skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was actually not quite as bad as it was represented in the press. The cancer was diagnosed in 2003. He avoided surgery for nine months and had surgery in 2004 - when it was still stage 1. That surgery was apparently successful. The cancer had certainly not metastasised in any detectable way at that point.

From stuff his family has said, and from what his biographer said about his interviews with Jobs, the primary driver for the delay was an almost phobic fear of surgery rather than "alternative medicine will cure me". This is surprisingly common from conversations I've had with some cancer treatment folk. I knew a family member who unfortunately had similar feelings :-/

The kind of cancer Jobs had was a rare and slow growing pancreatic cancer. Normally if you get diagnosed with pancreatic cancer you are in surgery later that bleeding day if at all possible. For pNET tumors longer delays of weeks or even months aren't unknown (not recommended either mind - but not insanely stupid).

(as a separate point - I love how all the reporting around Job's cancer was that it was a "rare cancer" presented in the the "ohhh rare and scary sense"... if you have to get pancreatic cancer a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor like Jobs's is the one you want to get).

The alternative medicine didn't make it worse in of itself.

The delay in surgery may have made it worse - but it's not certain. The five year survival rate for that cancer, when treated by surgery, is still only 61% at stage 1 (see http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/PancreaticCancer/DetailedGuide/...). Steve lasted nearly nine years.

Was the 9 month delay in surgery a sensible thing? Almost certainly not. But the real story was a long way from the "Killed by alternative medicine" line that hit the press. Even if Jobs had had surgery the day he was diagnosed, it would most likely have ended the same way.
Okay, your second-to-last paragraph sent me down a rabbit hole, from which I've emerged with this:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27#issuecom...

The idea of associating individuals with groups (aka communities, projects, etc.) is one of the trickiest aspects of Gittip. I feel one step closer to finding a solution that handles the complexity appropriately. Thank you! :^)

(A side note: the givers leaderboard is basically ad real estate available to companies. We've already got one company, workforpie, using the global givers leaderboard as such. IMO this is totally within the spirit of Gittip because their gifts still have no strings attached and are anonymous to the individuals receiving them. Having different giving leaderboards for separate communities would create more and better-targeted ad space for companies, increasing cash into the system.)
Oops. Too late to edit. :^)
I can tell you that I never encountered a real user who cared about antennagate, but my Apple-using friends are talking nonstop about how awful the new maps are. Antennagate was something that affected essentially nobody, but got picked up as a great story by the media. These maps deficiencies are affecting a lot of real people, and making some of them pretty angry. Most people became aware of antennagate from the media, but everybody I've talked to has learned about iOS 6 maps either from using it and finding it to be sub-par (which is how it happened for me) or talking to people who did that.
Don't be absurd. Of course it's different than having Google as default search engine.

The provision of a default search engine is an absolute requirement for providing "search the Internet" functionality. If a default engine has to be provided, it's not so offensive for Canonical to score some cash by providing the option that practically all of their users would choose anyway.

The provision of a default shopping engine is not a requirement for providing "search my computer" functionality. They're taking one thing - a tool for managing my own data, on my own computer - and turning it into something else: a way for a multinational retail behemoth to constantly exhort me to buy things.

Weariness with endless commercial bombardment is a significant reason why I showed Apple the door and started using Ubuntu in the first place. Apparently, I didn't run far enough.
It isn't an unsurmountable problem, and they would know what user wishes were and where the revenue came from. Would it be accurate to the nearest cent? Nope, but it would be close enough.
Damn, I was talking to a friend about writing something like this just yesterday!

Good job!
Facebook puts ads in timeline?
Looks nice - been thinking of something like this for a very lightweight ESB.
It's still not perfect. I had a ThinkPad T520 this summer for work with 11.04. This is one of the highest quality ThinkPads.

To make Unity and the DisplayPort port (as opposed to just VGA) work, I had to go into the BIOS and change a graphics setting to make it not automatically switch between the integrated and better graphics card. This made unity work, but it also made something terrible happen when I actually plugged in a monitor with DisplayPort. I believe that both the laptop screen and monitor went to 1024x768 and couldn't be coerced out.

The next step, to get full resolution on our 30" monitors, was to install some different video drivers. That was going to be harder to reverse, so I just gave up and dealt with nonoptimal resolution via VGA.

I also had a terrible time disconnecting monitors. Half the time when I unplugged the VGA it would just give me a blank screen.

Also, a few times when listening to music, the entire machine froze and it played the last ~2 seconds of audio repeatedly, with no sign of escape besides restarting.

We've come a long way from when several hours of work to make wifi work was a given, but I still don't think I've ever owned a Linux laptop where all hardware worked perfectly.
Major props to you for being so gracious about it!
Show HN: Bash script to download mixes from 8tracks
Given that my information remains completely private to my friends and nothing is given to advertisers or even stored with Facebook, I would willingly pay at least $10 per month
Try going to makegameswith.us! That's where I learned.
Chopper Gunner UNDER THE MAP - Black ops
yeah, helll mother fuckin yeah
http://imgur.com/wEoZG ads by google!?
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model
A lot of insight into Google's strategy regarding maps.
Facebook is testing out ads on timeline...this IPO is affecting them.
Even if the reply-to just dumps responses into a customer support queue, that's better than 90% of mass mail is doing.

Separately, I think it's great if you can have all of your employees involved in the support and outreach process, but that's a cultural thing and thus a bit harder than changing a mail header.
I'm part of the Thinkpad faithful and recently updated to a new model. From dmesg:

[Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
This has to be some sort of A/B testing. It would be disastrous if they ever rolled out something like that.
Great Link, thank you.
I honestly don't know. I thought it was something messed up at first, but this could be rolling out as we speak.
Off the top of my head, it might be relevant to face recognition, or the new real-time (?) panorama stitching, or image processing in scanning apps, or advanced paint apps (properly-smearing finger paint?), or HTML5 apps (say, Google Maps), or Garage Band, guitar amp simulators etc ...

Mostly it's stuff that people only do rarely. But the big exception is the browser -- render time is still something we worry about in desktop browsers, so I bet it'll still mean something for mobile browsers for a while.
Meh, perhaps my example was too over the top, but my point is that all startups, regardless of how growth-oriented they are, still consider other goals to be constraints on what they're willing to do in order to grow as quickly as possible. And it seems odd to exclude things like lifestyle and control from the list of valid things.
Fair point, but India has a legal maximum of 48 hours a week, though it does not appear to be enforced much and it seems quite hard to find any figures.

Everything I can find seems to indicate that the average US worker does not have a lot of leisure time in comparison to most countries, and also that average working hours does not seem to have a particularly strong correlation with the average wealth of the citizens.

Indians probably do work longer hours on average, but I don't think the gap is that large from what I can tell, though the statistics vary wildly. Forbes for instance has figures that seem to be much lower than other estimates and they claim an average of 25 hours a week for people from the US.

http://www.ilo.org/jobspact/WCMS_071326/lang--en/index.htm

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/life-lin...

http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/20/steven-landsburg-labor_cx_s...
> Why does _ need to be special cased like this? In Python this works with any variable name.

To, in general, make giving multiple arguments for a function or block/lambda the same name a syntax error.

Python special-cases generators, but having multiple identical argument names for a function in Python is a syntax error.

Ruby is a bit more 'regular' in that in both blocks/lambdas and functions, reusing an argument name is always an error. '_' then functions not as a name but a special 'disregard' symbol.
Ask HN: Starting a hacker school for underprivileged kids?
Hi HN,
Longtime user and poster here. I've been ruminating for a while about starting something up a little outside of my domain: starting an after-school program for underprivileged youth to teach them how to code and build apps, specifically in San Francisco, CA. However, I have no idea where to even begin, who to call, how to build traction, or even if there are programs that already exist that I can lend a helping hand. This is where I would like your thoughtful input.

WHY:
Ever since I learned how to program about 4 years ago, I've found programming to be enormously empowering. With little more than a computer and a power supply, anyone, no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation, location, whatever, has the opportunity to build their dreams and make them realities. I strongly believe that in the next 5 years, learning how to program will be just as important as learning English or Spanish or any other second language.

I believe that in teaching these skills early (thinking high school age?), students will be able to use them in their jobs, start their own companies, or perhaps just exercise their creative freedom and distribute their ideas to potentially a limitless audience! Plus, if marketed appropriately, this may entice minorities to enter STEM programs in college.

What resources are there to make sure I'm not re-creating the wheel?

Who can I talk to (email is in my profile)?

What qualifications are needed to pursue such an effort?

Any help will be appreciated!
taking more responsibility for their personal behavior in the community

Non-anonymous commentary is generally skippable. Attach your name to something, and you have to be careful to the point of sterility.
"If medical errors were a disease, they would be the sixth leading cause of death in America—just behind accidents and ahead of Alzheimer's."

This is wrong, it's at least the third leading cause of death. And realistically if you don't smoke and you exercise once in a while, medical 'oopsy daisies' are probably your #1 risk of death:

C.f. The IOM's report To Err is Human: http://wps.pearsoneducation.nl/wps/media/objects/13902/14236...

And then also read Lucian Leape's commentary in JAMA on why it is probably a huge underestimate: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192842

(Leape is one of the authors of the original IOM report, and the report cites a lot of his own research, including his study estimating that only 5% of medical errors are ever discovered.)

C.f. also Barbara Starfield's estimate in JAMA: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=192908#RE...

Realistically, all of these estimates are at the low end. In fact most of them only count deaths in hospitals (and severely undercount them), when at least half of all medical errors are thought to happen at local doctors offices, plastic surgery clinics, nursing homes, etc.

C.f. also the CDC figures for Hospital Acquired Infections, which IIRC the IOM report doesn't count as being medical errors:

http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/hai/infections_deaths.pdf

My personal rule of thumb is to avoid taking any drugs or getting any non-trivial medical procedure unless I've read at least three books about it. The problem is that all the papers published in medical journals are basically complete bullshit (except the occasional well-done NIH ones), which means if you want real information about a given drug then the only way to get it is to subpoena the FDA, or read a book written by someone who has.

The way drug approval works is that you need 2 tests demonstrating that the drug is better than a placebo, but you're allowed infinite tries to get there. So often a drug will be better than a placebo in only 2 out of 10 trials, but it will still get approved and only those two trials will get published in medical journals. And then those journal articles will have very little in common with the actual data from the FDA trials because the pharma companies completely spin it, which is why the vast majority of the most popularly prescribed drugs are not only no more effective than placebos, but in fact significantly worse when you look at the total quality/length of life.
> Is there any reason while the Ruby 1.8 behaviour that duplicate variable names are allowed was changed?

Because in general allowing duplicate argument names is a terrible idea and a rich source of bugs?

> This seems a much cleaner way of allowing this construct.

I feel the exact opposite. A privileged 'disregard' symbol gives you the power of signalling that you don't care about certain arguments, without the 'shoot-yourself-in-the-foot' side effect of easily accidentally shadowing what you intended to be distinct entities.
The NHS already provides this data:

https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/webview/

The spreadsheet:

http://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/download/SHMI/July_2012/Data/SHM...

Sadly, you can pretty much guess the results. Poorer areas = higher death rates.
Socket.io websockets Twitter streaming api
I've built a simple websocket tcp stack with socket.io to stream twitter feed for tonight's ufc
iOS 6, Why Photos, Siri, Passbook Make-Up for Maps Failure
http://rosedu.github.com/techblog/from-0-to-cryptography.htm... , perhaps!
Why would you link to a picture that not only has your name, it has many of your friends names, and your location?

Also, as per Facebook's FAQ:
https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=151337961603332
"I'll take socialized medicine any day of the week. the private sector does a terrible job of healthcare."

This. The average hospital patient is the victim of 1 medical error per day, and ~10% of those lead to death or permanent disability. So you could literally go into the hospital being perfectly healthy, and odds are that you'd be dead or disabled in little over a week.

edit: Ignore this, I was mixing two different statistics that, while both accurate, don't seem to be compatible. There is better data below.
Do you not see a difference between a concerted effort to copy by multiple parties, with meetings and documents circulating which basically say "This is what we should copy," vs potentially one or two designers alone copying something which is not recognized as a trademark to anyone but an expert in European clock design?

I'm both a Swiss Modern design nut and lover of clocks. I not only didn't recognize the clock as specifically Swiss, although it has that look, I had no idea it was a copyrighted design.

Chances are very low that a manager at Apple would notice what I didn't.
Interesting story, though I think the title of this post could have been a lot more appropriate if he had stricken the word "how" and gone simply with "An investor who turned me down ended up sleeping on my couch." There's not much how here. Though I do agree, being kind and building karma is never a bad thing.
TapIn (S12) is hiring a lead designer to help rethink mobile video
but what if client had a crappy old browser but you rendered with modern browser, which will be rendered differently. Wouldn't be better if feedback contained computed HTML doms and you could render yourself with a given client?
Whoever took the screenshot has installed a browser plugin that is inserting those ads, or has some other form of malware doing so. It should be easy to test - just disable them all and they should disappear, and then turn them on one by one until the ads appear.
If you thought this link was useful, I'd be interested in knowing why.
This is the literal deus ex machina.
Feel free to make comments on the code. Alert: newbie to coding here.
Your legal name is Jonathon but friends know you as Johnny.
Should you be reported to facebook HQ for not using your legal name?

What if your nickname distorts its origins further, such as "J", which easily turns into "Jay". Have we know left the realm of Real Names?

What if you prefer to go by a middle name? Or an ethnic nickname which doesn't have an obvious relationship to the original (i.e. Alexei -> Alyosha). What about the common practice of adopting a "Western" name for people who native names translate poorly into English?

Is a facebook employee qualified to judge whether you're using your real name?
Still you'd be able to save the number-imei then post on our behalf to Whatsapp.
Your argument is a gigantic strawman. Nobody has ever claimed that Steve Jobs was perfect and never made mistakes. People admire him because he was an amazing visionary whose product ideas revolutionized several industries.
Am I the only one here who thinks this is not disturbing at all?

If you don't like it, it's not very difficult to turn off. If you find it too difficult to turn off, maybe Ubuntu is not the right operating system for you.
I currently have a sleep schedule similar to your previous schedule... work until I'm done with projects, usually Midnight to 2:00 am, sleep until 9 or 10 am. However I've noticed recently that I wake up nearly every night around 5 am, regardless of when I go to bed, and then I lay in bed irritated that I can't get back to sleep until around 7:30 am, then I doze off and wake up again around 10 am. So based upon your comments, and the article, I'll try getting up when I wake around 5 am and doing something productive, and then go back to bed around 7:30 am and get a few more hours of sleep. I don't know why, but I would have never considered doing that, I guess because I'm always irritated that I can't sleep in the middle of the night. My work environment would allow me to nap during the day, but I find it uncomfortable to sleep during the day.
Is it against the rules to post a picture with that info?....it's public on my Facebook.
I'm interested in knowing why your post implies that its not useful. I would like to know if its worth reading as I've just added it to Read It Later.

EDIT: Please correct me if you didn't mean to come across that way, it's just the last comment on the blog:

> this post is just terrible. i don't understand why people feel the need to learn a tiny bit about a subject, and regurgitate their misunderstandings through blogging. please take it down, you are making the world a worse place.

has made me wary.
People have been saying repeatedly that this maps problem would not have happened with Jobs at the helm. I can only conclude that they think he never screwed anything up, because why else would you say that? Do you know?
I just downloaded paint.net

I'd be really pissed if they added this in somehow.
Wanted: flat search (r)evolution
After disabling all my chrome extensions, they are still there.
Why scary? I can login with Gmail on a website too; it's not like your IMEI is public data. And yes, you can also forge gmail's website when you can wiretap a network (ok it's probably hard with https, but on most sites you can), so don't claim you can wiretap the MAC address or IMEI to hack your Whatsapp.
Interesting…

"Fastest smartphone in the land (even though older hardware beats it on 1/3-1/2 of the metrics, which are not evenly weighted by any stretch)".

Also, Jellybean has widely been shown to be more performant than ICS on the same hardware (S3 included), so one wonders why ICS was used (after all, software that was released yesterday should probably be compared to software released in July, not December last year, before the hardware came out), for a fair comparison, right?
and it's happening on firefox...going to try out another computer.
You also need to factor the benefits to Canada of improved trade relations, as well as the saving in bureaucracy that you get from having a liberal immigration policy, rather than merely focusing on the direct cost or benefit of a given individual. Gut instincts of strict fairness when trying to judge people who are taking out but haven't put in yet don't always apply, especially if the cost of enforcement is higher than the cost of being more laissez-faire. And people under 25-30 pretty much can't be judged at all on that basis, for fairly obvious reasons.
So is this "Bad Crypto made Easy"?
I'm asking seriously, not just to make a point.
The problem is, you might not mind your name being linked, but your friends might.

Let's say this story blows up, and it's right, this image might get posted to many different websites, and suddenly your friends names are plastered over several websites that they don't want to be on. They might also get random people trying to look up these people and messaging them.

Also, if the story blows up, but it ends up being the case that its an add-on for Chrome that's doing it, or some adware on your computer, their now linked with your mistake.
According to that logic “Was Hitler right?” wouldn’t be an inflammatory headline...
What are some challenges faced by companies hiring junior developers? 
What are the problems faced by companies when hiring junior developers and once a candidate is hired what are some problems faced in integrating them into the company?
Try another browser, and a malware/virus detector. Whatever is putting those ads in there could be doing a lot worse things.
As a business strategy, this kind of brinkmanship wouldn't make me sleep well at night.

Basically Uber goes into a city, hires drivers, outfits them with equipment and starts operations. And for what it's worth, the service is awesome.

By the time the city & existing cab and livery drivers notice and want to do something about it, they've look like the bad guys, are anti-competetive and they've turned the public against them.

It's clever, but I can't help but think they'll end up with a situation soon that doesn't end up working out in their favor.
And didn't CL change their terms (excl-->nonexcl) after some blogger posted about them? And didn't they make some changes to their site (collaborate with a maps provider so users can now get geo mappings) after filing this lawsuit? I've already forgotten now. This case just seems laughable to me. But what do I know.
She probably planned to do it like that, rain softens the dirt.
IOS6 Safari caches POST requests
seriously why is everyone masturbating to PG's post so much? its totally pointless
Don’t use JavaScript for Retinafying
Reddit.com Founder's (Alexis Ohanian) Original YC Application
Could Siri change the way we speak?
Weekend Hack: Have your favorite memes always at hand
Would love to hear Linus opinion on this..
Manchester United 1 – 0 Galatasaray ( 19/09/2012 )
This is useful in some situations but a large amount of transactional email doesn't and shouldn't have replies made to it. As with almost all advice that you find in blog posts, it works in one situation but is presented as an answer to every situation. Instead of arguing in the comments about whether or not this would work for your company for every email, try and suggest places where this would be useful.
Woops. I should have been clearer, my bad.

I'm still on Lucid Lynx.