skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If his death is difficult for them, it's a problem they themselves have created.

That's, uh, a... Penis thing to say.

People form attachments to those they've never met because humanity doesn't require reciprocal contact for personal impact. I knew Jobs only through his work, words and passion. I make my salary, doing a job I absolutely love, because of things he decided had to be built.

I will endlessly be in his debt for the world he helped create and the example he so consistently set. His passing tears at me more than I ever would have guessed.

It is not a problem I created. It's a man who earned my respect and admiration, gone. Forever.

That is something so profoundly difficult for me to process, entire systems of ritual and belief were created thousands of years ago in an attempt to address the helplessness.

Human impermanence is hard.
So you're defending the idea that cancer can be halted by diet. Anyone who speaks out against that is toxic?

If all people had to do to halt cancer is vary their diet, far fewer people would succumb to the malady. The only way you can make that work is by taking a derisive and dismissive attitude to everyone, saying they must be too stupid and stubborn to want to live; moreover you must also posit that all doctors involved in oncology are evil and ignoring the facts.

This seems like a far more toxic worldview than quiet regret that Steve isn't still with us that I get from this article.
I read this on reddit, I wasn't even aware of his research, what he found. I found it to be also truly inspiring:

"A great man has passed.

Alas, Ralph Steinman is dead. He died three days before he got the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2011. He dropped out of no college, he did not make a billion dollar company. He did not make billions of dollars, nor even hundreds of millions, though after his death his estate would receive slightly more than a million dollars of the prize money. Yet, he had touched millions, possibly hundreds of millions of lives and will likely touch billions of men women and children in future generations by discoverying one of the secrets of how immunity against viruses or bacteria are translated into an immune response by adaptation of immune cells. How allergy or autoimmune diseases develop, and how immune cells transmit signales to one another. It is possible that it was the fruits of his research that might have extended the life, after pancreatic cancer several years ago, of another giant who died recently. It is also certain that his work has resulted into billions of dollars worth of pharmaceutical industry, and will produce many billions of dollars worth of pharmaceutical industry, and will produce many billions in the future, Such is the reach of a humble life in fundamental science."
I'm not usually one for tech analogies in politics, and I'm not even sure I completely agree with it, but at the very least, this one made me smile. :)
not true ..
'western medicine' is NOT 'evidence based medicine'

"What percentage of the around 3000 treatments included in Clinical Evidence fall into each category:

- 11% Beneficial

- 23% Likely to be beneficial

- 7% Trade off between benefits and harm

- 51% Unknown effectiveness

- 5% Unlikely to be beneficial

- 3% Likely to be ineffective or harmful"

http://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/ceweb/about/knowledge.jsp

=============

and
"Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (eCAM) is an international, peer-reviewed journal that seeks to understand the sources and to encourage rigorous research in this new, yet ancient world of complementary and alternative medicine."

http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ECAM) and Pancreatic Cancer:

http://www.hindawi.com/search.aspx?startindex=1&field0=9...
The problem is that there's no agreement. It's kept secret because they know the people don't want the law. There's no need to keep just laws secret, because they don't offend the citizens in whose name the country is ruled.

ACTA is a corrupt and abusive law. Enacting it was treasonous, especially because the public had already spoken.
I started programming because I was fascinated by computers. It wasn't until years later that I found out it was a lucrative job. It sounds like your recommendation would be for everyone to chase money regardless of their passions. You have to admit that people who are passionate about things that pay well get a better deal in that situation. There are a lot of things that are worthwhile that are not well rewarded economically. If all of the artists and idealists disappeared and we were only left with money-chasers, the world would be that much poorer.

Also, regarding success: hard work and intelligence matter a lot, but so does opportunity. Have a look at Gladwell's Outliers for an interesting analysis of this.
again and again, i encounter people in my circles of well-employed colleagues who do not realize how lucky they are to have interests coinciding with aptitudes coinciding with particular economic demands in their productive years.

and it makes them sickeningly self congratulatory.

It's one of the things that delayed my entry into the technical profession. I grew up a passionate and involved hobbyist, but seeing this kind of self-aggrandising Randian narrative played out over and over in forums and bodies of knowledge that I considered proxies for the values of the profession (i.e. Slashdot) nauseated me. For a long time, I was determined not to go into tech out of loathing for the idea of working with such people.

Ultimately, I went anyway, and realised--as teenagers are wont to do once they grow up--that any world is more diverse than meets the eye. But I can definitely say that the mythos of the well-earning "self-made" IT man was a major blemish on the idea, not an asset.
> Why was unemployment so much lower five years ago than now? Did people just get really lazy?

Could the raise of the minimum wage have something to do with increased unemployment?
The article suggests he avoided doing it until it was obvious his body was failing; this removing any advantage that early detection brought him.
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Forgive me if this is a naive, newbie understanding, but long term exit plans seem to be something of a key.

If I launch a new business, it's just that - a new business. If it takes off, it becomes a successful business.

I understood that a 'startup' is implicitly looking for an exit - be it an acquisition or an IPO.

It's quite possible that you'll launch with a 'startup mentality' and later realize that this is a business that you want to profit off for a long time, but I don't think we should overlook the fact that not every small business which is run online is a startup.
Going to Hackers and Founders tonight? Bring 10 business cards with you
I've pulled the court documents via Bloomberg Law. The issue at hand is that Astrolabe owns copyright to the "ACS Atlas", consisting of both the "ACS International Atlas" and the "ACS American Atlas". Olson tz files specifically reference the "ACS Atlas" as a source for some tz data and allegedly incorrectly asserts that it is in the public domain. They sent a takedown notice in May 2011 and it was ignored. The FTP site is listed in the court filing and they are requesting a temporary injunction, a permanent injunction, and award of damages and attorney fees.

EDIT: The registered copyright they're referring to is here:
http://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?Search_Arg=tx...
For my part, I feel that while financial institutions were complicit, one only has to look at the savings rate of the average US household pre-2008 to realize that there were systematic problems. Its not just Wall Street tycoons that failed -- people at every level did.
You misread what the protest is about.

It's not that the economy sucks. It's that institutions of power exist that are doing their damnedest to maintain their position of power. This has led to bad outcomes in this particular historical moment.
Do you really think that people are expecting the world to be perfect, or is that the straw man you prefer in order to ignore their demands?

And, more esoterically, would the world ever progress if everyone accepted it as it was and never pushed for perfection?
BrowserStack, Cross Browser Testing, is out of beta
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House Panel Backs Bill Boosting Nonpublic-Firm Shareholder Limit
Wow, I am eagerly awaiting more news on this lawsuit.

I've seen this DB pop up a few times in my trials of having to deal with implementing timezone support, and it seemed like it was always referred to as the defacto standard lookup for TZ info...

As another poster mentions, Timezones are constantly in flux, especially DST rules, and so for this guy to spend his time keeping it maintained is an incredible service to the community. If you've never had to work with them, consider yourself lucky (and start learning now - cus you will sooner or later).

Any information on exactly what the lawsuit is actually about?
Thanks for digging into this!
So how exactly does this article square up with Steve's 2005 Stanford Commencement address?

http://www.roj.com.np/life-inspiration/steve-jobs-how-to-liv...

"About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes."

"I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now."

He had the surgery. Successfully, as far as the doctors were concerned. And he lived the median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This information was not hard to dig up.

Stay classy, exit.
I understood vectorpush to be mistakenly using the term 'western medicine' when he in fact meant 'evidence based medicine'.

My understanding was correct.

So your comment is a non sequitur.
Here is part of the abstract from "Use of CAM results in
delay in seeking medical advice for breast cancer" (1)

"On average, [Women who discovered a lump] took 8.7 weeks to inform the family and 17.2 weeks to first physician visit. Fifty three percent delayed seeking medical advice. Common reasons were;

antecedent use of complimentary/alternative therapies (34%),
lack of significance attached to the lump (23%),
fear of surgery (22%),
conflicting personal commitments (7%),
fear of cancer (5%), and
others (8%).

Twenty nine percent practiced CAM before visiting any physician.

Common methods used were

homeopathy (70%),

spiritual therapy (15%) and

Ayurvedic medicine (13%).

CAM use was associated with delay in seeking medical advice (OR: 5.6; 95% CI: 2.3, 13.3) and presentation at an advanced stage of disease (OR: 2.2; 95% CI: 1.01, 4.6). Patients who delayed seeking medical advice more often had positive axillary nodes and stage III/IV disease. Breast cancer patients in Pakistan frequently (53%) delay seeking medical advice. Antecedent practice of CAM is widespread and a common underlying reason. The delay results in significant worsening of the disease process."

tl;dr - people delay medical treatment, and part of the reason is that they try alternative treatments, and only go to the doctor when the problem gets worse. This worsens the progress of their disease.

This is why alternative medicine is bad. Because it kills people. Imagine how mad you would be if someone you loved delayed treatment for a real problem because they were following advice to try alternative, "natural" medicine they'd received from a friend.

We are responsible for the outcomes of what we do, not just the sentiment behind it.

1) http://www.springerlink.com/content/k8p0400u2u77242l/
Team Fortress 2 in WebGL
This is awesome. I was kind of shocked, however, that it only found a handful of people from both Twitter and Facebook. Thought there were more people using Rdio.

I am sure this new option will help!
Please check your facts.
Naturopathy may or may not equate Naturopathic Medicine legally.
Naturopathic doctors who graduate from accredited programs can be licensed as primary care physicians, for example in Washington state. States which do not regulate naturopathic medicine will often have charlatans advertise themselves as NDs. Unaccredited correspondence schools offering various flavors of diploma mill fare have been extremely vociferous fighting regulation of naturopathic medicine. More information at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Naturopathic_Medicine
Term 'naturopath' itself may or may not be protected depending on the state. California licensed naturopathic doctors starting in 2003. However, title 'naturopath' is not protected. See P.3645 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/03-04/bill/sen/sb_0901-0950/sb....
> A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily. Sometimes life just happens.

"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT." — Frank Zappa
After seeing this, it might be the only remembrance about Steve Jobs I need to hear.

We rarely take a minute to make a stranger into a person, and Woz shows how friendship remains above all else. All we have is the memories we make and create together.
It got me too.
Movies are the only place where explosives are completely obliterated in the explosion.
Plus, there's the negative effect of having our market flooded with people who go into programming "because that's where the money is".

I'm as critical as anyone when people decide to get liberal arts degrees without at least working on other skills on the side, but let's not be so naive to think that if a CS degree was the new liberal arts degree, that we wouldn't be having the same exact problem in society.

Only we (people on HN) would probably be making much less money.
Ask HN: How do I study for a basic linux competency test?
One of the requirements for a position I'm seeking includes some basic linux server administration. I've had some experience so I'm not too worried, but I wouldn't consider myself an expert. As far as I know the test will have 10 open-ended questions about basic linux administration. How or what do I "study"?
Plus the required $10 Premium Data add-on charge
Can’t stop the tweet: the peril and promise of social networking for IT
‘innerSteve’
Java includes it too. Even if your system has it natively, Java includes a separate copy.
Possibly by the size of the blast.
It's not so far fetched as you seem to think. The Internet is not your backyard, it's ours. It belongs to all of us. So if you go on the web today and visit places where geeks (many of whom are touched by this event) hang out, expect to see people talking about it.

If you don't like it, get out of our backyard - you're welcome back after the funeral.
> "I'm glad nothing terrible has happened to you, and you've had complete control over your life."

I'm disappointed that you continue to make assumptions about my life. I'm disappointed that you continue to call me callous and uncaring and other bullshit like that just because I think this simulator is crap. I'm disappointed that you've gone off with the "strip clubs and snort coke" strawman. I'm not going to post a sob story for you, but I am going to again request that you stop making assumptions about me and those I know.

You're right that the simulator did occasionally offer cheaper options. What it didn't do is offer good cheaper options when they actually do exist. The simulator was so caught up in trying to point out how much being poor sucks that it made being poor extra-sucky by sticking you with only "expensive" or "bad" options and making you choose between them.

As an example, you seem to insist that the $325/month car payment is completely legitimate and not at all a reasonable thing to cut back on. As if the only options are "new car with an 18% rate", "car financed in a shady way", or "looks like you can't get to work". I've pointed out a number of in-between options, which you keep finding ways to ignore or dismiss.

Similarly, the options given for dealing with the dog, the internet, and your phone were unrealistically constrained to "this option costs a lot" and "this option sucks", when there are decent options that cost less. These particular scenarios are not no-win scenarios, the game just doesn't let you choose winning options.

"Shit creeps up on you", you're right -- but the better decisions you make, the more easily you're able to weather it (and the less likely you are to get into true no-win scenarios.) You call solutions I have actually used "unrealistic", and then argue that the simulator realistically shows you how hard it is to be poor. You defend bad decisions and treat good decisions I've actually made as non-options. Which goes back to Dove's earlier point -- "It's clearly written from the perspective of someone who doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to do what they have to".
Being in the media is not any kind of proof, specially the media you just cited.
> That's, uh, a... Penis thing to say.

Yes. Doesn't make it any less true.
That is of course contradicted by the many, many tales of how much Steve Jobs enjoyed walking, and in particular, walking for long distances.
In some sense, I sympathize with you. I too have worked hard and been successful. I chose (out of passion, but I don't begrudge those who chose based on economics) to go into engineering while friends of mine went into less lucrative fields.

I myself was fortunate. Lucky, to be honest. My parents took advantage of things like student loans so that they could work hard and be successful. The result was that I didn't have to worry about student loans and graduated without debt. I worked hard to graduate, but I don't have illusions that my financial situation was anything other than luck on my part.

You may not call it luck, and I don't know your specific situation, but I'm going to hypothesize that you had some help along the way. How did you educate yourself? How did you pay for it? Did you go to a public school system? Was it better than the ones that exist now? Did you go to a private school? Did you pay for it yourself? My point is, we often take this sort of assistance for granted, and it is gratifying to credit ourselves with 100% of our success. Maybe you are 100% responsible for your own success. If that's the case, you're the first such person that I've ever met.
The HN reaction should involve posts like Amex's 0day. Look- I enjoyed reading this too. But you come to HN instead of Reddit for a reason
Perhaps, but is minimum wage actually a living wage? Would the greater economy adjust to make that wage livable if it was removed? I really don't have the answer to these questions, but I think its important to remember that just because someone is employed doesn't mean that they are in a good position.
Well yeah, that's what happened afaik

Whether the nine month delay before getting surgery increased the likelihood of remission is a question I'm not qualified to answer. But until contradicted by an oncologist I'm going to go with "probably".
The examples you give aren't great. I don't think there's anything you can be found guilty of for reading someone else's threatening comment on Facebook or elsewhere. With the SMS the critical thing is the implication that you're guilty of something - whether you'd read it or not doesn't matter.

To look at the idea further though, these things are best thought of as fishing trips. It's very unlikely anything on your phone is going to directly incriminate you, it's more likely that it's going to point to involvement in a crime and provide the police either with further lines of enquiry (investigating the person who sent the message) or a reason to carry out a more thorough investigation of you (and potentially grounds for a warrant).

On it's own it would it seem that anything of this sort would be, at best, circumstantial evidence.

(All of this assumes that it wouldn't be struck down as unconstitutional - state laws obviously not being able to overturn the constitution).
This is so dumb! I stopped reading after they mentioned this e-cat worked with hydrogen.

Hydrogen is not an energy source. It is not available in nature and has to be produced with .... power.
Thanks to Wikileaks, I don't think traditional government is possible. It probably never worked, but it certainly isn't now.

Just government would require the death penalty for politicians who deal in secret. Until the citizens are actually the bosses we've merely got 'democratic' prisons.
Last I heard, the state of Linux drivers for hardware video decoding did not make it worth it to Adobe to support it. But that news is about 1.5 years old, so maybe it changed in the meantime.

Edit: Flash 11 youtube 360p is using 14% of my CPU. mplayer 480p uses 4%. shrug
Scala Boot-Camp
Simple best practices lead to security and compliance success
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_theorem

This is what you had in mind.
* And he lived the median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer *

The median number of years for those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, or the median number of years for those diagnosed with this particular type of rare, operable pancreatic cancer?
Shouldn't they at least have a link to their twitter account on the news brief?
Just tried this on my in-development web app. The good news is that it works like a charm. The bad news is that the browsers keep prompting to save the password of my test account. I wish they'd turned of password manager for all of the browsers.

I also feel a little weird typing in my test account password into their site.
The American Dream is that everyone should be able to get a full-time job and that if you're willing to work a full-time job, you'll be able to pay your bills.

None of the bargain is that it will be interesting. None of the bargain is that it'll be glorified in media. But the bargain is that if you're looking for a job, there'll be one. And the job will be physically safe (unless extra-ordinarily compensated to make up for it), that you can get healthcare, and that you can go to sleep at night without wondering whether you'll be able to make rent the next month.

It's the dissolution of that bargain and that Dream that's driving OWS.
I've seen variants of this article a number of times. Is it really many decades from here already getting below 20nm feature sizes with Si?