skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took a screenshot of it here: http://hackerbra.in/steve.png

I get a sense that there will be a vacuum in people's lives from now onward.
I shouldn't think we'll see changes in the next couple of years really other than in the the manner of PR/presentation (as we already have with Tim Cooks frankly lackluster performance) - Steve will have had oversight of everything coming out in the next 2 years or so but obviously not the final polish - again it's a debating point

Also there's the fact that has he left some of his 'DNA' with Apple - has he set the company up in a good position to succeed after he is gone, or is this simply not something Steves can truly do? Was Apple too personal to Steve? Is it even possible to define what made Steve Jobs the person he is and in turn what really made Apple a success?
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Wow. All you need to do to activate this is append ?debug to the main American Express URL: https://www.americanexpress.com/?debug
Thanks for the reply. I must admit, I am not from the USA so I did not follow all this really closely, but if there was a clear representation of the demands, I surely missed it.
The YUM download went off without a hitch on Fedora. Still requires you go in and do a

yum install flash-player

assuming you had the old i386. It seems to have appropriately replaced the adobe-linux-i386 yum conf file as well with the newer one.
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I'm reminded of people who argue against high-paid athletes going on strike for being greedy, despite the institution owners pulling in far larger portions of the wealth. "They're paid millions to throw a ball around! They should be happy with a fraction of the wealth they generate!"

Which is, of course, the underlying point. Who is really "creating" the wealth? That's a matter of perspective. I'm sure the self-described "99 percenters" feel they're the ones who "created" much of the wealth the "1%" has.
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> A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily.
> Sometimes life just happens.

No doubt about that. However I'd argue, that some of those 99% could have it differently if they wished so.
STFU and get over yourself or go cry in a corner, we are not interested.
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There is nothing "likely" about the compositions of a person fluent in storytelling through images. Such people don't spend their initial image, or its point of focus, cheaply.

Steve insisted on subordinating technology to human purposes and narratives. It might be his most important lesson.
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This reads like misinformed linkbait. Just the right amount of empathy to get you to the naysaying, and then ignorance of what Tim Cook did for the company in the last 14 years.
Can you imagine the ruckus if he had actually implanted this embryo? Wow. Up till now human cloning was impossible.

Would be especially interesting for a woman to do this to her own eggs since the chromosome mixing would not change anything in that case.

Someone tell me if I've misunderstood this.
"Some people have it worse than you" is a fully general counterargument which can be applied to any complaint.
Great leaders are as common as great engineers.
I'm just disappointed that it's come to people posting these. It's really pathetic. HackerNews is run by people, and what the masses want will show up on the homepage, and this is what they want.

Let it be, wait a day, and get over yourself.
I empathize with the developer, but this disclosure is wildly irresponsible.

It's a pain contacting live representatives at any large corporation. When you're dealing with the financial industry, you should grit your teeth and find a way to do it anyway. If you have no choice, publish a warning about the exploit, but don't release all the details without a long warning period.
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Apples employees are voting for it, and payed "social media" managers.
Eternal flame for Steve Jobs
>>> a multithreaded environment eventually ends up introducing several blocking I/O functions

>> really?

> yes

ok.

> Can you describe the other options you want to try?

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/boost_asio/exa.... See HTTP Server 1 to 4.

my issue with node is independent of the programming language. i came here neither to bury ted nor
to praise him. i don't care what he has written now. i found his original article funny and thought
that it had some truth in it. all the other "logical deductions" you're making, require axioms that
you have and i don't. i don't know this ryan guy either but if he's made a system so many people
(including yourself, who i admire sincerely) think so strongly about, he must be an all around great
guy. good for him.

as for me and this discussion, if node=asio and threads=avoid in your world, so be it, i'm ok with
that :)

> one nodejs process has replaced their two dozen Ruby processes and is serving out twice as many
> requests from the same box and they are impressed

that says a lot about Ruby (with which i have absolutely no experience)
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That corner for many is HN because of the community.
It would be funny --- if it wasn't so tragic --- how much easier to use and manage free software is. Especially considering it's almost all just './configure ; make && make install' at the base level.

I friggin' love pacman.
Another thing that's important to keep in mind is that some of the biggest crimes against humanity has happened when the perpetrators claimed to represent the interests of "the 99%" (or "the people" or similar). In reality, they represented what they thought the 99% should want (marxists call it "false consciousness"), and the same is the case here. I'm not saying these protesters have the means or the will to actually go perpetrate serious crimes, but some humility would suit them.

If the 99% (or even 50%) really sympathized, there is no point in camping in a park, just run some candidates for office and take over government. The large sums floating around in politics can possibly swing a margin across the middle, but there's no way it can shut up 99%.
I agree, it's written as if the iPhone 4S was developed since Steve left, when in reality he would have been a major cog in the device. Tim Cook has done so much, he was CEO of Apple while steve was away before and the company was fine. Releasing some of their best products with some of the best sales. He changed the supply chain which is one reason the iPad has been so successful as they can build a high quality product at a price the competition can't beat.

Jonny Ive especially shows how important each member of the team was at Apple, steve jobs helped put in place this vision with Tim Cook will instill for years to come.

I find it slightly disrespectful to him that they would post this hours after his death was announced.
Tim Cook must have known that Steve's death was imminent, it would've been hard to present a keynote which Steve would normally do in a situation like this.
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This is crazy... when you go to the admin panel https://www.americanexpress.com/us/admin/ you actually get access to user cookies (session ids) which probably allow you to hijack their session (haven't tried it in case it's going to be traced back...)
Here's something I learned from AMEX last week ... if one of your cards gets compromised and you cancel the card, AMEX will continue to allow charges to flow through that old "canceled" number to your newly issued number if those charges are coming from a "trusted recurring entity". I discovered that charges were continuing to flow through a number that I'd canceled due to it being compromised even though I thought it'd been nullified. AMEX explained that their policy is to allow these charges to continue, and it took a number of months before I caught the problem because the charge was coming from a business I continued to have business with. Apparently the person that stole my number had setup a recurring charge with this business as well. To their credit, AMEX removed all of these charges even though they spanned a number of months ... but it caught me completely by surprise that a number I though was canceled was still allowing charges to flow through it.
FYI, this is one of the few good uses for LinkedIn. If you need to access the engineering department, the ordinary external avenues are usually going to fall flat, and that only becomes increasingly true as the target organization expands. However, hopping on LinkedIn you can find an engineer or someone who at least has engineering buddies within AmEx and similarly monolithic corporations in seconds.
With country after country heading down this path, VPNs are certainly going to become more important. At the same time, I'm concerned about the level of trust that one must put into using anyone's VPN service. After all, how long until these same countries go after the VPNs on a wide scale, for "aiding and abetting pirates", by refusing to hand over logs? Even if someone says they aren't keeping logs, you don't really know until a subpoena heads their way, right?
It's (sometimes) useful for providing perspective. The linked article thankfully avoids it, and kudos for that, but I've seen many mentions of protesters self-identifying with the Arab spring. In that perspective it seems reasonable to point out the vast difference in the scale of abuse rendered to the protesters.
Puzzled why you'd want this. So you trace the execution of a dynamic program in an attempt to determine all possible variable types, only to annotate its source with those types, so that on next compilation.. the compiler can statically enforce that the same code that created that trace doesn't violate the types deduced from it? (It seems to me the only possible use for doing this would be to test the tracing implementation is sound!)

Or perhaps it's for documentation or something. In that case, it'd be a hell of a lot of hand-editing to remove noise from the output.

Another side, the set of types used by any variable may be affected by program inputs, so the result can never be complete, unless you run V8 for every possible program input (likely an impossible task).
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Life Time Of Steve Jobs [Images]
Wow, you've managed to simplify the concept even more! I guess the lack of money transfers limits this to non-continuous cases tough. (Which might be just fine)

I like the fact that the "landing page" is the tool, hopefully this stays with the finished version also.

This could be just due to the unfinished status, but currently at least it does require awful lot of clicking around with mouse. At least entering the cost of an item right after the name should be possible without touching the mouse. (and it actually took a moment for the first time to notice that you can edit the cost afterwards)

Maybe it would be also good to make a more drastic graphical difference between the names and the items?

Are you planning on adding possibility to mark certain items to be paid by certain people only?
The Walk Again Project
Talk to more people, and try to find the theme in the discussion? Then pivot that way.
Legend Dies...Legacy Remains!
The ultimate tribute that you can offer to Steve Jobs 
I just loved this chrome extension that replaces google's logo with Steve's photo. Install and give it a whirl if you adore his vision and work

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/agfmabgjbaeidpfpbpedpbabhfeccadg
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Oh absolutely! And I'm sure many are the lazy freeloaders that are easily imagined. But I think honest mistakes count for much of it. Of course, that could well be wishful thinking!
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No he did not. He always talked about "we at apple", and always gave credit to the engineering and designer teams.

The story of Wozniak and Jobs is widely known, Jobs described Wozniak on more than one occasion as a brilliant engineer and that without him, Apple would not have existed.
The author should have contacted the email addresses given in the DNS WHOIS (amexdns@aexp.com, gtld@aexp.com) and the obvious aliases (security@...).

However I can understand and sympathize, it's enraging how hard it is to get into contact with a person of any kind at certain companies (KLM/Air France, I'm looking at you). I understand they want to save money, but if you run a business, you have to be contactable in one way or another. And snail mail as the last option really doesn't cut it in the 21st century.
It's silly, but I made my tribute too: http://fusi0n.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/apple-half-mast...
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I think the people now in Wall Street are doing exactly that. :)

Not all change for the better comes about by buckling down and getting a second job.
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Here's To the Crazy Ones
That's standard practice for all cards, it's not just AMEX (I believe the authority is based on the account rather than the card). In the UK, there's no easy way to cancel a recurring payment on a card other than contacting the entity taking the payments. If they refuse, you can complain to the card provider and they will eventually sort it out, but payments will still go through in the meantime.

Moral of the story: Don't let anyone have a recurring payment authorisation on your card.
Thanks for posting it here!
Yes, mostly for documentation, and also to spot any unexpected types.

I would like to run this during automated testing. For modules where code coverage is 100%, it could be possible that most input-dependent type paths are covered.
Not a very inspiring manifesto. Somewhat confusing. As a freelancer writer, isn't it your job to tell other people's messages (or the messages they want you to tell)?

If you want to tell the stories you care about, and only those stories, become a publisher.
I have an AMEX card that expired in 2007 and it is still successfully charged by AWS each month. Apparently, it's a big pain to get customers to re-enter new payment details when cards expire, as a result I believe merchants are often allowed to charge to cards that have long since expired.
What I like about this is that by writing it the wrong way round you have collected plenty of evidence that your intended meaning is indeed well known!
It's working, now.
Now we have Zuckerwanker.

Time to move to emptying bins for a living.
I loved it!!! Super cool!
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Steve Jobs became big by being right most of the time. Edison became big by being a bully with questionable business practices. DC vs AC anyone?

If there is one person you could compare Jobs to, this would be Henri Ford, who's vision also combined existing technologies into something new, brilliant, making something simpler, more useful and more accessible for the large public.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of Narcissus - this may do the job.
Can you share some more details? How many shards did you have? Did it all run on a single machine? How much RAM did it have?
Don't pride yourself too much on being "honest". It is far easier to go around always telling the truth than to apply discretion.
An interesting solution to a problem; fascinating but gross read.
A review of the book from a UK/european perspective:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41...

"And the idea presented at the start, to the effect that Darwin, rather than Adam Smith, will come to be seen as the father of modern economics, gets lost on the journey. Indeed, he reveals in the preface that the book's title was imposed by the publisher, and that his own preference would have been for The Libertarian Welfare State, which would have been a clearer guide to the material he presents."
To open standards? I uninstalled Flash a couple of weeks ago. That's the first step. Every few days I hit some video that I wish I could watch. Sometimes I reach for my iPad to watch it. You would think since I can watch it on my iPad, the site could detect that I don't have Flash and use another codec.
How to freelance from home and remain sane
Some years ago when I was doing more stuff in spam and phishing I came across a phishing site for a small US bank. The list of phished card details was available through the interface and it was clear that there were some real people local to the bank who had given their name, address, card number, PIN, SSN, ... everything.

I decided to contact the bank. After filling in the form for contact on their web site giving all the details of the site, I did get an email back and eventually I got someone on the phone. This person (who said they were in charge of bank computer security) thanked me and said that they were going to try to deal with it (I had also contacted the school district whose computer was hosting the site to get it shut down).

I then told this person that there were real account details on the phisher site and would they like the list of people's account numbers so they could inform their customer/shut down their debit card etc. The bank officer replied, "No." As far as they were concerned the people who were that stupid got what they deserved.

I was flabbergasted, but couldn't do much to make the bank do something.

So, using the names and addresses of the people from the phishing site I managed to track a couple of them down (they were small businesses whose business addresses were available on the web) and phoned them up so they would be alerted. They took it pretty well considering that some weird British guy was calling them from France to tell them their US bank account details were at risk.
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Extremely hard to get in touch with Google as well. And you only tend to realise it when something goes horribly wrong - like when your adsense account gets suspended.
As an Amex cardholder, I can attest to the fact that getting in touch with their service reps, should you happen to not have your card on hand, is a pain in the ass. They have many obstacles in place to prevent talking to non-members.
Steve Jobs: a true patriot (an obituary)
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I agree, but this is a complete fail by AmEx. They don't even have a way to report or check on phishing emails from their contact page. THAT would have been the way I would have tried to get in contact with them to help them out. Hopefully, if nothing else, they'll get some sort of scam alert response.

Note to self: It's really hard to automate good customer service.
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"...a clear sign that Apple was Steve and Steve was Apple"???
It is. The nspluginwrapper used to run the 32-bit Flash in a 64-bit Firefox (dunno if it also applies to other browsers) really slowed things down. I got much better performance running the 64-bit plugin, all other things -- including the Flash version number -- being equal.
No. It's about time we stop letting the financial industry get away with incompetence. Every other software vendor would be raked over coals for not having a publicly available security disclosure email address and utterly failing to properly route a request via Twitter.

Responsible disclosure exists so that vendors have an incentive to respond to vulnerability reports in a timely manner. In fact, it is the responsible thing to publicly disclose vulnerabilities so that AmEx learns to implement a proper security reporting process.
Indeed. Perhaps it would have been better to publish the exploit anonymously. It's definitely not too useful in terms of street cred -- while we all appreciate discovery of security bugs, it takes no skill and is a common script-kiddie method to just try /admin, etc., after URLs, so there is not much value professionally in having your real name tied to it, but significant risk and harassment issues come into play, especially in a big thing like this where the ire of angry and/or fleeced customers can easily be manipulated and misdirected.
It could have been. Except, you can't leave your valuables on the street and then arrest someone for breaking and entering when they're stolen!
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Last night every single story on HN was about Steve Jobs
PS: Our sincere apologies to the family of the person who would have received an organ transplant had Steve not bought his way up the list ahead of them. We understand the reason he had to do so was that his chances of benefit from the transplant were lower than that of other illnesses requiring a transplant, and that they were therefore given priority, but I'm sure you'll agree that the action was justified by the value of Steve's life as compared to theirs. It's almost as if the transplant system didn't even know who Steve Jobs was!
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Wow. This is a huge vulnerability. I hope they fix this very soon. The cognitive dissonance going on with that twitter conversation makes me think he was talking to a bot. Also I love the "These cookies are secure" bit on the admin interface.
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Dear Adobe:

Just because he's dead doesn't mean the rest of us don't still want your proprietary garbage off the web. We've seen the future, and it's not yours.
In my opinion that would have justified alerting the local press.
Steve Jobs...a speech of life
My point isn't so much rails vs php, but about the non-technical difficulties in getting major infrastructure changes done (especially if it's for a minor project) . I'm sure it'd be equally hard to get a ASP.NET MVC stack set up at a company with a big RoR setup already in place.
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// don't ask me how exactly, but this gets the main domain froma hostname;

This explains a lot. What I don't understand though, is why this guy, who doesn't understand basic regular expressions (the expression is also wrong), is working on the American Express website.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3072800
Target.com had an almost identical problem on their newly designed site (years in the making).
"Hence the bug report."

The story was posted an HOUR ago! They're a bank! Imagine the number of criminals swarming over their website by now. You'd think they'd react quicker. Or maybe the bosses there aren't aware of the implications of this disclosure.
I'd offer some of them a job...but then again I don't think they want one.

Nor are they willing to take any sort of personal responsibility for the "mess" they are in. You didn't necessarily get screwed, you probably screwed yourself. And if you are complaining about tuition costs go protest at the universities, not Wall Street. How dumb can some people be?

Certain financial institutions may certainly be at fault to a degree, but so is Washington and Congress and YOU. Take responsibility and do something positive for the country. This is a joke.
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Hair Loss treatments.
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Fake Steve Signing Out
I guess that means I can finally get rid of the 32 bit libraries. Yeah!
Notticed the same thing today on all of my websites, glad to hear I am not the only one!
Can someone explain the origin or meaning of the word "hero" to describe primary marketing/call to action sections? I saw it first in the twitter bootstrap code [1], and now here.

[1] view-source: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/examples/hero.html
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