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I expected to see a lot of Steve Jobs-related posts on HN today, but I did not expect a sensationalist article from a Glenn Beck website to make the front page.
I thought the title of this is annoying linkbait, so here's the "article" in its entirety:

Steve Jobs did not create products. He created an
organization that predictably and reliably created emotionally resonant products.

Steve Jobs did not make movies. He made a company that predictably and reliably made blockbusters.

Steve Jobs did not wrest market share from competitors. He created new markets that attracted and sustained competitors.

Steve Jobs did not design anything. He gave others the freedom to think about what jobs products are hired to do.

Steve Jobs did not re-engineer processes. He brought engineering processes to works of creativity and the creative process to engineering.

Steve Jobs did not develop new management theories. He showed by example that innovation can be managed.

Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where they led.

Steve Jobs was not a futurist. He just built the future one piece at a time.

Steve Jobs did not distort reality. He spoke what he believed would become reality at a time when those beliefs seemed far fetched.

Steve Jobs was not charismatic. He spoke from the heart compelling others to follow him.

Steve Jobs was not a gifted orator. He spoke plainly.

Steve Jobs was not a magician. He practiced, a lot.

He had taste.

He was curious.

He was patient.

He was foolish.

He was hungry.

These things many others can do. Maybe you can.
KDE 4.8 might not have a screensaver either, for completely different reasons. http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/10/new-screen-loc... (they don't play well with the new compositor)
Tell HN: Don't disparage Steve Jobs, or your HN user will be toast.
HN will block you by IP, keep you from logging out, will let you create a new user if you do so via new post, but then you still can't post anything.

There is no 1st amendment here. I expect this post to be obliterated. I just can't believe any site called "Hacker News" would be so restrictive.
I was chugging along happily until I started observing someone else's testing session!

I typed "neato!" into their search bar; they promptly logged off.
Copying the subject, because they tend to delete it when a post is killed. Sorry for the duplication:

HN will block you by IP, keep you from logging out, will let you create a new user if you do so via new post, but then you still can't post anything.

There is no 1st amendment here. I expect this post to be obliterated. I just can't believe any site called "Hacker News" would be so restrictive.
Nope. It's not immediately obvious though.

Let the radius of the Earth be R. Suppose that you are somewhere between the center of the Earth and the Earth's surface, say at x meters from the center. Then you can divide the Earth into two pieces: one smaller ball of radius x below you, and a shell with inner radius x and outer radius R "above you".

If you are inside or at the inner surface of a spherical shell, then the gravity from all the atoms in the shell is pulling at you in all directions. Now it so happens that all these little pulls exactly cancel each other out. This can be shown with Gauss' law. [Does anybody know an intuitive proof of this?]

So effectively only the inner ball of radius x counts. Now the question is whether this ball has bigger or smaller gravity than standing on the Earth's surface. It's not completely clear that the gravity is smaller because the density of the smaller ball could be different. If we assume that the density of the Earth is roughly uniform however, then it is clear that the gravity inside the Earth is lower than on its surface.

The precise condition for the gravity being lower at height x is that x/R < a/b where a is the average density of the of the Earth and b is the average density of the inner ball.
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Mossberg: The Steve Jobs I Knew
My impression from the webcast was that because they resynchronize the clocks using GPS very frequently, the different running speeds would amount to a negligible cumulative offset in the times. But I didn't read the paper.
That's probably easier said than done. The measures required to make these suits appear legitimate could severely hamper their profitability. They would basically have to do fewer suits and put a lot more work into the ones that remain, which runs counter to the troll's relatively low-risk business model.
I agree with you. In fact, the comments contradict one another.

If they did their homework, they would know Jobs holds many design patents.

and this one is funny...

"Steve Jobs was not a visionary. He put the dots together and saw where they led."

vs.

"He created an organization that predictably and reliably created emotionally resonant products."

" He made a company that predictably and reliably made blockbusters."

"He created new markets that attracted and sustained competitors."

" He gave others the freedom to think about what jobs products are hired to do."

"He brought engineering processes to works of creativity and the creative process to engineering."

I'm not sure how you "make a company" and "create new markets" without being a visionary.

All this hype about a geek yet no one really paid attention to another fine gentleman by the name of Ralph Steinman.

I am so sick and tired of people like Jobs getting all this attention and maybe I ought to start using it as a stage to remind people that while Jobs contributions to computer science are important, we ought to give the same attention to others who are equally, if not, great contributors to science. I never knew Jobs earned a nobel prize?
Call my meticulous but isn`t it the same? The US government pays the company that build the tanks, so it is a loan on the American people.
My interpretation of this post is a bit different from the others that I see here.

I see this as being about cutting through all the cliches and platitudes that we tend to run into when we talk abou Steve Jobs, and pointing out the truth behind them.

"Steve Jobs was a charismatic visionary with a knack for design who created revolutionary products."

...sounds like something the press would say about Jobs doesn't it?
I find such sentences as:

>Steve Jobs was not a futurist. He just built the future one piece at a time.

to be almost hypnotically devoid of meaning and disrespectful to the reader. Why not just say what's true? A good reader can be stunned by the truth, without needing to be lead through a difficult contradiction for dramatic effect.
Ahh I just assumed. I hear that from my younger brother a lot. He can't play any old games because "there's not enough twitch factor" and the "graphics suck." I've played it a few times, just wasn't for me.
Yes. It is so easy to forget ...
I believe you may have missed the last sentence in my post.
If this means "auto-scaling" SQL database-to-go then they've made it back on my list for that reason as well.
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So that's why the journey planners in NL are a complete fail (ns, 9292ov). Always wondered, since NL is quite up to date in general when it comes to IT.
I've been playing this action game for a while:

http://www.nplay.com/BeGone/

They update it around once week, the maps and the code.
> traditional medicine that works becomes modern medicine.

This excludes the "help with spiritual issues" from being included within modern medicine, simply because there is no way to tell whether it works. The way the "help" probably works is that the hospital sets you in contact with a third party, since AFAIK medical school doesn't teach spiritual advice.
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The fruitarian diet, Jobs was convinced, purged his body of impurities and thus eliminated the need to bathe. Rather than fire him, Alcorn had Jobs come in after hours so the other employees didn’t have to deal with him.

That...must have been an awkward conversation.
Great writing. Easy to imagine Jobs writing that speech.
As far as I can tell this is just for App Engine stuff, with APIs for Python and Java. They could have opened it up to the web with REST APIs or something similar. Am I wrong?
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Shouldn't this be easily testable? Just run the experiments while not re-synchronizing the clocks. If the too-fast measurement increases as time goes on, you now know the exact dilation amount and can account for it (retroactively even, if they recorded the times they resynchronized and the times they measured. I'd hope they did).

Whether it pans out or not, that's a nice eye for details. Props to the people who found it, it's at least something.
Mine runs screensaver for five minutes after locking the screen, and then turns the monitors off.

I run the screensaver for two reasons:

1. Coworkers can tell at a glance whether I've been gone awhile, or whether I just stepped into the bathroom or something

2. It's nice coming back to a quick break with something pretty on the screen, instead of waiting the second it takes for monitors to wake up.

For awhile I had The Apple][ xscreensaver module printing a random wikipedia entry; now I have the Matrix one to placate my inner high school self. ("This is EXACTLY what I imagined my future to be!")

To actually answer your question, though:

> Why would you want to spend cpu time/electricity executing, rendering, and displaying a screen saver when the alternative is to save $$?

> Whatever, I'm glad.

What's it matter to you? It's my cpu time, my electricity, and my money. Don't take the option away from me. If I want to do the same thing as you, I'll set it up that way.
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Remembering the future, a look at Steve Jobs impact on the future
Wouldn't the latency be a huge issue?
Screen-savers to me a relic from a time of phosphor burn-in, slow starting monitors and an annoyance that I turn-off.

I think GNOME 3 was right to not maintain them.
Impressive list. I agree that spreadsheet with open editing will be spammed very quickly (especially this type of spreadsheet with different tools). I've hoped to solve this issue in http://hnresources.com/ with github. If someone want to share resource he creates a pull request but this approach seems too nerdy even for hn audience :)
"You don’t have Flash installed, which you need to play videos. This is out of our control. Sorry about that."

Sigh.

"You don't have Flash installed": True.

"which you need to play videos": Incorrect.

"This is out of our control": Incorrect.

"Sorry about that": Probably not.
Originally, screensavers were created to prevent burning the image of the unattended desktop to CRT monitors.

Now that we've progressed past that problem, screensavers don't serve any tangible purpose other than to waste electricity and look cool like you've said.

I guess pro-screensaver people will argue you can have informative screensavers with things like the current weather, time, things like that.
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You're correct, but Google isn't in the business of providing useful services/code for non-frontend programmers.

Cf. Them not open sourcing anything remotely useful outside of their JS stuff.
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I heard this news very late last night (BST) and I didn't sleep. Absolutely gutted that we have lost such an inspiration. His 2005 Stanford inspired to me to go on a journey that makes me smile every day. A true founder of the modern world.
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What bothers me about most of the things that Gnome 3 has done recently is that they are not only changing things, but actively making it harder to change them back.
Oh no, you're talking to someone who played HaloPC from summer 2004 to january 2010 and then gave up because of cheaters and lag.

Which games do you play these days?
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Every day we see bat-shit-crazy lawsuits over patents and trademarks that have a huge impact on society, for no good reason but corporate greed. If the company follows through it means any computer system that lists possible time zones would be at risk since the original data came from a source that this company bought. Not surprised one bit by this.
I apologise if this came off as glib, it certainly wasn't meant to be. I spent four weeks in Laos last December and visited the COPE center in Vientiane; the landmine issue is a horrible, real thing that people have to cope with (and get killed by) every day, and I didn't mean to imply that what Diana did wasn't amazing.

BUT, to most (lucky) people reading Hacker News, Steve Jobs has had more of an impact on our day-to-day lives. He was a hero to many of us, and I don't think it's correct for some people to decide who is and isn't a valid hero. It's all about context.
congrats. yes, change the name. picpost is the first thing i think of... good luck on the venture
Well sure. I mean, Abe Lincoln could have shortened the Gettysburg Address to "Let's free the slaves and reunite the union", but that wouldn't have had the same impact as the speech he did give.

There's nothing wrong with presenting a difficult idea that has a more dramatic effect. Do you think Moby Dick or War and Peace are considered great due to their simple ways of communicating ideas?
Very nice post. Reading through the comments brought this back to me:

You could do Richard Branson's job.
Most of the time anyway.

Except for what he does for about five minutes a day. In those five minutes, he creates billions of dollars' worth of value every few years, and neither you nor I would have a prayer of doing what he does. Branson's real job is seeing new opportunities, making decisions that work, and understanding the connection between his audience, his brand, and his ventures.
Gotta love the ways you have to literally just give away your data to Google.
Very cool app!
It's generally considered rude to speak ill of the recently deceased.
I got the same vibe too. Just a vibe though, nothing more.
Nice use of Aviary too.
Even worse: some businesses apply spam filtering to their abuse@ address, which thus rejects reports of spam as...spam.
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Create create create
That's what being a visionary/genius is

This is the authors point :)
i noticed you guys have been quiet. thinking back to an interview where you suggested specific roadmap items that were driven by PR opportunities. congrats on the recent product developments
Most of this went right over my head, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I'm endlessly fascinated by Haskell.
or PICsicle?
That would be fine if his statements were factually correct. For example, the author's point is Steve Jobs built an organization that created great products. But he also ACTUALLY HELPED BUILD great products. Along with creating the organization.

So he doesn't really agree with me. I see your point about poetic license (and I'll be the first to admit I'm dense in the ways of poetry) but if your poetic license leads to factually incorrect statements you've taken it to far.
While this is about Steve Jobs, it was amazing how 1+1=11 with the two of them together.

I have often wished that Woz continued to design products with Apple long after he left. What if he had been there with Steve all this time?

If Woz invented the personal computer for the masses (Apple I, II, and building the Macintosh before Steve Jobs joined the team), what other unknown potential hasn't happened yet?

The other interesting thing is where Steve Jobs was seen as aloof and business minded, Steve Wozniak more than made up for it with heart.

A healthy, hearty and brainy balance if I may say.
Maybe not all the time.

http://everything2.com/title/Breakout
Steve Jobs and the Age of User Experience
Yeah, I read it in another comment thread shortly after making this one.

(In the industry, we call this "the art of self-trolling".)

I give you a sincere tip of my nerdhat for pursuit of accuracy even when it's kinda awkward.
Beware of deceiving graphs. That system scales with many cores compared to itself. Erlang isn't easy to program.

Depending on the case, you might be better off moving the critical part of the data processing to C or C++, perhaps using a relevant library. On many benchmarks Erlang is 10x slower than C. And more importantly for huge data, Erlang consumes 3x to 30x more memory.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Edit:

Relative to C/C++, Scala is somewhat better in cpu (still slower) but memory-wise it's even worse:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...
protip: if you're a bank or credit card company you need top security folks and procedures. just a thought.
My biggest complaint with Heroku is that they don't have a database offering between $15/month and $200/month.

This addition to app engine makes them more appealing than heroku at this point.
"Do you not see a problem in pointing out his very private nature, then scorning people for imagining that instead of knowing it?"

No. Maintaining a private life does not give anyone carte blanche to fill in the details with fiction. People may do it, but that doesn't make it right.
The building? Yeah, it's on Neil. I found it kind of funny too - it's just of tucked away in between a McDonald's and a Walmart (I also find it amusing how you can see a six story building from so far away - I'm from around New York)

Honestly I have mixed feelings about the school. There's stuff to like but I feel out of place a lot of the time. I've been a combination of blue and busy lately, but I should probably check out Beckman and NCSA and some other stuff.

No car and no dates as of late. :P

318 (I think it's 418 now, with Hart this semester) seems cool.
The other cloud providers have similar offerings. It has nothing to do with Google.
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The deleted original comment asked what rule they broke -- I was just answering that question. I didn't express agreement with the rule.
Any thoughts on finances? For a startup full of software focused engineers, I'd like to get taxes sorted out and managed. Any thoughts/insight on this?
The buzz word scalability is not in the blog. I assume it's just a shared MySQL server like the shared hosting vendors offered.
Steve Jobs: Enemy of Stuff that Sucks
Look, these intellectual property companies are job creators. I'm sick of all you hippies who want free access to a timezone database. As long as they keep up the lobbying and donations, they're doing a lot more for the world than silly concepts I've never heard of like "unix" and "java".
> Gotta love the ways you can optionally give away your data to any third-party service provider.

Fixed
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I think its pretty obvious how it impacts them. If the free and public database didn't exist, anyone who needed accurate timezone information would be buying it from them.

I'm not saying its right or wrong. Just pointing out they can absolutely show lost revenue.
My understanding from the last thread on this was that the decision mostly came from the people running the Italian site.
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Steve Jobs held the world up to his standards. Maybe that's why we are at such a loss now when he's gone.
I use this feature in another cloud-accounting package (non-US), it's a fantastic option that you forget how you ever lived without it. Good luck with this to help you get more traction in this sector.
Cloud computing infrastructure. simple.
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This is the only article on the topic that doesn't make me cringe. Just wanted to add my voice as most of the commentary here is negative.
Very similar to http://startuptools.pbworks.com/w/page/17974963/FrontPage

(not indicating any plagiarism or anything of the sort, just happened to come across this yesterday!)
New Utopic launched: visual bookmarking meets content discovery
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indinero does that, they're even on the HN front page today https://indinero.com/
Take location-based tasking (Gigwalk etc.), make a professional version, figure out how to move hi-res images and hi-def video most efficiently between users and then smash it into Wikileaks by making users and payments anonymous. This would be a great tool for professional information gatherers.
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I'm surprised you aren't already aware of this: the mouse lock API is being worked on in the W3C WebApps and Web Events working groups. Implementations in Chrome/Webkit and Firefox very soon, hopefully.

http://www.w3.org/2010/webevents/charter/2011/Overview.html#...
This should make App Engine a fantastic place to host Django projects.
The problem is that Olson is clearly derived from a copyright source and it's not clear that's it's protected by any of the fair use clauses.

The timezone data should have been derived from primary sources (legislation in the particular countries, etc.), by deriving from a secondary source which may have used editorial judgement in compiling that data there is potentially a genuine copyright issue.

It should be possible to rewrite Olson without using a secondary source (if it's not then it would imply that there is a clear copyright violation) and that's what the community should attempt to do.
here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575
> it's not a failing of Amex that the system is so.

Actually, it is. They failed. Their system was open for years in secret, and at least hours after someone tried to point out the problem to them.

It's not the CS rep's fault. But it is their boss's fault, all the way up to the top.
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The 11 Best Steve Jobs Quotes: Remembering The Apple CEO
Excellent article Jason.

RIP Steve.
"Do you think Moby Dick or War and Peace are considered great due to their simple ways of communicating ideas?"

This is not an argument for being deliberately obtuse.
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Yup, that's correct. Disregard me.
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I've recently learned about a two other connections with Steve Job that friend have had, albiet much smaller than you see written here. One was a friend who's father was asked to make paintings for the Apple product rooms and another who's uncle ran a bicycle shop in PA that Steve would frequent to. Both said, just working with Steve made them want to improve in all aspects.

This just goes to show you why startup hubs matter so much.
This is really well done. It's going to be very useful to us, thanks!

Edit: The tunnel to my local server doesn't work. I keep getting "There's no server running at port 80".
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