skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering how apparent it was that Steve’s health was gravely bad and rapidly deteriorating, we all in the back of our minds knew the time we had him in this world was limited and precious. So it comes as a complete shock to me how upset I actually am by Steve’s passing.

Even though most of us never knew him, we all feel as if we did know him very well; his inventions, complete labours of love, have become so central to how we live our lives. The profound impact his creations have had on us cannot make us feel any other way.

I didn't go to college, and I remember having a shitty job back in the day, saving so hard to buy a PowerBook G4, but it was completely worth it because purchasing that machine literally changed my life. Without a computer that was an absolute joy to use, I would have never spent so many hours learning how to code and consequently now have the career opportunities that I do.

I feel eternally indebted to Steve, despite having never met the man myself. By creating the wonderful tools he did for us to work with, I feel he is significantly responsible for the career I have today.

To one of the few that can say ‘I changed the world’, thank you.

Rest in peace Steve
rememberingsteve - at - apple.com
Apple.com:
"If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com"
Steve Jobs, A Lesson in Treating Illness
At this moment, 30/30 stories on the front page are about Steve Jobs. Has one story ever done that? Clearly, our loss is very widely recognized. We've lost a hero.
I'm so glad to have seen this picture. This picture, more than any of Steve's great speeches, accomplishments, or products, makes me feel that we are in some way kindred spirits. I have spent countless nights enjoying a very similar living situation while starting tech businesses over the past decade. With absolutely no arrogance or pretense, I will say that although I am saddened to see Steve pass, I am heartened to know that the visionary spirit and drive lives on in me and in many others.
What We've Learned From Steve Jobs
I thought I was honoring his memory but fine, I'll take it down.
Steve Jobs: Photo Booth 2005
I'm only one customer, but I'm clearly in the target market, as I've contributed to three projects on Kickstarter.

You're right, it would have been useful to point this out.
Me, although it's my parents basement and not a garage. And I have the Gandhi poster framed, which I snagged when my school considered disposing those posters ...
Steve Jobs has passed away - The visionary genius that changed our lives
I know...I do remember that the release date was pushed up too...which makes me think it might have been his 'last stroke of genius'.

Talk about consistently having the right timing in almost everything he does.
What's the Linux support like?
Whether this chair was for Steve or not, it felt very symbolic/struck a chord with me. I'm surprised at how sad this single photo made me feel. We all knew it was coming, but it still hit me in a way I didn't think it would.

He shall be missed.

I never met you, but you were an inspiration. Rest well, Steve.
The World-Changer: Steve Jobs knew what we wanted
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 - stackoverflow.com Blog
I don't care about some dreamy ideal of evolution or adaptability so much that I would choose to die for it.

[Edit for more substance: you imply evolution is driving humanity towards some 'good' destination, such that more evolution is better. This isn't how evolution works.]
Why is Colin downvoted for expressing a contrary opinion? Come on folks this is HN.

Fwiw On his twitter feed Colin made the more nuanced point that we didn't mourn this way for Dijkstra or Jim Gray that we do for Jobs. An interesting thought, but it didn't come through here.

I think what seems to trigger all the downvoting is this bit "De mortuis nihil nisi bonum and all that, but let's face it: Steve Jobs was a skilled salesman, nothing more." and "Let's keep the black bar for people who have actually made a contribution to computing."

One way to counter this opinion is to just state specifically how Steve Jobs is more than a skilled salesman etc. Should be fairly easy to do. I think the skills of a superior tech company CEO (and Steve Jobs was certainly that) go well beyond being a salesman,which has connotations of just selling something other people thought up.

As to the black bar,my personal opinion is that the black bar is a courtesy, a social grace if you will. As with all social niceties it isn't perfectly rational or completely logically justifiable. If you feel irritated by it, just hang in there and it will go away soon.

Meanwhile, thank you Colin, for making me think (about the way we treat the death of a celebrity differently than people who die relatively "unknown" but may have contributed more (on a strictly logical basis).
Tell HN: Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
It's what he would want.
yesterday the iPhone photo had the *_hero.jpg name
Nor will he get to live in his dream house, which he finally got permission to build on a specific spot in Palo Alto last year.
Google Home Page mentions Steve Jobs and links to Apple.com
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Classy act by Google.
Steve “It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” Picasso
Google's Homepage Tribute to Steve Jobs
A series of photos Steve Jobs took while testing Photo Booth filters in 2005
Ask HN: The Black Bar on Hacker News
what is with that black bar is killing me?
http://cl.ly/AiUG
I assume it's funeral black in memory of Steve.
Much better than the BEP link.
Gates' statement makes me really feel the generational shift in the computer industry. They were the two largest figures of their generation and now...
Whether you use/buy/like Apple products or not - it's clear they (largely under Jobs' guidance) have been one of the fundamental forces shaping the computing and consumer electronics landscapes for over 3 decades.

The man was a giant in his industry - up there with Gates and Torvalds. The world will continue on without him, and innovation/invention/market-leadership will rise, fall, and change in spite of him. Getting accolades from the likes of Gates, Brin, Page, Zuckerberg et al shows a lot about Jobs. Getting accolades from Obama shows different things. Im my opinion, filling the first 2 or 3 pages of HackerNews says an awful lot about how people in this community respect the man.

Vale Steve.
Steve Jobs's Final Public Presentation
I've created a filtered feed that removes "steve" "jobs" and "apple"

http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered

I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG.

Hope that helps.
other than the fact that the account balance alerts only consider storage used, not traffic charges. Grr.

I wish I had a good solution to this -- but it's impossible to predict when someone is going to be using lots of bandwidth, and alerting based on the current total spending rate had a very high false positive rate since bandwidth usage usually spikes for a single day and then goes down to a small fraction of the storage cost.

The downvoting is probably for being off-topic.
"And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented." <--- This is most telling.
I was introduced to an Apple ][ at about exactly the same time as you. It changed my life forever as well.
I am sad. Sad for Steve, sad for Steve's family, sad for how he could have changed the world if he lived another 50 years and also sad, selfishly maybe, that I will never have the opportunity to meet him.

RIP Steve, you inspired us and we loved you for it.
Guilty as charged about contributing to the problem, but I went to the new queue with the express purpose of voting up every non-Steve Jobs related story I could find, and didn't find many. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

I still assert that it's ridiculous. Hell, the reddit front page is more sane right now than the HN front page, and that's saying something.
"I accidentally hung up on Steve Jobs once. True story. In the mid-90's, I was a young intern at an ad agency near Apple's campus in Cupertino. The president of our company, my boss, was a close friend and former colleague of Steve and they spoke often. My boss's administrative assistant had gone on vacation and he asked me to fill in for her for a couple days, and I had no idea what I was doing.
One of the very first phone calls to come in was Steve. Not his admin, but the man himself, and I'm pretty overwhelmed. I attempt to transfer the call, promptly fuck it up, and.......dial tone. I was about to curl up into a fetal ball and die when the phone started ringing again. It was Steve. Laughing. He knew I was just filling in, and dismissed my profuse apologies with a giggling "don't sweat it." I told him I would transfer him again and promised not to hang up on him. I'll never forget his cartoon-like response: "Oooooky doky!"
A trivial encounter with the man, for sure, but for a 22 year old from the east coast, a week into what would later prove to be a pretty extraordinary adventure in Silicon Valley, the approachable, human demeanor of this larger-than-life luminary was revelatory.
To me, Steve will always remain symbolic of Silicon Valley and the very best it represents. RIP Steve." -originalredditor

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/l2als/steve_jobs...
You should read the rest.
That's a bit hyperbolic.
I expressed an honestly held opinion. It is possible that opinion was the result of painful arrogance. Those are not contradictory.
A man who built possibly the most successful company in the world (not to mention what I believe is the best movie studio in the world). So sad that he died so young...
Status Report: Liars and Outliers
> Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product

That's a wonderful way of putting it. Steve Jobs was inspirationally, infectiously passionate about making good things. Rest in peace, Steve.
Well, also, out of 30 stories on the HN frontpage, all 30 are about Steve Jobs. That's a pretty good indicator too.
why not just link to the actual whitehouse.gov page?

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/10/05/president-obama-pa...
Good old Streisand effect.
Minimalist, I think Steve would like it. Linking to apple.com was classy.
Steve Jobs' death around the web
Since you're giving out free diagnosis over the internet, would you mind doing me?
"It's a language that's more intuitive. We already know about moral pressure, peer pressure, and legal pressure. Reputational pressure, institutional pressure, and security pressure is much less of a stretch. And it puts security back in a more sensible place. Security is a mechanism; trust is the goal."

Repeat that last line: "Security is a mechanism; trust is the goal."

What other mechanisms do you see helping improve social trust?
We are all made of star stuff, now knock it off
Having written my first (if you want to call it that) program
on a ASR-33 Teletype and remembering back when computers were not only
expensive but certainly not mainstream (and not cool to the
masses anyway) it's amazing what Jobs and Apple were able to do in
the last decade. Who would ever think that this "thing" that
some of us had so much fun with back then would be so accepted
and talked about by everyone today. That there would be so much adulation for someone, actually anyone, in this industry? If you're not old enough to remember the way it was back many years ago we're really living in a special time right now. And Steve is certainly the reason for
much of that.
How to Build a Hobbit Hole
Here's the deal with Chiropractors. They heal symptoms. It seems to work great. You walk out feeling better without having to put in significant effort. They know your symptoms will keep returning and you'll end up paying them every week or two forever.

But you should figure out what causes the symptom, and fix that. It may take effort. Most times it takes strength training. But it's better for you then going to some guy to push your bones around once a week.
N.B. It's Sergey, not Sergei. Could an admin please correct the title?
You're right, Im sorry. I thought that refs in the query string were used for affiliate links.

Two questions - what DO affiliate links look like, or how can I tell? Also, can I delete that comment or edit it?
RIP Steve, I don't know weather to feel sad for the loss of one of the greatest innovators of our time or to feel happy about seeing the example of a life well lived. I'm sure yiu sill continue to inspire us and even many after we have passed on.
But I bet you need another adjustment sooner than later. That's the deal with Chiropractors. Make you feel good enough they know you'll come back and pay them again.
I'd like that. I always feel a little skeptical, applying for an open position, that I'll be seen. But with a test I know it'll weed out the thousands of applicants and the company might actually be hiring on merit.

You could mention the exercise should only take an hour, or such.
Perhaps they'll make a Doodle of him tomorrow.
It seems too soon to lose Steve. There's yet so much more to do...
One way to counter this opinion is to just state specifically how Steve Jobs is more than a skilled salesman etc. Should be fairly easy to do.

Absolutely. And if Colin were entirely ignorant of technology, the history of computers, human-computer interaction, etc. to the degree of, say, someone who has been in a coma for 30+ years, then it would be necessary to make those statements.
The several parts in that speech when things went wrong in all possible ways (had to drop out of college, got kicked out of his own company), and yet he just kept going.

Very inspiring.

Imagine getting kick out of your own company? Very devastating. But you have to believe that things will work out in the end.
Check out this version, it includes Steve Jobs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g55Rnc92KWI
No it isn't. It's 100% true.

If we can't honestly appreciate the incredible magnitude of the effect this man had on our world today of all days, when will we be able to?
Why Apple’s CEO Doesn’t Care What You Hoped to See
Typically people understand being brutally honest as providing a painful to hear but helpful or contributory opinion.

When your opinion comes from nothing but arrogance, ignorance, and a 4chan style need to draw attention to yourself by being deliberately insensitive, then your opinion isn't brutally honest. It's worthless, and you should keep it to yourself.
When I figured the actual link, I tried reposting it, some one had already posted it.

I wanted to delete my post, HN was timing out.
My favorite part:

"He looked at me like I was crazy, said there’d be many, many stores, and that the company had spent a year tweaking the layout of the stores, using a mockup at a secret location. I teased him by asking if he, personally, despite his hard duties as CEO, had approved tiny details like the translucency of the glass and the color of the wood.

He said he had, of course."
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment//2011/10/03a11...
At your request I'm answering this question...

I never used the word "fanboy" in my post. That said, there were two people who really thought the nextTick solution was a legitimately good idea. Contrary to the idea that they were just countertrolling, the Node-fib guy legitimately thought he had done a good implementation of a Fibonacci server in Node because ApacheBench told him so, never mind what he was actually benchmarking was TERRIBLE

Read the "Coming from Hacker News?" section of the Node-fib README and tell me if you think this guy is a troll or if he truly believes Node can be good at these sorts of problems:

https://github.com/glenjamin/node-fib
Very, very classy.
In Japan, employees mostly start at roughly the same salary - somewhere between $20k and $30k per year, regardless of position, with salary increases reflecting time spent at the company.

Expats often move at the request of the company, and not into entry level positions. Employees who are asked to relocate would expect to do so in exchange for a raise (particularly if their home country has higher salaries and they expect to move back eventually), so expat salaries tend to be significantly higher.

Given that, I wouldn't necessarily expect expats to be offered the same benefits as native Japanese employees.
This was a really nice piece, it was disappointing to discover there was no page 2.
Me too.

When I heard that commencement speech he gave, I just got the idea that he sincerely meant everything that he said. In a way that someone would when they were talking to you one on one. He had lived everything that he talked about.

And that speech is a big reason that I have made the leap into doing something on my own.

RIP Steve.
Steve Jobs' impact on the tech community cannot be understated [pic]
http://chetansurpur.com/blog/2010/10/why-node-js-is-totally-...
The "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" comment was tongue-in-cheek and I apologize if it came off as insensitive.

I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a _bit_ overboard with the Steve Jobs stories. Can you understand where I'm coming from?

Also, for tonight I have been and will continue to be reading reddit, and would appreciate if you didn't throw that around like it's a bad thing -- because right now it's a hell of a lot more interesting than HN. And, reddit has even managed to appropriately pay their respects to Steve with a couple of nice tributes on the front page.
A Look Back at Steve Jobs of Apple
Ask HN: enough steve jobs?
The entire page AND the 'new' page? c'mon. Some people still want to read news.

life goes on. Besides, this site already have 10 topics about him on any given day.
Funeral bar. It first appeared for Robert Morris. There was a Ask HN earlier this evening asking for it to be brought out for Steve Jobs.
Chills.
Yes! We all loved him!
Meh. The cynic in me suspects a ploy to get G+ signups.
"This sounds a little bit to me about what it must sound like to hear Brad Pitt talk about getting lunch in LA."

But the difference is if I flew out to the Valley and knew who to look for there is no doubt in my mind that I could go right up to anyone of the people that Paul mentioned and say something to them and they would listen certainly for a minute or longer. That wouldn't happen in LA. And I'm not Paul Graham.

Way back in 1998 or 99 I sent an email to Tim Draper and had no problem setting up a meeting. That wouldn't have happened in Hollywood. The valley is different. As Paul mentions, the density is important. If you are in fashion, it's NYC. If you are in entertainment - LA. Jewelry? The diamond district in NY. You go where the most people are doing what you want to do. In the case of tech that's the valley.
Check out google.com. Given their famously sparse home page, that's quite a tribute.
I've created a filtered feed that removes "steve" "jobs" and "apple"

http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-filtered

I'll delete it after the weekend to respect PG.
That every single story on the hacker news front page is a Steve Jobs related link speaks volumes.
We Lost a Hero—My few words about how Steve Jobs has influenced me.
Taking the opportunity of a man's death to call him overrated is not speaking truth to power: it's tacky and tasteless by any measure.
Steve Jobs: King of the Crazy Ones
I don't know you, so I won't judge. But, I will say that you sound like someone who thinks that all the honor is in the academic/theoretical exercise- that there is little or no challenge or value in making something used by real people.

Well that's well and good, but it's also smug and elitest. The value a person creates is a function of the single achievement and the number of people who use or benefit from it. By that measure, I think you would have to say that even if you consider the Mac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad small achievements the multiplier means Jobs created TREMENDOUS value.

If, by salesman, you mean someone who understands the needs of people and satisfies those needs even when they don't recognize them for themselves, then yes Steve Jobs was a salesman. And, we should all aspire to be such salespeople.

It's wonderful and good to pursue knowledge and discovery in a vacuum when everything is insulated from reality. It's a whole other thing to take the theoretical and apply it for practical use in a culture of incredibly complex and changing people. Arguably, this is much harder than the academic pursuit because the target is ever-changing.

What Steve Jobs did was not some smoke and mirrors bullshit. He was not a snake oil salesman. He CREATED! And he CREATED things that people love to use.
For all of the catty infighting we, as an industry, engage in at times I have been pleasantly surprised with how sincere and heartfelt a lot of the responses to this event have been. We are in danger of over-using the adjective "classy", but it seems apropos in most cases and this is yet another example.
The issue is more like, the game consistently presented options on the expensive side, with no ability to make any sort of reasonable spending cuts or prioritizations. It's not the car, in isolation. It's not the dog, in isolation. It's not the phone, in isolation. It's not the $60 internet, in isolation. It's the combination -- the supposedly hella-poor person with a higher car payment than I've ever had (despite spending more to be close to work), a higher phone bill than I've ever had, a higher internet bill than I've ever had, and a pet who's costing an extra hundred bucks in rent. And the game doesn't allow the player to cut any of these things.

I have no problem with a reasonable car payment. A $6000 car with a 3 year lease and a poor 10% rate is $200/month, which isn't so bad. Even a brand new $12000 economy car on a 60 month lease doesn't cost $325/month unless you jack the rate all the way up to 18%. (Note that the game said "car payment"; presumably gas and insurance are separate.) If you're in that situation and you've got a $325/month car payment, that's a prime candidate for a cut.

The same is true for $65/month phone bill, $60/month internet, and $100/month pet rent. It's not that you can't have a car, pet, phone, or broadband if you're poor. It's that taken together they comprise a set of luxuries you can't really afford in that situation. Maybe you can afford one or two -- maybe the dog is really important and you can't bear to give it up, but you can find a way to get by with slower internet. These are all candidates for being cut, yet the game treats them all as stuff you're just stuck with.

That's why I have a problem with this particular "simulation". I myself am borderline poor. I've got a lot of family and friends who are poor. I've helped some move back in with parents. I've some move into, out of, and between shelters and various forms of transitional housing. Some of us have had really tight budgets before and have had to make some really tough decisions. I know what it's like. And this "simulation" devotes over 40% of my monthly budget to things that I'd consider prime candidates for cutting back on, and doesn't provide the option to cut back. That's not realism. That's propaganda.
It saddens me that the engineers and workers who actually designed and built the stuff will die unknown. Just reinforces that fame, popularity, charisma, self-promotion, wealth, and the ability to "manage" trump deep technical abilities.
Comparing India and China: Chasing the dragon
Patent Trolling At It's Finest..
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