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Everyone is too polite to mention it, but that must have been a really bad break-up.
I read the article, trying to find what he traded for the upkeep and insurance on a 10 year old Porsche. Unsurprisingly, he's going to sell it (trade it?) soon.

There's a reason why old sports cars seem to cost so little : it's because they'll cost their purchase price again in a few years in maintenance. They have expensive engines, expensive tyres, expensive suspension, expensive interiors. Plus, they get bought by people who like to drive fast and so wear out quicker. And, largely, they aren't servicable by the home mechanic. Consdier the Boxster in the article - you have to have a hoist just to even look at the engine- there's no engine cover or user-accesible access panel.

While a used Porsche is probably the best of a bad bunch of old sports cars (Corvette excepted, to a point) they are only for the person who really knows what they are doing. There's a reason many Ferraris don't ever get past 12,000 miles or so : because they need servicing all the time, and that servicing costs a bomb. In some cases you have to remove the engine for relatively routine jobs like changing a clutch, spark plugs or a water pump, and that costs serious money.

Anyone thinking of buying a 'cheap' sports car should watch one of the many 'Top Gear' episodes where they purchase a cheap sports car from the classifieds/internet and then try and drive them a certain distance, outperform a standard Honda, etc. That should put your dreams on hold for a bit.
With something as established as Windows and Office, you could continue to see decent revenues almost with your eyes closed, so let's not commend Microsoft too much for merely maintaining what is practically handed to them. The only credit they deserve is for establishing those wins in the first place, but these are now 20-year-old victories; very little that's new has arrived. What is new, has also cost them dearly (e.g. how much money does X-box make...or, does it make money?).

I am quite sure that the only thing keeping them in business is their money. They have made enough bad decisions to kill any smaller company.
FWIW, my Evo 4G doesn't suffer any degradation of download speed when I sandwich the phone directly between two people. So maybe it's normal for iPhones to drop calls when you touch them, but it's certainly not the case for every phone.

(I was going to guess that it's GSM vs. CDMA issue, but of course, AT&T's 3G network is CDMA.)
I feel pretty vindicated, because I've been saying all along that the App Store review process is pointless at best, because the things apps are usually rejected for are fairly petty and it has almost no way of picking up on anything but the dumbest malware.
"First post" and it's relevant and useful. 3 hours old and -zero- noise. This is why I love HN.

You avoided commenting on the substance of their position, though. From your role as a security researcher, I suspect you're in the google camp. I'm close enough to a security researcher to agree, too -- but I also know my perspective is fairly clouded. How will the vendors respond?

I suspect Microsoft will be reasonable, although they'll pushback at the proposed default window of 60 days. Microsoft is in the singularly unique position of having a reasonably agile security team, matrixed across the product teams. The majority of other vendors (Adobe?) are still struggling to put even basic processes into place; they won't have a choice but to push back with vigor and fill the discussion with FUD.

I second your "congrats google" -- it is a clueful corporate move and inspires confidence in their corporate bureaucracy. But I'm skeptical on it's effectiveness.
Techcrunch is wrong. I read the 80% figure transcribed directly at MacWorld as well.
I bought NetShare when it was briefly on the app store and it still works. Or at least it did last time I was at my cabin a few months ago with my 3G.

If they were going to kill an app, I'd assume they would have killed that. And they didn't. Or if they claimed to have killed it then they failed.

I bought this app. I'm more than willing to support the the Rebellion. I haven't actually verified that this app works as demonstrated but for a dollar it's worth the risk. I have no intentions of paying another $20 a month to AT&T.
The only cars which are investment grade cannot be driven, and you've got to be an absolute expert to make money on them - like an art expert, knowing what will be in demand in the future.

No car is an investment, unless you're making money from driving it, ie a limo or rental car.

Porsches have some of the best depreciation resistance in the business, but even they can't resist the pull of gravity that comes with use, and the inevitable production of newer, better models. A pristine, low mileage used Porsche is a good buy, a well-used cheap model is best avoided and admired from a distance.
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I just attempted to buy this app. Its already been removed from the app store. Bummer.
Let's say BMW releases a brand new model, revolutionary. With a parking camera at front :) But the car horn button has this odd, innovative design whereby it can sometimes be hit accidentally.

Is this a significant problem? No.

Do all cars have this problem? You bet. Not this exact problem, but still.

Is this a major screw up on part of a company that prides itself on producing high-end polished cars? Totally.

Do their claims that it's not a big deal affect their image? Absolutely.
>...and so is harder to develop and support for than the iOS machines...

Harder to develop because you can use the programming language and runtime of your choosing, including the exact same APIs that are on iOS, or harder because you don't have to cross-compile your app for an embedded platform and test it on a remote machine whose internals you aren't allowed to change or inspect? Maybe you meant harder because there's no convoluted chain of constantly-expiring certificates needed for testing and deployment, or because you have far more RAM, disk space, screen space, and CPU cycles available, or because you can run as root or even in kernel mode to extend the OS in ways that Apple hadn't imagined instead of playing along as their dancing promotional puppet app, which they can kick to the curb on a whim?

Or maybe you meant it's harder to support because users have to drag an icon (which they received from a web site in a single click) into their applications folder, instead of thumbing through 200 seemingly-identical app listings with terse descriptions and then fumbling to enter the same iTunes account password for the 90th time, re-agreeing to yet another slightly different revision of a 28-page-long terms of service and then going back and entering the same iTunes account password because iOS forgot you were actually downloading an app?

Ah, of course, now I see what you mean.
isn't Apple guilty of releasing a product with an inherent design flaw?

Yes. Many times.

Just like almost every other engineer, including one hundred percent of those who practice agile methods and release minimum viable products.

Also: Jimmy Carter was guilty of adultery in his heart.

I'm struck by the fact that Apple criticism has acquired this theological tone. It's like Catholics debating the nature of original sin. Were the engineers born in perdition, or did they fall from grace? Can they be redeemed by faith alone, or must they perform good works, and how many additional Hail Marys are necessary?

The bottom line is that this particular issue, whatever its Platonic form, is apparently not serious enough to get me off the iPhone waiting list. I am getting bored with waiting. Return your phones, people!

The other bottom line is that mobile phone discussions used to occasionally stray to other companies besides Apple, other products besides iPhone and other people besides Steve Jobs. Now, apparently, there is nothing better to do but debate the color of Steve's invisible halo. Is this a signifier of the state of the industry right now? At some point, Motorola will release an exploding phone just to get a share of all the press.
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I honestly think she didn't feel like she was lying. Memory is just a funny thing.

She may not have been, at least as far as she knew. Memory is a funny thing.

Memories are malleable when they're active -- when the event has just happened, and each time it's recalled thereafter. They can be expanded or changed if new information is prevented, especially when it comes authority figures... such as alternate theories from parents in denial that their little girl could be so careless. Each time a memory is recalled is an opportunity for it to change, and surely she remembered it many many times over those three months.

Another thing is that as memories change, they tend to become more ordinary ('schematic', in psychology lingo). Dropping your cell phone and plowing into a car is not a normal thing, but people get cut off all the time. It's easy to imagine something like that happening, so it's natural that the memory would change to fit a scenario like that.

It's not directly related, but to give you an idea of how radically memories can be changed, this is a video talking about a study where they created a memory from scratch. It's called the 'lost in the mall' study, and it's a fairly famous study in memory research: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQr_IJvYzbA
It's far simpler than that.

When you are not in contact with the antenna bridge, signal quality and throughput is much higher than any other iPhone. By a large margin.

When you come in contact with the antenna bridge, signal quality degrades considerably.

I'm sure this was discussed at length by many engineers, on many occasions. They did a risk-benefit analysis, and concluded that the pros would outweigh the cons. They probably also weighed the option of trying to engineer something that allows them to have their cake and eat it too, but the need to have something to demo at a keynote, and phones ready for manufacturing didn't make it possible this iteration.

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I go through this all the time. "Well, we can take this naive approach. It works. But processing time is O(log n). I think we could take a slick approach and reduce it to a worst case of 2n, but those worst cases are edge cases. Even without this approach our processing time is almost always n anyways. It'll add 10-20% to the development timeline to handle these edge cases gracefully."

The answer always ends up being not to waste your time designing for edge cases that happen in specific (and in our case, controlled and planned) circumstances.
It was important for the EVO engineers to make sure the signal didn't degrade because you've only got about 2 hours to work with when using that device.
Stephen was reviled by the the clique of global warming deniers and a compelling scientist and thinker. He was my friend.
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What would be actual news is Apple suddenly doing bad. At this point it's a given that they're crushing it, so having a big circlejerk every time they release insane quarterly numbers every quarter serves no purpose.

The Pre is a good example of corporate results being interesting, but that's because they were the huge underdog. Reporting that the top dog keeps getting more toppy is not interesting.

I know I can ignore stories I don't find interesting, but I usually read almost all of the top 10 stories on HN every day and Apple's quarterly results always gets in there (typically #1 for a while), so it's hard to ignore.
Apple has released a new iPod nano in September every year for the last five years, and a new iPod touch in September every year for the last three years.

Predicting new iPods before Christmas seems like a safe bet.
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Over a billion dollars of profit per month. Holy crap.
Nup. He has most definitely stolen our site.

I can tell this by checking google analytics. Before our analytics started getting junk traffic from the knock off site. We had a quite period of about 2 weeks. We generally only get AUS traffic, but there was a spike of traffic on the 10th of July.

The only NON-AUS visitors on that day were from the UK.

All of them were from Stockport UK. The home town of Mr Thompson.
If no, isn't Apple guilty of releasing a product with an inherent design flaw?

Except this is entirely the wrong question to ask. More appropriate from an engineering perspective would be: is this an acceptable trade-off? Is there an attenuation issue? Yes. Does it appear, from independent testing, that the iPhone 4's antenna is nonetheless much more sensitive than previous models and much better at holding onto calls with low signal? Yes. These are the two sides of the trade-off, and the only useful question we can ask is whether this trade-off is acceptable.

Because, ultimately, engineering is all about trade-offs. You give up this, you get that, and you aim to make the best trades you can.
Are you also one of those people who believes iPods can only play music purchased from the iTunes store?
The point was, to make any language "win", just choose one of its strengths as a deciding criterion and take another language without that feature as a punching bag. So to make Haskell "win", All I have to do is state "monadic programming should be easy" or "effectful programming should be clearly distinguished from the pure functional core by the type system." or "Using typeclasses to structure my code should be trivial"

And Haskell "wins" by default over other languages.

That said, fwiw, in my experience the "sweet spot" of Haskell is in large + heavily algorithmic + complex code bases, where its powerful type system shines. It is very fast without sacrificing abstraction. I've built some large machine learning systems with it and I couldn't be happier.

I know other people who are building trading systems in it and they seem delighted too.

As I said, just my experience and I making no claim about how other languages are losers somehow because they have different goals.
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It’s telling that the criticism surrounding this issue has shifted, quickly, from speculation about a technical defect in the iPhone 4 hardware to criticism over the tone of Apple’s response to it.

The conversation shifted because the speculation was proven to be correct, as stated in the opening paragraph of the piece.
Check out this previous post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1449799

And also, I'd highly recommend art of problem solving. http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

Honestly, the best way to discover math is the Hacker's way i.e. find problems to work on and then start working on them even in you don't know how initially. The very digging in process will lead to further discovery and further learning. Now, be sure to check out art of problem solving forums, people ask questions there and there are very good detailed explanations available.

Be also sure to check out Street Fighter math (http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-098-street-fightin...) and fermi questions (e.g: http://mathforum.org/workshops/sum96/interdisc/classicfermi....)

And remember to print out these questions and carry them with you along with tons of scrap paper. Sometimes, it helps just to read a problem and let it sink in over days...
http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/15/android-costs/

tl;dr the point of Android is so Google can put their ads on it.

To that extend it is already a success given that google mobile ads were banned on the iphone and probably will be too on BB and windows mobile and that android phones are already outselling the iphones (all together, which is all that matters to Google).
It's more that Apple's stock behaves in completely irrational ways; typically, news which would cause any other company's stock to skyrocket instead causes Apple's to plummet. In the past, "analysts" such as Jim Cramer have admitted to deliberately manipulating the market to produce this effect, which may provide some explanation, but there seems to be a consistent trend of underestimating/undervaluing Apple regardless of how many consecutive quarters of stellar performance they crank out.
I respectfully disagree that frameworks are causing corporate java applications to exhibit poor performance. I've never seen evidence of it. The extra layers of abstraction added by the framework certainly do slow things down, but in the corporate world it's the database that has the biggest impact on app performance. The microseconds spent executing a few extra commands is negligible. Bad programmers will always create poorly performing software and the corporate world is full or bad programmers who are using frameworks. To place the blame on the frameworks and not the programmers is misguided in my opinion.
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Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is awesome. It helps me see patterns and sometimes combine ideas # 132 + 245 together.
I'm sorry but your argument that someone who buys legitimate software will produce better work is just ridiculous.

Mastery comes from practice, not sheer will - someone who has to work all summer to acquire Illustrator is going to be far less skilled than someone who spent the entire summer learning Illustrator on a pirated copy.

Almost every talented designer I know acquired their skills this way. I went to an art school and you could literally see the difference in skill level between students who had pirated & mastered software vs students that waited until college to get the educational license.

I ran circles around those people and ended up making money tutoring them. I got a head start on my career by freelancing during college because I learned the software before I attended school. I took jobs away from those people and left them in the dirt because of instead of waiting & saving for the upgrades I could master new features as they were released.

I honestly attribute most of my success in life to pirating software as a student.

Oh and the best artists routinely steal each other's work and have their work stolen. They just call it "inspiration".
Well the article said that Apple had a slightly smaller profit margin than that of previous years and they blamed that on the iPad. So it seems that the iPad profit margin is smaller than that of the Macs and iPhone.
wow! :(

I attempted to buy it but it requires iOS 4. (I have a 2G...)
badass app. What does this say about the app store?
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Apps are sandboxed. They can send and receive data over http/https at will. Location sharing is much more audited in iOS 4. Your calendar data and some address book
data is not well protected. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI; apps can't slurp them.
It's not irrational. The traders essentially control the stock market and call the shots by manipulating the market into a favorable position then sell the stock. A glut of shares appearing on the market would thus drive the price down. The term is called "profit taking".

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/profittaking.asp
God damn, it's been removed. Serious bummer to wait until iPhone 4 jailbreak to get tethering.
Oh, I'm sorry, I see the error of my ways...

Hey everyone on Hacker News, please ask schammy before up voting any story so that nothing he isn't interested in doesn't make it to the front page!

Seriously, if you only read the top 10 stories you're missing the best stuff on this site. Try not to only read popular opinion, most people are sheep
I agree that the community could be gentler with WakeMate, but my guess is the frustration comes because the pattern isn't changing. This community seems very forgiving of mistakes, but also expects you to learn from 'em.
>0-day attacks that rely on vulnerabilities known to the vendor for a long while.

Could someone clarify the meaning of a 0-day attack? From what I understood, it's an attack that happens on the day it was discovered - with, often times, the discovery happening soley because of the attack.

If the vulnerability was known to the vendor for a long while is it still a 0-day attack?
Well, not after the Calvinists burned them at the stake.
SOCKS proxy isn't really "tethering".
FYI you can link to pages now:

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iPhone tethering is allowed on my carrier, but I got the app anyway because setting up an ad-hoc WiFi network will allow me to tether my iPhone to my iPad, as well as the fact that bluetooth tethering between Mac <--> iPhone is flaky as hell. Will be interesting to see if Apple kills it, and if they go as far as to kill it outside of the US where tethering is allowed anyway.
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not serious enough to get me off the iPhone waiting list.

So, you don't actually own an iPhone 4, and haven't suffered with this issue, then?

I hope your experience will be much better than mine. Truly.
Not really. 0-day refers to the number of days the vendor had to patch the vulnerability before it was actively being exploited. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack ('Bricking' is another term of late that's undergone abuse, let's not even get started on 'hacking')
I think is relevant here:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/7/20/hard-numbers-...
The words "Responsible Disclosure" are Karl-Rovian in prejudicing listeners against researchers and in favor of vendors

Yeah, the phrasing totally puts the onus on the reporter. I felt really sorry for an HNer who posted a while back ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1445794 ) basically "I am this vendor's customer, I reported this hole months ago, it is actually affecting me, what do I do?".

If 60 days or whatever became an industry standard (or at least the common expectation) then people would hopefully feel better about taking the next step if they are being stonewalled.
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This was biggest single deal of Nokia Siemens ever. This made me thinking if Nokia plans to bring carrier-free phones on the network. That's what I'd do.

And.. LTE (or LTE-A) is all-ip anyway, so who needs carriers?
On a lot of things I've worked on competitors were a great thing - you can see their mistakes and correct them ahead of time.

But when you first discover a new one who's doing a better job its always a downer. Founders can get really depressed when a better-funded competitor comes out of stealth one day. The lowest lows I've experienced on startup projects routinely stem from the first 24hrs after we've discovered a new competitor. Especially when the CEO gets spooked there can be crazy emails, spec changes, scared/angry all-hands meetings etc.
I wish he'd release the source, then those of us with dev accounts would be able to use it.
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Small thing I was noticing, that at least one of the comments to an article[1] makes reference to. The police officer outside of uniform pulled a gun on a man on a bike. In states where citizens are allowed to have equivalent force against an attacker, that police officer could have been shot because he was, as seen in the video, "some dude that jumps out of a car, pulls a gun and says nothing of his being a cop". He is very fortunate, however unwise in that situation. I do hope he learns from it and is removed if this sort of habit is found again.

[1] http://carlosmiller.com/2010/04/16/maryland-motorcyclist-spe...