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Acer basically dropped the ball on Tablets by firing their Italian CEO who wanted to invest heavily in touch and tablet design and double engineering staff. You reap what you sow JT Wang.

http://www.cultofmac.com/94454/acer-former-ceo-trade-blame-f...

The firm did not blame its sales slowdown on Acer chairman JT Wang, who in 2010 predicted the iPad share of the tablet market would plummet from 100 percent to 30 percent as soon as alternative devices appeared. So far, with Motorola, RIM, HP and others introducing rival tablets, the iPad market share still hovers around 80 percent.

Acer also did not blame its sales slowdown on its own strategy reversal, first embracing the idea of volume, then rejecting it when the company’s founder, Stan Shih, announced a more Apple-like future. PC makers “should not single-mindedly pursue volume growth, and should extend its operation to the field of service, just like Apple has done.”
Even if Apple fix the account recovery process, the fact that any flaw in iCloud security could easily lead to all attached devices getting remotely wiped is extremely scary. All of your work gone in moments!

Don't get me wrong, remote wipes are useful. But they should be protected by some kind of a "Remote Wipe Authorization Passphrase" that the user must set up. Otherwise we are all simply at the mercy of the next access control vulnerability in iCloud.
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Why? Maybe because that would defeat the whole purpose?

And why use a (relatively, before someone calls me out) high security measure for something unimportant in the first place? You wouldn't use a full biometric security scanner setup for your pantry either, would you?
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The game already has multiplayer. The issue is that the servers were taken down years ago. I think their goal is to create a new server for the game.
Free Software Groupware with Roundcube released
The Kolab Groupware solution now integrates better into existing user directory setups. Security as well as scalability has been improved. It is now possible to scale all functional components of Kolab separately. Also, there is a new unified command line utility for administrative tasks.
> But you can charge for access to that information

Only because laws force us to, not because it's the proper market solution to the problem. And it has nothing to do with being digital; if you think it does, you don't understand the complaint. All information should be freely copyable. Whether it's photocopying a book, or burning a copy of a CD, I've deprived no one of anything because there is no natural scarcity of anything that is copyable and thus no justification for ownership claims of pure information. If I see a chair you have that I like, and I build a complete perfect replica of it, I've not taken anything from you, you have no natural claim of damage.
I think Disney uses "Flynn's" at one of their parks, so I doubt they would license it.
Samsung: power, corruption and lies
I suffer early lazy diagonalreadingitis, which I would call breadth-first; recenlty I've been more into the depth-first ways of learning.
>"These bags are not scanned before your account is credited (I know, it's insane)"

It's not insane, it's incredibly efficient. Our whole "system" operates on trust. You can certainly find holes in the system if you so choose.

But don't kid yourself: these losses are built into the profit expectations of banks. And they'll try to catch you. If you want to be on the lam for the rest of your life for a million Euros, have fun.
The argument isn't that 4chan doesn't have its own identity, its refuting this:

And come on, it's where all the memes are born. That's profound. What other startup can claim to be such a big influence on western society?

I think 4chan definitely has a huge influence on the tech sector, but in terms of straight-up 'influence' vastly more people follow celebrity gossip than memes. That might change (it probably won't -- we're prone to hero-worship, whether or not its movie stars or tech icons).

Celebrity news is the lowest of the low; nothing but easy-to-read brain candy for bored, boring housewives.

I don't really read celebrity news, but I have read rage comics and memes back when Reddit had them frontpaged, and if you think they're more than easy-to-read brain candy, I think you're mistaken.
Forget Photoshop, CSS and HTML Do You Really Understand Web Design?
Does learning design software, CSS and HTML make you a designer? If you are a self-taught designer, then you should explore this idea
Are those like coupons you can redeem for things? Many people have not used cash for years.
Are we really STILL talking about those terms? I don't mind those terms myself, because what I think everyone ACTUALLY means is they want a A++ player, someone who's deeply involved in the specific tech, a cut above your average senior dev cube dweller. These are the best sort of people for startups where your small size and large goals mean you can't afford any dead weight. Who cares what term you're using?
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I agree with tnorthcutt.
Micheal Hartl has used Sublime Text 2 in his tutorial and he has a very positive feedback on it. It is a free one and you can buy it for less than 50 dollars if you do not want to be annoyed by the software asking to buy it every once in a while when saving a document. I also have been using the plugin for Sublime Text 2 developed by Ryan Bates and could not be happier.
Job market for a 30+ person learning to code?
Hi there,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience in the job market after learning to code later in life. I'm 37 years old and I have about 4 semesters (probably a year and a half) worth of coding classes with a focus on Java and Android. I think that at the pace that I'm going I will be able to claim some level of expertise by the time I'm 39 or so, but my fear is being to old to be employable.

What's your take?
It's not the mhonan part the would've been hard to guess but the @me.com. A secondary email account could be anything. It could also very well not be enabled. Knowing that it is enabled and that is an @me was definitely something that helped the attackers.
Uh huh. Sure they did. And I'm the Jolly Green Giant.

This guy hasn't had problems in the past vocalizing his issues with the police and their alleged misdeeds. Why did he wait several months to make this claim if it actually happened?

(Note to downvoters: this is a rhetorical question; he didn't wait months because the alleged beating(s) never occurred. This guy has some of the priciest lawyers in the world working on his defense. If these beatings had actually taken place, you can bet your ass that it would have been the dominant story of the Megaupload saga from Day 1.)
Thank you for making your post so rich in information while at least giving me the information that you're not responding to anything I said right away.

No, actually he is spot on

No he is not. I'm not even arguing against the euro or ESM. The majority of german economists are.
They should put a terabyte of solid storage on the orbiter(s) and just have it send stuff from the surface non-stop and then stream back to earth so there's zero downtime in the signals...

But I guess once you've seen a mars rock in highdef, for the untrained they are all mostly the same... interest will be sadly waining after a month.
Simon Thompson's text (3rd ed) is also a good learning text. It was updated in 3rd ed for GHC
Instead of a friend's email, why not have a second email address of yourself where the PIN is sent. Of course, hopefully the passwords of both emails are different :). Sort of like ATM card and PIN sent in separate mails in the US. I don't think adding a friend's email will be a good idea especially if i want to reset in the middle of the night as someone mentioned.
Quick question for HN'ers... does anyone actually feel safe using cloud services for personal data storage?

In the interest of full disclosure... I can barely muster trust enough for gmail. Actually, I don't trust gmail, which is why I don't use it for anything important or personal. I certainly would not put my child's photos onto a cloud service and expect them to be safe. And from what I understand, these people put, not only their data on iCloud, but their ACTUAL DEVICES are administrable from iCloud. That seems insane to me. It seems that this is the inevitable result of any such system.

I guess I am just a bit surprised at the surprise being expressed here. USB drives are not THAT horrible are they? They seem, to me, far more reliable backup methods.
> The question isn't whether or not Samsung was trying to emulate the elements that made the iPhone a success, the question is to whether it should be allowed or not. A world where that kind of "copying" is disallowed isn't one I want to live in.

But that's not what this case is about.

Apple is claiming that Samsung copied their product's aesthetics to mislead consumers. That's why Apple is suing Samsung.

And truthfully, I don't want to live in a world where that sort of copying is allowed.
There is a balance at work here. While it is true that humility and experience are great ways to learn a subject, there's something to be said for brashly jumping to conclusions, stating those conclusions, and having people tell you why they're wrong. I've learned a great deal by sharing my naive conclusions with people. An anonymous forum such as this even allows you to do it on a regular basis with no fear of being known as an idiot.
If you can find a test customer to work with you during your development, that will put you in a much better place. B2B customers are sometimes open to this type of arrangement if it is a non-critical function of their business. If you strike the right balance between learning from them and tailoring the product to them, you should get value out of the partnership. When your talking to them you should always be able to effectively communicate how your product helps them save money and/or time.
Want to be more secure? Build two-factor authentication into your webapp
I didn't say demand will always inevitably lead to new products on the market. I said that if there's no demand for an invention, then the consumers won't care that it didn't go to market.
I disagree. The onus is entirely on the user to backup his/her data.

Don't use remote wipe unless you have a backup solution. I mean seriously, the very concept of remote wiping, whether intended or not, should make you buy an external hard drive and activate Time Machine. Because a remote wipe could happen in a database-server glitch on Apple's part, which would presumably bypass a passphrase mechanism. So why leave your data to chance?

But the other reason to not have a passphrase...what is the purpose of having a remote wipe? Because you are paranoid that ot only someone will steal your laptop, but that they'll steal the data. Depending on your work situation, time could be the main factor here. What happens if you forget your passphrase...because really, how often are you going to be using that passphrase? Then you've given your robber minutes/hours to access your data.

Just to be clear, the verification process is still incredibly flawed on Apple's part, and the remote-wipe problem should not have happened in the first place. But enabling any kind of remote-wipe-power without thinking through the backup process is Honan's fault, as he admits in his article.
The entire "account recovery" concept just reeks of ad-hoc solutions piled on top of ad-hoc solutions. They're designed primarily so that legit customers who can't get into their accounts suffer as little inconvenience as possible, and they try to toss some security in on the side.
If HN will pardon my humanities showing a bit, I've always found this to be a great quote from TS Eliot:

"In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance."

I came to CS and programming only after a degree in the humanities so every time I learned something new I felt incredibly stupid. I would read books very slowly and carefully, re-reading any tricky parts, and never assuming my prior knowledge in an area was at all relevant to what I was learning. But after every book I read, or topic I learned my mind and understanding of the world really felt expanded.

After a while I started to gain confidence, and the perhaps a bit more than confidence. I remember being proud the first time I opened a technical book and thought "pssh I know most of this already this will be a quick read". But I quickly discovered that whenever I approached a topic this way I only left with a shallow change in my understanding. In fact I realized that I was shaping this new material to what I already new rather than expanding my existing assumptions. I was essentially wasting my time, reinforcing my ego but not really learning much.

So whenever I meet someone who is learning something new and they're angry with themselves for how 'stupid' they are, I remind them that this is actually the peak of learning. And likewise whenever I open a book, even if it's in familiar territory I try to put myself in that mind set of ignorance. It's a pity we, especially in technical fields, associate so much shame with ignorance, when this is a feeling that we should aim for when we sit down to learn.

For anyone familiar with Zen Buddhism you'll probably recognize this idea as a variant on Shoshin or "beginner's mind"
Why isn't your company using a password cracker?
The reason I find it absolutely crazy is that you can't stop people from sending you messages. You can blacklist them (or use a whitelist) of course, but that's still "after" the offense. What happens if a millionaire prankster sends you 20 messages some day? You have t cough up something because of his prank? I find it unreasonable.

But I don't find paying more for calling a cellphone objectionable. A wireless call requires more resources and money for telco company than a wired one (they put wires in houses decades ago and have forgot about it (the maintenance cost is not huge), but they have to actively setup new towers for different locations in cities and change the old ones). It costs them more, so they charge more and I pay more.
Am I the only one who thought this was a terrible article? There wasn't much to it. A collection of quotes and a high level explanation that basically facebook collects data (duh) and has a bunch of infrastructure for analysis.
As a thought experiment to test this idea, you could think about your current programming paradigm and when you first understood certain aspects of it.

The other day I wrote "...you probably need to do a large project to feel the effects of a methodology or programming paradigm. Subclassing didn't make any sense when penguin was a subclass of bird (a subclass of animal). It made sense when I got all the functionality of UIView but could still customize it, and call NSObject methods like [object class] that I wouldn't have thought I'd needed at first."
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This feels a lot like a land grab in an increasingly crowded market. There's a thread on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Square-Inc-1/Why-did-Square-turn-down-i...

that talks about how Square's traction might be slowing down and how they might also be resorting to similar tactics to drive merchant adoption.

Long term this kind of business isn't bad if you can scale it since the GoPago/Square/etc. of the world can keep 1% or more at the prices they charge merchants. The challenge is that folks like LevelUp will come along and choose to make money off promotions, giving away payments.

It's a good time to be a merchant I imagine - that's a lot of free equipment and support for a small merchant.
I didn't establish that creation is circunscript to writing software. Had I mentioned writing music or editing video, that would be outside the scope of what the poster established to be the field of interest for the usage of the device in the anedoctal. It still would not make any difference to the point it would have contradicted the presented quote in the article.
But thanks for the one liner and the down vote I see how what I did not say was probably confusing you.
Munich is why you don't have a one-size-fits-all approach.

If I can't figure out how to turn on my shiny, new Mac, there is zero need to any verification. If I'm asking for a password reset, they should know for sure who I am by the end.

I had to remove an authentication from my Blizzard account once. They required me to do all the normal verification stuff (secret questions, password, etc), send an ID and confirm the process via a contact point I already had on the account. It took 24 hours. And they did it right.
> It also doesn’t have rights issues.

I'm not really sure what to make of this.
Of course the iPhone influenced Samsung's designs, as well as every other smartphone's design. The iPhone was in turn influenced by the designs of products which preceded it, for which Apple can take absolutely no credit. Such things should not be patentable.
I think the more important question is whether it is less secure. It does make it harder to seize control of the account (which might be a lame consolation, but backups are a good idea either way), and it is (potentially) more convenient in the event that one device is lost or misplaced.

Someone who previously always logged out might be exposing themselves to more risk by storing the app passwords, but I think that's about the only case where it is worse.
You're being unfair to the article, which is full of fascinating things.

He doesn't say Islam invented democracy. He says that the rise of our Enlightenment variant of democracy was related to the spread of coffeehouses and the intellectual effects of coffee drinking, and that we inherited those two things from the Islamic world.

Re history of coffee he claims nothing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coffee doesn't say. In any case the topic is not who first drank it (do you know?) but who we got it from.
Best programming tool ever created! How did I do anything before this was created? This is clearly a revolutionary step forward, and is the herald of a new order in software development. Huzzah!
Your link doesn't work (404).

Personally, I like the "Learn You A Haskell" style, of carefully and very gently building up the basic language, with examples that are as simple as possible and deal with only the issue being discussed. My problem with Real World Haskell is that it combines learning the language with building stuff. So when it gets to something like monads, there are way too much noise surrounding the core concept being explained. It's fine to show practical examples, but not everything should be built on them.

Aside from that, I like the practically-oriented stuff in RWH. I would like to see an article on doing concurrent, parallel, distributed systems (Erlang-style) in Haskell.
Yeah, that jumped out at me, too. The reason the selection is so woeful is precisely "rights issues".
One phenomena I've observed in some modern video arcades is the advent of homebrew or "faux" cabinets. An official Street Fighter 4 cabinet costs around $10,000. However, because the most recent home console version of SF4 is identical to the arcade version, it's possible to simply buy an Xbox 360, a display, and a pair of fightsticks (input devices with parts identical to what you would find in an arcade cabinet) and build a wooden shell to house them. Total cost? Less than $1000 for parts, plus labor for assembly. Most people can't tell the difference, and even those who can tell the difference won't care, because the software and input hardware are identical. This makes it far more economical for establishments to offer these options--at $1000, you might not even worry about turning a profit from usage fees, and could offer the game mainly as a service to patrons.

The other benefit of the homebrew cabinet is that it allows you to run any console game you please. Marvel vs Cacpom 3, one of the two most popular fighting games in North America, is actually home console only--there's no official cabinet, so homebrew is the only way to go if you want an arcade setup.
<flippant>But par for the course for a consumer entertainment products company</flippant>

In my blinkered world, Google and Facebook seem to be the companies to beat in the area of security for consumer services. 2-factor auth, proactive account security such as geographic checks etc.

I can see how Apple's corporate mindset would find it painful to sacrifice user experience for security. Google, not so much.

As an aside, it's about time Microsoft offered 2-factor auth for their accounts.
[Reply to the dead comment; you need to be logged in witht showdead to see it.] Benefits in kind does not refer to work equipment, since those aren't things you get to take with you--the company owns that stuff, you just get to use it. Benefits in kind means something like receiving a personal laptop on company dime that you can take with you even if you leave.
Did anyone ever show you his credit card "okay but just once"? I doubt so. The big number is indeed supposed to remain as secret as possible to avoid trouble.
Um, "territory"?
It's also used at the University of Waterloo in Canada for their first few CS courses.
I prefer elePHPant. https://www.google.com/search?q=elephpant&tbm=isch
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Here in the DC area tech talent is cheap. You can get senior developers for around $60K.
Doesn't want a cell phone.
I also don't carry a phone, and feel the same way as you about this
I believe the "rights issues" he's talking about are explained in detail after that: he's talking about his own right to view the available content at any time. I agree that "rights issues" is probably the wrong way to explain that concept; but, as intended, it's a valid statement.
That's largely due to the presence of Matthias Felleisen, who (AFAIK) spearheaded Racket.
While all this is true, there's more to it than that. Netflix caters to a market that lies between cable and iTunes/Amazon. It's a place to get second run or otherwise non-premium content. I've been rewatching Life recently, which I really liked (then and now).

What's more, at $8/month it's low enough where I'll just have it just in case I want to watch it. I watch on average probably an hour of TV a day. Why would I pay $80+/month to have cable for this and then have the schedule dictated to me?

Netflix can be watched on tablets, phones and computers. This is much better than the cable alternative. I don't even own a TV and don't think I ever will again.

I'm a big fan of these "opinionated" services... as long as they get them right. This really is the key to Apple's success. 10+ years ago I wanted to dick around with installing hardware, drivers, configuring OSs, etc. Now? Now I just want stuff to work and nothing works as well or as pleasantly as my Macbook Air or iPad.

But I digress.

The sad thing about Netflix is that Hollywood seems to have decided they're the enemy now rather than seeing it as an opportunity to monetize content that otherwise would've probably earned them little or nothing. Worse, the content providers all seem to want to go out on their own, which is a terrible experience for consumers.

If only there was legislated demarcation between content creation and content distribution.
The Pinball Hall of Fame is a non-profit. I agree that it's a fantastic experience (I had my bachelor party partly there).

Also, I would definitely love to visit that Hackers arcade.
I heard that Untyped and Well Typed tried to set up a corporate softball league, but they couldn't agree on a ruleset to use.
Is this all an American thing or is Europe seeing a similar revival?
Would you mind being a little more specific? It's hard to get any solid numbers out of anyone, and the article provides some. If those are off, what do you think the current market rates are?