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The Mac remained profitable through that entire period.

The internet with it's land grab mentality has taught us to focus too much on market share, not enough on profit.

Android already has larger market share of the phone market but Apple rakes in the lions share of the profit. Off a single digit marketshare (iphone as a % of the phone market) Apple makes more than half the profits in the industry (http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/31/fourth-quarter-mobile-phone...).

When I wonder which model is sustainable, the questions I have are about the companies struggling to make profit from massive marketshare, not the one making good money from modest sales. I'm not saying Apple are nailed on, just that the whole industry is very very uncertain and there are questions and issues across the board.

Picking up a couple of specific points:

As for a 2+ year old design doing well against newer models. The iPhone 4 (15 months old) is the biggest selling phone in North America. The second biggest selling phone? The 27 month old iPhone 3GS. This is less of a fashion market than a lot of people make out. Plus if you're looking for precedents, I'm not clear where we see one for HTC, Samsung or LG doing anything particularly innovative in this sector. Good phones yes, market changing, I don't see it.

The Mac as a "ghetto" with limited software availability? Do you have a Mac? The Mac has for years had a far more active independent developer community that Windows ever did. For c. $30 (less now in the AppStore era or if you shop around) you could pick up high quality bits of software to do just about anything. When I got my first Mac 6 years ago (Windows user for 20 years before that) I was staggered by the ecosystem. Windows always ruled the corporate software sector but the Mac was never a ghetto.
Steve Wozniak's tribute
What is a Secured Credit Card and How to Choose the Best
Nowadays, a credit card is a very essential tool in order to live a comfortable and a rewarding life. It may be a bit of an exaggeration, but there is some truth to it. In today’s world, people seldom carry cash around. What they have, instead, is the debit card or the credit card. This is because of two critical reasons: one, it is dangerous to carry cash because it makes you an open target to criminals; and two, major companies and markets require the use of credit cards in order to engage in financial deals with them.
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Four thoughts on the death of Steve Jobs
I dont agree with you but I agree to give you freedom to express your opinion that's why voted you up
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The final page from an Apple business plan in 1981: http://twitpic.com/6vx2cn
Steve Wozniak Remembers Jobs (video)
Oh wow, unprotected admin tools and an XSS vulnerability on their main homepage that is used for customer logins. That's pretty bad.
It's amazing that such a huge oversight can be made. I hope American Express doesn't try to sue this guy.
YES FUCKING YES! NOW BURN IN HELL!
Implicit require in node.js
Speaking as a Linux user, this is as significant as the first time I got sound to work. Flash on Linux (especially 64 bit) has been horribad. Hopefully it's less bad now.
It's not easy getting a 747 rumble out of a laptop. You're lucky, the sound is usually tinny.

But there's a difference between "stable" and the situation where the cpu does the grunt work for the video instead of your gpu hardware. If Adobe and Apple can play nice maybe they can assist each other in getting the above changed in order to lessen the load on your cpu. It's more a "flash meets mac" thing, meaning both sides could do well to help resolve imho.
The utter lack of a mechanism to report bugs, particularly security bugs, seems far worse.

I've encountered this problem frequently when interacting with various organizations. The pervasive availability of bug-tracking systems and/or bug-reporting email addresses makes the absence of one quite conspicuous.
Apple products under Steve Jobs - in pictures
Since I'm running Ubuntu, I decided to try the 'download for Ubuntu' option on the download form. It went down like this:

- Firefox asked me whether I wanted to launch the 'apturl' tool. I accepted its suggestion.

- I got a dialog saying "This will enable the Canonical Partners repository". I'm pretty sure I already had it enabled, but sure, what the hell.

- I got the usual 'downloading updated package lists' dialog.

- I got an error dialog complaining that 'adobe-flashplugin' is a purely virtual package.

And that was that.

Guess it's back to trusty ol' tarballs.
Steve Jobs: The man who let us feel the future
A few memories with Steve Jobs by Steven Wolfram
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"My One Lame Steve Story"
Flash is a product by Adobe. It's not an open standard. Adobe is only one company with limited resources. It's time to uninstall it and move on.
Windows 8 : pourquoi Microsoft a banni le menu démarrer?
I only found it by Googling in desperation; they don't exactly advertise it (which I guess is fair enough).
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Beating Google With CouchDB, Celery and Whoosh (Part 1)
Actually, I think he meant microsoft.com mentioning the death under the "Latest News" banner. I don't see anything on Bing?
It was "ding" according to most sources that come up in Google
http://quotationsbook.com/quote/215/
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The question I can't find an answer to is, what do they actually want? I feel like "change" isn't specific enough. They need a single, obtainable goal, and focus on getting the media to say that goal with every report.
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Italian Wikipedia shut down
Today, unfortunately, the very pillars on which Wikipedia has been built - neutrality, freedom, and verifiability of its contents - are likely to be heavily compromised by paragraph 29 of a law proposal, also known as "DDL intercettazioni" (Wiretapping Act).

This proposal, which the Italian Parliament is currently debating, provides, among other things, a requirement to all websites to publish, within 48 hours of the request and without any comment, a correction of any content that the applicant deems detrimental to his/her image.

Unfortunately, the law does not require an evaluation of the claim by an impartial third judge - the opinion of the person allegedly injured is all that is required, in order to impose such correction to any website.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Comunicato_4_ottobre_2011
He must have hated that cord between the lamp and the wall. On the other hand it does somehow emphasize the emptiness of the room.
watch some of them squirm through their cognitive dissonance. If you are protesting wall street then how the hell do you support Obama when his presidential campaign was bankrolled by Goldman Sachs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFVR9Nv43J4&feature=share
You are correct. An ! adds a little something, I've added it.
The only time I saw Jobs laugh other than something scripted at WWDC, was when he was talking with Gates (things like "Bill taught the world the important of ctrl, alt and del").
HN, why is this above steve's own quote about death?
And it's still rather far from being mature.

Debian squeeze x64 user of Chrome with nvidia-* 260.19.44-1 drivers here.

For instance go to:

http://flashbuilder.eu/flash-player-version.html

1. RBM on flash content, Settings. Now try to set anything with mouse (i.e. w/o using keyboard, especially Tab + Space).

2. RBM on flash content, Zoom in. How much of the view has been redrawn?

Now let's go to vimeo:

http://vimeo.com/27870776

And HD video still doesn't play smoothly and it's sometimes off-sync. My desktop (http://wiki.przemoc.net/about/my_hardware) surely isn't top-notch one, but outside of Flash world I can use it to watch 1080p50p video material, so something is wrong with Flash, and it's even worse in Linux department, unfortunately.
Also unheard of, Microsoft.com has a link on their homepage. Amazon, normally squeezing money out of every pixel has reserved a block for him (and it doesn't link to a book). Oddly, Pixar has nothing.
Well said. Your second paragraph expands well on what I was thinking when I said we forget that beginners have a different idea of what 'trivial' means. The MVC concept (for example) might be trivial to those who get it, but it's likely seen as undesired friction by the beginner, while simultaneously being a good next step for them to acclimatise to should they be wishing to progress. Something that better facilitates this - or things like it - than what we currently have would be great.
I also went through this, gave up, then downloaded the tarball, and copied the plugin to its spot in /var/lib/.

I did backup the old plugin though, just in case.

I also tried just updating Chrome, which is supposed to have the newer flash version, but it didn't have it. Not sure why..
That Is All. Steve Jobs Has Gone.
He saw the new iPhone presentation, and in 24 hours he has left this world, completed his mission in 100%. Words failed us. Fingers refused to type the text on the keyboard...
They are in fact also protesting against the merger of big business and politics. They are thus demanding an end to big money like the example you gave into politics.

I do not think this is necessarily a democrat's protest. This is a people's protest, the 99%.
At least in debian:

sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install

works flawlessly.
I puked a little bit in my mouth.
Financial services are, of course, among the most cautious of organisations - which makes this kind of glaring mistake all the more worrying. Astonishing.
People asked, well the media asked, what do the Egyptians want, or the Tunisians, when the protests first started there. Of course, we all found out what they wanted.
Steve Jobs: We don't ship junk
It's a loose coalition of people rather than a protest led by a political party with good message discipline, so what they want tends to vary. Depending on which people you ask, a few common goals: a Tobin tax, return of Glass-Steagall, increased progressivity of the tax code, abolition of the Federal Reserve, ending favorable tax treatment for capital-gains versus earned income, breakup of too-big-to-fail banks, freeze on foreclosure proceedings, etc.

I see it as somewhat similar to the Tea Party in that sense, which was an amorphous sense of dislike for "big government" and a feeling that something should be done about it (tax cuts, spending cuts, etc.); this is an amorphous sense of dislike for "big finance", and a feeling that something should be done about it.
As someone who runs a site to help those who are feeling depressed and runs it with what seems to be a genuine level of concern and caring for those the site intends to help, this seems like a really fucking bizarre comment to make.
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I've many seen organizations applying spam filtering on their security@org.org address, leading to tons of reports ending up in spam boxes without being noticed by the company. The researcher doesn't receive any feedback on his responsible disclosure and multiple reminders, and finally submits the vulnerability to a full disclosure list.
Egyptians and Tunisians knew very well what they wanted.
What do these people want is indeed unclear to me.
Abolish the banks and give all the money to them?
Hang all the rich people? Equality of the income? How would that look like?
And how many of them are just too lazy to do something and would prefer not to do anything but will still be entitled to some benefits? A lot of those "99%" posters can be summarized by "I took a bunch of dumb decisions, then I took some credit for stuff I did not need, and now I am screwed". Who knew!
Hence the bug report. :) Misconfiguration, most likely.
Not relevant to this story, but is there a french equivalent of Hacker News?
Sixty people disconnected after spending several million euros. Hope the deterrent effect is worth it.

Otherwise, this seems like a huge failure to me, as it had from the start.
Move on to what?
Thanks!

Yes, current (early) plan of the mobile version is to store the addresses (+names) of the used Events on the phone. (actually, the Payments/Transfers will probably be also saved in the mobile device, to allow offline use)

Accessing Events created with the web-version for the first time with the mobile app is bit of open question tough. Copypasting the URL is maybe not the user friendliest way to handle this. Creating a user account of some sort for the mobile users might be a better idea..
RIP Steve Jobs. RIP Apple.
The admin page is completely unprotected, you don't even get a notice about the system being private. They can't sue him, they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.

To me it looks like somebody left a "DEBUG = True" somewhere on the site and went to the beach :)
Yet now they are being co-opted by a larger group, which many of us watching this unfold fully expected to happen. What makes it more galling is that many of those from the unions are in no shape or form middle class with very high incomes and high retirement payouts.

The protesters we see now will have a difficult time not getting pushed aside by the machine. What the unions/DNC could not create they certainly can take.
I can't help but feel we have the media we deserve, if this is the scale of reaction to Monbiot's registry... sigh
> what do they actually want?

This Jimmy Kimmel video answers that question: http://www.hulu.com/watch/285456/jimmy-kimmel-live-occupy-wa...

Megaphone: What do we want?
Crowd: We're not really sure!
Megaphone: When do we want it?
Crowd: Now!

Like most Americans, the economic collapse has left me with the sour taste of injustice. But the OWS protesters seem like a disparate bunch of interest groups with no unified purpose.
great article to Jobs
Natural Remedies for Parasites
Nice, didn't even know about these extensions at all.

At least the 'Alternative Status Menu extension' one is going to be part of my setup from now on - that was one of my daily nuisances.
The admin page is still there. Amazing.
As one of those former engineers at Apple, I can say definitively that Steve deserves it. Without him, we'd never have had the canvas on which to paint.

He made our contributions possible.
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Unicode code point F8FF is the last code point in the "private use" area. Apple products (and my Linux font) put an Apple logo there.
VPN providers must be making a nice buck from French users as we speak.

EDIT: and of course, the well-connected network-bulldog agencies tasked by the French Government with "policing" must have pocketed quite a bit of change as well.
Surely this is just a honeypot?
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Didn't see any larger ones online, but it looks to be from this book of portraits: http://www.amazon.com/Bigger-Picture-Thirty-Years-Portraits/...
This is also very, very nice.
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I bought the stock in early '04 at $15, on margin (CFD's) and sold it all at around $20 (IIRC) to fund my startup (which failed)
The protesters know very well what they want also. It is only the media who is unclear for very understandable reasons because this has only started. They are not asking to abolish the banks, but the Glass ceiling to be re-instated, they are asking for more equality of course, the graph for example that was posted here on HN a while ago showed clearly that while the country grew, wages did not, after 1970s, or, after the Regan Thatcer market prevails let the jungle rule.

I do not know how many of them are lazy. I would not think many since it takes quite a lot of work to organize what they have and keep pushing forward. Many of them simply can not find a job and find themselves in a spiral without any help because of temporary difficulties. We have had plenty of posts here on HN just how poor people are trapped into poverty. Banks get money, little people get kicked out.

Anyway, maybe you should visit their websites and read what they want.
Well, when you're raised and told you HAVE to go to college, a lot of will she loans for it. Or they'll assume they'll have their job for a long time, and buy a car/house, or have a kid. A bunch of dumb decisions? Not necessarily. Sometimes life just happens.

As for what they want, they want to feel like they have opportunities. I genuinely do think it's a discontent that's risen from feeling like their voice carries little/no weight in society, politics included, and that the control is in the hands of those with wealth. It's your garden variety populist uprising, only from the American middle class, so expect to see less blood and more coffee.
Wow, it's really similar to a tool I've been working on: http://grouppay.backin.de

Glad to see you share the vision (no signup, just go straight to a unique link).
I don't normally post here. However, this speech is one of an inspiration for me to do the 'foolish' things in life.
funny thing is that the same thing happened to the Tea Party, who got taken over by RNC community organisers. So out whet the pro-drugs, pro-immagration and pro-choice, and in comes the Christian Taliban under a new banner.
This seems a bit too condescending to me.

It's very easy to point to a dictator and lay the blame on him. The violence and injustice perpetrated by a dictator is easy to identify.

If you have a complex system where injustice is not generated by a single individual, but rather by the interplay of many different actions, or even generated by the structure of the system itself, this is much harder to identify.

You'll note that people in Egypt got rid of Mubarak, but they're not entirely happy about the current state of affairs either.

The problem with economic violence is that while the issues are understandable and can be explained, they are hard to boil down to a short slogan.
This whole 99% vs 1% BS is just getting ridiculous.

Maybe they should be happy they're not the 99% of the world who die of starvation and preventable diseases instead of whining that it's so unfair.

The protestors ARE in the 1%. It's depressing to see their open greed and belief they are entitled to more.

Maybe if they applied all that energy toward creating wealth instead of protesting, they would be in a better situation. Or better yet, try and help the 99% of the world that's worse off than them.
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This reminds me of a quote:

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
The Highlights And Ending Of The Steve Jobs/Bill Gates Meme
I'm not a member of the pirate party (so can't speak for them), but I want to avoid fueling concerns with my simplified description of their system.

I don't think their goal is automating the decisions, their goal is to add much needed efficiency and transparency to the process by taking it online.

When you look at their software then it's a web-forum with a purpose-built voting/karma system.

For the first time I (a non-member) can go to the website of a political party, read their discussions, learn who is proposing what, who is voting for what and what the dominating opinions are.

You and I may not agree with their (lack of) positions on various subjects. But, as I understand it, it takes nothing more than an online-registration to join in on a discussion, and to present your own ideas on a level playground.

As far as I am concerned that's an overdue breath of fresh air.

Unless you prefer the state-of-the-art; backroom-politics with an "old boys club" calling the shots...
Steve and his team have changed the way we live. Making us all introspect on our lives work..is probably his second monumental contribution...
When a major company, especially a financial services company, is subject to public security vulnerability disclosures like this, it should really make other companies stand up and take notice. There is absolutely no excuse for these kinds of vulnerabilities to exist on a production system. When Citibank was recently hacked by simply changing the account number in URLs, that should have been enough for other financial institutions to do an internal security audit to make sure they weren't susceptible to anything similar. Don't wait until it's too late. For the sake of their customers I hope this is resolved swiftly.
Get over yourself.

One of the biggest influencers of this industry has passed away, someone who's been a source of great inspiration for many, many of us.

Frankly, the inability of some of you to not understand our more human, primal faculties is surprising. Some of you have come right out of the gate to question whether his words should really be taken seriously with respects to chasing your dreams, or whether the contributions he's made to this world are anything but.

If you can't tolerate this for a few days, or find something else to do, then something is seriously wrong.

His death affected me, and I've never spoken a single word to the man. I find a lot of the things he's said keep popping up in my head when I'm down, feel lost and lacking purpose.

No, you know what, fuck that. That sort of emotion is wrong. You're right. Let me save this sort of reaction when a YC company gets blasted for a perceived act of injustice. I'm sure you'd have no problems with that.

An ounce of sympathy and empathy would do wonders for you.
Newspapers and the press in general normally have an obituary team who write and update obituaries for noteworthy people who are still alive. That way if anything happens, they can be quick off the mark and publish a well researched article about the person. Occasionally these are published in error when the person in question is still alive.
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Ask HN: Startups, what are your continuous integration needs?
Guys,

I want to help you with continuous integration (CI) setup and I am looking for input about your CI problems. This is needed for my project - a platform that will configure automatically whole project and run CI for you. Good configuration management practices are especially important for projects in rapid growth phase, when it is easy to lose quality. I have huge experience in this field so I could really help.

So, what comes to my mind might be:

-	Running the build after each commit esp. when commits flood in and local build takes long;

-	Support for all the major frameworks (RoR, Django, Play). Any others?

-	Automatic creation of functional tests based on URL mappings;

-	Various code metrics, like cyclomatic complexity (number of paths through a piece of code) for instance;

-	Getting big picture what is going on in the project and what the trends are;

-	Sharing best practices of configuration management.

Are the above important to you if you could get them out of the box? Is anything missing? Do you have any problem I could help with?

Also if you would like to you see the beta and test it, please drop me an email:
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Any feedback is welcome!
Ask HN: Why is Google page rank saying N/A to all blogs?
Surely a DM message to the AskAmex account, with some actual details written in clear English, not jargon or "hacker lingo stuff" would have been more suitable? Or asking someone on here like Thomas to make a phone call?

I understand the argument between full disclosure and responsible disclosure, but if the author could have DM'd it on Twitter. Or posted it on Twitter wholesale, since its now public anyway.
Steve Jobs made it personal
Link to the original paper (or abstract, for those of us who lack access): http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7367/full/nature1...
Yes, that's it exactly!
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