skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re: competition. When I mean work their way out, I mean retirement. Ineffective teachers will retire, and with higher pay, the increased number of applicants for teaching positions will raise the bar for new teachers. In the article, it said like 6000 applicants applied for 600 spots. That's the kind of ratios we need in the US.

Not to go pop commentary on you, but Malcom Gladwell once wrote a piece on this very thing. <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/15/081215fa_fact_...;
When I first read the title I thought it was a joke.
I was thinking how can a joke be voted number 1 on HN.
Reading through the other titles however made it real.
Well, I guess nothing lasts forever, and following Bill Gates, it is now Steve Jobs' time to step down as the CEO.

The other week I was imagining how would Steve Jobs' office look like in the new headquarters they are planning to build. I guess that doesn't hold anymore. Well, we'll just move on.
I generally agree on buying when there's a dip. Except if the dip is due to a drop in the fundamental ability of said company to execute. A reasonable person could bet that while there may be no near/medium term ability in their ability to execute, that there will be a medium/long term drop. That old saw about A picks A, B picks C, C picks D, etc. There will likely be a decay.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Resigns, Recommends Cook as Succesor - Bloomberg
I have no fear for apple's survival at least in the near 5+ years. Things will change but the talent that builds the products is still there. The coders, the designers ... all that needs to happen is for the culture created by Jobs to stick.

As for developing on Windows, there's Linux. It's good stuff too.
Great unbiased journalism: "Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software."
Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in square holes. The ones who see things differently.
Edison? Please...that's a bit much.

Edison personally created the majority of his inventions. Jobs has an entire company/team behind him. And Jonathan Ives is a big help when it comes to the sleek design of Apple products.
Not every one (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2134181 ). I hope all goes well for Steve.
Spotify Replaces Piracy, and Purchases
Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO
Are they shorting AAPL?
This is ridiculous. Do you honestly think the company will fall to pieces because there's a new CEO, one who has been at the company since 1998 and has worked closely with Steve Jobs? Is Apple's success entirely down to Jobs? What about all the talented engineers and designers who actually design the products and software?
But unless we have some bizarre infrastructure regression, it only becomes more viable in time.

It (or something like it) is the future, there's no doubt about that.
Probably also the reason why the book is scheduled to be released sooner? [come on, which author ever beats a writing-deadline by 3+ months?]
"Beyond the products, beyond the profits, Jobs' greater gift was to inspire untold numbers of current & future entrepreneurs to be the next Steve Jobs" - Hunter Walk
Whatever happens next, this is the end of a great era for Apple.
Group theory is formed by abstracting out the observed properties of number systems. If you want to show that some collection is a group, you will have to do the computations to show that they follow the rules, in which case, it helps to have an understanding of the mechanics of the computation.
Conveniently, Ben has also written on how to hire executives:

http://bhorowitz.com/2010/10/14/hiring-executives-if-you%E2%...
Not entirely fair. While there is a lot of choice about how to define stuff around the edges of mathematics, after the axiomatic choices have been made, there's quite a lot to discover in their structure. Particularly if the relevant axioms relate to something outside of mathematics (the examples are too many to even scratch but start out thinking of the definitions of natural and rational numbers) then you really are discovering things in the same way as a physicist - in fact, this is how many physicists go about discovering things, for better or worse.

In most situations it makes sense to define exponentiation as repeated multiplication, and a^0 as the absence of multiplication by a, hence a^0 = 1 as the multiplicative identity. I wouldn't introduce the idea of anything else to a student unless they specifically asked me about one of the problems which can arise in choosing 0^0 = 1.
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Apple's going to be fine. Steve's most extraordinary work isn't the Mac, the iPhone or the iPad. It's rebuilding Apple in his image. It was creating organizational culture and habits that mimic his weird brain, like their aggressive software prototyping to prove that things work well and feel good.

Fuck, I'll miss him, though. I'll miss the way he got up there each and every time like he was selling you your own personal Jesus in a box. Not out of hucksterism, but because he really was that excited to share what he and his people had been working on. Excited to do things better. Excited to solve problems in a way that was far more tasteful, more satisfying, than anything anyone had bothered to try before. Maybe he'll still do announcements as his health allows – but maybe that would send a weird message.

He's a man who was lucky enough to find out exactly what he did best – and to seize upon it with every cell in his body.

I'm a better person for his example. The resurrection of Apple was one of the most enjoyable things I followed in my childhood. No matter how you feel about his approach, this is a guy who loves his work with an intensity that couldn't be faked and won't be soon matched.
Because he's 56 years old and wants to start living a well deserved retirement?

He's already on leave. So it isn't like there's a great strain on his health now. I would think no more than there will be when he remains on as chairman of the board. Which is the real point.

If health were forcing him to step down he wouldn't be staying on as Chairman. There are significant duties to being Chairman of the Board. You have to appear in public, you have to go to official functions, and so on. You can't hide a serious illness and still be chairman of the board.

Mark my words: This is all about Tim Cook (Which, if I might toot my own horn, I predicted here: http://tomstechblog.com/post/Ie28099m-Not-Sure-Steve-Jobs-Is...)
Why downvote my question? It's a valid attempt to understand how HN filters duplicate stories.

The dupes are also representative of the Internet at large. When a large story breaks, tonnes of people rush out to be "the one" who broke it on their news site.
Apparently about 20 minutes.

Steve's letter is on the site now.
Hmm can you expand on why you think Apple isn't Steve? There are surely many great people at Apple. But Steve maintained an unwavering, fanatical commitment to product. That's the secret sauce. With him gone how will that continue? With a company that size, surely politics and other bullshit will eventually creep in and win out in arguments over product.
Steve Wozniak, John Carmack, Linus Torvalds: yes.
Steve Jobs: no.

Maybe the Ray Kroc of his generation?
San Franciscans are probably wandering the streets wondering if they're going to get their iPhone5 before Christmas.
Can people stop talking about the effect of the stock? I get it- many of us own AAPL. This is one of the greatest entrepreneurs and CEOs ever stepping down. Let's focus on that.
Sure, everyone knows that he's been having health problems, but he could have made this decision just because "it was the right time" not because his health problems had worsened. Like he could have gone on, but felt that everything was in place for a smooth transition.

However, "I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO" is not just that.
Why leave out "Progress" from the title of the article here?

(I noticed NPR doing the same thing on the radio which told me that some Russian spaceship without, apparently, a name, was lost. Sort of as if, since it's Russian, we shouldn't care about the details.)
Microsoft and Nokia team up to host Windows Phone developer training sessions
Pipe it through Readability (http://rdd.me/) -> Print to File (option on left menu) -> Save As PDF. Works a charm.
I think the same thing can be true of highly qualified professionals as well. If you are hiring good developers and designers, it may make sense to take the same approach: Did we not screen for the right technical fit? Did we make a mistake in assessing the cultural fit? Professionals and managers can have a lot in common in this way.

On the other hand, a large organization has many other kinds of staff. When you hire other types of employees (call center workers, loading dock workers, bookkeepers, etc.), you don't necessarily have the ability to do the same kinds of screening in advance, and you won't always be able to find workers with the same level of commitment and professionalism to staff lower-tier positions. So you're more likely to fire someone simply because they couldn't or wouldn't do their jobs correctly than you are with professionals and executives.
For the record this doesn't necessarily mean he will stop giving presentations. Gates continued to do his Comdex speech after stepping down as CEO (and remaining as Chairman)
I can't think of any other public company CEO departure that would even come close to this feeling.
Good. (Downvotes please)
They didn't all have premium versions to pirate? Angry Birds didn't.

Some of the top games probably were noticed randomly by the right bloggers; a Russian blogger loved my game, and it's sitting in a nice comfortable position in the Russian Market ranking, for example. Angry Birds was probably featured in EVERY blog that deals with Android games.

Some of the top games also have annoying but effective viral marketing components; I've so far avoided stooping to those depths.

Some of them probably had better marketing plans. I'm a programmer, not a marketing expert.

And if someone inside Google decides randomly to feature a game, then it's set. My game WAS featured on AppsLib, a secondary market, and after it was no longer featured it stayed on top of the free apps ranking at #2 for weeks. As in, the #2 downloaded APP, not game.

Unless you know more than anyone else outside of Google about the actual algorithm Google uses to determine how apps rank, you have no clue as to what could have caused a game to fall -- but a huge fall happens the SAME DAY it was pirated.

It's not proof, but it's a very suggestive correlation. Just because it doesn't match your world view doesn't make it garbage. What's indisputable is that the piracy DIDN'T give me a boost in sales OR downloads, which completely invalidates the "piracy is just another kind of marketing" theory.

There's a lot of random luck involved in getting to the top organically, and the process is potentially fragile unless you've got a lot of cross-promotion you can apply from other apps. Or a lot of money to buy ads. I had neither.
It's a press release, see the top: "Press Release Source: Apple On Wednesday August 24, 2011, 6:35 pm"
That's not journalism -- that's straight from Apple's press release, which is the whole article.
Perhaps not Edison - I expect he'll be known soon for his own way of doing things. If you've ever run a technology (or any, I suppose) company it's extremely hard to ship useful AND beautiful AND working products and beyond that offer incredible support. I admire Jobs for his vision and his passion at making it happen and he's been an inspiration to me.
It's really hard to know what to say. Jobs' resignation definitely marks the end of an era, and implies that his health is getting worse, but we all knew that this day was going to come eventually.
How so? He was already on leave. Being on leave doesn't put a big strain on your health because you're not having to go in to the office. So how would health issues force him to step down?

I guess maybe if he was so sick he physically couldn't go into the office but he's remaining chairman so that can't be the case.
I have to admit I feel like his letter was more like Lou Gehrig than Michael Jordan. I wish him the absolute best.
To your main point: are irrational numbers, say, "out there"? If so, where?

On the sheet of paper in front of me, as the hypotenuse of the isosceles right-angled triangle with unit length I drew a moment ago. Irrational numbers are probably a bad example of what you're talking about.
I think that there is a risk of high quality, New York Times caliber journalism disappearing entirely. I'd prefer not to see that happen, and I don't think that paywalls are the answer. So anything that can make quality content more lucrative without forcing readers to actually fork over cash is exciting to me. I doubt that DoubleRecall can single-handedly save journalism or anything, but it might be a step in the right direction.
Steve Jobs' Resignation Letter to Apple Board of Directors
To put it bluntly, he's dying. His health hasn't been good in a while[1], and he's probably resigning to a) spend time with family before he goes, and b) to limit the damage to the company when he does.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Health_concerns
Nothing has changed in the short term, though lets hope that in the long term his successors can keep innovating as much as Apple has under Jobs.

Most importantly though, I hope that Steve recovers soon from whatever might be ailing him.

Somewhat sad times..
The true test of Steve's legacy will be whether Apple can continue in the image he molded for it well beyond his departure. Great CEO's are felt for a long time after they leave.
The end of an era for Apple. However, this is hardly unexpected. He has been very ill for a while now. Time for him to focus on himself and his family.
This was a great article in general but I'd disagree with the advice to avoid the Tenderloin or the deep Mission. These areas can be actually affordable for people living on an intern's salary, with rents that are significantly cheaper than a comparable apartment in other districts. They also have some of the best food and dive bars you can find in the city at amazing prices. Go get Mexican anywhere south of 24th, Pakistani on Post, or breakfast at Dottie's on Jones and tell me I'm wrong. The neighborhoods are also close to public transit, the more interesting parts of the city (the TL is right next to Union Square for instance), and the offices of a lot of startups.

I lived in the middle of the Tenderloin (Hyde and Ellis) for 14 months and my startup's office is currently a block from "the most dangerous corner in the city" (Mission and 6th). My girlfriend lived in the deep Mission from age 6-10. I find I'm accosted for change significantly less often in the TL compared to the "richer" areas of the city. The way it seems to me, the homeless and drug addicted that frequent the TL are "at home" when there, when they "go to work" they head to the touristy areas where people have money to ask for.

The time I've spent in the TL has also been a great learning experience with regards to understanding less fortunate people. I've had a lot of really interesting (and quite a few rather weird) interactions with drug addicts, prostitutes, and homeless. They really aren't a group that needs to be feared. They're just people trying to figure out a way to live with the cards they were dealt and a lot really appreciate the chance to talk to someone and tell their story. Its how I learned heroin dealers don't accept coins.

These more gritty areas of the city aren't nearly as dangerous as people make them out to be. Yes, if you walk down a back alley without assessing beforehand you might run into a bad situation, but this is true anywhere in the city. Being street-smart is a necessary skill no matter where you live in SF. The illegal activity that occurs in these areas (drugs/prostitution) doesn't and won't involve you if you don't get involved with it.

I know I'm rambling and waxing philosophical, but I find myself regularly defending these neighborhoods cause people just don't give them a chance. Go get lunch in a "bad area" sometime, you'll be surprised.

Otherwise, great post. Forwarded to a friend who's about to move out after college.
Things were going downhill before Steve left the first time. This is a very different scenario where they're at the top of their game.
It appears that way. 5% drop already.
That is what almost everyone says in these notes. "could no longer meet my duties" could easily mean "because I want to go on vacations with my wife and kids every day of the week for the rest of my life".
Thanks, I was gonna say the same thing. :)
I haven't seen any reason why -e^(i pi)=1 could be considered incorrect. It's consistent with the Taylor Series expansion of e^x. It's consistent with the view of complex exponentiation as rotation. I don't know of any particular problems that arise from taking -e^(i pi)=1.

This is not the case with 0^0=1, which is inconsistent with many limits. That's why 0^0=1 is an agreed-upon convention sometimes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation#Zero_to_the_zero... has a fairly nice summary of the issues involved in defining it.
who knew that he would take that LDAP bug so seriously?
I don't believe he did. Edison ran a sizeable R&D lab. Look up Menlo Park.
> [Government] which is now holding websites liable for any illegal advertisements shown on their pages.

This could turn out to be a very dangerous precedent to make, and not good news at all for any listing related startup.

Even if you don't want to host these illegal ads, and you put measures in place to block and remove them, you might still be held liable. I'd hope they go after the main violators (both of the law and Adwords ToS) and not their unwilling messengers.
I wonder why they didn't make this announcement on a Friday afternoon when the markets had already closed.
Quite the opposite. It is only just the beginning...
I will be sad when Mr. Page and Brin retire as well.
The last WWDC kind of makes me skeptical on this. He let his lieutenants do almost all of the segments he'd normally take on himself. He needs to send a message that Apple's got this – they can do it on their own.

Still, as long as he can stand and talk, I have a hard time believing he'd miss a product launch.
joe's reply clarified things somewhat - at least for me. Are replies always supposed to be rebuttals?
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I am wrong. It is still trading after-hours. It's down about 6%. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl
Announcing the first release of batman.js
Depends. GameSpot could claim the game itself is Deus Ex. They could pull a hunter off the street and ask what they would define as 'Deus Ex', the punter might say the game.
Twould be different.t if the box said 'Comes with a voucher for D'oeuvres on the box. Though in that case normal consumer rights law about accurate descriptions comes into play and GameSpot are in a very weak position then.

What would be more interesting is if Square Enix and GameSpot have some contract for how to sell these games, and GameSpot are breaking this.
I wonder how that delay reflects on the Apple org chart. Do the people behind /pr/ have advance notice of big announcements? Does Steve send his letter to them at the same time he sends it the Wall Street Journal?
>the most compelling part of the talk was his interpretation of the purpose for doing math

Exactly. Except that he misinterprets that very purpose. He assumes the purpose is entirely utilitarian. He implicitly says math should be about solving common real-world problems, like his concocted life-insurance premium minimization, which helps the common student make life decisions (as if!). While 100% of pure math folks would actively disagree with him, even 99% of applied math folk would have a tough time agreeing with his utilitarian mindset. We simply don't do math to just pay the bills. People were trisecting angles and squaring the circle and computing surds for over thousands of years with no utilitarian aspect whatsoever. He also says math problems must be rephrased as CS programming problems!!! I'm all for algebraic computing tools, and Mathematica is a rather neat addition to that category, but aside from that, the rest of his talk is beyond hyperbolic.
Koblitz makes the case against computing here:
http://www.math.washington.edu/~koblitz/mi.html
But there's a very wide literature on why math & computers don't mix in the classroom - read Dr. Jeffery King on the art of math (http://www.amazon.com/Art-Mathematics-Jerry-P-King/dp/030644... ) - there's whole chapters in that book devoted to debunking what Conrad is talking about.
It's a press release. The paragraph in question appears to be in all of Apple's releases.
Microsoft continues China push as MSN partners with Renren on instant messaging
Small satellite, big dreams
The biggest thing Jobs brought to the computing industry is humanity. The understanding that in the end, humans come first.

The second thing is he taught that you don't have to check every box in order to be successful.

He stripped computing back to its roots in science fiction, and built devices that were originally imagined, taking away feature after feature until something is understood.
God created the integers. All else is the work of man.
And Tim Cook is his successor, it's confirmed:

> Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple

> Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board

> CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2011—Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately.

http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/08/24Steve-Jobs-Resigns...
I truly, sincerely hope you're right. I've always seen Jobs as a visionary leader, but I'm uncertain he's been similarly effective at grooming a leadership team (or individual) with the same vision. Cult of personality and all that.

Part of Apple's success, IMHO, has been Jobs' ability to cut through bureaucracy, egos, corporate politics and industry politics to execute on a pristine vision. Perhaps it's my lack of faith in middle managers, but unless there is a clear mandate from leadership, details & priorities can morph down the chain of command. Visionary products can be diluted by others making what seem like perfectly sound trade-offs. It's the minimization of that dilution, setting of crystal-clear priorities, and making the hard trade-off decisions that has made Jobs such an effective leader at Apple.

That, and his ability to look several steps ahead of an industry - and arguably to create new industries - that has given rise to so many of Apple's disruptive innovations. Without him, I have a bad feeling Apple will become better at creating sustaining innovations than disruptive ones.

Of course, I don't work there and perhaps there are many others who can make such tough decisions and dream up industry-changing visions. I sincerely hope so. For the growth of the company, I sincerely hope so.
> What about all the talented engineers and designers who actually design the products and software?

What about all the talented engineers and designers at Microsoft, HP and co? Without a strong lead talent is worthless. (Either that or Apple has a monopoly for smart people and other companies hire only idiots?)
AAPL is trading at 14.xx P/E. It's low for a company with such an astonishing growth rate. To add some perspective, AMZN's P/E is hovering at 85.xx.
The Walt Disney of technology. I will miss him. Get well Steve.
Who is Steve Jobs?