skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK at least, the data comes from INRIX (ex Trafficlink), who also supply the traffic news to the vast majority of local and national radio stations. They have a network of cameras and monitoring stations around the country. I don't believe it's crowdsourced from Android users - although I could be wrong.

Having said that, I much prefer going on the BBC Travel News website (which is the same INRIX data) and looking at it in tabular form. I don't find the red/yellow/green lines on roads particularly useful.
As a side note, why do Americans frequently refer to the New York police department by its acronym (NYPD) instead of simply calling it "the police"? Is it because this particular police department is distinct from other "regular" police departments? I find it a bit strange since I don't recall observing this phenomenon for any other city's police departments (except maybe LAPD).
I can see why you don't want to have dozens of different "In juristicion X" and then rank them, but I suggest including EU law, since it includes a large amount of pro-user stuff, and would be an easy way to know what you can do.

You're already including references to the US Congress, why not let us EU citizens have something too?
"Was Samsung trying to get people to confuse its phones with iPhones and buy them by mistake?"

Yes, that's what Apple are suggesting. FWIW I can offer you some anecdotal evidence. Shortly after the original Galaxy S (GT-I9000) was released, my partner (who was by then using Android) saw the advert for it and said "crikey, that's a bit close to the bone, isn't it?" refering to it's similarity to the iPhone. She said this before any of the brouha-ha had started. Again it's purely anecdotal so take it at face value.
> Of course only valid legistation voted on by the Bundestag will be merged.

And I was excited for a moment...
There are serious problems with trying to make laws black and white. A certain amount of flexibility is frequently a good thing. Let the judges knowledge/judgement decide. An example of problems with the alternative is 3 strikes laws.
I'm here to let you in on the little secrets of fashion so people think you're even more awesome than you already are.

That's how this should read. That would make unprofessional copy look like lazy professional copy, although I suppose there's a more general issue with tone throughout the post. Needless to say a lot of work still needs to be done.

As for the idea itself, I would probably try to appeal to qualities that nerds value. For example, they sure spend a great deal of time making sure their code is elegant. Maybe you could try to see how you can translate the rules of elegance as they apply to code into fashion parlance.
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I'm Luzius Meisser, cofounder of Wuala. Yes, some trust in Wuala is still required, namely trusting us that we won't put a backdoor into the client. Much more trust is required in services without client-side encryption. Adding a backdoor would ruin our reputation once someone found out, while companies like Dropbox won't suffer much when they hand over data to a government agency as it is known that they can and will do it. Also, bugs like accidentally disabling the password verification can be ruled by design with client-side encryption.

Also, please note that laws are often constructed such that companies can be forced to hand over data they possess, however not to collect data they do not possess yet. E.g. there are many laws in many jurisdictions that could be used to force Google to hand over data you have stored in Google Drive, but the same laws cannot be used to force us to add a backdoor to Wuala. So legally, it is much much easier to obtain data stored in Google Drive than to obtain data stored in Wuala (or another service that uses client-side encryption). Noone has ever asked us to add a backdoor to Wuala and we would fight against it if someone did.

I agree that it would be nicer to open the source code so our security would be independently verifiable, but claiming that what we do is "empty marketing" is clearly wrong.
No! The document shows the areas where Samsung believes there to be room for improvement. This document does not mean that "in absolutely every comparison" the iPhone finishes first.
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I appreciate why the authors have made the suggestions that they have.

Their reasonably desires do not prevent the end result being a dog's breakfast.
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One should be endowed with the ambition, vision and mission type of qualities on his/her own and not because someone like Vinod Kohsla said that is the only way to live in this world. There are ordinary people who want to just do something nice and productive and make a good living and contribute in their own small way. I would strongly advise all to follow their heart and not take advice from people who like to pontificate. At the end of the day you want to follow your passion and your instinct rather than blindly follow advise from people who are mostly pretenders. Figure out your own trip in life rather than have Vinod Koshla types define it for you.

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I also have a Samsung Galaxy S and no one has ever confused it for an iPhone. When using others iPhones they feel radically outdated compared to the Samsung. It seems to me that smartphones are the next logical progression from the Palm phones.
"Been done before" doesn't even begin to cover the amount of spec mockups we see like this. Oh, you whipped up some new design and functionality for us in Photoshop one afternoon? Thank you so much for doing literally 5% of the work of your proposed redesign, please let me know where to send the cheque for giving us a huge amount of work to do that we never asked for.
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I'm guessing that they are going to try and get significantly lower fraud rates from pay with square (since it's a photo verification and not an insecure card strip) which can help push down rates.

They can afford to break even on the conventional credit card side of the business if they can make their margins on Pay with Square.
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If you read the report and not just the article headline, you'll see that Samsung's report wasn't "hey guys, we should make our phone exactly like the iPhone" but, rather, "hey guys, here's things the iPhone does better than us - we should fix that, while making sure we differentiate our product"
Anybody got a downloadable .PDF link? Scribd can get bent.
I think if you're going to put so much focus on visuals, and make it your clear aim to get as much attention from the world as possible, it would probably be a good idea to:

* Check that your font doesn't do anything crazy, like make "I" look like "J" - come on, the sixth word on the page looks like it has a spelling mistake

* Check your grammar. I know it's pernickety but if I'm hiring a designer I expect attention to detail, and if someone doesn't get someone to cast a cursory glance over their work before inviting thousands of people to look at it, what does that say about how much effort and pride they put into their work?

* Check your spelling, I saw at least one fairly basic mistake (for rationale see above)
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Two things I'm wondering about:

- The document states it is highly confidential. Was it leaked? Otherwise, why does it state it is confidential?

- Samsung is a Korean company. Why is their internal document written in English rather than Korean? Is it common for multinationals to operate in English despite their country of origin?
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They're Lithuanian. I'm guessing English is not their first language.

Seeing the number of possessive its with an apostrophe on HN I can cope with someone using English as a second language making a minor grammar error.
As someone who has never owned a Samsung Android device, I was astonished by these slides. My biggest questions are:

- how the hell did Apple get that report. They were the ones submitting it to court, right? Looks almost like industrial espionage to me.

- Was this really the release software of the S1? Was it that bad? I remember people praising that phone almost like the S2 later on. Really? Some of those slides show truly hideously designed UI, like the 'next' button on the keyboard?
What's the point of making an internal presentation of all the points where the iPhone is worse and Samsung is better?

Samsung is trying to _improve_ their products, so they'll obviously compare their perceived products weak points against what they feel is a better implementation.
This is just an advertorial for CodeSuite. Srsly, there was "no way" to compare them until now, we read, then further down the page we read his methodology: download the easily available source code to both from the web, and search them for common strings.

My guess: “Comerr” was a routine that handles either communication errors or command errors

When this guy encounters "foo" and "bar" his head will explode.

I expect better from IEEE, this is not even at the level of TechCrunch!
> I no longer work in HFT.

Finance still, though? I bet it's difficult to let go of the fat paychecks.

> As for your other questions, I suggest you go read my blog posts on the topic. They answer all your factual questions.

Ah yes. I was just giddy with delight when you used Futurama character names in those examples. How could I not love everything HFT represents after that?
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As far as I understand, when encrypting a volume, if AppleID option is enabled, a separate randomly generated recovery ("backdoor") key for the volume is sent to Apple (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790). I think, before iCloud/AppleID thing you had to call Apple support and answer questions to get this recovery key. With AppleID, I suspect the whole thing is automated.

So, (again, I'm speculating), your AppleID and FileVault 2 passwords are completely independent things -- it's just that your additional recovery/backdoor key is stored in the iCloud, accessible with AppleID.

Here's the analysis of FileVault 2 http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/374.pdf
> I mean, yes, by all means get involved and help improve it.

I don't think you understand just how toxic some parts of the community are.
The scary consequence could be that eventually there will be laws prescribing certain programming techniques for software projects.

In Germany I think it is almost already the case, because if your software project goes awry, the judge will want to know that used current best practices of software development. I only picked that up in passing, though, reading about a case with another focus. But it scares me, because I don't necessarily agree with all current "best practices". Imagine being sued because you didn't include 99% test coverage. Or worse, because you didn't use Java.
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An argument could be that Samsung was trying to get people to buy their phones as a way to look like an iPhone owner without having to pay more for a real iPhone than you paid for the 'clone'.

Another argument could be that, by selling inferior wares that look like Apple's stuff, consumers would start to think that Apple's phones are inferior. For example, you meet your friend and spot him with this black phone. In casual talk, he mentions that it isn't as good as it looks. A month later, you are looking for a new phone, and someone shows you an iPhone. Not having looked closely at your friend's phone, you may be steered away from buying an iPhone.

A third argument is that Apple spends a lot of effort and money to make their devices appear hip/cool/attractive. A clone-maker benefits from Apple's work. He does not need to advertise its wares as much as someone who makes original wares would.

Neither of these arguments are new; they are also used when people sell e.g. Bolex watches that look like those of that other brand.
Is wikipedia __really__ broken that it requires a redefinition?

I think what these folks did was a new UX/UI implementation. Redefinition would imply a new way of how wikipedia handles with the data. Not in terms of displaying or presentating the data but in terms of providing better analysis tools for the data (among others).

What this folks did was more of a PR exercise to showcase what they are capable of..
Ask HN: Where is the Hostility on HN Coming From? 
Jut take a look at this thread that is proposing NOT implementing a new design for Wikipedia. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290 The presentation is very polite but the HN'feedback'? Woah!

The responses even from veteran HNers is nothing short of shocking. I can mildly 'understand' harsh responses from people whose present jobs are to design Wikipedia however, the extremely harsh responses from others is not constructive and leads to no learning whatsoever both for the designers and others.

This post is just an example of the latest trend of a new and unusually hostile HN.

Not cool.
The point of the document is to look at a competitor, see where they are doing something better, and boil down the feature/requirement, then see how it could be applied. This is the list of the things they think iPhone did/does better - not an exhaustive list of every single thing the iPhone does. It's not a score card. So everything on this list should be something that Samsung sees/saw as a place they needed to improve - hence the bias in the detail.
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Then it must also make you question your stance on recipe patents, fashion patents, and screenplay patents.
I'm not sure.. I think this article is about something slightly different: if I _disable_ storing my FileVault 2 recovery key with Apple, _then_ upgrade to Mountain Lion, is either of the following true?

1. Apple nabs a copy of my FileVault 2 recovery key

2. Apple can reset my FileVault 2 passphrase

The article doesn't make it clear, and doesn't seem to test either.
Some of the examples are so poorly executed (on Samsung's side) that I can't think of any possible explanation for them beyond pure laziness. For example:

1. Landscape mode is only supported in Memo and Calculator when rotating
left, not when rotating right.
6. The buttons are cut off when the keyboard is visible.
11. Pressing NEXT changes the font to lowercase. Huh?
27. Long telephone numbers get cut off (instead of shrinking the font size
to fit).
36. Alarm settings buttons are cut off by the number pad.

None of these examples are particularly difficult to get right, as long as you have someone paying attention to basic UI design. What's amazing to me is that they actually shipped a product with these glaringly obvious deficiencies.
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I'm actually considering a Tel Aviv trip in the next year. Would love to make it out there at some point. I'm based in London now so it's a (relatively) easy trip over.

In regards to working with Israelis... The only interaction I had was during an SAP escalation. Typically (and was the case here) customers are extremely demanding during escalations and SAP (globally) would bend over backwards for them. I was in America at the time and working with the guys in Ra'anana. In many cases they pushed back to us and would get very frustrated. Overall I think it was their attitude towards being part of the team that wasn't that great.
IMO, Samsung has come a long way in smartphone market just because it copied or got inspired from one and only Apple. Few years back it was one among Nokia,RIM,HTC. Now, it has transformed/evolved itself Technologically and Aesthetically (see the power and design of S3)by looking at apple (i would say getting indirectly groomed by apple) and now as analyst Neil Shah puts it "Volumes have polarized around only these two brands".(http://mashable.com/2012/07/27/samsung-surpasses-iphone-ship...) So,it is time to pay back at least part of its profit share to Apple. And then, from now continue on its own innovations instead of Ctrl-C &Ctrl-V from Apple.
- The judge required the documents to be released

- It is a translated document
that's my fault, and was definitely not intended, sorry. thanks for reporting it, i'll make sure it gets fixed somehow.
I used it only to stress my point :)

Anyway, if you compare for e.g. a Galaxy Ace with an iPhone there is quite a lot of similarity in the size. shape, dimensions etc.

None of this is to say that Samsung was trying to 'deceive' anyone. What is worth considering is that iPhone was the trendsetter in the market and in a time when every new phone was being compared to iPhone a device which looks so similar is bound to raise questions of such nature.
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> obviously has great design already, as it's the most popular website in the world.

Amazon has (sorry for anyone who works there) hideous design. HIDEOUS. It is a very popular website.

There are dozens of examples of websites with bad design that are popular. Many web-forums have thousands, tens of thousands, of users yet are really hard to use.
yup, and basically Apple just did Copy/Paste/Polish from others, who in turn did Copy/Paste/Polish from others. And so on, and so on, back to the inventor of the portable phone. Now let's all pay him back.
I wonder if this might actually be useful for people on very restricted (or legacy) hardware? How does it stack up against eg: LXDE?
That sounds like the GitHub working model. Is GitHub and Mozilla, along with a lot of small startups, the only groups that practice it? It sounds so convenient for recruiting from a wider pool of talent.
- I'm not familiar with American law, but I presume the document has the status confidential, until it is allowed as evidence by the court.

- read page 133. It shows a signed Certificate of Translation.
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I don't know details about the upgrade process, so I can't answer, but this is really one question, not two: given 1 they can do everything, including 2.
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There are valid reasons not to use sourceforge.

You know, each sf project can have a "homepage" link, and I once spent half an hour searching for where to change it. I kid you not.

I have searched for 10 minutes on how to reply to a bug report and attach a patch. I gave up in the end.

I'm still the owner of a dead project on sourceforge. I've tried several times to delete that project, but there was always something that prevented me from doing it (I don't recall, I think the project had a mailing list, and I didn't have permission to delete the mailing list, and I couldn't delete the project without first deleting the mailing list. Or something.).

sourceforge simply isn't usable. The makers know that, which is why they do a big redesign/relaunch every two years or so -- but each one makes it worse.
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Since Germany has a civil law instead of a common law system, this might be easier. (But I don't know, really.)
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I'd be interested to know if you have anything more constructive to add.

Just as a case in point, consider item 2:

Just build your product without any upfront marketing
research. Ideally, your product is not solving any pain or
any problem, but is just a piece of code hosted on a server.

It's generally accepted that many, many people work incredibly hard on a project, hoping it will make them a fortune (or at least some money) and looking forward to being able to retire on the proceeds (or at least take a holiday).

The point here is that such an approach, without any up front market research, is pretty much guaranteed to result in failure, hence its inclusion in this list of tips to make your product launch a big failure.

So this is a list of things that people really do, repeatedly, and yet are pretty much guaranteed to result in failure.

Can you explain more clearly why you think such a list is inane? It seems to me to highlight perfectly well the multiple pitfalls people need to avoid to give themselves any chance at all.
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If y and slope are floating point in the first block then might not y end at other than the desired endpoint because of accumulative error?
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Requiring a certain degree of test coverage by law sounds like a good idea for life-critical systems.