skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people are closer to the middle. The middle isn't what we need. Compassion, caring, and humility in our passions are.
So, oddly, the incorrect use of "peaked" instead of "piqued" made me dig up who on earth was copy editing TheBlaze.

Discovering that it's a website founded and funded by Glenn Beck made all the furor over dude with lots of guns make more sense. Not all phone searches or arrests are a bad thing.

That or use a non-smart phone. That's what i do :P (though i don't have any assault weapons to hide either)
Exponential smoothing and peak estimation won't help with the fundamental problem, which is that warning based on storage costs alone produces the correct result -- in the sense that funds run out after exactly 7 days -- 90% of the time. Any non-trivial addition of bandwidth costs into the equation is going to hurt far more often than it helps.
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None of that would have mattered in this case. He was arrested already. The phone search was part of an "inventory" search for impounding the car. A judge would have issued a warrant for the phone contents as he did for the home later in the case (where the authorities found guns, drugs, and money).

The interesting part of this case has to do with the precedent that a cell phone is a "container" just like a glove box or safe. As such, when being legally searched (such as when doing an inventory search) it can be accessed and the contents claimed as evidence.
> What would Steve have said about the software?

Why are OS X and iOS APIs riddled with NS prefix? Who founded NEXTStep? Was Woz there? Was Woz at Pixar? Not to diminish the input of the man, but: Steve without Woz would still be known for something. Woz without Steve? Would probably hack happily at HP.
You might be better off with the smart phone, if any of the phone numbers in your call history are relevant to the police.
I disagree. It raises several old pieces for people who may not have seen them, and perhaps (re) engages discussion on some of these topics that are quite important to many of us.

On a few of the threads, I've seen some old user ID's crop up that I haven't seen here in a coon's age (slang for 'a long time', for those not familiar with the colloquialism -- coon is short for raccoon).
I think its safe to say that each and every one of us, directly or indirectly owes Mr. Olson a pint of his favourite ale. I have a few projects using tz_data directly to maintain DST changes across multiple time zones and to be honest I don't know what I'll do if that database goes away. Its been taken for granted by many until now but I remember being screwed once just because I didn't update it to account for some changes in DST times. So if those updates are stopped we'll all be affected.
Its not about the knowledge.

Its about the fact that many decent jobs won't accept any applicants without a degree. Yes you can get all of that knowledge but what proof do you have?

By the way im a CS grad with a job

Im just saying this as someone who is frustrated with people all ways using the strawmen of free online education which only recently became prevalent and the fact that they fell into circumstances that allowed them to either not need college or go for cheap.

The story my generation was sold as kids is that you go to college and then you get a good job.

Somewhere along the way that contract was broken... that is part of what this protest is about
Steve Jobs: The Beginning, 1955-1985 (Part 1 of 3)
Installing and configuring VMs up to the point where you can do good testing with them is a painful and tedious work. Why waste the time of expensive professionals on something if you can fix the problem for $70-$150 a month?

$70 bucks a month is only real money if you're a broke startup. Otherwise it's peanuts.
> Perhaps, but is minimum wage actually a living wage?

What is a 'living wage'?

> just because someone is employed doesn't mean that they are in a good position.

They certainly are in a better position than somebody who is unemployed.

As Thomas Sowell pointed out: The real minimum wage is always zero: unemployment.

All the minimum wage does is distort the labour market to favour automation and highly skilled workers over the inexperienced and low skilled.

Basically, it hurts precisely the people it was supposed to help.
The middle is only achieved by meticulously removing all emotion and dissecting the words down to structure only. Passion for anything drives us to the edges.

I guess I would rather have the vibrant edges and a sense of civility that, frankly, has never been there(1) than the gray landscape of the middle.

(1) see various sources on the election of 1800 for a nice historical example
"There's nothing in modern medicine that teaches you how to prepare for death, or how to balance an extra 1% chance of survival with the pain of chemo. Take comfort in philosophy, religion, go hold last lectures."

Sounds a lot like end of life counseling, which is part of modern medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-of-life_(medical_treatment...
Who's Going to Fund All These Seed-Stage Startups in 3-5 Years? Try OpenView
I have found multiple IE just doesn't work the same a real IE install, and it is hard to duplicate the same bugs as users see. As you can see the top rated answer is "don't do it, use VMs".
I've been known to be brash and enjoy brash statements, but for an awareness cause it doesn't really resonate with me. Especially with copy like "let's declare this month Fucktember".. It really comes off, I dunno, immature? Seems like the emphasis is more on saying the word fuck rather than having an aggressive proactive attitude towards cancer screening and awareness.
"You may not call it luck, and I don't know your specific situation, but I'm going to hypothesize that you had some help along the way. How did you educate yourself? "

We could go very far with attributing luck to success. Einstein must have been very lucky to come up with the theory of relativity.

In fact, everything we do must be due to luck because it's lucky our planet is in a position from the sun that's habitable.

"How did you educate yourself"

By going to the library in the beginning (which is free) and then later through the Internet (which is also now free at almost any library in the US). Most people in Highschool and in college are out partying every weekend with their friends..and then they wonder why they aren't successful when it comes to getting a job. I chose to sacrifice my time to learn things that I knew would help advance my career.

"How did you pay for it?" With a crappy retail job that didn't really have much to do with my career.

"Did you go to a public school system". Yes.

"My point is, we often take this sort of assistance for granted, and it is gratifying to credit ourselves with 100% of our success. Maybe you are 100% responsible for your own success. If that's the case, you're the first such person that I've ever met."

I'm still not sure what your point is. It seems to only be brought up when anyone successful achieves anything great or when someone wants an excuse as to why they can't succeed.

I also said luck has less than 1% to do with it. I know people that were in my exact same position at the exact same time. They chose to do things differently and now are working paycheck-to-paycheck. I saved my money (instead of buying the new $500 android phone when it came out) and now I don't have to worry about emergencies because I have enough money to pay for it.

I'm really just tired of people not taking personal responsibility for their actions.
Last American Who Knew What The Fuck He Was Doing Dies
Instance Variables in Objective-C
IMHO the answer is to show Turkey what they're missing. Open our borders (Canadian specifically, but all ideally) to their mistreated (and those from everywhere else) and let them live happy productive lives.

Accelerate the brain-drain until nothing but the dictator is left, then go back and take over.
This is incorrect in a couple of interesting directions, if you read the (annoyingly numerous) other comments I've written in the thread. Here, I'll just suffice it to say that even in an arrest search, and maybe even in a warranted search, if the police can't decrypt your phone, that's the ballgame.
Too slow to use over here in Europe. Feels like using VNC on a dialup.
Really? Do you know what his salary was at Apple as CEO? Do you know how much money the man just through away by letting stock options expire? It seems to me that once he had a certain amount he really didn't care about money at all anymore.
Is Olson adequately represented?
Patent Trolls seem to favour the Eastern District of Texas[1]:

"The district has been perceived to be a favorable jurisdiction for plaintiffs in patent infringement lawsuits, which win 88% of the time compared to a nation-wide average of 68% in 2006"

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/United_States...
tzdata and tzcode are also interpretations of the data where the decision to accept Shanks' info or not is made for every entry in the database, for example:

# Austria

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and
# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and
# Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged"
# date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition
# Shanks & Pottenger give 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV,
# and guess 02:00 for 1945-04-12.
"But I can definitely say that the mythos of the well-earning "self-made" IT man was a major blemish on the idea, not an asset."

That's right, there's no self-made anything. It's all luck.
The second link has a transcription of the FARC website. It's not a rumour, FARC used to be present in the Foro de Sao Paulo meetings. But of course you're free to reject any evidence you want.
The original (one-page) version of this is here: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-few-memo...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079799
That's "medications and treatments to control pain and other symptoms". It doesn't cover dealing with the philosophical issues.
All user information is kept private and everything is erased once user stops testing. Sure, the security document is coming soon!
What? How are the two even remotely similar?
Tribute to Steve Jobs - My two cents
Twinkle twinkle little star

Steve, know this wherever you are

Mac Book pushed the pc frontier

iphone and ipad raised the genius bar

The Apple you nurtured will grow forever

We all forget you never!

* To the HN community, please feel to add or change it to make a better tribute to Steve.
What was the point of bringing it up, then?
Faster-than-light neutrinos face time trial
Do you have/know of a similarly understandable description of monads, preferably with examples? I'd love to see one.
Nice post.

For those considering something like this, you might want to consider using scrapy, a Python web crawler, instead of rolling your own crawler.

I remember when I was looking for something like this a year ago and found that project. I've used it for a few things and it does a nice job abstracting away most of the core scraping architecture, but leaving room to be extended as necessary. After playing with it for a few weeks, makes you realize just how easy it is to grab a bunch of data from the web if you need it.
And to add on top it looks like a con, the design is horrific.
He was a great man. But, he wasn't perfect. He basically took credit for Woz's creation, backed the losing Lisa (and prior to that the Apple III) rather than the Mac and jumped ship to the Mac when the Lisa tanked. The OS X technology was written by NeXT before Apple bought them. iPod (etc.) was a design win and a business win, but Jobs just helped hire good people. He makes a great front-person, was a stellar businessman, and helped make Silicon(e) Valley what it is today. He seems to have been a great father and husband also. My heart goes out to his family and friends for their loss. But seriously- the man was a front man for great technology that people use.

I feel like I'm living in a real-life Simpsons episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGIn9bpALo
Meh. Our governments (USA, Canada, EU) waste more, they just give it to lobbyists. At least this is a bottom-up instead of our top-down theft.

Given that the lower income you have the more of your income you spend, giving stimulus packages exclusively to the poorest members of society and letting it trickle up seems the only reasonable way to do it.
Doing both: apparently hard.
I can't bear the pretentiousness of this video. The filler clips are so overdone, from the high-aperture clip of the can of Canada Dry Ice and whatever else it was by the guy's computer mouse to the nerf guns to the shot of a very typical Command Prompt screen in Matrix green. They're trying so hard.
hmmm that would be cool... count in percent instead of absolute votes... (percent of votes to total user base)
Read the rest of it.

"Either way, services are available to help patients and their families with the medical, psychological, and spiritual issues surrounding dying."

All that aside, the focus is on making the end of life comfortable, which would naturally involve that sort of thing. Modern medicine takes what works from traditional and otherwise, and counseling is part of it.

There's a good saying: traditional medicine that works becomes modern medicine.
Currently our server in europe is at Ireland. Soon coming up with more in europe: london, amsterdam and more
Nope, didn't know him personally, but his works gave me great joy and changed my career path. It is in some / most people's nature to care about those we will never meet, and I have more reasons for caring about this soul then some killed in various tragedies. I would imagine some on HN also have similar touchstones or perhaps have lost or almost lost people to cancer. Things like this are close to home for many.
New York Will Have A Thriving Tech Community And We Will Help Build That
Depends on who's looking for me. I basically assume that anything i'm doing w/ a telco is going to end up in the hands of law enforcement officials if they ask for it :P The question is really one of what agency they belong to and what their clearance is going to be.
Thanks, I've made the correction.

Here's the link. There's no specific discounting info on the web but when I called the number on this page, the Verizon rep told me it would be $10 off.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/press-releases/verizon/2009/ve...
Steve Jobs: The Wilderness, 1985-1997 (Part 2 of 3)
That's no longer universally true: http://mashable.com/2011/07/05/twitter-dm-verified-account/
They didn't have many other options with Spotify being free and ad-supported. Good move by Rdio, this model works for the majority of users.

I'm not sure if the music industry is being dragged into this model kicking and screaming or they finally realized its potential. Either way, the consumer wins.
Steve Jobs: The Return, 1997-2011 (Part 3 of 3)
Tcl includes it too.

I wonder how this really _impacts_ ACS Publications. If they're just defending their work for the sake of exercising their copyright, perhaps they should have chosen to license the work to the DB. Especially considering the volunteer effort that the freely available Olsen TZ DB has been.
its coming soon!
Made on a Mac
> Actually, I think diamond is getting much cheaper.

Yeah, but good luck doping it n-type.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about death of people. I'm sure he gets the same satisfied smile smashing a mosquito that the rest of us do.
maintaining local VM's and browsers may be "an invisible cost" to organizations, but what about the zillions of web designers out there?
Avoiding Big Data Overload
Though all passwords/history/etc are cleaned. Your idea seems like a better one!
Maybe we're talking past each other. It would be ridiculous to claim that Steve would've said "Woz, you should consider this design pattern or abstraction to solve that problem you're having". I imagine it would have been more general points about the user experience he hoped for.
Things we can learn from Facebook
Think Different Tribute Video to Steve Jobs
"It sounds like your recommendation would be for everyone to chase money regardless of their passions."

If you don't think about the money at some point, then don't complain when you can't find a job. It's not your job to chase money and it's not society's job to pay you for something that's worthless.

"You have to admit that people who are passionate about things that pay well get a better deal in that situation."

You can make money with almost any passion, you just need to be smart enough to find the market. Most people want to be handed it...which just isn't going to happen.

"Also, regarding success: hard work and intelligence matter a lot, but so does opportunity. Have a look at Gladwell's Outliers for an interesting analysis of this."

I don't need to. I see opportunities every day that people in my exact same position at the exact time (at work for instance) miss. Why? Because I have the skills and experience and I know what I'm looking for. Without the skills, knowledge, and experience, the opportunity is worthless.

The more knowledge and skills you have, the more opportunities you will see and the better chance you have at becoming successful.

It's really sad to see so many people equating success with pure luck.
This is a great example of how competition spurs innovation. Rdio has always been a great service with a poorly done trial period that probably discouraged a lot of people from using it long enough to love it. The only reason I stuck with it past two weeks was because my fellow geek friends pushed me to give it a shot since they loved it so much.

Spotify definitely pushed them to re-evaluate this trial period and probably helped them push on the labels to offer them more profitable licensing deals for free users.

Great to see the rising tide lifting up some other boats in the music industry.
First, Steve's family asked us to respect their privacy. They never made his fight with cancer a public matter and it's terribly rude to speculate like this.

Discussing a possible injustice that may have cost him his life seems like a worthwhile reason to drag his name into the conversation. And though the individual ultimately has a right to privacy and choice over their own treatment, I worry that such politeness helps create the bubble in which misinformation can go without scrutiny.

my honest impression is that for several forms of cancer the current state of "orthodox" treatment (typically chemotherapy and radiation) is a joke worth skipping in exchange for what quality of life you have left

If you know of a better cancer treatment, then the scientific community eagerly awaits evidence of your discovery. If you think that current best practices do not act in the best interests of the patient, that too can be supported with evidence. There is no reason to conflate disruptive theories with abandoning rationality by pigeonholing scientific medicine into an orthodoxy.

Skepticism and prejudice are easily confused. Skepticism is harder, but it's also correct.
They fail so hard because Visa and the banks aren't the ones liable for losses. Liability falls to you (if you don't report) or the merchant (through charge backs).

Visa and the bank make their money either way. Merchants have no choice but to "bend over and take it up the tailpipe".
My advice is assuming you've yet to be arrested or questioned thoroughly. Cops are legally required to answer these questions truthfully, and if don't ask them specifically cops are known to play with semantics and probing questions to get you to implicate yourself.

Approaching a police interaction like I said above helps you end the interaction before letting the cop get near the point of reasonable suspicion.
What wrong did I say here? Can't we techies be poetic and emotional?
I used to buy Windows licenses, even multiple use family packs. And I would install them in Parallels on my Mac for testing IE. That works, until your Windows keys start to expire. I guess I installed them too many times. Now my keys no longer work.

So now I pirate copies of Windows that I have paid for, because it's too much hassle to work with the legitimate versions.
"Are you an evidence based mind-reader?"

I made a guess, he confirmed I was correct.

I suggest you read the entire conversation tree when you consider responding.
Over night fame for the Apple Logo by 18 year old kid.
the rotated text does not look good in firefox 7/mac:

http://i.imgur.com/XsiTi.png

i know of a service they can use for testing their website in different browsers...
> the raw information contained in it shouldn't be?

That's correct. Supreme Court decision. Said decision is the reason why you occasionally read news articles about the U.S. considering some form of database protection laws - to make those databases protectable under law (and therefore to make this lawsuit legitimate).
Sort of. They cannot prescribe medications, which is a pretty big part of being a physician, primary care or otherwise. http://www.doh.wa.gov/hsqa/professions/documents/Prescribing...
This is the most annoying mobile scrolling I've ever seen. What could possess anyone to make this? Sorry to be off point, but the scrolling makes it half impossible to read.
The video of Jobs' actual talk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u...
I can understand that Astrolabe would be irritated about it, as it probably took a lot time and effort to get the information, but I don't see how that makes the information itself copyrightable.
I think its exactly that. Its just copyright for the sake of copyright. As if Olson got stinking rich from tz_data.
I think MS provides VM images of Windows for testing IE.
Thanks. I am using it as my wallpaper at work.
Next time, I would try reaching their Public Relations group for help. PR people are almost always accessible by name, phone, and email -- they're usually on the bottom of every press release that goes out. They also have good internal channels to every part of the company and know who to contact.

Googling for "american express public relations" turns up a page with three NY-based vice presidents, with direct lines and email addresses listed: http://about.americanexpress.com/news/media_contacts.aspx
"The American Dream is that everyone should be able to get a full-time job and that if you're willing to work a full-time job, you'll be able to pay your bills."

If this is what people think, they have been misled. The american dream has always been that you have the ability to pursuit your dreams, not guaranteed a job. This means, you can start a business as someone who is poor and one day make enough to support your family and more. Right now, we still have this freedom.

With huge taxes and more government regulations and control, the dream will be dead. Then, the only entities left (because they can afford the taxes and regultions) will be big corporations.
There's no secret software the police have that will suck all the info off an iPhone with a 6-digit PIN.

There are the scary tools at http://www.iosresearch.org/ (for one brand of phone under certain circumstances).
> Now ask yourself, with the Greek government in its current position, if it came to you today and asked you to lend it money, not to invest it in some thing or other but merely to pay back previous creditors, would you do it?! Yeah, me neither...

Absolutely not. Nobody rational would. That's the point.

>> [...] this psychological warfare against the faceless 'markets', that are pushing more and more to funnel taxpayer's money in their ill-gone investments.
> Have you ever thought twice about what exactly "faceless markets" are? Markets are composed of many agents, people, institutions, and mostly your pension money! It's true.

Yeah, so? They don't have to step up and ask for a loan. They just sit back in their masses and demand institutionalized theft to bail out their investments.

And why does it suddenly make things right that it's just regular people doing it?