skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were sold security. Bow to authority, relinquish individual responsibility, receive a steady paycheck and a base standard of living. Here are your ethics: "Accept your place in life; don't fight for yourself: we'll fight for you. Turn on the TV and kick back. Be docile. We'll look after you."

Now they're still repeating their original mistake: they're asking others to fix their situation. But the game has changed while they had relinquished control: real economic damage has been caused (Tragedy of the Commons). Of course, as usual, now there is a call to arms and a protest at authority, but they still don't understand: instead of asking for handouts they should fix their situation by putting in effort, taking responsibility and standing up for themselves and each other.
Thank you very much for posting the link to this book. I had never heard of it before and after seeing your comment I immediately read some reviews, started reading the sample chapter, bought the book, and am now 3 chapters in. An amazing read, and as you state also very sobering.
I'm fond of criticizing tech messiahs, but I'll still admit that Jobs was more than a salesman. He knew how to get a team going in a particular direction to produce good industrial design.

It's a rare skill.
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I am fully aware that I'm "lucky" that I have an interest in computer programming -- a highly marketable skill. But when people harp on that fortune, it really comes across as trying to devalue the effort I put into developing those skills. Just as an idea has no value without execution, luck is worthless unless you put in the hard work to exercise it. People are emphasizing the former at the expense of the latter to make others feel guilty about their successes and obligated towards the "less fortunate," and that's why people push back.
I agree with that as well. One subset of this is "The MBA Effect" where managers who are also engineers are replaced by profesional managers. This is what leads to things like trying to compete on lowest costs rather than building the best product. Steve Jobs was a great leader in the technology area, precisely because his vision wasn't about money. It was about excellence.

As for causes of economic distribution: liberals tends to emphasize the role of circumstances and conservatives tend to emphasize the role of individual effort. The error, however, is to become blinded to half the equation because it flatters the ego or is politically expedient. For instance, the successful who only see their own virtue at work (Wallstreet?), or the unsuccessful who only see the context and not their own failures (the "victim mentality").
Our mainstream media would rather go bankrupt than saying anything positive about Brazil, reasons being extremely political though not allegedely.

Seek alternative media for information.
No offense, but it doesn't make particularly MORE true either.

That humans have emotions isn't a solvable problem, or generally, even a problem at all. It's those emotions that allow us to strive for more, that allow us to love those that are close to us, that allow us to form long and lasting relationships, that allow us the compassion for charity and the will to help the world. In some cases, yeah, it causes us to perhaps have fondness, or perceived attachment to someone we haven't met.

Regardless, many view Jobs as an inspirational figure. I personally know of more than one successful entrepreneur who would say that something Steve Jobs did was their motivation for starting a company, or excelling at what they did, or gave them the insight that made their company more successful.

I myself am not an overly sentimental person, but I recognize that "If his death is difficult for them, it's a problem they themselves have created." is a line of completely trite bullshit.

Sympathy isn't a problem, and even if it were, it likely isn't one any of the people could have avoided making, even had they so consciously chosen to try.
In fact my chrome is working with MP4 video and this appears just to be Apple pushing quicktime on to Chrome users.
Clookie: win according to your traffic (upd)
I put it up at www.bitkeeper.com, if you need a copyright stuck on there or whatever, let me know. Very nice logo, I like to think that Steve would also have liked it.
It has the virtue of being both dick and untrue, as I dedicated the rest of my comment to explaining.

It's okay. We don't have to agree. I can only say that when human impermanence next strikes closer to your squishy bag of feelings, those around you will show more compassion than you've shown here. Good luck, fellow traveler.
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On a slightly different note, I don't remember top 5 posts on HN all about deaths! I wonder why so many people upvote so many stories related to same subject (i.e. Steve Jobs' death)?
Just a "smartphone" charge or what? I thought at first it was for 4G, but even the 3G phones have it...
Not your fault, actually. That particular quirk may be written down somewhere, but I've not found it in my three years here.

I offer you knowledge obtained by sheer trial and error. :)
I hope they fix it up so that you don't have to have an account to listen to songs that rdio users send you (didn't work this way last I checked) ... I suspect it would be an incredibly smart way to get user to send rdio links to their friends and eventually have those new listeners sign up for accounts.
Can you copyright tz data at all? This has nothing to do with "creative" work, but is simply a (pre-existing) mapping between countries, dates, and offsets.
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The relevant quotes in tzdata are in the files (tzcode and tzdata are public domain):

northamerica:

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is
# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below.

europe:

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).

As far as I know, even if the book is copyrighted, the raw information contained in it shouldn't be?
If laws are interpreted as one wants, than don't you agree that it's not all that well thought to begin with? Or left ambiguous in purpose?

We have a long history of lenient laws regarding corruption.
Homeopathy is not just alternative, it's downright crazy. I didn't realize how weird it is until I read the wikipedia article on it during an argument. Take a look at some of this genuine 19th century wackiness!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
Italy. Yes. Spain. No.

Spain has a smaller debt 65% of GDP compared to most western countries, including the USA (92%) and Germany (83%). They do have huge economic problems. Right now the biggest danger is that outside trouble brings down their banks.
There are often consequences to working in a largely unionized industry even when your particular company isn't unionized, though.
Yeah, the utopian horseshit shoehorned into this article notwithstanding, the primary source of loose hydrogen is currently fossil fuels.
The median number of years for those diagnosed with islet cell carcinoma. For the regular kind it's 3-6 months.
That was a pretty lame justification in the 1960s. And now we've got macroing text editors and general purpose compression that can recover the space.
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Legal status is irrelevant.
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In this case it means "someone who is taking advantage of the gigantic amount of money they're spending on college by actually taking courses in college".

Molding fiberglass and fixing engines are excellent activities, but you don't have to pay college tuition to do them. You can do them in your garage for a few thousand dollars in tools and the cost of materials. Or, if you crave that high-tech social atmosphere, you can go to grad school and have them pay you. (They pay you a pittance, but that pittance is awesome compared to paying them thousands of dollars per month.)

Mind you, I have nothing against undergraduate research, but you should balance that against the other parts of being an undergrad. Should you desire, there will be plenty of time later for a completely-unbalanced focus on one big project. Indeed, that time -- years two through N of grad school -- will seem to last forever. ;)
To the downvoters: Downvoting is not supposed to be used to express disagreement.

The comment was submitted with constructive intent. Alex3917's beliefs are very different from yours -- I get that. Debate is appropriate here; downvoting the comment to oblivion is not.
According to The Daily Beast:

The cancer was detected during an abdominal scan in October 2003, as Fortune magazine reported in a 2008 cover story.

October 2003 + ~9 months of alternative medicine + the ~12 months in his lecture brings you to June 2005, the commencement address.
Fuck Cancer
A Small Tribute to Steve Jobs
Email Pioneer Nathaniel Borenstein on Steve Jobs: The Soul of an Industry
AKA door-in-the-face. Standard psychological trick studied since at least the 1970s.
I think this is more of a memory of Mathematica than Steve Jobs.
Ugh, it would just be easier to sell the vuln than try to inform one of these clueless dinosaur companies about it. I know why companies like Amex build these giant fortresses around their communications, but they should be more cognizant of the damage that can cause.
As discussed in the comments, he lived a little bit less than the median number of years, but he was expected to live for much longer than the median because he was diagnosed so early.
> This is much like protesting against the weather.

Perhaps this is where many people disagree. I don't think the 2008-present economic crisis was a random freak event, like a hurricane, or caused by immutable laws analogous to atmospheric convection. Instead, I would guess, there are definite structural causes, which should be understood, and to the extent some of them are mutable, either fixed or mitigated (the U.S.'s particular arrangement of financial infrastructure isn't a law of nature).

I do agree that there's too much focus on bad intentions. I think the problems are structural more than they are moral; it's not a matter of convincing a bunch of "greedy bankers" to be more egalitarian, but of addressing the causes of economic instability.
Hey, learn from our mistakes. Don't stop when corruption is down to manageable levels and pretend it's all good. Go all the way.

Don't stop till you've got a transparent society and then come help us get one!

If the company that employed you found you secretly dealing with one of their competitors you'd be fired and tossed off the premises immediately. Why do we accept less from our politicians?
I wonder why they didn't get the letsfuckcancer tlds as well.

Also, why some spammer registered "fuckcancer.com".
Samsung Galaxy Nexus full specs revealed; Verizon Wireless exclusive
Whichever version Verizon distributes for the X2, I haven't needed to root the phone so far.
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A bit off-topic, but i find the Plans & Pricing page to be a very good example of how to design for an attention-lacking crowd, i.e. most web users. In particular, the team-size icons is a rare example of using eye-candy to succinctly help in clarifying for whom each package is tailored. Or maybe i am just easily excited today!

If anything, i would invert the per-person price with the overall price in order to give emphasis to "more people is actually cheaper". There is something in descending prices that makes people feel good.
You should be careful when you talk about "circumstantial evidence". There's a very pervasive meme that circumstantial evidence is somehow invalid, but that has never, ever been the case.
I sometimes wonder what a bizarro-world hacker culture would be like. What if tech didn't pay well at all, and there was a lot of social pressure to get a "real job" and a "real degree", like Political Science or English Literature, instead of wasting your time getting a worthless CS degree?

It'd probably be less pleasant in a lot of ways, but the people still in tech would probably be an interesting group.
The ongoing miniaturization of silicon technology has to end fairly soon, as the atomic scale is approaching rapidly. The 11nm node is scheduled for 2015. The silicon-silicon bond length is 0.235 nm. There's no longer plenty of room at the bottom.

The question is whether, when silicon runs out, something else can take over, or whether we just put our hands up and say "OK, that's it, that's about as fast as our computers are ever gonna get".

There's the possibility that alternative technologies will exist but that they'll be much more expensive. So consumer electronics will be based on silicon, and outrageously expensive supercomputers will use graphene or diamond or any one of a number of currently speculative technologies. So far, though, none of 'em is even close to being able to compete with silicon for any price.
Yeah, but if you don't understand homeopathy then you can't really understand modern medicine. Our entire medical system today is a byproduct of the clash between homeopaths and allopathic doctors that happened in the late 19th century.
Those 29% who "practiced CAM before visiting any physician" would be better served visiting a physician who utilizes CAM as an adjunct to his practice, who would recognize their concerns, and encourage those patients not to delay any required treatments.
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No. I agree with almost everything you wrote, but this sort of disclosure doesn't punish the company, it punishes its _users_, and doesn't give them an easy way to make the causal connection. Unless this story is picked up by the mainstream media, how are any victims of this exploit to know that it happened because AmEx is incompetent, instead of e.g. because credit cards are risky?
I used to be interested in this type of service, but then I got an SSD. With an SSD it takes about 5 seconds to boot windows through parallels, and now cross browser testing is no longer a chore.

I am willing to admit that I pirate windows for the sole purpose of supporting IE with my webapps. It would be too expensive to do it legitimately, so my solution is not for everyone.
Yes, though there's still a lot of chance involved.

Young age does not necessarily help with fighting cancer. Younger people have a faster metabolism, and that often allows the tumour to grow faster than in older people.
Indeed. I note that Jimmy Wales is not fooled:

I think it is a victory for Wikipedia, but remains a serious blow against press freedom in Italy.
Yes, he ended up having the surgery, but he wasted a crucial nine months on alternative medicine first. Here's a CNN article from 2008:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/02/news/companies/elkind_jobs.f...

"to the horror of the tiny circle of intimates in whom he'd confided [...] Jobs decided to employ alternative methods to treat his pancreatic cancer, hoping to avoid the operation through a special diet. [...] For nine months Jobs pursued this approach [...] In the end, Jobs had the surgery, on Saturday, July 31, 2004"
No, you can't -- the Supreme Court in 1991 ruled that even wholesale copying of a telephone book was legal, because you can't copyright facts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural
Don't Call Him One of the Best - thats simply not fair: RIP Steve Jobs
Cool logo... what I really need is android/ios device testing.
Aren't timezone delineations and values set through legal means anyway? Does it even make sense that the specifics in a law can be copyrighted?
I wasn't talking about the actual Joe the plumber, I was simply referring to the 'average person', the 'average joe' if you wanna keep the naming reference. Italians just have no idea of who/what Joe the plumber is.
Counterpoint: Having been irrevocably harmed by modern medicine, I encourage everyone to always be a skeptic and a self-advocate when undergoing any approved or alternative therapy. Do research. Get multiple opinions. Be a strong, vocal participant in your plan of care.
I actually found that distasteful. They kept the camera rolling after they told him it was over, specifically to catch that kind of a moment. It strikes me as dishonest and sensationalistic. Give the man his privacy.
>when he in fact meant 'evidence based medicine'.

Are you an evidence based mind-reader?

and again:

'western medicine' is NOT 'evidence based medicine'
Perhaps the speculation is instead whether or not Jobs skipped chemotherapy and radiation after his surgery in lieu of alternative medicine (to eradicate the micrometastasis)? Although this changes the original argument, it still suggests a cause for concern for alternative medicine.

And as many others have mentioned in this thread, if even ONE person avoids alternative medicine and instead utilizes evidence-based medicine to save his or her life, this kind of discussion is worthwhile.
I disagree. Right or wrong on this point, he's engaging in a bit of analysis -- which is, after all, his job. I think Steve would respect that (even if, from a PR/marketing standpoint, he didn't particularly like it -- re Apple's closed-mouth position on unreleased product and marketing).

Bob knew Steve, pretty well. Both adults, who can handle more than one dimension concurrently.

(P.S. I didn't know Steve, and I know Bob only through a few old emails. So, this is just my opinion.

As long as I've gone this far, I'll add that I find the press's read of the 4S misleading. The guts are significantly changed; people seem to be having a hissy fit because the shell was not. Good grief -- the shell has already had X revisions to get pretty darned good.)
Saying "go ahead and search my trunk but I don't have a key" sounds like a spectacularly bad idea. You can probably safely refuse (politely) to consent to all searches under any circumstances. If the police are allowed to search without consent, they will.

The police cannot search the trunk of your car incident to an arrest.

The police can open and inventory the contents of your trunk if your vehicle is impounded.

The police can search the passenger compartment of your car if you are arrested.

You can be arrested and not have your vehicle impounded if, after arresting you and satisfying their entitlement to search the passenger compartment of your car, you have a companion who can legally drive the car away. In this case, the guy's companion was intoxicated. The police can consent to leave your car somewhere safe without impounding it, but for all intents and purposes they have the option of impounding it if it can't be removed lawfully on the spot.

If your car is impounded and its contents inventoried, anything that can reasonably be inspected as part of an inventory is admissible as evidence.

This opinion held that inventory searches did not entitle the police to "inventory" the "contents" of a phone.

But that's beside the point here, because the search that busted open the phone wasn't an inventory search; it was a search for preservation of evidence incident to arrest.
I sometimes wonder what a bizarro-world hacker culture would be like. What if tech didn't pay well at all

It would be like the early 1990s, or living in North Dakota.
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In the US, "Joe the Plumber" isn't a substitute for "Joe Six-Pack" or "Joe Smith," its a specific reference to a famous controversial person. That's like me calling the average Italian a "little Mussolini."
I grew up in Champaign, IL, where Wolfram is based and Steven Wolfram had a reputation for being difficult and an introvert - but the more I read or see about him, the more I find him inspiring and quite brilliant.

His story was also touching because it shows how Steve Jobs was able to touch people's lives in significant ways even through the briefest of interactions.

I'm not surprised there is such "cult" behavior behind Apple - if there was ever a cult leader I would want to believe in, it would be Steve.
Bravo BrowserStack team! I am using this to test IE7 on our staging environment. Your signup process was great, I was able to jump-in and start testing immediately. I think you could add better communication and assurances about security and private information. Keep up the good work.
It's best not to give these morons what they want: publicity. Ignore them, The Kansas City Star has a policy of not publishing anything about Phelps and his nutty crew.
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I was thinking more about Norway, the Netherlands or some scandinavian countries.. I understand your concern with Germany, we're quite some different countries now btw :)
I haven't used Rdio, but Grooveshark (to my knowledge) predates both Rdio and Spotify, and is aces in my book.

I don't know why it gets approximately one-millionth the press that Spotify and Rdio gets, but you should definitely check it out. Between Pandora (discovery) and Grooveshark (streaming catalog), all my music needs are met.
Ask HN: What resources to give a Comp Sci student that only knows C++/Java?
Am looking to help "enable" computer science developers that only know C++/Java to learn more modern languages Rails/Node.js/etc and work in a Git/Github environment. Any good resources/methods that help make this transition easier?
10 important products Steve Jobs helped bring to the world
Not sure that would have been as enlightening as you think. They worked together on the Apple II, not the Mac. And the 6502 boxes were all Woz on the inside. His design, his software. Jobs added the box, the polish and the marketing. But all the look and feel wizardry and attention to detail was still in his future. Apple bootstrapped by selling a machine that was fundamentally the work of a single hacker.

Edit: I should explain more of my perspective here. Woz doesn't get remotely as much recognition as he deserves for Apple's success. Jobs was the executive, his leadership style, "force of taste" and personality were able to scale to Apple as it exists today. But by itself that would have gotten him zilch in 1976. Apple exists at all because One Guy was able to put together a single box at a production price point that wouldn't be matched for 7 years. The Apple II video hardware and especially the disk controller (both implemented with just a handful of off-the-shelf logic chips, no ASICs involved) were works of true, absolute, genius. Circuit design like that probably won't ever happen again.
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Nonsense Steve, your diet "just works".
I'm curious about the the eye thing. Did you just need glasses? It wouldn't ruin your eyes if you could see well enough form the first row, would it?
Once the annotations are added (and presumably verified by the developer), Closure can do more aggressive optimizations like stripping unused code, etc.
Indeed. It looks pretty bad when you selectively quote and drop the stuff I said about Samsung. Please. This site should be better than that. Frankly I don't even see where you disagree with anything I said. Apple sued Samsung in a high stakes bit of asshattery, and Samsung did the same. You think either of those is a good thing?
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we all in the back of our minds knew the time we had him in this world was limited and precious.

I can't think of a better way to put this. I think it's fair to say that we benefitted from his life just as much if not more than he did.
One reason I haven't seen mentioned yet is the quality of the screens. Back when I was consulting, I was always showing clients whatever I was working on for them. A nice bright screen makes GUI's and graphics look their best.
It's only cheesy if it's not sincere.
It's funny how many of the comments here start the same way. You guys probably agree with him more than you think.