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I read this a bit differently than saying that anyone can do what Steve Jobs did.

To speak plainly, to be patient and put the dots together, to lead without charisma are all incredibly difficult things to do. It really does take genius and only the extraordinary amongst us can do it.

If you have a natural, god-given charisma, its very easy to be a leader. No accomplishment there. But you would lead for what purpose?

If you have some uncanny ability to predict the future as a whole, without error, you would be popular for your predictions but you wouldn't build much of anything, because building great things requires trial and error.

If you were merely a design expert, you'd make nice looking things, but you wouldn't be able to scale it, compared to the non-designer that sees the greatness in other designers.

Being foolish and curious really trumps all other skills, but how many people can truly endure being foolish and curious?
In the US the first time you sue someone can be for any reason. It's only considered abusive if you do it several times without reason.
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God, NeXTStep was awesome.. I used Windowmaker for years on Linux until I transitioned to OSX.

NSObject.
There are more represive laws in countries like venezuela and cuba.. and Wikipedia has not done anything like this there. Oh i forgot, everything a leftist government does is OK.
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I was anticipating protest, and addressing it before the fact.
Good points all around.

How I define a living wage: Enough income for a 1 BR apartment, 3 square meals a day (from a grocery store, not a resturaunt), and health care. Basically, the bare minimum.

I'm not skilled enough in economics to be sure whether removing minimum wage would benefit workers. My suspicion is that it would, and you have made a good argument to that affect. I just feel the need to play the devil's advocate.

Thanks for your input.

By the way, are you the same Uriel as the one on Reddit?
I think the movement from shorthand (for optimization or otherwise) to readability is a common path for many programmers. It applies outside of the JavaScript world because even on the backend we do the same things, though for different reasons.

The longer you program the more you value the amount of time it will take for you or someone else to fix or modify the code you write today...tomorrow.
My mother was a professor of MIS there.

Congrats on attending UIUC, I really loved the school and got a lot out of going there. Is Wolfram still on Neil St? I loved that amongst the car dealerships and Meijers was this mecca of mathematics and technology.

In terms of things to do:

- I highly recommend you join the Engineering Freshman Committee and the EOH group, I was the chair of that group and we were given $2000 to do whatever we want (we built a lightbulb unscrewing robot to compete at EOH). It was definitely one of the best experiences of my life ($2k in college seemed like an infinite pool of money).

- Start poking around Beckman Center, I did lots of interesting research there and it still puts out some really cool stuff that freshman can get involved with.

- If you can get a car and need to impress a date, Curtis Orchard is really pretty right now.

- I loved the 318/319 courses and wish I had taken it earlier, when I was there Garland and Hart were there and I wish I had a chance to take more classes in that track.

Best of luck!
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Ah yes, i have been having some trouble with that recently and you are right. Some are thinking it is spelled with an X as well.
NeXT sold maybe 50,000 systems in 5 years, less than the number of PCs that a typical large company has stuffed in cubicles.

And from that small install base, emerged the first Web browser, Doom, and Mathematica.

They were amazing, if flawed products. Every system came with Mathematica, a full dictionary and the complete works of Shakespeare.

I remember having to go use Windows NT after NeXT failed in the market. And I remember, ten years later, holding the first iPhone in my hand and knowing where it came from.
The point being made here is that if something has been proven to work, it is no longer alternative medicine. "Evidence based alternative" is a contradiction.
We are partnering with Jquery Swarm to run Jquery unit tests! ... so this will happen very soon.
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Amazing graffiti remembering Steve fresh from the streets of Budapest
Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
It's more about him comparing himself with Newton and "forgetting" to cite previous work on his field. Not that he's not brilliant though.
Ex-Yahoo's unite.
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This post is in such poor taste. The title of this post is clearly link bait and is doing more harm than the mistake that appsumo made. When app sumo realized their mistake, they sent a follow up email apologizing for what they did and explaining the situation.

Shame on Jason for using Steve Jobs name in this title to further exploit the unfortunate mistake that appsumo made.
Jobs' (very private) inner life. [..] Remember the man for the person that he was, not for the person that you imagined him to be.

Do you not see a problem in pointing out his very private nature, then scorning people for imagining that instead of knowing it?

It could even be offensive to the people who knew him best.

And now you're chastising people for fantasizing about SJ because of how you fantasize his friends reacting? Come on.
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It doesn't cover the mouse problem for one simple reason: acceleration. Sure, I can tell when the pointer is on the border to my user-fullscreened window (I even have code to make sure that the user is fullscreened), but you suddenly lose track of acceleration. Since you can't grab and hide the cursor and just track raw movement deltas, you can't implement your own acceleration. That makes it impossible to do good mouse grab with current facilities.
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> 5-character alnum passphrase on iOS takes years to brute force.

No, it doesn't. That's only 60 million combinations. Writing the code would take longer than the brute force search. Of course, there are already commercial applications that do all that.
All of these new-fangled analytics sites seem to be stuck in the same dumb page-views-are-everything model as GA — just watching bird patterns, basically. Things haven't changed much since the bad old days of WebTrends and Analog.

There's no profiling based on facts known to the app (user's age, gender, ethnicity, occupation) or behaviour (posts a lot of long texts, posts a lot of photos, is mostly reading/lurking, etc.), or Bayesian probabilistic analysis of new users. There is so much we want to know about our users, but no real turnkey tools to anlyaze the data with. Instead, everyone seems to be cobbling together their own toolchain with Hadoop and what not.

Seems like an important piece of the analytics stack, yet I don't see anyone doing it. Is this something that anyone has started offering? (I'm thinking SaaS here, not enterprise stuff.)

Analytics tools such as GA are also as terrible at tracking people across domains as these tools have ever been. We have a site which has single sign-on across many, many sites with different domains; we could have used the GA stuff to rewrite links in order to transfer the GA session ID across the domains -- but it's extremely awkward and gets very complicated when you need to implement it consistently both in the server logic (eg., redirects and emails) and the client logic (links, iframes, AJAX, etc.). It seems really silly when the app already knows the identity of the user and can track it consistently across domains.
Where can donations be made for his legal defense fund?
I think he really nails the reason that so many people love Jobs:

"In my life, I have had the good fortune to interact with all sorts of talented people. To me, Steve Jobs stands out most for his clarity of thought. Over and over again he took complex situations, understood their essence, and used that understanding to make a bold definitive move, often in a completely unexpected direction.

I myself have spent much of my life—in science and in technology—trying to work in somewhat similar ways. And trying to build the very best possible things I can.

Yet looking at the practical world of technology and business there are certainly times when it has not been obvious that any of this is a good strategy. Indeed, sometimes it looks as if all that clarity, understanding, quality and new ideas aren’t really the point—and that the winners are those with quite different interests.

So for me—and our company—it has been immensely inspiring to watch Steve Jobs’s—and Apple’s—amazing success in recent years. It validates so many of the principles that I have long believed in. And encourages me to pursue them with even greater vigor."
Has Gnome 3 decided that people shouldn't want screen savers?
As far as I understood does the US government pay the money directly to the company building the tanks - i call this a subsidy, grant sounds much nicer.
Buying and selling or exporting and importing on credit - isn`t this in the core of the worldwide financial crisis?
Same creator as http://tedchannel.tv (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3049681)?
You it might be viable but it would not be a clone in the traditional meaning.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelters_syndrome
I disagree. If you want to be a black hat and exploit or sell the vulnerability, then fine. But if you're going to claim to be a good guy, you need to make more than a half-hearted effort to do the right thing.

In this case, the exploit is so simple and obvious that he could have fit it in a twitter DM (which is a method of communication that was specifically offered to him)
You can't say that without knowing the KDF they're using.
This man begs to differ:

http://reprog.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/steve-jobs-never-had-...
This remembrance squares nicely with Walt's about how Steve set a goal of walking a bit further every day. I guess at the time of WWDC he was still making it to the park regularly.
Including to him.
> Because the CERN site lies closer to the centre of the Earth than Gran Sasso, and consequently feels a smaller gravitational pull

Isn't it the other way around? Gran Sasso site lies closer to the center of Earth and that's why it has bigger gravitational pull
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Eh, your experience will of course vary, but when it was determined that I had hypertension the first thing my (american) doctor told me is that I had to knock off the activities that.. err... inspired my HN handle ;)

I think doctors probably make a judgment call based off your described lifestyle and age. In my case diet and weight loss were easy, since I've been vegetarian at various points in the past and am fairly young.
When he was 23. I think Lisa and her mother would forgive him for that long time ago.

In his own words about his biography: I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that. But I don’t have any skeletons in my closet that can’t be allowed out.
From what I understand, the equipment needed to emit the neutrinos and then detect them amounts to enormous hunks of metal, circuitry, and plumbing, not mention vacuum- or water-filled cavities, neither of which are readily interchangeable. Not a trivial task by any measure.
I went to your site and my toolbar has a gizmo that tells me things like PR (google's page rank) & Alexa ranking - the 'ranking' on your page indicates "Private" which tells me that you may be blocking your site from the search engines. You might want to take a look at that!
Same for Woz's book: "I was a little disappointed — Steve Jobs had indicated he'd write a foreword. But he'd never written a foreword before and I said, "Just write what we were like back then."

"We sent him the book and he said, "Oh, I saw some excerpts, and I'm going to decline writing the foreword." I don't know why because I'm nice to him, so there must have been something he didn't like."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/200...
It is so easy to criticize. And so difficult to create -- especially to create something radically different and then put it out there for a world of non-creators to comment on.
I think that's a mischaracterization of medical research. New drugs and treatments don't spring forth from the ether. Progress in modern medicine is incremental and based on the methods we already know to be effective.

I expect that a trial participant would be provided a damned good, evidence-based, research-backed rationale, along with "also, there's also a good chance this won't work at all", not the promises and hand-waving proffered by the alt-med community.

Edit: Oh, Lord, you've edited your comment. Future readers, my response pertains to the first two paragraphs.
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The equipment necessary for generating versus detecting neutrinos is vastly different (and entirely immobile, to all intents and purposes).

Calling half time and changing ends is a nice idea, but utterly impractical. Finding/building an alternative neutrino source and pointing it at the detector is (I think) the best approach to reproducibility, but it still leaves open the possibility of systematic errors in the detection mechanism causing the same issues. A different distance should give a different delay though, which would be one test.

Another might be to try and use photons as a reference/synchronisation mechanism, but that's hindered by the fact that everything is in underground caverns.
No, I'm 40-ish. I grew up with VIC-20 and C64 being state of the art in home computing. I both played games and programmed stuff. I still do but on computers a zillion times faster.

I never liked games that try to be realistic, what's the point, trying to make me sleep bad because of gory headshots with blood everywhere?

So I prefer the semi-cartoonish style and hats. Several times every evening I laugh out loud because of the silliness in TF2. Give it a try. It's not easy because it's not realistic, but you can always go medic and follow better players till you know the maps.
If it were a loan, I would only be curious why Greece wants 400 really nice tanks. But a grant doesn't have to be paid back like a loan does, so it's not "on credit". So now I'm curious why the US want Greece to have 400 really nice tanks?
Counter-intuitive, but yes, the article is correct. Basically, the amount of Earth's gravity acting on you is determined by the volume of earth beneath your feet. Very deep tunnels experience less gravity, and there is theoretically 0G at the planet's center.
> So consumer electronics will be based on silicon, and outrageously expensive supercomputers will use graphene or diamond or any one of a number of currently speculative technologies.

Outrageously expensive supercomputers are massively parallel. For massively parallel loads, the fastest chips are the cheapest chips. If the new stuff cannot break into consumer space, there is no market for it above consumer space.
The downward tilted silhouette of a face? I think the similarity is pretty apparent and thought the same thing when I saw it.
The best way to tackle the big competitor that I've heard of is to let them do the marketing and provide the base product, while you just provide the premium product.
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True, but the sheer volume of mail makes sorting through it a formidable task. The US Postal Service has sorting capacity like you wouldn't believe.

A criminal could in theory target Experian's mailing address, so perhaps it simply comes down to whether you believe they can secure their property.
Steve's my drinking buddy... He shared some of the code with me, yes :-)
IANAL either.

However, in South Dakota v. Opperman (http://supreme.justia.com/us/428/364/case.html) the court upheld that police may search and inventory a car without a warrant, even though the car was impounded for parking violations and not on suspicion of drug offenses (as it turned out was the case). I would conclude, therefore, that a car impounded during an arrest can definitely be searched.
6. Since its IPO in 1980, Apple’s stock price has jumped from $22 to $378.25 a share.

The author forgot about two 2:1 splits.

It would be more correct to say that AAPL grew from $3.6 to $378.25 a share.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:AAPL
Ask HN Alums: How Many Ideas Is Too Many in the YC App?
I work with an awesome team and we have an awesome product. However, I firmly believe in hedging our bets - making damn sure that funding or no, hit or no, we are going to be a success.

With that in mind, the question of "what other ideas we considered applying for" for YC, how many ideas is too many? Currently we have 5 in there, all of them well thought out and ready to jump on. I have another 4 I'd like to mention...but is that too much?

The last thing I want to seem like is unfocused. We have a laser focus on our core product; we simply want to show we aren't a one trick pony. Comments from Alumni would be great!
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The lottery is unreliable and has a negative expected payoff. The Phelps guys consistently get enough money from court settlements to keep on trolling. I wish people would treat them as entertainment, and otherwise ignore them. They might have to get an honest job.

Also, about that possible counter-response: they believe that Apple's actions, as well as the actions and fate of everyone, are predetermined by God. They are hard-core Calvinists, which makes most obvious arguments not really apply to their weird beliefs.
Doesn't the factual nature of the data prevent it from being subject to copyright law?
If this means not having to be locked into App Engine's proprietary database shenanigans for even considering using it to deploy a project, then Google just made it back onto my list of useful PaaS providers.
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> Woz did all that stuff.

While I agree the II is not a Jobs-only product, I can't imagine Jobs sitting quietly letting Woz make all the decisions. I can't picture Jobs sitting quietly at all.
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In the last 4 years the only screen saver I have had is "turn off the monitor" No matter how complex or cool it was, turn off the monitor was always the choice. Sure a nifty one recently did impress the co workers with "ooooh linux has nice screensavers" but that quickly changed into "lets just turn off the monitor because the screen saver is so cool we stare at it, and are distracted from the discussion". At home, 5 minutes = monitor off. No SS, just monitor off, save the energy. Why would you want to spend cpu time/electricity executing, rendering, and displaying a screen saver when the alternative is to save $$?

Whatever, I'm glad.
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Ahem. TFC is a HL mod. The original TF is a Quake mod.
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Not sure if I am the only one who sees the comparison here but I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs just rode his motorcycle to Flynn's arcade and went on to do something bigger. RIP
Also note that the poster said close family members fought cancer a double-hand number of times. That could mean over 5 people, though it could also mean one or more family members had multiple run-ins with cancer, surviving at least the first few times.

This is rather common in my personal experience.
"But in the coming future it will. All major libraries and frameworks are going to port over to python 3."

Don't bet on it. It has been too many a years already, and no dice (or minimal dice)
Last time somebody posted this the same issue was raised. I'm not sure why it only halfway works.
how many people can truly endure being foolish and curious?

The people who embrace curiosity and don't dwell too much on their foolishness.
Ask HN: Who is HN-black-armband worthy? (very classy move Paul)
I must admit, the passing of Steve Jobs effected more emotionally than I would have thought. So much so that I had an email exchange with some of my friends about who else of our contemporaries would elicit anything remotely close to this sort of emotional outpouring.

I suppose I am opening myself to flame and downvotes, as Steve Jobs clearly was one of the true true greats, but I wonder who else that is relevant to the hacker community would deserve a black armband (see top of HN) on their passing. I would add to this list:

Bill Gates
Shigeru Miyamoto
Steven Spielberg
George Lucas

These are some of the living creators who have invented thing which have _dramatically_ impacted the course of my life.
So all they need to do is build an enormous particle accelerator and the other bits required to turn it into a neutrino source at the Gran Sasso site, and an enormous neutrino detector at CERN, and they can go right ahead and do that. Too bad it'll take decades and $billions.

Figuring out the appropriate clock corrections very, very carefully seems like a better approach...
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What you are thinking would be true if the Earth's mass was concentrated to a point. Since it isn't, when you go down, you are nearing the center but you are also having more and more mass above you (which doesn't contribute, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem) so the net effect is that the force of gravity goes down, like westbywest said.

However, unless I've totally forgotten what little I ever knew about GR, what matters for clocks is the gravitational potential, in such a way that clocks run slower in lower potentials. And the potential is definitely the lowest at the center of the Earth. Otherwise clocks would run the slowest far out in intergalactic space where there's practically no gravity, but that's not the case.
Well, then you are wrong. @JZdziarski, aka Jonathan Zdziarski, aka NerveGas, is a former member of the "iPhone Dev Team", a group (which I am currently part of) that focuses on "jailbreaking" the iPhone (removing the restrictions on its usage and allowing third party software to run on it).

Let's put it this way: it is absurd to believe that the iPhone's filesystem is encrypted with the PIN number. When the phone turns on, it is already booted up, and applications like MobileMail, Skype, and Latitude are already in the background running with your data. You can receive text messages and phone calls, which are stored as notifications and in the appropriate databases: you don't need to unlock it first.

Meanwhile, none of the jailbreaking tools (which often operate while the phone is in "DFU" mode, after it has been rebooted and without any other human interaction) require you to type in your PIN, yet make tons of filesystem modifications to both partitions (the system one with the firmware from Apple, and the user partition with the data for each user), which should be a pretty obvious clue that you don't need anything from the user to get access to any of that data.

Instead, all of the data is simply encrypted with a key derived from the device, which therefore means that all you need is "virtually any exploit" on the device, whether it be userland (send a fancy SMS message to the device which crashes CommCenter or SpringBoard) or bootloader (attacking it over USB in DFU mode, stealing the keys directly; something we currently can do for all Apple devies but the iPad 2), in order to get access to the personal data (even stuff you recently deleted, of course, due to how filesystems work) which is on it.
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