skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
perceiving a movement through possible positions of a minority is a pretty intellectually dishonest way to tar the group

You'll note that I did say "at least some of these protesters". With those qualifiers, you'd be right.

I'm not trying to tar the whole ... event (I hesitate to call it a "movement", since I haven't seen any cohesive set of ideals coming forth) ... but some portion, of indeterminate size, of the group.

consider that the GM/Chrysler bailouts almost included a gutting of the UAW... The unions have (rightly) seen any benefit they did get as incidental and temporary at best.

First, it's my understanding that the settlement that UAW got in the GM bankruptcy was pretty clearly outside of the way bankruptcy laws specify that the debts are to be discharged. They got a big-time sweetheart deal -- not a one-time "temporary" pile of money, but a good-sized ownership stake.

In any case, I'm sure that the banks who were bailed out would say something similar: "it's just this once, and bailing us out really benefited the economy of the whole country". The thing is, this is (a) self-serving, and (b) pretty impossible for them to say objectively, given the complexity of the economy.
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This idiot tweets with an iPhone.
Reminds me what an incredible guy Woz is as well. Makes me wish I could have been there as the two of them debated the future of the personal computer in their garage.
I do understand what you are saying though for the same reason, it makes me not want to use PHP in a production setting. The fact that the core developers are willing to add things without thinking them through forcing the users to deal with problems that can't be fixed so as to not break existing sites concerns me.
I hate this admonishment of fanboy-ism that permeates the discussion anytime MG or Gruber are mentioned.

We need fanaticism to counter balance apathy.

There is nothing more empowering than a belief in what you do, why you do it, or who you do it for.

*said as someone who ran a fan site for 16 years
Yes, he did thank the engineers and designers in his keynotes – COLLECTIVELY. However, he also specifically abolished the previous practice of naming all software engineers involved in OS releases.

Admittedly, there were plausible reasons given for this, but I felt that ultimately, the reason why Pixar gives personal credit to their movie contributors, while Apple does not do the same for its engineers, is that our industry is not unionized.
Not really. Look, Steve Jobs was an extremely important dude in the field of computers. If you go round reading a news site for and by people who work in the field of computers on the day he dies then yes, you're going to find a lot of tributes to the man. If you don't like it, go read something else for a while.

Some people are going too far, like whoever left the two bunches of flowers I noticed outside the door of my local Apple store last night. But hey, maybe they knew him personally. Death is hard, and I've got better things to do than look down my nose at other people for their reactions to it.
You might want to spend the day reading a site that isn't full of people inspired by Steve Jobs, be it his products, his work ethics, or his ideas, then.
But going to a naturopathic doctor for a diet prescription is rubbing crystals all over your body. William Li (the speaker in that talk) is an MD bringing evidence-based medicine (i.e. science) to bear on the question.

On the other hand, as naturopathic doctors themselves explain, "tradition-sensitive naturopathic practitioners ... which have tradition-based paradigms articulating vitalistic and holistic principles, may have significant problems in relating to the idea of EBM as developed in biomedical contexts."
http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/acm.2006.12.323
You're absolutely correct, good point.
I am not a huge fan of daring fireball either but it was a good post. It is strange how we notice things about people and then remember them like that.
Here are the actual instructions: http://makeprojects.com/Project/Speed-Vest/1344/1
the "too big to fail" situation is dangerous. the banks are _correctly_ making big bets because they know it's impossible to default since the government HAS to bail them out to prevent contagion.
Science! (biochem)
> And the italian equivalent of 'joe the plumber' isn't that much of a good person either.

What? Joe the Plumber was a right-wing patsy who was nothing more than an agent for the GOP to help sell some kind of bullshit "I'm overtaxed by democracts" disingenious message in an especially corrupt election season known for Sarah Palin running as VP and GOP regulars going to debates and asking what McCain will do about Obama hiding the fact that he's a secret Muslim. Is he a hero to Italians? If anything, he would be cheering Berlusconi on.
Harsh words, but valid point. The first cryoperservations could be billionaires in the hight-tech industry.
"Those grass stained sneakers were the product of limited time, well spent."
Steve Jobs in Four Easy Steps
I Made This on a Mac
Sequoia Capital tribute to Steve Jobs
What about the possibility of remission?
yes, that is incorrect.
I've tried both and love Rdio. The social aspects are so much better for music discovery.
I wanted to post this great anecdote from Metafilter:

Here’s a short tale of mine when I worked at Apple:

One sunny autumn day, Steve (he was always Steve) was walking across Apple’s campus with a reporter toward Caffe Macs. I was walking a few feet behind, enough to hear the reporter asking about Steve’s family. As we approached the entrance, Steve stopped and opened the door for an employee carrying trays of food outside. The employee never looked up but said "Thanks." "Sure," Steve replied. Just then, at least two dozen people followed the employee out. Because of where the reporter was standing, none of the employees (as far as I could tell) noticed who was holding the door for them. Steve continued holding that door, talking to the reporter, until I came up and offered to take his place as doorman. "Thanks," he said. "Sure," I replied. He smiled and invited the reporter inside.

That’s it.

Whatever else you may read about Steve, whatever else happens in his life or to Apple or to the world of computing, know that he opened doors for people.

R.I.P. Steve. We're all better off thanks to your time on the planet.

(credit to kawika, link below)

http://www.metafilter.com/108093/Steve-Jobs-RIP#3958050
Alex3917 did not say anything about gadgets.
heh, absolutely agreed there. I think the police have a hard enough job as it is.
Cold fusion rears its head as 'E-Cat' research promises to change the world
"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 via hugh3 (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080438)
Woz's site was down yesterday. I went there looking for this.

Anyone have a link to the unedited video? I'm kind of curious what they cut out.
Original:
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward.

Maybe they have to be crazy.

How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels?"
> and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory.

Now imagine how people in finance are.
It was indeed. I listen to it every time I doubt myself or need some encouragement.
The motto of OWD is "We are the 99%." Despite having good benefits, I doubt very much that union members are in the top 1%.
> "I'm not trying to tar the whole ... event"

Then what's your point in bringing it up? You could say the same of any political group.

> "They got a big-time sweetheart deal"

I don't think that's a fair characterization, but it's neither here nor there to my point. My point is that they bargained for what they got using collective bargaining power that many were trying to outright strip from them.

And "temporary" was to refer to the point that without continuing political action they almost certainly would/will lose their bargaining power, making any current union deal more of a silver parachute for current membership as the union itself faded into history.
Is this somehow related to browserling/stackvm? Afaik the idea is the same but browserstack looks much more polished and mature.

Ok i just discovered that browserstack needs java so it seems they are using a different sw stack
I don't think Pixar's unionized - not under IATSE, at least...
University of Michigan to invest in its own startup companies
So they're frustrated that despite the fact that they've been whining for years that the world isn't perfect (where "perfect" means "precisely the way I want it to be), the world still isn't perfect?

The solution: more whining?
Searches do not invariably require warrants. For instance, you will be searched "incident to arrest" if you are formally arrested (ie, not merely detained). This is part of why the police cannot casually arrest random people. Similarly, the police cannot casually impound random cars.
Absolutely brilliant :)

For those not familiar with Tim Minchin's work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
I don't think that's true. Many banks have fallen. Big ones as well.

Also, the proper way is to vote out the government if they do something like that, and to make it clear you don't think it was a good idea.

Protesting on streets is a barbaric way to do things.
"evidence-based as anything else" != "5 credits on homeopathy"
Not a counterargument.
Absolutely right, I should have clarified that I was speaking from a "first-cut" perspective.

Out of the gate, say tomorrow, when this law starts getting leveraged against folks I was saying that getting your phone searched specifically because you were talking or texting on it and an officer caught you were likely two different things (there are already "don't use while driving" laws in CA I think).

But like you said, weeks-months-years down the road, there could be some very creative (read: awful) applications of this; just like we saw with wire taping and the "national security" catch all after 9/11.
What happens for positions where you cannot have proportional representation? Positions like President, Prime Minister, Supreme Justices, etc?
Reading about Rev. Shuttleworth, I am saddened that this is the first I've heard of him. Everything I ever was taught about the civil rights movement revolved around MLK and Rosa Parks, and highlighting certain political leaders (amusingly most of whom were white). Logically it makes sense that there were people like this man on the ground, showing great determination and courage, organizing and rallying supporters -- but since everything was presented to me in a general way about ideas and vague vignettes of types of resistance and demonstration, I never really thought about the other people. [1]

This really makes me hope that I can stand up to things I know are wrong in the same way -- Rev. Shuttleworth's story is an inspiration.

[1] I can't help but wonder if we don't avoid specifics of the civil rights movement in curriculums to avoid showing others how to incite change when the powers that be seem to not want it.
Browserstack needs Java only for creating local tunnel via web interface. For the rest it uses Flash!
I could not upvote you enough. It's sickening what is happening in this country. I was born in Soviet Union, and the resemblence grows more and more every day. All the protesters are lacking is a charismatic leader who will promise to punish the evil bourgeouis and distribute their wealth to the poor.

What happened to entrepreneurship. What happened to taking control of your life. What happened to working hard and making things happen. These protests make me very sad, and go against every principle this country was founded on.
Crawling robots.txt files is a great way to find fun stuff in general.
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All the damn protestors' fault, eh?

Here's a question: Why was unemployment so much lower five years ago than now? Did people just get really lazy?

Every right wing asshole with a grievance against attacks on privilege is out there mocking these protests. Somehow they simultaneously deny that environmental pollution, restricted access to healthcare, and involuntary unemployment exist. But systemic issues do exist.
Why won't you name the company? I don't get this, it's not like you accused them of a crime or something. Why would it matter?
One of my dreams was to demo a product in front of Steve Jobs and receive his approval. That'll never be but the mere fact that a man can make me strive for success without ever having met him is a testament to his influence.
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"Gotta tell everyone how you feel."
Depends on whether Mozilla _wants_ to serve those customers. Mozilla's not a for-profit company, its aim is to get its browser into as many places as possible. If it does that by spending a bit of cash/worker time on a project to make it more amenable to Enterprises then that helps its aims too. The question is where is the cash best spent.
Since I didn't know what it meant, maybe some others might be in the same boat:

> Forum shopping is the informal name given to the practice adopted by some litigants to get their legal case heard in the court thought most likely to provide a favorable judgment.
> "unions are more like the Sarah Palin of OWS."

And? Sarah Palin didn't invalidate the Tea Party.

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

It would have meant GM and Chrysler's annihilation, along with many UAW members losing their jobs. But every other car maker in North America has union plants. The UAW itself wasn't going anywhere if GM and Chrysler failed.

> "Unions, like banks, don't have an inherent right to exist."

A specific union or bank doesn't. But the right to form a union or bank does. And the very right to organize is what union struggles are increasingly about. Just look to Ohio and Wisconsin.
New York City Gets Its Own Hackers Union
What desktop are you going to use? Gnome? Unity?
I don't normally say things like this, but seriously, how is this hacker news? It seems more like a peevish reddit-style reaction to the Jobs articles.
It was not my intention to imply that he had.
Thank's for introducing "regulatory capture" to my vocabulary. It does seem to capture much of what people are angry about (bailouts, etc.). I'm guessing you haven't heard it used by the protesters, it's because it sounds so academic. If they read the definition, though, I expect many would agree.

For the lazy:
"when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead advances the commercial or special interests that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating" (Wikipedia)
We prefer defaulting to Gnome, but we may offer a choice.
PHD Comics making a similar statement: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1162
Careful now, this is a rapidly changing field. There are already treatments available today, that were not available the previous decade, with much less impact on overall well-being - and also better outcomes.

I understand what you're saying - but what I'm saying is, just keep your eyes open.
Just like those workers who saw that housing was booming in 2004 and decided to join that industry, eh?

Of course, tech bubbles never exist, so that's an imperfect analogy.
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No reason, but personally-speaking, Rdio is one of the few apps I pay for every month that I appreciate so much and get so much value out of that I'll happily keep paying for it.

I haven't opened iTunes (apart from syncing my phone) since Rdio launched. And I had a large-ish library of 25,000+ songs. Rdio, Dropbox and CloudApp are the only products I can think of that have completely changed my day to day in the last year.
It was when Ray Kroc took it over and wanted to build a nationwide chain, instead of run a single restaurant.
I'm pretty sure normal mail is generally quite secure. Sure, there's very little barrier to someone opening your envelope, but perhaps because the ratio of sensitive stuff vs. letters to grandma is so low, I'm not aware of it ever happening much.
Windows Server 8 goes GUI-less, revolutionary
Just curious. I know if I was a long time windows user and you showed me unity, I would probably run in the other direction.

What is your business model? You said on the page that you don't collected payment info. Do your sellers pay to list?
Chance? Behavior? I've had 3 close relatives die from cancer (Grandpa, Grandpa, Grandma - Lung, Lung, Brain). Adding 3 more people to a list like that isn't far fetched. In developed countries - Cancer is a huge killer, worldwide - it kills 13% of people.
When you go through the regular PCI compliance scan they actually warn you about this...
Steve Jobs made from macbook pro parts
Portrait of Steve Jobs made from Macbook Pro parts
Because you upvoted 30+ pages about the same news, thats what the comments are for, we get it damnit.
This is the guy who has been tirelessly maintaining the timezone database for the past 25 years. You might not know about this, but timezones change a lot, so it's quite a bit of good work. If you use any Linux or OS X system today, chances are you're using the ADO timezone database.
"If his death is difficult for them, it's a problem they themselves have created."

He was a visible figure in people's lives. To attach emotion to someone present in your life, even if they aren't physically there, even if you don't know them in any intimate way, is natural. I recently saw a documentary where elephants walked by the skeletal remains of fallen elephants along their water migration path and touch their trunk to them in what observers deem a tribute. They likely don't even know the deceased. Would you call that a problem?

That's the vexing thing about celebrity: Their seemingly open-book lifestyle (I know, he was a supremely private individual but, hey, Steve could've let anyone else do those keynotes and demos) lets us connect to them in ways that the celebrities cannot even fathom.
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> These protests make me very sad, and go against every principle this country was founded on.

Given how enthusiastic the American founding fathers were for the French Revolution, which had a definite socialist and anti-elite flavor (not merely anti-monarchism), I'm not sure how true that is. Opinions varied, but many were of the view that a free society needs reasonable equality and can't coexist with large concentrations of economic resources.

Thomas Jefferson hoped (futilely) to achieve it by avoiding industrialization, remaining a nation of yeoman farmers and thereby avoiding what he saw as the ills of British industrial capitalism, with its predominance of wage labor, large factories, etc. (he didn't like either the industrialists or their trade-unionist counterparts). That, combined with robust public education.

Thomas Paine was a proto-socialist, traveling after the American Revolution to France to help with the revolution there, where his Rights Of Man: Part The Second was one of the first comprehensive proposals for what can now be seen as social democracy, with a progressive income tax and inheritance tax used to fund a social safety net.

The existence and independence of corporations was also a pretty active area of controversy until the 1850s or so. Before then, many of the founding generation were of the view that corporations were limited-time constructs under supervision of the state (which held visitation and dissolution rights), not fully independent entities, and were skeptical of corporations with a "life of their own", seen as a European pathology (the Dutch East India Company, etc.).
To use a Marxist term, what we're seeing here is a Social Democratic consciousness, not a push for centralized Communism. If you asked the protestors whether they wanted Russia in 1917 or Sweden in 2011, what do you really think they'd pick?

In other words, I think you're overreacting.
I didn't mean that literally. All I'm saying is that a hypothetical portrait of Jobs I would made would be closer the today's apple.com welcome page: simple, elegant, almost raw and in some magical way both sterile and emotive - like most of the Apple's products. 'A melancholic, warm family photo took in a sunny day' seems like a thing from a different culture - but maybe Jobs privately was closer to that picture. Certainly Gruber knows better than me.
I agree about Unity. It was the first thing I changed when I upgraded my personal machine to 11.04.

Sorry about the confusion regarding the business model. We don't sell most of the products on our site, which is more of a shopping search engine. But, we will sell the Ubuntu laptops ourselves directly. I'll update the FAQ accordingly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Edit: FAQ updated; more details will be added in due course.
> we'd rather die what we consider gracefully

I assure you a death from many (most?) forms of cancer is anything but graceful, treated or not.
> Once a cancer is metastatic, I guess it's just a question of quality-of-life vs extending-the-time-you-have.

Not anymore (and not always, anyway). There are some forms of cancer that can currently be kept in check indefinitely, with next-gen chemo.
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You must be an odd person if you have equal aptitudes and passion for a huge range of things, and can choose them based solely on current economic demand. Few to no people I know in tech are like that, though. I'd be into hacker culture if the field was full of shit jobs; the way some people live and breathe music and can't imagine doing anything else, others can't imagine not doing something that involves hacking technology. It's just sugar on top that there's all this money floating around in the field too.

I mean, I got hooked on computers when I was 6 or 7, from Logo. I'm pretty sure I didn't get hooked due to my great foresight and economic responsibility. It was just interesting. Other people get hooked on other things, whether it's math or music. I'm fortunate that my thing pays well, but I don't think that makes me better than them. Makes my life easier, sure, but for exogenous reasons.

I don't think it's uncorrelated with merit, but I do think the correlation is very inconsistent. I know brilliant mathematicians with much poorer incomes, for example (pure math doesn't pay well... despite its long-term usefulness, it's hard to capture the value / monetize it).
I don't know anyone who is denying that the economy sucks. The reason we make fun of these people is that they're protesting against the fact that the economy sucks. This is much like protesting against the weather. Nobody has a magic "make the economy work again" switch that they just need to be persuaded to flip.

They're silly because their world view is flawed in many ways. It's not just their ideology which is wacko, but their ontology. One of the chief problems which afflicts the left is their tendency to believe that "good intentions lead to good outcomes", which has the flipside "bad outcomes are caused by bad intentions". They therefore assume that since we're currently having bad outcomes they must have been cauesd by somebody's bad intentions, so they choose a scapegoat [I wrote spacegoat the first time, which is a much better mental image] and blame it until they're blue in the face. I feel sorry for all the workers on Wall Street who have been chosen as the scapegoat this time.