skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an entrepreneur, he founded the now largest company on the planet, founded a company that sold for $400m, and took Pixar from almost nothing to a $7bn acquisition by Disney.

As an inventor, he's the main name (though with significant help and industrial design by others) behind the iMac, iPod, iPad, iPhone - all dominant leaders in their respective sectors.

It's curious that you'd put Larry Ellison's achievements above all of that.
What now? Google+ ? that sucks! RIP Steve.
I might be wrong about this but I think the people of HN (and people in general?) have better opinions of hardware patents than software patents.
I was thinking it, but to my surprise I find myself disagreeing. I watch with growing dismay as crippled appliances and learned helplessness sweep the industry, but they are in fact what the market currently wants, and with long practice Jobs developed exceptional and laudable skill at not only identifying what the market wants but making a corporate behemoth deliver it in a very focused form.
And Twitter is down (doesn't happen so often anymore does it?)
The crowd applauded this bout of honesty, and Mr. Jobs continued. "You look at the farm that's been created with all these different animals going in different directions and it doesn't add up. The total is less than the sum of the parts. We had to decide: what are the fundamental directions we're going in?"

With the gauntlet thrown, Mr. Jobs headed into deeper, metaphysical territory. "The hardest thing is, when you think about focusing, focusing is saying, yes, no, "he said, walking backwards as his argument changed direction, his hands splayed out wide. "Focusing is about saying no. Focusing is about saying no," he repeated, as scattered applause breaks out.

Jobs was not only reasserting himself, he was setting the stage for the way he would run the company for the next decade and half. He was articulating the essential vision, which he returned to again. "Focus is about saying no. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products. Where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts."
Wow - what a day. A tweet by CBSNEws says it was wrong when someone tweeted he had died, then I scramble for hours trying to figure out if it was real, and now it has been confirmed by Apple.

When I read the news, it really felt like he was hanging on until he knew his company was in good hands and he could pass on. Just an incredible human being in every aspect. He will be sorely missed.
MobileSafari in iOS 5 supports momentum scrolling for scrollable individual parts of the page, here is a blog post about it:

http://johanbrook.com/browsers/native-momentum-scrolling-ios...

fixed positioning is also supported in iOS5.

I am not sure why one would make an iOS5 only script-based scrolling simulation.
Steve Jobs Dies: Celebrities React on Twitter
I always thought it'd be cool if all programs implemented external apis this way. Kind of like how applescript works, but, for a mail program, for instance, write "Hacker News" to /proc/n/query and it'd return the data. Or write 'message 1' to /proc/n/open and it'd open or return it.
Steve Jobs - Realtime Google+ posts related to Steve Jobs (since Twitter down)
Your name is very relevant to your post :).

And at least 4 or 5 people care enough about it to respond to me, so i think your anger is a bit unfounded.
I was referring to improving the user interface of urns.
You realize how poorly your comments reflect on your product, right? I'll certainly never support Tarsnap after reading this garbage.
Steve Jobs Presents To The Cupertino City Council
The downvotes are because his post is highly disrespectful in tone, and frankly ignorant in substance.

It would be just as accurate to call either Einstein or Feynman "just a physics teacher". The title, while technically accurate, fails to fully encompass the magnitude of the work.
Not to play devil's advocate, but you have to wonder if he'd have kept the same drive for so long if he knew he was going to have a full ~80 years?
That's like, way insightful, like, man. Pass the J?
Wind, Water, and Solar Power for the World
Steve Jobs' death: a mini-singularity?
Voxatron Brings Sheer Voxel Madness
There is of course, a huge difference between not believing in something and believing that it must not be.
Apple was born out of obsession and makes some of the finest hardware around, running BSD with a touch of class that is unrivalled. But as my granny would say, there are no pockets in a shroud... poor Steve.

It's nice to have a sexy laptop, but life's just too damn short.
If you are unaware of Steve Jobs' contribution to both hardware and software you are sadly uninformed, not just about Steve's life and work but about what it takes to create products that can change the world. I don't even own a single Apple product, but he has made everything I use so much better.
Is it because people disagree? Because that isn't a reason to downvote.

It's a common and legitimate reason to downvote on HN, even pg has said so. I once disagreed with this practice but have changed my mind given it has been 'approved'.

And to say Jobs was a salesman because he didn't "design" any hardware is bizarre. He was the driving force behind the Macintosh and involved in almost every decision surrounding it, even if he wasn't the one with the pen at the drafting board. It's like saying Obama is merely a spokesman.
Barack Obama On Steve Jobs
Voting yes or no without discussing why doesn't lead to good policy outcomes.

Consensus works far better for policy; 90% of people might read something and think it sounds good, while 10% of people might spot a terrible flaw. Simply voting would let the policy be ratified with the flaw, while in a consensus process the facilitator would let each side present their views, and someone might come up with a proposal that addresses the flaw and satisfies everyone.

Consensus doesn't need 100% agreement, and even when you get down to the most fundamental agreements, people with the same facts who are aware of each others viewpoints can still disagree (at which point the majority view has to win), but the process should continue until that point is reached. This process does require some subjective decision making (e.g. around when consensus has been reached), so it can't yet be fully automated.
As long as all of reality runs on mathematics then AI is possible. I think many commonly assume that reality is inherently mathematical, but don't realize their assumption.
Dev-Team Blog - RIP
An $800 car, with taxes, titles, fees, registration and plate transfers, will come to upwards of $1100. In which case, no, you're not ahead. That's of course, presuming you have the $1100 in the first place. Your other option, if you don't, is to finance with no money down.

find a way to finance a solid car from a reputable source

Didn't this whole thread start because people were flabbergasted that someone would dare finance a new vehicle while they were poor? And here you're suggesting that as a reasonable option.

Point is, $325 car payment is not a crappy decision when you have no other reasonable choice.

find a way to get a ride/take the bus/ride a bike

You live in Aurora, Illinois. New job is in Carol Stream. 30 min drive, two and a half hour bikeride. It's January. There's no busses.

I think your expectations for the options available are much more unrealistic than the simulator. A car payment, a family pet, and a cell phone are not luxuries. They are not crappy decisions.

Let's take the one you seem to be the most callous about, which is having a dog. I'm assuming your not a dog person, so you don't have the same kind of attachment to a dog that others might. Food for a mid-size dog is about $40 a month. Assume the dog's already grown, you can skate by on that, assuming there's no major vet bills.

Now the idea that people will hit hard times, and immediately drown their dog in a river, or bring them to the pound, is ridiculous. The site didn't make it a matter of people getting a new puppy for christmas when they already can't feed themselves, and for people to jump on the idea of having a pet that you're responsible for, and not immediately throwing them to the curb at the first sign of trouble, is unrealistic. If you're having hard times, $40 is a small price to pay for companionship and unconditional love.

All told, $430 ($325+$65+$40) a month is $5,160 a year, for three things that you can make a real strong case for. I simply cannot see spending that money as some kind of frivolous luxury of the irresponsible poor.

Look, we could all just live in squats, eat dumpstered food, not have cell phones, and only get clothes from a free box. Maybe then, when we run out of money, people on the internet will finally be sympathetic.
> I used "dick" just to grab attention and get responses.

I am sure you know now but that was a bad move lol!.
I agree. A curated list would whittle the list down to a much more manageable size. Most of the things listed are either very obvious (i.e. if you don't know what Ruby on Rails is before reading that list, you're not likely to find any value from reading it from among the list of other frameworks, or even know why you'd want to pick a Ruby exclusive option) or are unnecessary for startups.

I'm sure it took a long time to bookmark all those pages, but the time would have been better spent picking a handful of useful resources and explaining why they are useful.
Mark Zuckerberg Pays Tribute to Steve Jobs
Yeah, but without death the whole world would be filled to the brim with protobacteria, and none of us complex life forms would ever have had room to exist.
Probably after a year at the other company I'd stop even putting that 4 month gig on my resume.

This is sort of a no brainer.
Sigh. I hate political correctness.

Ok, nil nisi bonum it is; I'll shut up now.
R.I.P. Steve, You inspired many of us to rise above and beyond what we would have been otherwise...
This remember me about the Prost and Senna relationship. It is impressive how much we lost when our biggest 'rival' pass away.

When Senna died, Prost stated that "a part of himself had died also", because their careers had been so bound together.[40] Senna had also felt the same when Prost had retired at the end of 1993, when he admitted to a close friend that he had realised how much of his motivation had come from fighting with Prost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Prost#Rivalry_with_Ayrton...
For those interested in helping others afflicted with this awful disease, wanted to remind you of another fallen hero (and acquaintance of mine).
His site has a few starting points for helping others with pancreatic cancer.
The Last Lecture is an inspiring book - Randy Pausch was another great man that the technology community had lost and I recommend everyone to both watch the Last lecture and read the book.

The video is viewable here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&feature=playe... (as embedded on the OP's submission)
Steve Jobs At Home In 1982
Just because something is an observed phenomena doesn't mean it is the result of mathematical laws and therefore replicable by a computer. While that may be the most acceptable position in today's intellectual climate, it isn't a logical necessity.
That's only cognitive dissonance if you're hopelessly egocentric. Death is obviously bad for you as an individual, but is crucial to the long-term survival on a species. Without death, you can't have evolution or adaptability. The only thing wrong here are the people responding with the fallacy of composition.
The beginning of the end of the wave of computing that transformed society like no invention since iron and the printing press. Steve Jobs was absolutely on the forefront of that revolution and will be greatly missed. Hats off to you Mr. Jobs, hats off.
Our thoughts about Steve and what Apple meant to us
Steve pursued excellence. Many people and businesses make something that's barely good enough and then focus on marketing and sales. Steve became insanely successful as a perfectionist, and in the business world that's almost unheard of. I find that very inspirational.
That's an interesting agreement/disagreement. :)

It seems what you're saying is that Jobs was very good at what he does, but what he does is inimical to hacker culture...
I told my daughter a great man died today.
A closer analogy, for better or worse, might be someone like Carl Sagan.
Besides, almost all of these patents seem to protect the ornamental design rather than the utility. Most people here don't object to patenting the design of cases and the like.
To be fair, he was pretty much a kid at the time.
Yeah, unfortunately my tab problem applies to all my browsers - chrome, chromium, firefox, opera. Yes I'm starting therapy.
I'd rather be poor, friendless, and honest than be rich and have friends only because I refused to air controversial opinions.

I'm glad I don't have any investors or employees who could be hurt, though.
If you don't own more than 50% of the stock, and don't control the board, it means you voluntarily sold a large share of your stock to the investors. So it's completely fair if they don't like your performance and want to remove you - they paid for that right with their money.

Unless you sold 100% of your stock, you can't be completely "fired", you still own a piece of the company and can vote.
Is the present perfect tense here more correct, or should it be the past tense, "Steve Jobs died?"
Last year I had the great fortune of being able to ask Steve to clarify the first quote. He was very apologetic, but alas he couldn't recall what product he envisioned in 1995.
For all the amazing contributions, fierce competition and larger than life personas of both Jobs and Gates, it really takes something like this to remember that when all is said and done, they are both just human beings sharing the same experiences and ups and downs we all do.

Thanks to both of you for all that you've done for people like myself. Even though most of us never knew you personlly, we'll all miss you Steve!
Comparing iScroll with Scrollability on iOS5, the former feel like gliding an object on the regular desk (in my case - iPhone 4), while the latter feels like air hockey on steroids. That is one makes scrolling stop too quickly, while the other makes it a bit too long. Both seem perfectly useable, and while scrollability feels a little bit better, I would never be motivated to develop something like this myself, iScroll feels perfectly adequate.

Perhaps a split-test is in order?
Well put.

I'll add that what's even better then giving away your money is not taking too much in the first place.

Steve Jobs was a multi-billionaire but, as Apple's stock laps the field, it bears noting that Steve's billions are a fraction of what others in similar positions are worth.
As always, it depends where you live. I get 10mbps or better at home on Sprint with my HTC Evo 4G.
FWIW, Steve was a fan of Dylan Thomas.
President Obama on Steve Jobs' death
Go to Apple.com and look at the name of the image in homepage
Well said my friend.
Well, that clears up the 'Sean-athon.'
Colin, you are now officially the most militantly nerdy person I know. Militant nerdery: bad for empathy, GREAT for cryptosystems. I'm getting our IT guy to sign up for Tarsnap tomorrow.
That's a bold prediction.
Dick Costolo (CEO of Twitter) Makes Statement on Steve Jobs
Did the site layout and color scheme change because Jobs died? Or was this planned earlier?
For myself, the ridiculousness of your comment has nothing whatsoever to do with whether someone somewhere may find it offensive. Other than direct communication with family, the concept of eliminating critical comments regarding someone who has recently died is, frankly, pathetic.

No, the ridiculousness of your comment is that you actually believe Steve Jobs has not made a contribution to computing. That's simply insane. Your mind is totally divorced from reality.
but LA/entertainment culture seems the antithesis of startup culture

That's an interesting comment. I'm curious as to what you mean. In my limited experience, LA/entertainment culture seems to be the closest thing to startup culture.
t_hero.png possibly means The Hero
Here's a very well done video http://www.bloomberg.com/video/66625228/
Love what you do. Do what you love.

The dots will connect one day. Even if others don't believe you, because you will die one day anyway.

It's inspirational and great.
This is truly sad. Steve Jobs is like an iconic representation of our computing generation. In some way his passing away signifies the diminishing of our generation. Sigh.
Now I realise why this news is so sad to me. You see, I watched that speech at a time when I didn't know what to do with my life and career. He's the one who inspired me to finally quit my job and do the "foolish" thing. It's not about the products he created, it's the person he was.
I can see that I am not the only one whose life was changed by those early experiences with the Apple ecosystem. From my own 30-year-old memories:

On any given afternoon around 1981-1982, the geeks at my middle school could all be found gathered around a dozen Apple II+ and Apple IIe machines in the computer room. The British instructor who had set them up and taught us code fundamentals really encouraged us to explore and experiment (and fought a losing battle to keep us from bringing our game floppies into the room).
I stopped while typing and thought who was "big". I wasn't addressing the inventor portion, merely the entrepreneur. Mr. Gates or Mr. Walton had far greater impact on the world as a whole than Mr. Jobs. Mr. Ellison came to mind, as I wanted a few more names to add to the list. Guys like Buffett aren't in this category, and I could not think of other industry players of the last 20-30 years.

I'd be willing to bet that the Amazon guy might end up on this list if current trends continue, as continued Amazon success might have the hollowing-out impact of Wal-Mart. And you missed the point I was trying to make. Jobs is different because he actually saw the product as more than a dollar sign. His "score" was lower because of this, but we're all applauding his decision tonight.

And I don't count the computer or consumer electronics field as the best source of inventors. The latter, in many ways, is noise. The true inventions of the former occurred outside our date window (transistor, IC, microprocessor, ...) To me, inventions like PCR, medical/biology/chemistry/computer syntheses or vaccines are better, more significant inventions.

Hell, Sony broke the ground with the Walkman. Roddenberry thought up the iPad in a way. But, again, Jobs had taste and he made sure (a) we knew that and (b) his products were intended to be more than revenue streams.

As a postscript, I suspect there's far, far more businesses sitting on piles of Oracle software than they'd like (but they're stuck and getting nailed for it).
Microsoft considers bidding for Yahoo
This difference, I suppose, is between someone bending your will to theirs, reducing you terribly in the process, and someone who sees you failing to deliver everything you're capable of, and pushing you (hard) to do what he thinks what you can.

The former doesn't care about who you are. The latter cares deeply, and expresses in by placing genuine faith in you. Everything being said by the people who worked with him indicates that they feel humbled and honored by the experience. It's hard to get upset with someone's approach when you know in your bones that it got you to the top of your game.

What people feel in response to that is love.

[EDIT]
"He was dubbed a megalomaniac, but Steve Jobs often gambled on young, largely inexperienced talent to take Apple forward; Jony Ive and his team prove that such faith was spot on."
Folklore.org: Touching Stories of Steve Jobs
That's not why it is getting down voted, I believe.

Jobs influence over Apple's products went far beyond merely selling them well, and this was extensively discussed in the bazillion news stories and blog posts in response to his resignation as CEO, and those were heavily discussed here on HN and in other comparable forums.

Accordingly, I believe that many of the down voters don't merely disagree with the post, but believe that it is objectively wrong, AND feel that there is just no good excuse for a regular HN reader/poster being wrong on this.
Though I'm now beginning to wonder. Could someone copyright the design of cases and sue for copyright infringement/plagiarism? Or would that open up an even worse can of worms?
First time in 3+ years of lurking on hackernews when I wish I had enough karma to downvote you.
I read something more along those lines in an article about Sean Parker talking about how he was more involved with things than the movie presented. I can't find that article anymore. Here is an article that actually has a quote from Zuckerberg, stating he let Sean Parker crash at his place (although Zuckerberg himself does not say he bumped in to Parker): http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/115/open_features-hacker...
In case the site goes down (which I expect it may): here is another link: http://web.archive.org/web/20110726072224/http://folklore.or...
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Tribute to Steve Jobs
I, and many of the people who frequent this and other tech sites, would not have jobs in this industry if it weren't for Steve Jobs and his Apple I.

No words can articulate just how profound all of this is.
His contribution kickstarted the very way we live our lives.
Google's Steve Jobs tribute
You seem to think you are being brutally honest. You aren't, you're being painfully arrogant. There is a massive difference.
I noticed that too. Look at the backs of the filled chairs, though – all reserved.
Thanks for posting. Apparently it's on the other side of a G+ login wall.

Page's comment strikes me as a very true, if subtle, distillation of Steve at his best.
Colin, you are now officially the most militantly nerdy person I know

I credit coming from a family of academics who care strongly about academic freedom. That said, I think I even shocked some highly liberal academics last year when I stood up in a university senate meeting and decried a proposed affirmative action policy as "unabashedly racist".

Militant nerdery: bad for empathy, GREAT for cryptosystems. I'm getting our IT guy to sign up for Tarsnap tomorrow.

blink I was not expecting that. I was hoping that people wouldn't hold my personal opinions against me professionally, but I didn't think for a moment that I'd gain any customers.
I keep waiting to hear from Woz. I think we in the Nerd World need to hear from Woz tonight.
Sorry to be pedantic, but it was dent. "Do[n't] you want to make a dent in the universe?"
It's a good thing he runs his own company too, because boards / PR depts don't think like that, and would be having a fit if they found this. ;-)

"Founder of Tar Snap (Nasdaq: TRSP) pisses on Steve Jobs's grave!"
Jobs family's statement on death of Apple founder
I grew up on Macs (starting with a IIcx in the late 80s) and bleed in six colors; this news is extremely hard for me to take.

Ultimately, this adds a sense of urgency to my own efforts to start a company and help bring a piece of the future to fruition, as I can no longer count on Steve to get us there.

Thank you Steve, for your vision, good taste, boundless drive and the inspiration you have given me and countless others. You will be sorely missed. :.(
Sounds smart. Work with the candidate doing what you want the candidate to be able to do.

Btw, your jobs page is totally broken without JS and your blog page didn't resize properly - the text moved off the side but there was no scrollbar.

I really like your security quiz - it's a good idea of what I'd be doing. Have you thought about something like that for the SWEng positions?
You wouldn't put those sorts of things in /proc, but that's basically how things work. And since it's a filesystem, you can export your API effortlessly over the network.

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/webfs