skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree in principle, but a core part of their business is maintaining the integrity of a system. When you combine this with some of the statements they have made regarding their password policy, it makes me as a paying customer very concerned about their approach to cyber-security. THey have excellent fraud prevention, but I'd really like to see them make some strides in this area.
Agreed Robin - it's likely that the person operating the twitter account for most huge companies has minimal, if any, interaction with IT/security and its lingo.

Speak plainly people.
Mind if I ask what distribution you are running?
An anonymous ass will probably be an ass with a real account too. It's a matter of time.
I don't understand. This post claims that the median survival period for this form of cancer is 10 years.

So therefore, his survival (7-8 years), whether or not alternative medicine was used, lasted close to the average one could expect.

So what is unexpected here?
Appsumo.com used Steve Jobs' death to gain DOTD clicks
I was baffled by an email I received from Appsumo for their deal of the day (DOTD). The subject read: "Steve Jobs was originally obsessed with typography". That's just sad!
I proposed to a friend that maybe Italy isn't ready to be an adult country yet - it needs a foster parent to hold its hand for a little while. He recommended Germany, but I pointed out that it didn't work out quite so well last time.
> I believe the same rules for saying "Go ahead and search
> my trunk, but I don't have a key" applies

I see your point, but think you'll agree it's best not to phrase it as a challenge: "I don't consent to the search. I don't have a key."
We're talking about two separate issues here, and you're mixing them up. 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.

But modern medicine can sure do a lot for some types of cancers that are caught in an early stage. There are lots of people out there who can benefit from this. These people are usually in a state of psychological vulnerability, and telling them anecdotes about how refusing chemo can turn out OK is about as nasty a thing as you can ever do to them.
"But I do not pretend that my good fortune some how means I work or harder or am smarter than other people in our society"

What a defeatist attitude. I do work harder and smarter than other people in our society. My work and success reflects this.

"and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory."

It's sickening that you would equate having a good job with mostly luck. Winning the lottery is pure luck.

I chose to get involved in the tech industry. If I would have been in any other time, I would have chosen a different industry and most likely been successful. Less than 1% of it has to do with luck. If I would have just sat here and done nothing, my career wouldn't have fallen into my lap and my skill set wouldn't have suddenly appeared.

Anybody can be successful.
"He had a relationship with alternative medicine."

Naturopathy isn't really alternative medicine, although some of the schools do teach things from alternative medicine. For the most part it's just as evidence-based as anything else. The N.D. curriculum isn't all that much different than that of the average M.D. program:

http://www.bridgeport.edu/academics/graduate/naturo/programr...

The big exception being perhaps the 5 credits on homeopathy, which seems overkill to me, but then again the average M.D. doesn't learn nearly enough about homeopathy considering how important it was in popularizing evidence-based medicine and introducing all sorts of other reforms that have saved millions of lives over the past 150 years. (Even JAMA publicly credits homeopathy with introducing evidence-based medicine: http://bit.ly/qqU59B)
I am. "Should be enough" is very clearly an opinion.

My opinion is that it should be enough to make anyone fill ill, because everyone should approach the matter rationally.

The fact is that alternative 'medicine' is not rational.
Amazon Notes Passing of Steve Jobs on Its Front Page
It very likely would have cured his particular form of it.
Good writing is set apart through an honest expression of emotion and experience. As much as I usually despise Gruber's particularly disingenous brand of tech writing .. this is nicely put. We can all take something from his example.
Wikipedia, or the Italian government?
Some unions were incidental beneficiaries, sure.

But consider that the GM/Chrysler bailouts almost included a gutting of the UAW. (They had to fight to retain their collective bargaining power in the deal) And you may have noticed the spate of anti-union legislation proposed, and in some cases passed, across the nation.

The unions have (rightly) seen any benefit they did get as incidental and temporary at best.

And perceiving a movement through possible positions of a minority is a pretty intellectually dishonest way to tar the group. It's as disappointing as dismissing the concerns of the Tea Party for their racists.
Anyone capable of hacking together an actual memorial like this in their backyard? Shouldn't be too hard, right? Just need the correct amount of angled air flow to keep the ball turning in place.
Python and Robots: Teaching Programming in High School
I look at this as a good thing. I know that if I am ever injured in such a way as to receive severe brain damage, I'll still be able to get a high-paying programming job.
Last night, Steve Jobs occupied the HN frontpage. Evidence of his reach.
I tried Spotify for a bit (after using Rdio a ton) and just couldn't get into it. The Rdio iPhone app is worlds better than Spotify and that's what I use mostly.
> You don't need to worry about this (not what the law is for).

The law's purpose when written does not preclude all the clever uses they find for it afterward.
That was, oddly enough, used against the Egyptian protestors also--- many of them were comparatively well off, educated Egyptians, who were accused of ignoring how good their lives were in comparison to the lives of the average Arab, and of prioritizing middle-class issues like newspaper freedom over economic issues more important to the poor masses.
According to the article, most pancreatic cancers are intractable, but islet cell neuroendocrine tumors have excellent survival rates.
It's a fair comment. Perspective in terms of what Apple have actually positively contributed on a world scale is maybe slightly lacking. A great man and an impressive legacy .. but I think the world might eventually view the changes he instigated with a more critical eye in the future.
So 90 comments and no mention of "didn't he try emailing security@americanexpress.com". That would be my first step, not harassing a marketing account on Twitter. Marketing campaigns are often run by third-party companies. Whoever gets security@ emails, not so much.

If you want to inflate your ego, post to full-disclosure; don't annoy people on Twitter and blog about it.
Yeah I wasn't expecting that, and teared up almost as fast as Woz did.
It would be one thing if we were talking about rubbing crystals all over your body. I would not consider a modified diet "alternative" medicine. There is legitimate science around diets and how it affects cancer growth (see TED video):

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/william_li.html
If there ever was a time to be cheesy and kitsch, it's now.
Confirmed Steve Jobs did Chemo and Rad. Now think.

http://www.marksmarketanalysis.com/2011/02/steve-jobs-on-che...

http://gawker.com/5737092/steve-jobss-cancer-secret-revealed...
That sounds like a pretty good test. "Dev ops"/sysadmin people have to do this exact thing all the time, so it's far from irrelevant.

It definitely beats some of the other common tests: syntax trivia, decipher this metaprogramming mess, implement a compsci 201 algorithm, do you agree that TDD is the one true path?
Theoretically, all they would ever have to do is block all file sharing connections from french ip addresses right?

The pool of peers might be smaller but I assume the connections are monitored from within france.

Or use a seed box in another country.
The interesting question is not whether emailing is dead – the answer being no - but if it has any hope of surviving, or better adapting, to new generations.

There are two immediate hurdles:

Email marketing has ruined email. And I don't mean just spam. I mean whatever unsolicited shit you sent me because you're abusing the address I gave you. The signal:noise ratio is almost perfect on a social network. My email box is a daily exercise in frustration. There is also the desired automated emails, trudging though them is an issue, less of one, but they can be noise depending on what you're using your email for.

Directory services. If I want to contact someone at work, I alt-tab, ctrl-n type FLastname ctrl-k. Its a ridiculously lightweight action. At home, if I don't know someones email address looking it up involves stopping at a couple social networks, logging into Outlook Web Access if we happen to have some other organization in common, but thats probably not the address I actually want to send to. And after all that I can still turn up empty handed. The best case scenario is that they have their email address viewable in facebook, I bring them up on my droid (where facebook populates my contact list), start a draft email from the droid that I can then open up on my computer. Thats a pretty shitty best case.

Going forward, the best way for email to adapt (and a thing I've wanted to see for quite a while) is for a social network to embrace their person organization and relationship management and become a directory service. Essentially, when I type "Alice" into the TO box in gmail, thunderbird, outlook, cellphone sms, my aim client, anything, why isn't her address automatically populated if I know her on service X? Right now social networks want to create yet another communication channel rather than just giving us a way to manage the ones we have. Think of a social network that was designed to just to trade contact information, let say vCards. I friend Alice and Bob on vCardBook, and suddenly I have a vCardBook LDAP server I can throw at my email client to have Alice and Bob's addresses at the ready.
Woo for cancer: Say it ain't so, Steve [2008]
As I understand it (and I'm only going by what he said in his Stanford commencement speech here) he had a rare form of pancreatic cancer which is treatable:

The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months...

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

Ouch.
The proper term for 'western medicine' is 'evidence based medicine'. The term 'western medicine' can incorrectly imply an equal footing for so called 'eastern medicine'.

(I did not downvote you)
Digitization as the Second Economy: Today's Industrial Revolution
Lets face it Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs when it comes to presenting. How do you explain Apple's dip between 1986 to 1996 which coincided with Steve absence?
Someone posts something on HN not related to SJ.
I in part agree with the sentiment of good fortune. But only in part. I went into Engineering not out of passion, but out of economics. I knew it was safer than continuing with my first path in studying History.

And I know people who are at the protests. And I know many more who would be there if they could. And I try and ignore their pleas for economic help when they also demand that Walmart be shut down.
There are not many countries better than that, because most politicians become "prostitutes of publicity" sooner or later. And in the parliament then 99% of the time they throw mud at other politicians, it's not about showing the best way to go - it derives to blocking all other ways.
More power too you. Do you plan on offering Ubuntu support as well?
Way too early for this, and quite frankly, it's none of your business.
Can Google do these?
This is a short, good read. A part of the book is spent on the personal, face-to-face conversation between the author and Steve Jobs
Dangerous misinformation.

"Naturopathy, or Naturopathic Medicine, is a form of alternative medicine...."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturopathy
I suspect in a few more decades it will be revealed that the true cause of death was failure to cryopreserve. Pretty much all our current medicine can do is buy a few decades at the most. With his wealth, Jobs could have hired his own team of superbly qualified surgeons and perfusionists, and started an apple-themed cryonics vault that would (supported by his fame) last hundreds of years. He would have inspired thousands, perhaps millions of Apple fans to come along for the ride. What a wasted opportunity.
My Apple II/c
The utter euphoria over the election of Obama in 2008 hides very well the fact that 99% apparently voted for the lesser of two evils.
Jobs famously would take people on walks and talk with them.
You are welcome to your opinion.
Not planned at the moment, but if it's something a lot of people ask for, we might consider it.
Law suit shuts down Olson TZ database servers.
"By definition, alternative medicine has either not been proved to work or has been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that has been proved to work? Medicine."

- Tim Minchin
The court case is Astrolabe, Inc. vs. Arthur David Olson and Paul Eggert

http://www.rfcexpress.com/lawsuits/copyright-lawsuits/massac...

ETA: and here is a link to the complaint:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/67760407/ASTROLABE-INC-Vs-ARTHUR-D...
It's a funny world. I'm not from United States, so I don't know the details of the situation there, but I guess the protesters are feeling the same kind of rage and frustration a lot of people in the rest of the world feel on the daily basis. I guess "change" is the best most of us can do to formulate what we want.

Imagine being a user of a set of a suite of applications (Democracy 12.5, Free Market 6.7, etc) that have been sold to you as The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread and The Solution To All Your Problems. Yet the applications are performing increasingly worse, they keep crashing and not doing what you need them to do.

You try to do something about it, but the customer service channels are horrible and even when you manage to log a bug, a complaint or any other feedback, the best you can hope for is that it's ignored; the worst you can hope for it that a patch comes out that doesn't really fix your problems and creates several new ones.

At this point, you start complaining loudly and publicly about it. What's the most infuriating reaction you can imagine? I don't know about you, but I've got one that's pretty close to the top of my list is "Well, how would you solve the problem, then?" Remember, we're talking about an average user, not a programmer. By all rights, the answer to such a question should be "How the fuck am I supposed to know that?"

Of course, what's going on in the world is a lot worse than this hypothetical situation. If you're using apps that don't work, you can "vote with your wallet" and use something else. If you're forced to use them at work as part of company policy, you can ultimately decide to change jobs, if you want to. But this? You have no choice but to go out and protest and ask for "change".
Westboro Church nuts plan to picket the funeral of Steve Jobs
...he had a liver transplant. I hardly think you can say he 'avoided' conventional medicine...
Probable Nexus Prime Hardware Specs Leak
Don't look at things in a negative way. Should this be true I'd prefer to believe that it was because of his alternative vision on life that he was capable of producing such innovative product lines.

No "alternative" way of thinking in medicine == no "alternative" way of thinking in life.

(Obviously just one point of view to consider)
The header on the main bootstrap page covers the content on ff7

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Launching a Company in Nashville with Clay Jackson of the Entrepreneur Center
Normally a cold lasts 7 days, but with aggressive medical treatment it only lasts a week.
Did you not read the next 1.5 sentences?

> but it depends on how soon it’s removed surgically. Steve caught his very early, and should have expected to survive much longer than a decade.
Given how young Steve Jobs was when he was initially diagnosed in 2003, how good his health was, his ability to pay for the best treatment, his large support network and his insatiable drive, I would have expected better than median survival.
Personally I loved the observation about the grass stains and how they just weren't important enough to be something Steve cared about, but I thought the image of him walking hand in hand through the grass with his family was a bit saccharine.

It's enough just to invoke the idea that Steve had found time to get outside - whatever he was doing and whoever he was doing it with and that he did so by focusing on what was truly important but part of great writing is leaving a little bit to the reader and I felt he could have left it there.

But hell, what do I know, I post the odd thing on HN, Gruber earns six figures blogging...

(Don't get me wrong, I like Gruber and I like the piece, just that paragraph).
Actually, given his influence, yeah, it kind of is. The fact that you bump into articles about him everywhere (even on my blog! http://swombat.com/2011/10/6/steve-jobs ) kind of demonstrates that.
The author argues that Steve's expected survival time was actually much higher than the median, because his cancer was detected early--and that the delay in pursuing traditional treatment (surgery) may have been responsible for the poor outcome.

Basically, the article would have been clearer if the author had just left out the median in the first place, as he doesn't think it's relevant.
Don't you think then that if you asked their customer services via twitter for a way to report a security issue that the customer service rep should have sent that address?
I'm a bit late to the party but this looks like an interesting way to release a mobile game.

Would you be interested in chatting over email? We'd love to throw you support from PostageApp. :) Let me know!
Digital maoism.
I'd agree, that last part was a bit saccharine. On net though, I thought it was great too.
New look for Amazon
I think I'm in some test group - I'm getting this new-look Amazon at home. Still getting the old style at work.
Hetzner (a huge german server provider) got hacked, customer-data stolen
This is one of those "this sentence is false" paradoxes, isn't it?
I'm human. I judge people and form opinions based on their behaviour. I'm not denying them the right to those behaviours. Sometimes I can't resist voicing my opinions. If you don't, I'm really happy for you.

I'm confident 99% of commenters didn't know Steve Jobs personally. If his death is difficult for them, it's a problem they themselves have created.
Taylor Branch's excellent trilogy on the Civil Rights movement:

http://taylorbranch.com/king-era-trilogy/
> Forced redistribution of money to equalize incomes would be an unmitigated disaster

Not really. A different balance of taxation would be a form of redistribution of income (and indeed would be interpreted as 'forced' by some). Would that be an unmitigated disaster? Well, it needs checking in the detail, but one suspects that such different tax profiles and hence 'redistribution' existed at various times in the USA's past: the 1960s probably, for example. That is unlikely to be called a period of disaster: it was one of growth and creativity, was it not? If all that happened was going to the moon and inventing the internet, you would have to call it pretty good.
He lived to 89 too, which is why he got put in the general obit category, rather than some other people who died before their time.

Just read the NY Times obits every day. You'll be amazed at all the accomplished people you've never heard about.
Same here. Jobs might've been a great business partner for Woz, but you can clearly see that Woz saw Jobs as friend above everything else from those tears.
Go skim the calendar on OccupyWallStreet.org. The movement may well have started without the unions, but they've been pretty much co-opted by now. In that sense, unions are more like the Sarah Palin of OWS.

> [UAW] had to fight to retain their collective bargaining power in the deal.

A deal which, had it not been struck, had meant their total annihilation.

> The unions have (rightly) seen any benefit they did get as incidental and temporary at best.

Unions, like banks, don't have an inherent right to exist. They are clinging to political favors to keep boyant.
Another way to phrase most of the article is that Prisoner's Dilemmas and Tragedies of the Common are much more common in economics than most people think. I personally agree.

What was surprising for me to hear was the notion that it was Darwin who supposedly first emphasized the importance of such dynamics. These insights have always come to me via Game Theory so far, which is not usually associated with Darwin (as far as I know).
Thank you very much for posting this. I was fortunate enough to meet him when I was a kid. Great man.
Stephen Wolfram on Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
Oh, sorry. I'll go hide in my house while the funeral takes place in my backyard.

edit: by the way, "If you read this far, you should follow me on twitter here" - classy.
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08:39 PST: the page says it's removed for me.

https://www.americanexpress.com/us/admin/
I imagined them in proc because i imaged them being exported by the application.

Reading your links now.

Edit: Yeah, that's pretty much what I was envisioning. I need to play with plan9 more:-\
Short article is short and lacking data points (every 60 years? give me a break).
There's a few big steps from a good theory with solid science to a good theory that's been proved via large scale studies to a possible cure to a cure that shows promise in small targeted studies to a cure that's been validated via large scale studies. The vast majority of possible cures get discarded at each of those steps.
Well, if you code something up cost-effectively to save on initial investment, you should be aware of the cost of re-working the solution if the solution becomes more permanent. Blaiming these type of deficiencies on Mozilla effectively is just tranfering cost off your company. So the LTS should be funded by the asking customers. I'm not sure if this is already taking place, but just blaming Mozilla for not standing still seems out of place.
really awesome logo, thanks for posting
No, he didn't avoid it, but according to the article, he also didn't avail himself of it until it was clear to him that his "alternative therapy" was not having an appreciable effect. The delay in effective treatment incurred by this poor judgment could easily have cost him his life, or at least prevented him from enjoying several more years of relative comfort.