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From his Playboy interview, aged 29:

Playboy: What does the money actually mean to you?

Jobs: I still don't understand it. It's a large responsibility to have more than you can spend in your lifetime--and I feel I have to spend it. If you die, you certainly don't want to leave a large amount to your children. It will just ruin their lives. And if you die without kids, it will all go to the Government. Almost everyone would think that he could invest the money back into humanity in a much more astute way than the Government could. The challenges are to figure out how to live with it and to reinvest it back into the world, which means either giving it away or using it to express your concerns or values.

Playboy: So what do you do?

Jobs: That's a part of my life that I like to keep private. When I have some time, I'm going to start a public foundation. I do some things privately now.

Playboy: You could spend all of your time disbursing your money.

Jobs: Oh, you have to. I'm convinced that to give away a dollar effectively is harder than to make a dollar.

Playboy: Could that be an excuse to put off doing something?

Jobs: No. There are some simple reasons for that. One is that in order to learn how to do something well, you have to fail sometimes. In order to fail, there has to be a measurement system. And that's the problem with most philanthropy--there's no measurement system. You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation. So if you can't succeed or fail, it's really hard to get better. Also, most of the time, the people who come to you with ideas don't provide the best ideas. You go seek the best ideas out, and that takes a lot of time.

Playboy: If you plan to use your visibility to create a model for people, why is this one of the areas you choose not to discuss?

Jobs: Because I haven't done anything much yet. In that area, actions should speak the loudest.

http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1920287
I'm torn.

I used to give money to EFF, and I support a lot of the same causes they do. But the last couple years or so their PR tactics have shifted noticeably into the sort of gross alarmism/hyperbole that does more harm than good to those causes. So I'll find other ways to support the things I care about.
We're looking for a new Ops guy at gdgt.

http://gdgt.com/jobs/
I'm sure it exists, but SMS of specific twitter keywords in a stream. Example, the police here tweet about accidents/delays on the roads, and I don't want every one of their tweets, but it would be nice to only get the ones that are for road xyz
Who does prefer one over the other? The lack of consistency is the real problem.
Wow, he's really sleep deprived. Half of his sentences sort of drift away in the middle. He's constantly losing his train of thought.

Sort of badass to hold a press conference with NASA on no sleep, but I don't think it does much to bolster his company. He had a really hard time answering those questions.
> @property (retain) NSString *title;

Why is he retaining NSString? Shouldn't that be (copy)?
You should start (or locate) a charity that dedicates itself to decreasing government waste and donate the money to them. You'd probably get more bang for your buck, even if it didn't focus purely on the humanitarian side of government.
I find it odd how people such as Gates and Zuckerberg obsessively stomp down their competition through any means possible, and then turn around and grandiosely pledge to give away their gains.
There is a site for that: http://mytechne.com/

You will also be able to say something nice about your Operating Systems and Text Editors.
I'm a bit confused. This article seems to indicate that Python is moving in the direction of better support for parallelism. Note the line about "in this age of multicore processors" at the end of the first paragraph.

And yet the GIL is still around. It seems to me that something's amiss here.

I looked in "What's New In Python 3.2" [1]. The "Multi-threading" section says the GIL has been improved, and refers to a message on the python-dev list [2] for details. That message says, in the second paragraph:

> There still is a Global Interpreter Lock ... so Python doesn't become really better at extracting computational parallelism out of several cores.

So does the author of this article not understand the difference between parallelism and concurrency (and the related performance issues for multi-core processors)? Or is there some wonderful tidbit of information that I'm missing?

[1] http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/whatsnew/3.2.html

[2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/093...
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Offer: Free iPhone 3GS
History is history, and with Apples iPhone track record I'd say the 99% bet is April.

Also... "The DigiTimes reports that Apple has notified Foxconn that they will ship the iPad 2 within the next 100 days"
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Starting with sports cars seems like a good plan to me. Let the people who can afford to pay a premium help fund development of the technology which can then be used in cheaper cars for the masses.

A lot of automobile technology is developed in race cars like Formula 1 many years before making it's way into mainstream cars.

I can't comment on the government subsidies though.
Very similar, except that Skynet was a vast, distributed, self-aware intelligence controlling most of the worlds machines and Tribler is a file-sharing network. But they both run on computers ...
Governments take IT security very seriously, I don't see where you've seen they don't.

The problem is that you just can't secure a whole infrastructure overnight and that security is very hard.
I agree with the possibility of increased control, and that it could be a very bad thing. I disagree with the notion that we should choose to not support Wikileaks based on that chance.

If the politicians are acting like children throwing tantrums, we need to curtly explain to them that this is not appropriate behavior. Giving them lollipops will appease them and shut them up for now, but will only encourage their bad habits and make things worse farther down the road when they've come to expect such treatment.
I fear some naive young US-based Anonymous participants may soon be getting a very rude awakening (if the FBI and Secret Service respond to this by making an example of them).

Edit: downvote me all you like, but you should read the post about what happens when you're busted by the feds (from the hacker crackdown): http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/agentsteal.txt
Whoosh...

I've gotta say, I didn't even notice the double-serving hilarity of the phrasing before the parent pointed it out.
Great. How do I close account with Anon, because I don't want them to infringe on my ability to make payments?
The Purple Well & the VC
Apple only talks about iOs devices sold (not iPhone, iPad, etc...)

"...14.1 million iPhones in the quarter...4.19 million iPads during the quarter..." -- http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18results.html
visual basic - got me to start programming

c++ - umm, made me learn gdb, code formatting and good editor

c - best thing for low level stuff

pascal - easy, painless

ocaml - rewired my brain for thinking functional

common lisp - rewired my brain once again, fun to write

java - this is what c++ should be

python - fun! gets things done

ruby - blocks are fun

bash - cant imagine linux without it
The core principle is similar. DC++ has centralized hubs which handle searches and upload files directly to users. Tribler has a distributed search engine which runs on every peer and uses bittorrent to share files. Effectively every single Tribler node behaves like a DC++ hub. As a result it is much harder to take down.
French - mother tongue, nuff' said.

English - probably the language I'm reading the most...

Spanish - nice language, I should practice it a bit more. I've put spanish books in my e-reader.

Italian - almost too easy. I probably should learn the grammar, though.

German - I know very little of it, but I manage to read some bits. Funny language.

Latin - nothing beats latin. Particularly Caesar and Horatio.

Greek - I should probably work it a bit, particularly the grammar. I like reading Greek theater aloud (with a terrible accent of course).

BASIC - first programming language I've learnt. I know I've been burnt forever somehow :)

Z80 assembler - Rodney Zacks' book is so great. I liked this language, though primitive is was.

Turbo Pascal - a nightmare, I hated it. It's what I was taught in college, and I hated the homework, but the language actually is quite nice.

C - I never used it enough to be comfortable with it. Someday...

Perl - learnt it almost by accident. Love it. Nothing beats the Swiss army chainsaw.

Visual Basic - used it for 5 months in some troubled circumstances. Wasn't as bad as it could have been.

PHP - I too, did the mistake to start a quick and dirty hack that ended into some 20000 LOC monster. The horror.

HTML, Javascript - know my way through it, but never managed to like it. Unavoidable nowadays, anyway.
And now thanks to this story Hacker News is participating in the DDOS because we all want to see for ourselves if PayPal is responsive...
Like HN readers who are linked to paypal :)
Didn't wheels already say that?

I quoteth:

As "cloud" is basically defined to whatever the marketing department has started labeling as "cloud" that week
I've used it on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu version is a little fiddly to get working because Ubuntu ships with a crippled ECC library.
Personnel scheduling software 
There is a lot of 'old' personnel scheduling software on the market, however one way to see if the software is relatively recent is to check it is web based.
seems like a correct assessment. SSL still works tho.
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A minor nitpick is that DC++ is the open source client. The protocol/network is called Direct Connect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Connect_network
Perhaps that's the reason why it's unavailable. ;)
Yes, because the US government only managed to get 63%
voter turnout

Isn't it backwards? Should be 63% of voters got the government they voted for.
Visa et al just got caught in the crossfire, Government made them do something stupid, government gets attacked through the proxy that they did something stupid through. You know the whole, attack their industry shebang.

This is how Governments are held accountable ;) You have to hurt their economy, nothing else sticks.
Whatever you do, be willing to walk away from the deal if you don't feel comfortable with the terms. That changes you from negotiating from a weak position to negotiating from a strong position all by itself.

Remind yourself of this: The really bad deals are the ones that you do and regret, those are far worse than the ones that you don't and regret.

Do not negotiate in person during the final phase, get an experienced M&A lawyer to be your front during the negotiations, if you can't afford that then get someone you know that is very well off and has done these kind of negotiations in the past. You are very strongly emotionally tied to the deal and likely to be read like a book by the party on the other side of the table. If you are not an experienced poker player, don't sit down at the table.

Don't decide things 'on the spot' or under pressure, always think them over.

Much good luck! I hope it works out for you and that you will get out of it what you want, beware of stock deals, lock-ins, non-competes, performance clauses and a hundred other things that might come your way, see 'experienced M&A lawyer' above. Oh, and pay your own laywer!!! Never rely on legal advice by the other party.
> Any others deserving of mention?

OneSwarm is interesting in that it attempts to preserve user privacy.

http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/
This is a strange question to me. I know there is probably some similarity in how governments and individuals allocate large amounts of money--for instance, federal spending to curtail HIV/AIDS in Africa compared to Gates' spending to curtail malaria--but the bulk of it doesn't overlap. Gates, Buffett, and Zuckerberg shouldn't hire my town's police force, and can't afford to hire my country's military or even maintain my country's highways.

As long as things like that need to be done, someone needs to pay taxes. And Warren Buffett would be the first to tell you he and his fellow billionaires should be the one paying the taxes.
If I read that article correctly, Jobs should be suing as I can't see anywhere he confirms the figures.
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In addition to that, GitHub counts JSON files as JavaScript. I have a Django project with a large JSON fixture checked in, and GitHub reports it as 90% JS, 10% Python.
This is weird. According to http://www.forum.nokia.com/Distribute/Packaging_and_signing.... the Symbian^3 phones should be working fine.
Comparing to Apple's 14.1 iPhones million statistic (from the last quarter), it's about twice what Apple last announced.

Math: 14.1 million / (1/4 * 365) days ~= 150,000 phones
Well, before knowing about Obj-C memory management in detail I thought it was ok. Now that I know the rules it looks painful.

If someone were to write such an article about C, then it would have just one line: if you malloc, then you must free.

If someone were to write such an article about C++, it would be more involved: delete if you new, delete[] if you new[] and then they'd explain auto_ptr and shared_ptr. More complicated that C, but still reasonably easy and you can get automatic memory management.

On the other hand we have Objective-C, where you apparently need at least 11 paragraphs to explain the basics, only to find out that - yes - you still have to call malloc and free only with other names and slightly different behaviour?
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The list of things to know about JPEG includes what the acronym means and how it is pronounced. If you're looking for a technical description, this isn't it.
SocialAV, crowd power on antivirus development (online with automated tools)
Not necessarily. If you want to avoid situations where title points at a mutable subclass, yes, but if that isn't a concern, there's nothing inherently incorrect with a simple retain.
"JavaScript could have been a number of languages, the fact that it happened to be JavaScript, is more a result of a externalities than the language itself."

If you are looking for The Perfect Programming Language, you are going to be waiting for a looooong time. They all have flaws. For everyone who loves a specific language, there's someone else out there that loathes it.

"I would be very surprised if we couldn't create a better language for the browser after 15 years of experience."

We probably could, but why? JS is very simple for beginners, expressive enough for experts, and extensible for everyone in between. Don't like JS? Fine, use any other language that compiles to it. Don't like any of those? Write you own, it's really easy.

"I don't see JS as being superior for solving server-side problems"

In the server-side scripting language world, JS & Node is by far the easiest way to do concurrent servers. That's at least one area is is superior at. There are also more JS coders than any other language on the planet, so that frees up a lot of people who are currently duplicating work by writing the same functionality for a dozen different languages.
You didn't consider adding the timezone offset?
If you dominate a market, a serious ethical duty devolves upon you to do right by your customers, but Paypal, Visa, and MC, on which donation-supported non-profit orgs like Wikileaks almost entirely depend, have utterly failed to fulfill that duty; in fact they didn't even try. Their actions, arbitrary or spineless, have almost completely choked off funding for Wikileaks. I never imagined ending up saying this, but I'm impressed and grateful that there exists an international, anonymous horde able to begin the process of making companies like this at least minimally answerable for their actions, which no one else seems capable or desirous of doing.
I have almost completely migrated project management tasks to Basecamp, but if Gantt charts were important/needed for me (I used to generate them) I would go back to using http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omniplan/ it is OSX based, but has worked very well for me. There are a couple video tutorials on the site I suggest watching to get a feel for whether or not you'd enjoy using the software.

Good luck!
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To his credit he does call himself burgerbrain :-)
Interesting to see that they use Typed Assembly Language (TAL) and Hoare Logic to achieve automation, static verification and type safety thro' C#[which compiles to Assembly language].

Direct Links:

* Research Paper: Safe to the Last Instruction: Automated Veriﬁcation of a Type-Safe Operating System (http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/122884/pldi117-yang.pdf)

* CodePlex Link: http://singularity.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/chan...
I'm not saying they aren't but when has the tactic against a bully being to bully them? Regardless of what you think about Paypal themselves, there are an awful lot of people that rely on the service they provide that can now no longer use that service due to the tactics of Anonymous.
Why would he care?
The syncing is done on the app level: when a new document is inserted into the db that needs to be indexed a background job is launched that insert the document in Solr. This shouldn't be too hard manage if you can write post-save handlers in your model code.

The average document is about 1KB and has about 30 attributes (but only 2-3 of those attributes needs to be index).
Ask HN: How would you deal with DDoS?
In my recent memory - Posterous dealt with it once, the 4Chan and Tumblr fiasco and in the last few days, the Visa, MasterCard and PayPal mess.

What's a good way to deal with DDoS? Bonus points if you can elaborate more than "buy a stinkin' Cisco firewall"

EDIT: Do tell us your war stories as well.
Poverty, hunger, and sickness will all continue to be a problem this side of singularity, practically by definition.

No amount of money thrown directly at the problem will ever put a halt to them, our only hope for salvation lies in continuing our pursuit of technology unhindered.
Have you tried to pay for groceries with your Visa or MC today? They work just fine.

Good luck to anyone with shutting down economy.
Bill Gates, as much as any other person you can probably name, got the entire developed world using personal computers. That was literally Microsoft's mission statement: a computer on every desk and in every home. You expect him to make a new business that'll outdo that? Trying to eradicate malaria in Africa isn't enough for you?
All you have to do is combine your request with an image of a headless suit or Guy Fawkes mask and upload it to /b/ every hour or so. Anonymous will get right on it.
I wish!, but sadly I believe we are much too late for Christmas. I have recently decided that I do need an iPad, so with the new ones coming out I'm hoping not to have to wait too long into 2011 to purchase.
He doesn't mean governments' IT security (which is so-so overall), but the Internet as a whole.

And he's right the stuff that will come out of it probably will not be very encouraging.
I would like to clarify on this issue a bit.

1. Declaratively the governments are indeed taking IT security seriously. Thus many guidelines, laws and other formal documents regarding IT security have been accepted. Unfortunately many of these are internally inconsistent or in conflict with others. The net result is that in the name of "security" the governmental IT systems are unnecessarily complicated and expensive.

2. In practice - prescribed security measures are mostly not enforced due to many reasons (eg.: The measures are so strict and rigid that enforcing them would prohibit various legitimate users from actually doing their work; The people in charge of implementation and administration of these systems are plain incompetent and/or disinterested).

3. Securing everything that is currently deemed necessary to the extent prescribed by relevant law will turn out to be prohibitively expensive due to various logistic problems (who will implement necessary auditing systems for legacy systems that nobody udnerstands and there are no funds to replace, where will you store all the auditing information, where will you get competent engineers that actually understand the infrastructure and are willing to work proactively to secure them - for a laughable wage?,...).

So - as a matter of fact - I have to state that governments don't really take IT security seriously. They don't understand the issues and they don't even care. They care for scapegoats and thats it.

Disclaimer: Most of my work is on government related IT projects/systems.
I wonder if Amazon is next?
Without the concept of hightech startups, most of the people we are discussing would never have their fortunes to give away.
> modern operating systems recognize both .jpg and .jpeg

Modern operating systems have much more advanced methods to regocnize filetypes.

From web developer's perspective, I really hope JNG would gain more support, since it solves the biggest problem of JPEG, the lack of transparency support (so called "alpha-channel").

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_Network_Graphics

24-bit PNG is often really impractical as a replacement for JPEG due to its huge filesize (for certain type of images).
If that's not trolling, then I don't know what is.

But assuming that you are sincere, your reasoning is flawed. See, the fact that Rails' orm is in some way badly designed (your words - not mine) doesn't diminish this particular feature. The system could be overall crap, but still have one good thing about it. Besides, the schema-migration has very little to do with the ORM, except for the fact that they both interact with a database.

What you're doing, is called a straw man argument.
Maybe that's the DDOS in action .. post news to as many high traffic news sites as possible (/., reddit, hn, etc) that paypal is down with a direct link to paypal in the title and bingo.
You're lucky you don't depend on Paypal for your income like hundreds of thousands of eBayers and people with few other choices (e.g. non US sellers). On the other hand, this will all blow over within days.
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> You should start (or locate) a charity that dedicates itself to decreasing government waste and donate the money to them. You'd probably get more bang for your buck, even if it didn't focus purely on the humanitarian side of government.

I think it's a good goal, but a bad use of charitable funds due to the fact that politics has some unfortunately strong zero sum elements about it. I don't categorize any primarily political organizations as charity, even if I agree with their aims.
One big question: did it work for you?
Did you download/watch something?
can you comment on how well basecamp has worked for you and what kind of projects you have used it for?
Thank You for all your answers. I will try all of the links you suggested.
Payments API is still working.
DDoS attacks aren't aren't technical problems - they're political ones. Political problems need political solutions. Technology isn't the cause of a DDoS attack, just the medium.
>Well, mostly because my comments read more dramatically when I take the opportunity to cast a good antagonist for them.

Only in your own mind.
Well, that's why we have courts to settle disputes in a civil manner.
I had the same reaction, until I finally saw a web page with images in Mosaic on an SGI.