skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Jobs' entire work life relates directly to the industry HN addresses. Ralph Steinman is tangentially interesting.
If this was a common occurrence, I'd understand your point. But as is, it hardly seems like a problem, or a sign of a broken system. Just take a 6 hour break.
Steve Jobs Has Died
“Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.

In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.

We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.”
Yahoo stock soars on new buzz of Microsoft deal
A fitting tribute: Every post on the front page of HN is about Steve Jobs.
Good call, man. We posted the same picture only seconds apart. Really something to see the influence he's had on this community.
That is very sad and yet perplexing. It was only a short time earlier in July he presented the new Apple campus to the Cupertino city council. I had assumed he'd be here for that. Quite sad.
It is no inflation to say this man is the greatest inventor/innovator I have seen in my life time. Saying someone is great does not take greatness away from anyone else. Many people can be great, Steve was great.
"Steve Jobs admits to few idols. But one is Edwin Land"
Gruber has changed his background to be a little darker than his normal background colour. Fitting; I think.
Steve Jobs Regarding LSD: Top Three Most Important Experiences in His Life
From the All Things D conference: "There's that one line in that one Beatles song, 'You and I have memories that stretches out longer than the road ahead' and that's clearly true here."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8K1yexO6s&feature=playe...
This was such an insightful article, a great way to remember Steve in life. Well done Walt. Way to keep it classy while keeping it real.
"Why do we care more about salesmen than scientists?"

Saying Jobs was /just/ a salesman is beyond incorrect.

But on a deeper level: making a useful widget is one thing, succeeding at convincing the world that they need it is quite another.

ideas are nice, products are better, but Jobs could execute like none-other
Today, the world feels like a less innovative place
I don't know if I'd use that particular example to make my case. Order ids might give the kind of behavior you want, but time is fickle and ornery. All it takes is one luser with root running ntpdate to give you all sorts of interesting Groundhog Day problems.
Prior to the release of the first Android phone, Jobs acted almost as a mentor to Larry/Sergey. In fact, the two companies were so closely aligned that there was an antitrust investigation:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/04/apple-google-relationship...
What Steve Jobs meant to me
How about a video resource library? If you've got the cash, you can work with people who are experts on particular topics (email marketing, etc...) to prove you the tutorials. Alternatively, you can block out a weekend to put some videos together. It's acts as a marketing tool, ("Learn Everything You Need to Succeed With Daily Deals!") and a retention tool. In fact, having a big link to the video library on the cancel page would probably distract people away from cancelling.
DTrace for Linux
terribly sad news! what wonders he could have created if had lived for another decade..I am grateful to you Steve.
I hazard that one of the reasons founders are so helpful to each other is simple karma. Just like contributors to open source and developers who blog to share what they've learned.
Steve Jobs, 1955 - Forever
Need correction on Apple's site, it should read..
Steve Jobs, 1955 - Forever
That's new.

I agree, that's completely fitting.

Strange how it makes the site harder to read. No, wait, those are the tears beginning to well up in my eyes again.
No, it doesn't.

This is impacting news for our industry. Also, it's NH's way of saying goodbye. Please, don't try to ruin this. Don't worry, it will all go away in a few hours.

Just go out and take a walk if this affects you negatively.
Possibly contrived but sums everything nicely.
Perhaps a little appropriate: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BondageAndDisciplineLanguage
Unless the universe contains mechanisms to allow more powerful computation models than we are aware of, then I cannot see how it could possibly not be possible.

Intelligence is observed in nature in little pieces of meat that arose through natural selection. The notion that it is doing anything that possibly couldn't fall under the umbrella of computation is one that does not logically make sense. The only logical position to assume is that until brains can be demonstrated to be solving problems that Turing machines cannot, they must be assumed to be computationally equivalent.
The question isn't "how do they work". The question is "are they more computationally powerful than Turing machines". Until demonstrated otherwise, the only sound position is "No."
Thanks for the feed.
It is sad to know he won't see that project through to completion.
Is that supposed to be a jab at Bill Gates?
The community speaks - you have the choice to listen.
Sean Parker on Steve Jobs
My Bit on Steve Jobs
The community speaks that it is obsessed with Steve Jobs? How is that many posts of something we know about going to help me learn more about business, entrepreneurship, or programming?
Mark Zuckerburg on Steve Jobs
Grooveshark doesnt illegally stream anything. All of their music is licensed, and they pay fees on it. They also go to great lengths to protect there music from being easily ripped.
HN's Steve Jobs tribute. Thank you for inspiring us all.
He built the iCloud so he could have a place to rest in peace. Thanks, Steve
I think it's a form of grieving. Not much point in wasting mental energy opposing it.
I'm in! One question for the people that already went to SS: I am flying in from South Florida that Friday and I was wondering if there were any post event hangouts/meetups or if I should be ok flying back that night.
I wished I could stay a couple nights in the valley but Sunday night is my limit.

Thanks!
I never really met him (thanked him once in person for the shuttle service), but I'm glad that he got an extraordinary second chance -- by all accounts, he wasted not a second of it. My God rest his immortal soul.
The community's job isn't serving your narrow interests. The community addresses its own needs.

For the moment, it needs this.
Your Future is Now
I don't really care about this. The Steve Jobs news is big anyway.

If something needs to be changed to the system it's to fix the annoyingly short "session expiration".
They were roughly simultaneous, and most have only a couple of comments each hours later. I don't think anybody is finding much value in actually reading all three dozen restatements of the same story. It was just a collective-action problem that HN doesn't have good tools for solving.
This explains HN, but not general news sites like the NY Times or the Guardian.
Every single story on the HN homepage
11 Insights from Steve Jobs
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Fellow developers - I need your help in rating my iPhone app
Friends,

I need your help. Can you please rate my iPhone app. I am planning to release the next version and I would love to get your input/feedback.

My app - Dobango play2Win (don't just play, play2Win)

iTunes download link - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/play2win/id432643192?mt=8

Category - games

Idea - gamify the deals experience

Features -

a. Three casual games (spin2Win, Scratchers, playLine)
b. Each game is tied to a deal.
c. You play a game in a battle with others to win the prize.
d. Every one wins as you get a discount prize for playing the game.

Thanks,
Robby
You know what was missing from yesterday's event (well, except for Steve, obviously)? "One more thing..."

As much as I don't think it will happen, I can certainly imagine a pre-recorded iPhone 5 announcement starting with Jobs saying that. Realistically, there are too many cues that it won't happen, especially the announced free 3G(S).
Nevan Mrgan: Steve
I just re-watched that speech and it was enough to make me realize I'm not foolish enough. Jobs lived more than many people who reach age 70 because of this foolishness.
Every single link on Hacker News is about Steve Jobs
That may be.

But the truth is that if you had even a passing interest in technology from the 1970's or later, and you still have a pulse right now, there is not a single thing more worth discussing at this moment than the life and passing of this great man.
he really doesn't polish up as well as old timberlake ;)
Found on a mailing list:

Apple's products are actually third-order innovations that use a variety of fundamental second-order innovations in the now vast realm of electronic components to assemble and to program devices whose greatest appeal has been due to their (choose your own adjective, or embrace all of them) sleek, unorthodox, elegant, streamlined, clean, functional interface design.

walk into apple store. look interested in the ipad
browse for a few until an apple employee comes over to ask if you need help
start a general conversation about how you were looking to buy an ipad
slowly work your way into asking about its features
let employee ramble on their scripted feature speech
start asking if it can do stuff it cant.
"can it read flash drives?"
"can it read memory cards?"
"can it download or upload files?"
"does it have a camera?"
"does it support 1080p?"
"does it have HDMI support?"
"does it support flash for web browsing?"

ultimately they will answer no to all of these unless they are clueless noobs, anyways once they say no to these features, say something like "well what the hell can you do with it? seems like a overpriced piece of shit to me, might as well buy a cheap laptop with more features" note look on employees face. walk out.

Love him or hate him, you know his name and he didnt give a shit about you.

>but you have to admit he was a brilliant business man and changed the entire music industry forever.

Yeah, he made it DRM infested and even easier for labels and publishers to fuck over their artists and keep raking in profits from stupid people.

Go kill yourself.

They're burying him in the iCoffin. It costs twice as much as a normal coffin with half the functionality, plus you need to dig it up and replace it every year to keep up with technology trends.

Does that make Steve Wozniak somewhat on par with Nikola Tesla?

Right, has Apple really done anything GOOD for technology? Vehemently opposing openness, ridiculously overpricing cheap, shitty products, all-in-one computers (a huge step BACKWARDS) and conning the world out of billions upon billions of dollars.

What have they really contributed? The iPhone was really just the first in an inevitable progression, it wasn't some big innovation that drew smartphones out of their dark ages. If you look at the phone models it was already coming.

As for tablets, all they did differently was use a mobile OS instead of a gimped desktop OS, which was also inevitable considering the fact that competent mobile OSs actually exist now.

What is it that Apple has done? Is making incredibly overpriced but stylized products their great achievement?
Literally the most important single figure in all of computer technology just died, a man more popular and beloved than the President and the Pope combined, and you're upset because this frontpage will be afire with the news for a few hours? Christ.

Congratulations. This whining, right here, marks the beginning of the end of HN.
Then it would be like this
http://www.theonion.com/video/new-google-phone-service-whisp...
It's sad that it takes the death of a man like Steve Jobs to make the rest of us realize that we're not living our lives to the fullest.
Apple's products are actually third-order innovations that use a variety of fundamental second-order innovations in the now vast realm of electronic components to assemble and to program devices whose greatest appeal has been due to their (choose your own adjective, or embrace all of them) sleek, unorthodox, elegant, streamlined, clean, functional interface design.

walk into apple store. look interested in the ipad
browse for a few until an apple employee comes over to ask if you need help
start a general conversation about how you were looking to buy an ipad
slowly work your way into asking about its features
let employee ramble on their scripted feature speech
start asking if it can do stuff it cant.
"can it read flash drives?"
"can it read memory cards?"
"can it download or upload files?"
"does it have a camera?"
"does it support 1080p?"
"does it have HDMI support?"
"does it support flash for web browsing?"

ultimately they will answer no to all of these unless they are clueless noobs, anyways once they say no to these features, say something like "well what the hell can you do with it? seems like a overpriced piece of shit to me, might as well buy a cheap laptop with more features" note look on employees face. walk out.

Love him or hate him, you know his name and he didnt give a shit about you.

>but you have to admit he was a brilliant business man and changed the entire music industry forever.

Yeah, he made it DRM infested and even easier for labels and publishers to fuck over their artists and keep raking in profits from stupid people.

Go kill yourself.

They're burying him in the iCoffin. It costs twice as much as a normal coffin with half the functionality, plus you need to dig it up and replace it every year to keep up with technology trends.

Does that make Steve Wozniak somewhat on par with Nikola Tesla?

Right, has Apple really done anything GOOD for technology? Vehemently opposing openness, ridiculously overpricing cheap, shitty products, all-in-one computers (a huge step BACKWARDS) and conning the world out of billions upon billions of dollars.

What have they really contributed? The iPhone was really just the first in an inevitable progression, it wasn't some big innovation that drew smartphones out of their dark ages. If you look at the phone models it was already coming.

As for tablets, all they did differently was use a mobile OS instead of a gimped desktop OS, which was also inevitable considering the fact that competent mobile OSs actually exist now.

What is it that Apple has done? Is making incredibly overpriced but stylized products their great achievement?
I have been looking for a higher resolution version of this photo forever. Anyone have one?
Devastated. Forget hn it crashed twitter and slowed down Google plus.
Think about donating 10% of your next hardware purchase to charity, possibly pancreatic cancer research. Think about what Steve Jobs has done for your startup (both technology wise and inspiration wise)
btw, this happens with google voice already. you can record calls, and read voice messages as text.

unfortunately it has some clumsy way of enabling recording that makes this useless.
He's ashamed and should be forgiven.

But a journalist should never ever use "I have to do what's right for the public and readers" as an excuse for failing ethics. We don't have "the right" to know everyone else's secrets.
I feel the same way. If not for Steve, I'd be Jobless
Fuck,yeah!
From the authors, founders, luminaries, etc., of these posts, have you learned nothing more about business, entrepreneurship, or programming? The community may not be obsessed with Steve Jobs. Instead, obsessed with the innovation he has driven into this world. All of which, in turn, leads business, entrepreneurship, and programming.
$400 may have been the actual high price, but if someone had purchased one share in '97 for $10, when it was $400 share, that person would have $1600 worth of Apple stock. This is due to the fact that the stock has split twice since he came back in the mid '90s: http://investor.apple.com/faq.cfm?FaqSetID=2
Steve Jobs: The Man In His Own Words
More likely on his birthday.
Always looking to self promote
I'd like to see a windows installer with node.js, coffeescript, mondodb and a couple apps with some collected docs behind a web server for example. that approach bootstrapped a lot of Rails coders.

a demo video also helps create a lot of interest.
Gamification on steroids
Is your life so narrowly focused on HN that you can't take a day long break from learning about "business, entrepreneurship, or programming" and visit some other sites?
Yeah, it makes me wish he lived forever.
Do you know where and how to donate for cancer research?
Beautiful article from a true gentleman. I love how he still used the present tense at the end of the clip. Personally, these news haven't sunk in yet.
Indeed. Enormous, yet almost invisible.
Apple RIP Logo design
Leave that for Slashdot
Right now, it looks like a special tribute : The whole of the front page (30 stories) are all Jobs. For a short time, the front page was 20 stories, my guess is to achieve the same effect.

Everyone knew this day would come, which is why it's such a collective, moving (and organized) moment.

Personally, I'm more glad he got to see the tributes to his contribution to world karma when he stepped down as CEO. That was for him to savor, this is for us...
40K Tweets per Minute Celebrate Steve Jobs
I'll believe it when there's a buy now button.
would like to point out every article in the top 30 is on steve. have a jpg too if someone can host. picasa is being lame.
I don't understand why a mashable blog post is necessary when it's on Google's homepage. Why not a link to Google?
won't be drinking an sugared-water today. Thanks, Steve.
I thought the same. Nice homage, to be sure.
I say yes only if you're staying for more than one day in SF, and you have other networking activities to do. That way, his time isn't wasted if he does come.
I've become convinced that cancer is among the elite series of diseases that are, in many cases, just how people die, meaning that perhaps in many instances the medical term for "dying" is "cancer". I think it is naive to ever think we'll have a general cure, especially since "cancer" covers such a broad range of specific issues.

I understand that people die in other ways too, of course, but I think cancer is a common agent that is just how dying works. It's like getting gray hairs -- you can do things to try and stop or cover it up (and some people will get old without much graying), people can fantasize about a fountain of youth that will keep your body at age 21 forever, but the reality is that graying is just part of aging and nothing is going to change that despite any realistic effort that humans can put in. Cancer is part of dying for many, many people. It's not going to go away despite our best efforts to mitigate its effects or eradicate it entirely.

I once read the supposed confession of a medical research assistant that "cancer" as a general thing is not curable but they keep the myth alive because "cure cancer" makes a really decent slogan.
I think it's a side effect of many people submitting the story rather than explicitly upvoting it (in which case upvotes would cluster around one or two stories, as they do for the top ones). Since submissions count as upvotes, and there's a critical mass of people submitting each version of the story, they all end up on the front page. You'll notice there are a couple where the comments are alive, but in a situation like this (single story, many sources, many people submitting each without checking if it's already there), this is exactly what would happen.

It's also possible some people are hoping for a karma boost by submitting a story many others are likely to submit, and thus there is an incentive to submit a story on the gamble that noone else has done it yet, since many others are likely to submit it too.
I know normally this (an image) wouldn't fit here, but I thought it was poignant and relevant considering the front page.
Jobs left Apple right when they no longer needed him. He saved the company he founded, and now its the most valuable tech firm in the world, and will be the leader for at least the next decade.
This does mimic a conversation I've just had at our startup. We won't have the privilege of seeing what was he really like.

Congratulations to all of those who had that opportunity. The rest of us will have to make do with a mere shadow of his personality.

But what a remarkable shadow it is.
Steve Jobs has passed away The man behind Apple’s success is no more
This is not the end of a company or the failure of a product. It's the end of a human life.
Quite surprised by this unexpected commonality.

I am by no means minimalist, or spartan, in fact unimpeded
space does not come cheap. I value empty space a lot, and believe that if something takes up space it should enrich me.

A thin mattress on the floor works just fine, and actually feels kinder to my back than a bed. I like my speakers on the floor or raised a couple of inches above it. That way I can sleep between them, that is usually when they sound the best.
Harder to evaluate the value of scientist's legacy. And, apart from being entrepreneur's inspiration, Steve is a bit of a pop figure.

Or it's simply that salesmen are more popular as it's them who bring the results of scientists' work to lives of millions.
Its just one day for someone who actually gave us a better vision into the relationship between human beings and technology. I think we can put up with it for one day.
Bathroom Lighting Fixtures
Comics, Quizzes, and Stories - The Oatmeal apple tribute
Steve Wozniak on Steve Jobs
Door Handles
Part of the job is being able to do your job in a meeting, or with a client. You don't need to be perfect, just don't freeze.
>It is no inflation to say this man is the greatest inventor/innovator I have seen in my life time. ... Many people can be great, Steve was great.

Steve seems more of an amazing businessman and salesman, with exceptional taste, than inventor/innovator. Apple's considerable achievements come largely from taking the inventions of others and making them attractive to the marketplace.
Randy Pausch, another tremendous person who died too young of pancreatic cancer, had some recommendations:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
With all the Steve Jobs posts, I briefly thought the "jobs" tab was a special section for Steve.
It's sad, but that's the viewpoint I came away with as well.
Steve Jobs: Arab-American, Buddhist, Drug User, and Capitalist World-Changer
In case you didn't know, "insanely great" is a reference to the demo of the first Mac: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KkENSYkMgs#t=4m50s