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You were lucky to have a quality library available to you. They aren't really free, and not everyone has the good fortune to grow up in a place that can afford one. You were lucky that your public school education was able to get you into a college. Not everyone has that opportunity, no matter how hard they work in school. You were lucky that you were able to find a crappy retail job to put yourself through college. Some people can't find jobs to do that, and not for lack of looking.

Libraries and public schools are excellent examples. While I can't speak for these protesters as I'm not there with them, a lot of the sentiment that people are expressing is a sense of fewer opportunities. Schools and libraries are getting their budgets slashed across the entire country. This due in large part to fiscal policy. Bad policy leads to lower tax revenues leads to cutting teachers and library resources. I don't have the solution, but I can see how it's related to the finance industry as a whole.

I agree with you that people should be responsible for making use of the opportunities that they have. Being offered a public education doesn't guarantee you anything, you have to actually take the time to learn from it. But that only works so long as we continue to offer quality public educations.

I'm really just tired of people saying "I made it, why can't everyone else?" without considering that their situation may be different.
There is plenty of this in modern medicine, as a matter of fact my wife is on a palliative care rotation in Med School right now, and this is a major focus.

However it must be said that it seems that this bit is considered very 'newfangled' and touchy-feely by much of the medical community.
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I've been reading through the Backbone.js source code this week. While it's been a good exercise for my javascript-fu, it does feel pretty dull at times. I'm forcing myself to power through all of it because I know that I can't really form ideas with tools I'm unfamiliar with.

So, out of curiosity, how do you learn a new language or library? What's been most effective? Has that changed over time?
at some point, all the people dealing with the false positives will be costlier.
It's tough to know, but my bet is that they will test a couple of basics, at least:

1. Run levels

2. Start up scripts

3. User/group adding, ownership changes

4. Process/daemon lifecycle - starting, stopping, monitoring, killing, etc

5. Performing actions with the network - ifconfig, ifup, iptables maybe

I would think they would use these types of topics because they are fairly similar across most distros and even most Unices. If you're know the commands and the most commonly used switches for the above mentioned topics, you're probably in ok shape.
Ah ok i'm sorry i misread that.
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There's a lot more info on a smart-phone than the telco necessarily stores. They'll have call records, ip allocations, and maybe some low-res traffic logs. Probably cell/subcell location info for a while too. I doubt they'd be intercepting or snooping actual internet wire traffic though, and I can't imagine how they could keep it for any length of time, just by sheer volume (secret NSA junction-boxes notwithstanding). And any secure traffic over your data connection is pretty much safe, except for whatever traces it leaves on the phone itself (caches, browser history, downloads, etc)
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And I, just now, walked into my home office after a trip to my doctor for a check-up ... a check-up I'd been putting off for 2 years or so. The timing is impeccable with what happened yesterday in mr. Jobs' passing.

Health and your personal well-being have never been more important to me than it is now. I've lost 50+ pounds in the last 6 months because I couldn't ignore my health problems any more. It got to be too important that I pay attention. Another thing I've lost? My sister. She was 36 years old. She died from a pulmonary embolism while she was getting ready to go to work as an ICU nurse. Ironically, she was a nurse who rarely (if ever) saw a doctor and ended up passing away because she didn't know she was prone to easy blood clotting.

If that's not a wake up call, I don't know what is.

Why will I miss Steve Jobs? Not the iphones and macbooks and ipads that I've bought and enjoyed immensely - but the lesson that tomorrow is no sure thing and to live today as if it's not. This particular lesson is what I'll always remember about this man. He helped us get all of this wonderful STUFF, purchased with money, but the journey that got Apple there is entirely without a price tag.

Hug your family members first. Tell them to literally take care of themselves immediately after.
What is the next big technological frontier? The next 'tech gold rush'?
Specifically, what is the next big area of exploration in computers that isn't really being taught in colleges and doesn't require an immense amount of training to explore?

We had the hardware and software of the 80's, the Dot Com boom of the 90's, resurgence of Web 2.0 and social media in the 2000's, and now it seems that mobile application development is the current boom.

I feel the new industries which will have a profound impact are the commercialized space race in the mojave dessert (a.k.a. Rocket Town), bionics and robotics (silicon valley and boston), and the human computer interaction field of neuroscience. However all of these seem to require graduate level work to even break into.

Will there be anything like the last quarter of the 19th century again in our lifetime?
I just saw this in a (German) newspaper. Apparently Reuters picked it up.
That's a bad example, they had a bad leader and didn't believe in Steve so completely changed Apple's model, structure and vision. This time it's totally different, Tim Cook has been at the forefront in the last few years, without him the iPad especially (Looks like it could be their most popular product ever, eventually) was all thanks to his deals.

Steve put an amazing team around him like Jonny Ive, it's a very different situation not to then. The company was already on the rocks then, today it's not.
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Steve Jobs "may never be equaled"
he was going out on a date that evening—and he hadn’t been on a date for a long time. He explained that he’d just met the woman he was seeing a few days earlier, and was very nervous about his date. The Steve Jobs—so confident as a businessman and technologist—had melted away, and he was asking me—hardly a noted known authority on such things—about his date.

rofl @ Steve Jobs asking Stephen Wolfram about dating.
I think a good full-time teacher might make more difference than a village's worth of computers, if you could have only one. The problem is that, to make effective use of a computer, you need to be inspired. A teacher can provide inspiration; the computer can provide access to inspiring people, perhaps, but it can't make them more attractive than porn videos.
"iPod (etc.) was a design win and a business win, but Jobs just helped hire good people."

That's like saying the iPod developers just helped write code, or the iPod designers just helped design. Hiring good people is huge.
Steve Jobs said to Stephen Wolfram, "Call it Mathematica"
I ask because, while in 1989 I was programming choose your own adventure games in BASIC on a commodore, I was too young to make anything of it. In the late 90's I was finishing up high school in the rural south without access to any real cs/ce curriculum. And in the mid 2000's I was working on my degree in Digital Media despite being a step ahead of almost every subject covered. (I probably should have been pursuing ce, or better yet, just moved to Palo Alto)

So I keep mulling over the idea of going back to school to get up to the level needed for the industries above. But part of me just wishes there was a way to dive in and get my hands dirty like they were doing in the beginning of all this.
The article and the commenters are so smug about how easy it is to register a new domain name, but what if they issue a new court order that applies to all domains now or in the future associated with the Pirate Bay, or they decide to block IP addresses instead?

I don't want to begrudge the basement dwellers their lulz, but access to the pirate bay is by no means guaranteed for the non-tech-savvy.
Good point, I like that it was streamed but the website is a bit behind. Ahead of London though, probably.
Now we just need fullscreen and mouse grab support. Without those, first-person gaming in the browser is effectively impossible.
FWIW, Lion users on new-ish hardware should be able to use three fingers to double-tap on words to define them: http://cl.ly/3w2r3p42261w1z2j1X3F
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I'm already making money writing software for customers. Doesn't mean I need to take money for the software I write for myself.
The Onion on Jobs
> Steven Wolfram had a reputation for being difficult and an introvert - but the more I read or see about him, the more I find him inspiring and quite brilliant.

Well, it's an archetype. The socially difficult hermit who can do things no one else can.
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I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Apple was hugely successful when he was there, when down the toilet while he was gone, and went on to create and dominate three new markets after his return. I mean, sure, a lot of the same talented engineers and designers were working at Apple both with and without Steve, but they just coincidentally happened to gain superpowers when he was there — nothing to do with him.
There's one big difference in those letters though. The letter to grandma will be addressed to a person. The letter with documents for Experian will be addressed to... Experian, which is a known company dealing with money and personal data.
Seriously? I won't take American Express anytime soon, I can tell you that. If this gets picked up in mainstream media, it is devastating.
The Onion on Steve Jobs
I would recommend haystack also for someone wanting to take this to the next step. Since django is already being used and he can swap Whoosh for solr if needed to.
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I use Mathematica every day at work, I was not aware of the rich history Wolfram had with Jobs.
I have to agree with the others here, while you may have done what you believe is the "right" thing, you have absolutely no idea if that avenue of inquiry went anywhere, and based on my experience working in an enterprise, I would guess that even if it did go anywhere from there it would take weeks for meetings to get scheduled, and months for people to get assigned to actually do anything about it.
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Why not? He said that start from generic term for 'something', not necessarily the product you are trying to name. So I think his theory holds. [And if you think about it, the name 'Google' follows the same theory.]
He's reporting a vulnerability on a website. It is absolutely reasonable to expect to be able to report it through email, and utterly ridiculous of AMEX to refuse. That's where the conversation ends, not with "well, you should spend your time fighting through these costly and obsolete mechanisms so you can do us a favor".
"Steve Jobs did not design anything."

Not true. Look at the history of Apple. He definitely did.
Intentional, no doubt.

As was the next allusion to "change".
I disagree with this, but instead of expressing my opinion, I'll point you to the stories of people who were actually there. http://folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&cha...
He was trying to handle it over email. He was just asking the doorman for directions to the manager's office.
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If you ever get the chance to hear Woz speak drop everything and do it. As I mentioned on HN before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2524640 I heard him address MSU engineering students after he received his honorary doctorate.

He left an indelible impression on all of us that day that is still resonating months later. Made all of us want to go build something!
A few (rather obvious) tips.

- SEO - make sure your site can be found by certain keywords. A lot of traffic can be driven from Google. Maybe focus on "quotes of wisdom" or something. Recently there was a website on HN discussing how to monetize his site - 80% of his traffic came from Google. You need SEO. There is a great guide on the SEOmoz website.

- Blog content - write some really good content that is useful for people who don't use your product. First of all, it helps with overall SEO, second of all it will help with referrals that bring customers that actually do want to use it. This shouldn't be hard given you are a winsdom-sharing based site. Find some inspirational stories etc. etc.

- Partnerships - try to get some partnerships with similar companies or companies where you can help one another. Ex: look for a partnerships with a virtual book design site or something.

These are just a few off the top of my head. Best of luck
No, he did not appear to want to discuss it over twitter either. They offered that.

I assume he was looking for a specific email address and perhaps a PGP key. Sure, that would be nice. But using the telephone is a pretty common method of transmitting important, time-sensitive information.
Crunchyroll did the same thing with anime. They streamed fansubs and offered paid accounts with some benefits (I forget what exactly).

A while back they went legit and now have simulcasting deals with some of the anime distributors. You can get it the same day as Japan with your paid subscription, or get it for free the next week. At the same time, all of their old content was taken down.

I'm not saying I like this model, but it's been done before.
Like I said - I understand why it's done and it seems to be a method of forcing some cards to be blocked ("I found cards with those numbers..."). Unfortunately it causes some issues if you actually intend to return the wallet/card to the owner.
That you're not mourning Jobs is fine. To tell others "Remember him the way _I_ do" is offensive at best.
"In 1982, Steve Jobs was forced out of the Lisa project,[2] so he joined the Macintosh project instead."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa
> And? Sarah Palin didn't invalidate the Tea Party.

No, but her co-opting the movement for her own political ambitions diluted the message and removed focus from the original grievances.

> It would have meant GM and Chrysler's annihilation, along with many UAW members losing their jobs. But every other car maker in North America has union plants. The UAW itself wasn't going anywhere if GM and Chrysler failed.

My impression was that GM and Chrysler was UAWs last stronghold and that all the foreign car makers had set up shop in right-to-work states exactly to avoid UAW influence. But the point was, you make it sound like they generously made a concession, when they in reality took government money to arrive at a better result than the starting point (bankruptcy).

> But the right to form a union or bank does.

You can form all the unions you want, but if you use government power to inject yourself between the employer and the employee, you're just as bad as a rent-seeking corporation using government regulation to give your company an advantage.

> And the very right to organize is what union struggles are increasingly about. Just look to Ohio and Wisconsin.

OWS has been firmly grounded in financial issues as the name suggests. Union rights don't seem to be at the front of the agenda, although I have no doubts the unions would like to change that.
How terrible is it that the one to break the news to Woz was a reporter looking to get Woz's take?
"If you can win in competition within your organization through putting down other people, your organization has bigger problems."

You say this as if it were rare or unexpected! If so, then you are missing the weight of what you said! Once a company, or nearly any organization, gets big and old, it's nearly standard that the organization becomes arrogant, inwardly directed, and process oriented, has big cases of middle management goal subordination, and has each person fighting with others down the hall instead of the competition outside the building. Or, people go to work, work their tails off, stay busy, busy, busy, put in long hours, come home dead tired and frustrated, and the organization accomplishes next to nothing because all the effort is lost in internal mud wrestling.

The solution mostly is not to 'find a new job' because nearly all organizations of any size are like this.

Yes, the solution is to start your own company.

This pair of observations is solid now because, really, big organizations in the US -- GE, AT&T, GM, and more -- are dying out due to new technology, small competitors, foreign competition, etc. The US is regressing to the mean of many old world economies of a lot of small companies with little role for big ones.

Once you reach some maturity and begin to understand people,
being good 'socially' gets to be simple enough. F'get about the struggles in middle school, high school, and college! So: (1) Have money! If you don't, then JOB ONE is to make some! (2) Stand up straight and be confident! (3) Mostly expect only respect, not loyality or affection. (4) Work to understand the emotions, fears, frustrations, and aspirations of others and, then, don't rub them the wrong way.

For adult women, first on their list is your money: They want to know that you have money enough to support a family and, further, have the competence to make more such money.

For girls in high school, they want to see you as confident and, then, gentle with them, and then perceptive about their emotions. They want affection, often sex, praise, acceptance, approval, and validation of their worth as girls. By late high school and in college the young women move your money to the head of their list of what they want.

That's about it.
Yes, Woz is my hero also but we have to consider - without Steve would we have seen Woz's brilliance? Great partnerships are difficult to untangle as to who influenced who, the greater.
More likely: people will be assured the problem is fixed, and then not care.
These are a very well written set of articles. Heartwarming.

At Apple, Jobs inspired without inspiring much love. “He’d stop by and say, ‘This is a pile of shit’ or ‘This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen,’” Andy Hertzfeld, who helped develop the Macintosh, told Moritz. “The scary thing was that he’d say it about the same thing.” The people at Apple had a name for that behavior, too: “the shithead-hero roller coaster.”

That phrase always makes me chuckle. Time to re-read a few folklore.org entries.

Single page links for the three parts:

Part 1: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-beginning-1...

Part 2: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-wilderness-...

Part 3: http://www.businessweek.com/printer/magazine/the-return-1997...
With both Facebook and Google, why aren't developers contacted before the app is taken down?

It is so fucked up to remove someone's product and business arbitrarily without notice.
Modified the wording a little bit. Hopefully now it won't offend anyone?
That's all a little disingenuous. Who among us can do all of these things, and stand so strong in the face of criticism?
It's amazing how humble Woz is about it too. Even after several incidents between the two that paint Jobs in fairly poor light (such as the "Woz Plan"), Woz has nothing but respect and admiration for him.

I thought the first computer that Woz made had a mouse and GUI though ("borrowed" from Xerox PARC), am I remembering wrong? The Lisa was started in 1978 way before Woz left.
To be fair, he asked repeatedly for a proper security contact and claims they don't publish one for whatever reason.

If the only way to contact you is through clueless support people who have a script that doesn't include your option, yeah, that's a problem. But usually it's the customer who is screwed by this. This time, it bit the company instead.

That said, you can always ask if someone knows a security contact on BugTraq. Someone there will probably know.
Most companies don't want their programming tests out in the wild, usually. Plus I'm not exactly doing this with his permission.
In tribute to Steve Jobs
Really? I use it for editing quite a lot, emails, text messages or often Evernote.
He denied paternity of his daughter Lisa, even testifying in court that he was infertile. Lisa's mother was on welfare for a time because of this. So if you are going to say he was a loving father, you should also mention that he was a neglectful one.

You left out the part where he accepted paternity, supported his daughter financially, and had a very strong relationship with her until his death.

No one is perfect, but how can you hold mistakes he made decades ago (this happened in the 1980s) and subsequently rectified against him?
Does that show all articles? http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=400 doesn't show http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2227770, oddly.
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Minor remark about the headline: This appears to be a TF2 map loaded into a minimal Source Engine WebGL port as an example. TF2 itself was not ported, just enough of the Source Engine components to load a map - he could've used a map file from just about any Source Engine powered game.

Awesome project :)
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> That correlation is really weak, though, so I don't think it matters.

The payback is entirely a function of the contribution stream (amounts and time).

> In any case, why should it make a difference what happens to the money after you pay it?

Because money collected for specific services rendered isn't much like money collected for general public services.

For example, many cities do garbage collection. While that money is collected by govt, it isn't much like property or sales tax.

Suppose that I'm looking to live in one of two cities. One has govt garbage collection and will charge me $100/month and the other has a private franchise providing garbage collection, again for $100/month. Would you really claim that the first city has higher taxes?
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