skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That much information would be basically useless. Saying someone has cancer could mean anything from "they're going to have a few hospital appointments but will be fine" to "they'll be dead within a month".

So that's useless to you (unless you're just being morbidly curious in which case you have no business here anyway) so you'd ask "well, what type?" and they'd usually say something pretty similar to the last answer so you'd go "what grade?" and they'd say something pretty similar again - probably narrower, but maybe not and certainly with very wide error bars which would cover both death in the short term and survival of 5 years plus (which for cancer is close to a cure).

So, still none the wiser, certainly in any way that would allow you to better judge Apple as a company, you'd say "how advanced is it?" and most of the time the answer would yet again be pretty similar but they'd say that different people respond to treatment very differently.

So then you'd need to ask "what the treatment protocol is he going to be on?" and they'd say the same and then you'd ask how's he's responding at which point you basically are asking for his white blood count (though I believe that's actually only used to judge whether a patient should have chemo at any given point in time rather than an indication of success / failure / health as far as the cancer goes).

He's clearly unwell enough to ask for an extended absence, it's not the flu. That's all you need to know.
You can reach me at e-mail address "public" on domain "snewman.net". I'd be happy to share more of what I'm doing.
How do you define 'traction'?
Not even an optical illusion, more of an optical slight-of-hand. 2/5ths and 3/8ths are quite close fractions, but they are not the same. Neither of the figures are triangles, they are just very close to triangles. In each case there is a triangular piece either missing or added on to the perceived triangle.

The reason this deception works so well is because the deviation from the perceived triangle is only half of the extra area bit and that area is spread across the longest dimension of the figure (the hypotenuse of the perceived triangle).

This is a good lesson in avoiding letting your eye and your gut lead you to conclusions. Neither are precision instruments.
I'm using its nightly build PPA. I'm consistently amazed at just how rapidly new features are appearing in it.
There is no way that AT&T is wishing to lose customers. Some of the AT&T users may wish that others would switch. But AT&T will do anything it can to keep the customers.
Your remark is beyond naive.
In this case, the internet is definitely your friend. Also, it is worth noting that there are a lot of technical people who graduate from RIT and pick up some ASL while there to better interact with the NTID students. At some point you may be able to use that to your advantage, though It is really up to your creativity or luck to figure out how.

In any case, good luck.
Or even that piracy and sales do not affect each other: Piracy could simply always be a constant X% of users.

I am just speculating, but I don't see any evidence of causation one way or the other.
Secular in what way? The Tunisian constitution states that Islam is their official religion and that the President must be Muslim. Religious freedom is granted by their constitution, and 99% of the country practices Islam.

Algeria might be considered more secular. When the Islamic Salvation Front won the first rounds of the Algerian elections in 1991, the military took control of the government in order to stop Algeria from becoming an Islamist state under sharia law, which caused the civil war. The Algerian constitution also states that no political party may be formed if it is "based on differences in religion, language, race, gender or religion". Still, 99% of Algerians practice Islam.
i'm writing a comedy novel about a startup, and one of the running jokes is how much Quora is overhyped. at one point somebody pitching a new idea says "it's like Quora with Badgeville's gamification for the enterprise!" it was supposed to be a joke ... life imitates art, I guess.
I really like this idea of a week together. However 7 days is quite a long time. It might apply for startups who have grown beyond 4-5 members. Otherwise I think what you are saying is still feasible, but maybe not for the entire 7 days. A weekend spent together might be enough.
I'm really surprised that all engineers have free access to the Facebook database. That's really scary. I know at other organizations, with much less sensitive data, this stuff was under lock and key.

I have a hard time believing many aren't abusing this, just out of human nature ("did she mention me to any of her friends?").
The shortsightedness of people worried about fewer jobs because of new technology is ridiculous. If you can build a house for the cost of land and materials only, the cost of living is lowered for everyone. With enough advancement and automation, the cost of life's necessities drops. As it decreases, the amount of human labor necessary to support day-to-day life will drop with it. Eventually we'll be able to support ourselves with very little laborious work, focusing instead on content production and other interesting and creative endeavors. Why try to prevent that?
you don't need pypi to use pip.
Two companies with questionable moral and business practices that certainly deserve each other.
Your "fiduciary responsibility tourettes brigade" is my favorite phrase of the year. Bravo!
It seems, from the article at least, that the're very much a culture of blame, which I find quite surprising. I've never been a fan of the practices of practices such as making people wear a hat if they break the build and the like. It seems counter-productive to getting things built and shipped, and just seems to make an unhappy workplace (in my mind, at least)
Goldman Halts Facebook Stock Sale To US Clients
The lack of imagination of the unsympathetic knee-jerk skeptic who reads only the headline never ceases to amaze:

"... I'd never see anything [with white pavement] ..." [right, how many roofs do you spend time scrutinizing?]

"... now you can get snow blindness in the summer ..."
[have you been to Greece??]

"... it will take snow longer to melt off of them ..."
[except when the snow is thick enough for this to matter, the coating ceases to be irrelevant anyway]

"... what happens when it's cold and the extra heat is lost ..." [again, snow reflects plenty of light anyway. and this is at least as much about atmospheric effects as it is about effects on the actual building]

It seems:
Obama admin + recommendations for US public = immediate skepticism
Maria Bartiromo interviews Steve Ballmer
Don’t delete that tweet? The debate rages
I didn't realize they weren't "open" before!

This place is super cool. We showed up late for the Difference Engine demonstration, but the volunteer re-ran it just for us.

The collection in impressive, lots of cool stuff to look at ("We went to the moon with _that_??").
Better headline: AT&T Network to Become 26% More Reliable. :)
In practice the test is where lines of code got written. If all your startup's code was written after you quit your job, you're usually ok.
Stanford Bio-Engineers Play PacMan and Pong With Single Cell Organisms
Upmodded... with that said, I do think that this is very industry dependent. They are a free product that people don't necessarily "rely" on. If status messages were severely delayed or dropped, it wouldn't be a huge deal (assuming they fixed it when noticed).

There's very little that they can't fix after deployed, and they have no SLA with consumers (advertisers may be different). In essence they have 500 million testers.

This is a bit harder to do with a database or compiler.
Point 2 is somewhat of a difficult area on my opinion. When looking at programming books, I usually have the following process in mind:

* How in depth are the official docs? If you're going to read a book on a language, you need a way to validate the book's contents. How else will you be able to tell the book is not leading you down the wrong learning path? This also gives you a chance to check on if the language is right for you.

* How old is the book? If the book is talking about the language 5 years ago, chances are syntax and ways structuring your program (object oriented features may have gotten better for example) have changed. Make sure you have the most up to date edition, and complement it with checking the API docs. Well written API docs will generally indicate if a way of doing something has changed, or will no longer be supported.

* Look at the author of the book, and see how close they are to the community of the programming language in question. Are they the creator? Contributor? Someone else?

* What is the book trying to achieve? Some great books expect you to have basic knowledge of the language, or some other specific concept (MVC for example). Make sure you know what you're getting into. Some books also act as "desk references" that could be potentially replaced by more up to date API docs on the language's website.

There's probably much more that can be added to the list, but I think these provide a basic sanity check.
Could you explain why it happens? (iPhone as a Christmas present?)
There are a lot of problems with this idea. You've created a perverse incentive structure.

Poor people won't be able to get the organs of rich people.

This will favor people at the top of each income bracket, since they will have more money to move to where the waiting list is shortest. Or if you want to let people buy and sell organs, they'll have more money than their competitors.

Rich people can use financial instruments to change their income.

Since most people accumulate wealth over life, organ donors will usually be young and poor. Recipients will be older and richer. This disparity is large enough to ensure that some organs will go to waste.

Oh and this will never happen because politicians are rich and old and need organ transplants.

It's weird how people suddenly care what you do with your corpse when it can directly help others. Buried? Fine. Cremated? Sure. Donated to research? Go for it. Frozen in liquid nitrogen? Whatever floats your boat. Sold to the highest bidder so you can provide for your family after death? Eh, not so much.
This part of the article is simply untrue. The culture is extremely forgiving of mistakes.

(I don't speak for my employer, Facebook.)
Depends where they're driving it. Bus drivers earn significantly more than the barely-over-minimum-wage fast food and cheap-retail employees.
Not in San Francisco!
Thanks for Spectre! I have fond memories of playing over AppleTalk with friends.
I didn't want to talk about law, it's surely illegal.
We could talk abbout ethics, I don't believe the current rules for IP are fair.
But let's simply talk about business opportunities - as others have pointed out, you can make money with free downloads and a donation button. Or bundling some advertisment with your product. Static content (e.g. music, books, most games,...) can and will be pirated, whining won't stopp anyone.
When you're still small forget about this, you need to mind the shop and keep moving.

Treating your whole company to a week 'off' is a great idea but you need to be a bit bigger before you can even begin to think about stuff like that, unless you're very lucky with your launch, cash flow and new hires (who gets to go and who doesn't?) you will probably need 'all hands on deck' for the first few years.

A good reward at an earlier stage might be to throw the occasional collective dinner when milestones are reached for everybody to let their hair down for a bit, but after that: back to the grindstone, no start-up that I know of could afford a full week 'off' for the core team in the first two years or even the first three.
We had 6 people when we did our first retreat, so you may have a point. Let me be clear: we were there Monday to Friday, so it was 5 days.

It was important that we did this during the week so that we didn't cut into personal weekend time, e.g. with families, spouses, and so on.
Except the penalty for crashing when you fly is much more severe than when code crashes.
Yes, this is all very true. If I'd thought "Jobs matters" was going to be so controversial I would have prepped the examples better!

Even if they were minor, I think they show a tendency that Apple has, and always has, that very few people can rein in -- or at least that there are very few people that Apple will allow to rein in.

More than anything, Jobs's return brought focus to Apple. With him gone, that will be the challenge more than any of the PR sizzle or attention to detail that he also brings.

That focus is something that must be brought to the table.
After all, Apple keeps its staff a very long time. This is still, at some level, the company that loves to make new things but will channel that energy into OpenDocs and Dylans and Soups and MPWs and zillions of other cool things that don't get it where it needs to go.

Are any of the current leadership team the type to bring that focus that harnesses that energy? I haven't seen it yet.
Amusing. I'm sure barring U.S. investors from participating in Facebook's curious financial maneuvering will reduce the "intense media attention".

This feels like part of a grander marketing scheme designed to whip future investors into a froth...
Multiple employees were fired for accessing private data in the past. I suspect that it is a serious taboo at the company now to even joke about it.
I would use Amazon and Paypal. While Amazon FPS scales to micro/regular payment for you, the Paypal link above mentions opening one micropayment and one regular paypal account and switching manually between. Both are allowed to get the best rate and it is worthwhile if you sell from .99 past $10+.
No presumptions here, which is why an in-depth story would be so interesting.
Not the greatest corporate showman?

Have you watched any other CEOs present their products? Even the other Apple CxOs.

It's all blather blather blather buzzword awkward brow wiping bullshit bullshit equivocate buzzword blather blather adjust suit cuffs blather bullshit buzzword crash landing.
Tracing the story feels like reading a Robert Ludlum book! I am not surprised to see a movie based on this in the future.
AT&T Iphone user here. Reasons why I'm not going to Verizon:

A) Family and everyone I talk to is on AT&T.

B) I can use my iphone in Canada while traveling (yay GSM)

C) The ETF is pretty substantial, and the savings aren't worth it

D) You would need to buy a new iPhone to work on the Verizon Network. Another few hundred bucks after paying the ETF for AT&T.

E) The pricing at the end of the day isn't much different.

F) Reliability COULD be lower depending on your area and how well Verizon has prepared for the iPhone.

G) With LTE networks being the big thing this year, purchasing a new iPhone at this time of year is a pretty dumbass thing to do if you're into technology. Both Verizon and AT&T are rolling out their LTE networks, and I suspect that the summer will bring us an iPhone with LTE support.
I thought of number 4 also. Had a friend come down with paranoid Schizophrenia at just this age.
It probably would be good to note here that there are far fewer wealthy people than there are poorer people.

So this will not favor those at the top of the income brackets because waiting lists are typically on a compatibility and first-come-first-served basis.

Right now for instance there is a big flap going between the Netherlands and Belgium, the dutch have voluntary codicis, the Belgians have mandatory ones. Because EuroTransplant matches up donors and organs from both countries the Dutch benefit from this arrangement disproportionally.

> Since most people accumulate wealth over life, organ donors will usually be young and poor. Recipients will be older and richer.

Yes, that's the current situation, pretty much. Poor people in need of organs that are older are not getting any because rich people in need of organs get to use their money to 'jump the line'.

> Oh and this will never happen because politicians are rich and old and need organ transplants.

Yes, I realize that, it underscores my point I think.
I think with Steve his passion for his products is worn on his sleeve when he presents in a very natural manner, this makes up for perhaps some strange foibles when he's on stage.

Compare this to Zuckerberg, who tends to look a bit nervous and like he's trying to sell something a bit. (Note I'm not saying Zuckerberg isn't passionate about what he does, he is, but it tends not to show). Or Ballmer who looks like he's trying really hard to be passionate about his products.
uh-uh. so you assume the company just wants to be fair? As previously described, its a business negotiation. Your only as good as your last salary.
I'm not saying to take a full week "off", but rather to mix fun and work in a great location.

We're starting month #8. One of our investors, who co-founded Mixer Labs (now part of Twitter) did this early on as well. Any other examples out there?
Android sites - stop product news, reviews, leaks of Samsung devices
A day without Steve (2007)
First of all, on the pancreatic cancer note - what he had was a curable type of cancer, a rare form, not your typical pancreatic cancer. What really is far more likely is transplant rejection, and his doctors probably asked him to take some time off and are going to play around with his immunosuppresant medications. Just a guess though.

Hopefully he will return because without him Apple really is not the same company, despite their ability to succesfully execute on their planned projects. A visionary has to plan for the future, and Steve Jobs isn't just the CEO of Apple, but kind of a new type of media mogul. He seat on Disneys board surely holds sway, and Apple is going to need his influence to further it's push into TV, movies and publications - he is the man, for example, Murdoch or Igor are going to want to speak to.

I do wish him a speedy recovery.
I am doing a job using Glashfish + EJB 3.1 and just yesterday I was looking briefly at Tomcat + OpenEJB as a possible future stack.

Glashfish is a nice stack but there is a (small) possibility that Oracle may not enthusiastically shepherd the Glashfish project. Besides, like Apache projects because so much of my consulting business is built on various Apache projects == comfort zone for me.
> People using an app are ...

potential support costs. So it matters if they paid for the app or not.
> an attempt at playing down the importance of bus drivers

A bus driver doesn't decide where to drive. You don't want to have a CEO who doesn't decide what the goals of the company are.
The more i read about facebook engineering the less impressed i am. It used to be interesting to hear about their engineering challenges. Now its just scary to hear anything about them. And i use it as a rulebook of how not to do youre infrastructure. Im amazed facebook works at all frankly. I also think its one of the ugliest sites ive ever used. Its what 5 years old now and they still dont even have some basic functionality on it. Plus as another person said its often broken.
Do you mean "and what you're driving in, too" or "and what you're driving into"?
I wonder how/if the access is restricted? Seems like a good compromise might be:

* Read-only all the time.
* Access through a special shell which logs your actions remotely.
* Seemingly in keeping with the aggressive name & shame culture, if you join across all tables or forget a limit or something else which affects live operation, you get called out.
That seems way to risky to me. You basically have to watch server logs for some interesting patterns. And of course, if they're smart they simply oversubscribe in a query (or temporally space out a query), and then pinpoint the data they are looking for locally.

Given they have 2000+ employees this is just a process that is looking to be constantly abused. I surely don't expect people aren't talking about it, but I'm nearly as confident that it is happening in a way that most people aren't aware of. No evidence, but again, I've seen people do worse, with less access.
What a weird world we live in which a uniquely American venture can not offer its stock to American investors because of investment rules, regulations and the unspecified 'media attention' (does that mean they're scared that if the price drops after the offering they'll be sued? Are they expecting it to drop?)
Presuming such a body existed; imagine yourself sitting in a chair and being told by a doctor that your brain has been successfully copied into the artificial body, and he is now going to kill you, the original. Would you go for that?
The sad fact is that Apple will never be the same after Jobs.

I think he embodies a unique ability to see the heart of a new technology or aspect of technology and to focus in on the critical part or parts, ruthlessly getting to what he sees. It's not just a design sense (like Ive), nor a good sense of what consumers really "want." And there are plenty of downsides to this unique gift. (We can all cite plenty of examples.)

I don't think we've seen that from anyone else, even at Apple, over the years, so there's no real replacement possible.

I think it's even spilled over to Pixar's success, which is pretty amazing.

(Maybe Alan Kay rivals it, in a different world.)
The idea that lay-investors stand to profit by trading with GS is laughable...
AT&T is just horrible. I am in Bangladesh right now and I jailbreaked my iphone and I am using GSM from a local provider called "GrameenPhone"; I have better network and internet speed here than I had in NY with AT&T.

Pathetic.
But if I'm clever I can space out queries a week or two, or a month or two (depending on what I'm looking for and how important it is).

I'm fairly certain if you give me the schema, I can be very inconspicuous over a given amount of time.
Exactly, I want to see what the AT&T network looks like the most heavy iPhone users move on. For several years Verizon network had minimal smart phone users, but after Android and iPhone usage ramps up they could have the same sorts of issues.

PS: I want to stick with AT&T because Verizon has shitty reception around around my parents house. But, where I live and work the AT&T data network is heavy oversubscribed.
A donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation! I'm glad Bill doesn't forget his roots.
In to as in "he drove the bus in to the lake"?

Or is that supposed to be 'into'?

Non native English writer here, this one is subtle enough that I don't know if 'in to' is permitted or forbidden.

9.7 Million hits for 'in to the lake' and 23 Million or 'into the lake', if it is an error it seems to be at least a fairly common one.
I don't know. Having lived somewhere with a concrete driveway, and another place with a pavement/tar driveway (in the same area), I can definitely see the melting concern. It's not the thick piles of snow that cause problems, plows take care of that. It's the thin layers of slush, and the pools of water that refreeze into thin layers of ice. The difference between the almost straight white driveway and the black driveway was dramatic enough in my case that I had to resort to going outside and busting up the ice by hand with a piece of rebar, several days after snowstorms.

Now, I'm fairly certain that using reflective surfaces on roofs of buildings in warm climates and using absorbing surfaces on roofs of buildings in cool climates has been standard practice for... decades?
I would love to see this article:
"3-Year-Old Makes 120K In 2 Months With Clever DropBox Hack"
I made one of these for Digg in 2006. I thought I'd look it up (I took it offline, boo!) but I had a blog post with some titles it generated: http://www.petercooper.co.uk/archives/001461.html

I didn't think this was noteworthy at all till I saw just how relevant the titles would still be.. 21 Reasons to Totally Make a Crappy Rails Tutorial, Totally Make a Revolutionary E-Book Without Assistance! So much but so little has happened since 2006..