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Purpose being "getting more bag-loads of money" (to make that Uncle Scrooge's humongous safe a reality). And shutdown a competitor that happens to build the flagship phone of it's rivals.

Every action has a purpose, even a stupid one.
I'm curious to ask, have you gotten any feedback from users who are interested - but havn't actually signed up/used the product?
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So Amex only offer their cards to rich people (who are better at managing their balances, and spend more money), and then uses the fact that their customers are rich as leverage to charge merchants more? And you see this as a positive?
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I actualy saw the source code for MS-DOS (IBM in the early days shipped PC-DOS branded version and non IBM kit could buy MS-DOS). I can't recall if it was version 4.x or 5.x (think it was 4.x) and the only thing that struck me was the use of some Sun boot loading code without any visable (c) signs in comments apart from soemthing along the lines "This is from Sun for boot loader to work...".

But history does have its ability to make things unclear over time so can see why people argue about 2000 year old books, let alone software in our own lifetimes.

Only thing I feel sad about is that OS/2 was not open sourced 10 years ago.

Still in another 10 years or so people will be writting stories about how Linux was a rip of from Minix and other historical things without any hope of changing the past.

RIP Gary Kildall.
Square have still yet to break into the European market despite claims from their vanished blog that they were planning to in 2012. This was at the same time as taking Branson on board.

It might stand that they're trying to strengthen their core business in the USA, Starbucks could be a good gateway for them moving forward into other countries.
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With the app, you don't have to carry the Starbucks card with you. Not a huge deal but some people will enjoy one less card. With just the credit card, you don't get rewards.
The single W just looks like they want to be Wordpress.
Not my cup of tea.
changing your comment to read,

>What did you expect Samsung to do, sit around and wait for customers to realize it's not an iPhone?

would work just as well.
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The other ten versions of this same article on the frontpage have vastly more honest titles.
Why use a mobile payment-processing system in brick-and-mortar stores that are already wired with point-of-sale systems?
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That's why I like it. It breaks some thoughts that people have about 'products'.
I've read (over and over) that Zappos has an amazing call center.
"If you think Wikipedia is perfect, you're delusional -- no site is perfect."

Who said it is? That's a strawman if I ever saw one.

"So rather than constant critism, put your money where your mouth is and build your own mock up."

No mockup is perfect. This one has some HUGE flaws, and they've all been pointed out. You could have pointed out what is strong about this proposal, or what is wrong with the criticism. Just making up nice excuses for not doing that ain't enough.
Yeah, and now the GEMA want Kindergardens to pay fees for singing child songs that are in the portfolio of the GEMA. ridiculous!
To save you guys the time of running the code yourself, here's the output in codepad.org:

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I might be wrong but I am under the impression Starbucks runs their transactions as card not present, at least in Canada and I'd suspect also the U.S. This allows them to swipe-and-done a credit card without requiring a signature or chip verification.
Exactly the same experience here ... Can't say I'm a big fan of CDE, but it was obviously from the previous decade ...
You really need to check some of your claims against reality.
As a Samsung engineer I would think "they want us to stop making crap and learn from the iPhone". These are all cases where the iPhone basically does it the Right Way.

For every issue they explain why the iPhone does it well and the S1 not. To me it doesn't read like they want to copy the iPhone, but rather like they want to make it right (by copying the iPhone). Important distinction. This is consistent with their last direction for improvement: "Remove a feeling that iPhone's menu icons are copied by differentiating design".
Did it look like this: http://velodynelidar.com/lidar/hdlproducts/hdl64e.aspx

Very impressive spec - as you'd expect for a $75,000 product.
What I mean is the map of 2 to a,b,c is fading fast. I can't figure out how to dial 1-800-CALL-ATT by looking at my phone, much less my email address.
Normaly you work out consequetials so if amedment to a law a and amadement b contradict if amendement a is passed then b is deemed to have been defeated.
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Ugh thanks for pointing that out -- I read the whole article and was assuming 'Jts' was some technology I'd not heard of yet.
The Farebox recovery ratio even for big European cities is well below recovery rates for mass transport.

Only a few Asian cities get more than their public transport systems cost to run back. This page has more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio
Sorry semi-OT humour but this is one of the very few times were you can actualy fork with the law and come out ontop :).

Sadly though alot of laws due to changes and word-smith pervertions can be hard to understand and in that it would be nice if there was some universal way to express law's that you could get any law in any country and express. That would be immpressive though hard to do. Only comparision would be picture based traffic signs, that is somewhat as close to universal with regards to laws as can get.

Be nice when all the countries have there laws up in such a way. Will make grepping alot more fun and probrbaly be the birth of lgrep (law-grep).
To add to this, often cafes enforce a minimum transaction size, such as $10, to use card. This means usually you only use card it you are grabbing lunch as well.
They don't have to be rich.

* The fact that they pay an annual fee (even with Zync) means that they have "skin in the game" - if they use the card more, the fee is diluted on a per-purchase basis.

* "customers are rich" - it's not necessarily that customers are rich, but that they spend more per month. This more specifically applies to business customers. For example, my carpentry business could use Amex as the company card, and while I could spend a lot of money per month buying carpet to install, it doesn't mean that I am rich.

* Higher income can disproportionately correlate to dispensable income, and credit cards are more likely to be used on dispensable income (e.g. restaurants) rather than more core needs (e.g. rent)

* " Various sociological statistics suggest the severity of wealth inequality 'with the top 10% possessing 80% of all financial assets [and] the bottom 90% holding only 20% of all financial wealth.'" [1] -> Even if Amex just offers their cards to rich people, it's an objectively viable business model that in itself justifies the higher transactional fee.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United...
What and remove the ability of thier lawyer collegues vast sums of money to interpret the fuzzy nature of the law :-)
And isn't it also possible they gave Starbucks a special deal considering the marketability and value of a deal like this?
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Android Starbucks app "card" payment was just rolled out to Canada and the UK last month - I doubt it'll go anywhere for a while for these locales. It might be interesting to see if any payment technology roll-outs beyond US/UK/Canada go with Starbucks-powered stuff or Square stuff. I'm guessing Starbucks for now.
That's exactly what I think will be the future: AI-assisted cars, not AI-driving cars. But I don't think it will progress beyond that, for the simple fact that I think it's either all or nothing. You cannot build a car that drives itself sometimes, but still needs someone to take the wheel every now and then. People will stop paying attention to driving which will inevitably lead to accidents when they have to take over from the AI. It more or less defeats the purpose of a 'car that drives itself' anyway.

Don't get me wrong by the way, I'm not 'against self-driving cars' or anything, I simply think it can't be done. Not unless we replace all road infrastructure with something that supports autonomous vehicles, and introduce some form of centralized traffic control, ie: more like air traffic.
Wow.. to the top level commenters who rationalize the merits of the Facebook IPO as successful in extracting the maximum amount of money for investors and employees.. this is the type of logic that warrants the criticisms thrown at Silicon Valley.

Not withstanding the fact that the redistribution of wealth was based on 'hype' and just a douchy move, does no one seem to understand that the IPO market will inexorably implode yet again through such self-serving actions, thereby closing future IPO opportunities for companies with real revenues and growth?
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I get advertisements for the S3 inbetween pages. Nice touch.
Question

How does SB gets smaller fees through Square than negotiating directly with card providers?

How do card providers allow Square to sell their services cheaper than themselves?

And Square, you sure have a nice business, but the magnetic stripe is very insecure.
Hang on, is it good to help poor people hang themselves with credit card debt now? I didn't get the memo.
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Square just finished a round of venture funding, but by getting Starbucks as a long-term client means they have a consistent revenue against which they can secure credit, i.e. the owners do not need to further dilute their shares to obtain funding if they can prove to banks that they have income, thus making it easier to secure a loan.
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I am also not betting/expecting/ whatever-you-say to make it into python/ruby sphere. I expect them to make for a new tier of high performance concurrent apps(higher than erlang), 'targeted towards more number of C familiar programmers'.

Mozzila giving out broken products? - well, dont you use firefox?
Sometimes the competition does it just right and you have to make it "more similar". Many times in this case.

Sometimes the competition does it better but not necessarily the only right way, for example the email indicator on slide 20. In that case the directive suggests another way of improving the interface.

Whoever wrote this document did not want the devices to be too similar:

Strong impression that iPhone's icon concept was copied. Directions for improvement: Remove a feeling that iPhone's menu icons are copied by differentiating design. (last slide)

Wish they did that before putting the phone on the market...
Tesco tried this in South Korea with Home plus.

Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJVoYsBym88
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"(I'm 31, don't have a driver's license, I live in Europe, I'm doing perfectly fine, thank you)"

Anecdote does not data make. I'm 32, I have a drivers license and two cars, I live in Europe, and my quality of life would be severely impacted if I didn't have a car. The vast majority of Europeans live in places where the population density is too low for it to be sensible to depend solely on public transport, not to mention that only a part of Europe has any 'reliable' (I use that word loosely, because name me one public transport system outside of the German one that works 'reliably') form of public transport at all.

It only takes one or two times a month that you need a car (for big groceries, visiting a far away friend or relative, or going somewhere where there is no public transport) to make it worth while to get a car, and once you have it, it's better to use it as much as possible to make it pay for itself. Public transport is not a viable long-term option to satisfy our transportation needs - it's too expensive, inconvenient and inefficient. Lean, pay-per-use and easily rentable autonomously driven cars are the way of the future, and the near future, at that.
may i remind people here cheering for automated cars that most of the world hasnt even accepted automatic transmission because they want to control their car themselves? This will take decades
After commenting out line 20, this is actually pretty awesome.
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>Apple has a purpose for everything it does, including this lawsuit. There can be no doubt that Apple has some clever, perhaps industry changing products in the pipeline over the next few years. Although none us know for sure what those products are, if they are truly disruptive, like the iPhone and iPad, it’s in Apple’s best interests to stop Samsung now.

People have already begun worshiping Apple.
It may be true that download users are their business, but developers certainly are the drivers of the site. They produce the content.

Even then, the downloading experience is warped straight from the 90s.
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Nobody is talking about replacing a car part of let's say 100 with a car park of 5. If we could just replace it with a car park of 50, which with current travel patterns is perfectly reasonable, that would be a tremendous gain.
Bank of America has been doing this for over 3 years. It's called SiteKey.

But iirc certain banks in India have a alphabet board behind the card with letter-number pairs, right? Something like A-14 B-65 and so on. Then they just ask you to enter random 3 boxes.
Every time I've called my bank, SEB in Sweden, I've gotten perfectly fine support. Sure my problems have never been particularly hard, but they've always picked up the phone reasonably quickly, and quickly and helpfully answered my questions.
Congratulations on releasing your first app.

To get the word out; posting here is a good start. Post on Reddit too. Also, you could try sending a Press Release type email to relevant blogs - they might blog about your app.

Think about SEO and how your site ranks in a Google Search for instance.
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>Quite the opposite, there is a page...

One page out of a couple of hundred stating they should be emulating the iPhone's look and feel.
Actually a car that is driven frequently holds up better than a car that is only driven every now and then, and is left outside for the rest of the time. Cars in almost-constant use will also be taken care of better, and automatically; for example, they will be driven through a car wash automatically regularly, and the automatic oil monitoring system will replace said oil at a machine during 15 minutes somewhere at a point where the demand is lowest. Maybe we'd be burning the car 2 times faster, I don't know exact numbers - but it surely won't be 20 times, and for any multiplier lower than those 20, we come out ahead.
Exactly. No content, just big buttons that aren't clear about what they do.
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Here in Europe (Germany) i have never seen anyone buying a coffee with a credit card. Maybe debit card, but that also is rare, its mostly cash for these small transactions. Most coffee shops dont even take any cards at all, even here in germany!
I don’t work for Square so I can’t talk about their specific implementation, but here’s how it should work:

When a “tab” is set up, the app can register with iOS to receive notifications when a user enters the geofenced region. As usual, the app will be suspended when you close it (i.e. not running), but when iOS detects you’ve entered the region, it’ll move the app into the background so it can run temporarily. In the case of Square, they might get a better GPS fix on you and tell their servers that you’re actually really close to where you have a tab open.
To me, it is obviously just an experiment in design concepts. I enjoyed reading it. I don't agree with almost everything, and the changes to wikipedia they make are, in my opinion, fuck-ugly, but I don't know why we need to be so harsh on it!! It's not like they were trying to replace Wikipedia, just play with 're-imagining any website'.
The intuitiveness is why Apple makes great products. That takes time and money to do right. Everything looks obvious and simple in hindsight. This really makes me question my stance on software patents.
However, here I feel that Square enhances the Starbucks core value of creating an intimate coffee experience.

# With Square:

"I am Jack and I would like [. . . ]"

(clicks name with face on screen to charge; receipt emailed automatically) "Ok, Jack, your total was [. . .] and here it is"

# Current Method:

"I would like [. . .]"

"Ok, your total comes to [. . .]"

[exchanges credit card]

"Would you like your receipt?"

"No, thanks"

"What name would you like on the order?" (while holding credit card with name on it - hence this step is meant to increase intimacy)

"Jack"

"Ok, here is your drink"

--

The Square system makes transactions shorter and simpler, and it humanizes the experience
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines strikes again.

EDIT: keep forgetting HN comments aren't Markdown.
I am assuming at the volume in question they'll just retrofit whatever software to use the card readers Starbucks currently uses. They're pretty well built.
Could you specify some slide numbers as illustration? I only read through the document quickly but I couldn't find a case where the iPhone wasn't indeed better.

Edit: found one example: the "second hand" thing on slide 49.
I bet you use bittorrent more than you realize. There are at least several, that I know of, content distributors that package their own bittorrent client in their "downloader" (think what happens when you install chrome).
A note of caution, this is a translated document. I have no experience with Korean but in Mandarin and Japanese a LOT of subtleties are lost when translated.

That said, you're probably right and it probably is a pretty accurate representation of how bluntly they wanted to grok the iPhone.
"but we don't do it because it is not an enjoyable experience."

Eh, no we don't, we don't do it because it's not available on the market and because there is no way to make such food sit well with our digestive systems, otherwise many many people would 'eat' (or should I say 'drink' or just 'swallow') food like that. I'd pay good money for not having to think about what to cook, actually cooking it, doing dishes etc. 3x7 times a week (if I still had the option to eat recreationally - i.e. no solutions that replace my digestive system with something else allowed).
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Agreed. In particular I love their public domain movie archive. It is a crime that with extended copyrights new films won't be added to it any time soon.
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Whereabouts is that? I hear many people make those claims, but almost as many turn out to be wrong when investigating more closely.
DOS was (is) a loose collection of small (optional) utilities, a tiny bootloader (IO.SYS) and a limited command interpreter -- command.com and the bootloader was all that was strictly necessary: hardly a "heart". Memory management was lousy (and bizarre) and usually since I was using PharLap memory management it was largely redundant anyhow. You could use any number of thrid party memory managers or even roll your own. Disk caching/buffering was just awful and it wasn't until version 5 that it started shaping up. V5 was actually a very good version, after years of rewrites and improvement.

Microsoft bought QDOS in good faith and are therefore not in the frame for anything. For once in my life I'd defend them here. I don't even know why Gates's name is even being connected to this story.

And yes, Gary Kidall was a genius. But in this one instance, MS are free of any wrongdoing in my view.
> Imagine Google's landing page being chokeful of "content" including, most notably, the featured articles of random nature.

Yahoo's landing page is full of content and is useful for many people. Wikipedia's landing page is also full of content and is organized much better then yahoo's page. The majority of wikipedia's audience will google "SOMETHING" or "SOMETHING wiki" and read it possibly click a few links from the main article. A large minority of Wikipedia users including many who rarely or never edit or contribute want to browse "random" interesting facts possibly going on an info binge clicking dozens of links(leading to a tree of articles).
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This article could be better written.

tl;dr: Apple force-enabled user password recovery using Apple ID in Mountain Lion, meaning they can apparently also change your FileVault 2 passphrase and decrypt your disk.

I'm not convinced though. Has he tried this?

Normally the user has the same password as the passphrase used to decrypt the FileVault 2 volume. If Apple resets my password, does my passphrase get reset too? Sure? How does that work?
EU Data protection law is not about "data in the computer sense" but personal information. It's not related to computers per se at all. If someone can just ring up and ask for personal information, that would be against the law. If customers personal details are written up in walls on their public offices, that would probably be illegal aswell.