skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very least, Jobs had a tremendous impact on the tech community. As a more recent example, look at the amount of people posting on HN the week after he left Apple. He should IMHO be remembered by those who knew, worked with, and respected him.

Edit: I disagree with you that he didn't have a significant impact on computing itself, but if hypothetically he hadn't, he was still far too well known.
Tech world will never be the same without Steve around. May he rest in Peace.
Thanks PG.
A chronology of Steve Jobs
I'd agree with that, I especially found with metal that Spotify has a larger selection.
And yet it's up. Thanks.
He introduced millions of hackers to their first computer. I'd call that a contribution, indirect as it is.
It certainly would be an interesting experiment.
Mark Zuckerberg on Steve Jobs
R.I.P. Condolences to his family.
Is the black bar that just appeared at the top of HN a symbol for Steve's passing?
How about something like a C++ strings? C strings are great for memory-constrained platforms, like computers were back in the day, or small embedded computers now. On a modern computer though, it doesn't make sense. The amount of security problems that C strings cause is unbelievable. So using something different to C strings would hopefully reduce the amount of buffer overflow exploits (you would still have unchecked array bounds though, but they would be less accessible without C strings).

Of course, something like C++ strings might need more processing to do basic things, but between the OS latency/overhead, I/O times and human perception, you wouldn't notice any difference at all.
Err....I don't even have an affiliate account.

That link was NOT an affiliate link.

How about checking before slandering?
Rip Steve. My condolences to his family, friends coworkers and employees. We will miss you, I will miss you. I am an unabashed apple fanboy and today is a very sad day, and in retrospect yesterday was a very sad day. Can you imagine how Tim Cook felt up on that stage yesterday?
Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.
I'm sure it's been diluted, but he would have also had options. That's why I gave such a broad guesstimate. i also recall reading an interview with him a while back where they asked, "now that you're a billionaire, is a billion dollars cool?" or some such.

I'd be very surprised if he wasn't worth at least a couple billion.
I think no one is willing to say it, because no one else was thinking it..
Mr. Jobs will be well remembered. It's also sad in that his passing is among the first of a generation of pioneers in this crazy industry we all work in.

Best wishes to his family.
Remembering Steve Jobs - Share your memories
If anyone has worked with Steve Jobs and have memories to share, please share them for all of us to read.
This is terribly tragic and don't take anything I say after this as meaning anything other than that.

But the more I think about this the more I think this is somehow the way things were meant to be. I mean, as much as we wish it wasn't true people do get diminished by age. The dashing young actor loses a little when you see him as a 60 year old. Your memory of him gets altered in the smallest of ways.

Steve Jobs is now enshrined in the world's collective memory as the magic man in a black shirt and jeans. He'll always be that now. I'd certainly trade his legend for a few more years of his life but at the same time the world needs legendary figures.

Would it have been better if Abraham Lincoln had been around for two terms? Yes. But would he have inspired generations of Americans if he'd gotten mired down in the politics of reconstruction and been forced to act like "just another politician"? I doubt it.

So it's horribly sad that Steve Jobs died but the fact that he was amazing to the very end is what will make him a legend going forward.
My dad buying a Mac 128k and letting me run wild with it was probably one of the most influential events in my life. It taught me to read, it taught me math, and it kicked off a lifelong passion for computers and programming. It's amazing to me that they designed a computer that I didn't even have to know how to read to interact with. I can't believe I'm getting so emotional about a person I've never met, but I'm almost tearing up.
Your inspiration might actually be Steve Wozniak. It was him that did Super Breakout, not Jobs.

"Maybe they had an inkling that he'd actually work on Breakout with Wozniak, who they already knew from his low chip PONG. As Allan later said "Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed. It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

"The original deadline was met after Wozniak did not sleep for four days straight. In the end 50 chips were removed from Jobs' original design. This equated to a US$5,000 bonus, which Jobs kept secret from Wozniak, instead only paying him $375."
Your statement flies in the face of the hundreds of comments on HN to the contrary. If you don't think helping millions of people discover the joy, magic and power of computers and technology is less than a massive contribution to computing then I'm not sure what is.
Oh, I acknowledge the impact Apple has had on computing. But they've done that primarily by being very good at marketing, not by being technically innovative.
Larry Page on Steve Jobs
I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well. My thoughts and Google's are with his family and the whole Apple family.
"Just over two centuries ago, in 1805, it took news of the Battle of Trafalgar over a fortnight to reach London from the Mediterranean. The fact that, in 2011, the speed with which the news of Steve Jobs's death circled the globe and reached millions could be measured in seconds is a profound testimony to the connective power of the new world that he helped to create." ~ Alastair Roberts
The news is hitting me harder than I expected. More than just the products he made, I feel that he directly effected my life. I wouldn't be where I am in my life today, certainly would have the job I have today, if it wasn't for the years I spent at Apple. And I wouldn't have worked there if Steve hadn't first created the company, then later on saved it.

RIP SJ. You certainly changed the world.
If I had the power to down vote a comment, I would find a way to use it twice for this.
This is one of the most narrowminded and arrogant statements I've read on HN in a while, if not ever.

I think it's hard to argue that Steve Jobs hasn't had a huge impact on the trajectory of computing over the last 20 years. A large share of the commenters here read this on computers developed by the company he started, talk to their friends using phones he dreamed up, and listen to music using software and hardware he headed.

Not all contributions to computing, or the world, are made by hackers.
Five Stars (Winter 2011) has really challenging technology problems.
We're a 10-month old Y-combinator funded startup. Here's a list of some challenging problems we've solved in the last 3 months:

1. Cross-platform Python software and GUI that works in Windows 95/98/2000+, Linux, OS X

2. Auto-updating our software remotely, across previously mentioned platforms, and in Python

3. Hooking and interfacing into an USB hardware plugin across multiple platforms

Here are some problems we're still trying to solve:

1. Building a single piece of software that communicates via REST, across all platforms, that has an online and offline mode, and is very secure

2. Networked client software that can work with various complex network topologies, without having multiple versions of the software

3. Text (specifically, numbers) and image recognition on various platforms and interfaces, with various constraints and variables

4. Build a scalable web-backend framework that is highly available and highly redundant, and can support analytics of large data sets

These problems are in addition to the more standard (but just as challenging) set of problems an internet startup faces, such as: data and app scaling, product design, building features, testing/QA, marketing, sales, customer retention, customer support, operations streamlining, etc.

-- Who are we? --

* We're Five Stars, a universal loyalty program for small to medium sized businesses.

* Raised $2.5 million in funding from first tier venture capital firms and some very prominent angels.

* Growing insanely fast (35% increase in users in the last week, 120% increase in clients in the last month).

* Rewarded Five Stars members for $1,000,000 of spend in the last 2 months alone, up from just $80,000 the 2 months before that

* Have received multiple acquisition offers, which we've turned down. We've got big ambitions!

* Have an amazingly driven, talented, and fun team. We've got a PhD in string theory, a Kiva Fellow, and everyone in between.

* We work hard and play hard.

* We've got a very spacey office in Mountain View, CA located next to an In'n'out, Chipotle, and yummy ramen.

-- Who are we looking for? --

Incredibly bright developers with a knack for taking ownership and getting their work done concisely, efficiently, and elegantly. We operate in an incredibly independent environment. There's so much to be done at any point in time so developers will work across the front-end, back-end, and software. We're still building our core team, meaning you'll get ownership of the product. We foster a learning environment -- think your Javascript skills are a little weak? We have an ex-Google employee who is a JS guru. We have developers who have scaled products to serve tens of millions of page views a month. Come and be humbled, and likewise, we want to be humbled by you :)

-- How to apply --

If you're interested, please email your resume and a paragraph or two about yourself to hckrjobs@gmail.com
sadness.. Steve Jobs built beautiful useful things. This solid alu keyboard with rounded corners tells a story of someone who cared.
I attribute that more to Steve Wozniak than to Steve Jobs.
Steve was rewarded proportionately for his contribution to the world. He (and Apple) changed millions of lives, and indirectly influenced the rest of our lives. A byproduct of his actions were his net worth.
Personally inspired me to get into computing when I was a young child. He will be sorely missed.
Same here, except for the surprise.

I've only ever owned two Apple products, but I am constantly inspired by Steve Jobs. No one else has had more of an impact on how I work as a designer and developer.

And somehow it wasn't just because he was able to create brilliant products. He had such an authentic character, that it somehow humanized the incredible work his company did and made it seem approachable and noble.

I will always be sad that I never got to meet him.
Is there a way we could also get the total points, submitted by, time submitted and no. of comments ? (essentially the second line). Thanks very much in advance.
It is. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078285
And you can't have a fixed-position footer while you scroll around - loads of problems there, not the least of which is that you don't get JS events until the scroll is finished. The only way around it that I'm aware of is to fake all the movement in a fixed-space page, as done here.
Show me a laptop thinner than the Air.

Show me a smartphone more popular than the iPhone.

Show me a tablet more popular than the iPad.

Show me a desktop computer selling more than the iMac.

Show me a laptop selling more than the Macbook Pro.

Show me the company that did multi-touch for the masses before the iPhone.

Show me some better knowledge of this industry, and a bit of decency.
He also did it (most recently I think) for rtm's father: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712469
And without Jobs, do you think Wozniak is able to do that?
Fortunately this site is about more than just pure computer science. Steve Jobs was one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time.
Once again, complete bullshit. iOS is extremely innovative, iPods changed the portable player landscape and challenging Microsoft for a real place in the desktop OS market isn't exactly easy.

They are also great marketers, but to deny that Apple has brought no technical innovations to the table is just ridiculous and you know it. Or at least I hope you know it.
An Insanely Great loss. :(
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 push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” -- Steve Jobs. RIP.
I have never owned an Apple product but it is quite obvious that Apple with Steve Jobs at the helm have had a large effect on a lot of the hardware and software I do use. Whether he was a salesman, a programmer, or a janitor he was obviously important to a lot of hackers.
I don't see why this is being downvoted. Is it because people disagree? Because that isn't a reason to downvote.

It seems accurate to say that Jobs was a salesman. He didn't design or write any software or hardware that I know of.
Geez. I know it's not good to say anything bad about someone who died, but that plus other things he's done makes me think he's a real ----

I hope Woz gets a similar level of recognition and mourning when he passes (decades into the future, hopefully)
Sergey Brin on Steve Jobs
Agreed. My first real programming experience was on a Macintosh doing BASIC.
I have this image of Steve watching the keynote on TV from his hospital bed, and then turning to his doctor and saying, “OK, I’m done here.”
Remembering Steve Jobs: The original iphone release (VIDEO)
Even if you were right, curation is an act of creation. (Clearly, too)
Sad news about Steve Jobs, but I'm glad he's through the pain he must have been in. RIP
He kept working right up to the point where it was no longer physically possible. Almost anybody else would have left their company years ago.
Well said by Tim Cook: "No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much." RIP Steve
That's the idea. And it doesn't have to be angels / VCs only. It can also be the community of entrepreneurs. Don't worry :-)
You don't need to be technically innovative to make an impact on computing. Steve was also smart about what technology not to use. Sacrificing multitasking for battery life, for example.
The black bar isn't there as a trophy for the person who died. It's there to provide a comfort to the people who are grieving as a result of what happened.

I don't know Steve Jobs. He was given an amazing life; a more than ample measure of the best things the world has for us; an eminently square deal. I am, I suppose, sad in the abstract for his family. Who Jobs carefully made sure I knew almost nothing about.

But Jobs made things happen, had an impact on my life, set a standard, for things I care about, and then personified --- animated --- that standard. He was relevant to me. And I am tired of cancer fucking things up that are relevant to me.

So, it's messing with me, a little, and I'm glad the silly black bar is there so at least I don't feel like I'm crazy to feel that way.
My absolute favorite line of that entire speech is the very last, "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." I live by it and will continue to do so. What an iconic brilliant genius the world has lost.
Some people disagreed with me; I think most just felt I was being disrespectful.
"Steve was rewarded proportionately for his contribution to the world."

Don't even get me started.
Steve Jobs: Death is the destination that we all share
Photoshop (and 5 more creative apps) on your Android Tablet
Steve Jobs: Thank you for the dream
-> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078434
Steve Jobs: 1955–2011
Thank You, Steve
Colin, this is just not a good time for this.
Steve Jobs was certainly loved by the HN crowd if this gets a positive reaction.
Steve Jobs and The Value of Saying No
Jobs Family Makes Statement
Bud defines Steve's unique talent: 'Reality distortion field'
Steve's Most Enduring Legacy: inspiring generations of entrepreneurs, artists, etc. to "think different".

Right now, theres someone working on his own startup in their garage because he was inspired by Steve Jobs.
That's the needless education, not the ability. A proper test is doing something real, not conjugating types and reading obfuscated code.

Is this scenario real? Where were you interviewing and how did you do?
I'm amazed that you can make such an ignorant statement.

The first commercially viable GUI on commodity hardware sounds pretty innovative to me, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

For me, though the biggest 'technical' innovation that Apple has consistently delivered on is in making technology usable in everyday life.

Sure, it's not hard-core cryptography or massively parallel search-algorithms. But making devices and interfaces that are beautiful and enjoyable to use on a daily basis is incredibly difficult, and ranks just as high on my list as PageRank or Cassandra.

Thanks to Apple (and Jobs), I've got technology from Star Trek sitting in my pocket -- an iPhone. It wasn't the first smartphone by a mile, but it was the first that was genuinely useful to everybody, which is why every other phone on the market has followed Apple's lead in interface design.

Call that 'marketing' if you will, but all of that 'marketing' has made the world a better place for a very large number of people in a direct and measurable way.
Steve's life in pictures that they are also running is worth looking at too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14659843
I'm no friend of sacred cows, and frankly I'm going to save my mourning for people I actually know, but I think you're wrong about Steve Jobs being nothing more than a skilled salesman.

More than any other company, Jobs' Apple has been relentlessly visionary. Many tech companies did (and still do) write software. Apple, on the other hand, designs and builds products - software is an implementation detail. Apple's core is software as an end, not as a means.

Fifty years from now, I believe that programmer will be one of those hilarious dated occupations like typist or milkman. Asking if someone has wifi will be like asking if they're on the grid, and computers (and computing) will be so ubiquitous that they become invisible.

I don't think Steve Jobs contributed to computing any more than Martin Luther King contributed to literature. His legacy isn't in his tools, it's in how he used those tools to shape the world as he wanted.
It is amazing to see that there are millions of other people that care about same person as much as I do.
I spent the first half of this year writing scrapers for every newspaper in the UK. My Top Regex Tip is http://rubular.com/ - this thing saved me HOURS of my life.
Good but never forgotten! The spirit of Steve Jobs will live on in each of our minds and hearts born and unborn. Steve Jobs lives in every product apple has and will ever create.
Dude, not now.
Fantastic advice. No one will ever die unhappy that they took their own path.

Terribly sad to have to say goodbye to Steve. Thanks Steve, for all your ideas, for your drive to make great computers, and for your attention to detail.
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address: Death Is The Destination We All Share
Here's to the Crazy One...
Steve Jobs was my idol since I knew who he is and what Apple is. He showed me it's possible to live one's dream and that it's ok to follow your heart. And that it's the only way to be happy and bring happiness to others. Furthermore, his products showed me that it's possible to create easy to use and beautiful software.

And that's what I ended up trying to do.. Thank you Steve and rest in peace.

I'll do my best to stay hungry, stay foolish.
If you run out of ideas, you start to help the world in the easiest way - by giving away your money.

Jobs hadn't run out of ideas though.
I don't know what to say. Even if this was expected at some point, I feel really sad.....wish there were more people around me whom I could share this with....but no one seems to care as much.
"It’s been an insanely great honor" ~ Bill Gates #RIPSteveJobs
As General Electric innovates well beyond Thomas Edison, I look forward to watching Apple continue to push society forward. Steve Jobs will in some ways live on through the Apple brand, as a symbol for so many things that resonate so strongly, I can't even express it.
They did mention that it learns your voice and vocab patterns over time. We'll see if that's truly the case.
Many people will have more days, but few will have more impact. Rest in Peace.
Aside from the fact that I believe your statement to be false, do you really believe that someone being among the very best at what they do in the industry that you are a part of not worthy of honor?

And may I suggest that, as a startup founder, it is a point worthy of introspection since it betrays contempt for one of the most important functions of a company?
Death is not good; it is very bad. If given the opportunity to live "forever" (and not age), you'd take it. In a world without death, nobody would think introducing it was a good idea. But because we currently can't do anything about it, we try to tell ourselves it's a good thing.
Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs Dies
The Guardian's SJ obituary is a fucking embarrassment
Steve's passing brings down Twitter
Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus. I literally purchased my first Apple product a couple of months ago with great skepticism; I am a frequent critic of iTunes, and Apple products in general. I always viewed Steve Jobs as someone who I admired for his success and vision, but no more than any other notable figure in the field. But I feel a poignant melancholy at the news... when I saw someone's comment pointing out that the filename for the image on Apple.com was "t_hero.png", I found myself almost moved to tears.

Perhaps you really do never understand the gravity of losing something until you lose it.
FTA: there are 317 patents
One could make an entire PoliSci dissertation out of your comment.
I'm deeply and unexpectedly saddened by the news. Recently while taking a cab from SFO into the city I monitored our progress on the iPhone maps app, and had a profound feeling that I was living in the future I had dreamed about as a kid. Thank you Steve.
Nixing Flash improved our lives (especially in the long term).
A list of statements and reactions to Steve Jobs' death
President Obama on Steve Jobs: "He Changed the Way Each of Us Sees the World"
I'm not offended:)

Call it what you want, but it's been a winner for the past 4 years for us.
"Unlike his contemporary, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Steve Jobs showed little inclination to use his personal wealth for philanthropic purposes."

I think this is completely unfair.

From what I have heard he did a great deal of philanthropy anonymously. This would fit with his character and his buddhism.