients (esp. sole proprietors) who have the final word despite understanding nothing about web security...
This. Why bother with all of the cables? Normal usage would surely be one or two only. Having 4 female USB ports seems like a sensible option.

Or am I missing something?
> Either I'm not understanding you, or this seems totally backwards to the way APIs should work.

The best hypermedia API that you know of is ATOM and ATOMpub. ATOM is data exchange, but it also describes how to edit entries and delete them. This allows many services to expose ATOM, many to consume it, and everything is peachy keen.

The issue with 'just exposing data' is that you couple the business processes that your APIs do to organizations outside of your control. By exposing your processes (the 'state machine' of REST), you remove that coupling.

You may want to see this talk: http://oredev.org/2012/sessions/designing-hypermedia-apis

Of course, there are many APIs where 'just exposing data' makes sense. Hypermedia won't help you there, so don't use it. But if you want to build lasting, scalable, evolveable systems, then hypermedia is for you. If you just want to expose some data, then it's not.
AppScale (Open Source App Engine) 1.6.5 Released
I don't blame him for dealing with his grief. He has a right to be completely "pissed", and he has to be very emotional because he cared so much for this project, he worked so hard...and he probably had some passion for Apple...and then this life changing opportunity is denied by the "totalitarian" Apple.

Edit: It's like salt in a would...made of salt.
That robot warehouse analogy was perhaps more confusing than just explaining SQL injection as is.
Instagram does a complete 180 on its terms of service
For the food movement, overhauling patent law is more important than labelling
hello, reddit.
> This kind of thing sounds great for exploratory development, but undesirable (for the reasons I outlined previously) for an actual production app.

For example production apps, see this comment, and the one it links to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4950877

(Ohhh, hypermedia. ;) )
A few thoughts:

* Mike Kelly (the author of the HAL spec) is not aiming for a universal API client http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949357 (and also seems to be under the impression that no-one else is either).

* A universal client seems impossible because APIs will typically need to use service-specific link relations for all "interesting" relations (e.g. product, author). You might be able to share generic link relations (like those in IANA's table: http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relation...), but sharing only these doesn't seem to be worth the effort.

* Hypermedia-powered experimentation is kinda cool, but you're still going to need something to drive it (see e.g. Kelly's HAL browser http://haltalk.herokuapp.com/explorer/hal_browser.html#/), at which point you might as well write a full-fledged API dashboard.
This is a dead thread, more or less, but I'm a bit embarrassed about this. For posterity:

The footage I've seen was indeed from (and up to) the basecamp. I was quite shocked at what I saw, but I obviously misremembered exactly what it was - the trail to the basecamp. I certainly did not think all those people were reaching the summit, but I did think they were going higher.

I feel like a bit of an idiot, and needed to get that off my chest.
> 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

There is one. It's currently in beta, but it's a Linux distribution that wrote its own Human Interface Guidelines, wrote its own suite of default applications that conform to that HIG, and is firmly devoted to the desktop/laptop paradigm instead of the touchscreen/tablet up-and-comers. It's elementary. http://elementaryos.org/
How so? I thought it was brilliant. Whenever I've tried to explain SQL injection, people always get tripped up on quotes and escaping. The "blanks in a form" analogy works perfectly.
I don't think the world of software development changed at all since 2009. It takes about 15 years to see noticable shifts in practices.

Also, shared-nothing "architecture" goes back to the 60s with the first investigations into concurrency. In fact, if I were being pedantic, I would say it predates computing itself: logic is all side-effect free.
Microsoft Kills Expression Suite
In the days since, it became clear that we failed to
fulfill what I consider one of our most important
responsibilities – to communicate our intentions clearly.

They keep focusing on the fact that their TOS wasn't clear. I think it was very clear that they were trying to grant themselves a lot of privileges to use people's photos.
It is an issue of not being able to provide the product that people have given their money for.

If I were in their position, and my priority was operating ethically not successfully, I would refund all the money as they have done, then start again, pitching an only USB product.
Sure. At the margins, people make adverse health care decisions when they have no money, even if they're insured. Call it the flip side of moral hazard: co-pays, co-insurance, multiple deductibles, and all the other methods insurance companies have invented to be sure everybody has "skin in the game" and ensure economically rational decisions.

I have "good" health insurance, yet I'd have to pay a $150 "advanced imaging fee" for any X-ray (and, I believe, $1500 for a CT or MRI). What's the economically rational decision when you badly twist an ankle and ought to have it examined, but you expected to use that $150 for groceries?
Thank you! Again, this makes sense to me.

I have emailed one of them before and said I was frustrated with him. I was quite respectful and careful not to offend. I got back a couple lines that conceded nothing and basically said that what I thought didn't matter.

Whatever, I'm happy to try again, I think it's a good idea. If he doesn't take me seriously then that's something I can tell the dean. If he does, no problems.
Algebra, Trigonometry, and the Most Beautiful Formula in Mathematics
Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again.
Facebook Tests Pay-For-Delivery Messaging
Gotchya
That only works if your program is a one-way pipe for data, like a graphics card. Most programs need to communicate within themselves.
Probably meant sprained. I had a pretty rough ankle sprain a few years back, mobility still isn't 100% of what it was.
Yea they all seemed overly complicated. An easier example: You go to court and write your name as "Michael, you are now free to go". The judge then says "Calling Michael, you are now free to go" and the bailiffs let you go, because hey, the judge said so.
I agree actually. I should have said 'than microsoft was'. They really are a lot better.
The three columns are pretty characteristic of bootstrap, if you're really trying to look different. The site looks good, so don't take that as a suggestion to do anything differently.
Senator introduces bill to regulate data caps
Same here. "13 of 10" for me though (I got every one correct)

http://i.imgur.com/ztgMX.png
I would argue that the three questions are "Why are we here?", "What do we do while we're here?", and "What happens to us when we're no longer here?".

Philosophy isn't likely to answer #3, although science has a chance of making up a new answer.
Betteridge's law applies to your question as much as it does to those headlines.
The very set of exercises had me working on Pascal's Triangle and binomial co-efficients. The exercises continued to work through math problems. While I'm sure this stuff is old hat for many programmers, I often struggled with the basic algorithms in the problems.

I realize many of these are "basic" problems for CS folks, but I don't have any CS training and never took a math course higher than high school pre-calculus (many moons ago), and learned programming on the job. I'm not criticizing the course, either--I am managing to pick up the language, but I just wanted to note both my struggles with the course, and the tacit prerequisite of a reasonable background in math.
I've yet to see a coherent version of this. Replaced in theory, perhaps. Replaced in actuality, such as can be lived as religion and philosophy are, no.
Sure css, js etc are fetched, but this is hard-coded behaviour, there is nothing dynamic or discovered about it. Or I fail to understand it.

This may well be the problem then, as we can see here and elsewhere. Many people like me don't understand. The claims are too vague. We need real-world exemples of how this can be applied with clear benefits. Mere transposition of the hypertext qualities to a medium intended for machine consumption will not do it for most of us.
I wouldn't have thought so - grid layouts go back a long time and I'd say half the web uses some form of them.
You can see Wikimedia Foundation's latest IRS Form 990, which includes information about their revenues, expenses and salaries of key employees, here:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/c/c0/Form_...

Additional financial reports can be found here:

https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_reports#2012....
There are already a glut of portable chargers on the market that provide a standard USB-A port. The point of this device was to stand out by providing the Lightning (and other) connectors without needing additional cables.
> They told me that unless the wallet had been found in their branch they wouldn't contact the owner even though it had her name and photo on the bank card.

You should have said, "Okay, thanks", thrown the wallet towards the exit, walked over and picked it up, and walked back over to the counter.

"Hey, I just found this wallet over by the exit."
Auditor: “material weaknesses” at Bailey Bros. Building and Loan