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* Ridicule is the air we breathe. Why do you care?*

I like a lot of your posts - this is one of the best things you've written. Reminds me of Feynman. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_Peo...
Using Oxygen only slows the progression of altitude problems and if you have 100% O2, the partial pressure at around 0.3ATM is into the toxic zone - I suspect, just like in SCUBA diving, these 'oxygen' tanks are an oxygen enriched mix.

However, even if you deal with the breathing mix issue, you're trying to carry frozen bodies off a mountain while you've just encumbered yourself with a heavy cylinder and it's already difficult to move with all the clothing you need to wear to keep warm.

If you ever have to move a dead body around, you will find it is quite difficult even with 2 people to help manoeuvre the body. I seriously doubt you would do anything more than end up as another statistic - just like the Nepalese police inspector and Sherpa the article described who tried to retrieve Hannelore Schmatz.

In extreme environments, you do not always have the option for the civilized society niceties - they will kill you and, on Everest, leave you frozen to the spot.
welcome to the dark art of HN submission rankings :)
the ability to sell 'hope' and 'change' is a powerful one.
I second that. That book is excellent.
This isn't the most aesthetic site, but the content really is top-notch. If you really want to learn assembly (MIPS, in particular), I can't recommend this enough:

http://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/index.html
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Ask HN: Do you think Twitter should better accommodate Support accounts?
Do you think it's within Twitter's road map to better accommodate Support Accounts?

E.g. Instead of an agent signing off as ^SC within the tweet username would be individual to that tweet (but based off the original username) e.g. "MediaTemple (Sean)"?

Maybe it goes against their focus on simplicity and minimalism, and most likely it would just complicate a great product. But would be interested in hearing HN's thoughts...
If you didn't mislead the vendors, there's no dishonor in failure.

We all take risks... you shouldn't do what some retailers often do (load up on inventory, then go bankrupt) but at the end of the day, your obligation is to pay the employees and the government their due. Everyone else gets pennies on the dollar.
Alternatively, one can drop bomblets that resemble toys, as the Soviets did in Afghanistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1
Gun manufacturers/dealers are protected from civil liability by unconstitutional legislation.
The Twitter account wasn't actually compromised. The guy was blackmailed to hand it over. It would be pretty nice of Twitter to hand it back, but it's really hard to fault them, and it's especially hard to fault them for not just reassigning the account without a very careful investigation - what if the writer of this article is actually the guy trying to steal the account from someone else, using this article to bully Twitter into a swift response?
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"For sane type-level programming look at latest Scala collections"

Is this a joke? The Scala collections library are terrible. They are inconsistent, hard to reason about, suffer from scope creep, and have terrible performance characteristics.
People on both sides of the Israel vs Palestine discourse tend to accuse the other side of acting in bad faith. And the various "Peace Processes" have generally been a result of pressure from outside the region.
First of all, a huge number of people are nominated each year for the Nobel Peace Prize. So the fact that Snowden was nominated doesn't really surprise me; I'm guessing that many activists from around the world are nominated.

The list of who can nominate is somewhat restricted -- but given that any member of any parliament, or any social-science professor at any university, can nominate someone, that doesn't strike me as a very high barrier to entry.

The bigger question, in my mind, is whether Snowden contributed to world peace. Yes, he clearly unveiled all sorts of schemes that the NSA had. It's a good thing for democracy that he did such things; it's clear that the US government was doing things that it claimed not to be doing, and that US and foreign citizens alike were rather upset to hear.

So yes, I'm personally glad to hear that these things were unveiled.

However, did this really contribute to world peace? Is the world a less violent place as a result? You could make the argument that it actually is more dangerous in the world, because the US is less able to spy on people. I'm not sure if that's the case, but it's not a totally crazy argument.
Shouldn't email plaintext passwords, ever. Email is not a secure way of communication. Users wouldn't delete their email. Admins can read their email from the server.
There is definitely a bit of "rich idiot" syndrome on Everest (a syndrome which is not helped by needing over $50,000 just to get on the mountain), but let me assure you that they are in excellent physical shape. I don't care how many Sherpas you bring, how many ropes are preset for you; trekking to that altitude carrying nothing but your clothes and an ice axe is extremely difficult. And of course there are still expeditions who go to Everest and climb unassisted, without Sherpas, set up their own ropes, etc. Everest, for existential reasons, will always appeal to climbing enthusiasts regardless of its commercialization. But even for the ignorant non-enthusiasts who probably shouldn't be there and are less than self-sufficient in getting up, it is a monumental feat.

As far as the dangers go, keep in mind that many of the lives claimed by Everest were not "rich idiots." Rob Hall was an experienced guide known for excellent judgment until he perished in the 1996 disaster. Experience helps a lot but there are always things left to chance, always decision points with ambiguous outcomes that can only be resolved in hindsight.

I won't weigh in on the morality of leaving stranded climbers on the mountain other than to provide a little bit of context: climbers know going in that rescue above high camp borders on impossibility. Any responsible outfitter sets an expectation that beyond your climbing partners, you are on your own. There are many climbers who will help others at great personal expense (see: 1996 storm where many gave up their summit attempts to do so). But you get one shot at the summit, and most climbers go in with an awareness that unless their rescue seems surprisingly achievable, they will be passed over by other climbers, either heading towards or returning from the summit. Again, not weighing in on the ethics of that; just trying to provide context for it.
I don't know exactly where you are, but back home lawyers with pretty good chances of winning a case like this would be jumping at this with a no-win no fee.
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Credit card #s and social security #s are not secure. But what should companies use instead? We're a long way from everyone having fingerprint scanners, and I'm sure there will be a way to break that too.

Isn't the solution more around recovering from when the break-ins inevitably happen?
Manning released a bunch of documents, but how did he change the world?
The argument seems to be as following:

You can permit redistribution to recipients of a program even if a patent license forbids you to grant that permission. This is the case of BSD.

GPL says that all recipients of a program must be permitted to redistribute. jwr claim that this makes it incompatible with patent licenses.
Escape velocity here we come! I hope we hit this before I'm 80. I'm ok with 50 as my terminal age. Maybe even 60. I don't want to be terminal when I need a new hip every few years.
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And I thought that dropbox had already lost their reputation with pretty much everyone around since those massive security flaws exposed a while back. Silly me.
Agreed, I would like to hear more specifics on why spray was so maligned.

Scalaz is a library that I wish I grokked better, but in all I think it has hurt as much readability as it ever hoped to help. That is, learning the concepts I fully want to do. Using the opaque names, not so much. I'd rather have that level of understanding on my target domain, not category theory. (Were I only smart enough to do both...)

I also agree regarding Akka. I want to like it, but I also feel it purposefully makes things complicated. It was hilarious to read the quote from Torvalds saying that "distributed algorithms are really hard" in context of why microkernels are hard to do, and then see Akka basically say that they make it so that all algorithms are written in a distributed way. Or sad. Not sure which.
Great for them. I'm curious - how much of this is based on the quality of the service, versus the quality of the founders?
Or they could at least call back to the phone number stored on file.
I'd have a hard problem going to every single website where I ever made an account and changing the email preferences.. Assuming I'm a normal human being, there are bound to be sites that I forget about and someone dedicated enough could then get access to my accounts on those sites.

Not a security risk I'm willing to take, when I could simply leave that email address dormant. There's not really a huge shortage of good email addresses if you're willing to pay $10 a year for your own domain.
The nice thing about being in the spiritual goods and services business is that you can make up the rules as you go. There's no way for any parties involved to prove the efficacy of their methods, nor to disprove the efficacy of their competitors' methods.

Of course it's only a matter of time before people start turning to outsourced exorcists, now that the business has gone virtual, destroying the burgeoning US exorcism industry. I for one want to preemptively warn my fellow Americans who are considering purchasing an exorcism to Buy American. Who knows if that's even _real_ holy water being thrown at the webcam by the chap in Hyderabad?
Well done, indeed. :(
I thought I'd post to let some people know how I BELIEVE this is being done.

Kevin Mitnick always talks about how social engineering is the key usually, ans it is. he used to make phone calls after dumpster diving and gaining employee names. There's no need for that now, we have all our information on the internet.

let me explain a little better. Take your facebook for example. Most people have the email they use on their for everyone to see, same with linked in. Now once a hacker finds who they want to target, just start googling the person and collect as much data as possible through comments made by and towards them. usually they'll comment on their pets name and all the other info they usually use to reset passwords. adding the person on a fake account acting like one of their friends with a new account is typical.

once they have all this info and the emails you use, time to take over what emails they can with your information. security questions are usually the route they go. once they have an email account, time to grab the others that are usually linked to each other for password resets. once those emails are taken over... it's all downhill from there.

best thing to do is make everything private and don't use the same username or handle on everything because that makes it easier to link to you.

just my thought about how this is done. pretty simple if you have some time to invest
"Brilliantly simple" is an odd description of Scala. I would easily put Scala in the top 3 most-difficult-languages-for-me to work with. Maybe even top 2.
Back when I was doing payment code, I built several sites which didn't prompt for the card type, since (a) the first digit identifies the association [1] and (b) the processor doesn't usually care anyway, i.e., you don't need to submit a card type value along with the rest of the transaction data. Most of the clients for whom I built these sites complained about the lack of a dropdown, and were not terribly receptive to my explanations on points (a) and (b) above; their line of thinking on the matter was that people expect to see a card type dropdown, and will complain in its absence. I rather doubt that's true, but I have also never considered it really my place to argue too strenuously against a client who refuses to let me save them money, so more often not I ended up adding the dropdown anyway.

[1] 3 = AmEx; 4 = Visa; 5 = Mastercard; 6 = Discover.
Phone companies really have learned from Mitnick. For example, if you call an operator, they absolutely will not tell you what number you called from.
That doesn't mean he hasn't officially been nominated, just that there's no official confirmation of his nomination.
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I have no faith in the Bletchley Park Trust and their grand vision of "a world class museum and heritage site". They simply have to accommodate the volunteers at the The National Museum of Computing. This is the same kind of bantant ignorant british cockups that lead to the death of Alan Turing. A good museum experience is always rooted in the people who are passionate about the exhibition and want to pass on understanding and history about it. Who could possibly be more passionate about the Colossus than the people who restored it? For some added insight in the work a Bletchley Park see this clip from inventions that changed the world by Jeremy Clarksson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEQeHCrZJm0
In all honesty, Obama got it for being the first black president - it was a HUGE deal, remember that.
Does Go Daddy require recurring payments or can you pay for a couple years up front? If so you could have generated a one time card number OR had been issued a new card since you paid you you might not even know your card number. How would this even work for everyone?

https://www.namecheap.com/ accepts bitcoin as payment to avoid this situation.
I can accept that, but at the point you've already gone to war... it is pretty easy to point at any difference between you and the other country, and say that your way is better. (e.g. First World liberal democracy U.S.A looks down upon 1st world liberal democracy U.K. because U.K. has socialized healthcare thus clearly is insane).
Things I've read (and I don't care enough to find it again) say that ultramarathoning is very bad for the heart and dramatically increases the risk of heart attack.
That is a perfectly reasonable comment and it makes total sense. You are being needlessly rude and obtuse.
Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of test cases for unit testing web apps?
I'm working as a solo developer on a website. I need a place to store my steps to repeat my unit tests that involve manual interaction w/ the browser + tools. Right now I'm using Evernote to store/track these. I'm just wondering how others do this sort of thing.

Here's a slimmed-down example of a test case that I need to write down + perform:

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Test: Response header is correct for custom 404

1) Enable debugging in Visual Studio

2) Set a breakpoint at Application_Error()

3) Enable the Firefox user agent switcher - switch to a new agent

4) Launch Fiddler

5) Browse to http://myurl/

6) If logged in, log out

7) Browse to http://myurl/filethatdoesnotexist.aspx

Expected result: 404 custom error page + logging in IIS of the 404 + breakpoint hit + headers report 404

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* This isn't a legit test case - but it's the kind of thing that Selenium can't really do (that I know of). And sometimes I also want to do other things at various points during the test - things that require manually stopping/pausing the test (maybe I want to repeat steps 3-6 n times, once for several other user agents for example).

How do you handle this sort of thing?
"Kept" is a rather strange way of saying "donated to charity".
The developer board runs Fedora. Any workload that does not depend on a specific CPU architecture (mostly everything but Windows) should run on it. The dev board is there to make it possible to developers to fine tune their implementations so they run well on the new platform.

Will server makers buy it? That remains to be seen.

Making a dev board available (let's hope it's also cheap enough to make hobbyists buy it) is rather clever. Without software tuned for it, the chip could fail on the market like Sun's Niagara and Intel's Itanium did.
There is no valid reason, that is why.
Not relevant -- in fact obfuscates the issue.

Very American though to insist that the banking crisis was at its heart an American crisis.
To quote the inestimable Scott Sumner:

Iceland did almost everything right. They stiffed the bank creditors to avoid aggravating the moral hazard problem, just like the textbooks recommend. In the eurozone the bank creditors are being bailed out. They relied of fiscal policy to address S/I and debt issues, and let monetary policy address AD, just as the New Keynesians were recommending in the 1990s. In the eurozone they combined tight money with reckless deficits. And now Iceland is growing fast and the eurozone is stagnating.

http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=14895
I closed my Paypal account after the whole Wikileaks fiasco. I was expecting to be a burden, but it really hasn't been at all.
This (and the sibling comment) make fair points. I still think DigitalSea could have chosen better words such as "the restricted access came across as elitist and left me not wanting to use the service."
We can use HTTPS, but it is usually slower and less reliable. If you are uploading a 10 MB attachment to gmail using HTTPS, you should expect it to timeout and fail 4 or 5 times before you either succeed or give up. With HTTP there is usually no problem. When I was downloading some large files from S3, I noticed that the transfer speed was 10-15 kB/s. I changed the URL to use HTTP and immediately got a 4x speedup (almost the nominal speed my ISP offers). Sometimes HTTPS is almost as good as HTTP. Usually it is 3-5x slower. Near special occasions (election days, etc) it is so slow you would get a timeout error 9 times out of 10.
I've started picking up amazon deliveries at local shops (Collect+). This is working out rather well - no need for special lockbox or a supersize ring o' keys.
I think a lot of recent radical changes were made to medium.com in recent times to adopt this sense of "emotional design".
> Fragmenting knowledge doesn't give much benefit.

What about Wikipedia? I think they are benefiting from being multi-language.

> English is the standard language for the IT for better or worse.

All programmers are certainly not fluent in english. Reading code/documentation is one thing, having a discussion / asking a question is different.

Most non native english speakers probably don't feel confident enough to ask questions on english speaking forums like SO.
lots of breathless hype, but how much can't be done by money, and how much is really about disruptive (in the often worst sense) fluidity, and bald evasion?
Every time I've used Scala collections, they've behaved exactly how I'd expect them to. What parts of the collections perform poorly?
Put simply: no, you're not the only one
I think you are making several incorrect and unfair generalizations.

Calling those climbers "rich idiots" is unnecessary, and hugely inaccurate. Nearly all guided Everest expeditions require previous high-peak mountaineering experience to join the expedition, in places such as Aconcagua and Denali [1][2][3]. Technical familiarity with crampons, ice-axe, etc' is a must, and a high level of fitness is required.

People who join those expeditions are not "rich idiots" who think they are going on a cruise. They are amateur climbers with money, who are interested in broadening their climbing experience and achieving their personal goals.

Guiding companies provide a relatively safe opportunity for those climbers to achieve this, as this is something they cannot do by themselves.

I also wouldn't be so quick to pass moral judgments on things that happen 8000+ meters above sea level, in conditions of extreme fatigue, after several weeks of hiking/climbing. What you think you would do while sitting on a chair in front of your computer is not necessarily what you would've done were you actually there.

I recommend reading something like Into thin Air [4] to get a better perspective on what happens on those climbs.

[1] http://www.alpineascents.com/everest.asp
[2] http://www.rmiguides.com/himalaya/everest/
[3] http://www.adventureconsultants.com/adventure/FAQEverest/
[4] http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/038...
> There's no way for any parties involved to prove the efficacy of their methods, nor to disprove the efficacy of their competitors' methods.

To be fair, there is no valid way. However, a lot of them engage in hilarious debates to try and convince the credulous that their way is "the only true way"...
The main difference between a futures contract and equity ownership is the fact that a futures contract has a limited window of availability by virtue of the expiration date.

There are many more differences between futures and equities, but one big thing to keep in mind is the leverage you can get with futures. The CL contract he's talking about is for physical delivery (or receipt) of 1000 barrels of WTI light sweet crude oil in Cushing, OK. The front month contract is currently trading around $97/barrel so the total value value of one contract is about $97,000. The CME will let you buy or sell a single contract with a little less than $4,000 worth of margin. That's like 20x or 25x leverage if you are trading close to the margin limits. I guess what I'm saying is that it's a pretty easy way to blow yourself up if you don't know what you're doing.
You misread me. Germans are safe from their immediate neighbours. Iranians are not. I'm not surprised that Iranians don't see the US as the most threatening thing around, especially given an unstable Pakistan with nuclear capabilities is right next door.
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I wonder what they mean by "blood cells", maybe white blood cells?
Fragmenting has always been a concern, but eventually, we realized that there are LOTS of good developers who are much less likely to participate (type) on a site in a language other than their primary one.

(Japan is a great example of a place where there are very few devs who even want to consume programming information in English, let alone exchange it that way.)

As a native English speaker, I imagine myself at a professional meetup or cocktail party where everyone else is speaking French (which I studied in college). How many jokes would I tell? How many would I even understand?. The point is, I can function, and understand all the words, but I can't really feel like a fully-integrated part of the group, and the whole thing is hard work. Can I get mission critical information? Yeah. Do I want to hang out there and try to help others? No - even though I may have mastered the topic, the language gap makes me feel less excited and less qualified than I would in an all-english group.
At least the map is at the bottom, which is at least a little better? I guess?
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The community around Scalaz is notoriously hostile (I've not experienced it myself however)/
All about JavaScript in Stockholm, or a conference about JavaScript that's held in Stockholm?